Texas Team Champ.
 January 21-22, 2006
      4 rd. Swiss: 30/90, SD/60

Jimbo’s Heroes Ride Again won the 2006 Texas Team Championship, held Jan. 21-22 in San Antonio. The team, named in tribute to the late Jim Gallagher, consisted of Selby Anderson, Jim Rohrbaugh, John Patty and J.P. Hyltin. Together they scored 3.5 out of 4 match points, drawing the last round match with Austin’s Three Invincible Masters and One Young Champion. (Mikhail Langer, Michael Feinstein, Richard Ketcham, and Alexander Balkam). Second place went to the young Houston team which gave the Austin team its only loss, 1.h4 (Francisco Guadalupe II, Warren Harper, Brad Sawyer, and Kevin Wang), with 3 out of 4 match points.

Four teams tied for 1st-2nd Under 1900: Jesse James Gang Rides Again (Gregg Stanley, Martin Gordon, Jesse Lozano, Rheanna English), Furios Four (William Molina, Yuri Mirgorodsky, Jeff Sneden, Scott Slade), Knights of the Square Table (Angela Alston, Julian Hernandez, Matthew Liu, Richard Lopez, Charles Haring), and They Might Be Midgets (Paul Chaplin, Eugene Kohnitz, Danny Chen, Dylan James). The trophy goes to James Gang by a wide point margin (10+!) using the US Amateur Team tiebreaks.

$1,000 was paid in prizes, with trophies for the top team in each section. Martin Gordon directed a field of ten teams for the San Antonio Chess Club. A crosstable appears below.

   2006 Texas Team Championship

 Cross Table

    Name/Rtng/ID#/Team/State/Gr/rd1   rd2   rd3   rd4   

  1 Langer, Michael.............W 14  B  9  W 16  B  2  
    2277  12581229 THREE         1.0   2.0   3.0   3.0  
  2 Anderson, Selby.............B 13  W  5  B  9  W  1  
    2270  10380405 JIMBO         0.5   0.5   1.5   2.5  
  3 Feinstein, Michael..........B 28  W 12  B 21  W  6  
    2264  12026920 THREE         1.0   1.0   2.0   3.0  
  4 Ketcham, Richard............W 31  B 15  W 23  B  7  
    2236  11264867 THREE         1.0   1.0   2.0   3.0  
  5 Schoonmaker, Nicholas.......W 10  B  2  W 14  B  8  
    2225  11270972 FTWOR         0.5   1.5   2.5   3.0  
  6 Rohrbaugh, Jim..............W 18  B 11  W 12  B  3  
    2201  11047963 JIMBO         1.0   1.5   2.5   2.5  
  7 Patty, John.................B 27  W 22  B 15  W  4  
    2200  12397977 JIMBO         0.0   1.0   1.0   1.0  
  8 Vergara, Mitch..............W  9  B 10  W 34  W  5  
    2144  12546673 VALLY         0.0   0.0   1.0   1.5  
  9 Guadalupe II, Francisco.....B  8  W  1  W  2  B 16  
    2137  12816147 HOUST         1.0   1.0   1.0   2.0  
 10 Chaplin, Paul...............B  5  W  8  B 13  B 34  
    2136  10462908 AUSTI         0.5   1.5   2.0   2.5  
 11 Fleming, Kevin..............B 19  W  6  B 26  W 25  
    2115  11347673 FTWOR         1.0   1.5   1.5   2.5  
 12 Harper, Warren..............W 25  B  3  B  6  W 21  
    2103  12937291 HOUST         1.0   2.0   2.0   2.5  
 13 Stanley, Gregg..............W  2  B 16  W 10  B 14  
    2095  10400481 JESSE         0.5   1.0   1.5   2.0  
 14 Alston, Angela..............B  1  W 34  B  5  W 13  
    2075  11106111 NIGHT         0.0   0.5   0.5   1.0  
 15 Sawyer, Bradley.............B 30  W  4  W  7  B 23  
    2070  12669552 HOUST         1.0   2.0   3.0   4.0  
 16 Molina, William.............B 34  W 13  B  1  W  9  
    2053  12623645 FURIO         0.5   1.0   1.0   1.0  
 17 Hyltin, J.P.................W 32  B 24  W 20  B 36  
    2033  10399289 JIMBO         1.0   2.0   2.5   3.5  
 18 Gordon, Martin..............B  6  W 21  B 19  W 26  
    1966  12406332 JESSE         0.0   0.0   1.0   2.0  
 19 Kohnitz, Eugene.............W 11  B 25  W 18  W 35  
    1950  10399718 AUSTI         0.0   1.0   1.0   2.0  
 20 Wang, Kevin.................W 38  B 36  B 17  W 29  
    1943  12794258 HOUST         1.0   2.0   2.5   3.0  
 21 Mirgorodsky, Yuri...........W 35  B 18  W  3  B 12  
    1916  12658690 FURIO         1.0   2.0   2.0   2.5  
 22 Gonzalez, Aurelio...........W 37  B  7  W 28  B 30  
    1853  12054100 FTWOR         1.0   1.0   1.0   1.5  
 23 Sneden, Jeffrey C...........B 39  W 27  B  4  W 15  
    1815  12672091 FURIO         0.5   1.0   1.0   1.0  
 24 O'Neill, Julie..............B 40  W 17  B 33  W 38  
    1800  10457262 FTWOR         1.0   1.0   1.5   1.5  
 25 Guerra, Anthony.............B 12  W 19  B 35  B 11  
    1779  12722825 VALLY         0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0  
 26 Hernandez, Julian...........----  B 35  W 11  B 18  
    1778  11346600 NIGHT         0.0   1.0   2.0   2.0  
 27 Lozano, Jesse James.........W  7  B 23  W 37  B 28  
    1770  12937011 JESSE         1.0   1.5   2.5   3.5  
 28 Liu, Matthew................W  3  W 39  B 22  W 27  
    1711  12892273 NIGHT         0.0   1.0   2.0   2.0  
 29 Slade, Scott D..............W 41  B 32  W 36  B 20  
    1705  12710101 FURIO         1.0   2.0   2.0   2.5  
 30 Spada, Fernando.............W 15  B 37  W 39  W 22  
    1692  12879256 VALLY         0.0   1.0   2.0   2.5  
 31 Lopez, Richard..............B  4  ----  ----  ----  
    1669  12648780 NIGHT         0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0  
 32 English, Rheanna............B 17  W 29  B 40  W 33  
    1656  12807166 JESSE         0.0   0.0   1.0   1.5  
 33 Haring, Charles.............W 36  B 41  W 24  B 32  
    1643  13195714 NIGHT         0.0   1.0   1.5   2.0  
 34 Montazevi, Ebrahim..........W 16  B 14  B  8  W 10  
    1639  13181604 GIGEM         0.5   1.0   1.0   1.5  
 35 Fuqua, Chris................B 21  W 26  W 25  B 19  
    1630  12950136 GIGEM         0.0   0.0   1.0   1.0  
 36 Balkum, Alexander...........B 33  W 20  B 29  W 17  
    1617  12780751 THREE         1.0   1.0   2.0   2.0  
 37 Chen, Danny.................B 22  W 30  B 27  B 39  
    1596  12912139 AUSTI         0.0   0.0   0.0   1.0  
 38 Guerra, Gabriel.............B 20  W 40  B 41  B 24  
    1594  12731816 VALLY         0.0   0.0   1.0   2.0  
 39 Tuck, Jonathan..............W 23  B 28  B 30  W 37  
    1532  12938636 GIGEM         0.5   0.5   0.5   0.5  
 40 James, Dylan Scott..........W 24  B 38  W 32  W 41  
    1364  12912152 AUSTI         0.0   1.0   1.0   2.0  
 41 Reyes, Aaron................B 29  W 33  W 38  B 40  
    1359  12775560 GIGEM         0.0   0.0   0.0   0.0  

[Event "Texas Team Championship"]
[Site "San Antonio, Texas"]
[Date "1-22-06"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Anderson, Selby"]
[Black "Langer, Mikhail"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A66"]
[WhiteElo "2270"]
[BlackElo "2277"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 e6 4. Nc3 exd5 5. cxd5 d6 6. e4 g6 7. f4 Qe7 8. Bb5+ Bd7 9. Qe2 Bxb5 10. Qxb5+ Nbd7 11. Nf3 Bg712. O-O O-O 13. Re1 Nb6 14. a4 Ne8 15. a5 Nc7 16. Qb3 c4 17. Qa2 Nd7 18. Qxc4 Rac8 19. Qf1 Na6 20. Bd2 Ndc5 21. e5 Nb4 22. Nb5 Nc2 23.Nxd6 Rcd8 24. Qb5! Na6 25. Nxb7 Rb8 26. Qxa6 Rxb7 27. b4 Qd7 28. d6 Rc8 29. Rad1 Nxe1 30. Bxe1 Bf8 31. e6! fxe6 32. Ne5 Qa4 33. d7 Qxd1 34. dxc8=Q Qxe1+ 35. Qf1 Qxb4 36. Qxe6+ Kg7 37. f5 gxf5 38. Qexf5 Bc5+ 39. Kh1 Qh4 40. g3 Qe7 41. Qg4+ Kh8 42. Qa1 Qg7 43. Qxg7+ Rxg7 44. Nf7+ Kg8 45. Nh6+ 1-0

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