2007 North American Tournament Results

North American Open 2007
December 26-29, 2007
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Organized by the Continental Chess Association

Over 600 players participated in the North American Open at Bally's Hotel/Casino in Las Vegas. Final standings for all sections are now posted as well as a pgn file of 60 games played in the Open Section at www.chesstournamentservices.com/nao. You can also find some games from this event at Monroi

Hawaii had several players; playing they were: Open Section, Robert Lau, Cornelius Rubsamen, Paul Iinuma, U2100 Pablo D Pena, Ruben Ondangan Jr., U1900: Chet Gionson, U1700 Sean K Lee, Guy P. Ontai, Garyk P Ontai, Beau Mueller, U1500: Tristan Kaonohi, Likeke Aipa, U1200: Irving Weber, you can see their results in the link above! Congrats to all of them as they played some very strong players from across the country and various countries and we hope to see more of them as well as myself playing in our local tournaments as well!

Five of the players are scholastic players, Robert played in the Open section Sean & Garyk in the u1700 and Tristan and Likeke played in the U1500, all of them had their USCF ratings improved with their results as well as CXR ratings for some of them! Chet Gionson came in tied for 4th in the U1900 section, and Tristan Kaonohi came in tied for 2nd in the U1500 section, only lost was to the U1500 winner!

Reminder Hawaii's next scholastic chess tournament is January 21, at Washington Middle school, see www.hawaiichess.org for tournament details and entry form.

To see one of Cornelius Rubsamen, 2257 games see Monroi link against GM Melikset Khachiyan, 2594.

As of 12/31/2007

* Refer to HICL Standings Roster

CXR Top 100 Active Players

Rank	CXR Rating	Player Name	Affiliate	City	St/Prv	Player ID
1	2680	GM Joel Benjamin	New York Masters	New York	NY	38-V
2	2666	GM Larry Christiansen	U. S. Chess League	USA	NY	19-K
3	2628	GM Sergey Kudrin	U. S. Chess League	USA	NY	7415-R
4	2592	GM Eugene Perelshteyn	U. S. Chess League	USA	NY	3009-F
5	2585	Yury Lapshun	New York Masters	New York	NY	50-G
6	2569	GM Pawel Blehm	U. S. Chess League	USA	NY	6250-E
7	2546	GM Alex Stripunsky	U. S. Chess League	USA	NY	37-C
8	2524	IM Davorin Kuljasevic	U. S. Chess League	USA	NY	6240-K
9	2499	IM Irina Krush	New York Masters	New York	NY	35-V
10	2497	IM Eli Vovsha	New York Masters	New York	NY	174-B
11	2485	IM Drasko Boskovic	U. S. Chess League	USA	NY	7403-B
12	2449	IM Lev Milman	U. S. Chess League	USA	NY	181-E
13	2448	FM Tegshsuren Enkhbat	U. S. Chess League	USA	NY	3011-T
14	2441	NM Denys Shmelov	U. S. Chess League	USA	NY	7426-J
15	2425	FM Oleg Zaikov	U. S. Chess League	USA	NY	6237-R
16	2392	Jonathan Schroer	U. S. Chess League	USA	NY	3043-Y
17	2386	FM Aviv Friedman	U. S. Chess League	USA	NY	7597-H
18	2363	IM Richard Costigan	U. S. Chess League	USA	NY	3022-N
19	2359	Robert Hess	U. S. Chess League	USA	NY	1007-J
20	2350	Andrei Zaremba	U. S. Chess League	USA	NY	1086-M
21	2336	IM Lawrence Charles Kaufman	U. S. Chess League	USA	NY	3033-F
22	2321	Bryan Smith	U. S. Chess League	USA	NY	99803-N
23	2312	IM Ron Burnett	U. S. Chess League	USA	NY	77-J
24	2307	FM Marcel Martinez	U. S. Chess League	USA	NY	3010-W
25	2301	FM James Critelli	U. S. Chess League	USA	NY	7406-T
26	2295	NM Elvin Wilson	U. S. Chess League	USA	NY	3023-Q
27	2288	FM Todd Andrews	U. S. Chess League	USA	NY	6232-R
28	2269	Eric Rodriguez	U. S. Chess League	USA	NY	7420-Y
29	2260	NM Mackenzie Molner	U. S. Chess League	USA	NY	1022-B
30	2226	WIM Tsaagan Batsettseg	U. S. Chess League	USA	NY	3014-R
31	2225	NM Michael Khodarkovsky	U. S. Chess League	USA	NY	7414-Y
32	2195	WFM Bayaraa Zorigt	U. S. Chess League	USA	NY	7435-Y
33	2186	Aleksander Stamnov	Renaissance Knights	Chicago	IL	7591-C
34	2169	Luis Barredo	U. S. Chess League	USA	NY	6252-A
35	2157	Udayan Bapat	U. S. Chess League	USA	NY	7400-M
36	2132	Isaac Hagerling	Renaissance Knights	Chicago	IL	7636-B
37	2128	WFM Irina Zenyuk	New York Masters	New York	NY	163-B
38	2119	NM Ilya Krasik	U. S. Chess League	USA	NY	3007-Y
39	2101	NM Jerry Wheeler	U. S. Chess League	USA	NY	6236-T
40	2090	Gerald Larson	U. S. Chess League	USA	NY	6515-W
41	2085	Michael Thaler	New York Masters	New York	NY	99804-R
42	1898	Samuel Ford	Renaissance Knights	Chicago	IL	7637-C
43	1736	Charles Sonido *HICL 2nd	Oahu Scholastic Chess Group	Oahu	HI	1537-V
44	1735	Isaiah Pettye	Renaissance Knights	Chicago	IL	7589-C
45	1731	M-Barrie Richmond-Md	Renaissance Knights	Chicago	IL	7655-K
46	1707	John Iinuma *HICL 1st	Oahu Scholastic Chess Group	Oahu	HI	1150-F
47	1690	Tyler Lerner	Renaissance Knights	Chicago	IL	7508-H
48	1674	Jiri Kabelac	Renaissance Knights	Chicago	IL	7454-W
49	1661	James Demos	Renaissance Knights	Chicago	IL	7498-H
50	1648	Dimitrios Kosteris	Renaissance Knights	Chicago	IL	7638-K
51	1592	Frank Alejandro	Windward Chess and Go Club	Kaneohe	HI	1501-J
52	1592	Thomas Wu	Renaissance Knights	Chicago	IL	7516-N
53	1584	Benny Rivera	Renaissance Knights	Chicago	IL	7512-Q
54	1512	Anthony Martorana	Renaissance Knights	Chicago	IL	7794-H
55	1504	Tristan Kaonohi *HICL 10th	Oahu Scholastic Chess Group	Oahu	HI	1556-X
56	1490	Stephen Mau *HICL 6th	Oahu Scholastic Chess Group	Oahu	HI	6249-T
57	1466	Kyle Pratt	Simcoe County Chess Club	Simcoe County	ON	6197-M
58	1466	Zachary Holecek	Renaissance Knights	Chicago	IL	7504-T
59	1460	Tony Christian	Renaissance Knights	Chicago	IL	7639-F
60	1451	Kenton Steffens	Renaissance Knights	Chicago	IL	7656-Y
61	1433	Likeke Aipa *HICL 7th	Oahu Scholastic Chess Group	Oahu	HI	3708-Y
62	1427	Gage Miyagi	Renaissance Knights	Chicago	IL	7657-T
63	1426	Alex Bian	Renaissance Knights	Chicago	IL	7497-C
64	1419	Richard Wagner	Renaissance Knights	Chicago	IL	7795-A
65	1409	Marissa Wai *HICL 3rd	Oahu Scholastic Chess Group	Oahu	HI	81599-M
66	1387	Aaron Bright	Oahu Scholastic Chess Group	Oahu	HI	3612-R
67	1385	Brian Obrien	Renaissance Knights	Chicago	IL	7796-P
68	1385	M Pergeorelis	Delaware Catholic Schools	New Castle	DE	6873-Q
69	1372	Michael Osborne	Simcoe County Chess Club	Simcoe County	ON	7634-C
70	1356	Eldon Nakagawa *HICL 4th	Oahu Scholastic Chess Group	Oahu	HI	7140-N
71	1351	Daniel Parmet	Renaissance Knights	Chicago	IL	7640-A
72	1338	Jack Hanson	Renaissance Knights	Chicago	IL	7502-F
73	1332	Bradley Guan	Renaissance Knights	Chicago	IL	7501-B
74	1320	Louis Shekhtman	Renaissance Knights	Chicago	IL	7798-F
75	1316	Victoria Bian	Renaissance Knights	Chicago	IL	7660-M
76	1316	Eric Parfenoff	Renaissance Knights	Chicago	IL	7658-R
77	1311	Adele Padgett	Renaissance Knights	Chicago	IL	7797-X
78	1302	Kane Yi *HICL 28th	Oahu Scholastic Chess Group	Oahu	HI	3672-G
79	1300	Raimondo Brown	Renaissance Knights	Chicago	IL	7659-G
80	1300	Andrew Shao	Renaissance Knights	Chicago	IL	7513-A
81	1298	Mark Spitzig	Renaissance Knights	Chicago	IL	7641-W
82	1282	Robby Hecht	Renaissance Knights	Chicago	IL	7609-H
83	1271	Danny Ginzburg	Renaissance Knights	Chicago	IL	7799-Q
84	1269	Alfred Burton	Renaissance Knights	Chicago	IL	7642-E
85	1267	Kurt Achiu *HICL 8th	Oahu Scholastic Chess Group	Oahu	HI	3653-D
86	1260	Roy Yang *HICL 22nd	Oahu Scholastic Chess Group	Oahu	HI	82004-G
87	1244	Jazz Evangilista *HICL 17th	Oahu Scholastic Chess Group	Oahu	HI	7572-J
88	1237	Jonathan Pan	Renaissance Knights	Chicago	IL	7661-R
89	1231	Evan Handler	Renaissance Knights	Chicago	IL	7800-C
90	1224	Ryan Hara *HICL 21st	Assets School Chess Team	Honolulu	HI	1550-V
91	1223	Ethan T	Ellenboro Tigers Chess Club	Ellenboro	NC	81436-N
92	1219	Nathan Nakamoto *HICL 38th	Oahu Scholastic Chess Group	Oahu	HI	3673-W
93	1214	Irving Weber	Windward Chess and Go Club	Kaneohe	HI	3645-K
94	1214	Brandon Lung	Renaissance Knights	Chicago	IL	7610-H
95	1214	Kevin Durkin *HICL 14th	Assets School Chess Team	Honolulu	HI	7459-G
96	1212	Connor Lawhorn *HICL 33rd	Oahu Scholastic Chess Group	Oahu	HI	3608-E
97	1198	Nedim Bajramovic	Renaissance Knights	Chicago	IL	7447-R
98	1194	Ashbea Oyadamari *HICL 20th	Oahu Scholastic Chess Group	Oahu	HI	3606-B
99	1184	Thaddeus Padua *HICL 18th	Oahu Scholastic Chess Group	Oahu	HI	81755-T
100	1183	Taro Kobayashi *HICL 31st	Oahu Scholastic Chess Group	Oahu	HI	3671-J