2012 Ottawa Winter Open November 16-18

[Hans Jung]

Re: 2012 Ottawa Winter Open November 16-18

Congratulations Aman! Another GM scalp! How do you keep doing it?

[Eric Hansen]

Re: 2012 Ottawa Winter Open November 16-18

Congratulations Aman! Another GM scalp! How do you keep doing it?

Aman steamrolling Canada



Aman running away with rating points

[Eric Hansen]

Re: 2012 Ottawa Winter Open November 16-18

Note: Don't try to sneak up on him

[Vlad Dobrich]

Re: 2012 Ottawa Winter Open November 16-18

OK, someone come up with a video - "Aman playing Eric Hansen". - Prize for the best depiction!:D

[Halldor P. Palsson]

2012 Ottawa Winter Open Final Standings

Ottawa Winter Open: U 1900
# Name ID Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot
1 Adam Adriaanse 152504 1740 D4 W9 W12 W6 W3 4.5 Amateur
2 Herb Langer 100319 1870 L3 W11 H--- W12 W7 3.5 $162.50
3 Ryan Yang 151429 1847 W2 W12 D7 W5 L1 3.5 $162.50
4 Gabrielle Nadeau 126666 1897 D1 D6 W10 D7 D5 3.0
5 Robert Laszlo 104270 1783 H--- W13 W8 L3 D4 3.0
6 Alan Tomalty 112353 1780 H--- D4 W13 L1 W11 3.0
7 Francesco Dunne 146453 1848 W9 D8 D3 D4 L2 2.5
8 Jean Bigras 106651 1782 W11 D7 L5 H--- U--- 2.0
9 Gordon Ritchie 110972 1732 L7 L1 H--- W13 D12 2.0
10 Jeff Zhang 148924 1545 L12 B--- L4 L11 W13 2.0
11 Konstantin Vlasenko unr. L8 L2 B--- W10 L6 2.0
12 Francois Nadeau 126735 1844 W10 L3 L1 L2 D9 1.5
13 Vasudev Parkkot unr. H--- L5 L6 L9 L10 0.5


Ottawa Winter Open: U 1600
# Name ID Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot
1 Srikanth Rapaka 151908 1538 W5 W7 W6 W2 D3 4.5 $125
2 Curtis Barlow Wilkes 154444 1432 D8 W3 W7 L1 W5 3.5 $75
3 Keven Eyre 135113 1422 H--- L2 W9 W10 D1 3.0 $50/3
4 Terrence [terry] Ju 151396 1274 L6 L5 B--- W9 W7 3.0 $50/3
5 Shreyas Sreeraman 146416 1247 L1 W4 W8 W6 L2 3.0 $50/3
6 Michael Zhang 151543 1088 W4 W10 L1 L5 H--- 2.5
7 Billy Carroll 150390 1224 W9 L1 L2 W8 L4 2.0
8 Lawrence [larry] Ju 151370 1156 D2 D9 L5 L7 W10 2.0
9 Ksenia Vlasenko 1465 L7 D8 L3 L4 B--- 1.5
10 John If Lukezich 146765 1503 H--- L6 H--- L3 L8 1.0


Ottawa Winter Open: Open and U 2200
# Name ID Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot
1 Aman Hambleton 129797 2546 W14 W6 W2 W7 W3 5.0 $400 1st
2 Bator Sambuev 146462 2700 W8 W3 L1 W4 W7 4.0 $200 2nd
3 Mihnea Voloaca 120516 2327 W9 L2 W12 W6 L1 3.0 $50 3rd
4 John Upper 101925 2280 D13 H--- W8 L2 W10 3.0 Amateur
5 Robert Gelblum 104272 2223 L12 D10 W11 W13 D6 3.0 $50 3rd
6 Armando Valdizon 101864 2244 W11 L1 W10 L3 D5 2.5
7 Mate Marinkovic 141393 2243 W16 H--- W13 L1 L2 2.5
8 Kevin Wan 147460 2132 L2 W9 L4 D12 W14 2.5 U2200 $100
9 Danail Donev 143574 2070 L3 L8 L14 W16 W13 2.0
10 Saeid Sadeghi 139655 2013 H--- D5 L6 W14 L4 2.0
11 Agastya Kalra 137927 2005 L6 W14 L5 W15 U--- 2.0
12 Mike Sun 142224 1948 W5 H--- L3 D8 U--- 2.0
13 Emil Smilovici 111290 2046 D4 W15 L7 L5 L9 1.5
14 Joseph Bellissimo 147544 2107 L1 L11 W9 L10 L8 1.0
15 David Forget 142032 2041 H--- L13 D16 L11 U--- 1.0
16 Michel Desjardins 131936 1988 L7 H--- D15 L9 U--- 1.0

Have a prize and left, pick it up at the RA Chess Club this Thursday or e-mail me at fs889@ncf.ca to make other arrangements.

[Michael Yip]

BCN Blog entry

http://budapestchesnews.blogspot.hu/

Standings + Hambleton's rd1 game with brief notes added.

[Hans Jung]

Re: 2012 Ottawa Winter Open November 16-18

Great humour Eric! I especially like the monkey with the hubcap!! You should start your own website blog.

[Aman Hambleton]

Re: 2012 Ottawa Winter Open November 16-18

Congratulations Aman! Another GM scalp! How do you keep doing it?

Thanks Hans! Somehow I do very well against GMs, with a record of 4 wins, 1 loss, and 3 draws in 2012. I don't get psyched out and enjoy rising to the challenge - I think it helps with how confidently I play against them.

[Halldor P. Palsson]

2012 Ottawa Winter Open Games Round 4 & 5

[Event "2012 Ottawa Winter Open U 1900"]
[Site "RA Centre"]
[Date "2012.11.18"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Yang Ryan"]
[Black "Laszlo Robert"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D13"]
[WhiteElo "1826"]
[BlackElo "1826"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.c4 c6 2.Nc3 d5 3.cxd5 cxd5 4.d4 Nf6 5.Nf3 a6 6.g3 Nc6 7.Bg2
e6 8.O-O Be7 9.Bf4 O-O 10.Rc1 Nh5 11.Ne5 Nxf4 12.gxf4 f6 13.Nxc6
bxc6 14.Qb3 Qd6 15.e3 e5 16.Nxd5 Be6 17.Rxc6 Qd7 18.Nxe7+ Qxe7
19.Rxe6 Qf7 20.Bxa8 Rxa8 21.Rb6 1-0

[Event "2012 Ottawa Winter Open"]
[Site "RA Centre"]
[Date "2012.11.18"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Marinkovic Mate"]
[Black "Hambelton Aman"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A30"]
[WhiteElo "2243"]
[BlackElo "2546"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.c4 b6 2.Nc3 c5 3.Nf3 Bb7 4.b3 Nf6 5.Bb2 e6 6.e3 Be7 7.g3 O-O
8.Bg2 a6 9.a4 Nc6 10.O-O Rc8 11.d4 cxd4 12.Nxd4 Qc7 13.Nxc6 Bxc6
14.e4 Qb7 15.Qe2 Rfe8 16.Rad1 Bb4 17.Na2 Be7 18.Nc3 Bb4 19.Na2
Be7 20.Rfe1 b5 21.axb5 axb5 22.f4 bxc4 23.bxc4 Nxe4 24.Bxg7 Kxg7
25.Bxe4 Bxe4 26.Qxe4 Qa7+ 27.Kh1 Qxa2 28.Rxd7 Qxc4 29.Qxc4 Rxc4
30.f5 Rc6 31.Kg2 Bf6 32.fxe6 Rcxe6 33.Rxe6 Rxe6 34.Kh3 Kg6 35.Ra7
h5 36.Ra3 Rc6 37.Rb3 Rc3 38.Rb5 h4 39.Kg4 hxg3 40.hxg3 Bd8 41.Rd5
Bc7 42.Rg5+ Kf6 43.Kh4 Bxg3+ 0-1

[Event "2012 Ottawa Winter Open"]
[Site "RA Centre"]
[Date "2012.11.18"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Sambuev Bator"]
[Black "Upper John (CAN)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D11"]
[WhiteElo "2700"]
[BlackElo "2280"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.e3 c6 4.c4 Bg4 5.cxd5 cxd5 6.Nc3 Nc6 7.Qb3
Rb8 8.Ne5 e6 9.Bb5 Bd6 10.Qa4 Bxe5 11.dxe5 Ne4 12.O-O Qb6 13.Nxe4
dxe4 14.b3 O-O 15.Ba3 Nxe5 16.Bxf8 Rxf8 17.Rfc1 Bf5 18.Rc3 Ng6
19.Be2 Qd8 20.Rac1 e5 21.g4 Nh4 22.Qb5 Nf3+ 23.Bxf3 exf3 24.Qxe5
Bxg4 25.Qg3 Be6 26.Qxf3 Bd5 27.Qf5 Bc6 28.Rd3 Qe7 29.Rd4 g6 30.Qf4
Qa3 31.Rc2 Qa5 32.Rcd2 a6 33.f3 Qc3 34.Kf2 Qa5 35.b4 Qh5 36.Rd8
g5 37.Rxf8+ Kxf8 38.Rd8+ 1-0

[Event "2012 Ottawa Winter Open"]
[Site "RA Centre"]
[Date "2012.11.18"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Valdizon Armando (CAN)"]
[Black "Voloaca Mihnea (CAN)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A11"]
[WhiteElo "2244"]
[BlackElo "2327"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.Nf3 Nf6 2.g3 g6 3.b3 Bg7 4.Bb2 O-O 5.Bg2 d5 6.c4 c6 7.d3 a5
8.Nbd2 a4 9.b4 a3 10.Bc3 Nbd7 11.Rc1 Re8 12.Nb3 e5 13.O-O e4
14.Nfd4 dxc4 15.dxc4 Ne5 16.Na5 e3 17.f3 Qc7 18.Qb3 Bd7 19.Rfd1
h5 20.b5 h4 21.f4 hxg3 22.hxg3 Neg4 23.bxc6 bxc6 24.Naxc6 Ne4
25.Bxe4 Rxe4 26.Ba5 Qc8 27.Qb6 Ra6 28.Qd8+ Qxd8 29.Nxd8 Rxa5 0-1

[Event "2012 Ottawa Winter Open"]
[Site "RA Centre"]
[Date "2012.11.18"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Gelblum, Robert"]
[Black "Smilovici Emil"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A08"]
[WhiteElo "2223"]
[BlackElo "2046"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 Nf6 3.Bg2 e6 4.O-O c5 5.d3 Bd6 6.Nbd2 O-O 7.e4
Nc6 8.Re1 Qc7 9.Qe2 dxe4 10.dxe4 e5 11.c3 Re8 12.Nc4 Be7 13.Ne3
Be6 14.Ng5 Qc8 15.Nxe6 Qxe6 16.Nd5 Bd8 17.Be3 b6 18.Rad1 Ne7
19.Rd2 Nfxd5 20.exd5 Qd6 21.Rdd1 Nf5 22.Bc1 Bc7 23.Qd3 g6 24.f4
Rad8 25.fxe5 Rxe5 26.Bf4 Rxe1+ 27.Rxe1 Qd7 28.Bg5 Re8 29.Rxe8+
Qxe8 30.Qe4 Qxe4 31.Bxe4 Nd6 32.Bg2 Kg7 33.Kf2 f6 34.Bc1 h6 35.Ke2
g5 36.Kd3 Bd8 37.Be3 f5 38.b4 c4+ 39.Kc2 Bf6 40.a4 Be5 41.Bf1
f4 42.gxf4 gxf4 43.Bg1 f3 44.a5 bxa5 45.bxa5 a6 46.h3 Kf6 47.Be3
h5 48.Bc5 Ne4 49.Bb4 f2 50.Bxc4 Ng3 51.Bxa6 f1Q 52.Bxf1 Nxf1
53.Kd3 Bb8 54.c4 Ke5 55.Bc3+ Kd6 56.Bd4 Nh2 57.a6 Nf3 58.a7 Bxa7
59.Bxa7 h4 60.Bf2 Ng5 61.Bxh4 Nxh3 62.Ke4 Ng1 63.Ke3 Ke5 64.Bg3+
Kf5 65.c5 Kf6 66.c6 Ke7 67.d6+ Kd8 68.Bh4+ 1-0

[Event "2012 Ottawa Winter Open"]
[Site "RA Centre"]
[Date "2012.11.18"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Sambuev Bator"]
[Black "Marinkovic Mate"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D11"]
[WhiteElo "2700"]
[BlackElo "2243"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.e3 c6 4.c4 Bg4 5.cxd5 Bxf3 6.Qxf3 cxd5 7.Nc3
e6 8.Bd3 Nbd7 9.O-O Be7 10.Bd2 O-O 11.Qh3 Rc8 12.f4 Nb6 13.f5
exf5 14.Rxf5 g6 15.Raf1 Nc4 16.Bc1 Nd6 17.Re5 Nc4 18.Rxe7 Qxe7
19.Qh4 Rc6 20.e4 Nxb2 21.Bxb2 Qb4 22.Nxd5 Nxd5 23.exd5 Rd6 24.Bc1
Rxd5 25.Be3 Qc3 26.Qe4 Rdd8 27.Bb5 a6 28.Ba4 b5 29.Bb3 a5 30.Qe7
h5 31.Bxf7+ Kh7 32.Be8+ 1-0

[Event "2012 Ottawa Winter Open"]
[Site "RA Centre"]
[Date "2012.11.18"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Voloaca Mihnea (CAN)"]
[Black "Hambelton Aman"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A34"]
[WhiteElo "2327"]
[BlackElo "2546"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.c4 c5 2.Nc3 b6 3.Nf3 Bb7 4.e4 e6 5.g3 Nf6 6.d3 Nc6 7.Bg2 Be7
8.O-O d6 9.a3 O-O 10.Re1 Nd7 11.d4 cxd4 12.Nxd4 Nxd4 13.Qxd4
a6 14.Be3 Rc8 15.Rac1 Qc7 16.a4 Nc5 17.Qd1 Bf6 18.Bf4 Be5 19.Bg5
h6 20.Be3 Bc6 21.b4 Bxc3 22.Rxc3 Nxa4 23.Rc1 Qd7 24.Qg4 e5 25.Qh5
Qe7 26.Re2 b5 27.Rec2 Bd7 28.Bf1 Rfd8 29.Bd3 Qe8 30.Qh4 Kh7 31.f4
f6 32.f5 Rc7 33.cxb5 Rxc2 34.Rxc2 Bxb5 35.Rc7 Rd7 36.Bxb5 axb5
37.Rc2 Qf7 38.Qg4 d5 39.exd5 Rxd5 40.Rc7 h5 41.Qe2 Qe8 42.Qf3
e4 43.Qf4 Rd7 44.Rxd7 Qxd7 45.Qxe4 Qd1+ 46.Kg2 Qe2+ 47.Kh3 Nc3
48.Qe6 Qf1+ 49.Kh4 Qf3 50.Kh3 Ne4 51.Qb6 Qf1+ 52.Kh4 Qxf5 0-1

[Event "2012 Ottawa Winter Open"]
[Site "RA Centre, Ottawa"]
[Date "2012.11.18"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Donev Donail"]
[Black "Smilovici Emil"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C45"]
[WhiteElo "2070"]
[BlackElo "2046"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nxc6 bxc6 6.e5 Qe7 7.Qe2
Nd5 8.c4 Ba6 9.Nd2 g6 10.b3 Bg7 11.Bb2 O-O 12.O-O-O Rfe8 13.Qe4
Nb6 14.f4 Rab8 15.h4 d5 16.Qc2 c5 17.cxd5 Bxf1 18.Rdxf1 Nxd5
19.Qe4 Rbd8 20.Nc4 Qe6 21.h5 Nf6 22.Qf3 Nd5 23.hxg6 fxg6 24.g4
Nb4 25.f5 Qa6 26.f6 Rf8 27.f7+ Kh8 28.Rxh7+ Kxh7 29.Rh1+ Bh6+
30.g5 Nxa2+ 31.Kb1 Nb4 32.Rxh6+ Kg7 33.e6+ 1-0

[Event "2012 Ottawa Winter Open"]
[Site "RA Centre, Ottawa"]
[Date "2012.11.18"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Upper John (CAN)"]
[Black "Sadeghi Saeid"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E32"]
[WhiteElo "2280"]
[BlackElo "2013"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 O-O 5.a3 Bxc3+ 6.Qxc3 Ne4 7.Qc2
f5 8.g3 b6 9.Bg2 Bb7 10.Nf3 d5 11.cxd5 exd5 12.O-O Nd7 13.b4
Rc8 14.Qb3 c6 15.Ne1 Ba6 16.Nd3 Bc4 17.Qd1 Nc3 18.Qc2 Ne4 19.Bb2
Nd6 20.Ne5 f4 21.Bh3 Rc7 22.a4 Nxe5 23.dxe5 Ne4 24.Bg2 Ng5 25.Ra3
f3 26.exf3 Bxf1 27.Kxf1 c5 28.bxc5 bxc5 29.f4 Ne6 30.Qd3 Kh8
31.Qa6 Qb8 32.Bc3 Qb1+ 33.Be1 Nd4 34.Bxd5 Nc2 35.Re3 Nxe3+ 36.fxe3
Qb6 37.Qc4 Rd8 38.e4 Rcc8 39.Bc3 Qb1+ 40.Kg2 Qc2+ 41.Kh3 Qd1
42.e6 Qh5+ 43.Kg2 Qe8 44.f5 Qe7 45.Be5 Rb8 46.Qc3 Rf8 47.h4 c4
48.Qf3 Rb3 49.Qf4 Rbb8 1-0

[Event "2012 Ottawa Winter Open"]
[Site "RA Centre, Ottawa"]
[Date "2012.11.18"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Valdizon Armando (CAN)"]
[Black "Gelblum, Robert"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A45"]
[WhiteElo "2244"]
[BlackElo "2223"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 Ne4 3.Bf4 c5 4.f3 Qa5+ 5.c3 Nf6 6.d5 Qb6 7.Bc1
e6 8.e4 c4 9.Bxc4 Bc5 10.Nh3 exd5 11.Bxd5 Nxd5 12.Qxd5 O-O 13.b4
Be3 14.Nd2 Qg6 15.g4 d6 16.Qd3 Qh6 17.Nf2 Bxf2+ 18.Kxf2 Qh4+
19.Kg2 Nc6 20.Qxd6 Rd8 21.Qf4 Be6 22.Nb3 Rd3 23.Qg5 Qxg5 24.Bxg5
Bxb3 25.axb3 Rxc3 26.b5 Nd4 27.Rhd1 Nxb5 28.b4 Rac8 29.Rd7 Rc2+
30.Kg3 h6 31.Be3 R2c3 32.Bxa7 Ra8 33.Rxb7 Nd6 34.Rb8+ Rxb8 35.Bxb8
Nxe4+ 36.Kg2 Rc2+ 37.Kh3 Ng5+ 38.Kg3 Rc3 39.Rf1 Rb3 40.h4 1/2-1/2