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I don't know if this means there will be live games during the tournament, but I am assuming that pairings and results at the very least will be available.
Yes you have it right. We will share the games aqap, and keep the Mon Roi site updated. This is a year of lean means and we appreciate Mon Roi's help.
By the way, Guerzhoy has joined the hunt.
Last First CFC Rating FIDE Rating
Bluvshtein, GM Mark 2634 2558
Samsonkin, IM Artium 2612 2403
Porper, IM Edward 2556 2448
Krnan Tomas 2534 2439
Noritsyn, IM Nikolay 2534 2381
Guerzhoy Leonid 2524 2409
Panjwani, FM Raja 2472 2350
Thavandiran, FM Shiyam 2464 2291
Hebert, IM Jean 2442 2399
Tayar, FM Jonathan 2436 2342
Livshits, IM Ron 2416 2332
Divljan Igor 2412 2290
Sapozhnikov Roman 2348 2177
Kaminski Victor 2334 2268
Martchenko Alex 2300 2039
Vincent Trevor 2290 0
Henry Liam 2280 2186
Haessel, FM Dale 2276 2204
Casareno Erwin 2264 0
Calugar Arthur 2262 2072
Jiang Louie 2252 2250
MacKinnon Keith 2251 2148
Qin Joey 2240 2140
Hambleton Aman 2234 2052
Arsenault Nicolas 2229 2161
Me Kevin 2188 2145
Kaminski Thomas 2183 2088
Humphreys Michael 2169 1999
Jung, FM Hans 2140 2132
Just a few of notes:
- IM Samsonkin's first name is spelled "Artiom". There are two different spellings used on the website.
- Tomas Krnan is an IM (this is corrected on the official website, just not on your chesstalk list).
- The website, although it mentions Edmonton (thank you!) doesn't say which city or province the tournament is being held in. As a westerner, I looked up "University of Guelph" on google, and figured it out. Previously, I thought that there were only three cities in Ontario: Toronto, Ottawa and Kapuskasing :)
Hmmm, I'm having trouble naming another chess country in the world that has it's national championship decided by an open event. From the best countries to the worst they seem to run round-robins. The US is a closed 24 player swiss in case people are wondering. It seems Canada is in a very very small minority. What's preventing us from running an actual "closed" again? I remember when I played in 2006 I was the lowest rated and it was a great learning experience but I honestly didn't belong in a National Championship. What is it that we are lacking that almost everyone else in the world has? I'd be interested to know of any other countries that are a bit behind like Canada (or you could say we are ahead ).
The British Championship is open to any Commonwealth citizen.
Yes you're right, hmmm. To me It seems more like the equivalent of their Canadian Open rather than a Closed, except England doesn't have its own "English Closed". But I don't think it's a zonal and also not really a one country championship like we're comparing to ( by fide definition, at least). Looks like foreigners were starting to win the British Championships so they changed their policy. Now it is "Championship events – open only to British Isles subjects or players resident therein for the past year, or those with British Overseas Dependent Territories Citizenship."
It might be the Spanish spelling. Ge... in Spanish = Khe... in English. To keep the G hard, they insert a u. So guerra is pronounced gay-rra. If they actually want to pronounce the u sound, they add a diresis (umlaut, two dots) over the u. So güero is pronounced goo-AY-ro.
Gerzhoy recently played in Brazil, where they speak Portuguese not Spanish, but maybe similar spelling rules apply. Maybe. I don't speak Portuguese.
Or maybe he did change the spelling of his name ...!?
The British Championship is open to any Commonwealth citizen.
But "Championship events – open only to British Isles subjects or players resident therein for the past year, or those with British Overseas Dependent Territories Citizenship. "
A non-exhaustive perusal of TWIC for the last year seems to indicate there are a fair number of Swiss events; I would estimate the round robins only outnumber the Swisses by a two to one margin. Those countries whose national championships use a Swiss format include Austria, Australia, Britain, Denmark, Germany, Israel, Norway, Scotland, Switzerland, Ukraine, and of course Canada. There are also at least three countries which use a knockout format.
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