The 2019 Willetton Open was played on the weekend of August 17/18 at Leeming Primary with 16 entrants. Winner was Kuan Han Sen with a perfect score of 6/6. Equal second with 4/6 were Ben Dagza, Andador Diminador and Jamie Laubbacher who gained the Under 1700 first place. Equal second in the Under 1700 group were Marco Gunawan and Dylan Gough. Barath Harirajesh, aged nine, received an encouragement prize for his first entry into senior chess and for making two very experienced players struggle to beat him. Report kindly provided by David Ellis. |
Pos NAME Rtg T Fed Pts | 1 2 3 4 5 6 | Buc1 BucT --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 Kuan,Han Sen 1912 WA 6.0 | +B12 +W9 +B4 +W5 +B3 +B2 | 18.5 20.5 2 Laubbacher,Jamie 1200 WA 4.0 | +W14 -B5 +W10 +B7 +B4 -W1 | 19.5 21.5 3 Dagza,Ben 1819 WA 4.0 | +W6 +B10 -W5 +B8 -W1 +B11 | 19.0 21.5 4 Andador,Dominador 1988 WA 4.0 | +W13 +B7 -W1 +B15 -W2 +B6 | 19.0 20.5 5 Gong,Patrick 2405 FM WA 3.5 | =BYE +W2 +B3 -B1 -W6 +W10 | 20.5 23.0 6 Gunawan,Marco 1476 WA 3.5 | -B3 +W16 +B9 =BYE +B5 -W4 | 18.0 18.5 7 Leong,Voon Choon 1788 OS 3.5 | +B11 -W4 +B15 -W2 +B13 =W8 | 16.0 17.5 8 Gough,Dylan 1384 WA 3.5 | -B9 +W12 +B11 -W3 +W15 =B7 | 15.0 16.5 9 McAteer,Ian 1741 WA 3.0 | +W8 -B1 -W6 -B13 +W12 +B15 | 17.0 18.5 10 Gao,Oscar 1519 WA 2.5 | +W16 -W3 -B2 +W12 =B11 -B5 | 16.0 16.5 11 Dharmapuri,Kundan 1475 WA 2.5 | -W7 +B13 -W8 +B14 =W10 -W3 | 15.5 17.5 12 Leong,Yung Fu 1500 WA 2.0 | -W1 -B8 +W14 -B10 -B9 +W16 | 17.0 17.5 13 Donaldson,Gary 1510 WA 2.0 | -B4 -W11 +B16 +W9 -W7 -B14 | 15.0 15.5 14 Sheridan,Wallace 1541 WA 2.0 | -B2 -W15 -B12 -W11 +B16 +W13 | 12.0 12.5 15 Deheer,Alex 1767 WA 1.5 | =BYE +B14 -W7 -W4 -B8 -W9 | 17.0 19.0 16 Harirajesh,Barath 1000 WA 0.5 | -B10 -B6 -W13 =BYE -W14 -B12 | 12.0 13.5 |