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IM Thomas Roussel-Roozmon is playing in the 2009 Reykjavik Open
IM Thomas Roussel-Roozmon is playing in the 2009 Reykjavik Open
Canadian IM Thomas Roussel-Roozmon (elo 2479) is playing in the 2009 Reykjavik Open Chess Tournament in Iceland. Roussel-Roozmon is currently the 16th highest-rated chess player in Canada. Here are his results so far in the 2009 Reykjavik Open:
Rd. SNo Name Rtg FED Pts. Result.
1 74 Berg Runar 2130 ISL 1,0 w 1
2 48 Guilleux Fabien 2303 FRA 1,5 s ½
In round 3 IM Roussel-Roozmon plays IM Michal Meszaros (elo 2376) of Slovakia. Good luck to IM Roussel-Roozman in this tournament.
Re: IM Thomas Roussel-Roozmon is playing in the 2009 Reykjavik Open
Here are IM Roussel-Roozmon's results from rounds 3 and 4.
In round 3, IM Roussel-Roozmon played on board 16. He had the white pieces against IM Michal Meszaros of SVK (elo 2376). Meszaros won this game,leaving Roussel-Roozmon with 1.5 points after 3 rounds of play.
In round 4, IM Roussel-Roozmon played on board 25 against Gylfi Thorhallsson of Iceland (elo 2219). Roussel-Roozmon had the black pieces and he won the game. Thus, after 4 rounds of play Roussel-Roozmon had 2.5 points. The leader after this round is GM Stuart Conquest of England with a score of 4/4. Seven players are tied with 3.5 points, and 17 players are tied with 3 points.
In round 5 IM Roussel-Roozmon plays on board 17 against Gudmundar Gislason of Iceland (elo 2351) who also has 2.5 points.
Last edited by Wayne Mendryk; Saturday, 28th March, 2009, 12:38 PM.
Re: IM Thomas Roussel-Roozmon is playing in the 2009 Reykjavik Open
IM Roussel-Roozmon defeated Gudmundar Gislason of Iceland (elo 2351) in round 5 and this win gives IM Roussel-Roozmon 3.5 points (tied with 15 other players at this score). After 5 rounds of play, there are two leaders in this tournament: GM Yuriy Kryvoruchko of the Ukraine (elo 2604) and untitled French player Fabien Guilleux (elo 2303) who has defeated two GM's and an IM in this tournament (for a performance rating of 2713!)
In round 6 of the tournament, IM Roussel-Roozmon plays IM Israel Caspi of Israel, who also has 3.5 points, and Caspi has the white pieces.
In round 6 of the tournament, IM Roussel-Roozmon drew his game with IM Israel Caspi of Israel, which gives Roussel-Roozmon 4 points after 6 rounds of play.This leaves Roussel-Roozman in a tie for 13th-29th place. IN first is GM Yuriy Kryvoruchko of the Ukraine with 5.5 points. In round 7 IM Roussel-Roozmon plays on board 12 against FM Or Cohen of Israel (elo 2286) and Roussel-Roozmon has the white pieces. Cohen has 4 points entering round 6.
Canadian IM Thomas Roussel-Roozmon (elo 2479), won his round 7 game against Or Cohen of Israel today in the 2009 Reykjavik Open chess tournament. This win gives IM Roussel-Roozmon a score of 5 points after 7 rounds of play, which places him in a tie for 6th-15th place with 10 other players. In first place is GM Yuriy Kryvoruchko of the Ukraine with 6 points.Four players are tied for second to fifth place with 5 points. IM Roussel-Roozmon's performance rating so far in this tournament is 2453.
In round 8 IM Roussel-Roozmon plays on board four against GM Tiger Hillarp Persson of Sweden (elo 2586), with Persson playing the white pieces. Good luck Thomas!!
This tournament is 9 rounds in length. If 2 or more players are tied for first after 9 rounds of play,then a blitz playoff will decide first place.
In round 8 of the tournament, Canadian IM Thomas Roussel-Roozmon played Swedish GM Tiger Hillarp Persson (elo 2586) on board 4, and Roussel-Roozmon had the black pieces. The result of this game was a win for IM Roussel-Roozmon!! Congratulations Thomas! This win gives IM Roussel-Roozmon six points heading into the final round of play. In round 9 IM Roussel-Roozmon plays the black pieces against Ukrainian GM Alexander Areshchenko (elo 2673). Good luck Thomas!
On board one in the final round of play, GM Yuriy Kryvoruchko of the Ukraine (elo 2604), who has 6½ points entering the final round, plays GM Mihail Marin of Rumania (elo 2556) who alos has 6 1/2 points entering the final round of play.
Here are the moves in IM Roussel-Roozmon's game from round 7 (in PGN format), the moves of his eighth round victory have not yet been posted at the official tournament website:
IM Thomas Roussel-Roozmon drew with GM Alexander Areshchenko of the Ukraine, in the last round of the 2009 Reykjavik Open. This draw means that IM Roussel-Roozmon ends the tournament with 6.5 points, good for 8th place. With a better tie-break he could have finished in fifth-place. The tournament was won by GM Hedinn Steingrimsson of Iceland on a tie-break over GM Yuriy Kryvoruchko of the Ukraine , GM Hannes Stefansson of Iceland, and GM Mihail Marin of Romania.
IM Thomas Roussel-Roozmon's performance rating in this tournament was 2536.
Re: IM Thomas Roussel-Roozmon is playing in the 2009 Reykjavik Open
IM Thomas Roussel-Roozmon's games from rounds 8 and 9 of the tournament are not available at this time from the tournament's official website. Hopefully these games will appear at the official tournament website or possibly in Mark Crowther's The Week in Chess pgn file, for this week. We will all have to be patient and hope these games can be found somewhere in the future for downloading.
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