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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.
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.
| 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) |
We lost a pillar in the Maryland chess community when David “Pawnmaster” McDuffie died on Friday, August 24.
| 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 |