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