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BayAreaChess 39 - Memorial Day Festival Main Event - 24-26 May 2008

Note: House players played for reduced or free entry fees to minimize byes. They were ineligible for prize money.
All other prize money will be mailed by Bank of America bill pay early this week to arrive by Friday of this week or Monday.

Masters & Expert
Hills and Zierk tied for first winning $225 each.
Mueller won $75 for 3rd and Mackenzie $60 for 4th.
# Name ID Rtng Post Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6 Tot TBrk
[ R]
1 Kenneth B Hills 12712045 2109 2129 D5 D6 W4 W2 D3 W8 4.5 15.5
2 Steven C Zierk+ 12796611 2145 2158 W3 D4 W5 L1 W9 W7 4.5 13.75
3 Jason L Mueller 20094422 2086 2100 L2 W11 W10 D8 D1 W9 4.0 7
4 Dana N Mackenzie 10277604 2115 2116 W11 D2 L1 D6 H--- W10 3.5 5.25
5 Yian Liou+ 12948665 1956 1969 D1 W10 L2 D7 D8 H--- 3.0 6.5
6 Karim Seada 12540757 2026 2031 H--- D1 D9 D4 H--- H--- 3.0 5
7 Steven R Gaffagan 12542809 2043 2040 U--- H--- X--- D5 W10 L2 3.0 3
8 Eric Schiller 10346100 2200 2185 H--- U--- B--- D3 D5 L1 2.5 3.5
9 Frisco Del Rosario 10987792 2090 2063 L10 H--- D6 B--- L2 L3 2.0 1.5
10 Nikunj Chandr Oza+ 12497585 1853 1849 W9 L5 L3 H--- L7 L4 1.5 2
11 Larry Snyder 10465117 2057 2044 L4 L3 U--- U--- U--- U--- 0.0 0

A & B (1600-1999)
Redoloza won clear 1st for $200. Dioso won $100 for 2nd.
Adkins won clear 1st in u1800 for $200. Moore and McDiarmid split $100 ($50 each) for 2nd in u1800.
Baharav and Bodwin split $60 ($30 each) for 3rd place overall.
# Name ID Rtng Post Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6 Tot TBrk
[ R]
1 Fleford Redoloza 12586941 1958 1977 W3 D2 W5 W8 W4 W6 5.5 20
2 Rodrigo A Dioso 12565977 1946 1958 W17 D1 W15 D4 W8 W5 5.0 12.5
3 Rico B Adkins 12470464 1601 1677 L1 W17 L13 W12 W9 W8 4.0 8.5
4 Zachi Baharav 13464604 1848 1842 W12 L6 W9 D2 L1 W11 3.5 10
5 Greg Bodwin 12832082 1712 1765 W14 W13 L1 D10 W7 L2 3.5 8
6 Randolph E Moore 10515092 1640 1666 B--- W4 L8 D9 W10 L1 3.5 8
7 Zachary McDiarmid+ 12852762 1561 1605 D9 W11 L10 W15 L5 W12 3.5 7
8 Alex Radu 13444073 1635 1659 W11 W10 W6 L1 L2 L3 3.0 9
9 Jason E Cruz 12987041 1736 1720 D7 W12 L4 D6 L3 W16 3.0 6.5
10 Manuel Mangrobang III 12505847 1847 1818 B--- L8 W7 D5 L6 H--- 3.0 5.25
11 Kesav Viswanadha+ 13159334 1495 1493 L8 L7 H--- W17 X15 L4 2.5 0.5
12 Brendan Macintyre 12556293 1614 1588 L4 L9 B--- L3 W17 L7 2.0 0.5
13 Eric Schiller 10346100 2200 2187 H--- L5 W3 U--- U--- U--- 1.5 4
14 Steven R Gaffagan 12542809 2043 2026 L5 D15 W17 U--- U--- U--- 1.5 1
15 Walter Lesquillier [House] 11400957 1755 1741 H--- D14 L2 L7 F11 U--- 1.0 0.75
16 Aamir Ali Azhar [House] 12921829 1537 1529 H--- H--- U--- U--- U--- L9 1.0 0
17 Jessica T Lauser 12593821 1677 1623 L2 L3 L14 L11 L12 H--- 0.5 0

Under 1600
Zhu won clear first for $200. Steiner won second for $100.
Kevin Hui won $150 for first under 1400. Chen and Lane split $75 ($37.50 each) for 2nd under 1400.
Chinchwadkar, Ken Hui and Howe split $60 ($20 each) for overall third place tie.
# Name ID Rtng Post Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6 Tot TBrk
[ R]
1 Qijie [jack] Zhu 13880846 1576 1658 W15 W16 W4 W3 W7 W8 6.0 19
2 Daniel Steiner 12906255 1568 1583 W10 W12 L3 W6 D5 W7 4.5 15
3 Ojas Chinchwadkar 12854991 1504 1538 W11 W8 W2 L1 H--- H--- 4.0 11
4 Ken Hui 12822562 1565 1564 W6 W14 L1 B--- L8 W11 4.0 9
5 Alan F Howe 12442421 1580 1583 H--- W22 W12 D7 D2 H--- 4.0 7.5
6 Albert Lin 12872111 1433 1437 L4 W24 W16 L2 W9 D10 3.5 6.5
7 Kevin Hui 12813911 1111 1311 W23 W15 W14 D5 L1 L2 3.5 6.5
8 Andrew Luo 13151500 1481 1486 X--- L3 W22 H--- W4 L1 3.5 4.5
9 Max Chen 13441747 1183 1224 L16 W13 L15 W12 L6 W19 3.0 7
10 Anthony Luo 13151542 1406 1380 L2 W20 L11 W19 D13 D6 3.0 5.25
11 Chris B Black 13841136 1400 1399 L3 W19 W10 H--- D14 L4 3.0 5.25
12 Stephen D Lupton 12927557 1454 1426 W20 L2 L5 L9 W19 W14 3.0 4.5
13 Michael T Lane 12604717 1375 1345 L14 L9 W24 D15 D10 X20 3.0 2.5
14 Chen-chi Lin 13454572 1514 1468 W13 L4 L7 W21 D11 L12 2.5 5.5
15 Allan Beilin 13464955 1491 1460 L1 L7 W9 D13 H--- U--- 2.0 4.5
16 Salman Azhar [House] 12448551 1505 1483 W9 L1 L6 H--- H--- U--- 2.0 3
17 Aamir Ali Azhar [House] 12921829 1537 1538 H--- H--- U--- U--- W20 U--- 2.0 1
18 Sijung-jason Kim 13856276 1032 1036 W19 U--- U--- U--- U--- U--- 1.0 1
19 Tejes Srivastava 13606612 597 621 L18 L11 W20 L10 L12 L9 1.0 1
20 Daniel Montoya 13816071 644 664 L12 L10 L19 W22 L17 F13 1.0 0.5
21 Tom C Lin 12882400 1188 1182 H--- H--- U--- L14 U--- U--- 1.0 0
22 Stephen A Mixsell 13171174 1332 1281 H--- L5 L8 L20 U--- U--- 0.5 0
23 Salman Azhar* [House] 12448551 1505 1483 L7 U--- U--- U--- U--- U--- 0.0 0
24 Aymin Bedri [House] 13590112 838 834 U--- L6 L13 U--- U--- U--- 0.0 0

1 SuperStar and 2 Star (Merged) Prizes were given according to the section.
Trestor won two free entries with a perfect score. B Lee and Bennett won one free entry with 3.0/4.0.
# Name ID Rtng Post Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Tot TBrk
[ R]
1 David J Trestor 12525828 1856 1876 W9 W8 W5 W4 4.0 6.5
2 Brandon Lee 12832220 1424 1474 W3 L5 W8 X10 3.0 4.5
3 James E Bennett 12390880 1649 1647 L2 W10 W7 W5 3.0 4
4 Ted Belanoff 12758264 1901 1876 L8 W9 W6 L1 2.0 3
5 Harold Jim Parker 12425663 1550 1547 X--- W2 L1 L3 2.0 3
6 Salman Azhar 12448551 1510 1517 H--- W7 L4 H--- 2.0 2
7 Sterling J Engle 13202398 1371 1390 W10 L6 L3 W9 2.0 1
8 Aamir Ali Azhar 12921829 1590 1591 W4 L1 L2 H--- 1.5 2
9 Gabriel W Lee 12872100 1430 1418 L1 L4 W10 L7 1.0 0
10 Muhammed Mohideen 13332553 1360 1322 L7 L3 L9 F2 0.0 0

3 Elite & 4 Champs (Merged) Prizes were given according to the section.
3 Elite: Chen won a clear first in Elite. Mohan, Teoh, and Fu won trophies with the winning record.
4 Champs: Iyer, Baldonado, Kong, Du, Moy tied for 1st. in Champs.


# Name ID Rtng Post Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Tot TBrk
[ R]
1 Max Chen 13441747 1183 1211 W20 D5 W9 W3 3.5 6.75
2 Rahul Ram Mohan 13714097 1137 1130 L6 W16 W11 W13 3.0 5.5
3 Hansel Teoh 13458444 1102 1125 W17 W18 W6 L1 3.0 5
4 Brian Fu 13156031 1233 1232 H--- D14 W15 W10 3.0 4.25
5 Rahul Iyer 13464646 1005 1053 W11 D1 D7 D8 2.5 6.25
6 Evan Baldonado 13730688 946 1051 W2 W10 L3 D7 2.5 6.25
7 Alvin Kong 13318351 1248 1221 W19 D9 D5 D6 2.5 3.75
8 James Du 13181468 1002 997 L18 W20 W12 D5 2.5 3.25
9 Kevin LC Moy 13737545 1020 1039 X--- D7 L1 W15 2.5 2.75
10 Sijung-jason Kim 13856276 1032 1021 W16 L6 W14 L4 2.0 3
11 Erwan Fraisse 13925072 808 865 L5 W17 L2 W18 2.0 2.5
12 Hershel Shah 13190462 801 830 W13 L15 L8 W20 2.0 2
13 Dawood Rahmat 13747186 760 814 L12 W19 W18 L2 2.0 1
14 Linus Wang 13458726 802 826 D15 D4 L10 D16 1.5 3
15 Aleksan Kozminski 13638054 984 959 D14 W12 L4 L9 1.5 2.75
16 Andrey Yamburg 13531121 861 834 L10 L2 B--- D14 1.5 0.75
17 Yousef R Azhar 13123198 936 912 L3 L11 W20 H--- 1.5 0
18 Jordan Langland 12998998 876 845 W8 L3 L13 L11 1.0 2.5
19 Jacqueline Garbe 12906195 943 901 L7 L13 U--- U--- 0.0 0
20 Alisha Chawla 13341232 924 839 L1 L8 L17 L12 0.0 0

3 Elite Team

3 Elite: Duveneck won first place a clear first in Elite.
  Code Name Score TBrk
[C]
1 DUVEN DUVENECK ELEMENTARY (977.0) - Cnt: 3 7.5 20
    Max Chen (1183) 3.5    
    Evan Baldonado (946) 2.5    
    Linus Wang (802) 1.5    

4 Champ Team
Granada won 1st place in Champs, in ied for 1st. in Champs over Nimitz (came in second). Weibel came in third.
  Code Name Score TBrk
[C]
1 GRAND Granada Islamaic School - Santa Clara (848.0) - Cnt: 2 3.5 7
    Dawood Rahmat (760) 2.0    
    Yousef R Azhar (936) 1.5    
2 NIMITZ NIMITZ (834.5) - Cnt: 2 3.5 5.5
    Erwan Fraisse (808) 2.0    
    Andrey Yamburg (861) 1.5    
3 WEIBEL Weibel Elementary School (972.0) - Cnt: 2 2.5 5.5
    Kevin LC Moy (1020) 2.5    
    Alisha Chawla (924) 0.0    


5 Premier
Zhang, Cardarelli, and Chinchwadkar tied for first with 4.0/5. Lin won 4th place trophy.
# Name ID Rtng Post Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot TBrk
[ R]
1 Lunxi Zhang 13949497 785 814 L5 W9 W11 W6 W3 4.0 10.5
2 Leonardo Cardarelli 13518341 743 779 W14 L6 W12 W5 W7 4.0 8
3 Om Chinchwadkar 13796783 692 775 W13 W12 W6 W7 L1 4.0 8
4 Andrew Lin 13977464 799 760 L12 W13 L5 W8 W10 3.0 5.5
5 Arun G Khemani 13912844 638 677 W1 L8 W4 L2 D6 2.5 8.25
6 Michael Sandler 13482251 668 686 W11 W2 L3 L1 D5 2.5 7.25
7 Hui-chuan Yang 13683312 693 686 D9 W10 W8 L3 L2 2.5 5
8 Zachary M Guertin 13564686 742 681 D10 W5 L7 L4 D13 2.0 4.25
9 Julia Wang 13787664 540 543 D7 L1 D10 W14 L11 2.0 3.75
10 Amit Abhijit Sant 13820145 567 568 D8 L7 D9 W12 L4 2.0 3.5
11 Shopnavo Biswas 13768272 538 535 L6 W14 L1 L13 W9 2.0 3.5
12 Carl Luo 13735533 547 541 W4 L3 L2 L10 D14 1.5 3.75
13 Alexan Pereverzev 13483254 460 472 L3 L4 L14 W11 D8 1.5 3
14 Rajesh Sakhamuru 13823035 617 548 L2 L11 W13 L9 D12 1.5 2.25

5 Premier Team
  Code Name Score TBrk
[C]
1 GARDEN Garden Gate Elementary (564.0) - Cnt: 2 4.0 12
    Michael Sandler (668) 2.5    
    Alexan Pereverzev (460) 1.5    

6 Booster

S Young, Peng, and Cardarelli tied for 1st with 4.0/5.
Varadarajan, Meng, Wu, Kumar, Wong, Young, Gunde and Wilson also won trophies.
# Name ID Rtng Post Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot TBrk
[ R]
1 Sean Young 13890074 495 595 W7 W2 L5 W12 W4 4.0 12.5
2 Edwin Peng 13525608 406 509 W11 L1 W10 W6 W12 4.0 10
3 Nicholas Cardarelli 13743705 434 511 W14 L4 W12 W13 W5 4.0 9.5
4 Vignesh Varadarajan 13911636 unr. 625 W8 W3 W6 D5 L1 3.5 11.75
5 Charles Meng 13675093 447 495 W15 W16 W1 D4 L3 3.5 6.75
6 Alan Wu 13783827 450 442 W10 W13 L4 L2 W11 3.0 7
7 Vikram Kumar 13897496 328 343 L1 W11 D13 D8 W16 3.0 4.5
8 Ian Wong 13713952 358 352 L4 W17 W16 D7 D13 3.0 2.5
9 Sonny Young 13890080 425 372 W16 L12 W17 L11 W14 3.0 2
10 Samyak Gunde 13557228 153 243 L6 W15 L2 W16 W17 3.0 1
11 Anirudh Rao Nandella 13981084 unr. 267 L2 L7 W14 W9 L6 2.0 5
12 Kasen Teoh 13819834 397 377 W17 W9 L3 L1 L2 2.0 3
13 Srujan Kumar 13975143 unr. 203 X--- L6 D7 L3 D8 2.0 3
14 Mohamed Elgharbawy 13968428 100 100 L3 B--- L11 W17 L9 2.0 0
15 Aaron Atkins 13982045 unr. 100 L5 L10 B--- U--- U--- 1.0 0
16 Yusuf Mostafa 13976612 unr. 100 L9 L5 L8 L10 L7 0.0 0
17 Basel Mostafa 13976606 unr. 100 L12 L8 L9 L14 L10 0.0 0

6 Booster Team
  Code Name Score TBrk
[C]
1 DUVEN DUVENECK ELEMENTARY (460.0) - Cnt: 2 7.0 21
    Sean Young (495) 4.0    
    Sonny Young (425) 3.0    
2 MONTIC MONTICELLO Academy (397.0) - Cnt: 3 5.0 17
    Kasen Teoh (397) 2.0    
    Srujan Kumar (unr.) 2.0    
    Aaron Atkins (unr.) 1.0    
3 MILLKN Millikin Elementary School (0.0) - Cnt: 2 0.0 0
    Yusuf Mostafa (unr.) 0.0    
    Basel Mostafa (unr.) 0.0    
 
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