Toronto Open - April 18 to 20 - registration list

[Marcus Wilker]

Toronto Open
April 18-20

Sponsored by The Pump

Registered players as of 2014/04/15

Bator Sambuev	GM	Crown	146462	2727	2554	-
Artiom Samsonkin	IM	Crown	146305	2543	2419	-
Bindi Cheng	IM	Crown	141968	2522	2430	-
Roman Sapozhnikov	FM	Crown	138609	2385	2311	-
Geordie Derraugh	-	Crown	132393	2368	2151	-
Michael Humphreys	FM	Crown	131628	2307	2156	-
Yuanchen Zhang	FM	Crown	148449	2305	2118	-
Digeng Du	-	Crown	107986	2286	2184	-
Mike Ivanov	-	Crown	140557	2265	2092	-
David Filipovich	-	Crown	103521	2223	2104	-
Pavel Peev	-	Crown	122223	2221	2064	-
David Southam	-	Crown	102535	2208	2093	-
David Itkin	-	Crown	140216	2206	2046	-
Daniel Wiebe	-	U2200	132137	2094	1856	-
Jonathan Yu	-	U2200	126131	2092	2042	-
Hugh Siddeley	-	U2200	146893	2076	1916	-
Sergey Noritsyn	-	U2200	120619	2073	1840	-
Pi Nasir	-	U2200	148197	2071	1985	-
Lali Agbabishvili	-	U2200	150778	2046	1940	-
Miroslav Stefanovic	-	U2200	154500	2044	1891	-
Davy (Yuetong) Zhao	-	U2200	148512	2033	1892	-
Yongjoo Kim	-	U2200	143979	2015	1839	-
Nicholas Vettese	-	U2200	154199	1974	-	-
Daniel Zotkin	-	U2200	146857	1973	1776	-
Sean Lei	-	U2200	153014	1961	-	-
Dmitry Chernik	-	U2200	149932	1954	-	2,4
Olof Bergenstam	-	U2200	153937	1932	-	-
Juliaan Posaratnanathan	-	U2200	146059	1930	1846	-
Pepin Manalo	-	U2200	112277	1919	1714	1,3
Nameer Issani	-	U2200	154796	1803	1663	-
Kajan Thanabalachandran	-	U1900	150303	1817	-	-
Hanyuan Ye	-	U1900	144844	1782	-	4
Gregory Stavropoulos	-	U1900	108628	1752	-	-
Benito Surya	-	U1900	153755	1703	-	-
Aahil Noorali	-	U1900	155015	1666	-	-
Richard Wing	-	U1900	103265	1629	-	-
Andrei Korcsak	-	U1600	154181	1591	-	-
Armand Mendoza	-	U1600	156958	1553	-	-
Ken Kurkowski	-	U1600	104537	1479	-	-
Henry Hill-Tout	-	U1600	156448	1476	-	-
Daniele Pirri	-	U1600	132983	1472	-	-
Dane Forsyth	-	U1600	155524	1469	-	-
Maksym Gryn	-	U1600	126835	1445	-	-
Mark Gelowitz	-	U1600	126627	1434	-	-
Adam Kostas	-	U1600	128428	1433	-	-
Doug Gillis	-	U1600	111022	1430	-	-
James Mourgelas	-	U1600	108540	1350	-	-
Mark Bercovici	-	U1600	148103	1325	-	-
Richard Morrison	-	U1600	135889	1305	-	-
Eli Teram	-	U1600	107314	1258	-	-
M. Hassan Pishdad	-	U1600	146931	1188	-	-
Mysha Gilani	WCM	U1600	155004	1108	-	-
Manish Pamwar	-	U1600	156524	1075	-	-
Max England	-	U1600	155135	1029	-	-
Rahul Gangolli	-	U1600	156023	897	-	-
Alex Velazquez	-	U1600	156934	UNR	-	-

Register online today!
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Website:
http://annexchessclub.com/toronto-open/

[Marcus Wilker]

Re: Toronto Open - April 18 to 20 - registration list

Updated registration list - April 3

Register before April 14 to avoid late fee!

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[Marcus Wilker]

Re: Toronto Open - April 18 to 20 - registration list

Updated registration list - April 6

Register tonight (April 7) or next Monday (April 14) at the club, or online before April 14 to avoid late fee!

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Thanks to Regency Chess Company Canada for donating Best Game prizes

http://www.regencychess.ca/

Visit the Toronto Open webpage for full details:

http://annexchessclub.com/toronto-open/

[Marcus Wilker]

Re: Toronto Open - April 18 to 20 - registration list

Not only Best Game prizes from The Regency Chess Company Canada, the Toronto Open is now sponsored by The Pump, and Pizza Pizza is donating pizzas for our volunteers!

http://annexchessclub.com/toronto-open/

[Marcus Wilker]

Re: Toronto Open - April 18 to 20 - registration list

New Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1406330266306021/

[Marcus Wilker]

Re: Toronto Open - April 18 to 20 - registration list

Countdown: 10 days to the event!

Save $20 if you register by Monday (online or at the club)!

[Marcus Wilker]

Re: Toronto Open - April 18 to 20 - registration list

April 18 is a week from today!

Register this weekend! (Price goes up Tuesday.)
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[Marcus Wilker]

Re: Toronto Open - April 18 to 20 - registration list

Updated registration list 04/15. Tickets still available online and on site.

[Erik Malmsten]

Re: Toronto Open - April 18 to 20 - registration list

Part of my article in the recent issue of Toronto Chess News:

Toronto traditionally had two big annual weekend swisses: The Labour Day at the beginning of the club season and the Toronto Open on Easter, after a winter of chess. It’s exciting playing in a big event with over 100 other people interested in the same hobby. The open on Labour Day has done very well, being held mostly at the same place, the Macedonian Hall, for over 20 years, but the Toronto Open has recently faltered, not being held every year. It was reignited in 2009 by Brian Fiedler who was the main organizer of the fantastic pwc Toronto Open (held after Easter). Local GM Bator Sambuev went undefeated, Goran Milicevic won the best game prize for defeating GM Alexander Shabalov, Artem Samsonkin won the brilliancy prize for defeating GM Hikaru Nakamura, and there were 56 prizes! It showed that Toronto can still get tournaments with 200 players. But the next couple of years the focus became the Canadian Open. Hart House has been very successful in starting new annual events. I hope that the Toronto Open will again become the annual big spring event. This month at the Annex CC will be the 46th Toronto Open, next year will be the 50th anniversary of the first one.

Local IMs Lawrence Day won 6 times, Bryon Nickoloff 5, Michael Schleifer 4, and Geza Fuster 2. Day, Nickoloff and Schleifer are the only players to have won or tied for first 2 years in a row. The most amazing win was by junior Haoyuan Wang, 2211, in 2002 defeating IMs Schleifer and Day, drawing IMs Yan Teplitsky, and Mark Bluvshtein for a performance rating of 2663! In 2006 Nikolay Noritsyn, 14, may have been the youngest winner. I haven’t looked up the results of the oldest ones, but I didn’t find any top sections with a perfect score, 14 with 5.5-.5, 10 with 5-1, and 7 with 4.5-1.5. There have been over 12 perfect scores in the lower sections, several times an unrated ringer taking the Novice. Future masters, like Mike Ivanov, Paul Beckwith, John Pajak, and Ian Findlay, have been victorious in Novice sections. In 2004 Sasha Starr won the U2200 with a perfect score, winning the lotto bonus prize and a 2443 performance rating. In 1998 Tony Verma won the U1700 and in 2001 U1900.

The Open often brings in masters from out of town, attracted by the strong local opposition, I think, more than big prizes. Deen Hergott, Kitchener/Ottawa, won or tied for first 6 times; Brian Hartman, Hamilton, won 3, $1,500 in 1993, the highest amount until 2009; Kevin Spraggett, Montreal, 3; 2001 $800 Kevin Gentes, Winnipeg; 1989 Tom O’Donnell, Ottawa; 1988 $600 Jeff Reeve, Calgary. In 1998 Vasik Rajlich of Michigan won; he later created the Rybka engine. In 1975 Bill Goichberg, New York, won; he had founded the World Open, and in the next year coached the USA team which won the bronze medal at the Olympiad. Other Americans 1982 Mark Ginsburg, Michigan, 1972 Ed Formanek, and 1971 William Martz, Wisconsin. But since the 1980s some masters have gone to the competing New York Open on the same weekend. In 1983 U of T student Ilias Kourkounakis from Greece won. In 1974 Lev Cheremisine of Moscow tied for 3rd while in the Novice section the computer Ribbit only scored 1-5.

The first weekend swiss in Toronto for all players was started in 1965 by Alex Knox and Howard Ridout of the Scarborough CC, won by Denis Allan. Many years we had a great, inexpensive venue and that’s been part of the problem in hosting one in the past decade. Hart House CC (hosted around 6 times), Martin Jaeger and Wilf Ferner got us the massive MacDonald Block government cafeteria (6), Ignac Vucko got us the Hilton International Hotel (3), followed by the Primrose Hotel (8), the most used site. But hotels didn’t get enough room rentals and food customers to make it worthwhile. Plus problems with cleanliness, smoking and sleeping players. I was sometimes part of Stephen Boyd’s TD team in the 1980s and in 1988 we were surprised at the great turnout for a new venue in North York (Free coffee from the sponsor was a bonus feature), 210 players competing for a then record $4,750 in prizes. In 1992 at the Hilton Hotel, Richmond and University, 236 players competed for a record $8,800, yet the first place tie winners receiving only a little more than the top class players winning $600. 1993 had 242 and 1994 at the Primrose Hotel, Carlton and Church, had 226 players. The flyers ambitiously posted a prize fund based on 300 players. But the 1970s had even larger tournaments: 1978: 278, 1977: 300, 1976: 256, 1975: 319, 1974: 311, and 1973 had a record 349 players! In 1977 first-place finisher Lawrence Day won $500 of the $3,000 prize fund at the Lithuanian Hall, Bloor and Dundas. 1982 had 209 players with the top section restricted to only the top 20 players. The average number of total entries for the 33 results I have is 179 players. The entry fee in 1972 was for the Premier $16, and for the Booster $12 adults, $8 juniors; CFC membership $3. In 1978, the first year at the MacDonald Block cafeteria, the entry fee was $20/16/12 for the 3 sections. By 1987 the entry fee was $40/30/25 and the prize fund was guaranteed to be 70% of the entry fees. In the 1990s the entry fee was $60.