200701 - Northwest Chess!

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Unkel Vik Wins Master Class
X-three-way tie, A-A. May, B-K. Warrier, C-P. Placek, D-F. Qu
Games
by Gary Dodner
The WashingtnClass Championshipwas held at the North Seattle Community
CollegeonNovember 24-26. There were 119players in all. On behalf of the
WCF Board of Directors, I want to apologize to all the junior players who
played in the tournament and their parents as well as to the adult players for the
delays in sta.rtingthe rounds and for other problems that we had. As ChiefTD, it
was my responsibility to see to it that things ran smoothly and that the rounds
started on time. One of our problems was that we were short handed. The twoTDs
who wereto be there to help out were unable to make it and there were no other TDs
available on such short notice. The WCF Tournament Coordinator is new to the job
and is still learning howto do it right. Youhave my word that the WashingtonOpen
will be a better organized tournament. On Sunday, we had a bad snow storm. We
will take the weather into consideration for next year's Washington Class when we
start planningit. We would liketo thank our vendor, Tim Tobiason, for being here
and we hope that he will be back next year for the Washington Open.
The winners were:
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2811/111Under 2300
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1"1Under 2100
111
2811
111Under 1900
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2"/1"1Under 1700
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2811/1"1Ultder 1500
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1"1Ul300ll"1 U1200
Master
Vtktors Pupols
Curt Collyer & Harley Greninger
Expert .
Lucas Davies, Michael Lee,
Ricky Selzler
Howard Chen, Noam Davies,
Geoff Gale, David Rupel
Class A
Andy May
Arie Milner
Sebastian Baker
Class B
Krishnan Warrier
Kerry Xing & Matthew Yang
Class C
Philip Placek
Eric Woodlief & Bryan Yue
Class D
SarahMay'
JeffOmori
Frank Wessbecher & Casey Xing
WA BUtz Championship
1"1 Nat Koons $60
2811 Nick Raptis & Elliot Neff $24 each
1"1Bottom Half Sterling Kolde $36
2811Bottom Half Tim Tobiason $24
There were 108 players in the Thanksgiving Scholastic - 46 in the K-3
section, 51 in the 4-6, and 11 in the 7-12. TD David Hendricks.
Grades K-3
1It Luke Harmon, 2ndJustin Yu, 3MChandler Moy, 4thAugie Johnson,
5111Jonah Lee, 6thVIShnu Sarukkai, 'J'h Jacob Jensen, 8111Sam LeBlanc,
Grades 4-6
1- Yun Teng, 2adAdam Ellner, 3MCarl Hannon, 4th Robert Kephart,
5111Matt Song, 6thDonovan Zhao
Grades 7-12
1- Jeremy Kohlenberg, 2adConan So, 3rdAviv Caspi
.Frank Qu scored 5.5, one half point more than May, but was a Junior medal player.
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Sicilian Scheveningen
Eric Woodlief (1571)
August Piper (1546)
Seattle, Washington Class (1) 2006
Annotations by Eric Woodlief
1.e4 e5 2.tl)f3 d6 3.d4 exd4 4.tl)xd4 tl)f6
5.tl)e3 a6 6.Ae2 e6 7.Ae3 Ae7 8.0-0
0-09.lId211e710.a3 -
10.84 was better, because it stops
...b7-b5. .
10...b5 11.f3 Ab7 12.ilfd1 tl)bd7
13.lIae1 tl)e514.lIe11
Prevents.. .CDe4,because now the
Rook on dl controlsthe semi-opend-file.
14...tl)e415.Axe411xe4
Not 15...bxe4, it takes too long to
mount an attack against b2 and the c3-
Knight is fairly well placed.
16.tl)b3
Threatening CDa5or lId4- Ired 1.
16...lIe717.1If2
White fights for control9fb6.
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