2009 Marshall Rohland Memorial / Wisconsin State Closed Championship

September 5^th-7^th

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

 

 

This year's event is off to a great start with a total of 86 players in three sections: Open (33), Reserve (26), and Scholastic (27). The scholastic section was a six round, Game in 30 minutes, USCF rated event. USCF Results & Standings (click to see).

Scholastic Section Winner: Devon Grohall 5.5/6.

Reserve Section Winner: ?

2009 Wisconsin State Champion: ?

Updates:

After round 3:

Premier:

1 Santarius, Erik 3.0

2 Kane, Jeremy 3.0

3 Liang, Yingming 3.0

 

 

Reserve:

1 Schenkel, Daniel 3.0

2 Yusim, Sergey 3.0

 

 

History:

Who was Marshall Rohland?

Marshall Rohland was UW Milwaukee Chemistry professor and a strong chess player with a peak rating above 2000. Although he was never a Wisconsin State Champion he was an important leader of chess on local, state, and national level. He was the USCF president from 1967-1969. He was a huge supporter of early scholastic tournaments in Wisconsin. His support was on all levels of chess organization from finding playing sites, to helping direct scholastic chess tournaments and serving multiple positions for USCF. It is important for us to remember who helped to bring chess to where it is today, especially the people who that led up to the Fischer era.

Who has won the most Wisconsin State Championships?

Arpad Elo: 7

William Williams: 7

Past Wisconsin State Champions:

1923	Carl Eppert
1924	Carl Heden
1929	Carl Anderson
1930-32	Harold Knutson
1933	Robert Reel
1934	Walter Heyn
1935	Arpad Elo
1936	Mark Surgies
1937-38	Arpad Elo
1939	Enos Wicher
1940	Arpad Elo and Enos Wicher
1941-42	Arpad Elo
1943	Averill Powers
1944	Robert Reel
1945	Arpad Elo and Averill Powers
1946	Jerome Kraszewski
1947-48-49	Richard Kujoth
1950	Arpad Elo and Averill Powers
1951	Enos Wicher
1952-53	Richard Kujoth
1954	Averill Powers
1955	Hugh Meyers
1956	Jerome Kraszewski
1957	Marshall Rohland
1958	Richard Kujoth
1959	Charles Weldon
1960	Henry Meifert
1961	Arpad Elo
1962	Allen Reiter
1963	Charles Weldon
1964	William Martz and John Dedinski
1965-66	William Martz
1967	Martin Safer
1968	William Williams
1969-70	William Martz
1971	John Anderson
1972	Peter Dorman
1973	John Anderson
1974-75	William Martz
1976	Robert Jones
1977	Josef Friedman and Peter Dorman
1978	James Ellis
1979	Charles Weldon
1980	Louis Dina
1981	Thomas Moore
1982	William Williams and Ethan Allen
1983	William Williams and Leonid Bass
1984	Peter Webster
1985	Revi Schea
1986	Thomas Moore
1987	Steven Odendahl
1988	Thomas Moore
1989	Chris Dunworth
1990	Steven Odendahl
1991	Roman Levit and David Penkalski
1992	William Williams and Josh Manion
1993	William Williams and Jeff Cooper
1994-95-96	Roman Levit
1997	Aniruddha Deshpande
1998	Aniruddha Deshpande
1999	Bryan Lilly and Jeff Cooper
2000	Alex Betaneli
2001	William Williams and Alex Betaneli
2002	William Williams and Yuan Jia Xu
2003	Bryan Lilly and Larry Butler
2004	Bryan Lilly and Yuan Jia Xu
2005	Alex Betaneli
2006	Jeremy Kane and Kelly Borman
2007	Jeremy Kane
2008	Erik Santarius