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The following are the round 4 pairings. Please note they may change. The games will begin at 11 am. Good luck!
Round 4 - Top Guns
1 Victor Plotkin --- Mike Ivanov
2 Razvan Preotu --- Hans Jung
3 Doug Bailey --- Roman Sapozhnikov
4 Adam Cormier --- Jura Ochkoos
5 Mark Plotkin --- Yuanchen Zhang
6 Jackie Peng --- Yuetong [davy] Zhao
7 Raymond Singh --- Gordon Gooding
8 Joey Zhong --- Keith Wight
Thair Sabbagh --- BYE
Garvin Nunes --- BYE
Round 4 - U2000
9 Alexandre Michelashvili --- Rob Gashgarian
10 Mario Piccinin --- Ferdinand Supsup
11 Walter De Jong --- Wenlu Yu
12 Laurence Crichton --- Jason Cai
13 Mario Moran-venegas --- Jaime Solis
14 Richard Chen --- Daniel Liu
15 Hanyuan Ye --- Sasha Chuchin
16 Wenyang Ming --- Richard Glew
17 Brian Clarke --- Ralph Deline
18 Lakes Liang --- Patrick L Huang
19 Eugene Hua --- Janet Peng
20 Richard Guo --- Austin Bonaker-hofmans
21 Immanuel Huang --- Lee Hendon
Robert Gillanders --- BYE
Round 4 - U1600
22 Gary Hua --- Nameer Issani
23 Kristen Li --- Alex Shlega
24 Steve Tukonic --- Robin Johnston
25 Richard Feng --- James Williamson
26 Nicholas Vettese --- Michael Huang
27 Henry Peng --- Adrian Calugaru
28 Monika Wood --- Kai Gauer
29 Manxuan [rebecca] Zhang --- Taylor Zhang
30 Peter Downie --- Josh Perl
31 Haotong Hazel Guo --- Ethan Zheng
32 Aahil Noorali --- Kylie Tan
33 Christopher Osborne --- Matthew Chertkow
34 Elijah Lopez --- Shuhan Dai
35 Justin Greco --- Tj Boparai
36 Michael Shlega --- Benjohn Libardo
37 Ziv Fridman --- Daniel Perl
38 Herman Alexanian --- Binara Sankalpa Sirisena
39 Jerry McKitrick --- Mysha Gilani
Sasha Chertkow --- BYE
Dee Wu --- BYE
Michel Vasquez --- BYE
The Hamilton Winter Open is now finished, I'm sure there will be a note from the organizers soon enough, I won't ruin the suspense :) During the two days there, a few people asked me about the CITL tournament we're organizing next week. When they asked if it was on chesstalk I laughed and realized it probably got bumped down pretty, so just in case, here it is :) http://www.chesstalk.info/forum/showthread.php?t=8700
Another successful tournament for the Hamilton crew. Final tally was 83 players, just short of last years record 88. James Williamson wins the contest for closest guess with 70.
Our ridiculously low entry fee of $10 for the U1600 section brought out 38 players with a nice mixture of adults and kids. The low entry fee did succeed in bringing out many new players for their first ever CFC adult tournament. We had 9 players rated under 1000, plus 8 unrated. An encouraging sign was that many of them opted for full CFC memberships. :D
On display was a wide range of chess talent. At the top end, Victor Plotkin successfully navigated the mysterious Bishop and Knight mate. While at the other end of the room, the slightly easier successful mate with 2 queens.
Top Gun winners:
1st - Victor Plotkin 4.5/5 - $ 400
2nd/3rd - 3.5 / 5 - $ 115 each
Roman Sapozhnikov, Hans Jung, Mike Ivanov
U2000 winners:
1st - Rob Gashgarian 5/5 - $ 220
2nd - Mario Moran-Venegas 4/5 - $ 160
3rd - 3.5 /5 - $ 30 each
Richard Chen, Wenyang Ming, Mario Piccinin
Garvin will report on the U1600 section later.
Congratulations to our winners, and thanks to all the players who participated.
Last edited by Bob Gillanders; Monday, 25th March, 2013, 01:03 PM.
First of all I want to thank the players, parents and spectators that came to our tournament. My count for players this weekend was 83 (Bobby G please confirm this!). With parents and spectators we regularly had over 100 people in the building for things chess related.
The top finishers in the event were as follows:
Top Guns
1st Victor Plotkin with 4.5 points
Tied 2nd Roman Sapozhnikov, Hans Jung, Mike Ivanov with 3.5 points
U2000
1st Rob Gashgarian with an amazing 5 points
2nd Mario Moran-Venegas with 4 points
Tied 3rd Richard Chen, Wenyang Ming, Mario Piccinin with 3.5 points
U1600
1st Gary Hua with 4.5 points
Tied 2nd Nameer Issani, Nicholas Vettese, Adrian Calugaru, Alex Shlega with 4 points
The U1600 section received trophy prizes. Due to a shortage of trophies one of the second place finishers received a wind up radio that was graciously donated to the Hamilton Junior Chess Club. We would like to thank PK Hummingbird once again for their donation of wind up radios several years ago.
This tournament was filled with drama and excitement. McMaster University student Adam Cormier told me that during this event he played his best ever game. There were at least a few local Hamiltonians who were playing their first chess tournament. And it was great to see this tournament had one of our largest turnouts of women.
The stories are too numerous to tell so I hope some of you will help me out with that. In the meantime take a look at some of the pictures from this event in this chess talk thread. (And please feel free to add more!)
I want to thank Walter De Jong for giving me the wooden board and pieces that were used on board 1. (You can also check this Chess Talk thread for examples of his fine photography!) And thanks to Mikhail Egorov for the donation of his wooden board, pieces and DGT clock for use on board 2. Mikhail also gave us the coffee maker that served the free coffee.
I want to give a special thanks to Michel Vasquez and Rene Preotu for helping me in critical situations during the tournament.
And a final big thanks to Bob Gillanders who worked his something off to make this event successful (not to mention rides and stuff...).
Alright, enough of this wussy stuff. Go play some chess!
Last edited by Garvin Nunes; Monday, 25th March, 2013, 02:27 PM.
Reason: spelling mistake
I really enjoyed the tournament. Thanks guys. Congratulations to Victor Plotkin for his excellent first place finish. Congratulations to Mike Ivanov for an exceptional tournament. Congratulations to Adam Cormier for beating Razvan so nicely.
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