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The new year has started out with the pandemic getting into a controlled state.
We are proud to start the CFC+FIDE rated International Chess Grandpri 2022 at Waterdown, ON.
Gold sponsored by ever reliable Realtor Manoj Karatha & Bronze sponsored by Mortgage Broker Krishna Menon. Additional sponsorship by Veteran Chess player Nicolae, Oancea*
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Check out and register for the International extravaganza giving the biggest platform for Chess players to showcase their talent at International level. Check out for the dates in https://chess.ca starting Apr 2022
We reached 50+ entries and the capacity is increased to 80 entries for the Apr 23/24th Grandpri and the early bird extended till Apr 10th. Register ASAP.
Grandpri-1 is in progress with the 4th Round starting this afternoon. The pairings are posted in the website http://eaglemindschess.weebly.com/ev...nt-status.html . Also, the registrations are opened for May with the early bird fee ending on May 5th. More details in the website and Register ASAP
There are ~40 players registered and in the Open section we have Eugene(Rating 2420) playing this time and hoping to have more stronger players in the Open Section.
Please Register filling the form in the website here
Foremost thanks to all for playing the Grandpri-2 and as you are aware the registrations are open for Grandpri-3 on June 18th/19th here The Photos of Grandpri-2 Winners are published in the above website. ______________________________________________________________________________ Thanks to our Gold sponsor, Realtor - Manoj Karatha, Bronze sponsor - Mortgage Broker Krishna Menon and to our Veteran sponsor Nicolae, Oancea ______________________________________________________________________________
Congrats to all the Podium finishers and please find details below and attached for more reference.
To all the players who won prizes, cash has been transferred through Interac.
Open Section
The Top seed and overwhelming favorite Eugene had a bad day with the time and in a near equal position with Michelle just made a move a second late to lose on Time. The last Round was a Tough one with Michelle on 4 and playing against Aaron on 3.5. Towards the end, it looked heading for a draw and Michelle turned out to be unlucky and Aaron was able to squeeze out a Win with 4.5 Points
Name (Firstname, LastName)
.Podium Finishers
Prize Money
Aaron, Mendes
Open-1st
159
Michelle Hua
Open-2nd
111
Eugene Hua
Open-3rd
48
Nicolae Oancea
O-Top-6-SuperWinner-score_shortlist
N/A
Callum Yoker
O-Top-6-SuperWinner-score_shortlist
N/A
Anirud, Chakkoli
O-Top-6-SuperWinner-score_shortlist
N/A
U1900 Section For the last Round, there were 6 players - Wang, Selva, Karma, Eddie, Qian and Mohid fighting for a top spot.
Karma and Eddie had a hard fought draw to tie for third Qian had a positional advantage over Mohid and finally was able to win to tie for 1st place The game between Wang and Selva went over an hour beyond the schedule into late evening. Wang had a pawn advantage over Selva and in the end Wang could make it a 2 pawn advantage to garner a hard fought win and Tie for a 1st place
Name (Firstname, LastName)
.Podium Finishers
Prize Money
Bingfei Wang
U1900-Tied-1st
135
Eric Qian
U1900-Tied-1st
135
Karma Pillai
U1900-Tied-3rd
16
Eddie Lu
U1900-Tied-3rd
16
Sarthak Deshpande
U1900-Tied-3rd
16
Matias Gutierrez
U19-Top-6-SuperWinner-score_shortlist
N/A
Neil Moses
U19-Top-6-SuperWinner-score_shortlist
N/A
Karthik B Selva
U19-Top-6-SuperWinner-score_shortlist
N/A
Ashley Qian
U19-Top-6-SuperWinner-score_shortlist
N/A
Mohid, Zaka
U19-Top-6-SuperWinner-score_shortlist
N/A
U1200 Section Irene had a clean sweep with 4 wins against 1000+ rated players and scored 5/5. William took a bye in the 1st round and managed to win the remaining 4 games to come 2nd. Djuric had a hard fought loss with Irene and tied for 3rd place along with Xiangbin
The 1st Round for GP-3 is in progress and you can follow the scores for the Rounds in Chess-Results through http://eaglemindschess.weebly.com/ev...nt-status.html . Today 3 Rounds at 10AM, 1:30PM and 4 PM. Tomorrow 2 Rounds at 12:30 and 3PM.
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