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ZONAL & Easter Sectionals - updated registration list
Aman is second. I looked at the tiebreaks for the first time after losing to Bareev in round 7 - the first tiebreak is head to head encounters. I think for future events, it would make sense to change that...in my opinion, head to head makes more sense in round robins, but in a swiss event other tiebreakers usually work better. Unfortunately, the schedule with two games on the last day does not allow time for playoff games.
Is there a playoff for one FM title, or do all the players with 6 points get one?
I wondered how many players have obtained fide titles from the Canadian Closed. In the modern era of Swiss events, there have been 44 players (19%) who have scored 6 and most already were titled. Trying to figure it out from David Cohen's research at www.canadianchess.info
IM Titles from Canadian Closed
(3 players got the IM title for 6 pts in 1999:
David Ross 1999
Michael Schleifer 1999
Thanh Nha Duong 1999
Arthur Calugar 2011
Eric Lawson 2004
Vicente Lee Jr. 2006 (6.5 points)
Nikolay Noritsyn 2007
Jonathan Tayar 2009
Richard Wang 2012
FM titles from Canadian Closed
Louise Jiang 2009
Nikita Gusev 2012
Eric Lawson 2002
Christian Stevens 2004
(In 1999 it looks like top players with 4.5 points got FM titles
Nigel Fullbrook 1999
Hans Jung 1999
Marat Khassanov 1999
Stephen Glinert 1999
Ioan Crisan 1999
Others with 6/9 who haven't won the FM title (Lost playoff or non-zonal year? Minimum rating requirement?):
Robert J. Gardner 2002
Dale Haessel 2006
David Herder 2002
Robert Patterson 2002
Jeff Reeve 2002
Sergei Sokourinski 2002
Huge congrats to Mark Plotkin who managed the IM norm despite having to overcome his own creative openings and the pressure of hundreds of students watching at home :) Looking forward to seeing the last norm!
Others with 6/9 who haven't won the FM title (Lost playoff or non-zonal year? Minimum rating requirement?):
Robert J. Gardner 2002
Dale Haessel 2006
David Herder 2002
Robert Patterson 2002
Jeff Reeve 2002
Sergei Sokourinski 2002
The regulations at the time were different: 2/3 or better result for an IM and 50% or better for an FM, with the stricture for an open Swiss that only one IM and two FM titles were available. In 2002 Stephen Glinert earned the IM, Dave Herder and Eric Lawson the FM.
There were multiple people with 4.5+ who got CM: Zachary Dukic, Sergey Noritsyn, Rejean Tremblay, Max Rusonik, Ananda Saha, Hugues Masse, Hou Ji Yao, and William Li. Congratulations!
Although the big guns dominated the top of the crosstable, the lower players could get personal victories in terms of upsets and rating gains.
Zachery Dukic (defeating GM Yang) had the highest performance rating over his FIDE rating. And he had played in Italy and Philadelphia in the last year. But his performance rating was below his CFCs.
Joshua Doknjas (defeating GM Bareev) had his performance rating higher than his CFCs, as were Tremblay and Saha.
Réjean Tremblay score with FMs was +2=3-0, Tyler Tanaka scored even against FMs +1=3-1. Several of the players had their FIDE rating way below their CFC, and so we would expect them to be among those who gained the most FIDE rating points.
There were multiple people with 4.5+ who got CM: Zachary Dukic, Sergey Noritsyn, Rejean Tremblay, Max Rusonik, Ananda Saha, Hugues Masse, Hou Ji Yao, and William Li. Congratulations!
Nope. Too tough opposition. Zachery Dukic, who defeated GM Kaiqui Yang, needed to draw his last round game with an IM. He will get lots of rating points.
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