Brantford Food Bank Tournament Report and Results

[Lee Hendon]

14 brave players raced against incoming storm clouds at 2009 Brantford Food Bank Tournament.

Bob Gillanders aka. (Bobzilla) cleared the clouds and the field with 4.5/5 and clear 1st (Gold Medal and $10 Chapters GC)

Local hero John Vlasov came 2nd after massacring Kitich, Zeljko in a crazy 1 min hour galss game (Silver Medal and $10 Chapters GC) 4/5

3rd Place and undefeated Zeljko Kitich (Bronze Medal and $5 Chapters GC) 4/5

Photographer and chess reporter extraordinaire Mei Chen Lee framed the final prize. ($5 Chapters GC) Thanks for the excellent photos watch for them soon.:)
2.5/5

The real winner of this tournament was the Brantford Food Bank "Forking" a yummy $55 and 2 Full Boxes of Food.:)

Thanks to Rob Gashagarian for helping pull this tournament off :)

Thanks to all. Lee Hendon

Results: Attached Full Cross Table

1st Gillanders, Robert 4.5 (Gold $10 Chapters G.C.)
2nd on Playoff Vlasov, John 4 (Silver $10 Chapters G.C.)
3rd Kitich, Zeljko 4 (Bronze $5 Chapters G.C.)
4th Gashgarian, Rob 3
5th - 6th Hendon, Lee 2.5
5th - 6th Mei Chen, Lee 2.5 ($5 Chapters G.C.)
7th - 8th Nunes, Garvin 2
7th - 8th Turjanyi, John 2
9th - 11th Cormier, Adam 1.5
9th - 11th Springett, Paul 1.5
9th - 11th Osborne, Christopher 1.5
12th - 13th Nunes, Paulo 1
12th - 13th Mills, Mathew 1
14th Benoit, Paul 0

[Zeljko Kitich]

Re: Brantford Food Bank Tournament Report and Results

Excellent tournament & a good cause. Great playing outside in the sunshine while people passed by and kids played in the wade pool in the snazy new Market Square. Yes I'll admit I'm a terrible blitz player, that hourglass is an interesting concept, one minute on your clock & the more you think the more your opponents time goes up.

Thanks to Lee & Rob & the Brantford Chess Club, look forward to doing this again in August. Like I told Bob who I drew, this is not over :)

One minor thing, not that it really matters but in the final round I played black, I had already had 3 whites up to then so I was due for another black. Of course it wasn't that easy doing the pairings when the pairing cards were blowing away :)