The members of District 19 made an impressive showing at the Fall 2025 NABC in San Francisco.
At the Nail Life Master Pairs on November 28-29, Tom Carmichael (Marysville, WA) and Dan Jacob (Vancouver, BC) placed 7th overall. Dan also placed 19th in the Kaplan Blue Ribbon Pairs with a separate partnership.
In the 0-3000 Pairs (Nov 29-30), JC & Scott Chupack (Seattle, WA) placed 5th. They then followed that up by taking second in the 0-3000 Teams (Dec 1-2) with teammates Arthur Resnick (Seattle, WA) and Rosemay Vazeux (Seattle, WA).
Mike Develin (Kirkland, WA) and Robert Glickman (Seattle, WA) both placed 4th and 9th respectively in the 10K Fast Pairs (Dec 3-4). Robert also placed 11th in the 10K IMP Pairs (Dec 1-2).
Shawn Abernethy (Seattle, WA) took 4th in the Whitehead Womens Pairs (Dec 2-3). She also achieved the rank of Gold Life Master via her win in that event.
In the Mini Blue Ribbons (Dec 2-4), several D19 players made the overalls: David Taylor (Seattle, WA) placed 8th; Robert Bell (Gig Harbor, WA) and Ben Tucker (Vashon, WA) placed 16th; Kevin Cline (Seattle, WA) and Aaron Mohrman (Seattle, WA) placed 17th; and James & Lily Andre (Allyn, WA) placed 23rd.
D19 had several players place highly in the Mitchell Open Board-A-Match Teams (Nov 30-Dec 1) while on teams spanning multiple districts. Tom Carmichael (Marysville, WA), Stan Christie (Kirkland, WA), and Bryan Delfs (Vancouver, WA) placed 8th. Ben Bomber (Grandview, WA) and Ray Miller (Seattle, WA) placed 12th. Arthur Gong (Sammamish, WA) placed 16th. Brad Bart (Coquitlam, BC) and Matthew Weingarten (Seattle, WA) placed 21/22nd (tied with another team). Alex Hong (West Vancouver, BC) placed 25th. Last but far from least, Dan Jacob (Vancouver, BC) placed 28th.
Alex Hong (West Vancouver, BC) also took 2nd in the Keohane North American Swiss Teams (Dec 5-7).
In the NABC+ Mixed Pairs (Dec 4-5), Jenni Carmichael (Marysville, WA) and Bryan Delfs (Vancouver, WA) led the charge at 12th place. Michael Christensen (Seattle, WA) and Becky Stevens (Seattle, WA) took 35th. Kim Eng (Issaquah, WA) and Eric Sieg (Issaquah, WA) took 47th. James Rasmussen (Seattle, WA) finished 48th. James also took 18th in the NABC+ Mixed Swiss (Dec 6-7), and Shelley Burns (North Vancouver, BC) took 21st in that event.
Beyond these wins at the National level, over a hundred players from D19 won masterpoints at this NABC. The full list of masterpoint winners from the event is below:
Total Masterpoints Earned First Name Last Name
146.32 Alex Hong
110.39 Dan Jacob
93.54 Tom Carmichael
66.61 Bryan Delfs
65.34 JC Chupack
65.34 Scott Chupack
56.3 Rosemay Vazeux
56.3 Arthur Resnick
53.41 Shawn Abernethy
49.79 Michael Gamble
49.08 Stan Christie
46.25 Marianne Kersten
46.23 Ben Bomber
44.39 Ray Miller
41.59 Chungli C Wang
41.59 Fred Yu
39.74 Chris Morris-Lent
37 Ed Freeman
35.71 Arthur Gong
35.35 Eric Sieg
35.35 Kim Eng
34.39 Shameine Ali
33.76 Sarah Thesenvitz
33.76 Greg Thesenvitz
33.76 Shi-Lin Yeh
33.67 Aaron Mohrman
33.36 Robert Glickman
29.3 David Taylor
29.02 Matthew Weingarten
28.81 Brad Bart
27.04 Shannon Kasperkiewicz
26.87 Kevin Cline
26.61 Russel Boknecht
26.11 Steve Kasner
24.94 James Rasmussen
24.39 Jeannie Falls
24.39 Bruce Baker-Harvey
24.32 John Krah
23.53 Jenni Carmichael
23.5 Leyi Chen
23.49 Brenda Glaze
23.08 Howard Epley
22.66 Lorenzo Migliorini
22.56 Rock Shi Yan
22.55 Karen Epley
22.36 Genie May
21.78 Lynda Lipe
21.78 Ralph Lipe
21.43 Victor Chubukov
21.41 Mike Develin
20.87 James Andre
20.87 Lily Andre
20.32 Qinqin Zhang
19.86 Laura Miller
19.16 Allyson Welsh
18.76 Ben Tucker
18.76 Robert Bell
17.53 Shelley Burns
16.36 Robert Munger
16.36 Anne Kao
16.22 David Binney
15.55 Ann Romeo
15.49 Becky Stevens
15.49 Michael Christensen
14.81 Dave Walker
13.46 Rob Tilley
12.93 Zhenzhong Guo
12.82 James Holzhauer
12.29 Kathy Gilman
12.09 Margaret Moen
11.84 Jeffrey Ford
11.81 Cindy Oishi
11.66 Sue Anderson
11.47 Tony Marshall
11.21 Nathan Gong
11.16 Richard D'Litzenberger
11.09 Michael Roche
10.75 Michael Cohen
9.79 Cameron Doner
9.7 Douglas Kuschner
9.55 Joel Fuhrman
9.25 Wei-Bung Wang
8.53 Kathi McKay
8.53 Alice Arnold
8.37 Vera Dodson
8.22 Elizabeth Heron
7.72 Nathan Kasperkiewicz
7.54 Arjun Chaunal
7.05 Rui Gong
7.04 Bogdan Vulcan
6.92 Tim White
6.92 Renae White
6.89 Eric Anderson
5.18 Gretchen Shively
5.18 Chuck Shively
3.23 Kevin Roose
3.04 William Fleming
3.04 Steven Zeliadt
2.56 Thomas Sparks
2.49 Dean Altschuler
2.47 Henry Lortz
2.4 Bill Walter
2.4 Christine Walter
2.19 Gordon Chin
1.59 Steve Beatty
1 Yichen Cai
0.79 Kevin Bolan
0.74 Judy Duning