Canadian Open registration hits 200...

[John Coleman]

... and more. 202 registered players, as of this morning, with still 8 days to go to the close of registration.

http://www.canadianchess.info/articles/2011CanadianOpenRegistration.html

[Bob Armstrong]

Re: Canadian Open registration hits 200...

Last year's CO total was 265 players - will the 2011 CO surpass that total? Looking like a good tournament - consider signing up if you haven't yet - you can play in either one big swiss ( with no acceleration ), or in one of two sections ( U 2000; U 1600 ).

Bob

[Bob Armstrong]

Canadian Open registration Not Over 200 Yet

Hi John:

I rechecked the totals as of June 22, and you have been misled a bit by David Cohen's numbering system for pre-registrations. We're not yet over 200.

The actual total is 194:

Open - 118
U 2000 - 48
U 1600 - 28

The reason for the discrepancy, which David explained to me, is that some people registered and took up a number. Then they withdrew. David then removes their pre-registration number and name from the list, and doesn't reassign anyone to the withdrawn numbers. So far, there are 8 numbers missing in the list that is showing 202 as the last entry. I did go through the list a while ago, and the missing numbers at that time were: 19, 25, 52, 53 & 72. Since then, I guess 3 more have withdrawn ( I haven't bothered to find out what numbers they are ).

Bob

[John Coleman]

Re: Canadian Open registration hits 200...

Ah, I see, said the blind man. I changed the reg list into a spreadsheet, there are currently 197 entries, missing numbers are 19, 25, 52, 53, 72, 83, 84, 100

[John Coleman]

Re: Canadian Open registration hits 200...

Up to 198 now, I wonder who #200 will be. This is so exciting. (ok, I have a very quiet life)

[Caesar Posylek]

Re: Canadian Open registration hits 200...

Right now, I see 233 chess players on the list! Am I mistaken?
:)

[Caesar Posylek]

Re: Canadian Open registration hits 200...

Right now, I see 233 chess players on the list! Am I mistaken?
:)

http://www.canadianchess.info/articles/2011CanadianOpenRegistration.html

[John Coleman]

Re: Canadian Open registration hits 200...

I believe there are 225 players; some registrations were cancelled, therefore the numbers are not continuous. David Itkin was #200, btw.

[Caesar Posylek]

Re: Canadian Open registration hits 200...

All registrations are to be done by the end of this day! Is that correct?

[Bob Armstrong]

Re: Canadian Open registration hits 200...

The advertised close of registrations is 11:59 PM tomorrow night ( Thursday, June 30 ).

Bob

[Jonathan Berry]

Re: Canadian Open registration hits 200...

All registrations are to be done by the end of this day! Is that correct?

I can't say, but there are the potential effects of the Canada Post Lockout to factor in. Out here, a pre-lockout parcel arrived Tuesday, but no mail to our neighbours nor ourselves today, Wednesday.

I can relate that a TD who relies on a list being final is setting him- (or her-) self up for a surprise. I have the scars to prove it! Be prepared for deletions, changes of section, and even additions.

Edit: after a bit of "research" (downloading the entry form after hitting several other pages), it is possible to interpret that they weren't accepting mail entries after 31 March. Life sure is complex.

[Bob Armstrong]

Canadian Open Update – Late Registrations to be Allowed – Late Fee

Article ( confirmed by David Cohen ) in the July 1 Issue of the Scarborough Community of Toronto Chess News & Views, Issue # 12-21:

Canadian Open Update – Late Registrations to be Allowed – Late Fee

As of 12:00 PM, Thursday, June 30, there were 231 pre-registrations:

Op/U2000/U1600

231 players (134/61/36)

Female 20 (13/4/3)
Under-14 33 (16/13/4)
Under-18 22 (18/2/2)
Senior 53 (26/16/11)

Registrations formally ended yesterday, June 30 – the organizers wanted to have as many players as possible registered by that date, so they would know the numbers they were dealing with. But they recognize that there may be reasons why some want to play, but for legitimate reasons, could not register by June 30. So they are extending the time for registration, but there will be a $ 20 late fee ( the registration fee was $ 195 ). Here is the link with the official information: http://www.canadianchess.info/articl...ymentLate.html
The tournament starts at 6:00 PM Sat., July 9, and runs to Sun., July 17.
Also a generous donor has made possible the presentation of, free, to all registered players, a wonderful 2011 Canadian Open Souvenir Book. It can be seen at:

http://www.canadianchess.info/articles/2011CANOpChessChBook.pdf

Bob

[Mark S. Dutton]

Re: Pinnacle 48th Canadian Open registration hits 235 - SUBJECT TO REVISIONS!

ADVANCE ENTRIES - FOR THE OPEN SECTION AND THE UNDER 2000 SECTION -- Part 1 of 2 :)

OPEN SECTION
# Name/Rtng/ID
1 GM Bator Sambuev
2750 146462 (2513) (4128290)
2 GM Victor Mikhalevski
2664 137005 (2577) (2801914)
3 IM Leonid Gerzhoy
2647 142916 (2496) (2806126)
4 GM Joel Benjamin
2641 105569 (2553) (2000091)
5 GM Mark Bluvshtein
2634 125709 (2589) (2603608)
6 GM Alexander Shabalov
2618 105603 (2586) (2008572)
7 GM Eduardas Rozentalis
2614 104611 (2573) (12800023)
8 IM Nikolay Noritsyn
2597 132534 (2419) (2604922)
9 GM Giorgi Kacheishvili
2582 GEO (13600613)
10 WGM Irina Krush
2578 131419 (2487) (2012782)
11 GM Vitali Golod
2576 142432 (2592) (2804140)
12 GM Dejan Bojkov
2544 BUL (2544) (2904292)
13 GM Walter Arencibia
2537 134344 (2476) (3500012)
14 IM Artiom Samsonkin
2532 146305 (2394) (13503111)
15 GM Eugene Perelshteyn
2532 126336 (2534) (2012529)
16 GM John Peter Fedorowicz
2508 123334 (2454) (2000083)
17 FM Bindi Cheng
2500 141968 (2380) (2682249)
18 IM Jean Hébert
2486 101280 (2414) (2600048)
19 IM Tomas Krnan
2470 132215 (2390) (14905361)
20 IM David Cummings
2459 123161 (2350) (2603578)
21 FM Shiyam Thavandiran
2447 127431 (2335) (2605058)
22 FM John C [Jack] Yoos
2439 107994 (2373) (2602113)
23 IM Arthur Calugar
2437 130889 (2210) (2606933)
24 IM Daniel Fernandez
2434 123330 (2401) (2015390)
25 WIM Iryna Zenyuk
2429 149562 (2222) (2022966)
26 Roman Sapozhnikov
2424 138609 (2318) (2601842)
27 IM Michael Mulyar
2422 125627 (2399) (2008742)
28 Victor Plotkin
2411 142063 (2245) (2606674)
29 IM Michal Meszaros
2409 SVK (2409) (14905329)
30 FM Vladimir Pechenkin
2408 135188 (2297) (2013428)
31 FM Goran Milicevic
2400 105291 (2288) (2601567)
32 IM Stefan Macak
2391 SVK (2391) (14905531)
33 FM Nelson Castaneda
2377 110398 (2220) (2011549)
34 IM Raymond Kaufman
2357 131761 (2311) (2015056)
35 FM Aman Hambleton
2349 129797 (2206) (2606577)
36 FM Rolando Renteria
2346 152626 (2175) (4402030)
37 Richard Wang
2346 142949 (2219) (2608243)
38 Michael Kleinman
2343 132631 (2195) (2609479)
39 FM Michael Dougherty
2314 100294 (2207) (2601559)
40 Josh Guo
2300 105318 (2123) (2682427)
41 Liam Henry
2290 127769 (2150) (2605147)
42 Michael Humphreys
2284 131628 (2091) (2607522)
43 FM Michael Barron
2277 134840 (2223) (2605120)
44 Vladimir Birarov
2267 145968 (2246) (2805391)
45 WIM Alisa Melekhina
2262 148217 (2304) (2022613)
46 IM Lawrence Day
2262 101024 (2251) (2600137)
47 Lorne Yee
2260 100255 (2210) (2602032)
48 FM Brett Campbell
2246 101324 (2166) (2601486)
49 Nikita Gusev
2223 128168 (2066) (2602334)
50 Michael Song
2219 144236 (2065) (2613190)
51 Ian Loadman
2218 101686 (2613743)
52 Martial Larochelle
2214 110358 (2086) (2016311)
53 Ashish [Justin] Gulati
2210 110208 (2601630)
54 Steve Demmery
2208 109477 (2089) (2603799)
55 Dale McTavish
2205 104887
56 David Itkin
2203 140216 (1952) (2611813)
57 Wajdy Shebetah
2194 148432 (2035) (11500131)
58 Tanraj S Sohal
2177 135830 (2032) (2608499)
59 Daniel Abrahams
2161 134333 (2000) (2606879)
60 Omer Reshef
2145 ISR (2804336)
61 WIM Dina Kagramanov
2142 106715 (2100) (933953)
62 Geordie Derraugh
2140 132393 (2603950)
63 Andrew Picana
2140 125815 (2613913)
64 Vladimir Drkulec
2135 102868 (2027) (2609452)
65 Roger Patterson
2134 103043 (2157) (2602806)
66 David Southam
2124 102535 (2090) (2601044)
67 Brian Fiedler
2123 101805 (2096) (2607310)
68 Dezheng Kong
2120 146641 (2040) (8606285)
69 Nandor Tot
2119 109397 (2011) (2606402)
70 Mariano A Acosta
2118 107290 (2069) (2008629)
71 Ismail Ibrahim
2110 105228 (2156) (11700076)
72 Ruperto Frilles
2105 102447 (2057) (2602687)
73 Francois Caire
2104 125421 (2150) (2605910)
74 Mike Ivanov
2100 140557 (1911) (2613158)
75 Brendan Fan
2097 128589 (2604221)
76 Bradley J Willis
2094 101736 (2038) (2609762)
77 Haizhou Xu
2093 138986 (1875) (2018233)
78 Iulia Lacau-rodean
2091 144348 (2018) (1211285)
79 Aquino Inigo
2088 136995 (1962) (2607131)
80 Tyler Longo
2087 135360 (2607034)
81 Pavel Peev
2083 122223 (2006) (2605457)
82 WCM Yelizaveta Orlova
2073 138247 (1934) (2601826)
83 Christopher Knox
2072 136503 (1951) (2607549)
84 Alexandru Florea
2065 138594 (1930) (2608375)
85 Stephen Fairbairn
2062 111839 (2052) (2603985)
86 Jeff Back
2053 111052 (2615711)
87 Veacaslav Grecu
2034 152239 (1895) (13904094)
88 Razvan Preotu
2030 146124 (1974) (2613280)
89 Alan Ang
2029 130643
90 Matthew Nicholson
2029 148663 (1928) (2612240)
91 James Fu
2028 147873 (2051) (2611090)
92 Dalia Kagramanov
2027 127820 (1862) (2604728)
93 Lawrence Cohen
2023 150883 (2001) (2026228)
94 Tony [Juntao] Lin
2023 148229 (2615100)
95 Sardul Purewal
2023 100329 (2057) (2602792)
96 James Chan
2022 128285 (1987) (2605775)
97 Matthew Morabito
2016 110329 (2605236)
98 WCM Alexandra Botez
2005 132416 (1942) (2603365)
99 Robert Bzikot
2004 132541 (1851) (2610990)
100 Jesse B Wang
1998 139566 (2007) (2609517)
101 Joseph Bellissimo
1995 147544 (1823) (2609843)
102 WCM Jackie Peng
1991 142388 (1853) (2609819)
103 Ian Finlay
1984 101866 (2604302)
104 Sean Rachar
1980 102221 (2012) (2605686)
105 Ali Razzaq
1964 148100 (1935) (2609673)
106 Lali Agbabishvili
1954 150778 (2613433)
107 Rick Pedersen
1954 143057 (1992) (2602768)
108 David Miller
1936 145711 (2608634)
109 Simon Gladstone
1935 132497 (1933) (2611791)
110 Myriam Roy
1935 139360 (1924) (2032589)
111 Yuanchen Zhang
1932 148449 (1678) (2611902)
112 Mark Plotkin
1916 141086 (1788) (2611651)
113 Daniel Wiebe
1914 132137 (1937) (2612275)
114 Ian Aird
1909 139697 (2020) (2401347)
115 FM Jason Cao
1908 149413 (1915) (2611112)
116 H G Pitre
1907 110863 (1982) (2606801)
117 Christopher Baumgartner
1904 12560532US (1864) (2022087)
118 Juliaan Posaratnanathan
1902 146059 (1838) (2612259)
119 Dmitry Chernik
1897 149932 (2004) (2613530)
120 Ben Olden-cooligan
1893 146103 (2613174)
121 Natasa Serbanescu
1871 111320 (1829) (2605724)
122 Ralph Deline
1828 103023 (1887) (2613603)
123 Arkadiy Ugodnikov
1814 146626
124 John W Chidley-hill
1787 108085 (2606739)
125 Pepin Manalo
1769 112277 (2609690)
126 Enzo Pieri
1734 ITA (815373)
127 Oliver Kenta Chiku-ratte
1729 148376 (2614782)
128 Larry Castle
1724 111815 (2613522)
129 Stephen Ye
1710 149965
130 Michael D Sharpe
1662 100280 (2613204)
131 Ken Le
1660 111318 (2608383)
132 Vilas Karmalkar
1608 150857 (2613700)
133 Pi Nasir
1599 148197
134 Daniel Zotkin
1598 146857 (2615339)
135 Chang Yun
1572 149639 (2615428)
136 Yue Tong [Davy] Zhao
1512 148512 (2613387)
137 Alexandre Assenov
unr. NEW CFC

-----------------------------------

UNDER 2000 SECTION
# Name/Rtng/ID
1 John Doknjas
1997 141225 (1931) (2608367)
2 Stephan Tonakanian
1974 150629 (2612798)
3 Jonathan Yu
1961 126131
4 Paul Leblanc
1924 104186 (1942) (2605406)
5 Manuela Renteria
1922 152627 (1922) (4406168)
6 David Poirier
1906 106289 (2613921)
7 Ed Zator
1902 105675 (2614170)
8 Regina-veronicka Kalaydina
1890 141148 (1842) (2600129)
9 Steve Nickoloff
1872 108201
10 Greg Stavropoulos
1872 108628 (2613131)
11 Mario Moran-venegas
1864 143315 (2605279)
12 Bruce Dowling
1847 112688 (2613620)
13 Perry Vishal Johnson
1846 152904 (1520) (2069687)
14 Nicholas O'Bumsawin
1831 151261
15 Pacifico Cortez
1830 149343
16 Mathew G Cooke
1799 126311 (2615690)
17 Patrick Yu
1796 143209 (2613298)
18 Mark Jubenville
1790 106764 (2613697)
19 Greg Beal
1777 101490 (2613476)
20 Shafkat Ali
1776 149142 (2613441)
21 Patrick O'Sullivan
1758 149300
22 Robert J Armstrong
1740 100034 (2605791)
23 Jaak Jarve
1740 102872
24 Daniel Coren
1738 150504 (2613557)
25 Roy Posaratnanathan
1737 146058 (2612925)
26 Adie Todd
1736 125156 (2609908)
27 Chris White
1735 125727 (2606607)
28 Martin Maister
1733 101824
29 Florian Bergeron
1728 103293
30 Michael Perez
1728 139271 (2605465)
31 Jaime Solis
1717 102297 (1919) (2607204)
32 Jack Triefeldt
1714 110865 (2614073)
33 Yimang Yang
1706 144916 (2615606)
34 Zehn Nasir
1686 148198 (2613239)
35 Kevin Gaffney
1685 102701
36 Caesar Posylek
1676 106619 (2605619)
37 Jatinder Dhaliwal
1673 148430 (2613611)
38 Pino Verde
1660 108688 (2614090)
39 Zhanna Sametova
1647 145911 (2613336)
40 Genadi Medvedev
1639 144164 (2611570)
41 Richard Marks
1632 109180 (2613786)
42 John Zhang
1629 150339
43 Bruce W Thomson
1626 120060 (2607093)
44 Hugo Ortiz
1619 103144 (2605333)
45 Grisha Crnilovic
1618 103526 (2613565)
46 Bryant Yang
1618 141088 (2610361)
47 Doug Gillis
1616 111022 (2604361)
48 Richard Laporte
1606 144203 (2604884)
49 Kajan Thanabalachandran
1600 150303 (2613310)
50 Andrew Philip
1596 111407 (2613905)
51 Sasha Chuchin
1587 147910 (2613018)
52 Ted Allen
1564 111585 (2615401)
53 Bryan Morgan
1562 122106 (2613220)
54 Doug Sly
1545 100351 (1644) (2614014)
55 Ken Kurkowski
1516 104537 (2613719)
56 Manoj Tahiliani
1511 111229
57 Eric Song
1488 144418 (2613360)
58 James Mourgelas
1480 108540 (2613816)
59 Alejandro Renteria
1465 152628 (1699) (4408500)
60 Kevin Yi-xiao Yie
1431 148223
61 Bill Thornton
1375 131181
62 Giuseppe Del Duca
1374 147289 (2613590)
63 Gordon Cui
1303 143700
64 Hooshang Abbarin
unr. NEW

[Mark S. Dutton]

Part 2 - Under 1600 - Pinnacle 48th Canadian Open registration hits 235 - E&OE

UNDER 1600 SECTION
# Name/Rtng/ID
1 Jack Maguire
1575 144604 (2613751)
2 John R Brown
1561 102882 (2613492)
3 Michael Rogers
1541 147329 (2613964)
4 Jose Cabioc
1538 146261 (2613506)
5 Wayne Siu
1527 146628 (2614006)
6 Nathan Lean
1515 151906
7 Joshua Doknjas
1502 146444 (2614316)
8 Dennis Tismenko
1496 148985 (2615720)
9 Steve Karpik
1482 109746
10 Shabnam Abbarin
1474 151181
11 James Law
1462 149613 (2613344)
12 Claude Toussaint
1455 106408
13 Ted Termeer
1403 106474 (2614065)
14 George Supol
1401 152286
15 Jessica Danti
1399 151192 (2613573)
16 Benjamin Blium
1382 133080 (2613395)
17 Dinesh Dattani
1379 134499 (2611333)
18 Colin B Archibald
1376 103766 (2613468)
19 Daniel Molev
1372 146800 (2613808)
20 Stephen Yu
1334 144094 (2614146)
21 Jesus Vera
1324 107979 (2606470)
22 Matthew Perez
1306 149886 (2613883)
23 Eli Teram
1213 107314
24 Milan Cvetkovic
1208 150817
25 Daniel Sirkovich
1206 145096
26 Ernesto Villaluz
1203 146331 (2614103)
27 Michael Gomes
1042 148893 (2613417)
28 Jason Waugh
851 152118
29 Robert Girard
unr. 152115
30 Rodrigo Oliveira
unr. NEW
31 Bernie Prost
unr. 105432
32 Bhavani Sikha
unr. NEW
33 Tetyana Tismenko
unr. 152743
34 Brian Warburton
unr. 152485

[Bob Armstrong]

CO Pre-registrations almost at 250 ( as of July 6 )

David Cohen has just advised me that as of 12:00 AM today, Wed., July 6, there are 248 pre-registrations.

12 GM's in the Open Section, from USA, Cuba, Georgia, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Israel, including our own 2 Can. GM's, Mark Bluvshtein and Bator Sambuev.

Bob