2020 RA March Open February 28, 29 and March 1

[Halldor P. Palsson]

2020 RA March Open
An EOCA Grand Prix Event [www.eoca.ca]

Date: February 28, 29 and March 1, 2020
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 and may change.

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 $150, 2nd $100 3rd 50; U1300 $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

Free entry for GM/WGM & IM/WIM. National Master entry is $60 if registered by February 21 – (one week before event), $80 after that. GM 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.

Amateur entry is $30. Amateur entrants are not eligible for prizes. Amateur entrants will be used in a higher or a lower section, if needed, to avoid giving a BYE to a regular player.

CFC or FQE membership is required.

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

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

Registration: Cheque by February 21, 2020, payable to:
Halldor P. Palsson, 633 Island Park Cr.,Ottawa, Ont. K1Y 3P4 or e-mail & Interac e-transfers to fs889@ncf.ca

Or register in person at the RA Chess Club, February 13, 20, or 27 , 7:00-7:30 PM

Please bring your own equipment if you prefer it – RA Club sets and clocks are provided.

[Halldor P. Palsson]

If you want to play please pre-register at fs889@ncf.ca and there is no late fee.

2020 RA March Open

# Name/Rtng/ID
1 Bator Sambuev
2579 146462 (4128290)
2 Olivier Kenta Chiku-Ratte
2518 148376 (2614782)
3 Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux
2380 155300 (2620049)
4 Hugues Masse
2283 125461 (2604264)
5 Svitlana Demchenko
2268 156853 (14149893)
6 Christopher Pace
2267 141390 (2610167)
7 Johnathan Han
2133 161709 (2629631)
8 Rachel Miller
2128 158466 (7401302)
9 Daniel Xu
2086 160020 (2627345)
10 Danail Donev
2028 143574 (2604094)
11 Sanjay Ramesh
1973 162979 (2631270)
12 Dan Kearnan
1958 137473 (2628082)
13 Abdelaziz Mahdjoubi
1955 155558 (2626071)
14 Mike Schofield
1940 106569 (2606259)
15 Alwin Ning
1882 161716 (2631253)
16 Daniel Labib
1853 162841 (2637090)
17 Matthew Zhu
1802 160019 (2633434)

2020 RA March U1900

# Name/Rtng/ID
1 Thomas Knechtel
1819 172307
2 Jean Bigras
1815 106651 (2609550)
3 Ray Kuryliw
1793 105482 (2604833)
4 Hugo Guillemette
1793 167806 (2636077)
5 Alexandre Khan
1783 163542 (2632497)
6 Randika Balasooriya
1761 150499 (2635968)
7 Derek Wang
1730 166573 (2636115)
8 William Landstrom
1704 162880 (2633540)
9 Alexander Stopic
1702 160017 (2630036)
10 Herb Langer
1697 100319 (2617536)
11 Rene Poulin
1684 104280 (2605635)
12 Oswin Ning
1668 161715 (2631261)
13 Zhou Fang
1634 170276
14 Victor Samuel
1631 112306 (2629062)
15 Simon Perkins
1621 107582 (2618737)
16 Romy Peters
1605 135706 (2605589)

2020 RA March U1600

# Name/Rtng/ID
1 Maxim Kochetkov
1565 160253
2 Michael Gao
1489 171295
3 Surdasji Mohit
1475 134202
4 Jeremy Sztuka
1461 162452 (2629089)
5 John I.F. Lukezich
1409 146765 (2620944)
6 Jorge Yera
1408 172240
7 Douglas Graham
1354 169362 (2636182)
8 Ankita Jain
1346 163409 (2628309)
9 Johnny Fang
1252 170277
10 Pierre Arcand
1138 160146
11 Colin McHenry
1105 171192
12 Dave Westbury
1089 158216
13 Andrii Demchenko
969 168921
14 Eric Jiang
932 169080
15 Sam Sharifi
unr. 172572

[Halldor P. Palsson]

I will be at the RA Chess Club taking entries Thursday night. If you cannot make the chess club drop me an e-mail registration at fs889@ncf.ca and there are no late fees.

[Halldor P. Palsson]

Pairings for Round 1.

2020 RA March Open

Bd # Res White # Res Black
1 9 Daniel Xu (2086 0.0) 1 Bator Sambuev (2579 0.0)
2 2 Olivier Kenta Chiku-Ratte (2518 0.0) 10 Danail Donev (2028 0.0)
3 11 Sanjay Ramesh (1973 0.0) 3 Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux (2380 0.0)
4 4 Hugues Masse (2283 0.0) 12 Dan Kearnan (1958 0.0)
5 13 Abdelaziz Mahdjoubi (1955 0.0) 5 Svitlana Demchenko (2268 0.0)
6 7 Johnathan Han (2133 0.0) 15 Alwin Ning (1882 0.0)
7 16 Daniel Labib (1853 0.0) 8 Rachel Miller (2128 0.0)
17 1 Matthew Zhu (1802 0.0) BYE
6 ½ Christopher Pace (2267 0.0) BYE
14 ½ Mike Schofield (1940 0.0) BYE

2020 RA March U1900

Bd # Res White # Res Black
8 1 Thomas Knechtel (1819 0.0) 9 Alexander Stopic (1702 0.0)
9 10 Herb Langer (1697 0.0) 3 Ray Kuryliw (1793 0.0)
10 5 Alexandre Khan (1783 0.0) 11 Rene Poulin (1684 0.0)
11 12 Oswin Ning (1668 0.0) 6 Randika Balasooriya (1761 0.0)
12 7 Derek Wang (1730 0.0) 13 Zhou Fang (1634 0.0)
13 14 Victor Samuel (1631 0.0) 8 William Landstrom (1704 0.0)
16 1 Romy Peters (1605 0.0) BYE
4 ½ Hugo Guillemette (1793 0.0) BYE
2 ½ Jean Bigras (1815 0.0) BYE
15 ½ Simon Perkins (1621 0.0) BYE

2020 RA March U1600

Bd # Res White # Res Black
18 9 Johnny Fang (1252 0.0) 1 Maxim Kochetkov (1565 0.0)
19 3 Surdasji Mohit (1475 0.0) 10 Neil Moses (1246 0.0)
20 11 Pierre Arcand (1138 0.0) 4 Jeremy Sztuka (1461 0.0)
21 5 John I.F. Lukezich (1409 0.0) 12 Colin McHenry (1105 0.0)
22 13 Dave Westbury (1089 0.0) 6 Jorge Yera (1408 0.0)
23 7 Douglas Graham (1354 0.0) 14 Andrii Demchenko (969 0.0)
24 16 Sam Sharifi (unr. 0.0) 8 Ankita Jain (1346 0.0)
15 1 Eric Jiang (932 0.0) BYE
2 ½ Michael Gao (1489 0.0) BYE

[John Upper]

Good to see so many strong players attending from QC -- top four boards! -- esp with the major snowfall in Ottawa.

Very strange not to see Zach registered... ?

[Halldor P. Palsson]

2020 RA March Open

Bd # Res White # Res Black
1 1 Bator Sambuev (2579 1.0) 7 Johnathan Han (2133 1.0)
2 5 Svitlana Demchenko (2268 1.0) 2 Olivier Kenta Chiku-Ratte (2518 1.0)
3 3 Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux (2380 1.0) 16 Daniel Labib (1853 1.0)
4 17 Matthew Zhu (1802 1.0) 4 Hugues Masse (2283 1.0)
5 14 Mike Schofield (1940 0.5) 6 Christopher Pace (2267 0.5)
6 8 Rachel Miller (2128 0.0) 11 Sanjay Ramesh (1973 0.0)
7 12 Dan Kearnan (1958 0.0) 9 Daniel Xu (2086 0.0)
8 10 Danail Donev (2028 0.0) 13 Abdelaziz Mahdjoubi (1955 0.0)
15 1 Alwin Ning (1882 0.0) BYE

2020 RA March U1900

Bd # Res White # Res Black
9 16 Romy Peters (1605 1.0) 1 Thomas Knechtel (1819 1.0)
10 3 Ray Kuryliw (1793 1.0) 5 Alexandre Khan (1783 1.0)
11 2 Jean Bigras (1815 0.5) 7 Derek Wang (1730 0.5)
12 4 Hugo Guillemette (1793 0.5) 12 Oswin Ning (1668 0.5)
13 6 Randika Balasooriya (1761 0.5) 13 Zhou Fang (1634 0.5)
14 9 Alexander Stopic (1702 0.0) 15 Simon Perkins (1621 0.5)
15 11 Rene Poulin (1684 0.0) 10 Herb Langer (1697 0.0)
14 1 Victor Samuel (1631 0.0) BYE
8 ½ William Landstrom (1704 1.0) BYE




2020 RA March U1600

Bd # Res White # Res Black
18 1 Maxim Kochetkov (1565 1.0) 5 John I.F. Lukezich (1409 1.0)
19 7 Douglas Graham (1354 1.0) 3 Surdasji Mohit (1475 1.0)
20 4 Jeremy Sztuka (1461 1.0) 16 Sam Sharifi (unr. 1.0)
21 15 Eric Jiang (932 1.0) 2 Michael Gao (1489 0.5)
22 8 Ankita Jain (1346 0.0) 11 Pierre Arcand (1138 0.0)
23 12 Colin McHenry (1105 0.0) 9 Johnny Fang (1252 0.0)
24 10 Neil Moses (1246 0.0) 13 Dave Westbury (1089 0.0)
14 ½ Andrii Demchenko (969 0.0) BYE
6 ½ Jorge Yera (1408 1.0) BYE

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "RA March Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.02.28"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Mahdjoubi, Abdelaziz"]
[Black "Demchenko, Sitlana"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E83"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f3 O-O 6.Be3 Nc6 7.Nge2
a6 8.Ng3 e5 9.d5 Nd4 10.Bxd4 exd4 11.Nce2 c5 12.dxc6 bxc6 13.Nxd4
Qb6 14.Nb3 d5 15.c5 Qc7 16.Be2 h5 17.O-O h4 18.Nh1 Rd8 19.Qe1
h3 20.Qg3 Qe7 21.Rad1 Nh5 22.Qf2 hxg2 23.Rfe1 Nf4 24.Qe3 gxh1Q+
25.Kxh1 Be5 26.exd5 Nxd5 27.Qf2 Qf6 28.Nd2 Bf5 29.Nc4 Bc7 30.Qd4
Qxd4 31.Rxd4 Re8 32.Rdd1 Ne3 33.Nd6 Nxd1 34.Nxe8 Rxe8 0-1



[Event "RA March Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.02.28"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Masse, Hugues"]
[Black "Kearnan, Dan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C67"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.O-O Nxe4 5.d4 Nd6 6.Bxc6 dxc6 7.dxe5
Nf5 8.Qxd8+ Kxd8 9.Nc3 Bd7 10.b3 h6 11.Bb2 Kc8 12.Rad1 b6 13.Ne2
Be7 14.h3 c5 15.Nf4 Re8 16.Rfe1 Bc6 17.Nd5 Bf8 18.c4 Kb7 19.Rd3
Rad8 20.Red1 Kc8 21.g4 Ne7 22.Nh4 Bd7 23.f4 h5 24.f5 hxg4 25.hxg4
Nc6 26.Nf3 Nb4 27.Nxb4 cxb4 28.Ng5 Bc5+ 29.Bd4 Rf8 30.Bxc5 bxc5
31.e6 fxe6 32.fxe6 1-0



[Event "RA March Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.02.28"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Ramesh, Sanjay"]
[Black "Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E32"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 O-O 5.Nf3 d5 6.e3 b6 7.cxd5
exd5 8.Bd3 a6 9.O-O Bb7 10.a3 Bd6 11.b3 Re8 12.Bb2 Nbd7 13.Ne2
Ne4 14.Ng3 g6 15.Bxe4 dxe4 16.Nd2 Qe7 17.Nc4 b5 18.Nxd6 cxd6
19.Rac1 Bd5 20.Ne2 Nf6 21.Nf4 g5 22.Nxd5 Nxd5 23.Qd2 h5 24.Rc6
g4 25.Qa5 h4 26.Rxa6 Rab8 27.Rc6 h3 28.Qd2 hxg2 29.Kxg2 Kg7 30.Rg1
Rh8 31.Kf1 f5 32.Rg2 Kf7 33.Rc1 Rh3 34.Qe2 Qh4 35.Ke1 Rxe3 36.Rc7+
Ke6 37.Re7+ Kxe7 0-1



[Event "RA March Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.02.28"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Chiku-Ratte, Olivier Kenta"]
[Black "Donev, Daneil"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E71"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.h3 O-O 6.Be3 e5 7.d5 Nbd7
8.Bd3 Nc5 9.Bc2 a5 10.Qd2 Bd7 11.g4 a4 12.Nge2 Qe8 13.Ng3 b5
14.cxb5 Bxb5 15.Bh6 Bd7 16.f3 Qe7 17.Be3 Rfb8 18.Rb1 Rb7 19.Kf2
Rab8 20.Qc1 c6 21.g5 Ne8 22.Bxc5 dxc5 23.Bxa4 cxd5 24.Nxd5 Qd8
25.Bxd7 Qxd7 26.Kg2 Qa4 27.Nc3 Qa6 28.Rf1 Nc7 29.Rf2 Ne6 30.Nd5
Nf4+ 31.Nxf4 exf4 32.Qxf4 Qxa2 33.Re1 Bd4 34.Rfe2 Kg7 35.b4 Qe6
36.bxc5 Bxc5 37.h4 Rb4 38.h5 Bd6 39.Qf6+ Qxf6 40.gxf6+ Kh6 41.e5
Bc7 42.Rc1 Bd8 43.Ne4 gxh5 44.Nd6 Rb2 45.Rxb2 Rxb2+ 46.Kh3 Bb6
47.e6 fxe6 48.f7 Kg7 49.Rc8 1-0



[Event "RA March Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.02.28"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Xu, Daniel"]
[Black "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A42"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 g6 2.c4 Bg7 3.Nf3 d6 4.Nc3 Nd7 5.e4 e5 6.Be2 Ne7 7.O-O O-O
8.Be3 exd4 9.Nxd4 Nc5 10.Qd2 Ne6 11.Rad1 Nc6 12.Nxe6 Bxe6 13.Nd5
Re8 14.Bg5 f6 15.Be3 Bf7 16.Bd3 Ne5 17.f4 Ng4 18.Bd4 c6 19.Ne3
Nxe3 20.Qxe3 f5 21.Bxg7 Kxg7 22.Qd4+ Qf6 23.Qxf6+ Kxf6 24.exf5
gxf5 25.Rde1 Rxe1 26.Rxe1 a5 27.Kf2 a4 28.Re2 c5 29.a3 Ra6 30.Rd2
Rb6 31.Be2 Ke7 32.g3 Be6 33.Bd3 Bd7 34.Be2 Ra6 35.Ke1 Ra8 36.Bd3
Rf8 37.Kf2 Bc6 38.Rd1 Ke6 39.Re1+ Kf6 40.Rb1 Rb8 41.b4 axb3 42.Rxb3
Ke6 43.Be2 Ra8 44.Bf3 Kd7 45.g4 fxg4 46.Bxg4+ Kc7 47.Rh3 b5 48.cxb5
Bxb5 49.Rxh7+ Kb6 50.Bf3 Bc6 51.Bxc6 Kxc6 52.f5 Rf8 53.Rh5 Kd5
54.Ke2 Ke5 55.Rh3 Rxf5 56.a4 Kd5 57.a5 Kc6 58.a6 Kb6 59.Ra3 Ka7
60.Ra4 d5 61.Ra5 d4 62.Kd3 c4+ 0-1



[Event "RA March Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.02.28"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Han, Jonathan"]
[Black "Ning, Alwin"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B32"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e5 5.Nb5 d6 6.N1c3 a6 7.Na3
b5 8.Nd5 Be7 9.c4 b4 10.Nc2 Nf6 11.Bd3 O-O 12.Ncxb4 Nxb4 13.Nxb4
Qb6 14.Nd5 Nxd5 15.cxd5 f5 16.O-O f4 17.Be2 Kh8 18.Rb1 Bd7 19.Bd2
Rf6 20.Bc3 Raf8 21.Bg4 Bxg4 22.Qxg4 f3 23.g3 Qd8 24.Bd2 Rg6 25.Qh5
Bg5 26.Bxg5 Rxg5 27.Qh4 h6 28.Kh1 Qe8 29.Rfc1 Qg6 30.Rc7 Rg8
31.Rbc1 Rh5 32.Qe7 Qxe4 33.Qxd6 Qd4 34.Qc5 Qxb2 35.d6 e4 36.Qxh5
Qxf2 37.R7c2 Qe3 38.d7 f2 39.Qe2 1-0

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "RA March Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.02.28"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Mahdjoubi, Abdelaziz"]
[Black "Demchenko, Sitlana"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E83"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f3 O-O 6.Be3 Nc6 7.Nge2
a6 8.Ng3 e5 9.d5 Nd4 10.Bxd4 exd4 11.Nce2 c5 12.dxc6 bxc6 13.Nxd4
Qb6 14.Nb3 d5 15.c5 Qc7 16.Be2 h5 17.O-O h4 18.Nh1 Rd8 19.Qe1
h3 20.Qg3 Qe7 21.Rad1 Nh5 22.Qf2 hxg2 23.Rfe1 Nf4 24.Qe3 gxh1Q+
25.Kxh1 Be5 26.exd5 Nxd5 27.Qf2 Qf6 28.Nd2 Bf5 29.Nc4 Bc7 30.Qd4
Qxd4 31.Rxd4 Re8 32.Rdd1 Ne3 33.Nd6 Nxd1 34.Nxe8 Rxe8 0-1

[Event "RA March Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.02.28"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Masse, Hugues"]
[Black "Kearnan, Dan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C67"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.O-O Nxe4 5.d4 Nd6 6.Bxc6 dxc6 7.dxe5
Nf5 8.Qxd8+ Kxd8 9.Nc3 Bd7 10.b3 h6 11.Bb2 Kc8 12.Rad1 b6 13.Ne2
Be7 14.h3 c5 15.Nf4 Re8 16.Rfe1 Bc6 17.Nd5 Bf8 18.c4 Kb7 19.Rd3
Rad8 20.Red1 Kc8 21.g4 Ne7 22.Nh4 Bd7 23.f4 h5 24.f5 hxg4 25.hxg4
Nc6 26.Nf3 Nb4 27.Nxb4 cxb4 28.Ng5 Bc5+ 29.Bd4 Rf8 30.Bxc5 bxc5
31.e6 fxe6 32.fxe6 1-0

[Event "RA March Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.02.28"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Ramesh, Sanjay"]
[Black "Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E32"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 O-O 5.Nf3 d5 6.e3 b6 7.cxd5
exd5 8.Bd3 a6 9.O-O Bb7 10.a3 Bd6 11.b3 Re8 12.Bb2 Nbd7 13.Ne2
Ne4 14.Ng3 g6 15.Bxe4 dxe4 16.Nd2 Qe7 17.Nc4 b5 18.Nxd6 cxd6
19.Rac1 Bd5 20.Ne2 Nf6 21.Nf4 g5 22.Nxd5 Nxd5 23.Qd2 h5 24.Rc6
g4 25.Qa5 h4 26.Rxa6 Rab8 27.Rc6 h3 28.Qd2 hxg2 29.Kxg2 Kg7 30.Rg1
Rh8 31.Kf1 f5 32.Rg2 Kf7 33.Rc1 Rh3 34.Qe2 Qh4 35.Ke1 Rxe3 36.Rc7+
Ke6 37.Re7+ Kxe7 0-1

[Event "RA March Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.02.28"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Chiku-Ratte, Olivier Kenta"]
[Black "Donev, Daneil"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E71"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.h3 O-O 6.Be3 e5 7.d5 Nbd7
8.Bd3 Nc5 9.Bc2 a5 10.Qd2 Bd7 11.g4 a4 12.Nge2 Qe8 13.Ng3 b5
14.cxb5 Bxb5 15.Bh6 Bd7 16.f3 Qe7 17.Be3 Rfb8 18.Rb1 Rb7 19.Kf2
Rab8 20.Qc1 c6 21.g5 Ne8 22.Bxc5 dxc5 23.Bxa4 cxd5 24.Nxd5 Qd8
25.Bxd7 Qxd7 26.Kg2 Qa4 27.Nc3 Qa6 28.Rf1 Nc7 29.Rf2 Ne6 30.Nd5
Nf4+ 31.Nxf4 exf4 32.Qxf4 Qxa2 33.Re1 Bd4 34.Rfe2 Kg7 35.b4 Qe6
36.bxc5 Bxc5 37.h4 Rb4 38.h5 Bd6 39.Qf6+ Qxf6 40.gxf6+ Kh6 41.e5
Bc7 42.Rc1 Bd8 43.Ne4 gxh5 44.Nd6 Rb2 45.Rxb2 Rxb2+ 46.Kh3 Bb6
47.e6 fxe6 48.f7 Kg7 49.Rc8 1-0

[Event "RA March Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.02.28"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Xu, Daniel"]
[Black "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A42"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 g6 2.c4 Bg7 3.Nf3 d6 4.Nc3 Nd7 5.e4 e5 6.Be2 Ne7 7.O-O O-O
8.Be3 exd4 9.Nxd4 Nc5 10.Qd2 Ne6 11.Rad1 Nc6 12.Nxe6 Bxe6 13.Nd5
Re8 14.Bg5 f6 15.Be3 Bf7 16.Bd3 Ne5 17.f4 Ng4 18.Bd4 c6 19.Ne3
Nxe3 20.Qxe3 f5 21.Bxg7 Kxg7 22.Qd4+ Qf6 23.Qxf6+ Kxf6 24.exf5
gxf5 25.Rde1 Rxe1 26.Rxe1 a5 27.Kf2 a4 28.Re2 c5 29.a3 Ra6 30.Rd2
Rb6 31.Be2 Ke7 32.g3 Be6 33.Bd3 Bd7 34.Be2 Ra6 35.Ke1 Ra8 36.Bd3
Rf8 37.Kf2 Bc6 38.Rd1 Ke6 39.Re1+ Kf6 40.Rb1 Rb8 41.b4 axb3 42.Rxb3
Ke6 43.Be2 Ra8 44.Bf3 Kd7 45.g4 fxg4 46.Bxg4+ Kc7 47.Rh3 b5 48.cxb5
Bxb5 49.Rxh7+ Kb6 50.Bf3 Bc6 51.Bxc6 Kxc6 52.f5 Rf8 53.Rh5 Kd5
54.Ke2 Ke5 55.Rh3 Rxf5 56.a4 Kd5 57.a5 Kc6 58.a6 Kb6 59.Ra3 Ka7
60.Ra4 d5 61.Ra5 d4 62.Kd3 c4+ 0-1

[Event "RA March Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.02.28"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Han, Jonathan"]
[Black "Ning, Alwin"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B32"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 e5 5.Nb5 d6 6.N1c3 a6 7.Na3
b5 8.Nd5 Be7 9.c4 b4 10.Nc2 Nf6 11.Bd3 O-O 12.Ncxb4 Nxb4 13.Nxb4
Qb6 14.Nd5 Nxd5 15.cxd5 f5 16.O-O f4 17.Be2 Kh8 18.Rb1 Bd7 19.Bd2
Rf6 20.Bc3 Raf8 21.Bg4 Bxg4 22.Qxg4 f3 23.g3 Qd8 24.Bd2 Rg6 25.Qh5
Bg5 26.Bxg5 Rxg5 27.Qh4 h6 28.Kh1 Qe8 29.Rfc1 Qg6 30.Rc7 Rg8
31.Rbc1 Rh5 32.Qe7 Qxe4 33.Qxd6 Qd4 34.Qc5 Qxb2 35.d6 e4 36.Qxh5
Qxf2 37.R7c2 Qe3 38.d7 f2 39.Qe2 1-0

[Halldor P. Palsson]

Good to see so many strong players attending from QC -- top four boards! -- esp with the major snowfall in Ottawa.

Very strange not to see Zach registered... ?

Thanks for your support John. It is great to be able to have a GM, IM and a WIM in a tournament in Ottawa. I did get some cancelations but we get past snowfalls quickly in Ottawa.

Zach is taking a break because the workload at school is pretty taxing.

[Halldor P. Palsson]

Pairings for Round 3.

2020 RA March Open

Bd # Res White # Res Black
1 4 Hugues Masse (2283 2.0) 1 Bator Sambuev (2579 2.0)
2 2 Olivier Kenta Chiku-Ratte (2518 2.0) 3 Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux (2380 2.0)
3 6 Christopher Pace (2267 1.5) 5 Svitlana Demchenko (2268 1.0)
4 7 Johnathan Han (2133 1.0) 13 Abdelaziz Mahdjoubi (1955 1.0)
5 15 Alwin Ning (1882 1.0) 8 Rachel Miller (2128 1.0)
6 9 Daniel Xu (2086 1.0) 17 Matthew Zhu (1802 1.0)
7 16 Daniel Labib (1853 1.0) 14 Mike Schofield (1940 0.5)
8 11 Sanjay Ramesh (1973 0.0) 10 Danail Donev (2028 0.0)
12 1 Dan Kearnan (1958 0.0) BYE



2020 RA March U1900

Bd # Res White # Res Black
10 1 Thomas Knechtel (1819 2.0) 5 Alexandre Khan (1783 2.0)
11 13 Zhou Fang (1634 1.5) 4 Hugo Guillemette (1793 1.5)
12 8 William Landstrom (1704 1.5) 7 Derek Wang (1730 1.5)
13 3 Ray Kuryliw (1793 1.0) 14 Victor Samuel (1631 1.0)
14 9 Alexander Stopic (1702 1.0) 16 Romy Peters (1605 1.0)
15 12 Oswin Ning (1668 0.5) 2 Jean Bigras (1815 0.5)
16 11 Rene Poulin (1684 0.5) 6 Randika Balasooriya (1761 0.5)
17 15 Simon Perkins (1621 0.5) 10 Herb Langer (1697 0.5)



2020 RA March U1600

Bd # Res White # Res Black
18 17 Sam Sharifi (unr. 2.0) 1 Maxim Kochetkov (1565 2.0)
19 2 Michael Gao (1489 1.5) 3 Surdasji Mohit (1475 2.0)
20 6 Jorge Yera (1408 1.5) 4 Jeremy Sztuka (1461 1.0)
21 5 John I.F. Lukezich (1409 1.0) 14 Dave Westbury (1089 1.0)
22 13 Colin McHenry (1105 1.0) 9 Ankita Jain (1346 1.0)
23 15 Andrii Demchenko (969 0.5) 16 Eric Jiang (932 1.0)
24 7 Gerard Felderhof (1403 0.0) 11 Neil Moses (1246 0.0)
25 10 Johnny Fang (1252 0.0) 12 Pierre Arcand (1138 0.0)
8 ½ Douglas Graham (1354 1.0) BYE

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "RA March Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.02.29"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn"]
[Black "Labib, Daniel"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A36"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Bg2 O-O 5.e4 d6 6.Nge2 c5 7.O-O
Nc6 8.d3 Rb8 9.h3 a6 10.a4 Ne8 11.Be3 Nc7 12.d4 cxd4 13.Nxd4
Ne6 14.Nde2 Ne5 15.b3 Nc5 16.Ra2 Qa5 17.Nd5 Nc6 18.b4 Nxb4 19.Bd2
Ncd3 20.Nxb4 Nxb4 21.Qb1 Be6 22.Bxb4 Qc7 23.Rc2 Bxc4 24.Rfc1
b5 25.axb5 axb5 26.Nf4 Qd7 27.Bf1 Bxf1 28.Rc7 Bxh3 29.Rxd7 Bxd7
30.Nd5 Rfe8 31.Rc7 Ra8 32.Kg2 Ra1 33.Qd3 1-0



[Event "RA March Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.02.29"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Black "Han, Jonathan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D66"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 d5 4.d4 Be7 5.Bg5 Nbd7 6.e3 O-O 7.Rc1
c6 8.Bd3 dxc4 9.Bxc4 b5 10.Bd3 Bb7 11.O-O a6 12.Bxf6 Nxf6 13.Ne4
Nd7 14.Qc2 Qc7 15.Neg5 h6 16.Bh7+ Kh8 17.Bg8 Nf6 18.Bxf7 hxg5
19.Ne5 Rxf7 20.Nxf7+ Kg8 21.Nxg5 e5 22.Qb3+ Nd5 23.Qxd5+ 1-0



[Event "RA March Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.02.29"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Schofield, Mike"]
[Black "Pace, Chris"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B06"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nc3 c6 4.Be3 d5 5.exd5 cxd5 6.Qd2 Nc6 7.O-O-O
a6 8.h4 h5 9.Nf3 Nh6 10.Ne5 Nf5 11.Kb1 Bxe5 12.dxe5 d4 13.Qe1
Qa5 14.Bd2 Be6 15.a3 dxc3 16.Bxc3 Qb6 17.Bd3 O-O-O 18.Rd2 Qc5
19.Qe4 Qd5 20.Qxd5 Rxd5 21.f3 Rhd8 22.g4 hxg4 23.fxg4 Nh6 24.h5
g5 0-1



[Event "RA March Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.02.29"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Miller, Racel"]
[Black "Ramesh, Sanjay"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B13"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.Bd3 Nc6 5.c3 Qc7 6.Nf3 Bg4 7.Nbd2
e6 8.Nf1 Bh5 9.Ng3 Bg6 10.O-O Bd6 11.Re1 Nf6 12.Nf1 O-O 13.Bxg6
hxg6 14.Ng5 b5 15.a3 Na5 16.Re3 Bf4 17.Rh3 Bxc1 18.Rxc1 Qf4 19.Nf3
Ne4 20.Rc2 Nc4 21.Ne1 a5 22.Nd3 Qd6 23.Qg4 Qe7 24.f4 Rfb8 25.Re2
Qf6 26.Rh4 Qf5 27.Qf3 g5 28.Rg4 Qg6 29.fxg5 Qf5 30.Qh3 Nxg5 31.Qg3
f6 32.h4 1-0



[Event "RA March Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.02.29"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Zhu, Matthew"]
[Black "Masse, Hugues"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D02"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Bf4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.e3 Bd6 5.Bxd6 Qxd6 6.c3 O-O 7.Nbd2
Nbd7 8.Bd3 e5 9.dxe5 Nxe5 10.Nxe5 Qxe5 11.Nf3 Qe7 12.O-O Bg4
13.h3 Bh5 14.Be2 c6 15.Nd4 Bxe2 16.Qxe2 Ne4 17.Nf3 Rfe8 18.Nd2
Qh4 19.Nxe4 Rxe4 20.Rad1 Rae8 21.Qf3 g6 22.Rd4 Rxd4 23.exd4 Re4
24.Rd1 Qe7 25.Qg3 Re2 26.Qb8+ Kg7 27.Qxa7 Rxb2 28.a4 Qe2 29.Rf1
h5 30.Qb8 Qe7 31.Ra1 h4 32.a5 Qf6 33.Rf1 Rb5 34.Ra1 Qf5 35.Qc7
Rb2 36.Rf1 Qf6 37.Qb8 Rb5 38.Ra1 Qe7 39.Qa7 Qd6 40.a6 bxa6 41.Qxa6
Rb2 42.Qd3 Qf4 43.Rf1 Rd2 44.Qb1 Qe4 45.Qxe4 dxe4 46.Re1 f5 47.Re3
Rd1+ 48.Kh2 Kf6 49.g3 hxg3+ 50.Kxg3 g5 51.Kg2 Rc1 52.f3 Rc2+
53.Kg1 exf3 54.Rxf3 f4 55.h4 Kf5 56.hxg5 Kxg5 57.Rd3 Kg4 58.d5
f3 59.dxc6 Kg3 60.Rd1 Rg2+ 61.Kf1 Rh2 62.Ke1 Rh1+ 63.Z0
( 63.Kd2 Rxd1+ 64.Kxd1 f2 65.Ke2 Kg2 66.c7 f1Q+ 67.Ke3 Qc4 ) 0-1



[Event "RA March Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.02.29"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Demchenko, Svitlana"]
[Black "Chiku-Ratte, Olivier Kenta"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E90"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d6 4.e4 Bg7 5.Nf3 O-O 6.h3 e5 7.d5 Na6
8.Bg5 h6 9.Be3 Nc5 10.Nd2 a5 11.Be2 Nfd7 12.g4 Na6 13.a3 Nac5
14.b3 Kh8 15.Rg1 Qe7 16.g5 hxg5 17.Bxg5 f6 18.Be3 f5 19.Rxg6
f4 20.Bxc5 Nxc5 21.Bg4 f3 22.Bxc8 Raxc8 23.Nxf3 Qf7 24.Rg3 Qf4
25.Qc2 Qxg3 26.fxg3 Rxf3 27.O-O-O Rcf8 28.b4 axb4 29.axb4 Na6
30.Qb2 Re3 31.Kc2 Bh6 32.Kb3 Rxg3 33.Ka4 Rff3 34.Ne2 Rg2 35.Rg1
Rgf2 36.c5 Re3 37.cxd6 cxd6 38.Qc2 Rexe2 39.Qc8+ Bf8 40.Qxb7
Rxe4 41.Qc8 Rxb4+ 42.Ka3 Rf3+ 43.Ka2 Nc5 44.Rg4 Rf2+ 45.Ka1 Nb3+
46.Kb1 Nd4+ 47.Ka1 Ra4+ 48.Kb1 Rb4+ 49.Ka1 Nc2+ 50.Ka2 Ne3+ 51.Ka3
Rxg4 52.hxg4 Nxd5 53.Qe8 Kg7 54.Qe6 Rf3+ 55.Kb2 Nc7 56.Qc4 Rf7
57.g5 Kg6 58.Kc2 Bg7 59.Qc6 Bf8 60.Qc4 d5 61.Qc3 Bg7 62.Qc6+
Kxg5 63.Qd6 Kf5 64.Qb6 Ne6 65.Kd1 Nf4 66.Qc6 Bf6 67.Qc8+ Kg5
68.Qe8 Rg7 69.Qf8 Kf5 70.Qc8+ Ke4 71.Qc2+ Nd3 72.Qg2+ Kd4 73.Qf1
Rg6 74.Kc2 Rg2+ 75.Kb1 Rb2+ 76.Ka1 Rf2 77.Qb1 e4 78.Qb6+ Kc4+ 0-1

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "RA March Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.02.29"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn"]
[Black "Labib, Daniel"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A36"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Bg2 O-O 5.e4 d6 6.Nge2 c5 7.O-O
Nc6 8.d3 Rb8 9.h3 a6 10.a4 Ne8 11.Be3 Nc7 12.d4 cxd4 13.Nxd4
Ne6 14.Nde2 Ne5 15.b3 Nc5 16.Ra2 Qa5 17.Nd5 Nc6 18.b4 Nxb4 19.Bd2
Ncd3 20.Nxb4 Nxb4 21.Qb1 Be6 22.Bxb4 Qc7 23.Rc2 Bxc4 24.Rfc1
b5 25.axb5 axb5 26.Nf4 Qd7 27.Bf1 Bxf1 28.Rc7 Bxh3 29.Rxd7 Bxd7
30.Nd5 Rfe8 31.Rc7 Ra8 32.Kg2 Ra1 33.Qd3 1-0

[Event "RA March Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.02.29"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Black "Han, Jonathan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D66"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 d5 4.d4 Be7 5.Bg5 Nbd7 6.e3 O-O 7.Rc1
c6 8.Bd3 dxc4 9.Bxc4 b5 10.Bd3 Bb7 11.O-O a6 12.Bxf6 Nxf6 13.Ne4
Nd7 14.Qc2 Qc7 15.Neg5 h6 16.Bh7+ Kh8 17.Bg8 Nf6 18.Bxf7 hxg5
19.Ne5 Rxf7 20.Nxf7+ Kg8 21.Nxg5 e5 22.Qb3+ Nd5 23.Qxd5+ 1-0

[Event "RA March Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.02.29"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Schofield, Mike"]
[Black "Pace, Chris"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B06"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nc3 c6 4.Be3 d5 5.exd5 cxd5 6.Qd2 Nc6 7.O-O-O
a6 8.h4 h5 9.Nf3 Nh6 10.Ne5 Nf5 11.Kb1 Bxe5 12.dxe5 d4 13.Qe1
Qa5 14.Bd2 Be6 15.a3 dxc3 16.Bxc3 Qb6 17.Bd3 O-O-O 18.Rd2 Qc5
19.Qe4 Qd5 20.Qxd5 Rxd5 21.f3 Rhd8 22.g4 hxg4 23.fxg4 Nh6 24.h5
g5 0-1

[Event "RA March Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.02.29"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Miller, Racel"]
[Black "Ramesh, Sanjay"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B13"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.Bd3 Nc6 5.c3 Qc7 6.Nf3 Bg4 7.Nbd2
e6 8.Nf1 Bh5 9.Ng3 Bg6 10.O-O Bd6 11.Re1 Nf6 12.Nf1 O-O 13.Bxg6
hxg6 14.Ng5 b5 15.a3 Na5 16.Re3 Bf4 17.Rh3 Bxc1 18.Rxc1 Qf4 19.Nf3
Ne4 20.Rc2 Nc4 21.Ne1 a5 22.Nd3 Qd6 23.Qg4 Qe7 24.f4 Rfb8 25.Re2
Qf6 26.Rh4 Qf5 27.Qf3 g5 28.Rg4 Qg6 29.fxg5 Qf5 30.Qh3 Nxg5 31.Qg3
f6 32.h4 1-0

[Event "RA March Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.02.29"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Zhu, Matthew"]
[Black "Masse, Hugues"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D02"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Bf4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.e3 Bd6 5.Bxd6 Qxd6 6.c3 O-O 7.Nbd2
Nbd7 8.Bd3 e5 9.dxe5 Nxe5 10.Nxe5 Qxe5 11.Nf3 Qe7 12.O-O Bg4
13.h3 Bh5 14.Be2 c6 15.Nd4 Bxe2 16.Qxe2 Ne4 17.Nf3 Rfe8 18.Nd2
Qh4 19.Nxe4 Rxe4 20.Rad1 Rae8 21.Qf3 g6 22.Rd4 Rxd4 23.exd4 Re4
24.Rd1 Qe7 25.Qg3 Re2 26.Qb8+ Kg7 27.Qxa7 Rxb2 28.a4 Qe2 29.Rf1
h5 30.Qb8 Qe7 31.Ra1 h4 32.a5 Qf6 33.Rf1 Rb5 34.Ra1 Qf5 35.Qc7
Rb2 36.Rf1 Qf6 37.Qb8 Rb5 38.Ra1 Qe7 39.Qa7 Qd6 40.a6 bxa6 41.Qxa6
Rb2 42.Qd3 Qf4 43.Rf1 Rd2 44.Qb1 Qe4 45.Qxe4 dxe4 46.Re1 f5 47.Re3
Rd1+ 48.Kh2 Kf6 49.g3 hxg3+ 50.Kxg3 g5 51.Kg2 Rc1 52.f3 Rc2+
53.Kg1 exf3 54.Rxf3 f4 55.h4 Kf5 56.hxg5 Kxg5 57.Rd3 Kg4 58.d5
f3 59.dxc6 Kg3 60.Rd1 Rg2+ 61.Kf1 Rh2 62.Ke1 Rh1+ 63.Z0
( 63.Kd2 Rxd1+ 64.Kxd1 f2 65.Ke2 Kg2 66.c7 f1Q+ 67.Ke3 Qc4 ) 0-1

[Event "RA March Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.02.29"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Demchenko, Svitlana"]
[Black "Chiku-Ratte, Olivier Kenta"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E90"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d6 4.e4 Bg7 5.Nf3 O-O 6.h3 e5 7.d5 Na6
8.Bg5 h6 9.Be3 Nc5 10.Nd2 a5 11.Be2 Nfd7 12.g4 Na6 13.a3 Nac5
14.b3 Kh8 15.Rg1 Qe7 16.g5 hxg5 17.Bxg5 f6 18.Be3 f5 19.Rxg6
f4 20.Bxc5 Nxc5 21.Bg4 f3 22.Bxc8 Raxc8 23.Nxf3 Qf7 24.Rg3 Qf4
25.Qc2 Qxg3 26.fxg3 Rxf3 27.O-O-O Rcf8 28.b4 axb4 29.axb4 Na6
30.Qb2 Re3 31.Kc2 Bh6 32.Kb3 Rxg3 33.Ka4 Rff3 34.Ne2 Rg2 35.Rg1
Rgf2 36.c5 Re3 37.cxd6 cxd6 38.Qc2 Rexe2 39.Qc8+ Bf8 40.Qxb7
Rxe4 41.Qc8 Rxb4+ 42.Ka3 Rf3+ 43.Ka2 Nc5 44.Rg4 Rf2+ 45.Ka1 Nb3+
46.Kb1 Nd4+ 47.Ka1 Ra4+ 48.Kb1 Rb4+ 49.Ka1 Nc2+ 50.Ka2 Ne3+ 51.Ka3
Rxg4 52.hxg4 Nxd5 53.Qe8 Kg7 54.Qe6 Rf3+ 55.Kb2 Nc7 56.Qc4 Rf7
57.g5 Kg6 58.Kc2 Bg7 59.Qc6 Bf8 60.Qc4 d5 61.Qc3 Bg7 62.Qc6+
Kxg5 63.Qd6 Kf5 64.Qb6 Ne6 65.Kd1 Nf4 66.Qc6 Bf6 67.Qc8+ Kg5
68.Qe8 Rg7 69.Qf8 Kf5 70.Qc8+ Ke4 71.Qc2+ Nd3 72.Qg2+ Kd4 73.Qf1
Rg6 74.Kc2 Rg2+ 75.Kb1 Rb2+ 76.Ka1 Rf2 77.Qb1 e4 78.Qb6+ Kc4+ 0-1

[Halldor P. Palsson]

Pairings for Round 4.

2020 RA March Open

Bd # Res White # Res Black
1 1 Bator Sambuev (2579 3.0) 3 Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux (2380 3.0)
2 7 Johnathan Han (2133 2.0) 2 Olivier Kenta Chiku-Ratte (2518 2.0)
3 8 Rachel Miller (2128 2.0) 4 Hugues Masse (2283 2.0)
4 6 Christopher Pace (2267 2.0) 9 Daniel Xu (2086 2.0)
5 5 Svitlana Demchenko (2268 1.5) 16 Daniel Labib (1853 2.0)
6 17 Matthew Zhu (1802 1.0) 12 Dan Kearnan (1958 1.0)
7 13 Abdelaziz Mahdjoubi (1955 1.0) 15 Alwin Ning (1882 1.0)
8 10 Danail Donev (2028 0.5) 14 Mike Schofield (1940 0.5)
11 1 Sanjay Ramesh (1973 0.5) BYE


2020 RA March U1900

Bd # Res White # Res Black
10 13 Zhou Fang (1634 2.5) 1 Thomas Knechtel (1819 3.0)
11 5 Alexandre Khan (1783 2.0) 8 William Landstrom (1704 2.0)
12 7 Derek Wang (1730 2.0) 9 Alexander Stopic (1702 2.0)
13 6 Randika Balasooriya (1761 1.5) 3 Ray Kuryliw (1793 1.5)
14 10 Herb Langer (1697 1.5) 4 Hugo Guillemette (1793 1.5)
15 14 Victor Samuel (1631 1.5) 2 Jean Bigras (1815 1.0)
16 16 Romy Peters (1605 1.0) 12 Oswin Ning (1668 1.0)
17 15 Simon Perkins (1621 0.5) 11 Rene Poulin (1684 0.5)


2020 RA March U1600

Bd # Res White # Res Black
18 2 Michael Gao (1489 2.5) 17 Sam Sharifi (unr. 3.0)
19 1 Maxim Kochetkov (1565 2.0) 4 Jeremy Sztuka (1461 2.0)
20 3 Surdasji Mohit (1475 2.0) 5 John I.F. Lukezich (1409 2.0)
21 6 Jorge Yera (1408 1.5) 13 Colin McHenry (1105 1.5)
22 9 Ankita Jain (1346 1.5) 8 Douglas Graham (1354 1.5)
23 12 Pierre Arcand (1138 1.0) 15 Andrii Demchenko (969 1.5)
24 14 Dave Westbury (1089 1.0) 16 Eric Jiang (932 1.0)
25 11 Neil Moses (1246 0.0) 10 Johnny Fang (1252 0.0)

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "RA March Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.02.29"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Kearnan, Dan"]
[Black "Xu, Daniel"]
[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 O-O 6.Nf3 c5 7.dxc5 Qa5
8.Bd3 Qxc5 9.Qe2 Nc6 10.Be3 Qa5 11.Rc1 Bg4 12.O-O Nd7 13.Qf2
Nc5 14.Bb1 Qb4 15.a3 Qxc4 16.Ba2 Qa6 17.Bxc5 dxc5 18.e5 Bxf3
19.gxf3 Nd4 20.Rfe1 e6 21.Ne4 b6 22.Nd6 Rfd8 23.Bc4 Qa4 24.Bd3
Nf5 25.Re4 Qd7 26.Bb5 Qc7 27.Nxf5 gxf5 28.Ree1 Qe7 29.Ba6 Rd4
30.b4 Rad8 31.bxc5 bxc5 32.Rb1 Rxf4 33.Rb7 Qh4 34.Qxh4 Rxh4 35.Rxa7
Ra4 36.Rb1 Bxe5 37.Rbb7 Bd4+ 38.Kg2 c4 0-1



[Event "RA March Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.02.29"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Masse, Hugues"]
[Black "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C17"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 Ba5 6.b4 cxd4 7.Qg4 Ne7
8.bxa5 dxc3 9.Qxg7 Rg8 10.Qxh7 Nbc6 11.Nf3 Qc7 12.Bf4 Bd7 13.a6
O-O-O 14.axb7+ Kb8 15.Bd3 f5 16.g3 d4 17.Kf1 Rh8 18.Qf7 Rdf8
19.Qg7 Rfg8 20.Qf7 Ng6 21.Qf6 Nce7 22.Nxd4 Qb6 23.Be3 Nd5 24.Nxf5
Qb2 25.Ke2 Nxf6 26.exf6 exf5 27.Rhb1 f4 28.f7 Rd8 29.Bd4 Bg4+
30.Kf1 Rxd4 31.Rxb2 cxb2 32.Rb1 Ne5 33.Rxb2 Nxf7 0-1



[Event "RA March Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.02.29"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Pace, Chris"]
[Black "Demchenko, Svitlana"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E92"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.Nf3 d6 5.e4 O-O 6.Be2 e5 7.dxe5
dxe5 8.Qxd8 Rxd8 9.Bg5 c6 10.Nxe5 Re8 11.O-O-O Nxe4 12.Nxe4 Bxe5
13.f4 f5 14.Nd6 Bxd6 15.Rxd6 Na6 16.Bf3 Nc5 17.Rhd1 Ne6 18.Bh6
Kf7 19.h3 a5 20.b3 Nc5 21.Kc2 a4 22.b4 Ne4 23.R6d4 c5 24.bxc5
Nxc5 25.Rb1 Be6 26.Bxb7 1/2-1/2



[Event "RA March Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.02.29"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Xu, Daniel"]
[Black "Zhu, Matthew"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D19"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 dxc4 5.a4 Bf5 6.e3 e6 7.Bxc4
Bb4 8.O-O O-O 9.Qe2 Bg6 10.Ne5 Nbd7 11.Nxg6 hxg6 12.Rd1 Qa5 13.Bd2
Rac8 14.e4 e5 15.d5 Nb6 16.dxc6 Nxc4 17.Qxc4 Rxc6 18.Qb5 Qxb5
19.axb5 Rd6 20.f3 Bc5+ 21.Kf1 a6 22.bxa6 bxa6 23.Na4 Rc8 24.Nxc5
Rxc5 25.Bb4 Rxd1+ 26.Rxd1 Rb5 27.Rd8+ Kh7 28.Bc3 g5 29.Ra8 g4
30.Rxa6 gxf3 31.gxf3 Nd7 32.Ra7 Nb6 33.Rb7 f6 34.b4 Kg6 35.Be1 1-0



[Event "RA March Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.02.29"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Chiku-Ratte, Olivier Kenta"]
[Black "Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A28"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e5 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.e3 Bb4 5.Qc2 O-O 6.Nd5 Re8 7.Bd3
h6 8.a3 Bf8 9.h4 a5 10.Ng5 Bc5 11.Bh7+ Kf8 12.Bg6 fxg6 13.Qxg6
hxg5 14.hxg5 Ne7 15.Nxe7 Bxe7 16.gxf6 Bxf6 17.g4 Bh4 18.Qh7 g5
19.Qh8+ Kf7 20.Qh7+ Ke6 21.Qg6+ Ke7 22.d4 Ra6 23.Qg7+ Kd6 24.dxe5+
Kc6 25.e4 Qe7 26.Qh6+ Qe6 27.Bxg5 Bxg5 28.Qxg5 d6 29.Qd2 Qxe5
30.Qd5+ Kb6 31.Qxe5 dxe5 32.c5+ Kb5 33.Rh7 Rc6 34.Rg7 Rxc5 35.Rd1
Rc4 36.f3 c6 37.Rd2 Rd4 38.g5 Rh8 39.Rg2 Rh1+ 40.Kf2 Rd2+ 0-1



[Event "RA March Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.02.29"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Han, Jonathan"]
[Black "Mahdjoubi, Abdelaziz"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C54"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.c3 Nf6 5.d3 d6 6.Bb3 Ne7 7.Nbd2
Ng6 8.Nf1 c6 9.Ng3 O-O 10.O-O d5 11.exd5 Nxd5 12.Ne4 Bb6 13.c4
Nb4 14.Nfg5 Bf5 15.Nxh7 Bxe4 16.Nxf8 Bxd3 17.Nxg6 Qf6 18.a3 Bxf1
19.Qxf1 Nd3 20.Ne7+ Kf8 21.Be3 Bxe3 22.Qxd3 Qxf2+ 23.Kh1 Kxe7
24.Rf1 Rd8 25.Qb1 Qh4 26.c5 Bf4 27.g3 Qh3 28.Rf2 Rd2 29.Qe1 Rxf2
30.Qxf2 f6 31.Bc2 Bxg3 32.Qxg3 Qf1+ 33.Qg1 Qf3+ 34.Qg2 Qxg2+
35.Kxg2 Ke6 36.Bb3+ Kf5 37.Kf3 e4+ 38.Ke3 Ke5 39.Bf7 f5 40.b4
f4+ 41.Kd2 Kd4 42.Bh5 a5 43.bxa5 Kxc5 44.Kc3 Kb5 45.Kd4 e3 46.Ke4
g5 47.Kf5 Kxa5 48.Bd1 f3 49.Bxf3 Ka4 50.Kxg5 Kxa3 51.Kf4 Kb4
52.h4 Kc5 53.h5 Kd6 54.h6 1-0



[Event "RA March Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.02.29"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Ning, Alwin"]
[Black "iller, Rachel"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C50"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.d3 Nf6 5.h3 d6 6.O-O h6 7.Nc3 a6
8.Be3 Bxe3 9.fxe3 Na5 10.Bb3 Nxb3 11.axb3 Bd7 12.Qe1 Qe7 13.Qf2
O-O-O 14.Nh4 Rdf8 15.Nf5 Bxf5 16.Qxf5+ Nd7 17.Nd5 Qd8 18.Qh5
g6 19.Qf3 f5 20.exf5 Rxf5 21.Qg4 c6 22.Nc3 Rg5 23.Qe6 d5 24.Rf7
Re8 25.Qd6 Qc7 26.Qxc7+ Kxc7 27.Raf1 Kd6 28.Rh7 h5 29.Rff7 Rd8
30.e4 a5 31.Nb1 dxe4 32.dxe4 Nf8 33.Rhg7 Kc5 34.Nc3 b5 35.Rg8
Ne6 36.Rxd8 Nxd8 37.Rf6 Nb7 38.Kf2 Nd6 39.g3 Nb7 40.Nd1 b4 41.Ne3
Nd6 42.Kf3 Rxg3+ 43.Kxg3 Nxe4+ 44.Kh4 Nxf6 45.Kg5 Nd5 46.Nc4
e4 47.Nd2 e3 48.Nf3 e2 49.h4 Ne7 50.Kf6 Nf5 51.Kg5 Kd5 52.Ne1
Ke4 53.c3 Ke3 54.cxb4 axb4 55.Kxg6 Nxh4+ 56.Kxh5 Nf3 57.Ng2+
Kd2 58.Kg4 e1Q 59.Nxe1 Nxe1 0-1

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "RA March Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.02.29"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Kearnan, Dan"]
[Black "Xu, Daniel"]
[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 O-O 6.Nf3 c5 7.dxc5 Qa5
8.Bd3 Qxc5 9.Qe2 Nc6 10.Be3 Qa5 11.Rc1 Bg4 12.O-O Nd7 13.Qf2
Nc5 14.Bb1 Qb4 15.a3 Qxc4 16.Ba2 Qa6 17.Bxc5 dxc5 18.e5 Bxf3
19.gxf3 Nd4 20.Rfe1 e6 21.Ne4 b6 22.Nd6 Rfd8 23.Bc4 Qa4 24.Bd3
Nf5 25.Re4 Qd7 26.Bb5 Qc7 27.Nxf5 gxf5 28.Ree1 Qe7 29.Ba6 Rd4
30.b4 Rad8 31.bxc5 bxc5 32.Rb1 Rxf4 33.Rb7 Qh4 34.Qxh4 Rxh4 35.Rxa7
Ra4 36.Rb1 Bxe5 37.Rbb7 Bd4+ 38.Kg2 c4 0-1

[Event "RA March Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.02.29"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Masse, Hugues"]
[Black "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C17"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e5 c5 5.a3 Ba5 6.b4 cxd4 7.Qg4 Ne7
8.bxa5 dxc3 9.Qxg7 Rg8 10.Qxh7 Nbc6 11.Nf3 Qc7 12.Bf4 Bd7 13.a6
O-O-O 14.axb7+ Kb8 15.Bd3 f5 16.g3 d4 17.Kf1 Rh8 18.Qf7 Rdf8
19.Qg7 Rfg8 20.Qf7 Ng6 21.Qf6 Nce7 22.Nxd4 Qb6 23.Be3 Nd5 24.Nxf5
Qb2 25.Ke2 Nxf6 26.exf6 exf5 27.Rhb1 f4 28.f7 Rd8 29.Bd4 Bg4+
30.Kf1 Rxd4 31.Rxb2 cxb2 32.Rb1 Ne5 33.Rxb2 Nxf7 0-1

[Event "RA March Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.02.29"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Pace, Chris"]
[Black "Demchenko, Svitlana"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E92"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.Nf3 d6 5.e4 O-O 6.Be2 e5 7.dxe5
dxe5 8.Qxd8 Rxd8 9.Bg5 c6 10.Nxe5 Re8 11.O-O-O Nxe4 12.Nxe4 Bxe5
13.f4 f5 14.Nd6 Bxd6 15.Rxd6 Na6 16.Bf3 Nc5 17.Rhd1 Ne6 18.Bh6
Kf7 19.h3 a5 20.b3 Nc5 21.Kc2 a4 22.b4 Ne4 23.R6d4 c5 24.bxc5
Nxc5 25.Rb1 Be6 26.Bxb7 1/2-1/2

[Event "RA March Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.02.29"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Xu, Daniel"]
[Black "Zhu, Matthew"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D19"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 dxc4 5.a4 Bf5 6.e3 e6 7.Bxc4
Bb4 8.O-O O-O 9.Qe2 Bg6 10.Ne5 Nbd7 11.Nxg6 hxg6 12.Rd1 Qa5 13.Bd2
Rac8 14.e4 e5 15.d5 Nb6 16.dxc6 Nxc4 17.Qxc4 Rxc6 18.Qb5 Qxb5
19.axb5 Rd6 20.f3 Bc5+ 21.Kf1 a6 22.bxa6 bxa6 23.Na4 Rc8 24.Nxc5
Rxc5 25.Bb4 Rxd1+ 26.Rxd1 Rb5 27.Rd8+ Kh7 28.Bc3 g5 29.Ra8 g4
30.Rxa6 gxf3 31.gxf3 Nd7 32.Ra7 Nb6 33.Rb7 f6 34.b4 Kg6 35.Be1 1-0

[Event "RA March Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.02.29"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Chiku-Ratte, Olivier Kenta"]
[Black "Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A28"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e5 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.e3 Bb4 5.Qc2 O-O 6.Nd5 Re8 7.Bd3
h6 8.a3 Bf8 9.h4 a5 10.Ng5 Bc5 11.Bh7+ Kf8 12.Bg6 fxg6 13.Qxg6
hxg5 14.hxg5 Ne7 15.Nxe7 Bxe7 16.gxf6 Bxf6 17.g4 Bh4 18.Qh7 g5
19.Qh8+ Kf7 20.Qh7+ Ke6 21.Qg6+ Ke7 22.d4 Ra6 23.Qg7+ Kd6 24.dxe5+
Kc6 25.e4 Qe7 26.Qh6+ Qe6 27.Bxg5 Bxg5 28.Qxg5 d6 29.Qd2 Qxe5
30.Qd5+ Kb6 31.Qxe5 dxe5 32.c5+ Kb5 33.Rh7 Rc6 34.Rg7 Rxc5 35.Rd1
Rc4 36.f3 c6 37.Rd2 Rd4 38.g5 Rh8 39.Rg2 Rh1+ 40.Kf2 Rd2+ 0-1

[Event "RA March Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.02.29"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Han, Jonathan"]
[Black "Mahdjoubi, Abdelaziz"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C54"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.c3 Nf6 5.d3 d6 6.Bb3 Ne7 7.Nbd2
Ng6 8.Nf1 c6 9.Ng3 O-O 10.O-O d5 11.exd5 Nxd5 12.Ne4 Bb6 13.c4
Nb4 14.Nfg5 Bf5 15.Nxh7 Bxe4 16.Nxf8 Bxd3 17.Nxg6 Qf6 18.a3 Bxf1
19.Qxf1 Nd3 20.Ne7+ Kf8 21.Be3 Bxe3 22.Qxd3 Qxf2+ 23.Kh1 Kxe7
24.Rf1 Rd8 25.Qb1 Qh4 26.c5 Bf4 27.g3 Qh3 28.Rf2 Rd2 29.Qe1 Rxf2
30.Qxf2 f6 31.Bc2 Bxg3 32.Qxg3 Qf1+ 33.Qg1 Qf3+ 34.Qg2 Qxg2+
35.Kxg2 Ke6 36.Bb3+ Kf5 37.Kf3 e4+ 38.Ke3 Ke5 39.Bf7 f5 40.b4
f4+ 41.Kd2 Kd4 42.Bh5 a5 43.bxa5 Kxc5 44.Kc3 Kb5 45.Kd4 e3 46.Ke4
g5 47.Kf5 Kxa5 48.Bd1 f3 49.Bxf3 Ka4 50.Kxg5 Kxa3 51.Kf4 Kb4
52.h4 Kc5 53.h5 Kd6 54.h6 1-0

[Event "RA March Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.02.29"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Ning, Alwin"]
[Black "iller, Rachel"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C50"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Bc5 4.d3 Nf6 5.h3 d6 6.O-O h6 7.Nc3 a6
8.Be3 Bxe3 9.fxe3 Na5 10.Bb3 Nxb3 11.axb3 Bd7 12.Qe1 Qe7 13.Qf2
O-O-O 14.Nh4 Rdf8 15.Nf5 Bxf5 16.Qxf5+ Nd7 17.Nd5 Qd8 18.Qh5
g6 19.Qf3 f5 20.exf5 Rxf5 21.Qg4 c6 22.Nc3 Rg5 23.Qe6 d5 24.Rf7
Re8 25.Qd6 Qc7 26.Qxc7+ Kxc7 27.Raf1 Kd6 28.Rh7 h5 29.Rff7 Rd8
30.e4 a5 31.Nb1 dxe4 32.dxe4 Nf8 33.Rhg7 Kc5 34.Nc3 b5 35.Rg8
Ne6 36.Rxd8 Nxd8 37.Rf6 Nb7 38.Kf2 Nd6 39.g3 Nb7 40.Nd1 b4 41.Ne3
Nd6 42.Kf3 Rxg3+ 43.Kxg3 Nxe4+ 44.Kh4 Nxf6 45.Kg5 Nd5 46.Nc4
e4 47.Nd2 e3 48.Nf3 e2 49.h4 Ne7 50.Kf6 Nf5 51.Kg5 Kd5 52.Ne1
Ke4 53.c3 Ke3 54.cxb4 axb4 55.Kxg6 Nxh4+ 56.Kxh5 Nf3 57.Ng2+
Kd2 58.Kg4 e1Q 59.Nxe1 Nxe1 0-1

[Halldor P. Palsson]

Pairings for Round 5.

2020 RA March Open

Bd # Res White # Res Black
1 1 Bator Sambuev (2579 4.0) 6 Christopher Pace (2267 3.0)
2 3 Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux (2380 3.0) 7 Johnathan Han (2133 3.0)
3 4 Hugues Masse (2283 2.5) 5 Svitlana Demchenko (2268 2.5)
4 2 Olivier Kenta Chiku-Ratte (2518 2.0) 13 Abdelaziz Mahdjoubi (1955 2.0)
5 9 Daniel Xu (2086 2.0) 16 Daniel Labib (1853 2.0)
6 14 Mike Schofield (1940 1.5) 17 Matthew Zhu (1802 2.0)
7 12 Dan Kearnan (1958 1.0) 11 Sanjay Ramesh (1973 1.5)
8 15 Alwin Ning (1882 1.0) 10 Danail Donev (2028 0.5)



2020 RA March U1900

Bd # Res White # Res Black
10 1 Thomas Knechtel (1819 4.0) 6 Randika Balasooriya (1761 2.5)
11 9 Alexander Stopic (1702 3.0) 5 Alexandre Khan (1783 2.5)
12 8 William Landstrom (1704 2.5) 10 Herb Langer (1697 2.5)
13 2 Jean Bigras (1815 2.0) 13 Zhou Fang (1634 2.5)
14 12 Oswin Ning (1668 2.0) 7 Derek Wang (1730 2.0)
15 3 Ray Kuryliw (1793 1.5) 15 Simon Perkins (1621 1.5)
16 14 Victor Samuel (1631 1.5) 16 Romy Peters (1605 1.0)
11 1 Rene Poulin (1684 0.5) BYE



2020 RA March U1600
Bd # Res White # Res Black
18 1 Maxim Kochetkov (1565 3.0) 2 Michael Gao (1489 3.5)
19 5 John I.F. Lukezich (1409 3.0) 17 Sam Sharifi (unr. 3.0)
20 15 Andrii Demchenko (969 2.5) 9 Ankita Jain (1346 2.5)
21 4 Jeremy Sztuka (1461 2.0) 13 Colin McHenry (1105 2.5)
22 14 Dave Westbury (1089 2.0) 8 Douglas Graham (1354 1.5)
23 10 Johnny Fang (1252 1.0) 6 Jorge Yera (1408 1.5)
24 12 Pierre Arcand (1138 1.0) 7 Gerard Felderhof (1403 1.0)
25 16 Eric Jiang (932 1.0) 11 Neil Moses (1246 0.0)

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "RA March Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.03.01"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Demchenko, Svitlana"]
[Black "Labib, Daniel"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B50"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.c3 Nf6 4.g3 Nc6 5.d3 e5 6.Bg2 Be7 7.O-O O-O
8.Nbd2 Be6 9.Ng5 h6 10.Nxe6 fxe6 11.Bh3 Qd7 12.f4 exf4 13.gxf4
d5 14.e5 Ne8 15.Qg4 Nc7 16.Kh1 Kh8 17.Rg1 Rg8 18.Nf3 Raf8 19.Bd2
Bd8 20.Raf1 Qf7 21.Qg3 b5 22.Bg4 c4 23.d4 Be7 24.Qh3 a5 25.Ng5
Bxg5 26.fxg5 Qg6 27.gxh6 gxh6 28.Z0 ( 28.Rxf8 Rxf8 29.Bf5 Qxg1+
30.Kxg1 Rxf5 31.Qxh6+ Kg8 32.Qg6+ Kf8 ) 1-0



[Event "RA March Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.03.01"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Miller, Rachel"]
[Black "Masse, Hugues"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B47"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.g3 a6 7.Bg2
Nf6 8.O-O Nxd4 9.Qxd4 Bc5 10.Qd3 Ng4 11.Na4 Ba7 12.c4 d6 13.b3
O-O 14.Ba3 Bc5 15.Bb2 Ne5 16.Qc3 f6 17.Rfd1 Nc6 18.Qd2 Rd8 19.Nxc5
dxc5 20.Qe3 e5 21.Qxc5 1/2-1/2



[Event "RA March Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.03.01"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Pace, Chris"]
[Black "Xu, Daniel"]
[Result "1-0"]
[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.d5 Ne7 9.b4 a5 10.Ba3 axb4 11.Bxb4 Nd7 12.a4 Bh6 13.Ne1 f5
14.Nd3 Nf6 15.Bf3 fxe4 16.Nxe4 Nf5 17.Nxf6+ Qxf6 18.c5 Nd4 19.Be4
Ra6 20.Ra3 Qh4 21.Re1 Bg4 22.f3 Bd7 23.a5 Bb5 24.g3 Qh5 25.Nf2
Qg5 26.cxd6 cxd6 27.f4 Qe7 28.fxe5 Qxe5 29.Ng4 Ne2+ 30.Rxe2 Bxe2
31.Nxh6+ Kg7 32.Qxe2 Qd4+ 33.Qe3 Qxb4 34.Rb3 Qc5 35.Rxb7+ Kh8
36.Qxc5 dxc5 37.d6 Rxa5 38.d7 Ra1+ 39.Kg2 Rd1 40.d8Q Rdxd8 41.Nf7+
Rxf7 42.Rxf7 Rd2+ 43.Rf2 Rd4 44.Kf3 Kg7 45.Rc2 c4 46.Ke3 Rd6
47.Rxc4 h5 48.Rc6 Rxc6 49.Bxc6 h4 50.g4 1-0



[Event "RA March Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.03.01"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Han, Jonathan"]
[Black "Chiku-Ratte, Olivier Kenta"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B27"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 b6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Bb7 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 b5 7.f3
e6 8.Qd2 Nf6 9.O-O-O Bb4 10.a3 Be7 11.e5 Nd5 12.Nxd5 Bxd5 13.Nf5
O-O 14.Nxe7+ Qxe7 15.Bg5 f6 16.exf6 gxf6 17.Bh6 Rc8 18.h4 Nc6
19.Kb1 Kh8 20.Be2 Ne5 21.Qe3 Bc4 22.g4 Bxe2 23.Qxe2 b4 24.a4
Nf7 25.Be3 Rc6 26.g5 Rac8 27.Rd2 e5 28.gxf6 Qe6 29.Qd3 d6 30.Rg1
Qxf6 31.Rdg2 Re8 32.Qd5 Rcc8 33.f4 b3 34.cxb3 exf4 35.Bd4 Ne5
36.Qb7 Rb8 37.Qd5 Rbc8 38.Rg7 f3 39.Qb7 Qf5+ 40.Ka2 Rf8 41.R1g5
Rb8 42.Qe7 Qd3 43.Rg8+ 1-0



[Event "RA March Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.03.01"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Black "Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E20"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 d5 4.d4 Bb4 5.g3 O-O 6.Bg2 dxc4 7.O-O
Nc6 8.a3 Be7 9.e4 Na5 10.Be3 Nb3 11.Rb1 c5 12.dxc5 Bxc5 13.Bxc5
Nxc5 14.Ne5 b6 15.Nc6 Qxd1 16.Rfxd1 Bb7 17.e5 Bxc6 18.Bxc6 Rac8
19.Bh1 Ng4 20.f4 Ne3 21.Rd6 Rfd8 22.Nb5 a6 23.Rxd8+ Rxd8 24.Nd6
b5 25.Kf2 Nf5 26.Nxf5 exf5 27.Ke2 a5 28.Rd1 Rd3 29.Bc6 b4 30.axb4
axb4 31.Bb5 Rxd1 32.Kxd1 c3 33.bxc3 bxc3 34.Kc2 h6 35.Kxc3 g5
36.Bc4 Ne4+ 37.Kd4 Nd2 38.Be2 gxf4 39.gxf4 Kf8 40.Ke3 Ne4 41.Bd3
Nc5 42.Bxf5 f6 43.Kd4 fxe5+ 44.fxe5 Na6 45.Bc8 Nc7 46.Ke4 Kf7
47.Kf5 Nb5 48.Be6+ Kg7 49.Bd7 Nc7 50.Bc6 Kf7 51.Ba4 Kg7 52.Bb3
Nb5 53.Bd5 Nd4+ 54.Ke4 Nc2 55.Bc4 Nb4 56.Bb5 Kg6 57.Kd4 Kf7 58.Ba4
Ke6 59.Bb3+ Kf5 60.Ba4 Ke6 61.Ke4 Na6 62.Bb3+ Ke7 63.Kf5 Nc5
64.Bc4 Nd7 65.h4 h5 66.Ba2 Nc5 67.Kg5 Nd7 68.e6 Ne5 69.Kxh5 Nf3
70.Bd5 Ne5 71.Kg5 Kf8 72.h5 Ke7 73.h6 1-0

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "RA March Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.03.01"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Demchenko, Svitlana"]
[Black "Labib, Daniel"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B50"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.c3 Nf6 4.g3 Nc6 5.d3 e5 6.Bg2 Be7 7.O-O O-O
8.Nbd2 Be6 9.Ng5 h6 10.Nxe6 fxe6 11.Bh3 Qd7 12.f4 exf4 13.gxf4
d5 14.e5 Ne8 15.Qg4 Nc7 16.Kh1 Kh8 17.Rg1 Rg8 18.Nf3 Raf8 19.Bd2
Bd8 20.Raf1 Qf7 21.Qg3 b5 22.Bg4 c4 23.d4 Be7 24.Qh3 a5 25.Ng5
Bxg5 26.fxg5 Qg6 27.gxh6 gxh6 28.Z0 ( 28.Rxf8 Rxf8 29.Bf5 Qxg1+
30.Kxg1 Rxf5 31.Qxh6+ Kg8 32.Qg6+ Kf8 ) 1-0

[Event "RA March Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.03.01"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Miller, Rachel"]
[Black "Masse, Hugues"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B47"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.g3 a6 7.Bg2
Nf6 8.O-O Nxd4 9.Qxd4 Bc5 10.Qd3 Ng4 11.Na4 Ba7 12.c4 d6 13.b3
O-O 14.Ba3 Bc5 15.Bb2 Ne5 16.Qc3 f6 17.Rfd1 Nc6 18.Qd2 Rd8 19.Nxc5
dxc5 20.Qe3 e5 21.Qxc5 1/2-1/2

[Event "RA March Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.03.01"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Pace, Chris"]
[Black "Xu, Daniel"]
[Result "1-0"]
[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.d5 Ne7 9.b4 a5 10.Ba3 axb4 11.Bxb4 Nd7 12.a4 Bh6 13.Ne1 f5
14.Nd3 Nf6 15.Bf3 fxe4 16.Nxe4 Nf5 17.Nxf6+ Qxf6 18.c5 Nd4 19.Be4
Ra6 20.Ra3 Qh4 21.Re1 Bg4 22.f3 Bd7 23.a5 Bb5 24.g3 Qh5 25.Nf2
Qg5 26.cxd6 cxd6 27.f4 Qe7 28.fxe5 Qxe5 29.Ng4 Ne2+ 30.Rxe2 Bxe2
31.Nxh6+ Kg7 32.Qxe2 Qd4+ 33.Qe3 Qxb4 34.Rb3 Qc5 35.Rxb7+ Kh8
36.Qxc5 dxc5 37.d6 Rxa5 38.d7 Ra1+ 39.Kg2 Rd1 40.d8Q Rdxd8 41.Nf7+
Rxf7 42.Rxf7 Rd2+ 43.Rf2 Rd4 44.Kf3 Kg7 45.Rc2 c4 46.Ke3 Rd6
47.Rxc4 h5 48.Rc6 Rxc6 49.Bxc6 h4 50.g4 1-0

[Event "RA March Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.03.01"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Han, Jonathan"]
[Black "Chiku-Ratte, Olivier Kenta"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B27"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 b6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Bb7 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be3 b5 7.f3
e6 8.Qd2 Nf6 9.O-O-O Bb4 10.a3 Be7 11.e5 Nd5 12.Nxd5 Bxd5 13.Nf5
O-O 14.Nxe7+ Qxe7 15.Bg5 f6 16.exf6 gxf6 17.Bh6 Rc8 18.h4 Nc6
19.Kb1 Kh8 20.Be2 Ne5 21.Qe3 Bc4 22.g4 Bxe2 23.Qxe2 b4 24.a4
Nf7 25.Be3 Rc6 26.g5 Rac8 27.Rd2 e5 28.gxf6 Qe6 29.Qd3 d6 30.Rg1
Qxf6 31.Rdg2 Re8 32.Qd5 Rcc8 33.f4 b3 34.cxb3 exf4 35.Bd4 Ne5
36.Qb7 Rb8 37.Qd5 Rbc8 38.Rg7 f3 39.Qb7 Qf5+ 40.Ka2 Rf8 41.R1g5
Rb8 42.Qe7 Qd3 43.Rg8+ 1-0

[Event "RA March Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.03.01"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Black "Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E20"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 d5 4.d4 Bb4 5.g3 O-O 6.Bg2 dxc4 7.O-O
Nc6 8.a3 Be7 9.e4 Na5 10.Be3 Nb3 11.Rb1 c5 12.dxc5 Bxc5 13.Bxc5
Nxc5 14.Ne5 b6 15.Nc6 Qxd1 16.Rfxd1 Bb7 17.e5 Bxc6 18.Bxc6 Rac8
19.Bh1 Ng4 20.f4 Ne3 21.Rd6 Rfd8 22.Nb5 a6 23.Rxd8+ Rxd8 24.Nd6
b5 25.Kf2 Nf5 26.Nxf5 exf5 27.Ke2 a5 28.Rd1 Rd3 29.Bc6 b4 30.axb4
axb4 31.Bb5 Rxd1 32.Kxd1 c3 33.bxc3 bxc3 34.Kc2 h6 35.Kxc3 g5
36.Bc4 Ne4+ 37.Kd4 Nd2 38.Be2 gxf4 39.gxf4 Kf8 40.Ke3 Ne4 41.Bd3
Nc5 42.Bxf5 f6 43.Kd4 fxe5+ 44.fxe5 Na6 45.Bc8 Nc7 46.Ke4 Kf7
47.Kf5 Nb5 48.Be6+ Kg7 49.Bd7 Nc7 50.Bc6 Kf7 51.Ba4 Kg7 52.Bb3
Nb5 53.Bd5 Nd4+ 54.Ke4 Nc2 55.Bc4 Nb4 56.Bb5 Kg6 57.Kd4 Kf7 58.Ba4
Ke6 59.Bb3+ Kf5 60.Ba4 Ke6 61.Ke4 Na6 62.Bb3+ Ke7 63.Kf5 Nc5
64.Bc4 Nd7 65.h4 h5 66.Ba2 Nc5 67.Kg5 Nd7 68.e6 Ne5 69.Kxh5 Nf3
70.Bd5 Ne5 71.Kg5 Kf8 72.h5 Ke7 73.h6 1-0

[Halldor P. Palsson]

2020 RA March Open

# Place Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot
1 1 Bator Sambuev 2579 W12 W6 W3 W2 W5 5.0 $500
2 2 Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux 2380 W10 W7 W4 L1 W6 4.0 $250
3 3 Hugues Masse 2283 W16 W11 L1 D9 W8 3.5 $100
4 4-7 Olivier Kenta Chiku-Ratte 2518 W15 W8 L2 L6 W13 3.0
5 Christopher Pace 2267 H--- W14 D8 W12 L1 3.0
6 Johnathan Han 2133 W17 L1 W13 W4 L2 3.0 U2200 $80
7 Daniel Labib 1853 W9 L2 W14 L8 W12 3.0 U2050 $80
8 8-11 Svitlana Demchenko 2268 W13 L4 D5 W7 L3 2.5
9 Rachel Miller 2128 L7 W10 W17 D3 U--- 2.5
10 Sanjay Ramesh 1973 L2 L9 D15 B--- W16 2.5
11 Matthew Zhu 1802 B--- L3 L12 W16 D14 2.5
12 12-14 Daniel Xu 2086 L1 W16 W11 L5 L7 2.0
13 Abdelaziz Mahdjoubi 1955 L8 W15 L6 W17 L4 2.0
14 Mike Schofield 1940 H--- L5 L7 W15 D11 2.0
15 15 Danail Donev 2028 L4 L13 D10 L14 W17 1.5
16 16-17 Dan Kearnan 1958 L3 L12 B--- L11 L10 1.0
17 Alwin Ning 1882 L6 B--- L9 L13 L15 1.0

2020 RA March U1900

# Place Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot
1 1 Thomas Knechtel 1819 W5 W16 W2 W4 W8 5.0 $200
2 2-4 Alexandre Khan 1783 W14 W7 L1 D9 W5 3.5 $100
3 Herb Langer 1697 L7 D14 W15 W13 W9 3.5 $100
4 Zhou Fang 1634 D12 W8 W13 L1 W11 3.5 U1750 $80
5 5-6 Alexander Stopic 1702 L1 W15 W16 W12 L2 3.0
6 Oswin Ning 1668 D8 L13 D11 W16 W12 3.0
7 7-10 Ray Kuryliw 1793 W3 L2 D10 L8 W15 2.5
8 Randika Balasooriya 1761 D6 L4 W14 W7 L1 2.5
9 William Landstrom 1704 W10 H--- D12 D2 L3 2.5
10 Victor Samuel 1631 L9 B--- D7 L11 W16 2.5
11 11-12 Jean Bigras 1815 H--- L12 D6 W10 L4 2.0
12 Derek Wang 1730 D4 W11 D9 L5 L6 2.0
13 13-15 Hugo Guillemette 1793 H--- W6 L4 L3 U--- 1.5
14 Rene Poulin 1684 L2 D3 L8 L15 B--- 1.5
15 Simon Perkins 1621 H--- L5 L3 W14 L7 1.5
16 16 Romy Peters 1605 B--- L1 L5 L6 L10 1.0

2020 RA March U1600

# Place Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot
1 1 Michael Gao 1489 H--- W17 W11 W5 D2 4.0 $140
2 2-5 Maxim Kochetkov 1565 W14 W3 L5 W7 D1 3.5 $35
3 John I.F. Lukezich 1409 W6 L2 W13 W11 D5 3.5 $35
4 Ankita Jain 1346 L5 W16 D6 W9 W10 3.5 $35
5 Sam Sharifi unr. W4 W7 W2 L1 D3 3.5 $35
6 6 Colin McHenry 1105 L3 W14 D4 W8 D7 3.0
7 7-10 Jeremy Sztuka 1461 W16 L5 W8 L2 D6 2.5
8 Jorge Yera 1408 W13 H--- L7 L6 W14 2.5
9 Douglas Graham 1354 W10 L11 H--- L4 W13 2.5
10 Andrii Demchenko 969 L9 H--- W17 W16 L4 2.5
11 11-13 Surdasji Mohit 1475 W15 W9 L1 L3 U--- 2.0
12 Gerard Felderhof 1403 U--- U--- W15 U--- W16 2.0
13 Dave Westbury 1089 L8 W15 L3 W17 L9 2.0
14 14-17 Johnny Fang 1252 L2 L6 L16 W15 L8 1.0
15 Neil Moses 1246 L11 L13 L12 L14 W17 1.0
16 Pierre Arcand 1138 L7 L4 W14 L10 L12 1.0
17 Eric Jiang 932 B--- L1 L10 L13 L15 1.0

I would like to thank everyone for participating in the tournament.

It was a hard fought tournament with Sambuev at 5-0 in the Open, Knechtel at 5-0 in U1900 and Gao at 4-1 in the U1600. Jonathan Han 2133, who is a 10 year old RA Chess Club member, won against IM Olivier Kenta Chiku-Ratte. The game is posted and is well worth playing over. This is one of the biggest upsets by an RA Chess Club member that I remember. Perhaps, William Doubleday, who is older than sin, and who won against GM Bator Sambuev some years ago still retains the biggest upset title.

My next tournament is June 12, 13 & 14. I hope to see you there!

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "RA March Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.03.01"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Zhu, Matthew"]
[Black "Kearnan, Dan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A48"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Bf4 g6 3.Nf3 Bg7 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3 d6 6.h3 Nbd7 7.O-O
b6 8.c3 Bb7 9.Nbd2 Re8 10.Bh2 e5 11.dxe5 dxe5 12.Bc4 Ne4 13.Nxe4
Bxe4 14.Bd5 Bxd5 15.Qxd5 Qe7 16.Rfd1 Rad8 17.Qc4 c5 18.Rd5 Nf8
19.Rad1 Rxd5 20.Qxd5 h6 21.Kf1 Kh7 22.Ng1 Qe6 23.Nf3 Qxd5 24.Rxd5
f6 25.Nd2 Re7 26.Ke2 g5 27.a4 Ne6 28.Nc4 Nc7 29.Rd2 Ne8 30.Rd1
Kg6 31.Kf3 Kf5 32.Ke2 Ke6 33.Kf3 Rd7 34.Rxd7 Kxd7 35.Ke4 Ke6
36.g4 Bf8 37.f4 gxf4 38.exf4 Nd6+ 39.Nxd6 Bxd6 40.f5+ Kd7 41.Kd5
a6 42.Bg1 Bc7 43.Be3 Bd6 44.Bxh6 b5 45.axb5 axb5 46.Be3 c4 47.Bc5
Bc7 48.h4 1-0



[Event "RA March Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.03.01"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn"]
[Black "Han, Jonathan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A18"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e6 3.e4 d5 4.cxd5 exd5 5.e5 Ne4 6.Nf3 Nxc3 7.dxc3
Be7 8.Bd3 Bg4 9.Bf4 c6 10.Qc2 h6 11.h3 Be6 12.Nd4 O-O 13.O-O-O
c5 14.Nxe6 fxe6 15.Bh2 Qa5 16.Kb1 Nc6 17.f4 b5 18.Qe2 b4 19.c4
Bd8 20.Qg4 Nd4 21.Qg6 Rf7 22.cxd5 b3 23.a3 exd5 24.e6 Rf6 25.Qh7+
Kf8 26.Qh8+ Ke7 27.Qxg7+ Kxe6 28.f5+ Nxf5 29.Rhe1+ 1-0



[Event "RA March Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.03.01"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Xu, Daniel"]
[Black "Labib, Daniel"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D44"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.Bg5 dxc4 6.e4 b5 7.e5 h6
8.Bh4 g5 9.Nxg5 hxg5 10.Bxg5 Nbd7 11.g3 Bb7 12.Bg2 Qb6 13.exf6
c5 14.Bxb7 Qxb7 15.O-O O-O-O 16.dxc5 Ne5 17.Nd5 Rxd5 18.Qe2 Bxc5
19.a4 Nd3 20.Be3 Bxe3 21.fxe3 Rdh5 22.axb5 Rxh2 23.Qxh2 Rxh2
24.Kxh2 Qxb5 25.Rxa7 Qxb2+ 26.Kg1 Ne5 27.Rfa1 Ng4 28.Ra8+ Kc7
29.R1a7+ Kc6 30.Rc8+ Kd6 31.Ra6+ Kd7 32.Rf8 Qf2+ 0-1



[Event "RA March Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.03.01"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Chiku-Ratte, Olivier Kenta"]
[Black "Mahdjoubi, Abdelaziz"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A24"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Bg2 O-O 5.O-O c6 6.b3 Ne4 7.d4 c5
8.Bb2 Nc6 9.Qc2 f5 10.e3 d5 11.cxd5 Qxd5 12.Rd1 Nb4 13.Qe2 b6
14.Na3 Ba6 15.Nc4 Rad8 16.dxc5 Bxc4 17.bxc4 Qxc5 18.Bxg7 Kxg7
19.Qb2+ Kf7 20.a3 Nd3 21.Rxd3 1-0



[Event "RA March Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.03.01"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Black "Pace, Chris"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B10"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.Nf3 g6 2.e4 Bg7 3.g3 c6 4.d3 d5 5.Nbd2 dxe4 6.dxe4 Nf6 7.Bg2
O-O 8.O-O Na6 9.Re1 Nc5 10.e5 Nd5 11.Nb3 Nxb3 12.axb3 Qc7 13.Qd4
f6 14.Qh4 Bf5 15.c3 fxe5 16.Bh6 Bf6 17.Qc4 Rfd8 18.Rad1 Rac8
19.b4 Be6 20.Qe2 Nb6 21.Ng5 Bb3 22.Ra1 Rd6 23.h4 a6 24.h5 Bh8
25.Ne4 Z0 1-0



[Event "RA March Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.03.01"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Masse, Hugues"]
[Black "Demchenko, Svitlana"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A15"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.b3 Nf6 2.Bb2 g6 3.Nf3 Bg7 4.g3 d6 5.Bg2 e5 6.d3 O-O 7.O-O Nc6
8.c4 Nh5 9.Nc3 f5 10.Ne1 Be6 11.Nc2 Qd7 12.Nd5 f4 13.Qd2 Bh3
14.Rfe1 Bxg2 15.Kxg2 e4 16.Bxg7 f3+ 17.exf3 exf3+ 18.Kh1 Qh3
19.Rg1 Nxg7 20.Rae1 Ne5 21.Nce3 Ne6 22.d4 Nc6 23.g4 Ng5 24.Nf5
h6 25.Rg3 Qg2+ 26.Rxg2 fxg2+ 27.Kxg2 gxf5 28.h4 Nf7 29.Nxc7 Rac8
30.Ne6 Rfe8 31.gxf5 Kh8 32.Kh2 Rg8 33.f3 d5 34.c5 Rce8 35.b4
Nb8 36.Nf4 Nc6 37.Re6 Ncd8 38.Rxe8 Rxe8 39.Nxd5 Nc6 40.Nf4 Rd8
41.d5 Nce5 42.Ng6+ Kh7 43.Nxe5 Nxe5 44.Kg3 Nd7 45.Qd4 h5 46.Kf4
Rg8 47.c6 1-0



[Event "RA March Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.03.01"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Schofield, Mike"]
[Black "Zhu, Matthew"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B83"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Nf3 d6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Bd7 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Be2
e6 8.O-O Be7 9.Qd2 a6 10.f4 O-O 11.a3 Qc7 12.Bf3 Rfd8 13.Qf2
Rdc8 14.Rac1 Rab8 15.Nf5 b5 16.Nxe7+ Nxe7 17.e5 Nfd5 18.exd6
Qxd6 19.Ne4 Qc7 20.Bd4 Ng6 21.Nc5 Qd6 22.Nxd7 Qxd7 23.Rfd1 Qc6
24.f5 Nf8 25.f6 gxf6 26.Bxd5 exd5 27.Bxf6 Rb7 28.Bd4 Rd7 29.Rd3
Rd6 30.Qf5 Re8 31.Rf1 Qd7 32.Qxd7 Rxd7 33.c3 Re6 34.Rfd1 Ng6
35.Rg3 Re4 36.Re3 f5 37.g3 Kf7 38.Red3 Ne7 39.Bf2 Ke6 40.Kf1
Nc6 41.Kg2 Ne5 42.Rd4 Ng4 43.h3 Nxf2 44.Kxf2 Ke5 45.R1d2 Rd6 1/2-1/2

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "RA March Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.03.01"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Zhu, Matthew"]
[Black "Kearnan, Dan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A48"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Bf4 g6 3.Nf3 Bg7 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3 d6 6.h3 Nbd7 7.O-O
b6 8.c3 Bb7 9.Nbd2 Re8 10.Bh2 e5 11.dxe5 dxe5 12.Bc4 Ne4 13.Nxe4
Bxe4 14.Bd5 Bxd5 15.Qxd5 Qe7 16.Rfd1 Rad8 17.Qc4 c5 18.Rd5 Nf8
19.Rad1 Rxd5 20.Qxd5 h6 21.Kf1 Kh7 22.Ng1 Qe6 23.Nf3 Qxd5 24.Rxd5
f6 25.Nd2 Re7 26.Ke2 g5 27.a4 Ne6 28.Nc4 Nc7 29.Rd2 Ne8 30.Rd1
Kg6 31.Kf3 Kf5 32.Ke2 Ke6 33.Kf3 Rd7 34.Rxd7 Kxd7 35.Ke4 Ke6
36.g4 Bf8 37.f4 gxf4 38.exf4 Nd6+ 39.Nxd6 Bxd6 40.f5+ Kd7 41.Kd5
a6 42.Bg1 Bc7 43.Be3 Bd6 44.Bxh6 b5 45.axb5 axb5 46.Be3 c4 47.Bc5
Bc7 48.h4 1-0

[Event "RA March Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.03.01"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn"]
[Black "Han, Jonathan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A18"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 e6 3.e4 d5 4.cxd5 exd5 5.e5 Ne4 6.Nf3 Nxc3 7.dxc3
Be7 8.Bd3 Bg4 9.Bf4 c6 10.Qc2 h6 11.h3 Be6 12.Nd4 O-O 13.O-O-O
c5 14.Nxe6 fxe6 15.Bh2 Qa5 16.Kb1 Nc6 17.f4 b5 18.Qe2 b4 19.c4
Bd8 20.Qg4 Nd4 21.Qg6 Rf7 22.cxd5 b3 23.a3 exd5 24.e6 Rf6 25.Qh7+
Kf8 26.Qh8+ Ke7 27.Qxg7+ Kxe6 28.f5+ Nxf5 29.Rhe1+ 1-0

[Event "RA March Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.03.01"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Xu, Daniel"]
[Black "Labib, Daniel"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D44"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.Bg5 dxc4 6.e4 b5 7.e5 h6
8.Bh4 g5 9.Nxg5 hxg5 10.Bxg5 Nbd7 11.g3 Bb7 12.Bg2 Qb6 13.exf6
c5 14.Bxb7 Qxb7 15.O-O O-O-O 16.dxc5 Ne5 17.Nd5 Rxd5 18.Qe2 Bxc5
19.a4 Nd3 20.Be3 Bxe3 21.fxe3 Rdh5 22.axb5 Rxh2 23.Qxh2 Rxh2
24.Kxh2 Qxb5 25.Rxa7 Qxb2+ 26.Kg1 Ne5 27.Rfa1 Ng4 28.Ra8+ Kc7
29.R1a7+ Kc6 30.Rc8+ Kd6 31.Ra6+ Kd7 32.Rf8 Qf2+ 0-1

[Event "RA March Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.03.01"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Chiku-Ratte, Olivier Kenta"]
[Black "Mahdjoubi, Abdelaziz"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A24"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Bg2 O-O 5.O-O c6 6.b3 Ne4 7.d4 c5
8.Bb2 Nc6 9.Qc2 f5 10.e3 d5 11.cxd5 Qxd5 12.Rd1 Nb4 13.Qe2 b6
14.Na3 Ba6 15.Nc4 Rad8 16.dxc5 Bxc4 17.bxc4 Qxc5 18.Bxg7 Kxg7
19.Qb2+ Kf7 20.a3 Nd3 21.Rxd3 1-0

[Event "RA March Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.03.01"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Black "Pace, Chris"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B10"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.Nf3 g6 2.e4 Bg7 3.g3 c6 4.d3 d5 5.Nbd2 dxe4 6.dxe4 Nf6 7.Bg2
O-O 8.O-O Na6 9.Re1 Nc5 10.e5 Nd5 11.Nb3 Nxb3 12.axb3 Qc7 13.Qd4
f6 14.Qh4 Bf5 15.c3 fxe5 16.Bh6 Bf6 17.Qc4 Rfd8 18.Rad1 Rac8
19.b4 Be6 20.Qe2 Nb6 21.Ng5 Bb3 22.Ra1 Rd6 23.h4 a6 24.h5 Bh8
25.Ne4 Z0 1-0

[Event "RA March Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.03.01"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Masse, Hugues"]
[Black "Demchenko, Svitlana"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A15"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.b3 Nf6 2.Bb2 g6 3.Nf3 Bg7 4.g3 d6 5.Bg2 e5 6.d3 O-O 7.O-O Nc6
8.c4 Nh5 9.Nc3 f5 10.Ne1 Be6 11.Nc2 Qd7 12.Nd5 f4 13.Qd2 Bh3
14.Rfe1 Bxg2 15.Kxg2 e4 16.Bxg7 f3+ 17.exf3 exf3+ 18.Kh1 Qh3
19.Rg1 Nxg7 20.Rae1 Ne5 21.Nce3 Ne6 22.d4 Nc6 23.g4 Ng5 24.Nf5
h6 25.Rg3 Qg2+ 26.Rxg2 fxg2+ 27.Kxg2 gxf5 28.h4 Nf7 29.Nxc7 Rac8
30.Ne6 Rfe8 31.gxf5 Kh8 32.Kh2 Rg8 33.f3 d5 34.c5 Rce8 35.b4
Nb8 36.Nf4 Nc6 37.Re6 Ncd8 38.Rxe8 Rxe8 39.Nxd5 Nc6 40.Nf4 Rd8
41.d5 Nce5 42.Ng6+ Kh7 43.Nxe5 Nxe5 44.Kg3 Nd7 45.Qd4 h5 46.Kf4
Rg8 47.c6 1-0

[Event "RA March Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2020.03.01"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Schofield, Mike"]
[Black "Zhu, Matthew"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B83"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.Nf3 d6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Bd7 6.Be3 Nf6 7.Be2
e6 8.O-O Be7 9.Qd2 a6 10.f4 O-O 11.a3 Qc7 12.Bf3 Rfd8 13.Qf2
Rdc8 14.Rac1 Rab8 15.Nf5 b5 16.Nxe7+ Nxe7 17.e5 Nfd5 18.exd6
Qxd6 19.Ne4 Qc7 20.Bd4 Ng6 21.Nc5 Qd6 22.Nxd7 Qxd7 23.Rfd1 Qc6
24.f5 Nf8 25.f6 gxf6 26.Bxd5 exd5 27.Bxf6 Rb7 28.Bd4 Rd7 29.Rd3
Rd6 30.Qf5 Re8 31.Rf1 Qd7 32.Qxd7 Rxd7 33.c3 Re6 34.Rfd1 Ng6
35.Rg3 Re4 36.Re3 f5 37.g3 Kf7 38.Red3 Ne7 39.Bf2 Ke6 40.Kf1
Nc6 41.Kg2 Ne5 42.Rd4 Ng4 43.h3 Nxf2 44.Kxf2 Ke5 45.R1d2 Rd6 1/2-1/2