Kopec Memorial Results?

One of our home grown players finished tied for second and likely broke 2000 for the first time.

Sorry the crosstable isn’t up on MSA yet. Bob Messenger and I took a wrong turn leaving Keene last night and, after many adventures, I didn’t get home until past midnight. I was too tired to do the report right away. I’m going to begin work on it in just a few minutes.

For the record, the two GMs in the event (Ivanov and Perelshteyn) drew with each other in a fighting game in Rd. 3. In Rd. 4, Ivanov defeated NM Farzad Abdi (2336) in a wild time scramble in which Ivanov had just 2 seconds on his clock for many moves. Meanwhile, Perelshteyn could only draw with FM Brad Bournival (2390) to finish in a tie for 2nd-3rd at 3.0. As you note, the other player in that tie was Ian Dudley of VT (1923), who defeated NM Nithin Kavi (2236) in the final round.

I hope to have the report submitted in a couple of hours.

– Hal Terrie

Thanks. Ian just missed breaking 2000. Soon, we hope.