2010 Tucson Open is complete

The 2010 Tucson Open was this past weekend at the Holiday Inn - Palo Verde. We had 178 participants in the Open, Reserve (U1800), Booster (U1400), Saturday and Sunday scholastics sections. The event as already been rated.

Top Prizes:

Open Section
1-2. Levon Altounian and Jason Mueller [4.5 - .5]
3-4. Joseph Kruml and John Gurczak [4 - 1]

Reserve (U1800)
1. Nate Cromer [5 - 0]
2. Tony Yim [4.5 - .5]

Booster (U1400)
1. Jared Huggins [5- 0]
2. Alan Valenzuela [4 - 1]

Saturday scholastics
1. Jose Castillo [4 - 0]
2. Denham Carlisle [4 - 0]
3. Henry Wang [4 - 0]
4. Garrison Smith [4 - 0]

Sunday scholastics
1. Stephanie Burchard [4 - 0]
2. Jose Castillo [4 - 0]

A complete prize list is available on the SACA website.

Also, Steve Farmer has a video analysis (and tournament recap) of a Round 5 game between Bryan Hu and Jason Mueller.

The tournament was organized and run by Karen Pennock. Thank you to all who made this a wonderful event!!

NY Times article regarding chess in Tucson

Enjoy this article found in the NY Times about woman playing chess in Tucson:


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/25/us/25ladychess.html?_r=2&emc=tnt&tntemail0=y