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Bob Armstrong
04-09-2009, 01:15 AM
2009 PwC Toronto Open -

APRIL 17TH to 19TH, 2009

PRESENTED BY: PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS
IN ASSOCIATION WITH: THE GREATER TORONTO CHESS LEAGUE
LOCATION: The Suites at 1 King West, Grand Banking Hall.
Financial District, Downtown Toronto.
STYLE: 5 Round Swiss System, 3 Sections (Open, < 2000, <1600), CFC rated.
WEBSITES:http://www.gtachessevents.memberlodge.com/
Also See MonRoi Website : http://monroi.com/pwc-toronto-open-c...ship-home.html

Note: ENTRY DEADLINE: EXTENDED one day to Tuesday, April 14 ( due to Holiday Weekend ) – if entering by mail, and concerned it won’t arrive by Tuesday, e-mail Brian Fiedler ( fiedlerbrian@yahoo.com.au ) duplicate registration form ( since first round pairings will be made on the Wednesday )

ADVANCE FIRST ROUND PAIRINGS: will be posted on websites Wed. or Thursday

We now have 5 GM's, 6 IM's, 6 FM's and 1 WIM amongst the 125 registered so far.

Note the first place prizes in the three sections ( there are 2nd/5th prizes as well, and consideration is being given to adding more prizes to the Open section, given the high registration ):

Open - $3,000

< 2000 - $ 1,000

< 1600 - $ 1,000

Note the Class Prizes:

< 2200 - $ 500

< 1800 - $ 500

< 1400 - $ 500

Note the Special Categories Prizes ( for each section ! ):

Top Junior - $ 250

Top Senior ( 50+ ) - $ 250

Top Female - $ 250

Pre-Registrations received to Wednesday, April 8, 2009:


Title First Name Surname Rating Province Byes


Open Section

GM Hikaru Nakamura 2757 USA
GM Alexander Shabalov 2630 USA
GM Eugene Perelshteyn 2601 USA
GM Bator Sambuev 2584 ON
GM Joshua Friedel 2537 USA
IM Leonid Gerzhoy 2528 ON
IM Nikolay Noritsyn 2503 ON
IM Brian Hartman 2434 ON
IM David Cummings 2430 ON 4
IM Ron Liv****s 2427 ON
FM Christian Stevens 2408 ON
FM Robert Hamilton 2384 ON
David (Yu) Peng 2375 ON
FM Michael Barron 2344 ON
FM Goran Milicevic 2340 ON 2
Roman Sapozhnikov 2327 ON
IM Lawrence Day 2322 ON
Victor Plotkin 2322 ON
Eddie Urquhart 2289 ON
Liam Henry 2278 ON
Alexander Martchenko 2272 ON
FM Michael Dougherty 2268 ON
WIM Natalia Khoudgarian 2252 ON 2
Keith MacKinnon 2250 SK
David Filipovich 2241 ON
Hugues Mase 2234 QC
Wajdi Shbaita 2230 ON
Joey Qin 2226 ON
Joshua Guo 2220 ON
David Lavin 2219 ON
Ilia Bluvshtein 2200 ON
Hugh Siddeley 2171 ON
FM Hans Jung 2170 ON 1
Felix Barrios 2161 ON
Aman Hambleton 2160 ON
Ted Kret 2158 ON
David Southam 2148 ON
Mikhail Egorov 2127 ON
Fredrico Austria 2117 ON
Michael Humphreys 2117 ON
Michael Kleinman 2090 ON
Alexander Friedman 2085 ON 3
Mavros Whissell 2067 ON
Andrew Picana 2057 ON
Christopher Knox 2056 ON
Ralph Gregorz 2053 ON
Vladimir Drkulec 2052 ON
Jessie Wang 2046 ON
Julia Lacaurodean 2035 ON
Vladimir Semyonov 2031 ON
Kyle Jolliffe 2026 ON
Anthony Cheron 2025 ON
Daniel Abrahams 2007 ON
Andre Zybura 1959 ON
Dalia Kagramanov 1943 ON
Peter Boross-Harmer 1930 ON
John Chidley-Hill 1903 ON
Simon Gladstone 1820 ON
Mathew Nicholson 1814 ON
Robert Armstrong 1803 ON
Pino Verde 1712 ON
Total - 61

Under 2000 Section

Robert Gillanders 1974 ON 1
Manuel Balboa 1968 ON
Mickey Stein 1965 ON
Omar Shah 1958 ON
Raymond Singh 1954 ON
Garvin Nunes 1945 ON
Robert Bzikot 1929 ON
Ross Richardson 1922 ON
Robert Gashgarian 1919 ON
Olya Chichkina 1904 ON
Eric Van Dusen 1871 ON
Pepin Manalo 1863 ON
David Bowers 1831 ON 2, 4
Bill Kim 1826 ON
David Itkin 1810 ON
Laurent Allard 1802 QC
Victor Itkin 1789 ON
Saveli Trostidusky 1780 ON
Bruce Dowling 1771 ON 2
Pacifico Cortez 1760 ON
Steven H. Liu 1760 ON
Joe Bellomo 1755 ON
Florian Bergeron 1754 ON
David Gunapalan 1749 ON
Jose Cabioc 1717 ON
Richard Wing 1716 ON
Caesar Posylek 1714 ON
Mario Moran-Venegas 1712 ON
Mark Patton 1705 ON
Alan Power 1700 ON
Kevin Zhou 1690 ON
Genadi Medvedev 1680 ON
Jose Belzunce 1664 ON
Jim Zhou 1653 ON
Ken Kurkowski 1644 ON
John Brown 1627 ON
Ferdinand Supsup 1626 ON
Drake Lalonde 1624 ON
Jason Nguyen 1620 ON
Mark Bercovici 1576 ON
Total - 40

Under 1600 Section

Mike Vasovic 1580 ON
Mei Chen Lee 1578 ON
Jim Roe 1562 ON
Andre Siegel 1540 ON
Mark Plotkin 1534 ON
Rebecca Giblon 1526 ON
Jesus Vera 1448 ON
Joseph Bellissimo 1446 ON
Adam Cormier 1442 ON
Michael Rogers 1389 ON
Dinesh Dattani 1374 ON
James D.D. Martin 1340 ON
Daniel Zotkin 1340 ON
Andrew Giblon 1322 ON
Joey Orozco 1309 ON
Brett Gugel 1308 ON
Ernesto Villaluz 1293 ON
Jeffrey Pancer 1250 ON 2, 3
Renifel Caday 1240 ON
Shafkat Ali Unrated ON
Abzal Kumar Unrated ON
Keith Denning Unrated ON
Bruce MacInnis Unrated ON
Jeffrey Nool Unrated ON
Total – 24

Total Pre-registrations - 125

So get your entries in ( only 6 more days ‘til registrations close – no on-site entries ! ) !

Bob