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Canadian Open Victoria July 8-13 Registration rate goes up $20 after June 29
On the contrary, the more GM's there are, the more players it attracts. It makes the tournament atmosphere more exciting to be around. The top section of a tournament should always be the organizer's main focus, as the top section is what attracts other players.
Norm
Agreed...and not just GMs, but titled players in general. There are only 16... For the tournament that it is, i find this unbelievable.
Comparing the Quebec Open to the Canadian Open shows the Canadian Open being treated like a tourist spot for families to register their kids, and the top section being overlooked. Meanwhile the Quebec Open pre-registered list is one of the strongest I have ever seen.
The Canadian Open as Norm said, is comparable to a weekender, except for 100x the cost and 6 days of sun. As I recall, there were more GMs on the list but they have now dissapeared, and I can't blame them.
I almost made an IM norm in the 2010 Canadian Open thanks to the tremendous result the registrations pulled in, providing formidable opponents. In this tournament its basically impossible. Maybe nobody else finds it as dissapointing as I do, but this seems unacceptable for the top section of the Canadian Chess Championship, especially when you take a look at any of the years previous.
Agreed...and not just GMs, but titled players in general. There are only 16... For the tournament that it is, i find this unbelievable.
Comparing the Quebec Open to the Canadian Open shows the Canadian Open being treated like a tourist spot for families to register their kids, and the top section being overlooked. Meanwhile the Quebec Open pre-registered list is one of the strongest I have ever seen.
The Canadian Open as Norm said, is comparable to a weekender, except for 100x the cost and 6 days of sun. As I recall, there were more GMs on the list but they have now dissapeared, and I can't blame them.
I almost made an IM norm in the 2010 Canadian Open thanks to the tremendous result the registrations pulled in, providing formidable opponents. In this tournament its basically impossible. Maybe nobody else finds it as dissapointing as I do, but this seems unacceptable for the top section of the Canadian Chess Championship, especially when you take a look at any of the years previous.
Hey Aman: Why not turn that frown upside down?
Here is an idea for you. There have been 49 Canadian Opens - some stronger than others. Which was the strongest? Who knows - but as they say "smell isn't everything" :)
Anyway -- the 50th edition of the Canadian Open is set for 2013.
No bids to date. Where should this event be held? Do you think that the scheduling of the 2012 Toronto International on the very next day following this year's CO has had and impact on the attendance. Victoria will have approx 140 players and Toronto the other 100 + (too bad about the lack of support).
So -- moving forward to 2013 what do you propose? How will we (the CFC) get rid of your disappointment and have the "perfect" Canadian Open?
Maybe the event should be in Montreal (the home of the first Canadian Open). We could also celebrate the new FQE-CFC agreement after it is approved by the Governors! :) It was in Toronto for 2 years in a row and many found that fact very disappointing. So now it is time for the CFC to consider bids (anyone? anywhere?) for next year's CO event. Please come up with a constructive proposal for the 50th Anniversary of the Canadian Open!
How about a $50 Grand Prize Fund for the 50th edition.
Start brainstorming and put your negative energies to work to come up with a good plan for next year!
How about the Aman Hambleton Golden Jubilee 50 Grand for 50 GM Canadian Open?
There is (at least) one bid for the 2013 Canadian Open. It will be discussed and (may be) voted on at the CFC AGM (in progress (online) right now).
What city is bidding? I hope it is Ottawa. From what I've heard from other chess players, the 2007 Canadian Open was one of the best Canadian Opens ever held.
Norm
Last edited by Normand Arsenault; Thursday, 5th July, 2012, 02:44 PM.
Re: Canadian Open Victoria July 8-13 - 135 Players in 3 Sections!
SwissSys Standings.
49th Canadian Open Chess Championship 2012: PREMIER SECTION
# Name Rtng Post Tot TBrk[C] TBrk[O] Prize
1 GM Victor Mikhalevski 2625 2625 0.0 0 0
2 IM Eric Hansen 2580 2580 0.0 0 0
3 GM Eugene Perelshteyn 2557 2557 0.0 0 0
4 IM Steven C. Zierk 2531 2531 0.0 0 0
5 GM John Peter Fedorowicz 2494 2494 0.0 0 0
6 IM Edward Porper 2481 2481 0.0 0 0
7 FM Richard Wang 2442 2442 0.0 0 0
8 IM Rodney Perez 2420 2420 0.0 0 0
9 FM Victor Plotkin 2411 2411 0.0 0 0
10 IM Leon Piasetski 2410 2410 0.0 0 0
11 IM Arthur Calugar 2404 2404 0.0 0 0
12 FM John C. [Jack] Yoos 2392 2392 0.0 0 0
13 NM Keith Mackinnon 2353 2353 0.0 0 0
14 WGM Katerina Rohonyan 2351 2351 0.0 0 0
15 NM Daniel Kazmaier 2327 2327 0.0 0 0
16 NM Jeff Reeve 2326 2326 0.0 0 0
17 NM Butch Villavieja 2303 2303 0.0 0 0
18 NM Harry Moore 2279 2279 0.0 0 0
19 NM Alfred Pechisker 2278 2278 0.0 0 0
20 NM Michael Barron 2275 2275 0.0 0 0
21 NM Loren Brigham Laceste 2256 2256 0.0 0 0
22 NM Roman Jiganchine 2255 2255 0.0 0 0
23 Kevin Li 2232 2232 0.0 0 0
24 NM Howard Chen 2223 2223 0.0 0 0
25 NM Bernd Wagner 2218 2218 0.0 0 0
26 NM Lucas Davies 2214 2214 0.0 0 0
27 NM Tanraj S Sohal 2202 2202 0.0 0 0
28 NM David Itkin 2198 2198 0.0 0 0
29 NM Jeff Babb 2194 2194 0.0 0 0
30 NM Brian McLaren 2177 2177 0.0 0 0
31 Igor Ummel 2175 2175 0.0 0 0
32 Jack [Kun] Cheng 2158 2158 0.0 0 0
33 Janak Awatramani 2129 2129 0.0 0 0
34 NM Howard Wu 2129 2129 0.0 0 0
35 James Chan 2128 2128 0.0 0 0
36 Dan Erichsen 2110 2110 0.0 0 0
37 NM Brian Fiedler 2102 2102 0.0 0 0
38 NM Roger Patterson 2081 2081 0.0 0 0
39 NM William G Doubleday 2076 2076 0.0 0 0
40 Benedict Daswani 2072 2072 0.0 0 0
41 Dezheng Kong 2068 2068 0.0 0 0
42 Jim Daniluk 2059 2059 0.0 0 0
43 Helmut Fritzsche 2052 2052 0.0 0 0
44 Peter Kalisvaart 2035 2035 0.0 0 0
45 FM Jason Cao 2031 2031 0.0 0 0
46 Dmitry Chernik 2029 2029 0.0 0 0
47 WCM Alexandra Botez 2028 2028 0.0 0 0
48 Andrew M. Smith 2024 2024 0.0 0 0
49 Pavel Trochtchanovitch 2014 2014 0.0 0 0
50 Tyler Longo 2004 2004 0.0 0 0
51 Travis Lane 2000 2000 0.0 0 0
52 Jesse Beaudin 1994 1994 0.0 0 0
53 Malik Lindholdt 1992 1992 0.0 0 0
54 Mark Plotkin 1976 1976 0.0 0 0
55 Qiyu Zhou 1953 1953 0.0 0 0
56 Charlie Ozkan 1931 1931 0.0 0 0
57 Matthew Herdin 1923 1923 0.0 0 0
58 Jofrel Landingin 1915 1915 0.0 0 0
59 Ian Finlay 1859 1859 0.0 0 0
60 Omar Jessa 1853 1853 0.0 0 0
61 Leonard Molden 1840 1840 0.0 0 0
62 Ruining [Ray] Wu 1835 1835 0.0 0 0
63 Alice Xiao 1821 1821 0.0 0 0
64 Elliot Raymer 1818 1818 0.0 0 0
65 Clyde Chen 1780 1780 0.0 0 0
66 Constantin Rotariu 1680 1680 0.0 0 0
67 George Wesley Lundy III 1614 1614 0.0 0 0
SwissSys Standings.
49th Canadian Open Chess Championship 2012: UNDER 2000 SECTION
# Name Rtng Post Tot TBrk[C] TBrk[O] Prize
1 John Doknjas 1990 1990 0.0 0 0
2 Ross Richardson 1956 1956 0.0 0 0
3 Robert North 1913 1913 0.0 0 0
4 Arthur Milne 1911 1911 0.0 0 0
5 Tony Weller 1893 1893 0.0 0 0
6 Paul Leblanc 1887 1887 0.0 0 0
7 Joe Roback 1880 1880 0.0 0 0
8 Brendon Lee 1871 1871 0.0 0 0
9 Yifei Han 1855 1855 0.0 0 0
10 Yassen Bogoev 1853 1853 0.0 0 0
11 Manfrei Aquino 1827 1827 0.0 0 0
12 Philip Harris 1803 1803 0.0 0 0
13 Chris White 1803 1803 0.0 0 0
14 Jack Wayne Anderson 1800 1800 0.0 0 0
15 Frank O'Brien 1788 1788 0.0 0 0
16 Harvey Caron 1782 1782 0.0 0 0
17 George Kosinski 1773 1773 0.0 0 0
18 Yu [Henry] Ji 1765 1765 0.0 0 0
19 Steven Faust 1758 1758 0.0 0 0
20 Kelsey Hannan 1749 1749 0.0 0 0
21 Jaime Solis 1736 1736 0.0 0 0
22 Jiehan Zhou 1734 1734 0.0 0 0
23 Victor Itkin 1729 1729 0.0 0 0
24 Farley Cannon 1720 1720 0.0 0 0
25 Conrad Koke 1719 1719 0.0 0 0
26 Benjamin Blium 1712 1712 0.0 0 0
27 David A. Gates 1705 1705 0.0 0 0
28 Max Gedajlovic 1695 1695 0.0 0 0
29 Bill Tate 1693 1693 0.0 0 0
30 Brian Sullivan 1686 1686 0.0 0 0
31 Wane Inkpen 1684 1684 0.0 0 0
32 Andrew Quinton Lee 1682 1682 0.0 0 0
33 Deron Stewart 1671 1671 0.0 0 0
34 Sangeeta Dhingra 1666 1666 0.0 0 0
35 Elroy Deimert 1661 1661 0.0 0 0
36 Payam Mousavi 1645 1645 0.0 0 0
37 Bruce W Thomson 1634 1634 0.0 0 0
38 Joshua Doknjas 1628 1628 0.0 0 0
39 Heiner Schwarz 1622 1622 0.0 0 0
40 John Remillard 1612 1612 0.0 0 0
41 Jill Ding 1540 1540 0.0 0 0
SwissSys Standings.
49th Canadian Open Chess Championship 2012: UNDER 1600 SECTION
# Name Rtng Post Tot TBrk[C] TBrk[O] Prize
1 Frank Lee 1592 1592 0.0 0 0
2 Melissa Lee 1586 1586 0.0 0 0
3 Jamie Campbell 1582 1582 0.0 0 0
4 Louis Lapi 1559 1559 0.0 0 0
5 Kajan Thanabalachandran 1509 1509 0.0 0 0
6 Trevor Yonkman 1481 1481 0.0 0 0
7 Michael Su 1468 1468 0.0 0 0
8 Duncan Haines 1434 1434 0.0 0 0
9 Maurice Smith 1424 1424 0.0 0 0
10 Kristijan Gjorgjevik 1394 1394 0.0 0 0
11 Lenard Grossmann 1390 1390 0.0 0 0
12 Giuseppe Del Duca 1338 1338 0.0 0 0
13 Ashley Tapp 1324 1324 0.0 0 0
14 Donald Mackinnon 1308 1308 0.0 0 0
15 Philipp Fritzsche 1224 1224 0.0 0 0
16 Kai Richardson 1206 1206 0.0 0 0
17 Matthew Geng 1187 1187 0.0 0 0
18 Nicholas Peters 1166 1166 0.0 0 0
19 Neil Doknjas 1090 1090 0.0 0 0
20 Garth Edgar 1061 1061 0.0 0 0
21 Rowan James 1052 1052 0.0 0 0
22 Nicholas Nolt 884 884 0.0 0 0
23 Patrick Huang 790 790 0.0 0 0
24 Jordan Lathwell 703 703 0.0 0 0
25 Drew Nylen unr. 0 0.0 0 0
26 Emanuel A Pantazi unr. 0 0.0 0 0
27 Olivija Stoilova unr. 0 0.0 0 0
Originally posted by Mark S. Dutton, I.A.View Post
Canadian Open Championship (1956-)
Year Winner(s) Location Players
1956 Larry Evans, William Lombardy Montreal 88
1958 Elod Macskasy Winnipeg 44
1960 Anthony Saidy Kitchener 40
1962 Laszlo Witt Ottawa 48
1964 Pal Benko Scarborough 76
1966 Larry Evans Kingston 116
1968 Bent Larsen Toronto 164
1970 Bent Larsen St. John's 55
1971 Boris Spassky, Hans Ree Vancouver 156
1973 Duncan Suttles Ottawa 235
1974 Ljubomir Ljubojevic Montreal 648
1975 Leonid Shamkovich Calgary 215
1976 Nick de Firmian, Lawrence Day Toronto 408
1977 Jan Green-Krotki Fredericton 166
1978 Gyula Sax Hamilton 185
1979 Abe Yanofsky Edmonton 135
1980 Lawrence Day Ottawa 212
1981 Igor Ivanov Beauport, QC 148
1982 Gordon Taylor Vancouver 148
1983 Kevin Spraggett, Bozidar Ivanovic Toronto 330
1984 Igor Ivanov, Brett Campbell, Denis Allan, Dave Ross Ottawa 146
1985 Igor Ivanov, Brian Hartman Edmonton 91
1986 Artur Yusupov, Viktor Kupreichik Winnipeg 146
1987 Kevin Spraggett Toronto 208
1988 Lawrence Day Scarborough 201
1989 Vladimir Tukmakov Edmonton 181
1990 Georgi Timoshenko Edmundston, NB 59
1991 Walter Browne Windsor 120
1992 Alexei Barsov, Bryon Nickoloff Scarborough 254
1993 Kevin Spraggett London 128
1994 Vladimir Tukmakov Winnipeg 187
1995 Kevin Spraggett, Eduardas Rozentalis, Ron Livshits, Bryon Nickoloff, Deen Hergott Toronto 303
1996 Kevin Spraggett Calgary 147
1997 Julian Hodgson Winnipeg 188
1998 Dmitri Tyomkin, Michael Oratovsky, Evgeny Prokopchuk, Kevin Spraggett Ottawa 223
1999 Kevin Spraggett, Georgi Orlov Vancouver 204
2000 Kevin Spraggett, Jonathan Rowson, Joel Benjamin Edmonton 193
2001 Larry Christiansen, Anthony Miles Sackville, NB 169
2002 Jean-Marc Degraeve, Pascal Charbonneau, Jean Hebert Montreal 326
2003 Alex Moiseenko Kapuskasing 141
2004 Dimitri Tyomkin, Alex Moiseenko Kapuskasing 125
2005 Vassily Ivanchuk, Alexei Shirov, Mark Bluvshtein, Viorel Bologan, SR Chowdhury Edmonton 222
2006 Walter Arencibia, Abhijit Kunte Kitchener 198
2007 Bu Xiangzhi Ottawa 280
2008 Alex Moiseenko, Eduardas Rozentalis, Victor Mikhalevski, Matthieu Cornette Montreal 325
2009 Mark Bluvshtein, Edward Porper Edmonton 202
2010 Luke McShane Toronto 265
2011 Walter Arencibia, Joel Benjamin, Dejan Bojkov Toronto 280
2012 ???? WHO WILL IT BE ??? Victoria, BC 140 ish ?:D
2012 Prize Fund: $15,000 Guaranteed:
Re: Canadian Open Victoria July 8-13 - 135 Players in 3 Sections!
I hope if you (or anyone) posts such crosstables with results, that time is taken to format them so they are readable. As a list, that is ok, but when there are imbedded results it is completely worthless.
I hope if you (or anyone) posts such crosstables with results, that time is taken to format them so they are readable. As a list, that is ok, but when there are imbedded results it is completely worthless.
Right you are Kerry -- all of the Crosstables, Standings, etc. will be properly put up on the official website of the event.
This was just a quick list of the 135 I just entered all the registrations so far.
This way we can leave the nit picking, bickering and criticism to the Chess Talkers while we have ourselves a great Chess event here on the best coast!
What city is bidding? I hope it is Ottawa. From what I've heard from other chess players, the 2007 Canadian Open was one of the best Canadian Opens ever held.
Norm
I didn't do too well in that tournament, but I did order from Pizza Pizza a lot. Like three times. It was pretty sweet.
This way we can leave the nit picking, bickering and criticism to the Chess Talkers while we have ourselves a great Chess event here on the best coast!
Pictured above is the Honourable Ida Chong, MLA for Oak Bay-Gordon Head
since 1996. She currently serves as Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Developement in BC!
Ida Chong made the ceremonial FIRST MOVE at the $15,000 - 49th Canadian Open with "Birthday Boy" GM Victor Mikhalevski, from Israel to kick off the 153-player, 3 section, 9 round FIDE event! Play continues through Friday the 13th of July!
Official Sponsor: The Government of British Columbia
Canadian Open Victoria July 8-13 PICS, PICS AND MORE PICS!
Don't miss the 49th Canadian Open in Victoria BC. It could be another 49 years before the next CO in Victoria.
Great location Great hotel Great Event See you in July http://monroi.com/2012-cocc-home.html
Lots of great side events including a Welcome Barbecue, Whale Watching tour, Blitz, Learn how to Stand Up Paddleboard, Banquet and of course Bughouse. http://monroi.com/2012-cocc-home.html for details.
Hope to see you in July in Victoria. Sunshine Guaranteed. Everyone else will be here. Why not you?
On the topic of Chess players -- did you know that Jason Cao (Under 10 World Champion) is 2 and 0
-- after defeating 2 Masters (Arthur Calugar and former BC Champion Harry Moore)? Great performance so far!
Don't miss the 49th Canadian Open in Victoria BC. It could be another 49 years before the next CO in Victoria.
Great location Great hotel Great Event See you in July http://monroi.com/2012-cocc-home.html
Lots of great side events including a Welcome Barbecue, Whale Watching tour, Blitz, Learn how to Stand Up Paddleboard, Banquet and of course Bughouse. http://monroi.com/2012-cocc-home.html for details.
Hope to see you in July in Victoria. Sunshine Guaranteed. Everyone else will be here. Why not you?
Re: Canadian Open Victoria July 8-13 GAMES, GAMES + MORE GAMES! :D
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