pgn file for the Canadian Open

[Roger Patterson]

a pgn file with all the available games can be found at

http://victoriachessclub.pbworks.com...vent%20Summary

[Kenneth Regan]

Re: pgn file for the Canadian Open

I have isolated the 269 games from the Premier Section and have made the names consistent with each other (using the form on the Monroi website when needed), here: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~regan/ch...remier2012.pgn I have not, however, made the ratings consistent or indicated FIDE vs. CFC ratings.

It appears about 40 games would be needed to make a full set. Congratulations on an event which I enjoyed following remotely; I am unable to visit the Toronto International but will be in town for a demonstration of robotic chess at the AAAI 2012 conference, Tue July 24th 5-7pm, at the downtown Sheraton Centre. I do not know if it is open to the public.

[Nigel Hanrahan]

Re: pgn file for the Canadian Open

Wow. Great job. The correct spellings follow:

Janak Awatramani
David R Bragg (USCF spelling - the USCF does not use a period with the initial it seems)
Jack (Kun) Cheng
Kristijan Gjorgjevik
Lenard Grossman
YiFei Han
Yiming Han
Kelsey Hannan
Philip Harris
Omar Jessa
Daniel Kazmaier
David Kenney
Jason Kenney
George Kosinski
Kevin Li
Malik Lindholdt
Hemant Persaud
Andrew M Smith (with 5 Andrew Smiths on the CFC list, I would recommend that this be the spelling for Mr Smith, if it is correct)
Pavel Trochtchanovitch
Ruining (Ray) Wu
Ray Yearwood

I have used CFC, USCF or Monroi site spellings here.

By the way, I've found a couple of duplicates so far: Ozkan-Chen and MacKinnon-Smith.

[Kenneth Regan]

Re: pgn file for the Canadian Open

Thanks. I have made the applicable changes from your list---I trust you meant Roy not Ray Yearwood (Roy Yearwood is also his Chessgames.com handle). I'd already eliminated the two duplicates from my version; Ozkan-Chan and Ozkan-Chen are different games. I've brought this also to the attention of TWIC (Mark Crowther). I still have not fixed the ratings.

[Normand Arsenault]

Re: pgn file for the Canadian Open

AAAI 2012 conference

At the AAAI conference, there will be a computer poker tournament; its seventh. I usually try to make it every year. I'll be there once again this year.

Norm

[Nigel Hanrahan]

Re: pgn file for the Canadian Open

MacKinnon-Erichsen and Plotkin-Erichsen were also duplicates from Roger's list. For some strange reason I have 271 games in the Premier Section. hmm.

[Kenneth Regan]

Re: pgn file for the Canadian Open

Hemant Persaud played in both the Premier and a lower section---you may have pulled some of his lower-section games. Originally I had 272, in fact. What I did was keep generating a crosstable with ChessBase and looking at the players shown with 1--3 games until I got the crosstable down to the same 78 players shown by Monroi. Clyde Chen seems to have only 1 game in the file.

[Nigel Hanrahan]

Re: pgn file for the Canadian Open

Ok, you're probably right but I have 5 games with Daniluk; you only seem to have 3.

[Kenneth Regan]

Re: pgn file for the Canadian Open

Ah---you are right; I must have just blipped over his two White games while extracting the Premier ones. I have added them to my copies of the file, including the one I posted above. Thanks!

[Hugh Brodie]

Re: pgn file for the Canadian Open

I have 333 games - that is before checking for games that might be in the lower sections, and some that I may have missed from Monroi.

[Kenneth Regan]

Re: pgn file for the Canadian Open

The file Roger posted has 336, but it's 333 after removing duplicates---so yours may be the same.

[Hugh Brodie]

Re: pgn file for the Canadian Open

I am standardizing all the name spellings to those on the crosstables posted on the Monroi site. Roger (or anyone) - please let me know if any of those spellings are incorrect.

I am also using the pre-tournament ratings as supplied on the same crosstables.

[Roger Patterson]

Re: pgn file for the Canadian Open

The site has been updated to include crosstables for the blitz, bughouse, and main event (include origin of the players if that is interesting to you), Brian Fiedler's presentation on finding sponsorship, as well as pgn files for the main event and a separate one for the games from the Nakamura simul.

Names of the players for two of the bughouse teams are missing - if you happen to know who they are, post it here or let me know.

The event report (being written) will be eventally posted at this site.

http://victoriachessclub.pbworks.com...vent%20Summary

[Roger Patterson]

Re: pgn file for the Canadian Open

The final event report has been posted at:

victoriachessclub.pbworks.com/49th-Canadian-Open-Event-Summary

Includes links to a wide range of stuff.

[Normand Arsenault]

Re: pgn file for the Canadian Open

Is there a video of the champion where he talks about the tournament?

Norm