BayAreaChess Championship 57 - Swiss - 28 November 2008

"^" indicates players "playing up" in a higher section
1 SuperStar
1 SuperStar Section was eliminated due to Long Time controls Swiss event

2 Star
Lin and Yi won one free entry each for 3/4 points.

#	Name	Rtng	Post	Team	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Tot	TBrk[M]	TBrk[S]	TBrk[C]	TBrk[O]
1	Binjih Lin	1277	1365	MSJHS	W2	W3	W4	L2	3.0	8	8	9	17
2	Richard^ Yi	1344	1395	MONTIC	L1	W4	W3	W1	3.0	8	8	6	23
3	Art Zhao	1396	1373	STMARK	W4	L1	L2	W4	2.0	3	6	5	15
4	Roy^ Lo	1238	1185	GOMES	L3	L2	L1	L3	0.0	7	10	0	25

3 Elite
Guiragossian won clear first with a perfect score.
Kasiviswanathan and Shchehlik tied for the second place.
Zhang secured fourth place.

#	Name	Rtng	Post	Team	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Tot	TBrk[M]	TBrk[S]	TBrk[C]	TBrk[O]
1	John Guiragossian	1248	1353	OAKNOL	W11	W5	W3	W2	4.0	8	9	10	24
2	R^ Kasiviswanathan	1059	1196	KENNED	W4	W8	W6	L1	3.0	8.5	10	9	23.5
3	Kanstan Shchehlik	1159	1242	KENNED	W10	W6	L1	W7	3.0	8	9	8	23
4	Jeffrey Zhang	1146	1157	JMI	L2	D9	W5	W8	2.5	6.5	7.5	4.5	19.5
5	Kevin Moy	1097	1123	WEIBEL	W7	L1	L4	W11	2.0	4.5	9.5	5	21.5
6	John L Canessa	1216	1196	LASLOM	W9	L3	L2	W10	2.0	4	8	5	21.5
7	Leland Yu	1195	1172	STRATD	L5	W12	W10	L3	2.0	3	7	5	18
8	Arvind^ Sankar	1079	1061	CLARK	D12	L2	W9	L4	1.5	4.5	7.5	4	17
9	Hun Klotz-burwell	1101	1062	PALOVE	L6	D4	L8	B--	1.5	3.5	6	1.5	13.5
10	Arun G^ Khemani	1055	1036		L3	W11	L7	L6	1.0	5	8	3	20
11	Vikram Vasan	1119	1073	HARKER	L1	L10	W12	L5	1.0	4	8	2	20
12	Alisha^ Chawla	1018	987	WEIBEL	D8	L7	L11	U--	0.5	2.5	4.5	2	11
13	Ricky Safran	1337	1337	MORELA	F16	U---	U---	U---	0.0	0	0	0	0
14	Aaron Wong	1192	1192	HOPKIN	F---	U---	U---	U---	0.0	0	0	0	0
15	Nikita Kouevda	1114	1114	HOMEST	F17	U---	U---	U---	0.0	0	0	0	0
16	Aadeesh Shastry	1109	1109	FOREST	F13	U---	U---	U---	0.0	0	0	0	0
17	Rahul Iyer	1084	1084	FARIA	F15	U---	U---	U---	0.0	0	0	0	0

3 Elite Team
Kennedy Middle School won the first place team trophy.

	Code	Name	Score	TBrk[C]
1	KENNED	Kennedy Middle School (1057.5)	6.0	17
		R^ Kasiviswanathan (1059)
		Kanstan Shchehlik (1159)
1	WEIBEL	Weibel Elementary School (1057.5)	2.5	7
		Kevin Moy (1097) 2.0
		Alisha^ Chawla (1018) 0.5

4 Champs
Yakkala, Sauerberg, and Iyengar tied for the first... the top three trophies were distributed in that order based on tie breaks.
Kozminski, Teoh, and Wan tied for fourth place with 3 points each.
Vendrow, Xu, Feng, and Azhar tied for seventh place.

#	Name	Rtng	Post	Team	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Tot	TBrk[M]	TBrk[S]	TBrk[C]	TBrk[O]
1	Anish Yakkala	1062	1155	CLARK	D7	W10	W5	W4	3.5	8.5	11	8	28
2	Nathaniel Sauerberg	960	1083	RHEEM	W23	D8	W7	W11	3.5	7	7	8.5	20.5
3	Udit Iyengar	1023	1050	COLLIN	B---	D16	W17	W8	3.5	5.5	5.5	7.5	18
4	Aleksan Kozminski	1040	1100	SILVER	W9	W12	W11	L1	3.0	8	10	9	26
5	Hansel Teoh	1019	1072	MONTIC	W13	W20	L1	W12	3.0	7.5	8.5	8	22
6	Joseph Cheng^ Wan	783	935	MSJE	L20	W21	W19	W14	3.0	4.5	5.5	6	14
7	David Vendrow	923	987	RCWJD	D1	W19	L2	W16	2.5	8.5	10	6	25
8	Jeffrey Chen Xu	1021	1025	GARDEN	W21	D2	W16	L3	2.5	8	9	7.5	23.5
9	Max Feng	879	909	WARMSP	L4	W23	D18	W17	2.5	6	6	5	19
10	Yousef Rezw Azhar	811	926	GRAND	H---	L1	W22	W18	2.5	6	6	4.5	14
11	Bryan Lingf Huang	1049	1034	GRAYST	W15	W18	L4	L2	2.0	5	10	7	25.5
12	Jacqueline Garbe	965	954	ARGON	W24	L4	W13	L5	2.0	5	8	6	21
13	Elliot Ki	861	894	KENNED	L5	W22	L12	W20	2.0	3	7	4	19
14	Anirudh Seela	988	950	MISVAL	L16	W24	W20	L6	2.0	2.5	5.5	5	15.5
15	Adarsh Kadoor	883	865	FOREST	L11	L17	W23	W21	2.0	2.5	4.5	3	14
16	Evan Teng	822	850	DOUGHE	W14	D3	L8	L7	1.5	7	10	5.5	26
17	John Rodgers Jr	639	720		D19	W15	L3	L9	1.5	6	9	5	18.5
18	Audrey Jin N Zhao	976	939	STMARK	W22	L11	D9	L10	1.5	5.5	8	5	18
19	Hershel Shah	932	882	MILLKN	D17	L7	L6	W23	1.5	4	7	3	17
20	Leonardo Cardarelli	951	904	STMARK	W6	L5	L14	L13	1.0	7	10	4	23
21	Chris Xiong	872	819	FOSTER	L8	L6	W24	L15	1.0	4.5	7.5	2	16.5
22	Leyton Ho	956	879	DUVEN	L18	L13	L10	W24	1.0	3.5	6	1	14
23	Om Chinchwadkar	805	733		L2	L9	L15	L19	0.0	6	9.5	0	19.5
24	Amit^ Sant	627	585	MSJE	L12	L14	L21	L22	0.0	4	6	0	14
25	Mukil Loganathan	1071	1071	FARIA	F---	U---	U---	U---	0.0	0	0	0	0
26	Isaac Br Martinez	810	810	ELLIOT	U---	U---	U---	U---	0.0	0	0	0	0

4 Champ Team
MSJE edged St. Mark's in the team competition.

	Code	Name	Score	TBrk[C]
1	MSJE	Mission San Jose Elementary (705.0)	3.0	6
		Joseph Cheng^ Wan (783) 3.0
		Amit^ Sant (627) 0.0
2	STMARK	St. Mark's School (963.5)	2.5	9
		Audrey Jin N Zhao (976) 1.5
		Leonardo Cardarelli (951) 1.0

5 Premier
S Langland and Sandler tied for first. S Langland got the first place trophy on tie breaks.
Taghizadeh and Lin tied for third, respectively.
Samineni and J Langland tied for fifth 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	Steele Langland	773	868	AFS	D7	W12	W2	D3	W5	4.0	13	14	11.5	42.5
2	Michael Sandler	704	855	GARDEN	W10	W5	L1	W9	W3	4.0	12.5	14.5	12	48.5
3	Rayan Taghizadeh	704	801	BELMON	W15	W9	W6	D1	L2	3.5	13	15	13	44.5
4	Charles Lin	535	657	FOSTER	L9	W14	D8	W7	W11	3.5	9	10.5	8.5	31
5	Aneesh Samineni	792	791	HARKER	W8	L2	W10	W6	L1	3.0	13.5	15.5	10	46
6	Jordan Langland	677	687	AFS	W13	W11	L3	L5	W9	3.0	10.5	11.5	10	40
7	Desiree Ho	623	631	WEIBEL	D1	L8	W12	L4	W10	2.5	8	13	6.5	33.5
8	Nichol Cardarelli	628	627	VINCIP	L5	W7	D4	L10	W13	2.5	7.5	12	6.5	33
9	Zeeshan Mallick	653	638	GRAND	W4	L3	W11	L2	L6	2.0	12	16	8	50.5
10	Samuel Veytser	597	595	SPRING	L2	W13	L5	W8	L7	2.0	9	13	6	37
11	Duyminh Darr Tran	503	508	CHALSJ	W12	L6	L9	W14	L4	2.0	7.5	11	7	30.5
12	Sagar Arun	651	546	HOPKIN	L11	L1	L7	L13	W14	1.0	7	11	1	30
13	Sidharth Shanker	544	474	LIVOAK	L6	L10	L14	W12	L8	1.0	7	10	2	26.5
14	Kasen Teoh	480	441	MONTIC	U---	L4	W13	L11	L12	1.0	4	7.5	3	18.5
15	Edwin Peng	618	595	LINCOL	L3	B---	U---	U---	U---	1.0	0	3.5	3	13

5 Premier Team
Art Frieler School won the first place team trophy.

	Code	Name	Score	TBrk[C]
1	AFS	Art Frieler School (725.0)	7.0	21.5
		Steele Langland (773) 4.0
		Jordan Langland (677) 3.0

6 Booster
Thiagarajan won a clear first place (again!).
Sauerberg won the second place.
Berlaga, Lin, Prasad, Vendrow, and Garg tied for 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	462	669	FOREST	W12	W5	W3	W2	W4	5.0	12.5	13.5	15	46
2	Ethan Sauerberg	349	537	RHEEM	W13	W4	W8	L1	W3	4.0	13.5	15	13	44.5
3	Alex Berlaga	424	447	GIDEON	W10	W6	L1	W5	L2	3.0	14.5	16	11	50
4	Kevin Lin	458	452	TOMMA	W9	L2	W10	W6	L1	3.0	14	15.5	10	47
5	Vinay Prasad	395	393	LIVOAK	X---	L1	W9	L3	W8	3.0	12.5	12.5	8	39.5
6	Joshua Vendrow	137	276	RCWJD	W7	L3	W12	L4	W11	3.0	9.5	10.5	9	34.5
7	Swapnil Garg	211	215	MURDOC	L6	L8	B---	W11	W10	3.0	8	8	5	27
8	Edward Vendrow	356	326	RCWJD	D11	W7	L2	W9	L5	2.5	7	12	8.5	35.5
9	Mohamed Elgharbawy	208	201	GRAND	L4	W13	L5	L8	W12	2.0	7.5	10.5	5	30.5
10	Stephen Lee	205	167	MONTIC	L3	B---	L4	W12	L7	2.0	6.5	9.5	5	30
11	Lindsey Canessa	150	100	LASLOM	D8	L12	X13	L7	L6	1.5	6	9	4.5	26.5
12	Vicki Xu	210	136		L1	W11	L6	L10	L9	1.0	7.5	12.5	4	38.5
13	Deborah A Mangrobang	unr.	100	WINDMI	L2	L9	F11	U---	U---	0.0	2	6	0	18

6 Booster Team
Ronald C. Wornick Jewish Day School team won the first place team trophy.

	Code	Name	Score	TBrk[C]
1	RCWJD	Ronald C. Wornick Jewish Day School (246.5)	5.5	17.5
		Joshua Vendrow (137) 3.0
		Edward Vendrow (356) 2.5

Extra Rated Games

#	Name	Rtng	Post	Rd 1	Tot
1	Daniel Steiner	1640	1648	W3	1.0
2	Udit Iyengar	1023	1063	W4	1.0
3	Vikram Ganesh	1461	1451	L1	0.0
4	Hansel Teoh	1019	993	L2	0.0

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