2012 Washington State Championship

The 2012 Washington State Championship / Premier / Invitational chess tournaments were conducted as round-robins the weekends of February 11-12 and 18-20, 2012 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 20.

2012 Washington State Championship

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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. 11, 12, 18, 19 at 10:00 AM and 5:00 PM. Round 9: Feb. 20 (President's Day) at 5:00 PM.
Site: Seattle Chess Club, 2150 N 107 St., Seattle, WA 98133.

Updates:

See information above.
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

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.

Championship section group photo. (Click on photo to enlarge.) FM Howard Chen 2427 (seed)
NM Dereque Kelley 2289 (seed)
NM Nat Koons 2280
FM Ignacio Perez 2269
NM Josh Sinanan 2253
LM Harley Greninger 2210 (seed)
NM Gil Lapid Shafrifi 2203 (seed)
NM David Golub 2203
LM Viktors Pupols 2202
Igor Ummel 2122 (seed)

Average rating: 2246
Prize Fund: $1,500

Premier

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

Premier section group photo. (Click on photo to enlarge.) Michael MacGregor 2162
WFM Chouchanik Airapetian 2160
Roland Feng 2148
David Rupel 2130
Megan Lee 2122
Michael Wang 2117
Samir Sen 2115
Patrick Van Dyke 2100
Casey Xing 2038 (seed)
Ethan Gottlieb 1948 (seed)

Average rating: 2104
Prize Fund: $1,000

Invitational

The winner of the Invitational section qualifies for the next premier tournament.

Invitational section group photo. (Click on photo to enlarge.) FM Paul Bartron 2099 (seed)
Michael Schemm 2009
Alan Bishop 2000
Daniel He 1961
Krishnan Warrier 1952
Mark Smith 1905
Samuel He 1894
Kyle Haining 1861
Noah Fields 1845
Becca Lampman 1941

Average rating: 1947
Prize Fund: $500

1st Alternate: Lane Van Weerdhuizen 1839
2nd Alternate: Nick Pazderic 1823
3rd Alternate: Nicolo Gelb 1816
4th Alternate: James Nelson 1773
5th Alternate: Mayhul Arora 1768
6th Alternate: Ethan Bashkansky 1760