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Sunday, March 31, 2013

Grand Pacific Open 2013 Rd5 Standings

Standings GPO 2013 Results
See great pics at FB GPO Album-Mark Dutton
FM John C [Jack] Yoos takes the sole lead with 4.5/5 after a clutch win over IM Day in round 5. The King's Gambit comes through again.

The big clash of rd 5
1 FM John C [Jack] Yoos (2355) vs. IM Lawrence Day (2227)
Yoos is on the left and IM Day is on the right

#NameTotRtngPost
1FM John C [Jack] Yoos4.523552378
2IM Lawrence Day422272254
3WGM Katerina Rohonyan423472358
4Jamin Gluckie422002209
5Lucas Davies422332244
6NM Butch Villavieja422942303
7NM Alfred Pechisker422552271
8NM Tanraj S Sohal422402251
9FM Jason Cao3.522082212
10NM Howard Wu3.522592258
11Alisher Sanetullaev3.521582151
12NM Georgi Kostadinov3.521362134
13Matthew Herdin3.520942102
14Michael A Murray3.519211962
15Ryan Lo321962186
16Benedict Daswani319832006
17Pavel Trochtchanovitch319191958
18WFM Chouchanik Airapetian321312127
19Janak Awatramani322402216
20NM Harry Moore322452219
21Jingzhou [Peter] Lai320292032
22John Doknjas320942086
23Jeremy Hui319361934
24Becca Lampman319311946
25Robert North319381922
26David Kenney2.519051913
27Ross Richardson2.518101870
28Dan Erichsen2.521032089
29Lawrence Cohen2.519731960
30Darko Dimitrijevic2.520282010
31Ruining [Ray] Wu2.520192005
32Alice Huanyi Xiao2.518591896
33NM Jason Kenney2.522262179
34NM Roger Patterson2.521002072
35Jofrel Landingin2.518561869
36Roy Imlach Yearwood2.521372100
37Constantin Rotariu2.518031816
38Max Gedajlovic2.518921908
39Joe Roback2.518731866
40George Kosinski2.518551827
41Ken Forman218011797
42Colin D Aykroyd218031784
43Lionel Han216301666
44Robin Yu216191654
45Alex Y Lin217261734
46Joshua Doknjas218321793
47Christopher Baumgartner218291786
48Philip Harris218011785
49Paul Leblanc218321789
50Kai Richardson1.516051634
51Luke Pulfer1.515951616
52H G Pitre1.517551752
53Deron Stewart1.517101713
54Tian Tian Geng1.514541486
55Joanne Foote1.516971700
56Michael Su1.516371639
57Jill Ding1.515181539
58Louis Lapi1.514961517
59David Crook1.518941838
60Manuel Omana Escandor116221628
61George Wesley Lundy III116071612
62Philip Allan118951879
63Adam Rahemtulla115041513
64Li Geng114331454
65Polly P Wright0.516351619
66Elroy Deimert0.517421685

Grand Pacific Open 2013 Under 1800 Section

Standings GPO 2013 Results
See great pics at FB GPO Album-Mark Dutton
Duncan Haines and Sean Blanchard share the lead with 4/4.

#NameRtngPostTot
1Duncan Haines156516184
2Sean Blanchard156416114
3Peter Kenyonunr.18463.5
4Pablo Diemecke177617643
5Florian Bergeron167416613
6Kent Cronin173217183
7Kevin Low123113163
8Bill Tate156615623
9Conrad Burgert125413083
10Shaun Luttin146914563
11Samuel Chen137013572.5
12Neil Doknjas125312932.5
13Mau-seng Lee176417322
14Brian Sullivan156215312
15Victor Zheng8599132
16Kyle Zheng135513642
17Nicholas Peters144914452
18David A Gates161915642
19Ethan Low96010162
20Rinna Yu135913432
21Matthew Geng127312982
22Heiner Schwarz155815062
23Ashley Tapp155915102
24Rod Brownunr.13452
25Manfrei Aquino176817082
26Kenji Hiebert115511592
27Frank Hou118911922
28Brenden Wu9719982
29Patrick Huang9309731.5
30Li Geng143314341.5
31Robert Hamm158815421.5
32Tony Xun106110551.5
33Rowan James114111141
34Alex Reny9819781
35Daniel Du104610481
36Maven Zheng9639611
37Gregory Skala7187381
38Miron Gogoescuunr.8601
39Curtis Sleypenunr.00.5
40Edward Enns111010710
41Jordan Lathwell7467320
42Olivija Stoilova7797580

Grand Pacific Open 2013 Rd4 Standings

Standings GPO 2013 Results
See great pics at FB GPO Album-Mark Dutton
Veteran IM Lawrence Day takes the sole lead with 4/4.

Round 4 - Board 1 (eventuallly drawn)
WGM Katerina Rohonyan (2347) vs. FM John C [Jack] Yoos (2355)

The big clash of rd 5 in the early stages of a King's Gambit accepted
1 FM John C [Jack] Yoos (2355) vs. IM Lawrence Day (2227)
Yoos is on the left and IM Day is on the right
 
Playing hall action with young lady about to pounce on the right(Ashley Tapp perhaps?)

#NameRtngPostTot
1IM Lawrence Day222722614
2FM John C [Jack] Yoos235523703.5
3WGM Katerina Rohonyan234723633.5
4Jamin Gluckie220022043.5
5FM Jason Cao220822213.5
6Lucas Davies223322393
7NM Alfred Pechisker225522613
8NM Butch Villavieja229422933
9Ryan Lo219621953
10NM Tanraj S Sohal224022433
11Benedict Daswani198320123
12WFM Chouchanik Airapetian213121353
13Michael A Murray192119623
14NM Howard Wu225922542.5
15Alisher Sanetullaev215821472.5
16Pavel Trochtchanovitch191919532.5
17Janak Awatramani224022242.5
18David Kenney190519192.5
19Ross Richardson181018752.5
20NM Georgi Kostadinov213621302.5
21Matthew Herdin209420972.5
22Jingzhou [Peter] Lai202920372.5
23Lawrence Cohen197319652.5
24Jeremy Hui193619232.5
25Darko Dimitrijevic202820172.5
26Jofrel Landingin185618742.5
27NM Harry Moore224522142
28Dan Erichsen210320962
29John Doknjas209420812
30Becca Lampman193119392
31Alice Huanyi Xiao185918832
32NM Jason Kenney222621892
33NM Roger Patterson210020782
34Robert North193819172
35Max Gedajlovic189219002
36Ken Forman180118022
37Joe Roback187318562
38Lionel Han163016702
39Alex Y Lin172617412
40Ruining [Ray] Wu201920001.5
41Kai Richardson160516401.5
42Roy Imlach Yearwood213720981.5
43Constantin Rotariu180318091.5
44Colin D Aykroyd180317921.5
45Tian Tian Geng145414891.5
46Luke Pulfer159516231.5
47Robin Yu161916461.5
48H G Pitre175517571.5
49Deron Stewart171017151.5
50George Kosinski185518201.5
51Joanne Foote169717081
52Manuel Omana Escandor162216361
53George Wesley Lundy III160716191
54Joshua Doknjas183217871
55Philip Allan189518791
56Christopher Baumgartner182917821
57Michael Su163716451
58Adam Rahemtulla150415171
59Louis Lapi149615111
60Jill Ding151815311
61Philip Harris180117771
62Paul Leblanc183217861
63Polly P Wright163516250.5
64David Crook189418320.5
65Elroy Deimert174217120.5
66Li Geng143314270

Grand Pacific Open 2013 Blitz(Midnight)

Standings GPO 2013 Results
Janak Awatramani - winner of the MIDNIGHT BLITZ (for the 2nd year in a row!) -Mark Dutton from Chesstalk

#NameRtngTotal
1Awatramani, Janak22409
2Rohonyan, Katerina23008
3Villavieza, Butch22947
4Davies, Lucas22407
5Hui, Jeremy19366.5
6Airapetian, Chouchanik21316
7Daswani, Benedict20006
8Roback, Joe18736
9Lampman, Rebecca19315.5
10Gedovjiovic, Max18925.5
11Landingin, Jofre18525.5
12Xiao, Alice18595
13Escandor, Manuel16225
14Blanchard, Sean15645
15Hiebert, Kenji12005
16Ding, Jill15804.5
17Peters, Nick14494.5
18Tapp, Ashley15593.5
19Hou, Frank11983
20Reny, Alex9813
21Zheng, Victor8903
22Zheng, Kyle13602.5
23Zheng, Maven9602
24Lathwell, Jordan8002

KW Winter Open 2013 Rd3-GM Sambuev

Rd3
GM Sambuev played aggressively and creatively in a French and easily converted the extra pawn that white gambited early but got nothing for.

Peredun,Andrew (2323) - Sambuev,Bator (2696)
French Tarrasch 3.Nd2 c5 4.Ngf3 Nf6 5.e5 Nfd7 6.c3 Nc6 [C06]
KW Winter Open 2013 (3), 09.03.2013

Position 1
Black is a clear pawn up. What do you recommend?

Black to Play
30.g3