PwC Toronto Open - Almost 140 Pre-regs to Thurs. - Entries Close Tues., April 14

[Precy Mckoy]

Re: PwC Toronto Open site

I visited the site tonight (saw a few late entries come in) and it's a pretty historic building, the main playing hall is two stories tall and a short walk down the stairs to outdoors for the smokers. Fast to many elevators up for the washrooms/ bookstore/ lower boards. The first floor also has washrooms and a bar. Pass the vault in the basement there is an entrance to the PATH underground (Hockey Hall of Fame). The cheapest parking is the multi-level garage at the bottom of Church Street.

With only 5 rounds will the winner(s) have to get 5-0? Two draws and they may end up in a big tie for the lower prizes.

Erik,
Where is the multi level parking located and how much per day? Participants must be eager to know the exact location of this parking space.

Thanks!:)

[Erik Malmsten]

Re: PwC Toronto Open site

Erik,
Where is the multi level parking located and how much per day? Participants must be eager to know the exact location of this parking space.

Thanks!:)

Hi,

I just went by it on my way back from work, but didn't think of checking the price. I've been told it's the cheapest in the area as most streets have parking meters and the playing site has valet parking.

The entrance to the 3-level parking garage is at the bottom of Church Street, south of the Esplande/ south of Front/ south of King. Can walk up to King (St. James Cathedral) turn left (west) pass the King Edward Hotel, pass Yonge Steet the tournament entrance in on King Street.

For those flying in, take the Airport Express Bus to the Royal York Hotel/Union Station (something like $16) walk up to King Street and East past the Bank of Commerce tower and the entrance is just before Yonge. Taxis will often refuse to take people from Union Station to 3 blocks away.

[Erik Malmsten]

Re: PwC Toronto Open - 89 players in Open Section

OPEN

1 GM Hikaru Nakamura 2757 USA
2 GM Alexander Shabalov 2630 USA
3 GM Eugene Perelshteyn 2601 USA
4 GM Bator Sambuev 2584 ON
5 IM Artiom Samsonkin 2548 ON
6 GM Joshua Friedel 2537 USA
7 IM Leonid Gerzhoy 2528 ON
8 IM Nikolay Noritsyn 2503 ON
9 FM Shiyam Thavandiran 2462 ON
10 IM Brian Hartman 2434 ON
11 IM David Cummings 2430 ON
12 IM Ron Livshits 2427 ON
13 FM Eduardo Teodoro 2413 ON
14 FM Christian Stevens 2408 ON
15 FM Robert Hamilton 2384 ON
16 FM Bindi Cheng 2376 ON
17 David (Yu) Peng 2375 ON
18 IM Michael Schleifer 2356 QC
19 FM Michael Barron 2344 ON
20 Eddie Mark 2344 USA
21 FM Goran Milicevic 2340 ON
22 Roman Sapozhnikov 2327 ON
23 IM Lawrence Day 2322 ON
24 Victor Plotkin 2322 ON
25 WIM Iryna Zenyuk 2305 USA
26 FM Vinod Puri 2297 ON
27 Eddie Urquhart 2289 ON
28 Liam Henry 2278 ON
29 IM Raymond Kaufman 2274 USA
30 Alexander Martchenko 2272 ON
31 WIM Natalia Khoudgarian 2252 ON
32 Keith MacKinnon 2250 SK
33 David Filipovich 2241 ON
34 WFM Yuanling Yuan 2240 ON
35 Hugues Masse 2234 QC
36 Wajdi Shbaita 2230 ON
37 Ziyi (Joey) Qin 2226 ON
38 Aleksandr Tuxanidy Torres 2221 ON
39 Joshua Guo 2220 ON
40 David Lavin 2219 ON
41 Karoly Szalay 2218 ON
42 Arthur Calugar 2216 ON
43 Haonan Zhou 2203 ON
44 Ilia Bluvshtein 2200 ON
45 Balwinder Singh 2200 IND
46 Avinash Sundar 2194 ON
47 Andrei Moffat 2175 ON
48 Hugh Siddeley 2171 ON
49 FM Hans Jung 2170 ON
50 Felix Barrios 2161 ON
51 Aman Hambleton 2160 ON
52 Ted Kret 2158 ON
53 David Southam 2148 ON
54 Mikhail Egorov 2127 ON
55 Federico Austria 2117 ON
56 Michael Kleinman 2090 ON
57 Pavel Rakov 2089 ON
58 Alexander Friedman 2085 ON
59 Nikita Gusev 2080 ON
60 Mavros Whissell 2067 ON
61 Michael Humphreys 2065 ON
62 Geordie Derraugh 2063 ON
63 Andrew Picana 2057 ON
64 Christopher Knox 2056 ON
65 Keith Wight 2054 ON
66 Ralph Gregorz 2053 ON
67 Vladimir Drkulec 2052 ON
68 Aquino Inigo 2047 ON
69 Jessie Wang 2046 ON
70 David Plaxton 2036 ON
71 Julia Lacaurodean 2035 ON
72 Vladimir Semyonov 2031 ON
73 William Evans 2030 ON
74 Anthony Cheron 2025 ON
75 Daniel Abrahams 2007 ON
76 Peter Bokhout 2006 ON
77 Aaron Wu 1986 ON
78 Aaaron Both 1968 ON
79 Andre Zybura 1959 ON
80 Dalia Kagramanov 1943 ON
81 Peter Boross-Harmer 1930 ON
82 John Chidley-Hill 1903 ON
83 Agastya Kalra 1850 ON
84 Simon Gladstone 1820 ON
85 Mathew Nicholson 1814 ON
86 Robert Armstrong 1803 ON
87 Michael Sharpe 1750 ON
88 Pino Verde 1712 ON
89 Richard Marks 1662 ON

[Erik Malmsten]

Re: PwC Toronto Open - 60 Players Under 2000

Under 2000
1 Ross Richardson 1922
2 Olya Chichkina 1904
3 David Bowers 1831
4 Joe Bellomo 1755
5 Florian Bergeron 1754
6 David Gunapalan 1749
7 Kevin Zhou 1690
8 Jason Nguyen 1620
9 Manuel Balboa 1968
10 Mickey Stein 1965
11 Omar Shah 1958
12 Raymond Singh 1954
13 Garvin Nunes 1945
14 Oleg Tseluiko 1943
15 Yelizaveta Orlova 1938
16 Robert Bzikot 1929
17 Arnie Lucki 1927
18 Robert Gashgarian 1919
19 Erik Malmsten 1917
20 John Bleau 1901
21 Brent Zhang 1900
22 Sadiq Juma 1900
23 Eric Van Dusen 1871
24 Ian Finlay 1868
25 Pepin Manalo 1863
26 Devon Thomas 1854
27 Zhiyuan Zhang 1843
28 Bill Kim 1826
29 Yuriy Kryvoshlyk 1823
30 David Itkin 1810
31 Laurent Allard 1802 QC
32 Marcus Wilker 1794
33 Victor Itkin 1789
34 Christopher Takov 1782
35 Saveli Trostidusky 1780
36 Bruce Dowling 1771
37 William Gordon Rutherdale 1762
38 Pacifico Cortez 1760
39 Steven H. Liu 1760
40 Jose Cabioc 1717
41 Richard Wing 1716
42 Caesar Posylek 1714
43 Mario Moran-Venegas 1712
44 Alan Power 1700
45 Philip Chan 1691
46 Genadi Medvedev 1680
47 Joseph Sy 1674
48 Michael von Keitz 1674
49 Dennis Khaiter 1670
50 Jose Belzunce 1664
51 Jim Zhou 1653
52 Ken Kurkowski 1644
53 Ferdinand Supsup 1626
54 Drake Lalonde 1624
55 Merlin Atayde 1624
56 Zeljko Kitich 1617
57 Guannan Song 1616
58 Mate Milinkovic 1596
59 Mark Bercovici 1576
60 Roy Posaratnanathan 1567

[Erik Malmsten]

Re: PwC Toronto Open - 53 in novice cma rating

I've spent an hour looking up CMA ratings for the youth in this section. There doesn't seem to be a pattern like CMA+300=CFC. One player is very active in cma events and his rating is over 1600, should he be in this section? All others have lower cma. Also, should cma ratings of 4 unrateds be used for pairings?


Under 1600

1 James Fu 1588 cma 1339 g6
2 Mike Vasovic 1580
3 Mei Chen Lee 1578
4 Michael Zaghi 1571 cma 1129 g13
5 James Roe 1562
6 Noel Santiago 1549
7 Mike Ivanov 1546 cma 1636 g8
8 Andre Siegel 1540
9 Mark Plotkin 1534 cma 1425 g5
10 Colin Archibald 1527
11 Rebecca Giblon 1526 cma 1165 g6
12 Juliaan Posaratnanathan 1504 cma 1298 g6
13 Jack McGuire 1492
14 Lehn Nasir 1474 (Zehn 1135 g5)
15 Patrick Yu 1462 cma 1193 g5
16 Misha Kurbatov 1452 (Michael 909 g11)
17 Jesus Vera 1448
18 Joseph Bellissimo 1446 cma 1441 g3
19 Adam Cormier 1442
20 Alice Laimer 1440
21 Nathan Farrant-Diaz 1426 cma 1266 g7
22 Jackie Peng 1424 cma 1306 g5
23 Michael Rogers 1389 cma 574 g12
24 Dinesh Dattani 1374
25 Ping Lin 1354
26 Daniel Zotkin 1340 cma 1167 g2
27 James D. D. Martin 1340 cma 471 g8
28 Andrew Giblon 1322
29 Yutong Luo 1312
30 Joey Orozco 1309
31 Brett Gugel 1308 cma 1297 g2
32 Ernesto Villaluz 1293
33 Kyle France 1258
34 Jeffrey Pancer 1250
35 Renifel Caday 1240
36 Dima Gouzovski 1235 (Dmitri 574 g9)
37 Ferdinand Cale 1215
38 Jesse Woolford 1200
39 Kuhan Jeyapragasan 1181 cma 1031 g6
40 Anthony Maulucci 1076 cma 1257 g2
41 Jason Xi 1064 cma 1036 g4
42 Derek Green 1031 cma 857 g17
43 Shafkat Ali Unrated
44 Keith Denning Unrated
45 Bruce MacInnis Unrated
46 Jeffrey Nool Unrated
47 Jeremy Worden Unrated cma 864 g6
48 Karl Westerholm Unrated cma 723 g5
49 Kosta Kalentebidis Unrated cma 1027 g6
50 William Robertson Unrated (Willy 622 g6)
51 Mario Libatique Unrated
52 Boris Iriarte Unrated
53 Alexandre Michelasvili Unrated

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Re: PwC Toronto Open site

I visited the site tonight (saw a few late entries come in) and it's a pretty historic building, the main playing hall is two stories tall

Erik, maybe you'll have time to answer:
Where is the main normal (for chess players) entrance to the playing hall? Any guiding signs for comers by subway?

[Ken MacDonald]

Directions........

It is difficult to describe directions to those who have not been to 1-King Street West or do not know Toronto, BUT, let me try....

Location is on the SW corner of King and Yonge Streets. Subway stops at that corner, so exit the subway at King Street exit (There is another exit at King Street & University, but that is called something else.)

If one were walking down Yonge (South direction) toward the lake, it would be across King Street on the right directly across from Shoppers Drug Mart which is on the SE corner.

Entrance is from King Street. Walk straight in. If you go down a few stairs, you will be in the hotel lobby, BUT, before going down these stairs, hang a right and you will walk up a flight (or 2) of stairs to the Banking Hall. There you are.

Please note, I am not aware if there are special entrances OR if there will be signs directing participants and spectators, but there should be.

[Gary Gladstone]

Re: PwC Toronto Open - Almost 140 Pre-regs to Thurs. - Entries Close Tues., April 14

Did the pairings ever get posted?

[Bob Armstrong]

Re: PwC Toronto Open - Almost 140 Pre-regs to Thurs. - Entries Close Tues., April 14

Hi Gary:

I just checked Bryan Lamb's official tournament website, and the pairings are not yet posted. Neither has he sent any to me yet for posting on the discussion boards.

Bob

[Erik Malmsten]

Re: Directions........

Location is on the SW corner of King and Yonge Streets. Subway stops at that corner, so exit the subway at King Street exit (There is another exit at King Street & University, but that is called something else.)

If one were walking down Yonge (South direction) toward the lake, it would be across King Street on the right directly across from Shoppers Drug Mart which is on the SE corner.

Entrance is from King Street. Walk straight in. If you go down a few stairs, you will be in the hotel lobby, BUT, before going down these stairs, hang a right and you will walk up a flight (or 2) of stairs to the Banking Hall. There you are.

Please note, I am not aware if there are special entrances OR if there will be signs directing participants and spectators, but there should be.

Exit the King subway at the north end, turn left up the narrow stairway to the south side of King Street where the stop for the eastbound streetcars are.

Instead of going on a streetcar go into building.

Turn right and up the stairs and register with Sydney. Further up the stairs is the Bryan Lamb TD office and playing hall.

If you exit the subway train at the south end and use the yellow hallway it will be hard to see the door to the tournament building on the north side (right side) as you enter Commerce Court.

On the first floor is a fancy bar. Vending machine and washrooms on hallway at NW end of bar, just south of the stairway to the tournament. Newspaper/ candy shop on the east side of entrance.