2012 U.S. Class Chess Championships

Date

Start: Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 7:00 PM
End: Sunday, September 23, 2012 @ 7:00 PM

Address

Marriott Houston South at Hobby
9100 Gulf Freeway Houston, TX

Fees

$75 by 9/14, $85 after. Special EF for all Class E and Unrated Players, and for U18 in Class C and D - $45 by 9/14, $55 after.

Registration Closing Date

Friday, September 21, 2012 @ 11:59 PM PST

Brief Description

5SS, G/120. $11,000 b/200 paid full entries. Special EF counts as 2/3. Free Parking! $87 HR - Call (713) 943-7979. RATED PLAYERS MAY PLAY UP ONE CLASS. National Titles as Plaques for each Class winner. All divisions are USCF rated. Master Division is also FIDE rated. SEPTEMBER SUPPLEMENT USED. CURRENT USCF MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED. ENHANCED GRAND PRIX EVENT (50GPP)!

ON SITE REGISTRATION

ON SITE REGISTRATION IS AVAILABLE THE DATE OF THE TOURNAMENT! IF REGISTERING ON SITE, PLEASE BE AT THE MARRIOTT AT LEAST ONE HOUR PRIOR TO THE START OF ROUND 1.

U.S. CLASS 3-DAY SCHEDULE

All Games G/120, 5 Second Delay. Round 1 - Friday 8pm, Round 2 Saturday 1pm, Round 3 Saturday 6:30pm, Round 4 Sunday 9:30am, Round 5 Sunday 2:30pm

U.S. CLASS 2-DAY SCHEDULE

Round 1 Saturday 10am (G/60, 5 Second Delay), Merge with 3-Day Schedule on Round 2

U.S. CLASS PRIZES

• Master (2200/up) $1,250 – 650 – 400 (U2400: 400 – 200 – 100), • Expert (2000-2199) $800 – 400 – 200, • Class A (1800-1999) $800 – 400 – 200, • Class B (1600-1799) $800 – 400 – 200, • Class C (1400-1599) $800 – 400 – 200, • Class D (1200-1399) $800 – 400 – 200, • Class E (U1200) $300 – 200 – 100, • Unrated $300 – 100 **FIRST PLACE, ON TIE BREAKS, IN EACH CLASS ALSO GETS CHAMPION'S PLAQUE**

SCHOLASTIC SCHEDULE

ALL ROUNDS SATURDAY. 5SS G/30. Games: 10am, 11:30am, 1:15pm, 2:30pm, 3:45pm. Awards at 5pm (Approx.)

SCHOLASTIC PRIZES

Individual Trophies to Top 15 in each Division (K-3, K-6, K-9, K-12). Tie-Breaks will determine standings for tied players. Team Plaque to the Top 3 School Teams in each Section. The Top 4 players count towards the Team Standings (minimum of 2). Commemorative Medals for all Scholastic Tournament Players.

BLITZ TOURNAMENT

After Round 3 of Regular Event. NOT USCF Rated. G/5, $10 EF, Onsite Registration Only. 75% of Entry Fees returned in Prizes. Two Sections: Open & U1800.

MASTER 3-DAY

IM Sarkar, Justin 2480, FM Xiong, Jeffery 2416, Guadalupe II, Francisco 2317, Chiang, Sarah 2277, Chiang, Jonathan 2233, He, Tommy 2203, Li, Ruifeng 2194, Zhang, Vincent 2156, Dejmek, Mark 2151, Panchanatham, Vignesh 2133, Gonzalez, Jose 2083, Liu, Bovey 2078,

MASTER 2-DAY

GM Sadorra, Julio C 2598, IM Bercys, Salvijus 2470, IM Calugar, Arthur 2453, FM Getz, Alec 2445, IM Fernandez, Daniel 2434, FM Hughes, Tyler B 2383, Pamatmat, Jarod M 2248, Hendrick, John 2194, Gater, Daniel B 2163, Shao, Andy 2139, Alexandrov, Olzhas 2102, Han, Curran Ray 2085, Jiang, Austin 2067,

EXPERT 3-DAY

Malazarte, Ernesto 2168, Land, Chris K 2152, Shridhar, Mitesh 2150, Ng, Daniel 2073, Olivo, Oswaldo 1990, Brack, Frank 1987, Bunch, Cliff 1974, Fewel, Nathan 1962, Nguyen, Anthony 1899, Jacob, Andrew 1894, Ford, Joe 1851, Brannon, Joshua Sc 1838,

EXPERT 2-DAY

La Salle, Craig 2097, Chandra, Kevin 2063, Lu, Andrew 2006, Jiang, Alexander D 2003, Chen, Christopher 2001, Nguyen, Duy Minh 1924, Obili, Abhishek 1910, Capocyan, Sam L 1871, Cabart, Pavel 1857,

CLASS A 3-DAY

Bonnell, Leo W 1945, Wharry, Stephen M 1920, Ghita, Vlad B 1910, Binder, Joseph 1900, Matthews, Steven P 1900, Willis, Clay 1893, Mackey, David E 1871, Webster, Dex 1861, Dennison Jr, B G 1847, Fjeld, Johan 1832, Duarte, Mario 1824, Oyekan, Olufemi 1803, May, Harold Eric 1792, Nguyen, Emily 1790, Palang, Caissa 1771, Davis, Brandon 1722, Shan, Devan 1660,

CLASS A 2-DAY

Xie, Tianming 1929, Abella, Angelito 1869, Gonzalez, Luis P 1858, Hsieh, David 1849, Nguyen, Brittany 1835, Pamatmat, Jordan J 1825, Kotta, Venkat 1815 Han, Alex 1811, Jones III, Cornelius 1807, Kaliyur, Rohith 1795, Arunachalam, Palaniappan 1793, Frutos, Chase 1783, Sanchez, Reynaldo 1778, Annigeri, Sanjay 1772, Trakru, Priya 1750, Premkumar, Hiren 1747, Hu, Kevin 1746, Abella, Clarissa 1735, Rajavel, Rahul 1675, Li, Kevin 1624,

CLASS B 3-DAY

Hernaiz, Francisco 1793, Smith, Jordan B 1782, Palang, Warren 1779, Wagner, Alexander 1744, Hawthorn, Charles 1717, Li, David C 1675, Oquendo, Eddy R 1658, Wang, Eric 1655, Liu, Glen 1648, Fernando, Bharana 1613, Carter, Jeff 1610, Tian, Samuel 1605, Solley, Duane Earl 1595, Velasquez, Henry Sr. 1563, Kao, Camille 1549,

CLASS B 2-DAY

Alexander Jr, Joe 1761, Nguyen, Khoa Minh 1748, Yang, Alexander 1738, Xie, Yiqun 1713, Jackson, John 1711, Qureshi, Sadia 1691, Davis, Charles 1671, Rao, Rohit 1670, Patterson, Adrian 1661, Lopez, Javier 1652, Verma, Ritik 1640, Nguyen, Dang Minh 1631, Wagle, Rishi 1628, Frutos, Cole N 1613, Muraira, Christian 1609, Tisserand, Michael 1604, Fan, William 1600, Li, Andrew 1578, Qureshi, Usman 1557, Nagireddy, Sai R 1535, Dong, Dylan 1469,

CLASS C 3-DAY

Ni, Maggie 1590, Ogunfunmi, Tomisin 1589, Karp, Eli 1587, Hawthorn, Henry 1576, Ventimiglia, Charles 1575, Wang, Kenneth 1557, Lobaugh, Doyle 1551, Liu, Jie 1549, Labelle, Michael 1543, Wang, Harry 1542, Webster, Don 1539, Bird, Dale E 1535, Hanrahan, Shawn 1527, Le, Collin 1522, Ingram, Ted 1506, Hunter III, William 1505, Cropper, Joe 1500, ,

CLASS C 3-DAY (Cont.)

Narang, Ijay 1472, Orriss, Raymond 1471, Spinelli, Christopher 1467, Hamilton, Mike 1453, Binder, John Patrick 1441, Kujimiyo, Ade 1435, Wilson, Jonathan 1434, Liu, Kevin B 1424, Chipman, Alan 1421, Polavaram, Rohan 1368, Boyle, Joseph H 1352, Fuchs, Peter 1301,

CLASS C 2-DAY

Ragoytia, Pedro 1581, Sun, Jackie Weimin 1565, Lee, Milton S 1556, Hemmat, Alexander 1550, Schmitt, Andrew 1540, Huo, Rannon 1528, Cobb, Gary 1521, Viswanath, Lakshmana 1508, Garza, Raymundo V 1500, Zhao, Ethan 1490, Bandi, Rohit 1457, Vijay, Akash 1435, Yue, Roy H 1426, Tisserand, Miles 1425, Wang, Andrew 1418, He, Derek 1415, Lu, Andrew 1385, Zhu, Harvey 1381,

CLASS D 3-DAY

Dunavant, Aaron 1365, Polavaram, Rithik 1359, Gardner, Russell 1340, Elliott, Alexander 1276, Naranjo, Daniel L 1271, Bernot Smith, Christine 1241, Quirino, Juan 1213, Portales, Coby 1210,

CLASS D 2-DAY

Wietfeldt, Fred 1367, Fernandes, Louis 1364, Hall, Ethan 1347, Long, William 1340, Riley, Joe 1337, Cardenas, Sergio A 1331, Venkataraman, Sara 1317, Chilukoori, Sai 1311, Kaliyur, Shreyes 1307, Wietfeldt, Henry 1284, Mosier, Mike 1276, Patil, Siddhant 1270, Yue, William 1265, Cohen, David 1260, Rangaraj, Sriharsha 1258, Leone, Robert E 1233, Nguyen, Anh Nhu 1200, White, Ian 1144, Wilson, Evan 1026, Shteyman, Dmitriy 946,

CLASS E 3-DAY

Lim, Kevin 1184, D'Aquin, Leila 1155, Matthew Minear 1116, Ingram, Jared 1101, Vaquerano, Selwin 1094, Webster, David C 1051, Coan, Benjamin 1048, Fray, Richard 917, Kao, Simona 912, Rajkumar, Vishal 680, Le, Helen 622, Narang, Isha 528, O'Neil, Daniel T 208,

CLASS E 2-DAY

Patil, Vedant 1196, Proleiko, Julian 1118, Lee, Gordon S 1113, Mohan, Kyle 1092, Nagireddy, Shiva R 1058, Wietfeldt, August 1056, Leone, Terilyn H 1018, Leone Jr, Ross L 981, Uppuluri, Sindhuja 840, Uppuluri, Anuja 823, Obili, Yatin 668, Cooper, Curtis 642, Hall, Preston 595,

UNRATED 3-DAY

Vaidya Parthasarathy, Olga Lamont, John Hearne,

UNRATED 2-DAY

David Davila, Alexandre Blangy, Eduardo Santos, Jordan Santos, Yezeng Cheng, Kanako Kumagai,

K-12

Hirani, Zoheb 1623, Chau, Brian Cao 1589, Wilson, Sheridan 1413, Richards, Michael 1395, Shaw, Jordan 1370, Brenner, Kurtis 1362, Brenner, Eric 1276, Esparza, Eduardo 1151, Bhojani, Zaid 1099, Wu, Ningzhi 1007, Enriquez, Jonathan 975, Williams, Iysha 513, Sams, Jonathan, Jr. Unr., Landaverde, Victor Unr.,

K-9

Quach, Alexander 1762, Bihn, Alex 1579, Coudsi, John 1578, Wang, Oliver 1574, Karmakar, Ayan 1520, Zhu, Mark 1501, Feng, Michael 1441, Cheng, Raymond 1363, Lopez, Luke 1346, Yao, Jason 1336, Yeh, Mason 1194, Carrera, Kase 1177, Chau, Alan Cao 1053, Ha, Christopher 1051, Reed, Jamelia 1009, Saravanan, Buvaneshraj 924, Salas, Ryan 876, Elanchezhian, Moniish 417,

K-6

Guo, Zachary 1637, Buergler, Jacob 1616, Ghose, Shomik 1520, Chen, Alex 1519, He, Benjamin 1494, Ghosh, Google 1440, Gopalakrishnan, Pranav 1399, Madabushi, Anuraag 1374, Parthasarathy, Abinand 1370, Naidoo, Kylan 1369, Yang, Robert 1365, Thatte, Pranav R 1285, Pohuja, Pratik 1239, Sun, Favian Weifan 1237, Li, Eric 1209, Ming, Jerry 1164, Zhou, Anjie 1099, Chau, Andre Cao 1000,

K-6 (Cont.)

Oca, Justin 989, Reinhardt, Henry 981, Zhu, Kevin 980, Jha, Hursh 969, Jones, Kyle 938, Duggal, Loic A 927, Sullo, Jack 906, Sanam, Harshin 897, Yao, Emily 846, Kanala, Avaneesh 837, Ha, Matthew M 774, Oca, Jaden 742, Zhang, Nicholas 736, Bojja, Ram 710, Lucas, Terry 683, Krishnan, Varshitha 675, Adams, Joseph 659, Srinivasan, Anirudh 517, Barber, Henry 105, Kekish, Ryan Unr.

K-3

Vivekananthan, Anish 1549, Niu, Baron 1405, Hung, Daniel 1310, Gao, Jason 1281, Trakru, Rohun 1247, Serice, Jackson 1141, Xia, Joseph 1023, Pruyn, Matthew 916, Kao, Simona 912, Hung, Justin 806, Chen, Mason 773, Delgado, Gisele 757, Song, Max 706, Tao, Arthur 634, Thomas, Alex 607, Crane, Yonatan 605, Chau, Nathan Cao 537, Si, Sophia F 444, Srinivasan, Yashvasin 425,

K-3 (Cont.)

Yao, Susan 322, Reinhardt, William 288, Madan, Tanish 277, Palacharla, Anika 220, Yeh, Maple 195, Rana, Siddhartha 157, Le, Kendall 121, Elanchezhian, Dinesh 114, Babaz, Austin 107, Rao, Maya 107, Verma, Ronit 101, Kekish, Kyle Unr.

TOTAL ENTRIES

U.S. CLASS: 229, SCHOLASTIC: 101

Additional Information

HOTEL RATE: Call (713) 943-7979. $87 Until 8/31. After that date, Regular Rates may apply. Please mention Group Code USCUSCA . Mailed entries - Check payable to: FRANCISCO GUADALUPE, 305 WILLOW POINTE DR., LEAGUE CITY, TX 77573. Phoned Credit Card Entry: 713-530-7820. Phone entries are $3 Extra. Info and Entry Form: flguadalupe@aol.com

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