BayAreaChess Championship 64 - Swiss - January 3, 2009

"^" indicates players "playing up" in a higher section
1 Open (over 1800)
Loanzon won $150 for clear first.
Sevian and Richter won $75 for 2nd place and 1st under under 2000.

#	Name	Prize	Rtng	Post	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Tot	TBrk[M]	TBrk[S]	TBrk[C]	TBrk[O]
1	Arjoe Bar Loanzon	$150	2263	2269	W10	W2	W5	W3	4.0	7.5	8.5	10	24
2	Samuel Sevian	$75	1863	1913	W9	L1	W8	W6	3.0	7	8	7	20.5
3	Paul Richter	$75	1816	1857	D8	W9	W10	L1	2.5	6	7	7	17.5
4	Karim Seada		2031	2025	L6	D8	W9	W5	2.5	5	6	4.5	17.5
5	Ramin Farzaneh-far		1856	1865	W7	W6	L1	L4	2.0	4.5	10.5	7	23.5
6	Ted Belanoff		1867	1866	W4	L5	W11	L2	2.0	4.5	9	6	22
7	Kyle Hui		1654	1669	L5	L10	W12	W8	2.0	2.5	5.5	3	17
8	Michael G Da-cruz		1902	1878	D3	D4	L2	L7	1.0	7	10	3.5	21.5
9	Sreekar Jasthi		1913	1893	L2	L3	L4	W10	1.0	6	9	1	21.5
10	Natesan V Ramanan		1872	1854	L1	W7	L3	L9	1.0	5.5	9.5	3	21
11	Aamir Ali^ [House] Azhar		1650	1643	H---	H---	L6	U---	1.0	0	2	2.5	6
12	Gabriel W Lee		1384	1377	H---	H---	L7	U---	1.0	0	2	2.5	3

2 Reserve
Gonda won $130 for clear 1st. credit.
Giridharan won $80 for 1st under 1600.
Davies won $65 for overall 2nd place.
Phillips won $50 for overall 3rd.
Hui and B Lee split $50 ($25 each) for 2nd under 1600.

#	Name	Rtng	Post	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Tot	TBrk[M]	TBrk[S]	TBrk[C]	TBrk[O]
1	Thomas A Gonda	1445	1636	W19	W12	W3	W5	4.0	7.5	7.5	10	20.5
2	Vinzent Davies	1746	1765	W7	W9	D5	W6	3.5	7.5	9.5	9	27
3	Todd W Phillips	1688	1699	W15	W16	L1	W9	3.0	7.5	8.5	8	22
4	Arun Giridharan	1440	1532	L5	W17	W16	W10	3.0	6	6.5	6	19
5	Tanuj Vasudeva	1620	1632	W4	W11	D2	L1	2.5	10.5	12.5	8	30
6	Kevin Hui	1474	1520	W20	W10	D8	L2	2.5	8	9.5	8	21.5
7	Harold Jim Parker	1602	1603	L2	W18	D14	W15	2.5	5.5	6.5	5	15
8	Brandon Lee	1525	1557	D12	W19	D6	H---	2.5	4.5	4.5	6	12.5
9	Julian Michae Lin	1603	1597	W17	L2	W13	L3	2.0	5	9	6	22
10	Thadeus Frei	1609	1590	W18	L6	W11	L4	2.0	4.5	8.5	6	20
11	Alberto A Murillo	1536	1526	W14	L5	L10	W17	2.0	3	6	5	18
12	Riaz A Karamali	1646	1638	D8	L1	W19	H---	2.0	2.5	6.5	4	16.5
13	Richard Yi	1392	1422	L16	W15	L9	W14	2.0	2.5	5.5	4	15
14	Pranav Nagarajan	1333	1321	L11	B---	D7	L13	1.5	4	6.5	3	14
15	Venkata S Nandula	1551	1517	L3	L13	W18	L7	1.0	5.5	8.5	2	18
16	Michael Lico	1608	1585	W13	L3	L4	U---	1.0	5	8	4	18
17	Gabriel W Lee	1384	1352	L9	L4	B---	L11	1.0	4	7	1	17
18	Nathan B Zhang	1420	1413	L10	L7	L15	W19	1.0	3	5.5	1	13
19	Ken Hui	1637	1569	L1	L8	L12	L18	0.0	5.5	9.5	0	22
20	David K Lee	1314	1303	L6	U---	U---	U---	0.0	0	2.5	0	8

3 Elite
Saaldinger won clear first.
Baldonado, Canessa, K Kozminski, Mohan, Teoh, and Gasparyan tied for 2nd place.
Zhao, Karamali, Zhao, and Moy tied for the 8th place.

#	Name	Rtng	Post	Team	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Tot	TBrk[M]	TBrk[S]	TBrk[C]	TBrk[O]
1	Jacob Saldinger	1219	1296	FOOTHI	W7	W12	W2	D5	3.5	9	11	9.5	27.5
2	Evan^ Baldonado	1017	1146	DUVEN	W19	W17	L1	W13	3.0	7.5	8.5	8	21.5
3	John L Canessa	1210	1244	LASLOM	W23	W14	D4	D8	3.0	7.5	7.5	8.5	20
4	Krzyszt Kozminski	1242	1278	SILVER	W15	W6	D3	H---	3.0	7.5	7.5	8	18.5
5	Rahul Ram Mohan	1246	1262	STRATS	D11	W21	W18	D1	3.0	7	7.5	7.5	22.5
6	Hansel^ Teoh	1053	1139	MONTIC	W13	L4	W22	W12	3.0	7	7	7	19.5
7	Sergey Gasparyan	1200	1255	SANMIG	L1	W22	W15	W11	3.0	7	7	6	18.5
8	Art Zhao	1323	1312	STMARK	D9	W10	D11	D3	2.5	8	10	6.5	24.5
9	Saleem Karamali	1142	1162	GUNN	D8	L18	W23	W20	2.5	4.5	4.5	5	12.5
10	Kevin Moy	1152	1174	WEIBEL	H---	L8	W21	W18	2.5	4.5	4.5	4.5	13.5
11	Hunter Klotz-Burwell	1100	1155	PALOVE	D5	W20	D8	L7	2.0	5.5	9.5	6	21
12	*Aleksan Kozminski	1104	1128	SILVER	W20	L1	W16	L6	2.0	5	9	6	21.5
13	Ralph W Crawford	1154	1132		L6	W19	W14	L2	2.0	5	9	5	22
14	Arun G^ Khemani	1020	1045		W16	L3	L13	W21	2.0	4	7.5	5	19.5
15	Thomas Weber	1070	1048	NIXON	L4	B---	L7	W22	2.0	3	6.5	3	14.5
16	James Du	1214	1167	HEARST	L14	W23	L12	W19	2.0	3	5	4	13
17	Kory Hui	1179	1126	UCSC	W22	L2	L19	W23	2.0	1	4	5	10
18	Prem Talwai	1196	1159	FOLSOM	D21	W9	L5	L10	1.5	5.5	8.5	5	19.5
19	Daniel Gutierrez	unr.	934	ALI	L2	L13	W17	L16	1.0	6	9	2	22
20	Kanstan Shchehlik	1246	1164	KENNED	L12	L11	B---	L9	1.0	4	6.5	1	17
21	Jose Jacobo	unr.	856	ALI	D18	L5	L10	L14	0.5	6	9	2	22.5
22	Armando Garcia	unr.	648	ALI	L17	L7	L6	L15	0.0	6.5	10	0	21
23	Jose Hererra	unr.	721	ALI	L3	L16	L9	L17	0.0	6.5	9.5	0	22.5
24	Arvind Sankar	1070	1056	CLARK	L1	U---	U---	U---	0.0	0	3.5	0	9.5

3 Elite Team
Silver Oak Elementary School won the first place team trophy.
Alisal - Salinas won the second place team trophy.

	Code	Name	Score	TBrk[C]
1	SILVER	Silver Oak Elementary (1173.0) - Cnt: 2	5.0	14
		Krzyszt Kozminski (1242) 3.0
		*Aleksan Kozminski (1104) 2.0
2	ALI	Alisal - Salinas (0.0) - Cnt: 4	1.5	4
		Daniel Gutierrez (unr.) 1.0
		Jose Jacobo (unr.) 0.5
		Jose Hererra (unr.) 0.0
		Armando Garcia (unr.) 0.0

4 Champs
Xu won clear first.
Kazinik and Yamburg tied for the second.
Saldinger, Ho, Kumaran, Iyer, Taghizadeh, Yueng, and Zhao tied for fourth place.

#	Name	Rtng	Post	Team	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Tot	TBrk[M]	TBrk[S]	TBrk[C]	TBrk[O]
1	Jeffrey Chen Xu	1041	1166	GARDEN	W16	W3	W11	W2	4.0	8	9	10	24
2	Yosef Kazinik	1003	1088	LAWSON	W13	W15	W4	L1	3.0	8.5	10	9	25.5
3	Andrey Yamburg	693	932	CUPERT	W9	L1	W19	W11	3.0	8.5	8.5	7	22.5
4	Samuel Saldinger	1036	1037	PLEASA	W14	W12	L2	D5	2.5	7.5	9.5	7.5	24
5	Leyton Ho	888	1002	DUVEN	W6	D10	D15	D4	2.5	7.5	9	7	24.5
6	Navaneeth Kumaran	966	987	LAWSON	L5	W13	W12	D9	2.5	7	9	5.5	20.5
7	Rahul Iyer	1084	1080	MILLER	W17	L11	W10	D8	2.5	7	8	6.5	22
8	*Rayan Taghizadeh	996	1000	BELMON	L12	W14	W18	D7	2.5	6.5	7.5	5.5	17.5
9	Julie Yeung	1075	1055	COUNTR	L3	W16	W17	D6	2.5	6.5	7.5	5.5	16.5
10	Audrey Jin N Zhao	1051	1056	STMARK	W19	D5	L7	W15	2.5	6.5	6.5	6.5	18.5
11	David Vendrow	994	986	RCWJDS	W20	W7	L1	L3	2.0	5.5	9.5	7	23.5
12	Amrith Deepak	820	890	LAWSON	W8	L4	L6	W18	2.0	5	8.5	5	21.5
13	*Vinayak^ Nadig	777	831	CHAL-A	L2	L6	W16	W19	2.0	3.5	6.5	3	15.5
14	Chris Xiong	825	847	FOSTER	L4	L8	W20	W17	2.0	3.5	6	3	16
15	William Weber	1097	1050	NIXON	W18	L2	D5	L10	1.5	6	9	5	25.5
16	Ajit Vijayakumar	842	807	DILWOR	L1	L9	L13	W20	1.0	4.5	8.5	1	18.5
17	Divya Natesan	904	862	CANYON	L7	W19	L9	L14	1.0	4.5	7	3	15
18	Anirudh Seela	931	874	MVE	L15	W20	L8	L12	1.0	3.5	6	3	15.5
19	Nathan Chang	871	782	HACIEN	L10	L17	L3	L13	0.0	5.5	8.5	0	19.5
20	John Rodgers Jr	712	648		L11	L18	L14	L16	0.0	4	6	0	14

4 Champ Team
Lawson won the frist place.

	Code	Name	Score	TBrk[C]
1	LAWSON	LAWSON Middle (911.5) - Cnt: 2	7.5	19.5
		Yosef Kazinik (1003) 3.0
		Naveenatha Kumaran(820) 2.5
		Amrith Deepak (820) 2.0

5 Premier
Langland earned the first place.
Bazhenov earned the second place.
Thiagarajan, Arun, Lin, and tied for third place.

#	Name	Rtng	Post	Team	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Tot	TBrk[R]
1	Jordan Langland	701	831	AFS	W5	W4	W2	D3	W6	4.5	9.5
2	Allen Bazhenov	611	763	CHAL-M	W4	W2	L1	W6	W5	4.0	6.5
3	Kevin Lin	602	592	TOMMA	D6	L2	L5	D1	W4	2.0	4.5
4	Sagar Arun	554	562		L2	L1	W6	W5	L3	2.0	2.5
5	Akash Thiagarajan	746	684	FOREST	L1	W6	W3	L4	L2	2.0	2.5
6	Calvin Tam	535	473	WEIBEL	D3	L5	L4	L2	L1	0.5	1

5 Premier Team
No teams participated in this section (i.e., we did not have two or more players from the same school).

6 Booster
Sanya Sehgal, Gaddam, and E Vendrow, tied for first place. Sehgal anad Gaddam were playing in their first tournament.
Singla, Prasad, Poon, and Sanchla Sehgal tied for the fourth place.

#	Name	Rtng	Post	Team	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Tot	TBrk[M]	TBrk[S]	TBrk[C]	TBrk[O]
1	Sanya Sehgal	unr.	763	HORNER	W2	W5	W4	W6	L3	4.0	14	17	14	51
2	Chaitanya Gaddam	unr.	701	LAUREL	L1	W9	W8	W4	W5	4.0	12	14	10	43
3	Edward Vendrow	337	535	RCWJDS	W8	W11	L6	W10	W1	4.0	10	11	12	37
4	Shivansh Singla	352	509	GOMES	W7	W6	L1	L2	W8	3.0	14	16	10	47
5	Vinay Prasad	404	473	LIVOAK	W10	L1	W9	W7	L2	3.0	13	14	10	38
6	Brunston Poon	483	502	NUEVA	W9	L4	W3	L1	W10	3.0	13	14	9	42
7	Sanchla Sehgal	unr.	379	HORNER	L4	W10	W11	L5	W12	3.0	8	8	8	28
8	Siddharth G Banik	unr.	340	FOSTER	L3	W12	L2	W11	L4	2.0	8	12	6	37
9	Joshua Vendrow	294	300	RCWJDS	L6	L2	L5	W12	W11	2.0	7	11	3	34
10	Lindsey Canessa	153	143	LASLOM	L5	L7	W12	L3	L6	1.0	9	13	3	39
11	Kasen Teoh	443	319	MONTIC	W12	L3	L7	L8	L9	1.0	7	11	5	29
12	Isabell Gasparyan	194	100	LWS	L11	L8	L10	L9	L7	0.0	6	9	0	25

6 Booster Team
Horner Junior High won the first place to break the streak of Ronald C. Wornick Jewish Day School.
Wornick came in second.

	Code	Name	Score	TBrk[C]
1	HORNER	HORNER Jr. High (0.0) - Cnt: 2	7.0	22
		Sanya Sehgal (unr.) 4.0
		Sanchla Sehgal (unr.) 3.0
2	RCWJDS	Ronald C. Wornick Jewish Day School (315.5) - Cnt: 2	6.0	15
		Edward Vendrow (337) 4.0
		Joshua Vendrow (294) 2.0

Extra Rated Games

#	Name	ID	Rtng	Post	Team	Rd 1	Tot
1	Chaitanya Gaddam	14101858	unr.	750	LAUREL	W2	1.0
2	Shivansh Singla	14042322	352	344	GOMES	L1	0.0

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