Monday, May 18, 2009

Vandenburg Cup

Finally got the tournament rated. Long overdue congratulations to Seth Homa and Oleg Tsodikov for winning the Open and Reserve sections respectively!

Open

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Pair| Player |Total|Round|Round|Round|Round|
Num | Rtg | Pts | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
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1 | SETH HOMA |4.0 |W 5|W 7|W 8|W 4|
MI | 2284 | | | | | |
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2 | MICHAEL SMITH |3.0 |W 3|W 13|L 4|W 8|
MI | 1906 | | | | | |
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3 | LEYUN WANG |2.5 |L 2|W 11|D 7|W 9|
MI | 2187P10 | | | | | |
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4 | ALISHER SANETULLAEV|2.5 |D 13|W 10|W 2|L 1|
MI | 2071 | | | | | |
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5 | JENNIFER SKIDMORE |2.5 |L 1|W 14|D 6|W 13|
MI | 1948 | | | | | |
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6 | BRADLEY ROGERS |2.0 |W 9|L 8|D 5|D 7|
MI | 2015 | | | | | |
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7 | MATT HASSEN |2.0 |W 14|L 1|D 3|D 6|
MI | 1987 | | | | | |
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8 | ANDREW CATLIN |2.0 |W 12|W 6|L 1|L 2|
MI | 1949 | | | | | |
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9 | EDDIE BARBER |2.0 |L 6|W 12|W 10|L 3|
MI | 1904 | | | | | |
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10 | ANTHONY NICHOLS |1.5 |D 11|L 4|L 9|W 14|
MI | 1969 | | | | | |
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11 | ANDREW ELENBOGEN |1.5 |D 10|L 3|D 13|D 12|
MI | 1519 | | | | | |
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12 | ALAN ELBAUM |1.5 |L 8|L 9|W 14|D 11|
MI | 1494P15 | | | | | |
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13 | JACOB FORTUNA |1.0 |D 4|L 2|D 11|L 5|
MI | 1893 | | | | | |
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14 | JEFFREY GUILFOYLE |0.0 |L 7|L 5|L 12|L 10|
MI | 1636 | | | | | |
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Reserve
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Pair | Player |Total|Round|Round|Round|Round|
Num | Rtg | Pts | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
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1 | OLEG TSODIKOV |4.0 |W 13|W 5|W 9|W 4|
MI | 1717 | | | | | |
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2 | DAVID RAMP |3.0 |W 7|W 10|L 4|W 3|
MI | 1620P21 | | | | | |
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3 | R KEN LONG |3.0 |W 14|W 8|W 12|L 2|
MI | 1616 | | | | | |
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4 | RICHARD WILSON |3.0 |W 16|W 6|W 2|L 1|
MI | 1675 | | | | | |
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5 | ANDREW DOLGNER |3.0 |W 11|L 1|W 13|W 8|
MI | 1560 | | | | | |
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6 | ROBERT LOMBARDO |3.0 |W 15|L 4|W 17|W 10|
MI | 1537 | | | | | |
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7 | BENJAMIN HUTTER |3.0 |L 2|W 19|W 16|W 9|
IL | 1518 | | | | | |
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8 | TERRY COMBS |2.0 |W 20|L 3|W 15|L 5|
MI | 1537 | | | | | |
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9 | JUSTIN CHEN |2.0 |W 18|W 12|L 1|L 7|
MI | 1501 | | | | | |
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10 | RICHARD SPANGLER |2.0 |W 19|L 2|W 14|L 6|
MI | 1510 | | | | | |
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11 | MAX WILSON |2.0 |L 5|L 13|W 20|W 17|
MI | 1308 | | | | | |
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12 | SCOTT FAUST |1.5 |W 17|L 9|L 3|D 14|
MI | 1624 | | | | | |
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13 | MARCO LORENZON |1.5 |L 1|W 11|L 5|D 15|
MI | 1446 | | | | | |
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14 | EDWARD SECZNEY |1.5 |L 3|W 20|L 10|D 12|
MI | 1352 | | | | | |
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15 | BEN CHEN |1.5 |L 6|W 16|L 8|D 13|
MI | 1172 | | | | | |
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16 | LARRY HODGE |1.0 |L 4|L 15|L 7|W 19|
MI | 1428 | | | | | |
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17 | NATHAN METCALF |1.0 |L 12|W 18|L 6|L 11|
MI | 1343 | | | | | |
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18 | KATY FORD |1.0 |L 9|L 17|L 19|W 20|
MI | 1113 | | | | | |
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19 | ALEX BAKER |1.0 |L 10|L 7|W 18|L 16|
MI | 973 | | | | | |
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20 | JOY CHEN |0.0 |L 8|L 14|L 11|L 18|
MI | 860 | | | | | |
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Lansing City Championship Rd 3

Here are the pairings for round 3.

Sanetullaev vs Nichols
Hassen vs Garrison
Irwin vs Ramsey
Palmerton vs Schaaf
Sundeen - Bye

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Vandenburg Cup

I have been getting alot of inquiries about when the tournament will be rated. Bruce Roth was the TD and he is out of town till sometime this week. He will submit it when he gets back. He would have already submitted it but the club had to renew it's affiliate id so this is our fault not Bruce's. It's just an unfortunate situation and I apologize to everyone involved.

Regards
Tony

Tuesday, May 5, 2009

March Swiss

Congrats to Alisher and Curtis for perfect scores in their sections!
Top Section
Pair Name Rtg 1 2 3 Pts
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1 ALI SANETULLAEV 2071 W---8 W---6 W---3 3.0
2 ANTHONY T NICHOLS 1969 W---4 D---3 W---6 2.5
3 MATT J HASSEN 1987 W---7 D---2 L---1 1.5
4 DAVID R SUNDEEN 1621 L---2 W---7 D---5 1.5
5 DAVID ANDREW RAMP 1620 L---6 W---8 D---4 1.5
6 IAN EDGERLE 1911 W---5 L---1 L---2 1.0
7 RICHARD WILSON 1675 L---3 L---4 W---8 1.0
8 JEFF P GUILFOYLE 1636 L---1 L---5 L---7 0.0

Bottom Section
Pair Name Rtg 1 2 3 Pts
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1 CURTIS LEE 1172 W---7 W---2 W---3 3.0
2 NATHAN METCALF 1383 W---8 L---1 W---4 2.0
3 EDWARD W SECZNEY 1352 D---6 W---5 L---1 1.5
4 QUENTIN METZMAKER 1077 D---5 W---6 L---2 1.5
5 JACK EMAUS 966 D---4 L---3 W---8 1.5
6 CARRIE RANKIN 959 D---3 L---4 W---7 1.5
7 ALDEN METZMAKER 570 L---1 W---8 L---6 1.0
8 ROD SCHAAF 870 L---2 L---7 L---5 0.0

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Febuary Swiss

Congratulations to Alisher Sanetullaev and Robert Lombardo on perfect scores!

Top Section
PAIR NAME RATING 1 2 3 TOTAL
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1 SANETULLAEV, ALIS 2057 W---3 W---4 W---2 3.0
2 IRWIN, CHRIS 1700 W---5 W---6 L---1 2.0
3 FORTUNA, JACOB DA 1893 L---1 D---5 W---4 1.5
4 NICHOLS, ANTHONY 1957 W---6 L---1 L---3 1.0
5 HASSEN, MATT J 1991 L---2 D---3 U---0 0.5
6 WILSON, RICHARD 1624 L---4 L---2 U---0 0.0

Bottom Section
PAIR NAME RATING 1 2 3 TOTAL
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1 LOMBARDO, ROBERT 1532 W---6 W---4 W---3 3.0
2 SUNDEEN, DAVID R 1600 L---3 W---6 W---4 2.0
3 METCALF, NATHAN 1420 W---2 W---5 L---1 2.0
4 GRIFFIN, JOHN L 1500 W---5 L---1 L---2 1.0
5 SCHAAF, ROD 945 L---4 L---3 W---6 1.0
6 EMAUS, JACK 772 L---1 L---2 L---5 0.0

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Knight Moves

Last Friday, at club, Quentin was practicing the knight's tour, hitting each square on the board in order with a knight, avoiding squares attacked and occupied by enemy pawns placed on c3, c6, f3, and f6. The goal is to become more familiar with how the knight moves.

It reminded me of a study I did to be able to visualize how a knight moves. I put a zero in the middle of a spreadsheet, and placed formulas to increment by one in all the square the knight could go to in one move. Then, around those squares, I incremented again, to find all the squares a knight could go in two moves. I did this out to 9 moves.

I decided just seeing the numbers wasn't enough, so I wrote a script to color the spreadsheet. Here is the end result. The pattern reminds me of something your grandmother would cross stitch.


Monday, February 9, 2009