Tuesday, November 17, 2015
Friday, November 13, 2015
SWAO Pictures Day two 11/7/15
Here are the rest of the pictures taken from Professional Photographer David Martinez. http://www.davidmartinezphotography.com/
Thursday, November 12, 2015
SWAO Results
About four days after this weekend’s tournament I have
finally mustered up enough energy to congratulate the winners.
U1100 Section - 1st Mayurkumar Bhakta, 2nd
(overall) Benjamin Sheffer, 2nd
(rated player) Shirley Herman, and 1st U800 John Patrick Regal.
U1400 Section – Shared 1st Kristopher Franco and
Tara Martinez, 1st U1200 Elonzo Santillanes
U1800 Section – 1st (five way tie between) John
Berba, David Lewis, Gregory Stricklin, Holly McRoberts and Tim Tran.
Open Section – Tournament Champion Andrew R. Flores, 2nd
(five way tie between) Ben Coraretti,
Stephen Sandager, Daniel Herman, Jonah Romero and Raynaldo Fourzan, 1st U1900 Peter Cuneo
There were a few outstanding performances I took note of
during the tournament.
1 Gregory Stricklin – After about a 15 year hiatus
from tournament chess, in late 2012 he decided to join us over the board once
again. Since then has steadily increased
his rating by 266 points, and I believe this weekend his has capped it off with
his tournament performance to date, Sharing first place in the U1800
section. That was no small task my friend. Great Job!!!
What makes his success extra impressive is that you will never meet a
nicer person.
2 David Lewis – David shared first place with Greg
in the U1800, and has been on a real tear lately, he has scored 9 points out of
his last 10 games. He won a nice prize
at the Millionaire Open a month ago that earned him a floor of 1800. So this tournament will likely be his last in
the U1800 for the rest of his chess career, and he ends it in a first place
finish. Congrats, and welcome to the
Open Section.
3 Tim Tran – He also shared 1st place
in the U1800 section, and his rating was 1427 going into the event. His performance earned him 189 rating points,
WOW!
4 Raynaldo Fourzan – This gentleman decided to
drive up from El Paso on the day of the tournament and he is grateful he did
because he had his best tournament result ever.
He played so well that he gained 63 rating points made the jump to the
next level. Well done Expert
Fourzan!!! You’ll have to invite to Ray
Day in El Paso, Will tells me they are busting out the Mariachi’s for your
accomplishment. Well deserved.
Congratulations to all of our winners, well done!
A special thank you to Shirley Herman for helping recruit
players and basically bringing her whole family down from Colorado to play. That was pretty awesome, thank you. Also, thanks to Will Barela for bringing up a
crew from down south to play, he is one cool dude. Of course, thanks to everyone else who came
out and supported our event this weekend, especially those who made the trek to
Albuquerque from around the state and region.
Hopefully we will see you next year.
P.S. There are two winners that I haven’t been able to get
contact information for and I have yet to pay, specifically Elonzo Santillanes
and John Patrick Regal, if you know either of them please have them contact me
at charlieschessclub@gmail.com
Andrew Flores
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Monday, November 9, 2015
SWAO 11/6/15
Compliments of Dave Martinez photography, http://www.davidmartinezphotography.com/. We had pictures take during the first round of the three day schedule, and the merged third round on the second night. These are all the pictures taken the first night. In a few days, I will post all of the pictures from the second day.
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