2010 Canadian Post-Secondary Teams: news

[Frank Dixon]

The 2010 Canadian Post-Secondary Team Championships are being hosted this weekend by the University of Toronto at the beautiful Hart House facility. The organizing committee has done an excellent job, and we have set a new record for the event with 19 teams participating!!!!! This breaks the previous record of 17, set at Queen's last year. Congratulations to Chief Organizer Alex Ferreira and his team for their energetic efforts!!!! Bryan Lamb is directing, with his normal professional manner, and play has been proceeding smoothly with no disputes to date in what has traditionally been a friendly but competitive event. Thanks to Bryan!!!! I'm assisting the event with various minor tasks (serving on the Appeals Committee, posting games on chess5.com, updating results here, etc).

Here are some results and standings after round 3; round 4 has just gotten underway, with the final round 5 set for this afternoon. Toronto A leads the championship group with a perfect 3/3 points, trailed closely by Waterloo A with 2.5. Those two teams are playing each other now, with Toronto having White on odd-numbered boards. Toronto's top player FM Bindi Cheng has only played round one to date, and is not playing this round either, which changes the competitive equation.

In the reserve section, Waterloo B, Queen's B, and Western A are tied with 2.5/3 points. In this round, Waterloo B is meeting Western A, with Queen's B facing Guelph B (2 points).

Championship section crosstable to date:

1. Waterloo A (2160) B6+ W7+ W3= B2
2. Toronto A (2066) W4+ B3+ W6+ W1
3. Ottawa A (2020) W8+ W2- B1= B5
4. Queen's A (1915) B2- W8= B7+ B6
5. Carleton A (1912) B7- W6- B8+ W3
6. Guelph A (1907) W1- B5+ B2- W4
7. Toronto C (1836) W5+ B1- W4- B8
8. Toronto B (1831) B3- B4= W5- W7

Strength in the top group is down significantly from last year; defending champion Western's top two players, IM Raja Panjwani and IM Jonathan Tayar, elected not to take part. Dalhousie, which usually has a strong team, cancelled at the last minute; and there are no Montreal teams this year. Also, it had been hoped that York would enter; they could have fielded GM Mark Bluvshtein and IM Leonid Gerzhoy on their top two boards. David Peng chose not to compete for U of T. Masters who are competing include Cheng, FM Christian Stevens (Guelph), NM Mihnea Voloaca (Ottawa), NM Kyle Morrison (Waterloo), and NM Alex Torres (Carleton); all are on board one for their respective schools.

I will be posting some of the interesting games from this event on the site chess5.com throughout the day.

Also, the CPSCA planning meeting was held yesterday, and featured much interesting and lively discusssion among the organizers, the team captains, the host site event coordinator, and various other people. I understand that Alex Ferreira plans to post items from discussion on this site, once the event is complete. As of now, a final decision has not been made on the host for next year.

Larry Bevand from CMA is visiting the event today. Thanks Larry! The Toronto Star is planning to visit today and to report on the tournament, so watch that fine newspaper for an article in the coming days.

Cheers,
Frank Dixon
:) :) :)

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Re: 2010 Canadian Post-Secondary Teams: news

final results?

[Alex Ferreira]

Re: 2010 Canadian Post-Secondary Teams: news

Hi all,

Added report below now...

Alex F.

[Nic Haynes]

Re: 2010 Canadian Post-Secondary Teams: news

For obvious reasons this event should be renamed to 2010 Ontario Post-Secondary Teams

[Alex Ferreira]

Re: 2010 Canadian Post-Secondary Teams: news

Here are the individual standings:

SwissSys Wall Chart. Canadian University Chess Championship: Championship
# Name/Rtng/ID Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5
1 Bindi Cheng W 11 ---- ---- ---- ----
2406 141968 (2020) 1.0 U1.0 U1.0 U1.0 U1.0
2 Christian Stevens W 4 B 6 B 7 W 16 W 22
2398 120171 (2174) 0.5 1.5 2.0 3.0 3.5
3 Mihnea Voloaca W 22 W 7 B 4 B 6 W 13
2286 120516 (2204) 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0
4 Kyle Morrison B 2 W 13 W 3 B 7 B 11
2240 106826 (1632) 0.5 1.5 1.5 1.5 2.0
5 Kevin Chung W 34 B 29 B 18 W 12 W 16
2228 133914 (2142) 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0
6 Aleksandr Tuxanidy Torres B 13 W 2 B 22 W 3 W 7
2211 149090 0.0 0.0 1.0 1.0 1.5
7 Geordie Derraugh ---- B 3 W 2 W 4 B 6
2129 132393 (1856) U0.0 0.0 0.5 1.5 2.0
8 Jeff Willms W 36 B 31 B 24 W 9 W 35
2115 136698 (1741) 1.0 2.0 3.0 3.0 4.0
9 Alex T Ferreira ---- W 17 B 36 B 8 ----
2060 127516 U0.0 0.5 1.5 2.5 U2.5
10 Iulia Lacau-Rodean B 28 W 30 W 17 B 32 B 21
2056 144348 (1901) 1.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 3.0
11 Daniel Abrahams B 1 B 22 B 13 ---- W 4
2048 134333 (1908) 0.0 1.0 2.0 U2.0 2.5
12 David Krupka B 16 W 18 B 34 B 5 W 15
2047 102648 (1915) 0.5 0.5 1.0 1.0 2.0
13 Leon Perelman W 6 B 4 W 11 W 23 B 3
1999 146258 (1939) 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.5 1.5
14 Digeng Du B 19 ---- ---- ---- W 37
1989 107986 1.0 U1.0 U1.0 U1.0 2.0
15 Zixiao Han W 29 B 34 W 23 B 18 B 12
1976 0.0 0.0 0.5 1.5 1.5
16 Tyler Longo W 12 ---- W 29 B 2 B 5
1973 135360 0.5 U0.5 1.5 1.5 1.5
17 Danail Donev B 26 B 9 B 10 W 37 B 31
1966 143574 0.5 1.0 2.0 2.0 3.0
18 Jason Riordon B 23 B 12 W 5 W 15 B 29
1947 104837 (1794) 1.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 3.0
19 Emre Turken W 14 B 26 ---- B 28 ----
1935 143474 0.0 0.0 1.0 1.5 1.5
20 Hal Bond ---- ---- ---- ---- ----
1910 111830 (1767) U0.0 U0.0 U0.0 U0.0 U0.0
21 Jonathan Farine B 32 W 25 B 30 W 34 W 10
1901 148113 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 1.5
22 Robert Roller B 3 W 11 W 6 ---- B 2
1892 111209 (1568) 0.0 0.0 0.0 U0.0 0.5
23 Sina Makaremi W 18 ---- B 15 B 13 ----
1884 146566 0.0 U0.0 0.5 1.0 U1.0
24 Kar-fai Gee W 25 W 32 W 8 B 27 W 30
1882 149112 1.0 1.0 1.0 2.0 2.0
25 Martin Chang B 24 B 21 ---- W 29 W 34
1827 106335 (1545) 0.0 0.5 U0.5 0.5 1.0
26 Robert Kleinman W 17 W 19 W 27 B 30 B 28
1800 132632 (1585) 0.5 1.5 2.5 3.5 4.0
27 Anton Georgiev B 30 W 28 B 26 W 24 W 32
1796 147006 (1533) 0.5 1.5 1.5 1.5 1.5
28 Robert Clark W 10 B 27 B 32 W 19 W 26
1794 136657 (1963) 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.5 1.0
29 Stuart Brammall B 15 W 5 B 16 B 25 W 18
1787 145597 1.0 1.0 1.0 2.0 2.0
30 Travis Li W 27 B 10 W 21 W 26 B 24
1784 145596 0.5 0.5 1.0 1.0 2.0
31 Siang Khor B 37 W 8 B 35 B 33 W 17
1776 149113 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.5 1.5
32 Haizhou Xu W 21 B 24 W 28 W 10 B 27
1762 138986 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0
33 Benjamin Davidson ---- B 35 B 37 W 31 W 36
1750 107609 U0.0 0.5 0.5 1.0 2.0
34 Michael Zaghi B 5 W 15 W 12 B 21 B 25
1726 147060 0.0 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5
35 Nicholas Gellner ---- W 33 W 31 W 36 B 8
1720 132628 (1717) U0.0 0.5 1.5 1.5 U1.5
36 Michael Von Keitz B 8 W 37 W 9 B 35 B 33
1709 128800 0.0 0.5 0.5 1.5 1.5
37 Dan Thompson W 31 B 36 W 33 B 17 B 14
1664 137937 0.0 0.5 1.5 2.5 2.5

SwissSys Wall Chart. Canadian University Chess Championship: Reserves
# Name/Rtng/ID Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5
1 Randika Balasooriya W 11 B 23 W 9 ---- B 32
2086 0.5 0.5 1.0 U1.0 2.0
2 Justin McDonald B 4 W 24 ---- B 11 W 18
2004 127490 (1703) 1.0 2.0 U2.0 2.5 3.5
3 Hal Bond B 24 ---- ---- ---- ----
1910 111830 (1767) 1.0 U1.0 U1.0 U1.0 U1.0
4 Jeff Boyd W 2 B 18 ---- W 9 W 12
1848 109622 (1703) 0.0 0.5 U0.5 0.5 0.5
5 Steele Roddick W 32 B 11 W 23 W 7 B 9
1798 149118 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 4.0
6 Paul Stephens B 43 B 10 W 22 W 13 B 8
1788 132545 0.5 1.5 2.5 3.5 4.0
7 Alfonso Cheng W 23 B 9 W 13 B 5 W 24
1788 121110 (1473) 1.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 3.0
8 Alex Young B 37 W 12 B 19 B 10 W 6
1764 149120 1.0 1.0 1.5 2.5 3.0
9 Kevin Fernandes W 25 W 7 B 1 B 4 W 5
1744 132543 1.0 1.0 1.5 2.5 3.5
10 James Scott B 19 W 6 B 15 W 8 B 25
1710 140559 (1422) 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
11 William George B 1 W 5 B 24 W 2 ----
1683 0.5 0.5 1.0 1.5 U1.5
12 Kevin Chen W 22 B 8 ---- B 36 B 4
1678 149017 1.0 2.0 U2.0 3.0 4.0
13 Herbert Fournier B 36 W 30 B 7 B 6 ----
1660 145542 1.0 2.0 3.0 3.0 U3.0
14 Jacob Stein B 49 W 39 W 25 B 40 W 15
1640 108627 (1843) 0.0 1.0 1.5 2.0 3.0
15 Luke Peristy W 40 ---- W 10 W 29 B 14
1577 140412 1.0 U1.0 2.0 2.5 2.5
16 Alex Safir ---- ---- B 43 W 27 B 50
1546 138652 U0.0 U0.0 0.5 1.0 2.0
17 Colin Cuttress W 26 B 46 W 33 ---- W 28
1543 146026 1.0 1.0 1.0 U1.0 1.0
18 Johnny Nguyen ---- W 4 B 32 ---- B 2
1535 146556 U0.0 0.5 1.5 U1.5 1.5
19 Jonathan Ruano W 10 B 22 W 8 B 35 ----
1528 444 (1387) 0.0 1.0 1.5 2.5 U2.5
20 Eric Cheung W 48 B 29 W 50 B 39 W 43
1521 130975 (1634) 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 4.5
21 Neil Dattani ---- ---- ---- B 45 W 42
1516 124996 U0.0 U0.0 U0.0 0.5 0.5
22 Liiban Farah B 12 W 19 B 6 ---- W 37
1508 148746 (1363) 0.0 0.0 0.0 U0.0 0.0
23 Morgan Balanaser B 7 W 1 B 5 W 37 ----
1506 136766 (1577) 0.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 U1.0
24 Ammar Khairullah W 3 B 2 W 11 B 30 B 7
1500 145219 0.0 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.0
25 Robert Hayes B 9 W 36 B 14 W 44 W 10
1476 149114 0.0 0.5 1.0 2.0 3.0
26 Daniel Sachs B 17 W 47 B 31 ---- W 41
1450 148220 0.0 0.5 0.5 U0.5 0.5
27 Patrick Ho W 50 B 33 ---- B 16 B 45
1424 147958 0.0 0.0 U0.0 0.5 0.5
28 John Dupont ---- B 51 W 42 B 31 B 17
1380 111932 U0.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 2.0
29 Chris Risi ---- W 20 B 49 B 15 W 39
1374 149110 U0.0 0.0 1.0 1.5 1.5
30 Baran Serajelahi ---- B 13 W 35 W 24 W 36
1372 142906 U0.0 0.0 0.5 1.0 2.0
31 Romeo Agda W 33 B 42 W 26 W 28 B 46
1370 146107 0.0 0.0 1.0 2.0 3.0
32 Eoin O'Dwyer B 5 ---- W 18 ---- W 1
1367 128793 0.0 U0.0 0.0 U0.0 0.0
33 Coste Shuster B 31 W 27 B 17 ---- ----
1367 138653 1.0 2.0 3.0 U3.0 U3.0
34 John Aguer ---- ---- W 44 B 48 W 49
1354 149121 U0.0 U0.0 0.0 1.0 2.0
35 Gilbert Kelapile B 39 ---- B 30 W 19 ----
1345 149123 0.0 U0.0 0.5 0.5 U0.5
36 Jonathan To W 13 B 25 ---- W 12 B 30
1341 136010 0.0 0.5 U0.5 0.5 0.5
37 John Mangold W 8 ---- ---- B 23 B 22
1276 149027 0.0 U0.0 U0.0 1.0 2.0
38 Thomas [dingchao] Zhang ---- ---- B 51 W 47 ----
1230 146125 U0.0 U0.0 0.0 1.0 U1.0
39 Michael Chiaramonte W 35 B 14 W 48 W 20 B 29
837 125021 1.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 2.0
40 Ali Khorsandi Taskoh B 15 W 43 ---- W 14 W 44
unr. 0.0 0.5 U0.5 1.0 2.0
41 JP Dabbaugh W 46 ---- ---- ---- B 26
unr. 0.0 U0.0 U0.0 U0.0 1.0
42 Wenzhangzhi Guo B 47 W 31 B 28 W 46 B 21
unr. 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0 5.0
43 Daniel Coren W 6 B 40 W 16 B 51 B 20
unr. 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.5 3.0
44 Tony She ---- ---- B 34 B 25 B 40
unr. U0.0 U0.0 1.0 1.0 1.0
45 Dimitri Model ---- ---- ---- W 21 W 27
unr. U0.0 U0.0 U0.0 0.5 1.5
46 Billy Xian B 41 W 17 B 47 B 42 W 31
unr. 1.0 2.0 3.0 3.0 3.0
47 Jeff Keith W 42 B 26 W 46 B 38 ----
unr. 0.0 0.5 0.5 0.5 U0.5
48 Anthony Chartier B 20 W 49 B 39 W 34 ----
unr. 0.0 0.0 1.0 1.0 U1.0
49 Aditya Rajasekran W 14 B 48 W 29 ---- B 34
unr. 1.0 2.0 2.0 U2.0 2.0
50 Tom Henbest B 27 B 44 B 20 ---- W 16
unr. 1.0 2.0 2.0 U2.0 2.0
51 Nathan De Luca ---- W 28 W 38 W 43 ----
unr. U0.0 0.0 1.0 1.0 U1.0

[Alex Ferreira]

Re: Event Report

Hi all,


It's been a while but I think we got it all together now :)
The CPSCC was definitely a different type of tournament, very social and enjoyable.
Some quality chess being played as well. Many players returned after a long absence, some guys played in their first tournament.


Championship:

Gold - Toronto A: Bindi Cheng, Geordie Derraugh, David Krupka, Haizhou Xu, Alex Ferreira, Digeng Du
Silver - Ottawa A: Minhea Voloaca, Jason Riordon, Kar-Fai Gee, Danail Donev
Bronze - Waterloo A: Kyle Morrison, Kevin Chung, Iulia Lacau-Rodean, Jeff Willms

Best board 1: Minhea Voloaca with a performance of 2494 - Ottawa A (5/5)
Board 2: Kevin Chung - Waterloo A (5/5)
Board 3: Haizhou Xu - Toronto A (5/5)
Board 4: Jeff Willms - Waterloo A (4/5)


The competitive and cheerful team of Ottawa, taking Silver in the Championship Section.
Pictured above: Kar-Fai Gee, Jason Riordon, Minhea Voloaca and Danail Donev, alongside TD Bryan Lamb.

Reserves:

Gold - Waterloo B: Alfonso Cheng, James Scott, Eric Cheung, Wenzhangzhi Guo
Silver - Guelph B: Kevin Fernandes, Paul Stephens, Christopher Risi, Romeo Agda
Bronze - Toronto D: William George, Kevin Chen, Jacob Stein, Alex Safir, Colin Cuttress

Board 1: Steele Roddick - Western A (4/5)
Board 2: Paul Stephens - Guelph B (4/5)
Board 3: Eric Cheung - Waterloo B (4.5/5)
Board 4: Wenzhangzhi Guo - Waterloo B (5/5)


87 players participated, forming 19 teams from 8 different schools. 19 teams is a record from 17 that played the previous year, the # of players also being a high. Schools participating last year were 10. It seems that those who participate enjoy it enough to return and bring more players with them, but it's a challenge to initiate new schools.

For obvious reasons this event should be renamed to 2010 Ontario Post-Secondary Teams

Canada is a big country and traveling is expensive. We were in contact with several out-of-Ontario schools but none were able to join us. By moving it around, even if it has only been in the Toronto-Montreal corridor lately, we hope new Universities will join and bring in a bid to take the tournament even farther.

From the 87 players who participated, 56 had expired CFC memberships. 14 are completely new to the CFC, even if a few had ratings from other federations. 36 of these 56 opted to buy the $20 tournament membership instead of getting the $43 full-year deal. Something to think about...


It seems everyone overall had an amazing time, both at the board and away from it. The skittles room was full of energy in between games. From people playing the piano, to analyzes between total strangers, a lunch room, when not at the tournament hall, it was the place to be. On Sunday we also had the treat to have GM Bator Sambuev join us for game analyses.

The pub night on Saturday was a huge success as some 37 people came out for it. Management at the 'Duke of York' even had to move us around on a couple of occasions since we had so many people (once for most of us, twice for those of us who stayed the 5 hours). I am ashamed to say that UT was grossly under-represented at this outing with only three of us, the disadvantage of being the home team :D --- Weather was quite agreeable taking into account we're in January.


Main organizer of this event and the one who deserves recognition for a ton of behind-the-scenes work is Alexander Safir! With the help of Travis Li, Leon Perelman and Rob Roller, this was truly a memorable event. I did surprisingly little leading up to the event :) even if I looked busy on-site. A big thanks as always to Bryan Lamb. Our staff advisor Day Milman made sure we were able to jump through all the hoops. We'd also like to thank Erik Malmsten for many of the photos, and Frank Dixon for making himself available to help on-site and providing some live news as well as games on chess5. I will post any additional games I have in due time.


Check out the Team Standings & event photos at:
http://hhchess.sa.utoronto.ca/cpscc

The CPSCC, as well as the extra games played on-site involving some participants with byes as well as members of the community, should be rated this Wednesday coming up.


Alex Ferreira
Hart House Chess Club

[Bob Armstrong]

A Nice Chess Weekend for Some Community Members

Alex Ferreira: " The CPSCC, as well as the extra games played on-site involving some participants with byes as well as members of the community, should be rated this Wednesday coming up. "

My thanks to Organizer Alex and TD Bryan, who came up with the unique idea of inviting the community to come and play rated games against university team members sitting out a round, or against each other. A small group of community members came out, and some good games were played ( Bryan Lamb even played one of the games ). I was pleased to get to play Queen's coach Frank Dixon, community members Michael Song and Jackie Peng, and university team member, Sina Makaremi. It made for a nice weekend of socializing a bit with a number of university team members I knew, and playing tournament condition games against good opponents. Thanks again for an enjoyable chess weekend. Hope it becomes a regular feature of the CPSCC.

Bob