November G/45

November 30 @ 11:00 am - 6:00 pm

GM Igor Ivanov Weekender

December 6 - December 8

                Big Congratulations to IM Ladia Jirasek who won the Walter Shipman Marathon with 5.5/6 This is Ladia’s 4th Friday night Marathon win in a row!!

            Berkeley Club Championship

2018 Berkeley Club Champion IM Elliott WInslow

Start Date: 7:20pm Friday, October 18th, 2019 (Registration closes at 7:10pm.)

Location: 2622 San Pablo Ave, Berkeley, Ca

Tournament Format: Eight rounds, one game every Friday.
Rounds: Oct 18th, 25th Nov 1st, 15th, 22nd, 29th, Dec 13th, 20th

No round November 8th,and December 6th Due to Berkeley Weekenders(but you still can show up for a G/90;+30 rated game for $5) 

 

Fee: $50.00
GM’s IM’s and Masters free.
(Entry fee deducted from winnings.)

Time Control: G/90, 30 second increment.  If a player is more than 30 minutes late, their game will be forfeited.

Tournament is both FIDE, and USCF rated!

Prize fund: $1,000
1st Place $300: 2nd Place $200:
1st U2000 $200: 1st U1800 $150: 1st U1600  $150.

 

David Trestor vs Anthony Acosta White to move and win Material

Experience vs Youth! Berkeley Chess Club’s Youngest Member Jayden Xu (10 years old) battling it out against our most experienced Member Alan Glasscoe. In this Game Experience beat youth!

Byes: Three half-point byes are available before 6pm Thursday, upon request; no byes for last round. If you don’t request a bye and don’t show up for the round, you will receive a forfeit. Byes can be requested via email at tournaments@berkeleychessschool.org or call 510-612-4547. Who: If you are under 13 years old, you must have a USCF rating of at least 1300. There is no rating requirements if the player is over 13 years old. USCF: Tournament will follow USCF rules. USCF membership must be current through the end of the tournament. Do you need to renew your USCF Membership? Renew here!

Current Pairings

Berkeley Club Championship

 

Pairings for Round 3. BCC Championship 2019: 2019 BCCh

Bd Res White Res Black
1   IM Elliott C Winslow (2248 2.0)   IM Ladia Jirasek (2420 2.0)
2   Fredric Dutter (2069 2.0)   WGM Carla Heredia (2266 1.5)
3   Greg Lope (2094 1.5)   Walter Lesquillier (1721 1.5)
4   Scott McCargar (1861 1.5)   Steven Gaffagan (2040 1.5)
5   David J Trestor (1877 1.5)   Mohammad Soltani (1612 1.5)
6   Max Hao (1661 1.0)   NM Michael Walder (2101 1.0)
7   Steven Svoboda (2001 1.0)   Jerry Morgan (1503 1.0)
8   Mohammad R Asgari (1455 1.0)   NM Thomas F Maser (1914 1.0)
9   Ralph Lee Nagel (1289 1.0)   Alex Hay Shrauger (1772 1.0)
10   Mark Paetz (1736 1.0)   Ben Lemkin (1277 1.0)
11   Matthew Northrup (1439 0.5)   Samuel Agdamag (1465 0.5)
12   William Payne (1361 0.5)   Carl Nelson (1456 0.5)
13   Mayin Joshi (1445 0.0)   Alan Glasscoe (1800 0.0)
14   Elizabeth Shaughnessy (1500 0.0)   Tobias Stowell (1369 0.0)
  ½ NM Roger M Poehlmann (2227 2.0)   BYE
  ½ Sos Hakobyan (1809 1.0)   BYE

BCS Weekender November

Pairings for Round 5. BCS November Weekender: 2000+

Bd Res White Res Black
1   NM Ruiyang Yan (2175 3.5)   NM Bryan Xie (2203 3.0)
2   Sricharan Pullela (1903 2.5)   Nikunj Chandr Oza (1865 2.5)
3   Vincent Yang (1800 2.0)   Arul Viswanathan (1973 2.0)
4   Andrew Guo (1873 1.5)   WCM Aksithi Eswaran (1907 2.0)
5   Hari Ambethkar (1889 1.0)   Advay Bansal (1946 1.0)
  ½ Felix Yipeng Liu (1930 1.5)   BYE

Pairings for Round 5. BCS November Weekender: U2000

Bd Res White Res Black
8   Max Hao (1723 3.0)   Olivier Celhay (1784 3.0)
9   Niko Pompe (1717 3.0)   Nikhil Parvathaneni (1643 3.0)
10   Kapil Karunakaran (1684 2.5)   Mohammad* Soltani (1651 2.0)
11   Patrick Liu (1604 2.0)   Milind Torney (1521 2.0)
12   Alan* Glasscoe (1800 1.5)   Elizabeth Shaughnessy (1500 2.0)
13   Arjun Sankar (1588 1.0)   Anish Jr Dara Jr (1472 1.5)

Pairings for Round 5. BCS November Weekender: U1600

Bd Res White Res Black
14   Mateo Hansen (1583 3.0)   Matthew Northrup (1467 3.0)
15   Samuel Agdamag (1412 3.0)   Tobias Stowell (1349 2.5)
16   Dhruv Torney (958 2.0)   William Payne (1459 2.0)
17   Ryan Tang Bi (1498 1.5)   Swaminatha Sankar (1241 2.0)
18   Jackie Cowgill (1079 1.0)   Ajil Thomas Koshy (unr. 1.0)

Pairings for Round 5. BCS November Weekender: Extra Rate

Bd Res White Res Black
  0 Anish Jr Dara Jr (1472 0.0)   BYE
  0 Matthew Northrup (1467 0.0)   BYE
 

Western State's Women's Regional Championship

 

 

 

Pairings for Round 5. Western States Regional Championship: Womens

Bd Res White Res Black
1   WGM Carla Heredia (2264)   WIM Rochelle Wu (2260)
2   WIM Megan Lee (2249)   NM Rui Yang Yan (2190)
3   WFM Annapoorni Meiyappan (1829)   WFM Natalya Tsodikova (2197)
4   Zara Ter-avetikyan (987)   Elizabeth Shaughnessy (1500)
5   Brenda K Munoz (1153)   Kloe White (770)
6   Orna Shaughnessy (896)   Constance Brand (662)
  1 Hannah Pramita (227)   See T.D.
  ½ Padma Moturi (unr.)   BYE

Current Standings

BCC Championship

SwissSys Standings. BCC Championship 2019: 2019 BCCh (Standings (no tiebrk))

# Name Rtng Post Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Tot
1 IM Ladia Jirasek 2420 2419 W12 W8 D3 2.5
2 WGM Carla Heredia 2266 2270 H— W26 W9 2.5
3 IM Elliott C Winslow 2248 2255 W22 W11 D1 2.5
4 NM Roger M Poehlmann 2227 2229 W23 W15 H— 2.5
5 Greg Lope 2094 2097 H— W18 W16 2.5
6 Steven Gaffagan 2040 2047 W28 H— W14 2.5
7 David J Trestor 1877 1885 H— W27 W17 2.5
8 NM Michael Walder 2101 2100 W24 L1 W22 2.0
9 Fredric Dutter 2069 2064 W25 B— L2 2.0
10 Steven Svoboda 2001 2002 H— H— W23 2.0
11 NM Thomas F Maser 1914 1913 W30 L3 W25 2.0
12 Mark Paetz 1736 1745 L1 W24 W26 2.0
13 Ralph Lee Nagel 1289 1286 L15 B— B— 2.0
14 Scott McCargar 1861 1853 H— B— L6 1.5
15 Sos Hakobyan 1809 1808 W13 L4 H— 1.5
16 Walter Lesquillier 1721 1722 H— W29 L5 1.5
17 Mohammad Soltani 1612 1613 H— W19 L7 1.5
18 Samuel Agdamag 1465 1488 H— L5 W29 1.5
19 William Payne 1361 1387 H— L17 W27 1.5
20 Alan Glasscoe 1800 1743 L26 L25 W32 1.0
21 Alex Hay Shrauger 1772 1773 W31 U— U— 1.0
22 Max Hao 1661 1657 L3 B— L8 1.0
23 Jerry Morgan 1503 1500 L4 B— L10 1.0
24 Elizabeth Shaughnessy 1500 1503 L8 L12 W30 1.0
25 Mohammad R Asgari 1455 1506 L9 W20 L11 1.0
26 Ben Lemkin 1277 1347 W20 L2 L12 1.0
27 Carl Nelson 1456 1426 H— L7 L19 0.5
28 Mayin Joshi 1445 1444 L6 U— H— 0.5
29 Matthew Northrup 1439 1412 H— L16 L18 0.5
30 Tobias Stowell 1369 1352 L11 U— L24 0.0
31 Austin Schiffman unr. 750 L21 U— U— 0.0
32 Leon Grant unr. 750 U— U— L20 0.0

SwissSys Standings. BCC Championship 2019: Extra Rate (Standings (no tiebrk))

# Name Rtng Post Rd 1 Tot
1 Scott McCargar 1861 1865 W2 1.0
2 Jerry Morgan 1503 1498 L1 0.0

BCS Weekender November

 

 

SwissSys Standings. BCS November Weekender: 2000+

# Name Rtng Post Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot Prize
1 NM Ruiyang Yan 2175 2212 W4 W11 H— W6 W2 4.5 350.00
2 NM Bryan Xie 2203 2193 W15 L6 W5 W3 L1 3.0 70.00
3 Arul Viswanathan 1973 1979 L11 W13 W8 L2 W12 3.0 70.00
4 Sricharan Pullela 1903 1935 L1 W12 D7 W13 D5 3.0 70.00
5 Nikunj Chandr Oza 1865 1885 H— B— L2 W9 D4 3.0 70.00
6 Shaashwath Sivakumar 2077 2093 H— W2 W9 L1 U— 2.5  
7 Shaaketh Sivakumar 2037 2036 H— D8 D4 W11 U— 2.5  
8 WCM Aksithi Eswaran 1907 1913 H— D7 L3 W10 D11 2.5  
9 Felix Yipeng Liu 1930 1924 D14 W10 L6 L5 H— 2.0  
10 Hari Ambethkar 1889 1875 H— L9 D12 L8 W13 2.0  
11 Andrew Guo 1873 1882 W3 L1 D13 L7 D8 2.0  
12 Vincent Yang 1800 1804 D13 L4 D10 W16 L3 2.0  
13 Advay Bansal 1946 1899 D12 L3 D11 L4 L10 1.0  
14 Greg Lope 2096 2091 D9 U— U— U— U— 0.5  
15 Fredric Dutter 2038 2031 L2 U— U— U— U— 0.0  
16 Alan Glasscoe 1800 1783 U— U— U— L12 U— 0.0  

SwissSys Standings. BCS November Weekender: U2000

# Name Rtng Post Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot Prize
1 Olivier Celhay 1784 1807 W15 L5 W8 W6 W4 4.0 150.00
2 Nikhil Parvathaneni 1643 1756 H— W3 D4 W9 W5 4.0 150.00
3 Kapil Karunakaran 1684 1705 H— L2 W10 W8 W9 3.5 60.00
4 Max Hao 1723 1726 W12 D8 D2 W5 L1 3.0  
5 Niko Pompe 1717 1743 W13 W1 W6 L4 L2 3.0  
6 Patrick Liu 1604 1661 W7 W9 L5 L1 W10 3.0  
7 Alan* Glasscoe 1800 1752 L6 L12 H— B— W16 2.5  
8 Anish Jr Dara Jr 1472 1505 B— D4 L1 L3 W12 2.5  
9 Mohammad* Soltani 1651 1628 W10 L6 W12 L2 L3 2.0  
10 Milind Torney 1521 1505 L9 B— L3 W12 L6 2.0  
11 David J Trestor 1887 1895 W14 U— U— U— U— 1.0  
12 Arjun Sankar 1588 1543 L4 W7 L9 L10 L8 1.0  
13 Alan Glasscoe 1800 1779 L5 U— U— U— U— 0.0  
14 Walter Lesquillier 1722 1712 L11 U— U— U— U— 0.0  
15 Mohammad Soltani 1651 1639 L1 U— U— U— U— 0.0  
16 Ajil Thomas Koshy unr. 750 U— U— U— U— L7 0.0  

SwissSys Standings. BCS November Weekender: U1600

# Name Rtng Post Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot Prize
1 Mateo Hansen 1583 1587 W8 L2 W11 W5 W3 4.0 120.00
2 Samuel Agdamag 1412 1506 W7 W1 W5 L3 W6 4.0 120.00
3 Matthew Northrup 1467 1449 L6 B— W9 W2 L1 3.0  
4 Ryan Tang Bi 1498 1434 L11 L7 H— W9 W8 2.5  
5 William Payne 1459 1429 W12 W6 L2 L1 D7 2.5  
6 Tobias Stowell 1349 1360 W3 L5 H— W8 L2 2.5 30.00
7 Dhruv Torney 958 1124 L2 W4 L8 W11 D5 2.5 30.00
8 Swaminatha Sankar 1241 1236 L1 W11 W7 L6 L4 2.0  
9 Ajil Thomas Koshy unr. 750 H— H— L3 L4 B— 2.0  
10 Elizabeth Shaughnessy 1500 1504 U— U— U— U— W11 1.0  
11 Jackie Cowgill 1079 1078 W4 L8 L1 L7 L10 1.0  
12 Leon Grant unr. 750 L5 U— U— U— U— 0.0  

SwissSys Standings. BCS November Weekender: Extra Rate

# Name Rtng Post Rd 1 Tot Prize
1 Matthew Northrup 1467 1499 W2 1.0  
2 Anish Jr Dara Jr 1472 1450 L1 0.0  

Western States Women Regional Championship

SwissSys Standings. Western States Regional Championship: Womens

# Name Rtng Post Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot Prize
1 WGM Carla Heredia 2264 2275 W11 D3 D2 W7 W6 4.0 550.00
2 WIM Megan Lee 2249 2255 W14 W9 D1 D3 W7 4.0 550.00
3 WFM Natalya Tsodikova 2197 2202 W12 D1 W6 D2 D5 3.5 200.00
4 Zara Ter-avetikyan 987 1111 H— W11 L5 W14 W10 3.5 200.00
5 WFM Annapoorni Meiyappan 1829 1835 W13 L7 W4 H— D3 3.0  
6 WIM Rochelle Wu 2260 2244 H— W8 L3 B— L1 2.5  
7 NM Rui Yang Yan 2190 2180 H— W5 W10 L1 L2 2.5  
8 Brenda K Munoz 1153 1159 L9 L6 D15 W13 W12 2.5 200.00
9 Padma Moturi unr. 1558 W8 L2 W14 U— H— 2.5 200.00
10 Elizabeth Shaughnessy 1500 1468 W16 H— L7 H— L4 2.0  
11 Orna Shaughnessy 896 893 L1 L4 H— H— W14 2.0 33.33
12 Kloe White 770 764 L3 H— H— B— L8 2.0 33.33
13 Hannah Pramita 227 226 L5 H— H— L8 B— 2.0 33.33
14 Constance Brand 662 645 L2 B— L9 L4 L11 1.0  
15 Elena Shtykar 1258 1251 U— U— D8 U— U— 0.5  
16 Teresa Provenzano 100 100 L10 U— U— U— U— 0.0

Berkeley Chess Club all time winners

All Time Winners

The following list is for those that got clear first or tied for first place in any BCC Marathon since

the 2007 BCC Grand Re Opening until the end of 2018

1)NM Roger Poehlmann 20 wins!

2)IM Ladia Jirasek 11 wins (5 in a row!) 1 was a Perfect score 6/6!

3)IM Elliott Winslow 11 wins

4) Farid Watson 7 wins

5)NM Todd Rumph 6 wins

6)NM Derek O'Connor: 6 wins

7)Steven Krasnov 5 wins

8)Greg Lope 4 wins

9)WFM Uyanga Byambaa 4 wins two with perfect 6/6 scores! Also the only Female winner in BCC History)

10)FM Robin Cunningham 4 wins

11)Salar Jahedi 4 wins

12)2 wins each. FM Josiah Stearman, NM Michael Lei Wang, Joshua Cao,

Ethan Chamberlain, NM Robert Hatarik, David Trestor, Craig Andries

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Berkeley Club Championship September 28th-December 14th Friday’s 7pm $40 IM Elliott Winslow EXPRESS REGISTRATION
IM John Grefe Marathon January 18th-March 1st Friday’s 7:20pm $35 IM Elliott Winslow EXPRESS REGISTRATION
GM Koltanowski Marathon March 8th-April 26th Friday’s 7:20pm $35 IM Ladia Jirasek EXPRESS REGISTRATION
Cal Chess Women’s State Championship March 15th-17th Friday -Sunday $50 WFM Natayla Tsodikova EXPRESS REGISTRATION
Berkeley Senior Championship March 15th-17th Friday -Sunday $50

IM Vince McCambridge

IM Timothy Taylor

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Berkeley Open January 11th-13th Friday -Sunday $99 FM Josiah Stearman EXPRESS REGISTRATION
Multi State Women’s Regional Championship May 3rd-5th Friday -Sunday $50 WGM Carla Heredia / WIM Megan Lee EXPRESS REGISTRATION
GM Walter Browne Marathon May 3rd-June 21st Friday’s 7:20pm $35 IM Ladia Jirasek/ Isaiah Kim EXPRESS REGISTRATION
Neil Falconer Marathon June 28th-August 9th Friday’s 7:20pm $35 IM ladia Jirasek EXPRESS REGISTRATION
Walter Shipman Marathon August 23rd-October 4th Friday’s 7:20pm $35 IM Ladia Jirasek EXPRESS REGISTRATION
Berkeley Club Championship October 18th-December 20th Friday’s 7:20pm $50   EXPRESS REGISTRATION

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