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Chess Life Online 2010 February Beasts From the Southeast Take Amateur Team South
Chess Life Online 2010 February Beasts From the Southeast Take Amateur Team South | Beasts From the Southeast Take Amateur Team South |
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| By Harvey Lerman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| February 15, 2010 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Beasts from the Southeast, The winning team with the "Ugly Rook" trophy
After the US Amateur Team South championship team, Beasts from the Southeast, beat the top rated team in round 4 with a 3-1 score board two Toby Boas raised his fist high in the air and exclaimed "All the way! No tiebreaks!" He was remembering 2009 when this team had lost out to the Miami team on tiebreaks. The fired up, Beasts went on to win their last round match 4-0 and stood alone at 4½ to become USATS Champions. They had drawn against the Larry Storch team in the 3rd round, their only blemish in their score. OPEN Beasts from the Southeast (2174.0) Jeffrey Haskel (2290) Bd: 1 Toby Boas (2230) Bd: 2 Dalton Perrine (2132) Bd: 3 Adam Miller (2044) Bd: 4 The captain of the team that won last year, Gil Luna, drove from Miami to Orlando with his wife to celebrate Valentines' Weekend and to deliver the rotating "Ugly Rook" trophy, which is the responsibility of each year's winner of USATS. It contains the history of winners of this event since it was restarted in Gainesville, Florida about 10 years ago. Gil brought his wife to make sure that things would be different this year, as last year when he brought the Miami team with him, he had to name that team "My Girl is Pissed!". The team won that event and later the National Championship Playoff, but things might not have been so happy at home. This time Gil could not round up a team to defend the title as he and other top Miami players had other committments. But it was nice to see Gil again and he looked radiant as he introduced his lovely wife to everyone. The Scholastic Section included 18 children from the Virgin Islands (VI) who had decided to come to Orlando on their big trip this year to play in the USATS event and to visit Disney World and Epcot. They formed 4 teams and offered their two alternate players to another team who ended up short two players when they got sick and had to have their parents turn back and drive home. Mark Ritter and Tania Kranich Ritter entered three teams from their Ritter Champions chess school and it was a tough fight between them and the VI teams, with one of each group's teams tieing for 1st at 4-1. As the VI team had beaten the Ritter team and were undefeated (2 drawn matches against the other two Ritter teams) they had hoped to win the tiebreaks, but their 1st round win over a team that finished with just a 0.5 score did them in and Chess Champions 1 won on tiebreaks. SCHOLASTIC Chess Champions 1 (1108.3) Keerthivasan Vengatesan (1234) Bd: 1 Jordan Hart (1182) 2.5 Bd: 2 Abhishek Taiwade (1158) Bd: 3 Rohit Iyer (859) Bd: 4 
The champs in the Scholastic section
Team Roster and Scores. US Amateur Team South: Open
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Name |
Score |
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CHESS1 |
Chess Champions 1 (1108.3) - Cnt: 4 W4 W5 W3 L2 W6 |
4.0 |
43.5 |
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2 |
ROKCTY |
Rock City Gambit (1071.8) - Cnt: 4 W12 D6 W5 W1 D3 |
4.0 |
33 |
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3 |
RITTER |
Ritter's Winners (1194.3) - Cnt: 4 W10 W8 L1 W6 D2 |
3.5 |
37.5 |
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4 |
VICAST |
V. I. Castles (811.0) - Cnt: 4 L1 D9 W11 W8 W7 |
3.5 |
22 |
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5 |
CHUNG |
CHUNG (882.8) - Cnt: 4 W9 L1 L2 W10 W8 |
3.0 |
28 |
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6 |
CHESS2 |
Chess Champions 2 (888.0) - Cnt: 4 W7 D2 W10 L3 L1 |
2.5 |
28.5 |
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7 |
HURRIC |
Hurricane Knights (491.0) - Cnt: 4 L6 W12 L8 W9 L4 |
2.0 |
15.5 |
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8 |
PAWNS |
Pawn Stars (630.7) - Cnt: 4 W11 L3 W7 L4 L5 |
2.0 |
14.5 |
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9 |
STBAR1 |
STBAR1 (478.3) - Cnt: 4 L5 D4 W12 L7 D11 |
2.0 |
12.5 |
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10 |
TROPIC |
Tropical Storms (827.5) - Cnt: 4 L3 W11 L6 L5 W12 |
2.0 |
11.5 |
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11 |
STBARN |
SAINT BARNABAS (376.3) - Cnt: 4 L8 L10 L4 D12 D9 |
1.0 |
7 |
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12 |
KNIGHT |
Knight Invaders (661.3) - Cnt: 4 L2 L7 L9 D11 L10 |
0.5 |
5 |
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13 |
OUT |
OUT (0.0) - Cnt: 2 U-- U-- U-- U-- U-- |
0.0 |
0 |
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14 |
RYAN |
RYAN (100.0) - Cnt: 1 U-- U-- U-- U-- U-- |
0.0 |
0 |
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15 |
VI |
Virgin Island Alternate (0.0) - Cnt: 1 U-- U-- U-- U-- U-- |
0.0 |
0 |
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