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Metro Class Championship brings out 58-player field

By on February 15, 2010 in

[imagefield_assist|fid=3471|preset=frontpage_200x200|lightbox=true|title=|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=200|height=200]Despite the festivities in Soulard, the real party was going on at the Chess Club and Scholastic Center of Saint Louis.

The 2nd Annual Metro Saint Louis Class Championship brought out 58 players on Mardi Gras weekend. The club once again flirted with the 60-player mark as word of the best club in the country continues to spread.

Grandmaster Ben Finegold took first place overall with a perfect score, and Todd Plageman, Tony Rich and Steve Landrum split first place in Class A with 2.5 points each.

Kyle Miles and Alex Vergilesov split the top prize in Class B while Bill Thompson was the sole winner in Class C. Vishal Bharadwaj, Jason Zhou and Sean Trani ended up in a three-way tie in Class D and Jon Strand took first in the U1200 division.

Stay tuned for a full recap. Cross tables below:

Metro Saint Louis Class Championships: Master & Expert

# Name ID Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Tot Prize
1 Benjamin Finegold 11264417 2616 W6 W4 W2 3.0 250.00/Title & Trophy
2 Doug D Eckert 12107920 2276 W7 W3 L1 2.0  
3 Gordon J Ruan 12845215 2134 W8 L2 D5 1.5  
4 Kevin Y Cao 12905349 2127 W9 L1 H--- 1.5  
5 James R Voelker 10266696 2108 W10 W6 D3 2.5  
6 Jialin Ding 13717165 2071 L1 L5 D8 0.5  
7 Joshua Frank 12541155 2040 L2 W10 L9 1.0  
8 James A Davies 10363209 2025 L3 L9 D6 0.5  
9 Nick W Karlow 12827792 2003 L4 W8 W7 2.0  
10 Kevin Dal Johnson 10415942 2002 L5 L7 B--- 1.0  

Metro Saint Louis Class Championships: Class A

# Name ID Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Tot Prize
1 Steven D Bange 12546617 1948 W7 D9 D8 2.0  
2 Joseph An Garnier 12852544 1931 D8 D10 W7 2.0  
3 Spencer Finegold 12665760 1925 L9 U--- U--- 0.0  
4 Todd A Plagemann 12089710 1920 W10 W12 D13 2.5 100.00/Title & Trophy
5 Albert D Howlett 12545119 1907 W11 L13 L9 1.0  
6 William M Tong 12879755 1907 L12 L8 U--- 0.0  
7 Adil Skuka 12562553 1900 L1 D11 L2 0.5  
8 Frank H Smith 12834366 1897 D2 W6 D1 2.0  
9 Tony D Rich 12694565 1894 W3 D1 W5 2.5 100.00
10 Alex J Marler 12893372 1823 L4 D2 B--- 1.5  
11 Vikram Aruna Arun 13048508 1803 L5 D7 H--- 1.0  
12 Cesareo Rodriguez 11035809 1800 W6 L4 H--- 1.5  
13 Stephen R Landrum 12428660 1800 B--- W5 D4 2.5 100.00

Metro Saint Louis Class Championships: Class B

# Name ID Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Tot Prize
1 Kyle J Miles 12711437 1776 W8 W7 W3 3.0 150.00/Title & Trophy
2 Behrooz Me Vakil 12541355 1765 H--- W4 L10 1.5  
3 Timothy C Nesham 10259193 1754 W9 W6 L1 2.0  
4 Peter Rupprecht 10319978 1739 L10 L2 W9 1.0  
5 Bob Howe 12870683 1705 W11 L10 U--- 1.0  
6 Michael Jo Kummer 12664377 1703 W12 L3 L8 1.0  
7 William Nesham 13135370 1694 W13 L1 W12 2.0  
8 Namit Gaur 13071903 1679 L1 W11 W6 2.0  
9 Stephen J Zhang 12934373 1658 L3 L12 L4 0.0  
10 Alexan Vergilesov 12882813 1650 W4 W5 W2 3.0 150.00
11 Steve Korenblat 11453651 1638 L5 L8 H--- 0.5  
12 Timothy W Barrett 12442790 1615 L6 W9 L7 1.0  
13 Dennis Geo Taylor 12458642 1611 L7 U--- U--- 0.0  

Metro Saint Louis Class Championships: Class C

# Name ID Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Tot Prize
1 Smajlagic Senad 14274063 1551 H--- L6 U--- 0.5  
2 William Thompson 12583287 1525 W5 W4 W6 3.0 200.00/Title & Trophy
3 William Le Little 12805070 1478 L6 W5 W7 2.0  
4 Don Harper 12933055 1433 W7 L2 W5 2.0  
5 Nathan Tu Phan 13278415 1425 L2 L3 L4 0.0  
6 Vladimir Del Valle 14345676 1418 W3 W1 L2 2.0  
7 Joe P Bentrup 12412082 1415 L4 B--- L3 1.0  

Metro Saint Louis Class Championships: Class D

# Name ID Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Tot Prize
1 Jason Zhou 14085162 1322 W3 L2 B--- 2.0 67.00
2 Vishal Bharadwaj 12934399 1299 W4 W1 L5 2.0 67.00/Title & Trophy
3 Roger C Schmidt 10359058 1288 L1 W5 H--- 1.5  
4 Robert A Luckey 10363853 1259 L2 B--- H--- 1.5  
5 Sean Trani 14002717 1231 B--- L3 W2 2.0 67.00

Metro Saint Louis Class Championships: Under 1200

# Name ID Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Tot Prize
1 Ken West 12544320 1171 L6 L4 B--- 1.0  
2 Jon Strand 14254101 1157 W7 W6 W8 3.0 250.00/Title & Trophy
3 Kevin Claspille 14335067 1131 L8 L7 U--- 0.0  
4 Aadit Palaniappan 12920948 1046 D9 W1 L5 1.5  
5 James W Elliott 14162255 1034 W10 L8 W4 2.0  
6 F Andrew Latuda 13162887 1014 W1 L2 W10 2.0  
7 Gr Van Valkenburg 12708488 937 L2 W3 H--- 1.5  
8 James Willi Milla 14297883 839 W3 W5 L2 2.0  
9 Adam B Eubanks 14268755 unr. D4 L10 U--- 0.5  
10 Zachary Wright 14345352 unr. L5 W9 L6 1.0