Canadian Open July 8-17 questions

[Mark S. Dutton]

Round 9 Pairings -- Re: Canadian Open July 8-17 FINAL ROUND PAIRINGS

Pairings for Round 9. Pinnacle 48th Canadian Open Chess Championship 2011: OPEN SECTION

Bd Res White Res Black
1 GM Joel Benjamin (2641) GM Dejan Bojkov (2544)
2 GM Eduardas Rozentalis (2614) GM Walter Arencibia (2537)
3 IM Leonid Gerzhoy (2647) GM Vitali Golod (2576)
4 IM Artiom Samsonkin (2532) GM Mark Bluvshtein (2634)
5 GM Alexander Shabalov (2618) IM Tomas Krnan (2470)
6 FM Bindi Cheng (2500) GM Victor Mikhalevski (2664)
7 GM Bator Sambuev (2739) FM Shiyam Thavandiran (2447)
8 FM John C [Jack] Yoos (2439) IM Nikolay Noritsyn (2597)
9 GM Eugene Perelshteyn (2532) WIM Iryna Zenyuk (2429)
10 GM John Peter Fedorowicz (2508) FM Vladimir Pechenkin (2408)
11 IM Jean Hébert (2486) Michael Humphreys (2277)
12 FM Nelson Castaneda (2377) GM Luis Manuel Perez Rodriguez (2467)
13 FM Brett Campbell (2246) IM David Cummings (2459)
14 IM Irina Krush (2578) Nikita Gusev (2223)
15 FM Alisa Melekhina (2262) FM Roman Sapozhnikov (2424)
16 IM Michael Mulyar (2422) Felix Barrios (2172)
17 IM Raymond Kaufman (2256) IM Stefan Macak (2391)
18 FM Aman Hambleton (2349) Dezheng Kong (2120)
19 Richard Wang (2346) Myriam Roy (1935)
20 IM* Arthur Calugar (2437) Haizhou Xu (2149)
21 IM Kenneth W. Regan (2422) Wajdy Shebetah (2194)
22 FM* Victor Plotkin (2411) Omer Reshef (2145)
23 IM Michal Meszaros (2409) Mariano A Acosta (2118)
24 FM Goran Milicevic (2400) Ruperto Frilles (2105)
25 FM Jason Cao (1908) FM* Michael Kleinman (2343)
26 FM Michael Dougherty (2314) Vladimir Drkulec (2138)
27 Liam Henry (2290) Tyler Longo (2087)
28 FM Michael Barron (2277) Matthew Nicholson (2029)
29 Vladimir Birarov (2267) Dmitry Chernik (1897)
30 Lorne Yee (2260) Simon Gladstone (1935)
31 Mike Ivanov (2100) Martial Larochelle (2214)
32 James Fu (2028) Ashish (justin) Gulati (2210)
33 FI Rolando Renteria (2346) Federico Austria (2105)
34 Leonid Strugach (2324) Gordon Olheiser (2049)
35 Andrei Moffat (2215) Razvan Preotu (2030)
36 WCM Jackie Peng (1991) Dale McTavish (2205)
37 Tony [Juntao] Lin (2023) David Itkin (2203)
38 Sean Rachar (1980) Ron Pitre (2190)
39 Tanraj S Sohal (2177) Daniel Wiebe (1938)
40 Daniel Abrahams (2161) Lali Agbabishvili (1954)
41 Geordie Derraugh (2140) Jesse B Wang (1998)
42 Mark Plotkin (1916) David Southam (2124)
43 Ali Hayder (2120) Ben Olden-cooligan (1893)
44 IM Lawrence Day (2262) Pavel Peev (2083)
45 Ian Loadman (2218) Aquino Inigo (2088)
46 Michael Song (2216) WCM Alexandra Botez (2005)
47 WCM Yelizaveta Orlova (2073) WIM Dina Kagramanov (2142)
48 Roger Patterson (2134) David Miller (1936)
49 Alexandru Florea (2065) Nandor Tot (2119)
50 James Chan (2022) Ismail Ibrahim (2110)
51 Kevin Wu (2105) Lawrence Cohen (1993)
52 Brendan Fan (2097) Arkadiy Ugodnikov (1818)
53 Iulia Lacau-rodean (2091) Oliver Kenta Chiku-ratte (1729)
54 Zhao Yang Luo (1894) Bradley J Willis (2094)
55 Jeff Back (2053) Yuanchen Zhang (1932)
56 H G Pitre (1907) Dalia Kagramanov (2027)
57 Regina-Veronicka Kalaydina (1890) David Krupka (2019)
58 Pi Nasir (1599) Robert Bzikot (2004)
59 Chang Yun (1572) Robert Roller (1993)
60 Yue Tong [Davy] Zhao (1512) Alan Ang (2029)
61 Larry Castle (1724) Sardul Purewal (2004)
62 Michael P. Opaska (2001) John W Chidley-Hill (1787)
63 Rick Pedersen (1985) Pepin Manalo (1769)
64 Stephen Ye (1710) Ian Finlay (1984)
65 Michael D Sharpe (1662) Ian Aird (1909)
66 Daniel Zotkin (1598) Natasa Serbanescu (1871)
67 Veacaslav Grecu (1846) Ali Razzaq (1967)
68 Enzo Pieri (1734) Christopher Baumgartner (1904)
69 Joseph Bellissimo (1977) Vilas Karmalkar (1608)
70 Juliaan Posaratnanathan (1902) Ralph Deline (1828)
71 Louay Sakka (1643) Ken Le (1660)

Pairings for Round 9. Pinnacle 48th Canadian Open Chess Championship 2011: UNDER 2000 SECTION

Bd Res White Res Black
72 Jordan Palmer (1947) John Doknjas (1997)
73 Jonathan Yu (1971) Sam Haziprodromu (1843)
74 Alexander Strugach (1963) Paul Leblanc (1924)
75 Hugh Siddeley (1996) Greg Stavropoulos (1872)
76 Stephan Tonakanian (1974) Mathew G Cooke (1799)
77 Ed Zator (1902) Perry Vishal Johnson (1846)
78 Tom Muir (1571) Mario Moran-venegas (1864)
79 Jack Triefeldt (1714) Nicholas O'Bumsawin (1831)
80 Pacifico Cortez (1830) Jaime Solis (1717)
81 Eric Song (1488) Jaak Jarve (1740)
82 Richard Garel (1942) Yimang Yang (1706)
83 Bruce Dowling (1847) Zehn Nasir (1686)
84 Mark Jubenville (1790) Genadi Medvedev (1639)
85 Patrick O'Sullivan (1758) Andrew Philip (1596)
86 Steve Nickoloff (1872) Martin Maister (1733)
87 Musa Jamshed (1850) Grisha Crnilovic (1618)
88 Richard Marks (1632) Patrick Yu (1796)
89 Greg Beal (1777) Florian Bergeron (1728)
90 Bryant Yang (1618) Robert J Armstrong (1740)
91 Kajan Thanabalachandran (1600) Daniel Coren (1738)
92 Bryan Morgan (1562) Mike Hunnersen (1711)
93 Manuela Renteria (1922) Hugo Ortiz (1619)
94 Pino Verde (1660) Richard Laporte (1606)
95 Doug Gillis (1616) Zhanna Sametova (1647)
96 Bruce W Thomson (1626) Kevin Gaffney (1685)
97 Sasha Chuchin (1587) Jatinder Dhaliwal (1673)
98 Adie Todd (1665) Hooshang Abbarin (unr.)
99 Nick Todd (1504) John Zhang (1629)
100 Jiaxin Liu (1398) Shafkat Ali (1823)
101 Ken Kurkowski (1516) David Fletcher (1449)
102 Ted Allen (1564) Giuseppe Del Duca (1374)
103 James Mourgelas (1480) Doug Sly (1545)
1 Alejandro Renteria (1465) BYE

Pairings for Round 9. Pinnacle 48th Canadian Open Chess Championship 2011: UNDER 1600 SECTION

Bd Res White Res Black
104 Rodrigo Oliveira (unr.) Sergey Noritsyn (1491)
105 Tetyana Tismenko (1297) Jose Cabioc (1538)
106 Dennis Tismenko (1496) Bernie Prost (unr.)
107 Steve Karpik (1482) Wayne Siu (1527)
108 George Supol (1401) Maurice Smith (1588)
109 Jeffrey Xu (1275) Michael Rogers (1541)
110 Nathan Lean (1515) Alexandre Michelashvili (1453)
111 Benjamin Blium (1382) Jack Maguire (1575)
112 Joshua Doknjas (1502) Robert Li (1347)
113 Colin B Archibald (1376) James Law (1462)
114 Aleksandra Milicevic (1245) Jessica Danti (1399)
115 Michael Gomes (1042) Kyle France (1490)
116 Daniel Muntaner (1252) Kevin Yi-xiao Yie (1431)
117 Ted Termeer (1403) Gordon Cui (1303)
118 Jesus Vera (1324) Joey Zhong (1123)
119 Ljudmila Milicevic (1048) John R Brown (1561)
120 Julian McRoberts (1492) Bhavani Shankar Sikha (unr.)
121 Claude Toussaint (1455) Eli Teram (1213)
122 Dinesh Dattani (1379) Stephen Yu (1334)
123 Daniel Sirkovich (1206) Milan Cvetkovic (1208)
124 Larissa Souchko (1151) Jason Waugh (851)
125 Shabnam Abbarin (1474) Brian Warburton (unr.)
126 Lawrence Garcia (1439) Robert Girard (unr.)
127 Evan Adamson (unr.) Ernesto Villaluz (1203)

[Mark S. Dutton]

Re: Canadian Open July 8-17 THE FINAL DAY IS HERE!

The FINAL day is here:

Sunday, July 17, 2011

Location: The Westin Harbour Castle, One Harbour Square, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

10:00 Frontenac Ball Room
Round 9 - Spectators welcome or watch games live on Monroi http://monroi.com/watch/?tnm_id=1525

10:00 Wellington, Yonge
Analysis rooms

10:00 outside Frontenac
Vendor and sponsor tables

16:00-20:00 Pier 2&3
Closing Dinner and Awards Ceremony - completely sold out!

Let the games begin! :)

[David Cohen]

Re: Canadian Open July 8-17 questions

Prize winner list will be posted by me in a day or two. I need some rest, and would rather get it right with a small delay than rush to post a list with mistakes. Thanks for your patience.

David

[David Cohen]

Re: Canadian Open July 8-17 questions

Best Dressed Prizes presented by Mark's Work Wearhouse:

Open - Liza Orlova (style)

Under 2000 - Jack Triefeldt (sport jackets are better than T-shirts!)

Under 1600 - Jason Waugh (kept the suit and tie from work, very nice)

[Erik Malmsten]

Re: new players with fide ratings

Thirty of the unrateds got a point and have started the process of getting a published FIDE rating, up over 28 players last year. They just need to play 3 games in FIDE-rated section, even if scoring 0-3, until they have played 9 ratable games. Ten will get published in the September rating list:
2148 Agbabishvili, Lali 4/8 will get published
2129 Olden-Cooligan, Ben 2/4
2100 Derraugh, Geordie 2.5/7 will get published
2099 Gulati, Ashish (Justin) 3/5 [FIDE website has Ashishjustin joined]
2092 Austria, Federico 2/5
2080 McTavish, Dale 4.5/9 will get published
2077 Longo, Tyler 2.5/7
2061 Chiku-Ratte, Oliver Kenta 3/8 U12 will get published
2050 Strugach, Leonid 3/8
2036 Miller, David 3.5/8 U18 will get published
2034 Krupka, David 2.5/6

1988 Lin, Tony (Juntao) 1.5/5 U14 will get published
1986 Ang, Alan 1.5/6
1980 Fan, Brendan 1.5/5 U18 will get published
1962 Yun, Chang 2.5/7 U will get published
1959 Picana, Andrew 1.5/6
1934 Nasir, Pi 3/5 U16
1926 Loadman, Ian 2.5/7
1916 Luo, Zhao Yang 2.5/8 U16 will get published
1908 Ugodnikov, Arkadiy 1.5/4
1906 Chidley-Hill, John W 2.5/6 will get published
1878 Back, Jeff 1.5/5
1857 Morabito, Matthew 1.5/6 USA
1855 Coleman, Mike 2/5
1851 Ye, Stephen 2/7
1837 Zhao, Yue Tong (Davy) 2/6

1781 Zotkin, Daniel 2/6
1760 Manalo, Pepin 2/8
1730 Castle, Larry 1.5/6
1726 Sharpe, Michael D. 1.5/6

Now we will need to get portrait photos of these new players to post on their FIDE ratings page.

The U-2000 section was not submitted to be FIDE-rated which affects about 16 players.

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.

[Erik Malmsten]

Top gainers of FIDE Rating points

The big gainers in FIDE rating points were mostly ‘A-class’ players who chose to play up to the Open:

71.7 Wiebe, Daniel 1877 4/7 against Experts
47.1 Larochelle, Martial [USA] 2086 4/7 who drew GM and IM
44.4 FM Cao, Jason 1925 3/7 U12
39.3 Botez, Alexandra 1950 4.5/9 defeating IM and FM U16
38.7 Xu, Haizhou 1875 3/5 defeating 2 IM
34.2 Roy, Myriam 1935 4/8 U16
34.2 Chernik, Dmitry 2004 4/8
33.3 Knox, Christopher 1951 2.5/6 drew 2 IMs U14
28.95 Humphreys, Michael 2111 5/8 drew GM and IM
28.5 Hayder, Ali 2005 4/7
25.8 Zhang, Yuanchen 1725 2/6 U10
24.75 Gladstone, Simon 1933 3.5/7 U16
24.6 Florea, Alexandru 1930 2.5/6 U16
24.15 Cheng, Bindi 2385 6.5/9 IM norm
22.65 Thavandiran, Shiyam 2320 6.5/9 defeated GM
20.7 Plotkin, Mark 1788 1.5/5 U14
19.8 Samsonkin, Artiom 2378 5.5/8 2.5/4 aginst GMs
19.2 Gusev, Nikita 2071 5/8 U16

[Victoria Jung-Doknjas]

U2000 Section - FIDE rated?

The U-2000 section was not submitted to be FIDE-rated which affects about 16 players.

Why wasn't the U2000 section submitted to be FIDE-rated?

I understood before the tournament that it would be FIDE-rated if there were enough eligible players.

If this effects 16 players, that sounds like a good reason to have the U2000 section FIDE-rated.

[Erik Malmsten]

top CFC performance rating

Apparently in some tournaments in England they award class prizes not on points but on performance rating. The tournament cowinner Bojkov had a lower performance rating than Jean Hebert and Jason Cao is still underrated.

Top CFC performance Ratings:
7 GM Arencibia, Walter 2537 2690
6.5 IM Samsonkin, Artiom 2532 2653
6.5 GM Rozentalis, Eduardas 2614 2639
7 GM Benjamin, Joel 2641 2637
6.5 GM Perez Rodriguez, Luis Manuel 2431 2636
6.5 GM Bluvshtein, Mark 2634 2606
6.5 IM Gerzhoy, Leonid 2647 2604
6.5 GM Perelshteyn, Eugene 2532 2601
6.5 FM Cheng, Bindi 2500 2599
6.5 IM Krnan, Tomas 2470 2582
6.5 FM Thavandiran, Shiyam 2447 2557
6.5 IM Noritsyn, Nikolay 2597 2554
5.5 GM Sambuev, Bator 2739 2547
6.5 GM Golod, Vitali 2576 2541
6.5 GM Shabalov, Alexander 2618 2537
6 IM Krush, Irina 2482 2507
6 GM Mikhalevski, Victor 2664 2504
6 IM Hebert, Jean 2486 2489
7 GM Bojkov, Dejan 2544 2467
6 FM Sapozhnikov, Roman 2396 2450
6.5 IM Cummings, David 2459 2449

Top Players with a Higher Performance Rating than their old CFC rating:
88 Chiku-Ratte, Oliver Kenta 1845 2200 355
49 Chernik, Dmitry 1897 2242 345
63 Botez, Alexandra 1978 2281 303
51 Roy, Myriam 1939 2220 281
21 Xu, Haizhou 2151 2430 279
65 Agbabishvili, Lali 1954 2227 273
66 Cao, Jason 1944 2215 271
68 Gladstone, Simon 1946 2205 259
58 Olden-Cooligan, Ben 1893 2145 252
136 Caire, Francois 2104 2311 207
6 Perez Rodriguez, Luis Manuel 2431 2636 205

64 Wang, Jesse B 2059 2239 180
45 Reshef, Omer 2145 2315 170
55 Preotu, Razvan 2006 2176 170
1 Arencibia, Walter 2537 2690 153
53 Olheiser, Gordon 2049 2189 140
23 Humphreys, Michael 2278 2414 136
91 Wiebe, Daniel 1991 2125 134
52 Fu, James 2068 2195 127
4 Samsonkin, Artiom 2532 2653 121
31 Larochelle, Martial 2214 2333 119
78 Peng, Jackie 1991 2104 113
11 Krnan, Tomas 2470 2582 112
12 Thavandiran, Shiyam 2447 2557 110
67 Frilles, Ruperto 2105 2211 106
10 Cheng, Bindi 2500 2599 99

[Jean Hébert]

Re: Top gainers of FIDE Rating points

The big gainers in FIDE rating points were mostly ‘A-class’ players who chose to play up to the Open:

71.7 Wiebe, Daniel 1877 4/7 against Experts
47.1 Larochelle, Martial [USA] 2086 4/7 who drew GM and IM
44.4 FM Cao, Jason 1925 3/7 U12
39.3 Botez, Alexandra 1950 4.5/9 defeating IM and FM U16
38.7 Xu, Haizhou 1875 3/5 defeating 2 IM
34.2 Roy, Myriam 1935 4/8 U16
34.2 Chernik, Dmitry 2004 4/8
33.3 Knox, Christopher 1951 2.5/6 drew 2 IMs U14
28.95 Humphreys, Michael 2111 5/8 drew GM and IM
28.5 Hayder, Ali 2005 4/7
25.8 Zhang, Yuanchen 1725 2/6 U10
24.75 Gladstone, Simon 1933 3.5/7 U16
24.6 Florea, Alexandru 1930 2.5/6 U16
24.15 Cheng, Bindi 2385 6.5/9 IM norm
22.65 Thavandiran, Shiyam 2320 6.5/9 defeated GM
20.7 Plotkin, Mark 1788 1.5/5 U14
19.8 Samsonkin, Artiom 2378 5.5/8 2.5/4 aginst GMs
19.2 Gusev, Nikita 2071 5/8 U16

This I believe shows how bad it is for young players especially to start with a low FIDE rating. Look at how slowly it moves! It takes for ever to get where it should be.

[Hugh Brodie]

Re: Canadian Open July 8-17 questions

Erik wrote:

47.1 Larochelle, Martial [USA] 2086 4/7 who drew GM and IM

Martial Larochelle is from Chapais, QC (715 km by road from Montreal) - yet makes it to all major events in Quebec (and now Toronto). He (or someone) should change his federation to Canada.

[Erik Malmsten]

Re: Top gainers of FIDE Rating points

This I believe shows how bad it is for young players especially to start with a low FIDE rating. Look at how slowly it moves! It takes for ever to get where it should be.

Some of these gains are slighter higher due to a change in the formula from a K of 25 to 30, so FIDE is trying to increase newcomers ratings. Still a slower system than the CFC's.

There is also a new rule that those who scored 1 out of 3, no longer have to play 3 games in their next tournaments, all games with FIDE-rated players will be rated, even if they played only 1 player in the tournament.

from the fide website:

The following proposals were agreed at the General Assembly in Khanty Mansiysk.

Changes effective from July 1, 2011.

K factor for players with fewer than 30 rated games is 30 (was 25) Articles 8.26, 8.34 and 8.56.

If a player has achieved a partial rating, each subsequent game against rated player is accumulated to the player’s rating (earlier three games in a tournament were needed) Article 8.21.

[Paul Leblanc]

Re: Canadian Open July 8-17 questions

Would there be any benefit to adopting the FIDE policy of increasing the K factor for CFC members with fewer than 30 rated games?

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Re: Canadian Open July 8-17 questions

Would there be any benefit to adopting the FIDE policy of increasing the K factor for CFC members with fewer than 30 rated games?

The CFC has a provisional rating till 25 games thus 30 is too small. [or Do you mean 25 (prov) + 30 (w/ K~50) ]
Another idea, the provisional period might be longer: e.g., 50 games but only the latest 15 (~3 tournaments) are taken in a consideration.

[John Brown]

Re: Canadian Open July 8-17 questions

I have one question.
There was a Fide number by my name. Although I had some upsetting games
I did not fair well but do I have a FIDE rating Now?????

[Mark S. Dutton]

Re: Canadian Open July 8-17 questions and Answers!

I have one question.
There was a Fide number by my name. Although I had some upsetting games
I did not fair well but do I have a FIDE rating Now?????

No John -- you do not have a FIDE rating.

Your FIDE player card can be found here: http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=2613492

I agree with IM Jean Hébert's comments about rating the lower sections "too early" and I do not believe that it was ever the intention to rate the other 2 sections

I am not quite sure how the mis-information started, however I can tell you for a fact that ONLY the Open Section was FIDE rated.

David Cohen's website said:

3 Sections: http://www.canadianchess.info/2011canadianopen/format


Open - World Chess Federation (FIDE) - Open Section only rated by the World Chess Federation (FIDE)
Under 2000
Under 1600

All 3 Sections have also been rated by the Chess Federation of Canada and the new ratings were posted yesterday by the CFC.

http://chess.ca/crosstable?tournamen...fb771c1a69c2b0
is the link for the Open Section.

Also -- for those interested in the Prize distribution, David Cohen has posted an update on his site here: http://www.canadianchess.info/2011canadianopen/results

Prize Fund

In 2010, we had 265 players. In 2011, our Prize Fund was announced as $30,000 based on 300 players. We have 277 players. So, our Prize Fund is $27,700.



We paid out over $22,000 in prizes so far. Please be patient as David Cohen calculates and pays out the many remaining prizes.



Best Dressed Prizes presented by Mark's Work Wearhouse

Open - Liza Orlova $25 (for style!)

Under 2000 - Jack Triefeldt $25 (sport jackets are better than T-shirts!)

Under 1600 - Jason Waugh $25 (kept the suit and tie from work!)

Best Game & Brilliancy Prizes judged by Vladimir Dobrich and presented by Don Valley North Lexus

And the Monroi site lists the complete results and the extensive list of prizes can be found here: http://monroi.com/pinnacle-48th-cana...ip-prizes.html