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2012 Potomac Open Awards over $11000 in Prizes

The 2012 Potomac Open was held August 2-4 at the Rockville Hilton in Rockville, MD. A total of 164 players competed in six sections. The tournament awarded the largest amount of money we have ever awarded for a score-based tournament, $11,510. The additional prizes for 1st place and three players going 5-0 lead to the larger payout.

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MCA Scholastic Tournament Schedule 2012-2013

The MCA scholastic tournament season will begin with MCA Chestertown on 9/15 and MCA Roland Park on 9/29.  Click on the link below for the schedule of MCA's 18 scholastic tournaments in 2012-2013.

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Washington International Round 9 Pairings

Pairings for Round 9. Washington International: Washington International

Bd Res White Res Black
1   GM Gata Kamsky (6.0)   GM Joel Benjamin (5.5)
2   GM Alexander Onischuk (6.0)   GM Sergei Azarov (5.5)
3   GM Tamaz Gelashvili (5.5)   GM Timur Gareev (6.0)
4   GM Mikheil Kekelidze (5.5)   GM Alexander Shabalov (5.5)
5   IM Adam Hunt (5.5)   GM Joshua E Friedel (5.5)
6   IM Cristina-Adela Foisor (5.0)   IM Dean Ippolito (5.0)
7   IM Ovidiu-Doru Foisor (5.0)   IM Michael A Mulyar (5.0)
8   FM Adarsh Jayakumar (4.5)   GM Kidambi Sundararajan (4.5)
9   FM Thomas Bartell (4.5)   IM Masha Klinova (4.5)
10   IM Justin Sarkar (4.5)   Joshua Colas (4.5)
11   WGM Sabina-Francesca Foisor (4.5)   Benjamin W Krause (4.5)
12   Levy Rozman (4.5)   FM Aleksandr Ostrovskiy (4.5)
13   FM Eric S Rosen (4.5)   Kevin Wang (4.5)
14   Andrew Ryba (4.0)   Jared Defibaugh (3.5)
15   Nicholas Ryba (3.5)   IM Mikhail Vasilyev (3.5)
16   FM Ian D Thompson (3.5)   WIM Mihaela V Foisor (3.5)
17   Alex Barnett (3.5)   Francisco Guadalupe II (3.5)
18   WIM Iryna Zenyuk (3.5)   Ernesto Prieto (3.5)
19   Stanley W Fink Jr (3.0)   FM Ralph P Zimmer (3.5)
20   WFM Sabrina Chevannes (3.0)   FM Awonder Liang (3.0)
21   Nitai D Leve (2.5)   James A Black Jr (3.0)
22   George Olufemi (2.5)   Peter Hess (2.5)
23   Dobrynya Konoplev (2.0)   Nicholas Kleszczewski (2.0)

Round 4 Pairings

Pairings for Round 4. Washington International: Washington International

Bd Res White Res Black
1   GM Timur Gareev (3.0)   IM Justin Sarkar (3.0)
2   Matthew J Herman (2.5)   GM Gata Kamsky (2.5)
3   GM Alexander Onischuk (2.5)   FM Thomas Bartell (2.5)
4   GM Joshua E Friedel (2.5)   GM Alexander Shabalov (2.5)
5   IM Ovidiu-Doru Foisor (2.0)   GM Sergei Azarov (2.0)
6   WGM Sabina-Francesca Foisor (2.0)   GM Tamaz Gelashvili (2.0)
7   FM Aleksandr Ostrovskiy (2.0)   GM Mikheil Kekelidze (2.0)
8   GM Kidambi Sundararajan (2.0)   FM William Morrison (2.0)
9   FM Michael H Bodek (2.0)   IM Adam Hunt (2.0)
10   IM Cristina-Adela Foisor (2.0)   FM Adarsh Jayakumar (2.0)
11   Kevin Wang (2.0)   IM Michael A Mulyar (2.0)
12   Richard J Tuhrim (1.5)   Christopher Gu (2.0)
13   GM Joel Benjamin (1.5)   FM Awonder Liang (1.5)
14   Jared Defibaugh (1.5)   Peter Hess (1.5)
15   WIM Mihaela V Foisor (1.5)   WIM Iryna Zenyuk (1.5)
16   Nitai D Leve (1.5)   IM Dean Ippolito (1.0)
17   FM James Schuyler (1.0)   FM Ralph Patr Zimmer (1.0)
18   FM Eric S Rosen (1.0)   Levy Rozman (1.0)
19   Dobrynya Konoplev (1.0)   IM Mikhail Vasilyev (1.0)
20   Alex Barnett (1.0)   Andrew Ryba (1.0)
21   James A Black Jr (1.0)   Joshua Colas (1.0)
22   IM Oladapo Oluto Adu (1.0)   George Olufemi (1.0)
23   Francisco Guadalupe II (1.0)   Bora Yagiz (1.0)
24   Ernesto Prieto (1.0)   Benjamin W Krause (1.0)
25   Nicholas Kleszczewski (0.0)   FM Ian D Thompson (0.5)
26   WFM Sabrina Chevannes (0.5)   Stanley W Fink Jr (0.0)
  1 Nicholas Ryba (0.0)   See T.D.
  ½ IM Masha Klinova (2.5)   BYE