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Texas Knights TEXAS KNIGHTS The official publication of the Texas Chess Association Volume 50, Number 3 P.O. Box 501, Helotes, TX 78023 January-February 2009 UTD Invitational – games galore! GM Alejandro Ramirez in a light moment with WIM Bayaraa Zorigt President’s column; Treasurer’s statement; Ken Smith, World Youth, Texas Grade & Collegiate .… 3 Pan Am Intercollegiate: UTD Dallas “B” team 1st on tiebreaks over UMBC .………….….…….……. 5 Dallas Destiny repeats as US Chess League champs – Jonathan Hilton………………….……………… 7 UTD Invitational – Alexey Root reports on post-mortems; Crosstable p. 27 ….…………………….….. 10 Sidebar: GM House, or “Real World: Chess House” – Vinay Bhat…………….……..………………... 11 San Antonio: FM Rylander wins Fall Open .…….................................................…………….……..…. 28 TEXAS CHESS ASSOCIATION www.texaschess.org President: Clemente Rendon, P.O. Box 3267, Brownsville, TX 78523-3267; [email protected] . Vice-President: Lakshmana Viswanath, 2009 Manzanares Dr., Laredo, TX 78045-7587; [email protected]. Secretary: Robert Sturgeon, 215 Oakwood St., San Angelo, TX 76903-8633; 325-651-4013; [email protected]. Treasurer: Barb Swafford, 2709 Longhorn Trail, Crowley, TX 76036-4719; [email protected]. Editor: Selby Anderson, P.O. Box 501, Helotes, TX 78023; 210-695-2324; [email protected]. Webmaster: Peter Kappler, [email protected]. Tournament Clearinghouse: Eugene Kohnitz, [email protected]. Texas Chess Association is a 501(c)(3) educational nonprofit corporation dedicated to promoting chess in Texas. Membership Dues (annual): Regular $10, Junior (18 and under) or Student: $7.50. Foreign: Canada and Mexico $12.50, others $17.50. Patron: $25 (receives 1st class mailing and Hall of Honor listing). Family: $15. Non- subscrib- ing: $5. Club: $25 (includes one free ¼ page ad a year). Scholastic Club: $10. Foreign Club: $40. Send to TCA Treasurer, 2709 Longhorn Trail, Crowley, TX 76036-4719. Give name, address, city, state and zip code; also phone and e-mail (optional). Contributions beyond membership fees are tax deductible. TCA Hall of Honor Selby Anderson James Kersbergen Eddie Rios James E. Berry John Kolts Wayne Sampson Joe Bradford Thomas Kuznierz Drew Sarkisian Clarence Callaway, Jr. R. Lynne Leone family Jose Luis Silva Michael E. Carpenter Patrick C. Long James Stallings Geroge W. Church, Jr. Mark E. McCue Robert Sturgeon Dr. Raymond Duque George A. Mota Clayton Swafford family Kristy Eng Ken Muir family James Thames Rheanna English family Wilson Neil Rodney J. Thomas Ramiro Garza Josh Newsham Harmon Throneberry Edward Guetzow James Nielsen Louis Thurston Gerald Guillot John Niven Rick Toenies Toshio Imai Richard L. Petty William R. Williams George C. John family Robert B. Potter Steven D. Young Peter Kappler Tim Redman Serena & Sajna Zadoo ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Contributors this issue: Vinay Bhat, Chess Life Online , Frank He, Jonathan Hilton, Karah Hosek, Alexey Root, Greg Wren. Game annotations if not attributed are a collaboration of NM Selby Anderson and Fritz 5.32. Send submissions by e-mail to [email protected], or mail to P.O. Box 501, Helotes, TX 78023 (include phone). Deadline next issue: Feb. 15. All contents of Texas Knights 2009 by the Texas Chess Association, Inc. No part may be reproduced in any way without express consent of the editor. Ad rates: $50/page, $35/half, $20/quarter, $1/line. Correction last issue: see page 27. Congratulations to Courtney Jamison on winning a UTD scholarship! Cover photo by Alexey Root. As she explains In her Chess Life Online report, “At the opening ceremony for the UTD GM Invitational, I suggested that WFM Bayaraa Zorigt rub GM Alejandro Ramirez's head for good luck.” 2 TCA Treasurer’s Report Prepared by Barbara Swafford for December 15, 2008 A Message from September 1, 2008 checking account balance $417.81 Income the President 2008 SW Open memberships $ 533.50 September memberships 95.00 October memberships 170.50 Fellow Texas Chess Players, November memberships 25.00 December memberships (so far) 25.00 2008 Region 2 Scholastic tournament 147.00 It’s hard to believe that 2008 has come and gone. Texas Grade Tournament - November 2008 539.50 Thank you to all the officers, volunteers, tourna- Total $ 1,535.50 ment directors and leaders who helped to make this Expenses a fantastic year. SW Open reimbursement – WY attendees $ 460.00 Courtney Jamison - International Youth Camp 250.00 Below are paradoxical commandments that are TCA Affiliate membership with USCF (2 years) 80.00 credited to Mother Theresa of Calcutta. Hopefully it Texas Knight - Sept-Oct 2008 1,027.00 will help inspire you to always give your best in Texas Knight - Nov-Dec 2008 943.00 everything you do in life. Total $ 2,760.00 December 15, 2008 · People are often unreasonable, irrational, and WF checking account balance $ 1,064.56 self-centered. Forgive them anyway. BOA checking account balance $ 1,412.72 savings account balance $ 13,003.43 · If you are kind, people may accuse you of self- cd July 2007 - July 2009 $ 26,189.37 ish, ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. · If you are successful, you will win some un- faithful friends and some genuine enemies. Succeed Ken Smith Memorial results anyway. The eighth annual Ken Smith Memorial drew 72 players · If you are honest and sincere people may de- to the DFW Marriott last Thanksgiving weekend. ceive you. Be honest and sincere anyway. Ben Wheeler was chief TD for Southwest Chess, with help from Luis Salinas and Dan DeLeon. · What you spend years creating, others could OPEN 1st: Gergely Antal 2468 4.5; 2nd+U2400: Alex destroy overnight. Create anyway. Chua, 4, Mohammad Salman 4; 1st U2200: Akshay Mal- hotra 3.5; 3rd + 2nd U2200: Michael Langer, Evan · If you find serenity and happiness, some may be Michaelides, Jarod Pamatmat, Grant Powell, Caroline jealous. Be happy anyway. Zhu, 3. · The good you do today will often be forgotten. U2000 1st: Leo Bonnell, 4; 2nd-3rd: Steven D. Young, Do good anyway. Noel Pautsky, 3.5; U1900: Mack Williams, Danny Chen, Seth Thompson, 3 · Give the best you have, and it will never be U1800 1st-3rd+U1700: Jeffrey Xiong, David Olivas, enough. Give your best anyway. Alfredo Garcia, Eric Chen, Andy Wang, 3.5. U1600 1st: Paul Huspeni 4; 2nd: Eric Zhang, 3; 3rd + Best wishes for a prosperous year. U1500: Edward Yu, Parker McWatters, 2.5. U1400 1st: Stephan Gray, 4; 2nd: Carleton Furbush, 3.5; 3rd+U1300: Paul Renfro, Georgia Olvera, 2.5. Clemente Rendon U1200 1st: Vy Nguyen 4.5; 2nd: William Liu 4; 3rd: TCA President Steve Thompson, 3.0; U1100: Ramiro Garza, Christoper & Christian Cardenas, 2; U900: Christalia Cardenas, 1.5. World Youth Championships: Texas Grade Three Texans win third! and Collegiate Championships The 12th Annual Texas Grade and Collegiate Champion- ships were held Nov. 22-23 at the Hilton Americas in Houston. Total attendance was right at 500, down slightly from last year. Here are the winners, co-champions if tied: K Jacob Buergler 1 Alfonso Salais 2 Ruifeng Li 3 Alex Liu 4 Evan Xiang 5 Akshay Malhotra Austin Jiang 6 Jarod Pamatmat 7 Jeffrey Hung 8 Kevin Chandra 9 Bob Shao Joseph Wong 10 Jeff Feng 11 William C. Ong Tommy He, Jonathan Chiang and Raymond Sun George Fan Arindam Raina In covering Darwin Yang’s bronze-winning performance Christian Saco at the World Youth Championships (Vietnam, Oct. 20- 12 Karthik Ramachandran 31) last issue, we omitted to report that three players from Glenn Baumann Texas (Jonathan Chiang, Raymond Sun and Tommy He) C Alex Chua won the third place team trophy in the Under-8 divi- Robert Clarke and Neph Diaz won the bughouse event. sion. As reported, Jonathan Chiang had the best individ- The parent-child tournament was won by Evan and Mat- ual result of the three, earning a fifth place trophy. thew Michaelides. These three, along with Dachey Lin, were selected by Kart Ramachandran was awarded a UTD scholarship. USCF in November for the 2009 All-America Team. Senior co-winner Glenn Baumann, who had already been There are just five team members in the eight and under accepted to UTD, did not win a scholarship. category, and four are from Texas! (Raymond Sun has Barb Swafford reports there were five sets of twins at since moved to China, according to Frank He.) the tournament – two sets each in 5th grade and 7th grade, and another in 1st grade! Other Texans on the All-America team are Salvijus Next year Dallas Chess Club is again organizing the Bercys (age 18; I know USCF says he’s a New York event at a site still to be determined. The big news is that resident, but we’ll forgive that!), Warren Harper (age 16), 12th grade will change time controls, from G/45 and Jason Altschuler (age 12) and Darwin Yang (age 11). G/60 to a time control like the collegiate section, which is G/90 with 30-second increments. UTD no longer wants to give the scholarship to tournaments with such short Of the five 8/under All-America Team time controls. members, four are from Texas! Barb Swafford organized the event for the Dallas Chess Club. Franc Guadalupe was the chief TD. Pan-Am Intercollegiate: UT Dallas “B” wins on tiebreaks over UMBC The “B” team from the University of Texas at Dallas tied On the last day in Round 5, UMBC took down its for first with University of Maryland-Baltimore County main rival UTD-A, while UTD-B defeated the much in the Pan-American Intercollegiate Championships, held lower-rated Harvard (2272). Dec. 27-30 in Dallas. Both teams scored 5-1, with UTD In the final round UMBC had to go up against its taking the first place trophy on tiebreaks. second 2500+ team of the day. UTD-B was in trouble after Stopa lost to GM Kritz on top board.
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