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This year, all the results and pairings of the Quebec Open are on Chess-Results :
http://chess-results.com/fed.aspx?lan=1&fed=CAN
This website includes several features, such as statistics and live results.
Live games are available here : http://lavariante.ca/dgt_direct/tfd.htm
Invitational section:
With 54 players and an average FIDE rating of 2324, this section is probably one of the strongest ever in Canada. 12 GMs, 13 IMs and 13 FMs are playing. Unfortunately, two GMs had to cancel their participation at the very last minute, including GM Hansen who needs to get ready for the World Cup, so the tournament could have been even stronger!
FQE president:
The FQE president, Bernard Labadie, managed to beat the current Quebec kindergarten champion in round 2 and kept his honor intact ;)
Pictures:
I took some pictures, but I must admit that Rene Preotu took much better ones. Until I find a better camera, here’s the link for his pictures :
https://picasaweb.google.com/1059778...at=directlink#
Mini-COQ:
The FQE organizes a small tournament at the same time as the Quebec Open. It’s a 4 rounds tournament (two between the participants of the Mini-COQ and two with the other players of the Quebec Open). There is a prize fund of $600 and the entry fee is only $30!
Here are the winners this year (please note that the prizes are non-official until the arbiter confirms them) :
Jeroen Struben 4/4 : $300
Roman Sarrazin-Gendron and Sang Kil Kay 3.5/4 : $150
FQE AGM:
The AGM of the FQE was held yesterday. The main subjects of discussion, besides the 2013 financials, were the 2017 WYCC and other potential projects. All the members of the executive were re-elected.
Results:
Secretary
Vital Roy 24
Sang Kil Kay 23
Vice-president
Pierre Hébert 30
Ronald Thibault 15
Paul Lalonde 5
15 votes were discarded
Game of the day:
We had some troubles while entering the games from the first two rounds, but we hope to have them entered by tonight. After that, we'll be able to give a PGN file after each round.
Here's our favourite game so far from the first day (it was pretty hard to choose one!).
[Event "COQ 2013"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2013.07.21"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Sokolov, Ivan"]
[Black "Panjwani, Raja"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E49"]
[PlyCount "67"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. Bd3 d5 6. a3
Bxc3+ 7. bxc3 dxc4 8. Bxc4 c5 9. Bb2 Qc7 10. Bd3 b6 11. Qe2 Nbd7 12. Nf3 Bb7
13. e4 c4 14. Bc2 e5 15. O-O Rfe8 16. d5 Nc5 17. a4 Ba6 18. Nd2 Nfd7 19. Ba3
Nb7 20. Bb4 Ndc5 21. Qe3 Rac8 22. f4 Nd3 23. Bxd3 exf4 24. Rxf4 cxd3 25. Raf1
f6 26. Rg4 Qd7 27. Qg3 Kh8 28. Rh4 Qf7 29. Qh3 Qg8 30. Rf5 Rc7 31. c4 Nc5 32.
d6 Rf7 33. Bxc5 Bc8 34. Bd4 1-0
Upsets of the day :
There were quite a lot of upsets today. Here are some of the most impressive (you will notice that two upsets are from the same player):
Round 1:
1 GM Bruzon Batista Lazaro 2689 ½ - ½ Adithya B. 2301
3 GM Rozentalis Eduardas 2619 ½ - ½ FM Rodriguez Eric 2290
4 IM Calugar Arthur 2282 1 – 0 GM Kovalyov Anton 2606
7 GM Sambuev Bator 2530 0 - 1 Preotu Razvan 2277
9 GM Arencibia Walter 2526 ½ - ½ FM Hamilton Robert 2251
Round 2:
8 IM Wang Richard 2377 1 - 0 GM Vera Reynaldo 2462
12 Preotu Razvan 2277 1 - 0 FM Oliva Castaneda Kevel 2423
Special thanks:
There are lots of people working very hard for this tournament, and it's important not to forget it.
Tournament director :
Richard Berube
Arbiters :
IA Pierre Denommee
FA Danny Goldenberg
Bernard Ouimet
Alexandre Ber
Raymond Desjardins
Volunteers :
Daniel Pregent
Pierre Hebert
Marc Poulin
Vital Roy
Employees of the FQE :
Roman Sarrazin-Gendron
Louis Morin
DGT:
Luc Forget
http://chess-results.com/fed.aspx?lan=1&fed=CAN
This website includes several features, such as statistics and live results.
Live games are available here : http://lavariante.ca/dgt_direct/tfd.htm
Invitational section:
With 54 players and an average FIDE rating of 2324, this section is probably one of the strongest ever in Canada. 12 GMs, 13 IMs and 13 FMs are playing. Unfortunately, two GMs had to cancel their participation at the very last minute, including GM Hansen who needs to get ready for the World Cup, so the tournament could have been even stronger!
FQE president:
The FQE president, Bernard Labadie, managed to beat the current Quebec kindergarten champion in round 2 and kept his honor intact ;)
Pictures:
I took some pictures, but I must admit that Rene Preotu took much better ones. Until I find a better camera, here’s the link for his pictures :
https://picasaweb.google.com/1059778...at=directlink#
Mini-COQ:
The FQE organizes a small tournament at the same time as the Quebec Open. It’s a 4 rounds tournament (two between the participants of the Mini-COQ and two with the other players of the Quebec Open). There is a prize fund of $600 and the entry fee is only $30!
Here are the winners this year (please note that the prizes are non-official until the arbiter confirms them) :
Jeroen Struben 4/4 : $300
Roman Sarrazin-Gendron and Sang Kil Kay 3.5/4 : $150
FQE AGM:
The AGM of the FQE was held yesterday. The main subjects of discussion, besides the 2013 financials, were the 2017 WYCC and other potential projects. All the members of the executive were re-elected.
Results:
Secretary
Vital Roy 24
Sang Kil Kay 23
Vice-president
Pierre Hébert 30
Ronald Thibault 15
Paul Lalonde 5
15 votes were discarded
Game of the day:
We had some troubles while entering the games from the first two rounds, but we hope to have them entered by tonight. After that, we'll be able to give a PGN file after each round.
Here's our favourite game so far from the first day (it was pretty hard to choose one!).
[Event "COQ 2013"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2013.07.21"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Sokolov, Ivan"]
[Black "Panjwani, Raja"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E49"]
[PlyCount "67"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. Bd3 d5 6. a3
Bxc3+ 7. bxc3 dxc4 8. Bxc4 c5 9. Bb2 Qc7 10. Bd3 b6 11. Qe2 Nbd7 12. Nf3 Bb7
13. e4 c4 14. Bc2 e5 15. O-O Rfe8 16. d5 Nc5 17. a4 Ba6 18. Nd2 Nfd7 19. Ba3
Nb7 20. Bb4 Ndc5 21. Qe3 Rac8 22. f4 Nd3 23. Bxd3 exf4 24. Rxf4 cxd3 25. Raf1
f6 26. Rg4 Qd7 27. Qg3 Kh8 28. Rh4 Qf7 29. Qh3 Qg8 30. Rf5 Rc7 31. c4 Nc5 32.
d6 Rf7 33. Bxc5 Bc8 34. Bd4 1-0
Upsets of the day :
There were quite a lot of upsets today. Here are some of the most impressive (you will notice that two upsets are from the same player):
Round 1:
1 GM Bruzon Batista Lazaro 2689 ½ - ½ Adithya B. 2301
3 GM Rozentalis Eduardas 2619 ½ - ½ FM Rodriguez Eric 2290
4 IM Calugar Arthur 2282 1 – 0 GM Kovalyov Anton 2606
7 GM Sambuev Bator 2530 0 - 1 Preotu Razvan 2277
9 GM Arencibia Walter 2526 ½ - ½ FM Hamilton Robert 2251
Round 2:
8 IM Wang Richard 2377 1 - 0 GM Vera Reynaldo 2462
12 Preotu Razvan 2277 1 - 0 FM Oliva Castaneda Kevel 2423
Special thanks:
There are lots of people working very hard for this tournament, and it's important not to forget it.
Tournament director :
Richard Berube
Arbiters :
IA Pierre Denommee
FA Danny Goldenberg
Bernard Ouimet
Alexandre Ber
Raymond Desjardins
Volunteers :
Daniel Pregent
Pierre Hebert
Marc Poulin
Vital Roy
Employees of the FQE :
Roman Sarrazin-Gendron
Louis Morin
DGT:
Luc Forget
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