2017 Canadian Championship

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Official site - http://www.fqechecs.qc.ca/cccc2017/en/

Results at http://chess-results.com/tnr289291.a...flag=30&wi=821

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Re: 2017 Canadian Championship

Just a note for the future organizers: the tournament per book should be called "Canadian Zonal Championship Tournament" if it's a Zonal tournament. A regular is "Canadian Championship". This year it is called "CANADIAN CLOSED CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP 2017". Now need for Closed.
As for the French version "Championnat invitation d'échecs du Canada" - "invitation" is "closed" in French?

[Sam Sharpe]

Re: 2017 Canadian Championship

Did Le Siege withdraw after Rd.5 loss to Shiyam?

[Nigel Hanrahan]

byes x 5 for rounds 6-9 inclusive

Did Le Siege withdraw after Rd.5 loss to Shiyam?

Beaulieu, Bolduc, Kleinman, Le Siège, and Marchand are all marked down on chess-results.com as taking byes for rounds 6-9 inclusive.

eta: Add Roland Chabot as well. Round 8 has 11 boards.

[Kerry Liles]

Re: byes x 5 for rounds 6-9 inclusive

Beaulieu, Bolduc, Kleinman, Le Siège, and Marchand are all marked down on chess-results.com as taking byes for rounds 6-9 inclusive.

It says 'not paired' - I presume that is different than a bye? For that matter, there are 0-point and half-point byes aren't there?
This all seems rather strange, but I did not have a good feeling when I saw so many players who were 'once 2000 rated'.
If several players withdraw it makes the Swiss system with a small starting field even more silly.

[Alex Ferreira]

Re: byes x 5 for rounds 6-9 inclusive

It says 'not paired' - I presume that is different than a bye? For that matter, there are 0-point and half-point byes aren't there?
This all seems rather strange, but I did not have a good feeling when I saw so many players who were 'once 2000 rated'.
If several players withdraw it makes the Swiss system with a small starting field even more silly.

It seems pretty obvious to me that they withdrew.

[Kerry Liles]

Re: 2017 Canadian Championship

Did Le Siege withdraw after Rd.5 loss to Shiyam?

On todays Canadian Chess News Feed ( http://chess.ca/newsfeed/node/970 ), it was noted:

"Alex had been playing with an infected tooth, and withdrew after his loss to Thavandiran."

[Aman Hambleton]

Re: 2017 Canadian Championship

"Alex had been playing with an infected tooth, and withdrew after his loss to Thavandiran."

LOL alright

[Halldor P. Palsson]

Playoffs at the 2017 Canadian Championship

Are they going for playoffs for both the championship crown and the IM title?

[John Upper]

Final Round

Sambuev and Noritsyn both won their round 9 games to finish with 8/9 and will have a playoff later today (Canada Day)

You can play through the round 9 game Hambleton - Sambuev, with notes, on the CFC Newsfeed:

http://chess.ca/newsfeed/node/971

[Halldor P. Palsson]

Playoffs at the 2017 Canadian Championship

Well the Noritsyn-Sambuev 15+10 sec match ended in a 2-2 tie.

[Halldor P. Palsson]

Re: Playoffs at the 2017 Canadian Championship

The new Canadian Champ is GM Bator Sambuev due due to his 1.5-0.5 speed chess victory over Noritsyn.

The hardest working man in Canadian chess is on his way to Toronto to teach at his chess camp. WOW!

[James Tan]

Re: Playoffs at the 2017 Canadian Championship

Congrats Bator !!!

[Ian Findlay]

Re: Playoffs at the 2017 Canadian Championship

Congrats and welcome to the Olympic team! See you in Calgary.

[Hans Jung]

Re: Playoffs at the 2017 Canadian Championship

Congratulations to Bator.