2012 U.S. JUNIOR OPEN CHESS CHAMPIONSHIPS

Date

Start: Friday, July 13, 2012 @ 12:30 PM
End: Sunday, July 15, 2012 @ 6:00 PM

Address

MARRIOTT HOUSTON SOUTH AT HOBBY AIRPORT
9100 GULF FREEWAY HOUSTON, TX

Fees

$35 until 7/2, $50 after 7/2 or on site.

Registration Closing Date

Thursday, July 12, 2012 @ 11:59 PM PST

Brief Description

6SS, G/120, d5. 4 Sections: U21, U15, U11, U8 (age as of 1/1/12). One 1/2-pt bye avail, except Rd 6, if req before Rd 1. Individual and Team Awards. Winner of U21 is seeded into the 2013 US Junior Closed, if still elig by age. All Sections USCF rated. U21 Section is also FIDE rated.

HOTEL INFORMATION

Marriott Houston South at Hobby Airport, 9100 Gulf Freeway, Houston, TX 77017. http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/houhh-houston-hobby-airport-marriott/ Free parking! $79 HR valid until 6/30 (includes free breakfast buffet!), Reserve early! Chess rate may not be available after that date. 713-943-7979, Group Code: CHECHEA.

SCHEDULE

Opening Ceremony at approximately 12:45pm Friday. Rounds: Friday 1pm & 6pm. Saturday 9:30am & 2:15pm, Sunday 9am & 1:30pm. Awards Ceremony at approximately 6pm Sunday.

U21 Advance Entries (80)

NM Adithya Balasubramanian 2345, NM Adarsh Jayakumar 2311, NM Jarod Pamatmat 2231, NM Jonathan Chiang 2210, NM Sarah Chiang 2196, Nicholas Karas 2161, Eric Qi 2158, Karthik Ramachandran 2153, Andy Shao 2142, Vincent Zhang 2141, Daniel Ng 2073, Bovey Liu 2071, Curran R Han 2063, Austin Jiang 2054, Kevin Chandra 2047, Naveen Balakrishnan 2038, Simon Vasquez 2028, Hengyi Wu 2026, Atulya Vaidya 2017, Alexander Wlezien 2004,

U21 Advance Entries (Cont.)

Tommy Lu 1994, Ellen Xiang 1950, Alexander Jiang 1947, Perry Johnson 1922, Pranav Rudra 1792, Joshua Brannon 1790, Brittany Nguyen 1778, Sanjay Annigeri 1773, Anshumaan Atriwal 1766, Gabriel Guerra 1754, Evan Xiang 1751, Yue Chu 1747, Cameron Hill 1746, Kristin Ramos 1733, Rahul Rajavel 1717, Brandon Flores 1706, Adrian Patterson 1677, Daniel Zack 1658, Eli Karp 1617, Zoheb Hirani 1610,

U21 Advance Entries (Cont.)

Aaryamaan Atriwal 1588, Mario Acero 1580, Weiyi Wang 1563, Siddharth Rode 1530, Elliott Yue Tong 1529, Michael Isaguirre 1528, Wesley Riddell 1478, Michael Richards 1468, Nathaniel Li 1434, Jason Sauceda 1422, Jose Urrutia 1407, Joel Barrera 1390, Erick Guevara 1377, Dallas Yu 1362, Jay Collin 1349, Sergio Cardenas 1333, Clarissa Garcia 1326, Jasmine Powell 1326, Sheridan Wilson 1321,

U21 Advance Entries (Cont.)

Justin Contreras 1277, Sriharsh Rangaraj 1275, Alfredo Infante 1258, Ricardo Saldana 1216, Joshua Morris 1207, Vishnu Thiagarajan 1178, Jose Rodriguez 1170, Alejandro Resendez 1155, Kevin Mesa 1153, Nivethitha Thiagarajan 1119, Jorge Moreno 1095, Prana Yanamandala 1076, Aaron McDonald 906, Shiva Nagireddy 879, Yukun Peng 817, Steven Martinez 745, Thomas Sivori 738, Kelten Gonzales 634, Lawrence Sivori 605, Iysha Williams 139,

U15 Advance Entries (79)

Jackson Chen 2047, Christopher Chen 1989, Duy Nguyen 1907, Tianming Xie 1879, Abhishek Obili 1854, Alex Han 1817, Annie Zhao 1805, Chase Frutos 1804, Khoa Nguyen 1761, Clarissa Abella 1759, Venkat Kotta 1757, Richard Qi 1735, Rohit Bhatta 1697, Ethan Rodriguez 1696, Truman Roscoe 1662, Miguel Vasquez 1621, Brian Chau 1601, Christian Muraira 1593, Andrew Li 1588, Devan Shan 1582, Jackie Weimin Sun 1580, Kevin Huang 1570,

U15 Advance Entries (Cont.)

Oliver Wang 1563, Eric Chiu 1555, Patrick Han 1554, Elias Vasquez 1536, Emmanuel Paxton 1526, Ayan Karmakar 1524, Dylan Dong 1503, Jonathan Tan 1489, Caitlyn Yeung 1467, Shota Kaieda 1465, Jonathan Wilson 1460, Andrew Ni 1447, Foster Ludington 1445, Bryce Rogers 1444, Ishani Sahu 1441, Sravan Mokkala 1439, Geuta Kaieda 1423, Sai Nagireddy 1371, Apsara Mitra 1369, Jordan Shaw 1368, Michael Lange 1349, Aishwarya Mitra 1340,

U15 Advance Entries (Cont.)

Eric Li 1338, David H Wang 1324, Andy Hudson 1323, Jasmine Powell 1326, Sheridan Wilson 1321, Benjamin He 1299, Joshua Morris 1207, Coby Portales 1176, Alejandro Resendez 1155, Lance Lumahan 1123, Christine Zheng 1103, Alan Chau 1076, Justin Oca 1047, Jamelia Reed 1007, Devinda Dharmawardene 995, Christopher Ha 945, Ningzhi Wu 934, Buvaneshraj Saravanan 926, Rahul Mohanram 908, James Reyna 864, Carlos Escobar 810,

U15 Advance Entries (Cont.)

Jonathan Enriquez 801, Kunaal Bantwal 726 James McCann 690, Logan Johnson 661, Kelten Gonzales 634, James Leija 604, Nicholas Zhang 603, Jacklyn Reyna 561, DJ Brown 542, Joseph Adams 533, Tyler Moseley 498, Samuel Shteyman 468, Diego Draguicevich 441, John Josep Nguyen 381, Anesu Mupanda 277, Tanner Moseley 148, Iysha Williams 139, Theresa Sivori 101, Jose A Lopez Jr unr., Udai Jain unr., Louis Sivori unr.,

U11 Advance Entries (75)

Ram Krishna 1841, Advait Patel 1821, Joey Kelly 1756, Priya Trakru 1745, Howard Zhong 1703, Kevin Wang 1687, Sadia Qureshi 1684, David Li 1680, Zachary Guo 1652, Dang Nguyen 1650, Ritik Verma 1630, Alex Chen 1593, Charles Hawthorn 1572, Tomisin Ogunfunmi 1568, Samuel Tian 1563, Nathaniel Ferdandes 1553, Cole Frutos 1549, Eric Wang 1549, Harry Wang 1539, Pranav Gopalakrishnan 1532, Alex Bihn 1502

U11 Advance Entries (Cont.)

Miles Ludington 1488, Alexander Hemmat 1462, Vivek Keval 1440, Ijay Narang 1434, Camille Kao 1426, Rannon Huo 1417, Kylan Naidoo 1373, Andrew Wang 1345, Derek He 1339, Favian Weifan Sun 1327, Google Ghosh 1300, Rohan Polavaram 1286, Cydney James 1282, Elliot Glatman 1273, Shimera Paxton 1273, Siddhant Patil 1269, Angela Yi 1246, Ethan Hall 1242, Kevin Liu 1201, Shubao Zhang 1121, Gireesh Daggupati 1118, Michael Thomas 1110,

U11 Advance Entries (Cont.)

Benjamin Wright 1095, Kevin Huang 1083, Jonathan Lu 1071, Divyesh Khatri 1042, Jack Sullo 971, Jonathan Monday 969, Ethan Muse 968, Abraham Eyre 968, Alvin Tang 957, Hafit Hussein 948, Teiraney Biggs 941, Andre Chau 914, Alexis Jones 905, Kyle Jones 889, Nathan Reddy 821, Evelyn Karabanoff 812, Justin Hung 806, John All Osoinach 805, Matthew Ha 797, Joanne Manirakiza 772, Jaden Oca 765, Andrew Yen 755, Amit Bhatta 730,

U11 Advance Entries (Cont.)

Sean Nguyen 691, Aksh Patel 689, Darcy Schneider 506, Elijah Costa 502, Sidarth Joshi 491, Yatin Obili 443, Ethan Hanneman 344, Sondre Draguicevich unr.,

U8 Advance Entries (61)

Maggie Ni 1600, Henry Hawthorn 1582, Atreya Vaidya 1509, Eric Shi 1480, Baron Niu 1417, Logan Wu 1411, Rudransh Rajaram 1409, Adolfo Balderas 1403, Andrew Yi Lu 1363, Daniel Hung 1310, Harvey Zhu 1277, Jason Gao 1256, Andrew Tang 1253, Rithik Polavaram 1245, Jackson Serice 1233, Alexander Elliott 1200, Anh Nhu Nguyen 1098, Evan Wilson 1085, Luis Gonzalez 1052, William McNutt 1036,

U8 Advance Entries (Cont.)

Darren Xi 976, Julio Ledezma 975, Yanke Wang 961, Divya Shukla 903, Gisele Delgado 899, Rohun Trakru 896, Brady Zeng 894, Sheena Zeng 862, Matthew Pruyn 862, Shiva Rudra 818, Vedant Patil 815, Joseph Xia 799, Anthony Acevedo 794, Simona Y Kao 768, Jonathan Schowalter 758, Lillian Ondike 699, Jacob Lijoy 688, Laroy Wilson 659, Koby Sheldon 655, Mason Chen 639, Athul Mohanram 639, Ana L Balderas 603,

U8 Advance Entries (Cont.)

Robert Liu 594, Rocco Trosclair 576, Jason Nguyen 548, Ian Schneider 468, Kusum C Gorantla 465, Sophia Si 444, Divya Khatri 418, Shreepal Shah 399, Nathan Chau 396, Michelle Lu 393, Siddharth Vadlamani 309, Isha Narang 195, Nyasha Mupanda 191, Shorey Nguyen 114, Andrea Dong 110, Carlos Arciniega unr., Chetan Gorantla unr., Monica Balakrishnan unr., William Schmid,

SIDE EVENTS

- Blitz, U21 & U11. Sat 6:30pm, EF: $15 by 7/2, $20 on site. - Bughouse: One section, Sat ASAP after Blitz, EF: $25 per team, on site only. - Parents and Friends Tny (not rated), $20: 3SS, G/30, Sat, Rds 10:30, 2:30 & 4:00pm. Prizes: Trophies to top three plus one USCF Premium membership for each five participants. - Simul by GM Sergey Kudrin: Friday, 9am. $15

TO ENTER

Enter on line here (Note: Active.com charges a small fee) or mail entries to: Francisco L. Guadalupe, 305 Willow Pointe Dr., League City, TX 77573. Info: flguadalupe@aol.com (713) 530-7820. Add $3 (per player) for phoned entries.

TOTAL ENTRIES

295!!! (Old record: 243)

Additional Information

Prizes: U21: $500+entry to 2013 US Junior Closed - $250-$125-$75-$50. Individual plaques to top five overall, plaques for best player age 18, 17, 16, 15, Under 15, and for ratings U1800 (Added!), U1600, U 1400, U1200. ------ U15: Individual trophies to top ten overall, trophies for best player age 14, 13, 12, 11, Under 11, and for ratings U1600 (Added!), U1400, U1200, U1000. ------ U11: Individual trophies to ten overall, trophies to best player age 10, 9, 8, 7, Under 7, and for ratings U1400 (Added!), U1200, U1000, U800. ------ U8: Individual trophies to top ten overall, best player 7, 6 & Under, and for ratings U1000, U800, U600 ; honorable mention trophies for all others U8. ------ Commemorative medals for all participants. Teams: Trophies to top three school teams and top club team in each of the four sections. Top four scores, minimum of three, count towards team score in each section.

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