2018 RA December Open, December 7,8,9

[Halldor P. Palsson]

2018 RA December Open
An EOCA Grand Prix Event - http://www.eoca.ca

Date: December 7,8,9, 2018

Place: RA Centre, 2451 Riverside Drive, Ottawa,
Gatineau Rom

Rounds: 5, Friday 7:30 PM Saturday & Sunday @ 10 AM & 3 PM.

Type: Regular Swiss

Sections and prizes are based on projected entries.

Open - (rated FIDE & CFC); 1st $400, 2nd $250 3d $150 U2200 $100, U2050 $100
U 1900 – ( rated CFC); 1st $250, 2nd $150 3rd $100; U1750 $100;
U1600 – (rated CFC) 1st $125, 2nd $75 3rd 50.


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

Entry Fee: Open; $60 if pre-registered, $70 at site;
U1900 $60 if pre-registered, $70 at site;
U1600 $40 if pre-registered, $50 at site

Amateur $30 (not eligible for prizes) and for those playing 3 rounds or less.
Free entry for GM/WGM & IM/WIM. NM $50 if registered before December 6th.
GM Sambuev is playing.

C.F.C. membership is required. FQE=CFC membership.

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

Prizes: $$BEN

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

Registration: Cheque by November 30, 2018 to:
Halldor P. Palsson, 633 Island Park Cr.,Ottawa, Ont. K1Y 3P4 or e-mail fs889@ncf.ca

or register in person at the RA Chess Club, November 29 or December 6, 7:00-7:30 PM

Use the RA Chess Club pieces & clocks or if you prefer bring your own.

[Halldor P. Palsson]

Please e-mail your entries ahead of time to fs889@ncf.ca.

We are in the Gatineau Room. We also have the Laurentian Room assigned to us for the weekend for skittles.

2018 RA December Open

# Name/Rtng/ID Rd 1
1 Bator Sambuev B 7
2559 146462 (4128290)
2 Olivier Kenta Chiku-Ratte W 8
2410 148376 (2614782)
3 Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux B 11
2352 155300 (2620049)
4 Zachary Dukic W 12
2331 149507 (2617188)
5 Svitlana Demchenko B 13
2329 156853 (14149893)
6 David Gordon W 14
2302 7095725
7 John Upper W 1
2212 101925 (2606437)
8 Houji Yao B 2
2159 148322 (2614871)
9 Saeid Sadeghi bye
2134 139655 (2606810)
10 Fan Yang bye
2134 155485 (2626055)
11 Daniel Xu W 3
2088 160020 (2627345)
12 Danail Donev B 4
2007 143574 (2604094)
13 Johnathan Han W 5
1892 161709 (2629631)
14 Abdelaziz Mahdjoubi B 6
1854 155558 (2626071)

2018 RA December U1900

# Name/Rtng/ID Rd 1
1 Dan Kearnan W 9
1866 137473 (2628082)
2 Richard Lemieux B 10
1856 104158
3 Alexandre Khan bye
1854 163542 (2632497)
4 Randika Balasooriya W 12
1805 150499
5 Ray Kuryliw B 13
1782 105482 (2604833)
6 Sanjay Ramesh W 14
1752 162979 (2631270)
7 Alwin Ning B 16
1731 161716
8 Jacob Krolczyk bye
1730 120860 (2618001)
9 Herb Langer B 1
1724 100319 (2617536)
10 Marcel Laurin W 2
1697 100337 (2604906)
11 Jeremy Sztuka bye
1681 162452
12 Fernando Echavarria-Hidalgo B 4
1657 153225 (2617528)
13 William Landstrom W 5
1652 162880
14 Alexander Stopic B 6
1649 160017 (2630036)
15 Alex Danilov bye
1622 101895 (2603926)
16 Johnny Kurkdji W 7
1603

2018 RA December U1600

# Name/Rtng/ID Rd 1
1 Rene Poulin W 9
1578 104280 (2605635)
2 Guy Piche B 10
1565 101378 (2618745)
3 Michael Shi W 12
1555 167348
4 Romy Peters B 13
1522 135706 (2605589)
5 Victor Samuel W 14
1452 112306
6 Oswin Ning B 17
1443 161715
7 John I.F. Lukezich bye
1401 146765 (2620944)
8 Simon Celer-Matas W 18
1391 165088
9 Derek Wang B 1
1328 166573
10 Milos Petrovic W 2
1250 160269
11 Jeremie Kimble bye
1231 157710
12 Pierre Arcand B 3
1161 160146
13 Richard Jeffrey W 4
1128 167974
14 Dave Westbury B 5
1054 158216
15 Andrew Svensson bye
1024 143414
16 Zakia Irfan bye
933 167861
17 Wahida Chowdhury W 6
875 162289
18 Surya Suthakar B 8
848 164039
19 Sabia Irfan bye
727 167862

[Halldor P. Palsson]

Pairings for Round 1.
2018 RA December Open:

1 7 John Upper (2212 0.0) 1 Bator Sambuev (2559 0.0)
2 2 Olivier Kenta Chiku-Ratte (2410 0.0) 8 Houji Yao (2159 0.0)
3 11 Daniel Xu (2088 0.0) 3 Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux (2352 0.0)
4 4 Zachary Dukic (2331 0.0) 12 Danail Donev (2007 0.0)
5 13 Johnathan Han (1892 0.0) 5 Svitlana Demchenko (2329 0.0)
6 6 David Gordon (2302 0.0) 14 Abdelaziz Mahdjoubi (1854 0.0)
9 ½ Saeid Sadeghi (2134 0.0) BYE
10 ½ Fan Yang (2134 0.0) BYE

2018 RA December U1900

Bd # Res White # Res Black
8 1 Dan Kearnan (1866 0.0) 9 Herb Langer (1724 0.0)
9 10 Marcel Laurin (1697 0.0) 2 Richard Lemieux (1856 0.0)
10 4 Randika Balasooriya (1805 0.0) 12 Fernando Echavarria-Hidalgo (1657 0.0)
11 13 William Landstrom (1652 0.0) 5 Ray Kuryliw (1782 0.0)
12 6 Sanjay Ramesh (1752 0.0) 14 Alexander Stopic (1649 0.0)
13 16 Johnny Kurkdji (1603 0.0) 7 Alwin Ning (1731 0.0)
15 1 Alex Danilov (1622 0.0) BYE (PAB)
3 ½ Alexandre Khan (1854 0.0) BYE
8 ½ Jacob Krolczyk (1730 0.0) BYE
11 ½ Jeremy Sztuka (1681 0.0) BYE

2018 RA December U1600

Bd # Res White # Res Black
16 1 Rene Poulin (1578 0.0) 9 Derek Wang (1328 0.0)
17 10 Milos Petrovic (1250 0.0) 2 Guy Piche (1565 0.0)
18 3 Michael Shi (1555 0.0) 12 Pierre Arcand (1161 0.0)
19 13 Richard Jeffrey (1128 0.0) 4 Romy Peters (1522 0.0)
20 5 Victor Samuel (1452 0.0) 14 Dave Westbury (1054 0.0)
21 17 Wahida Chowdhury (875 0.0) 6 Oswin Ning (1443 0.0)
22 8 Simon Celer-Matas (1391 0.0) 18 Surya Suthakar (848 0.0)
7 ½ John I.F. Lukezich (1401 0.0) BYE
11 ½ Jeremie Kimble (1231 0.0) BYE
15 ½ Andrew Svensson (1024 0.0) BYE
16 ½ Zakia Irfan (933 0.0) BYE
19 ½ Sabia Irfan (727 0.0) BYE

[Halldor P. Palsson]

2018 RA December Open
Bd # Res White # Res Black
1 1 Bator Sambuev (2559 1.0) 4 Zachary Dukic (2331 1.0)
2 5 Svitlana Demchenko (2329 1.0) 2 Olivier Kenta Chiku-Ratte (2410 1.0)
3 3 Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux (2352 0.5) 6 David Gordon (2302 1.0)
4 9 Saeid Sadeghi (2134 0.5) 11 Daniel Xu (2088 0.5)
5 8 Houji Yao (2159 0.0) 13 Johnathan Han (1892 0.0)
6 12 Danail Donev (2007 0.0) 14 Abdelaziz Mahdjoubi (1854 0.0)
7 ½ John Upper (2212 0.0) BYE
10 ½ Fan Yang (2134 0.5) BYE

2018 RA December U1900

Bd # Res White # Res Black
8 7 Alwin Ning (1731 1.0) 1 Dan Kearnan (1866 1.0)
9 2 Richard Lemieux (1856 1.0) 6 Sanjay Ramesh (1752 1.0)
10 12 Fernando Echavarria-Hidalgo (1657 0.5) 3 Alexandre Khan (1854 0.5)
11 8 Jacob Krolczyk (1730 0.5) 4 Randika Balasooriya (1805 0.5)
12 5 Ray Kuryliw (1782 0.5) 11 Jeremy Sztuka (1681 0.5)
13 9 Herb Langer (1724 0.0) 13 William Landstrom (1652 0.5)
14 14 Alexander Stopic (1649 0.0) 10 Marcel Laurin (1697 0.0)
16 1 Johnny Kurkdji (1603 0.0) BYE (PAB)
15 ½ Alex Danilov (1622 1.0) BYE

2018 RA December U1600
Bd # Res White # Res Black
16 2 Guy Piche (1565 1.0) 8 Simon Celer-Matas (1391 1.0)
17 6 Oswin Ning (1443 1.0) 3 Michael Shi (1555 1.0)
18 9 Derek Wang (1328 1.0) 5 Victor Samuel (1452 1.0)
19 7 John I.F. Lukezich (1401 0.5) 16 Zakia Irfan (933 0.5)
20 11 Jeremie Kimble (1231 0.5) 19 Sabia Irfan (727 0.5)
21 4 Romy Peters (1522 0.5) 1 Rene Poulin (1578 0.0)
22 14 Dave Westbury (1054 0.0) 10 Milos Petrovic (1250 0.0)
23 12 Pierre Arcand (1161 0.0) 18 Surya Suthakar (848 0.0)
13 ½ Richard Jeffrey (1128 0.5) BYE
15 ½ Andrew Svensson (1024 0.5) BYE
17 ½ Wahida Chowdhury (875 0.0) BYE

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.07"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Xu, Daniel"]
[Black "Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E11"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Bb4+ 4.Bd2 a5 5.a3 Bxd2+ 6.Nbxd2 d6 7.e3
O-O 8.Bd3 Qe7 9.Ne4 Nbd7 10.O-O b6 11.Nxf6+ Nxf6 12.Qc2 Bb7 13.Ng5
h6 14.Nh7 Rfd8 15.Nxf6+ Qxf6 16.Bh7+ Kh8 17.Be4 Bxe4 18.Qxe4
c5 19.Rfd1 d5 20.cxd5 exd5 21.Qe5 Qxe5 22.dxe5 Ra7 23.Rd3 Re7
24.f4 g5 25.g3 Kg7 26.Rad1 Red7 27.Rb3 Rb7 28.Rbd3 Rbd7 29.Rb3 1/2-1/2

[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.07"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Upper, John"]
[Black "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A25"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.e3 g6 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.d4 d6 6.dxe5 Nxe5 7.Nxe5
Bxe5 8.Bd2 Ne7 9.Be2 O-O 10.O-O Nf5 11.Rc1 c6 12.b3 Re8 13.g3
h5 14.Bf3 h4 15.Ne2 hxg3 16.hxg3 Ng7 17.Nf4 Ne6 18.Nxe6 Bxe6
19.Bc3 Qf6 20.Bxe5 dxe5 21.Qe2 a5 22.Rfd1 Kg7 23.Bg4 Rh8 24.Kg2
Bxg4 25.Qxg4 Rh2+ 26.Kxh2 Qxf2+ 27.Kh3 Rh8+ 28.Qh4 Rxh4+ 29.gxh4
Qxe3+ 0-1

[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.07"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Han, Jonathan"]
[Black "Demchenko, Svitlana"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B43"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be3 Nf6 7.f3
Nc6 8.Qd2 Be7 9.O-O-O h5 10.Be2 b5 11.Nb3 Ne5 12.g3 Bb7 13.Rdg1
d5 14.exd5 Nxd5 15.Bd4 Nxc3 16.Qxc3 Qxc3 17.Bxc3 Nxf3 18.Rd1
f6 19.Na5 Be4 20.a3 Rc8 21.Bd3 Bd5 22.Bb4 h4 23.g4 h3 24.Bf1
Nd4 25.Rxd4 Bxh1 26.a4 e5 0-1

[Event "RA December U1900"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.07"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Laurin, Marcel"]
[Black "Lemieux, Richard"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A51"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5 3.d5 Bc5 4.e3 d6 5.Bd2 Bf5 6.Nc3 Nbd7 7.Be2
O-O 8.h3 Bg6 9.Nf3 e4 10.Nh2 Ne5 11.O-O Nfd7 12.Na4 f5 13.b4
b5 14.Nb2 Bb6 15.cxb5 Nb8 16.a4 a6 17.bxa6 Nxa6 18.a5 Ba7 19.Bxa6
f4 20.exf4 Qh4 21.Be3 Bh5 22.Qd2 Nf3+ 23.gxf3 Qxh3 24.Be2 Rf6
25.f5 exf3 26.Bxf3 Bxf3 27.Nxf3 Qxf3 28.Qd1 Qh3 29.Bxa7 Rh6 0-1

[Event "RA December Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.07"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Dukic, Zach"]
[Black "Donev, Danail"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B96"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4
Qc7 8.Qe2 b5 9.e5 dxe5 10.fxe5 Bb4 11.O-O-O Bxc3 12.exf6 gxf6
13.Nf5 Be5 14.Bh4 Nc6 15.Ng7+ Kf8 16.Nh5 Bb7 17.Qd2 Rc8 18.Qh6+
Ke8 19.Bxf6 Nd4 20.c3 Bd5 21.Rxd4 Bxd4 22.Bxd4 Rf8 23.Nf6+ Ke7
24.Qg5 1-0

[Event "RA December Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.07"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Chiku-Ratte, Olivier Kenta"]
[Black "Yao, Houji"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D85"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.e4 Nxc3 7.bxc3
c5 8.Rb1 O-O 9.Be2 cxd4 10.cxd4 Qa5+ 11.Bd2 Qxa2 12.O-O Bg4 13.Bg5
Nc6 14.d5 Na5 15.h3 Bd7 16.Qd3 b6 17.Bxe7 Rfc8 18.Bb4 Nc4 19.Nd4
Qa6 20.f4 b5 21.Kh1 Qb6 22.e5 a5 23.Be7 Rab8 24.Bf3 b4 25.Nc6
Bxc6 26.dxc6 Ne3 27.Rfc1 Nf5 28.Bc5 Qb5 29.Qxb5 Rxb5 30.g4 Nh4
31.Be2 1-0

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.07"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Xu, Daniel"]
[Black "Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E11"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Bb4+ 4.Bd2 a5 5.a3 Bxd2+ 6.Nbxd2 d6 7.e3
O-O 8.Bd3 Qe7 9.Ne4 Nbd7 10.O-O b6 11.Nxf6+ Nxf6 12.Qc2 Bb7 13.Ng5
h6 14.Nh7 Rfd8 15.Nxf6+ Qxf6 16.Bh7+ Kh8 17.Be4 Bxe4 18.Qxe4
c5 19.Rfd1 d5 20.cxd5 exd5 21.Qe5 Qxe5 22.dxe5 Ra7 23.Rd3 Re7
24.f4 g5 25.g3 Kg7 26.Rad1 Red7 27.Rb3 Rb7 28.Rbd3 Rbd7 29.Rb3 1/2-1/2



[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.07"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Upper, John"]
[Black "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A25"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.e3 g6 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.d4 d6 6.dxe5 Nxe5 7.Nxe5
Bxe5 8.Bd2 Ne7 9.Be2 O-O 10.O-O Nf5 11.Rc1 c6 12.b3 Re8 13.g3
h5 14.Bf3 h4 15.Ne2 hxg3 16.hxg3 Ng7 17.Nf4 Ne6 18.Nxe6 Bxe6
19.Bc3 Qf6 20.Bxe5 dxe5 21.Qe2 a5 22.Rfd1 Kg7 23.Bg4 Rh8 24.Kg2
Bxg4 25.Qxg4 Rh2+ 26.Kxh2 Qxf2+ 27.Kh3 Rh8+ 28.Qh4 Rxh4+ 29.gxh4
Qxe3+ 0-1




[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.07"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Han, Jonathan"]
[Black "Demchenko, Svitlana"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B43"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be3 Nf6 7.f3
Nc6 8.Qd2 Be7 9.O-O-O h5 10.Be2 b5 11.Nb3 Ne5 12.g3 Bb7 13.Rdg1
d5 14.exd5 Nxd5 15.Bd4 Nxc3 16.Qxc3 Qxc3 17.Bxc3 Nxf3 18.Rd1
f6 19.Na5 Be4 20.a3 Rc8 21.Bd3 Bd5 22.Bb4 h4 23.g4 h3 24.Bf1
Nd4 25.Rxd4 Bxh1 26.a4 e5 0-1



[Event "RA December U1900"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.07"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Laurin, Marcel"]
[Black "Lemieux, Richard"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A51"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e5 3.d5 Bc5 4.e3 d6 5.Bd2 Bf5 6.Nc3 Nbd7 7.Be2
O-O 8.h3 Bg6 9.Nf3 e4 10.Nh2 Ne5 11.O-O Nfd7 12.Na4 f5 13.b4
b5 14.Nb2 Bb6 15.cxb5 Nb8 16.a4 a6 17.bxa6 Nxa6 18.a5 Ba7 19.Bxa6
f4 20.exf4 Qh4 21.Be3 Bh5 22.Qd2 Nf3+ 23.gxf3 Qxh3 24.Be2 Rf6
25.f5 exf3 26.Bxf3 Bxf3 27.Nxf3 Qxf3 28.Qd1 Qh3 29.Bxa7 Rh6 0-1




[Event "RA December Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.07"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Dukic, Zach"]
[Black "Donev, Danail"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B96"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4
Qc7 8.Qe2 b5 9.e5 dxe5 10.fxe5 Bb4 11.O-O-O Bxc3 12.exf6 gxf6
13.Nf5 Be5 14.Bh4 Nc6 15.Ng7+ Kf8 16.Nh5 Bb7 17.Qd2 Rc8 18.Qh6+
Ke8 19.Bxf6 Nd4 20.c3 Bd5 21.Rxd4 Bxd4 22.Bxd4 Rf8 23.Nf6+ Ke7
24.Qg5 1-0



[Event "RA December Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.07"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Chiku-Ratte, Olivier Kenta"]
[Black "Yao, Houji"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D85"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.e4 Nxc3 7.bxc3
c5 8.Rb1 O-O 9.Be2 cxd4 10.cxd4 Qa5+ 11.Bd2 Qxa2 12.O-O Bg4 13.Bg5
Nc6 14.d5 Na5 15.h3 Bd7 16.Qd3 b6 17.Bxe7 Rfc8 18.Bb4 Nc4 19.Nd4
Qa6 20.f4 b5 21.Kh1 Qb6 22.e5 a5 23.Be7 Rab8 24.Bf3 b4 25.Nc6
Bxc6 26.dxc6 Ne3 27.Rfc1 Nf5 28.Bc5 Qb5 29.Qxb5 Rxb5 30.g4 Nh4
31.Be2 1-0

[Halldor P. Palsson]

2018 RA December Open

Bd # Res White # Res Black
1 2 Olivier Kenta Chiku-Ratte (2410 2.0) 1 Bator Sambuev (2559 2.0)
2 4 Zachary Dukic (2331 1.0) 3 Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux (2352 1.5)
3 11 Daniel Xu (2088 1.5) 5 Svitlana Demchenko (2329 1.0)
4 6 David Gordon (2302 1.0) 10 Fan Yang (2134 1.0)
5 14 Abdelaziz Mahdjoubi (1854 1.0) 8 Houji Yao (2159 1.0)
6 9 Saeid Sadeghi (2134 0.5) 7 John Upper (2212 0.5)
7 13 Johnathan Han (1892 0.0) 12 Danail Donev (2007 0.0)

Pairings for Round 3.
2018 RA December U1900

Bd # Res White # Res Black
8 6 Sanjay Ramesh (1752 2.0) 5 Ray Kuryliw (1782 1.5)
9 1 Dan Kearnan (1866 1.5) 8 Jacob Krolczyk (1730 1.5)
10 13 William Landstrom (1652 1.5) 7 Alwin Ning (1731 1.5)
11 10 Marcel Laurin (1697 1.0) 15 Johnny Kurkdji (1603 1.0)
12 3 Alexandre Khan (1854 0.5) 2 Richard Lemieux (1856 1.0)
13 11 Jeremy Sztuka (1681 0.5) 4 Randika Balasooriya (1805 0.5)
14 14 Alexander Stopic (1649 0.0) 9 Herb Langer (1724 0.0)
12 ½ Fernando Echavarria-Hidalgo (1657 1.5) BYE

Pairings for Round 3.
2018 RA December U1600

Bd # Res White # Res Black
16 3 Michael Shi (1555 2.0) 5 Victor Samuel (1452 2.0)
17 19 Sabia Irfan (727 1.5) 2 Guy Piche (1565 1.5)
18 8 Simon Celer-Matas (1391 1.5) 4 Romy Peters (1522 1.5)
19 15 Andrew Svensson (1024 1.0) 6 Oswin Ning (1443 1.0)
20 10 Milos Petrovic (1250 1.0) 13 Richard Jeffrey (1128 1.0)
21 9 Derek Wang (1328 1.0) 11 Jeremie Kimble (1231 0.5)
22 16 Zakia Irfan (933 0.5) 17 Wahida Chowdhury (875 0.5)
23 1 Rene Poulin (1578 0.0) 12 Pierre Arcand (1161 0.5)
14 1 Dave Westbury (1054 0.0) BYE (PAB)
7 ½ John I.F. Lukezich (1401 1.5) BYE
18 ½ Surya Suthakar (848 0.5) BYE

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "RA December U1900"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.08"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Stopic, Alexander"]
[Black "Laurin, Marcel"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A36"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.c4 c5 2.g3 Nc6 3.Bg2 g6 4.Nc3 Bg7 5.e3 Nf6 6.Nge2 d6 7.O-O
Bd7 8.d4 cxd4 9.exd4 Qc8 10.Be3 Bh3 11.Qb3 Bxg2 12.Kxg2 O-O 13.Qc2
Nb4 14.Qb3 Nc6 15.Qc2 Qd7 16.Qd2 d5 17.b3 Rac8 18.c5 Rfd8 19.Bh6
Ne4 20.Nxe4 dxe4 21.Bxg7 Kxg7 22.Rfd1 Qg4 23.Qc3 Qxe2 24.d5+
Kg8 25.Re1 Qf3+ 26.Qxf3 exf3+ 27.Kxf3 Nd4+ 0-1

[Event ""]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.08"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Black "Dukic, Zach"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B20"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.g3 c5 3.c3 g6 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.e4 O-O 6.Ne2 d6 7.O-O Nc6
8.h3 Qc7 9.Be3 Nd7 10.Na3 a6 11.Qd2 b5 12.Nc2 Bb7 13.Bh6 Na5
14.Bxg7 Kxg7 15.b3 Nf6 16.d5 e6 17.g4 exd5 18.exd5 Rae8 19.Ng3
Re5 20.Ne3 Qe7 21.Rae1 {Black resigned.} Z0 ( 21...Qd8 22.f4
Ree8 23.g5 $16 {/+- Black is a lot worse.} ) 1-0

[Event ""]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.08"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Sadeghi, Saeid"]
[Black "Xu, Daniel"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A45"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 Ne4 3.Bf4 c5 4.f3 Qa5+ 5.c3 Nf6 6.d5 Qb6 7.Bc1
e6 8.e4 exd5 9.exd5 Be7 10.Na3 d6 11.Bd3 O-O 12.c4 Qb4+ 13.Kf2
Nbd7 14.f4 a6 15.Qc2 Re8 16.Nf3 Bf8 17.h3 g6 18.Bd2 Qb6 19.Bc3
Nxd5 20.Bxg6 fxg6 21.cxd5 Bg7 22.Nc4 Qc7 23.Bxg7 Kxg7 24.Qc3+
Nf6 25.g4 Kf7 26.Ng5+ Kg7 27.Rae1 Bd7 28.Ne4 ( 28.Nxh7 {+-} )
Rxe4 29.Rxe4 Kf7 30.Re2 b5 31.Ne3 {??} ( 31.Rhe1 Rf8 32.Re7+
Kg8 33.Nd2 {+-} ) Ne4+ 0-1

[Event "RA December Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.08"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn"]
[Black "Gordon, David"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B30"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.g3 Nf6 4.d3 d5 5.Nbd2 e5 6.Bg2 Be7 7.O-O
O-O 8.exd5 Nxd5 9.Nc4 f6 10.Re1 Be6 11.Nh4 Qd7 12.Be4 f5 13.Bg2
Bxh4 14.gxh4 e4 15.dxe4 Ndb4 16.Na3 Qf7 17.exf5 Bxf5 18.Be3 Rad8
19.Qe2 Nxc2 20.Nxc2 Bd3 21.Qg4 Bxc2 22.Bxc5 Rfe8 23.Qg5 h6 24.Qg3
Rd3 25.Qg4 Ne5 26.Qb4 Nf3+ 27.Bxf3 Rxe1+ 28.Rxe1 Qxf3 29.Qc4+
Kh7 30.Be3 Qc6 31.Qxc6 bxc6 32.Bxa7 Rd1 33.Rxd1 Bxd1 34.Kf1 Kg6
35.Bd4 Kf7 36.Ke1 Bg4 37.Kd2 g6 38.Kc3 Ke6 39.h5 Bxh5 40.Bg7
Kd5 41.Bxh6 Kc5 42.a4 Be2 43.Bf4 Bf1 44.Bc7 Be2 45.b4+ Kd5 46.Kd2
Bc4 47.Ke3 Ba6 48.Kf4 Bd3 49.Bb6 Ke6 50.Kg5 Kf7 51.a5 Kg7 52.h4
Bb5 53.f4 Bd3 54.Be3 Kf7 55.f5 Bxf5 56.h5 Kg7 57.h6+ 1-0

[Event "RA December Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.08"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Yao, Houji"]
[Black "Han, Jonathan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B80"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e6 7.f3
Be7 8.g4 b5 9.Qd2 Bb7 10.O-O-O Nc6 11.g5 Nd7 12.h4 Rc8 13.Kb1
Qc7 14.Bh3 Nxd4 15.Bxd4 Ne5 16.Qf2 O-O 17.f4 Nc4 18.Rhe1 e5 19.Bxc8
Rxc8 20.Nd5 Bxd5 21.exd5 exd4 22.Qxd4 Bf8 23.h5 Qd7 24.c3 Qf5+
25.Qe4 Qg4 26.h6 Qh5 27.b3 Nb6 28.Qd4 Rc5 29.Re8 Qg6+ 30.Kb2
a5 31.f5 Qxg5 32.hxg7 Qg2+ 33.Ka1 Qxg7 34.Rg1 f6 35.Rxg7+ Kxg7
36.Qg4+ Kf7 37.Qh5+ Kg7 38.Qg4+ Kf7 39.Rb8 Nxd5 40.Qe4 Ne7 41.Qe6+
Kg7 42.Qxd6 Rxf5 43.Qd8 Ng6 44.Rb7+ Kh6 45.Qd3 Rg5 46.Qh3+ Rh5
47.Qe3+ Rg5 48.Qh3+ Rh5 49.Qe3+ Rg5 50.Rxb5 Ne5 51.Rxa5 Kg6 52.Qe4+
Kh6 53.Ra7 Bg7 54.a4 Ng6 55.Qe3 Ne5 56.a5 Ng4 57.Qf4 Ne5 58.a6
Kg6 59.Qe4+ Kh6 60.Qh1+ Kg6 61.Rxg7+ Kxg7 62.a7 Nc6 63.a8Q Ra5+
64.Qxa5 Nxa5 65.Qd5 1-0

[Event "RA December Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.08"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Demchenko, Svitlana"]
[Black "Chiku-Ratte, Olivier Kenta"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B75"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Be3 Bg7 7.f3
a6 8.Qd2 Nbd7 9.O-O-O h5 10.g3 Qc7 11.h3 b5 12.Rg1 Bb7 13.g4
hxg4 14.hxg4 Nb6 15.Bd3 Nc4 16.Bxc4 Qxc4 17.Nb3 Qc7 18.Bd4 Rc8
19.g5 Nh5 20.Bxg7 Nxg7 21.Qd4 Rh7 22.Rd2 Ne6 23.Qe3 Rh3 24.Ne2
Rh2 25.f4 Qc4 26.f5 Nc5 27.Nxc5 Rxc5 28.fxg6 fxg6 29.Nc3 Rxd2
30.Qxd2 b4 31.Na4 Re5 32.b3 Qxe4 33.Kb1 a5 34.Qh2 Qe3 35.Rg3
Qd4 36.Rg1 Be4 37.Nb2 Rf5 38.Rd1 Qf2 39.Qxf2 Rxf2 40.Rc1 d5 41.Na4
Rg2 42.Nc5 Rxg5 43.Nxe4 dxe4 44.Re1 Re5 45.Kc1 e3 46.Kd1 Kd7
47.Ke2 Rc5 48.Kd1 Rc3 49.Rg1 Rc5 50.Rxg6 e2+ 51.Kxe2 Rxc2+ 52.Kd3
Rxa2 53.Kc4 e6 54.Rg5 Kd6 55.Rb5 Ke7 56.Re5 Kf6 57.Re1 Kf5 58.Rf1+
Ke5 59.Re1+ Kd6 60.Rd1+ Kc6 61.Re1 Rc2+ 62.Kd4 Kd6 63.Ra1 Rc5
64.Ke4 Kc6 65.Kd4 Kb6 66.Re1 e5+ 67.Ke4 Rc3 68.Rb1 a4 69.bxa4
Ka5 70.Kxe5 Rd3 71.Ke4 Rd8 72.Ra1 b3 73.Ke3 Kb4 74.Rb1 Ka3 75.Ra1+
Kb2 76.Rf1 Ka2 77.a5 b2 78.Rf2 Ka1 0-1

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "RA December U1900"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.08"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Stopic, Alexander"]
[Black "Laurin, Marcel"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A36"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.c4 c5 2.g3 Nc6 3.Bg2 g6 4.Nc3 Bg7 5.e3 Nf6 6.Nge2 d6 7.O-O
Bd7 8.d4 cxd4 9.exd4 Qc8 10.Be3 Bh3 11.Qb3 Bxg2 12.Kxg2 O-O 13.Qc2
Nb4 14.Qb3 Nc6 15.Qc2 Qd7 16.Qd2 d5 17.b3 Rac8 18.c5 Rfd8 19.Bh6
Ne4 20.Nxe4 dxe4 21.Bxg7 Kxg7 22.Rfd1 Qg4 23.Qc3 Qxe2 24.d5+
Kg8 25.Re1 Qf3+ 26.Qxf3 exf3+ 27.Kxf3 Nd4+ 0-1



[Event ""]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.08"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Black "Dukic, Zach"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B20"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.g3 c5 3.c3 g6 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.e4 O-O 6.Ne2 d6 7.O-O Nc6
8.h3 Qc7 9.Be3 Nd7 10.Na3 a6 11.Qd2 b5 12.Nc2 Bb7 13.Bh6 Na5
14.Bxg7 Kxg7 15.b3 Nf6 16.d5 e6 17.g4 exd5 18.exd5 Rae8 19.Ng3
Re5 20.Ne3 Qe7 21.Rae1 {Black resigned.} Z0 ( 21...Qd8 22.f4
Ree8 23.g5 $16 {/+- Black is a lot worse.} ) 1-0




[Event ""]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.08"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Sadeghi, Saeid"]
[Black "Xu, Daniel"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A45"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 Ne4 3.Bf4 c5 4.f3 Qa5+ 5.c3 Nf6 6.d5 Qb6 7.Bc1
e6 8.e4 exd5 9.exd5 Be7 10.Na3 d6 11.Bd3 O-O 12.c4 Qb4+ 13.Kf2
Nbd7 14.f4 a6 15.Qc2 Re8 16.Nf3 Bf8 17.h3 g6 18.Bd2 Qb6 19.Bc3
Nxd5 20.Bxg6 fxg6 21.cxd5 Bg7 22.Nc4 Qc7 23.Bxg7 Kxg7 24.Qc3+
Nf6 25.g4 Kf7 26.Ng5+ Kg7 27.Rae1 Bd7 28.Ne4 ( 28.Nxh7 {+-} )
Rxe4 29.Rxe4 Kf7 30.Re2 b5 31.Ne3 {??} ( 31.Rhe1 Rf8 32.Re7+
Kg8 33.Nd2 {+-} ) Ne4+ 0-1



[Event "RA December Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.08"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn"]
[Black "Gordon, David"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B30"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.g3 Nf6 4.d3 d5 5.Nbd2 e5 6.Bg2 Be7 7.O-O
O-O 8.exd5 Nxd5 9.Nc4 f6 10.Re1 Be6 11.Nh4 Qd7 12.Be4 f5 13.Bg2
Bxh4 14.gxh4 e4 15.dxe4 Ndb4 16.Na3 Qf7 17.exf5 Bxf5 18.Be3 Rad8
19.Qe2 Nxc2 20.Nxc2 Bd3 21.Qg4 Bxc2 22.Bxc5 Rfe8 23.Qg5 h6 24.Qg3
Rd3 25.Qg4 Ne5 26.Qb4 Nf3+ 27.Bxf3 Rxe1+ 28.Rxe1 Qxf3 29.Qc4+
Kh7 30.Be3 Qc6 31.Qxc6 bxc6 32.Bxa7 Rd1 33.Rxd1 Bxd1 34.Kf1 Kg6
35.Bd4 Kf7 36.Ke1 Bg4 37.Kd2 g6 38.Kc3 Ke6 39.h5 Bxh5 40.Bg7
Kd5 41.Bxh6 Kc5 42.a4 Be2 43.Bf4 Bf1 44.Bc7 Be2 45.b4+ Kd5 46.Kd2
Bc4 47.Ke3 Ba6 48.Kf4 Bd3 49.Bb6 Ke6 50.Kg5 Kf7 51.a5 Kg7 52.h4
Bb5 53.f4 Bd3 54.Be3 Kf7 55.f5 Bxf5 56.h5 Kg7 57.h6+ 1-0



[Event "RA December Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.08"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Yao, Houji"]
[Black "Han, Jonathan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B80"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e6 7.f3
Be7 8.g4 b5 9.Qd2 Bb7 10.O-O-O Nc6 11.g5 Nd7 12.h4 Rc8 13.Kb1
Qc7 14.Bh3 Nxd4 15.Bxd4 Ne5 16.Qf2 O-O 17.f4 Nc4 18.Rhe1 e5 19.Bxc8
Rxc8 20.Nd5 Bxd5 21.exd5 exd4 22.Qxd4 Bf8 23.h5 Qd7 24.c3 Qf5+
25.Qe4 Qg4 26.h6 Qh5 27.b3 Nb6 28.Qd4 Rc5 29.Re8 Qg6+ 30.Kb2
a5 31.f5 Qxg5 32.hxg7 Qg2+ 33.Ka1 Qxg7 34.Rg1 f6 35.Rxg7+ Kxg7
36.Qg4+ Kf7 37.Qh5+ Kg7 38.Qg4+ Kf7 39.Rb8 Nxd5 40.Qe4 Ne7 41.Qe6+
Kg7 42.Qxd6 Rxf5 43.Qd8 Ng6 44.Rb7+ Kh6 45.Qd3 Rg5 46.Qh3+ Rh5
47.Qe3+ Rg5 48.Qh3+ Rh5 49.Qe3+ Rg5 50.Rxb5 Ne5 51.Rxa5 Kg6 52.Qe4+
Kh6 53.Ra7 Bg7 54.a4 Ng6 55.Qe3 Ne5 56.a5 Ng4 57.Qf4 Ne5 58.a6
Kg6 59.Qe4+ Kh6 60.Qh1+ Kg6 61.Rxg7+ Kxg7 62.a7 Nc6 63.a8Q Ra5+
64.Qxa5 Nxa5 65.Qd5 1-0



[Event "RA December Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.08"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Demchenko, Svitlana"]
[Black "Chiku-Ratte, Olivier Kenta"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B75"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Be3 Bg7 7.f3
a6 8.Qd2 Nbd7 9.O-O-O h5 10.g3 Qc7 11.h3 b5 12.Rg1 Bb7 13.g4
hxg4 14.hxg4 Nb6 15.Bd3 Nc4 16.Bxc4 Qxc4 17.Nb3 Qc7 18.Bd4 Rc8
19.g5 Nh5 20.Bxg7 Nxg7 21.Qd4 Rh7 22.Rd2 Ne6 23.Qe3 Rh3 24.Ne2
Rh2 25.f4 Qc4 26.f5 Nc5 27.Nxc5 Rxc5 28.fxg6 fxg6 29.Nc3 Rxd2
30.Qxd2 b4 31.Na4 Re5 32.b3 Qxe4 33.Kb1 a5 34.Qh2 Qe3 35.Rg3
Qd4 36.Rg1 Be4 37.Nb2 Rf5 38.Rd1 Qf2 39.Qxf2 Rxf2 40.Rc1 d5 41.Na4
Rg2 42.Nc5 Rxg5 43.Nxe4 dxe4 44.Re1 Re5 45.Kc1 e3 46.Kd1 Kd7
47.Ke2 Rc5 48.Kd1 Rc3 49.Rg1 Rc5 50.Rxg6 e2+ 51.Kxe2 Rxc2+ 52.Kd3
Rxa2 53.Kc4 e6 54.Rg5 Kd6 55.Rb5 Ke7 56.Re5 Kf6 57.Re1 Kf5 58.Rf1+
Ke5 59.Re1+ Kd6 60.Rd1+ Kc6 61.Re1 Rc2+ 62.Kd4 Kd6 63.Ra1 Rc5
64.Ke4 Kc6 65.Kd4 Kb6 66.Re1 e5+ 67.Ke4 Rc3 68.Rb1 a4 69.bxa4
Ka5 70.Kxe5 Rd3 71.Ke4 Rd8 72.Ra1 b3 73.Ke3 Kb4 74.Rb1 Ka3 75.Ra1+
Kb2 76.Rf1 Ka2 77.a5 b2 78.Rf2 Ka1 0-1

[Halldor P. Palsson]

2018 RA December Open

Bd # Res White # Res Black
1 1 Bator Sambuev (2559 2.5) 6 David Gordon (2302 2.0)
2 4 Zachary Dukic (2331 2.0) 2 Olivier Kenta Chiku-Ratte (2410 2.5)
3 5 Svitlana Demchenko (2329 2.0) 7 John Upper (2212 1.5)
4 3 Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux (2352 1.5) 14 Abdelaziz Mahdjoubi (1854 1.5)
5 8 Houji Yao (2159 1.5) 11 Daniel Xu (2088 1.5)
6 10 Fan Yang (2134 1.0) 12 Danail Donev (2007 1.0)
7 13 Johnathan Han (1892 0.0) 9 Saeid Sadeghi (2134 0.5)

Pairings for Round 4.
2018 RA December U1900

Bd # Res White # Res Black
8 5 Ray Kuryliw (1782 2.5) 1 Dan Kearnan (1866 2.5)
9 7 Alwin Ning (1731 2.5) 6 Sanjay Ramesh (1752 2.0)
10 2 Richard Lemieux (1856 1.5) 12 Fernando Echavarria-Hidalgo (1657 2.0)
11 4 Randika Balasooriya (1805 1.5) 10 Marcel Laurin (1697 1.5)
12 15 Johnny Kurkdji (1603 1.5) 13 William Landstrom (1652 1.5)
13 8 Jacob Krolczyk (1730 1.5) 14 Alexander Stopic (1649 1.0)
14 11 Jeremy Sztuka (1681 0.5) 3 Alexandre Khan (1854 1.0)
9 1 Herb Langer (1724 0.0) BYE (PAB)

2018 RA December U1600
Bd # Res White # Res Black
16 2 Guy Piche (1565 2.5) 3 Michael Shi (1555 2.5)
17 5 Victor Samuel (1452 2.5) 7 John I.F. Lukezich (1401 2.0)
18 4 Romy Peters (1522 2.0) 9 Derek Wang (1328 2.0)
19 6 Oswin Ning (1443 2.0) 8 Simon Celer-Matas (1391 2.0)
20 16 Zakia Irfan (933 1.5) 10 Milos Petrovic (1250 2.0)
21 13 Richard Jeffrey (1128 1.0) 19 Sabia Irfan (727 1.5)
22 18 Surya Suthakar (848 1.0) 1 Rene Poulin (1578 1.0)
23 14 Dave Westbury (1054 1.0) 15 Andrew Svensson (1024 1.0)
12 1 Pierre Arcand (1161 0.5) BYE (PAB)
17 ½ Wahida Chowdhury (875 0.5) BYE

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "RA December Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.08"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Dukic, Zach"]
[Black "Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B15"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nf6 5.Nxf6+ exf6 6.c3 Bd6 7.Bd3
O-O 8.Ne2 Re8 9.Qc2 g6 10.h4 Nd7 11.h5 Nf8 12.Bh6 Be6 13.O-O-O
f5 14.f3 a5 15.g4 fxg4 16.fxg4 Bd5 17.Rhf1 Qh4 18.Nf4 Bxf4+ 19.Bxf4
Qxg4 20.hxg6 hxg6 ( {Black should have preferred} 20...fxg6 )
21.Be5 Rxe5 ( {Black cannot play} 21...Nd7 22.Rg1 Qh5 23.Bxg6
fxg6 24.Rxg6+ {+- Black's king has no cover and this will not end well for him.}
) 22.dxe5 Qg5+ 23.Kb1 Qxe5 24.Rfe1 Qf6 25.Be4 Be6 26.Qd2 Re8
27.Bc2 Nh7 28.Qh2 Ng5 29.Qc7 Nf3 30.Re4 Bxa2+ 31.Kxa2 Rxe4 32.Qc8+ 1-0

[Event "RA December Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.08"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Gordon, David"]
[Black "Yang, Fan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D02"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 d5 2.Bf4 Nf6 3.e3 e6 4.Nf3 b6 5.Bd3 Bb7 6.O-O Bd6 7.Ne5
O-O 8.Qf3 Ne4 9.Qh3 f5 10.f3 Ng5 11.Qg3 Nf7 12.Nd2 Nc6 13.Nxc6
Bxc6 14.Bxd6 Qxd6 15.Qxd6 Nxd6 16.c4 dxc4 17.Nxc4 Nxc4 18.Bxc4
Bd5 19.Rac1 Rf7 20.Rc3 Bxc4 21.Rxc4 Rc8 22.Rfc1 Rd7 23.Kf2 Kf7
24.f4 Ke7 25.Rc6 Kf7 26.R1c3 Re7 27.Ke2 Ke8 28.Kd3 Kd7 29.e4
fxe4+ 30.Kxe4 Rf7 31.g4 h5 32.h3 hxg4 33.hxg4 Rf6 34.Ke5 a5 35.d5
exd5 36.Rxf6 Re8+ 37.Kf5 gxf6 38.Kxf6 d4 39.Rd3 c5 40.f5 Kd6
41.Rd1 Rg8 42.g5 Rf8+ 43.Kg6 Rg8+ 44.Kh6 Ke5 45.f6 Ke6 46.Re1+ 1-0

[Event "RA December Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.08"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Xu, Daniel"]
[Black "Demchenko, Svitlana"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E84"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f3 O-O 6.Be3 Nc6 7.Nge2
a6 8.Rc1 Rb8 9.Qd2 Bd7 10.Nd1 e5 11.d5 Ne7 12.b4 Ne8 13.Nb2
( 13.Nf2 ) f5 14.Nc3 Nf6 15.Be2 f4 16.Bf2 g5 17.h3 Ng6 18.c5
Rf7 19.Nc4 Bf8 20.a3 Nh5 21.Na5 Be8 22.c6 b6 23.Nb7 Qf6 24.Bxa6
Ra8 25.Qd3 Ng3 26.Rg1 h5 27.Ne2 Bh6 28.Kd2 g4 29.hxg4 hxg4 30.Bb5
Nh4 31.Ra1 Rg7 32.Kc2 gxf3 33.gxf3 Nxf3 34.Qxf3 Bh5 35.Rxg3 Bxf3
36.Rxf3 Qg6 37.Bd3 Qg2 38.Ng1 Rg3 39.Bf1 Qh2 0-1

[Event "RA December U1900"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.08"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Laurin, Marcel"]
[Black "Kurkdji, Johnny"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D30"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.a3 Nf6 4.Nc3 h6 5.Nf3 a6 6.Bf4 Be7 7.Rc1 c6
8.c5 Nbd7 9.e3 O-O 10.Bd3 b5 11.Bb1 Bb7 12.Qd3 Re8 13.Ne5 Nf8
14.h3 Nh5 15.Bh2 Nf6 16.Ke2 N6d7 17.Rcf1 Nxe5 18.Bxe5 Bf6 19.Bd6
Be7 20.Bh2 Bf6 21.f4 Bc8 22.Rf3 Ra7 23.Rhf1 g6 24.Kf2 Bg7 25.Ne2
f5 26.Kg1 h5 27.Bc2 Nh7 28.Rg3 Qf6 29.Rgf3 Bh6 30.g4 hxg4 31.hxg4
g5 32.Ng3 fxg4 33.fxg5 Qxg5 34.Rf4 Rg7 35.Bd1 Qh4 36.R4f2 Ng5
37.Rg2 Nh3+ 38.Kh1 Rf8 39.Rxf8+ Kxf8 40.Qe2 Rf7 41.Qxg4 Qxg4
42.Bxg4 Nf2+ 43.Kg1 Nxg4 44.Nf1 Nxh2 ( 44...Rxf1+ 45.Kxf1 Nxe3+ )
45.Rxh2 Bg5 46.Rh8+ Ke7 47.Rxc8 Rg7 48.Rc7+ Kf6 49.Rxg7 Kxg7
50.Kf2 Kf6 51.Nd2 Ke7 52.b4 Kd7 53.Nb1 Ke7 54.Nc3 Bf6 55.Ke2
Kd7 56.a4 Kc7 57.axb5 axb5 58.Kd3 Kd7 59.e4 Bd8 60.exd5 1/2-1/2

[Event "RA December Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.08"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Chiku-Ratte, Olivier Kenta"]
[Black "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E42"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 c5 5.Nge2 cxd4 6.exd4 d5 7.a3
Be7 8.Nf4 Nc6 9.Be3 O-O 10.cxd5 Nxd5 11.Ncxd5 exd5 12.Bd3 Bg5
13.O-O Bxf4 14.Bxf4 Qf6 15.Be3 Bf5 16.Bb5 Rfe8 17.Rc1 Re6 18.Qf3
Qg6 19.Qg3 Qh5 20.Rfe1 Rg6 21.Be2 Bg4 22.Bxg4 Qxg4 23.Qxg4 Rxg4
24.f3 Rg6 25.Rc5 Rd8 26.Bd2 Re6 27.Rxe6 fxe6 28.Kf2 Kf7 29.Ke3
Ke8 30.Kd3 Kd7 31.Bf4 Rf8 32.Bg3 a6 33.b3 h5 34.h4 Rf5 35.Rc2
g5 36.hxg5 Rxg5 37.Bf4 Rf5 38.Bg3 Rf8 39.Bf2 Rg8 40.Be3 Ke7 41.Bf4
h4 42.Ke3 Kf6 43.Bd6 Kf5 44.b4 Rg7 45.a4 Rd7 46.Bc5 e5 47.b5
axb5 48.axb5 exd4+ 49.Kd3 Ne5+ 50.Kxd4 Ng6 51.Bb4 Nf4 52.Be1
Ne6+ 53.Kd3 Rh7 54.Ra2 h3 55.gxh3 Rxh3 56.Rf2 Rh1 57.Bc3 Rb1
58.Bb2 Nf4+ 59.Kc3 Re1 60.Rd2 Re3+ 61.Kb4 Rxf3 62.Ka5 Rb3 63.Kb6
Ke4 64.Bf6 Kf5 65.Bd4 Nd3 66.Re2 Rb4 67.Bc3 Rc4 68.Ba1 Ra4 69.Bg7
Rg4 70.Ba1 d4 71.Kxb7 Nc5+ 72.Kb6 Nb3 73.Bxd4 Nxd4 74.Rb2 Ke6
75.Kc5 Ke7 76.b6 Ne6+ 77.Kb5 Kd7 78.Rd2+ Kc8 79.Rd6 Rg5+ 80.Ka6
Re5 81.b7+ Kb8 82.Kb6 Re1 83.Kc6 Rc1+ 84.Kb6 Re1 85.Rd7 Rb1+
86.Kc6 Ka7 87.Kd6 Rb6+ 88.Kd5 Kb8 89.Re7 Nc7+ 90.Kc5 Rh6 91.Rf7
Kxb7 {Olivier Kenta Chiku-Ratte begins the count.} 92.Rf1 Rh5+
93.Kd4 Nb5+ 94.Ke3 Kc6 95.Rd1 Nc7 96.Ke4 Nd5 97.Rc1+ Kd6 98.Kd3
Rh4 99.Rg1 Nf4+ 100.Ke3 Ne6 101.Rb1 Kd5 102.Rb5+ Nc5 103.Rb8
Rh3+ 104.Kf4 Ne6+ 105.Kg4 Rh1 106.Re8 Rg1+ 107.Kf3 Rg6 108.Re7
Ke5 109.Re8 Kd4 110.Ra8 Rf6+ 111.Kg4 Ke4 112.Ra4+ Nd4 113.Kg5
Rf5+ 114.Kg6 Rc5 115.Rb4 Ke5 116.Rb1 Nf3 117.Rb6 Ra5 118.Rc6
Nd4 119.Rc1 Ra6+ 120.Kg5 Ne6+ 121.Kg4 Ra4+ 122.Kf3 Nd4+ 123.Ke3
Ra3+ 124.Kf2 Kf4 125.Rc4 Ra2+ 126.Ke1 Ke4 127.Kf1 Kd3 128.Rc8
Ne6 129.Rg8 Nf4 130.Rg3+ Ke4 131.Rb3 Ng2 132.Kg1 Ne3 133.Rb8
Rg2+ 134.Kh1 Rg7 135.Rf8 Nd5 136.Kh2 Ke3 137.Ra8 Kf3 138.Rd8
Nf4 139.Rf8 Rg4 140.Rf7 Kf2 141.Rh7 Rg2+ 142.Kh1 {White claimed a draw, 50 moves since Black played 91...Kxb7.}
1/2-1/2

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "RA December Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.08"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Dukic, Zach"]
[Black "Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B15"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nf6 5.Nxf6+ exf6 6.c3 Bd6 7.Bd3
O-O 8.Ne2 Re8 9.Qc2 g6 10.h4 Nd7 11.h5 Nf8 12.Bh6 Be6 13.O-O-O
f5 14.f3 a5 15.g4 fxg4 16.fxg4 Bd5 17.Rhf1 Qh4 18.Nf4 Bxf4+ 19.Bxf4
Qxg4 20.hxg6 hxg6 ( {Black should have preferred} 20...fxg6 )
21.Be5 Rxe5 ( {Black cannot play} 21...Nd7 22.Rg1 Qh5 23.Bxg6
fxg6 24.Rxg6+ {+- Black's king has no cover and this will not end well for him.}
) 22.dxe5 Qg5+ 23.Kb1 Qxe5 24.Rfe1 Qf6 25.Be4 Be6 26.Qd2 Re8
27.Bc2 Nh7 28.Qh2 Ng5 29.Qc7 Nf3 30.Re4 Bxa2+ 31.Kxa2 Rxe4 32.Qc8+ 1-0



[Event "RA December Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.08"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Gordon, David"]
[Black "Yang, Fan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D02"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 d5 2.Bf4 Nf6 3.e3 e6 4.Nf3 b6 5.Bd3 Bb7 6.O-O Bd6 7.Ne5
O-O 8.Qf3 Ne4 9.Qh3 f5 10.f3 Ng5 11.Qg3 Nf7 12.Nd2 Nc6 13.Nxc6
Bxc6 14.Bxd6 Qxd6 15.Qxd6 Nxd6 16.c4 dxc4 17.Nxc4 Nxc4 18.Bxc4
Bd5 19.Rac1 Rf7 20.Rc3 Bxc4 21.Rxc4 Rc8 22.Rfc1 Rd7 23.Kf2 Kf7
24.f4 Ke7 25.Rc6 Kf7 26.R1c3 Re7 27.Ke2 Ke8 28.Kd3 Kd7 29.e4
fxe4+ 30.Kxe4 Rf7 31.g4 h5 32.h3 hxg4 33.hxg4 Rf6 34.Ke5 a5 35.d5
exd5 36.Rxf6 Re8+ 37.Kf5 gxf6 38.Kxf6 d4 39.Rd3 c5 40.f5 Kd6
41.Rd1 Rg8 42.g5 Rf8+ 43.Kg6 Rg8+ 44.Kh6 Ke5 45.f6 Ke6 46.Re1+ 1-0



[Event "RA December Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.08"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Xu, Daniel"]
[Black "Demchenko, Svitlana"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E84"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f3 O-O 6.Be3 Nc6 7.Nge2
a6 8.Rc1 Rb8 9.Qd2 Bd7 10.Nd1 e5 11.d5 Ne7 12.b4 Ne8 13.Nb2
( 13.Nf2 ) f5 14.Nc3 Nf6 15.Be2 f4 16.Bf2 g5 17.h3 Ng6 18.c5
Rf7 19.Nc4 Bf8 20.a3 Nh5 21.Na5 Be8 22.c6 b6 23.Nb7 Qf6 24.Bxa6
Ra8 25.Qd3 Ng3 26.Rg1 h5 27.Ne2 Bh6 28.Kd2 g4 29.hxg4 hxg4 30.Bb5
Nh4 31.Ra1 Rg7 32.Kc2 gxf3 33.gxf3 Nxf3 34.Qxf3 Bh5 35.Rxg3 Bxf3
36.Rxf3 Qg6 37.Bd3 Qg2 38.Ng1 Rg3 39.Bf1 Qh2 0-1



[Event "RA December U1900"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.08"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Laurin, Marcel"]
[Black "Kurkdji, Johnny"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D30"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.a3 Nf6 4.Nc3 h6 5.Nf3 a6 6.Bf4 Be7 7.Rc1 c6
8.c5 Nbd7 9.e3 O-O 10.Bd3 b5 11.Bb1 Bb7 12.Qd3 Re8 13.Ne5 Nf8
14.h3 Nh5 15.Bh2 Nf6 16.Ke2 N6d7 17.Rcf1 Nxe5 18.Bxe5 Bf6 19.Bd6
Be7 20.Bh2 Bf6 21.f4 Bc8 22.Rf3 Ra7 23.Rhf1 g6 24.Kf2 Bg7 25.Ne2
f5 26.Kg1 h5 27.Bc2 Nh7 28.Rg3 Qf6 29.Rgf3 Bh6 30.g4 hxg4 31.hxg4
g5 32.Ng3 fxg4 33.fxg5 Qxg5 34.Rf4 Rg7 35.Bd1 Qh4 36.R4f2 Ng5
37.Rg2 Nh3+ 38.Kh1 Rf8 39.Rxf8+ Kxf8 40.Qe2 Rf7 41.Qxg4 Qxg4
42.Bxg4 Nf2+ 43.Kg1 Nxg4 44.Nf1 Nxh2 ( 44...Rxf1+ 45.Kxf1 Nxe3+ )
45.Rxh2 Bg5 46.Rh8+ Ke7 47.Rxc8 Rg7 48.Rc7+ Kf6 49.Rxg7 Kxg7
50.Kf2 Kf6 51.Nd2 Ke7 52.b4 Kd7 53.Nb1 Ke7 54.Nc3 Bf6 55.Ke2
Kd7 56.a4 Kc7 57.axb5 axb5 58.Kd3 Kd7 59.e4 Bd8 60.exd5 1/2-1/2



[Event "RA December Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.08"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Chiku-Ratte, Olivier Kenta"]
[Black "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E42"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 c5 5.Nge2 cxd4 6.exd4 d5 7.a3
Be7 8.Nf4 Nc6 9.Be3 O-O 10.cxd5 Nxd5 11.Ncxd5 exd5 12.Bd3 Bg5
13.O-O Bxf4 14.Bxf4 Qf6 15.Be3 Bf5 16.Bb5 Rfe8 17.Rc1 Re6 18.Qf3
Qg6 19.Qg3 Qh5 20.Rfe1 Rg6 21.Be2 Bg4 22.Bxg4 Qxg4 23.Qxg4 Rxg4
24.f3 Rg6 25.Rc5 Rd8 26.Bd2 Re6 27.Rxe6 fxe6 28.Kf2 Kf7 29.Ke3
Ke8 30.Kd3 Kd7 31.Bf4 Rf8 32.Bg3 a6 33.b3 h5 34.h4 Rf5 35.Rc2
g5 36.hxg5 Rxg5 37.Bf4 Rf5 38.Bg3 Rf8 39.Bf2 Rg8 40.Be3 Ke7 41.Bf4
h4 42.Ke3 Kf6 43.Bd6 Kf5 44.b4 Rg7 45.a4 Rd7 46.Bc5 e5 47.b5
axb5 48.axb5 exd4+ 49.Kd3 Ne5+ 50.Kxd4 Ng6 51.Bb4 Nf4 52.Be1
Ne6+ 53.Kd3 Rh7 54.Ra2 h3 55.gxh3 Rxh3 56.Rf2 Rh1 57.Bc3 Rb1
58.Bb2 Nf4+ 59.Kc3 Re1 60.Rd2 Re3+ 61.Kb4 Rxf3 62.Ka5 Rb3 63.Kb6
Ke4 64.Bf6 Kf5 65.Bd4 Nd3 66.Re2 Rb4 67.Bc3 Rc4 68.Ba1 Ra4 69.Bg7
Rg4 70.Ba1 d4 71.Kxb7 Nc5+ 72.Kb6 Nb3 73.Bxd4 Nxd4 74.Rb2 Ke6
75.Kc5 Ke7 76.b6 Ne6+ 77.Kb5 Kd7 78.Rd2+ Kc8 79.Rd6 Rg5+ 80.Ka6
Re5 81.b7+ Kb8 82.Kb6 Re1 83.Kc6 Rc1+ 84.Kb6 Re1 85.Rd7 Rb1+
86.Kc6 Ka7 87.Kd6 Rb6+ 88.Kd5 Kb8 89.Re7 Nc7+ 90.Kc5 Rh6 91.Rf7
Kxb7 {Olivier Kenta Chiku-Ratte begins the count.} 92.Rf1 Rh5+
93.Kd4 Nb5+ 94.Ke3 Kc6 95.Rd1 Nc7 96.Ke4 Nd5 97.Rc1+ Kd6 98.Kd3
Rh4 99.Rg1 Nf4+ 100.Ke3 Ne6 101.Rb1 Kd5 102.Rb5+ Nc5 103.Rb8
Rh3+ 104.Kf4 Ne6+ 105.Kg4 Rh1 106.Re8 Rg1+ 107.Kf3 Rg6 108.Re7
Ke5 109.Re8 Kd4 110.Ra8 Rf6+ 111.Kg4 Ke4 112.Ra4+ Nd4 113.Kg5
Rf5+ 114.Kg6 Rc5 115.Rb4 Ke5 116.Rb1 Nf3 117.Rb6 Ra5 118.Rc6
Nd4 119.Rc1 Ra6+ 120.Kg5 Ne6+ 121.Kg4 Ra4+ 122.Kf3 Nd4+ 123.Ke3
Ra3+ 124.Kf2 Kf4 125.Rc4 Ra2+ 126.Ke1 Ke4 127.Kf1 Kd3 128.Rc8
Ne6 129.Rg8 Nf4 130.Rg3+ Ke4 131.Rb3 Ng2 132.Kg1 Ne3 133.Rb8
Rg2+ 134.Kh1 Rg7 135.Rf8 Nd5 136.Kh2 Ke3 137.Ra8 Kf3 138.Rd8
Nf4 139.Rf8 Rg4 140.Rf7 Kf2 141.Rh7 Rg2+ 142.Kh1 {White claimed a draw, 50 moves since Black played 91...Kxb7.}
1/2-1/2

[Halldor P. Palsson]

2018 RA December Open

Bd # Res White # Res Black
1 5 Svitlana Demchenko (2329 3.0) 1 Bator Sambuev (2559 3.5)
2 2 Olivier Kenta Chiku-Ratte (2410 3.5) 3 Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux (2352 2.5)
3 11 Daniel Xu (2088 2.0) 4 Zachary Dukic (2331 2.0)
4 6 David Gordon (2302 2.0) 8 Houji Yao (2159 2.0)
5 7 John Upper (2212 1.5) 10 Fan Yang (2134 2.0)
6 14 Abdelaziz Mahdjoubi (1854 1.5) 13 Johnathan Han (1892 0.5)
7 12 Danail Donev (2007 1.0) 9 Saeid Sadeghi (2134 1.0)

Pairings for Round 5. 2018
RA December Open: 2018 RA December U1900

Bd # Res White # Res Black
8 7 Alwin Ning (1731 3.0) 5 Ray Kuryliw (1782 3.0)
9 1 Dan Kearnan (1866 3.0) 4 Randika Balasooriya (1805 2.5)
10 6 Sanjay Ramesh (1752 2.5) 15 Johnny Kurkdji (1603 2.5)
11 12 Fernando Echavarria-Hidalgo (1657 2.5) 14 Alexander Stopic (1649 2.0)
12 13 William Landstrom (1652 1.5) 2 Richard Lemieux (1856 2.0)
13 3 Alexandre Khan (1854 1.5) 8 Jacob Krolczyk (1730 1.5)
14 10 Marcel Laurin (1697 1.5) 11 Jeremy Sztuka (1681 1.0)
15 9 Herb Langer (1724 1.0) 16 Gerard Felderhof (1605 0.0)


Pairings for Round 5.
2018 RA December Open: 2018 RA December U1600

Bd # Res White # Res Black
16 6 Oswin Ning (1443 3.0) 2 Guy Piche (1565 3.0)
17 3 Michael Shi (1555 3.0) 4 Romy Peters (1522 3.0)
18 19 Sabia Irfan (727 2.5) 16 Zakia Irfan (933 2.5)
19 1 Rene Poulin (1578 2.0) 10 Milos Petrovic (1250 2.0)
20 7 John I.F. Lukezich (1401 2.0) 9 Derek Wang (1328 2.0)
21 8 Simon Celer-Matas (1391 2.0) 14 Dave Westbury (1054 2.0)
22 12 Pierre Arcand (1161 1.5) 15 Andrew Svensson (1024 1.0)
23 18 Surya Suthakar (848 1.0) 13 Richard Jeffrey (1128 1.0)

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "RA December U1900"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.08"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Balasooriya, Randika"]
[Black "Laurin, Marcel"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B00"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 b6 2.d4 Bb7 3.Bd3 d6 4.Nf3 Nd7 5.O-O h6 6.Re1 e6 7.e5 d5
8.Nbd2 Ne7 9.Nf1 c5 10.c3 c4 11.Bc2 g5 12.Ng3 Ng6 13.Nh5 g4 14.Nd2
Qh4 15.Ng3 Be7 16.Ndf1 Bg5 17.Ne3 h5 18.Nef5 exf5 19.Nxf5 g3
20.Nxh4 ( {White had a better way to win the queen with} 20.hxg3
Qg4 21.f3 Bxc1 22.Qxc1 Qxf5 23.Bxf5 ) gxf2+ 21.Kxf2 Bxh4+ 22.g3
Be7 23.e6 Nf6 24.exf7+ Kxf7 25.Bxg6+ Kxg6 26.Rxe7 Ng4+ 27.Kg1
Bc8 28.Bf4 Bf5 29.Qe2 h4 30.Rf1 hxg3 31.Bxg3 Raf8 32.Rxf5 Kxf5
33.Qe6+ Kg5 34.Rg7+ {Black resigned.} Z0 ( 34...Kh5 35.Qg6# ) 1-0

[Event "RA December U1900"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.08"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Yao, Houji"]
[Black "Xu, Daniel"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B90"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e5 7.Nb3
Be6 8.f3 Be7 9.Qd2 O-O 10.O-O-O Nbd7 11.g4 b5 12.g5 b4 13.Ne2
Ne8 14.f4 a5 15.f5 a4 16.Nbd4 exd4 17.Nxd4 b3 18.Kb1 bxc2+ 19.Nxc2
Bb3 20.axb3 axb3 21.Na3 Ne5 22.h4 Ra4 23.Rh3 Qa8 24.Qd5 Nc7 25.Qxa8
Rfxa8 26.Bb6 Ne8 27.Rxb3 Rb8 28.Ka2 Rxe4 29.Rd4 Re1 30.Bg2 f6
31.Bd5+ Kf8 32.Ba5 Rxb3 33.Bxe1 Rd3 34.Rxd3 Nxd3 35.Bc3 fxg5
36.hxg5 Bxg5 37.b4 Bf6 38.Kb3 Bxc3 39.Kxc3 Nxb4 40.Kxb4 g6 41.fxg6 1/2-1/2

[Event "RA December Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.08"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Demchenko, Svitlana"]
[Black "Upper, John"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B38"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 g6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Bg7 5.c4 Nc6 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Nc3
d6 8.Be2 O-O 9.O-O Bd7 10.f3 Rc8 11.Qd2 Nxd4 12.Bxd4 Be6 13.b3
Nd7 14.Bxg7 Kxg7 15.Qd4+ Kg8 16.Qxa7 b6 17.Qa3 Qc7 18.Qb2 Ra8
19.Kh1 Rfc8 20.Qd2 Qc5 21.f4 f6 22.Rf3 Qb4 23.f5 Bf7 24.fxg6
Bxg6 25.Qh6 e6 26.Rg3 Nf8 27.h4 Rc5 28.h5 Rg5 29.Rh3 Ra7 30.hxg6
hxg6 31.Qh8+ Kf7 32.Rf1 1-0

[Event "RA December Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.08"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Dukic, Zachary"]
[Black "Chiku-Ratte, Olivier Kenta"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B48"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e6 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be3 a6 7.Qd2
Nf6 8.O-O-O Be7 9.f3 b5 10.Nxc6 dxc6 11.g4 e5 12.h4 Be6 13.Qf2
Bb4 14.g5 Nh5 15.Bc5 Bxc5 16.Qxc5 Rc8 17.Rd6 O-O 18.Qxe5 Rcd8
19.Rd5 Qb6 20.Rd3 Rfe8 21.Qh2 Qa5 22.Rxd8 Rxd8 23.Be2 b4 24.Nb1
Qc5 25.Qg1 Nf4 26.Bxa6 Bc4 27.Bxc4 Qxc4 28.b3 Nd3+ 29.Kd2 Nf2+
30.Kc1 Qd4 31.Qe1 Qc5 32.Kb2 Qe5+ 33.Kc1 Nxh1 34.Qxh1 Ra8 35.Qd1
g6 36.Qd2 Rxa2 37.Qd8+ Kg7 38.Qf6+ Qxf6 39.gxf6+ Kxf6 0-1

[Event "RA December Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.08"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Black "Gordon, David"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A81"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.g3 g6 2.Bg2 Bg7 3.d4 f5 4.Nc3 Nf6 5.Bg5 Nc6 6.Nf3 Ne4 7.Bf4
Nxc3 8.bxc3 d6 9.d5 Bxc3+ 10.Bd2 Bxd2+ 11.Qxd2 Ne5 12.h4 e6 13.h5
Nxf3+ 14.Bxf3 Qf6 15.Rb1 e5 16.hxg6 hxg6 17.Qc3 Rxh1+ 18.Bxh1
Qd8 19.Kd2 b6 20.f4 exf4 21.gxf4 Bb7 22.Qg7 Qe7 23.Qxg6+ Qf7
24.Rg1 Qxg6 25.Rxg6 Kf7 26.Rg5 Kf6 27.Rh5 Kg6 28.Bf3 Rf8 29.c4
Ba6 30.Kc3 Re8 31.Kd4 b5 32.Rh1 Re7 33.c5 b4 34.cxd6 cxd6 35.e4
Rc7 36.Rg1+ Kf7 37.e5 Rc4+ 38.Ke3 Rc3+ 39.Kf2 dxe5 40.fxe5 f4
41.Rg4 Rc2+ 42.Ke1 Bc4 43.Rxf4+ Ke7 44.Rh4 a5 45.Rh7+ Kd8 46.e6
Bb5 47.d6 Rc5 48.Rh8+ Be8 49.Bg4 Re5+ 50.Kf2 1-0

[Event "RA December Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.08"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn"]
[Black "Mahdjoubi, Abdelaziz"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A00"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d3 d6 2.g3 g6 3.Bg2 Bg7 4.e4 Nc6 5.Ne2 b6 6.O-O Bb7 7.c3 e5
8.f4 Qe7 9.a4 h5 10.f5 h4 11.g4 h3 12.Bf3 gxf5 13.gxf5 Bh6 14.Kh1
Bxc1 15.Qxc1 Nf6 16.b4 Kd7 17.Na3 Rag8 18.Nc4 Nh5 19.b5 Nd8 20.Rg1
Qh4 21.Qe3 f6 22.a5 Nf7 23.axb6 axb6 24.Ra7 Rxg1+ 25.Nxg1 Rb8
26.Bxh5 Qxh5 27.Qxh3 Qxh3 28.Nxh3 d5 29.exd5 Bxd5+ 30.Kg1 Bxc4
31.dxc4 Nd6 32.Nf2 Nxf5 33.Ne4 Rc8 34.Nxf6+ Kd6 35.Ne4+ Ke6 36.Kf2
Nd6 37.Nd2 Rf8+ 38.Ke2 Rf7 39.Nf3 Kf5 40.Ra8 Nxc4 41.Rh8 Nd6
42.Rh5+ Kg4 43.Rg5+ Kf4 44.Rxe5 Rf5 45.Rxf5+ Kxf5 46.Kd3 Nxb5
47.Nd4+ Nxd4 48.Kxd4 c6 49.h4 Kg4 50.Ke5 Kxh4 51.Kd6 c5 52.Kc6
Kg5 53.Kxb6 Kf6 54.Kxc5 Ke7 55.c4 Kd8 56.Kd6 Kc8 57.c5 1-0

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "RA December U1900"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.08"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Balasooriya, Randika"]
[Black "Laurin, Marcel"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B00"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 b6 2.d4 Bb7 3.Bd3 d6 4.Nf3 Nd7 5.O-O h6 6.Re1 e6 7.e5 d5
8.Nbd2 Ne7 9.Nf1 c5 10.c3 c4 11.Bc2 g5 12.Ng3 Ng6 13.Nh5 g4 14.Nd2
Qh4 15.Ng3 Be7 16.Ndf1 Bg5 17.Ne3 h5 18.Nef5 exf5 19.Nxf5 g3
20.Nxh4 ( {White had a better way to win the queen with} 20.hxg3
Qg4 21.f3 Bxc1 22.Qxc1 Qxf5 23.Bxf5 ) gxf2+ 21.Kxf2 Bxh4+ 22.g3
Be7 23.e6 Nf6 24.exf7+ Kxf7 25.Bxg6+ Kxg6 26.Rxe7 Ng4+ 27.Kg1
Bc8 28.Bf4 Bf5 29.Qe2 h4 30.Rf1 hxg3 31.Bxg3 Raf8 32.Rxf5 Kxf5
33.Qe6+ Kg5 34.Rg7+ {Black resigned.} Z0 ( 34...Kh5 35.Qg6# ) 1-0



[Event "RA December U1900"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.08"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Yao, Houji"]
[Black "Xu, Daniel"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B90"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 e5 7.Nb3
Be6 8.f3 Be7 9.Qd2 O-O 10.O-O-O Nbd7 11.g4 b5 12.g5 b4 13.Ne2
Ne8 14.f4 a5 15.f5 a4 16.Nbd4 exd4 17.Nxd4 b3 18.Kb1 bxc2+ 19.Nxc2
Bb3 20.axb3 axb3 21.Na3 Ne5 22.h4 Ra4 23.Rh3 Qa8 24.Qd5 Nc7 25.Qxa8
Rfxa8 26.Bb6 Ne8 27.Rxb3 Rb8 28.Ka2 Rxe4 29.Rd4 Re1 30.Bg2 f6
31.Bd5+ Kf8 32.Ba5 Rxb3 33.Bxe1 Rd3 34.Rxd3 Nxd3 35.Bc3 fxg5
36.hxg5 Bxg5 37.b4 Bf6 38.Kb3 Bxc3 39.Kxc3 Nxb4 40.Kxb4 g6 41.fxg6 1/2-1/2




[Event "RA December Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.08"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Demchenko, Svitlana"]
[Black "Upper, John"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B38"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 g6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Bg7 5.c4 Nc6 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Nc3
d6 8.Be2 O-O 9.O-O Bd7 10.f3 Rc8 11.Qd2 Nxd4 12.Bxd4 Be6 13.b3
Nd7 14.Bxg7 Kxg7 15.Qd4+ Kg8 16.Qxa7 b6 17.Qa3 Qc7 18.Qb2 Ra8
19.Kh1 Rfc8 20.Qd2 Qc5 21.f4 f6 22.Rf3 Qb4 23.f5 Bf7 24.fxg6
Bxg6 25.Qh6 e6 26.Rg3 Nf8 27.h4 Rc5 28.h5 Rg5 29.Rh3 Ra7 30.hxg6
hxg6 31.Qh8+ Kf7 32.Rf1 1-0



[Event "RA December Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.08"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Dukic, Zachary"]
[Black "Chiku-Ratte, Olivier Kenta"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B48"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e6 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be3 a6 7.Qd2
Nf6 8.O-O-O Be7 9.f3 b5 10.Nxc6 dxc6 11.g4 e5 12.h4 Be6 13.Qf2
Bb4 14.g5 Nh5 15.Bc5 Bxc5 16.Qxc5 Rc8 17.Rd6 O-O 18.Qxe5 Rcd8
19.Rd5 Qb6 20.Rd3 Rfe8 21.Qh2 Qa5 22.Rxd8 Rxd8 23.Be2 b4 24.Nb1
Qc5 25.Qg1 Nf4 26.Bxa6 Bc4 27.Bxc4 Qxc4 28.b3 Nd3+ 29.Kd2 Nf2+
30.Kc1 Qd4 31.Qe1 Qc5 32.Kb2 Qe5+ 33.Kc1 Nxh1 34.Qxh1 Ra8 35.Qd1
g6 36.Qd2 Rxa2 37.Qd8+ Kg7 38.Qf6+ Qxf6 39.gxf6+ Kxf6 0-1



[Event "RA December Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.08"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Black "Gordon, David"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A81"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.g3 g6 2.Bg2 Bg7 3.d4 f5 4.Nc3 Nf6 5.Bg5 Nc6 6.Nf3 Ne4 7.Bf4
Nxc3 8.bxc3 d6 9.d5 Bxc3+ 10.Bd2 Bxd2+ 11.Qxd2 Ne5 12.h4 e6 13.h5
Nxf3+ 14.Bxf3 Qf6 15.Rb1 e5 16.hxg6 hxg6 17.Qc3 Rxh1+ 18.Bxh1
Qd8 19.Kd2 b6 20.f4 exf4 21.gxf4 Bb7 22.Qg7 Qe7 23.Qxg6+ Qf7
24.Rg1 Qxg6 25.Rxg6 Kf7 26.Rg5 Kf6 27.Rh5 Kg6 28.Bf3 Rf8 29.c4
Ba6 30.Kc3 Re8 31.Kd4 b5 32.Rh1 Re7 33.c5 b4 34.cxd6 cxd6 35.e4
Rc7 36.Rg1+ Kf7 37.e5 Rc4+ 38.Ke3 Rc3+ 39.Kf2 dxe5 40.fxe5 f4
41.Rg4 Rc2+ 42.Ke1 Bc4 43.Rxf4+ Ke7 44.Rh4 a5 45.Rh7+ Kd8 46.e6
Bb5 47.d6 Rc5 48.Rh8+ Be8 49.Bg4 Re5+ 50.Kf2 1-0



[Event "RA December Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.08"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn"]
[Black "Mahdjoubi, Abdelaziz"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A00"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d3 d6 2.g3 g6 3.Bg2 Bg7 4.e4 Nc6 5.Ne2 b6 6.O-O Bb7 7.c3 e5
8.f4 Qe7 9.a4 h5 10.f5 h4 11.g4 h3 12.Bf3 gxf5 13.gxf5 Bh6 14.Kh1
Bxc1 15.Qxc1 Nf6 16.b4 Kd7 17.Na3 Rag8 18.Nc4 Nh5 19.b5 Nd8 20.Rg1
Qh4 21.Qe3 f6 22.a5 Nf7 23.axb6 axb6 24.Ra7 Rxg1+ 25.Nxg1 Rb8
26.Bxh5 Qxh5 27.Qxh3 Qxh3 28.Nxh3 d5 29.exd5 Bxd5+ 30.Kg1 Bxc4
31.dxc4 Nd6 32.Nf2 Nxf5 33.Ne4 Rc8 34.Nxf6+ Kd6 35.Ne4+ Ke6 36.Kf2
Nd6 37.Nd2 Rf8+ 38.Ke2 Rf7 39.Nf3 Kf5 40.Ra8 Nxc4 41.Rh8 Nd6
42.Rh5+ Kg4 43.Rg5+ Kf4 44.Rxe5 Rf5 45.Rxf5+ Kxf5 46.Kd3 Nxb5
47.Nd4+ Nxd4 48.Kxd4 c6 49.h4 Kg4 50.Ke5 Kxh4 51.Kd6 c5 52.Kc6
Kg5 53.Kxb6 Kf6 54.Kxc5 Ke7 55.c4 Kd8 56.Kd6 Kc8 57.c5 1-0

[Halldor P. Palsson]

2018 RA December Open
# Place Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot
1 1 Olivier Kenta Chiku-Ratte 2410 W9 W3 D2 W4 W7 4.5 $350
2 2 Bator Sambuev 2559 W12 W4 D1 W5 D3 4.0 $180
3 3 Svitlana Demchenko 2329 W14 L1 W10 W12 D2 3.5 $80
4 4-6 Zachary Dukic 2331 W11 L2 W7 L1 W10 3.0
5 David Gordon 2302 W8 L7 W6 L2 W9 3.0
6 Fan Yang 2134 H--- H--- L5 W11 W12 3.0 U2200 $60
7 7-8 Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux 2352 D10 W5 L4 W8 L1 2.5
8 Abdelaziz Mahdjoubi 1854 L5 W11 D9 L7 W14 2.5 U2050 $60
9 9-11 Houji Yao 2159 L1 W14 D8 D10 L5 2.0
10 Daniel Xu 2088 D7 W13 L3 D9 L4 2.0
11 Danail Donev 2007 L4 L8 W14 L6 W13 2.0
12 12 John Upper 2212 L2 H--- W13 L3 L6 1.5
13 13 Saeid Sadeghi 2134 H--- L10 L12 D14 L11 1.0
14 14 Johnathan Han 1892 L3 L9 L11 D13 L8 0.5

2018 RA December Open: 2018 RA December U1900

# Place Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot
1 1 Dan Kearnan 1866 W11 D4 W8 D2 W7 4.0 $250
2 2-5 Ray Kuryliw 1782 D12 W15 W3 D1 D4 3.5 $125
3 Sanjay Ramesh 1752 W13 W6 L2 D4 W10 3.5 $125
4 Alwin Ning 1731 W10 D1 W12 D3 D2 3.5 U1750 $80
5 Fernando Echavarria-Hidalgo 1657 D7 W14 H--- D6 W13 3.5
6 6-10 Richard Lemieux 1856 W9 L3 D14 D5 D12 2.5
7 Randika Balasooriya 1805 D5 L8 W15 W9 L1 2.5
8 Jacob Krolczyk 1730 H--- W7 L1 L13 W14 2.5
9 Marcel Laurin 1697 L6 W13 D10 L7 W15 2.5
10 Johnny Kurkdji 1603 L4 B--- D9 W12 L3 2.5
11 11-13 Herb Langer 1724 L1 L12 L13 B--- W16 2.0
12 William Landstrom 1652 D2 W11 L4 L10 D6 2.0
13 Alexander Stopic 1649 L3 L9 W11 W8 L5 2.0
14 14 Alexandre Khan 1854 H--- L5 D6 D15 L8 1.5
15 15 Jeremy Sztuka 1681 H--- L2 L7 D14 L9 1.0
16 16 Gerard Felderhof 1605 U--- U--- U--- U--- L11 0.0

2018 RA December Open: 2018 RA December U1600

# Place Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot
1 1 Michael Shi 1555 W12 W4 D3 D2 W6 4.0 $150
2 2-4 Guy Piche 1565 W13 D7 W9 D1 D4 3.5 $50
3 Victor Samuel 1452 W14 W11 D1 W10 U--- 3.5 $50
4 Oswin Ning 1443 W18 L1 W17 W7 D2 3.5 $50
5 5-9 Rene Poulin 1578 L11 L6 W12 W15 W13 3.0
6 Romy Peters 1522 D16 W5 D7 W11 L1 3.0
7 Simon Celer-Matas 1391 W15 D2 D6 L4 W14 3.0
8 Zakia Irfan 933 H--- L10 W18 W13 D9 3.0 Amateur
9 Sabia Irfan 727 H--- W19 L2 W16 D8 3.0 Amateur
10 10-12 John I.F. Lukezich 1401 H--- W8 H--- L3 D11 2.5
11 Derek Wang 1328 W5 L3 W19 L6 D10 2.5
12 Pierre Arcand 1161 L1 D15 L5 B--- W17 2.5 U1300 $50
13 13-15 Milos Petrovic 1250 L2 W14 W16 L8 L5 2.0
14 Dave Westbury 1054 L3 L13 B--- W17 L7 2.0
15 Surya Suthakar 848 L7 D12 H--- L5 W16 2.0
16 16-18 Richard Jeffrey 1128 D6 H--- L13 L9 L15 1.0
17 Andrew Svensson 1024 H--- H--- L4 L14 L12 1.0
18 Wahida Chowdhury 875 L4 H--- L8 H--- U--- 1.0
19 19 Jeremie Kimble 1231 H--- L9 L11 U--- U--- 0.5

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "RA December Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.08"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Chiku-Ratte, Olivier Kenta"]
[Black "Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E11"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Bb4+ 4.Bd2 a5 5.g3 O-O 6.Bg2 Bxd2+ 7.Nbxd2
d6 8.O-O Qe7 9.Qc2 e5 10.e4 Na6 11.Qc3 exd4 12.Nxd4 Nc5 13.Rae1
Qe5 14.f4 Qh5 15.Nb5 Rd8 16.Nxc7 Rb8 17.e5 Ne8 18.exd6 Na4 19.Qe5
Qxe5 20.fxe5 Nxb2 21.Bd5 Nxd6 22.exd6 Be6 23.Nxe6 fxe6 24.Rxe6
Kh8 1-0

[Event "RA December Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.08"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Laurin, Marcel"]
[Black "Sztuka, Jeremy"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A40"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 b5 2.e4 b4 3.Bc4 Bb7 4.f3 e6 5.Bd2 c5 6.Ne2 Qh4+ 7.g3 Qf6
8.O-O cxd4 9.c3 dxc3 10.bxc3 a5 11.cxb4 axb4 12.Be3 Nc6 13.Nd2
Nge7 14.Bb3 Ng6 15.Nc4 Nge5 16.Nb6 Rd8 17.Kg2 Be7 18.Qd2 d6 19.Rac1
O-O 20.h3 Rfe8 21.f4 Nd7 22.f5 Qe5 23.Kh2 Qxe4 24.fxe6 fxe6 25.Rc4
Qe5 26.Nxd7 Rxd7 27.Bf4 Qf6 28.Nd4 Ne5 29.Rf2 Nxc4 30.Bxc4 d5
31.Bb5 Red8 32.Bxd7 Rxd7 33.Re2 Bd6 34.Rxe6 Bxf4 35.gxf4 Qh6
36.Rxh6 1-0

[Event "RA December Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.09"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Demchenko, Svitlana"]
[Black "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B75"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Be3 Bg7 7.f3
a6 8.Qd2 b5 9.O-O-O Bb7 10.g4 h5 11.g5 Nfd7 12.Kb1 O-O 13.Bd3
Nc5 14.Rhe1 Nbd7 15.f4 b4 16.Nd5 e6 17.Nf6+ Bxf6 18.gxf6 Bxe4
19.Bxe4 Nxe4 20.Qg2 Nexf6 21.Nxe6 fxe6 22.Qxg6+ Kh8 23.Bd4 e5
24.fxe5 dxe5 25.Bxe5 Nxe5 26.Qh6+ Nh7 27.Rxd8 Raxd8 28.Qxh5 Nf3
29.Rc1 Rf6 30.b3 Rd4 31.Qe8+ Kg7 32.Qe7+ Rf7 33.Qe6 Rf6 34.Qe7+
Kg6 35.Kb2 Nhg5 36.Qe8+ Kg7 37.Qe7+ Rf7 38.Qc5 Ne4 39.Qb6 Rf6
40.Qb7+ Kg6 41.Rf1 Neg5 42.Rf2 Re4 43.Rg2 Rfe6 44.Qa8 Kf5 45.Qf8+
Rf6 46.Qc8+ Rfe6 47.Qf8+ Ke5 48.Qc5+ Kf6 49.Qf8+ Nf7 50.Rf2 Rf4
51.Qa8 N7e5 52.Qf8+ Nf7 53.Qa8 N7e5 54.Qf8+ Nf7 55.Qa8 N7e5 56.Qf8+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "RA December Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.09"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Xu, Daniel"]
[Black "Dukic, Zachary"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E81"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f3 O-O 6.Be3 c5 7.Nge2 Nc6
8.d5 Ne5 9.Ng3 Qa5 10.Be2 a6 11.O-O b5 12.cxb5 axb5 13.Bxb5 Ba6
14.Bxa6 Qxa6 15.Qe2 Nc4 16.Bf2 Nd7 17.Rfc1 Bh6 18.Rc2 Rfb8 19.Nd1
Nde5 20.Nf1 Na5 21.Qxa6 Rxa6 22.b3 Rb4 23.Rb1 Nac4 24.Re2 Na3
25.Ra1 Nd3 26.Nde3 Nb5 27.Rd2 Nxf2 28.Kxf2 Rxb3 29.axb3 Rxa1
30.b4 cxb4 31.Rb2 Ra4 32.Nc2 Nc3 33.Kg3 Ra2 34.Rxa2 Nxa2 35.f4
Bg7 36.Nd2 Nc1 37.Kf3 b3 38.Na3 Bd4 39.Nab1 Kf8 40.Nc4 Nd3 41.Ncd2
Ne1+ 42.Kg3 b2 43.Nf3 Nxf3 44.Kxf3 e5 45.g3 f5 46.fxe5 Bxe5 47.Ke3
Kf7 48.Kd3 Kf6 49.Ke3 Kg5 50.exf5 Kxf5 51.Kf3 Bd4 0-1

[Event "RA December Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.09"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Gordon, David"]
[Black "Yao, Houji"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A45"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 e6 3.e4 c5 4.d5 d6 5.Nc3 Be7 6.Bb5+ Bd7 7.dxe6
fxe6 8.e5 dxe5 9.Nf3 a6 10.Bxd7+ Nbxd7 11.Qe2 Qc7 12.O-O-O O-O
13.Rhe1 Rad8 14.Nxe5 Qxe5 15.Qxe5 Nxe5 16.Rxe5 Rxd1+ 17.Nxd1
Kf7 18.Re2 Rd8 19.Nc3 Rd7 20.Rd2 Ke8 21.f3 b6 22.a4 Bd6 23.g3
h6 24.Be3 Ke7 25.b3 Ke8 26.Bf2 Ke7 27.Nd1 Nd5 28.c4 Nb4 29.Nc3
Nc6 30.Ne4 Na5 31.Kc2 Nc6 32.f4 Rd8 33.Kc3 Rd7 34.Be3 a5 35.g4
Bc7 36.Rxd7+ Kxd7 37.h4 Ke7 38.h5 Kf7 39.Kd3 Nb4+ 40.Kd2 Nc6
41.Ke2 Ke7 42.Kf3 Kf7 43.Nc3 Bd8 44.Nb5 Be7 45.Ke4 Nb4 46.Bd2
Nc6 47.Bc3 g6 48.Be5 g5 49.fxg5 Bxg5 50.Bc7 Bd8 51.Bf4 Kg7 52.Nd6
Bh4 53.Ne8+ Kf7 54.Nc7 Nd4 55.Bxh6 Nxb3 56.Be3 Be7 57.g5 Bf8
58.Ke5 Nd4 59.Bxd4 Bg7+ 60.Ke4 cxd4 61.Na8 e5 62.Nxb6 Ke6 63.c5
Bf8 64.c6 Kd6 65.Nc4+ Kxc6 66.Nxe5+ 1-0

[Event "RA December Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.09"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Upper, John"]
[Black "Yang, Fan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A28"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.e3 g6 5.d4 d6 6.dxe5 dxe5 7.Qxd8+
Kxd8 8.Be2 Bg7 9.b3 Bd7 10.O-O h6 11.Rd1 Kc8 12.Bb2 Re8 13.a3
e4 14.Nd2 Bh8 15.b4 Bf5 16.c5 Ne5 17.Nc4 Nfd7 18.Nd2 Nf6 19.h3
h5 20.Nb5 Nc6 21.Nc4 a6 22.Nd4 Nxd4 23.Bxd4 Nd7 24.Bxh8 Rxh8
25.Rd4 Nf6 26.Rad1 Kb8 27.a4 Re8 28.Kh2 Be6 29.Kg3 g5 30.h4 gxh4+
31.Kxh4 Rg8 32.Nb6 cxb6 33.cxb6 a5 34.b5 Kc8 35.Rc1+ Kb8 36.Rc7
Nd5 37.Rxd5 Bxd5 38.Bxh5 Bb3 39.Bxf7 Bxf7 40.Rxf7 Kc8 41.Rc7+
Kb8 42.g4 Rg6 43.Re7 Rxb6 44.Re8+ Ka7 45.Rxe4 Rd6 46.g5 Kb6 47.f4
Kc7 48.f5 Rd5 49.g6 Rxf5 50.Kg4 Rd5 51.Rf4 Rg8 52.Rf7+ Kd6 53.g7
b6 54.e4 Rc5 55.Rb7 Rc7 56.e5+ Kd7 57.e6+ Kc8 58.Rxb6 Rc5 59.Ra6
Rxg7+ 60.Kf4 Re7 61.Ke4 Kb7 62.Kd4 Rh5 63.Rd6 Kc7 64.Rc6+ Kb7
65.Rd6 Rg7 66.Ra6 Rg4+ 67.Kd3 0-1

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "RA December Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.08"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Chiku-Ratte, Olivier Kenta"]
[Black "Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E11"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Bb4+ 4.Bd2 a5 5.g3 O-O 6.Bg2 Bxd2+ 7.Nbxd2
d6 8.O-O Qe7 9.Qc2 e5 10.e4 Na6 11.Qc3 exd4 12.Nxd4 Nc5 13.Rae1
Qe5 14.f4 Qh5 15.Nb5 Rd8 16.Nxc7 Rb8 17.e5 Ne8 18.exd6 Na4 19.Qe5
Qxe5 20.fxe5 Nxb2 21.Bd5 Nxd6 22.exd6 Be6 23.Nxe6 fxe6 24.Rxe6
Kh8 1-0



[Event "RA December Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.08"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Laurin, Marcel"]
[Black "Sztuka, Jeremy"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A40"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 b5 2.e4 b4 3.Bc4 Bb7 4.f3 e6 5.Bd2 c5 6.Ne2 Qh4+ 7.g3 Qf6
8.O-O cxd4 9.c3 dxc3 10.bxc3 a5 11.cxb4 axb4 12.Be3 Nc6 13.Nd2
Nge7 14.Bb3 Ng6 15.Nc4 Nge5 16.Nb6 Rd8 17.Kg2 Be7 18.Qd2 d6 19.Rac1
O-O 20.h3 Rfe8 21.f4 Nd7 22.f5 Qe5 23.Kh2 Qxe4 24.fxe6 fxe6 25.Rc4
Qe5 26.Nxd7 Rxd7 27.Bf4 Qf6 28.Nd4 Ne5 29.Rf2 Nxc4 30.Bxc4 d5
31.Bb5 Red8 32.Bxd7 Rxd7 33.Re2 Bd6 34.Rxe6 Bxf4 35.gxf4 Qh6
36.Rxh6 1-0



[Event "RA December Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.09"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Demchenko, Svitlana"]
[Black "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B75"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.Be3 Bg7 7.f3
a6 8.Qd2 b5 9.O-O-O Bb7 10.g4 h5 11.g5 Nfd7 12.Kb1 O-O 13.Bd3
Nc5 14.Rhe1 Nbd7 15.f4 b4 16.Nd5 e6 17.Nf6+ Bxf6 18.gxf6 Bxe4
19.Bxe4 Nxe4 20.Qg2 Nexf6 21.Nxe6 fxe6 22.Qxg6+ Kh8 23.Bd4 e5
24.fxe5 dxe5 25.Bxe5 Nxe5 26.Qh6+ Nh7 27.Rxd8 Raxd8 28.Qxh5 Nf3
29.Rc1 Rf6 30.b3 Rd4 31.Qe8+ Kg7 32.Qe7+ Rf7 33.Qe6 Rf6 34.Qe7+
Kg6 35.Kb2 Nhg5 36.Qe8+ Kg7 37.Qe7+ Rf7 38.Qc5 Ne4 39.Qb6 Rf6
40.Qb7+ Kg6 41.Rf1 Neg5 42.Rf2 Re4 43.Rg2 Rfe6 44.Qa8 Kf5 45.Qf8+
Rf6 46.Qc8+ Rfe6 47.Qf8+ Ke5 48.Qc5+ Kf6 49.Qf8+ Nf7 50.Rf2 Rf4
51.Qa8 N7e5 52.Qf8+ Nf7 53.Qa8 N7e5 54.Qf8+ Nf7 55.Qa8 N7e5 56.Qf8+ 1/2-1/2



[Event "RA December Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.09"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Xu, Daniel"]
[Black "Dukic, Zachary"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E81"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f3 O-O 6.Be3 c5 7.Nge2 Nc6
8.d5 Ne5 9.Ng3 Qa5 10.Be2 a6 11.O-O b5 12.cxb5 axb5 13.Bxb5 Ba6
14.Bxa6 Qxa6 15.Qe2 Nc4 16.Bf2 Nd7 17.Rfc1 Bh6 18.Rc2 Rfb8 19.Nd1
Nde5 20.Nf1 Na5 21.Qxa6 Rxa6 22.b3 Rb4 23.Rb1 Nac4 24.Re2 Na3
25.Ra1 Nd3 26.Nde3 Nb5 27.Rd2 Nxf2 28.Kxf2 Rxb3 29.axb3 Rxa1
30.b4 cxb4 31.Rb2 Ra4 32.Nc2 Nc3 33.Kg3 Ra2 34.Rxa2 Nxa2 35.f4
Bg7 36.Nd2 Nc1 37.Kf3 b3 38.Na3 Bd4 39.Nab1 Kf8 40.Nc4 Nd3 41.Ncd2
Ne1+ 42.Kg3 b2 43.Nf3 Nxf3 44.Kxf3 e5 45.g3 f5 46.fxe5 Bxe5 47.Ke3
Kf7 48.Kd3 Kf6 49.Ke3 Kg5 50.exf5 Kxf5 51.Kf3 Bd4 0-1



[Event "RA December Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.09"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Gordon, David"]
[Black "Yao, Houji"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A45"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 e6 3.e4 c5 4.d5 d6 5.Nc3 Be7 6.Bb5+ Bd7 7.dxe6
fxe6 8.e5 dxe5 9.Nf3 a6 10.Bxd7+ Nbxd7 11.Qe2 Qc7 12.O-O-O O-O
13.Rhe1 Rad8 14.Nxe5 Qxe5 15.Qxe5 Nxe5 16.Rxe5 Rxd1+ 17.Nxd1
Kf7 18.Re2 Rd8 19.Nc3 Rd7 20.Rd2 Ke8 21.f3 b6 22.a4 Bd6 23.g3
h6 24.Be3 Ke7 25.b3 Ke8 26.Bf2 Ke7 27.Nd1 Nd5 28.c4 Nb4 29.Nc3
Nc6 30.Ne4 Na5 31.Kc2 Nc6 32.f4 Rd8 33.Kc3 Rd7 34.Be3 a5 35.g4
Bc7 36.Rxd7+ Kxd7 37.h4 Ke7 38.h5 Kf7 39.Kd3 Nb4+ 40.Kd2 Nc6
41.Ke2 Ke7 42.Kf3 Kf7 43.Nc3 Bd8 44.Nb5 Be7 45.Ke4 Nb4 46.Bd2
Nc6 47.Bc3 g6 48.Be5 g5 49.fxg5 Bxg5 50.Bc7 Bd8 51.Bf4 Kg7 52.Nd6
Bh4 53.Ne8+ Kf7 54.Nc7 Nd4 55.Bxh6 Nxb3 56.Be3 Be7 57.g5 Bf8
58.Ke5 Nd4 59.Bxd4 Bg7+ 60.Ke4 cxd4 61.Na8 e5 62.Nxb6 Ke6 63.c5
Bf8 64.c6 Kd6 65.Nc4+ Kxc6 66.Nxe5+ 1-0



[Event "RA December Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2018.12.09"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Upper, John"]
[Black "Yang, Fan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A28"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.e3 g6 5.d4 d6 6.dxe5 dxe5 7.Qxd8+
Kxd8 8.Be2 Bg7 9.b3 Bd7 10.O-O h6 11.Rd1 Kc8 12.Bb2 Re8 13.a3
e4 14.Nd2 Bh8 15.b4 Bf5 16.c5 Ne5 17.Nc4 Nfd7 18.Nd2 Nf6 19.h3
h5 20.Nb5 Nc6 21.Nc4 a6 22.Nd4 Nxd4 23.Bxd4 Nd7 24.Bxh8 Rxh8
25.Rd4 Nf6 26.Rad1 Kb8 27.a4 Re8 28.Kh2 Be6 29.Kg3 g5 30.h4 gxh4+
31.Kxh4 Rg8 32.Nb6 cxb6 33.cxb6 a5 34.b5 Kc8 35.Rc1+ Kb8 36.Rc7
Nd5 37.Rxd5 Bxd5 38.Bxh5 Bb3 39.Bxf7 Bxf7 40.Rxf7 Kc8 41.Rc7+
Kb8 42.g4 Rg6 43.Re7 Rxb6 44.Re8+ Ka7 45.Rxe4 Rd6 46.g5 Kb6 47.f4
Kc7 48.f5 Rd5 49.g6 Rxf5 50.Kg4 Rd5 51.Rf4 Rg8 52.Rf7+ Kd6 53.g7
b6 54.e4 Rc5 55.Rb7 Rc7 56.e5+ Kd7 57.e6+ Kc8 58.Rxb6 Rc5 59.Ra6
Rxg7+ 60.Kf4 Re7 61.Ke4 Kb7 62.Kd4 Rh5 63.Rd6 Kc7 64.Rc6+ Kb7
65.Rd6 Rg7 66.Ra6 Rg4+ 67.Kd3 0-1