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The second Hart House Open tournament this year was a success, all things considered. We thank all the players and parents for coming out in such a busy time of the year! In all honesty we were concerned at first that being the weekend before Christmas, not many people would play. Then we got hit by a snow storm. We had a total of 86 participants, 75 of them played on Friday, the night of the storm.
Looking at the field of players, this tournament was yet another reminder that the future of Canadian chess is secure. More than half of the total players were juniors under the age of 18 !
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Open Section:
There was a 4-way tie for first place:
GM Bator Sambuev, IM Leonid Gerzhoy, IM Lawrence Day and FM Igor Divljan all finished with 4.0/5
There were some interesting top board games. Gerzhoy vs Sapozhnikov at some point had an interesting endgame puzzle position (rook vs 3 connected pawns) - Gerzhoy had to sac a rook to get a perp and survive mate against Sambuev - Noritsyn vs Sambuev was a tactical feast near the end.
We collected some scoresheets and will try to post them in the near future.
The U2200 1-2 prizes were split between Felix Barrios (USA) and Aaron Wu.
Aaron Wu (1837) finished with an impressive 3.0/4 (plus a half point bye) score, with a performance of 2388 !
Dalia Kagramanov and Pavel Rakov split 3rd place U2200.
Final Standings:
Name rtng rd 1 rd 2 rd 3 rd 4 rd 5 TOT
1 Sambuev, Bator GM..........2572 W 22 W 21 W 7 D 2 D 6 4.0
2 Gerzhoy, Leonid IM..........2493 W 8 W 13 W 11 D 1 D 7 4.0
3 Divljan, Igor...............2367 D 27 W 28 D 4 W 23 W 11 4.0
4 Day, Lawrence IM............2313 D 14 W 9 D 3 W 15 W 10 4.0
5 Samsonkin, Artiom IM.......2532 L 24 W 29 W 27 D 13 W 19 3.5
6 Noritsyn, Nikolay IM........2487 W 18 H--- W 16 D 10 D 1 3.5
7 Thavandiran, Shiyam.........2453 W 36 W 23 L 1 W 24 D 2 3.5
8 Barrios, Felix...............2125 L 2 D 32 W 28 W 20 W 16 3.5
9 Wu, Aaron...................1837 H--- L 4 W 36 W 21 W 24 3.5
10 Peng, David.................2378 D 29 W 15 W 12 D 6 L 4 3.0
11 Sapozhnikov, Roman..........2264 W 19 W 24 L 2 W 14 L 3 3.0
12 Shebetah, Wajdy.............2247 W 20 H--- L 10 W 27 D 13 3.0
13 Martchenko, Alexander.......2226 W 33 L 2 W 30 D 5 D 12 3.0
14 Rakov, Pavel................2030 D 4 D 26 W 34 L 11 W 25 3.0
15 Kagramanov, Dalia...........1828 W 17 L 10 W 26 L 4 W 23 3.0
16 Calugar, Arthur.............2238 W 31 W 30 L 6 D 19 L 8 2.5
17 Szalay, Karoly..............2224 L 15 L 20 D 22 W 34 W 31 2.5
18 Ng, kit-Sun.................2112 L 6 L 31 B--- W 32 D 26 2.5
19 Kleinman, Michael...........1988 L 11 W 22 W 21 D 16 L 5 2.5
20 Pryor, Jamieson.............1903 L 12 W 17 H--- L 8 W 30 2.5
21 Morrison, Kyle..............2244 W 32 L 1 L 19 L 9 W 33 2.0
22 Humphreys, Michael..........2162 L 1 L 19 D 17 D 28 W 32 2.0
23 Nahutin, Yevgeni............2154 W 34 L 7 W 33 L 3 L 15 2.0
24 Hambleton, Aman.............2140 W 5 L 11 W 31 L 7 L 9 2.0
25 Knox, Christopher...........2093 H--- L 27 D 32 W 33 L 14 2.0
26 Smith, Hazel................2068 H--- D 14 L 15 D 35 D 18 2.0
27 Ibrahim, Ismail.............2035 D 3 W 25 L 5 L 12 D 29 2.0
28 Wang, Jesse B.J.............2033 H--- L 3 L 8 D 22 W 34 2.0
29 Gladstone, Simon............1807 D 10 L 5 H--- D 30 D 27 2.0
30 Wu, Kevin...................1917 B--- L 16 L 13 D 29 L 20 1.5
31 Florea, Alexandru...........1868 L 16 W 18 L 24 H--- L 17 1.5
32 Arfin, Sam..................1902 L 21 D 8 D 25 L 18 L 22 1.0
33 Armstrong, Robert ..........1832 L 13 W 37 L 23 L 25 L 21 1.0
34 Stein, Jacob................1649 L 23 B--- L 14 L 17 L 28 1.0
35 Lamb, Bryan.................2180 U--- U--- U--- D 26 U--- 0.5
36 Evans, Bill.................2053 L 7 H--- L 9 U--- U--- 0.5
37 Xi, Jason................... 800 U--- L 33 U--- U--- U--- 0.0
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U2000 Section:
Tyler Longo and Leon Perelman split 1st, with Zhiyuan Zhang taking clear 1st U1800 with the same score of 4.0. Vitkor Itkin & Ben Olden-Cooligan shared the remainder U1800 prize with 3.5.
Final Standings:
Name rtng rd 1 rd 2 rd 3 rd 4 rd 5 TOT
1 Longo, Tyler................1935 W 10 D 9 W 6 H--- W 4 4.0
2 Perelman, Leon..............1876 L 15 W 26 W 7 W 11 W 9 4.0
3 Zhang, Zhiyuan..............1738 B--- W 29 L 15 W 18 W 8 4.0
4 Bzikot, Robert..............1936 D 19 W 20 W 14 W 8 L 1 3.5
5 Itkin, Victor...............1764 W 26 L 17 H--- W 21 W 15 3.5
6 Olden-Cooligan, Ben.........1516 D 12 W 19 L 1 W 14 W 13 3.5
7 Dickson, Jason..............unr. W 27 D 18 L 2 W 19 W 12 3.5
8 Chidley-Hill, John W........1883 W 11 W 15 W 17 L 4 L 3 3.0
9 Hahnewald, Uwe..............1830 W 22 D 1 H--- W 17 L 2 3.0
10 Kim, Bill...................1734 L 1 L 22 W 27 W 26 W 18 3.0
11 Farine, Jonathan............1660 L 8 W 28 W 25 L 2 W 21 3.0
12 Itkin, David................1831 D 6 W 16 H--- D 15 L 7 2.5
13 Liu, Steven.................1730 H--- L 21 W 23 W 16 L 6 2.5
14 Brammall, Stuart............1667 W 28 H--- L 4 L 6 W 22 2.5
15 Ugodnikov, Arakdiy..........1614 W 2 L 8 W 3 D 12 L 5 2.5
16 Zaghi, Michael..............1530 H--- L 12 W 20 L 13 W 27 2.5
17 Sherman, Joshua.............1895 W 25 W 5 L 8 L 9 U--- 2.0
18 Roller, Robert..............1869 W 23 D 7 D 21 L 3 L 10 2.0
19 Maister, Martin.............1756 D 4 L 6 W 22 L 7 D 20 2.0
20 Zhou, Kevin.................1636 H--- L 4 L 16 W 28 D 19 2.0
21 Song, Terry.................1512 H--- W 13 D 18 L 5 L 11 2.0
22 Lee, Mei Chen...............1478 L 9 W 10 L 19 W 25 L 14 2.0
23 Farrant-Diaz, Nathan........1590 L 18 H--- L 13 L 27 W 26 1.5
24 Shah, Omar..................1980 U--- U--- U--- U--- W 25 1.0
25 Medvedev, Genadi............1733 L 17 W 27 L 11 L 22 L 24 1.0
26 Peng, Jackie................1399 L 5 L 2 W 30 L 10 L 23 1.0
27 Pancer, Jeff................1222 L 7 L 25 L 10 W 23 L 16 1.0
28 Haziprodromu, Sam...........1884 L 14 L 11 H--- L 20 U--- 0.5
29 Ferreira, Alex..............1880 U--- L 3 U--- U--- U--- 0.0
30 Woolford, Jesse.............unr. U--- U--- L 26 U--- U--- 0.0
Thanks go to Omar Shah, who was visiting the site, for volunteering to play a Round 5 game against a player who got paired out due to the section having an odd number of players.
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U1600 Section:
This section saw Travis Li take 1st place U1600 and Tian Lan taking 1st U1400. Kevin Chen won the Unrated prize without losing a game! All 3 players ended with 4.0/5.
Completing the top standings were Michael Song, Tony Lin and Yutong Luo, all winning prizes.
Final Standings:
Name rtng rd 1 rd 2 rd 3 rd 4 rd 5 TOT
1 Li, Travis..................1548 W 18 L 3 W 21 W 11 W 9 4.0
2 Lan, Tian...................1317 W 23 D 15 W 4 W 14 D 3 4.0
3 Chen, Kevin.................unr. W 7 W 1 D 14 W 5 D 2 4.0
4 Song, Michael...............1548 D 12 W 17 L 2 W 19 W 8 3.5
5 Lin, Tony (Juntao)..........1342 D 17 W 10 W 19 L 3 W 13 3.5
6 Luo, Yutong.................1254 H--- W 18 D 9 D 13 W 14 3.5
7 Yu, Patrick.................1494 L 3 W 22 L 11 W 20 W 16 3.0
8 Vera, Jesus.................1479 W 24 W 13 D 15 H--- L 4 3.0
9 Bellissimo, Joseph..........1344 H--- � 12 D 6 W 15 L 1 3.0
10 Helis, Petr.................1565 H--- L 5 D 17 W 18 D 11 2.5
11 Martin, James Denis Dylan...1310 L 15 W 20 W 7 L 1 D 10 2.5
12 Du, Bob.....................1162 D 4 � 9 L 18 W 24 W 19 2.5
13 Zhou, Jack (Yujun)..........1080 W 22 L 8 W 16 D 6 L 5 2.5
14 Negreanu, Nick..............unr. W 21 W 16 D 3 L 2 L 6 2.5
15 Siegel, Andre...............1551 W 11 D 2 D 8 L 9 U--- 2.0
16 Rogers, Michael.............1350 W 20 L 14 L 13 W 17 L 7 2.0
17 Mangold, John...............unr. D 5 L 4 D 10 L 16 W 24 2.0
18 Zhu, Philip.................1166 L 1 L 6 W 12 L 10 D 20 1.5
19 Xi, Jason................... 832 H--- W 23 L 5 L 4 L 12 1.5
20 Woolford, Jesse.............unr. L 16 L 11 B--- L 7 D 18 1.5
21 Villaluz, Ernesto...........1338 L 14 W 24 L 1 U--- U--- 1.0
22 France, Kyle................1139 L 13 L 7 W 24 U--- U--- 1.0
23 Safir, Alex.................1564 L 2 L 19 U--- U--- U--- 0.0
24 Guo, Benson.................unr. L 8 L 21 L 22 L 12 L 17 0.0
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The Hart House Chess Club website will be updated later in the week.
This tournament was possible due to a collective effort by University of Toronto students and staff. We're still learning to help organize chess tournaments and hope to improve every time we do it.
We thank Bryan Lamb for having everything under control once again, being on top of things from start to finish, having way too many things to attend to at any given time. Excellent work!
Hope you all had fun, and hopefully we'll do it again!
Alex Ferreira
Hart House Chess Club
Director of Communications
The second Hart House Open tournament this year was a success, all things considered. We thank all the players and parents for coming out in such a busy time of the year! In all honesty we were concerned at first that being the weekend before Christmas, not many people would play. Then we got hit by a snow storm. We had a total of 86 participants, 75 of them played on Friday, the night of the storm.
Looking at the field of players, this tournament was yet another reminder that the future of Canadian chess is secure. More than half of the total players were juniors under the age of 18 !
---------------------------
Open Section:
There was a 4-way tie for first place:
GM Bator Sambuev, IM Leonid Gerzhoy, IM Lawrence Day and FM Igor Divljan all finished with 4.0/5
There were some interesting top board games. Gerzhoy vs Sapozhnikov at some point had an interesting endgame puzzle position (rook vs 3 connected pawns) - Gerzhoy had to sac a rook to get a perp and survive mate against Sambuev - Noritsyn vs Sambuev was a tactical feast near the end.
We collected some scoresheets and will try to post them in the near future.
The U2200 1-2 prizes were split between Felix Barrios (USA) and Aaron Wu.
Aaron Wu (1837) finished with an impressive 3.0/4 (plus a half point bye) score, with a performance of 2388 !
Dalia Kagramanov and Pavel Rakov split 3rd place U2200.
Final Standings:
Name rtng rd 1 rd 2 rd 3 rd 4 rd 5 TOT
1 Sambuev, Bator GM..........2572 W 22 W 21 W 7 D 2 D 6 4.0
2 Gerzhoy, Leonid IM..........2493 W 8 W 13 W 11 D 1 D 7 4.0
3 Divljan, Igor...............2367 D 27 W 28 D 4 W 23 W 11 4.0
4 Day, Lawrence IM............2313 D 14 W 9 D 3 W 15 W 10 4.0
5 Samsonkin, Artiom IM.......2532 L 24 W 29 W 27 D 13 W 19 3.5
6 Noritsyn, Nikolay IM........2487 W 18 H--- W 16 D 10 D 1 3.5
7 Thavandiran, Shiyam.........2453 W 36 W 23 L 1 W 24 D 2 3.5
8 Barrios, Felix...............2125 L 2 D 32 W 28 W 20 W 16 3.5
9 Wu, Aaron...................1837 H--- L 4 W 36 W 21 W 24 3.5
10 Peng, David.................2378 D 29 W 15 W 12 D 6 L 4 3.0
11 Sapozhnikov, Roman..........2264 W 19 W 24 L 2 W 14 L 3 3.0
12 Shebetah, Wajdy.............2247 W 20 H--- L 10 W 27 D 13 3.0
13 Martchenko, Alexander.......2226 W 33 L 2 W 30 D 5 D 12 3.0
14 Rakov, Pavel................2030 D 4 D 26 W 34 L 11 W 25 3.0
15 Kagramanov, Dalia...........1828 W 17 L 10 W 26 L 4 W 23 3.0
16 Calugar, Arthur.............2238 W 31 W 30 L 6 D 19 L 8 2.5
17 Szalay, Karoly..............2224 L 15 L 20 D 22 W 34 W 31 2.5
18 Ng, kit-Sun.................2112 L 6 L 31 B--- W 32 D 26 2.5
19 Kleinman, Michael...........1988 L 11 W 22 W 21 D 16 L 5 2.5
20 Pryor, Jamieson.............1903 L 12 W 17 H--- L 8 W 30 2.5
21 Morrison, Kyle..............2244 W 32 L 1 L 19 L 9 W 33 2.0
22 Humphreys, Michael..........2162 L 1 L 19 D 17 D 28 W 32 2.0
23 Nahutin, Yevgeni............2154 W 34 L 7 W 33 L 3 L 15 2.0
24 Hambleton, Aman.............2140 W 5 L 11 W 31 L 7 L 9 2.0
25 Knox, Christopher...........2093 H--- L 27 D 32 W 33 L 14 2.0
26 Smith, Hazel................2068 H--- D 14 L 15 D 35 D 18 2.0
27 Ibrahim, Ismail.............2035 D 3 W 25 L 5 L 12 D 29 2.0
28 Wang, Jesse B.J.............2033 H--- L 3 L 8 D 22 W 34 2.0
29 Gladstone, Simon............1807 D 10 L 5 H--- D 30 D 27 2.0
30 Wu, Kevin...................1917 B--- L 16 L 13 D 29 L 20 1.5
31 Florea, Alexandru...........1868 L 16 W 18 L 24 H--- L 17 1.5
32 Arfin, Sam..................1902 L 21 D 8 D 25 L 18 L 22 1.0
33 Armstrong, Robert ..........1832 L 13 W 37 L 23 L 25 L 21 1.0
34 Stein, Jacob................1649 L 23 B--- L 14 L 17 L 28 1.0
35 Lamb, Bryan.................2180 U--- U--- U--- D 26 U--- 0.5
36 Evans, Bill.................2053 L 7 H--- L 9 U--- U--- 0.5
37 Xi, Jason................... 800 U--- L 33 U--- U--- U--- 0.0
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U2000 Section:
Tyler Longo and Leon Perelman split 1st, with Zhiyuan Zhang taking clear 1st U1800 with the same score of 4.0. Vitkor Itkin & Ben Olden-Cooligan shared the remainder U1800 prize with 3.5.
Final Standings:
Name rtng rd 1 rd 2 rd 3 rd 4 rd 5 TOT
1 Longo, Tyler................1935 W 10 D 9 W 6 H--- W 4 4.0
2 Perelman, Leon..............1876 L 15 W 26 W 7 W 11 W 9 4.0
3 Zhang, Zhiyuan..............1738 B--- W 29 L 15 W 18 W 8 4.0
4 Bzikot, Robert..............1936 D 19 W 20 W 14 W 8 L 1 3.5
5 Itkin, Victor...............1764 W 26 L 17 H--- W 21 W 15 3.5
6 Olden-Cooligan, Ben.........1516 D 12 W 19 L 1 W 14 W 13 3.5
7 Dickson, Jason..............unr. W 27 D 18 L 2 W 19 W 12 3.5
8 Chidley-Hill, John W........1883 W 11 W 15 W 17 L 4 L 3 3.0
9 Hahnewald, Uwe..............1830 W 22 D 1 H--- W 17 L 2 3.0
10 Kim, Bill...................1734 L 1 L 22 W 27 W 26 W 18 3.0
11 Farine, Jonathan............1660 L 8 W 28 W 25 L 2 W 21 3.0
12 Itkin, David................1831 D 6 W 16 H--- D 15 L 7 2.5
13 Liu, Steven.................1730 H--- L 21 W 23 W 16 L 6 2.5
14 Brammall, Stuart............1667 W 28 H--- L 4 L 6 W 22 2.5
15 Ugodnikov, Arakdiy..........1614 W 2 L 8 W 3 D 12 L 5 2.5
16 Zaghi, Michael..............1530 H--- L 12 W 20 L 13 W 27 2.5
17 Sherman, Joshua.............1895 W 25 W 5 L 8 L 9 U--- 2.0
18 Roller, Robert..............1869 W 23 D 7 D 21 L 3 L 10 2.0
19 Maister, Martin.............1756 D 4 L 6 W 22 L 7 D 20 2.0
20 Zhou, Kevin.................1636 H--- L 4 L 16 W 28 D 19 2.0
21 Song, Terry.................1512 H--- W 13 D 18 L 5 L 11 2.0
22 Lee, Mei Chen...............1478 L 9 W 10 L 19 W 25 L 14 2.0
23 Farrant-Diaz, Nathan........1590 L 18 H--- L 13 L 27 W 26 1.5
24 Shah, Omar..................1980 U--- U--- U--- U--- W 25 1.0
25 Medvedev, Genadi............1733 L 17 W 27 L 11 L 22 L 24 1.0
26 Peng, Jackie................1399 L 5 L 2 W 30 L 10 L 23 1.0
27 Pancer, Jeff................1222 L 7 L 25 L 10 W 23 L 16 1.0
28 Haziprodromu, Sam...........1884 L 14 L 11 H--- L 20 U--- 0.5
29 Ferreira, Alex..............1880 U--- L 3 U--- U--- U--- 0.0
30 Woolford, Jesse.............unr. U--- U--- L 26 U--- U--- 0.0
Thanks go to Omar Shah, who was visiting the site, for volunteering to play a Round 5 game against a player who got paired out due to the section having an odd number of players.
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U1600 Section:
This section saw Travis Li take 1st place U1600 and Tian Lan taking 1st U1400. Kevin Chen won the Unrated prize without losing a game! All 3 players ended with 4.0/5.
Completing the top standings were Michael Song, Tony Lin and Yutong Luo, all winning prizes.
Final Standings:
Name rtng rd 1 rd 2 rd 3 rd 4 rd 5 TOT
1 Li, Travis..................1548 W 18 L 3 W 21 W 11 W 9 4.0
2 Lan, Tian...................1317 W 23 D 15 W 4 W 14 D 3 4.0
3 Chen, Kevin.................unr. W 7 W 1 D 14 W 5 D 2 4.0
4 Song, Michael...............1548 D 12 W 17 L 2 W 19 W 8 3.5
5 Lin, Tony (Juntao)..........1342 D 17 W 10 W 19 L 3 W 13 3.5
6 Luo, Yutong.................1254 H--- W 18 D 9 D 13 W 14 3.5
7 Yu, Patrick.................1494 L 3 W 22 L 11 W 20 W 16 3.0
8 Vera, Jesus.................1479 W 24 W 13 D 15 H--- L 4 3.0
9 Bellissimo, Joseph..........1344 H--- � 12 D 6 W 15 L 1 3.0
10 Helis, Petr.................1565 H--- L 5 D 17 W 18 D 11 2.5
11 Martin, James Denis Dylan...1310 L 15 W 20 W 7 L 1 D 10 2.5
12 Du, Bob.....................1162 D 4 � 9 L 18 W 24 W 19 2.5
13 Zhou, Jack (Yujun)..........1080 W 22 L 8 W 16 D 6 L 5 2.5
14 Negreanu, Nick..............unr. W 21 W 16 D 3 L 2 L 6 2.5
15 Siegel, Andre...............1551 W 11 D 2 D 8 L 9 U--- 2.0
16 Rogers, Michael.............1350 W 20 L 14 L 13 W 17 L 7 2.0
17 Mangold, John...............unr. D 5 L 4 D 10 L 16 W 24 2.0
18 Zhu, Philip.................1166 L 1 L 6 W 12 L 10 D 20 1.5
19 Xi, Jason................... 832 H--- W 23 L 5 L 4 L 12 1.5
20 Woolford, Jesse.............unr. L 16 L 11 B--- L 7 D 18 1.5
21 Villaluz, Ernesto...........1338 L 14 W 24 L 1 U--- U--- 1.0
22 France, Kyle................1139 L 13 L 7 W 24 U--- U--- 1.0
23 Safir, Alex.................1564 L 2 L 19 U--- U--- U--- 0.0
24 Guo, Benson.................unr. L 8 L 21 L 22 L 12 L 17 0.0
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The Hart House Chess Club website will be updated later in the week.
This tournament was possible due to a collective effort by University of Toronto students and staff. We're still learning to help organize chess tournaments and hope to improve every time we do it.
We thank Bryan Lamb for having everything under control once again, being on top of things from start to finish, having way too many things to attend to at any given time. Excellent work!
Hope you all had fun, and hopefully we'll do it again!
Alex Ferreira
Hart House Chess Club
Director of Communications
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