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Many players have been having excellent results, however I wanted to point out one player who will be very pleased with his results. Adam Dorrance has 3.5/6 in the U18. Now 3.5/6 although a good result isn't particularly spectacular, except when three of your opponents are 2400's and 2 are 2300's and your 2131. That is really incredible.
Yes indeed Caleb, Adam's achievements in this WYCC are remarkable. As you and Andrew Peredun have highlighted, his three starting draws were extremely hard-fought affairs against opponents whose ratings were 200-300 points higher. Chess-Results assigns him a performance rating of 2365 and a FIDE rating increase of 70.8 points after 6 rounds.
Adam is an talented, hard-working, erudite and courteous young man who has always been a pleasure to have in the CMA and the CFC events. Congratulations Adam, and keep up the good fight!
Qiyu drew her game against the leader today. She had her chances against an opponent who thumped her in their last encounter, in the U14G WYCC in 2013.
On the top boards today: Qiyu Zhou 0.5, Nameer Issani 0, Maili-Jade Ouellet 0, Richard Chen 1, Nicholas Vettese 1, Eugene Hua 1. These players have either 5.5 or 5 points.
Other important Canadian results today: Razvan Preotu 1, Aiden Zhou 1, Anthony Atanasov 0.5, Constance Wang 1, Svitlana Demchenko 1, Mysha Gilani 1. All these players have 4.5 points now.
Reminder: past results, standings and current pairings for all of Team Canada can be accessed here.
John Coleman's spreadsheet with all Canadian results sorted is here.
On the top boards today: Razvan Preotu 1, Qiyu Zhou 0.5, Richard Chen 1, Eugene Hua 0.5, Nicholas Vettese 0, Nameer Issani 1. Richard Chen currently has 6.5/8, Qiyu Zhou, Eugene Hua, Nameer Issani and Max Chen - 6.0/8.
Reminder: past results, standings and current pairings for all of Team Canada can be accessed here.
John Coleman's spreadsheet with all Canadian results sorted is here.
Last edited by Vadim Tsypin; Monday, 2nd November, 2015, 06:31 PM.
Reason: Corrected omission of one player.
On the top boards today: Razvan Preotu 0.5, Richard Chen 0, Eugene Hua 0.5, Nameer Issani 0, Max Chen 0, Anthony Atanasov 0.5, Qiyu Zhou 0, Svitlana Demchenko 0, Mysha Gilani 0, Angela Lin 0.
Richard Chen, Nicholas Vettese and Eugene Hua all have 6.5/9.
Reminder: past results, standings and current pairings for all of Team Canada can be accessed here.
John Coleman's spreadsheet with all Canadian results sorted is here.
On the top boards today: Razvan Preotu 1, John Doknjas 0, Richard Chen 0, Nicholas Vettese 0, Eugene Hua 0, Nameer Issani 0.5, Max Chen 1, Anthony Atanasov 0, Qiyu Zhou 1, Svitlana Demchenko 1, Julia Kuleshova 0.5, Mysha Gilani 0, Angela Lin 1.
Razvan Preotu, Max Chen and Qiyu Zhou all have 7/10. Last round is tomorrow at 10 a.m. local time == 3 a.m. EST.
Reminder:
past results, standings and current pairings for all of Team Canada can be accessed here.
John Coleman's spreadsheet with all Canadian results sorted is here.
Many players have been having excellent results, however I wanted to point out one player who will be very pleased with his results. Adam Dorrance has 3.5/6 in the U18. Now 3.5/6 although a good result isn't particularly spectacular, except when three of your opponents are 2400's and 2 are 2300's and your 2131. That is really incredible.
Adam drew his last round for a performance rating a few points shy of 2400 FIDE. He lives in a small town in NS so does most of his chess over the internet. Even so, he's about 2280 CFC, and now about 2280 FIDE. My guess (based on working with him sporadically over the years) is that if he lived in Ontario, and with a bit of practice vs stronger players, he would be about 2400-2450 CFC.
"Tom is a well known racist, and like most of them he won't admit it, possibly even to himself." - Ed Seedhouse, October 4, 2020.
Razvan Preotu (Open U-16) and Nameer Issani (Open U-10) won their last-round games earlier today, delivering the best performances and the best finishes among Canadian contigent with 8/11 (6th place) and 7.5/11 (13th place) correspondingly. Five players have 7/11.
Complete results and final standings for all of Team Canada can be accessed here.
Congratulations to everyone on Team Canada: players, parents, coaches, volunteers, officials - on your valiant fight. You made people at home proud. Since Youth and Cadet events are split starting next year, this was probably the last time we are seeing such a constellation of young talent together. Good luck in chess and life!
Last edited by Vadim Tsypin; Thursday, 5th November, 2015, 12:29 PM.
Reason: Replaced "10" by "11". :)
Adam drew his last round for a performance rating a few points shy of 2400 FIDE. He lives in a small town in NS so does most of his chess over the internet. Even so, he's about 2280 CFC, and now about 2280 FIDE. My guess (based on working with him sporadically over the years) is that if he lived in Ontario, and with a bit of practice vs stronger players, he would be about 2400-2450 CFC.
Indeed, a very strong performance for a very nice and friendly person. It's not easy to gain 150 rating points in junior event. Congratulations!
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