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For more information regarding discounts, prize fund distribution projections, pre-registered list (led by GM Sambuev and IM Samsonkin, 38 players at the moment) and maps / parking info, please check our website:
It seems we can reach 100 now!
Currently at 88 entries, the field is led by GM Sambuev, IM Noritsyn and IM Samsonkin.
The vacuum we had on the list between the 2200-2400 range has also had a handful of entries this week.
It's also neat to see so many juniors come out and play, along with some people who have no previous tournament experience and / or have not played in quite some time.
Hopefully all the results we have are correct.
I am personally aware Noritsyn will have a bye Round 2. I do not recall Daniel Abrahams requesting one.
Any players that have a bye and want to play a game, will be given an opponent tomorrow, a few minutes after the start of the round. I have volunteered to serve as a wild card against "the odd man out" so that we can juggle something for those who'd like to play.
Board 25 on there is missing. I just got e-mail confirmation of two cancellations from players we had originally placed with a half point Round 1 bye. There were no draws in Round 1 in the U2000 section so they would have been paired against each other, which was perfect.
Originally we were aiming for 80 people, we booked room for 100, and we got over 110 (I haven't counted yet). Bryan recommended opening up a U1500 section, which splits the U1700 & U1500 in a more fair way. Players willing to play up are free to do so. We had to use our originally intended skittles / analyzes room and make it into an additional playing hall. We managed to get another (new) skittles room just one hour before the start of the tournament.
We struggled a bit with the setup and the registrations. We were only able to begin the round around 7pm, approximately half hour later than expected.
Congratulations to IM Artiom Samsonkin! He was presented with a very neat trophy by Michael Barron and Liam Henry. Artiom won the Canadian Junior Championship which took place about 6 weeks ago.
We'll post the standings at some point soon, not too relevant after only one round.
I thank everyone for joining us at this very competitive tournament, and being so patient at the beginning of the night. It's fair to say that things should run considerably smoother through the rest of the weekend.
We've collected several games from the Open Section, we'll have them available at some point, probably only after the tournament though.
a great warm-up/practice event for some of our olympians. One of the few strong events held in Toronto. How many from our teams are playing? Do any members of our teams live in Toronto?
The quality of the competition I see would be better than personal training, IMHO.
1 Samsonkin, Artem IM.........2461 W 21 W 11 W 8 3.0
2 Noritsyn, Nikolay IM........2503 W 38 H--- W 17 2.5
3 Thavandiran, Shiyam.........2377 W 28 W 12 D 6 2.5
4 Panjwani, Raja..............2350 W 29 W 19 H--- 2.5
5 Peng, David.................2342 W 30 W 15 D 7 2.5
6 Plotkin, Victor.............2299 W 31 W 23 D 3 2.5
7 Henry, Liam.................2283 B--- W 34 D 5 2.5
8 Day, Lawrence IM............2307 W 35 W 27 L 1 2.0
9 Dougherty, Michael..........2288 D 16 W 22 H--- 2.0
10 Martchenko, Alexander.......2244 L 23 W 30 W 27 2.0
11 Gordon, David...............2235 W 36 L 1 W 28 2.0
12 Egorov, Mikhail.............2231 W 39 L 3 W 29 2.0
13 Southam, David..............2210 D 32 D 25 W 31 2.0
14 Moffat, Andrei..............2206 D 37 D 32 W 34 2.0
15 Sapozhnikov, Roman..........2140 W 40 L 5 W 32 2.0
16 Calugar, Arthur.............2074 D 9 W 26 D 18 2.0
17 Sambuev, Bator GM..........2527 H--- W 24 L 2 1.5
18 Gerzhoy, Leonid IM..........2459 L 27 W 37 D 16 1.5
19 Szalay, Karoly..............2204 W 33 L 4 D 25 1.5
20 Nahutin, Yevgeni............2182 L 34 D 35 W 36 1.5
21 Zhou, Haonan................2131 L 1 D 36 W 35 1.5
22 Sellars, Karl...............2091 H--- L 9 W 37 1.5
23 Siddeley, Hugh..............2027 W 10 L 6 H--- 1.5
24 Rakov, Pavel................1944 W 41 L 17 D 26 1.5
25 Wang, Jesse.................1890 H--- D 13 D 19 1.5
26 Filipovich, David...........2229 H--- L 16 D 24 1.0
27 Austria, Federico...........2121 W 18 L 8 L 10 1.0
28 Sundar, Avinash.............2112 L 3 W 33 L 11 1.0
29 Knox, Christopher...........2106 L 4 W 40 L 12 1.0
30 Ng, Kit-Sun.................2098 L 5 L 10 W 40 1.0
31 Meng, Ang...................2081 L 6 W 38 L 13 1.0
32 Cliff, Scott................2014 D 13 D 14 L 15 1.0
33 Kleinman, Michael...........2001 L 19 L 28 W 38 1.0
34 Leu, Richard................1950 W 20 L 7 L 14 1.0
35 Inigo, Aquino...............2088 L 8 D 20 L 21 0.5
36 Ang, Alan...................2021 L 11 D 21 L 20 0.5
37 Tselukio, Oleg..............2004 D 14 L 18 L 22 0.5
38 Frilles, Ruperto............2135 L 2 L 31 L 33 0.0
39 Arandia, Henry..............2020 L 12 U--- U--- 0.0
40 Longo, Tyler................1933 L 15 L 29 L 30 0.0
41 Kaufman, Harris.............1904 L 24 U--- U--- 0.0
1 Van Dusen, Eric.............1939 W 8 W 6 W 7 3.0
2 Orlova, Liza................1978 W 13 D 3 W 5 2.5
3 Lai, Matthew................1854 W 24 D 2 W 12 2.5
4 Mesiti, Silvano.............1737 W 21 D 12 W 10 2.5
5 Semianiuk, Konstantin.......1893 W 15 W 14 L 2 2.0
6 Moysoski, Randy.............1879 W 22 L 1 W 19 2.0
7 Wu, Kevin...................1874 W 9 W 11 L 1 2.0
8 Roller, Robert..............1800 L 1 W 22 W 17 2.0
9 Chidley-Hill, John..........1973 L 7 D 15 W 26 1.5
10 Abrahams, Daniel............1921 W 25 H--- L 4 1.5
11 Kaufmann, Harris............1904 B--- L 7 D 14 1.5
12 Wang, Jerry.................1883 W 20 D 4 L 3 1.5
13 Bzikot, Robert..............1878 L 2 W 24 D 16 1.5
14 Itkin, Victor...............1770 W 17 L 5 D 11 1.5
15 Lambruschini, Alex..........1722 L 5 D 9 W 22 1.5
16 Gillis, Doug................1639 H--- D 19 D 13 1.5
17 Zhang, Brent................1908 L 14 W 20 L 8 1.0
18 Wang, Jesse.................1890 W 23 U--- U--- 1.0
19 Liu, Steven.................1672 H--- D 16 L 6 1.0
20 Chan, Alex..................1617 L 12 L 17 W 24 1.0
21 Farrant, David..............1598 L 4 H--- H--- 1.0
22 Maheux, Pierre..............1999 L 6 L 8 L 15 0.0
23 Hahnewald, Uwe..............1647 L 18 U--- U--- 0.0
24 Farrant-Diaz, Nathan........1573 L 3 L 13 L 20 0.0
25 Lee, Mei chen...............1507 L 10 U--- U--- 0.0
26 Balanaser, Morgan...........1492 U--- U--- L 9 0.0
1 Roe, Jim....................1612 W 19 W 20 W 8 3.0
2 Supsup, Ferdinand...........1574 W 24 W 21 W 4 3.0
3 Lee, Mei Chen...............1507 W 22 D 11 W 13 2.5
4 Bellomo, Joe................1694 W 23 W 18 L 2 2.0
5 Ugodnikov, Arakdiy..........1660 D 12 D 14 W 11 2.0
6 Jackiw, Mark................1589 L 20 W 19 W 18 2.0
7 O'Neill, Brendon............1561 L 21 W 24 W 20 2.0
8 Itkin, David................1541 W 16 W 13 L 1 2.0
9 Yu, Patrick ................1441 L 11 W 23 W 15 2.0
10 Safir, Alexander............1406 H--- H--- W 16 2.0
11 Lai, Jonathan...............1569 W 9 D 3 L 5 1.5
12 Archibald, Colin............1552 D 5 L 15 W 21 1.5
13 Rogers, Michael.............1655 W 17 L 8 L 3 1.0
14 Hahnewald, Uwe..............1647 U--- D 5 H--- 1.0
15 Wing, Richard...............1613 L 18 W 12 L 9 1.0
16 Ward, Dean..................1599 L 8 W 17 L 10 1.0
17 Karpik, Steve...............1546 L 13 L 16 W 24 1.0
18 Bercovici, Mark.............1544 W 15 L 4 L 6 1.0
19 Posaratnanathan, Roy........1542 L 1 L 6 W 23 1.0
20 Khaiter, Dennis.............1536 W 6 L 1 L 7 1.0
21 Song, Terry.................1429 W 7 L 2 L 12 1.0
22 Wong, Samson................1588 L 3 U--- U--- 0.0
23 Giblon, Rebecca.............1561 L 4 L 9 L 19 0.0
24 Kaufman, Elliot.............1451 L 2 L 7 L 17 0.0
1 Li, Travis..................1462 W 26 W 22 W 11 3.0
2 Kim, Bill...................1429 W 27 W 23 W 6 3.0
3 Plotkin, Mark...............1464 W 28 W 12 D 5 2.5
4 Posaratnanathan, Juliaan....1454 D 16 W 17 W 18 2.5
5 Drennan-Scace, Matthew......1266 W 19 W 9 D 3 2.5
6 Brammall, Stuart............1469 W 14 W 21 L 2 2.0
7 Safir, Alexander............1406 W 20 W 15 U--- 2.0
8 Odziemkowski, Peter.........1372 L 22 W 26 W 16 2.0
9 Dattani, Dinesh.............1358 W 29 L 5 W 20 2.0
10 Lev, Jonathan...............1353 L 23 W 27 W 21 2.0
11 Villaluz, Ernesto...........1350 W 24 W 18 L 1 2.0
12 Yang, Bryant................1341 W 25 L 3 W 22 2.0
13 Martin, James Denis Dylan...1294 L 18 W 29 W 23 2.0
14 Zhou, Kevin.................1262 L 6 W 24 W 25 2.0
15 Farine, Jonathan............1319 W 17 L 7 H--- 1.5
16 Bellissimo, Joseph..........1136 D 4 W 19 L 8 1.5
17 Balanaser, Morgan...........1492 L 15 L 4 B--- 1.0
18 Vera, Jesus.................1490 W 13 L 11 L 4 1.0
19 Azmitia, Gabriel............1482 L 5 L 16 W 29 1.0
20 Yin, Zining................. 920 L 7 B--- L 9 1.0
21 Du, Bob..................... 897 B--- L 6 L 10 1.0
22 Lin, Tony (Juntao)..........unr. W 8 L 1 L 12 1.0
23 Nguyen, Jason...............unr. W 10 L 2 L 13 1.0
24 Monsalve, Luz Adriana.......unr. L 11 L 14 W 28 1.0
25 Rodriguez, Roman............unr. L 12 W 28 L 14 1.0
26 MacIlquham, Thomas..........1163 L 1 L 8 H--- 0.5
27 Milicevic, Aleksandra.......1105 L 2 L 10 H--- 0.5
28 Liu, Danny..................1216 L 3 L 25 L 24 0.0
29 Wang, Oliver (Ziyang).......unr. L 9 L 13 L 19 0.0
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