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AMERICAN OPEN 2009 PRIZES

 

Open

First                                       Melikset Khachiyan                              
Second                                   Andranik Matikozyan                                      $1033 each
Third                                      Julian Landaw                                     

Fourth                                    Enrico Sevillano                                             $312 

Fifth                                       Vladimir Mezentsev                                        $312 each
Under 2450                            Tatev Abrahamyan                                          

Under 2300                            Takashi Iwamoto                                            $312 

Sixth                                      Alexandre Kretchetov                                      $61 

2nd Under 2450                      Robert Akopyan                                   
2nd Under 2300                      Garnik Baghdasaryan                            
                                              Howard Chen                                      
                                              Vadim Kudryavtsev                                        $61 each
                                              Samuel Sevian                                     
                                              Gregg Small                                         
                                              Kayden Troff                                       
                                              Eugene Yanayt                                     

 

 Under 2200         

1st Under 2200                       Jared Tan                                                         $1500 

2nd Under 2200                      Ankit Gupta                                                      $750 

3rd  Under 2200                     Craig Clawitter                                     
4th Under 2200                      Bill Pennucci                                                      $167 each
                                             Eric Zhang                                           

  

Under 2000                             

1st Under 2000                       Fei Yue Yang                                                    $1500 

2nd Under 2000                      Dante Tabing                                                     $750 

3rd Under 2000                      Arturo Ambray                                     
4th Under 2000                      Michael Encke                                      
                                             Hubert Jung                                                        $100 each
                                             Kyle Rieb                                             
                                             Chris Roberts                                         

 

Under 1800                             

1st Under 1800                       Zheng   Zhu                                                     $1500 

2nd Under 1800                     John Anderson                                     
3rd Under 1800                      Numan Abdul-Mujeeb                                         $312 each
4th Under 1800                      Shauriya Jain                                        
                                             Ernesto Soto                                         

 

Under 1600        

1st Under 1600                       Asatour Dovlatyan                                           $1200 

2nd Under 1600                      Mark Adams                                                   $425 each
3rd Under 1600                       Minas Mike Badikyan                            

4th Under 1600                       Oswaldo Olivo                                                $150 

 

Under 1400             

1st Under 1400                        Alexander Magganas                                        $1000 

2nd Under 1400                       Aryutyan Apayan                                              $500 

3rd Under 1400                       John Yu                                                            $250 

Under 1200                             Bryan Xiao                                                        $450 

2nd Under 1200                       Raymond DeTurenne                                        $225 

Unrated                                   Suresh Jhunjhnuwala                                         $150 

2nd Unrated                            Tadeh Bogosian                                                 $75 

 

SPECIAL PRIZES 

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Special prizes donated in memory of Joyce Jillson: 

Biggest rating gain by a woman: Jacquelyn DeSa
(donated to Catalina Foothills High School Chess Club (122 points)        $200
Biggest rating gain by a junior under 13: Asatour Dovlatyan 162 points)  $100

Best tactical game: Abrahamyan - Khachiyan (game 20)                        $200
Second tactical game: Kudryavtsev - Sevillano (4)                                 $100
Best tactical game by a non-Master: Bishop - Pryor (29)                        $175
Best positional game:  Sevillano - Small (18)                                          $150
Second positional game: Sevillano - Yanayt (7)                                        $75

 Special prizes donated by Dr. Harold Valery: 

Cumulative upset points Open: Randel Eng                                          $100
Cumulative upset points Under 2200: Cheston Gunawan                       $100
Cumulative upset points Under 2200: Ronald Morris                             $100
Cumulative upset points Under 1800: Agata Bykovtsev                           $75
Cumulative upset points Under 1600: Asatour Dovlatyan                         $50
Cumulative upset points Under 1400: Nicholas Chrysanthou                    $25
Cumulative upset points Under 1200: Bryan Xiao                                   $25

 

AMERICAN OPEN QUICK 

First                                                   Harutyun Akopyan                      
Second                                               Robby Adamson                                 $133 each
Third                                                  Mick Bighamian                       

Under 2200                                         Ruixin Yang                                        $50 each
                                                          Joshua Gutman                          

Under 2000                                          Willis Kim                                           $100 

Under 1800                                         Immanuel Singuillo                                $50 each
                                                          Arthur Skurskiy                           

Under 1600                                          Oswaldo Olivo                                     $100
Under 1400                                          Shawn Barker                                      $100
Unrated                                                Ruperto Dilig Jr.                                   $100

 

AMERICAN OPEN ACTION 

First                                                    Roger Norman                                     $100

Second                                                Dennis Uchimura                                 $55 each
Under 2000                                         David Baran                             

 Third                                                  Andrew Kao                            
                                                           Tony Miller                                         $10 each
                                                           Mark Sokolovsky                      

Under 1800                                          Al Pena                                                 $45
Under 1600                                          Alexander Garber                                   $45
Under 1400                                          Happy Ullman                                        $40

  

AMERICAN OPEN SCHOLASTIC 

K-12                                                   

First                                Sean Manross
2nd/3rd                           Andrew Kao, David Ma
4th/5th/6th                       Rex Xu, Botao Jiang, Willa Wang       

K-8

1st/2nd                            George Situ (trophy), Ezekiel Liu
3rd/6th                            Rahul Nair, Eric Pan, Andrew Yeh, Leo Creger 

K-6

1st                                  Kumann Liu
2nd                                 Alexander Hung
3rd/8th                            Derek Xu, Justin Chang, Andrew Negus, Victor Yen, Frances Nicklen, Aditya Sunkara, Jeffrey Zhou

K-3

1st                                  Eli Minoofar
2nd/4th                           Queena Deng, Justin Yao, Danial Asaria
5th                                  Julian Chang

 

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