PwC Toronto Open - Final Registration Jumps to 203 !!

[Bob Armstrong]

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
ROUND 1 – Friday, April 17 @ 7:00 PM
TIME CONTROL FOR RD. 1 – 30/90 min & 1 Hr. S.D.
ENTRIES – Closed - no on-site entries
ADVANCE FIRST ROUND PAIRINGS: will be posted on websites today, Friday ( and on discussion boards as soon as Bryan Lamb gets them to me - Bob )
EQUIPMENT: Bring your own chess sets and clocks. None will be provided.

We now have 5 GM's, 9 IM's, 9 FM's, 2 WIM’s and 1 WFM amongst the 203 final entries.

Final Pre-Registrations :

Title First Name(s) 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
IM Artiom Samsonkin 2548 ON
GM Joshua Friedel 2537 USA
IM Leonid Gerzhoy 2528 ON
IM Nikolay Noritsyn 2503 ON
FM Shiyam Thavandiran 2462 ON
IM Brian Hartman 2434 ON
IM David Cummings 2430 ON 4
IM Ron Liv****s 2427 ON
FM Eduardo Teodoro 2413 ON
FM Christian Stevens 2408 ON
FM Robert Hamilton 2384 ON
FM Bindi Cheng 2376 ON
David (Yu) Peng 2375 ON
IM Michael Schleifer 2356 QC
FM Michael Barron 2344 ON
Eddie Mark 2344 USA
FM Goran Milicevic 2340 ON 2
Roman Sapozhnikov 2327 ON
IM Lawrence Day 2322 ON
Victor Plotkin 2322 ON
WIM Iryna Zenyuk 2305 USA
FM Vinod Puri 2297 ON
Eddie Urquhart 2289 ON
Liam Henry 2278 ON
IM Raymond Kaufman 2274 USA
Alexander Martchenko 2272 ON
WIM Natalia Khoudgarian 2252 ON 2
Keith MacKinnon 2250 SK
David Filipovich 2241 ON 1
WFM Yuanling Yuan 2240 ON
Hugues Masse 2234 QC
Wajdi Shbaita 2230 ON
Ziyi (Joey) Qin 2226 ON
Aleksandr Tuxanidy Torres 2221 ON
Joshua Guo 2220 ON
David Lavin 2219 ON
Karoly Szalay 2218 ON
Arthur Calugar 2216 ON
Haonan Zhou 2203 ON
Ilia Bluvshtein 2200 ON
Balwinder Singh 2200 IND
Avinash Sundar 2194 ON 2
Andrei Moffat 2175 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
Federico Austria 2117 ON 4
Michael Kleinman 2090 ON
Pavel Rakov 2089 ON
Alexander Friedman 2085 ON 3
Nikita Gusev 2080 ON 1
Mavros Whissell 2067 ON
Michael Humphreys 2065 ON
Geordie Derraugh 2063 ON
Andrew Picana 2057 ON
Christopher Knox 2056 ON
Keith Wight 2054 ON
Ralph Gregorz 2053 ON
Vladimir Drkulec 2052 ON
Aquino Inigo 2047 ON 1
Jessie Wang 2046 ON
David Plaxton 2036 ON 1
Julia Lacaurodean 2035 ON
Vladimir Semyonov 2031 ON
William Evans 2030 ON
Anthony Cheron 2025 ON
Daniel Abrahams 2007 ON
Peter Bokhout 2006 ON
Aaron Wu 1986 ON
Aaron Both 1968 ON
Andre Zybura 1959 ON
Dalia Kagramanov 1943 ON
Peter Boross-Harmer 1930 ON
John Chidley-Hill 1903 ON
Agastya Kalra 1850 ON 1
Simon Gladstone 1820 ON
Mathew Nicholson 1814 ON
Robert Armstrong 1803 ON
Michael Sharpe 1750 ON
Pino Verde 1712 ON
Richard Marks 1662 ON
Total - 89

Under 2000 Section

Ross Richardson 1922 ON
Olya Chichkina 1904 ON
David Bowers 1831 ON 1, 3
Joe Bellomo 1755 ON
Florian Bergeron 1754 ON
David Gunapalan 1749 ON
Kevin Zhou 1690 ON
Jason Nguyen 1620 ON
Manuel Balboa 1968 ON
Mickey Stein 1965 ON
Omar Shah 1958 ON
Raymond Singh 1954 ON
Garvin Nunes 1945 ON
Oleg Tseluiko 1943 ON
Yelizaveta Orlova 1938 ON
Robert Bzikot 1929 ON
Arnie Lucki 1927 ON
Robert Gashgarian 1919 ON
Erik Malmsten 1917 ON
John Bleau 1901 ON
Brent Zhang 1900 ON
Sadiq Juma 1900 ON
Eric Van Dusen 1871 ON
Ian Finlay 1868 ON
Pepin Manalo 1863 ON
Devon Thomas 1854 ON
Zhiyuan Zhang 1843 ON
Bill Kim 1826 ON
Yuriy Kryvoshlyk 1823 ON
David Itkin 1810 ON
Laurent Allard 1802 QC
Marcus Wilker 1794 ON
Victor Itkin 1789 ON
Christopher Takov 1782 ON
Saveli Trostidusky 1780 ON
Bruce Dowling 1771 ON 2
William Gordon Rutherdale 1762 ON
Pacifico Cortez 1760 ON
Steven H. Liu 1760 ON
Jose Cabioc 1717 ON
Richard Wing 1716 ON
Caesar Posylek 1714 ON 1, 3
Mario Moran-Venegas 1712 ON
Alan Power 1700 ON
Philip Chan 1691 ON 2
Genadi Medvedev 1680 ON
Joseph Sy 1674 ON
Michael von Keitz 1674 ON 1
Dennis Khaiter 1670 ON
Jose Belzunce 1664 ON
Jim Zhou 1653 ON
Ken Kurkowski 1644 ON
Ferdinand Supsup 1626 ON
Drake Lalonde 1624 ON
Merlin Atayde 1624 ON
Zeljko Kitich 1617 ON 1, 2
Guannan Song 1616 ON
Mate Milinkovic 1596 ON
Mark Bercovici 1576 ON
Roy Posaratnanathan 1567 ON
Total - 60

Under 1600 Section

James Fu 1588 ON
Mike Vasovic 1580 ON
Mei Chen Lee 1578 ON
Michael Zaghi 1571 ON
James Roe 1562 ON
Noel Santiago 1549 ON
Mike Ivanov 1546 ON
Andre Siegel 1540 ON
Mark Plotkin 1534 ON
Colin Archibald 1527 ON
Rebecca Giblon 1526 ON
Juliaan Posaratnanathan 1504 ON
Jack McGuire 1492 ON
Lehn Nasir 1474 ON
Patrick Yu 1462 ON
Misha Kurbatov 1452 ON
Jesus Vera 1448 ON
Joseph Bellissimo 1446 ON
Adam Cormier 1442 ON
Alice Laimer 1440 ON 1
Nathan Farrant-Diaz 1426 ON 2
Nathan Farrant-Diaz 1426 ON 2
Jackie Peng 1424 ON
Michael Rogers 1389 ON
Dinesh Dattani 1374 ON
Ping Lin 1354 ON
Daniel Zotkin 1340 ON
James D. D. Martin 1340 ON
Andrew Giblon 1322 ON
Yutong Luo 1312 ON
Joey Orozco 1309 ON
Brett Gugel 1308 ON
Ernesto Villaluz 1293 ON
Kyle France 1258 ON
Jeffrey Pancer 1250 ON 2, 3
Renifel Caday 1240 ON
Dima Gouzovski 1235 ON
Ferdinand Cale 1215 ON
Jesse Woolford 1200 ON
Kuhan Jeyapragasan 1181 ON
Anthony Maulucci 1076 ON 1
Jason Xi 1064 ON
Derek Green 1031 ON
Shafkat Ali Unrated ON
Keith Denning Unrated ON
Bruce MacInnis Unrated ON
Jeffrey Nool Unrated ON
Jeremy Worden Unrated ON
Karl Westerholm Unrated ON
Kosta Kalentebidis Unrated ON
William Robertson Unrated ON
Mario Libatique Unrated ON
Boris Iriarte Unrated ON
Alexandre Michelasvili Unrated ON
Total – 54

Total Pre-registrations - 203

For errors or omissions, people should contact the tournament director, Bryan Lamb directly at 416 904-5938

Have a great tournament everyone !! It’s one of the largest weekend tournaments in Toronto in a very long while !!

Bob

[Bob Armstrong]

It was a truly classy and great tournament.

USA GM Friedel, and Can. GM Sambuev tied for first - Can. IM Samsonkin defeated USA GM Nakamura. A full report will be coming.

I managed my first draws ever against masters - 2 of them in the Open section - quite satisfied given that I hover usually on either side of 1800.

Brian Fiedler and Bryan Lamb and team have now set the bar pretty high for future large Toronto tournaments. Let's hope this is the start of a trend !!

Bob

[Bob Armstrong]

An interesting game:

[Event "Toronto Open - Open Section"]
[Site "Toronto"]
[Date "2009.04.17"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Lavin, David"]
[Black "Armstrong, Robert"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E83"]
[WhiteElo "2219"]
[BlackElo "1803"]
[Annotator "Armstrong, Robert"]
[PlyCount "69"]
[EventDate "2009.04.17"]
[EventType "swiss"]
[EventRounds "5"]

It is posted on Chess5 ( www.chess5.com ) , with annotations.

Bob

[Bob Armstrong]

I just checked the official Lamb website, and no results are posted.

The Open Section results are on MonRoi ( came out funny when I tried to copy them ):

PWC Toronto Open Chess Championship Results


Final Standings - Open Section

Name rtng
post
r
d 1
r
d 2
r
d 3
r
d 4
r
d 5
TOT

1
Sambuev, Bator GM....2584
2605
W
29
W
25
W
19
W
7
W
6
5

2
Friedel, Joshua GM...2537
2561
W
31
W
26
W
35
W
5
W
11
5

3
Milicevic, Goran FM..2340
2381
W
57
H
---
W
17
W
10
W
12
4.5

4
Nakamura, Hikaru GM..2757
2751
W
16
W
21
W
8
L
6
W
20
4

5
Perelshteyn, Eugene GM..2601
2602
W
86
W
23
W
48
L
2
W
21
4

6
Samsonkin, Artiom IM.2548
2560
W
30
W
9
W
40
W
4
L
1
4

7
Gerzhoy, Leonid IM...2528
2532
W
41
W
38
W
15
L
1
W
22
4

8
Nortisyn, Nikolay IM.2503
2512
W
42
W
13
L
4
W
50
W
23
4

9
Martchenko, Alexander...2272
2309
W
87
L
6
W
44
W
49
W
19
4

10
Shabalov, Alexander GM..2630
2615
W
51
D
22
W
37
L
3
W
25
3.5

11
Thavandiran, Shiyam FM.2462
2461
W
53
D
39
W
63
W
24
L
2
3.5

12
Peng, David..........2358
2355
W
66
D
68
W
52
W
39
L
3
3.5

13
Masse, Hugues........2234
2254
W
61
L
8
W
56
D
33
W
41
3.5

14
Qin, Ziyi (Joey).....2226
2218
L
73
W
66
D
58
W
68
W
47
3.5

15
Szalay, Karoly.......2218
2251
W
84
W
49
L
7
D
35
W
39
3.5

16
Zhou, Haonan.........2203
2227
L
4
D
59
W
70
W
67
W
35
3.5

17
Gusev, Nikita........2080
2146
H
---
W
36
L
3
W
37
W
40
3.5

18
Cummings, David IM...2430
2416
W
54
L
40
D
47
H
---
W
52
3

19
Cheng, Bindi FM......2376
2369
W
44
W
76
L
1
W
38
L
9
3

20
Barron, Michael FM...2344
2340
L
76
W
57
W
31
W
28
L
4
3

21
Plotkin, Victor......2322
2332
W
59
L
4
W
75
W
43
L
5
3

22
Zenyuk, Iryna WIM....2305
2317
W
45
D
10
W
68
H
---
L
7
3

23
Puri, Vinod FM......2297
2303
W
46
L
5
W
64
W
55
L
8
3

24
Henry, Liam..........2278
2272
D
81
W
70
W
67
L
11
D
27
3

25
Kaufman, Raymond IM..2276
2298
W
60
L
1
W
54
W
48
L
10
3

26
Barrios, Felix.......2244
2241
W
77
L
2
L
55
W
66
W
54
3

27
Lavin, David.........2219
2205
D
74
D
69
D
60
W
58
D
24
3

28
Calugar, Arthur......2216
2218
W
62
L
48
W
69
L
20
W
55
3

29
Sundar, Avinaash.....2194
2201
L
1
H
---
W
81
D
59
W
57
3

30
Siddeley, Hugh.......2186
2199
L
6
W
46
L
49
W
76
W
59
3

31
Hambleton, Aman......2176
2189
L
2
W
45
L
20
W
56
W
60
3

32
Teodoro, Eduardo FM..2413
2388
W
55
D
63
L
39
D
47
D
42
2.5

33
Stevens, Christian FM....2408
2395
W
64
D
67
D
43
D
13
U
---
2.5

34
Schleifer, Michael IM....2356
2335
L
67
W
74
D
41
W
65
U
---
2.5

35
Sapozhnikov, Roman...2354
2331
W
56
W
73
L
2
D
15
L
16
2.5

36
Day, Lawrence IM.....2326
2287
D
69
L
17
W
73
L
41
W
67
2.5

37
Khoudagarian, Natalia WIM.2252
2238
B
---
H
---
L
10
L
17
W
68
2.5

38
MacKinnon, Keith.....2250
2244
W
71
L
7
W
76
L
19
D
43
2.5

39
Yuan, Yuanling WFM...2240
2247
W
82
D
11
W
32
L
12
L
15
2.5

40
Shebetah, Wajdy......2226
2224
B
---
W
18
L
6
H
---
L
17
2.5

41
Moffat, Andrei.......2167
2185
L
7
W
87
D
34
W
36
L
13
2.5

42
Kret, Ted............2158
2159
L
8
L
60
W
77
W
69
D
32
2.5

43
Egorov, Mikhail......2128
2147
D
78
W
72
D
33
L
21
D
38
2.5

44
Whissel, Mavros......2067
2063
L
19
W
62
L
9
D
73
W
70
2.5

45
Lacaurodean, Julia...2035
2045
L
22
L
31
W
84
D
64
W
65
2.5

46
Semyonov, Vladimir...2031
2050
L
23
L
30
H
---
W
81
W
64
2.5

47
Evans, William.......2030
2082
D
50
W
80
D
18
D
32
L
14
2.5

48
Liv****s, Ron IM.....2427
2417
W
75
W
28
L
5
L
25
U
---
2

49
Hamilton, Robert FM..2384
2360
W
65
L
15
W
30
L
9
U
---
2

50
Urquhart, Eddie......2289
2276
D
47
D
58
W
53
L
8
U
---
2

51
Bluvshtein, Ilia.....2200
2171
L
10
L
56
D
74
W
82
D
58
2

52
Jung, Hans FM........2170
2162
H
---
W
81
L
12
D
60
L
18
2

53
Southam, David.......2148
2131
L
11
W
71
L
50
L
57
W
73
2

54
Humphreys, Michael...2117
2112
L
18
W
82
L
25
W
71
L
26
2

55
Kleinman, Michael....2090
2096
L
32
W
83
W
26
L
23
L
28
2

56
Knox, Christopher....2056
2065
L
35
W
51
L
13
L
31
W
77
2

57
Drkulec, Vladimir....2051
2060
L
3
L
20
W
61
W
53
L
29
2

58
Inigo, Aquino........2047
2062
H
---
D
50
D
14
L
27
D
51
2

59
Both, Aaron..........2038
2045
L
21
D
16
W
72
D
29
L
30
2

60
Abrahams, Daniel.....2007
2031
L
25
W
42
D
27
D
52
L
31
2

61
Chidley-Hill, John...1886
1898
L
13
L
64
L
57
W
84
W
76
2

62
Verde, Pino..........1712
1748
L
28
L
44
L
71
W
83
W
81
2

63
Guo, Joshua..........2220
2223
W
83
D
32
L
11
U
---
U
---
1.5

64
Rakov, Pavel.........2089
2064
L
33
W
61
L
23
D
45
L
46
1.5

65
Friedman, Alexander..2087
2062
L
49
W
84
H
---
L
34
L
45
1.5

66
Derraugh, Geordie....2063
2042
L
12
L
14
W
83
L
26
D
71
1.5

67
Picana, Andrew.......2057
2074
W
34
D
33
L
24
L
16
L
36
1.5

68
Gregorz, Ralph.......2053
2069
W
85
D
12
L
22
L
14
L
37
1.5

69
Wang, Jessie.........2046
2035
D
36
D
27
L
28
L
42
D
74
1.5

70
Plaxton, David.......2032
2009
H
---
L
24
L
16
W
74
L
44
1.5

71
Zybura, Andre........1959
1948
L
38
L
53
W
62
L
54
D
66
1.5

72
Kalra, Agastya.......1850
1844
H
---
L
43
L
59
L
77
W
82
1.5

73
Gladstone, Simon.....1820
1852
W
14
L
35
L
36
D
44
L
53
1.5

74
Armstrong, Robert....1803
1831
D
27
L
34
D
51
L
70
D
69
1.5

75
Austria, Federico....2117
2114
L
48
W
77
L
21
U
---
U
---
1

76
Wight, Keith.........2054
2035
W
20
L
19
L
38
L
30
L
61
1

77
Kagramanov, Dalia....1943
1923
L
26
L
75
L
42
W
72
L
56
1

78
Hartman, Brian IM....2434
2428
D
43
U
---
U
---
U
---
U
---
0.5

79
Filipovich, David....2241
2241
H
---
U
---
U
---
U
---
U
---
0.5

80
Sellars, Karl........2209
2191
H
---
L
47
U
---
U
---
U
---
0.5

81
Cheron, Anthony......2025
1973
D
24
L
52
L
29
L
46
L
62
0.5

82
Boross-Harmer, Peter.1930
1892
L
39
L
54
H
---
L
51
L
72
0.5

83
Nicholson, Mathew....1814
1775
L
63
L
55
L
66
L
62
D
84
0.5

84
Sharpe, Michael......1736
1720
L
15
L
65
L
45
L
61
D
83
0.5

85
Mark, Eddie..........2344
2324
L
68
U
---
U
---
U
---
U
---
0

86
Singh, Balwinder.....2200
2198
L
5
U
---
U
---
U
---
U
---
0

87
Bokhout, Peter.......2006
1991
L
9
L
41
U
---
U
---
U
---
0

I know of one error in the cross-table. In the last round I got crushed by Jesse Wang - it wasn't a draw as shown. So Jesse has 2 pts., and I have 1 pt.

Note:

by Egidijus Zeromskis on ChessTalk

Re: PwC Toronto Open - Final Registration Jumps to 203 !!

You could just paste a link

http://monroi.com/pwc-toronto-open-c...p-results.html

for the Open. Click on " Homepage " in the text to get list with tournament on it.

Bob

[Erik Malmsten]

It was a truly classy and great tournament.
I managed my first draws ever against masters - 2 of them in the Open section - quite satisfied given that I hover usually on either side of 1800.
Bob

I always wonder why you go up a section and in this tournament you proved that you deserved to be there.

Me, similarly rated, played 5 players lower rated than me and only scored 3-2, losing to players in Grade 8 & 9. And the worse game I played in a few years made it on to the monroi website. I had some kind of brain fatigue and was struggling to concentrate the whole game, mixing up lines and playing moves a few moves later than I shoud have. A strange experience. My other loss was a misplayed move order while mating (after sacking two pieces) which allowed a defence and my wins were all blunders/cheapos not worthy of publication.

Not all of the 2 brillancies and 3 best game winners are on the monroi site. I hope to see them published.

[Bob Armstrong]

Hi Erik:

Thanks for your nice comments.

The 2 master draws , and a very good game, that I lost, against an IM, may not be my best games ever, but it is a milestone for me in terms of quality of play in one tournament. I have never defeated or drawn a master before, and here I got 2 draws against masters.

I have found since I have been playing up ( this is my third time and I do do it with some trepidation ), that I actually play stronger in weekend tournaments, in Open sections, against stronger players, than I do in my own section at Scarborough CC. Not sure why that is, but I've now played up 3 times, and feel that I can justify to myself being there, given that I give my opponents a good game. I need not win, to be satisfied -- just to have played well, and made the other guy work a bit.

I admit to a bit of an adrenaline rush with this new phase of my chess career, after some 45 years ( especially as a regular 1800 performer ). I am not implying that I can necessarily do that well in my < 2000 category, but only that if I'm going to expend the effort, and I play credibly, why not play up against much stronger opponents every game? Should I begin to get results that show me getting killed regularly, then I would have to re-evaluate - I don't want to waste better players' time.

My Rd. 1-3 games are posted, with annotations on Chess5 ( www.chess5.com ) . Click on " Public Games " on the homepage.

Bob