Vote for 2011 Canadian Chess Player of the Year!

[Larry Bevand]

Re: The Winner

2011 Canadian Chess Player of the Year is Grandmaster Mark Bluvshtein of Toronto, Ontario, the fourth time he has won this honour. The

highlight of Bluvshtein's year of international competitions was his tie for first place in the Pan-American Chess Championship in

April. Second place in the voting was taken by Grandmaster Bator Sambuev of Montreal, Quebec, who won the Canadian Chess Championship

in May, thereby setting a record for the highest ever Chess Federation of Canada rating by a Canadian. Third place was earned by

Michael Song of Toronto, Ontario for his Bronze Medal at the World Under-12 Chess Championship in November.

The 9th annual vote was conducted by a poll of Canadian Chess Journalists. One ballot is reserved for voting by chess fans. In the Fan

Ballot, the winner is Melissa Giblon of Thornhill, Ontario. Giblon won the Canadian Girls Under 12 Chess Championship with a perfect

score in July. Second place went to Nikolay Noritsyn of Richmond Hill, Ontario, winner of the Quebec Open Chess Championship in July.

He was followed by Bluvshtein in third place.

Past winners:

http://www.canadianchess.info/canadianchesshistory/CanadianChessPlayerYear.html#WINNERS

Canadian Chess Player accomplishments in 2011:

http://www.canadianchess.info/canadianchesshistory/CanadianChessPlayerYear.html#2011

Thanks to all who voted!

David Cohen

Hi David,

What you have done with this is awesome!

Congrats!

Yesterday I went to you site and I wanted to vote...yes I know...I am technology challenged...anyway, it was not obvious to me how I could vote...so I served customers in our Toronto shop instead :) could you tell us how many people took part in fan ballot?

Thanks!

Larry

[David Cohen]

The Winner

2011 Canadian Chess Player of the Year is Grandmaster Mark Bluvshtein of Toronto, Ontario, the fourth time he has won this honour. The

highlight of Bluvshtein's year of international competitions was his tie for first place in the Pan-American Chess Championship in

April. Second place in the voting was taken by Grandmaster Bator Sambuev of Montreal, Quebec, who won the Canadian Chess Championship

in May, thereby setting a record for the highest ever Chess Federation of Canada rating by a Canadian. Third place was earned by

Michael Song of Toronto, Ontario for his Bronze Medal at the World Under-12 Chess Championship in November.

The 9th annual vote was conducted by a poll of Canadian Chess Journalists. One ballot is reserved for voting by chess fans. In the Fan

Ballot, the winner is Melissa Giblon of Thornhill, Ontario. Giblon won the Canadian Girls Under 12 Chess Championship with a perfect

score in July. Second place went to Nikolay Noritsyn of Richmond Hill, Ontario, winner of the Quebec Open Chess Championship in July.

He was followed by Bluvshtein in third place.

Past winners:

http://www.canadianchess.info/canadianchesshistory/CanadianChessPlayerYear.html#WINNERS

Canadian Chess Player accomplishments in 2011:

http://www.canadianchess.info/canadianchesshistory/CanadianChessPlayerYear.html#2011

Thanks to all who voted!

David Cohen

[David Cohen]

Reminder - last day to vote for the 2011 Canadian Chess Player of the Year

This is a reminder that today is the last day to vote for the 2011 Canadian Chess Player of the Year!

Some players and their accomplishments in 2011 for you to consider for your vote are here:

http://www.canadianchess.info/canadianchesshistory/CanadianChessPlayerYear.html#2011

(Please point out any missing accomplishments!)

Directions on how to vote are at the link.

Thanks,

David

David Cohen

[Jonathan Berry]

Re: Vote for 2011 Canadian Chess Player of the Year!

Loren Laceste was BC co-champ (with Maxim Doroshenko), in addition to winning the CYCC u-18. At the moment, the report is on the homepage at:

http://www3.telus.net/public/swright2/homepage.html

[Erik Malmsten]

Re: Vote for 2011 Canadian Chess Player of the Year!

Vote for 2011 Canadian Chess Player of the Year!

This is our 9th year, and our 5th year with a fan ballot. The winner of the Fan Ballot joins the ballots cast by the Canadian Chess Journalists to determine the overall winner of the award.

Some players and their accomplishments in 2011 for you to consider for your vote are here:

http://www.canadianchess.info/canadianchesshistory/CanadianChessPlayerYear.html#2011

(Please point out any missing accomplishments!)

Directions on how to vote are at the link.

Thanks,

David

David Cohen

Another source of data to compare those who had a great year. I'm impressed by the three players who gained over 100 rating points and by Cheng and Noritsyn.

Top gainers in FIDE Ratings Sept 2010 to Nov 2011

Over 2300

55 Cheng, Bindi 2360 to 2415
52 Noritsyn, Nikolay 2414 το 2466
36 Sambuev, Bator 2486 to 2522
35 Hansen, Eric 2412 to 2447
27 Krnan, Tomas to 2390 2417
17 Spraggett, Kevin 2571 to 2588
15 Quan, Zhe to 2412 to 2427
07 Bluvshtein, Mark 2583 to 2590
06 Porper, Edward 2442 to 2448
06 Pechenkin, Vladimir 2314 to 2320
04 Charbonneau, Pascal 2513 to 2517
04 Gerzhoy, Leonid 2486 to 2490
02 Piasetski, Leon 2303 to 2305

14 others over 2300 lost rating points.

Newcomers:
Doroshenko, Maxim 2332/14
Laceste, Loren Brigham 2309/27


2200s
121 Sapozhnikov, Roman 2226 το 2347
38 Wang, Richard 2218 to 2256
31 Martchenko, Alexander 2206 to 2237
24 Divljan, Igor 2268 to 2292
23 Masse, Hugues 2239 to 2262
17 Plotkin, Victor 2236 to 2253
17 Hambleton, Aman 2206 to 2223
15 Voloaca, Mihnea 2229 to 2244
14 Vaingorten, Yaaqov 2275 to 2289
14 Reeve, Jeff 2230 to 2244
13 Morrison, Kyle 2219 to 2232
13 Kulic, Sasa 2201 to 2214
12 Yee, Lorne 2210 to 2222
11 Leveille, Francois 2290 to 2301
05 Moore, Harry 2278 to 2283
02 MacKinnon, Keith 2200 to 2202

19 other 2200s lost rating points.

Provisional masters:
Trottier, Emile to 2239/9
Soliven, Joe 2232/10
Levkovsky, Alexandre 2205/12

2100s
110 Kleinman, Michael 2146 to 2256
83 Calugar, Arthur 2183 to 2266
53 Caire, Francois 2150 to 2203
44 Gusev, Nikita 2090 to 2134
43 Yam, Alex 2156 to 2199
42 Vincent, Trevor 2131 to 2173
39 Haynes, Nicolas 2150 to 2189
37 Dougherty, Michael 2171 to 2208


2000s (I only went down to 2100)
128 Humphreys, Michael 2033 to 2161
45 Yearwood, Roy 2055 to 2100

Others on the list
Cao, Jason unr to 1993
Peng, Jackie 1794 to 1922
Zhang, Yuanchen 1656 to 1794
Giblon, Melissa unr to 1572

[Erik Malmsten]

Re: Vote for 2011 Canadian Chess Player of the Year!

Before the Quebec Invitational, Nikolay Noritsyn had 6.5/9 (1/2 point GM Benjamin et al) in the Canadian Open. And after Quebec, he had 5/6 (=1st) in the Toronto Labour Day Open, and 5.5/6 (1st) in the Toronto Thanksgiving Open.

Seems like a decent year for him, and one that saw his rating rise from 2563 at the end of 2010 to 2654 now - hitting a career-high 2657 after rolling through Calugar, Cheng, and Sapozhnikov at Thanksgiving.

He also coached the WYCC team in Caldas Novas (if you're considering non-playing contributions by a player, too).

Quite a rise this year for Noritsyn, Cheng, and Sapozhikov. I remember a GM at the Canadian Open saying that our IMs were so strong.

Isn't there also an annual poll for chesstalker of the Year?

[Marcus Wilker]

Re: Vote for 2011 Canadian Chess Player of the Year!

Before the Quebec Invitational, Nikolay Noritsyn had 6.5/9 (1/2 point GM Benjamin et al) in the Canadian Open. And after Quebec, he had 5/6 (=1st) in the Toronto Labour Day Open, and 5.5/6 (1st) in the Toronto Thanksgiving Open.

Seems like a decent year for him, and one that saw his rating rise from 2563 at the end of 2010 to 2654 now - hitting a career-high 2657 after rolling through Calugar, Cheng, and Sapozhnikov at Thanksgiving.

He also coached the WYCC team in Caldas Novas (if you're considering non-playing contributions by a player, too).

[David Cohen]

Vote for 2011 Canadian Chess Player of the Year!

This is our 9th year, and our 5th year with a fan ballot. The winner of the Fan Ballot joins the ballots cast by the Canadian Chess Journalists to determine the overall winner of the award.

Some players and their accomplishments in 2011 for you to consider for your vote are here:

http://www.canadianchess.info/canadianchesshistory/CanadianChessPlayerYear.html#2011

(Please point out any missing accomplishments!)

Directions on how to vote are at the link.

Thanks,

David

David Cohen