Chess Champs

Archive for 2010

Winners of the 2010 World Amateur Chess Championship

Friday, March 26th, 2010

Overall

1st place
Andrew Hubbard (USA) – 7.5/9
FM Title, FIDE 2200 rating, and Texas Tech Scholarship
$3,500 (includes clear first bonus of $500)

2nd – 5th place (in order of tie breaks)
Alybaev Djekshenbek (KGZ), Mohammad Shaikh (IND), Richard Huang (CAN), Jeff S. Dixon (USA) – 7/9
Alybaev Djekshenbek is awarded the rating of 2100
Mohammad Shaikh is awarded the rating of 2050
$1000 each (minus taxes for non-US)

Women

1st – 2nd place (in order of tie breaks)
Fan Yun (USA), Anu Bayar (MGL) – 6.5/9
Fan Yun wins the WFM title, FIDE 2050 rating, and  Texas Tech Scholarship
$800 each (minus taxes for non-US)

3rd – 4th place
Bianca Jeremias (POR), Denitza Dragieva (BUL) – 6/9
$400 (Jeremias), $600 (Dragieva – highest of 2 prizes qualified for)
(both minus taxes for non-US)

5th place
Regina Veronicka Kalaydina (CAN) – 5.5/9
$200 (minus taxes for non-US)
 

FIDE/USCF 1799 – 1600

1st place
Bhaskar Gupta (IND) – 6.5/9
$1000 (minus taxes for non-US)

2nd place
Chris Girardo (USA) – 6/9
$400
*Note – $600 second place prize for this rating category went to Denitza Dragieva – highest of 2 prizes qualified for)

4th place
Gee Leong (USA) – 5.5/9
$200

FIDE/USCF 1599 – 1400

1st place
Mark Spitzig (USA) – 5/9
$1000

2nd – 4th place
Otis Lewis (USA), Abe Sun (USA), Ryan Toepfer (USA) – 4/9
$334 each

**An error in the prize calculations was found in this section and now is corrected.

FIDE/USCF Under 1400

1st – 3rd place
Tony Brown (USA), Anthony Gasunas (USA), Mindren Lu (USA) – 4/9
$667 each

4th – 8th place
David Peng (USA), Adam Crutcher (USA), David Braun (USA), John Gao (USA), Akhil Kalghatgi (USA) – 3/9
$40 each

FIDE Unrated

1st place
Ariel Ofek (USA) – 7/9
$1000

2nd place
Kevin Velazquez (USA) – 6.5/9
$600

3rd – 5th place
Luis Torino Caballero (ARG), Joe Cima (USA), James Wei (USA) – 6/9
$200 each (minus taxes for non-US)