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2012 Wood River
Weekend Progressive
The 2012 Wood River Weekend
Progressive chess tournament was
held Saturday, October 6 in Hailey,
ID. The tournament director (TD)
was Jeff Roland with Adam Porth
as Assistant TD. Twelve players attended
this year’s event.
90-year-old Dan Mayers (Sun Valley)
participated in his first ever
ICA tournament and likely his first
ever chess tournament of any kind
in Idaho. He did participate in a
Simultaneous Exhibition given by
Garrett Reynolds a few years ago
in Hailey, but that was not a tournament
and that to my knowledge
is the only other time Dan Mayers
played any chess in Idaho. Dan often
plays in large national tournaments
and travels quite a lot to go
to chess tournaments all over the
United States. He used to play at the
Manhattan Chess Club in the 1950’s
and even beat Bobby Fischer when
Fischer was about 10. As an honored
guest in this event, Dan Mayers
was given board 1 throughout
the entire tournament.
In the Open Section Caleb Kircher
(Nampa, ID) and David Sawyer
(Boise) tied for 1 st -2 nd Place with 3
½ points each and Cody Gorman
(Eagle) was 3 rd Place with 3 points.
In the Reserve Section Adam Porth
(Bellevue) and Jay Simonson (Idaho
Falls, ID) tied for 1 st -2 nd with 2
points each followed by Matthew
Reidy (Sun Valley) in third place
with 1 point.
There was also three prizes given
out to the top students in the Reserve
Section. Jacob Nathan (Idaho
Falls) was 1st Place with 1 point,
followed by Matthew Reidy (Sun
Valley) in 2 nd Place with 1 point, and
in 3 rd Place was Paul Sawyer (Boise).
The format of this tournament was
“progressive” which means that
the time control got progressively
longer round by round. The time
control in round one was Game/30
with 5 second delay, round two
was Game/45 with 5 second delay,
round three was Game/60 with 5
second delay, and round four was
Game/90 with 5 second delay. This
made for some interesting chess.
Here are two examples.
White: Gorman,Cody (1383)
Black: Kircher,Caleb (1816)
[A01] Wood River Weekend
Hailey, ID, R2, October 6, 2012
Game/45;d5 1.b3 d5 2.Bb2 c5
3.e3 Nf6 4.Nf3 Bg4 5.h3 Bxf3
6.Qxf3 Nbd7 7.g4 e5 8.g5 Ne4
9.d3 Nxg5 10.Qxd5 Qc7 11.Be2
Ne6 12.Bg4 0‐0‐0 13.Bxe6 fxe6
14.Qxe6 Bd6 15.Nd2 Rde8
16.Qg4 Rhf8 17.Qxg7 Re7 18.Qg2
Nf6 19.Ne4 Nxe4 20.Qxe4 Qa5+
21.Ke2 Kb8 22.a3 Rxf2+ 23.Kxf2
Qd2+ 24.Kf3 Rf7+ 25.Kg4 Qe2+
26.Kg5 Be7+ 27.Kh6 Rf6+ 28.Kg7
Rg6+ 29.Kf7 Qf2+ 30.Kxe7 Qf6+
31.Ke8 Rg8+ 32.Kd7 Rd8# 0‐1
White: Kircher,Caleb (1816)
Black: Roland,Jeffrey T. (1716)
[A03] Wood River Weekend
Hailey, ID, R3, October 6, 2012
Game/60;d5 1.f4 Nf6 2.b3 g6
3.Bb2 Bg7 4.Nf3 0‐0 5.e3 d5
6.Be2 c5 7.0‐0 Nc6 8.Bb5 a6
9.Bxc6 bxc6 10.Ne5 Qc7 11.Qc1
Nd7 12.Nxd7 Bxd7 13.Bxg7 Kxg7
14.d3 e5 15.Nd2 Rae8 16.Qb2 f6
17.fxe5 Rxe5 18.e4 Kg8 19.Rae1
d4 20.Nc4 Rh5 21.g3 Be6 22.Rf2
f5 23.Ref1 Bxc4 24.dxc4 Qe5
2012 Wood River Weekend Progressive Crosstable
Player Residence USCF 1 2 3 4 Score
1 Caleb Paul Kircher Nampa 1816 W10 W3 W9 D2 3½
2 David L. Sawyer Boise 1925 W6 W9 W5 D1 3½
3 Cody Austin Gorman Eagle 1383 W12 L1 W7 W5 3
4 Frank A. Niro III Meridian 1700 W11 L5 W6 D9 2½
5 Dan E. Mayers Sun Valley 1841 W7 W4 L2 L3 2
6 Shane Taylor Boise 1381 L2 W8 L4 W11 2
7 Adam Porth Bellevue 1304 L5 W11 L3 W10 2
8 Jay L. Simonson Idaho Falls 627 L9 L6 W10 W12 2
9 Jeffrey T. Roland Boise 1716 W8 L2 L1 D4 1½
10 Jacob Ari Nathan Idaho Falls 663 L1 W12 L8 L7 1
11 Matthew Carl Reidy Sun Valley 562 L4 L7 W12 L6 1
12 Paul Sawyer Boise 134 L3 L10 L11 L8 0
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