Monday, November 29, 2010

41st Badger Open

41st Annual Badger Open, G/60 (4-rounds), Saturday, December 4, 2010 at the Country Springs Hotel in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Open and Reserve (U1400), and also a scholastic tournament. Mail entries to Waukesha Chess Club, attn: Badger Open, c/o Jim Nickell (262-544-6266 for info).
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18 comments:

  1. IvanNovember 29, 2010 at 5:55:00 PM CST

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  2. IvanNovember 29, 2010 at 6:25:00 PM CST

    Congratulations to John Veech

    Beating a GM & IM

    Click here

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  3. RobinNovember 30, 2010 at 8:27:00 AM CST

    Should be a nice tournament. First time for chess at the Country Springs Hotel? I do not recall any chess tournaments there. Both myself and Andrew plan to play.

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  4. AnonymousNovember 30, 2010 at 10:08:00 AM CST

    Yeah, Veech is getting good! Too bad that Velikanov dipped below 2100 in the same event. :-(

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  5. RobinNovember 30, 2010 at 10:24:00 AM CST

    Sasha is young (well, so is Veech) and has a lot of years to get his rating up. It is impossible to have a great tournament everytime one plays.

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  6. AnonymousNovember 30, 2010 at 11:02:00 AM CST

    Sasha likely won't won't dip below 2100. The tournament is wrongly rated in that the first three rounds were rated twice in error. Sasha was penalized twice for the early rounds. Similarly, some people were awarded twice for the early rounds.

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  7. AnonymousNovember 30, 2010 at 11:09:00 AM CST

    Sasha got to 2000 3 years ago, but is having a hard time getting to 2200.

    Too bad about Brian Luo too, hasn't played for over 2 years.

    John should make master at his next event.

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  8. AnonymousNovember 30, 2010 at 11:39:00 AM CST

    Agreed. Sasha's coaches are not doing the job... a young player should not stagnate like this. Not too sure about John Veech though. He can lose a ton of rating in one bad event. But he is certainly going to be a master soon. It's a race between Parker, Nolan and Veech.

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  9. AnonymousNovember 30, 2010 at 12:18:00 PM CST

    USCF site says that Veech is
    Amanov's student. Given round 5 results, Veech should be the teacher.

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  10. AnonymousNovember 30, 2010 at 12:54:00 PM CST

    Stop having a twisted self-serving conversation with yourself about kids. Haven't you done enough already?

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  11. AnonymousNovember 30, 2010 at 1:36:00 PM CST

    I don't see what is twisted about this conversation

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  12. AnonymousNovember 30, 2010 at 2:39:00 PM CST

    Then you are either lucky or twisting once again.

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  13. RobinDecember 1, 2010 at 11:10:00 AM CST

    Advanced entries through November 30, 2010:
    Sagunsky, David L.
    Grochowski, Robin J.
    Grochowski, Andrew R.
    Hoffman, Guy G.
    Pahl, Sandra R.
    Jing, Aaron

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  14. AnonymousDecember 1, 2010 at 2:25:00 PM CST

    Betaneli says he is playing

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  15. RobinDecember 3, 2010 at 7:05:00 AM CST

    Advanced entries as of December 2:
    Erik Santarius 2338
    Alex Betaneli 2299
    William P Williams 2200
    Guy Hoffman 1907
    Brady Harder 1906
    Aaron Jing 1876
    Neil Gleason 1867
    James Coons 1818
    Rohan Mhaskar 1812
    Robin Grochowski 1789
    Andrew Grochowski 1756
    Greg Reese, Jr. 1735
    David Sagunsky 1667
    Evan Seghers 1523
    Sandra Pahl 1494
    Nikhil James 1427
    John Campbell 1257

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  16. AnonymousDecember 3, 2010 at 4:24:00 PM CST

    Did everybody know that there are at least 16 sub-species of badger in North America.

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  17. AnonymousDecember 5, 2010 at 10:52:00 AM CST

    Results? Crosstables?

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  18. RobinDecember 6, 2010 at 8:00:00 AM CST

    Congratulations to Bill Williams for winning the Badger!!

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