2013 Grand Pacific Open

Here are the final standings, darlings!  I won't keep you in suspense one second: the top-rated chess femme, WGM Kateryna Rohanyan, finished in 4th place overall with 4.5 of 6.  Top honors went to local favorite FM John (Jack) Yoos:

FINAL - SwissSys Standings. 2013 Grand Pacific Open (7th Annual): OPEN (FIDE and CFC rated)

#	Name	ID	Rtng	Post	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Rd 6	Tot	TBrk[C]	TBrk[O]	Prize
1	FM John C [Jack] Yoos	107994	2355	2387	+64	+18	+3	=4	+8	+10	5.5	19.5	87	$1150
2	NM Alfred Pechisker	104330	2255	2282	+39	+14	-4	+22	+28	+8	5.0	17	85.5	575
3	NM Tanraj S Sohal	135830	2240	2262	+37	+23	-1	+17	+30	+9	5.0	17	80.5	575
4	WGM Katerina Rohonyan	151130	2347	2355	+48	+30	+2	=1	=9	=5	4.5	18	87.5
5	Lucas Davies	110614	2233	2248	+56	+38	=11	=28	+29	=4	4.5	17	76.5
6	FM Jason Cao	149413	2208	2215	+49	=33	+13	+7	-10	+19	4.5	16.5	79.5
7	Alisher Sanetullaev	153722	2158	2162	+54	=21	+16	-6	+20	+18	4.5	15.5	74
8	IM Lawrence Day	101024	2227	2243	+53	+29	+10	+11	-1	-2	4.0	18	87
9	Jamin Gluckie	127161	2200	2198	+41	=19	+24	+20	=4	-3	4.0	16.5	83
10	NM Butch Villavieja	151916	2294	2293	+42	+22	-8	+15	+6	-1	4.0	16	88

As the top finishing female player, WGM Rohanyan won the top Goddesschess prize of $80. 

Other Goddesschess prize winners:

30

WFM Chouchanik Airapetian

USCF

2131

2109

+62

-4

+21

+39

-3

-16

3.0

13

73

33

Becca Lampman

153846

1931

1937

+55

=6

-28

H---

+36

-15

3.0

11.5

57

39

Alice Huanyi Xiao

148766

1859

1887

-2

+66

+40

-30

=25

-23

2.5

10

65

46

Joanne Foote

143555

1697

1708

=15

-20

=64

-40

=55

+61

2.5

7

51

I hope I didn't goof up the Goddesschess prize winners!  I'm trying to pick them out one by one.  Other chess femmes in the Open:

55

Jill Ding

146400

1518

1543

-33

=53

-44

=54

=46

=59

2.0

5.5

43.5

66

Polly P Wright

150795

1635

1608

-14

-39

=54

-47

-48

-62

0.5

2

43

I hope I didn't miss anyone!

2013 Grand Pacific Open

Happy Easter, Darlings!

Victoria, BC's Grand Pacific Open, the largest open event of its kind in British Columbia, started on Friday, March 29th, and ends tomorrow, April 1st! 

Goddesschess is proud to play a small part in bringing this successful even to you, by providing dedicated funds for chess femme prizes and funds to help defray the costs of bringing a WGM or female IM to the tournament.

Without further ado, here are the present standings for the top players (2 wins or better out of 3 games thus far) (after R3; Rs 4 and 5 are being played today, not updated yet):

SwissSys Standings. 2013 Grand Pacific Open (7th Annual): OPEN (FIDE and CFC rated):

#	Name	ID	Rtng	Post	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Tot	Prize
1	FM John C [Jack] Yoos	107994	2355	2370	+50	+17	+13	3.0
2	IM Lawrence Day	101024	2227	2248	+57	+19	+12	3.0
3	WGM Katerina Rohonyan	151130	2347	2363	+63	+18	+11	3.0
4	NM Howard Wu	105433	2259	2267	+52	+40	=5	2.5
5	Lucas Davies	110614	2233	2240	+64	+31	=4	2.5
6	Jamin Gluckie	127161	2200	2201	+36	=23	+28	2.5
7	Ryan Lo	145788	2196	2195	+44	=15	+29	2.5
8	FM Jason Cao	149413	2208	2210	+41	=29	+30	2.5
9	Alisher Sanetullaev	153722	2158	2157	+61	=27	+34	2.5
10	David Kenney	103040	1905	1924	=47	+42	+35	2.5
11	NM Alfred Pechisker	104330	2255	2253	+24	+22	-3	2.0
12	NM Butch Villavieja	151916	2294	2288	+43	+21	-2	2.0
13	NM Tanraj S Sohal	135830	2240	2239	+51	+33	-1	2.0
14	NM Harry Moore	101144	2245	2234	+37	=30	=15	2.0
15	Pavel Trochtchanovitch	143763	1919	1944	+55	=7	=14	2.0
16	Janak Awatramani	142084	2240	2231	+60	=28	=20	2.0
17	NM Georgi Kostadinov	120324	2136	2137	+38	-1	+41	2.0
18	WFM Chouchanik Airapetian	USCF	2131	2132	+65	-3	+27	2.0
19	Benedict Daswani	111363	1983	1986	+39	-2	+48	2.0
20	John Doknjas	141225	2094	2089	=42	+45	=16	2.0
21	Dan Erichsen	145706	2103	2104	+56	-12	+44	2.0
22	Jingzhou [Peter] Lai	144566	2029	2028	+62	-11	+46	2.0
23	Michael A Murray	132150	1921	1934	+54	=6	H---	2.0
24	Alice Huanyi Xiao	148766	1859	1889	-11	+62	+40	2.0
25	NM Jason Kenney	110204	2226	2209	-27	+61	+43	2.0
26	Robert North	106910	1938	1922	-32	+65	+49	2.0

Stay tuned for further updates!

2013 Grand Pacific Open

Hola darlings!

This is Goddesschess' third year providing sponsorship to the Grand Pacific Open.  It's coming up soon!  Begins March 29th - April 1st, 2013 at the beautiful Grand Pacific Hotel in Victoria, BC.

As of today, 78 players are pre-registered in the "Premier" and U-1800 Sections.  As noted in prior posts about the 2013 GPO, WGM Katerina Rohanyan is the highest-rated registered female player and right now, the second-highest rated registered player.  WFM Chouchanik Airapetian (USA 2088) is the second-highest rated pre-registered chess femme and #14 on the pre-registered list.  Would love to see two femmes in the top 10...  Just saying, darlings!  Chouchanik has played in U.S. Chess Chamionships (2005, 2008) - not exactly a stranger to high-stakes play. 

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Goddesschess' sponsorship includes prizes for the five best female player finishers:  $80, $70, $60, $50, $40, awarded in addition to any other prizes the players may win.

We're hoping for many more players and the highest-attendance yet GPO, and may the best chess femme win first place!  Woo woo!

2013 Grand Pacific Open

Hola darlings!

Goddesschess, among others, is once again providing sponsorship for this great Open in British Columbia held over the Easter holiday (March 29 - April 1, 2013).  It attracts a large contingent of Canadian and American players, including chess femmes, and the larger portion of our sponsorship money is dedicated to prizes for them.  More information and register online!

WGM Kateryna Rohonyan is registered to play in this year's GPO!  Rohonyan has a FIDE rating of 2296.  Now a resident of Seattle, Washington, she has played in several Washington State Chess Championships, and participated in the 2007, 2008 and 2010 U.S. Women's Chess Championships. 

At 2012 Canadian Open

During part of her chess career, Rohonyan played in college as the recipient of a chess scholarship, moving to the US in 2004.   She participated for several years in the U.S. Chess League, and has played in a FIDE Women's World Chess Championship.  She was also a member of the bronze-medal winning U.S. Women's Chess Olympiad Team in 2008. 

These days Rohonyan makes her living in the computer software industry and playing competitive chess has devolved to a lesser role in her life.  It is therefore wonderful to see Rohonyan registered for the 2013 Grand Pacific Open!  Rohonyan's last FIDE-rated event was the August, 2012 Canadian Open in Victoria, BC, where she scored 5.0/8. 

Not sure of the count of chess femmes at this time - I saw 5 names (in addition to Rohonyan) that I identified as chess femmes - there may be more but sometimes I'm not so good with names :)  As of February 19th, 61 players pre-registered.  Keeping fingers crossed for a great turn-out of chess femmes. Goddesschess prizes are awarded in addition to any other prizes that a female player may win:  $80, $70, $60, $50, $40.

2013 Grand Pacific Open

Hola darlings!

Goddesschess is once again providing some sponsorship for this fine local event:

7th Annual Grand Pacific Open

Easter 2013, March 29-April 1

A 6 round FIDE & CFC rated Swiss
$5000 Guaranteed Prize Fund

The Grand Pacific Open is BC's largest chess tournament and this will be it's 7th annual! The main event is a 6 round FIDE and CFC rated Swiss with $5000 in prizes. There are also a number of side events which are free if you play in the main event and include an active tournament, Midnight Blitz with $100 in prizes, and a Bughouse tournament to finish off the weekend.

You can find all of the details at the website.  Here's a brief summary:

Registration: Online registration or you can also contact us at grandpacificopen@gmail.com or by mail at 1012 Spiritwood Place, Victoria, BC V8Y 1C6 (with cheques payable to "Victoria Chess")

Sections: Open (FIDE and CFC rated); U1800 (CFC rated)

Round Times Rd 1 at 6:00 pm Friday March 29; Rds 2 and 3 at 12:00 noon and 6:00 pm Saturday March 30; Rds 4 and 5 at 12:00 noon and 6:00 pm Sunday March 31; Rd 6 at 10:00 am Monday April 1

Prize Fund: $5000 Guaranteed:

Open Section: $1150+Trophy, $700, $450 U2100 $475+Trophy, $375

Top BC Player qualifies for BC Closed.

Top Women $80, $70, $60, $50, $40 (in addition to any other prize Courtesy of Goddess Chess)

U1800 Section: $425+Trophy, $325; U1500 $350+Trophy, $250

Top Unrated (Highest score in either section) $100

Biggest Upset $100

Time Control: Game in 90 minutes with a 30 second increment

Entry Fee , $75 registered and paid on or before Feb. 22, $85 registered and paid on or before March 25, $95 on site. Discount $20 if rated U1400 or unrated. Discount of $5 if playing in the Victoria Youth Championship. Add $20 if playing up a section and rated U1700 or unrated.

Non CFC members add $16 (adult) or $8 (junior). First time players who meet the conditions listed on our Policies page have CFC membership included in entry fee. 2nd & higher entries from one family receive a family discount of $30.

WGM Katerina Rohonyan (2296/2347 CFC), who has battled for the title of U.S. Women's Chess Champion in prior years, is among the registered players.  I am also hoping that WGM Nino Maisuradze, who won the title in 2011 and came in second place (behind only surprise entrant GM Hikaru Nakamura) in 2012, will be able to return to try and reclaim her title.