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2015 Zonal: Sambuev looking for 3rd straight title, Hansen returns
2015 Zonal: Sambuev looking for 3rd straight title, Hansen returns
The roster for the 2015 Canadian Closed and Zonal Championship is slowly taking shape. Already we have a 40 year spread from our youngest to oldest competitors. Who will join Anton at the World Cup?
Registered to date:
1 GM Bator Sambuev
2 GM Eric Hansen
3 IM Razvan Preotu
4 IM Artiom Samsonkin
5 FM Jason Cao
6 FM Alex Yam
7 FM Hans Jung
8 FM Robert Hamilton
9 John Doknjas
10 FM Michael Barron
11 Joshua Doknjas
12 Diwen Shi
The tournament runs from July 10 - 16 in Peter Clark Hall at the University of Guelph. The registration fee is $250 until June 30. You can forward your cheque payable to:
Hal Bond, #205-105 Conroy Crescent, Guelph, ON N1G 2V5
Fresh off another great result in Gatineau, U12 wunderkind Nicholas Vettese has joined the hunt for the 2015 Zonal title. The spread from eldest to youngest is now 46 years!
FM Dale Haessel joins the Alberta squad. Thus far 5 provinces are represented.
Hi Hal, sorry, I would have sent this to you via email, but I couldn't find it. I appreciate your effort for the Zonal. My minor contribution toward this is as follows:
(1) Our company (Business Improvement Group Inc.) will provide a brilliancy prize of $1,000 CDN as judged by GM Duncan Suttles of 3 games submitted by your group to me/Duncan.
(2) $1,000 to anyone that might achieve a perfect score.
Hi Hal, sorry, I would have sent this to you via email, but I couldn't find it. I appreciate your effort for the Zonal. My minor contribution toward this is as follows:
(1) Our company (Business Improvement Group Inc.) will provide a brilliancy prize of $1,000 CDN as judged by GM Duncan Suttles of 3 games submitted by your group to me/Duncan.
(2) $1,000 to anyone that might achieve a perfect score.
Hope this is ok with you.
Brian
Very generous Brian! Thank you. [not sure how this could be considered "not okay" - lol]
Wow! Brian that is awesome. Thank you for your generous support. Very ok with me!! I will contact you.
Our roster is growing. With IM Richard Wang now on board I think Alberta would give Ontario a real run for its money if there was a 4 board team prize. Here is the new list:
2015 Canadian Closed
1 GM Bator Sambuev
2 GM Eric Hansen
3 IM Razvan Preotu
4 IM Artiom Samsonkin
5 FM Victor Plotkin
6 IM Richard Wang
7 FM Jason Cao
8 FM Alex Yam
9 FM Hans Jung
10 FM Robert Hamilton
11 FM Dale Haessel
12 John Doknjas
13 FM Michael Barron
14 Nicholas Vettese
15 Joshua Doknjas
16 Diwen Shi
Very impressive. Too bad Brian is not playing since I am sure he would still be a contender. Also great to have chess legend GM Suttles as judge. Well done.
FIDE has all but eliminated title awards at Zonal Championships for reasons unknown. You have to win the Zonal to get an IM title and 65% is the new threshold for the FM title. Norms are still possible though - the foreign content requirement is waived.
Being one of the players who got a title on Canadian Closed, I have to say what previous requirement (65 % for 1 IM title and 50 % for 2 FM titles) was very easy. Every Closed since 2006 produced 3 new title holders.
Interesting, among 10 players who got FM title this way, 7 crossed 2300 level later (Tayar, Thavandiran, Panjwani, Jiang, Hambleton, Kleinman, Plotkin).
Among 5 IMs only 2 crossed 2400 level (Noritsyn, Wang).
For many years, Canadian Closed was the most popular way to get a FM title (at least for Ontario players). I remember only 3 players from Ontario received this title by "normal" way: Sapozhnikov, Preotu and Song.
You made me laugh...the only thing I would contend for at this time might be blitz in a bar with Robert Hamilton :) - and, happy to oblige! Though, good luck to Robert and all others in the event.
Yes, very generous of Duncan. He and I have been meeting of late on his very interesting gaming/simulation project.
We have 28 players signed up now. I will update the ratings next week.
Standings. 2015 Canadian Closed: 2015 Canadian Closed
# Name ID Rtng Post Tot TBrk[H] TBrk[C] TBrk[O]
1 GM Bator Sambuev 146462 2642
2 GM Eric Hansen 132475 2630
3 IM Razvan Preotu 146124 2619
4 IM Artiom Samsonkin 146305 2546
5 FM Jason Cao 149413 2439
6 IM Richard Wang 142949 2426
7 FM Victor Plotkin 142063 2412
8 FM Andrew Peredun 101770 2391
9 FM Alex Yam 138357 2384
10 FM Michael Humphreys 131628 2345
11 John Doknjas 141225 2320
12 FM Hans Jung 100182 2310
13 Elias Oussedik 125337 2307
14 FM Michael Barron 134840 2306
15 Kevin Wan 147460 2290
16 FM Robert Hamilton 102629 2279
17 FM Dale Haessel 112476 2272
18 Richard Chen 148271 2272
19 Nicholas Vettese 154199 2271
20 Michael Buscar 110977 2245
21 Qiyu Zhou 151707 2236
22 Yinshi Li 145175 2217
23 Diwen Shi 145882 2214
24 Guannan Terry Song 146052 2184
25 Joey Zhong 151234 2171
26 Gordon Olheiser 101400 2168
27 Jason Cai 153768 2149
28 Joshua Doknjas 146444 2082
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