2017 Washington State Championship / Premier / Invitational
The 2017 Washington State Championship / Premier / Invitational / Challengers chess tournaments were conducted as round-robins the weekends of February 11-12 and 18-20, 2017 in Redmond as detailed below. Rounds began at 10:00 AM and 5:00 PM on the weekends, and at 5:00 PM on President's Day, Monday, February 20.
Four Sections! Format: Four invitation-only 10-player Round Robins by rating: Championship, Premier, Invitational, and Challengers. The field of each section was determined by seeding and by the highest rated players to respond to an invitation based on the January 2017 U.S. Chess rating list. All sections are dual U.S. Chess and FIDE rated. Fred Kleist was the TD for all four sections.
PGN file of games! (Includes all sections and rounds) | USCF crosstables link.
Time control: 40/2, SD/30; d10. Boards and sets were provided at the tournament, but not clocks.
Entry Fee: Free!
Schedule: Rounds 1-8: Feb. 11, 12, 18, 19 at 10 AM and 5 PM. Round 9: Feb. 20 (President's Day) at 5 PM.
Site: Microsoft Building 99 rooms 99/1915 and 99/1927: 14820 NE 36th St., Redmond, WA 98052. Note: registration and badging required to access Microsoft building for this event.
Prize Fund: The initial prize fund for each section was guaranteed by the WCF, and may be increased based on donations. Championship: $1,500, Premier: $1,000, Invitational: $500, Challengers: $250. Prize distribution (each section): 1st 45%, 2nd 25%, 3rd 15%, 4th 10%, 5th 5%. Brilliancy Prizes: $400 ($100 for best game in each section). The winner of the Championship section receives the title of Washington State Champion. Plaques awarded to the winners of each section.
Drawing of lots: Feb. 4 at 10 p.m. at Seattle Chess Club after the Seattle Masters. Attendance was optional, though encouraged.
Byes: Since this is a prestigious round robin, there were no half-points byes or rescheduling of games allowed in any of the sections. All games must be played on site under TD supervision at the scheduled round times.
Seeds: (note not all accepted invitation; see below for actual player fields for each event)
Championship: IM Michael Lee (State Champion), FM
Nick Raptis (Open Champion), FM Tian Sang (Championship Runner-up), NM
Anthony He (Challenger's Cup Champion and Junior Closed Co-Champion), FM
John Readey (Premier Champion).
Premier: NM Kyle Haining (Premier Runner-up), Neo Olin
(Invitational Champion), Zachary Zhang (President's Cup Champion),
Joseph Truelson (Junior Open Champion).
Invitational: Masayuki Nagase (Invitational Runner-up),
Vikram Ramasamy (Challengers Champion), Sangeeta Dhingra (Girl's
Champion), David Rupel (Senior Champion), Badamkhand Norovsambuu
(Women’s Champion).
Challengers: WFM Naomi Bashkansky (Challengers Runner-up), TBD (WCF Nominee).
Registration: Invited players were requested to register online via online registration, or reply to the email they received. The deadline to reply was Feb. 3.
Questions? Josh Sinanan, WCF President, (206) 769-3757, joshsinanan@gmail.com.
Brilliancy prizes - See the 2017 WA State Championship Brilliancy Prizes report (PDF file).
Here are the fields of the Championship, Premier, Invitational and Challengers sections. (See below for results and crosstables.)
| Championship |
| The winner of the Championship section receives the title of Washington State Champion. |
|
Raptis, Nick 2430 |
|
Average rating: 2341 Prize Fund: $1,500 initially. |
| Premier |
| The winner of the Premier section qualifies for the next state championship tournament. |
|
Irgaliyev, Alikhan 2307 |
|
Average rating: 2129 Prize Fund: $1,000 |
| Invitational |
| The winner of the Invitational section qualifies for the next state premier tournament. |
|
Bishop, Alan 2043 |
|
Average rating: 1988 Prize Fund: $500 |
| Challengers |
|
Sloan, Carl J 1858 |
|
Average rating: 1778 Prize Fund: $250 Alternates: Seshadri, Sridhar 1671 |
Schedule and Other Information
Schedule/Location:
See above.
Requests/Updates:
- Please arrive at Microsoft on Saturday morning by 9:45 a.m. for a mandatory players meeting in which Fred will remind us of the FIDE rules. All players must be present by 10:00 a.m. or may risk forfeiting round 1 and being withdrawn from the tournament.
- Boards, sets, scoresheets, and digital clocks will be provided. Please bring an extra set/clock for skittles and game analysis.
- We kindly ask that each player send a brief chess bio with picture for publication in Northwest Chess magazine. Only players who submit a bio and annotated game upon completion of the tournament will be eligible to win prize money. Please send the bio to Josh Sinanan or Jeff Roland (jroland@cableone.net). See sample bios from the 2008 event. Annotated games should be submitted no later than 3/5.
- The group photos for all sections were taken on Sunday 2/19 at 4:30 p.m. prior to round 8. Players were requested to please dress nicely!
Pairings:
Pairings were released after the drawing of lots.
Here is the pairings schedule for the rounds in each section. This is from the Berger tables.
See the cross tables below for the players corresponding to each pairing number.
Rd 1 - 1:10 2:9 3:8 4:7 5:6
Rd 2 - 10:6 7:5 8:4 9:3 1:2
Rd 3 - 2:10 3:1 4:9 5:8 6:7
Rd 4 - 10:7 8:6 9:5 1:4 2:3
Rd 5 - 3:10 4:2 5:1 6:9 7:8
Rd 6 - 10:8 9:7 1:6 2:5 3:4
Rd 7 - 4:10 5:3 6:2 7:1 8:9
Rd 8 - 10:9 1:8 2:7 3:6 4:5
Rd 9 - 5:10 6:4 7:3 8:2 9:1
Championship
Congratulations
to Washington State chess champions, FM Nick Raptis and FM Roland Feng!
Nick Raptis with the championship trophy, photo courtesy of WCF President Josh Sinanan. Nick previously won the state championship when he lived in Portland, Oregon, but is now the Washington state champion for the first time!
The Championship was registered and FIDE rated. Titles:
IM = International Master, FM = FIDE Master, NM = US Chess National Master, LM = US Chess Life Master.
Latest pre-tournament US Chess ratings shown below (may differ from ratings above).
| Name | Title | City (WA) | Rtg | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Total | Pos | |
| 1 | John Readey | FM | Seattle | 2302 | x | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 2.5 | |
| 2 | Josh Sinanan | LM | Brier | 2259 | 0 | x | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 3.5 | |
| 3 | Kyle Haining | NM | Lake Forest Park | 2265 | 0.5 | 0 | x | 0.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 3.0 | |
| 4 | Nick Raptis | FM | Vancouver | 2432 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.5 | x | 1 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1 | 6.5 | 1st |
| 5 | Ignacio Perez | FM | Seattle | 2282 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | x | 0.5 | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 3.0 | |
| 6 | Tian Sang | FM | Bellevue | 2359 | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | x | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 5.0 | 4th |
| 7 | Ray Kaufman | IM | Stanwood | 2389 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | x | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4.5 | 6th |
| 8 | Roland Feng | FM | Seattle | 2425 | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | x | 0.5 | 1 | 6.5 | 1st |
| 9 | Bryce Tiglon | FM | Redmond | 2455 | 0.5 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1 | 0.5 | x | 0 | 5.0 | 4th |
| 10 | Anthony He | NM | Sammamish | 2264 | 0.5 | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | x | 5.5 | 3rd |
Average rating: 2343
Prize Fund: $1,500 (1st/2nd $525 each, 3rd $225, 4th/5th $112.50 each).
Premier
Congratulations to Premier champion, NM Alikhan Irgaliyev!
The Premier was registered and FIDE rated.
Titles: FM = FIDE Master, NM = US Chess National Master, LM = US Chess Life Master.
Latest pre-tournament US Chess ratings shown below (may differ from ratings above).
| Name | Title | City (WA) | Rtg | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Total | Pos | |
| 1 | Vikram Ramasamy | Kirkland | 2116 | x | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 6.5 | 2nd | |
| 2 | Badamkhand Norovsambuu | Bellevue | 2101 | 0 | x | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | 1 | 5.0 | 4th | |
| 3 | Viktors Pupols | LM | Kingston | 2200 | 0.5 | 0 | x | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.5 | 2.5 | |
| 4 | Alikhan Irgaliyev | NM | Shoreline | 2303 | 0 | 1 | 1 | x | 0.5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0.5 | 7.0 | 1st |
| 5 | William Schill | FM | Seattle | 2227 | 0.5 | 0 | 1 | 0.5 | x | 0 | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | 1 | 4.5 | 6th |
| 6 | Dereque Kelley | Seattle | 2146 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0 | 1 | x | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6.0 | 3rd | |
| 7 | David Rupel | Olympia | 2060 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | x | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 1.0 | ||
| 8 | Joseph Truelson | Mercer Island | 1925 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 1 | x | 1 | 0.5 | 4.0 | ||
| 9 | Michael Lin | Seattle | 2157 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | x | 0 | 5.0 | 4th | |
| 10 | Brendan Zhang | Sammamish | 2057 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1 | x | 3.5 |
Average rating: 2129
Prize Fund: $1,000 (1st $450, 2nd $250, 3rd $150, 4th/5th $75 each).
Invitational
Congratulations to Invitational champion, Timothy Moroney!
The Invitational was registered and FIDE rated.
Titles: WFM = Woman FIDE Master, WCM = Woman Candidate FIDE Master.
Latest pre-tournament US Chess ratings shown below (may differ from ratings above).
| Name | Title | City (WA) | Rtg | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Total | Pos | |
| 1 | Aaryan Despande | Issaquah | 1992 | x | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0 | 1.5 | ||
| 2 | Mary Kuhner | WCM | Seattle | 1956 | 1 | x | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 3.0 | |
| 3 | Timothy Moroney | Bellevue | 2013 | 1 | 1 | x | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 1 | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 7.0 | 1st | |
| 4 | Damarcus Thomas | Bothell | 1963 | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | x | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4.0 | 5th | |
| 5 | Chouchanik Airapetian | WFM | Mercer Island | 2015 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | x | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0 | 6.0 | 3rd |
| 6 | Eric Zhang | Sammamish | 2053 | 1 | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 0.5 | x | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1 | 0.5 | 6.5 | 2nd | |
| 7 | Mark Smith | Seattle | 1880 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | x | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 4.0 | 5th | |
| 8 | David Arganian | Seattle | 2013 | 0.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | x | 1 | 0 | 4.0 | 5th | |
| 9 | Travis Olson | Mukilteo | 1953 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | x | 0.5 | 4.0 | 5th | |
| 10 | Alan Bishop | Bellevue | 2043 | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1 | 0.5 | x | 5.0 | 4th |
Average rating: 1988
Prize Fund: $500 (1st $225, 2nd $125, 3rd $75, 4th $50, 5th-8th $6.25 each).
Challengers
Congratulations to Challengers champion, Samuel Deng!
The Challengers was registered and FIDE rated.
Latest pre-tournament US Chess ratings shown below (may differ from ratings above).
Carl Sloan unfortunately withdrew from the tournament due to a scheduling conflict. Therefore, the Challengers section became a 9-player RR, with a different player receiving a bye in each round. For those who already played against Sloan, the games are still rated, but do not count for the tournament. The adjustments have been noted below and are subject to change. Pairing colors may be reversed in rounds 5-9 to ensure color balance.
| Name | Title | City (WA) | Rtg | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Total | Pos | |
| 1 | Advaith Vijayakumar | Bothell | 1729 | x | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1 | 1 | 0.5 | 1 | 4.5 | 2nd | ||
| 2 | Oscar Petrov | Woodinville | 1806 | 1 | x | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 4.5 | 2nd | ||
| 3 | Rushaan Mahajan | Redmond | 1730 | 1 | 0 | x | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0.5 | 4.5 | 2nd | ||
| 4 | Vignesh Anand | Redmond | 1901 | 0.5 | 1 | 1 | x | 0.5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 4.5 | 2nd | ||
| 5 | Carl Sloan | Seattle | 1858 | x | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | w/d | |||||||
| 6 | Sophie Tien | Bellevue | 1746 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 1 | x | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.0 | ||
| 7 | Sridhar Seshadri | Bothell | 1671 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | x | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1.0 | ||
| 8 | Owen Xuan | Seattle | 1769 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | x | 0 | 0 | 3.5 | ||
| 9 | Samuel Deng | Woodinville | 1778 | 0.5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | x | 0.5 | 7.0 | 1st | |
| 10 | Anshul Ahluwalia | Redmond | 1813 | 0 | 1 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.5 | x | 4.5 | 2nd |
Average rating: 1780
Prize Fund: $250 (1st $112.50, 2nd-6th $27.50 each).
Organizers: Josh Sinanan (WCF President). Thank you for your service to chess in Washington State.
Look for a full report in the April issue of NORTHWEST CHESS, which should be in subscriber's hands by early April. For subscription information, please see our magazine info page.
Other recent WA chess championships:
2016 |
2015 |
2014 |
2013 |
2012 |
2011 |
2010 |
2009 |
2008 |
2007 |
2006 |
2005 |
2004.
Previous WA chess championships: List of winners (includes links to event summary pages).