Saturday, September 26, 2009

40th Annual Badger Open Chess Tournament

40th Annual Badger Open Chess Tournament (A Wisconsin Tour Event) Oct 3 - Scholastic Section; Oct 3-4 for the Open and Reserve Section. Marriott Milwaukee West, W231 N1600 Corporate Drive, Waukesha, Wisconsin The 40th Annual Badger Open Chess Tournament will be held at the Marriott Milwaukee West on October 3rd and 4th. This tournament will offer a 2 day event on Saturday and Sunday, October 3rd and 4th with an Open and Reserve (U1400) section with individual cash awards. Like last year there will also be a 1 day Scholastic event on Saturday, October 3rd with 2 sections, K-4 and K-9, with both individual and team awards. Teams may consist of either school or club teams.All sections are USCF rated and require a current USCF membership to participate. This includes the 1 day Scholastic event. Open Section pre-registrations as of 9/20/09: Name Rating Veech, John 2031 Endsley, Barry E. 2000 Hoffman, Guy 1900 Liang, Yingming 1835 Coons, James J. 1810 Grochowski, A. 1754 Grochowski, R. 1735 Iyer, Venkat 1671 Liang, Awonder 1601 Pahl, Sandra R. 1527 Liang, Adream 1366 The information posted here is from the Southwest Chess Club blog, the Waukesha Chess Club website, and the Mill Valley Chess Team blog. I couldn't find the Badger Open listed in the Wisconsin TLAs at the USCF website. Okay - after having dug around online for quite awhile, I found the following further information at the Wisconsin Scholastic Chess Association website: 40th ANNUAL BADGER OPEN CHESS TOURNAMENT OCT. 3rd-4th OPEN TO ALL USCF PLAYERS. Two USCF Rated events at one location! LOCATION: MARRIOTT MILWAUKEE WEST W231 N1600 Corporate Court, Waukesha, WI 53186 Chess Hotel Room Rate of $85. Reserve Rooms Toll Free at 877-651-7666 (Until Oct. 1, mention "Badger Open") 4 SECTIONS: Open: 1st Place $250 (guaranteed); 2nd Place $150 (guaranteed). Balance of Prize Fund divided and based on the number of players in each class A-F. Reserve (U1400): Best D (U1400), E (U1200), F (U1000) Class. Scholastic K-4: Individual and Club or School Team Scholastic K-9: Individual and Club or School Team Scholastic Awards: Individual Trophies: 1st - 5th Place in K-4 and K-9; Medals to 6th - 15th Place in both Sections. Team Trophies: 1st-3rd Place Team in K-4 and K-9. ALL 4 SECTIONS ARE USCF RATED, YOU MUST BE USCF MEMBER TO PLAY, MEMBERSHIP CAN BE PURCHASED / RENEWED ONSITE (COME EARLY). The Badger Open main chess tournament is 2-day Wisconsin Chess Tour Event with two sections: Open and Reserve (Under 1400). Both will be a 5 Round Swiss with a G-120 Time Control. There is a $1200 Prize Fund, based on 50 players in the Open/Reserve Sections. 1st and 2nd Open Prize Guaranteed, A-F prizes are based on the number of players in each class - the more players in a particular class, the larger the prize fund for that class. For example, a large Class E group would mean more prize money in that class, allowing for 2nd or even a 3rd place prize. This system rewards those players who support the tournament by showing up to play, no matter what their rating might be. If more than 50 players show up, then the prize fund increases accordingly. There is also a 1-day Scholastic Only Tournament. This will be a 6 Round Swiss with a G-30 time control, and will be USCF Dual Rated (game results impacts both Regular and Quick Ratings), with a K-4 and K-9 Section. A Team Score will consist of the Top 2-4 players from the same school, OR chess club, added together. A team can have as few as 2 players, and as many as come, but only the Top 4 scores will count. Students can play in ANY Section. This is another great opportunity to build your USCF Rating by playing in the longer time-control Adult / Student Sections (Open & Reserve) or tune-up your chess tactics and skills in the 1 DAY Scholastic Only Section as the scholastic chess season begins. Flyer. Wisconsin Scholastic Chess Association members can register on-line. I sure wish it was easier to track down information for such events! I learned of this one entirely by accident while I was reading at the SWCC blog. It sounds like a great event, providing opporturnity for both scholastic and non-scholastic players. Some of Wisconsin's highest rated players will be playing in the Open section.

3 comments:

Gregory Reese, Sr. said...

We didn't get our TLA in on time this year. It has been a very busy summer for me, and we will be more on the ball next year.

Jim Nickell gets all the mail-in entries. He has been out of town since Thursday and won't be back until sometime Monday.

These are pre-entries from the www.wscachess.org website and emails I have received. We will be posting the mail-in entries as soon as Jim gets home.

OPEN SECTION

Kelly Borman 2020
Gregory Reese, Jr. 1743
Thomas Schneider 1677
Rohan Mhaskar 1650
Andrew Gorectke 1581
Aaron Jing 1510
Saagar Shah 1439
Sam Gorectke 1414
Alena Huang 1281

RESERVE SECTION

Nikhil James 1213
Zachary Chua 949

K-9 SCHOLASTIC SECTION

Maxim Raykov 941
Pranav Adavi 759
Mitchell Dentice Unrated

K-4 SCHOLASTIC SECTION

Sabrina Haung 800
Derek Schaper Unrated

Scholastic age players can pre-register at the WSCA website for the early-bird prices for all 4 Sections until Midnight Thursday.

Adults who want to guarantee the early discount can email me at avugames@netzero.com by Thursday night and pay on-site.

Luke Ludwig will be our book and equipment seller again this year.

Gregory Reese, Sr.
President
Wisconsin Scholastic Chess Assoc.
greeser@wscachess.org
avugames@netzero.com

Jan said...

Thanks for the additional information. It sounds like this will be a tough Open, given the list of players I found at the SWCC blog and the additional pre-registered players you posted. Good to see such events being held in southeastern Wisconsin!

Gregory Reese, Sr. said...

Hi All,

It took longer than expected to put the pre-registration list together and clean up the details:

There are 22 K-4 players.

And there are 20 K-9 players.

In the Open and Reserve Sections there are 52:

Reserve (U1400)
Kulkarni, Pranav 1366
Lancour, David 1349
Rokni, Eric 1316
Garvey, Thomas 1230
James, Nikhil 1213
Shi, Tinglin 1210
Campbell, John 1194
Vadapally, Pranay 1139
Najeeb, Yaseen 992
Glumm, Jacob 944
Chua, Zachary 921
Brandt, John 748
Najeeb, Hadi 719
Kandukuri, Suraj 633
Monosov, Nathanel 544

Open
Williams, William 2200
Veech, John 2031
Borman, Kelly 2020
Endsley, Barry 2000
Martin, Richard R., III 1951
Wagner, John 1908
Hoffman, Guy 1900
Liang, Yingming 1835
Coons, James 1810
Grochowski, Andrew 1754
Jayne, Ryan 1751
Reese, Jr., Greg 1743
Grochowski, Robin 1735
Garvin, Stanley 1733
Pokorski, Jeffrey 1711
Schneider, Thomas 1677
Iyer, Venkat 1671
Nickell, James 1647
Mhaskar, Rohan 1664
Zimmermann, Troy 1645
Harder, Brady 1604
Liang, Awonder 1601
Sagunsky, David 1600
Gorectke, Andrew 1581
Jing, Aaron 1541
Pahl, Sandra 1527
Lawrence, Michael 1519
Kosterman, Dennis 1516
Seghers, Evan 1512
Hegelmeyer, John 1465
Gaddameedi, Vilas 1450
Gorectke, Samuel 1414
Broman, Tim 1392
Liang, Adream 1366
Rasmussen, Kenneth 1326
Huang, Alena 1320
Suri, Shiva 1305

This gives us a total of 94 Players in the two events.

Compared to 61 total last year. It looks like the Badger Open is on the rebound! Players are coming from Iowa, Michigan, and Illinois to play in Wisconsin.

Thanks to all who are coming, Jim Nickell tells me I won't be getting fired as the Badger Open Organizer for next year.

Gregory Reese, Sr.
Badger Open Organizer
Waukesha Chess Club

Late entries can still email me at the addresses below:
avugames@netzero.com
greesesr@wscachess.org

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