Issue of the Lake Superior Chess Association WoodPusher January / February, 2001 Back

UP Players Excel on WI Tour

The 2000 WI tour came to a conclusion with the Schramm Memorial Tournament held in Oshkosh, WI on December 16th and 17th. The winner of the Tour was Neil Gleason. Guy Hoffman took second and John Wagner took Class A. There was a battle between Tom and Ken Ceterski for Class B. They each were tied for Tour points up until the last round for the Schramm Memorial. Tom Ceterski won his last round of the Schramm Memorial and Ken Ceterski drew his. Ashish Vaja won Class C. Martha Ceterski won Class D. Ken Ceterski took home the top Junior prize.

The tour consisted of 11 tournaments that were held from January to December. This year the tournament included the Waukesha Memorial, Northeastern, U. W. Milwaukee, WI State Closed, Western Open, Green Bay Open, Badger Open, Racine/Kenosha Open, U. W. Fall Open, North Central Open and Schramm Memorial. This year saw the domination of the Tour by almost every type of class player. The tour points are calculated by WCA Statistician Jerry Noel.

The top players and their AVG. RATING in the WI Tour: 1) NEIL GLEASON 1838 2) GUY HOFFMAN 1928 3) TOM CETERSKI - (UP Player) 1748 4) KEN CETERSKI - (UP Player) 1762 5) JOHN WAGNER 1934 6) BILL WILLIAMS 2210 7) ASHISH VAJA 1500 8) BILL OLK 1807 9) LARRY SCHMITT 1620 10) BRIAN LILLY 2123 11) MICHAEL FIXEL 1435 12) MICHAEL GLEASON 1728 13) JOE SCHUELER 2010 14) VLAD DIMA 2092 15) MIKE NIETMAN 1819 16) STEVEN SZPISJAK 2245

2000 TOUR EVENTS WAUKESHA MEMORIAL NORTHEASTERN U. W. MILWAUKEE WI STATE CLOSED WESTERN OPEN GREEN BAY OPEN BADGER OPEN RACINE/KENOSHA OPEN U. W. FALL OPEN NORTH CENTRAL OPEN SCHRAMM MEMORIAL

It all starts over for the 2001 WI Tour with the Waukesha Memorial held on Feb 17th.

1st Annual Jasper Ridge Action Open
By: TD Greg Rose

The 1st Annual Jasper Ridge Action Open was held December 9th at the Motor Inn. It was not a USCF rated event. In what was termed by many as a "small, little fun chess tournament," Jim Sawaski of Newberry won the play-off game with Dale Fritter of Marquette, to capture first place. Dale, for his efforts, won the second place trophy.

Pable Ramos, a 16 year old foreign exchange student of Negaunee High School from Mexico, took the Top Junior Trophy, playing all the adults as well as the other junior participants.

Someone said at the tournament that this is more like the reason why the chess association was created in the first place, "To bring chess opportunities to the chess players here in the Upper Peninsula."

Here is a wall chart for the tournament:

No.	Name	City	Rating	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	Total
1	Jim Sawaski	Newberry	1820	W7	W4	W2	W3	W5	L6	W2	6
2	Dale Fritter	Marquette	1422	W3	W5	L1	W7	W9	W8	L1	5
3	Ken Boyer	Marquette	1653	L2	W6	W4	L1	W8	W7		4
4	Bob John	Marquette	1593	W9	L1	L3	W8	W6	W10		4
5	Jim Mitchell	Marquette	1595	W8	L2	L7	W10	L1	W9		3
6	Garry Gill	Marquette	1545	W10	L3	L8	W9	L4	W1		3
7	Greg Rose	Negaunee	1454	L1	W9	W5	L2	W10	L3		3
8	Pablo Ramos	Negaunee	1100	L5	W10	W6	L4	L3	L2		2
9	John Aspund	Negaunee	1000	L4	L7	W10	L6	L2	L5		1
10	Robert Sawaski	Newberry	Unr	L6	L8	L9	L5	L7	L4		0

Negaunee VFW Chess Club Quads
NOV-DEC, 2000
TD: Greg Rose

Section 1

   Name	   	Rating  Karki  John  Boyer    Gill    Fritter   Total

1) Mark Karki	1458     X       D     W        L        W       2 ½

2) Bob John	1432     D       X     L        W        W       2 ½
  
3) Ken Boyer	1474     L       W     X        D        W       2 ½

4) Gary Gill	1344     W       L     D        X        L       1 ½	

5) Dale Fritter	1068     L       L     L        W        X       1	

Section 2

   Name			Rating   Ramos   Rose Sleeman  Laramie Asplund Total    

1) Pablo Ramos		1000       X       W     W        W       W     4

2) Greg Rose		1109       L       X     W        W       W     3

3) John Sleeman		947        L       L     X        D       W     1 ½ 

4) Laurene Laramie		831        L       L     D        X	     W     1 ½  

5) John Asplund		1000       L       L     L        L       X     0

Negaunee VFW Chess Club Quads
SEPT-OCT, 2000
TD: Greg Rose
Section 1

  Name		Rating  John   Gill  Boyer   Karki   Total 

1) Bob John	1338     X      W      W        L      2

2) Gary Gill	1388     L      X      D        D      1

3) Ken Boyer	1588     L      D      X        D      1

4) Mark Karki	1394     W      D      D        X      2

Name			Rating Rose  Sleeman Laramie Heilkilla Fritter Total    

1) Greg Rose		1091     X      W        W       FW       L      3

2) John Sleeman		883      L      X        W       W        L      2

3) Laurene Laramie		861      L      L        X       FW       W      2 

4) Shawn Heilkilla		1028     FL     L        FL      X        FL     0 

5) Dale Fritter		1048     W      W        L       FW       X      3

Created by LSCA Editor: Ken Ceterski