BayAreaChess Championship 66 - Swiss - January 24, 2009

"^" indicates players "playing up" in a higher section
1 SuperStar (over 1700)
Anchondo won clear first, and with 3 points, a free entry.
Seada, Sevian, and Del Rosario tied for second place.

#	Name	Rtng	Post	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Tot	TBrk[M]	TBrk[S]	TBrk[C]	TBrk[O]
1	Francisco Anchondo	1913	1937	W6	W3	L2	W5	3.0	7	8.5	8	21.5
2	Karim Seada	2089	2083	L4	W5	W1	D3	2.5	8	10	5.5	27.5
3	Samuel Sevian	1887	1898	W7	L1	W8	D2	2.5	7.5	9	6.5	19.5
4	Frisco Del Rosario [House]	2050	2059	W2	H---	H---	H---	2.5	2.5	2.5	5.5	5.5
5	Alex Radu	1742	1776	W9	L2	W6	L1	2.0	4	7.5	6	17.5
6	Nikunj Chandr Oza	1863	1853	L1	W7	L5	D9	1.5	4	7	3.5	17
7	Armen Sevian [House]	1921	1907	L3	L6	W9	H---	1.5	2	4.5	2	10.5
8	Aamir Ali^ Azhar	1617	1644	U---	W9	L3	H---	1.5	0.5	3	3	7
9	Edward M Lewis	1901	1860	L5	L8	L7	D6	0.5	5	7	0.5	15.5

2 Star
Krishnan won clear first and one free entry with 3.5 points.
Phillips won second and one free entry with 3 points.
Nagarajan won third place with 2.5 points..

#	Name	Rtng	Post	Team	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Tot	TBrk[M]	TBrk[S]	TBrk[C]	TBrk[O]
1	Ganesh Krishnan	1677	1717		W7	D6	W2	W4	3.5	6.5	8.5	8.5	23
2	Todd W Phillips	1695	1698		X---	W4	L1	W5	3.0	7.5	7.5	7	19.5
3	Pranav Nagarajan	1403	1421	FOREST	L6	W11	W9	D8	2.5	4.5	5	5.5	13
4	Michael Lico	1608	1604		W11	L2	W6	L1	2.0	4.5	8.5	6	22.5
5	Gabriel W Lee	1458	1468	WINDEM	L10	W8	W7	L2	2.0	4.5	8.5	5	18.5
6	Brandon Lee	1518	1526	WINDEM	W3	D1	L4	H---	2.0	4.5	8	5.5	20
7	Richard Zhang	1491	1489	MSJHS	L1	W9	L5	W11	2.0	3	7	4	17
8	Rahul Ram^ Mohan	1230	1256	STRATS	D9	L5	D11	D3	1.5	3.5	6	3.5	14
9	Muhammed Mohideen	1432	1390		D8	L7	L3	H---	1.0	3.5	6	2	13
10	Aamir Ali Azhar	1617	1627		W5	U---	U---	U---	1.0	0	2	4	5
11	Richard Yi	1434	1384		L4	L3	D8	L7	0.5	5.5	8	1	19

3 Elite
Saldinger 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	Leland Yu	1120	1274	STRATD	W18	W4	W14	D3	3.5	7	8	9.5	20.5
2	Udit Iyengar	1160	1261	COLLIN	W17	D7	W11	W6	3.5	7	7.5	8.5	20.5
3	Vikram Vasan	1150	1251	HARKER	W8	W9	D6	D1	3.0	8.5	10.5	8.5	28
4	Hun Klotz-burwell	1162	1191	PALOVE	X---	L1	W16	W9	3.0	6.5	6.5	6	18.5
5	Cole Erskine	1218	1255		D12	W19	W7	H---	3.0	4.5	4.5	7	12.5
6	Roy Lo	1167	1190	GOMES	W15	W10	D3	L2	2.5	8.5	10	8	24.5
7	Arvind^ Sankar	1194	1223	CLARK	W13	D2	L5	W14	2.5	8	9.5	6.5	23.5
8	Jeffrey Tao	1238	1226	DILWOR	L3	D13	W17	W12	2.5	6	6.5	4.5	17
9	Alina Ma	1169	1162	MEYER	W16	L3	W10	L4	2.0	4.5	8.5	6	22.5
10	Aleksan Kozminski	1131	1126	SILVER	W11	L6	L9	W17	2.0	4	7	5	20
11	Alvin Kong	1213	1189	MSJE	L10	W15	L2	W16	2.0	3.5	8	4	19
12	Aadeesh Shastry	1133	1124	FOREST	D5	L14	W13	L8	1.5	5.5	8.5	4	19.5
13	Kevin Moy	1062	1057	WEIBEL	L7	D8	L12	W19	1.5	4.5	7	2.5	17
14	Bryan Lingf Huang	1250	1219	GRAYST	H---	W12	L1	L7	1.5	4	7.5	4.5	20
15	Adimoolam Chidambaram	unr.	979		L6	L11	W19	H---	1.5	2.5	5	2	14
16	Alisha Chawla	1047	1031	WEIBEL	L9	W18	L4	L11	1.0	5	7.5	3	17
17	Anirudh^ Seela	929	901	MISVAL	L2	B---	L8	L10	1.0	4.5	8	2	18
18	John L Canessa	1198	1145	LASLOM	L1	L16	B---	U---	1.0	1	4.5	1	12.5
19	Arun G^ Khemani	1036	974		H---	L5	L15	L13	0.5	3	6	1.5	12.5

3 Elite Team
Weibel Elementary School won the first place team trophy.

	Code	Name	Score	TBrk[C]
1	WEIBEL	Weibel Elementary School (1054.5) - Cnt: 2	2.5	5.5
		Kevin Moy (1062) 1.5
		Alisha Chawla (1047) 1.0

4 Champs
Yuan won clear first.
Azhar, Feng, and Ho tied for the second place.

#	Name	Rtng	Post	Team	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Tot	TBrk[M]	TBrk[S]	TBrk[C]	TBrk[O]
1	Steven Yuan	946	1100	HIDDEN	W13	W3	W2	D4	3.5	9	9.5	9.5	22.5
2	Yousef Rezw Azhar	1071	1090	GRAND	W12	W5	L1	W7	3.0	8.5	9.5	8	26.5
3	Max Feng	985	1036	WARMSP	W11	L1	W12	W6	3.0	7	8	7	21
4	Leyton Ho	816	983	DUVEN	D10	W14	W7	D1	3.0	7	7.5	7.5	21
5	Chris Xiong	746	949	FOSTER	W6	L2	W9	W10	3.0	6.5	8	7	21.5
6	Abhinav Naikawadi	903	909	MURDOC	L5	W10	W11	L3	2.0	4.5	9	5	21.5
7	Joseph Cheng- Wan	924	935	MSJE	W14	W9	L4	L2	2.0	4.5	8	7	20.5
8	Evan Teng	860	865	DOUGHE	L9	L11	W13	W12	2.0	2.5	4.5	3	11
9	Rayan Taghizadeh	964	924	BELMON	W8	L7	L5	D11	1.5	5.5	8.5	4.5	20.5
10	Rohan Varma	909	890	CLARK	D4	L6	W14	L5	1.5	5.5	8.5	4	20
11	David Rahmat	893	876	GRAND	L3	W8	L6	D9	1.5	5.5	8.5	3.5	19.5
12	Michael Sandler	864	838	GARDEN	L2	W13	L3	L8	1.0	5.5	8.5	3	18
13	Jacqueline Garbe	960	875	ARGON	L1	L12	L8	B---	1.0	3	6.5	0	15.5
14	Navaneeth Kumaran	1010	916	LAWSON	L7	L4	L10	H---	0.5	3.5	6.5	0	18.5
15	Amrith Deepak	928	928	CHESSR	F19	U---	U---	U---	0.0	0	0	0	0
16	M Pruyn Goldstein	836	836	MCGILL	F17	U---	U---	U---	0.0	0	0	0	0
17	Vigne Varadarajan	830	830	MISVAL	F16	U---	U---	U---	0.0	0	0	0	0
18	Aymin Bedri	803	803	GRAND	F---	U---	U---	U---	0.0	0	0	0	0
19	Ajit Vijayakumar	796	796	DILWOR	F15	U---	U---	U---	0.0	0	0	0	0

4 Champ Team
Granada won the first place team trophy.

	Code	Name	Score	TBrk[C]
1	GRAND	Granada Islamic School - Santa Clara (922.3) - Cnt: 3	4.5	11.5
		Yousef Rezw Azhar (1071) 3.0
		David Rahmat (893) 1.5
		Aymin Bedri (803) 0.0

5 Premier
Thiagarajan won clear first.
Sant earned the second place.
Arun came in third 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	Akash Thiagarajan	769	913	FOREST	W3	W2	W4	W5	D6	4.5	12.5	14.5	14.5	41.5
2	Amit Sant	787	851	MSJE	W6	L1	W7	W4	W9	4.0	11.5	12	11	39.5
3	Sagar Arun	592	683	HOPKIN	L1	B---	W8	W7	D5	3.5	10	10	8.5	32
4	Josiah P Stearman	559	712		W5	W9	L1	L2	W8	3.0	12	12.5	10	40.5
5	Rengaramchandran	746	726	CHAL-B	L4	W8	W9	L1	D3	2.5	7	12	7.5	40.5
6	Edwin Peng	603	607	LINCOL	L2	L7	B---	W9	D1	2.5	6.5	11	4.5	36
7	Charles Meng	537	545	MURDOC	D8	W6	L2	L3	B---	2.5	6	10	6.5	27.5
8	Alex Berlaga	645	564	HAUSNE	D7	L5	L3	B---	L4	1.5	7.5	10.5	3.5	32.5
9	Chaitanya Gaddam	778	652		B---	L4	L5	L6	L2	1.0	7.5	11.5	4	33

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
Banik and Sanjay Gupta tied for first place.
Zhao, Garg, Eswaran, and Nandella tied for the third 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	Siddharth G Banik	105	496	FOSTER	W6	W4	L2	W8	W3	4.0	13	15	12	42
2	Sanjay Gupta	456	529	PARKMO	W7	W9	W1	L3	W5	4.0	12	13	13	42
3	Mark Yuyi Zhao	451	445		L4	W5	W9	W2	L1	3.0	14	15	9	49
4	Swapnil Garg	221	391	MURDOC	W3	L1	W6	L5	W10	3.0	13	13	9	38
5	Ashritha Eswaran	120	362	SILVER	W8	L3	W7	W4	L2	3.0	12	14	10	41
6	Anirudh Nandella	396	401	MATSUM	L1	W8	L4	W10	W7	3.0	11	11	7	31
7	Lindsey Canessa	337	303	LASLOM	L2	W10	L5	W9	L6	2.0	7	11	6	35
8	Benjamin Yin	461	383		L5	L6	W10	L1	W9	2.0	7	11	4	34
9	Ron Khirman	178	154	CUMBER	W10	L2	L3	L7	L8	1.0	7	11	5	32
10	Nikhil Gupta	424	234	PARKMO	L9	L7	L8	L6	L4	0.0	8	11	0	31

6 Booster Team
Parkmont won the first place.

	Code	Name	Score	TBrk[C]
1	PARKMO	Parkmont Elementary (440.0) - Cnt: 2	4.0	13
		Sanjay Gupta (456) 4.0
		Nikhil Gupta (424) 0.0

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