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ORCA 2012 Summer Seasonal Tournament (08/04)
Hales Corners Challenge XVI (10/20)
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Arpad Elo Open (05/19)
36th Annual Green Bay Open (07/28)
Marshall Rohland Memorial/Wisconsin Closed Championships (09/01)

2011 State Championships

Written by miken

Monday, 19 September 2011 18:44

2011 State Closed Championship
“There’s something in the water of Wausau”
Written by Benjamin Corcoran

First of all, I want to welcome the new board members of the WCA, Matt Conant and Robin Grochowski. Matt Conant is a strong chess expert from Green Bay. Robin Grochowski is a strong tournament chess player, a tournament director, and tournament organizer from Milwaukee.

This was one exciting tournament with a total of forthy-eight players. Twenty-one in the Open, nineteen in the Reserve, eight in the Scholastic, and one house player (me) that got beat up a lot during the tournament. Seven of the twenty-one players in the Premier section were experts, and were ready to do some battle to acquire the title of State Champ!

It was an all out win in the Scholastic section with Leo Ma achieving a perfect score of five! I want to thank Chief TD Dennis Kosterman for staying on top of the section and making sure that all conflicts (none) were resolved! Interestingly in one of the early rounds, someone signed out one of the analog clocks. A few minutes later, the two opponent’s came back to the TD table, because neither of them could figure out how to operate it. This is surely a sign that the digital age has arrived!

The Reserve section was quite interesting throughout the tournament. Nothing too crazy in the first round but the second round produced 3 upsets from Myaskovsky, Smith, and Pahl. Talking about upsets, the upset of the tournament came from Loren Anderson in round three with an upset of over 700 points. The player to watch out for in the Reserve section was Dmitry Myaskovsky. Dmitry Myaskovsky was on a roll going into the fifth round with a perfect score up to that point only to lose to Yuanqi Cai. Dmitry Myaskovsky came back in the 6th round to clinch the Reserve Trophy with a score of 5 out of 6.

Fact, in the Premier section, Ernesto Lizarendo got to play 4 out of the 5 WCA board members. Many battles took place in the Open section as only 15 games were drawn including 5 in the last round. The person to watch out for was expert David Jin. David Jin scored 4 wins, 2 draws, and no losses in 6 rounds. The highlights of David’s tournament were the win against Kelly Borman and draws against Tomas Ulrich and Dane
Mattson.

So I say congrats to David Jin on making history in Wisconsin chess by becoming the 2011 State Champ! Also, congrats to Dmitry Myaskovsky on almost having a perfect record in clinching the Reserve section of the state championship. Not to forget that Leo Ma won the Scholastic section on a high note.

Last Updated on Thursday, 01 March 2012 20:14

2011 Presidents Report

Written by miken

Wednesday, 07 September 2011 21:01

WCA President’s Report

2011 Annual Membership Meeting

Howard Johnson Inn & Conference Center, Wausau

September 4, 2011

The WCA had a good year. Our financial position continues to be strong although we lost about $450 last year. This year Wisconsin has gained clubs, organizers and TD’s. Make sure to check out the clubs’ page of our website to see if there is a new club in your area or to make sure your local club is listed. If not, please let me know.

We’re pleased to see a large number of events on our fall calendar but there is a lack of events in the spring and summer. A recent analysis of events by state showed that Wisconsin had twenty weekends with one event and five weekends with two events between June 1, 2010 and May 31, 2011. That means that there were 27 weekends without rated chess in Wisconsin. From October 1, 2011 thru December 18, 2011, a span of 12 weekends, there will be at least eleven events on eight weekends. Organizers need to consider spreading out these events more. We’re all competing for the same entry fee dollars. Spacing events out will encourage play and draw more players overall.

When deciding on when to hold an event, tournament organizers need to contact the state tournament clearinghouse director Guy Hoffman to find open dates on the tournament calendar. Guy can be reached at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

I want to thank everyone for their support this past summer in my reelection bid for the USCF Executive Board. I received a number of encouraging compliments from the Wisconsin chess community and I really appreciated it. Sadly fewer than 4000 USCF members took the time to register to vote; a little over ten percent of those eligible did register. Approximately seventy members from Wisconsin registered. We were the third highest in percentage of all the states. I was fortunate enough to place second in a four way race for three, three year seats on the EB. In the reorganization meeting after the Delegate’s Meeting, I was reelected USCF Secretary by the Board. I look forward to representing you in national affairs.

Following this meeting, in our next WCA Board of Director’s meeting we’ll be electing our two delegates for next year’s national meetings which will be held in Vancouver, Washington in August.

The USCF had a very good year financially. We finished ahead about $192,000. We’ve put together another budget with a projected surplus to offset some long term debt that we’ve accumulated mostly due to the lawsuits of recent years. (There is one current lawsuit involving the USCF dealing with this past election. The suit does not request monetary damages and we believe we have a strong position to win the case in the end.)

Unfortunately one of the necessities to produce this surplus budget will be a modest dues increase on January 1, 2012. Also this year, to enhance membership value, hopefully by January 1, USCF will launch an online play website. This will interest clubs and schools along with individuals as it’ll allow league play between clubs all over the nation.

The WCA sponsors the Marshall Rohland Memorial/Wisconsin Closed Championship, the Arpad Elo Open, the William Martz Memorial/North Central Open, the Wisconsin Memorial and the Junior Open and Veterans Tournaments. All are open for bids from state organizers and/or tournament directors. If you are interested in more details on how to bid for these events, please contact any board member.

Congratulations to Madison West for regaining the team title at the State Scholastic Championships. They have now won eleven state titles since 1998. Congratulations to New Berlin Eisenhower Middle School for capturing their first K-8 State Team Championship and to Brookfield Swanson Elementary and New Berlin Glen Park Elementary for sharing the K-5 State Team Championship title. Last March 439 Wisconsin students participated at UW-Oshkosh. The event was moved from Gruenhagen Conference Center to Reeve Memorial Student Union and the comments were very favorable for the new venue.

The 2011 Arnold Denker Tournament of High School Champions was held in conjunction with the US Open in Orlando, FL. Our representative was Matthias Melcher of the Milwaukee School of Languages. Matthias was an exchange student from Germany last school year and came back over to the US with his parents and brother to play in the Denker. He finished 2-1-3 in a highly competitive event. In a new event, the Dewain Barber Tournament of K-8 State Champions, our representative, Brady Harder, finished 3-2-1 and that included a win over a master in round five.

Congratulations to David Jin for capturing the 2010 Wisconsin Chess Tour title. Organizers desiring to have their event considered for Tour status need to contact Guy by November of the year before the tour. Tour standings are listed on the home page of our website www.wischess.org.

Tournament organizers are able to add calendar items to our website and we encourage them to do so. It is free advertising for their events. We have received only a couple of news stories this year and depend on the state players, organizers and TD’s to supply content. If you have an interesting game to share or wish to write up a chess tournament or event, please do so and send it to Arlen Walker or me. Arlen may be reached at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and I may be reached at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

The terms of office of Ben Corcoran, Dennis Kosterman and Sandy Pahl expire today. I want to thank all of the Board members for their hard work and dedication this past year. I also regret to announce that board member Peter Webster has resigned his seat on the board. So, the fourth place finisher in today’s election shall assume the remaining one year of his term.

Current Tour Standings

Written by Mike

Friday, 07 May 2010 00:00

2012 Wisconsin Chess Tour Standings thru Hales Corners XIII

Prize	Prize			Rating	Average	Total
Group	Fund	Rank	Name	Class	Rating	Points
Top 10	20%	1	Jing, Aaron C	Expert	2053	365.6
Overall	16%	2	Jin, David	Expert	2076	360.3
		3	Brady R Harder	Expert	2098	298.5
		4	Kinsman, Jim A	A	1985	280.3
		5	Waller, Matthew	Expert	2127	274.4
		6	Pokorski, Jeffrey	A	1833	269.6
		7	Christensen, Wade	B	1793	264.3
		8	Grochowski, Andrew	A	1814	261.4
		9	Hoffman, Guy G	A	1911	253.5
		10	Williams, Wm	Master	2200	231.8
			Sagunsky, David	B	1640	231.8
Class A	15%	1	Kinsman, Jim A	A	1985	280.3
		2	Pokorski, Jeffrey	A	1833	269.6
		3	Grochowski, Andrew	A	1814	261.4
		4	Hoffman, Guy G	A	1911	253.5
		5	Coons, James J	A	1850	224.2
		6	Reese Jr., Gregory	A	1851	207.7
		7	Wagner Jr, John	A	1900	162.8
		8	Shields, Philip R	A	1864	112.3
		9	8-way tie	A	1992	96.1
Class B	14%	1	Christensen, Wade	B	1793	264.3
		2	Sagunsky, David	B	1640	231.8
		3	Fogec, Tom	B	1664	218.8
		4	Shi, Tinglin	B	1691	213.2
		5	Grochowski, Robin	B	1728	210.9
		6	Ulrich, Rachel	B	1756	181.4
		7	Hildeman, Jonathan	B	1746	138.8
		8	Hegelmeyer, John A	B	1606	122.5
		9	Wainscott, Chris	B	1679	98.7
		10	Franek, Martin Joh	B	1741	96.1
			John E Oberg	B	1700	96.1
Class C	13%	1	Dreuth, Adam Wm	C	1599.7	189.7
		2	Pahl, Sandra R	C	1410	173.3
		3	Shah, Varun Mitesh	C	1556	146.5
		4	Ma, Leo	C	1480	138.8
		5	Reinke, Robert T	C	1567	128.1
		6	Sydlewski, Dean	C	1460	127.9
		7	Shefsky, Michael W	C	1549	122.5
		8	Bevans, Paul Wayne Jr.	C	1518	117.0
		9	Nikhil, James	C	1518	93.0
		10	Lancour, David Tim	C	1585	75.1
Class D	12%	1	Monosov, Nathanel	D	1357	141.1
		2	Wibowo, Stephanus	D	1385	125.8
		3	Hegelmeyer, John Wm	D	1220	119.8
		4	Soni, Sahil	D	1315	101.7
		5	Pleasants, Jacobs B	D	1250	74.4
		6	Buschmann, Alan E	D	1312	72.9
		7	Loomer, Xavier Mar	D	1209	71.4
		8	Karimikonda, Teja	D	1383	64.4
			Kandukuri, Suraj	D	1341	64.4
			Jin, Suhong	D	1228	64.4
U-1200	10%	1	Buck, Finn	U-1200	1178	153.0
		2	Shi, Stephen	U-1200	1128	146.9
		3	Mehta, Moulik	U-1200	1033	113.0
		4	Lu, Albert	U-1200	916	110.0
		5	Ran, Eric M	U-1200	1109	108.6
		6	Ran, Stephanie L	U-1200	1081	93.0
		7	Lu, Ernest	U-1200	676	86.9
		8	Tu, Tony	U-1200	777	84.7
		9	Ulrich, Susanna	U-1200	1183	72.9
		10	Ermakoff, Tonio	U-1200	582	66.1

		Date	Event	Maximum Points	Players
		2/25	Winter Open	107.32	72
		3/31	Waukesha Memorial Open	148.80	93
		3/31	Waukesha Memorial RBO	41.79	36
		4/21	HC XIII / Open	192.30	104
		4/21	HC XIII / Reserve	71.39	49
		5/19	Arpad Elo Open
		7/28	Green Bay Open
		Aug	BC Challenge
		9/1	State Champ / Open
		9/1	State Champ / Reserve
		9/1	State Champ / Scholastic
			Knutson Memorial
			Badger Open
			Badger Reserve
		11/24	North Central Open
		11/24	North Central Scholastic
		Dec	Wisconsin Memorial
			Total Players to date		269

		Notes:	The number of players listed in the Open Section
			is the sum of Open + Reserve + RBO + Scholastic.
			Maximum points available per tournament =
			median rating * total # players / 1,000 * % weight
			(Open = 100%; Res & RBO = 60%; Schol = 30%)

Last Updated on Wednesday, 25 April 2012 19:28

Prize	Name	Points	Rating
1	Aaron Jing	578.1	1948
2	Guy Hoffman	428.7	1912
A	James Coons	374.8	1801
B	Robin Grochowski	396.2	1719
C	Dmitry Myaskovsky	336.0	1591
D	Sandra Pahl	233.0	1384
<1200	Teja Karimikonda	162.8	1118