Southern California Chess Federation
2010-2011 State Championship Cycle
Seeded into the 2011 State Championship are 2010 champions Philip Wang and Joel Banawa, the winner of the 2010 Southern California Open (Enrico Sevillano), one player selected on the basis of rating, and four from the 2011 Candidates Tournament. 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.
Evens must have TLAs and require, or offer discounts for, SCCF membership. Send questions, comments or updates here.
Events for the 2011-2012 Cycle 2011 Events |
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| July 3-5 | Pacific Southwest Open | Andranik Matikozyan John Daniel Bryant |
| July 15-17 | Pacific Coast Open |
Melikset Khachiyan Enrico Sevillano |
| Aug. 6-7 | San Diego County Championships | Bruce Baker Peter Graves Shirin Navabi |
| Aug. 27 | SLO County Championship | Michael D'Acri Eduardo Ortiz |
| Sept 3-5 | Southern California Open | Varuzhan Akobian Ali Morshedi Shijie Chen Alan Tsoi |
| Oct. 7-9 | Los Angeles Open |
Tatev Abrahamyan Konstantin Kavutskiy Varun Krishnan |
| Nov. 24-27 | American Open | Zhanibek Amanov Larry Remlinger Harry Akopyan |
2012 Events |
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| Jan. 14-16 | Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial | Pablo Pena Alex Kretchetov |
| Feb. 18-20 | Recession Buster Open | Michael Brown Paul Agron Alexander King |
| Mar. 24-25 | SuperStates Scholastic Ch. K-12 | |
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| Date | Event | Qualifiers |
| June 19-20 | LACC Club Championship |
Fernando Sevilla David Portwood |
| July 3-5 | 50th Annual Pacific Southwest Open |
Melikset Khachiyan Joshua Gutman Christian Tanaka |
| July 16-18 | Pacific Coast Open |
Enrico Sevillano Andranik Matikozyan |
| August 14-22 | SCCF State Championship |
Jack Peters Tim Taylor Cyrus Lakdawala Michael Casella Ankit Gupta Konstantin Kavutskiy |
| August 22 | Westwood Summer Open |
Takashi Kurosaki Show Kitagami |
| August 28 | SLO County Championship |
Daniel Giordani Craig Faber |
| September 4-6 | Southern Cal Open |
Jouaquin Banawa Alexandre Kretchetov Gregg Small Vadim Kudryavtsev Varun Krishnan Michael W. Brown |
| October 15-17 | Los Angeles Open (Hillery Memorial) |
Roman Yankovsky Zhanibek Amanov Eugene Yanayt Eric Zhang Yusheng Xia Cody Oldham Albert Lu |
| November 14 | Westwood Fall Open |
Craig Clawitter John Daniel Bryant |
| November 25-28 | American Open |
Tatev Abrahamyan Lernik Manukian Alessandro Steinfl |
2011 Events |
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| February 26-27 | "Deus Ex Machina" |
Robert Akopian Willis Kim Tony Kukavica |
| March 5-6 | Kern County Open Championship III |
Indra Lahiri David Wells |
| March 12-13 | Western Class Championship | Jeff Phillips |
| March 19-20 | SCCF High School Championship | Vncent Huang |
| April 9-10 | SCCF Senior/Junior Open | Bruce Baker Alejandrino Baluran |
| April 10 | Westwood Spring Open | Simone Liao |
| April 30 | SLO Spring Open | Taylor Mccreary |
| May 28-30 | Memorial Day Classic | Julian Landaw Roger Norman |
| July 24-25 | San Diego County Open | Peter Hodges |