October 22, 2011, Wyndham Milwaukee Airport Hotel
RESULTS:
OPEN SECTION
1st-2nd: Erik Santarius, Navin Sawalani
1st A: Rohan Mhaskar
1st B: Avinash Rajendra
RESERVE SECTION
1st Place: Brian MacLeish
2nd/D tie:
Michael Shefski, Daniel Kazmarek, Gary Wright, Greg Reese Sr,
Mitchel Anderson, Sandra Pahl, Susanna Ulrich
Mitchel Anderson, Sandra Pahl, Susanna Ulrich
E: Xavier Loomer, Marqis McVicker
Goddesschess prizes for top-scoring women:
Open Section: Each victory earns $40; each draw earns $20;
plus top-scoring female wins free entry to Hales Corners Challenge XV (April 21, 2012):
Rachel Ulrich wins free entry to HCC XV!
Reserve Section:
Top-scoring female wins free entry to Hales Corners Challenge XV (April 21, 2012):
Sandra Pahl wins free entry to HCC XV!
Round 4, view of Open Section
OPEN SECTION
No. Name St Rate Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Score1. Santarius, Erik (1)........... WI 2381 W30 W29 W5 D3 3.5
2. Sawalani, Navin (5)........... WI 2249 D19 W14 W11 W10 3.5
3. Stamnov, Aleksanda (3)........ IL 2273 W18 D7 W8 D1 3.0
4. Zin, Aung Thant (4)........... IL 2257 W13 L10 W22 W9 3.0
5. Parker, Anthony L (6)......... WI 2226 W38 W12 L1 W19 3.0
6. Williams, William (7)......... WI 2200 L39 W40 W34 W21 3.0
7. Harder, Brady R (10).......... WI 2038 W44 D3 D24 W26 3.0
8. Rajendra, Avinash (27)........ WI 1753 W28 W21 L3 W17 3.0
9. Betaneli, Alex (2)............ WI 2314 -X- W39 D10 L4 2.5
10. Smail, Benedict A (9)......... WI 2125 W31 W4 D9 L2 2.5
11. Jing, Aaron (12).............. WI 2000 -H- W23 L2 W33 2.5
12. Becker, Allen J (11).......... WI 2000 W32 L5 D14 W27 2.5
13. Mhaskar, Rohan (17)........... WI 1875 L4 W27 D35 W34 2.5
14. Ulrich, Rachel J (29)......... WI 1721 W41 L2 D12 W37 2.5
15. Wainscott, Chris (33)......... WI 1659 -H- D32 D18 W30 2.5
16. Corcoran, Benjamin (38)....... WI 1586 -H- L22 W44 W31 2.5
17. Van Scyoc, David V (15)....... WI 1937 -H- D34 W40 L8 2.0
18. Hoffman, Guy G (16)........... WI 1905 L3 W25 D15 D23 2.0
19. Thomas, Tyler Stev (18)....... WI 1857 D2 D44 W25 L5 2.0
20. Grochowski, Andrew (21)....... WI 1836 L29 L31 W36 W35 2.0
21. Joachim, Peter Jam (25)....... WI 1782 W26 L8 W42 L6 2.0
22. Coons, James Jay (26)......... WI 1754 L27 W16 L4 W43 2.0
23. Franek, Martin Joh (30)....... IL 1715 W36 L11 D29 D18 2.0
24. Smith, Jordan A (32).......... WI 1693 W37 D30 D7 -N- 2.0
25. Rajendra, Anupama (35)........ WI 1611 W43 L18 L19 W38 2.0
26. Hernandez, Joseph (36)........ WI 1603 L21 W46 W39 L7 2.0
27. Myaskovsky, Dmitry (37)....... WI 1599 W22 L13 W38 L12 2.0
28. Campbell, John Ser (39)....... WI 1579 L8 L37 W46 W40 2.0
29. Waller, Matthew (8)........... WI 2163 W20 L1 D23 -U- 1.5
30. Both, Robert K (13)........... WI 1972 L1 D24 W43 L15 1.5
31. Sun, Abe (22)................. IL 1814 L10 W20 D37 L16 1.5
32. Gawron, John (24)............. IL 1798 L12 D15 L33 W42 1.5
33. Pokorski, Jeffrey (28)........ WI 1735 L35 D36 W32 L11 1.5
34. Cai, Yuanqi (34).............. WI 1620 W42 D17 L6 L13 1.5
35. Thomas, Ryan Andre (40)....... WI 1517 W33 L38 D13 L20 1.5
36. Bevans Jr, Paul Wa (42)....... WI 1490 L23 D33 L20 W46 1.5
37. Shelobolin, Filipp (44)....... WI 1325 L24 W28 D31 L14 1.5
38. Reese Jr, Gregory (19)........ WI 1842 L5 W35 L27 L25 1.0
39. Bruch, Robert M (20).......... WI 1837 W6 L9 L26 -N- 1.0
40. Sagunsky, David L (31)........ WI 1698 W46 L6 L17 L28 1.0
41. Murtaugh, Wiliam (41)......... WI 1491 L14 L43 -B- -N- 1.0
42. Shi, Qingde (45).............. WI 1317 L34 W47 L21 L32 1.0
43. Karimikonda, Teja (46)........ WI 1242 L25 W41 L30 L22 1.0
44. Schladweiler, Matt (23)....... WI 1808 L7 D19 L16 -U- 0.5
45. Cardenas, David R (14)........ WI 1968 -F- -U- -U- -U- 0.0
46. De Vogel, David (43).......... WI 1460 L40 L26 L28 L36 0.0
47. Ulrich, Anne E (47)........... WI 182 -N- L42 -N- -N- 0.0
RESERVE SECTION
1. MacLeish, Brian (3)........... WI 1568 W29 W25 D3 W10 3.52. Shefsky, Michael W (1)........ WI 1586 L14 W26 W30 W12 3.0
3. Kaczmarek, Daniel (7)......... WI 1467 W17 W23 D1 D6 3.0
4. Wright, Gary M (9)............ WI 1395 W30 L11 W27 W16 3.0
5. Reese Sr, Gregory (11)........ WI 1383 L23 W27 W28 W18 3.0
6. Andersson, Mitchel (13)....... WI 1358 W37 W24 D11 D3 3.0
7. Pahl, Sandra R (14)........... WI 1342 L11 W28 W20 W13 3.0
8. Ulrich, Susanna G (18)........ WI 1279 L25 W17 W21 W14 3.0
9. Loomer, Xavier Mar (21)....... WI 1182 L21 W36 W24 W23 3.0
10. McVicker, Marqis (37)......... WI nnnn W20 W15 W13 L1 3.0
11. Mohammed, Sarfaraz (4)........ WI 1546 W7 W4 D6 -U- 2.5
12. Hall, Jay Roy (26)............ WI 1006 W36 W29 D19 L2 2.5
13. Padilla, Rudy R (5)........... IL 1509 W15 W14 L10 L7 2.0
14. Jester, James Will (10)....... WI 1386 W2 L13 W31 L8 2.0
15. Huang, Alena (15)............. WI 1335 L13 L10 W35 W31 2.0
16. Holmes, Russ (16)............. WI 1302 L24 W21 W22 L4 2.0
17. Windsor, Charles B (17)....... WI 1300 L3 L8 W36 W32 2.0
18. Murali, Anjana (22)........... WI 1169 -H- D22 W25 L5 2.0
19. Vadapally, Prahlad (24)....... WI 1049 D22 W34 D12 -N- 2.0
20. Huang, Sabrina (27)........... WI 914 L10 W35 L7 W29 2.0
21. Shi, Stephen (29)............. WI 823 W9 L16 L8 W30 2.0
22. Mehta, Moulik (32)............ WI 672 D19 D18 L16 W34 2.0
23. Dreuth, Adam Willi (2)........ WI 1572 W5 L3 D26 L9 1.5
24. Etzel, Steven W (6)........... WI 1504 W16 L6 L9 D27 1.5
25. Ziehms, Stephen Al (8)........ WI 1430 W8 L1 L18 D28 1.5
26. Vadapally, Pranay (20)........ WI 1184 W31 L2 D23 -N- 1.5
27. Venkat, Abhyudhaya (23)....... WI 1062 W32 L5 L4 D24 1.5
28. Hobson, Jonathan J (25)....... WI 1033 W35 L7 L5 D25 1.5
29. Ballweg, Tim Donal (12)....... WI 1373 L1 L12 W34 L20 1.0
30. McNeel, Andrew D (19)......... WI 1238 L4 W32 L2 L21 1.0
31. Wanek, Ellen A (28)........... WI 906 L26 W37 L14 L15 1.0
32. Foat, Dustin (31)............. WI 736 L27 L30 W37 L17 1.0
33. Ulrich, Anne E (36)........... WI 182 -N- -N- -N- W37 1.0
34. Murali, Ananya (30)........... WI 753 -H- L19 L29 L22 0.5
35. Newton, Jan L (33)............ WI 579 L28 L20 L15 -N- 0.0
36. Burgin, W H (34).............. WI 458 L12 L9 L17 -U- 0.0
37. Foat, Patricia J (35)......... WI 350 L6 L31 L32 L33 0.0
28 comments:
Hi Everyone,
I hope there will be a record number of ladies playing in Challenge XIV. Please come out and support me. I decided to play in the Reserve Section and live blog about my experiences in-between rounds. I will need all the moral support I can get!
Jan Newton
Goddesschess.blogspot.com
noticed Jan sponsored PS 318 girls to go to girls Nationals - very cool
Hola everyone. Yes, Anonymous, I did it, I'm guilty. Goddesschess strikes here, there, everywhere, just like the Scarlet Pimpernel. Of course, most of the players in the club have no idea who the Scarlet Pimpernel is :) We're waiting for a Pay-Pal account to be set up to accept donations for the kids at IS 318 before we go "public" with the news and give the fund-raiser the publicity it deserves, but Elizabeth Vicary just couldn't contain herself, I guess. She's a favorite person of mine, by the way. Dedicated, passionate, and a very fine chessplayer in her own right. Lizzy won the 2007 Goddesschess Brilliancy Award at the U.S. Women's Chess Championships, you know. Well, maybe you didn't but now you do.
I've been training hard with Shira Evans-Sanford and she has no mercy. Vicious chess femme! My level of play is horrible, to put it bluntly. Oh well. I recently hung a queen after I was SURE I had a plan in place, and wanted to shoot myself. Sigh. Better those brilliant young chess femmes from IS 318 go to Nationals than Jan attempts to pursue her dream of becoming the oldest Women's World Chess Champion...
That sly elusive pimpernel (oh, snap!)
I will be playing in this event although it feels like forever since I've played at all.
An update on IS 318: http://goddesschess.blogspot.com/2011/10/please-help-chess-kids-of-is-318.html
My training games with Shira Evans-Sanford have been going rapidly downhill. It seems whatever I once new about chess has flown away as I try to fight through my hopeless games with Shira! Question: Isn't it a coach's job to encourage and build up a player's ego pending a major chess competition? Geez, Shira!
LOL! So, come one, come all, at least in the Reserve Section, to play against hapless old me. I promise to blog about you! And please, I hope you will not object if I ask to take your photo to post at the Goddesschess blog. I would like, particularly, to focus on the ladies. Can you please come and seek me out?
Ohmhygoddess! I can't even spell anymore! It's supposed to be "knew" -- not "new!"
Oh well...
I would like to see the ladies support the club and play in all our tournaments and not just the ones with guaranteed prizes for showing up.
Will be there. The turnout is always great for this one!
Dear Anonymous on October 13, 2011:
I agree with you 100%. The question is, how? I have gone over and over this question with my partners many times over the years since we began offering prizes for the ladies at the Hales Corners Chess Challenges, and we haven't been able to come up with a good answer. Nothing we have done has seemed to make much difference in terms of increasing female participation. So, what's your answer? How do we get the female chessplayers out here, playing in events such as this one? I'm putting my silly self on the line and will face, most probably, four humiliating defeats at the hands of players young enough to be my grandchildren, all in the name of trying to rally support for more femmes coming out to play in just such events. So please, if you have any ideas, let me know. Buttonhole me next Saturday and talk to me privately - I'm sure to have plenty of time between rounds cuz I'm that bad and won't last long in my games. I'll take notes and won't use your name unless you give permission.
Jan N.
I was reading somewhere that girls tend to give up chess when they start liking boys out of fear that they'll be disliked for being better than boys at something.
Which is sad.
But you can kind of see that when you hear someone like Abby Marshall say she doesn't want to be identified as a chess player.
It's really a pity. I've been crushed by girls and it doesn't hurt my ego any more than a loss to anyone else...
Congrats to Sasha - WI newest master!
Still time to register early. Send me an email at: tfogec@wi.rr.com
Update on training games with Shira: it's coming down to the end of both games. In game 1 she's got me on the ropes, but I'm not going down without a fight. She's got my king cornered and I'm queenless (that's the game where I hung my queen, doh) and she's zeroed in on me with her queen, a rook and a lurking bishop. Oh my! I'm about to lose a rook but if I do I'll grab that bishop back, and king will be hidden behind a couple of well-spaced pawns and I've still got one rook in reserve. Problem is, he's in a corner. Well, life is tough...
In our second game, where I hope to last beyond 30 moves (well, come on, Shira is rated in the 1600 or 1700's and I'm at 579, what do you want? I want to WIN, that's what I want!) I'm down two pawns but I think I've got a better position right now - at least, temporarily. Still got a queen but have no sure plan of attack. I am no good at coordinating my pieces. No matter what I try with my pawns Shira always mows them down. To put it mildly, it is extremely frustrating playing these training games with Shira. I'm not learning a darn thing except how not to jiggle around in my chair like Kasparov...
History: number of players (open+reserve) and the open winner(s):
HCC XIII..04/2011 (57+48=105)STAMNOV,MENON,BREIDER,RAGHAVAN
HCC XII.. 10/2010
(41+37=78) FM BETANELI, HENDRICKSON
HCC XI...04/2010
(41+37=78) SANTARIUS
HCC X...10/2009
(42+34=76) AMANOV
HCC IX...04/2009 (56+51=107)AMANOV,YOUNG,SANTARIUS,KOHLENBERG
HCC VIII.10/2008
33+32=65)TATE,YOUNG,TENNANT,BECKER
HCC VII..04/2008
(22+30=52) BURGESS,TENNANT,PARKER
HCC VI...10/2007
(30+32=62) TENNANT, BREIDER,SANTARIUS
HCC V....04/2007
(40+22=62) TATE,STAMNOV
HCC IV...11/2006
(23+26=49) STAMNOV
HCC III..04/2006
(28+17=45) TENNANT
HCC II...10/2005
(20+18=38) BURGESS,BECKER
HCC I....04/2005
(34+36=70) BETANELI
We have 2000+ that are not really 2000+ and 1800s that are not really 1800s
Is this philosophical meandering or just jealousy? Ratings are earned. How can someone not be a rating they have earned? I suppose it would be a problem with the rating system, not the players, if such a case were true. But I'm not sure what the point is as regards to the pre-entries of the HCC. Trolling chess blogs seems about as low as it gets.
I for one am very happy with the state of Wisconsin chess. Seems to be getting stronger all the time.
-Matt Waller
Maybe "troll" is saying our 2000+'s and 1800's are really stronger than their ratings
Yeah, ok. So what, are 2000+'s are really 3000+'s? Give me a break.
-Matt Waller
if you had a chance to play at say, the Marshall, routinely against Masters, you'd be a master no doubt
I went to the Marshall Masters last Spring. Does anonymous think I am over/underrated?
-Ben Smail
I'd say about 50-100 pts. over-rated.
It would depend on time control. Ben and Matt would do extremely well against Marshall masters in slow time controls as most of those masters got their rating in g/30 or g/60 events.
This tournament is incredibly strong now. Good luck to all, but keep the title in Wisconsin!
Yes, we now have 74 registered so far (as of 9:00 am). Including 6 masters (IL State Champ ZIN, many-time WI Champ WILLIAMS). FM Stamnov just arrived as well.
Third-highest attendance ever for an HCC. As of 9:33 am, we have 80, including 6 masters and 5 experts. Also, 12 chess femmes.
Anthony Parker arrived... so 7 masters, 81 players total. Pairings up in a few minutes.
Can anyone give the result of top 10 boards?
Hi everyone,
I received an email hello from a fan in Singapore regarding my recent blog coverage of the Hales Corners Chess Challenge XIV:
Eugene Wee has left a new comment on your post "Hales Corners Chess Challenge XIV":
Thanks for posting this. I am a chessplayer from Singapore who visits your blog every few months after having discovered it last year. Actually seeing you post about your results from a tournament, rather than just commenting on the results of the professionals, makes you feel much more like the real person that you are rather than just another entity on the Internet.
By the way, I was pleasantly surprised to see that Navin Sawalani finished in second place in the open. My guess is that he is the same player who won the national junior championship in Singapore more than a decade ago (1998, I think), when I was just starting to represent my school in the lower age divisions. If you have the chance to meet him again, perhaps you should ask him about it :)
So, here's a shout out from the other side of the world to Navin S. via the Goddesschess blog :)
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