2011 Washington State Championship

The 2011 Washington State Championship / Premier / Invitational chess tournaments were conducted as round-robins the weekends of February 12-13 and 19-21, 2011 in Seattle as detailed below. Rounds began at 10:00 AM and 5:00 PM on the weekends, and at 5:00 PM on President's Day, Monday, February 21.

2011 Washington State Championship

Format: Three invitation-only 10-player Round Robins by rating: Championship, Premier, and Invitational. The field of each section was determined by seeding and by the highest rated players to respond an invitation based on the January 2012 USCF rating list. All sections were USCF rated; the Championship and Premier were also FIDE rated. Fred Kleist was the TD for all three sections.

Time control: 40/2, SD/1 with a 5-second delay. Boards and sets will be provided at the tournament, but please bring clocks.

Entry Fee: Free!

Schedule: Rounds 1-8: Feb. 11, 12, 18, 19 at 10:00 AM and 5:00 PM. Round 9: Feb. 20 (President's Day) at 5:00 PM. The drawing of lots took place Feb. 3 at 7:00 PM at Northgate Mall.

Site: Seattle Chess Club, 2150 N 107 St. Seattle, WA 98133

Prize Fund: The initial prize fund for each section is guaranteed by the WCF, and could be increased based on donations. Championship: $1,500, Premier: $1,000, Invitational: $500. Prize distribution (each section): 1st 45%, 2nd 25%, 3rd 15%, 4th 10%, 5th 5%. Brilliancy Prizes: $300 ($100 for best game in each section).

Brilliancy prizes - Ignacio Perez's win against Dereque Kelley has been selected as the winner of the $100 brilliancy prize in the Championship section. Casey Xing has been awarded the $100 brilliancy prize in the Premier section for his win against Chouchanik Airapetian. Daniel He's win over Becca Lampman from round 1 has been selected as the winner of the $100 brilliancy prize in the Invitational section. The winners have been asked to annotate their games for publication in Northwest Chess.

Schedule and Other Information

Schedule/Location:
Rounds 1-8: Feb. 12, 13, 19, 20 at 10:00 AM and 5:00 PM. Round 9: Feb. 21 (President's Day) at 5:00 PM.
Site: Seattle Chess Club, 2150 N 107 St., Seattle, WA 98133.

Updates:

  • Fred Kleist will be the TD for all three sections, of which the Championship and Premier will be FIDE rated.
    (All sections will be USCF rated.)

  • The initial prize funds for each section are guaranteed by the WCF, and will be increased based on donations.

  • Due to limited internet accessibility, we do not plan to broadcast the games live this year.

  • Boards and sets will be provided at the tournament, but please bring clocks.

  • The time control will be 40/2, SD/1 with a 5-second delay.

  • The winner of the championship section receives the title of Washington State Champion.

  • Pairings were released after the drawing of lots, which took place Feb. 5 at 5:00 PM at Crossroads Mall in Bellevue. A number of players were there to witness the event. The crosstables below show the players in order by pairing number as drawn.

    Requests:

  • We are accepting donations for all three sections.

  • Prize winners must annotate at least one game for Northwest Chess before checks will be mailed.

Pairings

Here is the pairings schedule for the rounds in each section. This is from the Berger tables.
See the cross tables below for the players corresponding to each pairing number.
Rd 1 - 1:10 2:9 3:8 4:7 5:6
Rd 2 - 10:6 7:5 8:4 9:3 1:2
Rd 3 - 2:10 3:1 4:9 5:8 6:7
Rd 4 - 10:7 8:6 9:5 1:4 2:3
Rd 5 - 3:10 4:2 5:1 6:9 7:8
Rd 6 - 10:8 9:7 1:6 2:5 3:4
Rd 7 - 4:10 5:3 6:2 7:1 8:9
Rd 8 - 10:9 1:8 2:7 3:6 4:5
Rd 9 - 5:10 6:4 7:3 8:2 9:1

Championship

The winner of the Championship section receives the title of Washington State Champion.

FM Costin Cozianu 2557 (seed - Open Champion)
NM Howard Chen 2323 (seed - State Champion)
WGM Katerina Rohonyan 2319
FM Ignacio Perez 2296
NM Josh Sinanan 2284
FM Curt Collyer 2269
FM David Bragg 2208
NM Harley Greninger 2197 (seed - Championship runner-up)
NM Dereque Kelley 2189 (seed - Premier Champion)
Igor Ummel 2083 (seed - Junior Closed Champion)

Average rating: 2273
Prize Fund: $1,500

Congratulations to Washington State chess champion Howard Chen, for the second consecutive year!

The Championship has been registered and FIDE rated.
Titles: GM = Grandmaster, IM = International Master, FM = FIDE Master,
NM = National Master, LM = USCF Life Master, WGM = Woman Grandmaster, WFM = Woman FIDE Master.

Premier

The winner of the Premier section qualifies for the next (2012) state championship tournament.

LM Viktors Pupols 2200
NM Michael MacGregor 2182
WFM Chouchanik Airapetian 2162
David Golub 2146
Gil Lapid Shafriri 2142
Nathan Lee 2075
Megan Lee 2063
FM Paul Bartron 2052
Samir Sen 2042
Roland Feng 2017 (seed - Invitational runner-up)

1st Alternate: Alan Bishop 2072
Withdrew due to schedule conflict - Michael Wang 2097

Average rating: 2108
Prize Fund: $1,000

The Premier has been registered and FIDE rated.

 

Invitational

Nicholas Hoffman 1927
Peter Watts 1910
Mark Smith 1907 (seed - Senior Champion)
Stephen Buck 1762 (alternate; substitute for Duane Polich)
Casey Xing 1887
Samuel He 1802
Michael Hosford 1859
Daniel He 1821
Dan Mathews 1820
Kate Tokareva 1871 (seed - Women's Champion)

Withdrew due to schedule conflict - Ethan Gottlieb 1902
Withdrew due to schedule conflict - Hubert Jung 1964
4th Alternate: Nick Pazderic 1805
5th Alternate: Amith Vanmane 1753
6th Alternate: Joe Davis 1657

Avg. rating: 1857
Prize Fund: $500

Brilliancy Prizes: $300 ($100 for best game in each section).
Prize distribution (each section): 1st 45%, 2nd 25%, 3rd 15%, 4th 10%, 5th 5%.

 

Organizers: Dan Mathews (WCF Tournament Coordinator), Josh Sinanan (WCF President). Thank you for your service to chess in Washington State.

Look for a full report in the April issue of NORTHWEST CHESS.

Previous WA chess championships: List of winners (includes links to event summary pages).