Meier Wins 2014 CCSCSL Club Championship

By on January 27, 2014 in

By GM Ben Finegold

The 2014 Club Championship took place January 24-26 at (you guessed it!) the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis. The event was five rounds, with one round Friday night, and two each Saturday and Sunday. I have played in a few of these events, but to my memory, this was by far the largest with 36 participants.

The Championship was also the strongest with four GMs participating and super-IM Priyadharshan “Pri” Kannappan. WGM Anna Sharevich, FM Konstantin Kavutskiy, and WIM Inna Agrest rounded out the titled players.

Congrats to GM Georg Meier on winning clear first. He easily scored 4.5-0.5 by virtue of winning his first four and taking a perfunctory draw with Pri in the last round. I was able to tie for second with Pri and, surprisingly, WIM Agrest, who was able to easily beat GM Denes Boros in the final round.

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2014 Club Championship: Final Standings

#	Name	Rtng	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Tot	Probable Prize
1	GM Georg Meier	2700	W15	W8	W6	W14	D2	4.5	1000.00
2	IM Priyadharshan Kannappan	2500	W16	W11	D5	W12	D1	4.0	508.33
3	WIM Inna Agrest	2211	W29	L4	W31	W22	W14	4.0	508.33
4	GM Benjamin P Finegold	2577	W21	W3	H---	H---	W5	4.0	508.33
5	NM Iskandar Aripov	2249	W27	W7	D2	W10	L4	3.5	50.00/Upset1
6	WGM Anna Sharevich	2351	W20	W26	L1	W11	D7	3.5	50.00
7	GM Manuel Leon Hoyos	2595	W35	L5	W21	W13	D6	3.5	50.00
8	FM Doug D Eckert	2254	W23	L1	H---	W27	W15	3.5	50.00
9	Nick W Karlow	2183	W33	D14	L10	W20	W19	3.5	50.00
10	FM Konstantin Kavutskiy	2378	W17	H---	W9	L5	D12	3.0
11	Zach Stuart	2137	W25	L2	W16	L6	W21	3.0
12	NM Spencer Finegold	2177	W18	H---	W24	L2	D10	3.0
13	NM Matthew W Larson	2156	W36	H---	H---	L7	W22	3.0
14	GM Denes Boros	2554	W31	D9	W22	L1	L3	2.5
15	Alexander Vergilesov	2051	L1	W32	D20	W24	L8	2.5	50.00
16	Julian Proleiko	1840	L2	W18	L11	W28	D23	2.5	50.00
17	Ashok S Kirumaki	1838	L10	W30	L26	D18	W27	2.5	50.00
18	Iris Yi-xian Zhou	1445	L12	L16	W30	D17	W34	2.5	50.00
19	James R Voelker	2162	H---	L22	W28	W29	L9	2.5
20	Ronit Kirumaki	1806	L6	W25	D15	L9	D24	2.0
21	Joey Michael Kelly	2009	L4	W23	L7	W34	L11	2.0
22	Steven J Rand	2067	W28	W19	L14	L3	L13	2.0
23	Serdar Aykent	1786	L8	L21	H---	W35	D16	2.0
24	Clark Zhang Berry	1600	H---	W34	L12	L15	D20	2.0
25	Brent Butler	1106	L11	L20	L33	W32	W30	2.0
26	Alex J Marler	2081	W30	L6	W17	U---	U---	2.0
27	Vernon Southerland	1780	L5	D35	W32	L8	L17	1.5
28	Greg K Vanvalkenburg	671	L22	B---	L19	L16	D32	1.5
29	James Oslica	1724	L3	H---	W35	L19	U---	1.5
30	Della Nicole Carter	1003	L26	L17	L18	B---	L25	1.0
31	Matthew C Hosler	1874	L14	W33	L3	U---	U---	1.0
32	Ken West	1306	H---	L15	L27	L25	D28	1.0
33	Harold L Hadman	1518	L9	L31	W25	U---	U---	1.0
34	Stephen R Whyte	1509	H---	L24	H---	L21	L18	1.0
35	Selden Trimble	2010	L7	D27	L29	L23	U---	0.5
36	Maya Caissa Vollmer	1169	L13	U---	U---	U---	U---	0.0

2014 Club Championship: Final Wallchart

#	Name/Rtng/ID	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5
1	GM Georg Meier	B 18	W 8	B 7	B 4	W 5
	2700 14508324	1.0	2.0	3.0	4.0	4.5
2	GM Manuel Leon Hoyos	W 19	B 9	W 20	B 14	W 7
	2595 12881259	1.0	1.0	2.0	3.0	3.5
3	GM Benjamin P Finegold	B 20	W 10	bye	bye	B 9
	2577 11264417	1.0	2.0	2.5	3.0	4.0
4	GM Denes Boros	W 21	B 11	B 17	W 1	B 10
	2554 12894483	1.0	1.5	2.5	2.5	2.5
5	IM Priyadharshan Kannappan	B 22	W 15	B 9	W 12	B 1
	2500 14955836	1.0	2.0	2.5	3.5	4.0
6	FM Konstantin Kavutskiy	W 23	bye	B 11	W 9	B 12
	2378 12742780	1.0	1.5	2.5	2.5	3.0
7	WGM Anna Sharevich	B 24	W 16	W 1	B 15	B 2
	2351 14690848	1.0	2.0	2.0	3.0	3.5
8	FM Doug D Eckert	W 25	B 1	bye	W 26	B 18
	2254 12107920	1.0	1.0	1.5	2.5	3.5
9	NM Iskandar Aripov	B 26	W 2	W 5	B 6	W 3
	2249 13743512	1.0	2.0	2.5	3.5	3.5
10	WIM Inna Agrest	W 27	B 3	W 21	B 17	W 4
	2211 14967144	1.0	1.0	2.0	3.0	4.0
11	Nick W Karlow	B 29	W 4	W 6	B 24	W 13
	2183 12827792	1.0	1.5	1.5	2.5	3.5
12	NM Spencer Finegold	W 31	bye	B 28	B 5	W 6
	2177 12665760	1.0	1.5	2.5	2.5	3.0
13	James R Voelker	bye	W 17	B 36	W 27	B 11
	2162 10266696	0.5	0.5	1.5	2.5	2.5
14	NM Matthew W Larson	B 33	bye	bye	W 2	W 17
	2156 14278511	1.0	1.5	2.0	2.0	3.0
15	Zach Stuart	W 34	B 5	W 22	W 7	B 20
	2137 13636131	1.0	1.0	2.0	2.0	3.0
16	Alex J Marler	B 35	B 7	W 23	----	----
	2081 12893372	1.0	1.0	2.0	U2.0	U2.0
17	Steven J Rand	W 36	B 13	W 4	W 10	B 14
	2067 13666146	1.0	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.0
18	Alexander Vergilesov	W 1	B 32	W 24	B 28	W 8
	2051 12882813	0.0	1.0	1.5	2.5	2.5
19	Selden Trimble	B 2	W 26	B 27	W 25	----
	2010 10367743	0.0	0.5	0.5	0.5	U0.5
20	Joey Michael Kelly	W 3	B 25	B 2	W 30	W 15
	2009 14143543	0.0	1.0	1.0	2.0	2.0
21	Matthew C Hosler	B 4	W 29	B 10	----	----
	1874 12612828	0.0	1.0	1.0	U1.0	U1.0
22	Julian Proleiko	W 5	B 31	B 15	W 36	B 25
	1840 14836268	0.0	1.0	1.0	2.0	2.5
23	Ashok S Kirumaki	B 6	W 35	B 16	W 31	B 26
	1838 14894984	0.0	1.0	1.0	1.5	2.5
24	Ronit Kirumaki	W 7	B 34	B 18	W 11	W 28
	1806 14860268	0.0	1.0	1.5	1.5	2.0
25	Serdar Aykent	B 8	W 20	bye	B 19	W 22
	1786 10838894	0.0	0.0	0.5	1.5	2.0
26	Vernon Southerland	W 9	B 19	W 32	B 8	W 23
	1780 12502941	0.0	0.5	1.5	1.5	1.5
27	James Oslica	B 10	bye	W 19	B 13	----
	1724 14878214	0.0	0.5	1.5	1.5	U1.5
28	Clark Zhang Berry	bye	B 30	W 12	W 18	B 24
	1600 14439534	0.5	1.5	1.5	1.5	2.0
29	Harold L Hadman	W 11	B 21	W 34	----	----
	1518 15196250	0.0	0.0	1.0	U1.0	U1.0
30	Stephen R Whyte	bye	W 28	bye	B 20	B 31
	1509 12010780	0.5	0.5	1.0	1.0	1.0
31	Iris Yi-xian Zhou	B 12	W 22	B 35	B 23	W 30
	1445 14467261	0.0	0.0	1.0	1.5	2.5
32	Ken West	bye	W 18	B 26	B 34	W 36
	1306 12544320	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	1.0
33	Maya Caissa Vollmer	W 14	----	----	----	----
	1169 12849321	0.0	U0.0	U0.0	U0.0	U0.0
34	Brent Butler	B 15	W 24	B 29	W 32	W 35
	1106 15155903	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	2.0
35	Della Nicole Carter	W 16	B 23	W 31	bye	B 34
	1003 14664904	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	1.0
36	Greg K Vanvalkenburg	B 17	bye	W 13	B 22	B 32
	671 12708488	0.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.5