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Collyer Memorial
 

     The Dave Collyer Memorial, sponsored by the Spokane Chess Club and the Gary Younker Foundation, is the Spokane area's premiere chess tournament.  Gary Younker started the tournament in honor of longtime chess organizer (and strong player) Dave Collyer who passed away at a young age.  Gary Younker himself died way too young.  Friends of both men began the Gary Younker Foundation, dedicated to promoting chess in the Inland Empire Region of the Northwest, with a special emphasis on youth chess.  The Collyer Memorial is now held each year in memory of both of these outstanding men.

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2009

 

 

Collyer, Sinanan Win 17th Collyer Memorial

     National Masters Curt Collyer and Josh Sinanan won the 17th Dave Collyer Memorial, topping the 63 player field with a score of 4.5.  NM Nat Koons, Daniel Gay, Peter Watts, and Michael Cambareri tied for third (and won the A and B prizes) with scores of 4.0.  Gay, a 1995 rated teenager from the Portland suburb of Tigard, held IM John Donaldson to a draw in Saturday night's third round action.  That left the 3 NMs in the lead heading into Sunday morning.  Koons and Sinanan played a wild game that ended in a draw.  Collyer had the white pieces against Donaldson and they battled late into the time control before Collyer set a mating net that won the point.

    The fifth round saw Collyer and Koons battle until a single rook pawn was left on the board, leading to a half point for each.  Sinanan topped Steve Merwin to join Collyer at the top of the standings.

    There were plenty of prize winners.  Merwin and Paul Schuey, who returned to competitive chess after a five year absence, shared the $100 Expert Prize.  Gay and Watts shared the Class A prizes.  Cambareri was tops in Class B, while second place ($75) went to Nathan Armstrong of Southaven, Mississippi.  Nathan was in the area and dropped in to play.  Travis Elisara and Henry Pallares shared the Class C prizes.  First place in the D and under section went to unrated Odysseus Rodriguez of Yakima, an unrated player trying his first over the board competition.  The second prize was split by Mike Clark, another unrated player from Yakima, and WSU student Aaron Nicoski, a native of Vancouver, Washington. 

    The biggest upset prize ($100) went to Pat Kirlin, and the second biggest upset ($50) was won by Ron Weyland.  In all, $1600 in prize money was awarded again this year.

     Nearly every round saw multiple games go to the wire.  Saturday night's third round saw six games playing right to the end of the time control, and most of the other rounds similarly had several games running to the maximum time.  There were few easy draws; the fighting spirit of the event continued to the end of the last round, with much of the field still present when the tourney finally finished.

        There field of 63 was  the second largest Collyer tourney ever.  The cross table can be seen on our Collyer Memorial link at left.

        Festivities kicked off with the tenth Friday night Simul & Lecture from International Master John Donaldson at River Park Square.  The lecture discussed the recent Bronze medal performance of the U.S. chess olympiad men's team that was captained by John.  He shared some stories of what the event was really like and then analyzed the final game of the Kamsky-Topalov match.  In the ensuing simul, 19 challenged the IM, with two (John Julian and Cameron Leslie) emerging victorious, and Dr. Ward Chow achieving a draw!  Way to go!  This was the best showing against the IM in quite awhile

.    (JC Mies, left, ponders move at simul)

     Below: John Donaldson in action at the the simul.

     

 

2009 Collyer Action

Round 1 (photo by Adam Attwood)

The first round pairings presented a special surprise when the computer (unassisted by any humans) paired Curt Collyer, son of Dave, and Jeremy Younker, son of tournament founder Gary Younker, together on board 3 (photo below).  The pairing was reminiscent of many when the two were youths growing up in Spokane and ended in a victory for the NM.

Photo courtesy of Randy Countryman.

 

SwissSys Standings. 2009 Collyer

 
# Name ID Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot Prize
1 Curt Collyer 12517518 2241 W32 W5 W29 W20 D3 4.5  
2 Josh Sinanan 12826891 2227 W47 W14 W7 D3 W8 4.5  
3 Nat Koons 12602749 2284 W41 W33 W6 D2 D1 4.0  
4 Daniel Gay 12832272 1995 W38 W23 D20 D13 W22 4.0  
5 Michael Cambareri 12707145 1762 W56 L1 W38 W18 W31 4.0  
6 Peter Watts 12938931 1936 W57 W48 L3 W14 W16 4.0  
7 Mark Havrilla 12553313 1893 W24 W21 L2 W46 D13 3.5  
8 Steve Merwin 12087700 2023 W25 D26 W30 W31 L2 3.5  
9 Paul T Shuey 10450373 2045 W51 W18 D10 D22 D11 3.5  
10 Dave Rowles 12480615 1841 W53 W15 D9 L11 W35 3.5  
11 Chris Kalina 12616431 1945 D40 D55 W34 W10 D9 3.5  
12 Nathan Armstrong 12486215 1709 L15 W45 W55 D17 W29 3.5  
13 Dan Mathews 12806101 1841 W50 W39 H--- D4 D7 3.5  
14 Martin Schmidt 12861095 1740 W45 L2 W24 L6 W47 3.0  
15 Odysseus Rodriguez 14102516 unr. W12 L10 W48 D19 D27 3.0  
16 Zach Countryman 12904287 1833 L21 W52 W32 W23 L6 3.0  
17 John Walton 13202540 1747 D30 D40 W39 D12 D26 3.0  
18 Doug Hansen 12142710 1725 W62 L9 W21 L5 W38 3.0  
19 Steve Fabian 12417101 1760 L39 W53 W25 D15 D28 3.0  
20 John Donaldson 10270294 2426 W58 W28 D4 L1 H--- 3.0  
21 Travis Elisara 12838612 1536 W16 L7 L18 W58 W41 3.0  
22 Cyrus Desmarais 13388556 1903 W37 W34 H--- D9 L4 3.0  
23 Ed McLaughlin 10188270 1720 W49 L4 W50 L16 W40 3.0  
24 Henry Pallares 12879682 1563 L7 W44 L14 W55 W48 3.0  
25 Cameron Leslie 12786510 1634 L8 W49 L19 W60 W46 3.0  
26 James Stripes 12677638 1728 W63 D8 H--- D29 D17 3.0  
27 B Gordon Higbie 12527490 1701 W59 L31 H--- W30 D15 3.0  
28 Niles Desmarais 13388598 1766 W61 L20 H--- W43 D19 3.0  
29 Phil Weyland 12653584 1864 W42 W60 L1 D26 L12 2.5  
30 Aaron Nicoski 12797931 1369 D17 W35 L8 L27 W50 2.5  
31 Elston Cloy 12802247 1961 W52 W27 H--- L8 L5 2.5  
32 Jeremy Younker 12519554 1658 L1 W57 L16 W56 D33 2.5  
33 Romie Carpenter 12280430 1800 W43 L3 H--- D40 D32 2.5  
34 Rob Martin 12497030 1695 W44 L22 L11 W61 H--- 2.5  
35 Michael Hosford 12557020 1884 H--- L30 W60 W51 L10 2.5  
36 Mike Clark 12541615 unr. L48 L42 D57 W52 W51 2.5  
37 Ryan Ackerman 13432771 1588 L22 D59 L43 W57 X53 2.5  
38 James McAleer 12442009 1631 L4 W62 L5 W44 L18 2.0  
39 Ron Weyland 12657609 1444 W19 L13 L17 L41 W61 2.0  
40 Chris Copeland 12758356 1619 D11 D17 H--- D33 L23 2.0  
41 Dan McCourt 12400272 1703 L3 L50 W63 W39 L21 2.0  
42 Richard Schumaker 13479524 1552 L29 W36 L46 D48 D43 2.0  
43 James Hamlet 12374510 1534 L33 D58 W37 L28 D42 2.0  
44 Abhinaya Subedi 14146695 unr. L34 L24 W45 L38 W58 2.0  
45 Ted Baker 12936996 1363 L14 L12 L44 W62 W56 2.0  
46 Alex Chow 12910167 1739 U--- W56 W42 L7 L25 2.0  
47 Dave Griffin 12469398 1640 L2 H--- D61 W59 L14 2.0  
48 Steve Buck 10428700 1700 W36 L6 L15 D42 L24 1.5  
49 Peter Schumaker 13479518 910 L23 L25 L53 D54 W55 1.5  
50 Pat Kirlin 12631768 1301 L13 W41 L23 H--- L30 1.5  
51 Steve Brendemihl 12518340 1658 L9 W63 H--- L35 L36 1.5  
52 William McBroom 12179140 1542 L31 L16 H--- L36 W60 1.5  
53 Karl Schmitz 12791440 1540 L10 L19 W49 H--- F37 1.5  
54 Ward Chow 13459322 1466 U--- U--- U--- D49 W59 1.5  
55 King Liao 13975728 1210 H--- D11 L12 L24 L49 1.0  
56 Tim Kennedy 12901159 1455 L5 L46 W62 L32 L45 1.0  
57 Murray Strong 12517228 1406 L6 L32 D36 L37 D62 1.0  
58 Adam Attwood 12788883 1756 L20 D43 D59 L21 L44 1.0  
59 Jesse Clark 14154647 unr. L27 D37 D58 L47 L54 1.0  
60 Jim Burney 12618452 1189 B--- L29 L35 L25 L52 1.0  
61 Richard Cohen 10015511 1500 L28 H--- D47 L34 L39 1.0  
62 J.C. Mies 13605740 914 L18 L38 L56 L45 D57 0.5  
63 Jim Waugh 12425667 1292 L26 L51 L41 H--- U--- 0.5