2010 Oregon State Championship
The 2010 Oregon State Championship chess tournament was conducted as a round-robin the weekends of February 6-7 and 13-14-15, 2010 in Portland as detailed below. Rounds began at 10:00 AM and 5:00 PM.
Game scores: PGN format | CBV (ChessBase) format
The Field
The 2010 championship field was as follows:
Carl Haessler (defending champion) 2210
Nick Raptis (Oregon Open champion) 2302
Daniel Gay (Junior Closed champion) 2057
Chuck Schulien 2320
Radu Roua 2207
Steven Breckenridge 2205
Robert Szendroi 2200
Corey Russell 2200
John Chung 2093
Mike Morris 2080
Schedule and Other Information
Schedule/Location:
Feb. 6-7 at 10:00 AM and 5:00 PM.
Feb. 13-15 at 10:00 AM and 5:00 PM (except only one round on 2/15).
Portland Chess Club, 8205 SW 24th Ave, Portland, OR 97219.
See www.pdxchess.org.
Here are the pairings: White listed 1st:
Rd 1: Breckenridge vs. Szendroi; Raptis vs. Russell; Chung vs. Roua; Gay vs. Morris; Schulien vs. Haessler.
Rd 2: Szendroi vs. Schulien; Haessler vs. Gay; Morris vs. Chung; Roua vs. Raptis; Russell vs. Breckenridge.
Rd 3: Russell vs. Szendroi; Breckenridge vs. Roua; Raptis vs. Morris; Chung vs. Haessler; Gay vs. Schulien.
Rd 4: Szendroi - Gay; Schulien - Chung; Haessler - Raptis; Morris - Breckenridge; Roua - Russell.
Rd 5 : Roua - Szendroi; Russell- Morris; Breckenridge - Haessler; Raptis - Schulien; Chung - Gay.
Rd 6: Szendroi - Chung; Gay - Raptis; Schulien - Breckenridge; Haessler - Russell; Morris - Roua.
Rd 7: Morris - Szendroi; Roua - Haessler; Russell - Schulien; Breckenridge - Gay; Raptis - Chung.
Rd 8: Szendroi - Raptis; Chung - Breckenridge; Gay - Russell; Schulien - Roua; Haessler - Morris.
Rd 9: Haessler - Szendroi; Morris - Schulien; Roua - Gay; Russell - Chung; Breckenridge - Raptis.
 Group
photo. Front Row (L to R): TD Neil Dale, Steve Breckenridge, Nick Raptis, Daniel Gay, Robert Szendroi. Back Row: Mike Morris, Chuck Schulien, Corey Russell, Radu Roua (1st place), Carl Haessler, John
Chung. Photo credit: Julie Gay.
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"post mortem" analysis: At the board are John Chung (left) and Nick Raptis (right). Behind are Mike Morris and Steven Breckenridge.
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Schulien (white) vs. Radu Roua (black), at the start of the deciding game,
which Roua won to put him ahead in the tournament.
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Oregon chess champion Radu Roua, doing some preparation!
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Championship
Congratulations to Oregon State chess champion Radu Roua!
This is Radu's third Oregon championship in the past four years!
The Championship has been registered and FIDE rated.
Titles: NM = National Master, LM = USCF Life Master.
| Name | Title | City (OR) | Rtg | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Total | |
| 1 | Carl Haessler | LM | Lake Oswego | 2210 | x | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 1 | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 5.0 |
| 2 | Mike Morris | Portland | 2080 | 1 | x | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | 1 | 4.0 | |
| 3 | Radu Roua | Portland | 2207 | 1 | 1 | x | 0.5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 1 | 7.0 | |
| 4 | Corey Russell | Medford | 2200 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | x | 1 | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.5 | 1 | 5.0 | |
| 5 | Steven Breckenridge | Gresham | 2205 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | x | 0.5 | 1 | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 6.0 | |
| 6 | Nick Raptis | NM | Portland | 2302 | 0.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | x | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6.0 |
| 7 | John Chung | Waldport | 2093 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | x | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 1.0 | |
| 8 | Daniel Gay | Tigard | 2057 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | x | 0 | 0.5 | 3.5 | |
| 9 | Chuck Schulien | NM | Portland | 2320 | 0.5 | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | x | 1 | 6.5 |
| 10 | Robert Szendroi | Medford | 2200 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0 | x | 1.0 |
Prizes: $200 (1st - Roua), $100 (2nd - Schulien), $50 (3rd - split between Breckenridge and Raptis).
Organized by the Oregon Chess Federation.
Tournament director: Neil Dale.
Look for a report in a future issue of NORTHWEST CHESS.
Previous OR chess championships: List of winners (includes links to event summary pages).