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Here is our latest list. You can still register by email with me, halbond@sympatico.ca to avoid the on site late fee.
Standings. Guelph Pre-Summer Pro-Am: Pro Section
# Name Rtng Tot
1 GM Bator Sambuev
2 IM Nikolay Noritsyn
3 Adam Cormier
4 Matthew Nicholson
5 Yinshi Li
6 Guannan Terry Song
7 Peter Baxted
8 Sergey Noritsyn
9 Wenlu Yu
U2000 Section
# Name Rtng Tot
1 Alexander Friedman
2 Hongyi Li
3 Michael von Keitz
4 Wenyang Ming
5 Sasha Chuchin
6 Jason Cai
7 Robert Gillanders
8 Rachel Tao
9 Eugene Hua
10 Tim Knechtel
11 Richard Glew
12 Mark Brauer
13 Daniel Liu
14 Thomas Guo
15 Shafkat Ali
16 Nathan Farrant-Diaz
17 Lily Zhou
18 Constance Wang
19 Richard Guo
U1600 Section
# Name Rtng Tot
1 Richard Feng
2 Graeme Knight
3 Volodymyr Vivchariuk
4 Bruce Hurst
5 Jeannie Zhang
6 Nicholas Vettese
7 Kylie Tan
8 James Williamson
9 Ellen Tao
10 Nicholas Wu
11 Catherine Li
12 Luke Di Pietro
13 Dee Wu
14 Robert Girard
15 Haotong Hazel Guo
16 Ryan Liu
17 Jack Li
Our updated list is shown below.
Pro Section
# Name Rtng Tot
1 GM Bator Sambuev
2 IM Nikolay Noritsyn
3 Adam Cormier
4 Matthew Nicholson
5 Yinshi Li
6 Guannan Terry Song
7 Peter Baxted
8 Sergey Noritsyn
9 Wenlu Yu
U2000 Section
# Name Rtng Tot
1 Alexander Friedman
2 Hongyi Li
3 Erik Malmsten
4 Michael von Keitz
5 Wenyang Ming
6 Sasha Chuchin
7 Jason Cai
8 Robert Gillanders
9 Rachel Tao
10 Eugene Hua
11 Tim Knechtel
12 Richard Glew
13 Mark Brauer
14 Daniel Liu
15 Thomas Guo
16 Shafkat Ali
17 Nathan Farrant-Diaz
18 Lily Zhou
19 Constance Wang
20 Richard Guo
21 Immanuel Huang
U1600 Section
# Name Rtng Tot
1 Richard Feng
2 Graeme Knight
3 Radu Lupan
4 Volodymyr Vivchariuk
5 Bruce Hurst
6 Jeannie Zhang
7 Nicholas Vettese
8 Robin Johnston
9 Kylie Tan
10 James Williamson
11 Ellen Tao
12 Nicholas Wu
13 Catherine Li
14 Luke Di Pietro
15 Dee Wu
16 Robert Girard
17 Haotong Hazel Guo
18 Ryan Liu
19 Jack Li
20 Stephen Bisson
IM elect Shiyam Thavandiran has thrown his hat into the ring in Guelph. We are now over 60 players. I will post an updated list tomorrow with the latest ratings.
Rising star Razvan Preotu has joined the fray in the Pro Section. You can still save the on site entry fee by emailing me, halbond@sympatico.ca before Friday at 10pm.
The Best Western is offering a University Chess Rate of $93.99 single or double, including breakfast, parking and internet. You can call 1800-992-2694 to reserve. Mention the University Chess tournament.
Here is the list:
Standings. Guelph Pre-Summer Pro-Am: Pro Section
# Name Rtng Tot
1 GM Bator Sambuev 2691
2 IM Nikolay Noritsyn 2612
3 FM Shiyam Thavandiran 2514
4 Razvan Preotu 2484
5 Adam Cormier 2278
6 Matthew Nicholson 2244
7 Guannan Terry Song 2156
8 Yinshi Li 2081
9 Wenlu Yu 2045
10 Peter Baxted 2029
11 Sergey Noritsyn 2013
Standings. Guelph Pre-Summer Pro-Am: U2000 Section
# Name Rtng Tot
1 Jeffrey Xu 1947
2 Alexander Friedman 1894
3 Erik Malmsten 1892
4 Eric Zechen Wang 1886
5 Hongyi Li 1883
6 Michael von Keitz 1840
7 Mario Piccinin 1804
8 Jason Cai 1785
9 Wenyang Ming 1773
10 Sasha Chuchin 1746
11 Ralph Deline 1745
12 Richard Guo 1731
13 Richard Glew 1729
14 Rachel Tao 1721
15 Eugene Hua 1712
16 Tim Knechtel 1699
17 Rebecca Giblon 1692
18 Robert Gillanders 1670
19 Patrick L. Huang 1651
20 Mark Brauer 1631
21 Lily Zhou 1629
22 Nathan Farrant-Diaz 1613
23 Shafkat Ali 1602
24 Daniel Liu 1593
25 Constance Wang 1559
26 Thomas Guo 1557
27 Immanuel Huang 1547
Standings. Guelph Pre-Summer Pro-Am: U1600 Section
# Name Rtng Tot
1 Richard Feng 1416
2 Radu Lupan 1405
3 Andrew Giblon 1372
4 Graeme Knight 1369
5 Nicholas Vettese 1362
6 Volodymyr Vivchariuk 1323
7 Bruce Hurst 1320
8 Jeannie Zhang 1275
9 Robin Johnston 1214
10 Kylie Tan 1187
11 Peter Downie 1186
12 Dee Wu 1139
13 Ellen Tao 1097
14 James Williamson 1084
15 Catherine Li 1048
16 Luke Di Pietro 1029
17 Nicholas Wu 1016
18 Haotong Hazel Guo 978
19 Robert Girard 977
20 Jack Li 939
21 Ryan Liu 932
22 Bill Xu 819
23 Josh Weland unr.
24 Victor Yao unr.
25 Dean Yu unr.
26 Kevin Wang unr.
27 Stephen Bisson unr.
28 Christian Ujeyli unr.
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