People’s Tournament
One of the few bay area
traditional tournaments is the
People’s Tournament. It has
been going on annually since
the 1970s.
This year’s tournament took
place July 25th-27th at the
Santa Clara Convention
Center. 177 players
participated in the six round
event.
In the Open section for
players rated 2000 and above,
National Master Faik
Aleskerov took clear first place
with 5 points. Four
International Masters tied for
Second. They are Darwin
Yang, Andrey Gorovets, John
Bryant and Vladimi
Mezentsev. Winning the
under 2300 prize was
National Master Michael
Aigner. Seven players tied for
2nd place under 2300. They
are Allan Beilin, Jack Qijie
Zhu, Rayan Taghizadeh,
Pranav Nagarajan, Julian Lin,
Paul Richter and Art Zhao.
Josiah Stearman won the
U2100 prize with Hunter
Klotz-Burwell and Vikram
Ganesh tied for 2nd under
2100.
Yuan Wang won the A Section
for players under 2000. Tied
for second in the A section
were Hovik Manvelyan, Rahul
Desirazu, Yuri Granik, Ivan
Ke and Srinath Goli.
People’s
Tournament
Open
NM Faik Aleskerov
IM Darwin Yang
IM Andrey Gorovets
IM John Bryant
IM Vladimi Mezentsev
U2300 NM Michael Aigner
U2100 Josiah Stearman
2nd U2300 NM Allan Beilin
NM Jack Qijie Zhu
NM Rayan Taghizadeh
Pranav Nagarajan
Julian Lin
Paul Richter
Art Zhao
2nd U2100 Hunter Klotz-Burwell
Vikram Ganesh
1
2-4
1
2-5
1
2-5
A
Yuan Wang
Hovik Manvelyan
Rahul Desirazu
Yuri Granik
Ivan Ke
Srinath Goli
B
Seaver Dahlgren
Stephen Ho
Jonathan Xu
Brandon Ho
Amir Dhami
Kevin Pan
5
4.5
4
3.5
3.5
5
4.5
5.5
4
177 Players competed at the People’s Tournament. Photo by Richard Shorman
Page 15
CalChess Journal
Summer 2014