USCF National Events / 2012 U.S. Open
The Armageddon game to determine the trophy winner attracted a crowd. Left is John Daniel Bryant facing off against Manuel Leon Hoyos.
and Norm May, Washington, also worked the main room. Joseph Yun, Ohio, helped Smith and served as chief TD of the U.S. Women’s Open, the U.S. Open Blitz, the quads, and the Game/15 championship. Haskel had a very full-time job broadcast- ing the games over the MonRoi network. Kim Cramer, Arizona, was in charge of registration. Rusty Miller, Washington, and Frank Niro, Idaho, took results at the scholastic side events, while Jay Simon- son, Utah, worked as a floor TD for two days, Galen Pyle, Oregon, worked as a floor TD at the Blitz Championship. The event was a triumph for both local organizers and USCF, which takes respon- sibility as chief organizer under the direction of the USCF’s chief operations officer, Pat Smith. “I remember that National Open Organizer Fred Gruenberg emphasized two simple rules.” Snead said. “He said it many times: ‘Start the rounds on time, and quiet in the playing room.’ ” Those key accomplish- ments and lots more, plus a strong turnout of both locals and travelers, made Vancou- ver 2012 a model for future Opens.
See much more coverage of the U.S. Open at Chess Life Online, August archives. Included are reports and photos from the Denker and Barber events.
At A Glance: 2012 U.S. Open Championship
Date: August 4-12, 2012 | Location: Hilton Vancouver Washington, Vancouver, Washington | Top Fin- ishers: Open, 1st-3rd, 8: Manuel Leon Hoyos, Dmitry Gurevich, John Daniel Bryant; 4th-8th, 71
⁄2 ⁄2 , Yasser
Seirawan, Alexander Shabalov, Andre Diamant, Justin Sarkar, Salvijus Bercys. Master, 1st-4th, 7: Deepak Aaron, Steven Breckenridge, Ian D. Thompson, Nick Raptis, Kevin Mo, Sean Vibbert, Francisco L. Guadalupe II. Expert, 1st, 7: Tanraj S. Sohal; 2nd-4th, 61
⁄2 son, Krishnan Warrier, Joseph Kiiru, Jennifer Skidmore. Class B, 1st, 6: Howard Zhong; 2nd-4th, 51 ⁄2
: Yogi Saputra; 2nd-4th, 6: David Rowles, Marcus Robin- ⁄2
: Yu
Ji, Ethan Neff, Christopher Burris, Tian Peng, Aaron Grabinsky. Class C, 1st-4th, 5: Ranjeet Singh, Ben- jamin Brusniak, Brian Liou, Bert D. Rutgers. Class D, 1st-2nd, 5: Chris Devon, Wesley Esko. Under 1200, 1st, 41
: Edward Strong. Unrated, 1st, 5: John Dimick. Top Life Senior Master, John Daniel Bryant. Top Life Master or Original Life Master, Andrew Shvartsman; Under 2300, David Christian Roper. Top Candidate Master (or higher title), Andrew B. Rea; Under 2100, Joshua Sheng. Top First Category (or higher title): Joseph K. Kiiru; Under 1900, Jennifer Skidmore. Top Second Category (or higher title): Christopher Bur- ris. Top Third Category (or higher title): F. Leon Wilson; Under 1500, Dean W. Brown, Tony Midson. Top Fourth Category (or higher title): Nathan Jewell. | Chief Tournament Director: Bill J. Snead.
2012 Denker Tournament of High School Champions
Date: August 4-7, 2012 | Location: Hilton Vancouver Washington, Vancouver, Washington | Top Fin- ishers: 1st-2nd, 5: Atulya Shetty (University of Texas at Dallas scholarship), Darwin Yang; 3rd-6th, 41
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Sam Schmakel, Michael Brown, Deepak Aaron, Kevin Bu. $500 Ursula Foster award: Darwin Yang. Best Game: Eldon Nakagawa. Top Upset: Carl Steele. | Chief Tournament Director: Bill J. Snead.
www.uschess.org 29 : Daniel Gater, Nicholas Karas, Jeremy Mandelkern, Steven
Cooklev, Nathan Lee, Andy May, Dan Erichsen, Megan Lee, Andrew Rea, Zaozhi Li, Joshua Sheng, Brian Esler, Matt Zavortink, Sean Tobin. Class A, 1st, 61
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