Canadian Open pairings revised.

**Hal Bond** · Friday, 9th July, 2010, 09:04 AM

Re: Canadian Open pairings revised.

Here are the next 25 boards. First round byes are not included.

101 James Law (1390 : - : 0.0 [0.0]) John Young (1579 : - : 0.0 [0.0])
102 Jatinder Dhaliwal (1577 : - : 0.0 [0.0]) Colin B. Archibald (1364 : - : 0.0 [0.0])
103 Giuseppe Del Duca (1362 : - : 0.0 [0.0]) Michael Rogers (1576 : - : 0.0 [0.0])
104 Patrick Yu (1572 : - : 0.0 [0.0]) Isaac Andrade (1354 : - : 0.0 [0.0])
105 Jesus Vera (1345 : - : 0.0 [0.0]) Bruce W. Thomson (1566 : - : 0.0 [0.0])
106 Hugo Ortiz (1560 : - : 0.0 [0.0]) Paul Radelicki (1317 : - : 0.0 [0.0])
107 Stephen Yu (1314 : - : 0.0 [0.0]) Andrew Philip (1556 : - : 0.0 [0.0])
108 Mei Chen Lee (1552 : - : 0.0 [0.0]) Eric Song (1308 : - : 0.0 [0.0])
109 Louisa Qianqian Hou (1256 : - : 0.0 [0.0]) Ted Termeer (1546 : - : 0.0 [0.0])
110 Henry Cajina (1544 : - : 0.0 [0.0]) Daniel Molev (1239 : - : 0.0 [0.0])
111 Mark Law (1226 : - : 0.0 [0.0]) Samir El-Gohary (1541 : - : 0.0 [0.0])
112 Marguerite Yang (1540 : - : 0.0 [0.0]) Benjamin Blium (1096 : - : 0.0 [0.0])
113 Rick McCleary (1095 : - : 0.0 [0.0]) Alex De Cal (1532 : - : 0.0 [0.0])
114 Kajan Thanabalachandran (1530 : - : 0.0 [0.0]) Henry Gonzalez (1077 : - : 0.0 [0.0])
115 Matthew Perez (1012 : - : 0.0 [0.0]) Tom Muir (1530 : - : 0.0 [0.0])
116 Kyle France (1529 : - : 0.0 [0.0]) Eric Wang (992 : - : 0.0 [0.0])
117 Michael Gomes (964 : - : 0.0 [0.0]) Claudio Sottile (1516 : - : 0.0 [0.0])
118 Jack Maguire (1513 : - : 0.0 [0.0]) Kevin K. W. Wang (793 : - : 0.0 [0.0])
119 Steven Sokalsky (0 : - : 0.0 [0.0]) Tian Lan (1510 : - : 0.0 [0.0])
120 Matthew Scott (1506 : - : 0.0 [0.0]) Yezdi Pavri (0 : - : 0.0 [0.0])
121 Victor Okon (0 : - : 0.0 [0.0]) Bryant Yang (1500 : - : 0.0 [0.0])
122 Daniel Muntaner (1497 : - : 0.0 [0.0]) Ralf Köber (0 : - : 0.0 [0.0])
123 Jingle A. Kho (0 : - : 0.0 [0.0]) Andre Siegel (1477 : - : 0.0 [0.0])
124 Jiaxin Liu (1460 : - : 0.0 [0.0]) Mike Hunnersen (0 : - : 0.0 [0.0])
125 Jessica Danti (0 : - : 0.0 [0.0]) Wayne Siu (1449 : - : 0.0 [0.0])

**Ed Zator** · Friday, 9th July, 2010, 11:05 PM

Re: FIDE Time Control not available on Saitek clock

I noticed that none of the built-in Tournament times for the
Saitek Competition Pro clocks (FIDE 1, FIDE 2 etc.) correspond
to the actual time control posted for the tournament.

e.g.:

FIDE 1 40 moves in 90 min + 30 secs/move, then
remainder in 15 min + 30 secs/move

FIDE 2 40 moves in 100 min + 30 secs/move, then
remainder in 30 min + 30 secs/move

The fact there isn't a built-in FIDE TC for the Canadian Open's TC of:

"40 moves in 90 minutes and 30 minutes for the remainder of the
game (with 30 second increments from move 1)"

makes me wonder if a mistake was made in stating this TC.

Should we then set the clocks ourselves using the customized
user control mode?

**Stephen Wright** · Saturday, 10th July, 2010, 12:26 AM

Re: FIDE Time Control not available on Saitek clock

The clocks are older than the currently favoured FIDE time control, hence it is not included as a default setting.

**Ed Zator** · Saturday, 10th July, 2010, 08:49 AM

Re: Clocks supplied at Canadian Open

So are these clocks being supplied the old Saitek ones?

Are they going to be set for us? We should at least be able
to check they've been set properly.

**Bob Armstrong** · Saturday, 10th July, 2010, 08:58 AM

Re: Clocks supplied at Canadian Open

I'll have to find a junior to help me !!

Bob

**Jesse Wang** · Saturday, 10th July, 2010, 09:08 AM

Re: Canadian Open pairings revised.

-removed at the request of David Itkin-

**Bob Armstrong** · Saturday, 10th July, 2010, 09:45 AM

Re: Canadian Open pairings revised.

David Itkin posted to this effect on another thread. He is slated to play on Bd. 39 at the moment. I think Hal's response was that the organizers communicated nothing about a Rd. 1 bye to him when they forwarded the list of registrants. I think he said he was going to check with them. Nothing further was then posted on this.

I'd suggest you tell David to e-mail Hal directly right away ( halbond@sympatico.ca )

But given the round starts in 8 hours, I don't know if Hal will still be picking up his e-mails now before the round. But better try.

Bob

**Erik Malmsten** · Sunday, 11th July, 2010, 01:51 AM

2nd round Canadian Open pairings

Second Round pairings have been posted

http://monroi.com/2010-cocc-pairings.html

Maurice Smith, Michael Sutton and two women smoothly handled giving out the registration kits. The light blue touranment golf-shirts are great.

Only 1 last-minute entrant turned away and I don't think that there were any wins on forfeits. Still problems with cellphones ringing -- you lose. The politician's opening speech mentioned that chess teaches kids to think before you act. Hal and Brian Fiedler leooked great in a suit and Hal's two assistants stood out in their referee shirts.

Also standings, no big upsets, but many draws.

The playing play is air-conditioned and spacious with soft chairs and ice water. I posted a display on the early history of the Canadian Open and David Cohen posted the portraits of the members of the Canadian Chess Hall of Fame.

Players haven't yet learned to get coffee and juice from the variety store one building east. Although the outside doors lock and it's a pain to cross the street to the hotel, up to the walkway and back in to the playing hall.

Lots of people on the steet going to the island or harbourfront. Choice of hot dogs or soft ice cream. But noise doesn't seep in to the playing hall, except when the fire alarm went off ....

Many people looking forward to tomorrow morning's simult by GM Mark Bluvshtein, the ches960 simul on Monday and people even signing up for the FIDE Arbiter's seminar.

**Erik Malmsten** · Monday, 12th July, 2010, 03:07 AM

Re: 3rd Canadian Open pairings.

3rd round pairings are up

http://monroi.com/2010-cocc-pairings.html

Couple more late entrants turned away, they thought rounds were at 2 pm so couldn't make it, came by to watch. Several visitors to a Canadian chess tournament for the first time are entering the simults.

There were only a few chessplayers in the lobby bar and many orange- dressed fans were disappointed.

The playing hall ran out of ice water by 8pm.

Some stats:

49 seniors over 50
33 juniors under 18 plus
25 bantams under 14

12 ladies

31 out of province including
10 British Columbia
9 Alberta
5 Quebec
3 Manitoba
2 New Brunswick
1 Newfoundland
1 Sask

30 from out of the country including
13 USA
3 India, England and Germany

**Ken Kurkowski** · Monday, 12th July, 2010, 11:50 AM

Re: Canadian Open pairings revised.

Surprised to see only 5 Quebecers showed up...It's only about 5 1/2 hours drive from Montreal! I guess for many players (including me) one week-long tournament in the summer is enough, and they have the Quebec Open over there in a few weeks. I wonder how many Ontarians will play in that event?

**Vlad Drkulec** · Monday, 12th July, 2010, 02:55 PM

Re: 2nd round Canadian Open pairings

Originally posted by Erik Malmsten View Post

I don't think that there were any wins on forfeits.

Technically there was one. My first round opponent Ian Finlay was involved in a car accident. The TDs rescored it as a first round full point bye for myself and a half point bye for Ian. I did sit and watch his time silently tick down for forty minutes or so.

Canadian Open pairings revised.

Canadian Open pairings revised.

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