2018 National Capital Open November 16,17,18

[Halldor P. Palsson]

2018 National Capital Open
An EOCA Grand Prix Event, see website at www.eoca.ca

Date: November 16,17,18, 2018
Place: RA Centre, 2451 Riverside Drive, Ottawa – Gatineau Room.
Rounds: 5, Friday 7:30 PM Saturday & Sunday @ 10 AM & 3 PM.
Type: Regular Swiss

Sections and prizes are based on projected entries and may change.

Type: Regular Swiss

Sections and prizes are based on projected entries.

Open - (rated FIDE & CFC); 1st $500, 2nd $250 3d $150 U2200 $100, U2050 $100
U 1900 – ( rated CFC); 1st $250, 2nd $150 3rd $100; U1750 $100;
U1600 – (rated CFC) 1st $150, 2nd $100 3rd $50 and U1300 $50.

Time Control: Game-in-90-plus-30-seconds-a-move.

Entry Fee: Open; $60 if pre-registered, $70 at site; NM $50 until Nov 3.
U1900 $60 if pre-registered, $70 at site;
U1600 $40 if pre-registered, $50 at site

Add $20 if playing up a section. Player must be 100 points or less from the rating floor for the section he wants to play up in.

Amateur $30. Amateurs are not eligible for prizes.
Free entry for GM/WGM & IM/WIM, the Canadian Champion, GM Bator Sambuev is playing.
CFC or FQE membership is required.

Requesting byes: max of three ½ point byes in the first four rounds.

Prizes: $$BEN

Organizers: EOCA, RA Chess Club
TD: Halldor P. Palsson

Registration: Cheque by November 9, 2018, payable to:
Halldor P. Palsson, 633 Island Park Cr.,Ottawa, Ont. K1Y 3P4 or e-mail fs889@ncf.ca your entry to escape late fee (cash at site or e-transfer).

Or register in person at the RA Chess Club, November 8, 15, 7:00-7:30 PM

If you prefer your own equipment bring it. RA Chess Club equipment is available.

[Halldor P. Palsson]

Register by e-mail and pay cash on Friday before round 1 or round 2 Saturday if you are taking a bye in round 1.

E-mail registration fs889@ncf.ca and there is no late fee.

If you are in the wrong section send me a correction by e-mail

2018 National Capital Open

# Name/Rtng/ID

1 Bator Sambuev
2559 146462 (4128290)
2 Luis Lazaro Aguero Jimenez
2490 151176 (3508455)
3 Zachary Dukic
2314 149507 (2617188)
4 Maroun Tomb
2302 130071 (5300398)
5 David Gordon
2267 106629 (2602431)
6 Christopher Pace
2247 141390 (2610167)
7 Francesco Dunne
2224 146453 (2614618)
8 Jim Monaghan
2212 100167 (2607921)
9 Adam Adriaanse
2180 152504 (2617838)
10 Dusan Simic
2162 109808 (908150)
11 Houji Yao
2147 148322 (2614871)
12 Saeid Sadeghi
2121 139655 (2606810)
13 Rachel Miller
2048 158466 (7401302)
14 Ramon J. Cova
2015 153227 (2617803)
15 Ehab Mohamed
1992 164924 (10602003)
16 Etienne Latreille
1975 154563
17 Amos Kuttner
1974 151235 (2615738)
18 Jake Van Rooy
1969 152635
19 Anthony Pace
1918 141389 (2610159)
20 Alexandre Khan
1835 163542
21 Abdelaziz Mahdjoubi
1759 155558 (2626071)


2018 National Capital U1900

# Name/Rtng/ID

1 Dan Kearnan
1868 137473 (2628082)
2 Lawrence [Larry] Ju
1799 151370
3 Kamal Balazadeh
1792 153228
4 Mohamed Omar
1788 (10614508)
5 Ray Kuryliw
1780 105482 (2604833)
6 Randika Balasooriya
1779 150499
7 Marcel Laurin
1751 100337 (2604906)
8 Jacob Krolczyk
1745 120860 (2618001)
9 Ted Hsu
1744 102608 (2630796)
10 Simon Perkins
1720 107582 (2618737)
11 Alexander Stopic
1711 160017 (2630036)
12 Herb Langer
1705 100319 (2617536)
13 Alex Danilov
1699 101895 (2603926)
14 Spencer Martin
1683 103276 (2616882)
15 Pierre Maheux
1676 105147 (2613760)
16 Anthony Masse-Garneau
1668 158468
17 Rene Poulin
1638 104280 (2605635)
18 Jeremy Sztuka
1623 162452
19 Guy Piche
1614 101378 (2618745)
20 Alwin Ning
1602 161716
21 Oswin Ning
1571 161715
22 Sanjay Ramesh
1549 162979 (2631270)
23 William Landstrom
1511 162880
24 Daniel Labib
1446 162841


2018 National Capital U1600

# Name/Rtng/ID

1 Michael Shi
1575 167348
2 Nicolas Dupont-Mageau
1500 156184
3 Romy Peters
1488 135706 (2605589)
4 Justin Jean
1454 141554
5 John I.F. Lukezich
1453 146765 (2620944)
6 Victor Samuel
1380 112306
7 Milos Petrovic
1327 160269
8 Raf Adrik de Leon
1229 162967
9 Jeremie Kimble
1207 157710
10 Derek Wang
1183 166573
11 Pierre Arcand
1175 160146
12 Rami Labib
1118 162840
13 Dave Westbury
1093 158216
14 Nafisa Bano
1066 162859
15 John Hay
1038 162669 (2629046)
16 Jinglai He
919 166992
17 Rut Jurry de Leon
904 162968
18 Zakia Irfan
876 167861
19 Surya Suthakar
784 164039
20 Sabia Irfan
716 167862
21 Dalton Alleyne
unr.
22 Noah Green
unr.
23 Zaden Hickman
unr.
24 Myles Would
unr.

[Michael Jackson]

Open section is stacked!

[Halldor P. Palsson]

All sections are getting very competitive!

[Aris Marghetis]

That's very impressive Halldor, well done!

[Halldor P. Palsson]

Pairings for Round 1.

2018 National Capital Open
Bd # Res White # Res Black
1 12 Saeid Sadeghi (2121 0.0) 1 Bator Sambuev (2559 0.0)
2 3 Zachary Dukic (2314 0.0) 13 Rachel Miller (2048 0.0)
3 15 Ramon J. Cova (2015 0.0) 4 Maroun Tomb (2302 0.0)
4 5 David Gordon (2267 0.0) 16 Ehab Mohamed (1992 0.0)
5 17 Etienne Latreille (1975 0.0) 6 Christopher Pace (2247 0.0)
6 7 Francesco Dunne (2224 0.0) 19 Jake Van Rooy (1969 0.0)
7 20 Anthony Pace (1918 0.0) 8 Jim Monaghan (2212 0.0)
8 9 Adam Adriaanse (2180 0.0) 21 Ehsan Forouzandeh (1906 0.0)
9 22 Alexandre Khan (1835 0.0) 10 Dusan Simic (2162 0.0)
10 11 Houji Yao (2147 0.0) 23 Abdelaziz Mahdjoubi (1759 0.0)
2 ½ Luis Lazaro Aguero Jimenez (2490 0.0) BYE
14 ½ Christian Collins (2028 0.0) BYE
18 ½ Amos Kuttner (1974 0.0) BYE

Pairings for Round 1.

2018 National Capital U1900
Bd # Res White # Res Black
11 1 Dan Kearnan (1868 0.0) 14 Pierre Maheux (1676 0.0)
12 15 Fernando Echavarria-Hidalgo (1675 0.0) 3 Kamal Balazadeh (1792 0.0)
13 4 Ray Kuryliw (1780 0.0) 16 Anthony Masse-Garneau (1668 0.0)
14 17 Rene Poulin (1638 0.0) 5 Randika Balasooriya (1779 0.0)
15 6 Marcel Laurin (1751 0.0) 18 Jeremy Sztuka (1623 0.0)
16 19 Guy Piche (1614 0.0) 7 Jacob Krolczyk (1745 0.0)
17 8 Ted Hsu (1744 0.0) 20 Alwin Ning (1602 0.0)
18 21 Oswin Ning (1571 0.0) 9 Simon Perkins (1720 0.0)
19 10 Alexander Stopic (1711 0.0) 22 Sanjay Ramesh (1549 0.0)
20 23 William Landstrom (1511 0.0) 12 Alex Danilov (1699 0.0)
21 13 Spencer Martin (1683 0.0) 24 Nicolas Dupont-Mageau (1500 0.0)
25 1 Daniel Labib (1446 0.0) BYE (PAB)
2 ½ Lawrence [Larry] Ju (1799 0.0) BYE
11 ½ Herb Langer (1705 0.0) BYE

Pairings for Round 1.
2018 National Capital U1600
Bd # Res White # Res Black
23 12 Sandy-Rose Bilodeau-Savaria (1122 0.0) 1 Michael Shi (1575 0.0)
24 2 Romy Peters (1488 0.0) 14 Emil Wang (1102 0.0)
25 15 Dave Westbury (1093 0.0) 3 Justin Jean (1454 0.0)
26 4 John I.F. Lukezich (1453 0.0) 17 John Hay (1038 0.0)
27 18 Jinglai He (919 0.0) 6 Milos Petrovic (1327 0.0)
28 7 Daniel Wang (1271 0.0) 19 Rut Jurry de Leon (904 0.0)
29 21 Surya Suthakar (784 0.0) 8 Raf Adrik de Leon (1229 0.0)
30 9 Jeremie Kimble (1207 0.0) 23 Dalton Alleyne (unr. 0.0)
31 25 Zaden Hickman (unr. 0.0) 10 Derek Wang (1183 0.0)
32 11 Pierre Arcand (1175 0.0) 26 Myles Would (unr. 0.0)
5 ½ Victor Samuel (1380 0.0) BYE
13 ½ Rami Labib (1118 0.0) BYE
16 ½ Nafisa Bano (1066 0.0) BYE
20 ½ Zakia Irfan (876 0.0) BYE
22 ½ Sabia Irfan (716 0.0) BYE
24 ½ Noah Green (unr. 0.0) BYE

[Halldor P. Palsson]

2018 National Capital Open

Bd # Res White # Res Black
1 1 Bator Sambuev (2559 1.0) 6 Francesco Dunne (2224 1.0)
2 5 Christopher Pace (2247 1.0) 2 Zachary Dukic (2314 1.0)
3 3 Maroun Tomb (2302 1.0) 8 Adam Adriaanse (2180 1.0)
4 9 Dusan Simic (2162 1.0) 4 David Gordon (2267 1.0)
5 7 Jim Monaghan (2212 0.5) 10 Houji Yao (2147 1.0)
6 13 Christian Collins (2028 0.5) 19 Anthony Pace (1918 0.5)
7 18 Jake Van Rooy (1969 0.0) 11 Saeid Sadeghi (2121 0.0)
8 12 Rachel Miller (2048 0.0) 20 Ehsan Forouzandeh (1906 0.0)
9 15 Ehab Mohamed (1992 0.0) 21 Alexandre Khan (1835 0.0)
22 1 Abdelaziz Mahdjoubi (1759 0.0) BYE (PAB)
14 ½ Ramon J. Cova (2015 0.0) BYE
16 ½ Etienne Latreille (1975 0.0) BYE
17 ½ Amos Kuttner (1974 0.5) BYE

2018 National Capital U1900

Bd # Res White # Res Black
11 9 Simon Perkins (1720 1.0) 1 Dan Kearnan (1868 1.0)
12 3 Kamal Balazadeh (1792 1.0) 10 Alexander Stopic (1711 1.0)
13 5 Randika Balasooriya (1779 1.0) 13 Spencer Martin (1683 1.0)
14 7 Jacob Krolczyk (1745 1.0) 25 Daniel Labib (1446 1.0)
15 8 Ted Hsu (1744 0.5) 2 Lawrence [Larry] Ju (1799 0.5)
16 11 Herb Langer (1705 0.5) 4 Ray Kuryliw (1780 0.5)
17 20 Alwin Ning (1602 0.5) 6 Marcel Laurin (1751 0.5)
18 18 Jeremy Sztuka (1623 0.5) 15 Fernando Echavarria-Hidalgo (1675 0.0)
19 14 Pierre Maheux (1676 0.0) 21 Oswin Ning (1571 0.0)
20 22 Sanjay Ramesh (1549 0.0) 17 Rene Poulin (1638 0.0)
21 23 William Landstrom (1511 0.0) 19 Guy Piche (1614 0.0)
12 ½ Alex Danilov (1699 1.0) BYE
16 ½ Anthony Masse-Garneau (1668 0.5) BYE
24 ½ Nicolas Dupont-Mageau (1500 0.0) BYE

2018 National Capital U1600

Bd # Res White # Res Black
23 1 Michael Shi (1575 1.0) 9 Jeremie Kimble (1207 1.0)
24 8 Raf Adrik de Leon (1229 1.0) 2 Romy Peters (1488 1.0)
25 3 Justin Jean (1454 1.0) 11 Pierre Arcand (1175 1.0)
26 10 Derek Wang (1183 1.0) 4 John I.F. Lukezich (1453 1.0)
27 16 Nafisa Bano (1066 0.5) 5 Victor Samuel (1380 0.5)
28 6 Milos Petrovic (1327 0.5) 20 Zakia Irfan (876 0.5)
29 22 Sabia Irfan (716 0.5) 7 Daniel Wang (1271 0.5)
30 13 Rami Labib (1118 0.5) 18 Jinglai He (919 0.5)
31 19 Rut Jurry de Leon (904 0.5) 12 Sandy-Rose Bilodeau-Savaria (1122 0.0)
32 14 Emil Wang (1102 0.0) 21 Surya Suthakar (784 0.0)
33 23 Dalton Alleyne (unr. 0.0) 15 Dave Westbury (1093 0.0)
34 17 John Hay (1038 0.0) 25 Zaden Hickman (unr. 0.0)
24 ½ Noah Green (unr. 0.5) BYE
26 ½ Myles Would (unr. 0.0) BYE

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "National Capital U1900"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.16"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Laurin, Marcel"]
[Black "Sztuka, J"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A40"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 b5 2.e4 b4 3.c4 Bb7 4.d5 e6 5.Be3 exd5 6.cxd5 Nf6 7.Nd2
Be7 8.Ngf3 O-O 9.Bd3 a5 10.b3 d6 11.Nc4 Nbd7 12.Nd4 Nc5 13.Nc6
Nxd3+ 14.Qxd3 Bxc6 15.dxc6 d5 16.exd5 Qxd5 17.Qxd5 Nxd5 18.O-O
Nc3 19.Rfe1 Bf6 20.Kf1 Rfe8 21.Bf4 Nd5 22.Be5 Bxe5 23.Rxe5 Rxe5
24.Nxe5 Ne7 25.Rd1 f6 26.Rd7 Re8 27.Nc4 Nxc6 28.Rxc7 1/2-1/2

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.16"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Sadeghi, Saeid"]
[Black "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D36"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.cxd5 exd5 5.Bg5 Be7 6.e3 c6 7.Bd3
O-O 8.Qc2 Nbd7 9.Nge2 Re8 10.O-O Nf8 11.Ng3 g6 12.Rad1 Ne6 13.Bxf6
Bxf6 14.f4 Ng7 15.Qd2 Bh4 16.Nce2 Bg4 17.Rc1 Qe7 18.Kf2 Nh5 19.Ng1
Qd7 20.Nf3 Bxf3 21.Kxf3 Bxg3 22.hxg3 Nf6 23.f5 Re7 24.Rce1 Rae8
25.Rh1 Re4 26.fxg6 fxg6 27.Rh4 Rf8 28.Ke2 Rxh4 29.gxh4 Qg4+ 0-1

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.16"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Latreille, E"]
[Black "Pace, Chris"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A40"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 g6 2.c3 Bg7 3.Bf4 d6 4.e3 Nf6 5.Nf3 O-O 6.Bc4 Nbd7 7.h3
Qe8 8.O-O e5 9.dxe5 dxe5 10.Bh2 e4 11.Ng5 Nb6 12.Bxf7+ Rxf7 13.Nxf7
Qxf7 14.Nd2 Bf5 15.Qc2 h5 16.Nb3 Be6 17.Nc5 Bd5 18.Nb3 Bc4 19.Rfd1
Bd3 20.Qc1 Qe7 21.Nd2 Re8 22.a4 a5 23.b3 Nfd5 24.c4 Nc3 25.Re1
Ne2+ 26.Rxe2 Bxe2 27.Ra2 Bd3 28.Nf1 Be5 29.g3 Qb4 0-1

[Event "National Capital U1900"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.16"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Kearnen, D"]
[Black "Maheux, Pierre"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A44"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 c5 2.d5 e5 3.c4 d6 4.Nc3 Bf5 5.e4 Bg6 6.g3 Be7 7.h4 h5 8.Bg2
Nf6 9.Nh3 Nbd7 10.Bd2 a6 11.a4 Qc7 12.Qe2 O-O-O 13.a5 Kb8 14.O-O
Rdf8 15.Rfb1 Nh7 16.b4 f5 17.b5 Ka8 18.bxa6 bxa6 19.exf5 Bxf5
20.Ne4 g5 21.Bxg5 Bxg5 22.hxg5 Qd8 23.Qb2 Qb8 24.Qxb8+ Rxb8 25.Rxb8+
Nxb8 26.Nxd6 Bxh3 27.Bxh3 Nxg5 28.Bg2 h4 29.gxh4 Rxh4 30.Nc8
Kb7 31.Nb6 Kc7 32.Ra3 e4 33.Rg3 Rh5 34.f4 exf3 35.Bxf3 Nxf3+
36.Rxf3 Rh7 37.Rf6 Nd7 38.Rc6+ Kb7 39.Nxd7 1-0

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.16"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Cova, Ramon"]
[Black "Tomb, Maroun"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C41"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 d6 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nc3 Nbd7 4.e4 e5 5.Bc4 Be7 6.O-O c6 7.Bb3
h6 8.dxe5 dxe5 9.Qe2 O-O 10.h3 Qc7 11.Be3 b5 12.a3 a5 13.Nd2
Ba6 14.Nd1 a4 15.Ba2 c5 16.f3 Rfd8 17.Nf2 c4 18.c3 Nh5 19.Kh2
Nf4 20.Qe1 Nc5 21.Bxf4 exf4 22.Rd1 Bh4 23.Bb1 Qe5 24.Qe2 h5 25.Rfe1
Rd6 26.Nf1 Rad8 27.Rd5 Bg3+ 28.Kg1 Rxd5 29.exd5 Qxe2 30.Rxe2
g6 31.Nxg3 fxg3 32.Ne4 Kf8 33.Nxc5 Rxd5 34.Nd3 cxd3 35.Rd2 b4
36.axb4 Bc4 37.Kf1 Ke7 38.Ke1 Kf6 39.Kd1 Ke5 40.b5 Kf4 41.b6
Ke3 42.Ke1 Rb5 43.Kd1 Rxb6 44.Kc1 g5 45.Rd1 Rd6 46.Re1+ Kf2 47.Kd2
Kxg2 48.Re4 Kxf3 0-1

[Event "National Capital U1900"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.16"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Martin, Spencer"]
[Black "Dupont-Mageau, N"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B07"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.f3 g6 4.Be3 Bg7 5.Nc3 O-O 6.Qd2 Nbd7 7.Bh6
e5 8.Bxg7 Kxg7 9.d5 Qe7 10.Qg5 Nxd5 11.Qxe7 Nxe7 12.Nb5 c6 13.Nxd6
Nb6 14.Nxc8 Raxc8 15.O-O-O Rfd8 16.Rxd8 Rxd8 17.Bd3 Na4 18.Nh3
Nc5 19.Nf2 Nxd3+ 20.Nxd3 Kf6 21.Rd1 b6 22.c3 c5 23.Kc2 c4 24.Nxe5
Rxd1 25.Ng4+ Kg5 26.Kxd1 Nc6 27.Ke2 h5 28.Ne3 b5 29.g3 Ne7 30.Nc2
Nc6 31.h4+ Kf6 32.Nd4 Nxd4+ 33.cxd4 Ke6 34.Kd2 b4 35.Ke3 Kd6
36.f4 a5 37.Kd2 f6 38.Kc2 a4 39.a3 f5 40.e5+ 1-0

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.16"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Gordon, David"]
[Black "Mohamed, Ehab"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D93"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 d5 2.Bf4 Nf6 3.e3 g6 4.c4 c6 5.Nc3 Bg7 6.Qb3 O-O 7.Nf3 e6
8.h3 Nbd7 9.cxd5 exd5 10.Bd3 Re8 11.O-O Qb6 12.Qc2 Nf8 13.Rfc1
Qd8 14.b4 Qe7 15.Rab1 Ne4 16.b5 Nxc3 17.Qxc3 Bd7 18.Qb3 Ne6 19.Bg3
Red8 20.bxc6 Bxc6 21.Bh4 g5 22.Bg3 Rac8 23.a4 h5 24.a5 Bf8 25.Bf5
h4 26.Bh2 Re8 27.Ne5 Qa3 28.Qxa3 Bxa3 29.Rc3 Bd6 30.Nxc6 Bxh2+
31.Kxh2 Rxc6 32.Rxc6 bxc6 33.Rb7 c5 34.dxc5 Nxc5 35.Rxa7 Ne4
36.Rc7 Ra8 37.Rc8+ Rxc8 38.Bxc8 Nd6 39.Bb7 f5 40.Bxd5+ Kg7 41.Be6
Kf6 42.Bd7 Ke7 43.a6 1-0

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.16"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Dukic, Zach"]
[Black "Miller, Rachel"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C84"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O b5 6.Bb3 Be7 7.d3
d6 8.a3 O-O 9.Nc3 h6 10.h3 Be6 11.Nd5 Re8 12.c3 Bf8 13.Re1 Na5
14.Nxf6+ Qxf6 15.Bxe6 Qxe6 16.Be3 c5 17.b4 Nc6 18.Qe2 a5 19.a4
axb4 20.axb5 Na5 21.cxb4 cxb4 22.Ra4 d5 23.Rea1 d4 24.Bd2 Qb6
25.Bxb4 Bxb4 26.Rxb4 Nc6 27.Rxa8 Rxa8 28.Rb2 Ra1+ 29.Kh2 Na7
30.Qc2 Nxb5 31.Qc8+ Kh7 32.Qf5+ Kg8 33.Qxe5 Ra5 34.Qe8+ Kh7 35.Qxf7
Qa6 36.Qf5+ Kg8 37.Qd5+ Kh7 38.e5 Nc7 39.Qxd4 Qg6 40.Qc3 Ra7
41.Qc5 Qa6 42.d4 Ne6 43.Qc2+ g6 44.d5 Nf4 45.Qe4 Nd3 46.Rc2 Qa3
47.d6 Nc5 48.Qd5 Nd3 49.d7 1-0

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "National Capital U1900"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.16"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Laurin, Marcel"]
[Black "Sztuka, J"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A40"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 b5 2.e4 b4 3.c4 Bb7 4.d5 e6 5.Be3 exd5 6.cxd5 Nf6 7.Nd2
Be7 8.Ngf3 O-O 9.Bd3 a5 10.b3 d6 11.Nc4 Nbd7 12.Nd4 Nc5 13.Nc6
Nxd3+ 14.Qxd3 Bxc6 15.dxc6 d5 16.exd5 Qxd5 17.Qxd5 Nxd5 18.O-O
Nc3 19.Rfe1 Bf6 20.Kf1 Rfe8 21.Bf4 Nd5 22.Be5 Bxe5 23.Rxe5 Rxe5
24.Nxe5 Ne7 25.Rd1 f6 26.Rd7 Re8 27.Nc4 Nxc6 28.Rxc7 1/2-1/2



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.16"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Sadeghi, Saeid"]
[Black "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D36"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.cxd5 exd5 5.Bg5 Be7 6.e3 c6 7.Bd3
O-O 8.Qc2 Nbd7 9.Nge2 Re8 10.O-O Nf8 11.Ng3 g6 12.Rad1 Ne6 13.Bxf6
Bxf6 14.f4 Ng7 15.Qd2 Bh4 16.Nce2 Bg4 17.Rc1 Qe7 18.Kf2 Nh5 19.Ng1
Qd7 20.Nf3 Bxf3 21.Kxf3 Bxg3 22.hxg3 Nf6 23.f5 Re7 24.Rce1 Rae8
25.Rh1 Re4 26.fxg6 fxg6 27.Rh4 Rf8 28.Ke2 Rxh4 29.gxh4 Qg4+ 0-1



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.16"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Latreille, E"]
[Black "Pace, Chris"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A40"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 g6 2.c3 Bg7 3.Bf4 d6 4.e3 Nf6 5.Nf3 O-O 6.Bc4 Nbd7 7.h3
Qe8 8.O-O e5 9.dxe5 dxe5 10.Bh2 e4 11.Ng5 Nb6 12.Bxf7+ Rxf7 13.Nxf7
Qxf7 14.Nd2 Bf5 15.Qc2 h5 16.Nb3 Be6 17.Nc5 Bd5 18.Nb3 Bc4 19.Rfd1
Bd3 20.Qc1 Qe7 21.Nd2 Re8 22.a4 a5 23.b3 Nfd5 24.c4 Nc3 25.Re1
Ne2+ 26.Rxe2 Bxe2 27.Ra2 Bd3 28.Nf1 Be5 29.g3 Qb4 0-1



[Event "National Capital U1900"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.16"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Kearnen, D"]
[Black "Maheux, Pierre"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A44"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 c5 2.d5 e5 3.c4 d6 4.Nc3 Bf5 5.e4 Bg6 6.g3 Be7 7.h4 h5 8.Bg2
Nf6 9.Nh3 Nbd7 10.Bd2 a6 11.a4 Qc7 12.Qe2 O-O-O 13.a5 Kb8 14.O-O
Rdf8 15.Rfb1 Nh7 16.b4 f5 17.b5 Ka8 18.bxa6 bxa6 19.exf5 Bxf5
20.Ne4 g5 21.Bxg5 Bxg5 22.hxg5 Qd8 23.Qb2 Qb8 24.Qxb8+ Rxb8 25.Rxb8+
Nxb8 26.Nxd6 Bxh3 27.Bxh3 Nxg5 28.Bg2 h4 29.gxh4 Rxh4 30.Nc8
Kb7 31.Nb6 Kc7 32.Ra3 e4 33.Rg3 Rh5 34.f4 exf3 35.Bxf3 Nxf3+
36.Rxf3 Rh7 37.Rf6 Nd7 38.Rc6+ Kb7 39.Nxd7 1-0



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.16"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Cova, Ramon"]
[Black "Tomb, Maroun"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C41"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 d6 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nc3 Nbd7 4.e4 e5 5.Bc4 Be7 6.O-O c6 7.Bb3
h6 8.dxe5 dxe5 9.Qe2 O-O 10.h3 Qc7 11.Be3 b5 12.a3 a5 13.Nd2
Ba6 14.Nd1 a4 15.Ba2 c5 16.f3 Rfd8 17.Nf2 c4 18.c3 Nh5 19.Kh2
Nf4 20.Qe1 Nc5 21.Bxf4 exf4 22.Rd1 Bh4 23.Bb1 Qe5 24.Qe2 h5 25.Rfe1
Rd6 26.Nf1 Rad8 27.Rd5 Bg3+ 28.Kg1 Rxd5 29.exd5 Qxe2 30.Rxe2
g6 31.Nxg3 fxg3 32.Ne4 Kf8 33.Nxc5 Rxd5 34.Nd3 cxd3 35.Rd2 b4
36.axb4 Bc4 37.Kf1 Ke7 38.Ke1 Kf6 39.Kd1 Ke5 40.b5 Kf4 41.b6
Ke3 42.Ke1 Rb5 43.Kd1 Rxb6 44.Kc1 g5 45.Rd1 Rd6 46.Re1+ Kf2 47.Kd2
Kxg2 48.Re4 Kxf3 0-1



[Event "National Capital U1900"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.16"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Martin, Spencer"]
[Black "Dupont-Mageau, N"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B07"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.f3 g6 4.Be3 Bg7 5.Nc3 O-O 6.Qd2 Nbd7 7.Bh6
e5 8.Bxg7 Kxg7 9.d5 Qe7 10.Qg5 Nxd5 11.Qxe7 Nxe7 12.Nb5 c6 13.Nxd6
Nb6 14.Nxc8 Raxc8 15.O-O-O Rfd8 16.Rxd8 Rxd8 17.Bd3 Na4 18.Nh3
Nc5 19.Nf2 Nxd3+ 20.Nxd3 Kf6 21.Rd1 b6 22.c3 c5 23.Kc2 c4 24.Nxe5
Rxd1 25.Ng4+ Kg5 26.Kxd1 Nc6 27.Ke2 h5 28.Ne3 b5 29.g3 Ne7 30.Nc2
Nc6 31.h4+ Kf6 32.Nd4 Nxd4+ 33.cxd4 Ke6 34.Kd2 b4 35.Ke3 Kd6
36.f4 a5 37.Kd2 f6 38.Kc2 a4 39.a3 f5 40.e5+ 1-0



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.16"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Gordon, David"]
[Black "Mohamed, Ehab"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D93"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 d5 2.Bf4 Nf6 3.e3 g6 4.c4 c6 5.Nc3 Bg7 6.Qb3 O-O 7.Nf3 e6
8.h3 Nbd7 9.cxd5 exd5 10.Bd3 Re8 11.O-O Qb6 12.Qc2 Nf8 13.Rfc1
Qd8 14.b4 Qe7 15.Rab1 Ne4 16.b5 Nxc3 17.Qxc3 Bd7 18.Qb3 Ne6 19.Bg3
Red8 20.bxc6 Bxc6 21.Bh4 g5 22.Bg3 Rac8 23.a4 h5 24.a5 Bf8 25.Bf5
h4 26.Bh2 Re8 27.Ne5 Qa3 28.Qxa3 Bxa3 29.Rc3 Bd6 30.Nxc6 Bxh2+
31.Kxh2 Rxc6 32.Rxc6 bxc6 33.Rb7 c5 34.dxc5 Nxc5 35.Rxa7 Ne4
36.Rc7 Ra8 37.Rc8+ Rxc8 38.Bxc8 Nd6 39.Bb7 f5 40.Bxd5+ Kg7 41.Be6
Kf6 42.Bd7 Ke7 43.a6 1-0



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.16"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Dukic, Zach"]
[Black "Miller, Rachel"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C84"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O b5 6.Bb3 Be7 7.d3
d6 8.a3 O-O 9.Nc3 h6 10.h3 Be6 11.Nd5 Re8 12.c3 Bf8 13.Re1 Na5
14.Nxf6+ Qxf6 15.Bxe6 Qxe6 16.Be3 c5 17.b4 Nc6 18.Qe2 a5 19.a4
axb4 20.axb5 Na5 21.cxb4 cxb4 22.Ra4 d5 23.Rea1 d4 24.Bd2 Qb6
25.Bxb4 Bxb4 26.Rxb4 Nc6 27.Rxa8 Rxa8 28.Rb2 Ra1+ 29.Kh2 Na7
30.Qc2 Nxb5 31.Qc8+ Kh7 32.Qf5+ Kg8 33.Qxe5 Ra5 34.Qe8+ Kh7 35.Qxf7
Qa6 36.Qf5+ Kg8 37.Qd5+ Kh7 38.e5 Nc7 39.Qxd4 Qg6 40.Qc3 Ra7
41.Qc5 Qa6 42.d4 Ne6 43.Qc2+ g6 44.d5 Nf4 45.Qe4 Nd3 46.Rc2 Qa3
47.d6 Nc5 48.Qd5 Nd3 49.d7 1-0

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.17"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Simic, Dusan"]
[Black "Gordon, David"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B25"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.d3 Nc6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.g3 d5 5.Nbd2 dxe4 6.dxe4 b6 7.Bg2
Ba6 8.e5 Nd5 9.c4 Nc7 10.O-O Bb7 11.Ng5 h6 12.Nh3 g5 13.Qh5 Ne6
14.f4 Qd4+ 15.Kh1 Ng7 16.Qe2 g4 17.Qxg4 Nxe5 18.Qe2 Nc6 19.Nf3
Qf6 20.Nf2 Nf5 21.Ng4 Qd6 22.Rd1 Nfd4 23.Nxd4 cxd4 24.f5 Bg7
25.Bf4 e5 26.Nxe5 Bxe5 27.Bxe5 Qxe5 28.Qxe5+ Nxe5 29.Bxb7 Rd8
30.Re1 f6 31.Rad1 Kf8 32.Bd5 d3 33.Kg2 1/2-1/2

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.17"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Black "Dunne, Francesco"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.e3 c5 4.Bd3 d5 5.b3 Nc6 6.O-O Bd6 7.Bb2 O-O
8.a3 b6 9.Nbd2 Bb7 10.Qe2 Rc8 11.dxc5 Bxc5 12.b4 Be7 13.c4 a5
14.b5 Nb8 15.Rfd1 Nbd7 16.Rac1 Nc5 17.Bc2 Qe8 18.Ng5 g6 19.cxd5
Bxd5 20.e4 Bb7 21.Qf3 Nh5 22.h4 Qxb5 23.Ba1 f5 24.a4 Qc6 25.Bb3
fxe4 26.Qe3 Nf4 27.Ngxe4 Rcd8 28.f3 Rd3 29.Qe1 Ba6 30.Kh1 Rfd8
31.Nxc5 Bxc5 32.Qe5 1-0

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.17"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Tomb, Maroun"]
[Black "Adriaanse, Adam"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B20"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Ne2 Nf6 3.Nbc3 d5 4.exd5 Nxd5 5.g3 Nxc3 6.Nxc3 h5 7.Bg2
Bg4 8.f3 Bf5 9.g4 Bg6 10.f4 Qd7 11.h3 e6 12.d3 Be7 13.Be3 Nc6
14.O-O hxg4 15.hxg4 O-O-O 16.Ne4 Nd4 17.c3 f5 18.Nf2 Nc6 19.g5
Bh5 20.Qa4 Kb8 21.Rfe1 Bd6 22.b4 cxb4 23.cxb4 e5 24.fxe5 Bxe5
25.Bxa7+ Nxa7 26.Qxd7 Rxd7 27.Rxe5 Rf8 28.b5 Nc8 29.a4 g6 30.a5
Nd6 31.b6 f4 32.Rae1 f3 33.Bh3 Nf5 34.Ne4 Rxd3 35.Nf6 Ng7 36.Re7
f2+ 37.Kxf2 Rxh3 38.Rxg7 Rc8 39.Rc7 Rf3+ 40.Kg2 Rc3 41.Rxc3 1-0

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.17"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Collins, Chris"]
[Black "Pace, Anthony"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B06"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 g6 2.h4 Bg7 3.h5 Nc6 4.Nc3 d6 5.Bb5 Bd7 6.Nge2 e5 7.d3 g5
8.Be3 h6 9.d4 Nf6 10.d5 Ne7 11.Ng3 Bxb5 12.Nxb5 a6 13.Nc3 Qd7
14.Qf3 b5 15.O-O-O b4 16.Nb1 Rf8 17.Qe2 Qa4 18.Qc4 Kd7 19.Nd2
Rfc8 20.Qb3 Qb5 21.Nc4 Rab8 22.Qd3 Ke8 23.Kb1 a5 24.Rc1 Kf8 25.Rhd1
Kg8 26.f3 Ne8 27.Bf2 c6 28.dxc6 Rxc6 29.Ne3 Qb7 30.Nef5 Nxf5
31.Nxf5 Bf8 32.g3 Rc3 33.Qe2 a4 34.Ka1 b3 35.cxb3 Rxb3 36.axb3
axb3 37.Rc3 Qa7+ 38.Kb1 Qa2+ 39.Kc1 Qa1+ 40.Kd2 Qxb2+ 41.Kd3
Qa3 42.Qe3 d5 43.exd5 Qa6+ 44.Rc4 b2 45.Rb1 Rb3+ 0-1

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.17"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Pace, Chris"]
[Black "Dukic, Zach"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E63"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Bg2 O-O 5.O-O d6 6.c4 Nc6 7.Nc3
a6 8.d5 Na5 9.Qd3 c5 10.Bd2 Rb8 11.Rac1 b5 12.b3 e6 13.Bg5 bxc4
14.bxc4 h6 15.Bxf6 Bxf6 16.Nd2 e5 17.Rb1 Bd7 18.Rxb8 Qxb8 19.Rb1
Qc7 20.Nce4 Bd8 21.Qa3 f5 22.Nc3 Qa7 23.e3 Bc7 24.Bf1 Rb8 25.Nb3
Nxb3 26.Rxb3 Rxb3 27.Qxb3 Qb6 28.Bh3 Qb4 29.e4 Ba5 30.Qxb4 cxb4
31.Nd1 Bb6 32.Nb2 Bd4 33.Nd3 fxe4 34.Bxd7 exd3 35.Kf1 e4 36.Bh3
a5 37.Bg2 a4 38.Bxe4 b3 39.a3 Bc5 40.Bxd3 Bxa3 41.c5 dxc5 42.Bc4
Kf8 43.Ke2 Bb2 44.d6 Be5 45.d7 Ke7 46.Kd3 Bd4 47.f3 Bg1 48.h3
Bh2 49.g4 Be5 50.Ke4 b2 51.Ba2 Bg7 52.Kd5 Bd4 53.Kc6 c4 54.Kc7
Bb6+ 55.Kxb6 Kxd7 56.Kb5 c3 0-1

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.17"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Ning, Alvin"]
[Black "Laurin, Marcel"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B32"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e5 5.Nb3 Nf6 6.Bd3 b6 7.O-O
Bb7 8.Nc3 h6 9.Be3 Rc8 10.a3 Be7 11.Qe2 d6 12.Ba6 Bxa6 13.Qxa6
O-O 14.Qe2 Qd7 15.h3 g5 16.Qf3 Nd8 17.Rac1 Ne6 18.Qf5 Qd8 19.Nd5
Nxd5 20.exd5 Ng7 21.Qd3 f5 22.f3 f4 23.Bf2 Nf5 24.Kh2 Qe8 25.Nd2
h5 26.Ne4 Qf7 27.c4 Kh8 28.Rg1 h4 29.b4 Ng3 30.Rc3 Qg6 31.Bxg3
hxg3+ 32.Kh1 Rf7 33.Rgc1 Rh7 34.Nc5 Qh5 35.Ne6 g4 36.fxg4 Qxg4
37.Qxh7+ Kxh7 38.hxg4 Kg6 39.c5 bxc5 40.bxc5 dxc5 41.Nxc5 Rh8+
42.Kg1 Bd8 43.Nd7 e4 44.Rc8 Kg5 45.Kf1 f3 46.Kg1 Rh2 47.R1c2
f2+ 48.Rxf2 gxf2+ 49.Kxf2 Be7 50.Re8 Bxa3 51.Rxe4 Rh7 52.Ne5
Bc5+ 53.Kf3 Rb7 54.Rc4 Rb3+ 55.Ke2 Re3+ 56.Kd2 Rxe5 57.Rxc5 Kxg4
58.Ra5 Kg3 59.Kd3 Kxg2 60.Kd4 Re7 61.d6 Rh7 62.Kc5 Rh5+ 63.Kc6
Rxa5 64.d7 Ra6+ 65.Kc7 Ra1 66.d8Q Rc1+ 67.Kb7 Rb1+ 68.Kxa7 Ra1+
69.Kb6 Rb1+ 70.Kc5 Rc1+ 71.Kb4 Rb1+ 72.Kc3 Rc1+ 73.Kd2 Rf1 74.Qg5+
Kf2 75.Qe3+ Kg2 76.Ke2 Rg1 77.Qf2+ Kh1 78.Ke3 Rg3+ 1/2-1/2

[Halldor P. Palsson]

2018 National Capital Open

Bd # Res White # Res Black
1 10 Houji Yao (2147 2.0) 1 Bator Sambuev (2559 2.0)
2 2 Zachary Dukic (2314 2.0) 3 Maroun Tomb (2302 2.0)
3 4 David Gordon (2267 1.5) 19 Anthony Pace (1918 1.5)
4 21 Alexandre Khan (1835 1.0) 5 Christopher Pace (2247 1.0)
5 6 Francesco Dunne (2224 1.0) 12 Rachel Miller (2048 1.0)
6 8 Adam Adriaanse (2180 1.0) 17 Amos Kuttner (1974 1.0)
7 22 Abdelaziz Mahdjoubi (1759 1.0) 11 Saeid Sadeghi (2121 1.0)
8 7 Jim Monaghan (2212 0.5) 14 Ramon J. Cova (2015 0.5)
9 16 Etienne Latreille (1975 0.5) 13 Christian Collins (2028 0.5)
10 18 Jake Van Rooy (1969 0.0) 15 Ehab Mohamed (1992 0.0)
9 ½ Dusan Simic (2162 1.5) BYE
20 ½ Ehsan Forouzandeh (1906 0.0) BYE

2018 National Capital U1900

Bd # Res White # Res Black
12 26 Daniel Labib (1446 2.0) 5 Randika Balasooriya (1779 2.0)
13 10 Alexander Stopic (1711 1.5) 9 Simon Perkins (1720 2.0)
14 12 Alex Danilov (1699 1.5) 18 Jeremy Sztuka (1623 1.5)
15 1 Dan Kearnan (1868 1.0) 3 Kamal Balazadeh (1792 1.5)
16 2 Lawrence [Larry] Ju (1799 1.0) 11 Herb Langer (1705 1.0)
17 4 Ray Kuryliw (1780 1.0) 14 Pierre Maheux (1676 1.0)
18 6 Marcel Laurin (1751 1.0) 23 Sanjay Ramesh (1549 1.0)
19 7 Jacob Krolczyk (1745 1.0) 20 Alwin Ning (1602 1.0)
20 16 Anthony Masse-Garneau (1668 1.0) 8 Ted Hsu (1744 1.0)
21 17 Rene Poulin (1638 0.0) 24 William Landstrom (1511 1.0)
22 15 Fernando Echavarria-Hidalgo (1675 0.0) 21 Oswin Ning (1571 0.0)
23 19 Guy Piche (1614 0.0) 22 Gerard Felderhof (1557 0.0)
13 ½ Spencer Martin (1683 1.0) BYE
25 ½ Nicolas Dupont-Mageau (1500 0.5) BYE

2018 National Capital U1600

Bd # Res White # Res Black
25 3 Justin Jean (1454 2.0) 1 Michael Shi (1575 2.0)
26 2 Romy Peters (1488 2.0) 10 Derek Wang (1183 2.0)
27 5 Victor Samuel (1380 1.5) 19 Rut Jurry de Leon (904 1.5)
28 20 Zakia Irfan (876 1.5) 7 Daniel Wang (1271 1.5)
29 18 Jinglai He (919 1.5) 8 Raf Adrik de Leon (1229 1.0)
30 9 Jeremie Kimble (1207 1.0) 14 Emil Wang (1102 1.0)
31 11 Pierre Arcand (1175 1.0) 17 John Hay (1038 1.0)
32 23 Dalton Alleyne (unr. 1.0) 13 Rami Labib (1118 0.5)
33 6 Milos Petrovic (1327 0.5) 22 Sabia Irfan (716 0.5)
34 26 Myles Would (unr. 0.5) 16 Nafisa Bano (1066 0.5)
35 12 Sandy-Rose Bilodeau-Savaria (1122 0.0) 21 Surya Suthakar (784 0.0)
36 15 Dave Westbury (1093 0.0) 25 Zaden Hickman (unr. 0.0)
4 ½ John I.F. Lukezich (1453 1.0) BYE
24 ½ Noah Green (unr. 1.0) BYE

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.17"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Simic, Dusan"]
[Black "Gordon, David"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B25"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.d3 Nc6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.g3 d5 5.Nbd2 dxe4 6.dxe4 b6 7.Bg2
Ba6 8.e5 Nd5 9.c4 Nc7 10.O-O Bb7 11.Ng5 h6 12.Nh3 g5 13.Qh5 Ne6
14.f4 Qd4+ 15.Kh1 Ng7 16.Qe2 g4 17.Qxg4 Nxe5 18.Qe2 Nc6 19.Nf3
Qf6 20.Nf2 Nf5 21.Ng4 Qd6 22.Rd1 Nfd4 23.Nxd4 cxd4 24.f5 Bg7
25.Bf4 e5 26.Nxe5 Bxe5 27.Bxe5 Qxe5 28.Qxe5+ Nxe5 29.Bxb7 Rd8
30.Re1 f6 31.Rad1 Kf8 32.Bd5 d3 33.Kg2 1/2-1/2



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.17"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Black "Dunne, Francesco"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.e3 c5 4.Bd3 d5 5.b3 Nc6 6.O-O Bd6 7.Bb2 O-O
8.a3 b6 9.Nbd2 Bb7 10.Qe2 Rc8 11.dxc5 Bxc5 12.b4 Be7 13.c4 a5
14.b5 Nb8 15.Rfd1 Nbd7 16.Rac1 Nc5 17.Bc2 Qe8 18.Ng5 g6 19.cxd5
Bxd5 20.e4 Bb7 21.Qf3 Nh5 22.h4 Qxb5 23.Ba1 f5 24.a4 Qc6 25.Bb3
fxe4 26.Qe3 Nf4 27.Ngxe4 Rcd8 28.f3 Rd3 29.Qe1 Ba6 30.Kh1 Rfd8
31.Nxc5 Bxc5 32.Qe5 1-0



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.17"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Tomb, Maroun"]
[Black "Adriaanse, Adam"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B20"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Ne2 Nf6 3.Nbc3 d5 4.exd5 Nxd5 5.g3 Nxc3 6.Nxc3 h5 7.Bg2
Bg4 8.f3 Bf5 9.g4 Bg6 10.f4 Qd7 11.h3 e6 12.d3 Be7 13.Be3 Nc6
14.O-O hxg4 15.hxg4 O-O-O 16.Ne4 Nd4 17.c3 f5 18.Nf2 Nc6 19.g5
Bh5 20.Qa4 Kb8 21.Rfe1 Bd6 22.b4 cxb4 23.cxb4 e5 24.fxe5 Bxe5
25.Bxa7+ Nxa7 26.Qxd7 Rxd7 27.Rxe5 Rf8 28.b5 Nc8 29.a4 g6 30.a5
Nd6 31.b6 f4 32.Rae1 f3 33.Bh3 Nf5 34.Ne4 Rxd3 35.Nf6 Ng7 36.Re7
f2+ 37.Kxf2 Rxh3 38.Rxg7 Rc8 39.Rc7 Rf3+ 40.Kg2 Rc3 41.Rxc3 1-0



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.17"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Collins, Chris"]
[Black "Pace, Anthony"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B06"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 g6 2.h4 Bg7 3.h5 Nc6 4.Nc3 d6 5.Bb5 Bd7 6.Nge2 e5 7.d3 g5
8.Be3 h6 9.d4 Nf6 10.d5 Ne7 11.Ng3 Bxb5 12.Nxb5 a6 13.Nc3 Qd7
14.Qf3 b5 15.O-O-O b4 16.Nb1 Rf8 17.Qe2 Qa4 18.Qc4 Kd7 19.Nd2
Rfc8 20.Qb3 Qb5 21.Nc4 Rab8 22.Qd3 Ke8 23.Kb1 a5 24.Rc1 Kf8 25.Rhd1
Kg8 26.f3 Ne8 27.Bf2 c6 28.dxc6 Rxc6 29.Ne3 Qb7 30.Nef5 Nxf5
31.Nxf5 Bf8 32.g3 Rc3 33.Qe2 a4 34.Ka1 b3 35.cxb3 Rxb3 36.axb3
axb3 37.Rc3 Qa8+ 38.Kb1 Qa2+ 39.Kc1 Qa1+ 40.Kd2 Qxb2+ 41.Kd3
Qa3 42.Qe3 d5 43.exd5 Qa6+ 44.Rc4 b2 45.Rb1 Rb3+ 0-1


[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.17"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Pace, Chris"]
[Black "Dukic, Zach"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E63"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Bg2 O-O 5.O-O d6 6.c4 Nc6 7.Nc3
a6 8.d5 Na5 9.Qd3 c5 10.Bd2 Rb8 11.Rac1 b5 12.b3 e6 13.Bg5 bxc4
14.bxc4 h6 15.Bxf6 Bxf6 16.Nd2 e5 17.Rb1 Bd7 18.Rxb8 Qxb8 19.Rb1
Qc7 20.Nce4 Bd8 21.Qa3 f5 22.Nc3 Qa7 23.e3 Bc7 24.Bf1 Rb8 25.Nb3
Nxb3 26.Rxb3 Rxb3 27.Qxb3 Qb6 28.Bh3 Qb4 29.e4 Ba5 30.Qxb4 cxb4
31.Nd1 Bb6 32.Nb2 Bd4 33.Nd3 fxe4 34.Bxd7 exd3 35.Kf1 e4 36.Bh3
a5 37.Bg2 a4 38.Bxe4 b3 39.a3 Bc5 40.Bxd3 Bxa3 41.c5 dxc5 42.Bc4
Kf8 43.Ke2 Bb2 44.d6 Be5 45.d7 Ke7 46.Kd3 Bd4 47.f3 Bg1 48.h3
Bh2 49.g4 Be5 50.Ke4 b2 51.Ba2 Bg7 52.Kd5 Bd4 53.Kc6 c4 54.Kc7
Bb6+ 55.Kxb6 Kxd7 56.Kb5 c3 0-1



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.17"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Ning, Alvin"]
[Black "Laurin, Marcel"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B32"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e5 5.Nb3 Nf6 6.Bd3 b6 7.O-O
Bb7 8.Nc3 h6 9.Be3 Rc8 10.a3 Be7 11.Qe2 d6 12.Ba6 Bxa6 13.Qxa6
O-O 14.Qe2 Qd7 15.h3 g5 16.Qf3 Nd8 17.Rac1 Ne6 18.Qf5 Qd8 19.Nd5
Nxd5 20.exd5 Ng7 21.Qd3 f5 22.f3 f4 23.Bf2 Nf5 24.Kh2 Qe8 25.Nd2
h5 26.Ne4 Qf7 27.c4 Kh8 28.Rg1 h4 29.b4 Ng3 30.Rc3 Qg6 31.Bxg3
hxg3+ 32.Kh1 Rf7 33.Rgc1 Rh7 34.Nc5 Qh5 35.Ne6 g4 36.fxg4 Qxg4
37.Qxh7+ Kxh7 38.hxg4 Kg6 39.c5 bxc5 40.bxc5 dxc5 41.Nxc5 Rh8+
42.Kg1 Bd8 43.Nd7 e4 44.Rc8 Kg5 45.Kf1 f3 46.Kg1 Rh2 47.R1c2
f2+ 48.Rxf2 gxf2+ 49.Kxf2 Be7 50.Re8 Bxa3 51.Rxe4 Rh7 52.Ne5
Bc5+ 53.Kf3 Rb7 54.Rc4 Rb3+ 55.Ke2 Re3+ 56.Kd2 Rxe5 57.Rxc5 Kxg4
58.Ra5 Kg3 59.Kd3 Kxg2 60.Kd4 Re7 61.d6 Rh7 62.Kc5 Rh5+ 63.Kc6
Rxa5 64.d7 Ra6+ 65.Kc7 Ra1 66.d8Q Rc1+ 67.Kb7 Rb1+ 68.Kxa7 Ra1+
69.Kb6 Rb1+ 70.Kc5 Rc1+ 71.Kb4 Rb1+ 72.Kc3 Rc1+ 73.Kd2 Rf1 74.Qg5+
Kf2 75.Qe3+ Kg2 76.Ke2 Rg1 77.Qf2+ Kh1 78.Ke3 Rg3+ 1/2-1/2

[Halldor P. Palsson]

Pairings for Round 4.

2018 National Capital Open

Bd # Res White # Res Black
1 1 Bator Sambuev (2559 3.0) 2 Zachary Dukic (2314 3.0)
2 3 Maroun Tomb (2302 2.0) 4 David Gordon (2267 2.5)
3 5 Christopher Pace (2247 2.0) 9 Dusan Simic (2162 2.0)
4 11 Saeid Sadeghi (2121 1.5) 10 Houji Yao (2147 2.0)
5 19 Anthony Pace (1918 1.5) 8 Adam Adriaanse (2180 1.5)
6 12 Rachel Miller (2048 1.5) 22 Abdelaziz Mahdjoubi (1759 1.5)
7 13 Christian Collins (2028 1.0) 7 Jim Monaghan (2212 1.0)
8 21 Alexandre Khan (1835 1.0) 16 Etienne Latreille (1975 1.0)
9 20 Ehsan Forouzandeh (1906 0.5) 18 Jake Van Rooy (1969 1.0)
15 1 Ehab Mohamed (1992 0.0) BYE (PAB)
6 ½ Francesco Dunne (2224 1.5) BYE
14 ½ Ramon J. Cova (2015 1.0) BYE
17 ½ Amos Kuttner (1974 1.5) BYE

2018 National Capital U1900

Bd # Res White # Res Black
12 9 Simon Perkins (1720 3.0) 26 Daniel Labib (1446 3.0)
13 18 Jeremy Sztuka (1623 2.5) 4 Ray Kuryliw (1780 2.0)
14 23 Sanjay Ramesh (1549 2.0) 1 Dan Kearnan (1868 2.0)
15 5 Randika Balasooriya (1779 2.0) 16 Anthony Masse-Garneau (1668 2.0)
16 11 Herb Langer (1705 2.0) 24 William Landstrom (1511 2.0)
17 3 Kamal Balazadeh (1792 1.5) 7 Jacob Krolczyk (1745 2.0)
18 13 Spencer Martin (1683 1.5) 12 Alex Danilov (1699 1.5)
19 8 Ted Hsu (1744 1.0) 10 Alexander Stopic (1711 1.5)
20 20 Alwin Ning (1602 1.0) 2 Lawrence [Larry] Ju (1799 1.0)
21 25 Nicolas Dupont-Mageau (1500 1.0) 6 Marcel Laurin (1751 1.0)
22 14 Pierre Maheux (1676 1.0) 15 Fernando Echavarria-Hidalgo (1675 1.0)
23 21 Oswin Ning (1571 0.0) 17 Rene Poulin (1638 0.0)
19 1 Guy Piche (1614 0.0) BYE (PAB)

2018 National Capital U1600

Bd # Res White # Res Black
25 1 Michael Shi (1575 3.0) 2 Romy Peters (1488 3.0)
26 7 Daniel Wang (1271 2.5) 5 Victor Samuel (1380 2.5)
27 10 Derek Wang (1183 2.0) 3 Justin Jean (1454 2.0)
28 8 Raf Adrik de Leon (1229 2.0) 9 Jeremie Kimble (1207 2.0)
29 4 John I.F. Lukezich (1453 1.5) 11 Pierre Arcand (1175 2.0)
30 19 Rut Jurry de Leon (904 1.5) 6 Milos Petrovic (1327 1.5)
31 16 Nafisa Bano (1066 1.5) 23 Dalton Alleyne (unr. 1.5)
32 24 Noah Green (unr. 1.5) 18 Jinglai He (919 1.5)
33 14 Emil Wang (1102 1.0) 20 Zakia Irfan (876 1.5)
34 13 Rami Labib (1118 1.0) 12 Sandy-Rose Bilodeau-Savaria (1122 1.0)
35 17 John Hay (1038 1.0) 15 Dave Westbury (1093 0.5)
36 25 Zaden Hickman (unr. 0.5) 22 Sabia Irfan (716 0.5)
21 ½ Surya Suthakar (784 0.0) BYE
26 ½ Myles Would (unr. 0.5) BYE

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.17"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Simic, Dusan"]
[Black "Gordon, David"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B25"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.d3 Nc6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.g3 d5 5.Nbd2 dxe4 6.dxe4 b6 7.Bg2
Ba6 8.e5 Nd5 9.c4 Nc7 10.O-O Bb7 11.Ng5 h6 12.Nh3 g5 13.Qh5 Ne6
14.f4 Qd4+ 15.Kh1 Ng7 16.Qe2 g4 17.Qxg4 Nxe5 18.Qe2 Nc6 19.Nf3
Qf6 20.Nf2 Nf5 21.Ng4 Qd6 22.Rd1 Nfd4 23.Nxd4 cxd4 24.f5 Bg7
25.Bf4 e5 26.Nxe5 Bxe5 27.Bxe5 Qxe5 28.Qxe5+ Nxe5 29.Bxb7 Rd8
30.Re1 f6 31.Rad1 Kf8 32.Bd5 d3 33.Kg2 1/2-1/2

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.17"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Black "Dunne, Francesco"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D05"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.e3 c5 4.Bd3 d5 5.b3 Nc6 6.O-O Bd6 7.Bb2 O-O
8.a3 b6 9.Nbd2 Bb7 10.Qe2 Rc8 11.dxc5 Bxc5 12.b4 Be7 13.c4 a5
14.b5 Nb8 15.Rfd1 Nbd7 16.Rac1 Nc5 17.Bc2 Qe8 18.Ng5 g6 19.cxd5
Bxd5 20.e4 Bb7 21.Qf3 Nh5 22.h4 Qxb5 23.Ba1 f5 24.a4 Qc6 25.Bb3
fxe4 26.Qe3 Nf4 27.Ngxe4 Rcd8 28.f3 Rd3 29.Qe1 Ba6 30.Kh1 Rfd8
31.Nxc5 Bxc5 32.Qe5 1-0

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.17"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Tomb, Maroun"]
[Black "Adriaanse, Adam"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B20"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Ne2 Nf6 3.Nbc3 d5 4.exd5 Nxd5 5.g3 Nxc3 6.Nxc3 h5 7.Bg2
Bg4 8.f3 Bf5 9.g4 Bg6 10.f4 Qd7 11.h3 e6 12.d3 Be7 13.Be3 Nc6
14.O-O hxg4 15.hxg4 O-O-O 16.Ne4 Nd4 17.c3 f5 18.Nf2 Nc6 19.g5
Bh5 20.Qa4 Kb8 21.Rfe1 Bd6 22.b4 cxb4 23.cxb4 e5 24.fxe5 Bxe5
25.Bxa7+ Nxa7 26.Qxd7 Rxd7 27.Rxe5 Rf8 28.b5 Nc8 29.a4 g6 30.a5
Nd6 31.b6 f4 32.Rae1 f3 33.Bh3 Nf5 34.Ne4 Rxd3 35.Nf6 Ng7 36.Re7
f2+ 37.Kxf2 Rxh3 38.Rxg7 Rc8 39.Rc7 Rf3+ 40.Kg2 Rc3 41.Rxc3 1-0

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.17"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Collins, Chris"]
[Black "Pace, Anthony"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B06"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 g6 2.h4 Bg7 3.h5 Nc6 4.Nc3 d6 5.Bb5 Bd7 6.Nge2 e5 7.d3 g5
8.Be3 h6 9.d4 Nf6 10.d5 Ne7 11.Ng3 Bxb5 12.Nxb5 a6 13.Nc3 Qd7
14.Qf3 b5 15.O-O-O b4 16.Nb1 Rf8 17.Qe2 Qa4 18.Qc4 Kd7 19.Nd2
Rfc8 20.Qb3 Qb5 21.Nc4 Rab8 22.Qd3 Ke8 23.Kb1 a5 24.Rc1 Kf8 25.Rhd1
Kg8 26.f3 Ne8 27.Bf2 c6 28.dxc6 Rxc6 29.Ne3 Qb7 30.Nef5 Nxf5
31.Nxf5 Bf8 32.g3 Rc3 33.Qe2 a4 34.Ka1 b3 35.cxb3 Rxb3 36.axb3
axb3 37.Rc3 Qa8+ 38.Kb1 Qa2+ 39.Kc1 Qa1+ 40.Kd2 Qxb2+ 41.Kd3
Qa3 42.Qe3 d5 43.exd5 Qa6+ 44.Rc4 b2 45.Rb1 Rb3+ 0-1

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.17"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Pace, Chris"]
[Black "Dukic, Zach"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E63"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Bg2 O-O 5.O-O d6 6.c4 Nc6 7.Nc3
a6 8.d5 Na5 9.Qd3 c5 10.Bd2 Rb8 11.Rac1 b5 12.b3 e6 13.Bg5 bxc4
14.bxc4 h6 15.Bxf6 Bxf6 16.Nd2 e5 17.Rb1 Bd7 18.Rxb8 Qxb8 19.Rb1
Qc7 20.Nce4 Bd8 21.Qa3 f5 22.Nc3 Qa7 23.e3 Bc7 24.Bf1 Rb8 25.Nb3
Nxb3 26.Rxb3 Rxb3 27.Qxb3 Qb6 28.Bh3 Qb4 29.e4 Ba5 30.Qxb4 cxb4
31.Nd1 Bb6 32.Nb2 Bd4 33.Nd3 fxe4 34.Bxd7 exd3 35.Kf1 e4 36.Bh3
a5 37.Bg2 a4 38.Bxe4 b3 39.a3 Bc5 40.Bxd3 Bxa3 41.c5 dxc5 42.Bc4
Kf8 43.Ke2 Bb2 44.d6 Be5 45.d7 Ke7 46.Kd3 Bd4 47.f3 Bg1 48.h3
Bh2 49.g4 Be5 50.Ke4 b2 51.Ba2 Bg7 52.Kd5 Bd4 53.Kc6 c4 54.Kc7
Bb6+ 55.Kxb6 Kxd7 56.Kb5 c3 0-1

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.17"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Ning, Alvin"]
[Black "Laurin, Marcel"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B32"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e5 5.Nb3 Nf6 6.Bd3 b6 7.O-O
Bb7 8.Nc3 h6 9.Be3 Rc8 10.a3 Be7 11.Qe2 d6 12.Ba6 Bxa6 13.Qxa6
O-O 14.Qe2 Qd7 15.h3 g5 16.Qf3 Nd8 17.Rac1 Ne6 18.Qf5 Qd8 19.Nd5
Nxd5 20.exd5 Ng7 21.Qd3 f5 22.f3 f4 23.Bf2 Nf5 24.Kh2 Qe8 25.Nd2
h5 26.Ne4 Qf7 27.c4 Kh8 28.Rg1 h4 29.b4 Ng3 30.Rc3 Qg6 31.Bxg3
hxg3+ 32.Kh1 Rf7 33.Rgc1 Rh7 34.Nc5 Qh5 35.Ne6 g4 36.fxg4 Qxg4
37.Qxh7+ Kxh7 38.hxg4 Kg6 39.c5 bxc5 40.bxc5 dxc5 41.Nxc5 Rh8+
42.Kg1 Bd8 43.Nd7 e4 44.Rc8 Kg5 45.Kf1 f3 46.Kg1 Rh2 47.R1c2
f2+ 48.Rxf2 gxf2+ 49.Kxf2 Be7 50.Re8 Bxa3 51.Rxe4 Rh7 52.Ne5
Bc5+ 53.Kf3 Rb7 54.Rc4 Rb3+ 55.Ke2 Re3+ 56.Kd2 Rxe5 57.Rxc5 Kxg4
58.Ra5 Kg3 59.Kd3 Kxg2 60.Kd4 Re7 61.d6 Rh7 62.Kc5 Rh5+ 63.Kc6
Rxa5 64.d7 Ra6+ 65.Kc7 Ra1 66.d8Q Rc1+ 67.Kb7 Rb1+ 68.Kxa7 Ra1+
69.Kb6 Rb1+ 70.Kc5 Rc1+ 71.Kb4 Rb1+ 72.Kc3 Rc1+ 73.Kd2 Rf1 74.Qg5+
Kf2 75.Qe3+ Kg2 76.Ke2 Rg1 77.Qf2+ Kh1 78.Ke3 Rg3+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.17"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Khan, Alexandre"]
[Black "Pace, Chris"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B08"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nf3 d6 4.Be3 a6 5.h3 Nf6 6.Nc3 O-O 7.Qd2 b5
8.Bh6 b4 9.Bxg7 Kxg7 10.e5 bxc3 11.exf6+ exf6 12.bxc3 Re8+ 13.Be2
Qe7 14.Kd1 Bb7 15.Re1 Nd7 16.Rb1 Rab8 17.Rb3 Nb6 18.Bxa6 Bxf3+
19.gxf3 Qd7 20.Rxe8 Rxe8 21.Bb5 c6 22.Bf1 Qa7 23.Qc1 c5 24.Qb2
Qe7 0-1

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.17"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Yao, Houji"]
[Black "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C08"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 c5 4.exd5 exd5 5.Ngf3 Nf6 6.Bb5+ Bd7 7.Qe2+
Be7 8.O-O O-O 9.dxc5 Bxc5 10.Nb3 Re8 11.Qd3 Bb6 12.Bg5 Nc6 13.c3
h6 14.Bf4 Re4 15.Qd2 Re6 16.Rad1 Ne5 17.Nbd4 Bxb5 18.Nxe6 fxe6
19.Bxe5 Ne4 20.Qf4 Bxf1 21.Rxf1 Qf8 22.Nd4 Qxf4 23.Bxf4 Kf7 24.Rd1
Rc8 25.Kf1 a6 26.Be5 Bd8 27.Ke2 Bf6 28.Nf3 Rc5 29.Bf4 Bxc3 30.bxc3
Nxc3+ 31.Kd2 Nxd1 32.Kxd1 Ra5 33.Ne5+ Ke7 34.a3 Rxa3 35.Bd2 Ra4
36.f4 Kd6 37.Kc2 d4 38.Kd3 Kd5 39.Bc1 Ra2 40.Bd2 b5 0-1

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.17"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Gordon, David"]
[Black "Pace, Anthony"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A45"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 d6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Bxf6 exf6 5.g3 Nc6 6.Bg2 Bd7 7.e3
Bg7 8.Nge2 O-O 9.O-O Re8 10.Nd5 b5 11.a4 b4 12.a5 Rb8 13.Qd2
Qc8 14.Nef4 Rb5 15.Nd3 Nxa5 16.N5xb4 c6 17.Ra2 d5 18.b3 Bf8 19.Rfa1
Qb8 20.Nxd5 Nxb3 21.Nxf6+ Kh8 22.cxb3 1-0

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.17"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Dukic, Zach"]
[Black "Tomb, Maroun"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C41"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 e5 4.Nf3 Nbd7 5.Bc4 Be7 6.O-O c6 7.a4
h6 8.h3 Qc7 9.Re1 g5 10.a5 Nf8 11.d5 Ng6 12.Bb3 a6 13.dxc6 bxc6
14.Nd2 g4 15.hxg4 Bxg4 16.f3 Be6 17.Bxe6 fxe6 18.Nb3 Nh5 19.Be3
Bh4 20.Re2 Ngf4 21.Rd2 Qg7 22.g4 Nf6 23.Rxd6 h5 24.Bxf4 hxg4
25.fxg4 exf4 26.Rxe6+ Kf7 27.Rxc6 Nxg4 28.Rc7+ Be7 29.Qd5+ Kg6
30.Qe6+ Nf6 31.Rxe7 1-0

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.17"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Dunne, Francesco"]
[Black "Miller, Rachel"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C91"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O b5 6.Bb3 Be7 7.Re1
O-O 8.c3 d6 9.d4 Bg4 10.d5 Nb8 11.h3 Bh5 12.Nbd2 Nbd7 13.Nf1
Nb6 14.Ng3 Bg6 15.a4 bxa4 16.Bxa4 Nfd7 17.Bc6 Rb8 18.Rxa6 Nc5
19.Ra1 f5 20.exf5 Bxf5 21.Nxf5 Rxf5 22.b4 Ncd7 23.Bb5 Rf8 24.Bd3
Qe8 25.Bg5 Rxf3 26.Qxf3 Bxg5 27.Qf5 Qg6 28.Qxg6 hxg6 29.c4 Bd2
30.Reb1 Rb7 31.Ra2 Bg5 32.Rba1 Kf7 33.Ra7 Rxa7 34.Rxa7 Bd8 35.Kf1
e4 36.Be2 Ne5 37.c5 Nxd5 38.cxd6 Ke6 39.dxc7 Bxc7 40.b5 Kd6 41.Ra4
Nc3 42.Ra6+ Kc5 43.Re6 Nxb5 44.Bxb5 Kxb5 45.Re7 Kc6 46.Rxg7 Bd8
47.Ke2 Kd5 48.g4 Bg5 49.Rh7 Bf4 1/2-1/2




[Event "National Capital Open 2018"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2018.11.17"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Laurin Marcel"]
[Black "Ramesh Sanjay"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D02"]
[WhiteElo "1751"]
[BlackElo "1549"]
[PlyCount "102"]

1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Bf4 Bf5 4. e3 e6 5. Bd3 Bg6 6. Bxg6 hxg6 7. Nbd2 c5 8.
Ne5 Nbd7 9. Bg5 Qb6 10. O-O cxd4 11. Nxd7 Nxd7 12. exd4 Qxd4 13. c3 Qe5 14.
Nf3
Qc7 15. Re1 Nb6 16. g3 Bd6 17. Nd4 O-O 18. f4 Nc4 19. b3 Na5 20. Re3 Nc6 21.
Kg2 Nxd4 22. cxd4 Rac8 23. Qf3 Qc2+ 24. Re2 Qc3 25. Qxc3 Rxc3 26. h4 f6 27.
Rxe6 Ba3 28. Rh1 fxg5 29. Rxg6 gxf4 30. gxf4 Rxf4 31. Rg1 Rc6 32. Rg5 Rxd4 33.
Kf3 Rc7 34. h5 Bf8 35. h6 Kh7 36. hxg7 Rxg7 37. Rh5+ Kg8 38. Rgh1 Kf7 39.
Rf5+
Ke8 40. Rc1 Be7 41. Rc7 b6 42. Rxa7 Kd8 43. Rb7 Rh7 44. Rf8+ Bxf8 45. Rxh7
Bc5
46. Rh5 Kd7 47. Ke2 Kc6 48. a4 Bd6 49. Ke3 Rb4 50. Rh6 Rxb3+ 51. Kd2 Rb4 0-1

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.17"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Khan, Alexandre"]
[Black "Pace, Chris"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B08"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nf3 d6 4.Be3 a6 5.h3 Nf6 6.Nc3 O-O 7.Qd2 b5
8.Bh6 b4 9.Bxg7 Kxg7 10.e5 bxc3 11.exf6+ exf6 12.bxc3 Re8+ 13.Be2
Qe7 14.Kd1 Bb7 15.Re1 Nd7 16.Rb1 Rab8 17.Rb3 Nb6 18.Bxa6 Bxf3+
19.gxf3 Qd7 20.Rxe8 Rxe8 21.Bb5 c6 22.Bf1 Qa7 23.Qc1 c5 24.Qb2
Qe7 0-1



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.17"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Yao, Houji"]
[Black "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C08"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 c5 4.exd5 exd5 5.Ngf3 Nf6 6.Bb5+ Bd7 7.Qe2+
Be7 8.O-O O-O 9.dxc5 Bxc5 10.Nb3 Re8 11.Qd3 Bb6 12.Bg5 Nc6 13.c3
h6 14.Bf4 Re4 15.Qd2 Re6 16.Rad1 Ne5 17.Nbd4 Bxb5 18.Nxe6 fxe6
19.Bxe5 Ne4 20.Qf4 Bxf1 21.Rxf1 Qf8 22.Nd4 Qxf4 23.Bxf4 Kf7 24.Rd1
Rc8 25.Kf1 a6 26.Be5 Bd8 27.Ke2 Bf6 28.Nf3 Rc5 29.Bf4 Bxc3 30.bxc3
Nxc3+ 31.Kd2 Nxd1 32.Kxd1 Ra5 33.Ne5+ Ke7 34.a3 Rxa3 35.Bd2 Ra4
36.f4 Kd6 37.Kc2 d4 38.Kd3 Kd5 39.Bc1 Ra2 40.Bd2 b5 0-1



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.17"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Gordon, David"]
[Black "Pace, Anthony"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A45"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 d6 3.Nc3 g6 4.Bxf6 exf6 5.g3 Nc6 6.Bg2 Bd7 7.e3
Bg7 8.Nge2 O-O 9.O-O Re8 10.Nd5 b5 11.a4 b4 12.a5 Rb8 13.Qd2
Qc8 14.Nef4 Rb5 15.Nd3 Nxa5 16.N5xb4 c6 17.Ra2 d5 18.b3 Bf8 19.Rfa1
Qb8 20.Nxd5 Nxb3 21.Nxf6+ Kh8 22.cxb3 1-0



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.17"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Dukic, Zach"]
[Black "Tomb, Maroun"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C41"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 e5 4.Nf3 Nbd7 5.Bc4 Be7 6.O-O c6 7.a4
h6 8.h3 Qc7 9.Re1 g5 10.a5 Nf8 11.d5 Ng6 12.Bb3 a6 13.dxc6 bxc6
14.Nd2 g4 15.hxg4 Bxg4 16.f3 Be6 17.Bxe6 fxe6 18.Nb3 Nh5 19.Be3
Bh4 20.Re2 Ngf4 21.Rd2 Qg7 22.g4 Nf6 23.Rxd6 h5 24.Bxf4 hxg4
25.fxg4 exf4 26.Rxe6+ Kf7 27.Rxc6 Nxg4 28.Rc7+ Be7 29.Qd5+ Kg6
30.Qe6+ Nf6 31.Rxe7 1-0



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.17"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Dunne, Francesco"]
[Black "Miller, Rachel"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C91"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O b5 6.Bb3 Be7 7.Re1
O-O 8.c3 d6 9.d4 Bg4 10.d5 Nb8 11.h3 Bh5 12.Nbd2 Nbd7 13.Nf1
Nb6 14.Ng3 Bg6 15.a4 bxa4 16.Bxa4 Nfd7 17.Bc6 Rb8 18.Rxa6 Nc5
19.Ra1 f5 20.exf5 Bxf5 21.Nxf5 Rxf5 22.b4 Ncd7 23.Bb5 Rf8 24.Bd3
Qe8 25.Bg5 Rxf3 26.Qxf3 Bxg5 27.Qf5 Qg6 28.Qxg6 hxg6 29.c4 Bd2
30.Reb1 Rb7 31.Ra2 Bg5 32.Rba1 Kf7 33.Ra7 Rxa7 34.Rxa7 Bd8 35.Kf1
e4 36.Be2 Ne5 37.c5 Nxd5 38.cxd6 Ke6 39.dxc7 Bxc7 40.b5 Kd6 41.Ra4
Nc3 42.Ra6+ Kc5 43.Re6 Nxb5 44.Bxb5 Kxb5 45.Re7 Kc6 46.Rxg7 Bd8
47.Ke2 Kd5 48.g4 Bg5 49.Rh7 Bf4 1/2-1/2



[Event "National Capital Open 2018"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2018.11.17"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Laurin Marcel"]
[Black "Ramesh Sanjay"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D02"]
[WhiteElo "1751"]
[BlackElo "1549"]
[PlyCount "102"]

1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Bf4 Bf5 4. e3 e6 5. Bd3 Bg6 6. Bxg6 hxg6 7. Nbd2 c5 8.
Ne5 Nbd7 9. Bg5 Qb6 10. O-O cxd4 11. Nxd7 Nxd7 12. exd4 Qxd4 13. c3 Qe5 14.
Nf3
Qc7 15. Re1 Nb6 16. g3 Bd6 17. Nd4 O-O 18. f4 Nc4 19. b3 Na5 20. Re3 Nc6 21.
Kg2 Nxd4 22. cxd4 Rac8 23. Qf3 Qc2+ 24. Re2 Qc3 25. Qxc3 Rxc3 26. h4 f6 27.
Rxe6 Ba3 28. Rh1 fxg5 29. Rxg6 gxf4 30. gxf4 Rxf4 31. Rg1 Rc6 32. Rg5 Rxd4 33.
Kf3 Rc7 34. h5 Bf8 35. h6 Kh7 36. hxg7 Rxg7 37. Rh5+ Kg8 38. Rgh1 Kf7 39.
Rf5+
Ke8 40. Rc1 Be7 41. Rc7 b6 42. Rxa7 Kd8 43. Rb7 Rh7 44. Rf8+ Bxf8 45. Rxh7
Bc5
46. Rh5 Kd7 47. Ke2 Kc6 48. a4 Bd6 49. Ke3 Rb4 50. Rh6 Rxb3+ 51. Kd2 Rb4 0-1

[Halldor P. Palsson]

eoca.ca has the schedule.

The next Weekend tournaments on the EOCA schedule are all at the RA Centre:

RA December Open , 2018-12-07 - 2018-12-09

RA Winter Open, 2019-01-18 - 2019-01-20

RA March Open, 2019-03-01 - 2019-03-03

Good way to build up to a weekend tournament is to join the RA Chess Club or to start to play in the Sunday 10 Min + 5 sec tournaments at the RA Chess Club.
Location is Gatineau room 1:00 PM, $2 table fee. Tournament starts at 1:30.

[Halldor P. Palsson]

Pairings for Round 5.

2018 National Capital Open

Bd # Res White # Res Black
1 5 Christopher Pace (2247 3.0) 1 Bator Sambuev (2559 4.0)
2 2 Zachary Dukic (2314 3.0) 4 David Gordon (2267 3.0)
3 11 Saeid Sadeghi (2121 2.5) 3 Maroun Tomb (2302 2.5)
4 8 Adam Adriaanse (2180 2.5) 12 Rachel Miller (2048 2.5)
5 17 Amos Kuttner (1974 2.0) 6 Francesco Dunne (2224 2.0)
6 10 Houji Yao (2147 2.0) 18 Jake Van Rooy (1969 2.0)
7 9 Dusan Simic (2162 2.0) 13 Christian Collins (2028 1.5)
8 7 Jim Monaghan (2212 1.5) 16 Etienne Latreille (1975 1.5)
9 14 Ramon J. Cova (2015 1.5) 21 Alexandre Khan (1835 1.5)
10 22 Abdelaziz Mahdjoubi (1759 1.5) 15 Ehab Mohamed (1992 1.0)
20 1 Ehsan Forouzandeh (1906 0.5) BYE (PAB)

2018 National Capital U1900

Bd # Res White # Res Black
12 26 Daniel Labib (1446 4.0) 4 Ray Kuryliw (1780 3.0)
13 5 Randika Balasooriya (1779 3.0) 11 Herb Langer (1705 2.5)
14 1 Dan Kearnan (1868 2.5) 18 Jeremy Sztuka (1623 2.5)
15 24 William Landstrom (1511 2.5) 3 Kamal Balazadeh (1792 2.5)
16 7 Jacob Krolczyk (1745 2.0) 23 Sanjay Ramesh (1549 2.5)
17 16 Anthony Masse-Garneau (1668 2.0) 20 Alwin Ning (1602 2.0)
18 15 Fernando Echavarria-Hidalgo (1675 1.5) 8 Ted Hsu (1744 2.0)
19 10 Alexander Stopic (1711 1.5) 14 Pierre Maheux (1676 1.5)
20 2 Lawrence [Larry] Ju (1799 1.0) 17 Rene Poulin (1638 0.5)
21 22 Gerard Felderhof (1557 1.0) 21 Oswin Ning (1571 0.5)

2018 National Capital U1600

Bd # Res White # Res Black
23 5 Victor Samuel (1380 3.0) 1 Michael Shi (1575 3.5)
24 2 Romy Peters (1488 3.5) 7 Daniel Wang (1271 3.0)
25 11 Pierre Arcand (1175 3.0) 8 Raf Adrik de Leon (1229 3.0)
26 18 Jinglai He (919 2.5) 10 Derek Wang (1183 3.0)
27 23 Dalton Alleyne (unr. 2.5) 17 John Hay (1038 2.0)
28 3 Justin Jean (1454 2.0) 13 Rami Labib (1118 2.0)
29 6 Milos Petrovic (1327 2.0) 14 Emil Wang (1102 2.0)
30 9 Jeremie Kimble (1207 2.0) 19 Rut Jurry de Leon (904 2.0)
31 25 Zaden Hickman (unr. 1.5) 4 John I.F. Lukezich (1453 1.5)
32 20 Zakia Irfan (876 1.5) 24 Noah Green (unr. 1.5)
33 12 Sandy-Rose Bilodeau-Savaria (1122 1.0) 16 Nafisa Bano (1066 1.5)
34 21 Surya Suthakar (784 0.5) 26 Myles Would (unr. 1.0)
35 22 Sabia Irfan (716 0.5) 15 Dave Westbury (1093 0.5)

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.18"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Black "Dukic, Zach"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A45"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.g3 c5 3.Nf3 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e5 5.Nb3 d5 6.Bg2 h6 7.O-O
Be7 8.c4 d4 9.e3 dxe3 ( 9...Nc6 10.exd4 exd4 11.N1d2 O-O 12.Nf3
d3 13.Be3 Bg4 14.h3 Bh5 15.Rc1 Rc8 16.Rc3 Bg6 17.Nc1 Qd7 18.a3
Rfd8 19.b4 Be4 20.Nb3 b6 21.Nbd2 Bh7 22.Re1 Ne4 23.Rb3 Bf6 24.Nxe4
Bxe4 25.c5 b5 26.Bf4 Qd5 27.Bd6 Nd4 28.Rxd3 Nxf3+ 29.Rxf3 Qxd1
30.Rxd1 Bxf3 31.Bxf3 Bb2 32.Rb1 Bxa3 33.Bb7 a5 34.Bxc8 Rxc8 35.bxa5
Bxc5 36.Bxc5 Rxc5 37.a6 Rc6 38.Ra1 Rc8 39.Kf1 Kf8 40.Rb1 Ra8
41.Rxb5 {1/2-1/2, Papin Vasily (RUS) 2570 - Zvjaginsev Vadim (RUS) 2680, Olginka (Russia) 2011.04.25}
) 10.Qxd8+ Bxd8 11.Bxe3 Nc6 12.Nc3 Be6 13.Nc5 {Black resigned.}
Z0 ( 13...Bc8 14.Nb5 O-O $8 {Black cannot prevent Nd6.}
( 14...Ke7 15.Nxb7 Bxb7 16.Bc5+ Ke6 17.Nd6 Bb6 18.Nxb7 Bxc5 19.Nxc5+ )
( 14...Be7 15.Nc7+ ) 15.Nd6 Be7 16.Ncxb7 e4 17.b3 ) 1-0

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.18"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Pace, Anthony"]
[Black "Adriaanse, Adam"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A17"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e6 3.g3 d5 4.Bg2 Be7 5.d3 O-O 6.Nf3 b6 7.Bf4 Bb7
8.O-O c5 9.a3 Nc6 10.Qa4 Qd7 11.Bh3 d4 12.Nb1 Ne5 13.Qxd7 Nxf3+
14.exf3 Nxd7 15.Nd2 g5 16.Bd6 Bxd6 17.Ne4 Be7 18.Rae1 0-1

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.18"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Pace, Chris"]
[Black "Simic, Dusan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E94"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 g6 3.e4 d6 4.d4 Bg7 5.Nf3 O-O 6.Be2 e5 7.O-O Nbd7
8.d5 Nc5 9.Qc2 a5 10.Be3 Nfd7 11.Nd2 f5 12.f3 f4 13.Bf2 g5 14.g4
fxg3 15.hxg3 Nf6 16.Be3 Nh5 17.Kg2 Nd7 18.Rh1 Nf4+ 19.gxf4 exf4
20.Bf2 Ne5 21.Bd4 Qe8 22.Bxe5 Bxe5 23.Nd1 Qg6 24.Nf2 h5 25.Rag1
Kf7 26.Kf1 Bd7 27.c5 Rab8 28.Nc4 Bd4 29.cxd6 cxd6 30.Qd2 Bxf2
31.Kxf2 b5 32.Nxa5 g4 33.Nc6 g3+ 34.Kf1 Qg5 35.Nxb8 Rxb8 36.Rxh5
Qxh5 37.Qxf4+ Ke7 38.Rxg3 Rf8 39.Rg7+ Ke8 40.Qxd6 1-0

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.18"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Sadeghi, Saeid"]
[Black "Yao, Houji"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A45"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 e6 3.Nd2 h6 4.Bh4 c5 5.e3 Nc6 6.Ngf3 d5 7.c3 Bd6
8.Bd3 O-O 9.Rc1 e5 10.dxe5 Nxe5 11.Nxe5 Bxe5 12.Bb1 g5 13.Bg3
Re8 14.O-O Bxg3 15.hxg3 b6 16.Nf3 Qe7 17.Bd3 Bb7 18.Re1 Red8
19.Qe2 Rd6 20.Ba6 Re8 21.Bxb7 Qxb7 22.Qc2 Rde6 23.Red1 Qe7 24.a3
Rd8 25.b4 g4 26.Nh2 Re4 27.Qb3 h5 28.c4 d4 29.exd4 Rdxd4 30.Rxd4
Re1+ 31.Rxe1 Qxe1+ 32.Nf1 cxd4 33.Qd3 Qe4 34.Qd2 Kf8 35.c5 Ke7
36.cxb6 axb6 37.a4 Qd5 38.a5 bxa5 39.bxa5 Kd7 40.a6 Kc7 41.Qf4+ 1-0

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.18"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Tomb, Maroun"]
[Black "Gordon, David"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B20"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Ne2 Nf6 3.Nbc3 Nc6 4.g3 d5 5.exd5 Nxd5 6.Bg2 Nxc3 7.bxc3
e5 8.O-O Be7 9.d3 O-O 10.Be3 Be6 11.c4 Qd7 12.Nc3 Rad8 13.Nd5
Bd6 14.Rb1 b6 15.a4 Bh3 16.Bxh3 Qxh3 17.Qf3 Qd7 18.Bd2 Nd4 19.Qd1
Qxa4 20.Ra1 Qd7 21.Bc3 Nc6 22.Re1 Rfe8 23.Qf3 Re6 24.h4 Rf8 25.h5
f5 26.Kg2 Bb8 27.Re2 Qf7 28.Rh1 Rfe8 29.g4 g6 30.g5 Nd4 31.Bxd4
cxd4 32.Nf6+ Rxf6 33.gxf6 Qxf6 34.Qd5+ Qe6 35.Qb7 Qe7 36.Qc6
Kg7 37.Rh3 e4 38.Kh1 Qe5 39.Re1 Re6 40.Qd7+ Re7 41.Qd8 Bc7 42.Qa8
Bb8 43.hxg6 hxg6 44.Qc6 Rc7 45.Qa8 Re7 46.Qc6 Rc7 47.Qa4 Re7 1/2-1/2

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.18"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Black "Dukic, Zach"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A45"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.g3 c5 3.Nf3 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e5 5.Nb3 d5 6.Bg2 h6 7.O-O
Be7 8.c4 d4 9.e3 dxe3 ( 9...Nc6 10.exd4 exd4 11.N1d2 O-O 12.Nf3
d3 13.Be3 Bg4 14.h3 Bh5 15.Rc1 Rc8 16.Rc3 Bg6 17.Nc1 Qd7 18.a3
Rfd8 19.b4 Be4 20.Nb3 b6 21.Nbd2 Bh7 22.Re1 Ne4 23.Rb3 Bf6 24.Nxe4
Bxe4 25.c5 b5 26.Bf4 Qd5 27.Bd6 Nd4 28.Rxd3 Nxf3+ 29.Rxf3 Qxd1
30.Rxd1 Bxf3 31.Bxf3 Bb2 32.Rb1 Bxa3 33.Bb7 a5 34.Bxc8 Rxc8 35.bxa5
Bxc5 36.Bxc5 Rxc5 37.a6 Rc6 38.Ra1 Rc8 39.Kf1 Kf8 40.Rb1 Ra8
41.Rxb5 {1/2-1/2, Papin Vasily (RUS) 2570 - Zvjaginsev Vadim (RUS) 2680, Olginka (Russia) 2011.04.25}
) 10.Qxd8+ Bxd8 11.Bxe3 Nc6 12.Nc3 Be6 13.Nc5 {Black resigned.}
Z0 ( 13...Bc8 14.Nb5 O-O $8 {Black cannot prevent Nd6.}
( 14...Ke7 15.Nxb7 Bxb7 16.Bc5+ Ke6 17.Nd6 Bb6 18.Nxb7 Bxc5 19.Nxc5+ )
( 14...Be7 15.Nc7+ ) 15.Nd6 Be7 16.Ncxb7 e4 17.b3 ) 1-0




[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.18"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Pace, Anthony"]
[Black "Adriaanse, Adam"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A17"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e6 3.g3 d5 4.Bg2 Be7 5.d3 O-O 6.Nf3 b6 7.Bf4 Bb7
8.O-O c5 9.a3 Nc6 10.Qa4 Qd7 11.Bh3 d4 12.Nb1 Ne5 13.Qxd7 Nxf3+
14.exf3 Nxd7 15.Nd2 g5 16.Bd6 Bxd6 17.Ne4 Be7 18.Rae1 0-1



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.18"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Pace, Chris"]
[Black "Simic, Dusan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E94"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 g6 3.e4 d6 4.d4 Bg7 5.Nf3 O-O 6.Be2 e5 7.O-O Nbd7
8.d5 Nc5 9.Qc2 a5 10.Be3 Nfd7 11.Nd2 f5 12.f3 f4 13.Bf2 g5 14.g4
fxg3 15.hxg3 Nf6 16.Be3 Nh5 17.Kg2 Nd7 18.Rh1 Nf4+ 19.gxf4 exf4
20.Bf2 Ne5 21.Bd4 Qe8 22.Bxe5 Bxe5 23.Nd1 Qg6 24.Nf2 h5 25.Rag1
Kf7 26.Kf1 Bd7 27.c5 Rab8 28.Nc4 Bd4 29.cxd6 cxd6 30.Qd2 Bxf2
31.Kxf2 b5 32.Nxa5 g4 33.Nc6 g3+ 34.Kf1 Qg5 35.Nxb8 Rxb8 36.Rxh5
Qxh5 37.Qxf4+ Ke7 38.Rxg3 Rf8 39.Rg7+ Ke8 40.Qxd6 1-0



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.18"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Sadeghi, Saeid"]
[Black "Yao, Houji"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A45"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 e6 3.Nd2 h6 4.Bh4 c5 5.e3 Nc6 6.Ngf3 d5 7.c3 Bd6
8.Bd3 O-O 9.Rc1 e5 10.dxe5 Nxe5 11.Nxe5 Bxe5 12.Bb1 g5 13.Bg3
Re8 14.O-O Bxg3 15.hxg3 b6 16.Nf3 Qe7 17.Bd3 Bb7 18.Re1 Red8
19.Qe2 Rd6 20.Ba6 Re8 21.Bxb7 Qxb7 22.Qc2 Rde6 23.Red1 Qe7 24.a3
Rd8 25.b4 g4 26.Nh2 Re4 27.Qb3 h5 28.c4 d4 29.exd4 Rdxd4 30.Rxd4
Re1+ 31.Rxe1 Qxe1+ 32.Nf1 cxd4 33.Qd3 Qe4 34.Qd2 Kf8 35.c5 Ke7
36.cxb6 axb6 37.a4 Qd5 38.a5 bxa5 39.bxa5 Kd7 40.a6 Kc7 41.Qf4+ 1-0



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.18"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Tomb, Maroun"]
[Black "Gordon, David"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B20"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Ne2 Nf6 3.Nbc3 Nc6 4.g3 d5 5.exd5 Nxd5 6.Bg2 Nxc3 7.bxc3
e5 8.O-O Be7 9.d3 O-O 10.Be3 Be6 11.c4 Qd7 12.Nc3 Rad8 13.Nd5
Bd6 14.Rb1 b6 15.a4 Bh3 16.Bxh3 Qxh3 17.Qf3 Qd7 18.Bd2 Nd4 19.Qd1
Qxa4 20.Ra1 Qd7 21.Bc3 Nc6 22.Re1 Rfe8 23.Qf3 Re6 24.h4 Rf8 25.h5
f5 26.Kg2 Bb8 27.Re2 Qf7 28.Rh1 Rfe8 29.g4 g6 30.g5 Nd4 31.Bxd4
cxd4 32.Nf6+ Rxf6 33.gxf6 Qxf6 34.Qd5+ Qe6 35.Qb7 Qe7 36.Qc6
Kg7 37.Rh3 e4 38.Kh1 Qe5 39.Re1 Re6 40.Qd7+ Re7 41.Qd8 Bc7 42.Qa8
Bb8 43.hxg6 hxg6 44.Qc6 Rc7 45.Qa8 Re7 46.Qc6 Rc7 47.Qa4 Re7 1/2-1/2

[Halldor P. Palsson]

2018 National Capital Open: 2018 National Capital Open
# Place Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot
1 1 Bator Sambuev 2559 W12 W6 W9 W4 W5 5.0 $550
2 2 David Gordon 2267 W14 D8 W19 D3 W4 4.0 $320
3 3 Maroun Tomb 2302 W13 W7 L4 D2 W12 3.5 $160
4 4-10 Zachary Dukic 2314 W10 W5 W3 L1 L2 3.0
5 Christopher Pace 2247 W18 L4 W21 W8 L1 3.0
6 Francesco Dunne 2224 W16 L1 D10 H--- W15 3.0
7 Adam Adriaanse 2180 W20 L3 D15 W19 D10 3.0
8 Dusan Simic 2162 W21 D2 H--- L5 W17 3.0
9 Houji Yao 2147 W22 W11 L1 L12 W16 3.0 $100 U2200
10 Rachel Miller 2048 L4 W20 D6 W22 D7 3.0 $100 U2050
11 11-13 Jim Monaghan 2212 D19 L9 D13 D17 W18 2.5
12 Saeid Sadeghi 2121 L1 W16 D22 W9 L3 2.5
13 Ramon J. Cova 2015 L3 H--- D11 H--- W21 2.5
14 14-16 Ehab Mohamed 1992 L2 L21 L16 B--- W22 2.0
15 Amos Kuttner 1974 H--- H--- D7 H--- L6 2.0
16 Jake Van Rooy 1969 L6 L12 W14 W20 L9 2.0
17 17-22 Christian Collins 2028 H--- L19 D18 D11 L8 1.5
18 Etienne Latreille 1975 L5 H--- D17 D21 L11 1.5
19 Anthony Pace 1918 D11 W17 L2 L7 U--- 1.5
20 Ehsan Forouzandeh 1906 L7 L10 H--- L16 B--- 1.5
21 Alexandre Khan 1835 L8 W14 L5 D18 L13 1.5
22 Abdelaziz Mahdjoubi 1759 L9 B--- D12 L10 L14 1.5




2018 National Capital Open: 2018 National Capital U1900
# Place Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot
1 1 Daniel Labib 1446 B--- W11 W4 W6 D3 4.5 $360
2 2-5 Dan Kearnan 1868 W14 L6 W10 D9 W15 3.5 $133.33
3 Ray Kuryliw 1780 D18 D7 W14 W15 D1 3.5 $133.33
4 Randika Balasooriya 1779 W25 W13 L1 W18 D7 3.5 $133.33
5 William Landstrom 1511 L22 W24 W25 D7 W10 3.5 U1750 $140
6 6-9 Simon Perkins 1720 W26 W2 W21 L1 U--- 3.0
7 Herb Langer 1705 H--- D3 W16 D5 D4 3.0
8 Alwin Ning 1602 H--- D23 L11 W16 W18 3.0
9 Sanjay Ramesh 1549 L21 W25 W23 D2 D11 3.0
10 10-15 Kamal Balazadeh 1792 W17 D21 L2 W11 L5 2.5
11 Jacob Krolczyk 1745 W24 L1 W8 L10 D9 2.5
12 Ted Hsu 1744 H--- D16 L18 W21 D17 2.5
13 Spencer Martin 1683 W20 L4 H--- W22 U--- 2.5
14 Pierre Maheux 1676 L2 W26 L3 D17 W21 2.5
15 Jeremy Sztuka 1623 D23 W17 W22 L3 L2 2.5
16 16-20 Lawrence [Larry] Ju 1799 H--- D12 L7 L8 W25 2.0
17 Fernando Echavarria-Hidalgo 1675 L10 L15 W26 D14 D12 2.0
18 Anthony Masse-Garneau 1668 D3 H--- W12 L4 L8 2.0
19 Gerard Felderhof 1557 U--- U--- W24 U--- W26 2.0
20 Nicolas Dupont-Mageau 1500 L13 H--- H--- W23 U--- 2.0
21 21-22 Alexander Stopic 1711 W9 D10 L6 L12 L14 1.5
22 Alex Danilov 1699 W5 H--- L15 L13 U--- 1.5
23 23-24 Marcel Laurin 1751 D15 D8 L9 L20 U--- 1.0
24 Guy Piche 1614 L11 L5 L19 B--- U--- 1.0
25 25-26 Rene Poulin 1638 L4 L9 L5 D26 L16 0.5
26 Oswin Ning 1571 L6 L14 L17 D25 L19 0.5




2018 National Capital Open: 2018 National Capital U1600
# Place Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot
1 1 Romy Peters 1488 W17 W3 W4 D2 W7 4.5 $260
2 2-4 Michael Shi 1575 W20 W8 W11 D1 D5 4.0 $140
3 Raf Adrik de Leon 1229 W22 L1 W15 W8 W9 4.0 $140
4 Derek Wang 1183 W24 W12 L1 W11 W15 4.0 U1300 $100
5 5 Victor Samuel 1380 H--- W18 W19 D7 D2 3.5
6 6-10 Milos Petrovic 1327 D15 L16 W26 D19 W17 3.0
7 Daniel Wang 1271 D19 W26 W16 D5 L1 3.0
8 Jeremie Kimble 1207 W10 L2 W17 L3 W19 3.0
9 Pierre Arcand 1175 W25 L11 W14 W12 L3 3.0
10 Dalton Alleyne unr. L8 W21 D13 W18 D14 3.0
11 11-16 Justin Jean 1454 W21 W9 L2 L4 D13 2.5
12 John I.F. Lukezich 1453 W14 L4 H--- L9 W24 2.5
13 Rami Labib 1118 H--- L15 D10 W20 D11 2.5
14 John Hay 1038 L12 W24 L9 W21 D10 2.5
15 Jinglai He 919 D6 W13 L3 W23 L4 2.5
16 Zakia Irfan 876 H--- W6 L7 L17 W23 2.5
17 17-19 Emil Wang 1102 L1 W22 L8 W16 L6 2.0
18 Nafisa Bano 1066 H--- L5 W25 L10 D20 2.0
19 Rut Jurry de Leon 904 D7 W20 L5 D6 L8 2.0
20 20-24 Sandy-Rose Bilodeau-Savaria 1122 L2 L19 W22 L13 D18 1.5
21 Dave Westbury 1093 L11 L10 D24 L14 W26 1.5
22 Surya Suthakar 784 L3 L17 L20 H--- W25 1.5
23 Noah Green unr. H--- H--- H--- L15 L16 1.5
24 Zaden Hickman unr. L4 L14 D21 W26 L12 1.5
25 25 Myles Would unr. L9 H--- L18 H--- L22 1.0
26 26 Sabia Irfan 716 H--- L7 L6 L24 L21 0.5

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.18"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Dupont-Mageau, Nicolas"]
[Black "Laurin, Marcel"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B06"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 d6 2.d4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.Be3 a6 5.Bc4 e6 6.Qd2 h6 7.f4 b5
8.Bb3 Bb7 9.a3 Ne7 10.Nf3 Nd7 11.O-O-O Nb6 12.d5 Nc4 13.Bxc4
bxc4 14.Bd4 Bxd4 15.Qxd4 O-O 16.Qxc4 exd5 17.Nxd5 Bxd5 18.exd5
Nf5 19.Qc3 Re8 20.Rhe1 Rb8 21.a4 Ne7 22.b3 Qd7 23.h3 Qf5 24.Qd2
Rb6 25.g4 Qf6 26.Qd4 Qxd4 27.Rxd4 c5 28.dxc6 Rxc6 29.Rde4 Kf8
30.Nd4 Rc7 31.f5 Rec8 32.fxg6 Nxg6 33.Rf1 Ne5 34.Ne6+ Ke7 35.Nxc7
Rxc7 36.Kd2 Ke6 37.c4 d5 38.cxd5+ Kxd5 39.Rff4 Nf3+ 40.Ke2 Ng5
41.Rd4+ Ke5 42.Rc4 Re7 43.Rf5+ Kd6+ 44.Kd3 Nxh3 45.Rf6+ Ke5 46.Rf3
Rd7+ 47.Ke3 Ng5 48.Rf5+ Ke6 49.Rc6+ Ke7 50.Rxa6 Ne6 51.Rh5 Rb7
52.Rb5 Rc7 53.Rab6 Rc3+ 54.Kd2 Rg3 55.Rb7+ Kf8 56.Rh5 Kg7 57.Rf5
Ng5 58.Rf4 Rg2+ 59.Kc1 Re2 60.a5 Re6 61.Rb6 Re5 62.a6 Ra5 63.Ra4
Rc5+ 64.Kb2 Ne6 65.Rxe6 fxe6 66.a7 1-0

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.18"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Pace, Chris"]
[Black "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A25"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.g3 g6 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.e3 Nge7 6.Nge2 O-O 7.d4
exd4 8.exd4 d6 9.O-O Bg4 10.h3 Bxe2 11.Nxe2 Nf5 12.Bxc6
( 12.d5 Ne5 13.Qc2 Re8 14.Bd2 a5 {=} ) bxc6 13.Qd3 Re8 14.g4
Qe7 15.Rd1 Qxe2 16.Qxe2 Rxe2 17.gxf5 Rae8 18.Kf1 Rc2 19.Be3 gxf5
20.b3 Re4 0-1

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.18"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Sadeghi, Saeid"]
[Black "Tomb, Maroun"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C41"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 d6 2.e4 Nf6 3.Nc3 e5 4.dxe5 dxe5 5.Qxd8+ Kxd8 6.Bg5 Be6
7.O-O-O+ Kc8 8.f3 Nbd7 9.Nd5 c6 10.Nxf6 gxf6 11.Be3 h5 12.Kb1
Bc5 13.Bxc5 Nxc5 14.Nh3 Kc7 15.Nf2 h4 16.Nd3 Nd7 17.Be2 Rag8
18.Rhg1 Rg7 19.f4 Rhg8 20.Bf3 Bg4 21.Bxg4 Rxg4 22.Rd2 h3 23.g3
exf4 24.Nxf4 Rxf4 25.Rgd1 Rxe4 26.Rxd7+ Kb6 27.Kc1 Rge8 28.R7d2
Re2 29.Rf1 Re1+ 30.Rxe1 Rxe1+ 31.Rd1 Re2 32.Rd2 Rg2 33.Kd1 Kc5
34.Ke1 Rxd2 35.Kxd2 Kd4 36.Ke2 Ke4 37.Kf2 f5 38.Ke2 f6 39.Kf2
c5 40.c4 b6 41.b3 a6 42.a4 a5 43.Ke2 f4 44.gxf4 Kxf4 45.Kf2 f5
46.Ke2 Ke4 47.Kf2 f4 48.Z0 ( 48.Ke2 f3+ 49.Kf2 Kf4 50.Kf1 Ke3
51.Ke1 f2+ 52.Kf1 Kf3 53.b4 cxb4 54.c5 b3 55.c6 b2 56.c7 b1Q# ) 0-1

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.11.18"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Yao, Houji"]
[Black "Van Rooy, Jake"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B00"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 b6 2.d4 Bb7 3.Nc3 e6 4.Bd3 Bb4 5.Nge2 Nf6 6.a3 Be7 7.Be3
d6 8.f3 O-O 9.Qd2 d5 10.e5 Nfd7 11.Nd1 c5 12.c3 Ba6 13.Bxa6 Nxa6
14.b4 c4 15.O-O Nc7 16.Nf2 a5 17.Nh3 axb4 18.axb4 Nb5 19.g4 Qc7
20.Ng3 Rxa1 21.Rxa1 Qb7 22.f4 Ra8 23.Rc1 Ra3 24.f5 Qa8 25.Nf4
Ra2 26.Qe1 g6 27.fxe6 fxe6 28.Nxe6 Nxe5 29.dxe5 d4 30.Bf2 d3
31.Qe3 Qc6 32.Nd4 Nxd4 33.Qxd4 Bg5 34.Rf1 b5 35.Ne4 Be7 36.Be3
Re2 37.Bh6 Rxe4 38.Qd8+ Bxd8 39.Rf8# 1-0

[Aris Marghetis]

74 players = AWESOME Halldor!