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[Three way tie for first after 7 - Noritsyn, Rodrigue-Lemieux, and Sambuev (Rodrigue-Lemieux beat Sambuev in round 7) -
Key games round 7 Sambuev - Rodrigue-Lemieux and Preotu - NoritsynLeave a comment:
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Bator Sambuev is certainly in a commanding position after round 6. In a normal tournament with a +5 score he could afford to draw his last three games, but this is no normal tournament.Leave a comment:
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Rd 4 Battle of the GM's Razvan Preotu vs Bator Sambuev and battle of the IM's Nikolay Noritsyn and Shawn Rodrigue - Lemieux.Leave a comment:
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Rd 2 Zhou - Sambuev What a game! How about the variation 50.Nf4 Rd6 51.f3 c3+ 52.bxc3+ Kc4+ 53.Kc1 Kxc3 54.Nd5+? Anyways thanks to the players for a great battle.
Huang - persevering in defence against Noritsyn.
Shawn Rodrigue - Lemieux - breaking down and using the d5 square - just lovely!
Razvan - the intricacy of corraling the past d2 pawn - what a pleasure to watch!Last edited by Hans Jung; Friday, 7 April, 2023, 04:07 PM.Leave a comment:
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Rd 2 Womens Closed Svitland Demchenko came up with a great idea on the white side of the French that I want to give a try. Great prep! and in the game its worked out fantastic.
I had my eye out on young 7 yr old Luba and she had what I thought was a great position before forgetting temporarily about her own king safety and reaching out with Qe8+ and then Qh5+. I would have loved to play Ne4 in that position.Leave a comment:
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Rd 2 Fascinated by Zhou - Sambuev with the battle of Ideas and counter ideas and how they play out. I have much experience playing with the black setup of pawns on c6, b5 and c4 but have not seen the line wihich plays out with whites queen going to e4 and e5 followed by e4 to hit the knight on d5.
Actually all four games that I can see in the closed are very interesting.Leave a comment:
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Looks like all the favorites won in the first round. Now we can settle in to watch a marathon of hopefully good battlesLeave a comment:
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Thanks for posting so early. With ten under 2200 this fan is expecting some great upsets.Leave a comment:
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Starting rankNo. Name ID FideID FED Rtg RtgI 1 GM Razvan Preotu 146124 2613280 CAN 2548 2483 2 IM Nikolay Noritsyn 132534 2604922 CAN 2546 2444 3 IM Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux 155300 2620049 CAN 2539 2451 4 GM Bator Sambuev 146462 4128290 CAN 2514 2433 5 CM Daniel Xu 160020 2627345 CAN 2403 2282 6 CM Max Rusonik 155671 2619253 CAN 2394 2262 7 FM Victor Plotkin 142063 2606674 CAN 2386 2172 8 CM Max Chen 155238 2622440 CAN 2345 2118 9 Youhe Huang 159428 2629445 CAN 2284 2068 10 FM Johnathan Han 161709 2629631 CAN 2269 2184 11 Aiden Zhou 153140 2618826 CAN 2257 2161 12 Jordan Clyde 130068 2616653 CAN 2247 2117 13 IM Michael Barron 134840 2605120 CAN 2244 2152 14 CM Aaron Reeve Mendes 167084 25954938 CAN 2231 2043 15 Henry Liu 157720 2628597 CAN 2213 1988 16 Vincent Latorre 162297 2636891 CAN 2200 2066 17 Jingyun (Ryan) Yang 160085 2637375 CAN 2196 1966 18 Etienne Latreille 154563 2634279 CAN 2194 1814 19 Eric Ning 158233 2625407 CAN 2182 1963 20 Lefan Yang 163151 2637626 CAN 2180 1892 21 Richard Chen 162781 2633159 CAN 2172 1834 22 Hugo Guillemette 167806 2636077 CAN 2124 1863 23 Savio Joseph Benher 161296 2629453 CAN 2120 1902 24 Matthew Zhu 160019 2633434 CAN 2113 1850 25 Ethan Song 161587 62900412 CAN 2088 1915 26 Nicolae Oancea 139674 1211870 CAN 1991 1722
No. Name ID FideID FED Rtg RtgI 1 WIM Svitlana Demchenko 156853 14149893 CAN 2320 2183 2 WFM Rachel Ruoxuan Chen 167981 2634155 CAN 1975 1914 3 Michelle Hua 159858 2626837 CAN 1942 1752 4 Carina D'souza 167600 2635550 CAN 1901 1697 5 April Yunwei Zhong 167271 2635658 CAN 1894 1626 6 Valerie Ruchinskaya 161874 2631440 CAN 1875 1574 7 Hanxi (Hancy) Jiang 166648 2640384 CAN 1803 1564 8 Laksshana Deepak 175714 25980548 CAN 1792 1509 9 Ashley Qian 168050 2636280 CAN 1784 1567 10 Irene Xie 175644 2643537 CAN 1676 1358 11 Anais Chloe Fiset 173894 2640503 CAN 1634 1368 12 Jing Yao Yang 170268 CAN 1606 0 13 Erin Zhao 172216 2643707 CAN 1592 1559 14 Ojal Ambilwade 176120 25685813 CAN 1535 1400 15 Anna Gavrileva 156634 2641305 CAN 1381 1412 16 Isabelle Guan 166081 2637642 CAN 1221 0 17 Marie Guan 164627 2635909 CAN 1083 1031 18 Yeeshuen Li 170254 2644070 CAN 1078 0 19 Margarita Lillico 168256 CAN 1026 0 20 Gayathri Sreekumar 172806 2640929 CAN 974 0 21 Luba Shtepa 179371 CAN 903 0 Leave a comment:
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Canadian Closed Championship & Women Closed 2023
Afternoon Folks,
Please find the info and links for the event:
9 ROUNDS, 6 DAYS; FROM APRIL 6 TO APRIL 11
April 6 @ 5pm Rd.1
April 7 @ 11am and 5pm Rd.2 & 3
April 8 @ 11am and 5pm Rd.4 & 5
April 9 @ 11am Rd.6
April 10 @ 11am and 5pm Rd.7 & 8
April 11 @ 11am Rd.9
DGT:
2023 Canadian Closed Championship: round 1, game 1 (livechesscloud.com)
Tournament Website (info and details):
2023 Canadian Closed Championship - Excelsior Chess Club
2023 Canadian Women Closed Championship - Excelsior Chess Club
Chess-Results for Pairings and Standings:
Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - 2023 Canadian Closed Championship
Chess-Results Server Chess-results.com - 2023 Canadian Woman Closed Championship
Regards,
Omar Shah
FIDE ArbiterLast edited by Omar Shah; Thursday, 6 April, 2023, 12:48 PM.
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