Southern California Chess Federation State Championship Qualifiers
The SCCF Board voted to hold the 2013 State Championship, our invitational state championship, this summer. The dates will be announced soon by the organizer, IM Jack Peters, who has accepted responsibility for fundraising. He has set a goal of $4,000 to make the 2013 event, the 25th in the series, the best ever.
The traditional SCCF Candidates tournament will select some of the players in the state championship.
Below is a list of players who will be invited to the
Candidates Tournament, and of upcoming qualifying tournaments.
Each of the events below qualifies two players (highest scoring
southern California residents not previously qualified) except that for the following: (1) In
the event of a tie, all tied players will qualify; (2) A score of
60 percent is required to qualify; and (3) The SCCF Amateur, SCCF High
School, SCCF Senior, and any one-day event will each have one qualifying spot.
Round robin events other than the State Championship are not qualifiers.
Events must have TLAs and require, or offer discounts for, SCCF membership.
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Events for the 2012-2013 Cycle
| 2012 Events | ||
|---|---|---|
| Date | Event | Qualifiers |
| 6/30-July 1 | Pacific Southwest Open | Tatev Abrahamyan Enrico Sevillano Roman Yankovsky John Bryant |
| July 19-22 | Pacific Coast Open | Kyron Griffith Vadim Kudryavtsev |
| July 7-8 | Orange County Championship | Austin Hughes Pablo Pena Craig Faber Sergey Yurenok Kelly Zhang Dave Baran |
| July. 14-29 | SCCF State Championship | Timothy Taylor Jack Peters Varun Krishnan Alexander Kretchetov Craig Clawitter Jeremy Stein Harut Akopyan Eugene Yanayt |
| Aug. 4-5 | San Diego County Championships | Ron Bruno Bruce Baker Martin Nilsson |
| Nov. 17 | SLO County Championship | Eduardo Ortiz Solomon Ruddell |
| Sept. 1-3 | Southern California Open | Zhanibek Amanov Romeo Ignacio Vanessa West Nick Nita |
| Oct. 5-7 | Los Angeles Open | Andranik Matikozyan Shijie Chen |
| Nov. 22-25 | American Open | Melikset Khachiyan Julian Landaw |
| 2013 Events | ||
| Jan. 11-13 | Century West Open | Larry Remlinger Ed Cohen |
| Feb. 16-18 | Recession Buster Open | Dionisio Aldama Michael Brown |
| Mar. 2-3 | State High School Championship | Feiyue Yang Joshua Sheng |
| Mar. 8-10 | Western Class Championships | Michael Casella Brandon Ashe |
| April 26-28 | Western Pacific Open | Philip Wang Joshua Gutman Craig Hilby Ashok Ramadoss |
| May 25-27 | Memorial Day Classic | |