April 9, 2008

Hey Rick!

Tournament went well, not much in the way of upsets. There were 21 entrants, four military. We ran four rounds. Andre Wilmar, our German exchange student was the top seed (1798), Matt Parshall was the second seed (1699). They both won out, and then drew each other in the final round for 3.5 out of 4. Matt was a rook up in the endgame, but Andre managed to swindle a stalemate. There were quite a few others who had 3, including our military champion, Rican Lee. Rican won a playoff game with Steven Ankerstar for the military title. Hopefully the crosstable will be available early next week from the USCF.

I directed the tournament for free - actually lost money as I had to pay the charges to the USCF to have it rated. I don't mind though, a good time was had by all. They ordered us pizza and there were muffins there early. Decent site although the lighting was poor.

That's all for now - hope everything is going well on your end. Snowing like crazy up here today. My fault - I put my summer tires on last weekend. Oh well.

Take care Ricky!

Mike 

Thanks Mike for running another successful tournament!! Sorry for the delay in getting this info posted, I've been out of town for the last couple of weeks.

Any idea when the next event will be scheduled? I've had some enquiries concerning the Junior/Scholastic State Championship.

Good Luck to Rican Lee !!!

Until next time ....