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BayAreaChess Championship 50 - October 4, 2008

"^" indicates players "playing up" in a higher section
1 SuperStar
Zheng won $200 for 1st, Shin won $100 for 2nd, and Radu & Wu split $25 for 3rd place!
# Name Rtng Post Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Tot TBrk
[M]
TBrk
[S]
TBrk
[C]
TBrk
[O]
Prize
1 Daniel K Zheng 1871 1904 W12 W2 W5 W6 4.0 7 7 10 20 200.00
2 Kyle Shin 1846 1858 W7 L1 W11 W5 3.0 8 9 7 25 100.00
3 Alex Radu 1802 1805 D9 L4 W12 W7 2.5 6.5 6.5 5 16 25.00
4 Christopher Y Wu 1809 1817 D10 W3 L6 W11 2.5 6 7 6 18 25.00
5 Samuel Sevian 1889 1879 W11 W6 L1 L2 2.0 5 10 7 26  
6 Jerome Sun 1818 1816 W8 L5 W4 L1 2.0 4.5 10 6 25  
7 Eric^ Xu 1599 1626 L2 W8 W10 L3 2.0 4 8.5 5 18  
8 Aamir Ali^ Azhar 1598 1592 L6 L7 B--- W12 2.0 2 4 2 11  
9 Zachi Baharav 1880 1879 D3 D10 H--- H--- 2.0 1.5 4 4 9  
10 Francisco Anchondo 1934 1913 D4 D9 L7 H--- 1.5 4 6.5 3.5 16  
11 Ken^ Hui 1590 1588 L5 W12 L2 L4 1.0 4.5 7.5 3 20  
12 Allan Beilin 1622 1579 L1 L11 L3 L8 0.0 5 9 0 20  

2 Star
Steiner and Kyle Hui split 1st place and 1st place u1600 prize for $125 each.
Panchanatham and Chauhan split 2nd place and 2nd place u1600 prize for $125 each.
# Name Rtng Post Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Tot TBrk
[M]
TBrk
[S]
TBrk
[C]
TBrk
[O]
Prize
1 Daniel Steiner 1577 1617 W16 W7 W5 D2 3.5 8.5 9 9.5 24 125.00
2 Kyle Hui 1428 1548 W8 W14 W6 D1 3.5 8 9 9.5 24.5 125.00
3 Vignesh Panchanatham 1579 1605 H--- W9 W13 D5 3.0 6 6 7 15 62.50
4 Ritwik^ Chauhan unr. 1704 L11 W15 W14 W8 3.0 4.5 5.5 6 15.5 62.50
5 Harold Jim Parker 1632 1633 W15 W11 L1 D3 2.5 8 9 7.5 23.5  
6 Chen-chi Lin 1545 1544 D9 W12 L2 W11 2.5 7 8.5 6 23.5  
7 Cameron Wheeler 1528 1544 W13 L1 H--- W12 2.5 6.5 6.5 5.5 18  
8 Venkata S Nandula 1597 1582 L2 W16 W10 L4 2.0 4.5 8.5 5 19.5  
9 Richard Yi 1336 1374 D6 L3 D15 W14 2.0 3.5 7.5 4 19  
10 Max^ Chen 1335 1336 L14 B--- L8 W16 2.0 1.5 3.5 3 10  
11 Arun Giridharan 1531 1520 W4 L5 D12 L6 1.5 6.5 9.5 5 24.5  
12 Richard^ Zhang 1334 1346 W17 L6 D11 L7 1.5 5 7.5 5 18.5  
13 Amar Delgersaikhan 1643 1614 L7 W17 L3 H--- 1.5 3.5 6.5 3 15  
14 Albert Lin 1532 1495 W10 L2 L4 L9 1.0 6.5 10 4 22.5  
15 Nikita Shenkman 1449 1431 L5 L4 D9 H--- 1.0 4.5 7.5 1 17.5  
16 Kevin Hui 1371 1335 L1 L8 B--- L10 1.0 3.5 7 1 17.5  
17 Nathan B^ Zhang 1380 1353 L12 L13 H--- H--- 1.0 1.5 3 0.5 8.5  

3 Elite
Lin won clear first and Wang won clear second. Mohideen, Mohan and Lo tied for third place (in the order of tiebreaks).
Zhao and Liu were awarded trophies as well .
# Name Rtng Post Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Tot TBrk
[M]
TBrk
[S]
TBrk
[C]
TBrk
[O]
Prize
1 Julian Michael Lin 1288 1357 W13 W12 W11 W3 4.0 6 6.5 10 21 1st place
2 Justin^+ Wang 1025 1157 B--- D4 W7 W6 3.5 7 7 7.5 18.5 2nd place
3 Muhammed Mohideen 1374 1384 W8 W7 W6 L1 3.0 8 9.5 9 24 3rd place
4 Rahul Ram Mohan 1212 1231 D11 D2 W13 W9 3.0 6.5 7 6.5 19.5 4th place
5 Roy^ Lo 1046 1125 L12 W8 W16 W11 3.0 4.5 5 6 14 5th place
6 Art Zhao 1322 1300 W9 W10 L3 L2 2.0 5 10 7 26.5 Honorable Mention
7 Larry Liu 1153 1151 W15 L3 L2 W12 2.0 4.5 9 5 23.5 Honorable Mention
8 Christine Shen 1145 1126 L3 L5 B--- W15 2.0 4.5 7.5 2 17  
9 Chandraseka Ramanan 1140 1158 L6 W14 W10 L4 2.0 4 8 5 19.5  
10 Nikita Kouevda 1114 1131 W14 L6 L9 W13 2.0 3 5.5 5 15  
11 Evan^ Baldonado 1038 1052 D4 W16 L1 L5 1.5 6.5 10.5 5 24.5  
12 Kevin^ Moy 1083 1082 W5 L1 H--- L7 1.5 5 9 4.5 21  
13 Rahul Iyer 1131 1084 L1 X15 L4 L10 1.0 5 9 2 21.5  
14 Alekhya Nandula 1285 1207 L10 L9 L15 W16 1.0 4 6 1 14  
15 Merak Jos Arriola unr. 938 L7 F13 W14 L8 1.0 2.5 4.5 2 8  
16 John L Canessa 1148 1080 H--- L11 L5 L14 0.5 2.5 5.5 1.5 12  

3 Elite Team

Weibel won the first place team trophy.
  Code Name Score TBrk
[C]
1 WEIBEL Weibel Elementary School (1054.0) 5.0 12
    Justin^+ Wang (1025) 3.5    
    Kevin^ Moy (1083) 1.5    

4 Champs
Shchehlik and Yu tied for the first with Shchehlik winning the first place trophy on tiebreaks.
Yakkala, Klotz-Burwell, and Khemani tied for third place with 3 points each.
Kozminski, Mobin, Chawla, and Huang tied for sixth place.
# Name Rtng Post Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Tot TBrk
[M]
TBrk
[S]
TBrk
[C]
TBrk
[O]
Prize
1 Kanstantiin Shchehlik 1063 1137 W11 W15 D6 W4 3.5 7.5 9 9 26.5 1st place
2 Leland Yu 1064 1123 D3 W20 W16 W6 3.5 6.5 7.5 8 22.5 2nd place
3 Anish Yakkala 930 1029 D2 W8 W15 D7 3.0 8.5 10 7.5 25 3rd place
4 Hun Klotz-Burwell 1025 1072 W18 W16 W5 L1 3.0 7.5 8.5 9 22 4th place
5 Arun G Khemani 1047 1062 W17 W7 L4 W11 3.0 7.5 8 8 22.5 5th place
6 Aleksander Kozminski 1043 1061 W13 W10 D1 L2 2.5 9 11 8 26.5 6th place
7 Armete Mobin 942 953 W21 L5 W13 D3 2.5 8 8.5 6.5 20.5 7th place
8 Alisha^ Chawla 795 921 W9 L3 D10 W16 2.5 7.5 8.5 6 22.5 Winning Record
9 Bryan L Huang 966 967 L8 W18 W12 H--- 2.5 5.5 5.5 5 11 Winning Record
10 Arvind Sankar 997 983 W12 L6 D8 D15 2.0 4.5 8.5 5.5 22.5  
11 Kory Hui 907 909 L1 W19 W17 L5 2.0 4 8 5 21  
12 Anirudh Seela 808 835 L10 W14 L9 W20 2.0 3.5 7 4 16  
13 Abhinav Naikawadi 841 836 L6 W21 L7 W17 2.0 3 6 4 17.5  
14 Erwan Fraisse 871 845 L16 L12 B--- W19 2.0 2 4 2 10  
15 Farris Al-manaseer 994 965 W19 L1 L3 D10 1.5 6 9.5 4.5 24  
16 Yosef Kazinik 1058 997 W14 L4 L2 L8 1.0 7 10.5 4 25  
17 Andrey Yamburg 744 701 L5 B--- L11 L13 1.0 4 7 2 17  
18 Dawood Rahmat 825 778 L4 L9 L19 W21 1.0 4 7 1 17.5  
19 Rohan^ Varma 799 767 L15 L11 W18 L14 1.0 4 6 2 12.5  
20 Yousef Rezw Azhar 888 831 H--- L2 D21 L12 1.0 2.5 6 2.5 13  
21 John Rodgers Jr unr. 548 L7 L13 D20 L18 0.5 4 6.5 1 14.5  

4 Champ Team
Clark won the first place and Granada won the second place team trophy.
  Code Name Score TBrk
[C]
1 CLARK CLARK Elementary (908.7) 6.0 15
    Anish Yakkala (930) 3.0    
    Arvind Sankar (997) 2.0    
    Rohan^ Varma (799) 1.0    
2 GRAND Granada Islamaic School - Santa Clara (902.3) 3.5 8
    Farris Al-manaseer (994) 1.5    
    Yousef Rezw Azhar (888) 1.0    
    Dawood Rahmat (825) 1.0    

5 Premier
Xu won clear first while Xiong, Teng, and Sandler tied for second place. Varadarajan and Langland tied for fith place.
# Name Rtng Post Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot TBrk
[M]
TBrk
[S]
TBrk
[C]
TBrk
[O]
Prize
1 Jeffrey Chen Xu 791 889 W8 W7 W2 D3 W5 4.5 12 14 14 44 1st place
2 Chris Xiong 567 759 W6 W5 L1 W10 D3 3.5 14 16 11.5 50.5 2nd place
3 Evan Teng 782 803 W12 D4 W10 D1 D2 3.5 13 14 11.5 44.5 3rd place
4 Michael Sandler 648 679 B--- D3 L6 W9 W7 3.5 10 10 9 30.5 4th place
5 Vignesh Varadarajan 659 702 W9 L2 W7 W6 L1 3.0 13 14.5 10 44.5 5th place
6 Jordan Langland 730 737 L2 W8 W4 L5 W11 3.0 11.5 12.5 8 36.5 6th place
7 Russinov Onik 603 606 W11 L1 L5 W12 L4 2.0 8 12.5 7 38  
8 Edwin Peng 633 617 L1 L6 W9 L11 W12 2.0 6.5 11 4 31  
9 Ibrahim Elsakka 551 523 L5 W12 L8 L4 B--- 2.0 6 9 4 26  
10 Daniel Little 618 616 H--- W11 L3 L2 H--- 2.0 4.5 8 6 25  
11 Zeeshan Mallick 779 653 L7 L10 L12 W8 L6 1.0 7 10 2 29  
12 Alexan Pereverzev 633 555 L3 L9 W11 L7 L8 1.0 6.5 10 3 28.5  

5 Premier Team

Garden Gate Elementary won the first place team trophy. Granada Islamic School won the second place team trophy.
  Code Name Score TBrk
[C]
1 GARDEN Garden Gate Elementary (690.7) 9.0 26
    Jeffrey Chen Xu (791) 4.5    
    Michael Sandler (648) 3.5    
    Alexan Pereverzev (633) 1.0    
2 GRAND Granada Islamaic School - Santa Clara (665.0) 3.0 6
    Ibrahim Elsakka (551) 2.0    
    Zeeshan Mallick (779) 1.0    

6 Booster
Tran won a clear first place and Hsu won a clear second place. Shanker, Aravindan and Thiagarajan tied for third place.
Kumer, Hsu, and Khirman tied for sixth place.
# Name Rtng Post Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot TBrk
[M]
TBrk
[S]
TBrk
[C]
TBrk
[O]
Prize
1 Duyminh Darr Tran 410 538 D6 W10 W9 W4 W5 4.5 10.5 12.5 12.5 41.5  
2 Jonathan Hsu 438 465 L10 W6 W11 W3 W9 4.0 9.5 11.5 10 37.5  
3 Sidharth Shanker 283 364 W7 W5 L4 L2 W10 3.0 12.5 14.5 10 43  
4 Akshay Aravindan 496 470 W11 L9 W3 L1 W7 3.0 12 14 9 43.5  
5 Akash Thiagarajan 350 367 W12 L3 W10 W9 L1 3.0 11.5 13 10 42  
6 Anish Kumar 191 240 D1 L2 W8 L7 W12 2.5 9 15 6.5 38  
7 Justin Hsu 272 268 L3 D8 W13 W6 L4 2.5 8 12.5 7 37  
8 Ron Khirman 142 168 L9 D7 L6 W14 W13 2.5 6 9.5 5 33  
9 Vinay Prasad 347 337 W8 W4 L1 L5 L2 2.0 12.5 17 9 46.5  
10 Sagar Arun 205 251 W2 L1 L5 W11 L3 2.0 12 16.5 7 47.5  
11 Kevin Liu 275 244 L4 W12 L2 L10 W14 2.0 7.5 11.5 5 33.5  
12 Aaron Atkins 183 130 L5 L11 D14 W13 L6 1.5 7 10 3.5 32  
13 Basel Mostafa 100 100 H--- W14 L7 L12 L8 1.5 5 7.5 6 19.5  
14 Yusuf Mostafa 100 100 H--- L13 D12 L8 L11 1.0 5 7.5 3.5 20  

6 Booster Team
Nixon (brothers') team won the first place team trophy, Live Oak won the second place team trophy, and Millikin (brothers') team won the third place team trophy.
  Code Name Score TBrk
[C]
1 NIXON Nixon Elementary (355.0) 6.5 17
    Jonathan Hsu (438) 4.0    
    Justin Hsu (272) 2.5    
2 LIVOAK Live Oak Elementary (315.0) 5.0 19
    Sidharth Shanker (283) 3.0    
    Vinay Prasad (347) 2.0    
3 MILLKN Millikin Elementary School (100.0) 2.5 9.5
    Basel Mostafa (100) 1.5    
    Yusuf Mostafa (100) 1.0    

Extra Rated Games
# Name Rtng Post Rd 1 Tot
1 Christine Shen 1145 1153 W4 1.0
2 Aamir Ali^ Azhar 1598 1589 D3 0.5
3 Kevin Hui 1371 1383 D2 0.5
4 Erwan Fraisse 871 861 L1 0.0



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