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First of all, I would like to thank our sponsor Manzer Insurance services, our venue St James United church, TD Ferdinand Supsup, volunteers who helped out during the tournament, all participants and parents for our successful tournament.
We have players from Markham/Toronti/Brampton/Mississauga/Oakville/Kitchener/Dundas/Etobicoke/Burlington/Hamilton and Waterdown participating in this tournament.
We had a 55 players turnout with 2 withdrawals and 2 additions at the last minute. It is very close to our target of 60 players. Last year we had abut 30 players.
3 tournaments in a day - Rapid, Blitz and bughouse ( double chess )
Speed Chess king NM Mark Plotkin came all the way from Toronto and made a sweep of all the events. He tied for first with local hero FM Eugene Hua in the rapid section and clear first in the blitz section. Later he teamed up with Max Rusonik to win the bug house event. What an eventful day with the bad weather came in at the end of the tournament. Tournament started on time from 930AM and ends at about 5.30PM
Please find the results of the tournament below :
SwissSys Standings. 2nd annual Waterdown chess club challenge: OPEN Section - Rapid
# Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Tot Prize
1 Mark Plotkin 2412 W7 W5 D2 W4 3.5 175.00/1st Place
2 Eugene Hua 2300 W8 W6 D1 W9 3.5 175.00/2nd Place
3 Eric Ning 1660 L5 W12 W8 W6 3.0 3rd Place
4 Nicholas Vettese 2240 W9 L10 W13 L1 2.0
5 Amirsalar Javidfard 2001 W3 L1 L9 W10 2.0
6 Owen Qian 1997 W11 L2 W10 L3 2.0
7 Benito Surya 1910 L1 L11 W14 W13 2.0
8 Mario Piccinin 1878 L2 W13 L3 W12 2.0
9 Anthony Atanasov 1798 L4 W14 W5 L2 2.0
10 Mate Milinkovic 1739 W12 W4 L6 L5 2.0
11 Max Rusonik 1620 L6 W7 L12 W14 2.0
12 Shiva Chakkoli 2003 L10 L3 W11 L8 1.0
13 Dorian Kang 1721 W14 L8 L4 L7 1.0
14 Ken Green 2001 L13 L9 L7 L11 0.0
SwissSys Standings. 2nd annual Waterdown chess club challenge: UNDER 1600 Section - Rapid
# Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Tot Prize
1 Michelle Hua 1126 B--- W7 D5 W4 3.5 150.00/1st Place
2 Malhar Singh 1573 W11 L4 W10 W8 3.0 26.67/2nd Place
3 Atharva Srinivas 1274 L6 W9 W13 W10 3.0 26.67/3rd Place
4 David Gauthier 1210 W7 W2 W8 L1 3.0 26.67
5 Harry Liu 1530 W9 D10 D1 D6 2.5
6 Alex Hu unr. W3 L8 W12 D5 2.5
7 Mark Zaki 1345 L4 L1 W11 W13 2.0
8 Harrison [Hangchen] Liu 1309 W12 W6 L4 L2 2.0
9 Richard Han 1222 L5 L3 B--- W12 2.0
10 Gord Perry 1278 W13 D5 L2 L3 1.5
11 Anirud Chakkoli 1256 L2 L12 L7 B--- 1.0
12 Andrew Wang 1192 L8 W11 L6 L9 1.0
13 Januario Moscatel 1171 L10 B--- L3 L7 1.0
SwissSys Standings. 2nd annual Waterdown chess club challenge: UNDER 900 Section - Rapid
# Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Tot Prize
1 Kevin Zhu unr. W5 W10 W9 W4 4.0 10.00/1st Place
2 Danylo Glinnyi 882 W6 W22 D3 W9 3.5 70.00/2nd Place
3 Harpreet Singh 713 W20 W7 D2 W8 3.5 70.00/3rd Place
4 Dennis Bince 871 W23 W13 W15 L1 3.0
5 Hallie Green 594 L1 W20 W19 W13 3.0
6 Varun Pillai 387 L2 W24 W16 W15 3.0
7 Steven Roach unr. W16 L3 W22 W11 3.0
8 Sam Prema unr. H--- W21 W10 L3 2.5
9 Sterling Wu 872 W18 W12 L1 L2 2.0
10 Adiel Green 811 W19 L1 L8 W23 2.0
11 William Johnson 523 L15 W14 W12 L7 2.0
12 Karma Pillai 200 B--- L9 L11 W24 2.0
13 Devin Piccinin unr. W21 L4 W17 L5 2.0
14 Josip Meze unr. L17 L11 W21 W22 2.0
15 Ryan Perkins unr. W11 W17 L4 L6 2.0
16 Zach Ting 614 L7 W23 L6 D19 1.5
17 Kuni Morin 556 W14 L15 L13 D20 1.5
18 Andrey Martchenko 259 L9 H--- H--- H--- 1.5
19 Nathan Omele 200 L10 B--- L5 D16 1.5
20 Jessica Wang unr. L3 L5 W24 D17 1.5
21 Stone Hilger 647 L13 L8 L14 B--- 1.0
22 Sato Morin 510 W24 L2 L7 L14 1.0
23 Minuka Prema 200 L4 L16 B--- L10 1.0
24 Callie Zhang unr. L22 L6 L20 L12 0.0
SwissSys Standings. 2nd annual Waterdown chess club challenge: Under 1200
# Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Tot Prize
1 Luka Granic 1117 D2 W3 W4 2.5 120.00/1st Place
2 Suraj Sharma unr. D1 W4 D3 2.0 10.00/2nd Place
3 Dania Surya 1055 W4 L1 D2 1.5 50.00/3rd Place
4 Ishaan Kelkar 1146 L3 L2 L1 0.0
wissSys Standings. 2018 WCC chess challenge: OPEN SECTION - Blitz
# Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Tot Prize
1 Mark Plotkin 2412 W5 W8 W2 W4 4.0 70.00/1st Place
2 Eugene Hua 2300 W7 W9 L1 W6 3.0 15.00/2nd Place
3 Amirsalar Javidfard 2001 W12 W13 L4 W9 3.0 15.00
4 Nicholas Vettese 2240 D6 W11 W3 L1 2.5
5 Owen Qian 1997 L1 D10 W13 W11 2.5
6 Anthony Atanasov 1798 D4 W7 W12 L2 2.5
7 Benito Surya 1910 L2 L6 B--- W12 2.0
8 Dorian Kang 1721 W11 L1 L9 W13 2.0
9 Max Rusonik 1620 W10 L2 W8 L3 2.0
10 Ken Green 2001 L9 D5 L11 B--- 1.5
11 Shiva Chakkoli 2003 L8 L4 W10 L5 1.0
12 Eric Ning 1660 L3 B--- L6 L7 1.0
13 Mark Zaki 1345 B--- L3 L5 L8 1.0
SwissSys Standings. 2018 wcc chess challenge: UNDER 1600 SECTION - Blitz
# Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Tot Prize
1 Harrison [Hangchen] Liu 1309 W8 W4 W2 W5 4.0 50.00/1st Place
2 Malhar Singh 1573 W6 W3 L1 W7 3.0 12.50/2nd Place
3 Atharva Srinivas 1274 W10 L2 W5 W4 3.0 12.50
4 Gord Perry 1278 W7 L1 W9 L3 2.0
5 Anirud Chakkoli 1256 W9 W6 L3 L1 2.0
6 David Gauthier 1210 L2 L5 W10 W9 2.0
7 Michelle Hua 1126 L4 W10 W8 L2 2.0 30.00
8 Andrew Wang 1192 L1 L9 L7 W10 1.0 15.00
9 Suraj Sharma unr. L5 W8 L4 L6 1.0
10 Dania Surya 1055 L3 L7 L6 L8 0.0
SwissSys Standings. 2018 wcc chess challenge: UNDER 900 SECTION - Blitz
# Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Tot Prize
1 Alex Hu unr. W11 W9 W6 W4 4.0 20.00/1st Place
2 Sterling Wu 872 W12 L4 W14 W8 3.0 3.33/2nd Place
3 Devin Piccinin unr. W10 W14 L4 W7 3.0 3.33
4 Sam Prema unr. W8 W2 W3 L1 3.0 3.33
5 Zach Ting 614 D6 L7 W15 W10 2.5
6 Steven Roach unr. D5 W15 L1 W11 2.5
7 Dennis Bince 871 L9 W5 W11 L3 2.0
8 Hallie Green 594 L4 W12 W9 L2 2.0
9 Ryan Perkins unr. W7 L1 L8 W14 2.0
10 Stone Hilger 647 L3 L11 W12 L5 1.0
11 William Johnson 523 L1 W10 L7 L6 1.0
12 Minuka Prema 200 L2 L8 L10 W15 1.0
13 Jessica Wang unr. W15 U--- U--- U--- 1.0
14 Callie Zhang unr. W16 L3 L2 L9 1.0
15 Adiel Green 811 L13 L6 L5 L12 0.0
16 Andrey Martchenko 259 L14 U--- U--- U--- 0.0
SwissSys Standings. 2018 wcc chess challenge: Doubles Chess
# Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Tot Prize
1 Max Mark unr. W10 W8 W9 W2 4.0
2 Owen Eugene unr. W12 W3 W4 L1 3.0
3 Nicholas Benito unr. W13 L2 W11 W9 3.0
4 Harrison Andrew unr. W15 W7 L2 W10 3.0
5 Anirud Dennis unr. L6 W17 W7 W8 3.0
6 Alex Sterlling unr. W5 L9 L10 W13 2.0
7 Devon Adiel unr. W14 L4 L5 W15 2.0
8 Atharva Atanasov unr. W17 L1 W14 L5 2.0
9 Eric Dorian unr. W11 W6 L1 L3 2.0
10 Zach Kuni unr. L1 W16 W6 L4 2.0
11 Ken Shiva unr. L9 B--- L3 W14 2.0
12 Karma Stone unr. L2 D13 L15 W17 1.5
13 Sam Hallie unr. L3 D12 W17 L6 1.5
14 David Varun unr. L7 W15 L8 L11 1.0
15 Michelle Dania unr. L4 L14 W12 L7 1.0
16 Sato Callie unr. B--- L10 U--- U--- 1.0
17 William Minuka unr. L8 L5 L13 L12 0.0
Total prize money of $ 1,160 and lots of medals were given out to the winners. All the winners ( 4 sections ) for the bug house will have their names engraved on the rolling trophy. I will add other names ( other sections ) later on other than Mark Plotkin and Max Rusonik.
Bughouse winners
Open: Mark Plotkin & Max Rusonik
Under 1600: Harrison ( Hangchen ) Liu & Andrew Wang
Under 1200: Michelle Hua & Dania Surya
Under 900: Zach Ting & Kuni Morin
Thanks again to everyone for your support and participation without which this tournament will not be successful.
Cheers to Chess in Canada
Gary Hua / Ken Green
EMC and Waterdown Chess Club
We have players from Markham/Toronti/Brampton/Mississauga/Oakville/Kitchener/Dundas/Etobicoke/Burlington/Hamilton and Waterdown participating in this tournament.
We had a 55 players turnout with 2 withdrawals and 2 additions at the last minute. It is very close to our target of 60 players. Last year we had abut 30 players.
3 tournaments in a day - Rapid, Blitz and bughouse ( double chess )
Speed Chess king NM Mark Plotkin came all the way from Toronto and made a sweep of all the events. He tied for first with local hero FM Eugene Hua in the rapid section and clear first in the blitz section. Later he teamed up with Max Rusonik to win the bug house event. What an eventful day with the bad weather came in at the end of the tournament. Tournament started on time from 930AM and ends at about 5.30PM
Please find the results of the tournament below :
SwissSys Standings. 2nd annual Waterdown chess club challenge: OPEN Section - Rapid
# Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Tot Prize
1 Mark Plotkin 2412 W7 W5 D2 W4 3.5 175.00/1st Place
2 Eugene Hua 2300 W8 W6 D1 W9 3.5 175.00/2nd Place
3 Eric Ning 1660 L5 W12 W8 W6 3.0 3rd Place
4 Nicholas Vettese 2240 W9 L10 W13 L1 2.0
5 Amirsalar Javidfard 2001 W3 L1 L9 W10 2.0
6 Owen Qian 1997 W11 L2 W10 L3 2.0
7 Benito Surya 1910 L1 L11 W14 W13 2.0
8 Mario Piccinin 1878 L2 W13 L3 W12 2.0
9 Anthony Atanasov 1798 L4 W14 W5 L2 2.0
10 Mate Milinkovic 1739 W12 W4 L6 L5 2.0
11 Max Rusonik 1620 L6 W7 L12 W14 2.0
12 Shiva Chakkoli 2003 L10 L3 W11 L8 1.0
13 Dorian Kang 1721 W14 L8 L4 L7 1.0
14 Ken Green 2001 L13 L9 L7 L11 0.0
SwissSys Standings. 2nd annual Waterdown chess club challenge: UNDER 1600 Section - Rapid
# Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Tot Prize
1 Michelle Hua 1126 B--- W7 D5 W4 3.5 150.00/1st Place
2 Malhar Singh 1573 W11 L4 W10 W8 3.0 26.67/2nd Place
3 Atharva Srinivas 1274 L6 W9 W13 W10 3.0 26.67/3rd Place
4 David Gauthier 1210 W7 W2 W8 L1 3.0 26.67
5 Harry Liu 1530 W9 D10 D1 D6 2.5
6 Alex Hu unr. W3 L8 W12 D5 2.5
7 Mark Zaki 1345 L4 L1 W11 W13 2.0
8 Harrison [Hangchen] Liu 1309 W12 W6 L4 L2 2.0
9 Richard Han 1222 L5 L3 B--- W12 2.0
10 Gord Perry 1278 W13 D5 L2 L3 1.5
11 Anirud Chakkoli 1256 L2 L12 L7 B--- 1.0
12 Andrew Wang 1192 L8 W11 L6 L9 1.0
13 Januario Moscatel 1171 L10 B--- L3 L7 1.0
SwissSys Standings. 2nd annual Waterdown chess club challenge: UNDER 900 Section - Rapid
# Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Tot Prize
1 Kevin Zhu unr. W5 W10 W9 W4 4.0 10.00/1st Place
2 Danylo Glinnyi 882 W6 W22 D3 W9 3.5 70.00/2nd Place
3 Harpreet Singh 713 W20 W7 D2 W8 3.5 70.00/3rd Place
4 Dennis Bince 871 W23 W13 W15 L1 3.0
5 Hallie Green 594 L1 W20 W19 W13 3.0
6 Varun Pillai 387 L2 W24 W16 W15 3.0
7 Steven Roach unr. W16 L3 W22 W11 3.0
8 Sam Prema unr. H--- W21 W10 L3 2.5
9 Sterling Wu 872 W18 W12 L1 L2 2.0
10 Adiel Green 811 W19 L1 L8 W23 2.0
11 William Johnson 523 L15 W14 W12 L7 2.0
12 Karma Pillai 200 B--- L9 L11 W24 2.0
13 Devin Piccinin unr. W21 L4 W17 L5 2.0
14 Josip Meze unr. L17 L11 W21 W22 2.0
15 Ryan Perkins unr. W11 W17 L4 L6 2.0
16 Zach Ting 614 L7 W23 L6 D19 1.5
17 Kuni Morin 556 W14 L15 L13 D20 1.5
18 Andrey Martchenko 259 L9 H--- H--- H--- 1.5
19 Nathan Omele 200 L10 B--- L5 D16 1.5
20 Jessica Wang unr. L3 L5 W24 D17 1.5
21 Stone Hilger 647 L13 L8 L14 B--- 1.0
22 Sato Morin 510 W24 L2 L7 L14 1.0
23 Minuka Prema 200 L4 L16 B--- L10 1.0
24 Callie Zhang unr. L22 L6 L20 L12 0.0
SwissSys Standings. 2nd annual Waterdown chess club challenge: Under 1200
# Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Tot Prize
1 Luka Granic 1117 D2 W3 W4 2.5 120.00/1st Place
2 Suraj Sharma unr. D1 W4 D3 2.0 10.00/2nd Place
3 Dania Surya 1055 W4 L1 D2 1.5 50.00/3rd Place
4 Ishaan Kelkar 1146 L3 L2 L1 0.0
wissSys Standings. 2018 WCC chess challenge: OPEN SECTION - Blitz
# Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Tot Prize
1 Mark Plotkin 2412 W5 W8 W2 W4 4.0 70.00/1st Place
2 Eugene Hua 2300 W7 W9 L1 W6 3.0 15.00/2nd Place
3 Amirsalar Javidfard 2001 W12 W13 L4 W9 3.0 15.00
4 Nicholas Vettese 2240 D6 W11 W3 L1 2.5
5 Owen Qian 1997 L1 D10 W13 W11 2.5
6 Anthony Atanasov 1798 D4 W7 W12 L2 2.5
7 Benito Surya 1910 L2 L6 B--- W12 2.0
8 Dorian Kang 1721 W11 L1 L9 W13 2.0
9 Max Rusonik 1620 W10 L2 W8 L3 2.0
10 Ken Green 2001 L9 D5 L11 B--- 1.5
11 Shiva Chakkoli 2003 L8 L4 W10 L5 1.0
12 Eric Ning 1660 L3 B--- L6 L7 1.0
13 Mark Zaki 1345 B--- L3 L5 L8 1.0
SwissSys Standings. 2018 wcc chess challenge: UNDER 1600 SECTION - Blitz
# Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Tot Prize
1 Harrison [Hangchen] Liu 1309 W8 W4 W2 W5 4.0 50.00/1st Place
2 Malhar Singh 1573 W6 W3 L1 W7 3.0 12.50/2nd Place
3 Atharva Srinivas 1274 W10 L2 W5 W4 3.0 12.50
4 Gord Perry 1278 W7 L1 W9 L3 2.0
5 Anirud Chakkoli 1256 W9 W6 L3 L1 2.0
6 David Gauthier 1210 L2 L5 W10 W9 2.0
7 Michelle Hua 1126 L4 W10 W8 L2 2.0 30.00
8 Andrew Wang 1192 L1 L9 L7 W10 1.0 15.00
9 Suraj Sharma unr. L5 W8 L4 L6 1.0
10 Dania Surya 1055 L3 L7 L6 L8 0.0
SwissSys Standings. 2018 wcc chess challenge: UNDER 900 SECTION - Blitz
# Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Tot Prize
1 Alex Hu unr. W11 W9 W6 W4 4.0 20.00/1st Place
2 Sterling Wu 872 W12 L4 W14 W8 3.0 3.33/2nd Place
3 Devin Piccinin unr. W10 W14 L4 W7 3.0 3.33
4 Sam Prema unr. W8 W2 W3 L1 3.0 3.33
5 Zach Ting 614 D6 L7 W15 W10 2.5
6 Steven Roach unr. D5 W15 L1 W11 2.5
7 Dennis Bince 871 L9 W5 W11 L3 2.0
8 Hallie Green 594 L4 W12 W9 L2 2.0
9 Ryan Perkins unr. W7 L1 L8 W14 2.0
10 Stone Hilger 647 L3 L11 W12 L5 1.0
11 William Johnson 523 L1 W10 L7 L6 1.0
12 Minuka Prema 200 L2 L8 L10 W15 1.0
13 Jessica Wang unr. W15 U--- U--- U--- 1.0
14 Callie Zhang unr. W16 L3 L2 L9 1.0
15 Adiel Green 811 L13 L6 L5 L12 0.0
16 Andrey Martchenko 259 L14 U--- U--- U--- 0.0
SwissSys Standings. 2018 wcc chess challenge: Doubles Chess
# Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Tot Prize
1 Max Mark unr. W10 W8 W9 W2 4.0
2 Owen Eugene unr. W12 W3 W4 L1 3.0
3 Nicholas Benito unr. W13 L2 W11 W9 3.0
4 Harrison Andrew unr. W15 W7 L2 W10 3.0
5 Anirud Dennis unr. L6 W17 W7 W8 3.0
6 Alex Sterlling unr. W5 L9 L10 W13 2.0
7 Devon Adiel unr. W14 L4 L5 W15 2.0
8 Atharva Atanasov unr. W17 L1 W14 L5 2.0
9 Eric Dorian unr. W11 W6 L1 L3 2.0
10 Zach Kuni unr. L1 W16 W6 L4 2.0
11 Ken Shiva unr. L9 B--- L3 W14 2.0
12 Karma Stone unr. L2 D13 L15 W17 1.5
13 Sam Hallie unr. L3 D12 W17 L6 1.5
14 David Varun unr. L7 W15 L8 L11 1.0
15 Michelle Dania unr. L4 L14 W12 L7 1.0
16 Sato Callie unr. B--- L10 U--- U--- 1.0
17 William Minuka unr. L8 L5 L13 L12 0.0
Total prize money of $ 1,160 and lots of medals were given out to the winners. All the winners ( 4 sections ) for the bug house will have their names engraved on the rolling trophy. I will add other names ( other sections ) later on other than Mark Plotkin and Max Rusonik.
Bughouse winners
Open: Mark Plotkin & Max Rusonik
Under 1600: Harrison ( Hangchen ) Liu & Andrew Wang
Under 1200: Michelle Hua & Dania Surya
Under 900: Zach Ting & Kuni Morin
Thanks again to everyone for your support and participation without which this tournament will not be successful.
Cheers to Chess in Canada
Gary Hua / Ken Green
EMC and Waterdown Chess Club