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Garvin - a few people at the Kitchener tournament this past weekend told me they would be registering for our tournament. Can we get an update on the preregistered list?
And dont forget if you need any help please feel free to email me at chesshamilton@gmail.com. I will be accessing this email "live" on Saturday morning.
Can everyone please take note this tournament is bring your own equipment. That means sets, boards, and clocks. We have some, but not enough for everyone. So please help us out. Thanks. :)
I don't see my name on the pre-reg list, even though I got a confirmation e-mail back from my registration e-mail a few days ago. Just wanted to make sure that I'm registered. Thanks.
I don't see my name on the pre-reg list, even though I got a confirmation e-mail back from my registration e-mail a few days ago. Just wanted to make sure that I'm registered. Thanks.
Can everyone please take note this tournament is bring your own equipment. That means sets, boards, and clocks. We have some, but not enough for everyone. So please help us out. Thanks. :)
I'd just add to Bob's comment that these clocks need to be digital clocks because we have an increment.
SwissSys Wall Chart. Hamilton Winter Open 2012: Top Guns
# Name/Rtng/ID Rd 1 Rd 2
1 Arthur Calugar B 13 W 7
2404 130889 (2377) (2271) 1.0
2 Victor Plotkin bye B 16
2376 142063 (2376) (2243) 0.5
3 Jura Ochkoos W 14 B 8
2309 102669 (2330) (2267) 1.0
4 Hans Jung B 15 W 9
2298 100182 (2298) (2153) 1.0
5 Doug Bailey W 16 B 10
2292 109586 (2329) (2248) 1.0
6 Razvan Preotu B 17 W 11
2227 146124 (2206) (2036) 1.0
7 David Itkin W 18 B 1
2171 140216 (2141) (2044) 1.0
8 Mike Ivanov B 19 W 3
2157 140557 (2144) (2022) 1.0
9 Gordon Gooding W 20 B 4
2111 108832 (2111) (0) 1.0
10 Jackie Peng B 21 W 5
2110 142388 (2110) (1944) 1.0
11 Adam Cormier W 22 B 6
2034 149091 (2085) (1989) 1.0
12 Mark Plotkin bye W 21
2030 141086 (2030) (1887) 0.5
13 Yuanchen Zhang W 1 B 18
2013 148449 (2029) (1849) 0.0
14 Dmitry Chernik B 3 W 19
2012 149932 (2022) (1975) 0.0
15 Oanthata Pelekekae W 4 B 20
1990 151197 (2033) (0) 0.0
16 Laurence Crichton B 5 W 2
1988 123726 (1959) (0) 0.0
17 Keith Wight W 6 B 22
1983 102934 (1983) (1998) 0.0
18 Guannan Terry Song B 7 W 13
1970 146052 (1930) (1894) 0.0
19 Stephen Ye W 8 B 14
1957 149965 (1955) (1883) 0.0
20 Scott Kuehl B 9 W 15
1944 110732 (2057) (0) 0.0
21 Garvin Nunes W 10 B 12
1938 102646 (1938) (0) 0.0
22 Juliaan Posaratnanathan B 11 W 17
1926 146059 (1917) (1839) 0.0
SwissSys Wall Chart. Hamilton Winter Open 2012: U2000
# Name/Rtng/ID Rd 1 Rd 2
1 Alexander Friedman bye W 34
1990 126498 (2001) (0) 0.5
2 Rob Gashgarian W 22 B 14
1961 112426 (1946) (0) 1.0
3 Konstantin Agabekian B 23 W 30
1924 123274 (1852) (0) 0.0
4 John Vlasov W 24 B 29
1890 101891 (1890) (0) 0.0
5 Ferdinand Supsup B 26 W 19
1889 142366 (1889) (0) 1.0
6 Fernando Echavarria-hidalgo W 27 B 17
1884 153225 (1389) (0) 1.0
7 Ian Finlay B 28 bye
1882 101866 (1899) (1792) 1.0
8 Lin [xin] Song ---- ----
1876 146772 (1868) (0) U0.0
9 Robert Gillanders B 39 W 32
1866 108202 (1853) (0) 0.0
10 Joe T Ellis W 29 B 21
1842 101459 (1890) (0) 1.0
11 Walter De Jong B 30 W 23
1817 108121 (1817) (0) 1.0
12 John Zhang W 31 B 24
1800 150339 (1767) (0) 1.0
13 Zachary Dukic B 32 W 39
1794 149507 (1808) (0) 1.0
14 Ralph Deline W 33 W 2
1786 103023 (1783) (1822) 1.0
15 Daniel Zotkin B 34 B 35
1784 146857 (1747) (1785) 0.5
16 Al Fabris W 35 B 31
1772 101981 (1775) (0) 0.0
17 John Erickson B 36 W 6
1769 103011 (1827) (0) 1.0
18 Peter McKillop ---- ----
1769 106713 (1769) (0) U0.0
19 Richard Glew W 37 B 5
1762 128756 (1790) (0) 1.0
20 Michael Von Keitz ---- ----
1755 128800 (1666) (0) U0.0
21 Patrick Yu B 38 W 10
1754 143209 (1699) (0) 1.0
22 Richard Chen B 2 W 36
1751 148271 (1761) (0) 0.0
23 Hongyi Li W 3 B 11
1748 139599 (1770) (0) 1.0
24 Daniel Coren B 4 W 12
1727 150504 (1672) (0) 1.0
25 Stan Percival ---- ----
1727 100049 (1775) (0) U0.0
26 Eric Zechen Wang W 5 B 33
1717 149398 (1618) (0) 0.0
27 Mario Piccinin B 6 W 38
1717 149970 (1743) (0) 0.0
28 Jaime Solis W 7 B 37
1690 102297 (1889) (1922) 0.0
29 Sasha Chuchin B 10 W 4
1668 147910 (1650) (0) 0.0
30 Tim Knechtel W 11 B 3
1663 106376 (1721) (0) 0.0
31 Yuetong [davy] Zhao B 12 W 16
1655 148512 (1677) (0) 0.0
32 Lee Hendon W 13 B 9
1636 105731 (1635) (0) 0.0
33 Avery Jones B 14 W 26
1632 121181 (1632) (0) 0.0
34 Jeffrey Xu W 15 B 1
1601 148513 (1449) (0) 0.5
35 Doug Gillis B 16 W 15
1595 111022 (1638) (0) 1.0
36 Joe Bellomo W 17 B 22
1559 109793 (1599) (0) 0.0
37 Hugo Ortiz B 19 W 28
1553 103144 (1624) (0) 0.0
38 Joey Zhong W 21 B 27
1508 151234 (1502) (0) 0.0
39 Jame Murphy W 9 B 13
unr. 1.0
SwissSys Wall Chart. Hamilton Winter Open 2012: U1600
# Name/Rtng/ID Rd 1 Rd 2
1 Austin Bonaker-hofmans B 16 W 22
1541 153122 (1544) (0) 0.0
2 Patrick Bondy W 17 B 28
1522 128739 (1522) (0) 0.0
3 Tony Bohan Bao B 18 W 13
1501 149351 (1507) (0) 1.0
4 John R Brown W 19 B 15
1485 102882 (1837) (0) 1.0
5 William J Mollison B 20 W 14
1482 133157 (1482) (0) 1.0
6 Michel Vasquez W 21 bye
1477 151904 (1490) (0) 1.0
7 Daniel Yurkewich B 22 W 16
1473 153503 (1484) (0) 1.0
8 Steve Tukonic W 23 B 24
1467 107103 (1399) (0) 0.0
9 Constance Wang B 24 W 17
1425 149748 (1433) (0) 1.0
10 Lakes Liang W 25 B 26
1415 149333 (1416) (0) 0.5
11 Immanuel Huang B 27 W 23
1378 152690 (1533) (0) 1.0
12 Dennis Tismenko W 28 B 25
1348 148985 (1387) (0) 0.5
13 Dinny Wang B 29 B 3
1343 149379 (1470) (0) 1.0
14 Kai Gauer W 30 B 5
1336 137273 (1345) (0) 1.0
15 Richard Guo B 31 W 4
1316 148117 (1276) (0) 1.0
16 Janet Peng W 1 B 7
1293 147928 (1260) (0) 1.0
17 Brian Warburton B 2 B 9
1277 152485 (1142) (0) 1.0
18 Frank Wang W 3 B 27
1263 150777 (1505) (0) 0.0
19 Benjamin Lin B 4 W 29
1257 151128 (1512) (0) 0.0
20 Peter Downie W 5 B 30
1238 152998 (1238) (0) 0.0
21 James Williamson B 6 W 31
1188 105942 (1335) (0) 0.0
22 Kristen Li W 7 B 1
1178 152636 (1178) (0) 0.0
23 Christopher Osborne B 8 B 11
1176 113031 (1249) (0) 1.0
24 Larissa Souchko W 9 W 8
1122 145490 (1126) (0) 0.0
25 Mathanhe Kaneshalingam B 10 W 12
1109 149319 (1355) (0) 0.5
26 Tj Boparai bye W 10
1096 152021 (1096) (0) 0.5
27 Edward Wang W 11 W 18
1037 151267 (1037) (0) 0.0
28 Catherine Li B 12 W 2
937 152637 (937) (0) 0.5
29 Robert Girard W 13 B 19
923 152115 (923) (0) 0.0
30 Rick Strongitharm B 14 W 20
785 153126 (785) (0) 0.0
31 william xu W 15 B 21
unr. 0.0
SwissSys Wall Chart. Hamilton Winter Open 2012: Top Guns
# Name/Rtng/ID Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3
1 Arthur Calugar B 13 W 7 B 9
2404 130889 (2377) (2271) 1.0 1.5
2 Victor Plotkin bye B 16 W 7
2376 142063 (2376) (2243) 0.5 1.5
3 Jura Ochkoos W 14 B 8 W 6
2309 102669 (2330) (2267) 1.0 2.0
4 Hans Jung B 15 W 9 ----
2298 100182 (2298) (2153) 1.0 1.0
5 Doug Bailey W 16 B 10 W 14
2292 109586 (2329) (2248) 1.0 1.0
6 Razvan Preotu B 17 W 11 B 3
2227 146124 (2206) (2036) 1.0 2.0
7 David Itkin W 18 B 1 B 2
2171 140216 (2141) (2044) 1.0 1.5
8 Mike Ivanov B 19 W 3 B 22
2157 140557 (2144) (2022) 1.0 1.0
9 Gordon Gooding W 20 B 4 W 1
2111 108832 (2111) (0) 1.0 2.0
10 Jackie Peng B 21 W 5 bye
2110 142388 (2110) (1944) 1.0 2.0
11 Adam Cormier W 22 B 6 W 20
2034 149091 (2085) (1989) 1.0 1.0
12 Mark Plotkin bye W 21 B 15
2030 141086 (2030) (1887) 0.5 0.5
13 Yuanchen Zhang W 1 B 18 bye
2013 148449 (2029) (1849) 0.0 0.5
14 Dmitry Chernik B 3 W 19 B 5
2012 149932 (2022) (1975) 0.0 1.0
15 Oanthata Pelekekae W 4 B 20 W 12
1990 151197 (2033) (0) 0.0 0.0
16 Laurence Crichton B 5 W 2 B 19
1988 123726 (1959) (0) 0.0 0.0
17 Keith Wight W 6 B 22 bye
1983 102934 (1983) (1998) 0.0 0.0
18 Guannan Terry Song B 7 W 13 bye
1970 146052 (1930) (1894) 0.0 0.5
19 Stephen Ye W 8 B 14 W 16
1957 149965 (1955) (1883) 0.0 0.0
20 Scott Kuehl B 9 W 15 B 11
1944 110732 (2057) (0) 0.0 1.0
21 Garvin Nunes W 10 B 12 bye
1938 102646 (1938) (0) 0.0 1.0
22 Juliaan Posaratnanathan B 11 W 17 W 8
1926 146059 (1917) (1839) 0.0 1.0
SwissSys Wall Chart. Hamilton Winter Open 2012: U2000
# Name/Rtng/ID Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3
1 Alexander Friedman bye W 34 B 37
1990 126498 (2001) (0) 0.5 0.5
2 Rob Gashgarian W 22 B 14 W 21
1961 112426 (1946) (0) 1.0 2.0
3 Konstantin Agabekian B 23 W 30 bye
1924 123274 (1852) (0) 0.0 0.0
4 John Vlasov W 24 B 29 W 33
1890 101891 (1890) (0) 0.0 0.0
5 Ferdinand Supsup B 26 W 19 B 34
1889 142366 (1889) (0) 1.0 1.0
6 Fernando Echavarria-hidalgo W 27 B 17 W 24
1884 153225 (1389) (0) 1.0 2.0
7 Ian Finlay B 28 bye W 35
1882 101866 (1899) (1792) 1.0 1.5
8 Lin [xin] Song ---- ---- ----
1876 146772 (1868) (0) U0.0 U0.0
9 Robert Gillanders B 39 W 32 bye
1866 108202 (1853) (0) 0.0 1.0
10 Joe T Ellis W 29 B 21 bye
1842 101459 (1890) (0) 1.0 1.0
11 Walter De Jong B 30 W 23 bye
1817 108121 (1817) (0) 1.0 2.0
12 John Zhang W 31 B 24 W 27
1800 150339 (1767) (0) 1.0 1.0
13 Zachary Dukic B 32 W 39 B 19
1794 149507 (1808) (0) 1.0 2.0
14 Ralph Deline W 33 W 2 B 23
1786 103023 (1783) (1822) 1.0 1.0
15 Daniel Zotkin B 34 B 35 W 29
1784 146857 (1747) (1785) 0.5 1.0
16 Al Fabris W 35 B 31 W 36
1772 101981 (1775) (0) 0.0 0.0
17 John Erickson B 36 W 6 B 26
1769 103011 (1827) (0) 1.0 1.0
18 Peter McKillop ---- ---- ----
1769 106713 (1769) (0) U0.0 U0.0
19 Richard Glew W 37 B 5 W 13
1762 128756 (1790) (0) 1.0 2.0
20 Michael Von Keitz ---- ---- ----
1755 128800 (1666) (0) U0.0 U0.0
21 Patrick Yu B 38 W 10 B 2
1754 143209 (1699) (0) 1.0 2.0
22 Richard Chen B 2 W 36 B 39
1751 148271 (1761) (0) 0.0 1.0
23 Hongyi Li W 3 B 11 W 14
1748 139599 (1770) (0) 1.0 1.0
24 Daniel Coren B 4 W 12 B 6
1727 150504 (1672) (0) 1.0 2.0
25 Stan Percival ---- ---- ----
1727 100049 (1775) (0) U0.0 U0.0
26 Eric Zechen Wang W 5 B 33 W 17
1717 149398 (1618) (0) 0.0 1.0
27 Mario Piccinin B 6 W 38 B 12
1717 149970 (1743) (0) 0.0 1.0
28 Jaime Solis W 7 B 37 W 31
1690 102297 (1889) (1922) 0.0 0.5
29 Sasha Chuchin B 10 W 4 B 15
1668 147910 (1650) (0) 0.0 1.0
30 Tim Knechtel W 11 B 3 bye
1663 106376 (1721) (0) 0.0 1.0
31 Yuetong [davy] Zhao B 12 W 16 B 28
1655 148512 (1677) (0) 0.0 1.0
32 Lee Hendon W 13 B 9 W 38
1636 105731 (1635) (0) 0.0 0.0
33 Avery Jones B 14 W 26 B 4
1632 121181 (1632) (0) 0.0 0.0
34 Jeffrey Xu W 15 B 1 W 5
1601 148513 (1449) (0) 0.5 1.5
35 Doug Gillis B 16 W 15 B 7
1595 111022 (1638) (0) 1.0 1.5
36 Joe Bellomo W 17 B 22 B 16
1559 109793 (1599) (0) 0.0 0.0
37 Hugo Ortiz B 19 W 28 W 1
1553 103144 (1624) (0) 0.0 0.5
38 Joey Zhong W 21 B 27 B 32
1508 151234 (1502) (0) 0.0 0.0
39 Jame Murphy W 9 B 13 W 22
unr. 1.0 1.0
SwissSys Wall Chart. Hamilton Winter Open 2012: U1600
# Name/Rtng/ID Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3
1 Austin Bonaker-hofmans B 16 W 22 B 13
1541 153122 (1544) (0) 0.0 1.0
2 Patrick Bondy W 17 B 28 W 19
1522 128739 (1522) (0) 0.0 1.0
3 Tony Bohan Bao B 18 W 13 B 11
1501 149351 (1507) (0) 1.0 2.0
4 John R Brown W 19 B 15 B 17
1485 102882 (1837) (0) 1.0 1.5
5 William J Mollison B 20 W 14 B 12
1482 133157 (1482) (0) 1.0 1.5
6 Michel Vasquez W 21 bye bye
1477 151904 (1490) (0) 1.0 1.5
7 Daniel Yurkewich B 22 W 16 B 14
1473 153503 (1484) (0) 1.0 1.5
8 Steve Tukonic W 23 B 24 W 20
1467 107103 (1399) (0) 0.0 1.0
9 Constance Wang B 24 W 17 B 23
1425 149748 (1433) (0) 1.0 1.0
10 Lakes Liang W 25 B 26 W 15
1415 149333 (1416) (0) 0.5 1.5
11 Immanuel Huang B 27 W 23 W 3
1378 152690 (1533) (0) 1.0 2.0
12 Dennis Tismenko W 28 B 25 W 5
1348 148985 (1387) (0) 0.5 1.5
13 Dinny Wang B 29 B 3 W 1
1343 149379 (1470) (0) 1.0 1.0
14 Kai Gauer W 30 B 5 W 7
1336 137273 (1345) (0) 1.0 1.5
15 Richard Guo B 31 W 4 B 10
1316 148117 (1276) (0) 1.0 1.5
16 Janet Peng W 1 B 7 bye
1293 147928 (1260) (0) 1.0 1.5
17 Brian Warburton B 2 B 9 W 4
1277 152485 (1142) (0) 1.0 2.0
18 Frank Wang W 3 B 27 W 29
1263 150777 (1505) (0) 0.0 0.0
19 Benjamin Lin B 4 W 29 B 2
1257 151128 (1512) (0) 0.0 1.0
20 Peter Downie W 5 B 30 B 8
1238 152998 (1238) (0) 0.0 1.0
21 James Williamson B 6 W 31 bye
1188 105942 (1335) (0) 0.0 1.0
22 Kristen Li W 7 B 1 W 30
1178 152636 (1178) (0) 0.0 0.0
23 Christopher Osborne B 8 B 11 W 9
1176 113031 (1249) (0) 1.0 1.0
24 Larissa Souchko W 9 W 8 B 31
1122 145490 (1126) (0) 0.0 0.0
25 Mathanhe Kaneshalingam B 10 W 12 W 27
1109 149319 (1355) (0) 0.5 0.5
26 Tj Boparai bye W 10 B 28
1096 152021 (1096) (0) 0.5 0.5
27 Edward Wang W 11 W 18 B 25
1037 151267 (1037) (0) 0.0 1.0
28 Catherine Li B 12 W 2 W 26
937 152637 (937) (0) 0.5 0.5
29 Robert Girard W 13 B 19 B 18
923 152115 (923) (0) 0.0 0.0
30 Rick Strongitharm B 14 W 20 B 22
785 153126 (785) (0) 0.0 0.0
31 william xu W 15 B 21 W 24
unr. 0.0 0.0
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