Quebec Open Blog

**Andy Shaw** · Tuesday, 23rd July, 2013, 01:28 PM

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Thank you for all your hard work Felix. (My boss doesn't appreciate your hard work) ;)

The PGN file should be interesting to see!

**Roman Sarrazin Gendron** · Tuesday, 23rd July, 2013, 02:27 PM

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I regrouped all the 79 Quebec Open games we have so far in one PGN files. It does not include the mini-coq nor the longer games from yesterday. We'll keep working on it.

Here it is (too heavy for chesstalk) : http://echecsmontreal.ca/coq_2013_parties.pgn

**John Cordes** · Tuesday, 23rd July, 2013, 05:23 PM

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How does one find out the schedule for the games?

Thanks,
John

**Felix Dumont** · Tuesday, 23rd July, 2013, 10:04 PM

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Sorry, I should have given a link to the tournament website : http://echecsmontreal.ca/coq/english.html

Monday July 22 to Friday July 26 : rounds 3-7 at 6 PM
Saturday July 27 : round 8 at 11 AM
Sunday July 28 : round 9 at 11 AM
Blitz tournament at 7 PM

**John Cordes** · Tuesday, 23rd July, 2013, 10:09 PM

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Thanks Felix. I did realize after a while that the weekday games must start at 6pm (EDT) since I found the live games had just started when I looked a few minutes after the hour.

John

**Egidijus Zeromskis** · Tuesday, 23rd July, 2013, 10:19 PM

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thnx for updates.
And give me more chess by GM Šarūnas Šulskis LOL

Originally posted by Felix Dumont View Post

Instead of creating a new thread every time, I'll post the reports here.

There are several reasons to start new threads:
posts with pictures become heavy to load.
less chances that the thread will go a wrong way LOL

**Felix Dumont** · Wednesday, 24th July, 2013, 01:14 PM

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Round 4

GMs Bruzon and Kovalyov seem to recover well from their first round upsets, as they both won their next three games. Razvan Preotu, who started with two wins, lost his two next games against experienced GMs. However, he still has a FIDE performance of over 2500 so far. After 4 rounds the leaders, with 3.5 points, are :
GM Sulskis (perf 2781), GM Bruzon (perf 2672), GM Chirila (perf 2677), GM Arencibia (perf 2686) and IM Leonid Gerzhoy (perf 2744). Leonid, the only IM among them, won his round 4 game against IM Hambleton.

Interesting game :
We had a special request to show a game of GM Sulskis. Here's his first round game, in which he played a very interesting novelty in the opening (8... e5):

[Event "COQ 2013 invitation"]
[Site "Montreal CAN"]
[Date "2013.07.21"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Sulskis, Sarunas"]
[Black "Piasetski, Leon"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B36"]
[WhiteElo "2559"]
[BlackElo "2279"]
[PlyCount "79"]
[EventDate "2013.07.21"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "CAN"]

1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 c5 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 g6 6. e4 Nxd4 7. e5 d6 8.
exf6 e5 9. Be3 Nf5 10. c5 a6 11. Bc4 Nxe3 12. fxe3 Bh6 13. Qxd6 Qxd6 14. cxd6
Bxe3 15. Nd5 Bd4 16. Nc7+ Kd7 17. Nxa8 Kxd6 18. O-O-O Bf5 19. Nb6 Kc5 20. Rxd4
exd4 21. Bxf7 Kxb6 22. Bb3 Rf8 23. f7 g5 24. Kd2 Kc6 25. Re1 Bg6 26. Re5 g4 27.
Rg5 d3 28. Rxg4 Kd6 29. a4 a5 30. Rg5 b6 31. h4 Ke7 32. h5 Bxf7 33. Rg7 Kf6 34.
Rxf7+ Rxf7 35. Bxf7 Kxf7 36. Kxd3 Kf6 37. Kc4 Kg5 38. Kb5 Kxh5 39. Kxb6 Kg4 40.
Kxa5 1-0

Upsets:
Surprisingly, there was pretty much no major upset for this round.

Shameless self-promotion:
If you were not able to play at the Quebec Open, it's not too late to have some fun!
We are organizing Canada's biggest blitz tournament Sunday at 7 PM. There is $1000 in guaranteed prizes and already quite a few confirmed GMs! There's only one section and the entry fee is $20 (for 6 double rounds).
Still not enough? We also organize a bughouse tournament on Saturday at 7 PM. It costs $20 per team of two players ($10 for Quebec Open players). Some very strong participants should be there.

If you are looking for big prizes. The Montreal Open will be organized at the same venue from September 6-8 2013. There is $5000 in guaranteed prizes and entry fees starting at $40. All the details should be posted on Chesstalk next week.

For more information :
http://echecsmontreal.ca/coq/english.html
info@fqechecs.qc.ca

**Vlad Rekhson** · Wednesday, 24th July, 2013, 10:08 PM

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Nice win for Kovalyov over Sokolov!

**Felix Dumont** · Thursday, 25th July, 2013, 12:41 PM

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Round 5

Here are the leaders so far (no perfect score after 5 rounds):

Invitational:
GM Bruzon, the highest rated player of the invitational is so far leading.
1 GM Bruzon Batista Lazaro CUB 2689
Five players are tied for the second place, including IM Leonid Gerzhoy who has great chances of scoring another GM norm.

Three Montreal players are leading the Open section with 4/5. The highest rated players of the section, James Fu (2257) and Mike Ivanov (2238), both from Ontario, respectively have 3.5 and 3 points.
1 Galbadrakh Enkh-Amar CAN 2145 4.0
Luksza Arkadiusz CAN 2116 4.0
Cardin Guillaume CAN 2050 4.0

U2000:
So far, the leaders are :
1 Sarrazin-Gendron Roman CAN 1928 4.5
2 Rondon Luciano CAN 1885 4.0
And 7 players are tied for third place. Roman won in round 5 against the highest rated player of the section, Jonathan Turcotte, who now has 3.5/5.

U1700:
Evan Frangakis is leading this section (73 players) with 4.5/5.
1 Frangakis Evan CAN 1470 4.5
2 Plante Marc-Eric CAN 1671 4.0
Dubreuil Raymond CAN 1549 4.0
Steinberg Ellis CAN 1507 4.0

U1300:
This section is dominated by Simon Girard and Wenxuan Zhong (a promising young player from Team-Quebec).
1 Girard Simon CAN 1247 4.5
Zhong Wenxuan CAN 1223 4.5

Game of the Day :

GM Kovalyov, who lost his first round game after a "fingerfehler", now reminds us why is the highest FIDE-rated player in Canada. It's definitely a must-see if you are looking for an example of precise GM play.

[Event "Quebec op inv."]
[Site "Montreal CAN"]
[Date "2013.07.24"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Sokolov, Ivan"]
[Black "Kovalyov, Anton"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E42"]
[WhiteElo "2650"]
[BlackElo "2606"]
[PlyCount "106"]
[EventDate "2013.07.21"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "9"]
[EventCountry "CAN"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 b6 5. Nge2 c5 6. a3 Ba5 7. Bd2 O-O 8. Ng3
d5 9. cxd5 cxd4 10. exd4 Bxc3 11. bxc3 exd5 12. Be2 Re8 13. O-O Ba6 14. Bxa6
Nxa6 15. Qa4 Nc7 16. Rfe1 Qd7 17. Qxd7 Nxd7 18. Nf5 Nf6 19. f3 Rxe1+ 20. Bxe1
Re8 21. Kf2 Ne6 22. g3 g6 23. Ne3 Kf8 24. a4 Ke7 25. Ke2 Kd6 26. g4 Kc6 27. Bg3
h5 28. Kd3 hxg4 29. fxg4 Ne4 30. Nxd5 N6c5+ 31. dxc5 Nxc5+ 32. Kc2 Kxd5 33.
Rd1+ Kc6 34. Rd6+ Kb7 35. Rf6 Re2+ 36. Kc1 Nxa4 37. Rxf7+ Ka6 38. c4 Nc3 39.
Bb8 Ka5 40. Rxa7+ Kb4 41. Re7 Na2+ 42. Kd1 Nc3+ 43. Kc1 Rg2 44. Be5 Na2+ 45.
Kd1 Kxc4 46. Rc7+ Kd3 47. Rd7+ Ke4 48. Bc7 Nc3+ 49. Ke1 b5 50. Ba5 Nd5 51. Rb7
Kf3 52. Kd1 Ne3+ 53. Kc1 Rg1+ 0-1

**Roman Sarrazin Gendron** · Thursday, 25th July, 2013, 01:20 PM

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179 games so far : Invitation Rd 1-4 and open round 1-5 : http://echecsmontreal.ca/COQ_2013.pgn
Invitational Round 5 will be added tonight or tomorrow.

**Andy Shaw** · Friday, 26th July, 2013, 01:40 AM

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can Gerzhoy still get a GM norm after his opponent's first round no-show?

**Simon Valiquette** · Friday, 26th July, 2013, 03:01 AM

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Originally posted by Andy Shaw View Post

can Gerzhoy still get a GM norm after his opponent's first round no-show?

Yes, but that game won't count for the purpose of getting a norm, and thus getting a GM norm will be a lot more difficult.

According to the rules, if they are still the same as when I last read them, you can get a norm with only 8 rounds if you would normaly have qualified for the norm should you have played (and lost) a 9^th round.

I think that the rating that is used for this hypothetical opponent is the same as the average rating of your previous opponents, but don't trust me blindly for those details.

The rules are designed to take care of special situations like this and reduce the consequences of something you are not responsible for. On the other hand, it makes getting the norm harder so as to discourage anyone from trying to take advantage of this exception (which was obviously not the case here for M. Gerzhoy).

Note that you cannot decide to do tricky things like asking not to count the 1^st game if counting only the last 8 games would have given you a norm.

Simon

**Rene Preotu** · Friday, 26th July, 2013, 09:10 AM

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From the new FIDE Title Regulations effective from 1 July 2013

1.41c For a 9 round tournament, if a player has just 8 games because of a forfeit or Bye, but he has met the correct mix of opponents in those games, then if he has a title result in 8 games, it counts as an 8 game norm.

**Felix Dumont** · Friday, 26th July, 2013, 09:14 AM

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Originally posted by Rene Preotu View Post

From the new FIDE Title Regulations effective from 1 July 2013

1.41c For a 9 round tournament, if a player has just 8 games because of a forfeit or Bye, but he has met the correct mix of opponents in those games, then if he has a title result in 8 games, it counts as an 8 game norm.

Exact. It makes the norm slightly more difficult, but since IM Gerzhoy will be playing against his 4th GM, he should be all right (as long as he has a good score in the remaining three games!).

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