Kitchener-Waterloo Riedstra Memorial Open

[Kai G. Gauer]

Re: Kitchener-Waterloo Riedstra Memorial Open Results

These and a number of other games from the earlier rounds or top boards will have been sent (directly) to Bob Armstrong for his 'Toronto chess news'. In the coming week or so as it is being released, some of those games may also be duplicated in a pgn here or in various chess databases as well. However, due to these recent weekends being Easter, another weekend being tax weekend or a couple of SWOCL events, this and some other personal astronomy meets and a cold have taken up a bit of my time.

Therefore, the tournament report might turn out to be part of a 2 or 3 part series, and it would also help to cover some news as the SWOCL season starts to slow down after April. Speaking of which, which persons are in the leaderboard standings this year for the Grand Prix pistes of 2012-3? Attendance at Hamilton also looked strong last weekend, and it'll be great to hear about those other event reports in his newsletter.

Due to a 3rd round bye that I took to combat the sleep deprivation of the Kitchener event, Ralph still has a number of the game scores from that round (which I might pick up in a future Kitchener chess club night). With any luck, Ralph might be able to assist by getting a few of those uploaded here before I would have a chance to see them.

http://www.torontochessnews.com/ - those other chess databases are welcome to pick them up from chesstalk or TCN or from the players themselves. My bandwidth plan at home doesn't support my being able to (quickly) email off a lot of games to those other sources at once. Thank you kindly for your patience.

[Kai G. Gauer]

Re: Kitchener-Waterloo Riedstra Memorial Open Results

Demmery vs Derraugh, round 2: 1. Nf3 Nf6 2. g3 g6 3. b3 Bg7 4. Bb2 O‑O 5. c4 c5 6. Bg2 Nc6 7. O‑O d6 8. d3 Bd7 9. Nbd2 h6 10. Qc2 e5 11. Rad1 Qe7 12. e3 Bf5 13. a3 g5 14. Qc3 Ne8 15. Qc2 Bg6 16. Ne4 f5 17. Nc3 Qd7 18. Nd5 Ne7 19. d4 Nxd5 20. cxd5 cxd4 21. exd4 e4 22. Ne1 Rc8 23. Qd2 Qb5 24. f3 Qxb3 25. fxe4 fxe4 26. Rxf8+ Bxf8 27. Bh3 Rc7 28. Be6+ Bf7 29. Rc1 Rxc1 30. Bxf7+ Kxf7 31. Qxc1 Qxd5 32. Ng2 Bg7 33. Qc3 Qc6 34. Qa5 Qc2 35. Qb4 Qd1+ 36. Kf2 Qf3+ 37. Kg1 b6 38. Qa4 Nf6 39. Ne1 Qe2 40. Bc3 Qe3+ 41. Kf1 Qxc3 42. Qxa7+ Kg8 43. Qxb6 Qxa3 44. Qb8+ Kh7 45. Qc8 Kg6 46. Qe6 Qb4 47. Nc2 Qb5+ 0-1

[Bob Armstrong]

New Master!

The tournament is now rated and Alex jumped to Master!! ( from 2141 to 2205). Congrads Alex!

Bob A

[Jonathan Yu]

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Alex broke the rating system.

[Bindi Cheng]

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Yeah, how come this hasn't been rated yet? We are all waiting to see Alex Ferreira become the master that he deserves but not the one that the world needs right now.

[Artiom Samsonkin]

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Has it been rated??
Its been a while already.

[Ralph Deline]

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http://canadachessnews.blogspot.hu/

Great job with pics and the report. Much appreciated.

Thanks. The pics were rushed [only took pics in the first five minutes of the game] and some should have been redone. But such is life!

[Ralph Deline]

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Thanks for posting the results promptly.

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.

[Michael Yip]

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http://canadachessnews.blogspot.hu/

Great job with pics and the report. Much appreciated.

[John Coleman]

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Thanks for posting the results promptly.

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.

[Ralph Deline]

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.

[Rene Preotu]

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Rd. 5 results

Forgot the attachment

[Rene Preotu]

Re: Kitchener-Waterloo Riedstra Memorial Open

:o

Rd. 5 results

Bator 1st with 5/5
Bindi and Christopher 2nd/3rd with 4/5

[Rene Preotu]

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Rd. 5 results

[Kai G. Gauer]

Re: Kitchener-Waterloo Riedstra Memorial Open

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!