Congratulations to the new Canadian Junior Champion Raja Panjwani

[Mark S. Dutton, I.A.]

Congratulations to the new Canadian Junior Champion Raja Panjwani
2009 Canadian Junior Chess Championship Prizes
Minimum $1000 for first place toward travel to the World Junior in Argentina in the fall of 2009

FM Raja Panjwani wins the 2009 Canadian Junior Chess Championship!
Artiom Samsonkin wins 2nd place in playoff over Arthur Calugar!



Photo Gallery
http://picasaweb.google.ca/malazeljk...sChampionship#

2009 Canadian Junior Chess Championship Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tcmqnvf9BAM

History of Canadian Junior Chess Champions

Junior (Under 20)

2009 Raja Panjwani
2008 Artem Samsonkin
2007 Leonid Gerzhoy
2006 Bindi Cheng
2005 Shiyam Thavandiran
2004 Zhe Quan
2003 Haoyuan Wang
2002 Stephen Glinert *, Andrei Moskvitch
2001 Yaacov Vaingorten
2000 Pascal Charbonneau *, Danny Goldenberg
1999 Pascal Charbonneau
1998 Danny Goldenberg
1997 Danny Goldenberg, Andrew Ho *
1996 Eduardo Teodoro IV
1995 Marc-Olivier Moisan-Plante
1994 Timour Koliada
1993 Alexandre Lesiège *, Ron Liv****s
1992 Alexandre Lesiège
1991 Ron Liv****s
1990 Alexandre Lesiège
1989 Rehan Huda
1988 Gary Basanta, Todd Southam *
1987 Kevin Gentes, Rehan Huda, Vinod (Vinny) Puri *
1986 Vinod (Vinny) Puri
1985 Tyler Johnson, Vinod (Vinny) Puri *
1984 Steve Bolduc
1983 Doug Bailey
1982 Deen Hergott *, Ingvar Liitoja
1981 Robert Hamilton
1980 John Pajak
1979 Sylvain Barbeau
1978 Michael Rohland
1977 Martin Buchholz *, Jean Hébert
1976 Jean Hébert
1975 Peter Nurmi
1974 Nigel Fullbrook *, Peter Nurmi, Kevin Spraggett
1973 John MacPhail
(1st) 1970 Leon Piasetski
1969 Jan Krotki [Top junior at 1968 Canadian Open Championship; tied match vs. Camille Coudari; representative at World Junior Championship]
1967 Lawrence Day [Top junior at 1966 Canadian Open Championship; representative at World Junior Championship]
1965 Duncan Suttles [Top junior at 1964 Canadian Open Championship; representative at World Junior Championship]
1963 John Burstow [Top junior at 1962 Canadian Open Championship; representative at World Junior Championship]
1961 Robert Rubin *, Gerry Rubin [Top junior at 1960 Canadian Open Championship; no representative at World Junior Championship]
1959 David Grimshaw [representative at World Junior Championship]
1957 François Jobin
1955 [no representative at World Junior Championship]
1953 Ross Siemms [representative at World Junior Championship]
1951 Lionel Joyner [match vs. Ross Siemms; representative at World Junior Championship]
1947 P.A. Garon, R. Trudel [Juvenile Section of Canadian Championship]

Source:

http://web.ncf.ca/bw998/Champions.html#JUNIOR

2009 Canadian Junior Chess Championship Results
Final Standings

# Name ID Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6 Rd 7 Tot Prize
1 FM Panjwani, Raja 121202 2454 W11 W7 W3 L2 W6 W4 D5 5.5 1
2 IM Samsonkin, Artiom 146305 2612 W9 L3 W5 W1 D4 D6 W8 5.0 2
3 Calugar, Arthur 130889 2242 W10 W2 L1 D6 D8 W11 W12 5.0 3
4 Sapozhnikov, Roman 138609 2360 D5 W8 L6 W7 D2 L1 W10 4.0
5 Wang, Richard 142949 2102 D4 D11 L2 D10 W9 W12 D1 4.0
6 Martchenko, Alexander 132495 2302 L7 W10 W4 D3 L1 D2 D9 3.5
7 Marinkovic, Mate 141393 2045 W6 L1 D8 L4 W12 D9 D11 3.5
8 Rakov, Pavel 140487 2147 W12 L4 D7 D9 D3 D10 L2 3.0
9 Li, Changhe 139187 2106 L2 W12 D11 D8 L5 D7 D6 3.0
10 Zhang, David 145883 2023 L3 L6 W12 D5 W11 D8 L4 3.0
11 Cheng, Jack (kun) 133192 2064 L1 D5 D9 W12 L10 L3 D7 2.5
12 Zhu, Zheng USCF 1762 L8 L9 L10 L11 L7 L5 L3 0.0




Wall Chart
# Name/Rtng/ID Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6 Rd 7
1 IM Samsonkin, Artiom B 7 W 5 B 8 B 2 W 3 W 4 B 6
2612 146305 1.0 1.0 2.0 3.0 3.5 4.0 5.0
2 FM Panjwani, Raja W 9 B 10 B 5 W 1 B 4 W 3 B 8
2454 121202 1.0 2.0 3.0 3.0 4.0 5.0 5.5
3 Sapozhnikov, Roman B 8 W 6 B 4 W 10 B 1 B 2 W 11
2360 138609 0.5 1.5 1.5 2.5 3.0 3.0 4.0
4 Martchenko, Alexander W 10 B 11 W 3 B 5 W 2 B 1 B 7
2302 132495 0.0 1.0 2.0 2.5 2.5 3.0 3.5
5 Calugar, Arthur B 11 B 1 W 2 W 4 B 6 W 9 B 12
2242 130889 1.0 2.0 2.0 2.5 3.0 4.0 5.0
6 Rakov, Pavel W 12 B 3 W 10 B 7 W 5 B 11 W 1
2147 140487 1.0 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5 3.0 3.0
7 Li, Changhe W 1 B 12 W 9 W 6 B 8 B 10 W 4
2106 139187 0.0 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.0 2.5 3.0
8 Wang, Richard W 3 B 9 W 1 B 11 W 7 B 12 W 2
2102 142949 0.5 1.0 1.0 1.5 2.5 3.5 4.0
9 Cheng, Jack (kun) B 2 W 8 B 7 W 12 W 11 B 5 W 10
2064 133192 0.0 0.5 1.0 2.0 2.0 2.0 2.5
10 Marinkovic, Mate B 4 W 2 B 6 B 3 W 12 W 7 B 9
2045 141393 1.0 1.0 1.5 1.5 2.5 3.0 3.5
11 Zhang, David W 5 W 4 B 12 W 8 B 9 W 6 B 3
2023 145883 0.0 0.0 1.0 1.5 2.5 3.0 3.0
12 Zhu, Zheng B 6 W 7 W 11 B 9 B 10 W 8 W 5
1762 USCF 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0

[Christopher Mallon]

Congrats !