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The Second Harmon Memorial Open - April 19-20

 

40 players turned out to participate in this tournament, including IM John Donaldson, a former PNW resident now residing in San Francisco. When the dust had settled from all the upsets, in the end Oregon champion Radu Roua finished clear first with 4 1/2 points, drawing his last game with IM Donaldson. Now, let's mention some of the upsets, starting with round one. Portland Chess Club member Nathan Porter managed a draw against John Donaldson. Other first round surprises included George Petersen defeating Steve Buck, and Mike Terrill's victory over Larry Ball. Round two results were somewhat more normal. In round 3 Matt Dalthorp won over Bill Gagnon. Also, Steve Breckenridge defeated Nick Raptis, but is this an upset? Ratings of young on the way up players often trail their actual playing strength.

 

Rounds 4 and 5 again returned to relative normalcy. Trailing the winner, four players scored 4 points each: John Donaldson, Nick Raptis, Mike Morris, and Steve Breckenridge. Ethan Peake took the U-2000 prize with 3 1/2 points. The U-1700 prizes were split 3 ways, with 3 points each among John Walton, Brett Becker, and Jeff Lehman. The top honors in the U-1400 section went to Bill Stites, also with 3 points. Also, in regards to proper chess etiquette, one should notify the TD instead of forfeiting the game. Luckily that only happened once. The Portland Chess Club extends its thanks to all who came to play, and thanks to John Donaldson for donating his latest book to the club library.

 

The TD crew consisted of Mike Morris, Grisha Alpernas and Neil Dale. Let's hope for a succesful tournament next year. Neil Dale

 

Portland Chess Club Spring Open 2008

 Report from Chief TD Neil Dale

 
The Portland Spring Open held the weekend of March 15/16 was negatively affected by the lack of publicity, just like the Class Championships of the previous weekend. Northwest Chess where the ad was published was late again. Also its closeness to the tournament of the prior weekend did not help. Thus we had quite a modest attendance. The Open Section ended up with 6 players, so a round robin was played. At registration the numbers were 7 in the Open and 11 in the Reserve. No one from the reserve wanted to move up to even the sections, but two volunteered to move down! We picked the lowest rated one: Dick Banner. He swept the reserve with a 5-0 score, but only took his entry fee back, giving the rest of the prize back to the club. Four players scored 3 apiece: Sean O'Connell, Mike Olson, Arliss Dietz, and Yun Teng. Nick Raptis won the Open with 4 1/2 , Radu Roua was second with 4. Best U-2000 was Daniel Gay with 2 1/2. The Portland Chess Club thanks those who came to play, and there were no forfeits. Ed Addis and Neil Dale shared TD duties.
 

Recent/Upcoming Events:

EventDescription Date and Time
QuadsRound 2 5/13/2008 7:30 PM
Casual ChessHosted by Mike Morris 5/14/2008 7:00 PM
Polgar QualifierInfo: contact OCF 5/17/2008 10:00 AM
Scholastic QuadsInfo at www.OSCF.org 5/18/2008 12:30 PM
QuadsRound 3 5/20/2008 7:30 PM
Casual ChessHosted by Vince Roux 5/21/2008 7:00 PM
QuadsRound 4 (if needed) 5/27/2008 7:30 PM
Casual ChessHosted by Jon and Barbie Fortune 5/28/2008 7:00 PM
Game in 60Registration 9-9:30 5/31/2008 10:00 AM
Scholastic QuadsInfo at www.OSCF.org 6/1/2008 12:30 PM
QuadsReg 7 PM; round 1 6/3/2008 7:30 PM


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