December 6,7,8 , 2019 RA December Open

[Halldor P. Palsson]

2019 RA December Open
An EOCA Grand Prix Event - http://www.eoca.ca

Date: December 6,7,8 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

Sections and prizes are based on projected entries.

Open - (rated FIDE & CFC); 1st $600, 2nd $300 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; $80 if pre-registered, $100 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 $60 if registered before November 29th.
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 29, 2019 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 28 or December 5, 7:00-7:30 PM

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

[Halldor P. Palsson]

Just a reminder that email entry to fs889@ncf.ca means no late fees.

2019 RA December Open

# Name/Rtng/ID
1 Bator Sambuev
2575 146462 (4128290)
2 Zachary Dukic
2369 149507 (2617188)
3 Jason Liang
2305 170934 (30940303)
4 David Gordon
2280 106629 (2602431)
5 Svitlana Demchenko
2257 156853 (14149893)
6 Daniel Xu
2159 160020 (2627345)
7 Dusan Simic
2142 109808 (908150)
8 Danail Donev
2070 143574 (2604094)
9 Yuen Tak Mok
2052 135116
10 Johnathan Han
2005 161709 (2629631)
11 Dan Kearnan
1952 137473 (2628082)
12 Sanjay Ramesh
1951 162979 (2631270)
13 Alwin Ning
1893 161716 (2631253)
14 Randika Balasooriya
1859 150499 (2635968)
15 Milos Petrovic
1829 160269

2019 RA December U1900

# Name/Rtng/ID
1 Alexandre Khan
1808 163542 (2632497)
2 Hugo Guillemette
1769 167806 (2636077)
3 Jacob Krolczyk
1760 120860 (2618001)
4 Ray Kuryliw
1739 105482 (2604833)
5 Alex Danilov
1731 101895 (2603926)
6 Oswin Ning
1710 161715 (2631261)
7 Fernando Echavarria-Hidalgo
1698 153225 (2617528)
8 Spencer Martin
1696 103276 (2616882)
9 Simon Perkins
1695 107582 (2618737)
10 Derek Wang
1675 166573 (2636115)
11 Alexander Stopic
1675 160017 (2630036)
12 Herb Langer
1671 100319 (2617536)
13 Victor Samuel
1659 112306 (2629062)

2019 RA December U1600

# Name/Rtng/ID
1 Gerhard Roth
1592 110166 (2612135)
2 Romy Peters
1563 135706 (2605589)
3 Jinglai He
1531 166992 (2637286)
4 Jeremy Sztuka
1508 162452 (2629089)
5 Denis Villeneuve
1465 171523
6 Maxim Kochetkov
1446 160253
7 Jim Wright
1343 105417
8 John I.F. Lukezich
1297 146765 (2620944)
9 Brian Murray
1250 128144 (2610981)
10 Colin McHenry
1120 171192
11 Nicolas Garcia
1057 137682
12 Irene Hampton
907 171188
13 Pete Frazier
739 171026

[Halldor P. Palsson]

2019 RA December Open

Bd # Res White # Res Black
1 1 Bator Sambuev (2575 0.0) 9 Yuen Tak Mok (2052 0.0)
2 10 Johnathan Han (2005 0.0) 2 Zachary Dukic (2369 0.0)
3 4 David Gordon (2280 0.0) 11 Dan Kearnan (1952 0.0)
4 12 Sanjay Ramesh (1951 0.0) 5 Svitlana Demchenko (2257 0.0)
5 6 Daniel Xu (2159 0.0) 13 Alwin Ning (1893 0.0)
6 14 Randika Balasooriya (1859 0.0) 7 Dusan Simic (2142 0.0)
7 8 Danail Donev (2070 0.0) 15 Milos Petrovic (1829 0.0)
3 ½ Jason Liang (2305 0.0) BYE

2019 RA December U1900

Bd # Res White # Res Black
9 1 Alexandre Khan (1808 0.0) 9 Simon Perkins (1695 0.0)
10 10 Derek Wang (1675 0.0) 3 Jacob Krolczyk (1760 0.0)
11 4 Ray Kuryliw (1739 0.0) 11 Alexander Stopic (1675 0.0)
12 12 Herb Langer (1671 0.0) 5 Alex Danilov (1731 0.0)
13 6 Oswin Ning (1710 0.0) 13 Victor Samuel (1659 0.0)
2 ½ Hugo Guillemette (1769 0.0) BYE
7 ½ Fernando Echavarria-Hidalgo (1698 0.0) BYE
8 ½ Spencer Martin (1696 0.0) BYE

2019 RA December U1600

Bd # Res White # Res Black
16 10 John I.F. Lukezich (1297 0.0) 2 Romy Peters (1563 0.0)
17 12 Neil Moses (1161 0.0) 4 Vikrant Harihara (1520 0.0)
18 6 Michael Gao (1485 0.0) 13 Pierre Arcand (1153 0.0)
19 14 Colin McHenry (1120 0.0) 7 Denis Villeneuve (1465 0.0)
20 8 Maxim Kochetkov (1446 0.0) 15 Nicolas Garcia (1057 0.0)
17 1 Pete Frazier (739 0.0) BYE
9 ½ Jim Wright (1343 0.0) BYE
5 ½ Jeremy Sztuka (1508 0.0) BYE
3 ½ Jinglai He (1531 0.0) BYE
1 ½ Gerhard Roth (1592 0.0) BYE
16 ½ Irene Hampton (907 0.0) BYE
11 ½ Brian Murray (1250 0.0) BYE

If you want to play in the tournament send your entry to fs889@ncf.ca and start play in round 2 or 3!

[Halldor P. Palsson]

2019 RA December Open

# Name/Rtng/ID Rd 1
1 Bator Sambuev W 9
2575 146462 (4128290)
2 Zachary Dukic B 10
2369 149507 (2617188)
3 Jason Liang bye
2305 170934 (30940303)
4 David Gordon W 11
2280 106629 (2602431)
5 Svitlana Demchenko B 12
2257 156853 (14149893)
6 Daniel Xu W 13
2159 160020 (2627345)
7 Dusan Simic B 14
2142 109808 (908150)
8 Danail Donev W 15
2070 143574 (2604094)
9 Yuen Tak Mok B 1
2052 135116
10 Johnathan Han W 2
2005 161709 (2629631)
11 Dan Kearnan B 4
1952 137473 (2628082)
12 Sanjay Ramesh W 5
1951 162979 (2631270)
13 Alwin Ning B 6
1893 161716 (2631253)
14 Randika Balasooriya W 7
1859 150499 (2635968)
15 Milos Petrovic B 8
1829 160269

2019 RA December U1900

# Name/Rtng/ID Rd 1
1 Alexandre Khan W 9
1808 163542 (2632497)
2 Hugo Guillemette bye
1769 167806 (2636077)
3 Jacob Krolczyk B 10
1760 120860 (2618001)
4 Ray Kuryliw W 11
1739 105482 (2604833)
5 Alex Danilov B 12
1731 101895 (2603926)
6 Oswin Ning W 13
1710 161715 (2631261)
7 Fernando Echavarria-Hidalgo bye
1698 153225 (2617528)
8 Spencer Martin bye
1696 103276 (2616882)
9 Simon Perkins B 1
1695 107582 (2618737)
10 Derek Wang W 3
1675 166573 (2636115)
11 Alexander Stopic B 4
1675 160017 (2630036)
12 Herb Langer W 5
1671 100319 (2617536)
13 Victor Samuel B 6
1659 112306 (2629062)

2019 RA December U1600

# Name/Rtng/ID Rd 1
1 Gerhard Roth bye
1592 110166 (2612135)
2 Romy Peters B 10
1563 135706 (2605589)
3 Jinglai He bye
1531 166992 (2637286)
4 Vikrant Harihara B 12
1520 171978 (25677063)
5 Jeremy Sztuka bye
1508 162452 (2629089)
6 Michael Gao W 13
1485 171295
7 Denis Villeneuve B 14
1465 171523
8 Maxim Kochetkov W 15
1446 160253
9 Jim Wright bye
1343 105417
10 John I.F. Lukezich W 2
1297 146765 (2620944)
11 Brian Murray bye
1250 128144 (2610981)
12 Neil Moses W 4
1161 170949
13 Pierre Arcand B 6
1153 160146
14 Colin McHenry W 7
1120 171192
15 Nicolas Garcia B 8
1057 137682
16 Irene Hampton bye
907 171188
17 Pete Frazier bye
739 171026

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.06"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Black "Mok, Yuen Tak"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D31"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c6 4.Nf3 Bd6 5.e4 dxe4 6.Nxe4 Bb4+ 7.Bd2
Qe7 8.c5 Bxd2+ 9.Qxd2 Nd7 10.Nd6+ Kf8 11.O-O-O h6 12.Ne5 Nxe5
13.dxe5 g6 14.g4 Qg5 15.f4 Qxg4 16.h4 Ne7 17.Bh3 Qf3 18.Bg2 Qh5
19.Qf2 g5 20.hxg5 Qg6 21.Be4 {Black resigned.} Z0 ( 21...Nf5
22.Nxf5 exf5 23.Rd8+ Kg7 24.Rxh8 Kxh8 25.Rxh6+ {and Black loses the Queen.}
) 1-0



[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.06"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Han, Jonathan"]
[Black "Dukic, Zach"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B33"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e5 6.Ndb5 d6 7.Bg5
a6 8.Na3 b5 9.Bxf6 gxf6 10.Nd5 f5 11.c3 Bg7 12.exf5 Bxf5 13.Nc2
O-O 14.Nce3 Be6 15.Bd3 f5 16.O-O Kh8 17.Qh5 e4 18.Bc2 Ne7 19.Rad1
Bf7 20.Qe2 ( 20.Qh3 {has been played before.} ) Nxd5 21.Nxd5
Qh4 22.Qe3 Be5 23.g3 Qh3 24.f4 exf3 25.Rf2 ( 25.Rxf3 Bh5 26.Nf4
Qg4 ( 26...Bxf4 27.Rxf4 Bxd1 28.Qd4+ {+-} ) 27.Nxh5 Qxh5 28.Rdf1
$16 ) Bxd5 26.Rxd5 f4 27.gxf4 Rg8+ 28.Kh1 Rg2 0-1



[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.06"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Gordon, David"]
[Black "Kearnan, Dan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A45"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 e6 3.e4 h6 4.Bxf6 Qxf6 5.c3 d6 6.Bd3 Nd7 7.Ne2
a6 8.O-O Qe7 9.Nd2 g6 10.f4 Bg7 11.f5 exf5 12.Nf4 O-O 13.exf5
Qe3+ 14.Kh1 g5 15.Nc4 Qe7 16.Nd5 Qd8 17.Qh5 Nf6 18.Nxf6+ Qxf6
19.Ne3 Qe7 20.Rae1 f6 21.Bc4+ Kh8 22.Ng4 Qd7 23.Nxh6 1-0



[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.06"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Xu, Daniel"]
[Black "Ning, Alwin"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D37"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Qc2 e6 5.Bf4 Nbd7 6.e3 Be7 7.h3 O-O
8.Nc3 dxc4 9.Bxc4 b5 10.Bd3 a6 11.O-O c5 12.Rfd1 Qb6 13.a4 c4
14.Be2 Bb7 15.Nd2 Rac8 16.axb5 axb5 17.Nde4 b4 18.Nxf6+ Nxf6
19.Na4 Qc6 20.Bf3 Qd7 21.Nb6 Qb5 22.Nxc8 Rxc8 23.Bxb7 Qxb7 24.Bg5
b3 25.Qe2 Nd5 26.Bxe7 Qxe7 27.Rdc1 Qc7 28.Qxc4 Qxc4 29.Rxc4 Rb8
30.Rac1 Ne7 31.Rc7 Kf8 32.Ra7 Nc8 33.Ra3 Ne7 34.Rc3 Nd5 35.Rcxb3 1-0



[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.06"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Ramesh, Sanjay"]
[Black "Demchenko, Svitlana"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E97"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 O-O 6.Be2 e5 7.O-O Nc6
8.Be3 h6 9.d5 Ne7 10.Nd2 Ne8 11.b4 f5 12.f3 f4 13.Bf2 g5 14.c5
h5 15.Nc4 Rf6 16.cxd6 cxd6 17.Nb5 b6 18.a4 Nc7 19.Nxb6 Nxb5 20.axb5
Rb8 21.Rxa7 g4 22.Nxc8 Nxc8 23.Ra6 g3 24.hxg3 fxg3 25.Bxg3 Rg6
26.Bf2 Bh6 27.Qd3 Bf4 28.g4 Qd7 29.Kh1 hxg4 0-1

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.06"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Black "Mok, Yuen Tak"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D31"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c6 4.Nf3 Bd6 5.e4 dxe4 6.Nxe4 Bb4+ 7.Bd2
Qe7 8.c5 Bxd2+ 9.Qxd2 Nd7 10.Nd6+ Kf8 11.O-O-O h6 12.Ne5 Nxe5
13.dxe5 g6 14.g4 Qg5 15.f4 Qxg4 16.h4 Ne7 17.Bh3 Qf3 18.Bg2 Qh5
19.Qf2 g5 20.hxg5 Qg6 21.Be4 {Black resigned.} Z0 ( 21...Nf5
22.Nxf5 exf5 23.Rd8+ Kg7 24.Rxh8 Kxh8 25.Rxh6+ {and Black loses the Queen.}
) 1-0

[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.06"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Han, Jonathan"]
[Black "Dukic, Zach"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B33"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e5 6.Ndb5 d6 7.Bg5
a6 8.Na3 b5 9.Bxf6 gxf6 10.Nd5 f5 11.c3 Bg7 12.exf5 Bxf5 13.Nc2
O-O 14.Nce3 Be6 15.Bd3 f5 16.O-O Kh8 17.Qh5 e4 18.Bc2 Ne7 19.Rad1
Bf7 20.Qe2 ( 20.Qh3 {has been played before.} ) Nxd5 21.Nxd5
Qh4 22.Qe3 Be5 23.g3 Qh3 24.f4 exf3 25.Rf2 ( 25.Rxf3 Bh5 26.Nf4
Qg4 ( 26...Bxf4 27.Rxf4 Bxd1 28.Qd4+ {+-} ) 27.Nxh5 Qxh5 28.Rdf1
$16 ) Bxd5 26.Rxd5 f4 27.gxf4 Rg8+ 28.Kh1 Rg2 0-1

[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.06"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Gordon, David"]
[Black "Kearnan, Dan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A45"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 e6 3.e4 h6 4.Bxf6 Qxf6 5.c3 d6 6.Bd3 Nd7 7.Ne2
a6 8.O-O Qe7 9.Nd2 g6 10.f4 Bg7 11.f5 exf5 12.Nf4 O-O 13.exf5
Qe3+ 14.Kh1 g5 15.Nc4 Qe7 16.Nd5 Qd8 17.Qh5 Nf6 18.Nxf6+ Qxf6
19.Ne3 Qe7 20.Rae1 f6 21.Bc4+ Kh8 22.Ng4 Qd7 23.Nxh6 1-0

[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.06"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Xu, Daniel"]
[Black "Ning, Alwin"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D37"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Qc2 e6 5.Bf4 Nbd7 6.e3 Be7 7.h3 O-O
8.Nc3 dxc4 9.Bxc4 b5 10.Bd3 a6 11.O-O c5 12.Rfd1 Qb6 13.a4 c4
14.Be2 Bb7 15.Nd2 Rac8 16.axb5 axb5 17.Nde4 b4 18.Nxf6+ Nxf6
19.Na4 Qc6 20.Bf3 Qd7 21.Nb6 Qb5 22.Nxc8 Rxc8 23.Bxb7 Qxb7 24.Bg5
b3 25.Qe2 Nd5 26.Bxe7 Qxe7 27.Rdc1 Qc7 28.Qxc4 Qxc4 29.Rxc4 Rb8
30.Rac1 Ne7 31.Rc7 Kf8 32.Ra7 Nc8 33.Ra3 Ne7 34.Rc3 Nd5 35.Rcxb3 1-0

[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.06"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Ramesh, Sanjay"]
[Black "Demchenko, Svitlana"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E97"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 O-O 6.Be2 e5 7.O-O Nc6
8.Be3 h6 9.d5 Ne7 10.Nd2 Ne8 11.b4 f5 12.f3 f4 13.Bf2 g5 14.c5
h5 15.Nc4 Rf6 16.cxd6 cxd6 17.Nb5 b6 18.a4 Nc7 19.Nxb6 Nxb5 20.axb5
Rb8 21.Rxa7 g4 22.Nxc8 Nxc8 23.Ra6 g3 24.hxg3 fxg3 25.Bxg3 Rg6
26.Bf2 Bh6 27.Qd3 Bf4 28.g4 Qd7 29.Kh1 hxg4 0-1

[Halldor P. Palsson]

2019 RA December Open
Bd # Res White # Res Black
1 7 Dusan Simic (2142 1.0) 1 Bator Sambuev (2575 1.0)
2 2 Zachary Dukic (2369 1.0) 6 Daniel Xu (2159 1.0)
3 5 Svitlana Demchenko (2257 1.0) 15 Milos Petrovic (1829 1.0)
4 3 Jason Liang (2305 0.5) 8 Danail Donev (2070 0.0)
5 9 Yuen Tak Mok (2052 0.0) 12 Sanjay Ramesh (1951 0.0)
6 13 Alwin Ning (1893 0.0) 10 Johnathan Han (2005 0.0)
7 11 Dan Kearnan (1952 0.0) 14 Randika Balasooriya (1859 0.0)
4 ½ David Gordon (2280 1.0) BYE

2019 RA December U1900
Bd # Res White # Res Black
9 9 Simon Perkins (1695 1.0) 12 Herb Langer (1671 1.0)
10 13 Victor Samuel (1659 1.0) 4 Ray Kuryliw (1739 0.5)
11 2 Hugo Guillemette (1769 0.5) 10 Derek Wang (1675 0.5)
12 3 Jacob Krolczyk (1760 0.5) 11 Alexander Stopic (1675 0.5)
13 6 Oswin Ning (1710 0.0) 1 Alexandre Khan (1808 0.0)
8 ½ Spencer Martin (1696 0.5) BYE
7 ½ Fernando Echavarria-Hidalgo (1698 0.5) BYE



2019 RA December U1600

Bd # Res White # Res Black
16 8 Maxim Kochetkov (1446 1.0) 6 Michael Gao (1485 1.0)
17 7 Denis Villeneuve (1465 1.0) 10 John I.F. Lukezich (1297 1.0)
18 17 Pete Frazier (739 1.0) 1 Gerhard Roth (1592 0.5)
19 3 Jinglai He (1531 0.5) 11 Brian Murray (1250 0.5)
20 4 Vikrant Harihara (1520 0.5) 16 Irene Hampton (907 0.5)
21 5 Jeremy Sztuka (1508 0.5) 12 Neil Moses (1161 0.5)
22 2 Romy Peters (1563 0.0) 14 Colin McHenry (1120 0.0)
23 13 Pierre Arcand (1153 0.0) 15 Nicolas Garcia (1057 0.0)
9 ½ Jim Wright (1343 0.5) BYE

[Halldor P. Palsson]

2019 RA December Open
Bd # Res White # Res Black
1 1 Bator Sambuev (2575 2.0) 5 Svitlana Demchenko (2257 2.0)
2 2 Zachary Dukic (2369 1.5) 3 Jason Liang (2305 1.5)
3 6 Daniel Xu (2159 1.5) 12 Sanjay Ramesh (1951 1.0)
4 10 Johnathan Han (2005 0.5) 14 Randika Balasooriya (1859 0.5)
5 13 Alwin Ning (1893 0.5) 11 Dan Kearnan (1952 0.5)
6 8 Danail Donev (2070 0.0) 9 Yuen Tak Mok (2052 0.0)
4 ½ David Gordon (2280 1.5) BYE
7 ½ Dusan Simic (2142 1.0) BYE
15 ½ Milos Petrovic (1829 1.0) BYE


2019 RA December U1900
Bd # Res White # Res Black
9 12 Herb Langer (1671 2.0) 2 Hugo Guillemette (1769 1.5)
10 4 Ray Kuryliw (1739 1.5) 3 Jacob Krolczyk (1760 1.5)
11 7 Fernando Echavarria-Hidalgo (1698 1.0) 9 Simon Perkins (1695 1.0)
12 1 Alexandre Khan (1808 0.5) 13 Victor Samuel (1659 1.0)
13 10 Derek Wang (1675 0.5) 6 Oswin Ning (1710 0.5)
11 1 Alexander Stopic (1675 0.5) BYE
8 ½ Spencer Martin (1696 1.0) BYE


2019 RA December U1600

Bd # Res White # Res Black
16 11 John I.F. Lukezich (1297 2.0) 8 Maxim Kochetkov (1446 2.0)
17 3 Jinglai He (1531 1.5) 18 Pete Frazier (739 2.0)
18 6 Michael Gao (1485 1.0) 4 Vikrant Harihara (1520 1.5)
19 7 Denis Villeneuve (1465 1.0) 2 Romy Peters (1563 1.0)
20 16 Nicolas Garcia (1057 1.0) 1 Gerhard Roth (1592 0.5)
21 12 Brian Murray (1250 0.5) 13 Neil Moses (1161 0.5)
22 17 Irene Hampton (907 0.5) 9 Gerard Felderhof (1380 0.0)
23 15 Colin McHenry (1120 0.0) 14 Pierre Arcand (1153 0.0)
10 ½ Jim Wright (1343 1.0) BYE
5 ½ Jeremy Sztuka (1508 1.5) BYE

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.07"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Simic, Dusan"]
[Black "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C01"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 exd5 4.Nf3 Nc6 5.Bb5 Bd6 6.Bg5 Nge7 7.O-O
O-O 8.c3 Bg4 9.Nbd2 Qd7 10.Qc2 Ng6 11.Bd3 h6 12.Bxg6 fxg6 13.Bh4
Bf5 14.Qb3 g5 15.Bg3 g4 16.Ne5 Nxe5 17.Bxe5 Bxe5 18.dxe5 c5 19.c4
d4 20.f4 gxf3 21.Rxf3 Bg4 22.Rg3 Rf4 23.Re1 Raf8 24.h3 Bf5 25.Qd1
b6 26.Qh5 Qe6 27.Rf3 Bg6 0-1



[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.07"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Liang, Jason"]
[Black "Donev, Danail"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B54"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.f3 e5 6.Nb3 Be6 7.c4
Be7 8.Nc3 a6 9.Be3 Nbd7 10.Be2 Rc8 11.Nd2 Nb6 12.b3 O-O 13.O-O
Nh5 14.g3 f5 15.exf5 Bxf5 16.g4 Bg5 17.Bf2 Bf4 18.gxf5 Qg5+ 19.Kh1
Bxh2 20.Nde4 Qh6 21.Bxb6 Nf4 22.Rf2 Bg3+ 23.Kg1 Bxf2+ 24.Bxf2
Rxf5 25.Ng3 Qg6 26.Bd3 Nxd3 27.Qxd3 Rcf8 28.Nd5 Qg5 29.Qe3 Qxe3
30.Bxe3 Rxf3 31.Kg2 g6 32.Ne4 R3f7 33.Nxd6 1-0



[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.07"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Demchenko, Svitlana"]
[Black "Petrovic, Milos"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C05"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.c3 c5 6.Bd3 Nc6 7.Ne2 Be7
8.O-O O-O 9.f4 f5 10.Nf3 b6 11.Be3 Bb7 12.Ng5 Bxg5 13.fxg5 g6
14.Nf4 Qe7 15.h4 cxd4 16.cxd4 Nb4 17.Bb1 Rac8 18.g4 Rc7 19.a3
Nc6 20.gxf5 gxf5 21.Rf2 Ncxe5 22.dxe5 Nxe5 23.Bd4 Ng4 24.Re2
e5 25.Ba2 Qd6 26.Bxe5 Nxe5 27.Bxd5+ Kh8 28.Qd4 Re8 29.Rae1 Rc4
30.Qxc4 Nxc4 31.Rxe8+ Kg7 32.R1e7+ 1-0



[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.07"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Dukic, Zachary"]
[Black "Xu, Daniel"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B99"]
[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
Be7 8.Qf3 Qc7 9.O-O-O Nbd7 10.g4 h6 11.Bxf6 Bxf6 12.Kb1 Qb6 13.Nb3
Qc7 14.e5 dxe5 15.f5 O-O 16.Ne4 Be7 17.Rg1 Nf6 18.Bd3 exf5 19.Nxf6+
Bxf6 20.Bxf5 Bxf5 21.Qxf5 Rfd8 22.Nd2 Bg5 23.Ne4 Rxd1+ 24.Rxd1
Rd8 25.Rh1 Bf4 26.h4 Qd7 27.a3 Qxf5 28.gxf5 b6 29.c3 Kf8 30.Kc2
g6 31.f6 Ke8 32.b4 Rd5 33.Re1 Kd7 34.c4 Rd4 35.c5 b5 36.Re2 Ke6
37.Kc3 g5 38.hxg5 hxg5 39.a4 g4 40.axb5 axb5 41.Nd6 g3 42.Nxb5
Rd2 43.Re1 g2 44.c6 Rd8 ( 44...e4 45.c7 Kd7 46.Rxe4 Bxc7 47.Rg4
Bf4 48.Nd4 Rf2 49.Kc4 Bh2 50.Nf3 Rxf3 51.Rxg2 Bd6 $19 ) 45.c7
Rc8 46.Rg1 Rg8 47.Rxg2 Rc8 48.Kd3 Kd5 49.Rc2 e4+ 50.Ke2 Ke6 51.Rc6+
Kd5 52.Rc5+ Ke6 53.Nd4+ Kd7 54.Nb5 Ke6 55.Rc4 Kxf6 56.Rxe4 Bxc7
57.Nxc7 1/2-1/2



[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.07"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Mok, Yuen Tak"]
[Black "Ramesh, Sanjay"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D02"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.Nf3 Nf6 2.g3 d5 3.Bg2 c5 4.O-O Nc6 5.d4 Bf5 6.b3 Rc8 7.dxc5
e5 8.Bb2 d4 9.c3 Bxc5 10.cxd4 exd4 11.Na3 O-O 12.Rc1 Qe7 13.Nc2
Rfd8 14.Nce1 Nb4 15.Rxc5 Qxc5 16.Bxd4 Qc1 17.Qxc1 Rxc1 18.Bxa7
Nxa2 19.Nd4 Be4 20.f3 Bc6 21.Nd3 Rxf1+ 22.Kxf1 Nc3 23.Kf2 Nb5
24.Nxc6 bxc6 25.Bc5 Nd7 26.Be3 Nc3 27.Bd4 Nb5 28.Be3 Nf6 29.Ne5
Nc3 30.Bg5 Re8 31.Bxf6 gxf6 32.Nxc6 Rxe2+ 33.Kg1 Rb2 34.Nd4 Rd2
35.Nf5 Ne2+ 36.Kf1 Nc1 37.b4 Rb2 38.Ne3 Kg7 39.h4 Rxb4 40.Kg1
Nd3 41.Kh2 Ne1 42.Bh1 Rb3 43.Nf5+ Kf8 44.f4 Nd3 45.Bd5 Rb2+ 46.Kg1
Rb5 47.Bc4 Rxf5 48.Bxd3 Rd5 49.Bxh7 f5 50.g4 fxg4 51.Bc2 Rh5
52.Kg2 f5 53.Kg3 Kf7 54.Ba4 Rh8 55.Bd7 Kf6 56.Bc6 Rc8 57.Bd7
Rc3+ 58.Kg2 Rh3 0-1

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.07"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Simic, Dusan"]
[Black "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C01"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 exd5 4.Nf3 Nc6 5.Bb5 Bd6 6.Bg5 Nge7 7.O-O
O-O 8.c3 Bg4 9.Nbd2 Qd7 10.Qc2 Ng6 11.Bd3 h6 12.Bxg6 fxg6 13.Bh4
Bf5 14.Qb3 g5 15.Bg3 g4 16.Ne5 Nxe5 17.Bxe5 Bxe5 18.dxe5 c5 19.c4
d4 20.f4 gxf3 21.Rxf3 Bg4 22.Rg3 Rf4 23.Re1 Raf8 24.h3 Bf5 25.Qd1
b6 26.Qh5 Qe6 27.Rf3 Bg6 0-1

[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.07"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Liang, Jason"]
[Black "Donev, Danail"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B54"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.f3 e5 6.Nb3 Be6 7.c4
Be7 8.Nc3 a6 9.Be3 Nbd7 10.Be2 Rc8 11.Nd2 Nb6 12.b3 O-O 13.O-O
Nh5 14.g3 f5 15.exf5 Bxf5 16.g4 Bg5 17.Bf2 Bf4 18.gxf5 Qg5+ 19.Kh1
Bxh2 20.Nde4 Qh6 21.Bxb6 Nf4 22.Rf2 Bg3+ 23.Kg1 Bxf2+ 24.Bxf2
Rxf5 25.Ng3 Qg6 26.Bd3 Nxd3 27.Qxd3 Rcf8 28.Nd5 Qg5 29.Qe3 Qxe3
30.Bxe3 Rxf3 31.Kg2 g6 32.Ne4 R3f7 33.Nxd6 1-0

[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.07"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Demchenko, Svitlana"]
[Black "Petrovic, Milos"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C05"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 Nf6 4.e5 Nfd7 5.c3 c5 6.Bd3 Nc6 7.Ne2 Be7
8.O-O O-O 9.f4 f5 10.Nf3 b6 11.Be3 Bb7 12.Ng5 Bxg5 13.fxg5 g6
14.Nf4 Qe7 15.h4 cxd4 16.cxd4 Nb4 17.Bb1 Rac8 18.g4 Rc7 19.a3
Nc6 20.gxf5 gxf5 21.Rf2 Ncxe5 22.dxe5 Nxe5 23.Bd4 Ng4 24.Re2
e5 25.Ba2 Qd6 26.Bxe5 Nxe5 27.Bxd5+ Kh8 28.Qd4 Re8 29.Rae1 Rc4
30.Qxc4 Nxc4 31.Rxe8+ Kg7 32.R1e7+ 1-0

[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.07"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Dukic, Zachary"]
[Black "Xu, Daniel"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B99"]
[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
Be7 8.Qf3 Qc7 9.O-O-O Nbd7 10.g4 h6 11.Bxf6 Bxf6 12.Kb1 Qb6 13.Nb3
Qc7 14.e5 dxe5 15.f5 O-O 16.Ne4 Be7 17.Rg1 Nf6 18.Bd3 exf5 19.Nxf6+
Bxf6 20.Bxf5 Bxf5 21.Qxf5 Rfd8 22.Nd2 Bg5 23.Ne4 Rxd1+ 24.Rxd1
Rd8 25.Rh1 Bf4 26.h4 Qd7 27.a3 Qxf5 28.gxf5 b6 29.c3 Kf8 30.Kc2
g6 31.f6 Ke8 32.b4 Rd5 33.Re1 Kd7 34.c4 Rd4 35.c5 b5 36.Re2 Ke6
37.Kc3 g5 38.hxg5 hxg5 39.a4 g4 40.axb5 axb5 41.Nd6 g3 42.Nxb5
Rd2 43.Re1 g2 44.c6 Rd8 ( 44...e4 45.c7 Kd7 46.Rxe4 Bxc7 47.Rg4
Bf4 48.Nd4 Rf2 49.Kc4 Bh2 50.Nf3 Rxf3 51.Rxg2 Bd6 $19 ) 45.c7
Rc8 46.Rg1 Rg8 47.Rxg2 Rc8 48.Kd3 Kd5 49.Rc2 e4+ 50.Ke2 Ke6 51.Rc6+
Kd5 52.Rc5+ Ke6 53.Nd4+ Kd7 54.Nb5 Ke6 55.Rc4 Kxf6 56.Rxe4 Bxc7
57.Nxc7 1/2-1/2

[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.07"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Mok, Yuen Tak"]
[Black "Ramesh, Sanjay"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D02"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.Nf3 Nf6 2.g3 d5 3.Bg2 c5 4.O-O Nc6 5.d4 Bf5 6.b3 Rc8 7.dxc5
e5 8.Bb2 d4 9.c3 Bxc5 10.cxd4 exd4 11.Na3 O-O 12.Rc1 Qe7 13.Nc2
Rfd8 14.Nce1 Nb4 15.Rxc5 Qxc5 16.Bxd4 Qc1 17.Qxc1 Rxc1 18.Bxa7
Nxa2 19.Nd4 Be4 20.f3 Bc6 21.Nd3 Rxf1+ 22.Kxf1 Nc3 23.Kf2 Nb5
24.Nxc6 bxc6 25.Bc5 Nd7 26.Be3 Nc3 27.Bd4 Nb5 28.Be3 Nf6 29.Ne5
Nc3 30.Bg5 Re8 31.Bxf6 gxf6 32.Nxc6 Rxe2+ 33.Kg1 Rb2 34.Nd4 Rd2
35.Nf5 Ne2+ 36.Kf1 Nc1 37.b4 Rb2 38.Ne3 Kg7 39.h4 Rxb4 40.Kg1
Nd3 41.Kh2 Ne1 42.Bh1 Rb3 43.Nf5+ Kf8 44.f4 Nd3 45.Bd5 Rb2+ 46.Kg1
Rb5 47.Bc4 Rxf5 48.Bxd3 Rd5 49.Bxh7 f5 50.g4 fxg4 51.Bc2 Rh5
52.Kg2 f5 53.Kg3 Kf7 54.Ba4 Rh8 55.Bd7 Kf6 56.Bc6 Rc8 57.Bd7
Rc3+ 58.Kg2 Rh3 0-1

[Halldor P. Palsson]

2019 RA December Open

Bd # Res White # Res Black
1 3 Jason Liang (2305 2.5) 1 Bator Sambuev (2575 3.0)
2 5 Svitlana Demchenko (2257 2.0) 4 David Gordon (2280 2.0)
3 12 Sanjay Ramesh (1951 2.0) 2 Zachary Dukic (2369 1.5)
4 7 Dusan Simic (2142 1.5) 6 Daniel Xu (2159 1.5)
5 15 Milos Petrovic (1829 1.5) 10 Johnathan Han (2005 1.5)
6 9 Yuen Tak Mok (2052 1.0) 11 Dan Kearnan (1952 1.0)
7 14 Randika Balasooriya (1859 0.5) 13 Alwin Ning (1893 1.0)
8 1 Danail Donev (2070 0.0) BYE

2019 RA December U1900

Bd # Res White # Res Black
9 2 Hugo Guillemette (1769 2.5) 4 Ray Kuryliw (1739 2.0)
10 3 Jacob Krolczyk (1760 2.0) 12 Herb Langer (1671 2.0)
11 13 Victor Samuel (1659 2.0) 7 Fernando Echavarria-Hidalgo (1698 1.5)
12 8 Spencer Martin (1696 1.5) 10 Derek Wang (1675 1.5)
13 11 Alexander Stopic (1675 1.5) 9 Simon Perkins (1695 1.5)
6 1 Oswin Ning (1710 0.5) BYE
1 ½ Alexandre Khan (1808 0.5) BYE


2019 RA December U1600

Bd # Res White # Res Black
16 8 Maxim Kochetkov (1446 3.0) 3 Jinglai He (1531 2.5)
17 2 Romy Peters (1563 2.0) 6 Michael Gao (1485 2.0)
18 16 Nicolas Garcia (1057 2.0) 5 Jeremy Sztuka (1508 2.0)
19 4 Vikrant Harihara (1520 1.5) 18 Pete Frazier (739 2.0)
20 13 Neil Moses (1161 1.5) 10 Jim Wright (1343 1.5)
21 1 Gerhard Roth (1592 0.5) 7 Denis Villeneuve (1465 1.0)
22 12 Brian Murray (1250 0.5) 15 Colin McHenry (1120 1.0)
14 1 Pierre Arcand (1153 0.0) BYE
11 ½ John I.F. Lukezich (1297 2.0) BYE
17 ½ Irene Hampton (907 0.5) BYE

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.07"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Dukic, Zachary"]
[Black "Liang, Jason"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B17"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nd7 5.Ng5 Ngf6 6.Bd3 e6 7.N1f3
Bd6 8.Qe2 h6 9.Ne4 Nxe4 10.Qxe4 Nf6 11.Qe2 Qc7 12.Bd2 b6 13.Ne5
Bb7 14.f4 O-O-O 15.O-O c5 16.a4 cxd4 17.a5 g5 18.axb6 axb6 19.Ra4
Kb8 20.Ba6 Bxe5 21.Bxb7 Bd6 22.Ra7 d3 23.Qf3 Qc5+ 24.Be3 Qxe3+
25.Qxe3 Bc5 26.Qxc5 bxc5 0-1



[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.07"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Xu, Daniel"]
[Black "Ramesh, Sanjay"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D37"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Qc2 e6 5.Bf4 Nbd7 6.e3 Be7 7.h3 O-O
8.Nc3 a6 9.c5 b6 10.b4 a5 11.b5 Bb7 12.cxb6 Nxb6 13.Ne5 cxb5
14.Qb3 Rc8 15.a3 b4 16.Nb5 a4 17.Qb2 b3 18.Bd3 Nc4 19.Nxc4 dxc4
20.Bb1 Qa5+ 21.Nc3 Nd5 22.Kd2 Nxf4 23.exf4 Bf6 0-1



[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.07"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Ning, Alwin"]
[Black "Kearnan, Dan"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C50"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.d3 Nf6 5.Nc3 h6 6.h3 a6 7.a3 O-O
8.O-O d6 9.Re1 Qe7 10.Be3 Bxe3 11.Rxe3 Nd4 12.Re1 Ne6 13.d4 Nf4
14.Qd2 c6 15.Rad1 b5 16.Ba2 Be6 17.dxe5 dxe5 18.Bxe6 Qxe6 19.Qd6
Rfe8 20.Rd2 Nh7 21.Qxe6 Rxe6 22.Red1 Rae8 23.Rd6 f6 24.Rxe6 Rxe6
25.b4 Kf7 26.Rd7+ Re7 27.Rd8 Re8 28.Rd7+ 1/2-1/2



[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.07"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Black "Demchenko, Svitlana"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B07"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.g3 g6 3.Bg2 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Ne2 O-O 6.O-O e5 7.h3 exd4
8.Nxd4 Nbd7 9.Nc3 Re8 10.Nb3 a5 11.a4 Ne5 12.Nd4 c6 13.g4 Ned7
14.Nde2 Nb6 15.Bg5 h6 16.Bh4 g5 17.Bg3 d5 18.Re1 Be6 19.e5 Nfd7
20.f4 gxf4 21.Nxf4 Nxe5 22.Nh5 Ng6 23.Nxg7 Kxg7 24.Ne2 Nc4 25.Bf2
Kh7 26.Ng3 f6 27.Nh5 Nce5 28.Bd4 b6 29.Rf1 Rf8 30.Qe2 Ra7 31.Qf2
Raf7 32.Bxb6 Qb8 33.Bc5 f5 34.Bxf8 Qxf8 35.gxf5 Bxf5 36.Qe3 Qd8
37.Ng3 Bxc2 38.Rxf7+ Nxf7 39.Qf2 1-0

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.07"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Dukic, Zachary"]
[Black "Liang, Jason"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B17"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 dxe4 4.Nxe4 Nd7 5.Ng5 Ngf6 6.Bd3 e6 7.N1f3
Bd6 8.Qe2 h6 9.Ne4 Nxe4 10.Qxe4 Nf6 11.Qe2 Qc7 12.Bd2 b6 13.Ne5
Bb7 14.f4 O-O-O 15.O-O c5 16.a4 cxd4 17.a5 g5 18.axb6 axb6 19.Ra4
Kb8 20.Ba6 Bxe5 21.Bxb7 Bd6 22.Ra7 d3 23.Qf3 Qc5+ 24.Be3 Qxe3+
25.Qxe3 Bc5 26.Qxc5 bxc5 0-1

[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.07"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Xu, Daniel"]
[Black "Ramesh, Sanjay"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D37"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Qc2 e6 5.Bf4 Nbd7 6.e3 Be7 7.h3 O-O
8.Nc3 a6 9.c5 b6 10.b4 a5 11.b5 Bb7 12.cxb6 Nxb6 13.Ne5 cxb5
14.Qb3 Rc8 15.a3 b4 16.Nb5 a4 17.Qb2 b3 18.Bd3 Nc4 19.Nxc4 dxc4
20.Bb1 Qa5+ 21.Nc3 Nd5 22.Kd2 Nxf4 23.exf4 Bf6 0-1

[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.07"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Ning, Alwin"]
[Black "Kearnan, Dan"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C50"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.d3 Nf6 5.Nc3 h6 6.h3 a6 7.a3 O-O
8.O-O d6 9.Re1 Qe7 10.Be3 Bxe3 11.Rxe3 Nd4 12.Re1 Ne6 13.d4 Nf4
14.Qd2 c6 15.Rad1 b5 16.Ba2 Be6 17.dxe5 dxe5 18.Bxe6 Qxe6 19.Qd6
Rfe8 20.Rd2 Nh7 21.Qxe6 Rxe6 22.Red1 Rae8 23.Rd6 f6 24.Rxe6 Rxe6
25.b4 Kf7 26.Rd7+ Re7 27.Rd8 Re8 28.Rd7+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.07"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Black "Demchenko, Svitlana"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B07"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.g3 g6 3.Bg2 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Ne2 O-O 6.O-O e5 7.h3 exd4
8.Nxd4 Nbd7 9.Nc3 Re8 10.Nb3 a5 11.a4 Ne5 12.Nd4 c6 13.g4 Ned7
14.Nde2 Nb6 15.Bg5 h6 16.Bh4 g5 17.Bg3 d5 18.Re1 Be6 19.e5 Nfd7
20.f4 gxf4 21.Nxf4 Nxe5 22.Nh5 Ng6 23.Nxg7 Kxg7 24.Ne2 Nc4 25.Bf2
Kh7 26.Ng3 f6 27.Nh5 Nce5 28.Bd4 b6 29.Rf1 Rf8 30.Qe2 Ra7 31.Qf2
Raf7 32.Bxb6 Qb8 33.Bc5 f5 34.Bxf8 Qxf8 35.gxf5 Bxf5 36.Qe3 Qd8
37.Ng3 Bxc2 38.Rxf7+ Nxf7 39.Qf2 1-0

[Halldor P. Palsson]

2019 RA December Open

Bd # Res White # Res Black
1 1 Bator Sambuev (2575 3.5) 2 Zachary Dukic (2369 2.5)
2 4 David Gordon (2280 2.5) 3 Jason Liang (2305 3.0)
3 10 Johnathan Han (2005 2.5) 5 Svitlana Demchenko (2257 2.5)
4 6 Daniel Xu (2159 2.0) 9 Yuen Tak Mok (2052 2.0)
5 12 Sanjay Ramesh (1951 2.0) 7 Dusan Simic (2142 2.0)
6 15 Milos Petrovic (1829 1.5) 13 Alwin Ning (1893 1.5)
7 11 Dan Kearnan (1952 1.0) 8 Danail Donev (2070 1.0)
14 1 Randika Balasooriya (1859 1.0) BYE

2019 RA December U1900

Bd # Res White # Res Black
9 3 Jacob Krolczyk (1760 3.0) 2 Hugo Guillemette (1769 3.0)
10 4 Ray Kuryliw (1739 2.5) 10 Derek Wang (1675 2.5)
11 11 Alexander Stopic (1675 2.5) 13 Victor Samuel (1659 2.5)
12 12 Herb Langer (1671 2.0) 7 Fernando Echavarria-Hidalgo (1698 2.0)
13 9 Simon Perkins (1695 1.5) 6 Oswin Ning (1710 1.5)
14 1 Alexandre Khan (1808 1.0) 8 Spencer Martin (1696 1.5)

2019 RA December U1600

Bd # Res White # Res Black
16 2 Romy Peters (1563 3.0) 8 Maxim Kochetkov (1446 3.5)
17 4 Vikrant Harihara (1520 2.5) 3 Jinglai He (1531 3.0)
18 5 Jeremy Sztuka (1508 2.5) 11 John I.F. Lukezich (1297 2.5)
19 13 Neil Moses (1161 2.5) 16 Nicolas Garcia (1057 2.5)
20 6 Michael Gao (1485 2.0) 15 Colin McHenry (1120 2.0)
21 18 Pete Frazier (739 2.0) 7 Denis Villeneuve (1465 1.0)
22 14 Pierre Arcand (1153 1.0) 12 Brian Murray (1250 0.5)

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.07"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Han, Jonathan"]
[Black "Balasooriya, Randika"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C42"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.Nc3 Qe7 6.Nxe4 Qxe4+
7.Be2 Be7 8.O-O O-O 9.Re1 Qg6 10.d4 Bh3 11.Bf1 Bf6 12.Kh1 Bg4
13.c3 Qh5 14.Be2 Nc6 15.Be3 Ne7 16.h3 Nd5 17.Bd2 Rae8 18.Kg1
Bc8 19.Ne5 Qh4 20.g3 Qxh3 21.Bf1 Qf5 22.g4 Qe6 23.Ng6 Qd7 24.Nxf8
Rxf8 25.Bg2 c6 26.g5 Bd8 27.Qh5 g6 28.Qe2 Nc7 29.Qd3 Qg4 30.Qe2
Qd7 31.c4 f5 32.d5 cxd5 33.cxd5 Qf7 34.Bf4 Qd7 35.Rac1 b6 36.Qc4
Bb7 37.Qb3 Na6 38.Qc4 Nc5 39.Re3 Ba6 40.Qc2 Bb7 41.b4 Na6 42.Qb3
h6 43.gxh6 g5 44.Rg3 Kh7 45.Bxg5 Bxg5 46.Rxg5 Rf7 47.Bh3 Nc7
48.Bxf5+ 1-0



[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.08"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Petrovic, Milos"]
[Black "Han, Jonathan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B23"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 d6 3.f4 Nc6 4.Bc4 g6 5.Nf3 Bg7 6.d3 e6 7.O-O Nge7
8.Qe1 O-O 9.Qh4 Nd4 10.Nxd4 Bxd4+ 11.Kh1 f5 12.g4 d5 13.Bb3 c4
14.dxc4 dxe4 15.Rd1 Nc6 16.g5 Qe7 17.Nb5 Bc5 18.c3 Rd8 19.Bd2
b6 20.Ba4 Bb7 21.b4 e3 22.Kg2 Ne5+ 23.Kh3 exd2 24.bxc5 Rd3+ 0-1



[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.08"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Simic, Dusan"]
[Black "Xu, Daniel"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E61"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.c4 Nf6 2.d4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.g3 O-O 5.Bg2 d6 6.Bg5 h6 7.Bf4 Nc6
8.Nf3 Nd7 9.Qd2 Kh7 10.O-O e5 11.dxe5 Ndxe5 12.Nxe5 dxe5 13.Qxd8
Nxd8 14.Bd2 c6 15.Rad1 f5 16.Bc1 Be6 17.b3 Nf7 18.e4 Rfd8 19.Be3
a6 20.Bb6 Rxd1 21.Rxd1 Bf6 22.Na4 Be7 23.h4 f4 24.Nc5 Bxc5 25.Bxc5
Rd8 26.Rxd8 Nxd8 27.Kf1 g5 28.hxg5 hxg5 29.Be7 Nf7 30.Ke1 Kg6
31.Kd2 g4 32.Kc3 a5 33.Bf1 b6 34.a4 c5 35.Bd3 1/2-1/2



[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.08"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Liang, Jason"]
[Black "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C41"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Be7 6.g3 Bg4 7.f3
Bd7 8.Bg2 O-O 9.O-O Nc6 10.Nde2 Re8 11.Be3 Bf8 12.Qd2 Ne5 13.b3
b6 14.h3 Bc6 15.Rad1 Bb7 16.Kh2 Ng6 17.Rfe1 d5 18.Nxd5 Nxd5 19.exd5
Qxd5 20.Qxd5 Bxd5 21.Nf4 Bc6 22.Nxg6 hxg6 23.Bf4 Bb4 24.c3 Bxc3
25.Rxe8+ Bxe8 26.Bxc7 Rc8 27.Rd8 Rxd8 28.Bxd8 Bc6 29.f4 Bxg2
30.Kxg2 Kf8 31.g4 Ke8 32.Bh4 Kd7 33.Kf3 f5 34.Ke2 Kc6 35.Kd3
Bb2 36.Bf2 Kd5 37.Be3 Bf6 38.a4 Be7 39.Bd4 fxg4 40.hxg4 Bd6 41.Be3
Bb4 42.Bc1 a6 43.Bb2 Bd6 44.Ke3 Bc5+ 45.Kd3 Bd6 46.Bc1 b5 47.axb5
axb5 48.Bd2 Bc7 49.Ke3 Bb6+ 50.Kd3 Bc7 51.Be3 Bd6 52.Bc1 Bc7
53.Ke3 Bb6+ 54.Kd3 Bc7 55.Bd2 Bd6 56.Ke3 Bc5+ 57.Kd3 Bd6 58.Be3
Bc7 59.Bc1 Bd6 60.Ke3 1/2-1/2



[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.08"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Ramesh, Sanjay"]
[Black "Dukic, Zachary"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E73"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Be2 O-O 6.Be3 e5 7.d5 Na6
8.g4 Nc5 9.f3 a5 10.h4 Ne8 11.h5 f5 12.hxg6 hxg6 13.gxf5 gxf5
14.exf5 Bxf5 15.Qd2 a4 16.O-O-O Qf6 17.Bxc5 dxc5 18.Ne4 Bxe4
19.fxe4 Nd6 20.Bg4 Nxe4 21.Qe3 Ng5 22.Rh5 e4 23.Rd2 Bh6 24.Rdh2
Nf7 25.Rxh6 Nxh6 26.Rxh6 Qf4 27.Qxf4 Rxf4 28.Be2 Kg7 29.Re6 Rh8
30.Re7+ Kf6 31.Rxc7 Rh1 32.d6 e3 33.d7 Rxg1+ 34.Kc2 Rd4 35.Rxc5
Rg2 36.Rd5 Rxe2+ 37.Kc3 Rxd5 38.cxd5 Ke7 39.d6+ 0-1



[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.08"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Demchenko, Svitlana"]
[Black "Gordon, David"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E17"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 b6 3.g3 e6 4.Bg2 Be7 5.O-O O-O 6.c4 Bb7 7.b3 d5
8.Nbd2 Nbd7 9.Bb2 c5 10.e3 a5 11.Ne5 Qc7 12.Rc1 Nxe5 13.dxe5
Nd7 14.f4 dxc4 15.Bxb7 Qxb7 16.Nxc4 Rad8 17.Qc2 f5 18.Rcd1 Nb8
19.Nd6 Bxd6 20.exd6 Qc6 21.Be5 Qd7 22.e4 fxe4 23.Qxe4 Nc6 24.a3
Rf7 25.Rfe1 Rdf8 26.Bc3 Nd8 27.Rd2 Rf5 28.Kg2 R8f7 29.Be5 Rf8
30.b4 axb4 31.axb4 cxb4 32.Qxb4 b5 33.Qe4 Nc6 34.Rc1 Nxe5 35.Rc7
Qd8 36.fxe5 Qg5 37.Re2 Qg6 38.Qe3 Rf3 39.Qxf3 Rxf3 40.Kxf3 Qh5+
41.g4 Qh3+ 42.Kf4 Qf1+ 43.Ke3 Qg1+ 44.Kd2 Qd4+ 45.Kc2 Qa4+ 46.Kd2
Qd4+ 47.Kc2 Qa4+ 48.Kd2 Qd4+ 1/2-1/2

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.07"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Han, Jonathan"]
[Black "Balasooriya, Randika"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C42"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.Nc3 Qe7 6.Nxe4 Qxe4+
7.Be2 Be7 8.O-O O-O 9.Re1 Qg6 10.d4 Bh3 11.Bf1 Bf6 12.Kh1 Bg4
13.c3 Qh5 14.Be2 Nc6 15.Be3 Ne7 16.h3 Nd5 17.Bd2 Rae8 18.Kg1
Bc8 19.Ne5 Qh4 20.g3 Qxh3 21.Bf1 Qf5 22.g4 Qe6 23.Ng6 Qd7 24.Nxf8
Rxf8 25.Bg2 c6 26.g5 Bd8 27.Qh5 g6 28.Qe2 Nc7 29.Qd3 Qg4 30.Qe2
Qd7 31.c4 f5 32.d5 cxd5 33.cxd5 Qf7 34.Bf4 Qd7 35.Rac1 b6 36.Qc4
Bb7 37.Qb3 Na6 38.Qc4 Nc5 39.Re3 Ba6 40.Qc2 Bb7 41.b4 Na6 42.Qb3
h6 43.gxh6 g5 44.Rg3 Kh7 45.Bxg5 Bxg5 46.Rxg5 Rf7 47.Bh3 Nc7
48.Bxf5+ 1-0

[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.08"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Petrovic, Milos"]
[Black "Han, Jonathan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B23"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 d6 3.f4 Nc6 4.Bc4 g6 5.Nf3 Bg7 6.d3 e6 7.O-O Nge7
8.Qe1 O-O 9.Qh4 Nd4 10.Nxd4 Bxd4+ 11.Kh1 f5 12.g4 d5 13.Bb3 c4
14.dxc4 dxe4 15.Rd1 Nc6 16.g5 Qe7 17.Nb5 Bc5 18.c3 Rd8 19.Bd2
b6 20.Ba4 Bb7 21.b4 e3 22.Kg2 Ne5+ 23.Kh3 exd2 24.bxc5 Rd3+ 0-1

[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.08"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Simic, Dusan"]
[Black "Xu, Daniel"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E61"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.c4 Nf6 2.d4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.g3 O-O 5.Bg2 d6 6.Bg5 h6 7.Bf4 Nc6
8.Nf3 Nd7 9.Qd2 Kh7 10.O-O e5 11.dxe5 Ndxe5 12.Nxe5 dxe5 13.Qxd8
Nxd8 14.Bd2 c6 15.Rad1 f5 16.Bc1 Be6 17.b3 Nf7 18.e4 Rfd8 19.Be3
a6 20.Bb6 Rxd1 21.Rxd1 Bf6 22.Na4 Be7 23.h4 f4 24.Nc5 Bxc5 25.Bxc5
Rd8 26.Rxd8 Nxd8 27.Kf1 g5 28.hxg5 hxg5 29.Be7 Nf7 30.Ke1 Kg6
31.Kd2 g4 32.Kc3 a5 33.Bf1 b6 34.a4 c5 35.Bd3 1/2-1/2

[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.08"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Liang, Jason"]
[Black "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C41"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Be7 6.g3 Bg4 7.f3
Bd7 8.Bg2 O-O 9.O-O Nc6 10.Nde2 Re8 11.Be3 Bf8 12.Qd2 Ne5 13.b3
b6 14.h3 Bc6 15.Rad1 Bb7 16.Kh2 Ng6 17.Rfe1 d5 18.Nxd5 Nxd5 19.exd5
Qxd5 20.Qxd5 Bxd5 21.Nf4 Bc6 22.Nxg6 hxg6 23.Bf4 Bb4 24.c3 Bxc3
25.Rxe8+ Bxe8 26.Bxc7 Rc8 27.Rd8 Rxd8 28.Bxd8 Bc6 29.f4 Bxg2
30.Kxg2 Kf8 31.g4 Ke8 32.Bh4 Kd7 33.Kf3 f5 34.Ke2 Kc6 35.Kd3
Bb2 36.Bf2 Kd5 37.Be3 Bf6 38.a4 Be7 39.Bd4 fxg4 40.hxg4 Bd6 41.Be3
Bb4 42.Bc1 a6 43.Bb2 Bd6 44.Ke3 Bc5+ 45.Kd3 Bd6 46.Bc1 b5 47.axb5
axb5 48.Bd2 Bc7 49.Ke3 Bb6+ 50.Kd3 Bc7 51.Be3 Bd6 52.Bc1 Bc7
53.Ke3 Bb6+ 54.Kd3 Bc7 55.Bd2 Bd6 56.Ke3 Bc5+ 57.Kd3 Bd6 58.Be3
Bc7 59.Bc1 Bd6 60.Ke3 1/2-1/2

[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.08"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Ramesh, Sanjay"]
[Black "Dukic, Zachary"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E73"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Be2 O-O 6.Be3 e5 7.d5 Na6
8.g4 Nc5 9.f3 a5 10.h4 Ne8 11.h5 f5 12.hxg6 hxg6 13.gxf5 gxf5
14.exf5 Bxf5 15.Qd2 a4 16.O-O-O Qf6 17.Bxc5 dxc5 18.Ne4 Bxe4
19.fxe4 Nd6 20.Bg4 Nxe4 21.Qe3 Ng5 22.Rh5 e4 23.Rd2 Bh6 24.Rdh2
Nf7 25.Rxh6 Nxh6 26.Rxh6 Qf4 27.Qxf4 Rxf4 28.Be2 Kg7 29.Re6 Rh8
30.Re7+ Kf6 31.Rxc7 Rh1 32.d6 e3 33.d7 Rxg1+ 34.Kc2 Rd4 35.Rxc5
Rg2 36.Rd5 Rxe2+ 37.Kc3 Rxd5 38.cxd5 Ke7 39.d6+ 0-1

[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.08"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Demchenko, Svitlana"]
[Black "Gordon, David"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E17"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 b6 3.g3 e6 4.Bg2 Be7 5.O-O O-O 6.c4 Bb7 7.b3 d5
8.Nbd2 Nbd7 9.Bb2 c5 10.e3 a5 11.Ne5 Qc7 12.Rc1 Nxe5 13.dxe5
Nd7 14.f4 dxc4 15.Bxb7 Qxb7 16.Nxc4 Rad8 17.Qc2 f5 18.Rcd1 Nb8
19.Nd6 Bxd6 20.exd6 Qc6 21.Be5 Qd7 22.e4 fxe4 23.Qxe4 Nc6 24.a3
Rf7 25.Rfe1 Rdf8 26.Bc3 Nd8 27.Rd2 Rf5 28.Kg2 R8f7 29.Be5 Rf8
30.b4 axb4 31.axb4 cxb4 32.Qxb4 b5 33.Qe4 Nc6 34.Rc1 Nxe5 35.Rc7
Qd8 36.fxe5 Qg5 37.Re2 Qg6 38.Qe3 Rf3 39.Qxf3 Rxf3 40.Kxf3 Qh5+
41.g4 Qh3+ 42.Kf4 Qf1+ 43.Ke3 Qg1+ 44.Kd2 Qd4+ 45.Kc2 Qa4+ 46.Kd2
Qd4+ 47.Kc2 Qa4+ 48.Kd2 Qd4+ 1/2-1/2

[Halldor P. Palsson]

Standings.

2019 RA December Open

# Place Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot
1 1 Bator Sambuev 2575 W9 W8 W5 D2 ~3 3.5
2 2 Jason Liang 2305 H--- W13 W3 D1 ~4 3.0
3 3-6 Zachary Dukic 2369 W6 D7 L2 W10 ~1 2.5
4 David Gordon 2280 W14 H--- H--- D5 ~2 2.5
5 Svitlana Demchenko 2257 W10 W12 L1 D4 ~6 2.5
6 Johnathan Han 2005 L3 D11 W15 W12 ~5 2.5
7 7-10 Daniel Xu 2159 W11 D3 L10 D8 ~9 2.0
8 Dusan Simic 2142 W15 L1 H--- D7 ~10 2.0
9 Yuen Tak Mok 2052 L1 L10 W13 W14 ~7 2.0
10 Sanjay Ramesh 1951 L5 W9 W7 L3 ~8 2.0
11 11-12 Alwin Ning 1893 L7 D6 D14 D15 ~12 1.5
12 Milos Petrovic 1829 W13 L5 H--- L6 ~11 1.5
13 13-15 Danail Donev 2070 L12 L2 L9 B--- ~14 1.0
14 Dan Kearnan 1952 L4 D15 D11 L9 ~13 1.0
15 Randika Balasooriya 1859 L8 D14 L6 D11 ~--- 1.0

2019 RA December U1900

# Place Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot
1 1-2 Hugo Guillemette 1769 H--- W4 W8 D3 ~2 3.0
2 Jacob Krolczyk 1760 D4 W5 D3 W8 ~1 3.0
3 3-6 Ray Kuryliw 1739 D5 W6 D2 D1 ~4 2.5
4 Derek Wang 1675 D2 L1 W9 W10 ~3 2.5
5 Alexander Stopic 1675 D3 L2 B--- W11 ~6 2.5
6 Victor Samuel 1659 W9 L3 W12 D7 ~5 2.5
7 7-8 Fernando Echavarria-Hidalgo 1698 H--- H--- D11 D6 ~--- 2.0
8 Herb Langer 1671 W13 W11 L1 L2 ~9 2.0
9 9-11 Oswin Ning 1710 L6 D12 L4 B--- ~8 1.5
10 Spencer Martin 1696 H--- H--- H--- L4 ~11 1.5
11 Simon Perkins 1695 W12 L8 D7 L5 ~10 1.5
12 12 Alexandre Khan 1808 L11 D9 L6 H--- ~--- 1.0
13 13 Alex Danilov 1731 L8 --- --- --- ~--- 0.0

2019 RA December U1600

# Place Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot
1 1 Maxim Kochetkov 1446 W8 W9 W6 D3 ~2 3.5
2 2-3 Romy Peters 1563 L6 W10 W14 W9 ~1 3.0
3 Jinglai He 1531 H--- W18 W11 D1 ~4 3.0
4 4-8 Vikrant Harihara 1520 D7 W17 L9 W11 ~3 2.5
5 Jeremy Sztuka 1508 H--- W7 H--- D8 ~6 2.5
6 John I.F. Lukezich 1297 W2 W14 L1 H--- ~5 2.5
7 Neil Moses 1161 D4 L5 W18 W13 ~8 2.5
8 Nicolas Garcia 1057 L1 W16 W12 D5 ~7 2.5
9 9-11 Michael Gao 1485 W16 L1 W4 L2 ~10 2.0
10 Colin McHenry 1120 L14 L2 W16 W18 ~9 2.0
11 Pete Frazier 739 B--- W12 L3 L4 ~14 2.0
12 12-13 Gerhard Roth 1592 H--- L11 L8 W14 ~--- 1.5
13 Jim Wright 1343 H--- H--- H--- L7 ~--- 1.5
14 14-17 Denis Villeneuve 1465 W10 L6 L2 L12 ~11 1.0
15 Gerard Felderhof 1380 U--- U--- W17 U--- ~--- 1.0
16 Pierre Arcand 1153 L9 L8 L10 B--- ~18 1.0
17 Irene Hampton 907 H--- L4 L15 H--- ~--- 1.0
18 18 Brian Murray 1250 H--- L3 L7 L10 ~16 0.5

[Halldor P. Palsson]

2019 RA December Open
# Place Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot
1 1 Bator Sambuev 2575 W5 W7 W3 D2 W6 4.5 $460
2 2-3 Jason Liang 2305 H--- W15 W6 D1 D4 3.5 $140
3 Svitlana Demchenko 2257 W9 W14 L1 D4 W8 3.5 $140
4 4-5 David Gordon 2280 W12 H--- H--- D3 D2 3.0
5 Yuen Tak Mok 2052 L1 L9 W15 W12 W11 3.0 $80 U2200
6 6-10 Zachary Dukic 2369 W8 D11 L2 W9 L1 2.5
7 Dusan Simic 2142 W13 L1 H--- D11 D9 2.5
8 Johnathan Han 2005 L6 D10 W13 W14 L3 2.5
9 Sanjay Ramesh 1951 L3 W5 W11 L6 D7 2.5
10 Alwin Ning 1893 L11 D8 D12 D13 W14 2.5 $80 U2050
11 11-13 Daniel Xu 2159 W10 D6 L9 D7 L5 2.0
12 Dan Kearnan 1952 L4 D13 D10 L5 W15 2.0
13 Randika Balasooriya 1859 L7 D12 L8 D10 B--- 2.0
14 14 Milos Petrovic 1829 W15 L3 H--- L8 L10 1.5
15 15 Danail Donev 2070 L14 L2 L5 B--- L12 1.0



2019 RA December U1900
# Place Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot
1 1 Hugo Guillemette 1769 H--- W2 W7 D5 W4 4.0 $180
2 2-3 Derek Wang 1675 D4 L1 W9 W10 W5 3.5 $100
3 Alexander Stopic 1675 D5 L4 B--- W11 W8 3.5 $100
4 4 Jacob Krolczyk 1760 D2 W3 D5 W7 L1 3.0
5 5-8 Ray Kuryliw 1739 D3 W8 D4 D1 L2 2.5
6 Fernando Echavarria-Hidalgo 1698 H--- H--- D11 D8 D7 2.5
7 Herb Langer 1671 W13 W11 L1 L4 D6 2.5
8 Victor Samuel 1659 W9 L5 W12 D6 L3 2.5 $80 U1750
9 9-11 Oswin Ning 1710 L8 D12 L2 B--- D11 2.0
10 Spencer Martin 1696 H--- H--- H--- L2 D12 2.0
11 Simon Perkins 1695 W12 L7 D6 L3 D9 2.0
12 12 Alexandre Khan 1808 L11 D9 L8 H--- D10 1.5
13 13 Alex Danilov 1731 L7 --- --- --- --- 0.0

2019 RA December U1600
# Place Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot
1 1 Maxim Kochetkov 1446 W8 W6 W4 D3 D2 4.0 $125
2 2-4 Romy Peters 1563 L4 W12 W10 W6 D1 3.5 $40
3 Jinglai He 1531 H--- W18 W13 D1 D5 3.5 $40
4 John I.F. Lukezich 1297 W2 W10 L1 H--- W9 3.5 $40
5 5-8 Vikrant Harihara 1520 D7 W17 L6 W13 D3 3.0
6 Michael Gao 1485 W11 L1 W5 L2 W12 3.0
7 Neil Moses 1161 D5 L9 W18 W15 D8 3.0
8 Nicolas Garcia 1057 L1 W11 W14 D9 D7 3.0
9 9 Jeremy Sztuka 1508 H--- W7 H--- D8 L4 2.5
10 10-13 Denis Villeneuve 1465 W12 L4 L2 L14 W13 2.0
11 Pierre Arcand 1153 L6 L8 L12 B--- W18 2.0
12 Colin McHenry 1120 L10 L2 W11 W18 L6 2.0
13 Pete Frazier 739 B--- W14 L3 L5 L10 2.0
14 14-15 Gerhard Roth 1592 H--- L13 L8 W10 U--- 1.5
15 Jim Wright 1343 H--- H--- H--- L7 U--- 1.5
16 16-17 Gerard Felderhof 1380 U--- U--- W17 U--- U--- 1.0
17 Irene Hampton 907 H--- L5 L16 H--- U--- 1.0
18 18 Brian Murray 1250 H--- L3 L7 L12 L11 0.5

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.08"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Black "Dukic, Zachary"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A03"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.g3 Nf6 2.Bg2 d5 3.f4 c5 4.Nf3 Nc6 5.O-O g6 6.d3 Bg7 7.Qe1 d4
8.Na3 O-O 9.c4 e5 10.Nxe5 Nxe5 11.fxe5 Ng4 12.Nc2 Nxe5 13.b4
Bg4 14.h3 Bd7 15.bxc5 a5 16.Rb1 Bc6 17.Rxb7 Bxb7 18.Bxb7 Rb8
19.Bd5 Qc7 20.Qf2 Kh8 21.Ba3 Nc6 22.Bxc6 Qxc6 23.Nxd4 Qd7 24.Nb5
Qxh3 25.c6 Rfe8 26.c7 Rxb5 27.cxb5 Qd7 28.Qxf7 Bd4+ 29.e3 Bxe3+
30.Kg2 Qxb5 31.Qxe8+ 1-0



[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.08"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Gordon, David"]
[Black "Liang, Jason"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D35"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.cxd5 exd5 5.Bg5 c6 6.e3 Bd6 7.Bd3
O-O 8.Qc2 h6 9.Bxf6 Qxf6 10.Nge2 Re8 11.O-O Qh4 12.Ng3 Nd7 13.e4
dxe4 14.Ncxe4 Bb8 15.Rae1 Rf8 16.Re2 Nf6 17.Nxf6+ Qxf6 18.Rfe1
Be6 19.Bc4 Bxc4 20.Qxc4 Bxg3 21.fxg3 Rad8 22.Re5 Qd6 23.R1e4
Rd7 24.Qc5 Qxc5 25.dxc5 Rfd8 26.Kf2 Kf8 27.Ra4 a6 28.Rb4 Re8
29.Rxe8+ Kxe8 30.Ke3 Ke7 31.Rd4 Rxd4 32.Kxd4 a5 33.g4 Ke6 34.Kc4
g6 35.Kb3 Kd5 36.Ka4 Kxc5 37.Kxa5 f5 38.g3 fxg4 39.a3 b5 40.b4+
Kd6 41.Kb6 h5 42.Kb7 Kd7 43.Kb6 g5 44.Kb7 h4 45.Kb6 Kd6 46.Kb7
Kd7 47.Kb6 Kd6 48.Kb7 Kd7 49.Kb6 Kd6 1/2-1/2



[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.08"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Han, Jonathan"]
[Black "Demchenko, Svitlana"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B03"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.c4 Nb6 4.d4 d6 5.exd6 cxd6 6.Nc3 g6 7.Be3
Bg7 8.Be2 Nc6 9.h3 O-O 10.Nf3 e5 11.d5 Ne7 12.Nd2 Nf5 13.O-O
Nxe3 14.fxe3 Bh6 15.e4 Bxh3 16.Nf3 Bg4 17.Nh2 Bxe2 18.Qxe2 Rc8
19.b3 Nd7 20.Rf3 a6 21.Raf1 Bg7 22.Ng4 h5 23.Ne3 Qg5 24.Qf2 Nf6
25.Rg3 Ng4 26.Nxg4 hxg4 27.Qe3 Qxe3+ 28.Rxe3 f5 29.Na4 Bh6 30.Re2
Rc7 31.Nb2 f4 32.Rc2 f3 33.Rc3 Rcf7 34.gxf3 gxf3 35.Kf2 Rf4 36.Nd1
Bg5 37.Kg3 Bh4+ 38.Kh3 g5 39.Re3 Kg7 40.Kh2 g4 41.Rh1 g3+ 42.Kg1
f2+ 43.Kf1 g2+ 0-1



[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.08"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Xu, Daniel"]
[Black "Mok, Yuen Tak"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D31"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c6 4.Nf3 dxc4 5.e3 b5 6.a4 Bb4 7.Bd2 a5
8.axb5 Bxc3 9.Bxc3 cxb5 10.b3 Bb7 11.bxc4 b4 12.Bb2 Nf6 13.Bd3
Nbd7 14.O-O O-O 15.Nd2 e5 16.Qc2 Qc7 17.c5 Bc6 18.Ne4 Nxe4 19.Bxe4
Bxe4 20.Qxe4 exd4 21.exd4 Nf6 22.Qc2 Rfe8 23.Ra4 Ra7 24.Rfa1
Rea8 25.Qc4 Qc6 26.h3 Nd5 27.g3 Nb6 28.Qb3 Nxa4 29.Rxa4 Re7 30.Ra1
Rae8 31.Qd1 Re2 32.Rb1 a4 33.Ba1 h5 34.Rc1 Qf3 35.Qf1 h4 36.g4
Qc6 37.Qd1 Qf3 38.Qf1 R2e6 39.Rb1 a3 40.Rc1 Kf8 0-1



[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.08"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Ramesh, Sanjay"]
[Black "Simic, Dusan"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E73"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Be2 O-O 6.Be3 e5 7.d5 Nbd7
8.g4 Nc5 9.Bf3 a5 10.g5 Ne8 11.h4 f6 12.gxf6 Qxf6 13.Qd2 h6 14.O-O-O
Kh7 15.Be2 Qe7 16.Nh3 Nf6 17.f3 Nh5 18.Rdg1 Bxh3 19.Rxh3 Rf6
20.Nd1 a4 21.Nf2 Qd7 22.Ng4 Rf4 23.Bxf4 exf4 24.Qc2 Qf7 25.Nf2
Bd4 26.Rh2 Rg8 27.Rd1 Qg7 28.Nd3 a3 29.b3 g5 30.Nxc5 Bxc5 31.Bd3
Qe5 32.Bf1 Qa1+ 33.Qb1 Qc3+ 34.Qc2 Qxf3 35.Bd3 {Incomplete score - game drawn after 60 moves.}
1/2-1/2



[Event "RA Center December U1900"]
[Round "5"]
[Date "2019.12.08"]
[White "Jacob Krolczyk"]
[Black "Hugo Guillemette"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1760"]
[BlackElo "1773"]
[Variant "Standard"]
[TimeControl "5400+30"]
[ECO "A06"]
[Opening "Zukertort Opening: Old Indian Attack"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. d3 c5 3. Nbd2 Nc6 4. g3 e5 5. e4 Nf6 6. Bg2 Be7 7. O-O O-O 8. exd5 Nxd5 9. Nc4 f6 10. a4 Be6 11. Bd2 Qd7 12. Ne3 Rad8 13. Nxd5 Bxd5 14. Bc3 b6 15. Qe2 Nd4 16. Bxd4 cxd4 17. Rfe1 Rc8 18. h4 Rfe8 19. Kh2 Qb7 20. h5 Bf8 21. Nh4 Bxg2 22. Nxg2 Bb4 23. Rec1 Qd5 24. h6 g6 25. Qg4 Bd2 26. Nh4 Bxc1 27. Rxc1 Qf7 28. Kh3 f5 29. Qf3 e4 0-1

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.08"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Black "Dukic, Zachary"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A03"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.g3 Nf6 2.Bg2 d5 3.f4 c5 4.Nf3 Nc6 5.O-O g6 6.d3 Bg7 7.Qe1 d4
8.Na3 O-O 9.c4 e5 10.Nxe5 Nxe5 11.fxe5 Ng4 12.Nc2 Nxe5 13.b4
Bg4 14.h3 Bd7 15.bxc5 a5 16.Rb1 Bc6 17.Rxb7 Bxb7 18.Bxb7 Rb8
19.Bd5 Qc7 20.Qf2 Kh8 21.Ba3 Nc6 22.Bxc6 Qxc6 23.Nxd4 Qd7 24.Nb5
Qxh3 25.c6 Rfe8 26.c7 Rxb5 27.cxb5 Qd7 28.Qxf7 Bd4+ 29.e3 Bxe3+
30.Kg2 Qxb5 31.Qxe8+ 1-0

[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.08"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Gordon, David"]
[Black "Liang, Jason"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D35"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.cxd5 exd5 5.Bg5 c6 6.e3 Bd6 7.Bd3
O-O 8.Qc2 h6 9.Bxf6 Qxf6 10.Nge2 Re8 11.O-O Qh4 12.Ng3 Nd7 13.e4
dxe4 14.Ncxe4 Bb8 15.Rae1 Rf8 16.Re2 Nf6 17.Nxf6+ Qxf6 18.Rfe1
Be6 19.Bc4 Bxc4 20.Qxc4 Bxg3 21.fxg3 Rad8 22.Re5 Qd6 23.R1e4
Rd7 24.Qc5 Qxc5 25.dxc5 Rfd8 26.Kf2 Kf8 27.Ra4 a6 28.Rb4 Re8
29.Rxe8+ Kxe8 30.Ke3 Ke7 31.Rd4 Rxd4 32.Kxd4 a5 33.g4 Ke6 34.Kc4
g6 35.Kb3 Kd5 36.Ka4 Kxc5 37.Kxa5 f5 38.g3 fxg4 39.a3 b5 40.b4+
Kd6 41.Kb6 h5 42.Kb7 Kd7 43.Kb6 g5 44.Kb7 h4 45.Kb6 Kd6 46.Kb7
Kd7 47.Kb6 Kd6 48.Kb7 Kd7 49.Kb6 Kd6 1/2-1/2

[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.08"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Han, Jonathan"]
[Black "Demchenko, Svitlana"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B03"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.c4 Nb6 4.d4 d6 5.exd6 cxd6 6.Nc3 g6 7.Be3
Bg7 8.Be2 Nc6 9.h3 O-O 10.Nf3 e5 11.d5 Ne7 12.Nd2 Nf5 13.O-O
Nxe3 14.fxe3 Bh6 15.e4 Bxh3 16.Nf3 Bg4 17.Nh2 Bxe2 18.Qxe2 Rc8
19.b3 Nd7 20.Rf3 a6 21.Raf1 Bg7 22.Ng4 h5 23.Ne3 Qg5 24.Qf2 Nf6
25.Rg3 Ng4 26.Nxg4 hxg4 27.Qe3 Qxe3+ 28.Rxe3 f5 29.Na4 Bh6 30.Re2
Rc7 31.Nb2 f4 32.Rc2 f3 33.Rc3 Rcf7 34.gxf3 gxf3 35.Kf2 Rf4 36.Nd1
Bg5 37.Kg3 Bh4+ 38.Kh3 g5 39.Re3 Kg7 40.Kh2 g4 41.Rh1 g3+ 42.Kg1
f2+ 43.Kf1 g2+ 0-1

[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.08"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Xu, Daniel"]
[Black "Mok, Yuen Tak"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D31"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c6 4.Nf3 dxc4 5.e3 b5 6.a4 Bb4 7.Bd2 a5
8.axb5 Bxc3 9.Bxc3 cxb5 10.b3 Bb7 11.bxc4 b4 12.Bb2 Nf6 13.Bd3
Nbd7 14.O-O O-O 15.Nd2 e5 16.Qc2 Qc7 17.c5 Bc6 18.Ne4 Nxe4 19.Bxe4
Bxe4 20.Qxe4 exd4 21.exd4 Nf6 22.Qc2 Rfe8 23.Ra4 Ra7 24.Rfa1
Rea8 25.Qc4 Qc6 26.h3 Nd5 27.g3 Nb6 28.Qb3 Nxa4 29.Rxa4 Re7 30.Ra1
Rae8 31.Qd1 Re2 32.Rb1 a4 33.Ba1 h5 34.Rc1 Qf3 35.Qf1 h4 36.g4
Qc6 37.Qd1 Qf3 38.Qf1 R2e6 39.Rb1 a3 40.Rc1 Kf8 0-1

[Event "RA December Open "]
[Site " Ottawa "]
[Date "2019.12.08"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Ramesh, Sanjay"]
[Black "Simic, Dusan"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E73"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Be2 O-O 6.Be3 e5 7.d5 Nbd7
8.g4 Nc5 9.Bf3 a5 10.g5 Ne8 11.h4 f6 12.gxf6 Qxf6 13.Qd2 h6 14.O-O-O
Kh7 15.Be2 Qe7 16.Nh3 Nf6 17.f3 Nh5 18.Rdg1 Bxh3 19.Rxh3 Rf6
20.Nd1 a4 21.Nf2 Qd7 22.Ng4 Rf4 23.Bxf4 exf4 24.Qc2 Qf7 25.Nf2
Bd4 26.Rh2 Rg8 27.Rd1 Qg7 28.Nd3 a3 29.b3 g5 30.Nxc5 Bxc5 31.Bd3
Qe5 32.Bf1 Qa1+ 33.Qb1 Qc3+ 34.Qc2 Qxf3 35.Bd3 {Incomplete score - game drawn after 60 moves.}
1/2-1/2

[Event "RA Center December U1900"]
[Round "5"]
[Date "2019.12.08"]
[White "Jacob Krolczyk"]
[Black "Hugo Guillemette"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1760"]
[BlackElo "1773"]
[Variant "Standard"]
[TimeControl "5400+30"]
[ECO "A06"]
[Opening "Zukertort Opening: Old Indian Attack"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. d3 c5 3. Nbd2 Nc6 4. g3 e5 5. e4 Nf6 6. Bg2 Be7 7. O-O O-O 8. exd5 Nxd5 9. Nc4 f6 10. a4 Be6 11. Bd2 Qd7 12. Ne3 Rad8 13. Nxd5 Bxd5 14. Bc3 b6 15. Qe2 Nd4 16. Bxd4 cxd4 17. Rfe1 Rc8 18. h4 Rfe8 19. Kh2 Qb7 20. h5 Bf8 21. Nh4 Bxg2 22. Nxg2 Bb4 23. Rec1 Qd5 24. h6 g6 25. Qg4 Bd2 26. Nh4 Bxc1 27. Rxc1 Qf7 28. Kh3 f5 29. Qf3 e4 0-1