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Players might be wondering whether or not the organizers were able to repeat a booking of their tournament for the so-called "spring forward" weekend again (they did - so be forewarned!). Because the first round also gets going shortly before 10am on the day before the 23 hour day, players might wish to be reminded about a modified registration time from previous years.
A few club executive members are likely to arrive fairly early to set up tables, etc - and players from out of town might wish to double-check what the good parking lot rates are for each day.
Pairings of players from the top section in round 3 went:
Round 3 pairings
Andrew Peredun vs Bator Sambuev,
Geordie Derraugh vs Razvan Preotu,
Michael Song vs Thair Sabbagh,
Konstantin Semianiuk vs Alex Ferreira,
Avinaash Sundar vs Jackie Peng,
Mike Ivanov vs Neal Pan,
Yinshi Li vs Steve Demmery,
Agastya Kalra vs Andre Zybura,
Tony Bohan Bao vs Joey Zhong;
Byes: Gord Olheiser, Hans Jung, Damir Miletic
No games were done by the time that I got home to prepare for spring forward. With any luck, someone else might be able to report the tentative 4th round pairings or 3rd round results in the other 2 sections as well. Anyways, that's what this year's Riedstra top section is shaping towards. Good night!
Re: Kitchener-Waterloo Riedstra Memorial Open Results
This year we had 81 participants. There were a couple of bumps in the road with pairings and byes, but other than that, everything went quite smoothly. Nevertheless, we did have a few long games and with Daylight Savings, it was close to 1:00 am when I got home Sunday morning, so even though I originally had good intentions, fourth round pairings did not get posted. Maybe next time.
Open Section
Bator Sambuev Ist place, 5 points,
Bindi Cheng, Christopher Knox 2nd and 3rd place, 4 points
Razvan Preotu, Adam Cormier, 3 1/2 points
Konstantin Semianiuk, Gordon Olheiser, Andrew Peredun, Mike Ivanov, Alex T. Ferreira, 3 points
Michael Song, Hans Jung, Andre Zybura, Yinshi Li, 2 1/2 points
Geordie Derraugh, Jackie Peng, Thair Sabbagh, Steve Demmery, Dale McTavish, Agastya Kalra, 2 points
Damir Miletic, Joey Zhong, 1 1/2 points
Tony Bohan Bao, 1 point
U2000
Ferdinand Supsup 1st place, 4 1/2 points
Jeffrey Xu, Richard Chen 2nd & 3rd place, 4 points
Michael von Keitz, Tyler Ensor, Bruce Highcock, 3 1/2 points
Eugene Hua, Nicholas Jackson, Mario Piccinin, Mathanhe Kaneshalingam, Dinny Wang, Istvan Kiss, Tim Knechtel 3 points
Harmony Zhu, Thomas Guo, Lee Hendon, Robert Gillanders, 2 1/2 points
Brian Clarke, Fernando Echavarria-Hidalgo, 2 points
Rachel Tao, Rob Gashgarian, Wenyang Ming, George Dragasanu, Mate Milinkovic, Constance Wang, 1 1/2 points
Janet Peng, 1/2 point
U1600
Daniel Liu, Immanuel Huang, Gary Hua, Dennis Shamroni 1st place, 4 points
Richard Feng, Frank Wang, Muralie Vignarajah, 3 1/2 points
John If Lujezich, Jeannie Zhang, Nicholas Wu, 3 points
Marcell Csoka, Diego Rosales, Richard Morrison, Kai Gauer, Robin Johnston, Richard Guo, Stefano Lee, 2 1/2 points
Ethan Zheng, James Williamson, Jack Li, Dee Wu, 2 points
Adam Gaisinsky, Peter Downie, Ellen Tao, Andy Maaser, 1 1/2 points
Kai Gauer will be putting some games on ChessTalk in the near future.
For pictures: http://ralphsattic.blogspot.ca/
Those are all the pictures I took during the tournament. Now I wish I had taken more.
Last edited by Ralph Deline; Sunday, 10th March, 2013, 11:42 PM.
I don't know what pairing progam you are using, but most (all?) programs can dump results to html, which makes it easy to post final standings, crosstables, whatever.
I don't know what pairing progam you are using, but most (all?) programs can dump results to html, which makes it easy to post final standings, crosstables, whatever.
I have a copy of SwissSys but I needed to re-register [registration expired] so instead of waiting, I forged ahead and did what I could quickly.
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