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Real treat for you: Saturday, July 16 free showing of Ivory Tower!!
David,
That is awesome that you were able to get Ivory Tower. I've been wanting to see it but couldn't find it on video nor was it showing anywhere near Toronto save for a couple of festivals like NXNE.
For those who don't know anything about the movie, it's tangentially about chess and it is crazy. One review described Ivory Tower as "a tour de force, a series of set pieces performed with simple gestures in modulating forms. It’s a Rocky-inspired sports parody; a Sirkean melodrama; a nouvelle nouvelle vague; free-jazz riff; a music video; a YouTube bricolage; a silent-era pastiche; a commercial."
The soundtrack for the movie was done by the brilliant Canadian musician Chilly Gonzales. Here's a link to the a clip from the movie:
That is awesome that you were able to get Ivory Tower. I've been wanting to see it but couldn't find it on video nor was it showing anywhere near Toronto save for a couple of festivals like NXNE.
For those who don't know anything about the movie, it's tangentially about chess and it is crazy. One review described Ivory Tower as "a tour de force, a series of set pieces performed with simple gestures in modulating forms. It’s a Rocky-inspired sports parody; a Sirkean melodrama; a nouvelle nouvelle vague; free-jazz riff; a music video; a YouTube bricolage; a silent-era pastiche; a commercial."
The soundtrack for the movie was done by the brilliant Canadian musician Chilly Gonzales. Here's a link to the a clip from the movie:
The movie is well made and very funny. Several well-known musicians involved like Pink and Fiest. It will be playing Saturday night at 8 pm.
Dropped by the tournament this morning and listened to two lectures for free. Only 13 people there, but apparently GMs need the afternoons free to prepare for their games. Nicer having the lectures in room close to the playing hall on the main floor rather than across the street like last year.
GM Dejan Bojkov talked a little about Antoaneti Stefanova and analyzied two positions from her games, trying out variations suggested by the audience. He was requested to share one of his own games and revealed his thoughts on how he lost a game he was winning in Round 1, underestimating his opponent.
Eugene Perelshteyn went over the main opening variations covered in the two books on chess opening systems he cowrote with Alburt and Dzindzichashvili and sold most of the copies he brought. Some of the obscure lines they recommended are now main lines.
Only a few people entered the simult at noon.
The kids class of 30 looked well run and the GM lost a game in the simul!
It’s worth it to drop by early.
There’re still spaces available for the Arbiter’s seminar being taught by the best.
Round 4 Pairings -- Re: Canadian Open July 8-17 HERE YOU GO!
Pairings for Round 4.
Pinnacle 48th Canadian Open Chess Championship 2011:
OPEN SECTION
Bd Res White Res Black
1 GM Eduardas Rozentalis (2614) GM Bator Sambuev (2739)
2 IM Artiom Samsonkin (2532) IM Leonid Gerzhoy (2647)
3 GM Eugene Perelshteyn (2532) GM Mark Bluvshtein (2634)
4 IM Nikolay Noritsyn (2597) GM Luis Manuel Perez Rodriguez (2467)
5 GM Joel Benjamin (2641) FM Roman Sapozhnikov (2424)
6 FM Vinny Puri (2350) IM Irina Krush (2578)
7 GM Vitali Golod (2576) FM Goran Milicevic (2400)
8 GM Walter Arencibia (2537) IM Michal Meszaros (2409)
9 Richard Wang (2346) IM Jean Hébert (2486)
10 IM David Cummings (2459) David Itkin (2203)
11 Michael Humphreys (2277) FM Shiyam Thavandiran (2447)
12 WIM Iryna Zenyuk (2429) Omer Reshef (2145)
13 GM Victor Mikhalevski (2664) Mariano A Acosta (2118)
14 GM Alexander Shabalov (2618) IM Raymond Kaufman (2256)
15 Martial Larochelle (2214) GM John Peter Fedorowicz (2508)
16 FM Bindi Cheng (2500) Nikita Gusev (2223)
17 IM Tomas Krnan (2470) Tanraj S Sohal (2177)
18 Lorne Yee (2260) IM Arthur Calugar (2437)
19 IM Michael Mulyar (2422) Andrew Picana (2140)
20 Steve Demmery (2208) IM Kenneth W. Regan (2422)
21 Victor Plotkin (2411) Dezheng Kong (2120)
22 FM Vladimir Pechenkin (2408) Lali Agbabishvili (1954)
23 Daniel Abrahams (2161) FM Aman Hambleton (2349)
24 Geordie Derraugh (2140) FI Rolando Renteria (2346)
25 Michael Kleinman (2343) WCM Alexandra Botez (2005)
26 David Southam (2124) Leonid Strugach (2324)
27 FM Michael Dougherty (2314) Myriam Roy (1935)
28 Nandor Tot (2119) Liam Henry (2290)
29 Oliver Kenta Chiku-ratte (1729) FM Michael Barron (2277)
30 Aquino Inigo (2088) GM Dejan Bojkov (2544)
31 FM John C [Jack] Yoos (2439) Iulia Lacau-rodean (2091)
32 IM Stefan Macak (2391) Alan Ang (2029)
33 James Chan (2022) FM Nelson Castaneda (2377)
34 Jesse B Wang (1998) FM Alisa Melekhina (2262)
35 FM Brett Campbell (2246) James Fu (2028)
36 WCM Jackie Peng (1991) Ian Loadman (2218)
37 Ian Aird (1909) Andrei Moffat (2215)
38 Daniel Wiebe (1938) Dale McTavish (2205)
39 Dmitry Chernik (1897) Wajdy Shebetah (2194)
40 Ron Pitre (2190) Tony [Juntao] Lin (2023)
41 Felix Barrios (2172) Simon Gladstone (1935)
42 WIM Dina Kagramanov (2142) FM Jason Cao (1908)
43 Vladimir Drkulec (2138) Daniel Zotkin (1598)
44 Christopher Baumgartner (1904) Roger Patterson (2134)
45 Kevin Wu (2105) Regina-Veronicka Kalaydina (1890)
46 Stephen Ye (1710) Francois Caire (2104)
47 IM Lawrence Day (2262) David Krupka (2019)
48 Matthew Morabito (2016) Michael Song (2216)
49 Ashish (justin) Gulati (2210) Michael P. Opaska (2001)
50 Robert Bzikot (2004) Ali Hayder (2120)
51 Sardul Purewal (2004) Ruperto Frilles (2105)
52 Lawrence Cohen (1993) Mike Ivanov (2100)
53 Stephen Fairbairn (2099) David Miller (1936)
54 Bradley J Willis (2094) H G Pitre (1907)
55 Yuanchen Zhang (1932) Tyler Longo (2087)
56 Pavel Peev (2083) Ken Le (1660)
57 Ben Olden-cooligan (1893) WCM Yelizaveta Orlova (2073)
58 Veacaslav Grecu (1846) Christopher Knox (2072)
59 Arkadiy Ugodnikov (1818) Alexandru Florea (2065)
60 Jeff Back (2053) Ralph Deline (1828)
61 Pepin Manalo (1769) Razvan Preotu (2030)
62 Matthew Nicholson (2029) Pi Nasir (1599)
63 Yue Tong [Davy] Zhao (1512) Mike Coleman (2162)
64 Ismail Ibrahim (2110) Zhao Yang Luo (1894)
65 Joseph Bellissimo (1977) Gordon Olheiser (2049)
66 Dalia Kagramanov (2027) Chang Yun (1572)
67 Natasa Serbanescu (1871) Robert Roller (1993)
68 Louay Sakka (1643) Rick Pedersen (1985)
69 Ian Finlay (1984) Michael D Sharpe (1662)
70 Juliaan Posaratnanathan (1902) Brendan Fan (2097)
71 Enzo Pieri (1734) Sean Rachar (1980)
72 Ali Razzaq (1967) John W Chidley-Hill (1787)
73 Larry Castle (1724) Mark Plotkin (1916)
1 Vilas Karmalkar (1608) BYE
½ Haizhou Xu (2149) BYE
½ Brian Fiedler (2123) BYE
½ Federico Austria (2105) BYE
½ Vladimir Birarov (2267) BYE
Pairings for Round 4.
Pinnacle 48th Canadian Open Chess Championship 2011:
UNDER 2000 SECTION
Bd Res White Res Black
76 Hugh Siddeley (1996) Alexander Strugach (1963)
77 Jonathan Yu (1971) Perry Vishal Johnson (1846)
78 Paul Leblanc (1924) John Doknjas (1997)
79 Jordan Palmer (1947) Greg Stavropoulos (1872)
80 Mario Moran-venegas (1864) Ed Zator (1902)
81 Shafkat Ali (1823) Stephan Tonakanian (1974)
82 Steve Nickoloff (1872) Michael Perez (1728)
83 Jaime Solis (1717) Musa Jamshed (1850)
84 Tom Muir (1571) Bruce Dowling (1847)
85 Nicholas O'Bumsawin (1831) Mike Hunnersen (1711)
86 Manoj Tahiliani (1511) Pacifico Cortez (1830)
87 Grisha Crnilovic (1618) Patrick Yu (1796)
88 Greg Beal (1777) Zehn Nasir (1686)
89 Chris White (1735) Richard Marks (1632)
90 Manuela Renteria (1922) Eric Song (1488)
91 Yimang Yang (1706) Sam Haziprodromu (1843)
92 Mathew G Cooke (1799) David Fletcher (1449)
93 Pino Verde (1660) Patrick O'Sullivan (1758)
94 Robert J Armstrong (1740) Hooshang Abbarin (unr.)
95 Sasha Chuchin (1587) Daniel Coren (1738)
96 Jack Triefeldt (1714) Andrew Philip (1596)
97 Jiaxin Liu (1398) Mark Jubenville (1790)
98 David Poirier (1906) Bruce W Thomson (1626)
99 Roy Posaratnanathan (1748) Kajan Thanabalachandran (1600)
100 Jaak Jarve (1740) Doug Gillis (1616)
101 Ted Allen (1564) Martin Maister (1733)
102 Florian Bergeron (1728) Jonathan Orenbach (1376)
103 Hugo Ortiz (1619) Adie Todd (1665)
104 James Mourgelas (1480) Zhanna Sametova (1647)
105 Bill Thornton (1375) Kevin Gaffney (1685)
106 Genadi Medvedev (1639) Bryan Morgan (1562)
107 John Zhang (1629) Ken Kurkowski (1516)
108 Alejandro Renteria (1465) Bryant Yang (1618)
109 Jatinder Dhaliwal (1673) Richard Laporte (1606)
1 Doug Sly (1545) BYE
½ Caesar Posylek (1676) BYE
½ Richard Garel (1942) BYE
½ Giuseppe Del Duca (1374) BYE
Pairings for Round 4.
Pinnacle 48th Canadian Open Chess Championship 2011:
UNDER 1600 SECTION
Bd Res White Res Black
111 Rodrigo Oliveira (unr.) John R Brown (1561)
112 Jeffrey Xu (1275) Sergey Noritsyn (1491)
113 Aleksandra Milicevic (1245) Alexandre Michelashvili (1453)
114 Tetyana Tismenko (unr.) Robert Li (1347)
115 Kyle France (1490) Maurice Smith (1588)
116 Michael Rogers (1541) George Supol (1401)
117 Kevin Yi-xiao Yie (1431) Jose Cabioc (1538)
118 Wayne Siu (1527) Colin B Archibald (1376)
119 Dennis Tismenko (1496) Gordon Cui (1303)
120 Julian McRoberts (1492) Bernie Prost (unr.)
121 Jack Maguire (1575) Jeff Pancer (1256)
122 Stephen Yu (1334) Nathan Lean (1515)
123 Daniel Sirkovich (1206) Steve Karpik (1482)
124 James Law (1462) Michael Gomes (1042)
125 Brian Warburton (unr.) Claude Toussaint (1455)
126 Daniel Molev (1372) Eli Teram (1213)
127 Milan Cvetkovic (1208) Benjamin Blium (1382)
128 Joshua Doknjas (1502) Ernesto Villaluz (1203)
129 Ted Termeer (1403) Ljudmila Milicevic (1048)
130 Dinesh Dattani (1379) Bhavani Shankar Sikha (unr.)
131 Matthew Perez (1306) Jesus Vera (1324)
132 Joey Zhong (1123) Daniel Muntaner (1252)
133 Jason Waugh (851) Evan Adamson (unr.)
134 Larissa Souchko (1151) John Warner (unr.)
135 Shabnam Abbarin (1474) Robert Girard (unr.)
½ Jessica Danti (1399) BYE
½ Lawrence Garcia (1439) BYE
Round 5 Pairings -- Re: Canadian Open July 8-17 questions
Pairings for Round 5. Pinnacle 48th Canadian Open Chess Championship 2011: OPEN SECTION
Bd Res White player name Res Black player name
1 GM Bator Sambuev (2739) GM Eugene Perelshteyn (2532)
2 IM Leonid Gerzhoy (2647) IM David Cummings (2459)
3 GM Joel Benjamin (2641) IM Artiom Samsonkin (2532)
4 IM Jean Hébert (2486) GM Eduardas Rozentalis (2614)
5 IM Irina Krush (2578) WIM Iryna Zenyuk (2429)
6 GM Luis Manuel Perez Rodriguez (2467) GM Vitali Golod (2576)
7 FM Shiyam Thavandiran (2447) GM Walter Arencibia (2537)
8 IM Michael Mulyar (2422) GM Victor Mikhalevski (2664)
9 GM Mark Bluvshtein (2634) FM Victor Plotkin (2411)
10 FM Aman Hambleton (2349) GM Alexander Shabalov (2618)
11 Leonid Strugach (2324) IM Nikolay Noritsyn (2597)
12 FM Michael Dougherty (2314) FM Bindi Cheng (2500)
13 Liam Henry (2290) IM Tomas Krnan (2470)
14 GM Dejan Bojkov (2544) Geordie Derraugh (2140)
15 GM John Peter Fedorowicz (2508) Ian Loadman (2218)
16 Andrei Moffat (2215) FM John C [Jack] Yoos (2439)
17 IM Arthur Calugar (2437) Martial Larochelle (2214)
18 FM Roman Sapozhnikov (2424) Steve Demmery (2208)
19 IM Kenneth W. Regan (2422) Ron Pitre (2190)
20 IM Michal Meszaros (2409) Haizhou Xu (2149)
21 Dale McTavish (2205) FM Vladimir Pechenkin (2408)
22 FM Goran Milicevic (2400) Vladimir Drkulec (2138)
23 David Itkin (2203) IM Stefan Macak (2391)
24 FM Nelson Castaneda (2377) Kevin Wu (2105)
25 Omer Reshef (2145) FM Vinny Puri (2350)
26 Roger Patterson (2134) Richard Wang (2346)
27 Mariano A Acosta (2118) FM Michael Kleinman (2343)
28 WCM Alexandra Botez (2005) Michael Humphreys (2277)
29 FM Michael Barron (2277) Dmitry Chernik (1897)
30 Vladimir Birarov (2267) Oliver Kenta Chiku-ratte (1729)
31 FM Jason Cao (1908) Lorne Yee (2260)
32 Lali Agbabishvili (1954) FM Brett Campbell (2246)
33 FI Rolando Renteria (2346) Bradley J Willis (2094)
34 FM Alisa Melekhina (2262) Tyler Longo (2087)
35 IM Raymond Kaufman (2256) Pavel Peev (2083)
36 Nikita Gusev (2223) Christopher Knox (2072)
37 Michael Song (2216) Matthew Nicholson (2029)
38 Tanraj S Sohal (2177) Jeff Back (2053)
39 Razvan Preotu (2030) Felix Barrios (2172)
40 Alexandru Florea (2065) Daniel Abrahams (2161)
41 Andrew Picana (2140) Jesse B Wang (1998)
42 Sean Rachar (1980) David Southam (2124)
43 Brian Fiedler (2123) David Miller (1936)
44 Dezheng Kong (2120) Myriam Roy (1935)
45 Simon Gladstone (1935) Nandor Tot (2119)
46 IM Lawrence Day (2262) Ben Olden-cooligan (1893)
47 Tony [Juntao] Lin (2023) Ashish (justin) Gulati (2210)
48 Wajdy Shebetah (2194) Robert Bzikot (2004)
49 Mike Coleman (2162) James Chan (2022)
50 David Krupka (2019) WIM Dina Kagramanov (2142)
51 Ali Hayder (2120) Sardul Purewal (2004)
52 Michael P. Opaska (2001) Ismail Ibrahim (2110)
53 Federico Austria (2105) Lawrence Cohen (1993)
54 Ruperto Frilles (2105) WCM Jackie Peng (1991)
55 Mike Ivanov (2100) Ian Finlay (1984)
56 Iulia Lacau-rodean (2091) Daniel Wiebe (1938)
57 Rick Pedersen (1985) Aquino Inigo (2088)
58 Gordon Olheiser (2049) Ian Aird (1909)
59 Alan Ang (2029) Christopher Baumgartner (1904)
60 James Fu (2028) Stephen Ye (1710)
61 Regina-Veronicka Kalaydina (1890) Dalia Kagramanov (2027)
62 Daniel Zotkin (1598) Brendan Fan (2097)
63 WCM Yelizaveta Orlova (2073) Arkadiy Ugodnikov (1818)
64 Veacaslav Grecu (1846) Matthew Morabito (2016)
65 Vilas Karmalkar (1608) Robert Roller (1993)
66 Ralph Deline (1828) Yuanchen Zhang (1932)
67 H G Pitre (1907) Yue Tong [Davy] Zhao (1512)
68 John W Chidley-Hill (1787) Natasa Serbanescu (1871)
69 Pepin Manalo (1769) Joseph Bellissimo (1977)
70 Mark Plotkin (1916) Michael D Sharpe (1662)
71 Zhao Yang Luo (1894) Louay Sakka (1643)
72 Chang Yun (1572) Larry Castle (1724)
73 Enzo Pieri (1734) Ali Razzaq (1967)
74 Pi Nasir (1599) Juliaan Posaratnanathan (1902)
Pairings for Round 5.
Pinnacle 48th Canadian Open Chess Championship 2011:
UNDER 2000 SECTION
Bd Res White player name Res Black player name
76 Perry Vishal Johnson (1846) Hugh Siddeley (1996)
77 John Doknjas (1997) Greg Stavropoulos (1872)
78 Jonathan Yu (1971) Mario Moran-venegas (1864)
79 Stephan Tonakanian (1974) Grisha Crnilovic (1618)
80 Alexander Strugach (1963) Tom Muir (1571)
81 Richard Marks (1632) Nicholas O'Bumsawin (1831)
82 Eric Song (1488) Jaime Solis (1717)
83 Zehn Nasir (1686) Manoj Tahiliani (1511)
84 Shafkat Ali (1823) Jordan Palmer (1947)
85 Michael Perez (1728) Paul Leblanc (1924)
86 Ed Zator (1902) Mathew G Cooke (1799)
87 Steve Nickoloff (1872) Sasha Chuchin (1587)
88 Sam Haziprodromu (1843) Robert J Armstrong (1740)
89 Martin Maister (1733) Richard Garel (1942)
90 Musa Jamshed (1850) Florian Bergeron (1728)
91 Bruce Dowling (1847) Jack Triefeldt (1714)
92 Pacifico Cortez (1830) Mike Hunnersen (1711)
93 Patrick Yu (1796) Pino Verde (1660)
94 Bruce W Thomson (1626) Greg Beal (1777)
95 Patrick O'Sullivan (1758) Jiaxin Liu (1398)
96 Zhanna Sametova (1647) Roy Posaratnanathan (1748)
97 Andrew Philip (1596) Chris White (1735)
98 Doug Gillis (1616) Daniel Coren (1738)
99 Bryant Yang (1618) Manuela Renteria (1922)
100 Mark Jubenville (1790) Hugo Ortiz (1619)
101 Hooshang Abbarin (unr.) Yimang Yang (1706)
102 Kevin Gaffney (1685) Bryan Morgan (1562)
103 David Fletcher (1449) Jaak Jarve (1740)
104 Doug Sly (1545) John Zhang (1629)
105 Richard Laporte (1606) James Mourgelas (1480)
106 Kajan Thanabalachandran (1600) Bill Thornton (1375)
107 Ken Kurkowski (1516) Ted Allen (1564)
108 Jonathan Orenbach (1376) Genadi Medvedev (1639)
109 Jatinder Dhaliwal (1673) Alejandro Renteria (1465)
½ Adie Todd (1665) BYE
½ Giuseppe Del Duca (1374) BYE
Pairings for Round 5.
Pinnacle 48th Canadian Open Chess Championship 2011:
UNDER 1600 SECTION
Bd Res White player name Res Black player name
111 Jeffrey Xu (1275) Rodrigo Oliveira (unr.)
112 Alexandre Michelashvili (1453) Maurice Smith (1588)
113 Bernie Prost (unr.) Michael Rogers (1541)
114 Jose Cabioc (1538) Aleksandra Milicevic (1245)
115 Jessica Danti (1399) Jack Maguire (1575)
116 John R Brown (1561) Daniel Molev (1372)
117 Nathan Lean (1515) Robert Li (1347)
118 Sergey Noritsyn (1491) Michael Gomes (1042)
119 Steve Karpik (1482) Brian Warburton (unr.)
120 Benjamin Blium (1382) Joshua Doknjas (1502)
121 Colin B Archibald (1376) Julian McRoberts (1492)
122 Jesus Vera (1324) Kyle France (1490)
123 Gordon Cui (1303) Kevin Yi-xiao Yie (1431)
124 George Supol (1401) Bhavani Shankar Sikha (unr.)
125 James Law (1462) Milan Cvetkovic (1208)
126 Claude Toussaint (1455) Joey Zhong (1123)
127 Eli Teram (1213) Ted Termeer (1403)
128 Daniel Sirkovich (1206) Stephen Yu (1334)
129 Jeff Pancer (1256) Jason Waugh (851)
130 Ljudmila Milicevic (1048) Shabnam Abbarin (1474)
131 Daniel Muntaner (1252) Dinesh Dattani (1379)
132 Ernesto Villaluz (1203) Matthew Perez (1306)
133 Larissa Souchko (1151) Evan Adamson (unr.)
134 Robert Girard (unr.) John Warner (unr.)
½ Wayne Siu (1527) BYE
½ Dennis Tismenko (1496) BYE
½ Tetyana Tismenko (unr.) BYE
½ Lawrence Garcia (1439) BYE
Please use this thread for questions to the organizers of general interest. For private questions, please use the Contact Us form on the tournament web site or see email address below. For your comments on the event, please start a different thread.
Open 93 (9/9/9/20)
Under 2000 32 (3/7/2/11)
Under 1600 25 (2/5/0/8)
We have 10 GMs, 11 IMs, 10 FMs. For the women, we have 1 WGM, 2 WIM, 3 WCM.
Mark Bluvshtein's simul on Friday, July 8 has been delayed to 8pm, in case any of the CYCC players would like to play him.
Daytime lectures by Rozentalis, Perelshteyn, Benjamin and others are free and open to the public! Weekday noon simuls are $10 for players ($20 for the public). We also have Blitz, Chess960, Double chess and more. Please click on our Schedule tab.
Reminder: registration deadline is June 30.
David Cohen, MPPM, IA
Chief Organizer
Pinnacle 48th Canadian Open Chess Championship 2011
Saturday, July 9 - Sunday, July 17
The Westin Harbour Castle, One Harbour Square, Toronto, Ontario, Canada http://www.canadianchess.info/2011canadianopen
2011CanadianOpen AT canadianchess.info
Is this the same guy playing in the Under 1600 Section?
Please use this thread for questions to the organizers of general interest. For private questions, please use the Contact Us form on the tournament web site or see email address below. For your comments on the event, please start a different thread.
Open 93 (9/9/9/20)
Under 2000 32 (3/7/2/11)
Under 1600 25 (2/5/0/8)
We have 10 GMs, 11 IMs, 10 FMs. For the women, we have 1 WGM, 2 WIM, 3 WCM.
Mark Bluvshtein's simul on Friday, July 8 has been delayed to 8pm, in case any of the CYCC players would like to play him.
Daytime lectures by Rozentalis, Perelshteyn, Benjamin and others are free and open to the public! Weekday noon simuls are $10 for players ($20 for the public). We also have Blitz, Chess960, Double chess and more. Please click on our Schedule tab.
Reminder: registration deadline is June 30.
David Cohen, MPPM, IA
Chief Organizer
Pinnacle 48th Canadian Open Chess Championship 2011
Saturday, July 9 - Sunday, July 17
The Westin Harbour Castle, One Harbour Square, Toronto, Ontario, Canada http://www.canadianchess.info/2011canadianopen
2011CanadianOpen AT canadianchess.info
I had a phone conversation with a friend of mine who reported this scenario to the arbiter of using handheld device inside the washroom. My friend told me that the guy was playing in the Under 1600 Section and playing Black on Board 92 in the first round. How come this was not reported?
Round 6 Pairings -- Re: Canadian Open July 8-17 questions
Pairings for Round 6.
Pinnacle 48th Canadian Open Chess Championship 2011:
OPEN SECTION
Bd Res White Res Black
1 IM Irina Krush (2578) GM Bator Sambuev (2739)
2 GM Walter Arencibia (2537) IM Leonid Gerzhoy (2647)
3 GM Victor Mikhalevski (2664) IM Artiom Samsonkin (2532)
4 GM Vitali Golod (2576) GM Joel Benjamin (2641)
5 FM Bindi Cheng (2500) GM Mark Bluvshtein (2634)
6 GM Alexander Shabalov (2618) IM Jean Hébert (2486)
7 GM Eugene Perelshteyn (2532) GM Eduardas Rozentalis (2614)
8 IM Nikolay Noritsyn (2597) IM Tomas Krnan (2470)
9 GM John Peter Fedorowicz (2508) GM Luis Manuel Perez Rodriguez (2467)
10 Richard Wang (2346) GM Dejan Bojkov (2544)
11 IM David Cummings (2459) Lorne Yee (2260)
12 Martial Larochelle (2214) FM Shiyam Thavandiran (2447)
13 WIM Iryna Zenyuk (2429) Dmitry Chernik (1897)
14 Michael Humphreys (2277) FM Roman Sapozhnikov (2424)
15 Omer Reshef (2145) IM Kenneth W. Regan (2422)
16 FM Vladimir Pechenkin (2408) FM Nelson Castaneda (2377)
17 Oliver Kenta Chiku-ratte (1729) FM Goran Milicevic (2400)
18 FM John C [Jack] Yoos (2439) FM Alisa Melekhina (2262)
19 FM Brett Campbell (2246) IM Michael Mulyar (2422)
20 FM* Victor Plotkin (2411) IM Raymond Kaufman (2256)
21 IM Stefan Macak (2391) Andrei Moffat (2215)
22 David Itkin (2203) FM Aman Hambleton (2349)
23 Tanraj S Sohal (2177) FI Rolando Renteria (2346)
24 FM* Michael Kleinman (2343) Ali Hayder (2120)
25 Brian Fiedler (2123) Leonid Strugach (2324)
26 Mariano A Acosta (2118) FM Michael Dougherty (2314)
27 Geordie Derraugh (2140) Liam Henry (2290)
28 Sean Rachar (1980) IM* Arthur Calugar (2437)
29 Kevin Wu (2105) IM Michal Meszaros (2409)
30 FM Vinny Puri (2350) Federico Austria (2105)
31 Aquino Inigo (2088) FM Michael Barron (2277)
32 Christopher Knox (2072) Vladimir Birarov (2267)
33 Matthew Nicholson (2029) Nikita Gusev (2223)
34 Ian Loadman (2218) Ruperto Frilles (2105)
35 Dalia Kagramanov (2027) Michael Song (2216)
36 Steve Demmery (2208) Mike Ivanov (2100)
37 James Chan (2022) Dale McTavish (2205)
38 Jesse B Wang (1998) Wajdy Shebetah (2194)
39 Ron Pitre (2190) Alexandru Florea (2065)
40 Felix Barrios (2172) Gordon Olheiser (2049)
41 Daniel Abrahams (2161) Razvan Preotu (2030)
42 Daniel Wiebe (1938) Andrew Picana (2140)
43 Vladimir Drkulec (2138) Alan Ang (2029)
44 Myriam Roy (1935) Roger Patterson (2134)
45 Ben Olden-cooligan (1893) Dezheng Kong (2120)
46 Nandor Tot (2119) James Fu (2028)
47 Ismail Ibrahim (2110) WCM Alexandra Botez (2005)
48 Ashish (justin) Gulati (2210) FM Jason Cao (1908)
49 Robert Roller (1993) IM Lawrence Day (2262)
50 David Southam (2124) Tony [Juntao] Lin (2023)
51 Brendan Fan (2097) David Krupka (2019)
52 David Miller (1936) Bradley J Willis (2094)
53 Tyler Longo (2087) John W Chidley-Hill (1787)
54 Pavel Peev (2083) Yuanchen Zhang (1932)
55 Jeff Back (2053) Pepin Manalo (1769)
56 Yue Tong [Davy] Zhao (1512) Iulia Lacau-rodean (2091)
57 Ian Aird (1909) Mike Coleman (2162)
58 Christopher Baumgartner (1904) WCM Yelizaveta Orlova (2073)
59 Matthew Morabito (2016) Mark Plotkin (1916)
60 Sardul Purewal (2004) Zhao Yang Luo (1894)
61 Arkadiy Ugodnikov (1818) Michael P. Opaska (2001)
62 Lawrence Cohen (1993) Regina-Veronicka Kalaydina (1890)
63 WCM Jackie Peng (1991) Veacaslav Grecu (1846)
64 Stephen Ye (1710) Rick Pedersen (1985)
65 Ian Finlay (1984) Daniel Zotkin (1598)
66 Chang Yun (1572) H G Pitre (1907)
67 Robert Bzikot (2004) Ralph Deline (1828)
68 Natasa Serbanescu (1871) Ken Le (1660)
69 Ali Razzaq (1967) Vilas Karmalkar (1608)
70 Larry Castle (1724) Joseph Bellissimo (1977)
71 Juliaan Posaratnanathan (1902) Louay Sakka (1643)
72 Michael D Sharpe (1662) Enzo Pieri (1734)
1 Pi Nasir (1599) BYE
½ WIM Dina Kagramanov (2142) BYE
½ Lali Agbabishvili (1954) BYE
½ Simon Gladstone (1935) BYE
½ Haizhou Xu (2149) BYE
Pairings for Round 6.
Pinnacle 48th Canadian Open Chess Championship 2011:
UNDER 2000 SECTION
Bd Res White Res Black
73 Hugh Siddeley (1996) John Doknjas (1997)
74 Perry Vishal Johnson (1846) Alexander Strugach (1963)
75 Nicholas O'Bumsawin (1831) Stephan Tonakanian (1974)
76 Eric Song (1488) Jonathan Yu (1971)
77 Jordan Palmer (1947) Zehn Nasir (1686)
78 Paul Leblanc (1924) Mario Moran-venegas (1864)
79 Greg Stavropoulos (1872) Ed Zator (1902)
80 Richard Garel (1942) Sam Haziprodromu (1843)
81 Jack Triefeldt (1714) Steve Nickoloff (1872)
82 Tom Muir (1571) Musa Jamshed (1850)
83 Sasha Chuchin (1587) Pacifico Cortez (1830)
84 Patrick Yu (1796) Bruce W Thomson (1626)
85 Grisha Crnilovic (1618) Patrick O'Sullivan (1758)
86 Jaime Solis (1717) Richard Marks (1632)
87 Manoj Tahiliani (1511) Manuela Renteria (1922)
88 Yimang Yang (1706) Shafkat Ali (1823)
89 Mathew G Cooke (1799) Zhanna Sametova (1647)
90 Bryan Morgan (1562) Mark Jubenville (1790)
91 Roy Posaratnanathan (1748) Andrew Philip (1596)
92 Robert J Armstrong (1740) Doug Gillis (1616)
93 John Zhang (1629) Bruce Dowling (1847)
94 Greg Beal (1777) Kajan Thanabalachandran (1600)
95 Jaak Jarve (1740) Ken Kurkowski (1516)
96 Daniel Coren (1738) Adie Todd (1665)
97 Pino Verde (1660) Martin Maister (1733)
98 Richard Laporte (1606) Florian Bergeron (1728)
99 Mike Hunnersen (1711) Jiaxin Liu (1398)
100 Giuseppe Del Duca (1374) Kevin Gaffney (1685)
101 Genadi Medvedev (1639) David Fletcher (1449)
102 Hugo Ortiz (1619) Hooshang Abbarin (unr.)
103 Ted Allen (1564) Bryant Yang (1618)
104 James Mourgelas (1480) Jatinder Dhaliwal (1673)
105 Doug Sly (1545) Jonathan Orenbach (1376)
106 Bill Thornton (1375) Alejandro Renteria (1465)
½ Michael Perez (1728) BYE
Pairings for Round 6.
Pinnacle 48th Canadian Open Chess Championship 2011:
UNDER 1600 SECTION
Bd Res White Res Black
107 Rodrigo Oliveira (unr.) Jose Cabioc (1538)
108 Tetyana Tismenko (unr.) Bernie Prost (unr.)
109 Maurice Smith (1588) Steve Karpik (1482)
110 Jack Maguire (1575) Jeffrey Xu (1275)
111 Daniel Molev (1372) Wayne Siu (1527)
112 Robert Li (1347) Dennis Tismenko (1496)
113 Alexandre Michelashvili (1453) Sergey Noritsyn (1491)
114 Aleksandra Milicevic (1245) Michael Rogers (1541)
115 Kyle France (1490) George Supol (1401)
116 John R Brown (1561) Gordon Cui (1303)
117 Joshua Doknjas (1502) Colin B Archibald (1376)
118 Julian McRoberts (1492) Ljudmila Milicevic (1048)
119 Jason Waugh (851) James Law (1462)
120 Ted Termeer (1403) Joey Zhong (1123)
121 Michael Gomes (1042) Jessica Danti (1399)
122 Brian Warburton (unr.) Benjamin Blium (1382)
123 Kevin Yi-xiao Yie (1431) Daniel Sirkovich (1206)
124 Stephen Yu (1334) Larissa Souchko (1151)
125 Jesus Vera (1324) Ernesto Villaluz (1203)
126 Bhavani Shankar Sikha (unr.) Daniel Muntaner (1252)
127 Milan Cvetkovic (1208) Claude Toussaint (1455)
128 John Warner (unr.) Eli Teram (1213)
129 Shabnam Abbarin (1474) Lawrence Garcia (1439)
130 Evan Adamson (unr.) Dinesh Dattani (1379)
1 Robert Girard (unr.) BYE
½ Matthew Perez (1306) BYE
½ Jeff Pancer (1256) BYE
½ Nathan Lean (1515) BYE
Last edited by Mark S. Dutton; Thursday, 14th July, 2011, 01:28 AM.
Reason: corrected result
Round 7 Pairings -- Re: Canadian Open July 8-17 questions
Pairings for Round 7.
Pinnacle 48th Canadian Open Chess Championship 2011:
OPEN SECTION
Bd Res White Res Black
1 GM Bator Sambuev (2739) GM Walter Arencibia (2537)
2 GM Joel Benjamin (2641) IM Irina Krush (2578)
3 IM Artiom Samsonkin (2532) GM Alexander Shabalov (2618)
4 IM Tomas Krnan (2470) GM Mark Bluvshtein (2634)
5 IM Leonid Gerzhoy (2647) GM Luis Manuel Perez Rodriguez (2467)
6 GM Eduardas Rozentalis (2614) FM Shiyam Thavandiran (2447)
7 GM Dejan Bojkov (2544) WIM Iryna Zenyuk (2429)
8 FM Roman Sapozhnikov (2424) GM Eugene Perelshteyn (2532)
9 IM Kenneth W. Regan (2422) FM Bindi Cheng (2500)
10 FM Goran Milicevic (2400) GM Victor Mikhalevski (2664)
11 FM Aman Hambleton (2349) IM Nikolay Noritsyn (2597)
12 FI Rolando Renteria (2346) GM Vitali Golod (2576)
13 Liam Henry (2290) GM John Peter Fedorowicz (2508)
14 IM Jean Hébert (2486) FM* Michael Kleinman (2343)
15 IM Raymond Kaufman (2256) IM David Cummings (2459)
16 Lorne Yee (2260) FM Vladimir Pechenkin (2408)
17 Haizhou Xu (2149) IM Stefan Macak (2391)
18 FM Nelson Castaneda (2377) Mariano A Acosta (2118)
19 Andrew Picana (2140) FM John C [Jack] Yoos (2439)
20 IM* Arthur Calugar (2437) Omer Reshef (2145)
21 IM Michael Mulyar (2422) Martial Larochelle (2214)
22 IM Michal Meszaros (2409) Vladimir Drkulec (2138)
23 Ruperto Frilles (2105) FM Vinny Puri (2350)
24 Mike Ivanov (2100) Richard Wang (2346)
25 Leonid Strugach (2324) Jesse B Wang (1998)
26 James Fu (2028) Michael Humphreys (2277)
27 FM Michael Barron (2277) Brian Fiedler (2123)
28 Vladimir Birarov (2267) Lali Agbabishvili (1954)
29 FM Alisa Melekhina (2262) Myriam Roy (1935)
30 Dmitry Chernik (1897) FM Brett Campbell (2246)
31 Nikita Gusev (2223) WCM Alexandra Botez (2005)
32 FM* Victor Plotkin (2411) Oliver Kenta Chiku-ratte (1729)
33 FM Michael Dougherty (2314) Brendan Fan (2097)
34 Michael Song (2216) Tyler Longo (2087)
35 Andrei Moffat (2215) Pavel Peev (2083)
36 Dale McTavish (2205) Dalia Kagramanov (2027)
37 Alexandru Florea (2065) David Itkin (2203)
38 Gordon Olheiser (2049) Ron Pitre (2190)
39 Razvan Preotu (2030) Tanraj S Sohal (2177)
40 James Chan (2022) Felix Barrios (2172)
41 Daniel Abrahams (2161) Sean Rachar (1980)
42 FM Jason Cao (1908) Geordie Derraugh (2140)
43 Ali Hayder (2120) Simon Gladstone (1935)
44 Dezheng Kong (2120) David Miller (1936)
45 Ian Loadman (2218) Ben Olden-cooligan (1893)
46 IM Lawrence Day (2262) Aquino Inigo (2088)
47 Christopher Knox (2072) Ashish (justin) Gulati (2210)
48 Alan Ang (2029) Steve Demmery (2208)
49 Wajdy Shebetah (2194) Jeff Back (2053)
50 Mike Coleman (2162) Matthew Nicholson (2029)
51 WIM Dina Kagramanov (2142) Ian Finlay (1984)
52 Roger Patterson (2134) Robert Roller (1993)
53 Rick Pedersen (1985) David Southam (2124)
54 Tony [Juntao] Lin (2023) Nandor Tot (2119)
55 Daniel Wiebe (1938) Ismail Ibrahim (2110)
56 Federico Austria (2105) Arkadiy Ugodnikov (1818)
57 Mark Plotkin (1916) Kevin Wu (2105)
58 Iulia Lacau-rodean (2091) Chang Yun (1572)
59 Bradley J Willis (2094) Pepin Manalo (1769)
60 WCM Yelizaveta Orlova (2073) Natasa Serbanescu (1871)
61 David Krupka (2019) Christopher Baumgartner (1904)
62 Zhao Yang Luo (1894) Robert Bzikot (2004)
63 Regina-Veronicka Kalaydina (1890) Sardul Purewal (2004)
64 Veacaslav Grecu (1846) Lawrence Cohen (1993)
65 John W Chidley-Hill (1787) WCM Jackie Peng (1991)
66 Yuanchen Zhang (1932) Yue Tong [Davy] Zhao (1512)
67 Juliaan Posaratnanathan (1902) Matthew Morabito (2016)
68 Michael P. Opaska (2001) Larry Castle (1724)
69 Stephen Ye (1710) Ali Razzaq (1967)
70 Pi Nasir (1599) Ian Aird (1909)
71 Daniel Zotkin (1598) Ralph Deline (1828)
72 H G Pitre (1907) Enzo Pieri (1734)
73 Vilas Karmalkar (1608) Michael D Sharpe (1662)
1 Louay Sakka (1643) BYE Pairings for Round 7.
Pinnacle 48th Canadian Open Chess Championship 2011:
UNDER 2000 SECTION
Bd Res White Res Black
74 John Doknjas (1997) Stephan Tonakanian (1974)
75 Jonathan Yu (1971) Hugh Siddeley (1996)
76 Alexander Strugach (1963) Sam Haziprodromu (1843)
77 Jordan Palmer (1947) Perry Vishal Johnson (1846)
78 Paul Leblanc (1924) Patrick Yu (1796)
79 Ed Zator (1902) Jaime Solis (1717)
80 Patrick O'Sullivan (1758) Greg Stavropoulos (1872)
81 Mario Moran-venegas (1864) Jack Triefeldt (1714)
82 Zehn Nasir (1686) Nicholas O'Bumsawin (1831)
83 Pacifico Cortez (1830) Tom Muir (1571)
84 Mathew G Cooke (1799) Eric Song (1488)
85 Manuela Renteria (1922) Yimang Yang (1706)
86 Andrew Philip (1596) Steve Nickoloff (1872)
87 Richard Marks (1632) Richard Garel (1942)
88 Musa Jamshed (1850) Sasha Chuchin (1587)
89 Mark Jubenville (1790) Grisha Crnilovic (1618)
90 Kajan Thanabalachandran (1600) Jaak Jarve (1740)
91 Bruce W Thomson (1626) Robert J Armstrong (1740)
92 Bryan Morgan (1562) Daniel Coren (1738)
93 Florian Bergeron (1728) Manoj Tahiliani (1511)
94 Doug Gillis (1616) Pino Verde (1660)
95 Bruce Dowling (1847) Zhanna Sametova (1647)
96 Shafkat Ali (1823) Genadi Medvedev (1639)
97 Bryant Yang (1618) Mike Hunnersen (1711)
98 Kevin Gaffney (1685) John Zhang (1629)
99 Jiaxin Liu (1398) Greg Beal (1777)
100 Martin Maister (1733) Hooshang Abbarin (unr.)
101 Jatinder Dhaliwal (1673) Giuseppe Del Duca (1374)
102 Adie Todd (1665) Richard Laporte (1606)
103 Ken Kurkowski (1516) Hugo Ortiz (1619)
104 David Fletcher (1449) Doug Sly (1545)
105 Alejandro Renteria (1465) Jonathan Orenbach (1376)
106 James Mourgelas (1480) Ted Allen (1564)
107 Nick Todd (1504) Bill Thornton (1375)
Pairings for Round 7.
Pinnacle 48th Canadian Open Chess Championship 2011:
UNDER 1600 SECTION
Bd Res White Res Black
108 Rodrigo Oliveira (unr.) Tetyana Tismenko (1297)
109 Wayne Siu (1527) Jack Maguire (1575)
110 Dennis Tismenko (1496) Jose Cabioc (1538)
111 Sergey Noritsyn (1491) Maurice Smith (1588)
112 Steve Karpik (1482) Aleksandra Milicevic (1245)
113 George Supol (1401) Bernie Prost (unr.)
114 Benjamin Blium (1382) John R Brown (1561)
115 Daniel Molev (1372) Joshua Doknjas (1502)
116 Jeffrey Xu (1275) Julian McRoberts (1492)
117 James Law (1462) Robert Li (1347)
118 Michael Gomes (1042) Alexandre Michelashvili (1453)
119 Michael Rogers (1541) Stephen Yu (1334)
120 Joey Zhong (1123) Nathan Lean (1515)
121 Gordon Cui (1303) Kyle France (1490)
122 Kevin Yi-xiao Yie (1431) Jesus Vera (1324)
123 Daniel Muntaner (1252) Ted Termeer (1403)
124 Jessica Danti (1399) Jason Waugh (851)
125 Colin B Archibald (1376) Brian Warburton (unr.)
126 Ljudmila Milicevic (1048) John Warner (unr.)
127 Claude Toussaint (1455) Ernesto Villaluz (1203)
128 Lawrence Garcia (1439) Bhavani Shankar Sikha (unr.)
129 Dinesh Dattani (1379) Daniel Sirkovich (1206)
130 Larissa Souchko (1151) Milan Cvetkovic (1208)
131 Eli Teram (1213) Shabnam Abbarin (1474)
132 Robert Girard (unr.) Evan Adamson (unr.)
Round 8 Pairings -- Re: Canadian Open July 8-17 - penultimate round!
Pairings for Round 8.
Pinnacle 48th Canadian Open Chess Championship 2011:
OPEN SECTION
Bd Res White Res Black
1 GM Walter Arencibia (2537) GM Joel Benjamin (2641)
2 GM Dejan Bojkov (2544) GM Bator Sambuev (2739)
3 GM Mark Bluvshtein (2634) GM Eduardas Rozentalis (2614)
4 GM Alexander Shabalov (2618) FM Bindi Cheng (2500)
5 IM Nikolay Noritsyn (2597) IM Artiom Samsonkin (2532)
6 GM Victor Mikhalevski (2664) IM Jean Hébert (2486)
7 FM Roman Sapozhnikov (2424) IM Leonid Gerzhoy (2647)
8 IM Tomas Krnan (2470) IM Irina Krush (2578)
9 GM Vitali Golod (2576) Haizhou Xu (2149)
10 GM Luis Manuel Perez Rodriguez (2467) GM Eugene Perelshteyn (2532)
11 IM David Cummings (2459) GM John Peter Fedorowicz (2508)
12 FM Shiyam Thavandiran (2447) Vladimir Birarov (2267)
13 FM John C [Jack] Yoos (2439) FM Michael Barron (2277)
14 Michael Humphreys (2277) IM* Arthur Calugar (2437)
15 WIM Iryna Zenyuk (2429) Lorne Yee (2260)
16 FM Brett Campbell (2246) IM Kenneth W. Regan (2422)
17 FM Vladimir Pechenkin (2408) Ruperto Frilles (2105)
18 Nikita Gusev (2223) FM Goran Milicevic (2400)
19 Vladimir Drkulec (2138) FM Nelson Castaneda (2377)
20 Mariano A Acosta (2118) IM Michael Mulyar (2422)
21 Martial Larochelle (2214) FM* Victor Plotkin (2411)
22 IM Stefan Macak (2391) Dale McTavish (2205)
23 Ron Pitre (2190) FM Aman Hambleton (2349)
24 Richard Wang (2346) Daniel Abrahams (2161)
25 Felix Barrios (2172) FI Rolando Renteria (2346)
26 FM* Michael Kleinman (2343) Mike Ivanov (2100)
27 Dezheng Kong (2120) Leonid Strugach (2324)
28 Tyler Longo (2087) FM Michael Dougherty (2314)
29 Simon Gladstone (1935) Liam Henry (2290)
30 Ben Olden-cooligan (1893) FM Alisa Melekhina (2262)
31 Jesse B Wang (1998) IM Raymond Kaufman (2256)
32 Myriam Roy (1935) Andrei Moffat (2215)
33 Steve Demmery (2208) FM Jason Cao (1908)
34 WCM Alexandra Botez (2005) IM Michal Meszaros (2409)
35 Matthew Nicholson (2029) IM Lawrence Day (2262)
36 Ashish (justin) Gulati (2210) Iulia Lacau-rodean (2091)
37 David Itkin (2203) Razvan Preotu (2030)
38 Oliver Kenta Chiku-ratte (1729) Wajdy Shebetah (2194)
39 Lali Agbabishvili (1954) Tanraj S Sohal (2177)
40 Omer Reshef (2145) Alexandru Florea (2065)
41 WIM Dina Kagramanov (2142) James Fu (2028)
42 Dmitry Chernik (1897) Andrew Picana (2140)
43 David Southam (2124) Daniel Wiebe (1938)
44 Brian Fiedler (2123) Mark Plotkin (1916)
45 Federico Austria (2105) Tony [Juntao] Lin (2023)
46 David Miller (1936) Michael Song (2216)
47 Geordie Derraugh (2140) David Krupka (2019)
48 Lawrence Cohen (1993) Roger Patterson (2134)
49 Robert Roller (1993) Ali Hayder (2120)
50 Brendan Fan (2097) James Chan (2022)
51 Bradley J Willis (2094) WCM Jackie Peng (1991)
52 Pavel Peev (2083) Zhao Yang Luo (1894)
53 Yuanchen Zhang (1932) Gordon Olheiser (2049)
54 Dalia Kagramanov (2027) Sean Rachar (1980)
55 Regina-Veronicka Kalaydina (1890) Mike Coleman (2162)
56 Matthew Morabito (2016) Ian Loadman (2218)
57 Nandor Tot (2119) Michael P. Opaska (2001)
58 Ismail Ibrahim (2110) Rick Pedersen (1985)
59 Natasa Serbanescu (1871) Kevin Wu (2105)
60 Aquino Inigo (2088) Daniel Zotkin (1598)
61 Ian Finlay (1984) WCM Yelizaveta Orlova (2073)
62 Jeff Back (2053) Chang Yun (1572)
63 Arkadiy Ugodnikov (1818) Alan Ang (2029)
64 Pepin Manalo (1769) H G Pitre (1907)
65 Robert Bzikot (2004) Veacaslav Grecu (1846)
66 Sardul Purewal (2004) John W Chidley-Hill (1787)
67 Ali Razzaq (1967) Pi Nasir (1599)
68 Ian Aird (1909) Stephen Ye (1710)
69 Christopher Baumgartner (1904) Yue Tong [Davy] Zhao (1512)
70 Louay Sakka (1643) Larry Castle (1724)
71 Enzo Pieri (1734) Juliaan Posaratnanathan (1902)
72 Ken Le (1660) Michael D Sharpe (1662)
73 Ralph Deline (1828) Vilas Karmalkar (1608)
1 Joseph Bellissimo (1977) BYE
Pairings for Round 8. Pinnacle 48th Canadian Open Chess Championship 2011:
UNDER 2000 SECTION
Bd Res White Res Black
74 John Doknjas (1997) Jonathan Yu (1971)
75 Stephan Tonakanian (1974) Jordan Palmer (1947)
76 Sam Haziprodromu (1843) Hugh Siddeley (1996)
77 Nicholas O'Bumsawin (1831) Alexander Strugach (1963)
78 Jaime Solis (1717) Paul Leblanc (1924)
79 Greg Stavropoulos (1872) Jack Triefeldt (1714)
80 Perry Vishal Johnson (1846) Patrick O'Sullivan (1758)
81 Yimang Yang (1706) Mathew G Cooke (1799)
82 Richard Garel (1942) Zehn Nasir (1686)
83 Florian Bergeron (1728) Ed Zator (1902)
84 Mario Moran-venegas (1864) Bryan Morgan (1562)
85 Jaak Jarve (1740) Musa Jamshed (1850)
86 Robert J Armstrong (1740) Pacifico Cortez (1830)
87 Patrick Yu (1796) Eric Song (1488)
88 Andrew Philip (1596) Mark Jubenville (1790)
89 Genadi Medvedev (1639) Manuela Renteria (1922)
90 Steve Nickoloff (1872) Bryant Yang (1618)
91 Pino Verde (1660) Bruce Dowling (1847)
92 Martin Maister (1733) Doug Gillis (1616)
93 Greg Beal (1777) Sasha Chuchin (1587)
94 Daniel Coren (1738) Bruce W Thomson (1626)
95 Kevin Gaffney (1685) Kajan Thanabalachandran (1600)
96 Grisha Crnilovic (1618) Jatinder Dhaliwal (1673)
97 John Zhang (1629) Richard Marks (1632)
98 Richard Laporte (1606) Shafkat Ali (1823)
99 Mike Hunnersen (1711) Ken Kurkowski (1516)
100 Jonathan Orenbach (1376) Adie Todd (1665)
101 Zhanna Sametova (1647) David Fletcher (1449)
102 Hugo Ortiz (1619) Jiaxin Liu (1398)
103 Giuseppe Del Duca (1374) Nick Todd (1504)
104 Hooshang Abbarin (unr.) James Mourgelas (1480)
105 Doug Sly (1545) Alejandro Renteria (1465)
106 Ted Allen (1564) Bill Thornton (1375)
Pairings for Round 8. Pinnacle 48th Canadian Open Chess Championship 2011:
UNDER 1600 SECTION
Bd Res White Res Black
108 Wayne Siu (1527) Rodrigo Oliveira (unr.)
109 Sergey Noritsyn (1491) Dennis Tismenko (1496)
110 Jack Maguire (1575) Tetyana Tismenko (1297)
111 Bernie Prost (unr.) Joshua Doknjas (1502)
112 Jose Cabioc (1538) Benjamin Blium (1382)
113 Robert Li (1347) Steve Karpik (1482)
114 Alexandre Michelashvili (1453) Jeffrey Xu (1275)
115 Aleksandra Milicevic (1245) Nathan Lean (1515)
116 Maurice Smith (1588) Daniel Muntaner (1252)
117 Michael Rogers (1541) Kevin Yi-xiao Yie (1431)
118 Gordon Cui (1303) George Supol (1401)
119 John R Brown (1561) Colin B Archibald (1376)
120 Julian McRoberts (1492) Michael Gomes (1042)
121 Ljudmila Milicevic (1048) James Law (1462)
122 Jessica Danti (1399) Daniel Molev (1372)
123 Kyle France (1490) Larissa Souchko (1151)
124 Bhavani Shankar Sikha (unr.) Claude Toussaint (1455)
125 Daniel Sirkovich (1206) Ted Termeer (1403)
126 Stephen Yu (1334) Jesus Vera (1324)
127 Jason Waugh (851) Joey Zhong (1123)
128 Brian Warburton (unr.) Eli Teram (1213)
129 John Warner (unr.) Dinesh Dattani (1379)
130 Milan Cvetkovic (1208) Robert Girard (unr.)
131 Ernesto Villaluz (1203) Shabnam Abbarin (1474)
Point total against GMs and IMs/total score (+ means playing GM in Round 8)
At end Scores against GMs/IMs
2.5/6+ GM Joel Benjamin +1/ +1=1
2.5/6+ GM Walter Arencibia =1/+2
3/5.5+ GM Bator Sambuev +1=2/=1
2/5.5+ GM Mark Bluvshtein -1/+2
2.5/5.5 GM Alexander Shabalov /+2=1
2.5/5.5+ GM Eduardas Rozentalis =2/+1=1
0/5.5+ GM Dejan Bojkov 0/0 swiss sac
1/5 GM Victor Mikhalevski -1/+1-1
1/5 GM Vitali Golod =1-1/=1
1.5/5 GM Eugene Perelshteyn +1=1-1/
0.5/5 GM John Peter Fedorowicz =1/
3/5 GM Luis Manuel Perez Rodriguez +1=2/=2
2.5/5.5 IM Artiom Samsonkin +1=2/=1
3/5 IM Leonid Gerzhoy =1-1/+2=1
1.5/5 IM Nikolay Noritsyn =1/+1-1
0.5/5 IM Irina Krush =1-1/
0.5/5+ IM Jean Hebert =1-1/
1/5 IM Tomas Krnan -1/+1-1
1/5+ IM David Cummings /+1-1
0/4.5 IM Arthur Calugar 0/0
0/4.5 IM Kenneth W. Regan 0/0
0/4 IM Michael Mulyar -2/
0/4 IM Stefan Macak 0/0
0/4 IM Raymond Kaufman -1/-2
0.5/3.5 IM Michal Meszaros =1-1
0/3.5 IM Lawrence Day -1/
I don't know if not having accelerated pairings helped or hurt norm chances, or it's just that this year's GMs aren't cracking.
Must play 3 GMs for a GM Norm, a total 5 title holders, and 7 Fide rated (unrateds 2200 and 1200).
For an IM norm must play 3 IMs or 3 GMs, a total of 5 title holders (GM, IM, or WIM), and 7 FIDE rated (unrateds 2050 and 1200).
Possible IM norms:
5.5 FM Bindi Cheng -1=1 GM +Rd 8/ +1IM Needs to meet title player in last round.
4.5 Lorne Yee =GM/ =IM, I don't know if IMelect counts, and in Rd 8 is playing IWM
Others haven't played enough title holders, regardless of the score requirement:
5 FM Roman Sapozhnikov =GM -GM/ and is playing IM in Rd 8.
4.5 FM Shiyam Thavandiran -2GM/ =IM.
4.5 FM Goran Milicevic =GM, -2GM.
4 FM* Victor Plotkin -2GM/ -IM
4 FM Aman Hambleton -2GM/ -IM
4 Richard Wang -GM/=IM-IM
4 FM Alisa Melekhina =GM/-IM
Congrats for scoring against a GM:
Bradley J Willis 1-0 GM Dejan Bojkov 2544
Ron Pitre 2190 = GM John Peter Fedorowicz 2508
Martial Larochelle 2214 = GM John Peter Fedorowicz 2508
(Larocheele also 1-0 IM* Arthur Calugar 2437)
Michael Humphreys 2277 = GM Joel Benjamin 2641
FM Michael Barron 2277 = GM Alexander Shabalov 2618
Players who will get a published FIDE rating:
(games from previous FIDE-rated tournament)
Dale McTavish 4/7 +
Oliver Kenta Chiku-ratte (3/7) 2.5/7 +
David Miller (2.5/8) 2/6 +
John W Chidley-Hill (2/8) 2/5 +
Tony [Juntao] Lin (2.5/8) 1.5/4
Geordie Derraugh (1.5/3) 2/6
Brendan Fan (2/6) 1/4+
Lali Agbabishvili (1/4) 3.5/6 +
Daniel Zotkin (youth ch) 2/4
Players who have started the process by scoring 1/3 and need to have 9 rated games before having their first published rating:
Zhao Yang Luo 2/7+
Ian Loadman 2.5/6
Tyler Longo 2/5 +
Pepin Manalo 2/5 +
Chang Yun 1.5/7
Matthew Morabito [USA] 1.5/6 +
Stephen Ye 1.5/6 +
Alan Ang 1.5/6
Andrew Picana 1.5/5 +
Yue Tong [Davy] Zhao 2/5 +
Jeff Back 2/5
David Krupka 2/5
Larry Castle 1.5/5
Federico Austria 1.5/4
Arkadiy Ugodnikov 1.5/4
Ben Olden-cooligan 2/3 +
Ashish (Justin) Gulati 1.5/3 +
Under 2000 section:
Alexander Strugach (1.5/4) 1/3
Stephan Tonakanian 1.5/3
Jonathan Yu 1/2 +
Bryant Yang 1/3
I don't know if this list will grow as they are many players who have played 2 rateds, and some of the juniors may get a rating from events that just happened before this one. The dozen who had already have started the process didn't get any more games towards having their first published rating. And the 10 already rated players will get games among themselves rated.
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