2009 WA Class Championships

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2009 Washington Class Championships and Thanksgiving Scholastic

November 27-29, 2009 in Redmond, Washington

See the list of prize winners below.

Crosstables are available on the USCF website (uschess.org), event ID 200911295981.

Photos of Thanksgiving Scholastic event courtesy of Gary Dorfner (click to enlarge):

Views of the playing hall.

Awards presented by WCF Scholastic Coordinator David Hendricks.

Photographer Philip Peterson took a number of photos at the recent Washington Class Championships,
and needs some help identifying the players.
You can view his photos at http://www.idonthaveone.org/sports/events/8/med/09057788.htm,
and respond directly using the e-mail link if you can help with identification.

Report from Gary Dorfner

The 2009 Washington Class Championships were held at the Marriott Hotel in Redmond on Thanksgiving weekend. There were 163 players in all, 18 in the Master Class, 19 Expert, 26 A, 20 B, 24 C, 27 D and 29 E.

The winners were:

Master; 1^st Michael Lee $525.00, 2^nd/1^st U2300 Curt Collyer and Ignacio Perez $262.50 each.

Expert, 1^st Steven Breckenridge $425.00, 2^nd/1^st U2100 Kerry Xing and Andy May $212.50 each.

Class A, 1^st Krishnan Warrier $325.00, 2^nd David Golub $200.00, 1^st U1900 Skylor Fryberg and Limuel Coloma $62.50 each.

Class B, 1^st Galen Pyle $325.00, 2^nd Neale Monkhouse $200.00, 1^st U1700 Dan Hua $125.00.

Class C, 1^st/2^ndRichard Golden, Robert Goodfellow, Ethan Bashkansky and August Piper $131.25 each, 1^st U1500 Mayhul Arora $125.00.

Class D 1^st Juan Gomez $325.00, 2^nd Jonah Lee $200.00, 1^st U1300 Mayur Bedadala, Masayuki Nagase and Jason Presley $41.67 each.

Class E 1^st Morgan Higgins $175.00, 2^nd Breck Haining $100.00, 1^st U1000 Richard Tang $$75.00, 1^st U800 Rithvik Bharath $75.00, 1^st Unrated Sukeerth Vegaraju $75.00.

Side Events

Blitz, 1^st Steven Breckenridge $50.00, 2^nd Galen Pyle $40.00, 1^st U1700 Michael Quan $30.00.

Novice, 1^st Class E Sean Thatcher, 1st Class F Gus VanNewkirk, 2^nd Howard Hwa, 3^rd Andy Thatcher, 1^st Class G Nikita Filippov, 2^nd Dhingra Sangeeta, 3^rd Andy Yuen. They each received a trophy.

Bughouse, 1^st Fields/Seran, 2^nd Muntianu/Mitchell, 3^rd Kramer/Kramer, 4^th Miller/Chin. Each team received trophies.

TD’s: Fred Kleist & Gary Dorfner.

Scholastic Section (Thanksgiving Scholastic)

K-3 Open, 1^st Ben Seran, 2^nd Justin Blachman, James Soetedjo, Joey Yeo, Terrance Li and Zizheng Cheng.

K-3 U800, 1^st Alex Finan, 2^nd Jonathan Han, Thorsten Lannyad, Ben Jee and Brett Kruse.

4-6 Open 1^st Kyle Haining, 2^nd Carl Dutton, Nicholas Pisani, Chandler Moy and Kanish Puri.

4-6 U800 1^st Angela Bleeker, 2^nd Brian Zhu, Ian Robertson, Saffa Hiyeri, and Sara Marcjan.

7-12 Open, 1^st Paul Pisani, 2^nd Matt Coopersmith, Peter Sherman, Andrew Thatcher.

Team Awards

K-3 Open, 1^st OPW.

K-3 U800, 1^st BLW.

4-6 Open, 1^st EVG.

4-6 U800, 1^st STV.

7-12 pen, 1^st INL and OMS.

TD: David Hendricks.