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Chess Life Online 2011 July U.S. Junior & U.S. Senior Opens Headline Houston Chess Festival
Chess Life Online 2011 July U.S. Junior & U.S. Senior Opens Headline Houston Chess Festival | U.S. Junior & U.S. Senior Opens Headline Houston Chess Festival |
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| By Franc Guadalupe | |
| July 7, 2011 | |
GM Sergey Kudrin, Photo Jennifer Shahade 2006
Among the participants in the U.S. Senior is GM Sergey Kudrin (pictured to the left, USCF Rating 2614). Local top junior player FM Warren Harper (pictured below, USCF Rating 2412) who returned recently from the U.S. Junior Closed has decided to play in the U.S. Junior Open and enters as top seed. 
Warren Harper, Photo courtesy CCSCSL
The U.S. Senior Open has 6-Day and 3-Day Schedules. It has a guaranteed prize fund of $5,000 with the overall winner taking home $1,250! This prize fund reflects an increase of $1,000 over last year’s. The top three finishers get Commemorative Clocks and six class (age) winners will receive plaques. The event is open to all players age 50 or over, and the top finisher born on or before January 1, 1951 is the official USCF entrant in the World Senior Chess Championship. The early entries have already exceeded the attendance for last year’s event. More information and on-line registration for this National Championship is available at active.com. The Not-A-Senior-Not-A-Junior Open offers a Prize Fund of 70% of entries collected. This event has four USCF rated sections: Open (also FIDE rated), U2000, U1600/Unrated, and U1200. More details and on-line registration is available at cajunchess. The deadline for the early entry fee for both the U.S. Senior and U.S. Junior has been extended until July 11th. |