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BayAreaChess Championship 69 - Swiss - February 24, 2009
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3 Elite
Grigor Gasparyan won clear first.
Yu won second place.
Du won for third place.
Canessa, Mohan, Sankar, and Khemani tied for fouth place.
# Name Rtng Post Team Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Tot TBrk[M] TBrk[S] TBrk[C] TBrk[O]
1 Grigor Gasparyan unr. 1705 LWS W5 W2 W4 W6 4.0 7 9 10 24
2 Leland Yu 1286 1335 STRATS W7 L1 W8 W4 3.0 8 9 7 24.5
3 James Du 1167 1203 HEARST H--- L5 W9 W8 2.5 3 3 4.5 7
4 John L Canessa 1198 1237 LASLOM W8 W6 L1 L2 2.0 5 10 7 26
5 Rahul Ram Mohan 1275 1283 STRATS L1 W3 L6 W9 2.0 4.5 8.5 4 21
6 Arvind Sankar 1305 1307 CLARKE W9 L4 W5 L1 2.0 4 8 6 21
7 Arun G Khemani 1023 1067   L2 W9 H--- H--- 2.0 0 3 3.5 7
8 Ashraf Ali 1124 1086 GRANAD L4 W10 L2 L3 1.0 6 9 3 19
9 Sergey Gasparyan 1246 1158 LWS L6 L7 L3 L5 0.0 6 8.5 0 19.5
10 Amit Sant 811 799 MSJE U--- L8 U--- U--- 0.0 0 1 0 3
11 Cole Erskine 1312 1312   F13 U--- U--- U--- 0.0 0 0 0 0
12 Udit Iyengar 1271 1271 COLLIN F14 U--- U--- U--- 0.0 0 0 0 0
13 Thomas Weber 1166 1166 NIXON F11 U--- U--- U--- 0.0 0 0 0 0
14 Alina Ma 1164 1164 MEYERH F12 U--- U--- U--- 0.0 0 0 0 0
15 Aadeesh Shastry 1126 1126 FOREST F--- U--- U--- U--- 0.0 0 0 0 0

3 Elite Team
Stratford Sunnyvale won the first place team trophy.
  Code Name Score TBrk[C]
1 STRATS Stratford Sunnyvale (1280.5) - Cnt: 2 5.0 11
    Leland Yu (1286) 3.0    
    Rahul Ram Mohan (1275) 2.0    
1 LWS LWS (12246) - Cnt: 2 4.0 10
    Grigor Gasparyan (unr) 4.0    
    Sergey Gasparyan (1246) 0.0    

4 Champs
Xiong won clear first.
Taghizadeh and Chawla tied for the second place.
Garbe, Kozminski and Vendrow tied for the fourth place.
# Name Rtng Post Team Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Tot TBrk[M] TBrk[S] TBrk[C] TBrk[O]
1 Chris Xiong 979 1194 FOSTER W4 W3 W5 W2 4.0 8.5 11 10 27.5
2 Rayan Taghizadeh 1003 1086 BELMON W9 W11 W6 L1 3.0 8.5 10 9 26
3 Alisha Chawla 1026 1097 WEIBEL W12 L1 W9 W8 3.0 8 9.5 7 22.5
4 Jacqueline Garbe 876 989 ARGONA L1 W14 W11 D6 2.5 8 9 5.5 24
5 Alek Kozminski 1096 1110 SILVER H--- W10 L1 W7 2.5 8 8 5.5 21
6 David Vendrow 1046 1049 RCWJDS W13 W7 L2 D4 2.5 7.5 9.5 7.5 22.5
7 Farris Al-manaseer 979 990 GRANAD W8 L6 W12 L5 2.0 4.5 8.5 6 22
8 Rahul Iyer 1067 1051 MILLER L7 W15 W10 L3 2.0 4 8 5 21
9 Elliot Ki 897 911 KENNED L2 W17 L3 W14 2.0 4 8 4 18
10 Hershel Shah 941 975 MILLKN W14 L5 L8 W15 2.0 3 6.5 5 16
11 Joseph Cheng- Wan 945 916 MSJE W16 L2 L4 D12 1.5 4.5 7.5 4.5 19
12 Akash Thiagarajan 914 896 FOREST L3 W16 L7 D11 1.5 4 7 3.5 18.5
13 Amit Sant 811 856 MSJE L6 U--- D15 W16 1.5 1.5 4 2 11.5
14 Armete Mobin 1051 968 PALOVE L10 L4 W17 L9 1.0 5 7.5 2 14.5
15 Yousef Rezw Azhar 1066 997 GRANAD H--- L8 D13 L10 1.0 4 6 2.5 12
16 Michael Sandler 864 787 GARDEN L11 L12 B--- L13 1.0 3 5 1 10
17 Muhammad Kaddoura 728 698 GRANAD U--- L9 L14 B--- 1.0 1 3 0 6
18 Max Feng 1045 1045 WARMSP F21 U--- U--- U--- 0.0 0 0 0 0
19 William Weber 945 945 NIXON F22 U--- U--- U--- 0.0 0 0 0 0
20 Andrey Yamburg 931 931 CUPERT F--- U--- U--- U--- 0.0 0 0 0 0
21 Rohan Varma 902 902 CLARK F18 U--- U--- U--- 0.0 0 0 0 0
22 Evan Teng 866 866 DOUGH F19 U--- U--- U--- 0.0 0 0 0 0

4 Champ Team
Granada won the first place team trophy.
Mission San Jose Elementary won the second place team trophy.
  Code Name Score TBrk[C]
1 GRANAD GRANAD (924.3) - Cnt: 3 4.0 8.5
    Farris Al-manaseer (979) 2.0    
    Yousef Rezw Azhar (1066) 1.0    
    Muhammad Kaddoura (728) 1.0    
2 MSJE Mission San Jose Elementary (878.0) - Cnt: 2 3.0 6.5
    Joseph Cheng- Wan (945) 1.5    
    Amit Sant (811) 1.5    

5 Premier
Kekre and Banik tied for first place. Kekre got the first place trophy on tiebreaks.
A Song earned third place.
Arun, Pereverzev, and D Song tied for 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 Sharvil Kekre 650 860 WEIBEL W9 W3 W8 D2 W4 4.5 13 14.5 14 46
2 Siddharth G Banik 542 798 FOSCIT W12 W11 W7 D1 W8 4.5 10 11.5 14 39.5
3 Alanna Song 542 767 FOSCIT W4 L1 W14 W11 W7 4.0 11.5 12.5 11 41.5
4 Sagar Arun 713 712 HOPKIN L3 W9 W11 W8 L1 3.0 11.5 13 9 42.5
5 Alexan Pereverzev 533 556 GARDEN L11 B--- L6 W12 W10 3.0 8.5 8.5 6 24
6 Daniel Z Song 716 685 FOSCIT W13 L8 W5 L7 W9 3.0 8 9.5 9 30.5
7 Justin Tan 531 626 DORRIS W14 D12 L2 W6 L3 2.5 8.5 14 9 41
8 Chaitanya Gaddam 596 582 LAURWO X15 W6 L1 L4 L2 2.0 10.5 15 8 46
9 Sanjay Gupta 538 527 PARKMO L1 L4 B--- W14 L6 2.0 7 11.5 4 36
10 Viren Khandal unr. 548 NIMITZ H--- H--- U--- W13 L5 2.0 1.5 4 5.5 9.5
11 Edwin Peng 605 572 LINCOL W5 L2 L4 L3 D13 1.5 11 15.5 5.5 43.5
12 Edward Vendrow 659 588 RCWJDS L2 D7 L13 L5 W14 1.5 7.5 12 3 36.5
13 Charles Meng 550 510 MURDOC L6 L14 W12 L10 D11 1.5 6.5 9.5 3.5 28
14 A Rengaramchandran 746 619   L7 W13 L3 L9 L12 1.0 7 11 4 30.5
15 Rohit Ni Shingate 716 716 WALNUT F8 U--- U--- U--- U--- 0.0 0 0 0 0

5 Premier Team
Foster City Elementary won the first place team trophy.
  Code Name Score TBrk[C]
1 FOSCIT Foster City Elementary (600.0) - Cnt: 3 11.5 34
    Siddharth G Banik (542) 4.5    
    Alanna Song (542) 4.0    
    Daniel Z Song (716) 3.0    

6 Booster
Garg dominated the field to win a clear first.
Gupta, Shivakumar, and Bordelon 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 Swapnil Garg 401 594 MURDOC W8 W3 W5 W6 W2 5.0 10 10 15 34
2 Nikhil Gupta 234 360 PARKMO L3 W8 W4 W5 L1 3.0 13 13 9 39
3 Kaushik Shivakumar unr. 386 HARKER W2 L1 L6 W7 W8 3.0 12 12 8 36
4 Jackson Bordelon unr. 339 ALMADE L6 W7 L2 W8 W5 3.0 9 9 7 30
5 Joshua Vendrow 406 356 RCWJDS W7 W6 L1 L2 L4 2.0 10 15 9 43
6 Ishas A Kekre 367 333 WEIBEL W4 L5 W3 L1 L7 2.0 10 15 8 43
7 Ashley Wang 174 193 DUVENE L5 L4 W8 L3 W6 2.0 7 10 4 32
8 Isabell Gasparyan 111 100 LWS L1 L2 L7 L4 L3 0.0 11 16 0 43
9 Rishabh Khurana 172 172 WEIBEL F--- U--- U--- U--- U--- 0.0 0 0 0 0

6 Booster Team
No teams competed in this section.

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