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

#	Name	Tot	Rtng	Post
1	FM John C [Jack] Yoos	4.5	2355	2378
2	IM Lawrence Day	4	2227	2254
3	WGM Katerina Rohonyan	4	2347	2358
4	Jamin Gluckie	4	2200	2209
5	Lucas Davies	4	2233	2244
6	NM Butch Villavieja	4	2294	2303
7	NM Alfred Pechisker	4	2255	2271
8	NM Tanraj S Sohal	4	2240	2251
9	FM Jason Cao	3.5	2208	2212
10	NM Howard Wu	3.5	2259	2258
11	Alisher Sanetullaev	3.5	2158	2151
12	NM Georgi Kostadinov	3.5	2136	2134
13	Matthew Herdin	3.5	2094	2102
14	Michael A Murray	3.5	1921	1962
15	Ryan Lo	3	2196	2186
16	Benedict Daswani	3	1983	2006
17	Pavel Trochtchanovitch	3	1919	1958
18	WFM Chouchanik Airapetian	3	2131	2127
19	Janak Awatramani	3	2240	2216
20	NM Harry Moore	3	2245	2219
21	Jingzhou [Peter] Lai	3	2029	2032
22	John Doknjas	3	2094	2086
23	Jeremy Hui	3	1936	1934
24	Becca Lampman	3	1931	1946
25	Robert North	3	1938	1922
26	David Kenney	2.5	1905	1913
27	Ross Richardson	2.5	1810	1870
28	Dan Erichsen	2.5	2103	2089
29	Lawrence Cohen	2.5	1973	1960
30	Darko Dimitrijevic	2.5	2028	2010
31	Ruining [Ray] Wu	2.5	2019	2005
32	Alice Huanyi Xiao	2.5	1859	1896
33	NM Jason Kenney	2.5	2226	2179
34	NM Roger Patterson	2.5	2100	2072
35	Jofrel Landingin	2.5	1856	1869
36	Roy Imlach Yearwood	2.5	2137	2100
37	Constantin Rotariu	2.5	1803	1816
38	Max Gedajlovic	2.5	1892	1908
39	Joe Roback	2.5	1873	1866
40	George Kosinski	2.5	1855	1827
41	Ken Forman	2	1801	1797
42	Colin D Aykroyd	2	1803	1784
43	Lionel Han	2	1630	1666
44	Robin Yu	2	1619	1654
45	Alex Y Lin	2	1726	1734
46	Joshua Doknjas	2	1832	1793
47	Christopher Baumgartner	2	1829	1786
48	Philip Harris	2	1801	1785
49	Paul Leblanc	2	1832	1789
50	Kai Richardson	1.5	1605	1634
51	Luke Pulfer	1.5	1595	1616
52	H G Pitre	1.5	1755	1752
53	Deron Stewart	1.5	1710	1713
54	Tian Tian Geng	1.5	1454	1486
55	Joanne Foote	1.5	1697	1700
56	Michael Su	1.5	1637	1639
57	Jill Ding	1.5	1518	1539
58	Louis Lapi	1.5	1496	1517
59	David Crook	1.5	1894	1838
60	Manuel Omana Escandor	1	1622	1628
61	George Wesley Lundy III	1	1607	1612
62	Philip Allan	1	1895	1879
63	Adam Rahemtulla	1	1504	1513
64	Li Geng	1	1433	1454
65	Polly P Wright	0.5	1635	1619
66	Elroy Deimert	0.5	1742	1685

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.

#	Name	Rtng	Post	Tot
1	Duncan Haines	1565	1618	4
2	Sean Blanchard	1564	1611	4
3	Peter Kenyon	unr.	1846	3.5
4	Pablo Diemecke	1776	1764	3
5	Florian Bergeron	1674	1661	3
6	Kent Cronin	1732	1718	3
7	Kevin Low	1231	1316	3
8	Bill Tate	1566	1562	3
9	Conrad Burgert	1254	1308	3
10	Shaun Luttin	1469	1456	3
11	Samuel Chen	1370	1357	2.5
12	Neil Doknjas	1253	1293	2.5
13	Mau-seng Lee	1764	1732	2
14	Brian Sullivan	1562	1531	2
15	Victor Zheng	859	913	2
16	Kyle Zheng	1355	1364	2
17	Nicholas Peters	1449	1445	2
18	David A Gates	1619	1564	2
19	Ethan Low	960	1016	2
20	Rinna Yu	1359	1343	2
21	Matthew Geng	1273	1298	2
22	Heiner Schwarz	1558	1506	2
23	Ashley Tapp	1559	1510	2
24	Rod Brown	unr.	1345	2
25	Manfrei Aquino	1768	1708	2
26	Kenji Hiebert	1155	1159	2
27	Frank Hou	1189	1192	2
28	Brenden Wu	971	998	2
29	Patrick Huang	930	973	1.5
30	Li Geng	1433	1434	1.5
31	Robert Hamm	1588	1542	1.5
32	Tony Xun	1061	1055	1.5
33	Rowan James	1141	1114	1
34	Alex Reny	981	978	1
35	Daniel Du	1046	1048	1
36	Maven Zheng	963	961	1
37	Gregory Skala	718	738	1
38	Miron Gogoescu	unr.	860	1
39	Curtis Sleypen	unr.	0	0.5
40	Edward Enns	1110	1071	0
41	Jordan Lathwell	746	732	0
42	Olivija Stoilova	779	758	0

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?)

#	Name	Rtng	Post	Tot
1	IM Lawrence Day	2227	2261	4
2	FM John C [Jack] Yoos	2355	2370	3.5
3	WGM Katerina Rohonyan	2347	2363	3.5
4	Jamin Gluckie	2200	2204	3.5
5	FM Jason Cao	2208	2221	3.5
6	Lucas Davies	2233	2239	3
7	NM Alfred Pechisker	2255	2261	3
8	NM Butch Villavieja	2294	2293	3
9	Ryan Lo	2196	2195	3
10	NM Tanraj S Sohal	2240	2243	3
11	Benedict Daswani	1983	2012	3
12	WFM Chouchanik Airapetian	2131	2135	3
13	Michael A Murray	1921	1962	3
14	NM Howard Wu	2259	2254	2.5
15	Alisher Sanetullaev	2158	2147	2.5
16	Pavel Trochtchanovitch	1919	1953	2.5
17	Janak Awatramani	2240	2224	2.5
18	David Kenney	1905	1919	2.5
19	Ross Richardson	1810	1875	2.5
20	NM Georgi Kostadinov	2136	2130	2.5
21	Matthew Herdin	2094	2097	2.5
22	Jingzhou [Peter] Lai	2029	2037	2.5
23	Lawrence Cohen	1973	1965	2.5
24	Jeremy Hui	1936	1923	2.5
25	Darko Dimitrijevic	2028	2017	2.5
26	Jofrel Landingin	1856	1874	2.5
27	NM Harry Moore	2245	2214	2
28	Dan Erichsen	2103	2096	2
29	John Doknjas	2094	2081	2
30	Becca Lampman	1931	1939	2
31	Alice Huanyi Xiao	1859	1883	2
32	NM Jason Kenney	2226	2189	2
33	NM Roger Patterson	2100	2078	2
34	Robert North	1938	1917	2
35	Max Gedajlovic	1892	1900	2
36	Ken Forman	1801	1802	2
37	Joe Roback	1873	1856	2
38	Lionel Han	1630	1670	2
39	Alex Y Lin	1726	1741	2
40	Ruining [Ray] Wu	2019	2000	1.5
41	Kai Richardson	1605	1640	1.5
42	Roy Imlach Yearwood	2137	2098	1.5
43	Constantin Rotariu	1803	1809	1.5
44	Colin D Aykroyd	1803	1792	1.5
45	Tian Tian Geng	1454	1489	1.5
46	Luke Pulfer	1595	1623	1.5
47	Robin Yu	1619	1646	1.5
48	H G Pitre	1755	1757	1.5
49	Deron Stewart	1710	1715	1.5
50	George Kosinski	1855	1820	1.5
51	Joanne Foote	1697	1708	1
52	Manuel Omana Escandor	1622	1636	1
53	George Wesley Lundy III	1607	1619	1
54	Joshua Doknjas	1832	1787	1
55	Philip Allan	1895	1879	1
56	Christopher Baumgartner	1829	1782	1
57	Michael Su	1637	1645	1
58	Adam Rahemtulla	1504	1517	1
59	Louis Lapi	1496	1511	1
60	Jill Ding	1518	1531	1
61	Philip Harris	1801	1777	1
62	Paul Leblanc	1832	1786	1
63	Polly P Wright	1635	1625	0.5
64	David Crook	1894	1832	0.5
65	Elroy Deimert	1742	1712	0.5
66	Li Geng	1433	1427	0

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

#	Name	Rtng	Total
1	Awatramani, Janak	2240	9
2	Rohonyan, Katerina	2300	8
3	Villavieza, Butch	2294	7
4	Davies, Lucas	2240	7
5	Hui, Jeremy	1936	6.5
6	Airapetian, Chouchanik	2131	6
7	Daswani, Benedict	2000	6
8	Roback, Joe	1873	6
9	Lampman, Rebecca	1931	5.5
10	Gedovjiovic, Max	1892	5.5
11	Landingin, Jofre	1852	5.5
12	Xiao, Alice	1859	5
13	Escandor, Manuel	1622	5
14	Blanchard, Sean	1564	5
15	Hiebert, Kenji	1200	5
16	Ding, Jill	1580	4.5
17	Peters, Nick	1449	4.5
18	Tapp, Ashley	1559	3.5
19	Hou, Frank	1198	3
20	Reny, Alex	981	3
21	Zheng, Victor	890	3
22	Zheng, Kyle	1360	2.5
23	Zheng, Maven	960	2
24	Lathwell, Jordan	800	2

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