The 2015 WA Open Championship was played from 11th of April to the 9th of May at North Woodvale Primary School. The start of round 1 of the 2015 Closed and Reserves Chess Championships was delayed for 15 minutes to enable the redraw of both tournaments due to 2 players from the Reserves electing to play in the Closed Championship. In previous years when Open and Closed Championships were played in alternate years, the practice of co-opting players from the Reserves was a common occurrence to bolster the numbers of players in the Closed. In those years we did not have the number of high rated players we have now. Unfortuneately at least 16 players eligible to play in the Closed were unavailable and the tournament was lucky to have two players come out of the Reserves to make the tournament an eight player round robin. That left us with 13 players in the Reserves to play a 7 round Swiss. One player who indicated he wished to play did not bother to turn up for round 1. That gave us an even number of competitors for the remaining 6 rounds. Norbert Muller DOP |
2015 WA Champion: Yita Choong 7.0/7 Runner up: Ihsan Ferozkohi 5.0/7 3rd: Marc Vlietstra 4.5/7 Reserves Champion & Women's Champion: Kathryn Hardegen 5.5/7 Equal 2nd: Natalie Maris & Andrew Hardegen 5.0/7 Equal 2nd and Junior prizewinners: Sri Krishna Dharmapuri & Ignatius Yap 5.0/7 Seniors Champion: Gordon Dunlop (Gordon Dunlop won a 3 way playoff against Robin Shaw & Akef Saleh) |
Place Name Feder Rtg Loc Score Berg. Wins 1 Choong, Yita WA 2270 7 21.00 7 2 Ferozkohi, Ihsan WA 2222 5 14.00 5 3 Vlietstra, Marc WA 2041 4.5 10.25 4 4-6 Saleh, Akef WA 1913 2.5 7.00 1 Maris, Robert WA 2004 2.5 5.50 1 Shaw, Robin A WA 1808 2.5 5.25 2 7-8 Tomic, Nedeljko WA 1887 2 7.50 2 Carolin-Unkovich, George WA 1956 2 4.50 1 |
No | Name | Feder | Rtg | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | #7 | #8 |
1. | Maris, Robert | WA |   | * | L | L | D | L | D | W | D |
2. | Choong, Yita | WA |   | W | * | W | W | W | W | W | W |
3. | Vlietstra, Marc | WA |   | W | L | * | W | L | D | W | W |
4. | Carolin-Unkovich, George | WA |   | D | L | L | * | L | D | W | L |
5. | Ferozkohi, Ihsan | WA |   | W | L | W | W | * | W | L | W |
6. | Saleh, Akef | WA |   | D | L | D | D | L | * | L | W |
7. | Tomic, Nedeljko | WA |   | L | L | L | L | W | W | * | L |
8. | Shaw, Robin A | WA |   | D | L | L | W | L | L | W | * |
Place Name Feder Loc Score M-Buch. Buch. Progr. 1 Hardegen, Kathryn WA 1795 5.5 22.0 28.5 25.0 2-5 Maris, Natalie WA 1823 5 23.0 29.0 21.5 Hardegen, Andrew WA 1945 5 20.0 26.0 20.0 Dharmapuri, Sri Krishna Kousel WA 1397 5 18.5 25.0 17.0 Yap, Ignatius WA 1697 5 16.5 23.0 22.0 6-7 Dunlop, Gordon WA 1821 4 19.5 26.0 19.0 Elkington, Derek WA 1882 4 16.0 22.0 16.0 8 Maris, Fred WA 1519 3 16.0 22.0 8.0 9 Apostol, Marlon WA 1365 2 16.0 22.0 9.0 10-12 Dharmapuri, Kundan WA 469 1.5 18.0 24.5 9.0 Kruger, Ruben WA 1167 1.5 18.0 24.5 6.0 Gale, Brian WA 1525 1.5 16.5 22.5 2.5 13 Filose, Anthony WA 1200 0 5.0 5.0 0.0 |
No Name Feder Rtg 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1. Hardegen, Andrew WA 7:W 4:L 13:W 9:W 5:D 6:W 3:D 2. Elkington, Derek WA 8:W 5:L 10:W 3:L 12:W 9:- 13:W 3. Maris, Natalie WA 9:W 13:W 6:L 2:W 4:W 5:D 1:D 4. Dunlop, Gordon WA 10:W 1:W 5:L 12:W 3:L 8:W 9:L 5. Hardegen, Kathryn WA 11:+ 2:W 4:W 6:W 1:D 3:D 7:D 6. Yap, Ignatius WA 12:W 8:W 3:W 5:L 7:W 1:L 10:W 7. Gale, Brian WA 1:L 10:L 12:L 8:L 6:L 13:W 5:D 8. Maris, Fred WA 2:L 6:L 9:L 7:W 13:W 4:L 12:W 9. Dharmapuri, Sri Krishna Kousel WA 3:L 12:W 8:W 1:L 10:W 2:+ 4:W 10. Apostol, Marlon WA 4:L 7:W 2:L 13:D 9:L 12:D 6:L 11. Filose, Anthony WA 5:- : : : : : : 12. Kruger, Ruben WA 6:L 9:L 7:W 4:L 2:L 10:D 8:L 13. Dharmapuri, Kundan WA :W 3:L 1:L 10:D 8:L 7:L 2:L |