November 8,9,10, 2019 National Capital Open

[Halldor P. Palsson]

2019 National Capital Open
An EOCA Grand Prix Event, see website at www.eoca.ca

Date: November 8,9,10, 2019
Place: RA Centre, 2451 Riverside Drive, Ottawa – Riverstone [Gatineau] Room.
Rounds: 5, Friday 7:30 PM Saturday & Sunday @ 10 AM & 3 PM.
Type: Regular Swiss
Prizes: $$BEN. Sections and prizes are based on projected entries.
Open - (rated FIDE & CFC); 1st $600, 2nd $300 3rd $150: U2200 $100 & U2050 $100;
U 1900 – (rated CFC); 1st $250, 2nd $150 3rd $75; U1750 $100;
U1600 – (rated CFC) 1st $150, 2nd $100 3rd 50;

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

Entry Fee: Open $80 if pre-registered, $100 at site;
U1900 $60 if pre-registered, $80 at site;
U1600 $40 if pre-registered, $50 at site.
Free entry for GM/WGM & IM/WIM. CFC National Master is $60 if entered by e-mail by November 1. GM Bator Sambuev is playing.

Add $20 if playing up a section. A player must be 100 points or less from the rating floor for the section he wants to play up in. You can also play as an Amateur for $30. Amateurs are not eligible for prizes & may be used as floaters.

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 5, 2019, 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, October 31 or November 7, 7:00-7:30 PM

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

[Halldor P. Palsson]

I am taking registrations at the RA Chess Club this Thursday. Entry by e-mail at fs889@ncf.ca and there is no late fee.

Free entry for GM/WGM & IM/WIM. CFC National Master is $60 if entered by e-mail by November 1 or $80 after that.

2019 National Capital Open

# Name/Rtng/ID
1 Bator Sambuev
2580 146462 (4128290)
2 Zachary Dukic
2380 149507 (2617188)
3 Jason Liang
2300 170934 (30940303)
4 Christopher Pace
2264 141390 (2610167)
5 David Gordon
2260 106629 (2602431)
6 Tyler Tanaka
2238 159441 (7002351)
7 Kevin Zhong
2229 159604 (2624907)
8 Fan Yang
2203 155485 (2626055)
9 Rachel Miller
2173 158466 (7401302)
10 Saeid Sadeghi
2137 139655 (2606810)
11 Anton Gribanov
2100 171361
12 Danail Donev
2082 143574 (2604094)
13 Daniel Xu
2055 160020 (2627345)
14 Abdelaziz Mahdjoubi
2037 155558 (2626071)
15 Johnathan Han
2005 161709 (2629631)
16 Jake Van Rooy
1988 152635 (2622670)
17 Savio Joseph Benher
1966 161296 (2629453)
18 Mike Schofield
1964 106569 (2606259)
19 Michel Desjardins
1946 131936 (2601427)
20 Sanjay Ramesh
1920 162979 (2631270)
21 Etienne Latreille
1894 154563 (2634279)
22 Dan Kearnan
1848 137473 (2628082)
23 Alwin Ning
1843 161716 (2631253)
24 Cameron Badham
unr. 171485

2019 National Capital U1900

# Name/Rtng/ID
1 Ray Kuryliw
1802 105482 (2604833)
2 Amos Kuttner
1796 151235 (2615738)
3 Kamal Balazadeh
1771 153228
4 Milos Petrovic
1761 160269
5 Jacob Krolczyk
1756 120860 (2618001)
6 Oswin Ning
1754 161715 (2631261)
7 William Landstrom
1744 162880 (2633540)
8 Randika Balasooriya
1741 150499 (2635968)
9 Michael Shi
1715 167348
10 Spencer Martin
1711 103276 (2616882)
11 Alexander Stopic
1706 160017 (2630036)
12 Nicolas Dupont-Mageau
1699 156184 (2635984)
13 Alexandre Khan
1686 163542 (2632497)
14 Victor Samuel
1675 112306 (2629062)
15 Nikolai Kanel
1659 166530
16 Simon Perkins
1641 107582 (2618737)
17 Herb Langer
1637 100319 (2617536)
18 Derek Wang
1537 166573 (2636115)

2019 National Capital U1600

# Name/Rtng/ID
1 Jeremy Sztuka
1539 162452 (2629089)
2 Daniel Wang
1520 162438
3 Romy Peters
1511 135706 (2605589)
4 Emil Wang
1480 162439
5 Santiago Pascual-Meagher
1384 162146
6 John I.F. Lukezich
1342 146765 (2620944)
7 Pete Frazier
1335 171026
8 Brian Murray
1296 128144 (2610981)
9 Ankita Jain
1279 163409 (2628309)
10 Pierre Arcand
1194 160146
11 Zakia Irfan
1102 167861
12 Sabia Irfan
878 167862
13 Victoria Feng
unr.
14 Ernest Moses
unr.

[Halldor P. Palsson]

2019 National Capital Open

Bd # Res White # Res Black
1 9 Daniel Xu (2186 0.0) 1 Bator Sambuev (2580 0.0)
2 2 Zachary Dukic (2380 0.0) 13 Abdelaziz Mahdjoubi (2037 0.0)
3 14 Johnathan Han (2005 0.0) 3 Jason Liang (2300 0.0)
4 4 Christopher Pace (2264 0.0) 15 Jake Van Rooy (1988 0.0)
5 16 Savio Joseph Benher (1966 0.0) 5 David Gordon (2260 0.0)
6 6 Tyler Tanaka (2238 0.0) 18 Michel Desjardins (1946 0.0)
7 19 Sanjay Ramesh (1920 0.0) 8 Fan Yang (2203 0.0)
8 10 Saeid Sadeghi (2137 0.0) 20 Etienne Latreille (1894 0.0)
9 21 Dan Kearnan (1848 0.0) 11 Anton Gribanov (2100 0.0)
10 12 Danail Donev (2082 0.0) 23 Cameron Badham (unr. 0.0)
22 1 Alwin Ning (1843 0.0) BYE
17 ½ Mike Schofield (1964 0.0) BYE
7 ½ Kevin Zhong (2229 0.0) BYE

2019 National Capital U1900

Bd # Res White # Res Black
11 10 Michael Shi (1715 0.0) 1 Ray Kuryliw (1802 0.0)
12 3 Kamal Balazadeh (1771 0.0) 12 Alexander Stopic (1706 0.0)
13 13 Nicolas Dupont-Mageau (1699 0.0) 4 Milos Petrovic (1761 0.0)
14 5 Jacob Krolczyk (1756 0.0) 14 Alexandre Khan (1686 0.0)
15 15 Victor Samuel (1675 0.0) 6 Oswin Ning (1754 0.0)
16 7 William Landstrom (1744 0.0) 16 Nikolai Kanel (1659 0.0)
17 17 Simon Perkins (1641 0.0) 8 Randika Balasooriya (1741 0.0)
18 9 Fernando Echavarria-Hidalgo (1721 0.0) 18 Herb Langer (1637 0.0)
19 1 Derek Wang (1537 0.0) BYE
11 ½ Spencer Martin (1711 0.0) BYE
2 ½ Amos Kuttner (1796 0.0) BYE

2019 National Capital U1600

Bd # Res White # Res Black
19 8 Pete Frazier (1335 0.0) 1 Jeremy Sztuka (1539 0.0)
20 2 Daniel Wang (1520 0.0) 9 Brian Murray (1296 0.0)
21 10 Ankita Jain (1279 0.0) 3 Romy Peters (1511 0.0)
22 4 Emil Wang (1480 0.0) 11 Pierre Arcand (1194 0.0)
23 15 Victoria Feng (unr. 0.0) 6 Michael Gao (1378 0.0)
24 7 John I.F. Lukezich (1342 0.0) 16 Neil Moses (unr. 0.0)
13 1 Fabien Ouellette (1062 0.0) BYE
12 ½ Zakia Irfan (1102 0.0) BYE
5 ½ Santiago Pascual-Meagher (1384 0.0) BYE
14 ½ Sabia Irfan (878 0.0) BYE

[Halldor P. Palsson]

2019 National Capital Open

Bd # Res White # Res Black
1 1 Bator Sambuev (2580 1.0) 12 Danail Donev (2082 1.0)
2 21 Dan Kearnan (1848 1.0) 2 Zachary Dukic (2380 1.0)
3 3 Jason Liang (2300 0.5) 22 Alwin Ning (1843 1.0)
4 14 Johnathan Han (2005 0.5) 4 Christopher Pace (2264 0.5)
5 15 Jake Van Rooy (1988 0.5) 6 Tyler Tanaka (2238 0.5)
6 7 Kevin Zhong (2229 0.5) 16 Savio Joseph Benher (1966 0.5)
7 17 Mike Schofield (1964 0.5) 9 Daniel Xu (2186 0.0)
8 11 Anton Gribanov (2100 0.0) 20 Etienne Latreille (1894 0.0)
9 13 Abdelaziz Mahdjoubi (2037 0.0) 23 Cameron Badham (unr. 0.0)
8 ½ Fan Yang (2203 0.5) BYE
5 ½ David Gordon (2260 0.5) BYE
10 ½ Saeid Sadeghi (2137 1.0) BYE
19 ½ Sanjay Ramesh (1920 0.5) BYE
18 ½ Michel Desjardins (1946 0.5) BYE




2019 National Capital U1900
Bd # Res White # Res Black
11 6 Oswin Ning (1754 1.0) 14 Alexandre Khan (1686 1.0)
12 18 Herb Langer (1637 1.0) 7 William Landstrom (1744 1.0)
13 8 Randika Balasooriya (1741 1.0) 19 Derek Wang (1537 1.0)
14 1 Ray Kuryliw (1802 0.5) 11 Spencer Martin (1711 0.5)
15 2 Amos Kuttner (1796 0.5) 10 Michael Shi (1715 0.5)
16 13 Nicolas Dupont-Mageau (1699 0.5) 3 Kamal Balazadeh (1771 0.5)
17 4 Milos Petrovic (1761 0.5) 12 Alexander Stopic (1706 0.5)
18 16 Nikolai Kanel (1659 0.0) 5 Jacob Krolczyk (1756 0.0)
19 17 Simon Perkins (1641 0.0) 15 Victor Samuel (1675 0.0)
9 ½ Fernando Echavarria-Hidalgo (1721 0.0) BYE



2019 National Capital U1600
Bd # Res White # Res Black
19 1 Jeremy Sztuka (1539 1.0) 7 John I.F. Lukezich (1342 1.0)
20 3 Romy Peters (1511 1.0) 13 Fabien Ouellette (1062 1.0)
21 6 Michael Gao (1378 1.0) 4 Emil Wang (1480 1.0)
22 5 Santiago Pascual-Meagher (1384 0.5) 12 Zakia Irfan (1102 0.5)
23 14 Sabia Irfan (878 0.5) 8 Pete Frazier (1335 0.0)
24 9 Brian Murray (1296 0.0) 15 Victoria Feng (unr. 0.0)
25 16 Neil Moses (unr. 0.0) 10 Ankita Jain (1279 0.0)
11 1 Pierre Arcand (1194 0.0) BYE
2 ½ Daniel Wang (1520 1.0) BYE

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.08"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Dukic, Zach"]
[Black "Mahdjoubi, Abdelaziz"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B94"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 Bd7 7.Qd2
e6 8.O-O-O h6 9.Bxf6 Qxf6 10.f4 Nc6 11.Nf3 Rd8 12.Kb1
( 12.Bd3 Nd4 13.Ne1 Nc6 14.Qe3 Be7 15.Nf3 g5 16.f5 g4 17.fxe6
Bxe6 18.Nd2 Qg5 19.Qb6 O-O 20.Nd5 Bxd5 21.exd5 Ne5 22.Be2 Bf6
23.Kb1 Bg7 24.h3 Rfe8 25.Rhf1 Nd7 26.Qf2 Qe5 27.Nc4 Qxe2 28.Qxf7+
Kh8 29.Nxd6 Re7 30.Qf4 Rf8 31.Nf5 Re4 32.Qc1 Qxg2 33.hxg4 Qxg4
34.Nxh6 Qg6 35.Rh1 Rff4 36.Rdg1 Qxh6 37.Rxh6+ Bxh6 38.Qd1 Bg7
39.Qh5+ Kg8 40.a3 Rf7 41.Qh3 b5 42.Rg6 Rd4 43.Qe6 Rd1+ 44.Ka2
Nf8 45.Rxg7+ Kxg7 46.Qg4+ {1-0, Yudasin Leonid (ISR) 2515 - Razhkov, Leningrad (Russia) 1980}
) g6 13.e5 dxe5 14.fxe5 Nxe5 15.Qd4 Bg7 16.Ne4 Qxf3 17.gxf3 O-O
18.Be2 f5 19.Nc5 Bf6 20.Nxd7 Nxd7 21.Qxd7 1-0



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.08"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Xu, Daniel"]
[Black "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E47"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3 c5 6.Nge2 cxd4 7.exd4
d5 8.a3 dxc4 9.Bxc4 Be7 10.O-O a6 11.Bg5 b5 12.Ba2 Bb7 13.Qd3
Nbd7 14.Rad1 Nb6 15.Rfe1 Nbd5 16.Bxf6 Nxf6 17.d5 exd5 18.Nxd5
Nxd5 19.Bxd5 Bxd5 20.Qxd5 Qxd5 21.Rxd5 Bf6 22.Rd2 Rfd8 23.Red1
Rxd2 24.Rxd2 Kf8 25.g3 Rc8 26.Kg2 Be5 27.f4 Bf6 28.Kf3 Ke7 29.Ke3
g6 30.Kf3 h5 31.h3 Rc4 32.h4 Rc5 33.Ke4 a5 34.b3 a4 35.b4 Rc4+
36.Ke3 Ke6 37.Kf3 Bc3 38.Rc2 Be1 39.Rxc4 bxc4 40.Ke4 c3 41.Kd3
f5 42.Kc2 Kd5 43.Nxc3+ Kd4 44.Ne2+ Ke3 45.Kd1 Bf2 46.Nc3 Bxg3 0-1



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.08"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Joseph Benher, Savio"]
[Black "Gordon, David"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B30"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.Nc3 g6 5.O-O Bg7 6.h3 O-O 7.Re1
Ne8 8.Bxc6 dxc6 9.e5 Nc7 10.d3 Ne6 11.Ne4 b6 12.Bd2 a5 13.Qc1
Nd4 14.Nxd4 Qxd4 15.Bc3 Qd5 16.Qg5 Ra7 17.f4 Bf5 18.g4 Bxe4 19.dxe4
Qd8 20.Qh4 e6 21.Qxd8 Rxd8 22.a4 c4 23.Kf2 Bf8 24.Red1 Rad7 25.Ke2
Bc5 26.Rxd7 Rxd7 27.Rd1 Rxd1 28.Kxd1 Be3 29.Bd2 c3 30.bxc3 Bxd2
31.Kxd2 b5 32.Kc1 Kf8 33.Kb2 Ke7 34.c4 b4 35.c5 h6 36.Kb3 Kf8
{=} 37.Kc4 Kg7 38.Kd4 Kh7 39.Ke3 Kg7 40.Kf3 Kh7 41.h4 Kg7 42.Kg3
Kh7 43.h5 g5 44.f5 1/2-1/2



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.08"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Pace, Chris"]
[Black "Van Rooy, Jake"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A43"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 e6 2.e4 c5 3.d5 d6 4.c4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Be7 6.Nf3 O-O 7.Bd3 Na6
8.O-O Nc7 9.Re1 b5 10.cxb5 exd5 11.exd5 Bb7 12.Bc4 Nd7 13.Qd3
Bf6 14.Bf4 Nb6 15.Rad1 Nxc4 16.Qxc4 Bxc3 17.bxc3 Qf6 18.Bg5 Qf5
19.Qf4 Qxf4 20.Bxf4 Nxd5 21.Bxd6 Rfd8 22.Bxc5 Nxc3 23.Rxd8+ Rxd8
24.Nd4 f6 25.f3 Rd7 1/2-1/2



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.08"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Han, Johnathan"]
[Black "Liang, Jason"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B17"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nd7 5.Nf3 Ngf6 6.Nxf6+ Nxf6
7.c3 Bf5 8.Be2 e6 9.Bf4 Be7 10.O-O O-O 11.Bd3 Bg4 12.h3 Bh5 13.Be2
Nd5 14.Bh2 Bd6 15.Bxd6 Qxd6 16.Ne5 Bxe2 17.Qxe2 Rad8 18.Rad1
c5 19.c4 Nf6 20.dxc5 Qxc5 21.b3 Qa5 22.Qb2 h6 23.a4 a6 24.Nf3
Qb4 25.Nd4 Ne4 26.Rd3 Qb6 27.Rdd1 Rd6 28.Nf3 Rfd8 29.Rxd6 Qxd6
30.b4 Qf4 31.Qc1 Qf6 32.Rd1 Rc8 33.Rd4 Ng5 34.Rf4 Nxf3+ 35.Rxf3
Qd4 36.Qf4 Qxf4 37.Rxf4 Rd8 38.c5 Rd1+ 39.Kh2 Ra1 40.a5 Rb1 41.Rc4
g6 42.c6 bxc6 43.Rxc6 Rxb4 44.Rxa6 Ra4 45.Ra8+ Kg7 46.g3 h5 47.h4
Kf6 48.a6 Ra3 49.Kg2 Ke5 50.a7 Kf6 51.Kh2 Ra2 52.Kg2 Ra3 53.Kh2
Kg7 54.Kg2 Kh7 55.Kh2 Kg7 56.Kg2 Kf6 57.Kh2 Kf5 58.Kg2 Ra2 59.Kf3
Ra3+ 60.Kg2 e5 61.Kh2 e4 62.Kg2 Ra1 63.Kh3 Ra2 64.Kg2 e3 65.Re8
e2 66.Rxe2 Rxa7 67.Re3 Kf6 68.Kf3 Ra2 69.Kg2 Rb2 70.Kf3 Kf5 71.Kg2
Ra2 72.Kf3 f6 73.Kg2 g5 74.hxg5 fxg5 75.Rb3 Ra5 76.Rb4 Re5 77.Rb3
Rc5 78.Rb4 Rc3 79.Rb5+ Kg6 80.Rb6+ Kg7 1/2-1/2



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.08"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Tanaka, Tyler"]
[Black "Desjardins, Michel"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B01"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qd6 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.d4 g6 6.g3 Bg7 7.Bg2
Qa6 8.Ne2 O-O 9.O-O Rd8 10.Nf4 Bg4 11.h3 Bxf3 12.Qxf3 c6 13.c3
Nbd7 14.Re1 e6 15.Nd3 Nd5 16.Bd2 Re8 17.Qe2 Rac8 18.a4 Qb6 19.a5
Qd8 20.Qd1 b5 21.axb6 axb6 22.Qb3 b5 23.Ra7 Rc7 24.Rxc7 Qxc7
25.Bxd5 cxd5 26.Qxb5 Rb8 27.Qa4 Qc4 28.Nb4 Nb6 29.Qc2 Rc8 30.Qb1
Qb3 31.Nd3 Nc4 32.Bf4 Ra8 33.Re2 Ra2 34.Qc2 Qb5 35.Kg2 Bf8 36.Qb1
Qb3 37.Qc2 Qb5 38.Qc1 Qb3 39.Bh6 Bxh6 40.Qxh6 Qd1 41.Nf4 Ra1
42.g4 Qg1+ 43.Kf3 Rd1 1/2-1/2

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.08"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Dukic, Zach"]
[Black "Mahdjoubi, Abdelaziz"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B94"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 Bd7 7.Qd2
e6 8.O-O-O h6 9.Bxf6 Qxf6 10.f4 Nc6 11.Nf3 Rd8 12.Kb1
( 12.Bd3 Nd4 13.Ne1 Nc6 14.Qe3 Be7 15.Nf3 g5 16.f5 g4 17.fxe6
Bxe6 18.Nd2 Qg5 19.Qb6 O-O 20.Nd5 Bxd5 21.exd5 Ne5 22.Be2 Bf6
23.Kb1 Bg7 24.h3 Rfe8 25.Rhf1 Nd7 26.Qf2 Qe5 27.Nc4 Qxe2 28.Qxf7+
Kh8 29.Nxd6 Re7 30.Qf4 Rf8 31.Nf5 Re4 32.Qc1 Qxg2 33.hxg4 Qxg4
34.Nxh6 Qg6 35.Rh1 Rff4 36.Rdg1 Qxh6 37.Rxh6+ Bxh6 38.Qd1 Bg7
39.Qh5+ Kg8 40.a3 Rf7 41.Qh3 b5 42.Rg6 Rd4 43.Qe6 Rd1+ 44.Ka2
Nf8 45.Rxg7+ Kxg7 46.Qg4+ {1-0, Yudasin Leonid (ISR) 2515 - Razhkov, Leningrad (Russia) 1980}
) g6 13.e5 dxe5 14.fxe5 Nxe5 15.Qd4 Bg7 16.Ne4 Qxf3 17.gxf3 O-O
18.Be2 f5 19.Nc5 Bf6 20.Nxd7 Nxd7 21.Qxd7 1-0

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.08"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Xu, Daniel"]
[Black "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E47"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3 c5 6.Nge2 cxd4 7.exd4
d5 8.a3 dxc4 9.Bxc4 Be7 10.O-O a6 11.Bg5 b5 12.Ba2 Bb7 13.Qd3
Nbd7 14.Rad1 Nb6 15.Rfe1 Nbd5 16.Bxf6 Nxf6 17.d5 exd5 18.Nxd5
Nxd5 19.Bxd5 Bxd5 20.Qxd5 Qxd5 21.Rxd5 Bf6 22.Rd2 Rfd8 23.Red1
Rxd2 24.Rxd2 Kf8 25.g3 Rc8 26.Kg2 Be5 27.f4 Bf6 28.Kf3 Ke7 29.Ke3
g6 30.Kf3 h5 31.h3 Rc4 32.h4 Rc5 33.Ke4 a5 34.b3 a4 35.b4 Rc4+
36.Ke3 Ke6 37.Kf3 Bc3 38.Rc2 Be1 39.Rxc4 bxc4 40.Ke4 c3 41.Kd3
f5 42.Kc2 Kd5 43.Nxc3+ Kd4 44.Ne2+ Ke3 45.Kd1 Bf2 46.Nc3 Bxg3 0-1

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.08"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Joseph Benher, Savio"]
[Black "Gordon, David"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B30"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.Nc3 g6 5.O-O Bg7 6.h3 O-O 7.Re1
Ne8 8.Bxc6 dxc6 9.e5 Nc7 10.d3 Ne6 11.Ne4 b6 12.Bd2 a5 13.Qc1
Nd4 14.Nxd4 Qxd4 15.Bc3 Qd5 16.Qg5 Ra7 17.f4 Bf5 18.g4 Bxe4 19.dxe4
Qd8 20.Qh4 e6 21.Qxd8 Rxd8 22.a4 c4 23.Kf2 Bf8 24.Red1 Rad7 25.Ke2
Bc5 26.Rxd7 Rxd7 27.Rd1 Rxd1 28.Kxd1 Be3 29.Bd2 c3 30.bxc3 Bxd2
31.Kxd2 b5 32.Kc1 Kf8 33.Kb2 Ke7 34.c4 b4 35.c5 h6 36.Kb3 Kf8
{=} 37.Kc4 Kg7 38.Kd4 Kh7 39.Ke3 Kg7 40.Kf3 Kh7 41.h4 Kg7 42.Kg3
Kh7 43.h5 g5 44.f5 1/2-1/2

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.08"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Pace, Chris"]
[Black "Van Rooy, Jake"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A43"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 e6 2.e4 c5 3.d5 d6 4.c4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Be7 6.Nf3 O-O 7.Bd3 Na6
8.O-O Nc7 9.Re1 b5 10.cxb5 exd5 11.exd5 Bb7 12.Bc4 Nd7 13.Qd3
Bf6 14.Bf4 Nb6 15.Rad1 Nxc4 16.Qxc4 Bxc3 17.bxc3 Qf6 18.Bg5 Qf5
19.Qf4 Qxf4 20.Bxf4 Nxd5 21.Bxd6 Rfd8 22.Bxc5 Nxc3 23.Rxd8+ Rxd8
24.Nd4 f6 25.f3 Rd7 1/2-1/2

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.08"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Han, Johnathan"]
[Black "Liang, Jason"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B17"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nd7 5.Nf3 Ngf6 6.Nxf6+ Nxf6
7.c3 Bf5 8.Be2 e6 9.Bf4 Be7 10.O-O O-O 11.Bd3 Bg4 12.h3 Bh5 13.Be2
Nd5 14.Bh2 Bd6 15.Bxd6 Qxd6 16.Ne5 Bxe2 17.Qxe2 Rad8 18.Rad1
c5 19.c4 Nf6 20.dxc5 Qxc5 21.b3 Qa5 22.Qb2 h6 23.a4 a6 24.Nf3
Qb4 25.Nd4 Ne4 26.Rd3 Qb6 27.Rdd1 Rd6 28.Nf3 Rfd8 29.Rxd6 Qxd6
30.b4 Qf4 31.Qc1 Qf6 32.Rd1 Rc8 33.Rd4 Ng5 34.Rf4 Nxf3+ 35.Rxf3
Qd4 36.Qf4 Qxf4 37.Rxf4 Rd8 38.c5 Rd1+ 39.Kh2 Ra1 40.a5 Rb1 41.Rc4
g6 42.c6 bxc6 43.Rxc6 Rxb4 44.Rxa6 Ra4 45.Ra8+ Kg7 46.g3 h5 47.h4
Kf6 48.a6 Ra3 49.Kg2 Ke5 50.a7 Kf6 51.Kh2 Ra2 52.Kg2 Ra3 53.Kh2
Kg7 54.Kg2 Kh7 55.Kh2 Kg7 56.Kg2 Kf6 57.Kh2 Kf5 58.Kg2 Ra2 59.Kf3
Ra3+ 60.Kg2 e5 61.Kh2 e4 62.Kg2 Ra1 63.Kh3 Ra2 64.Kg2 e3 65.Re8
e2 66.Rxe2 Rxa7 67.Re3 Kf6 68.Kf3 Ra2 69.Kg2 Rb2 70.Kf3 Kf5 71.Kg2
Ra2 72.Kf3 f6 73.Kg2 g5 74.hxg5 fxg5 75.Rb3 Ra5 76.Rb4 Re5 77.Rb3
Rc5 78.Rb4 Rc3 79.Rb5+ Kg6 80.Rb6+ Kg7 1/2-1/2

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.08"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Tanaka, Tyler"]
[Black "Desjardins, Michel"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B01"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qd6 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.d4 g6 6.g3 Bg7 7.Bg2
Qa6 8.Ne2 O-O 9.O-O Rd8 10.Nf4 Bg4 11.h3 Bxf3 12.Qxf3 c6 13.c3
Nbd7 14.Re1 e6 15.Nd3 Nd5 16.Bd2 Re8 17.Qe2 Rac8 18.a4 Qb6 19.a5
Qd8 20.Qd1 b5 21.axb6 axb6 22.Qb3 b5 23.Ra7 Rc7 24.Rxc7 Qxc7
25.Bxd5 cxd5 26.Qxb5 Rb8 27.Qa4 Qc4 28.Nb4 Nb6 29.Qc2 Rc8 30.Qb1
Qb3 31.Nd3 Nc4 32.Bf4 Ra8 33.Re2 Ra2 34.Qc2 Qb5 35.Kg2 Bf8 36.Qb1
Qb3 37.Qc2 Qb5 38.Qc1 Qb3 39.Bh6 Bxh6 40.Qxh6 Qd1 41.Nf4 Ra1
42.g4 Qg1+ 43.Kf3 Rd1 1/2-1/2

[Halldor P. Palsson]

2019 National Capital Open

Bd # Res White # Res Black
1 2 Zachary Dukic (2380 2.0) 1 Bator Sambuev (2580 2.0)
2 6 Tyler Tanaka (2238 1.5) 3 Jason Liang (2300 1.5)
3 4 Christopher Pace (2264 1.0) 10 Saeid Sadeghi (2137 1.5)
4 18 Michel Desjardins (1946 1.0) 7 Kevin Zhong (2229 1.0)
5 8 Fan Yang (2203 1.0) 14 Johnathan Han (2005 1.0)
6 9 Daniel Xu (2186 1.0) 19 Sanjay Ramesh (1920 1.0)
7 16 Savio Joseph Benher (1966 1.0) 11 Anton Gribanov (2100 1.0)
8 12 Danail Donev (2082 1.0) 21 Dan Kearnan (1848 1.0)
9 22 Alwin Ning (1843 1.0) 13 Abdelaziz Mahdjoubi (2037 1.0)
10 15 Jake Van Rooy (1988 0.5) 17 Mike Schofield (1964 0.5)
11 20 Etienne Latreille (1894 0.0) 23 Cameron Badham (unr. 0.0)
5 ½ David Gordon (2260 1.0) BYE

2019 National Capital U1900

Bd # Res White # Res Black
12 7 William Landstrom (1744 2.0) 8 Randika Balasooriya (1741 2.0)
13 14 Alexandre Khan (1686 2.0) 13 Nicolas Dupont-Mageau (1699 1.5)
14 16 Nikolai Kanel (1659 1.0) 1 Ray Kuryliw (1802 1.0)
15 11 Spencer Martin (1711 1.0) 2 Amos Kuttner (1796 1.0)
16 19 Derek Wang (1537 1.0) 6 Oswin Ning (1754 1.0)
17 10 Michael Shi (1715 1.0) 17 Simon Perkins (1641 1.0)
18 3 Kamal Balazadeh (1771 0.5) 18 Herb Langer (1637 1.0)
19 12 Alexander Stopic (1706 0.5) 9 Fernando Echavarria-Hidalgo (1721 0.5)
20 5 Jacob Krolczyk (1756 0.0) 15 Victor Samuel (1675 0.0)
4 ½ Milos Petrovic (1761 1.5) BYE


2019 National Capital U1600

Bd # Res White # Res Black
21 6 Michael Gao (1378 2.0) 1 Jeremy Sztuka (1539 2.0)
22 3 Romy Peters (1511 1.5) 2 Daniel Wang (1520 1.5)
23 13 Fabien Ouellette (1062 1.5) 5 Santiago Pascual-Meagher (1384 1.5)
24 4 Emil Wang (1480 1.0) 14 Sabia Irfan (878 1.5)
25 7 John I.F. Lukezich (1342 1.0) 10 Ankita Jain (1279 1.0)
26 11 Pierre Arcand (1194 1.0) 9 Brian Murray (1296 1.0)
27 12 Zakia Irfan (1102 0.5) 8 Pete Frazier (1335 0.0)
28 15 Victoria Feng (unr. 0.0) 16 Neil Moses (unr. 0.0)

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.08"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Kearnan, Dan"]
[Black "Gribanov, Anton"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D85"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.Bd2 Bg7 6.e4 Nxc3 7.Bxc3
c5 8.d5 Bxc3+ 9.bxc3 Qa5 10.Qd2 O-O 11.h4 h5 12.Nh3 Bxh3 13.Rxh3
Kh7 14.Be2 f6 15.g4 hxg4 16.Bxg4 Qa4 17.Qd3 Nd7 18.h5 g5 19.e5+
Kh8 20.Bxd7 Qxd7 21.e6 c4 22.Qf5 Qb5 23.Rb1 Qa6 24.Qg6 Rad8 25.Rd1
Qd6 26.Rd4 b5 27.f4 Qa3 28.Rd1 Qxa2 29.fxg5 Qg2 30.gxf6 Qxg6
31.hxg6+ Kg8 32.fxe7 a5 33.exd8Q Rxd8 34.e7 Re8 35.d6 b4 36.Re3
b3 37.d7 Kg7 38.dxe8Q b2 39.Qf7+ Kh6 40.Qh7+ Kg5 41.Re5+ Kf4
42.Rd4+ Kg3 43.Qh4+ Kf3 44.Qg4# 1-0



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.09"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Black "Donev, Danail"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B20"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Ne2 d6 3.g3 Nf6 4.Bg2 e5 5.O-O Be7 6.c3 Nc6 7.d4 O-O
8.h3 Re8 9.d5 Nb8 10.c4 Nbd7 11.Nbc3 Nf8 12.f4 Ng6 13.f5 Nf8
14.Kh2 a6 15.Ng1 N8d7 16.a4 a5 17.Nb5 Nb8 18.Ra3 Na6 19.g4 Rf8
20.g5 Ne8 21.Rg3 Kh8 22.Qh5 g6 23.Qh6 Rg8 24.fxg6 Rxg6 25.Qh4
f6 26.gxf6 Rxf6 27.Bg5 Nb8 28.Bxf6+ Bxf6 29.Qh6 Nd7 30.Nf3 Bg7
31.Rxg7 Nxg7 32.Ng5 {Black resigned.} Z0 ( 32...Qg8 33.Nf7+ Qxf7
34.Rxf7 b6 35.Qxg7# ) ( {Or} 32...Qxg5 {Q for a N is Houdin6's take on things.}
) 1-0



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.09"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Zhong, Kevin"]
[Black "Joseph Benher, Savio"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B45"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Ne2 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 Nf6 6.Ndb5 Bc5 7.Bf4
O-O 8.Bc7 Qe7 9.Bd6 Bxd6 10.Qxd6 Ne8 11.Qxe7 Nxe7 12.O-O-O f5
13.exf5 Nxf5 14.f3 d5 15.Nd4 Nxd4 16.Rxd4 Nf6 17.Bb5 a6 18.Ba4
Bd7 19.Re1 Rfe8 20.Bxd7 Nxd7 21.Ne4 Nf6 22.Nc5 e5 23.Rd2 b6 24.Na4
Re6 25.Nc3 Rd8 26.Rde2 Rde8 27.Rd2 Rd8 28.Rde2 Rde8 29.Rd2 Rd8 1/2-1/2



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.09"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Liang, Jason"]
[Black "Ning, Alwin"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A06"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.b3 d5 2.Bb2 c5 3.e3 Nc6 4.Nf3 e6 5.Bb5 Bd7 6.O-O Nf6 7.Bxc6
Bxc6 8.Ne5 Bd6 9.f4 O-O 10.d3 Rc8 11.Nd2 b6 12.Rf3 Bb7 13.Rh3
Be7 14.g4 g6 15.g5 Ne8 16.Qg4 Ng7 17.Rf1 c4 18.Bd4 cxd3 19.cxd3
Rc2 20.Ndf3 Bc5 21.Qh4 Nh5 22.Ng4 Bxd4 23.Nxd4 Rxa2 24.Nf6+ Nxf6
25.gxf6 h5 26.Qg5 Re8 27.Rxh5 1-0



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.09"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Van Rooy, Jake"]
[Black "Tanaka, Tyler"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B35"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 g6 3.Nge2 Bg7 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Nc6 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Bc4
O-O 8.Nb3 d6 9.Be2 Be6 10.f4 a6 11.g4 b5 12.Bf3 Rc8 13.Nd5 Bxd5
14.exd5 Na5 15.Bd4 Qc7 16.Qd3 Nxb3 17.cxb3 Qc2 18.Qxc2 Rxc2 19.g5
Nh5 20.Be4 Bxd4 21.Bxc2 Bxb2 22.Rb1 Bc3+ 23.Kd1 Nxf4 24.Be4 Nh3
25.Bg2 Nf2+ 26.Kc2 Rc8 27.Rhf1 Bb4+ 28.Kb2 Nd3+ 29.Ka1 Bc3+ 0-1



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.09"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Han, Johnathan"]
[Black "Pace, Chris"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B06"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nc3 c6 4.Bc4 d6 5.f3 Nf6 6.Bb3 d5 7.e5 Ng8
8.Nce2 a5 9.a4 b6 10.c3 Ba6 11.f4 e6 12.Nf3 h5 13.Bc2 c5 14.Be3
Nd7 15.O-O Nh6 16.Bf2 Ng4 17.h3 Nxf2 18.Rxf2 h4 19.Ng5 Bh6 20.Qd2
Bxe2 21.Rxe2 Bxg5 22.fxg5 Rh5 23.Rf1 Ra7 24.Ref2 Nf8 25.Rf6 Rh7
26.Qf2 Qe7 27.Bd3 c4 28.Bb1 Nd7 29.Rf4 Nf8 30.Rf6 Nd7 31.Rf3
Nf8 32.Qe3 Rg7 33.Qf4 Rh7 34.Qe3 1/2-1/2



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.09"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Kearnan, Dan"]
[Black "Dukic, Zach"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E76"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f4 c5 6.d5 O-O 7.Nf3 e6
8.dxe6 fxe6 9.Bd3 Nc6 10.O-O b6 11.Ng5 Qe7 12.f5 exf5 13.exf5
gxf5 14.Qf3 Bd7 15.Nd5 Nxd5 16.Qxd5+ Kh8 17.Bf4 Ne5 18.Rae1 Rae8
19.Bb1 h6 20.Nf3 Nxf3+ 21.Qxf3 Bd4+ 22.Be3 Qxe3+ 0-1



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.09"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Gribanov, Anton"]
[Black "Latreille, Etienne"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D43"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 e6 4.Nc3 c6 5.Bg5 Be7 6.Qc2 Nbd7 7.cxd5
exd5 8.e3 h6 9.Bh4 O-O 10.Bd3 Re8 11.O-O Nf8 12.Rab1 a5 13.a3
b6 14.Ne5 Bb7 15.Rfc1 N6d7 16.Bxe7 Rxe7 17.Nf3 b5 18.b4 axb4
19.axb4 Nb6 20.Ra1 Nfd7 21.Nd2 Nf6 22.Nb3 Nc4 23.Nc5 Qb8 24.h3
Bc8 25.Bxc4 bxc4 26.Rxa8 Qxa8 27.b5 cxb5 28.Nxb5 Qc6 29.Rb1 g6
30.Qb2 Bf5 31.Ra1 Ne4 32.Ra6 Qc8 33.Nd6 Qc7 34.Nxf5 gxf5 35.Rxh6
Qa5 36.Qb8+ Kg7 37.Qh8# 1-0

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.08"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Kearnan, Dan"]
[Black "Gribanov, Anton"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D85"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 4.cxd5 Nxd5 5.Bd2 Bg7 6.e4 Nxc3 7.Bxc3
c5 8.d5 Bxc3+ 9.bxc3 Qa5 10.Qd2 O-O 11.h4 h5 12.Nh3 Bxh3 13.Rxh3
Kh7 14.Be2 f6 15.g4 hxg4 16.Bxg4 Qa4 17.Qd3 Nd7 18.h5 g5 19.e5+
Kh8 20.Bxd7 Qxd7 21.e6 c4 22.Qf5 Qb5 23.Rb1 Qa6 24.Qg6 Rad8 25.Rd1
Qd6 26.Rd4 b5 27.f4 Qa3 28.Rd1 Qxa2 29.fxg5 Qg2 30.gxf6 Qxg6
31.hxg6+ Kg8 32.fxe7 a5 33.exd8Q Rxd8 34.e7 Re8 35.d6 b4 36.Re3
b3 37.d7 Kg7 38.dxe8Q b2 39.Qf7+ Kh6 40.Qh7+ Kg5 41.Re5+ Kf4
42.Rd4+ Kg3 43.Qh4+ Kf3 44.Qg4# 1-0

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.09"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Black "Donev, Danail"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B20"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Ne2 d6 3.g3 Nf6 4.Bg2 e5 5.O-O Be7 6.c3 Nc6 7.d4 O-O
8.h3 Re8 9.d5 Nb8 10.c4 Nbd7 11.Nbc3 Nf8 12.f4 Ng6 13.f5 Nf8
14.Kh2 a6 15.Ng1 N8d7 16.a4 a5 17.Nb5 Nb8 18.Ra3 Na6 19.g4 Rf8
20.g5 Ne8 21.Rg3 Kh8 22.Qh5 g6 23.Qh6 Rg8 24.fxg6 Rxg6 25.Qh4
f6 26.gxf6 Rxf6 27.Bg5 Nb8 28.Bxf6+ Bxf6 29.Qh6 Nd7 30.Nf3 Bg7
31.Rxg7 Nxg7 32.Ng5 {Black resigned.} Z0 ( 32...Qg8 33.Nf7+ Qxf7
34.Rxf7 b6 35.Qxg7# ) ( {Or} 32...Qxg5 {Q for a N is Houdin6's take on things.}
) 1-0

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.09"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Zhong, Kevin"]
[Black "Joseph Benher, Savio"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B45"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Ne2 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 Nf6 6.Ndb5 Bc5 7.Bf4
O-O 8.Bc7 Qe7 9.Bd6 Bxd6 10.Qxd6 Ne8 11.Qxe7 Nxe7 12.O-O-O f5
13.exf5 Nxf5 14.f3 d5 15.Nd4 Nxd4 16.Rxd4 Nf6 17.Bb5 a6 18.Ba4
Bd7 19.Re1 Rfe8 20.Bxd7 Nxd7 21.Ne4 Nf6 22.Nc5 e5 23.Rd2 b6 24.Na4
Re6 25.Nc3 Rd8 26.Rde2 Rde8 27.Rd2 Rd8 28.Rde2 Rde8 29.Rd2 Rd8 1/2-1/2

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.09"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Liang, Jason"]
[Black "Ning, Alwin"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A06"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.b3 d5 2.Bb2 c5 3.e3 Nc6 4.Nf3 e6 5.Bb5 Bd7 6.O-O Nf6 7.Bxc6
Bxc6 8.Ne5 Bd6 9.f4 O-O 10.d3 Rc8 11.Nd2 b6 12.Rf3 Bb7 13.Rh3
Be7 14.g4 g6 15.g5 Ne8 16.Qg4 Ng7 17.Rf1 c4 18.Bd4 cxd3 19.cxd3
Rc2 20.Ndf3 Bc5 21.Qh4 Nh5 22.Ng4 Bxd4 23.Nxd4 Rxa2 24.Nf6+ Nxf6
25.gxf6 h5 26.Qg5 Re8 27.Rxh5 1-0

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.09"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Van Rooy, Jake"]
[Black "Tanaka, Tyler"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B35"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 g6 3.Nge2 Bg7 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Nc6 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Bc4
O-O 8.Nb3 d6 9.Be2 Be6 10.f4 a6 11.g4 b5 12.Bf3 Rc8 13.Nd5 Bxd5
14.exd5 Na5 15.Bd4 Qc7 16.Qd3 Nxb3 17.cxb3 Qc2 18.Qxc2 Rxc2 19.g5
Nh5 20.Be4 Bxd4 21.Bxc2 Bxb2 22.Rb1 Bc3+ 23.Kd1 Nxf4 24.Be4 Nh3
25.Bg2 Nf2+ 26.Kc2 Rc8 27.Rhf1 Bb4+ 28.Kb2 Nd3+ 29.Ka1 Bc3+ 0-1

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.09"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Han, Johnathan"]
[Black "Pace, Chris"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B06"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nc3 c6 4.Bc4 d6 5.f3 Nf6 6.Bb3 d5 7.e5 Ng8
8.Nce2 a5 9.a4 b6 10.c3 Ba6 11.f4 e6 12.Nf3 h5 13.Bc2 c5 14.Be3
Nd7 15.O-O Nh6 16.Bf2 Ng4 17.h3 Nxf2 18.Rxf2 h4 19.Ng5 Bh6 20.Qd2
Bxe2 21.Rxe2 Bxg5 22.fxg5 Rh5 23.Rf1 Ra7 24.Ref2 Nf8 25.Rf6 Rh7
26.Qf2 Qe7 27.Bd3 c4 28.Bb1 Nd7 29.Rf4 Nf8 30.Rf6 Nd7 31.Rf3
Nf8 32.Qe3 Rg7 33.Qf4 Rh7 34.Qe3 1/2-1/2

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.09"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Kearnan, Dan"]
[Black "Dukic, Zach"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E76"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f4 c5 6.d5 O-O 7.Nf3 e6
8.dxe6 fxe6 9.Bd3 Nc6 10.O-O b6 11.Ng5 Qe7 12.f5 exf5 13.exf5
gxf5 14.Qf3 Bd7 15.Nd5 Nxd5 16.Qxd5+ Kh8 17.Bf4 Ne5 18.Rae1 Rae8
19.Bb1 h6 20.Nf3 Nxf3+ 21.Qxf3 Bd4+ 22.Be3 Qxe3+ 0-1

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.09"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Gribanov, Anton"]
[Black "Latreille, Etienne"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D43"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 e6 4.Nc3 c6 5.Bg5 Be7 6.Qc2 Nbd7 7.cxd5
exd5 8.e3 h6 9.Bh4 O-O 10.Bd3 Re8 11.O-O Nf8 12.Rab1 a5 13.a3
b6 14.Ne5 Bb7 15.Rfc1 N6d7 16.Bxe7 Rxe7 17.Nf3 b5 18.b4 axb4
19.axb4 Nb6 20.Ra1 Nfd7 21.Nd2 Nf6 22.Nb3 Nc4 23.Nc5 Qb8 24.h3
Bc8 25.Bxc4 bxc4 26.Rxa8 Qxa8 27.b5 cxb5 28.Nxb5 Qc6 29.Rb1 g6
30.Qb2 Bf5 31.Ra1 Ne4 32.Ra6 Qc8 33.Nd6 Qc7 34.Nxf5 gxf5 35.Rxh6
Qa5 36.Qb8+ Kg7 37.Qh8# 1-0

[Halldor P. Palsson]

2019 National Capital Open

Bd # Res White # Res Black
1 1 Bator Sambuev (2580 3.0) 3 Jason Liang (2300 2.5)
2 9 Daniel Xu (2186 2.0) 2 Zachary Dukic (2380 2.0)
3 22 Alwin Ning (1843 2.0) 4 Christopher Pace (2264 2.0)
4 7 Kevin Zhong (2229 2.0) 12 Danail Donev (2082 2.0)
5 8 Fan Yang (2203 2.0) 16 Savio Joseph Benher (1966 2.0)
6 5 David Gordon (2260 1.5) 10 Saeid Sadeghi (2137 1.5)
7 17 Mike Schofield (1964 1.5) 6 Tyler Tanaka (2238 1.5)
8 11 Anton Gribanov (2100 1.0) 18 Michel Desjardins (1946 1.0)
9 13 Abdelaziz Mahdjoubi (2037 1.0) 21 Dan Kearnan (1848 1.0)
10 19 Sanjay Ramesh (1920 1.0) 14 Johnathan Han (2005 1.0)
11 20 Etienne Latreille (1894 1.0) 15 Jake Van Rooy (1988 0.5)
23 1 Cameron Badham (unr. 0.0) BYE


2019 National Capital U1900

Bd # Res White # Res Black
12 8 Randika Balasooriya (1741 3.0) 14 Alexandre Khan (1686 3.0)
13 4 Milos Petrovic (1761 2.0) 16 Nikolai Kanel (1659 2.0)
14 19 Derek Wang (1537 2.0) 7 William Landstrom (1744 2.0)
15 18 Herb Langer (1637 2.0) 2 Amos Kuttner (1796 1.5)
16 9 Fernando Echavarria-Hidalgo (1721 1.5) 11 Spencer Martin (1711 1.5)
17 13 Nicolas Dupont-Mageau (1699 1.5) 10 Michael Shi (1715 1.5)
18 1 Ray Kuryliw (1802 1.0) 17 Simon Perkins (1641 1.5)
19 3 Kamal Balazadeh (1771 0.5) 5 Jacob Krolczyk (1756 1.0)
20 6 Oswin Ning (1754 1.0) 12 Alexander Stopic (1706 0.5)
15 1 Victor Samuel (1675 0.0) BYE



2019 National Capital U1600

Bd # Res White # Res Black
19 13 Fabien Ouellette (1062 2.5) 6 Michael Gao (1378 3.0)
20 1 Jeremy Sztuka (1539 2.0) 3 Romy Peters (1511 2.5)
21 10 Ankita Jain (1279 2.0) 4 Emil Wang (1480 2.0)
22 2 Daniel Wang (1520 1.5) 11 Pierre Arcand (1194 2.0)
23 14 Sabia Irfan (878 1.5) 12 Zakia Irfan (1102 1.5)
24 9 Brian Murray (1296 1.0) 16 Neil Moses (unr. 1.0)
25 15 Victoria Feng (unr. 0.0) 7 John I.F. Lukezich (1342 1.0)
8 1 Pete Frazier (1335 0.0) BYE
5 ½ Santiago Pascual-Meagher (1384 1.5) BYE

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.09"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Joseph Benher, Savio"]
[Black "Gribanov, Anton"]
[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
Qc7 8.g4 h6 9.Qd2 Nbd7 10.O-O-O b5 11.Kb1 b4 12.Nce2 Ne5 13.Ng3
Bd7 14.Nh5 Nxh5 15.gxh5 Nc4 16.Bxc4 Qxc4 17.Rhg1 e5 18.Nf5 Bxf5
19.exf5 Rc8 20.Rg2 a5 21.Qd5 Qxd5 22.Rxd5 Ke7 23.Rxa5 Kf6 24.Ra7
Be7 25.Bf2 Rc4 26.Rg4 Rhc8 27.Bh4+ Kxf5 28.Rxc4 Rxc4 29.Bxe7
Ke6 30.Bf8 Rh4 31.a4 bxa3 32.bxa3 Rxh2 33.Ra6 g6 34.Rxd6+ Kf5
35.hxg6 fxg6 36.c4 Rh3 37.Rd3 Kf4 38.Kc2 h5 39.c5 Rh2+ 40.Kb3
Rh1 41.Kc2 Rh2+ 42.Rd2 Rh4 43.c6 Kxf3 44.Kc3 Rf4 45.Bc5 Rf6 46.Rf2+
Ke4 47.Rxf6 h4 48.Rxg6 h3 49.Rh6 h2 50.Rxh2 Kf3 1-0



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.09"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Xu, Daniel"]
[Black "Ramesh, Sanjay"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D35"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.cxd5 exd5 5.Bg5 Be7 6.e3 O-O 7.Bd3
Nbd7 8.Nge2 b6 9.O-O Bb7 10.Rc1 a6 11.h3 Ne4 12.Bxe7 Qxe7 13.Nf4
Qd6 14.Qc2 f5 15.Ncxd5 g5 16.Bxe4 gxf4 17.Ne7+ Qxe7 18.Bxb7 Rad8
19.Qb3+ Kh8 20.Rxc7 Qg5 21.Rfc1 fxe3 22.Qxe3 f4 23.Qf3 Nf6 24.Rc8
a5 25.Rxd8 Rxd8 26.Rc8 Rxc8 27.Bxc8 Nd5 28.Be6 Nc7 29.Bb3 b5
30.a3 Qf5 31.Kh2 Qf6 32.Qg4 Qf8 33.Qd7 Ne8 34.Qxb5 Qe7 35.Qxa5
f3 36.Qe5+ 1-0



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.09"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Dukic, Zach"]
[Black "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B66"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qd2
a6 8.O-O-O h6 9.Nxc6 bxc6 10.Bf4 d5 11.Qe3 Be7 12.Be2 O-O 13.e5
Nd7 14.h4 f6 15.Qg3 Nxe5 16.Bxh6 Rf7 17.Bh5 Bf8 18.Bxf7+ Nxf7
19.Bd2 e5 20.f4 e4 21.Be3 Qa5 22.Bd4 Be7 23.f5 Nh6 24.Rhf1 Nxf5
25.Rxf5 Bxf5 26.Rf1 Qb4 27.Ne2 Bd6 28.Qe3 Bg4 29.Nc3 Rf8 30.b3
Be5 31.Bxe5 fxe5 32.Rxf8+ Qxf8 33.Qg5 Qf4+ 34.Qxf4 exf4 35.Kd2
Kf7 36.Na4 Kf6 37.Nc5 Bc8 0-1



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.09"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Tanaka, Tyler"]
[Black "Liang, Jason"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B10"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Nf3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nf6 5.Qe2 Nxe4 6.Qxe4 Qa5
7.Ne5 Nd7 8.Nc4 Qd5 9.Qxd5 cxd5 10.Ne3 e6 11.d4 Bd6 12.c4 dxc4
13.Nxc4 Bc7 14.Be2 Nb6 15.O-O O-O 16.Rd1 Rd8 17.Nxb6 Bxb6 18.Be3
Bd7 19.Bf3 Bc6 20.Bxc6 bxc6 21.Rac1 Rd6 22.Kf1 Kf8 23.Ke2 Rad8
24.b3 Ke7 25.g3 e5 26.dxe5 Rxd1 27.Rxd1 Rxd1 28.Kxd1 Bxe3 29.fxe3
Ke6 30.Ke2 Kxe5 31.Kd3 f5 32.a3 Kd5 33.b4 Ke5 34.h3 Kd5 35.a4
g6 36.h4 h6 37.a5 a6 38.Kc3 c5 39.Kb3 cxb4 40.Kxb4 g5 41.hxg5
hxg5 42.Kc3 Ke4 43.Kc4 Kxe3 44.Kc5 f4 45.gxf4 gxf4 46.Kb6 f3
47.Kxa6 f2 48.Kb7 f1Q 49.a6 Qb5+ 0-1



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.09"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Desjardins, Michel"]
[Black "Zhong, Kevin"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B22"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.c3 d5 3.exd5 Qxd5 4.d4 g6 5.Nf3 Bg7 6.dxc5 Qxc5 7.Be3
Qc7 8.Be2 Nf6 9.O-O O-O 10.Na3 Nc6 11.Nb5 Qb8 12.h3 Rd8 13.Qc1
Nd5 14.Bh6 a6 15.Bxg7 Kxg7 16.Nbd4 Nxd4 17.Nxd4 e5 18.Nf3 Bf5
19.Rd1 Nf4 20.Qe3 f6 21.Bf1 Qc7 22.a4 Rxd1 23.Rxd1 Bc2 24.Ra1
Rd8 25.Ne1 Bf5 26.a5 Nd5 27.Qg3 Nf4 28.Qe3 Qd6 29.Nf3 Qc7 30.Ne1
e4 31.g4 Nd5 32.Qe2 Nf4 33.Qe3 Bd7 34.Nc2 Re8 35.Nb4 h5 36.g5
fxg5 37.Rd1 Bf5 38.Qd4+ Kh6 39.Nd5 Nxd5 40.Qxd5 e3 41.fxe3 Qg3+
42.Bg2 Be4 0-1



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.09"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Pace, Chris"]
[Black "Sadeghi, Saeid"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D45"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 e6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.cxd5 exd5 7.Bd3
Bd6 8.h3 O-O 9.O-O Re8 10.Nh4 g6 11.f4 Ne4 12.Nf3 Ng3 13.Rf2
Nf6 14.Rb1 Bf5 15.Rc2 Bxd3 16.Qxd3 Nfe4 17.b4 a6 18.Na4 b5 19.Nc5
Nxc5 20.dxc5 Bf8 21.Kh2 Ne4 22.Bb2 Bg7 23.Nd4 Qc7 24.a4 bxa4
25.Ra1 Bxd4 26.Qxd4 f6 27.Rxa4 Reb8 28.Ba1 Rb5 29.Rca2 Qb7 30.Bc3
Kf7 31.Be1 Qc8 32.Qa1 a5 33.Rxa5 Rbxa5 34.Rxa5 Rxa5 35.Qxa5 Qb7
36.Kg1 g5 37.Qd8 Qb5 38.Qd7+ Kg8 39.fxg5 fxg5 40.Bc3 Nxc3 41.Qe8+
Kg7 42.Qe5+ Kg6 43.Qxc3 h5 44.Qe5 h4 45.Kh2 Qa6 46.Qe6+ Kg7 47.Qf5
Qc4 48.Qxg5+ 1-0

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.09"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Joseph Benher, Savio"]
[Black "Gribanov, Anton"]
[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
Qc7 8.g4 h6 9.Qd2 Nbd7 10.O-O-O b5 11.Kb1 b4 12.Nce2 Ne5 13.Ng3
Bd7 14.Nh5 Nxh5 15.gxh5 Nc4 16.Bxc4 Qxc4 17.Rhg1 e5 18.Nf5 Bxf5
19.exf5 Rc8 20.Rg2 a5 21.Qd5 Qxd5 22.Rxd5 Ke7 23.Rxa5 Kf6 24.Ra7
Be7 25.Bf2 Rc4 26.Rg4 Rhc8 27.Bh4+ Kxf5 28.Rxc4 Rxc4 29.Bxe7
Ke6 30.Bf8 Rh4 31.a4 bxa3 32.bxa3 Rxh2 33.Ra6 g6 34.Rxd6+ Kf5
35.hxg6 fxg6 36.c4 Rh3 37.Rd3 Kf4 38.Kc2 h5 39.c5 Rh2+ 40.Kb3
Rh1 41.Kc2 Rh2+ 42.Rd2 Rh4 43.c6 Kxf3 44.Kc3 Rf4 45.Bc5 Rf6 46.Rf2+
Ke4 47.Rxf6 h4 48.Rxg6 h3 49.Rh6 h2 50.Rxh2 Kf3 1-0

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.09"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Xu, Daniel"]
[Black "Ramesh, Sanjay"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D35"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.cxd5 exd5 5.Bg5 Be7 6.e3 O-O 7.Bd3
Nbd7 8.Nge2 b6 9.O-O Bb7 10.Rc1 a6 11.h3 Ne4 12.Bxe7 Qxe7 13.Nf4
Qd6 14.Qc2 f5 15.Ncxd5 g5 16.Bxe4 gxf4 17.Ne7+ Qxe7 18.Bxb7 Rad8
19.Qb3+ Kh8 20.Rxc7 Qg5 21.Rfc1 fxe3 22.Qxe3 f4 23.Qf3 Nf6 24.Rc8
a5 25.Rxd8 Rxd8 26.Rc8 Rxc8 27.Bxc8 Nd5 28.Be6 Nc7 29.Bb3 b5
30.a3 Qf5 31.Kh2 Qf6 32.Qg4 Qf8 33.Qd7 Ne8 34.Qxb5 Qe7 35.Qxa5
f3 36.Qe5+ 1-0

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.09"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Dukic, Zach"]
[Black "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B66"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qd2
a6 8.O-O-O h6 9.Nxc6 bxc6 10.Bf4 d5 11.Qe3 Be7 12.Be2 O-O 13.e5
Nd7 14.h4 f6 15.Qg3 Nxe5 16.Bxh6 Rf7 17.Bh5 Bf8 18.Bxf7+ Nxf7
19.Bd2 e5 20.f4 e4 21.Be3 Qa5 22.Bd4 Be7 23.f5 Nh6 24.Rhf1 Nxf5
25.Rxf5 Bxf5 26.Rf1 Qb4 27.Ne2 Bd6 28.Qe3 Bg4 29.Nc3 Rf8 30.b3
Be5 31.Bxe5 fxe5 32.Rxf8+ Qxf8 33.Qg5 Qf4+ 34.Qxf4 exf4 35.Kd2
Kf7 36.Na4 Kf6 37.Nc5 Bc8 0-1

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.09"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Tanaka, Tyler"]
[Black "Liang, Jason"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B10"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c6 2.Nc3 d5 3.Nf3 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nf6 5.Qe2 Nxe4 6.Qxe4 Qa5
7.Ne5 Nd7 8.Nc4 Qd5 9.Qxd5 cxd5 10.Ne3 e6 11.d4 Bd6 12.c4 dxc4
13.Nxc4 Bc7 14.Be2 Nb6 15.O-O O-O 16.Rd1 Rd8 17.Nxb6 Bxb6 18.Be3
Bd7 19.Bf3 Bc6 20.Bxc6 bxc6 21.Rac1 Rd6 22.Kf1 Kf8 23.Ke2 Rad8
24.b3 Ke7 25.g3 e5 26.dxe5 Rxd1 27.Rxd1 Rxd1 28.Kxd1 Bxe3 29.fxe3
Ke6 30.Ke2 Kxe5 31.Kd3 f5 32.a3 Kd5 33.b4 Ke5 34.h3 Kd5 35.a4
g6 36.h4 h6 37.a5 a6 38.Kc3 c5 39.Kb3 cxb4 40.Kxb4 g5 41.hxg5
hxg5 42.Kc3 Ke4 43.Kc4 Kxe3 44.Kc5 f4 45.gxf4 gxf4 46.Kb6 f3
47.Kxa6 f2 48.Kb7 f1Q 49.a6 Qb5+ 0-1

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.09"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Desjardins, Michel"]
[Black "Zhong, Kevin"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B22"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.c3 d5 3.exd5 Qxd5 4.d4 g6 5.Nf3 Bg7 6.dxc5 Qxc5 7.Be3
Qc7 8.Be2 Nf6 9.O-O O-O 10.Na3 Nc6 11.Nb5 Qb8 12.h3 Rd8 13.Qc1
Nd5 14.Bh6 a6 15.Bxg7 Kxg7 16.Nbd4 Nxd4 17.Nxd4 e5 18.Nf3 Bf5
19.Rd1 Nf4 20.Qe3 f6 21.Bf1 Qc7 22.a4 Rxd1 23.Rxd1 Bc2 24.Ra1
Rd8 25.Ne1 Bf5 26.a5 Nd5 27.Qg3 Nf4 28.Qe3 Qd6 29.Nf3 Qc7 30.Ne1
e4 31.g4 Nd5 32.Qe2 Nf4 33.Qe3 Bd7 34.Nc2 Re8 35.Nb4 h5 36.g5
fxg5 37.Rd1 Bf5 38.Qd4+ Kh6 39.Nd5 Nxd5 40.Qxd5 e3 41.fxe3 Qg3+
42.Bg2 Be4 0-1

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.09"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Pace, Chris"]
[Black "Sadeghi, Saeid"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D45"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Nf3 e6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.cxd5 exd5 7.Bd3
Bd6 8.h3 O-O 9.O-O Re8 10.Nh4 g6 11.f4 Ne4 12.Nf3 Ng3 13.Rf2
Nf6 14.Rb1 Bf5 15.Rc2 Bxd3 16.Qxd3 Nfe4 17.b4 a6 18.Na4 b5 19.Nc5
Nxc5 20.dxc5 Bf8 21.Kh2 Ne4 22.Bb2 Bg7 23.Nd4 Qc7 24.a4 bxa4
25.Ra1 Bxd4 26.Qxd4 f6 27.Rxa4 Reb8 28.Ba1 Rb5 29.Rca2 Qb7 30.Bc3
Kf7 31.Be1 Qc8 32.Qa1 a5 33.Rxa5 Rbxa5 34.Rxa5 Rxa5 35.Qxa5 Qb7
36.Kg1 g5 37.Qd8 Qb5 38.Qd7+ Kg8 39.fxg5 fxg5 40.Bc3 Nxc3 41.Qe8+
Kg7 42.Qe5+ Kg6 43.Qxc3 h5 44.Qe5 h4 45.Kh2 Qa6 46.Qe6+ Kg7 47.Qf5
Qc4 48.Qxg5+ 1-0

[Halldor P. Palsson]

2019 National Capital Open
Bd # Res White # Res Black
1 4 Christopher Pace (2264 3.0) 1 Bator Sambuev (2580 4.0)
2 2 Zachary Dukic (2380 3.0) 7 Kevin Zhong (2229 3.0)
3 3 Jason Liang (2300 2.5) 8 Fan Yang (2203 2.5)
4 6 Tyler Tanaka (2238 2.5) 5 David Gordon (2260 2.0)
5 21 Dan Kearnan (1848 2.0) 9 Daniel Xu (2186 2.0)
6 10 Saeid Sadeghi (2137 2.0) 18 Michel Desjardins (1946 2.0)
7 12 Danail Donev (2082 2.0) 22 Alwin Ning (1843 2.0)
8 14 Johnathan Han (2005 1.5) 17 Mike Schofield (1964 1.5)
9 15 Jake Van Rooy (1988 1.5) 11 Anton Gribanov (2100 1.0)
10 20 Etienne Latreille (1894 1.0) 19 Sanjay Ramesh (1920 1.5)



2019 National Capital U1900

Bd # Res White # Res Black
12 14 Alexandre Khan (1686 4.0) 4 Milos Petrovic (1761 3.0)
13 18 Herb Langer (1637 2.5) 8 Randika Balasooriya (1741 3.0)
14 17 Simon Perkins (1641 2.5) 7 William Landstrom (1744 2.5)
15 2 Amos Kuttner (1796 2.0) 19 Derek Wang (1537 2.5)
16 11 Spencer Martin (1711 2.0) 5 Jacob Krolczyk (1756 2.0)
17 9 Fernando Echavarria-Hidalgo (1721 2.0) 13 Nicolas Dupont-Mageau (1699 2.0)
18 10 Michael Shi (1715 2.0) 16 Nikolai Kanel (1659 2.0)
19 12 Alexander Stopic (1706 1.5) 15 Victor Samuel (1675 1.0)
20 6 Oswin Ning (1754 1.0) 1 Ray Kuryliw (1802 1.0)
21 20 Gerard Felderhof (1365 0.0) 3 Kamal Balazadeh (1771 0.5)

2019 National Capital U1600
Bd # Res White # Res Black
21 6 Michael Gao (1378 4.0) 3 Romy Peters (1511 3.5)
22 10 Ankita Jain (1279 3.0) 2 Daniel Wang (1520 2.5)
23 4 Emil Wang (1480 2.0) 13 Fabien Ouellette (1062 2.5)
24 11 Pierre Arcand (1194 2.0) 1 Jeremy Sztuka (1539 2.0)
25 16 Neil Moses (unr. 2.0) 5 Santiago Pascual-Meagher (1384 2.0)
26 12 Zakia Irfan (1102 2.0) 7 John I.F. Lukezich (1342 2.0)
27 9 Brian Murray (1296 1.0) 14 Sabia Irfan (878 2.0)
28 8 Pete Frazier (1335 1.0) 15 Victoria Feng (unr. 0.0)

[Halldor P. Palsson]

2019 National Capital Open

# Place Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot
1 1 Bator Sambuev 2580 W10 W12 W2 W5 ~3 4.0
2 2-4 Zachary Dukic 2380 W21 W14 L1 W10 ~4 3.0
3 Christopher Pace 2264 D17 D16 W11 W15 ~1 3.0
4 Kevin Zhong 2229 H--- D8 W13 W12 ~2 3.0
5 5-8 Jason Liang 2300 D16 W15 W6 L1 ~7 2.5
6 Tyler Tanaka 2238 D13 W17 L5 W18 ~9 2.5
7 Fan Yang 2203 D19 H--- W16 D8 ~5 2.5
8 Savio Joseph Benher 1966 D9 D4 W20 D7 ~--- 2.5
9 9-15 David Gordon 2260 D8 H--- H--- D11 ~6 2.0
10 Daniel Xu 2186 L1 W18 W19 L2 ~14 2.0
11 Saeid Sadeghi 2137 W22 H--- L3 D9 ~13 2.0
12 Danail Donev 2082 W23 L1 W14 L4 ~15 2.0
13 Michel Desjardins 1946 D6 H--- L4 W20 ~11 2.0
14 Dan Kearnan 1848 W20 L2 L12 W21 ~10 2.0
15 Alwin Ning 1843 B--- L5 W21 L3 ~12 2.0
16 16-19 Johnathan Han 2005 D5 D3 L7 D19 ~18 1.5
17 Jake Van Rooy 1988 D3 L6 L18 W22 ~20 1.5
18 Mike Schofield 1964 H--- L10 W17 L6 ~16 1.5
19 Sanjay Ramesh 1920 D7 H--- L10 D16 ~22 1.5
20 20-23 Anton Gribanov 2100 L14 W22 L8 L13 ~17 1.0
21 Abdelaziz Mahdjoubi 2037 L2 W23 L15 L14 ~--- 1.0
22 Etienne Latreille 1894 L11 L20 W23 L17 ~19 1.0
23 Cameron Badham unr. L12 L21 L22 B--- ~--- 1.0

2019 National Capital U1900

# Place Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot
1 1 Alexandre Khan 1686 W9 W17 W13 W3 ~2 4.0
2 2-3 Milos Petrovic 1761 D13 W15 H--- W14 ~1 3.0
3 Randika Balasooriya 1741 W5 W7 W4 L1 ~6 3.0
4 4-7 William Landstrom 1744 W14 W6 L3 D7 ~5 2.5
5 Simon Perkins 1641 L3 W18 D11 W16 ~4 2.5
6 Herb Langer 1637 W10 L4 W19 D8 ~3 2.5
7 Derek Wang 1537 B--- L3 W17 D4 ~8 2.5
8 8-14 Amos Kuttner 1796 H--- D11 D12 D6 ~7 2.0
9 Jacob Krolczyk 1756 L1 L14 W18 W19 ~12 2.0
10 Fernando Echavarria-Hidalgo 1721 L6 H--- W15 D12 ~13 2.0
11 Michael Shi 1715 D16 D8 D5 D13 ~14 2.0
12 Spencer Martin 1711 H--- D16 D8 D10 ~9 2.0
13 Nicolas Dupont-Mageau 1699 D2 W19 L1 D11 ~10 2.0
14 Nikolai Kanel 1659 L4 W9 W16 L2 ~11 2.0
15 15 Alexander Stopic 1706 D19 L2 L10 W17 ~18 1.5
16 16-18 Ray Kuryliw 1802 D11 D12 L14 L5 ~17 1.0
17 Oswin Ning 1754 W18 L1 L7 L15 ~16 1.0
18 Victor Samuel 1675 L17 L5 L9 B--- ~15 1.0
19 19 Kamal Balazadeh 1771 D15 L13 L6 L9 ~20 0.5
20 20 Gerard Felderhof 1365 U--- U--- U--- U--- ~19 0.0

2019 National Capital U1600

# Place Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot
1 1 Michael Gao 1378 W16 W7 W6 W5 ~2 4.0
2 2 Romy Peters 1511 W3 D5 W4 W6 ~1 3.5
3 3 Ankita Jain 1279 L2 W13 W9 W7 ~4 3.0
4 4-5 Daniel Wang 1520 W15 H--- L2 W10 ~3 2.5
5 Fabien Ouellette 1062 B--- D2 W8 L1 ~7 2.5
6 6-13 Jeremy Sztuka 1539 W14 W9 L1 L2 ~10 2.0
7 Emil Wang 1480 W10 L1 W12 L3 ~5 2.0
8 Santiago Pascual-Meagher 1384 H--- W11 L5 H--- ~13 2.0
9 John I.F. Lukezich 1342 W13 L6 L3 W16 ~11 2.0
10 Pierre Arcand 1194 L7 B--- W15 L4 ~6 2.0
11 Zakia Irfan 1102 H--- L8 W14 D12 ~9 2.0
12 Sabia Irfan 878 H--- W14 L7 D11 ~15 2.0
13 Neil Moses unr. L9 L3 W16 W15 ~8 2.0
14 14-15 Pete Frazier 1335 L6 L12 L11 B--- ~16 1.0
15 Brian Murray 1296 L4 W16 L10 L13 ~12 1.0
16 16 Victoria Feng unr. L1 L15 L13 L9 ~14 0.0

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Round "3"]
[White "Yang, Fan"]
[Black "Han, Johnathan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B80"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 Nf6 4.Nc3 cxd4 5.Nxd4 a6 6.g3 e6 7.Bg2
Be7 8.O-O Qc7 9.h3 Nc6 10.a3 Bd7 11.Kh1 Nxd4 12.Qxd4 Bc6 13.Be3
Rg8 14.Rad1 Nd7 15.f4 O-O-O 16.Qd3 g5 17.b4 gxf4 18.gxf4 Rg3
19.Kh2 Rdg8 20.Bf3 R3g7 21.Rc1 Bf6 22.Nd1 Kb8 23.c4 Rd8 24.Qb1
Ba4 25.Nb2 Bxb2 26.Qxb2 e5 27.f5 Nf6 28.b5 axb5 29.cxb5 Qa5 30.Rb1
Rc8 31.Rfc1 Rxc1 32.Bxc1 Rg8 33.Be3 Rc8 34.Qb4 Qxb4 35.Rxb4 Rc3
36.Bg5 Rxf3 37.Rxa4 Nd7 38.Kg2 Rc3 39.Be7 Rd3 40.Rc4 Nb6 41.Rc1
Nc8 42.Bd8 Re3 43.Rc4 Rxa3 44.b6 Ra6 45.Rb4 Ka8 46.Kf3 Ra3+ 47.Kg4
h6 48.h4 h5+ 49.Kxh5 d5 50.exd5 Nd6 51.Bc7 Nxf5 52.Rg4 Ne7 53.d6
Ng6 54.d7 1-0



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.10"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Gribanov, Anton"]
[Black "Desjardins, Michel"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D15"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 c6 4.Nc3 a6 5.a4 e6 6.Bg5 a5 7.Qc2 Be7
8.e3 Na6 9.Rc1 Nb4 10.Qb1 h6 11.Bh4 O-O 12.Ne5 Nd7 13.Bxe7 Qxe7
14.f4 Nxe5 15.fxe5 Qg5 16.Nd1 f6 17.exf6 Rxf6 18.g3 e5 19.Bd3
Bh3 20.cxd5 exd4 21.dxc6 bxc6 22.Bc4+ Kh8 23.Be2 Rd8 24.exd4
Rxd4 25.Nf2 Qd2# 0-1



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.10"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Zhong, Kevin"]
[Black "Donev, Danail"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B20"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Ne2 d6 3.g3 g6 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.c3 e5 6.d4 Nc6 7.Be3 b6
8.O-O Nf6 9.h3 O-O 10.d5 Ne7 11.a4 Ne8 12.f3 f5 13.g4 Nf6 14.b4
h6 15.Na3 fxg4 16.fxg4 g5 17.Ng3 Ng6 18.Nf5 Bxf5 19.gxf5 Nf4
20.bxc5 bxc5 21.Qc2 N6h5 22.Nc4 Rf7 23.Rab1 Bf8 24.Qd1 Rg7 25.Bxf4
Nxf4 26.Ne3 h5 27.f6 Qxf6 28.Nf5 Rg6 29.Rb7 h4 30.Qg4 Qh8 31.Bf3
c4 32.Kh2 Nd3 33.Be2 Nc5 34.Rc7 Nxa4 35.Ne7+ Bxe7 36.Rxe7 Rf8
37.Rxf8+ Kxf8 38.Qd7 1-0



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.10"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Black "Liang, Jason"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A14"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 d5 4.Bg2 Be7 5.O-O O-O 6.b3 b6 7.Bb2 Bb7
8.e3 c5 9.Nc3 dxc4 10.bxc4 Nc6 11.Qe2 a6 12.Rfd1 Rb8 13.d4 cxd4
14.exd4 Na5 15.d5 exd5 16.cxd5 Re8 17.Qd3 b5 18.Rac1 Nc4 19.Ba1
Bc5 20.Nd4 Ne5 21.Qf5 Bc8 22.Qf4 Nh5 23.Qd2 Bg4 24.Nc6 Nxc6 25.dxc6
Bxd1 26.Nd5 Bg4 27.c7 Qd6 28.cxb8Q Rxb8 29.Qg5 Ba3 30.Qxg4 Bxc1
31.Qxh5 Qe6 32.Qd1 Bh6 33.Bf3 Re8 34.Kg2 Qe1 35.Qd4 Qd2 36.Qg4
Qg5 37.Qd7 Qd8 38.Qb7 Qd6 39.Bc3 Rb8 40.Qa7 Re8 41.Bb4 Qe5 42.Qxa6
Qb8 43.Qc6 Re6 44.Qd7 Bg5 45.h4 Bf6 46.Nc7 Re5 47.Bd6 Re1 48.Ne6
Qb6 49.Qe8# 1-0



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.10"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Ning, Alwin"]
[Black "Pace, Chris"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B06"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.f4 d5 4.e5 Nh6 5.Nf3 Bg4 6.Be2 f6 7.O-O O-O
8.b3 Nf5 9.Qd3 c6 10.Bb2 Bh6 11.Ne1 Bxe2 12.Qxe2 fxe5 13.dxe5
Qb6+ 14.Kh1 Ne3 15.Rf3 Bxf4 16.Nd3 Bh6 17.Rxf8+ Bxf8 18.e6 Na6
19.Qf3 Nf5 20.Ne5 Qe3 21.Qxe3 Nxe3 22.Na3 Bg7 23.Re1 Rf8 24.h3
Nxc2 25.Nxc2 Rf2 26.Rc1 Bh6 27.Bd4 Re2 28.Rf1 Rxc2 29.Rf7 c5
30.Bg1 Re2 31.Ng4 Bg5 32.Rf1 Rxe6 33.Rd1 d4 0-1



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.10"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Xu, Daniel"]
[Black "Dukic, Zach"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A07"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.Nf3 Nf6 2.g3 g6 3.Bg2 Bg7 4.O-O O-O 5.d3 d5 6.Nbd2 Nc6 7.e4
e5 8.c3 a5 9.Re1 dxe4 10.dxe4 a4 11.Qc2 Nd7 12.Nf1 Nc5 13.Bg5
f6 14.Rad1 Qe7 15.Be3 Be6 16.Qb1 Na5 17.Bxc5 Qxc5 18.Ne3 c6 19.Bf1
Bh6 20.Bd3 Rf7 21.Nd2 b5 22.a3 Raf8 23.Bf1 f5 24.Bh3 Qe7 25.exf5
gxf5 26.Ng2 Bd5 27.f4 Qa7+ 28.Kh1 exf4 29.gxf4 Rg7 30.Qd3 Bxf4
31.Rf1 Qc7 32.Rf2 Kh8 33.Rdf1 Bxh2 34.Rxf5 Rfg8 35.Qd4 Qg3 36.Rxd5
Qxh3 0-1



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.10"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Mahdjoubi, Abdelaziz"]
[Black "Kearnen, Dan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C65"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.d3 Bc5 5.O-O d6 6.c3 O-O 7.Bg5
h6 8.Bh4 g5 9.Nxg5 hxg5 10.Bxg5 Kg7 11.Qf3 Rh8 12.Bxc6 bxc6 13.Rd1
Qe7 14.d4 Bb6 15.d5 cxd5 16.exd5 e4 17.Qg3 Bf5 18.h4 Bg6 19.Nd2
Qe5 20.Qxe5 dxe5 21.Nc4 Ng4 22.Nxb6 axb6 23.g3 f6 24.Be3 Nxe3
25.fxe3 Bh5 26.Rd2 Rhd8 27.a3 Rd6 28.Rf1 Bf3 29.Rc1 Rad8 30.c4
c6 31.c5 bxc5 32.Rxc5 cxd5 33.b4 d4 34.Rc7+ R8d7 35.Rxd7+ Rxd7
36.Kf2 d3 37.b5 Rb7 38.a4 Bg4 39.Rb2 Bd7 40.Rb4 f5 41.b6 Bxa4
42.Rxa4 Rxb6 43.Ra2 Rc6 44.Ke1 Kh6 45.Rf2 Rc1+ 46.Kd2 Rc2+ 47.Ke1
Rxf2 48.Kxf2 Kh5 0-1



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.10"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Yang, Fan"]
[Black "Joseph Benher, Savio"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C07"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 c5 4.exd5 Qxd5 5.dxc5 Qxc5 6.Ngf3 Nf6 7.Bd3
Be7 8.O-O O-O 9.Qe2 Qc7 10.b3 Nc6 11.c4 Nd7 12.Bb2 e5 13.Rae1
f6 14.Nh4 Nc5 15.Nf5 Nxd3 16.Nxe7+ Qxe7 17.Qxd3 Rd8 18.Qe2 Bf5
19.Ne4 Nd4 20.Bxd4 Rxd4 21.Qf3 Bg6 22.Ng3 Bd3 23.Nf5 Bxf5 24.Qxf5
Rad8 25.Re2 Qd7 26.Qxd7 R8xd7 27.Rfe1 Kf7 28.f3 h5 29.Kf2 g5
30.Re4 Rd2+ 31.R1e2 Rd1 1/2-1/2



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.10"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Gordon, David"]
[Black "Sadeghi, Saeid"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D36"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 d5 3.e3 Nbd7 4.Nf3 e6 5.c4 Be7 6.Nc3 O-O 7.cxd5
exd5 8.Bd3 c6 9.Qc2 Re8 10.O-O Nf8 11.h3 Ng6 12.Bxf6 Bxf6 13.b4
b6 14.Rab1 Bb7 15.Rfc1 Nf8 16.Nd2 g6 17.Nb3 Ne6 18.Na4 Rc8 19.Qd1
Be7 20.a3 Qd7 21.Nc3 f5 22.Qf1 f4 23.e4 dxe4 24.Nxe4 Ng5 25.f3
Nxe4 26.fxe4 Rf8 27.Be2 h5 28.Bf3 Kh7 29.Qc4 Kh6 30.Qe2 c5 31.dxc5
bxc5 32.Nxc5 Bxc5+ 33.Rxc5 Rxc5 34.bxc5 Qd4+ 35.Qf2 Qg7 36.Qb2
Bc6 37.Qxg7+ Kxg7 38.e5 Bxf3 39.gxf3 Rc8 40.Rb7+ Kf8 41.Rxa7
Rxc5 42.e6 g5 43.Rh7 h4 44.Ra7 Rc1+ 45.Kf2 Rc2+ 46.Kf1 Rc1+ 47.Ke2
Rh1 48.Kd3 Re1 49.e7+ Ke8 50.Kd4 Re3 51.a4 Rxf3 52.Ke5 Kf7 53.Kf5
Rg3 54.Rb7 f3 55.Rb1 Kxe7 56.a5 f2 57.Rf1 Rxh3 58.Kxg5 Ra3 59.Kxh4
Rxa5 60.Rxf2 1/2-1/2

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Round "3"]
[White "Yang, Fan"]
[Black "Han, Johnathan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B80"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 Nf6 4.Nc3 cxd4 5.Nxd4 a6 6.g3 e6 7.Bg2
Be7 8.O-O Qc7 9.h3 Nc6 10.a3 Bd7 11.Kh1 Nxd4 12.Qxd4 Bc6 13.Be3
Rg8 14.Rad1 Nd7 15.f4 O-O-O 16.Qd3 g5 17.b4 gxf4 18.gxf4 Rg3
19.Kh2 Rdg8 20.Bf3 R3g7 21.Rc1 Bf6 22.Nd1 Kb8 23.c4 Rd8 24.Qb1
Ba4 25.Nb2 Bxb2 26.Qxb2 e5 27.f5 Nf6 28.b5 axb5 29.cxb5 Qa5 30.Rb1
Rc8 31.Rfc1 Rxc1 32.Bxc1 Rg8 33.Be3 Rc8 34.Qb4 Qxb4 35.Rxb4 Rc3
36.Bg5 Rxf3 37.Rxa4 Nd7 38.Kg2 Rc3 39.Be7 Rd3 40.Rc4 Nb6 41.Rc1
Nc8 42.Bd8 Re3 43.Rc4 Rxa3 44.b6 Ra6 45.Rb4 Ka8 46.Kf3 Ra3+ 47.Kg4
h6 48.h4 h5+ 49.Kxh5 d5 50.exd5 Nd6 51.Bc7 Nxf5 52.Rg4 Ne7 53.d6
Ng6 54.d7 1-0

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.10"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Gribanov, Anton"]
[Black "Desjardins, Michel"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D15"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 c6 4.Nc3 a6 5.a4 e6 6.Bg5 a5 7.Qc2 Be7
8.e3 Na6 9.Rc1 Nb4 10.Qb1 h6 11.Bh4 O-O 12.Ne5 Nd7 13.Bxe7 Qxe7
14.f4 Nxe5 15.fxe5 Qg5 16.Nd1 f6 17.exf6 Rxf6 18.g3 e5 19.Bd3
Bh3 20.cxd5 exd4 21.dxc6 bxc6 22.Bc4+ Kh8 23.Be2 Rd8 24.exd4
Rxd4 25.Nf2 Qd2# 0-1

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.10"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Zhong, Kevin"]
[Black "Donev, Danail"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B20"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Ne2 d6 3.g3 g6 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.c3 e5 6.d4 Nc6 7.Be3 b6
8.O-O Nf6 9.h3 O-O 10.d5 Ne7 11.a4 Ne8 12.f3 f5 13.g4 Nf6 14.b4
h6 15.Na3 fxg4 16.fxg4 g5 17.Ng3 Ng6 18.Nf5 Bxf5 19.gxf5 Nf4
20.bxc5 bxc5 21.Qc2 N6h5 22.Nc4 Rf7 23.Rab1 Bf8 24.Qd1 Rg7 25.Bxf4
Nxf4 26.Ne3 h5 27.f6 Qxf6 28.Nf5 Rg6 29.Rb7 h4 30.Qg4 Qh8 31.Bf3
c4 32.Kh2 Nd3 33.Be2 Nc5 34.Rc7 Nxa4 35.Ne7+ Bxe7 36.Rxe7 Rf8
37.Rxf8+ Kxf8 38.Qd7 1-0

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.10"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Black "Liang, Jason"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A14"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3 d5 4.Bg2 Be7 5.O-O O-O 6.b3 b6 7.Bb2 Bb7
8.e3 c5 9.Nc3 dxc4 10.bxc4 Nc6 11.Qe2 a6 12.Rfd1 Rb8 13.d4 cxd4
14.exd4 Na5 15.d5 exd5 16.cxd5 Re8 17.Qd3 b5 18.Rac1 Nc4 19.Ba1
Bc5 20.Nd4 Ne5 21.Qf5 Bc8 22.Qf4 Nh5 23.Qd2 Bg4 24.Nc6 Nxc6 25.dxc6
Bxd1 26.Nd5 Bg4 27.c7 Qd6 28.cxb8Q Rxb8 29.Qg5 Ba3 30.Qxg4 Bxc1
31.Qxh5 Qe6 32.Qd1 Bh6 33.Bf3 Re8 34.Kg2 Qe1 35.Qd4 Qd2 36.Qg4
Qg5 37.Qd7 Qd8 38.Qb7 Qd6 39.Bc3 Rb8 40.Qa7 Re8 41.Bb4 Qe5 42.Qxa6
Qb8 43.Qc6 Re6 44.Qd7 Bg5 45.h4 Bf6 46.Nc7 Re5 47.Bd6 Re1 48.Ne6
Qb6 49.Qe8# 1-0

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.10"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Ning, Alwin"]
[Black "Pace, Chris"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B06"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.f4 d5 4.e5 Nh6 5.Nf3 Bg4 6.Be2 f6 7.O-O O-O
8.b3 Nf5 9.Qd3 c6 10.Bb2 Bh6 11.Ne1 Bxe2 12.Qxe2 fxe5 13.dxe5
Qb6+ 14.Kh1 Ne3 15.Rf3 Bxf4 16.Nd3 Bh6 17.Rxf8+ Bxf8 18.e6 Na6
19.Qf3 Nf5 20.Ne5 Qe3 21.Qxe3 Nxe3 22.Na3 Bg7 23.Re1 Rf8 24.h3
Nxc2 25.Nxc2 Rf2 26.Rc1 Bh6 27.Bd4 Re2 28.Rf1 Rxc2 29.Rf7 c5
30.Bg1 Re2 31.Ng4 Bg5 32.Rf1 Rxe6 33.Rd1 d4 0-1

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.10"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Xu, Daniel"]
[Black "Dukic, Zach"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A07"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.Nf3 Nf6 2.g3 g6 3.Bg2 Bg7 4.O-O O-O 5.d3 d5 6.Nbd2 Nc6 7.e4
e5 8.c3 a5 9.Re1 dxe4 10.dxe4 a4 11.Qc2 Nd7 12.Nf1 Nc5 13.Bg5
f6 14.Rad1 Qe7 15.Be3 Be6 16.Qb1 Na5 17.Bxc5 Qxc5 18.Ne3 c6 19.Bf1
Bh6 20.Bd3 Rf7 21.Nd2 b5 22.a3 Raf8 23.Bf1 f5 24.Bh3 Qe7 25.exf5
gxf5 26.Ng2 Bd5 27.f4 Qa7+ 28.Kh1 exf4 29.gxf4 Rg7 30.Qd3 Bxf4
31.Rf1 Qc7 32.Rf2 Kh8 33.Rdf1 Bxh2 34.Rxf5 Rfg8 35.Qd4 Qg3 36.Rxd5
Qxh3 0-1

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.10"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Mahdjoubi, Abdelaziz"]
[Black "Kearnen, Dan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C65"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.d3 Bc5 5.O-O d6 6.c3 O-O 7.Bg5
h6 8.Bh4 g5 9.Nxg5 hxg5 10.Bxg5 Kg7 11.Qf3 Rh8 12.Bxc6 bxc6 13.Rd1
Qe7 14.d4 Bb6 15.d5 cxd5 16.exd5 e4 17.Qg3 Bf5 18.h4 Bg6 19.Nd2
Qe5 20.Qxe5 dxe5 21.Nc4 Ng4 22.Nxb6 axb6 23.g3 f6 24.Be3 Nxe3
25.fxe3 Bh5 26.Rd2 Rhd8 27.a3 Rd6 28.Rf1 Bf3 29.Rc1 Rad8 30.c4
c6 31.c5 bxc5 32.Rxc5 cxd5 33.b4 d4 34.Rc7+ R8d7 35.Rxd7+ Rxd7
36.Kf2 d3 37.b5 Rb7 38.a4 Bg4 39.Rb2 Bd7 40.Rb4 f5 41.b6 Bxa4
42.Rxa4 Rxb6 43.Ra2 Rc6 44.Ke1 Kh6 45.Rf2 Rc1+ 46.Kd2 Rc2+ 47.Ke1
Rxf2 48.Kxf2 Kh5 0-1

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.10"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Yang, Fan"]
[Black "Joseph Benher, Savio"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C07"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 c5 4.exd5 Qxd5 5.dxc5 Qxc5 6.Ngf3 Nf6 7.Bd3
Be7 8.O-O O-O 9.Qe2 Qc7 10.b3 Nc6 11.c4 Nd7 12.Bb2 e5 13.Rae1
f6 14.Nh4 Nc5 15.Nf5 Nxd3 16.Nxe7+ Qxe7 17.Qxd3 Rd8 18.Qe2 Bf5
19.Ne4 Nd4 20.Bxd4 Rxd4 21.Qf3 Bg6 22.Ng3 Bd3 23.Nf5 Bxf5 24.Qxf5
Rad8 25.Re2 Qd7 26.Qxd7 R8xd7 27.Rfe1 Kf7 28.f3 h5 29.Kf2 g5
30.Re4 Rd2+ 31.R1e2 Rd1 1/2-1/2

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.10"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Gordon, David"]
[Black "Sadeghi, Saeid"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D36"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 d5 3.e3 Nbd7 4.Nf3 e6 5.c4 Be7 6.Nc3 O-O 7.cxd5
exd5 8.Bd3 c6 9.Qc2 Re8 10.O-O Nf8 11.h3 Ng6 12.Bxf6 Bxf6 13.b4
b6 14.Rab1 Bb7 15.Rfc1 Nf8 16.Nd2 g6 17.Nb3 Ne6 18.Na4 Rc8 19.Qd1
Be7 20.a3 Qd7 21.Nc3 f5 22.Qf1 f4 23.e4 dxe4 24.Nxe4 Ng5 25.f3
Nxe4 26.fxe4 Rf8 27.Be2 h5 28.Bf3 Kh7 29.Qc4 Kh6 30.Qe2 c5 31.dxc5
bxc5 32.Nxc5 Bxc5+ 33.Rxc5 Rxc5 34.bxc5 Qd4+ 35.Qf2 Qg7 36.Qb2
Bc6 37.Qxg7+ Kxg7 38.e5 Bxf3 39.gxf3 Rc8 40.Rb7+ Kf8 41.Rxa7
Rxc5 42.e6 g5 43.Rh7 h4 44.Ra7 Rc1+ 45.Kf2 Rc2+ 46.Kf1 Rc1+ 47.Ke2
Rh1 48.Kd3 Re1 49.e7+ Ke8 50.Kd4 Re3 51.a4 Rxf3 52.Ke5 Kf7 53.Kf5
Rg3 54.Rb7 f3 55.Rb1 Kxe7 56.a5 f2 57.Rf1 Rxh3 58.Kxg5 Ra3 59.Kxh4
Rxa5 60.Rxf2 1/2-1/2

[Halldor P. Palsson]

2019 National Capital Open

# Place Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot
1 1 Bator Sambuev 2580 W17 W11 W2 W3 W5 5.0 $600
2 2-4 Zachary Dukic 2380 W21 W7 L1 W17 D4 3.5 $190
3 Jason Liang 2300 D18 W16 W6 L1 W9 3.5 $190
4 Kevin Zhong 2229 H--- D13 W14 W11 D2 3.5 $190
5 5-7 Christopher Pace 2264 D12 D18 W10 W16 L1 3.0
6 Tyler Tanaka 2238 D14 W12 L3 W19 D8 3.0
7 Dan Kearnan 1848 W20 L2 L11 W21 W17 3.0 U2200 $100
8 8-16 David Gordon 2260 D13 H--- H--- D10 D6 2.5
9 Fan Yang 2203 D15 H--- W18 D13 L3 2.5
10 Saeid Sadeghi 2137 W22 H--- L5 D8 D14 2.5
11 Danail Donev 2082 W23 L1 W7 L4 D16 2.5
12 Jake Van Rooy 1988 D5 L6 L19 W22 W20 2.5
13 Savio Joseph Benher 1966 D8 D4 W20 D9 U--- 2.5
14 Michel Desjardins 1946 D6 H--- L4 W20 D10 2.5
15 Sanjay Ramesh 1920 D9 H--- L17 D18 W22 2.5
16 Alwin Ning 1843 B--- L3 W21 L5 D11 2.5 U2050 $100
17 17-19 Daniel Xu 2186 L1 W19 W15 L2 L7 2.0
18 Johnathan Han 2005 D3 D5 L9 D15 D19 2.0
19 Mike Schofield 1964 H--- L17 W12 L6 D18 2.0
20 20-23 Anton Gribanov 2100 L7 W22 L13 L14 L12 1.0
21 Abdelaziz Mahdjoubi 2037 L2 W23 L16 L7 U--- 1.0
22 Etienne Latreille 1894 L10 L20 W23 L12 L15 1.0
23 Cameron Badham unr. L11 L21 L22 B--- U--- 1.0



2019 National Capital U1900
# Place Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot
1 1-3 Milos Petrovic 1761 D7 W19 H--- W10 W3 4.0 $190
2 Randika Balasooriya 1741 W8 W12 W6 L3 W11 4.0 $190
3 Alexandre Khan 1686 W5 W18 W7 W2 L1 4.0 $190
4 4-8 Amos Kuttner 1796 H--- D9 D14 D11 W12 3.0
5 Jacob Krolczyk 1756 L3 L10 W15 W17 W14 3.0
6 William Landstrom 1744 W10 W11 L2 D12 D8 3.0
7 Nicolas Dupont-Mageau 1699 D1 W17 L3 D9 W13 3.0
8 Simon Perkins 1641 L2 W15 D9 W16 D6 3.0 U1750 $100
9 9-12 Michael Shi 1715 D16 D4 D8 D7 D10 2.5
10 Nikolai Kanel 1659 L6 W5 W16 L1 D9 2.5
11 Herb Langer 1637 W13 L6 W17 D4 L2 2.5
12 Derek Wang 1537 B--- L2 W18 D6 L4 2.5
13 13-15 Fernando Echavarria-Hidalgo 1721 L11 H--- W19 D14 L7 2.0
14 Spencer Martin 1711 H--- D16 D4 D13 L5 2.0
15 Victor Samuel 1675 L18 L8 L5 B--- W19 2.0
16 16-19 Ray Kuryliw 1802 D9 D14 L10 L8 D18 1.5
17 Kamal Balazadeh 1771 D19 L7 L11 L5 W20 1.5
18 Oswin Ning 1754 W15 L3 L12 L19 D16 1.5
19 Alexander Stopic 1706 D17 L1 L13 W18 L15 1.5
20 20 Gerard Felderhof 1365 U--- U--- U--- U--- L17 0.0


2019 National Capital U1600
# Place Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot
1 1 Romy Peters 1511 W3 D4 W6 W5 W2 4.5 $160
2 2 Michael Gao 1378 W16 W9 W5 W4 L1 4.0 $100
3 3-4 Ankita Jain 1279 L1 W14 W10 W9 D6 3.5 $60
4 Fabien Ouellette 1062 B--- D1 W7 L2 W9 3.5 $50
5 5-8 Jeremy Sztuka 1539 W15 W10 L2 L1 W12 3.0
6 Daniel Wang 1520 W11 H--- L1 W12 D3 3.0
7 Santiago Pascual-Meagher 1384 H--- W8 L4 H--- W14 3.0
8 Zakia Irfan 1102 H--- L7 W15 D13 W10 3.0
9 9-14 Emil Wang 1480 W12 L2 W13 L3 L4 2.0
10 John I.F. Lukezich 1342 W14 L5 L3 W16 L8 2.0
11 Brian Murray 1296 L6 W16 L12 L14 W13 2.0
12 Pierre Arcand 1194 L9 B--- W11 L6 L5 2.0
13 Sabia Irfan 878 H--- W15 L9 D8 L11 2.0
14 Neil Moses unr. L10 L3 W16 W11 L7 2.0
15 15-16 Pete Frazier 1335 L5 L13 L8 B--- L16 1.0
16 Victoria Feng unr. L2 L11 L14 L10 W15 1.0

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.10"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Pace, Chris"]
[Black "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E48"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 c5 5.Bd3 Nc6 6.Nge2 cxd4 7.exd4
d5 8.O-O dxc4 9.Bxc4 O-O 10.Bg5 Be7 11.Qd2 b6 12.Rfd1 Na5 13.Bd3
( 13.Bb5 Bb7 14.Rac1 Rc8 15.a3 Nb3 16.Qf4 Nxc1 17.Rxc1 Nd5 18.Bxe7
Nxf4 19.Bxd8 Nxe2+ 20.Nxe2 Rxc1+ 21.Nxc1 Rxd8 22.Ne2 e5 23.Bd3
Kf8 24.f3 exd4 25.Kf2 Ke7 26.Kg3 Kf6 27.Kf4 g5+ 28.Kg4 Bc8+ 29.Kg3
Bf5 30.Bxf5 Kxf5 31.Kf2 Ke5 32.g3 Rc8 33.Ke1 Rc2 34.Kd1 Rxb2
{0-1, Heim Sverre (NOR) 2315 - Strizak Natasa (SRB) 2197, Dortmund (Germany) 1988}
) Bb7 14.Qe3 h6 15.Bf4 Nd5 16.Qe4 g6 17.Nxd5 Bxd5 18.Qe3 Bg5
19.h4 Bxf4 20.Qxf4 Kg7 21.Rac1 Qf6 22.Qg3 Rfc8 23.b3 Rxc1 24.Rxc1
Nc6 25.Nf4 Kf8 26.Nxd5 ( 26.Qe3 Nxd4 27.Nxd5 exd5 28.Qxh6+ Qg7
29.Qf4 ) exd5 27.Qc7 Nxd4 28.Qb7 Re8 29.Rc8 Rxc8 30.Qxc8+ Kg7
31.Qd7 Qe6 32.Qxa7 Qe1+ 33.Kh2 Qxf2 0-1



[Event "National Capital Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.10"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Kearnan, Dan"]
[Black "Xu, Daniel"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E76"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f4 O-O 6.Nf3 c5 7.d5 e6
8.dxe6 fxe6 9.Bd3 Nc6 10.O-O b6 11.Bc2 Bb7 12.Ng5 Qe7 13.f5 Nd4
14.fxg6 hxg6 15.e5 dxe5 16.Bxg6 Rad8 17.Qe1 Ng4 18.Bf7+ Kh8 19.Qh4+
Nh6 20.Qh5 Ndf5 21.Qg6 1-0



[Event "National Capital Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.10"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Sadeghi, Saeid"]
[Black "Desjardins, Michel"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D03"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Bg5 Ne4 4.Bf4 e6 5.e3 Bd6 6.Bxd6 Qxd6 7.c3
O-O 8.Bd3 b6 9.Nbd2 Bb7 10.Qc2 f5 11.Ne5 Nd7 12.Nxd7 Qxd7 13.Nf3
c5 14.Ne5 Qe7 15.g3 cxd4 16.cxd4 Qb4+ 17.Kf1 Rac8 18.Qe2 Rc7
19.Kg2 Rfc8 20.Rhf1 a5 21.f3 Nd6 22.Rf2 a4 1/2-1/2



[Event "National Capital Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.10"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Dukic, Zach"]
[Black "Zhong, Kevin"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B66"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qd2
a6 8.O-O-O h6 9.Nxc6 bxc6 10.Bf4 d5 11.Qe3 Be7 12.Be2 O-O 13.h4
Nd7 14.exd5 cxd5 15.Bxh6 gxh6 16.Qxh6 Nc5 {??} ( 16...Ne5 17.Ne4
f5 18.Rh3 f4 19.Ng5 $16 ) 17.Rh3 Bd6 18.b4 ( 18.f4 Bxf4+ 19.Qxf4
f5 20.Rg3+ Kh7 21.Rg5 {+-} ) Qc7 19.Qg5+ Kh7 20.Qh5+ Kg7 21.Rd4
Bf4+ 22.Kd1 Ne4 23.Nxe4 dxe4 24.Rxe4 e5 25.Rg3+ Bxg3 26.Qg5+
Kh7 27.Qh5+ 1/2-1/2



[Event "National Capital Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.10"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Liang, Jason"]
[Black "Yang, Fan"]
[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.d3 b5 6.Bb3 Be7 7.O-O
O-O 8.Bd5 Bd6 9.Bg5 Bb7 10.d4 h6 11.Bh4 Qe7 12.Bxc6 Bxc6 13.Re1
Rfe8 14.Nbd2 Bb7 15.Bg3 Nh5 16.Bxe5 Bxe5 17.Nxe5 Nf6 18.Ng4 Nxg4
19.Qxg4 d5 20.e5 c5 21.Nb3 cxd4 22.Nxd4 Qg5 23.Qg3 Re7 24.f4
Qxg3 25.hxg3 Bc8 26.c3 g6 27.a4 bxa4 28.Rxa4 Rb7 29.b4 Rc7 30.Rc1
Raa7 31.Ra5 Be6 32.Kf2 Kf8 33.Ke3 Ke7 34.Kd2 f6 35.exf6+ Kxf6
36.Rca1 1-0



[Event "National Capital Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.10"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Tanaka, Tyler"]
[Black "Gordon, David"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B30"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.Nc3 g6 5.h3 Nd4 6.Bd3 d6 7.Nxd4
cxd4 8.Ne2 e5 9.c3 Bg7 10.cxd4 exd4 11.Nxd4 O-O 12.Nf3 Re8 13.O-O
Nxe4 14.Re1 Bf5 15.Bb5 Qb6 16.Bxe8 Qxf2+ 17.Kh2 Qg3+ 18.Kg1 Nf2
19.Qe2 Nxh3+ 20.Kh1 Bd3 21.Qe3 Be4 22.Bd7 Bxf3 23.Re2 Qh4 24.Bxh3
Qxh3+ 25.Kg1 Bxg2 26.Rxg2 Qh4 27.Rh2 Qg4+ 28.Kh1 Bd4 29.Qe1 Qf3+
30.Rg2 Qh3+ 31.Rh2 Qf3+ 32.Rg2 Kg7 33.d3 Qh3+ 34.Rh2 Qf3+ 35.Rg2
Qh3+ 1/2-1/2

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.10"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Pace, Chris"]
[Black "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E48"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 c5 5.Bd3 Nc6 6.Nge2 cxd4 7.exd4
d5 8.O-O dxc4 9.Bxc4 O-O 10.Bg5 Be7 11.Qd2 b6 12.Rfd1 Na5 13.Bd3
( 13.Bb5 Bb7 14.Rac1 Rc8 15.a3 Nb3 16.Qf4 Nxc1 17.Rxc1 Nd5 18.Bxe7
Nxf4 19.Bxd8 Nxe2+ 20.Nxe2 Rxc1+ 21.Nxc1 Rxd8 22.Ne2 e5 23.Bd3
Kf8 24.f3 exd4 25.Kf2 Ke7 26.Kg3 Kf6 27.Kf4 g5+ 28.Kg4 Bc8+ 29.Kg3
Bf5 30.Bxf5 Kxf5 31.Kf2 Ke5 32.g3 Rc8 33.Ke1 Rc2 34.Kd1 Rxb2
{0-1, Heim Sverre (NOR) 2315 - Strizak Natasa (SRB) 2197, Dortmund (Germany) 1988}
) Bb7 14.Qe3 h6 15.Bf4 Nd5 16.Qe4 g6 17.Nxd5 Bxd5 18.Qe3 Bg5
19.h4 Bxf4 20.Qxf4 Kg7 21.Rac1 Qf6 22.Qg3 Rfc8 23.b3 Rxc1 24.Rxc1
Nc6 25.Nf4 Kf8 26.Nxd5 ( 26.Qe3 Nxd4 27.Nxd5 exd5 28.Qxh6+ Qg7
29.Qf4 ) exd5 27.Qc7 Nxd4 28.Qb7 Re8 29.Rc8 Rxc8 30.Qxc8+ Kg7
31.Qd7 Qe6 32.Qxa7 Qe1+ 33.Kh2 Qxf2 0-1

[Event "National Capital Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.10"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Kearnan, Dan"]
[Black "Xu, Daniel"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E76"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f4 O-O 6.Nf3 c5 7.d5 e6
8.dxe6 fxe6 9.Bd3 Nc6 10.O-O b6 11.Bc2 Bb7 12.Ng5 Qe7 13.f5 Nd4
14.fxg6 hxg6 15.e5 dxe5 16.Bxg6 Rad8 17.Qe1 Ng4 18.Bf7+ Kh8 19.Qh4+
Nh6 20.Qh5 Ndf5 21.Qg6 1-0

[Event "National Capital Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.10"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Sadeghi, Saeid"]
[Black "Desjardins, Michel"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D03"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Bg5 Ne4 4.Bf4 e6 5.e3 Bd6 6.Bxd6 Qxd6 7.c3
O-O 8.Bd3 b6 9.Nbd2 Bb7 10.Qc2 f5 11.Ne5 Nd7 12.Nxd7 Qxd7 13.Nf3
c5 14.Ne5 Qe7 15.g3 cxd4 16.cxd4 Qb4+ 17.Kf1 Rac8 18.Qe2 Rc7
19.Kg2 Rfc8 20.Rhf1 a5 21.f3 Nd6 22.Rf2 a4 1/2-1/2

[Event "National Capital Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.10"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Dukic, Zach"]
[Black "Zhong, Kevin"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B66"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 d6 6.Bg5 e6 7.Qd2
a6 8.O-O-O h6 9.Nxc6 bxc6 10.Bf4 d5 11.Qe3 Be7 12.Be2 O-O 13.h4
Nd7 14.exd5 cxd5 15.Bxh6 gxh6 16.Qxh6 Nc5 {??} ( 16...Ne5 17.Ne4
f5 18.Rh3 f4 19.Ng5 $16 ) 17.Rh3 Bd6 18.b4 ( 18.f4 Bxf4+ 19.Qxf4
f5 20.Rg3+ Kh7 21.Rg5 {+-} ) Qc7 19.Qg5+ Kh7 20.Qh5+ Kg7 21.Rd4
Bf4+ 22.Kd1 Ne4 23.Nxe4 dxe4 24.Rxe4 e5 25.Rg3+ Bxg3 26.Qg5+
Kh7 27.Qh5+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "National Capital Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.10"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Liang, Jason"]
[Black "Yang, Fan"]
[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.d3 b5 6.Bb3 Be7 7.O-O
O-O 8.Bd5 Bd6 9.Bg5 Bb7 10.d4 h6 11.Bh4 Qe7 12.Bxc6 Bxc6 13.Re1
Rfe8 14.Nbd2 Bb7 15.Bg3 Nh5 16.Bxe5 Bxe5 17.Nxe5 Nf6 18.Ng4 Nxg4
19.Qxg4 d5 20.e5 c5 21.Nb3 cxd4 22.Nxd4 Qg5 23.Qg3 Re7 24.f4
Qxg3 25.hxg3 Bc8 26.c3 g6 27.a4 bxa4 28.Rxa4 Rb7 29.b4 Rc7 30.Rc1
Raa7 31.Ra5 Be6 32.Kf2 Kf8 33.Ke3 Ke7 34.Kd2 f6 35.exf6+ Kxf6
36.Rca1 1-0

[Event "National Capital Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.11.10"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Tanaka, Tyler"]
[Black "Gordon, David"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B30"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.Nc3 g6 5.h3 Nd4 6.Bd3 d6 7.Nxd4
cxd4 8.Ne2 e5 9.c3 Bg7 10.cxd4 exd4 11.Nxd4 O-O 12.Nf3 Re8 13.O-O
Nxe4 14.Re1 Bf5 15.Bb5 Qb6 16.Bxe8 Qxf2+ 17.Kh2 Qg3+ 18.Kg1 Nf2
19.Qe2 Nxh3+ 20.Kh1 Bd3 21.Qe3 Be4 22.Bd7 Bxf3 23.Re2 Qh4 24.Bxh3
Qxh3+ 25.Kg1 Bxg2 26.Rxg2 Qh4 27.Rh2 Qg4+ 28.Kh1 Bd4 29.Qe1 Qf3+
30.Rg2 Qh3+ 31.Rh2 Qf3+ 32.Rg2 Kg7 33.d3 Qh3+ 34.Rh2 Qf3+ 35.Rg2
Qh3+ 1/2-1/2