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Pairings for Round 1. Ron Rodgers: RR 2017 - open
Bd # Res White # Res Black
1 1 0 David Gordon 14 1 William G. Doubleday
2 15 0 Abdelaziz Mahdjoubi 3 1 Kevin Pacey
3 4 ½ Dusan Simic 16 ½ Daniel Xu
4 18 1 Alex Danilov 5 0 John Upper
5 6 ½ Adam Adriaanse 19 ½ Mark Eberle
6 20 0 Ray Kuryliw 7 1 Sam Marin
7 8 1 Fan Yang 21 0 Spencer Martin
8 23 0 Vikram Mallur 9 1 Ramon J. Cova
9 10 1 Saeid Sadeghi 24 0 Mathew G Cooke
10 25 0 Romy Peters 11 1 David Fei
11 12 ½ Christian Collins 26 ½ Yves Arsenault
12 27 0 Gerard Felderhof 13 1 Halldor Peter Palsson
Results for U 1600 (round 1)
Pairings for Round 1. Ron Rodgers: Ron Rodgers U 160
Bd # Res White # Res Black
14 1 1 Denis Lemieux 12 0 Christopher Sailus
15 13 0 Daniel Labib 2 1 Alwin Ning
16 3 1 Ken Huband 14 0 Vladimir Dukkardt
17 15 1 Daniel Wang 4 0 Alexander Dukkardt
18 5 1 Michael Abt 16 0 Johnathan Han
19 17 0 Frederick A Crowe 6 1 Eric Murdoch
20 7 0 Paul St-pierre 18 1 Oswin Ning
21 19 0 Emil Wang 8 1 Vincent Qin
22 9 0 Alexander Stopic 20 1 Rami Labib
23 21 0 Dave Westbury 10 1 Keven Eyre
24 11 1 Victor Samuel 22 0 Alex Wilson
Up next at the RA center - the annual blitz championship. I will be directing this one.
The format is a six round swiss tournament, where you play each person twice, once as white, once as black. Thus there are twelve games in all. Time control is G/3min + 2 second increments.
We do not use ratings to determine pairings. Instead the initial ranking is randomly ordered, and then those ranking are used to pair people just like a regular swiss tournament. So in round one you could be paired with the best player in the club or the worst. It's all luck of the initial draw.
I really enjoy running this tournament. It's a lot of fun. Club members only. Come out and play!
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