2009 Ontario Open: the event report

[Aris Marghetis]

This year saw the return of the traditional Ontario Open on the Victoria Day long weekend. The 2009 edition was the turn of Eastern Ontario, and the EOCA was proud to host this classic event in Ottawa, at the home of the RA Chess Club. The RA Centre is a huge facility, and we lucked out with two big semi-connected rooms, that provided lots of space, good lighting, and decent air control. The only hitch occurred during an evening round, when a water pipe burst at the other end of the building, setting off the fire alarm, and making air conditioning imperfect for a couple of hours. However, all of the players were real understanding troopers, and after a brief walk out of the building, and then back in, we smoothly finished the round without any further incidents.

Taking advantage of the long weekend, the schedule was two rounds per day, starting just after lunchtime on the Saturday. By then, we had 68 players registered, and rather evenly across all ratings. Therefore, the players were split across 3 sections, and then further grouped across 6 rating classes.

Before reporting the tournament results, I just wanted to take a moment to thank the OCA and the EOCA for their organizational financial support, which contributed to a total prize fund of $4300! I also want to recognize Bill Doubleday, Frank Dixon, Chris Mallon, Garland Best, Eric Van Dusen, Wei Xiong, and Stijn De Kerpel. Without their help, there is no way this event would have unfolded as smoothly as it did. These are the kind of people who keep asking what else can we do! Finally, I want to express my admiration to a wonderful collection of players bringing sportsmanship from across our great province.

Section A featured 5 FIDE title players, led by GM Bator Sambuev, and including IMs Artiom Samsonkin and Leonid Gerzhoy, and FMs Michael Barron and Alex Davies. In the Top class, rated 2200 and over, Bator and Artiom fended off everyone else, including a titanic win by Artiom over Bator, to both finish clearly at the top with scores of 5-1. This was worth $800 (sharing $1000+$600) for each of these elite players, and many of the other players expressed how nice it was to see these classy young men emerge as co-winners, especially as both of them entertained us with round after round of exciting chess.

Rounding out the Top class, was yet another impressive performance by young Roman Sapozhnikov, who took 3rd place and $400 with a score of 4-2. And then rounding out Section A was the U2200 class, whose $500 prize was shared by strong locals William Doubleday and Saeid Sadeghi, both scoring 3-3.

Moving on to Section B, it consisted of an U2000 class, and an U1800 class. I tend to award single big class prizes, but there were so many non-Amateur players in the U2000 class, that there were two prizes, $500 for first and $300 for second. Similar to what happened in Section A, two players dominated this section with scores of 5-1. Jean-Bruno Chartrand from the province of Quebec, and rising local youngster David Li, each went home $400 richer.

In the U1800 class in Section B, Josh Renaud won with a good performance of 3.5-2.5, but he was playing as an Amateur. Behind him, things were very close, with 4 players scoring 3-3 to share $400 in cash. Marcel Laurin, Gordon Ritchie, Marion Bellgrau, and John Brown, each left with an extra $100.

Section C actually had the most dramatic finish, with the very last game of the tournament going on for well over 4 hours, and determining the last two prizes of the weekend. After the dust had settled, Drake Lalonde dramatically vaulted over the previous leader to win the U1600 class prize and $300. Finally, also scoring 4.5-1.5, and probably the best performance relative to previous rating, Kyle France obliterated the U1400 class, also winning $300.

Please visit the weblink below for a PDF of the wall chart. It should be up a day or so after the event, and will eventually also link to the CFC crosstable.

Yours in chess,

Aris Marghetis
Organizer/TD, EOCA President
http://www.eoca.org/htm/tournaments%202008-09.html

My next event will be the Eastern Ontario Open, scheduled for June 26th-28th.

If you would like to receive details on this event directly via email, please email arismarghetis@rogers.com to be added to my private email list.

[Aris Marghetis]

Re: 2009 Ontario Open: the event report

Please find below a text dump of the final wall charts from site :

# rating name rounds 1-6 FIDE# CFC# prize

Top Class
1 2622 GM Sambuev, Bator +10 B 1.0 +14 W 2.0 -2 B 2.0 +6 W 3.0 +18 B 4.0 +12 W 5.0 4128290 146462 $800
2 2590 IM Samsonkin, Artiom =11 W 0.5 +12 B 1.5 +1 W 2.5 +3 B 3.5 +5 W 4.5 =6 B 5.0 13503111 146305 $800
3 2546 IM Gerzhoy, Leonid =12 B 0.5 +17 W 1.5 =8 B 2.0 -2 W 2.0 =7 B 2.5 +4 W 3.5 2806126 142916
4 2364 FM Barron, Michael +13 W 1.0 =7 B 1.5 =18 W 2.0 -9 B 2.0 =8 W 2.5 -3 B 2.5 2605120 134840
5 2352 Sapozhnikov, Roman -14 B 0.0 +16 W 1.0 +10 B 2.0 +8 W 3.0 -2 B 3.0 +18 W 4.0 2601842 138609 $400
6 2316 Pacey, Kevin +15 W 1.0 =18 B 1.5 =7 W 2.0 -1 B 2.0 +10 W 3.0 =2 W 3.5 2600455 103715
7 2248 Gordon, David +16 B 1.0 =4 W 1.5 =6 B 2.0 -18 W 2.0 =3 W 2.5 -8 B 2.5 2602431 106629
8 2241 Filipovich, David =17 W 0.5 +11 B 1.5 =3 W 2.0 -5 B 2.0 =4 B 2.5 +7 W 3.5 2600706 103521
9 2233 FM Davies, Alex -18 B 0.0 +15 W 1.0 +14 B 2.0 +4 W 3.0 =12 B 3.5 -0 bye 3.5 2603284 110120
10 2221 Torres, Aleksandr -1 W 0.0 +13 B 1.0 -5 W 1.0 +14 B 2.0 -6 B 2.0 +15 W 3.0 149090
11 2220 Kirby, Patrick =2 B 0.5 -8 W 0.5 =19 W 1.0 -15 B 1.0 +17 W 2.0 =16 B 2.5 2609754 107850

U2200 Class
12 2197 Doubleday, William =3 W 0.5 -2 W 0.5 +17 B 1.5 +19 B 2.5 =9 W 3.0 -1 B 3.0 2682419 103754 $250
13 2171 Xiong, Jerry -4 B 0.0 -10 W 0.0 -15 B 0.0 +33 W 1.0 =14 W 1.5 +17 B 2.5 2606844 133928
14 2134 Whissell, Mavros +5 W 1.0 -1 B 1.0 -9 W 1.0 -10 W 1.0 =13 B 1.5 +19 W 2.5 2609460 112769
15 2098 Upper, John -6 B 0.0 -9 B 0.0 +13 W 1.0 +11 W 2.0 =19 B 2.5 -10 B 2.5 2606437 101925
16 2094 Palsson, Halldor -7 W 0.0 -5 B 0.0 +31 W 1.0 -17 B 1.0 +33 B 2.0 =11 W 2.5 2603136 106856
17 2074 Wight, Keith =8 B 0.5 -3 B 0.5 -12 W 0.5 +16 W 1.5 -11 B 1.5 -13 W 1.5 2602075 102934
18 2067 Sadeghi, Saeid +9 W 1.0 =6 W 1.5 =4 B 2.0 +7 B 3.0 -1 W 3.0 -5 B 3.0 2606810 139655 $250
19 2065 Ferreira, Alex -31 B 0.0 +33 W 1.0 =11 B 1.5 -12 W 1.5 =15 W 2.0 -14 B 2.0 2606763 127516

U2000 Class
20 1997 Desjardins, Michel +34 B 1.0 -27 W 1.0 +38 B 2.0 +36 W 3.0 =22 B 3.5 +25 W 4.5 2601427 131936
21 1986 Chartrand, Jean-Bruno +35 W 1.0 +29 B 2.0 =30 W 2.5 +24 B 3.5 +27 B 4.5 =22 W 5.0 145537 $400
22 1936 Bossy, John -36 B 0.0 +44 W 1.0 +34 B 2.0 +26 W 3.0 =20 W 3.5 =21 B 4.0 104567
23 1935 Danilov, Alex +37 W 1.0 -30 B 1.0 =39 W 1.5 =35 B 2.0 +45 W 3.0 -0 bye 3.0 2603926 101895
24 1933 Couture, Philippe =38 B 0.5 +36 W 1.5 +32 B 2.5 -21 W 2.5 +29 W 3.5 -27 B 3.5 111820
25 1933 Gee, Kar-Fai =39 W 0.5 =28 B 1.0 =37 W 1.5 +38 B 2.5 =30 W 3.0 -20 B 3.0 149112
26 1897 Finlay, Ian +40 B 1.0 +31 W 2.0 -27 B 2.0 -22 B 2.0 +37 W 3.0 =35 W 3.5 2604302 101866
27 1894 Li, Ruokai +41 W 1.0 +20 B 2.0 +26 W 3.0 +30 B 4.0 -21 W 4.0 +24 W 5.0 2604965 134898 $400
28 1840 Erickson, John =42 B 0.5 =25 W 1.0 -36 B 1.0 +44 W 2.0 =39 B 2.5 +41 W 3.5 103011
29 1832 Laszlo, Robert +43 W 1.0 -21 W 1.0 +42 B 2.0 =0 bye 2.5 -24 B 2.5 =48 W 3.0 2604892 104270
30 1830 Donev, Danail +44 B 1.0 +23 W 2.0 =21 B 2.5 -27 W 2.5 =25 B 3.0 +36 W 4.0 2604094 143574
31 1827 Kalra, Agastya +19 W 1.0 -26 B 1.0 -16 B 1.0 +42 W 2.0 -41 B 2.0 +40 W 3.0 2604744 137927
32 1820 Wilker, Marcus =45 W 0.5 +46 B 1.5 -24 W 1.5 =0 bye 2.0 -36 B 2.0 +39 B 3.0 102713
33 1819 MacNeill, Danny +47 B 1.0 -19 B 1.0 +41 W 2.0 -13 B 2.0 -16 W 2.0 +46 W 3.0 125677

U1800 Class
34 1799 Beaubien, Robert -20 W 0.0 +48 B 1.0 -22 W 1.0 -45 B 1.0 -42 W 1.0 +47 W 2.0 105210
35 1788 Renaud, Joshua -21 B 0.0 =0 bye 0.5 +47 W 1.5 =23 W 2.0 +46 B 3.0 =26 B 3.5 2609177 134845
36 1780 Laurin, Marcel +22 W 1.0 -24 B 1.0 +28 W 2.0 -20 B 2.0 +32 W 3.0 -30 B 3.0 2604906 100337 $100
37 1780 Ritchie, Gordon -23 B 0.0 +43 W 1.0 =25 B 1.5 =39 W 2.0 -26 B 2.0 +45 W 3.0 2608529 110972 $100
38 1764 Thibault, Mario =24 W 0.5 +45 B 1.5 -20 W 1.5 -25 W 1.5 =48 B 2.0 =42 B 2.5 2610620 102205
39 1756 Mallon, Christopher =25 B 0.5 =42 W 1.0 =23 B 1.5 =37 B 2.0 =28 W 2.5 -32 W 2.5 2607620 109034
40 1717 Liu, Dan -26 W 0.0 -41 B 0.0 +43 B 1.0 -46 W 1.0 +44 B 2.0 -31 B 2.0 2610060 147351
41 1714 Bellgrau, Marion -27 B 0.0 +40 W 1.0 -33 B 1.0 +47 B 2.0 +31 W 3.0 -28 B 3.0 2610647 107265 $100
42 1708 Gillis, Doug =28 W 0.5 =39 B 1.0 -29 W 1.0 -31 B 1.0 +34 B 2.0 =38 W 2.5 2604361 111022
43 1702 Hendon, Lee -29 B 0.0 -37 B 0.0 -40 W 0.0 -48 W 0.0 +47 B 1.0 =44 W 1.5 105731
44 1692 Georgiev, Anton -30 W 0.0 -22 B 0.0 +49 W 1.0 -28 B 1.0 -40 W 1.0 =43 B 1.5 147006
45 1688 Hunt, Murray =32 B 0.5 -38 W 0.5 =48 B 1.0 +34 W 2.0 -23 B 2.0 -37 B 2.0 104858
46 1672 Xiong, Wei =0 bye 0.5 -32 W 0.5 =0 bye 1.0 +40 B 2.0 -35 W 2.0 -33 B 2.0 2610213 136037
47 1650 Luo, Fangyi -33 W 0.0 +52 B 1.0 -35 B 1.0 -41 W 1.0 -43 W 1.0 -34 B 1.0 2610078 146597
48 1642 Brown, John =49 B 0.5 -34 W 0.5 =45 W 1.0 +43 B 2.0 =38 W 2.5 =29 B 3.0 102882 $100

U1600 Class
49 1594 Powell, Samantha =48 W 0.5 =54 B 1.0 -44 B 1.0 +61 W 2.0 +68 W 3.0 +52 B 4.0 2609800 137961
50 1576 Peristy, Luke +60 B 1.0 +56 W 2.0 -57 B 2.0 =55 W 2.5 +53 B 3.5 =58 W 4.0 2605481 140412
51 1552 Lalonde, Drake +61 W 1.0 -57 B 1.0 +60 W 2.0 +67 B 3.0 =58 W 3.5 +55 W 4.5 146414 $300
52 1536 MacIsaac, Alexandre +62 B 1.0 -47 W 1.0 +64 B 2.0 -53 W 2.0 +66 B 3.0 -49 W 3.0 2610094 148874
53 1490 Zhang, Kevin +63 W 1.0 -58 B 1.0 +61 W 2.0 +52 B 3.0 -50 W 3.0 +56 B 4.0 147276
54 1479 Perriard, Real =0 bye 0.5 =49 W 1.0 =0 bye 1.5 =68 B 2.0 -56 W 2.0 +67 B 3.0 2605562 143126
55 1436 DeCal, Alex +64 B 1.0 +68 W 2.0 =58 W 2.5 =50 B 3.0 +57 W 4.0 -51 B 4.0 149506
56 1416 Jarmyn, Tom +65 W 1.0 -50 B 1.0 -67 B 1.0 +64 W 2.0 +54 B 3.0 -53 W 3.0 2604698 145247

U1400 Class
57 1399 Sachs, Daniel +66 B 1.0 +51 W 2.0 +50 W 3.0 -58 B 3.0 -55 B 3.0 -0 bye 3.0 148220
58 1354 France, Kyle +67 W 1.0 +53 W 2.0 =55 B 2.5 +57 W 3.5 =51 B 4.0 =50 B 4.5 2610655 146307 $300
59 1350 Buss, Andreas -68 B 0.0 -64 W 0.0 -65 B 0.0 =63 W 0.5 +60 W 1.5 =61 B 2.0 2609983 146449
60 1331 Powell, Ashley -50 W 0.0 +65 B 1.0 -51 B 1.0 -66 W 1.0 -59 B 1.0 +63 W 2.0 2608316 138889
61 1316 Wan, Kevin -51 B 0.0 +66 W 1.0 -53 B 1.0 -49 B 1.0 +65 W 2.0 =59 W 2.5 2610191 147460
62 1268 Pancer, Jeff -52 W 0.0 =0 bye 0.5 =68 B 1.0 =0 bye 1.5 -67 W 1.5 =65 B 2.0 107543
63 1196 Svensson, Andrew -53 B 0.0 -67 W 0.0 -66 B 0.0 =59 B 0.5 -64 W 0.5 -60 B 0.5 143414
64 1192 Zhang, David -55 W 0.0 +59 B 1.0 -52 W 1.0 -56 B 1.0 +63 B 2.0 +66 W 3.0 147277
65 1188 Luo, Tony -56 B 0.0 -60 W 0.0 +59 W 1.0 =0 bye 1.5 -61 B 1.5 =62 W 2.0 2610086 146598
66 1155 Zhang, Jeff -57 W 0.0 - 61 B 0.0 +63 W 1.0 +60 B 2.0 -52 W 2.0 -64 B 2.0 2610639 148924
67 1123 McArthur, Ricky -58 B 0.0 +63 B 1.0 +56 W 2.0 -51 W 2.0 +62 B 3.0 -54 W 3.0 144021
68 1031 Latta, Jeremy +59 W 1.0 -55 B 1.0 =62 W 1.5 =54 W 2.0 -49 B 2.0 -0 bye 2.0 2610027 148520

[Hugh Brodie]

Re: 2009 Ontario Open: the event report

Are any games available?

[Aris Marghetis]

Re: 2009 Ontario Open: the event report

Are any games available?

Hi Hugh, actually yes. Frank Dixon volunteered to collect many of the games in the Top class, and I believe that he is planning to write a series of reports on them shortly.

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Re: 2009 Ontario Open: the event report

Does it mean that there was no clear winner (aka the champion) after any tie-break : ("both finish clearly at the top with scores of 5-1")?

[Aris Marghetis]

Re: 2009 Ontario Open: the event report

Does it mean that there was no clear winner (aka the champion) after any tie-break : ("both finish clearly at the top with scores of 5-1")?

Oh, i didn't think of applying a tie-break, as I was just splitting up cash. However, and please excuse my ignorance, is there a trophy, or other such champion designation that I needed to tie-break for? If the answer is yes, could I get that officially from the OCA? And then I will apply tie-breaking, document it, and formally add it to the event report.

[Christopher Mallon]

Re: 2009 Ontario Open: the event report

There's no trophy or plaque that I've ever seen. But typically a winner is declared on tiebreaks just for the records. In 2004 for example we had a 4-way tie for first but Zhe Quan was declared champion on tiebreaks. The prize money was still split evenly of course.

[Aris Marghetis]

Re: 2009 Ontario Open: the event report

There's no trophy or plaque that I've ever seen. But typically a winner is declared on tiebreaks just for the records. In 2004 for example we had a 4-way tie for first but Zhe Quan was declared champion on tiebreaks. The prize money was still split evenly of course.

So, just to be sure before I announce it publicly, yes, the OCA would like a tie-break?

[Aris Marghetis]

Re: 2009 Ontario Open: the event report

Hi again, after much mutual exploration between myself and the CFC office over the new Swiss Sys and Swiss Assistant tools, I am pleased to report that we are almost done!

Earlier today, I completed and submitted electronically to the CFC, the raw data file that should make it automatically into today's CFC rating run. In addition, I also emailed and mailed the CFC membership renewals for Misters Upper, Chartrand, Couture, Beaubien, Georgiev, Pancer, and Drake Lalonde (only Junior Tournament membership for him).

Finally, the CFC office, basically gracious Gerry, will be completing the report for FIDE rating this event, but I do not know whether it will make the July 1st FIDE rating lists.

In the next few days, I hope to post the details for the upcoming Eastern Ontario Open, which is traditionally the largest tournament within our annual EOCA Grand Prix series.

Yours in chess, Aris.

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Re: 2009 Ontario Open: the event report

Earlier today, I completed and submitted electronically to the CFC, the raw data file that should make it automatically into today's CFC rating run.

ratings: http://members.chess.ca/index.php?op...MBER=200905093

[Roger Patterson]

Re: 2009 Ontario Open: the event report

ratings: http://members.chess.ca/index.php?op...MBER=200905093

Apparently, the event was run in multiple sections but the crosstable is for one section only. Hard to explain the 1400 rated players with 4.5 points just below the GMs otherwise.

[Bob Armstrong]

Re: 2009 Ontario Open: the event report

I do not appreciate the difficulty of submitting reports for ratings, but shouldn't the crosstable better reflect the actual tournament format? This crosstable is not really very helpful to see what happened, no? Is there not another way for the system to do this?

Bob

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Re: 2009 Ontario Open: the event report

Apparently, the event was run in multiple sections but the crosstable is for one section only.

call it a rating report ;) a crosstable is several post above.

[Aris Marghetis]

Re: 2009 Ontario Open: the event report

Oh sorry, I thought I had previously posted the link for much clearer PDF crosstables:

http://www.eoca.org/PDF/2009%20OO%20Crosstables.pdf

[Bob Armstrong]

Re: 2009 Ontario Open: the event report

Hi Aris:

Thanks for the link.

But my concern is more that someone coming to the CFC Crosstables page ( without knowing anything about the EOCA crosstables ), will not understand what happened. It seems to me that we want the CFC site to be clear on this. That is why I am wondering about our system if it demands non-transparent filing of some tournaments. It doesn't strike me as a good way to do business. Is there not some way our current system can register this tournament, so it reflects the sections? I am assuming there is no other format in which you could file it for our system, where it would reflect the sections?

Bob