2021 National Capital Open November 5,6,7

[Halldor P. Palsson]

2021 National Capital Open
An EOCA Grand Prix Event, see website at www.eoca.ca

Date: November 5,6,7, 2021
Place: RA Centre, 2451 Riverside Drive, Ottawa – Courtside A&B.

BRING PAPER COPIES OF PROOF OF VACCINATION OR A PICTURE OF THE PAPER ON YOUR MOBILE DEVICE. YOU ALSO NEED A PICTURE ID. THIS IS A SHOW ME YOUR PAPERS OPERATION AT THE RA. NO QR SCANING.

YOU CAN ONLY ENTER THE RA AT THE WEST ENTRANCE.

Rounds: 5, Friday 7:00 PM Saturday & Sunday @ 10 AM & 3 PM.
Type: Regular Swiss
Prizes: $$BEN. Sections and prizes are based on projected entries.
Open - (rated FIDE & CFC); 1st $600, 2nd $300 3rd $150: U2200 $100 & U2050 $100;
U 1900 – (rated CFC); 1st $300, 2nd $160 3rd $100; U1750 $100;
U1600 – (rated CFC) 1st $200, 2nd $140 3rd100;

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

Entry Fee: Open $100 if pre-registered, $120 at site;
U1900 $80 if pre-registered, $100 at site;
U1600 $60 if pre-registered, $80 at site.
Free entry for GM/WGM & IM/WIM. CFC National Master is $80 if entered by e-mail by October 29. GM Bator Sambuev is playing.

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

CFC or FQE membership is required.

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

Prizes: $$BEN

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

Registration: Halldor P. Palsson by e-mail & Interac e-transfers to fs889@ncf.ca

In person at the RA Chess Club October 28 & November 4

We are limited to 60 participants if the same public health capacity regulations are in place at the RA as for 2021 RA Fall Open.

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

[Halldor P. Palsson]

My capacity is increased from 60 to 80 with covid restrictions. We are at 80 of 80.

NO MORE ENTRIES.

2021 National Capital Open: 2021 National Capital Open

# Name/Rating/ID
1 Bator Sambuev
2589 146462 (2641) (4128290)
2 Koosha Jaferian
2507 174318 (unr.) (12507440)
3 Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux
2378 155300 (2345) (2620049)
4 Zachary Dukic
2365 149507 (2265) (2617188)
5 Maroun Tomb
2301 130071 (2264) (5300398)
6 William Li
2299 154677 (2208) (2619750)
7 Svitlana Demchenko
2281 156853 (2265) (14149893)
8 Christopher Pace
2271 141390 (2079) (2610167)
9 Johnathan Han
2255 161709 (2040) (2629631)
10 Tyler Tanaka
2227 159441 (2166) (7002351)
11 Eddie Xu
2209 166274 (2057) (2632160)
12 Daniel Abrahams
2202 134333 (2152) (2606879)
13 Saeid Sadeghi
2137 139655 (2112) (2606810)
14 Jake Van Rooy
2116 152635 (2038) (2622670)
15 Vishruth Sharma
2081 156776 (1846) (2621215)
16 Robert Villeneuve
2044 101284 (2083) (2620685)
17 Savio Joseph Benher
2001 161296 (2032) (2629453)
18 Danail Donev
1994 143574 (2106) (2604094)
19 Owen Fiedorowicz
1989
20 Sanjay Ramesh
1943 162979 (1820) (2631270)
21 Daniel Labib
1927 162841 (1868) (2637090)
22 Nicolae Oancea
1906 139674 (1742) (1211870)
23 Rafael Adam
1901 165899 (1812) (2630958)
24 Riley Khan
1900 166965 (1855) (2637570)
25 Michael Shi
1893 167348 (1791) (2634090)
26 Brian Zhang
1810 167959 (1611) (2637545)

2021 National Capital Open: 2021 National Capital U1900

# Name/Rating/ID
1 Alexandre Khan
1877 163542 (1777) (2632497)
2 Ray Kuryliw
1848 105482 (1840) (2604833)
3 Dan Kearnan
1840 137473 (1780) (2628082)
4 Andre Bastien
1819 110528 (1719)
5 Alexander Stopic
1813 160017 (1742) (2630036)
6 Jeff Groot-Lipman
1806 102773 (1950) (2625628)
7 Ilia Batorshyn
1782 167504 (1984) (2633140)
8 Anni Guo
1775 163250 (2075) (2631350)
9 Zhou Fang
1770 170276 (1719)
10 Jan Huus
1764 112601 (1747) (2636190)
11 William Landstrom
1757 162880 (1705) (2633540)
12 Derek Wang
1756 166573 (1646) (2636115)
13 Marcel Laurin
1731 100337 (1795) (2604906)
14 Henry Hughes
1728 160188 (1739) (329219082)
15 Randika Balasooriya
1726 150499 (1636) (2635968)
16 Oscar Steinhauser
1720 174357
17 Vinushan Vijendra
1706 165228 (1613) (2633590)
18 Nicolas Dupont-Mageau
1690 156184 (1684) (2635984)
19 Victor Samuel
1631 112306 (1531) (2629062)
20 Simon Perkins
1606 107582 (1716) (2618737)
21 Bhavik Chhatralia
1601 172737 (1556) (2640317)
22 Benjamin Allamel
1584 171519 (1558)
23 Glib Dunikov
1502 172705 (1508) (150267727)

2021 National Capital Open: 2021 National Capital U1600

# Name/Rating/ID
1 Vicente Costa
1597 174409 (unr.) (1942409)
2 Maxim Rousskikh
1576 173654 (1533)
3 Valori Ethier
1403 103661 (1262)
4 Jeremy Sztuka
1371 162452 (1366) (2629089)
5 Douglas Graham
1369 169362 (1319) (2636182)
6 Tristan Masters
1353 164912 (1340)
7 Jess Fiedorowicz
1344
8 Mohammed Hadid
1344 167255 (1932) (167255)
9 Veronica Hitchlock
1340 167285 (1240)
10 Pierre Arcand
1308 160146 (1131)
11 Michelle Zhang
1299 170960 ( 719) (2637677)
12 David Dunikov
1270 172706 (1246)
13 Neil Moses
1179 170949 (1113) (2640627)
14 Caden Shen
1122 164560 (1155) (16455741)
15 Neerav Mullur
1064 152505 (1094)
16 Tristan Vena
974 174397
17 Cody Griffiths
unr. 172958 (1456)
18 Tyler Mathews
unr. 172941 (1281)
19 Richard Wood
unr. 174501
20 Oliver Byl
unr. 174403
21 Long Bui
unr. 174504
22 Jordan Prentice
unr. 174510
23 Malcolm Arendt
unr. 173025 (1132)
24 Elizabeth Nagnibedovsky
unr.
25 Charlie Trudeau
unr. 174229
26 Elber Zhu
unr. 174325
27 Ismail Badawi
unr. 174334
28 Leonardo Neves
unr.
29 Nick Petryna
unr. 174457
30 Edison Zhu
unr. 174324
31 Erik Smith
unr. 174446

[Halldor P. Palsson]

Reminder: The RA has to verify your vaccination status as you enter the facility. You enter at the west end of the building. There is a mask mandate in the RA and you are expected to wear a mask at all times.

The time control will be 90 minutes plus 30 sec per move. The playing session will be from 7 PM until 10:45 PM. The round will start promptly at 7 PM and time forfeit is 30 min later when the clock has 59 on it.

The RA closes at 11 PM. At 10:45 -10:50 the games still in progress will be adjudicated by the TD with whatever assistance is available to him.

Pairings for Round 1.

2021 National Capital Open

Bd # Res White # Res Black
1 14 0 Jake Van Rooy (2116 0.0) 1 1 Bator Sambuev (2589 0.0)
2 2 1 Koosha Jaferian (2507 0.0) 15 0 Vishruth Sharma (2081 0.0)
3 18 0 Danail Donev (1994 0.0) 3 1 Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux (2378 0.0)
4 4 1 Zachary Dukic (2365 0.0) 19 0 Owen Fiedorowicz (1989 0.0)
5 20 1 Sanjay Ramesh (1943 0.0) 5 0 Maroun Tomb (2301 0.0)
6 6 1 William Li (2299 0.0) 21 0 Daniel Labib (1927 0.0)
7 22 0 Nicolae Oancea (1906 0.0) 7 1 Svitlana Demchenko (2281 0.0)
8 9 1 Johnathan Han (2255 0.0) 23 0 Rafael Adam (1901 0.0)
9 24 0 Riley Khan (1900 0.0) 10 1 Tyler Tanaka (2227 0.0)
10 11 1 Eddie Xu (2209 0.0) 25 0 Michael Shi (1893 0.0)
11 26 0 Brian Zhang (1810 0.0) 13 1 Saeid Sadeghi (2137 0.0)
8 ½ Christopher Pace (2271 0.0) BYE
12 ½ Daniel Abrahams (2202 0.0) BYE
16 ½ Robert Villeneuve (2044 0.0) BYE
17 ½ Savio Joseph Benher (2019 0.0) BYE

Pairings for Round 1.

2021 National Capital U1900

Bd # Res White # Res Black
14 13 0 Derek Wang (1756 0.0) 1 1 Alexandre Khan (1877 0.0)
15 2 0 Ray Kuryliw (1848 0.0) 15 1 Henry Hughes (1728 0.0)
16 16 1 Randika Balasooriya (1726 0.0) 3 0 Dan Kearnan (1840 0.0)
17 5 1 Alexander Stopic (1813 0.0) 17 0 Oscar Steinhauser (1720 0.0)
18 18 0 Kamal Balazadeh (1713 0.0) 6 1 Jeff Groot-Lipman (1806 0.0)
19 7 1 Ilia Batorshyn (1782 0.0) 19 0 Nicolas Dupont-Mageau (1690 0.0)
20 20 ½ Victor Samuel (1631 0.0) 8 ½ Nick Petryna (1780 0.0)
21 9 1 Anni Guo (1775 0.0) 21 0 Simon Perkins (1606 0.0)
22 22 0 Bhavik Chhatralia (1601 0.0) 10 1 Zhou Fang (1770 0.0)
23 11 1 Jan Huus (1764 0.0) 23 0 Benjamin Allamel (1584 0.0)
4 ½ Andre Bastien (1819 0.0) BYE
12 ½ William Landstrom (1757 0.0) BYE
14 ½ Marcel Laurin (1731 0.0) BYE
24 1 Glib Dunikov (1502 0.0) BYE

Pairings for Round 1.

2021 National Capital U1600

Bd # Res White # Res Black
26 16 1 Caden Shen (1122 0.0) 1 0 Vicente Costa (1597 0.0)
27 2 1 Maxim Rousskikh (1576 0.0) 17 0 Neerav Mullur (1064 0.0)
28 18 0 Tristan Vena ( 974 0.0) 3 1 Romy Peters (1485 0.0)
29 4 0 Valori Ethier (1403 0.0) 19 1 Elber Zhu ( 891 0.0)
30 20 1 Cody Griffiths (unr. 0.0) 5 0 Jeremy Sztuka (1371 0.0)
31 6 1 Douglas Graham (1369 0.0) 21 0 Tyler Mathews (unr. 0.0)
32 22 ½ Richard Wood (unr. 0.0) 7 ½ Jess Fiedorowicz (1344 0.0)
33 8 1 Mohammed Hadid (1344 0.0) 23 0 Oliver Byl (unr. 0.0)
34 24 ½ Long Bui (unr. 0.0) 9 ½ Veronica Hitchlock (1340 0.0)
35 11 0 Pierre Arcand (1308 0.0) 25 1 Jordan Prentice (unr. 0.0)
36 26 1 Malcolm Arendt (unr. 0.0) 12 0 Michelle Zhang (1299 0.0)
37 13 1 David Dunikov (1270 0.0) 28 0 Charlie Trudeau (unr. 0.0)
38 29 0 Ismail Badawi (unr. 0.0) 10 1 Neil Moses (1313 0.0)
39 14 0 John Hay (1167 0.0) 30 1 Leonardo Neves (unr. 0.0)
40 31 0 Erik Smith (unr. 0.0) 15 1 Edison Zhu (1142 0.0)
27 ½ Elizabeth Nagnibedovsky (unr. 0.0) BYE

[Aris Marghetis]

That is AWESOME that you've reached 80 out of 80!!

[Halldor P. Palsson]

2021 National Capital Open
Bd # Res White # Res Black
1 1 Bator Sambuev (2589 1.0) 9 Johnathan Han (2255 1.0)
2 7 Svitlana Demchenko (2281 1.0) 2 Koosha Jaferian (2507 1.0)
3 3 Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux (2378 1.0) 11 Eddie Xu (2209 1.0)
4 10 Tyler Tanaka (2227 1.0) 4 Zachary Dukic (2365 1.0)
5 20 Sanjay Ramesh (1943 1.0) 6 William Li (2299 1.0)
6 16 Robert Villeneuve (2044 0.5) 8 Christopher Pace (2271 0.5)
7 17 Savio Joseph Benher (2019 0.5) 12 Daniel Abrahams (2202 0.5)
8 5 Maroun Tomb (2301 0.0) 21 Daniel Labib (1927 0.0)
9 23 Rafael Adam (1901 0.0) 14 Jake Van Rooy (2116 0.0)
10 15 Vishruth Sharma (2081 0.0) 22 Nicolae Oancea (1906 0.0)
11 25 Michael Shi (1893 0.0) 18 Danail Donev (1994 0.0)
12 19 Owen Fiedorowicz (1989 0.0) 24 Riley Khan (1900 0.0)
26 1 Brian Zhang (1810 0.0) BYE
13 ½ Saeid Sadeghi (2137 1.0) BYE

2021 National Capital U1900

Bd # Res White # Res Black
14 1 Alexandre Khan (1877 1.0) 9 Anni Guo (1775 1.0)
15 11 Jan Huus (1764 1.0) 5 Alexander Stopic (1813 1.0)
16 6 Jeff Groot-Lipman (1806 1.0) 16 Randika Balasooriya (1726 1.0)
17 15 Henry Hughes (1728 1.0) 7 Ilia Batorshyn (1782 1.0)
18 4 Andre Bastien (1819 0.5) 24 Glib Dunikov (1502 1.0)
19 8 Nick Petryna (1780 0.5) 14 Marcel Laurin (1731 0.5)
20 3 Dan Kearnan (1840 0.0) 20 Victor Samuel (1631 0.5)
21 21 Simon Perkins (1606 0.0) 2 Ray Kuryliw (1848 0.0)
22 23 Benjamin Allamel (1584 0.0) 13 Derek Wang (1756 0.0)
23 17 Oscar Steinhauser (1720 0.0) 22 Bhavik Chhatralia (1601 0.0)
10 ½ Zhou Fang (1770 1.0) BYE
18 ½ Kamal Balazadeh (1713 0.0) BYE
12 ½ William Landstrom (1757 0.5) BYE
19 ½ Nicolas Dupont-Mageau (1690 0.0) BYE



2021 National Capital U1600

Bd # Res White # Res Black
26 15 Edison Zhu (1142 1.0) 2 Maxim Rousskikh (1576 1.0)
27 3 Romy Peters (1485 1.0) 16 Caden Shen (1122 1.0)
28 20 Cody Griffiths (unr. 1.0) 6 Douglas Graham (1369 1.0)
29 25 Jordan Prentice (unr. 1.0) 8 Mohammed Hadid (1344 1.0)
30 10 Neil Moses (1313 1.0) 26 Malcolm Arendt (unr. 1.0)
31 30 Leonardo Neves (unr. 1.0) 13 David Dunikov (1270 1.0)
32 19 Elber Zhu ( 891 1.0) 22 Richard Wood (unr. 0.5)
33 7 Jess Fiedorowicz (1344 0.5) 24 Long Bui (unr. 0.5)
34 9 Veronica Hitchlock (1340 0.5) 27 Elizabeth Nagnibedovsky (unr. 0.5)
35 1 Vicente Costa (1597 0.0) 17 Neerav Mullur (1064 0.0)
36 21 Tyler Mathews (unr. 0.0) 4 Valori Ethier (1403 0.0)
37 5 Jeremy Sztuka (1371 0.0) 18 Tristan Vena ( 974 0.0)
38 23 Oliver Byl (unr. 0.0) 11 Pierre Arcand (1308 0.0)
39 12 Michelle Zhang (1299 0.0) 29 Ismail Badawi (unr. 0.0)
40 28 Charlie Trudeau (unr. 0.0) 14 John Hay (1167 0.0)
31 1 Erik Smith (unr. 0.0) BYE

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "National Capital Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.05"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Li, William"]
[Black "Labib, Daniel"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D32"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.e3 c5 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.cxd5 exd5 7.Bb5
a6 8.Bxc6+ bxc6 9.O-O Bd6 10.dxc5 Bxc5 11.b3 O-O 12.Bb2 Bd6 13.Rc1
Bg4 14.Na4 Rc8 {Phone} 1-0



[Event "National Capital Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.05"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Donev, Danail"]
[Black "Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B13"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.c4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bg5 dxc4 7.d5
Ne5 8.Qd4 h6 9.Bd2 Nd3+ 10.Bxd3 cxd3 11.Nf3 g6 12.O-O Bg7 13.Qxd3
O-O 14.Be3 Bf5 15.Qd2 Kh7 16.Nh4 Ne4 17.Nxe4 Bxe4 18.Rad1 e6
19.Qb4 Bxd5 20.Nf3 Qf6 21.Nd4 Rac8 22.b3 a6 23.Rc1 Rfd8 24.Ne2
Qb2 25.Rxc8 Rxc8 26.Ng3 Qxa2 27.Qe7 Kg8 28.Qd7 Ra8 29.Rc1 Qxb3
30.Rc7 e5 0-1



[Event "National Capital Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.05"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Van Rooy, Jake"]
[Black "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A09"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.g3 d5 2.Bg2 e5 3.c4 d4 4.d3 Nc6 5.Nf3 Bb4+ 6.Nbd2 a5 7.a3 Be7
8.b3 Nf6 9.O-O O-O 10.Bb2 Re8 11.Ne1 Bg4 12.Nc2 Qd7 13.Re1 Rab8
14.Ra2 b5 15.Qa1 Bh3 16.Bh1 bxc4 17.dxc4 Bc5 18.b4 axb4 19.axb4
Nxb4 20.Nxb4 Bxb4 21.Rd1 Qf5 22.Nf1 c5 23.Ba3 Bc3 24.Bb2 Rxb2
25.Rxb2 e4 26.Qb1 Bxb2 27.Qxb2 Ng4 28.e3 d3 29.Qd2 Ne5 30.f4
exf3 31.Qf2 Bxf1 32.Qxf1 g5 33.h3 h5 34.g4 hxg4 35.hxg4 Qxg4+
36.Kf2 Qh4+ 37.Kg1 Qg3+ 38.Bg2 fxg2 39.Qxg2 Qxe3+ 40.Kf1 Nxc4 0-1



[Event "National Capital Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.05"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Dukic, Zachary"]
[Black "Fiedorowicz, Owen"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D31"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 a6 4.cxd5 exd5 5.Bf4 Nf6 6.e3 Nc6 7.Bd3
Bd6 8.Qf3 O-O 9.Nge2 Be6 10.h3 Ne7 11.Bg5 Ng6 12.Bxf6 Qxf6 13.Qxf6
gxf6 14.h4 f5 15.g3 Rac8 16.Rd1 Rfd8 17.Kf1 c6 18.Kg2 Kh8 19.h5
Nf8 20.h6 Nd7 21.Rh4 Be7 22.Rf4 Bg5 23.Rf3 f4 24.gxf4 Bg4 25.fxg5
Bxf3+ 26.Kxf3 Rg8 27.Rg1 Nf8 28.Nf4 Re8 29.Bf5 Ne6 30.Bxe6 fxe6
31.Nd3 Ref8+ 32.Ke2 Rf5 33.Ne5 c5 34.Rg4 b5 35.f4 c4 36.e4 dxe4
37.Nxe4 Rd8 38.Nf6 Rf8 39.Ke3 a5 40.Ke4 b4 41.Rg1 a4 42.Rc1 a3
43.bxa3 b3 44.axb3 cxb3 45.Rb1 1-0



[Event "National Capital Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.05"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Jaferian, Koosha"]
[Black "Sharma, Vishruth"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A49"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.b3 Bg7 4.Bb2 O-O 5.g3 d6 6.Bg2 a5 7.c4 a4
8.Nbd2 c5 9.O-O Qc7 10.e3 Bf5 11.Qe2 Ne4 12.Nh4 a3 13.Nxe4 axb2
14.Qxb2 Nc6 15.Rad1 cxd4 16.exd4 Qb6 17.Nxf5 gxf5 18.Nc3 Bxd4
19.Qd2 Bxc3 20.Qxc3 Rxa2 21.Rd5 e5 22.Rxd6 Qc7 23.Rf6 Nd4 24.Qe3
Kh8 25.Bd5 f4 26.Qd3 Qe7 27.Rb6 fxg3 28.hxg3 Ne2+ 29.Kh2 Qg5
30.Qf3 f5 31.Re1 f4 32.Rxe2 fxg3+ 33.Qxg3 Qh5+ 34.Kg2 Rxe2 35.Rf6
Rd8 36.Bf3 1-0



[Event "National Capital Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.05"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Ramesh, Sanjay"]
[Black "Tomb, Maroun"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E61"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 d6 3.Nc3 Nbd7 4.Nf3 e5 5.e3 c6 6.Qc2 g6 7.Be2 Bg7
8.O-O O-O 9.b3 Qa5 10.Rb1 Re8 11.b4 Qc7 12.b5 e4 13.Nd2 Nf8 14.a4
h5 15.Ba3 Bf5 16.a5 Ne6 17.a6 c5 18.axb7 Qxb7 19.dxc5 dxc5 20.Nb3
Bf8 21.Rbd1 Rac8 22.Rd2 Ng5 23.Nd5 Re6 24.Nxf6+ Rxf6 25.Bb2 Re6
26.Qc3 f6 27.Rd5 h4 28.Rfd1 h3 29.g4 Qg7 30.gxf5 gxf5 31.Kh1
Bd6 32.Rg1 Qg6 33.Qd2 Be7 34.Rxf5 Qxf5 35.Bg4 Qxg4 36.Rxg4 Rd8
37.Qe2 Red6 38.Rg1 Rd3 39.Qh5 Rxb3 40.Rxg5+ Kf8 41.Qh8+ Kf7 42.Qh7+
Ke6 43.Qxe4+ Kf7 44.Rg7+ Kxg7 45.Qxe7+ Kg6 46.Qxf6+ Kh5 47.Qxd8 1-0



[Event "National Capital Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.05"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Oancea, Nicolae"]
[Black "Demchenko, Svitlana"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B01"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qd6 4.d4 Nf6 5.Nf3 c6 6.g3 Bg4 7.Bg2
e6 8.O-O Be7 9.Bf4 Qd8 10.Qd2 Nbd7 11.Rfe1 O-O 12.a3 Nb6 13.Ne5
Bf5 14.Rad1 Nfd5 15.Be3 f6 16.g4 fxe5 17.gxf5 Nc4 18.Qc1 Ncxe3
19.fxe3 Nxc3 20.bxc3 exf5 21.Qb2 Qc7 22.dxe5 Qxe5 23.Qxb7 Bd6
24.Qxc6 Qxh2+ 25.Kf1 Rad8 26.Re2 Kh8 27.Red2 f4 28.Bf3 Qh3+ 29.Kg1
fxe3 30.Rxd6 Qg3+ 31.Kh1 Rxd6 32.Rxd6 Qh4+ 33.Kg1 Qf2+ 34.Kh1
Qf1+ 35.Kh2 e2 36.Re6 Qf2+ 37.Bg2 Qh4+ 38.Kg1 e1Q+ 39.Rxe1 Qxe1+
40.Kh2 Qe5+ 41.Kg1 Qe3+ 42.Kh1 Qc1+ 43.Kh2 Qxc2 44.Qc5 Qf2 45.Qe7
Qf7 46.Qc5 Qf2 47.Qe7 Qf7 48.Qc5 Qf4+ 49.Kh1 Re8 50.Qg1 Qh4+ 0-1

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "National Capital Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.05"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Li, William"]
[Black "Labib, Daniel"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D32"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.e3 c5 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.cxd5 exd5 7.Bb5
a6 8.Bxc6+ bxc6 9.O-O Bd6 10.dxc5 Bxc5 11.b3 O-O 12.Bb2 Bd6 13.Rc1
Bg4 14.Na4 Rc8 {Phone} 1-0

[Event "National Capital Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.05"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Donev, Danail"]
[Black "Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B13"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.c4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bg5 dxc4 7.d5
Ne5 8.Qd4 h6 9.Bd2 Nd3+ 10.Bxd3 cxd3 11.Nf3 g6 12.O-O Bg7 13.Qxd3
O-O 14.Be3 Bf5 15.Qd2 Kh7 16.Nh4 Ne4 17.Nxe4 Bxe4 18.Rad1 e6
19.Qb4 Bxd5 20.Nf3 Qf6 21.Nd4 Rac8 22.b3 a6 23.Rc1 Rfd8 24.Ne2
Qb2 25.Rxc8 Rxc8 26.Ng3 Qxa2 27.Qe7 Kg8 28.Qd7 Ra8 29.Rc1 Qxb3
30.Rc7 e5 0-1

[Event "National Capital Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.05"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Van Rooy, Jake"]
[Black "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A09"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.g3 d5 2.Bg2 e5 3.c4 d4 4.d3 Nc6 5.Nf3 Bb4+ 6.Nbd2 a5 7.a3 Be7
8.b3 Nf6 9.O-O O-O 10.Bb2 Re8 11.Ne1 Bg4 12.Nc2 Qd7 13.Re1 Rab8
14.Ra2 b5 15.Qa1 Bh3 16.Bh1 bxc4 17.dxc4 Bc5 18.b4 axb4 19.axb4
Nxb4 20.Nxb4 Bxb4 21.Rd1 Qf5 22.Nf1 c5 23.Ba3 Bc3 24.Bb2 Rxb2
25.Rxb2 e4 26.Qb1 Bxb2 27.Qxb2 Ng4 28.e3 d3 29.Qd2 Ne5 30.f4
exf3 31.Qf2 Bxf1 32.Qxf1 g5 33.h3 h5 34.g4 hxg4 35.hxg4 Qxg4+
36.Kf2 Qh4+ 37.Kg1 Qg3+ 38.Bg2 fxg2 39.Qxg2 Qxe3+ 40.Kf1 Nxc4 0-1

[Event "National Capital Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.05"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Dukic, Zachary"]
[Black "Fiedorowicz, Owen"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D31"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 a6 4.cxd5 exd5 5.Bf4 Nf6 6.e3 Nc6 7.Bd3
Bd6 8.Qf3 O-O 9.Nge2 Be6 10.h3 Ne7 11.Bg5 Ng6 12.Bxf6 Qxf6 13.Qxf6
gxf6 14.h4 f5 15.g3 Rac8 16.Rd1 Rfd8 17.Kf1 c6 18.Kg2 Kh8 19.h5
Nf8 20.h6 Nd7 21.Rh4 Be7 22.Rf4 Bg5 23.Rf3 f4 24.gxf4 Bg4 25.fxg5
Bxf3+ 26.Kxf3 Rg8 27.Rg1 Nf8 28.Nf4 Re8 29.Bf5 Ne6 30.Bxe6 fxe6
31.Nd3 Ref8+ 32.Ke2 Rf5 33.Ne5 c5 34.Rg4 b5 35.f4 c4 36.e4 dxe4
37.Nxe4 Rd8 38.Nf6 Rf8 39.Ke3 a5 40.Ke4 b4 41.Rg1 a4 42.Rc1 a3
43.bxa3 b3 44.axb3 cxb3 45.Rb1 1-0

[Event "National Capital Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.05"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Jaferian, Koosha"]
[Black "Sharma, Vishruth"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A49"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.b3 Bg7 4.Bb2 O-O 5.g3 d6 6.Bg2 a5 7.c4 a4
8.Nbd2 c5 9.O-O Qc7 10.e3 Bf5 11.Qe2 Ne4 12.Nh4 a3 13.Nxe4 axb2
14.Qxb2 Nc6 15.Rad1 cxd4 16.exd4 Qb6 17.Nxf5 gxf5 18.Nc3 Bxd4
19.Qd2 Bxc3 20.Qxc3 Rxa2 21.Rd5 e5 22.Rxd6 Qc7 23.Rf6 Nd4 24.Qe3
Kh8 25.Bd5 f4 26.Qd3 Qe7 27.Rb6 fxg3 28.hxg3 Ne2+ 29.Kh2 Qg5
30.Qf3 f5 31.Re1 f4 32.Rxe2 fxg3+ 33.Qxg3 Qh5+ 34.Kg2 Rxe2 35.Rf6
Rd8 36.Bf3 1-0

[Event "National Capital Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.05"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Ramesh, Sanjay"]
[Black "Tomb, Maroun"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E61"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 d6 3.Nc3 Nbd7 4.Nf3 e5 5.e3 c6 6.Qc2 g6 7.Be2 Bg7
8.O-O O-O 9.b3 Qa5 10.Rb1 Re8 11.b4 Qc7 12.b5 e4 13.Nd2 Nf8 14.a4
h5 15.Ba3 Bf5 16.a5 Ne6 17.a6 c5 18.axb7 Qxb7 19.dxc5 dxc5 20.Nb3
Bf8 21.Rbd1 Rac8 22.Rd2 Ng5 23.Nd5 Re6 24.Nxf6+ Rxf6 25.Bb2 Re6
26.Qc3 f6 27.Rd5 h4 28.Rfd1 h3 29.g4 Qg7 30.gxf5 gxf5 31.Kh1
Bd6 32.Rg1 Qg6 33.Qd2 Be7 34.Rxf5 Qxf5 35.Bg4 Qxg4 36.Rxg4 Rd8
37.Qe2 Red6 38.Rg1 Rd3 39.Qh5 Rxb3 40.Rxg5+ Kf8 41.Qh8+ Kf7 42.Qh7+
Ke6 43.Qxe4+ Kf7 44.Rg7+ Kxg7 45.Qxe7+ Kg6 46.Qxf6+ Kh5 47.Qxd8 1-0

[Event "National Capital Open "]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.05"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Oancea, Nicolae"]
[Black "Demchenko, Svitlana"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B01"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 d5 2.exd5 Qxd5 3.Nc3 Qd6 4.d4 Nf6 5.Nf3 c6 6.g3 Bg4 7.Bg2
e6 8.O-O Be7 9.Bf4 Qd8 10.Qd2 Nbd7 11.Rfe1 O-O 12.a3 Nb6 13.Ne5
Bf5 14.Rad1 Nfd5 15.Be3 f6 16.g4 fxe5 17.gxf5 Nc4 18.Qc1 Ncxe3
19.fxe3 Nxc3 20.bxc3 exf5 21.Qb2 Qc7 22.dxe5 Qxe5 23.Qxb7 Bd6
24.Qxc6 Qxh2+ 25.Kf1 Rad8 26.Re2 Kh8 27.Red2 f4 28.Bf3 Qh3+ 29.Kg1
fxe3 30.Rxd6 Qg3+ 31.Kh1 Rxd6 32.Rxd6 Qh4+ 33.Kg1 Qf2+ 34.Kh1
Qf1+ 35.Kh2 e2 36.Re6 Qf2+ 37.Bg2 Qh4+ 38.Kg1 e1Q+ 39.Rxe1 Qxe1+
40.Kh2 Qe5+ 41.Kg1 Qe3+ 42.Kh1 Qc1+ 43.Kh2 Qxc2 44.Qc5 Qf2 45.Qe7
Qf7 46.Qc5 Qf2 47.Qe7 Qf7 48.Qc5 Qf4+ 49.Kh1 Re8 50.Qg1 Qh4+ 0-1

[Halldor P. Palsson]

2021 National Capital Open

Bd # Res White # Res Black
1 4 Zachary Dukic (2365 2.0) 1 Bator Sambuev (2589 2.0)
2 7 Svitlana Demchenko (2281 2.0) 3 Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux (2378 2.0)
3 13 Saeid Sadeghi (2137 1.5) 6 William Li (2299 1.5)
4 12 Daniel Abrahams (2202 1.5) 16 Robert Villeneuve (2044 1.5)
5 2 Koosha Jaferian (2507 1.0) 20 Sanjay Ramesh (1943 1.5)
6 14 Jake Van Rooy (2116 1.0) 5 Maroun Tomb (2301 1.0)
7 9 Johnathan Han (2255 1.0) 15 Vishruth Sharma (2081 1.0)
8 25 Michael Shi (1893 1.0) 10 Tyler Tanaka (2227 1.0)
9 11 Eddie Xu (2209 1.0) 24 Riley Khan (1900 1.0)
10 8 Christopher Pace (2271 0.5) 26 Brian Zhang (1810 1.0)
11 18 Danail Donev (1994 0.0) 17 Savio Joseph Benher (2019 0.5)
12 22 Nicolae Oancea (1906 0.0) 19 Owen Fiedorowicz (1989 0.0)
13 21 Daniel Labib (1927 0.0) 23 Rafael Adam (1901 0.0)

Pairings for Round 3.
2021 National Capital U1900

Bd # Res White # Res Black
14 5 Alexander Stopic (1813 2.0) 7 Ilia Batorshyn (1782 2.0)
15 9 Anni Guo (1775 2.0) 6 Jeff Groot-Lipman (1806 2.0)
16 14 Marcel Laurin (1731 1.5) 10 Zhou Fang (1770 1.5)
17 24 Glib Dunikov (1502 1.5) 1 Alexandre Khan (1877 1.0)
18 2 Ray Kuryliw (1848 1.0) 13 Derek Wang (1756 1.0)
19 15 Henry Hughes (1728 1.0) 3 Dan Kearnan (1840 1.0)
20 16 Randika Balasooriya (1726 1.0) 4 Andre Bastien (1819 1.0)
21 22 Bhavik Chhatralia (1601 1.0) 11 Jan Huus (1764 1.0)
22 19 Nicolas Dupont-Mageau (1690 0.5) 8 Nick Petryna (1780 0.5)
23 20 Victor Samuel (1631 0.5) 18 Kamal Balazadeh (1713 0.5)
24 21 Simon Perkins (1606 0.0) 17 Oscar Steinhauser (1720 0.0)
23 1 Benjamin Allamel (1584 0.0) BYE
12 ½ William Landstrom (1757 1.0) BYE

Pairings for Round 3.
2021 National Capital U1600

Bd # Res White # Res Black
26 2 Maxim Rousskikh (1576 2.0) 10 Neil Moses (1313 2.0)
27 8 Mohammed Hadid (1344 2.0) 30 Leonardo Neves (unr. 2.0)
28 16 Caden Shen (1122 2.0) 7 Jess Fiedorowicz (1344 1.5)
29 6 Douglas Graham (1369 1.5) 19 Elber Zhu ( 891 1.5)
30 9 Veronica Hitchlock (1340 1.5) 20 Cody Griffiths (unr. 1.5)
31 21 Tyler Mathews (unr. 1.0) 3 Romy Peters (1485 1.0)
32 22 Richard Wood (unr. 1.0) 5 Jeremy Sztuka (1371 1.0)
33 23 Oliver Byl (unr. 1.0) 12 Michelle Zhang (1299 1.0)
34 13 David Dunikov (1270 1.0) 25 Jordan Prentice (unr. 1.0)
35 14 John Hay (1167 1.0) 31 Erik Smith (unr. 1.0)
36 26 Malcolm Arendt (unr. 1.0) 15 Edison Zhu (1142 1.0)
37 17 Neerav Mullur (1064 1.0) 24 Long Bui (unr. 0.5)
38 27 Elizabeth Nagnibedovsky (unr. 0.5) 1 Vicente Costa (1597 0.0)
39 4 Valori Ethier (1403 0.0) 18 Tristan Vena ( 974 0.0)
40 11 Pierre Arcand (1308 0.0) 28 Charlie Trudeau (unr. 0.0)
29 1 Ismail Badawi (unr. 0.0) BYE

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "National Capital Open U1900"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.05"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Petryna, Nick"]
[Black "Laurin, Marcel"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B00"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 b6 2.Nc3 Bb7 3.d4 d6 4.Nf3 h6 5.Bc4 e6 6.O-O Nd7 7.Re1 Ne7
8.d5 e5 9.Qe2 g5 10.Ba6 Bc8 11.Bxc8 Qxc8 12.Be3 Ng6 13.Qc4 a6
14.Ne2 g4 15.Nd2 Nh4 16.Ng3 Be7 17.Nf5 Nxf5 18.exf5 Nf6 19.Ne4
Qxf5 20.Qc6+ Kf8 21.Qxa8+ Kg7 22.Nxd6 Bxd6 23.Qc6 h5 24.Rf1 h4
25.f4 exf4 26.Bd4 h3 27.Bxf6+ Kxf6 28.g3 Kg7 29.Qc3+ f6 30.b4
Be5 31.Qe1 Bd4+ 32.Rf2 fxg3 33.hxg3 Qf3 34.Qe7+ Kg6 0-1



[Event "National Capital Open U1900"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.05"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Villeneuve, Robert"]
[Black "Pace, Christopher"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C39"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.h4 g4 5.Ne5 h5 6.Bc4 Nh6 7.d4 Bg7
8.Bxf4 d6 9.Bg5 Bf6 10.O-O Bxg5 11.hxg5 dxe5 12.gxh6 O-O 13.dxe5
Qe7 14.Qd4 Nc6 15.Qc3 Nxe5 16.Nd2 Kh7 17.Qe3 Rd8 18.Rad1 Rxd2
19.Qxd2 Nxc4 20.Qd8 Qxd8 21.Rxd8 Ne5 22.Re8 Nc4 1-0



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.05"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Black "Han, Johnathan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E99"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.d4 O-O 6.Be2 e5 7.O-O Nc6
8.d5 Ne7 9.Ne1 Nd7 10.Nd3 f5 11.f3 f4 12.Bd2 g5 13.Kh1 Ng6 14.Rg1
Nf6 15.c5 h5 16.g3 Ne8 17.a4 fxg3 18.Rxg3 Nf4 19.Qg1 h4 20.Rxg5
Nh3 21.Qg2 Nxg5 22.Bxg5 Qd7 23.Rg1 Qh3 24.Qf2 Kh8 25.f4 Nf6 26.Bf1
Ng4 27.Bxh3 Nxf2+ 28.Nxf2 exf4 29.Nb5 dxc5 30.Nxc7 Rb8 31.Ne6
Bxe6 32.Bxe6 Bd4 33.Bxh4 b5 34.axb5 Rxb5 35.d6 Rxb2 36.Rf1 c4
37.Bxc4 Rc2 38.Bd5 Be5 39.Be7 Rb8 40.Nd3 Bd4 41.d7 Bb6 42.e5
Rd2 43.Bf6+ Kh7 44.Be4+ Kh6 45.Rxf4 1-0



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.05"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Demchenko, Svitlana"]
[Black "Jaferian, Koosha"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E20"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.f3 c5 5.d5 d6 6.e4 b5 7.a3 Bxc3+
8.bxc3 bxc4 9.Bxc4 O-O 10.Ne2 Na6 11.O-O Nc7 12.Bb3 exd5 13.exd5
Bf5 14.c4 Rb8 15.Bc2 Bxc2 16.Qxc2 Qe7 17.Bb2 Qe3+ 18.Rf2 Nd7
19.Ng3 f5 20.Bc3 Qg5 21.f4 Qg6 22.Re1 Rbe8 23.Rxe8 Rxe8 24.Nxf5
Nb6 25.Rf3 Nxc4 26.Rg3 Nxa3 27.Rxg6 hxg6 28.Qc1 Nab5 29.Ne3 Re4
30.f5 gxf5 31.Nxf5 Rg4 32.h3 Nxc3 33.Qxc3 Rg5 34.g4 Kh7 35.Qe3
Rg6 36.Qe4 Kh8 37.Ne7 Rf6 38.g5 1-0



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.05"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn"]
[Black "Xu, Eddie"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A14"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.c4 e6 2.g3 Nf6 3.Bg2 d5 4.Nf3 Be7 5.O-O O-O 6.b3 b6 7.Bb2 Bb7
8.e3 c5 9.Nc3 dxc4 10.bxc4 Nc6 11.Qe2 Nb4 12.d4 cxd4 13.exd4
Rc8 14.Rac1 Ba6 15.Ne5 Nd7 16.Rfd1 Nxe5 17.dxe5 Qe8 18.Nb5 Nxa2
19.Ra1 Bxb5 20.cxb5 Nb4 21.Rxa7 Rc2 22.Rd2 Rxd2 23.Qxd2 Bc5 24.Qd7
Qxd7 25.Rxd7 h6 26.Be4 Rc8 27.Kg2 Kf8 28.Bc3 Ke8 29.Rb7 Nd5 30.Bxd5
exd5 31.e6 fxe6 32.Bxg7 Ra8 33.Bxh6 Ra2 34.h4 Rxf2+ 35.Kh3 e5
36.g4 e4 37.g5 Bd4 38.g6 e3 39.g7 Bxg7 40.Rxg7 e2 41.Bd2 Rf1
42.Rg5 e1Q 43.Bxe1 Rxe1 44.Rxd5 Ke7 45.Kg4 Ke6 46.Rg5 Kd6 47.h5
Rh1 48.Kf5 Kc5 49.Kg6+ Kb4 50.h6 Rh2 51.h7 Rh1 52.Kg7 1-0



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.05"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Joseph Benher, Savio"]
[Black "Abrahams, Daniel"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B41"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.c4 Nf6 6.Nc3 Qc7 7.a3
b6 8.Be2 Bb7 9.f3 d6 10.O-O Nbd7 11.Be3 Be7 12.Qd2 O-O 13.Rfc1
Rac8 14.a4 Qb8 15.a5 bxa5 16.Rxa5 Rfe8 17.Raa1 Bd8 18.b4 Bc7
19.b5 axb5 20.Ndxb5 d5 21.Nxc7 Rxc7 22.cxd5 exd5 23.Bf4 dxe4
24.Bxc7 Qxc7 25.Nxe4 Qe5 26.Nd6 Qxe2 27.Qxe2 Rxe2 28.Nxb7 g5
29.Nc5 Nb6 30.Re1 Rc2 31.Rac1 Ra2 32.Ne4 Nfd5 33.Nc3 Ra5 34.Nxd5
Nxd5 35.Rcd1 Nf4 36.g3 Ne6 37.Kf2 Kg7 38.Rd2 Kg6 39.Kg2 h6 40.Re4
Ra3 41.h4 Rb3 42.Rc4 Ra3 43.f4 gxf4 44.gxf4 Kf5 45.Rf2 Ra5 46.Kg3
Nc5 47.Re2 Ra3+ 48.Kg2 Ne6 49.Ree4 Rd3 50.Kf2 Rh3 51.Kg2 Rxh4
52.Kg3 Rg4+ 53.Kf3 Rh4 54.Re5+ Kf6 55.Ra5 Rh1 56.Kg2 Rd1 57.Rb4
Rd3 58.Re4 Rb3 59.Kf2 Rh3 60.Rb4 Rc3 61.Kg2 Rd3 62.Rh5 Kg6 63.Rh3
Rd1 64.Kf3 Rf1+ 65.Ke4 Rxf4+ 66.Ke5 Rxb4 67.Rg3+ Ng5 68.Kd5 Rf4
69.Ke5 Rf5+ 70.Kd4 h5 71.Ra3 h4 72.Ra6+ f6 73.Ra8 h3 74.Ke3 h2
75.Ra1 Rf3+ 76.Ke2 f5 77.Rh1 Ra3 78.Kf2 f4 79.Kg2 Ra2+ 80.Kf1
f3 81.Rxh2 Rxh2 82.Kg1 Re2 83.Kf1 Kf5 84.Kg1 Kf4 0-1



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.05"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Tanaka, Tyler"]
[Black "Dukic, Zachary"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D11"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.Nf3 d5 2.b3 Bg4 3.g3 Nd7 4.Bb2 c6 5.Bg2 Ngf6 6.O-O e6 7.c4
Bd6 8.d4 O-O 9.Nbd2 a5 10.a3 h6 11.Ne5 Bf5 12.Qe1 Bxe5 13.dxe5
Ng4 14.e4 dxe4 15.Nxe4 Ngxe5 16.Rd1 Qb6 17.Qc3 f6 18.c5 Qc7 19.f4
Ng6 20.Nd6 Bg4 21.Rd2 Ne7 22.h3 Bh5 23.Qe3 Bf7 24.Nxf7 Rxf7 25.Qxe6
Nxc5 26.Qc4 Nd7 27.Re1 Nb6 28.Qe6 Nbd5 29.Bf3 Qb6+ 30.Kh2 Qxb3
31.Bd1 Qb6 32.f5 Nc7 33.Qc4 Ncd5 34.Bh5 Raf8 35.Bd4 Qc7 36.Bxf7+
Rxf7 37.Bc5 Nxf5 38.Re8+ Kh7 39.Bf2 Nd6 40.Qd3+ f5 41.Ra8 Ne4
42.Re2 Ndf6 43.Kg2 Rd7 44.Qf3 Qe5 45.Be1 b6 46.a4 Qd5 47.Rc8
Rd6 48.Rb2 Qe6 49.Rc7 Ng5 50.Qf2 Qd5+ 51.Kf1 Re6 52.Qg2 Qd3+
53.Kf2 Qe3+ 0-1

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "National Capital Open U1900"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.05"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Petryna, Nick"]
[Black "Laurin, Marcel"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B00"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 b6 2.Nc3 Bb7 3.d4 d6 4.Nf3 h6 5.Bc4 e6 6.O-O Nd7 7.Re1 Ne7
8.d5 e5 9.Qe2 g5 10.Ba6 Bc8 11.Bxc8 Qxc8 12.Be3 Ng6 13.Qc4 a6
14.Ne2 g4 15.Nd2 Nh4 16.Ng3 Be7 17.Nf5 Nxf5 18.exf5 Nf6 19.Ne4
Qxf5 20.Qc6+ Kf8 21.Qxa8+ Kg7 22.Nxd6 Bxd6 23.Qc6 h5 24.Rf1 h4
25.f4 exf4 26.Bd4 h3 27.Bxf6+ Kxf6 28.g3 Kg7 29.Qc3+ f6 30.b4
Be5 31.Qe1 Bd4+ 32.Rf2 fxg3 33.hxg3 Qf3 34.Qe7+ Kg6 0-1

[Event "National Capital Open U1900"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.05"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Villeneuve, Robert"]
[Black "Pace, Christopher"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C39"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Nf3 g5 4.h4 g4 5.Ne5 h5 6.Bc4 Nh6 7.d4 Bg7
8.Bxf4 d6 9.Bg5 Bf6 10.O-O Bxg5 11.hxg5 dxe5 12.gxh6 O-O 13.dxe5
Qe7 14.Qd4 Nc6 15.Qc3 Nxe5 16.Nd2 Kh7 17.Qe3 Rd8 18.Rad1 Rxd2
19.Qxd2 Nxc4 20.Qd8 Qxd8 21.Rxd8 Ne5 22.Re8 Nc4 1-0

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.05"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Black "Han, Johnathan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E99"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.d4 O-O 6.Be2 e5 7.O-O Nc6
8.d5 Ne7 9.Ne1 Nd7 10.Nd3 f5 11.f3 f4 12.Bd2 g5 13.Kh1 Ng6 14.Rg1
Nf6 15.c5 h5 16.g3 Ne8 17.a4 fxg3 18.Rxg3 Nf4 19.Qg1 h4 20.Rxg5
Nh3 21.Qg2 Nxg5 22.Bxg5 Qd7 23.Rg1 Qh3 24.Qf2 Kh8 25.f4 Nf6 26.Bf1
Ng4 27.Bxh3 Nxf2+ 28.Nxf2 exf4 29.Nb5 dxc5 30.Nxc7 Rb8 31.Ne6
Bxe6 32.Bxe6 Bd4 33.Bxh4 b5 34.axb5 Rxb5 35.d6 Rxb2 36.Rf1 c4
37.Bxc4 Rc2 38.Bd5 Be5 39.Be7 Rb8 40.Nd3 Bd4 41.d7 Bb6 42.e5
Rd2 43.Bf6+ Kh7 44.Be4+ Kh6 45.Rxf4 1-0

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.05"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Demchenko, Svitlana"]
[Black "Jaferian, Koosha"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E20"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.f3 c5 5.d5 d6 6.e4 b5 7.a3 Bxc3+
8.bxc3 bxc4 9.Bxc4 O-O 10.Ne2 Na6 11.O-O Nc7 12.Bb3 exd5 13.exd5
Bf5 14.c4 Rb8 15.Bc2 Bxc2 16.Qxc2 Qe7 17.Bb2 Qe3+ 18.Rf2 Nd7
19.Ng3 f5 20.Bc3 Qg5 21.f4 Qg6 22.Re1 Rbe8 23.Rxe8 Rxe8 24.Nxf5
Nb6 25.Rf3 Nxc4 26.Rg3 Nxa3 27.Rxg6 hxg6 28.Qc1 Nab5 29.Ne3 Re4
30.f5 gxf5 31.Nxf5 Rg4 32.h3 Nxc3 33.Qxc3 Rg5 34.g4 Kh7 35.Qe3
Rg6 36.Qe4 Kh8 37.Ne7 Rf6 38.g5 1-0

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.05"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn"]
[Black "Xu, Eddie"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A14"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.c4 e6 2.g3 Nf6 3.Bg2 d5 4.Nf3 Be7 5.O-O O-O 6.b3 b6 7.Bb2 Bb7
8.e3 c5 9.Nc3 dxc4 10.bxc4 Nc6 11.Qe2 Nb4 12.d4 cxd4 13.exd4
Rc8 14.Rac1 Ba6 15.Ne5 Nd7 16.Rfd1 Nxe5 17.dxe5 Qe8 18.Nb5 Nxa2
19.Ra1 Bxb5 20.cxb5 Nb4 21.Rxa7 Rc2 22.Rd2 Rxd2 23.Qxd2 Bc5 24.Qd7
Qxd7 25.Rxd7 h6 26.Be4 Rc8 27.Kg2 Kf8 28.Bc3 Ke8 29.Rb7 Nd5 30.Bxd5
exd5 31.e6 fxe6 32.Bxg7 Ra8 33.Bxh6 Ra2 34.h4 Rxf2+ 35.Kh3 e5
36.g4 e4 37.g5 Bd4 38.g6 e3 39.g7 Bxg7 40.Rxg7 e2 41.Bd2 Rf1
42.Rg5 e1Q 43.Bxe1 Rxe1 44.Rxd5 Ke7 45.Kg4 Ke6 46.Rg5 Kd6 47.h5
Rh1 48.Kf5 Kc5 49.Kg6+ Kb4 50.h6 Rh2 51.h7 Rh1 52.Kg7 1-0

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.05"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Joseph Benher, Savio"]
[Black "Abrahams, Daniel"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B41"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.c4 Nf6 6.Nc3 Qc7 7.a3
b6 8.Be2 Bb7 9.f3 d6 10.O-O Nbd7 11.Be3 Be7 12.Qd2 O-O 13.Rfc1
Rac8 14.a4 Qb8 15.a5 bxa5 16.Rxa5 Rfe8 17.Raa1 Bd8 18.b4 Bc7
19.b5 axb5 20.Ndxb5 d5 21.Nxc7 Rxc7 22.cxd5 exd5 23.Bf4 dxe4
24.Bxc7 Qxc7 25.Nxe4 Qe5 26.Nd6 Qxe2 27.Qxe2 Rxe2 28.Nxb7 g5
29.Nc5 Nb6 30.Re1 Rc2 31.Rac1 Ra2 32.Ne4 Nfd5 33.Nc3 Ra5 34.Nxd5
Nxd5 35.Rcd1 Nf4 36.g3 Ne6 37.Kf2 Kg7 38.Rd2 Kg6 39.Kg2 h6 40.Re4
Ra3 41.h4 Rb3 42.Rc4 Ra3 43.f4 gxf4 44.gxf4 Kf5 45.Rf2 Ra5 46.Kg3
Nc5 47.Re2 Ra3+ 48.Kg2 Ne6 49.Ree4 Rd3 50.Kf2 Rh3 51.Kg2 Rxh4
52.Kg3 Rg4+ 53.Kf3 Rh4 54.Re5+ Kf6 55.Ra5 Rh1 56.Kg2 Rd1 57.Rb4
Rd3 58.Re4 Rb3 59.Kf2 Rh3 60.Rb4 Rc3 61.Kg2 Rd3 62.Rh5 Kg6 63.Rh3
Rd1 64.Kf3 Rf1+ 65.Ke4 Rxf4+ 66.Ke5 Rxb4 67.Rg3+ Ng5 68.Kd5 Rf4
69.Ke5 Rf5+ 70.Kd4 h5 71.Ra3 h4 72.Ra6+ f6 73.Ra8 h3 74.Ke3 h2
75.Ra1 Rf3+ 76.Ke2 f5 77.Rh1 Ra3 78.Kf2 f4 79.Kg2 Ra2+ 80.Kf1
f3 81.Rxh2 Rxh2 82.Kg1 Re2 83.Kf1 Kf5 84.Kg1 Kf4 0-1

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.05"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Tanaka, Tyler"]
[Black "Dukic, Zachary"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D11"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.Nf3 d5 2.b3 Bg4 3.g3 Nd7 4.Bb2 c6 5.Bg2 Ngf6 6.O-O e6 7.c4
Bd6 8.d4 O-O 9.Nbd2 a5 10.a3 h6 11.Ne5 Bf5 12.Qe1 Bxe5 13.dxe5
Ng4 14.e4 dxe4 15.Nxe4 Ngxe5 16.Rd1 Qb6 17.Qc3 f6 18.c5 Qc7 19.f4
Ng6 20.Nd6 Bg4 21.Rd2 Ne7 22.h3 Bh5 23.Qe3 Bf7 24.Nxf7 Rxf7 25.Qxe6
Nxc5 26.Qc4 Nd7 27.Re1 Nb6 28.Qe6 Nbd5 29.Bf3 Qb6+ 30.Kh2 Qxb3
31.Bd1 Qb6 32.f5 Nc7 33.Qc4 Ncd5 34.Bh5 Raf8 35.Bd4 Qc7 36.Bxf7+
Rxf7 37.Bc5 Nxf5 38.Re8+ Kh7 39.Bf2 Nd6 40.Qd3+ f5 41.Ra8 Ne4
42.Re2 Ndf6 43.Kg2 Rd7 44.Qf3 Qe5 45.Be1 b6 46.a4 Qd5 47.Rc8
Rd6 48.Rb2 Qe6 49.Rc7 Ng5 50.Qf2 Qd5+ 51.Kf1 Re6 52.Qg2 Qd3+
53.Kf2 Qe3+ 0-1

[Halldor P. Palsson]

TIME CHANGE ALERT. See you at 10 AM!


Pairings for Round 4.

2021 National Capital Open

Bd # Res White # Res Black
1 3 Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux (2378 3.0) 1 Bator Sambuev (2589 2.5)
2 12 Daniel Abrahams (2202 2.5) 4 Zachary Dukic (2365 2.5)
3 13 Saeid Sadeghi (2137 2.5) 2 Koosha Jaferian (2507 2.0)
4 5 Maroun Tomb (2301 2.0) 11 Eddie Xu (2209 2.0)
5 10 Tyler Tanaka (2227 2.0) 7 Svitlana Demchenko (2281 2.0)
6 6 William Li (2299 1.5) 9 Johnathan Han (2255 1.5)
7 17 Savio Joseph Benher (2019 1.5) 8 Christopher Pace (2271 1.5)
8 15 Vishruth Sharma (2081 1.5) 16 Robert Villeneuve (2044 1.5)
9 20 Sanjay Ramesh (1943 1.5) 14 Jake Van Rooy (2116 1.0)
10 23 Rafael Adam (1901 1.0) 25 Michael Shi (1893 1.0)
11 24 Riley Khan (1900 1.0) 26 Brian Zhang (1810 1.0)
12 21 Daniel Labib (1927 0.0) 18 Danail Donev (1994 0.0)
22 1 Nicolae Oancea (1906 0.0) BYE
19 ½ Owen Fiedorowicz (1989 1.0) BYE

Pairings for Round 4. 2021 National Capital Open:

2021 National Capital U1900

Bd # Res White # Res Black
14 6 Jeff Groot-Lipman (1806 2.5) 5 Alexander Stopic (1813 3.0)
15 10 Zhou Fang (1770 2.5) 9 Anni Guo (1775 2.5)
16 1 Alexandre Khan (1877 2.0) 15 Henry Hughes (1728 2.0)
17 7 Ilia Batorshyn (1782 2.0) 16 Randika Balasooriya (1726 2.0)
18 13 Derek Wang (1756 2.0) 22 Bhavik Chhatralia (1601 2.0)
19 18 Kamal Balazadeh (1713 1.5) 12 William Landstrom (1757 1.5)
20 14 Marcel Laurin (1731 1.5) 19 Nicolas Dupont-Mageau (1690 1.5)
21 3 Dan Kearnan (1840 1.0) 24 Glib Dunikov (1502 1.5)
22 11 Jan Huus (1764 1.0) 2 Ray Kuryliw (1848 1.0)
23 4 Andre Bastien (1819 1.0) 21 Simon Perkins (1606 1.0)
24 8 Nick Petryna (1780 0.5) 23 Benjamin Allamel (1584 1.0)
25 17 Oscar Steinhauser (1720 0.0) 20 Victor Samuel (1631 0.5)

Pairings for Round 4. 2021 National Capital Open:

2021 National Capital U1600
Bd # Res White # Res Black
26 8 Mohammed Hadid (1344 3.0) 2 Maxim Rousskikh (1576 3.0)
27 10 Neil Moses (1313 2.0) 6 Douglas Graham (1369 2.5)
28 20 Cody Griffiths (unr. 2.5) 13 David Dunikov (1270 2.0)
29 22 Richard Wood (unr. 2.0) 14 John Hay (1167 2.0)
30 16 Caden Shen (1122 2.0) 23 Oliver Byl (unr. 2.0)
31 17 Neerav Mullur (1064 2.0) 26 Malcolm Arendt (unr. 2.0)
32 30 Leonardo Neves (unr. 2.0) 21 Tyler Mathews (unr. 2.0)
33 19 Elber Zhu ( 891 1.5) 9 Veronica Hitchlock (1340 1.5)
34 1 Vicente Costa (1597 1.0) 29 Ismail Badawi (unr. 1.0)
35 12 Michelle Zhang (1299 1.0) 4 Valori Ethier (1403 1.0)
36 5 Jeremy Sztuka (1371 1.0) 25 Jordan Prentice (unr. 1.0)
37 31 Erik Smith (unr. 1.0) 11 Pierre Arcand (1308 1.0)
38 24 Long Bui (unr. 0.5) 15 Edison Zhu (1142 1.0)
39 18 Tristan Vena ( 974 0.0) 28 Charlie Trudeau (unr. 0.0)
7 ½ Jess Fiedorowicz (1344 2.5) BYE

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.06"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Abrahams, Daniel"]
[Black "Villeneuve, Robert"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A11"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 Nf6 3.Bg2 c6 4.O-O Bf5 5.c4 e6 6.cxd5 cxd5 7.d3
Nc6 8.Nh4 Bg6 9.Nc3 Be7 10.e4 dxe4 11.dxe4 Nd7 12.Nxg6 hxg6 13.Be3
O-O 14.Qe2 Bc5 15.Rfd1 Bxe3 16.Qxe3 Qe7 17.Rac1 Rfd8 18.a3 Nb6
19.Bf1 Rxd1 20.Rxd1 Rd8 21.Rxd8+ Qxd8 22.b4 Qd4 23.Qxd4 Nxd4
24.Nb5 Nxb5 25.Bxb5 Kf8 26.f4 Ke7 27.Kf2 Nd7 28.Ke3 e5 29.Bxd7
exf4+ 30.gxf4 Kxd7 31.Kd4 Kd6 32.a4 Ke6 33.a5 Kd6 34.b5 b6 35.axb6
axb6 36.e5+ Ke6 37.Ke4 f6 38.h4 1-0



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.06"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Shi, Michael"]
[Black "Tanaka, Tyler"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B15"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 g6 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.e5 Bg4 6.Be3 e6 7.Be2 Ne7
8.h3 Bxf3 9.Bxf3 c5 10.Be2 Nf5 11.Bb5+ Nc6 12.Bxc6+ bxc6 13.O-O
Qb8 14.Qd2 cxd4 15.Bxd4 Nxd4 16.Qxd4 Bxe5 17.Qa4 O-O 18.Ne2 Qb5
19.Qxb5 cxb5 20.c3 Rab8 21.Rab1 Rfc8 22.Rfc1 a5 23.f4 Bf6 24.a3
b4 25.cxb4 Rxc1+ 26.Nxc1 axb4 27.axb4 Rxb4 28.Nd3 Rb3 29.Ne5
Be7 30.Rc1 Bd6 31.Kf2 Rxb2+ 32.Kf3 Rb3+ 33.Kf2 Bxe5 34.fxe5 Rb4
35.Re1 Kg7 36.Kf3 f6 37.exf6+ Kxf6 0-1



[Event "2021 National Capital U1900"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.06"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Laurin, Marcel"]
[Black "Fang, Zhou"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A01"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.b3 d5 2.Bb2 c5 3.e3 Nc6 4.g3 e5 5.Bg2 Be6 6.Ne2 Nge7 7.d3 g6
8.Nd2 Bg7 9.O-O O-O 10.a3 f5 11.f4 e4 12.Bxg7 Kxg7 13.d4 cxd4
14.Nxd4 Nxd4 15.exd4 Qb6 16.c3 Rfc8 17.Rc1 Rxc3 18.Nc4 Rxc1 19.Nxb6
Rxd1 20.Nxa8 Rxf1+ 21.Bxf1 Nc6 22.Nc7 Bf7 23.Nb5 a6 24.Nd6 b5
25.Bxb5 axb5 26.Nxb5 Na5 27.b4 Nb3 28.Kf2 Kf6 29.Ke3 Ke6 30.a4
Ke7 31.a5 Be8 32.Nc7 Bc6 33.Na6 Bb5 34.Nc7 Bc6 35.h3 Kd6 36.Na6
Bb5 37.Nc5 Nxc5 38.dxc5+ Kc6 39.Kd4 Bc4 40.g4 Kb5 41.gxf5 gxf5
42.h4 Kxb4 43.c6 Kxa5 44.c7 Ba6 45.Kxd5 e3 0-1



[Event "2021 National Capital U1900"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.06"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Jaferian, Koosha"]
[Black "Ramesh, Sanjay"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A06"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.Nf3 Nf6 2.b3 d5 3.Bb2 Bf5 4.g3 e6 5.Bg2 c5 6.d3 Nc6 7.Nbd2
Be7 8.O-O h6 9.e3 O-O 10.Qe2 Qc7 11.Ne1 Rfd8 12.f4 a6 13.h3 b5
14.g4 Bh7 15.h4 h5 16.g5 Ng4 17.Bh3 d4 18.Bxg4 dxe3 19.Bxh5 exd2
20.Qxd2 c4 21.Qg2 cxd3 22.cxd3 Bxd3 23.Nxd3 Rxd3 24.Rac1 Qb6+
25.Kh1 Rc8 26.Bf3 Na7 27.Rxc8+ Nxc8 28.h5 Qd8 29.h6 Rd2 30.Qh3
gxh6 31.Qxh6 Rxb2 32.Be4 f5 33.gxf6 Bxf6 34.Rg1+ Kf7 35.Qh7+ 1-0



[Event "2021 National Capital U1900"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.06"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Dukic, Zachary"]
[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 Nf6 4.Nc3 Nbd7 5.Bc4 Be7 6.O-O O-O 7.a4
b6 8.h3 a6 9.Qe2 Bb7 10.Rd1 exd4 11.Nxd4 Re8 12.Bf4 Bf8 13.Qf3
Ne5 14.Bxe5 Rxe5 15.Bd5 Nxd5 16.exd5 Qd7 17.Nc6 Rf5 18.Qd3 Rf4
19.Ne2 Rh4 20.Ned4 Re8 21.Re1 g6 22.Kf1 Rxe1+ 23.Rxe1 Bxc6 24.dxc6
Qd8 25.b3 a5 26.Nb5 Rh5 27.Qf3 Rf5 28.Qg3 Rc5 29.c4 Rxc6 30.Nc3
Rc5 31.Nd5 Bg7 32.Qe3 Kf8 33.f4 c6 34.Nc7 Bf6 35.Qe8+ Kg7 1/2-1/2



[Event "2021 National Capital U1900"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.06"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Demchenko, Svitlana"]
[Black "Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E49"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3 d5 6.cxd5 exd5 7.Nge2
Re8 8.f3 c5 9.a3 Bxc3+ 10.bxc3 b6 11.O-O Ba6 12.Ng3 Bxd3 13.Qxd3
Nc6 14.Bb2 Rc8 15.Rad1 Qd7 16.e4 dxe4 17.fxe4 Qg4 18.e5 Nd5 19.Ne4
Rcd8 20.h3 Qg6 21.Qf3 cxd4 22.cxd4 Nce7 23.Rf2 h6 24.Rdf1 Rf8
25.a4 f6 26.exf6 Nxf6 27.Qb3+ Nfd5 28.Ng3 Rxf2 29.Rxf2 Rc8 30.Nf5
Kh7 31.Nxe7 Nxe7 32.d5 Qb1+ 33.Rf1 Qg6 34.Rf2 Rd8 35.d6 Rxd6
36.Rf7 Nf5 37.Rxa7 Rd2 38.g4 Qc6 0-1



[Event "2021 National Capital U1900"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.06"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Van Rooy, Jake"]
[Black "Tomb, Maroun"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A20"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.c4 e5 2.g3 h5 3.h3 Nc6 4.Bg2 Bc5 5.Nc3 a6 6.d3 d6 7.Rb1 Nge7
8.e3 h4 9.Nge2 hxg3 10.Nxg3 Ng6 11.Nd5 Nh4 12.Bf1 Ne7 13.Nxe7
Qxe7 14.Bd2 f5 15.Qe2 b5 16.d4 exd4 17.exd4 Bxd4 18.Qxe7+ Kxe7
19.Bg5+ Bf6 20.Bxh4 Rxh4 21.Bg2 Rb8 22.cxb5 Rxb5 23.b3 Re5+ 24.Kf1
a5 25.Bf3 Rf4 26.Bc6 Bh4 27.Kg2 Rc5 28.Rhe1+ Be6 29.Rbc1 Rxc1
30.Rxc1 g6 31.Bf3 c5 32.Ne2 Rb4 33.Nc3 Rd4 34.Rc2 Bf6 35.Re2
Be5 36.Na4 Kf6 37.Nb6 d5 38.Rc2 Bd6 39.Kf1 g5 40.Ke1 g4 41.hxg4
fxg4 42.Bg2 c4 43.Na4 Bf5 44.Rc1 Bd3 45.Nc3 Ba3 46.Nb5 Bb4+ 47.Nc3
Ke5 48.f3 g3 49.Bf1 Kf4 50.bxc4 dxc4 51.Bg2 a4 52.a3 Ba5 53.Kd2
Bf1+ 54.Kc2 Bxg2 55.Ne2+ Ke3 56.Nxd4 Kxd4 57.Rg1 Bxf3 58.Rxg3
Be4+ 59.Kc1 Bc7 60.Rg8 Bf4+ 61.Kd1 c3 62.Rd8+ Kc4 63.Rc8+ Kb3 0-1



[Event "2021 National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.06"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Sadeghi, Saeid"]
[Black "Li, William"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D00"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 d5 3.Bxf6 gxf6 4.Nf3 c5 5.e3 Nc6 6.c4 cxd4 7.cxd5
Qa5+ 8.Qd2 Qxd2+ 9.Kxd2 dxe3+ 10.fxe3 Nb4 11.Bb5+ Kd8 12.Nc3
Rg8 13.Rhg1 Bh6 14.a3 Na6 15.Bxa6 bxa6 16.Nd4 Kc7 17.Rac1 Kd6
18.Kd3 f5 19.Rcf1 e6 20.e4 f4 21.g3 e5 22.gxf4 exd4 23.Rxg8 dxc3
24.bxc3 f5 25.Kd4 fxe4 26.c4 Rb8 27.c5+ Kc7 28.Re1 Rb2 29.d6+
Kb7 30.c6+ Kxc6 31.Rxc8+ Kxd6 32.Kxe4 Rxh2 33.Rd1+ Ke6 34.Rc6+
Ke7 35.Rb1 Rh4 36.Rb7+ Kd8 37.Rf6 Ke8 38.Rxh7 Bg5 39.Re6+ Kf8
40.Rxh4 Bxh4 41.Rxa6 Bf2 42.f5 Bg1 43.f6 Bc5 44.Kf5 Kf7 45.Ra4
Bb6 46.Rc4 Bd8 47.Rc6 Bb6 48.a4 Bd8 49.Ra6 Bb6 50.a5 Bf2 51.Rc6
Bd4 52.Rc7+ Ke8 53.Ke6 Kd8 54.Rd7+ 1-0



[Event "2021 National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.06"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Han, Johnathan"]
[Black "Sharma, Vishruth"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C45"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nxc6 bxc6 6.e5 Qe7 7.Qe2
Nd5 8.c4 Ba6 9.Nd2 g6 10.Nf3 Bg7 11.Bg5 Qb4+ 12.Qd2 Qxd2+ 13.Bxd2
Nb6 14.b3 d6 15.O-O-O dxe5 16.Nxe5 Bxe5 17.Re1 Nd7 18.Bc3 f6
19.f4 O-O 20.fxe5 Nxe5 21.Bxe5 fxe5 22.Rxe5 Rf2 23.Ra5 Bb7 24.c5
Kg7 25.g3 Re8 26.Bc4 a6 27.h4 Bc8 28.Kb1 Re3 29.g4 Bxg4 30.Rxa6
Bf3 31.Rc1 Be4+ 32.Ka1 Rh3 33.Ra7 Rxh4 34.Rxc7+ Kh6 35.b4 Rhh2
36.b5 cxb5 37.Bg8 Kg5 38.Re7 Bd3 39.Rg1+ Rfg2 40.Rxg2+ Rxg2 41.Bxh7
b4 42.Re1 Bc4 43.Rc1 Rxa2+ 44.Kb1 Bd5 45.c6 Ra8 46.Rg1+ Kh6 47.Bxg6
Rg8 48.c7 Be6 49.Rh1+ Kxg6 50.Rg1+ Kf7 51.Rxg8 Kxg8 52.Kb2 Kf8
53.c8Q+ Bxc8 54.Kb3 Ke7 55.Kxb4 1/2-1/2

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.06"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Abrahams, Daniel"]
[Black "Villeneuve, Robert"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A11"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 Nf6 3.Bg2 c6 4.O-O Bf5 5.c4 e6 6.cxd5 cxd5 7.d3
Nc6 8.Nh4 Bg6 9.Nc3 Be7 10.e4 dxe4 11.dxe4 Nd7 12.Nxg6 hxg6 13.Be3
O-O 14.Qe2 Bc5 15.Rfd1 Bxe3 16.Qxe3 Qe7 17.Rac1 Rfd8 18.a3 Nb6
19.Bf1 Rxd1 20.Rxd1 Rd8 21.Rxd8+ Qxd8 22.b4 Qd4 23.Qxd4 Nxd4
24.Nb5 Nxb5 25.Bxb5 Kf8 26.f4 Ke7 27.Kf2 Nd7 28.Ke3 e5 29.Bxd7
exf4+ 30.gxf4 Kxd7 31.Kd4 Kd6 32.a4 Ke6 33.a5 Kd6 34.b5 b6 35.axb6
axb6 36.e5+ Ke6 37.Ke4 f6 38.h4 1-0

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.06"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Shi, Michael"]
[Black "Tanaka, Tyler"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B15"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 g6 4.Nf3 Bg7 5.e5 Bg4 6.Be3 e6 7.Be2 Ne7
8.h3 Bxf3 9.Bxf3 c5 10.Be2 Nf5 11.Bb5+ Nc6 12.Bxc6+ bxc6 13.O-O
Qb8 14.Qd2 cxd4 15.Bxd4 Nxd4 16.Qxd4 Bxe5 17.Qa4 O-O 18.Ne2 Qb5
19.Qxb5 cxb5 20.c3 Rab8 21.Rab1 Rfc8 22.Rfc1 a5 23.f4 Bf6 24.a3
b4 25.cxb4 Rxc1+ 26.Nxc1 axb4 27.axb4 Rxb4 28.Nd3 Rb3 29.Ne5
Be7 30.Rc1 Bd6 31.Kf2 Rxb2+ 32.Kf3 Rb3+ 33.Kf2 Bxe5 34.fxe5 Rb4
35.Re1 Kg7 36.Kf3 f6 37.exf6+ Kxf6 0-1

[Event "2021 National Capital U1900"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.06"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Laurin, Marcel"]
[Black "Fang, Zhou"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A01"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.b3 d5 2.Bb2 c5 3.e3 Nc6 4.g3 e5 5.Bg2 Be6 6.Ne2 Nge7 7.d3 g6
8.Nd2 Bg7 9.O-O O-O 10.a3 f5 11.f4 e4 12.Bxg7 Kxg7 13.d4 cxd4
14.Nxd4 Nxd4 15.exd4 Qb6 16.c3 Rfc8 17.Rc1 Rxc3 18.Nc4 Rxc1 19.Nxb6
Rxd1 20.Nxa8 Rxf1+ 21.Bxf1 Nc6 22.Nc7 Bf7 23.Nb5 a6 24.Nd6 b5
25.Bxb5 axb5 26.Nxb5 Na5 27.b4 Nb3 28.Kf2 Kf6 29.Ke3 Ke6 30.a4
Ke7 31.a5 Be8 32.Nc7 Bc6 33.Na6 Bb5 34.Nc7 Bc6 35.h3 Kd6 36.Na6
Bb5 37.Nc5 Nxc5 38.dxc5+ Kc6 39.Kd4 Bc4 40.g4 Kb5 41.gxf5 gxf5
42.h4 Kxb4 43.c6 Kxa5 44.c7 Ba6 45.Kxd5 e3 0-1

[Event "2021 National Capital U1900"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.06"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Jaferian, Koosha"]
[Black "Ramesh, Sanjay"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A06"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.Nf3 Nf6 2.b3 d5 3.Bb2 Bf5 4.g3 e6 5.Bg2 c5 6.d3 Nc6 7.Nbd2
Be7 8.O-O h6 9.e3 O-O 10.Qe2 Qc7 11.Ne1 Rfd8 12.f4 a6 13.h3 b5
14.g4 Bh7 15.h4 h5 16.g5 Ng4 17.Bh3 d4 18.Bxg4 dxe3 19.Bxh5 exd2
20.Qxd2 c4 21.Qg2 cxd3 22.cxd3 Bxd3 23.Nxd3 Rxd3 24.Rac1 Qb6+
25.Kh1 Rc8 26.Bf3 Na7 27.Rxc8+ Nxc8 28.h5 Qd8 29.h6 Rd2 30.Qh3
gxh6 31.Qxh6 Rxb2 32.Be4 f5 33.gxf6 Bxf6 34.Rg1+ Kf7 35.Qh7+ 1-0

[Event "2021 National Capital U1900"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.06"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Dukic, Zachary"]
[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 Nf6 4.Nc3 Nbd7 5.Bc4 Be7 6.O-O O-O 7.a4
b6 8.h3 a6 9.Qe2 Bb7 10.Rd1 exd4 11.Nxd4 Re8 12.Bf4 Bf8 13.Qf3
Ne5 14.Bxe5 Rxe5 15.Bd5 Nxd5 16.exd5 Qd7 17.Nc6 Rf5 18.Qd3 Rf4
19.Ne2 Rh4 20.Ned4 Re8 21.Re1 g6 22.Kf1 Rxe1+ 23.Rxe1 Bxc6 24.dxc6
Qd8 25.b3 a5 26.Nb5 Rh5 27.Qf3 Rf5 28.Qg3 Rc5 29.c4 Rxc6 30.Nc3
Rc5 31.Nd5 Bg7 32.Qe3 Kf8 33.f4 c6 34.Nc7 Bf6 35.Qe8+ Kg7 1/2-1/2

[Event "2021 National Capital U1900"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.06"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Demchenko, Svitlana"]
[Black "Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E49"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3 d5 6.cxd5 exd5 7.Nge2
Re8 8.f3 c5 9.a3 Bxc3+ 10.bxc3 b6 11.O-O Ba6 12.Ng3 Bxd3 13.Qxd3
Nc6 14.Bb2 Rc8 15.Rad1 Qd7 16.e4 dxe4 17.fxe4 Qg4 18.e5 Nd5 19.Ne4
Rcd8 20.h3 Qg6 21.Qf3 cxd4 22.cxd4 Nce7 23.Rf2 h6 24.Rdf1 Rf8
25.a4 f6 26.exf6 Nxf6 27.Qb3+ Nfd5 28.Ng3 Rxf2 29.Rxf2 Rc8 30.Nf5
Kh7 31.Nxe7 Nxe7 32.d5 Qb1+ 33.Rf1 Qg6 34.Rf2 Rd8 35.d6 Rxd6
36.Rf7 Nf5 37.Rxa7 Rd2 38.g4 Qc6 0-1

[Event "2021 National Capital U1900"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.06"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Van Rooy, Jake"]
[Black "Tomb, Maroun"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A20"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.c4 e5 2.g3 h5 3.h3 Nc6 4.Bg2 Bc5 5.Nc3 a6 6.d3 d6 7.Rb1 Nge7
8.e3 h4 9.Nge2 hxg3 10.Nxg3 Ng6 11.Nd5 Nh4 12.Bf1 Ne7 13.Nxe7
Qxe7 14.Bd2 f5 15.Qe2 b5 16.d4 exd4 17.exd4 Bxd4 18.Qxe7+ Kxe7
19.Bg5+ Bf6 20.Bxh4 Rxh4 21.Bg2 Rb8 22.cxb5 Rxb5 23.b3 Re5+ 24.Kf1
a5 25.Bf3 Rf4 26.Bc6 Bh4 27.Kg2 Rc5 28.Rhe1+ Be6 29.Rbc1 Rxc1
30.Rxc1 g6 31.Bf3 c5 32.Ne2 Rb4 33.Nc3 Rd4 34.Rc2 Bf6 35.Re2
Be5 36.Na4 Kf6 37.Nb6 d5 38.Rc2 Bd6 39.Kf1 g5 40.Ke1 g4 41.hxg4
fxg4 42.Bg2 c4 43.Na4 Bf5 44.Rc1 Bd3 45.Nc3 Ba3 46.Nb5 Bb4+ 47.Nc3
Ke5 48.f3 g3 49.Bf1 Kf4 50.bxc4 dxc4 51.Bg2 a4 52.a3 Ba5 53.Kd2
Bf1+ 54.Kc2 Bxg2 55.Ne2+ Ke3 56.Nxd4 Kxd4 57.Rg1 Bxf3 58.Rxg3
Be4+ 59.Kc1 Bc7 60.Rg8 Bf4+ 61.Kd1 c3 62.Rd8+ Kc4 63.Rc8+ Kb3 0-1

[Event "2021 National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.06"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Sadeghi, Saeid"]
[Black "Li, William"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D00"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 d5 3.Bxf6 gxf6 4.Nf3 c5 5.e3 Nc6 6.c4 cxd4 7.cxd5
Qa5+ 8.Qd2 Qxd2+ 9.Kxd2 dxe3+ 10.fxe3 Nb4 11.Bb5+ Kd8 12.Nc3
Rg8 13.Rhg1 Bh6 14.a3 Na6 15.Bxa6 bxa6 16.Nd4 Kc7 17.Rac1 Kd6
18.Kd3 f5 19.Rcf1 e6 20.e4 f4 21.g3 e5 22.gxf4 exd4 23.Rxg8 dxc3
24.bxc3 f5 25.Kd4 fxe4 26.c4 Rb8 27.c5+ Kc7 28.Re1 Rb2 29.d6+
Kb7 30.c6+ Kxc6 31.Rxc8+ Kxd6 32.Kxe4 Rxh2 33.Rd1+ Ke6 34.Rc6+
Ke7 35.Rb1 Rh4 36.Rb7+ Kd8 37.Rf6 Ke8 38.Rxh7 Bg5 39.Re6+ Kf8
40.Rxh4 Bxh4 41.Rxa6 Bf2 42.f5 Bg1 43.f6 Bc5 44.Kf5 Kf7 45.Ra4
Bb6 46.Rc4 Bd8 47.Rc6 Bb6 48.a4 Bd8 49.Ra6 Bb6 50.a5 Bf2 51.Rc6
Bd4 52.Rc7+ Ke8 53.Ke6 Kd8 54.Rd7+ 1-0

[Event "2021 National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.06"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Han, Johnathan"]
[Black "Sharma, Vishruth"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C45"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 exd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nxc6 bxc6 6.e5 Qe7 7.Qe2
Nd5 8.c4 Ba6 9.Nd2 g6 10.Nf3 Bg7 11.Bg5 Qb4+ 12.Qd2 Qxd2+ 13.Bxd2
Nb6 14.b3 d6 15.O-O-O dxe5 16.Nxe5 Bxe5 17.Re1 Nd7 18.Bc3 f6
19.f4 O-O 20.fxe5 Nxe5 21.Bxe5 fxe5 22.Rxe5 Rf2 23.Ra5 Bb7 24.c5
Kg7 25.g3 Re8 26.Bc4 a6 27.h4 Bc8 28.Kb1 Re3 29.g4 Bxg4 30.Rxa6
Bf3 31.Rc1 Be4+ 32.Ka1 Rh3 33.Ra7 Rxh4 34.Rxc7+ Kh6 35.b4 Rhh2
36.b5 cxb5 37.Bg8 Kg5 38.Re7 Bd3 39.Rg1+ Rfg2 40.Rxg2+ Rxg2 41.Bxh7
b4 42.Re1 Bc4 43.Rc1 Rxa2+ 44.Kb1 Bd5 45.c6 Ra8 46.Rg1+ Kh6 47.Bxg6
Rg8 48.c7 Be6 49.Rh1+ Kxg6 50.Rg1+ Kf7 51.Rxg8 Kxg8 52.Kb2 Kf8
53.c8Q+ Bxc8 54.Kb3 Ke7 55.Kxb4 1/2-1/2

[Halldor P. Palsson]

Pairings for Round 5.

2021 National Capital Open

Bd # Res White # Res Black
1 1 Bator Sambuev (2589 3.5) 2 Koosha Jaferian (2507 3.0)
2 4 Zachary Dukic (2365 3.5) 3 Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux (2378 3.0)
3 10 Tyler Tanaka (2227 3.0) 5 Maroun Tomb (2301 3.0)
4 8 Christopher Pace (2271 2.5) 13 Saeid Sadeghi (2137 2.5)
5 9 Johnathan Han (2255 2.5) 12 Daniel Abrahams (2202 2.5)
6 16 Robert Villeneuve (2044 2.5) 20 Sanjay Ramesh (1943 2.5)
7 11 Eddie Xu (2209 2.0) 7 Svitlana Demchenko (2281 2.0)
8 6 William Li (2299 1.5) 23 Rafael Adam (1901 2.0)
9 19 Owen Fiedorowicz (1989 1.5) 15 Vishruth Sharma (2081 1.5)
10 14 Jake Van Rooy (2116 1.0) 17 Savio Joseph Benher (2019 1.5)
11 25 Michael Shi (1893 1.0) 21 Daniel Labib (1927 1.0)
12 26 Brian Zhang (1810 1.0) 22 Nicolae Oancea (1906 1.0)
18 1 Danail Donev (1994 0.0) BYE


2021 National Capital U1900
Bd # Res White # Res Black
14 13 Derek Wang (1756 3.0) 6 Jeff Groot-Lipman (1806 3.5)
15 9 Anni Guo (1775 3.5) 5 Alexander Stopic (1813 3.0)
16 7 Ilia Batorshyn (1782 2.5) 1 Alexandre Khan (1877 2.5)
17 10 Zhou Fang (1770 2.5) 16 Randika Balasooriya (1726 2.5)
18 12 William Landstrom (1757 2.5) 15 Henry Hughes (1728 2.5)
19 19 Nicolas Dupont-Mageau (1690 2.5) 2 Ray Kuryliw (1848 2.0)
20 22 Bhavik Chhatralia (1601 2.0) 3 Dan Kearnan (1840 2.0)
21 23 Benjamin Allamel (1584 2.0) 4 Andre Bastien (1819 2.0)
22 20 Victor Samuel (1631 1.5) 14 Marcel Laurin (1731 1.5)
23 24 Glib Dunikov (1502 1.5) 18 Kamal Balazadeh (1713 1.5)
24 21 Simon Perkins (1606 1.0) 8 Nick Petryna (1780 0.5)
17 1 Oscar Steinhauser (1720 0.0) BYE


2021 National Capital U1600

Bd # Res White # Res Black
26 6 Douglas Graham (1369 3.5) 8 Mohammed Hadid (1344 4.0)
27 2 Maxim Rousskikh (1576 3.0) 20 Cody Griffiths (unr. 3.5)
28 7 Jess Fiedorowicz (1344 3.0) 21 Tyler Mathews (unr. 3.0)
29 22 Richard Wood (unr. 3.0) 16 Caden Shen (1122 3.0)
30 9 Veronica Hitchlock (1340 2.0) 17 Neerav Mullur (1064 3.0)
31 14 John Hay (1167 2.0) 1 Vicente Costa (1597 2.0)
32 15 Edison Zhu (1142 2.0) 5 Jeremy Sztuka (1371 2.0)
33 23 Oliver Byl (unr. 2.0) 10 Neil Moses (1313 2.0)
34 30 Leonardo Neves (unr. 2.0) 12 Michelle Zhang (1299 2.0)
35 13 David Dunikov (1270 2.0) 26 Malcolm Arendt (unr. 2.0)
36 11 Pierre Arcand (1308 1.5) 19 Elber Zhu ( 891 2.0)
37 4 Valori Ethier (1403 1.0) 31 Erik Smith (unr. 1.5)
38 25 Jordan Prentice (unr. 1.0) 18 Tristan Vena ( 974 1.0)
39 29 Ismail Badawi (unr. 1.0) 24 Long Bui (unr. 0.5)
28 1 Charlie Trudeau (unr. 0.0) BYE

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "2021 National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.07"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Abrahams, Daniel"]
[Black "Dukic, Zachary"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A11"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 Bg4 3.Bg2 Nd7 4.d3 e6 5.O-O Ngf6 6.c4 c6 7.cxd5
exd5 8.Nc3 Bc5 9.Qc2 O-O 10.e4 Re8 11.a3 a5 12.Rb1 Qe7 13.exd5
cxd5 14.Bg5 Qf8 15.Rbc1 h6 16.Bxf6 Nxf6 17.Qb3 Qd6 18.d4 Bb6
19.Ne5 Bxd4 20.Nxg4 Nxg4 21.Qxd5 Qb6 22.Na4 Bxf2+ 23.Kh1 Qg6
24.Qf3 Re3 25.Qxb7 Rf8 26.Rc4 Bxg3 27.Rxg4 Qxg4 28.hxg3 Qxa4
29.Bd5 Qe8 0-1



[Event "2021 National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.07"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Sadeghi, Saeid"]
[Black "Jaferian, Koosha"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E12"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.a3 Ba6 5.Qc2 Bb7 6.Nc3 c5 7.Bf4 d6
8.e3 cxd4 9.exd4 Be7 10.Be2 O-O 11.O-O d5 12.cxd5 Nxd5 13.Nxd5
Bxd5 14.Bd3 g6 15.Bh6 Re8 16.Ne5 Bf6 17.Be4 Na6 18.Bxd5 Qxd5
19.Nf3 Rac8 20.Qe2 Nc7 21.Bf4 Nb5 22.Rfd1 Nxd4 23.Nxd4 Bxd4 24.Be3
e5 25.Qg4 Red8 26.Rd2 Rc6 27.Rad1 Rcd6 28.h4 h5 29.Qg5 Qe4 30.Bxd4
exd4 31.f3 Qe6 32.Qf4 d3 33.Kf2 Rd4 34.Qe3 Qd7 35.Re1 Rxh4 36.Qg5
Rd4 37.Re7 Qd6 38.Rxa7 Re8 39.Qb5 Qe6 40.Kg3 Qe1+ 0-1



[Event "2021 National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.07"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn"]
[Black "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A26"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.c4 g6 2.g3 Bg7 3.Bg2 e5 4.Nc3 Nc6 5.e4 d6 6.d3 f5 7.Nge2 Nh6
8.h4 f4 9.gxf4 O-O 10.h5 exf4 11.hxg6 hxg6 12.Bxf4 g5 13.Bg3
Ng4 14.Qd2 Nce5 15.Rf1 Rf3 16.d4 Nd3+ 17.Kd1 Ndxf2+ 18.Bxf2 Rxf2
19.Rxf2 Nxf2+ 20.Kc2 Nh3 21.Bxh3 Bxh3 22.Rg1 g4 23.Nf4 Qh4 24.Ncd5
Re8 25.Kd3 c6 26.Nc7 Qf6 27.Qf2 Rf8 28.Nxh3 Qh6 29.Nf4 Rxf4 30.Qe2
Qf6 31.e5 Qf5+ 32.Kc3 dxe5 0-1



[Event "2021 National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.07"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Joseph Benher, Savio"]
[Black "Pace, Christopher"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C78"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.d3 Bc5 6.O-O b5 7.Bb3
O-O 8.a4 Rb8 9.axb5 axb5 10.Nc3 h6 11.Nd5 d6 12.c3 Nxd5 13.Bxd5
Ne7 14.Bb3 Bb6 15.d4 exd4 16.Nxd4 Bd7 17.Qd3 c5 18.Nxb5 Bxb5
19.Qxb5 d5 20.exd5 Qd6 21.Qc4 Bc7 22.f4 Nf5 23.Bc2 Qf6 24.Qd3
g6 25.Qh3 Rfe8 26.Rb1 c4 27.Bxf5 gxf5 28.Qf3 Re4 29.Kh1 Qe7 30.Bd2
Qc5 31.g4 Qxd5 32.gxf5 Qxf5 33.Rg1+ Kf8 34.Rbe1 Rxe1 35.Rxe1
Rxb2 36.Qa8+ Rb8 37.Qc6 Bxf4 38.Rf1 Rb1 39.Qa8+ Kg7 40.Qg2+ Bg5
41.Be1 Qe6 42.Qg3 Qe2 43.Kg1 Kh8 44.Qg2 Rxe1 0-1



[Event "2021 National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.07"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Li, William"]
[Black "Han, Johnathan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E17"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.g3 Bb7 5.Bg2 Be7 6.O-O O-O 7.Re1
d5 8.Ne5 Nbd7 9.Qa4 Nxe5 10.dxe5 Nd7 11.cxd5 exd5 12.Nc3 Nxe5
13.Bf4 Ng6 14.Rad1 c6 15.e4 Nxf4 16.gxf4 b5 17.Qb3 d4 18.e5 Qb6
19.Ne4 Bc8 20.Qf3 Bb4 21.Nf6+ Kh8 22.Qh5 gxf6 23.exf6 Rg8 24.Kh1
Bg4 25.Qh4 Qc5 26.Re5 Qc2 27.Rg1 Rg6 28.h3 Bf5 29.Qh5 Bd3 30.f5
Rgg8 31.Qxf7 Bxf5 32.Qh5 Bg6 33.Qh6 Qxf2 34.Rf1 Qd2 35.Qh4 Raf8
36.Bxc6 Bd6 37.Qg5 Be4+ 0-1



[Event "2021 National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.07"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Tomb, Maroun"]
[Black "Xu, Eddie"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C78"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Bc5 6.c3 b5 7.Bb3
d6 8.d4 Bb6 9.h3 h6 10.Be3 O-O 11.dxe5 Nxe5 12.Bxb6 cxb6 13.Nxe5
dxe5 14.Qe2 Bb7 15.Nd2 Qe7 16.Rfd1 Rfd8 17.a3 Nd7 18.Nf1 Nc5
19.Bd5 Ne6 20.Bxe6 Qxe6 21.f3 Qc4 22.Qxc4 bxc4 23.Ne3 b5 24.Kf2
Kf8 25.h4 h5 26.Ke2 Ke7 27.a4 Rxd1 28.Rxd1 g6 29.Nd5+ Bxd5 30.Rxd5
bxa4 31.Rxe5+ Kd6 32.Rd5+ Kc6 33.Kd2 Rb8 34.Kc2 Rb5 35.Rd4 Rc5
36.Kb1 g5 37.g3 gxh4 38.gxh4 Kb5 39.Ka2 f5 40.Ka3 Ka5 41.f4 fxe4
42.Rxe4 Kb6 43.Re6+ Kb7 44.Re5 Rxe5 45.fxe5 Kc6 46.Kxa4 Kd5 47.Kb4
Kxe5 48.Kxc4 Kd6 49.Kb4 Kc6 50.Ka5 Kb7 51.b4 Ka7 52.b5 axb5 53.Kxb5
Kb7 54.Kc5 1-0



[Event "2021 National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.07"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Tanaka, Tyler"]
[Black "Demchenko, Svitlana"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A06"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.Nf3 d5 2.b3 Nf6 3.Bb2 Bf5 4.g3 e6 5.Bg2 c6 6.d3 a5 7.a3 Be7
8.Nh4 Bg6 9.Nxg6 hxg6 10.Nd2 Qb6 11.c4 Nbd7 12.d4 e5 13.e3 e4
14.O-O Nh5 15.f3 f5 16.g4 Nhf6 17.fxe4 dxe4 18.gxf5 Qc7 19.h3
Qg3 20.Qe1 Qg5 21.Qf2 Bd6 22.fxg6 Bg3 23.Qe2 O-O-O 24.Rf4 Bxf4
25.exf4 Qxg6 26.Qe3 Rh4 27.d5 cxd5 28.Qa7 Nh5 29.cxd5 Qb6+ 30.Qxb6
Nxb6 31.Bxe4 Nxd5 32.Rc1+ Nc7 33.Nf3 Rxf4 34.Be5 Rxe4 35.Rxc7+
Kb8 36.Rd7+ Rxe5 37.Rxd8+ Kc7 38.Nxe5 Kxd8 39.Nc4 a4 40.bxa4
Nf4 41.Kh2 Kc7 42.Kg3 Nd3 43.Kg4 Nf2+ 44.Kg3 Nd3 45.h4 Nc5 46.Kf4
Nxa4 47.Kf5 Nc5 48.Kg6 Ne6 49.Ne3 Kd6 50.Nf5+ Ke5 51.Nxg7 Nf4+
52.Kf7 b5 53.Kg8 Kf6 54.Ne8+ Kg6 55.Nd6 Nd3 56.Nxb5 Nb2 57.Nd4
Kh5 58.Nf3 Kg4 59.Kg7 Kh5 60.Kf6 Kg4 61.Kg6 Nc4 62.a4 Kxf3 63.h5
Ke4 64.h6 Ne5+ 65.Kg7 Kf5 66.h7 Ng6 67.a5 1-0

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "2021 National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.07"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Abrahams, Daniel"]
[Black "Dukic, Zachary"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A11"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.Nf3 d5 2.g3 Bg4 3.Bg2 Nd7 4.d3 e6 5.O-O Ngf6 6.c4 c6 7.cxd5
exd5 8.Nc3 Bc5 9.Qc2 O-O 10.e4 Re8 11.a3 a5 12.Rb1 Qe7 13.exd5
cxd5 14.Bg5 Qf8 15.Rbc1 h6 16.Bxf6 Nxf6 17.Qb3 Qd6 18.d4 Bb6
19.Ne5 Bxd4 20.Nxg4 Nxg4 21.Qxd5 Qb6 22.Na4 Bxf2+ 23.Kh1 Qg6
24.Qf3 Re3 25.Qxb7 Rf8 26.Rc4 Bxg3 27.Rxg4 Qxg4 28.hxg3 Qxa4
29.Bd5 Qe8 0-1

[Event "2021 National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.07"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Sadeghi, Saeid"]
[Black "Jaferian, Koosha"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E12"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.a3 Ba6 5.Qc2 Bb7 6.Nc3 c5 7.Bf4 d6
8.e3 cxd4 9.exd4 Be7 10.Be2 O-O 11.O-O d5 12.cxd5 Nxd5 13.Nxd5
Bxd5 14.Bd3 g6 15.Bh6 Re8 16.Ne5 Bf6 17.Be4 Na6 18.Bxd5 Qxd5
19.Nf3 Rac8 20.Qe2 Nc7 21.Bf4 Nb5 22.Rfd1 Nxd4 23.Nxd4 Bxd4 24.Be3
e5 25.Qg4 Red8 26.Rd2 Rc6 27.Rad1 Rcd6 28.h4 h5 29.Qg5 Qe4 30.Bxd4
exd4 31.f3 Qe6 32.Qf4 d3 33.Kf2 Rd4 34.Qe3 Qd7 35.Re1 Rxh4 36.Qg5
Rd4 37.Re7 Qd6 38.Rxa7 Re8 39.Qb5 Qe6 40.Kg3 Qe1+ 0-1

[Event "2021 National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.07"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn"]
[Black "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A26"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.c4 g6 2.g3 Bg7 3.Bg2 e5 4.Nc3 Nc6 5.e4 d6 6.d3 f5 7.Nge2 Nh6
8.h4 f4 9.gxf4 O-O 10.h5 exf4 11.hxg6 hxg6 12.Bxf4 g5 13.Bg3
Ng4 14.Qd2 Nce5 15.Rf1 Rf3 16.d4 Nd3+ 17.Kd1 Ndxf2+ 18.Bxf2 Rxf2
19.Rxf2 Nxf2+ 20.Kc2 Nh3 21.Bxh3 Bxh3 22.Rg1 g4 23.Nf4 Qh4 24.Ncd5
Re8 25.Kd3 c6 26.Nc7 Qf6 27.Qf2 Rf8 28.Nxh3 Qh6 29.Nf4 Rxf4 30.Qe2
Qf6 31.e5 Qf5+ 32.Kc3 dxe5 0-1

[Event "2021 National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.07"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Joseph Benher, Savio"]
[Black "Pace, Christopher"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C78"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.d3 Bc5 6.O-O b5 7.Bb3
O-O 8.a4 Rb8 9.axb5 axb5 10.Nc3 h6 11.Nd5 d6 12.c3 Nxd5 13.Bxd5
Ne7 14.Bb3 Bb6 15.d4 exd4 16.Nxd4 Bd7 17.Qd3 c5 18.Nxb5 Bxb5
19.Qxb5 d5 20.exd5 Qd6 21.Qc4 Bc7 22.f4 Nf5 23.Bc2 Qf6 24.Qd3
g6 25.Qh3 Rfe8 26.Rb1 c4 27.Bxf5 gxf5 28.Qf3 Re4 29.Kh1 Qe7 30.Bd2
Qc5 31.g4 Qxd5 32.gxf5 Qxf5 33.Rg1+ Kf8 34.Rbe1 Rxe1 35.Rxe1
Rxb2 36.Qa8+ Rb8 37.Qc6 Bxf4 38.Rf1 Rb1 39.Qa8+ Kg7 40.Qg2+ Bg5
41.Be1 Qe6 42.Qg3 Qe2 43.Kg1 Kh8 44.Qg2 Rxe1 0-1

[Event "2021 National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.07"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Li, William"]
[Black "Han, Johnathan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E17"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.g3 Bb7 5.Bg2 Be7 6.O-O O-O 7.Re1
d5 8.Ne5 Nbd7 9.Qa4 Nxe5 10.dxe5 Nd7 11.cxd5 exd5 12.Nc3 Nxe5
13.Bf4 Ng6 14.Rad1 c6 15.e4 Nxf4 16.gxf4 b5 17.Qb3 d4 18.e5 Qb6
19.Ne4 Bc8 20.Qf3 Bb4 21.Nf6+ Kh8 22.Qh5 gxf6 23.exf6 Rg8 24.Kh1
Bg4 25.Qh4 Qc5 26.Re5 Qc2 27.Rg1 Rg6 28.h3 Bf5 29.Qh5 Bd3 30.f5
Rgg8 31.Qxf7 Bxf5 32.Qh5 Bg6 33.Qh6 Qxf2 34.Rf1 Qd2 35.Qh4 Raf8
36.Bxc6 Bd6 37.Qg5 Be4+ 0-1

[Event "2021 National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.07"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Tomb, Maroun"]
[Black "Xu, Eddie"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C78"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Bc5 6.c3 b5 7.Bb3
d6 8.d4 Bb6 9.h3 h6 10.Be3 O-O 11.dxe5 Nxe5 12.Bxb6 cxb6 13.Nxe5
dxe5 14.Qe2 Bb7 15.Nd2 Qe7 16.Rfd1 Rfd8 17.a3 Nd7 18.Nf1 Nc5
19.Bd5 Ne6 20.Bxe6 Qxe6 21.f3 Qc4 22.Qxc4 bxc4 23.Ne3 b5 24.Kf2
Kf8 25.h4 h5 26.Ke2 Ke7 27.a4 Rxd1 28.Rxd1 g6 29.Nd5+ Bxd5 30.Rxd5
bxa4 31.Rxe5+ Kd6 32.Rd5+ Kc6 33.Kd2 Rb8 34.Kc2 Rb5 35.Rd4 Rc5
36.Kb1 g5 37.g3 gxh4 38.gxh4 Kb5 39.Ka2 f5 40.Ka3 Ka5 41.f4 fxe4
42.Rxe4 Kb6 43.Re6+ Kb7 44.Re5 Rxe5 45.fxe5 Kc6 46.Kxa4 Kd5 47.Kb4
Kxe5 48.Kxc4 Kd6 49.Kb4 Kc6 50.Ka5 Kb7 51.b4 Ka7 52.b5 axb5 53.Kxb5
Kb7 54.Kc5 1-0

[Event "2021 National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.07"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Tanaka, Tyler"]
[Black "Demchenko, Svitlana"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A06"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.Nf3 d5 2.b3 Nf6 3.Bb2 Bf5 4.g3 e6 5.Bg2 c6 6.d3 a5 7.a3 Be7
8.Nh4 Bg6 9.Nxg6 hxg6 10.Nd2 Qb6 11.c4 Nbd7 12.d4 e5 13.e3 e4
14.O-O Nh5 15.f3 f5 16.g4 Nhf6 17.fxe4 dxe4 18.gxf5 Qc7 19.h3
Qg3 20.Qe1 Qg5 21.Qf2 Bd6 22.fxg6 Bg3 23.Qe2 O-O-O 24.Rf4 Bxf4
25.exf4 Qxg6 26.Qe3 Rh4 27.d5 cxd5 28.Qa7 Nh5 29.cxd5 Qb6+ 30.Qxb6
Nxb6 31.Bxe4 Nxd5 32.Rc1+ Nc7 33.Nf3 Rxf4 34.Be5 Rxe4 35.Rxc7+
Kb8 36.Rd7+ Rxe5 37.Rxd8+ Kc7 38.Nxe5 Kxd8 39.Nc4 a4 40.bxa4
Nf4 41.Kh2 Kc7 42.Kg3 Nd3 43.Kg4 Nf2+ 44.Kg3 Nd3 45.h4 Nc5 46.Kf4
Nxa4 47.Kf5 Nc5 48.Kg6 Ne6 49.Ne3 Kd6 50.Nf5+ Ke5 51.Nxg7 Nf4+
52.Kf7 b5 53.Kg8 Kf6 54.Ne8+ Kg6 55.Nd6 Nd3 56.Nxb5 Nb2 57.Nd4
Kh5 58.Nf3 Kg4 59.Kg7 Kh5 60.Kf6 Kg4 61.Kg6 Nc4 62.a4 Kxf3 63.h5
Ke4 64.h6 Ne5+ 65.Kg7 Kf5 66.h7 Ng6 67.a5 1-0

[Halldor P. Palsson]

2021 National Capital Open
# Place Name Rating Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Total
1 1 Bator Sambuev 2589 W24 W6 D4 W2 W7 4.5 $860
2 2-3 Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux 2378 W25 W9 W17 L1 W4 4.0 $400
3 Maroun Tomb 2301 L11 W22 W24 W9 W8 4.0 $400
4 4-6 Zachary Dukic 2365 W21 W8 D1 W13 L2 3.5
5 Christopher Pace 2271 H--- L10 W26 W16 W14 3.5
6 Johnathan Han 2255 W19 L1 D15 W12 W13 3.5
7 7-11 Koosha Jaferian 2507 W15 L17 W11 W14 L1 3.0
8 Tyler Tanaka 2227 W20 L4 W23 W17 L3 3.0
9 Eddie Xu 2209 W23 L2 W20 L3 W17 3.0
10 Robert Villeneuve 2044 H--- W5 L13 W15 D11 3.0 U2200 $200
11 Sanjay Ramesh 1943 W3 D12 L7 W24 D10 3.0 U2050 $200
12 12-16 William Li 2299 W22 D11 L14 L6 W19 2.5
13 Daniel Abrahams 2202 H--- W16 W10 L4 L6 2.5
14 Saeid Sadeghi 2137 W26 H--- W12 L7 L5 2.5
15 Vishruth Sharma 2081 L7 W18 D6 L10 W21 2.5
16 Savio Joseph Benher 2019 H--- L13 W25 L5 W24 2.5
17 17-20 Svitlana Demchenko 2281 W18 W7 L2 L8 L9 2.0
18 Nicolae Oancea 1906 L17 L15 L21 B--- W26 2.0
19 Rafael Adam 1901 L6 L24 W22 W23 L12 2.0
20 Riley Khan 1900 L8 W21 L9 W26 U--- 2.0
21 21-23 Owen Fiedorowicz 1989 L4 L20 W18 H--- L15 1.5
22 Daniel Labib 1927 L12 L3 L19 W25 D23 1.5
23 Michael Shi 1893 L9 W25 L8 L19 D22 1.5
24 24-26 Jake Van Rooy 2116 L1 W19 L3 L11 L16 1.0
25 Danail Donev 1994 L2 L23 L16 L22 B--- 1.0
26 Brian Zhang 1810 L14 B--- L5 L20 L18 1.0




2021 National Capital Open: 2021 National Capital U1900
# Place Name Rating Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Total
1 1-2 Anni Guo 1775 W19 W11 D4 W12 D3 4.0 $400
2 Derek Wang 1756 L11 W10 W8 W9 W4 4.0 $400
3 3-7 Alexander Stopic 1813 W23 W22 W5 L4 D1 3.5 $40 each
4 Jeff Groot-Lipman 1806 W18 W7 D1 W3 L2 3.5 $40 each
5 Ilia Batorshyn 1782 W15 W14 L3 D7 W11 3.5 $40 each
6 William Landstrom 1757 H--- H--- H--- W18 W14 3.5 $40 each
7 Randika Balasooriya 1726 W16 L4 W17 D5 W12 3.5 $40 each
8 8-10 Ray Kuryliw 1848 L14 W19 L2 W22 W15 3.0
9 Bhavik Chhatralia 1601 L12 W23 W22 L2 W16 3.0
10 Benjamin Allamel 1584 L22 L2 B--- W24 W17 3.0 U1750 $200
11 11-15 Alexandre Khan 1877 W2 L1 W20 D14 L5 2.5
12 Zhou Fang 1770 W9 H--- W13 L1 L7 2.5
13 Marcel Laurin 1731 H--- W24 L12 L15 W21 2.5
14 Henry Hughes 1728 W8 L5 W16 D11 L6 2.5
15 Nicolas Dupont-Mageau 1690 L5 H--- W24 W13 L8 2.5
16 16-20 Dan Kearnan 1840 L7 W21 L14 W20 L9 2.0
17 Andre Bastien 1819 H--- D20 L7 W19 L10 2.0
18 Kamal Balazadeh 1713 L4 H--- W21 L6 D20 2.0
19 Simon Perkins 1606 L1 L8 W23 L17 W24 2.0
20 Glib Dunikov 1502 B--- D17 L11 L16 D18 2.0
21 21 Victor Samuel 1631 D24 L16 L18 W23 L13 1.5
22 22-23 Jan Huus 1764 W10 L3 L9 L8 U--- 1.0
23 Oscar Steinhauser 1720 L3 L9 L19 L21 B--- 1.0
24 24 Nick Petryna 1780 D21 L13 L15 L10 L19 0.5

2021 National Capital U1600

# Place Name Rating Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Total
1 1 Mohammed Hadid 1344 W22 W28 W15 W2 W5 5.0 $400
2 2-4 Maxim Rousskikh 1576 W6 W20 W10 L1 W7 4.0 $150
3 Jess Fiedorowicz 1344 D13 W26 W4 H--- W12 4.0 $150
4 Caden Shen 1122 W8 W27 L3 W22 W13 4.0 U1750 $100
5 5-7 Douglas Graham 1369 W12 D7 W11 W10 L1 3.5
6 Neerav Mullur 1064 L2 W8 W26 W14 D16 3.5
7 Cody Griffiths unr. W9 D5 W16 W18 L2 3.5
8 8-15 Vicente Costa 1597 L4 L6 W31 W30 W19 3.0
9 Jeremy Sztuka 1371 L7 W21 L13 W28 W20 3.0
10 Neil Moses 1313 W30 W14 L2 L5 W22 3.0
11 Elber Zhu 891 W24 D13 L5 D16 W25 3.0
12 Tyler Mathews unr. L5 W24 W27 W15 L3 3.0
13 Richard Wood unr. D3 D11 W9 W19 L4 3.0
14 Malcolm Arendt unr. W17 L10 W20 L6 W18 3.0
15 Leonardo Neves unr. W19 W18 L1 L12 W17 3.0
16 16 Veronica Hitchlock 1340 D26 W31 L7 D11 D6 2.5
17 17-23 Michelle Zhang 1299 L14 W30 L22 W24 L15 2.0
18 David Dunikov 1270 W29 L15 W28 L7 L14 2.0
19 John Hay 1167 L15 W29 W23 L13 L8 2.0
20 Edison Zhu 1142 W23 L2 L14 W26 L9 2.0
21 Tristan Vena 974 L27 L9 L24 W29 W28 2.0
22 Oliver Byl unr. L1 W25 W17 L4 L10 2.0
23 Erik Smith unr. L20 B--- L19 D25 D24 2.0
24 24-26 Valori Ethier 1403 L11 L12 W21 L17 D23 1.5
25 Pierre Arcand 1308 L28 L22 W29 D23 L11 1.5
26 Long Bui unr. D16 L3 L6 L20 W30 1.5
27 27-30 Romy Peters 1485 W21 L4 L12 --- --- 1.0
28 Jordan Prentice unr. W25 L1 L18 L9 L21 1.0
29 Charlie Trudeau unr. L18 L19 L25 L21 B--- 1.0
30 Ismail Badawi unr. L10 L17 B--- L8 L26 1.0
31 31 Elizabeth Nagnibedovsky unr. H--- L16 L8 --- --- 0.5

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "2021 National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.07"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Villeneuve, Robert"]
[Black "Ramesh, Sanjay"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B13"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.Ne5 Nc6 6.Bb5 Bd7 7.Nxd7
Qxd7 8.O-O e6 9.Bf4 Bd6 10.Bxd6 Qxd6 11.c3 O-O 12.Re1 a6 13.Bf1
b5 14.a3 Rab8 15.Nd2 a5 16.Nf3 b4 17.axb4 axb4 18.Ra6 1/2-1/2



[Event "2021 National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.07"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Han, Johnathan"]
[Black "Abrahams, Daniel"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C41"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 e5 4.Nf3 Nbd7 5.Bc4 Be7 6.O-O O-O 7.Re1
c6 8.a4 a5 9.h3 Nb6 10.Ba2 Nfd7 11.Be3 exd4 12.Nxd4 Nc5 13.Bb3
Nxb3 14.Nxb3 Nc4 15.Bc1 Bf6 16.Qd3 Ne5 17.Qf1 Be6 18.f4 Bc4 19.Qf2
Nd7 20.Nd2 Ba6 21.Nf3 Re8 22.Kh1 Qb6 23.Qxb6 Nxb6 24.Nd1 Re6
25.Nf2 Rae8 26.g4 g6 27.f5 R6e7 28.g5 Be5 29.Nxe5 Rxe5 30.Ng4
gxf5 31.Nxe5 Rxe5 32.Bf4 Rxe4 33.Rxe4 fxe4 34.Bxd6 Be2 35.Bc5
Nd5 36.Re1 Bf3+ 37.Kh2 Kg7 38.Kg3 Kg6 39.c4 Nc7 40.Be3 Na6 41.h4
Nb4 42.Bb6 Nd3 43.Rb1 h6 44.gxh6 Kxh6 45.Bxa5 f5 46.Bd2+ Kg6
47.b4 Kf6 48.Bf4 Ke6 49.a5 Be2 50.b5 cxb5 51.Rxb5 Nxf4 52.Kxf4
Bxc4 53.Rxb7 Kd5 54.h5 1-0



[Event "2021 National Capital Open U1900"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.07"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Samuel, Victor"]
[Black "Laurin, Marcel"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A04"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.Nf3 b6 2.d4 Bb7 3.g3 e6 4.Bg2 Ne7 5.O-O d6 6.c4 Nd7 7.b3 h6
8.Bb2 Rb8 9.Nbd2 Rg8 10.e4 g5 11.h3 Ng6 12.Qc2 h5 13.e5 g4 14.hxg4
hxg4 15.Nh2 Bxg2 16.Kxg2 Qg5 17.Ne4 Qh5 18.Rh1 Qh3+ 19.Kg1 Nf4
20.gxf4 dxe5 21.Ng5 Rxg5 22.fxg5 exd4 23.Bxd4 e5 24.Be3 g3 25.Nf1
gxf2+ 26.Qxf2 Qg4+ 27.Ng3 Nc5 28.Rf1 f5 29.gxf6 Ne4 30.Qf3 Qxg3+
31.Qxg3 Nxg3 32.f7+ Kd7 33.Rd1+ Kc6 34.Rh8 Nf5 35.Bg5 Bc5+ 36.Kg2
Rxh8 37.Rh1 Rxh1 38.Kxh1 Bf8 39.Kg2 Kd7 40.Kf3 Nd6 41.Bf6 Ke6
42.Bd8 c6 43.Bc7 Nxf7 0-1



[Event "2021 National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.07"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Dukic, Zachary"]
[Black "Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B12"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.h4 h5 5.Bd3 Bxd3 6.Qxd3 e6 7.Nf3 Qa5+
8.Nbd2 Qa6 9.c4 Nd7 10.O-O Ne7 11.b3 Nf5 12.a4 Be7 13.Ba3 Bxa3
14.Rxa3 O-O 15.Rb1 c5 16.b4 dxc4 17.Nxc4 cxb4 18.Rxb4 Rfd8 19.Rb5
Rac8 20.Ne3 Ne7 21.Ng5 Ng6 22.Qe2 Ndf8 23.Qb2 Rc7 24.d5 exd5
25.Nxd5 Rc4 26.g3 Rxa4 27.Rf3 Rxd5 28.Rxd5 Ra1+ 29.Kh2 Qf1 30.Qxa1
Qxa1 31.Nxf7 Qa2 32.Rd8 Qe6 33.Rb8 b6 34.Rd8 a5 35.Ng5 Qxe5 36.Kg2
a4 37.Re3 Qf6 38.Rb8 Qc6+ 39.Kg1 a3 40.Kh2 Nxh4 0-1



[Event "2021 National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.07"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Black "Jaferian, Koosha"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E14"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.e3 b6 4.Bd3 Bb7 5.O-O Be7 6.c4 c5 7.Nc3 cxd4
8.exd4 d5 9.cxd5 Nxd5 10.Ne5 O-O 11.Qg4 Nxc3 12.bxc3 Bf6 13.Bh6
Nd7 14.Rad1 Qe7 15.Rfe1 Rfd8 16.h4 Kh8 17.Bg5 h6 18.f4 Nxe5 19.dxe5
Qc5+ 20.Kh2 Bxg5 21.fxg5 Qxc3 22.gxh6 gxh6 23.Qf4 Rxd3 24.Qxh6+
Kg8 25.Rxd3 Qxd3 26.Re3 Qxe3 27.Qxe3 Rc8 28.Qg5+ Kf8 29.Qd2 Rc4
30.g3 Be4 31.Qd8+ Kg7 32.Qf6+ Kf8 33.Qd8+ Kg7 34.Qg5+ Kf8 35.h5
Rc2+ 36.Kg1 Rxa2 37.Qd8+ Kg7 38.Qf6+ Kf8 39.h6 Ke8 40.h7 Bxh7
41.Qh8+ Ke7 42.Qxh7 Ra4 43.Qg8 Rd4 44.Qb8 Rd7 45.Kf2 a5 46.Qxb6
Rd5 47.Qb8 a4 48.Qb4+ Ke8 49.Qxa4+ Kf8 50.Qf4 Kg7 51.g4 Rc5 52.Qf6+
Kg8 53.g5 Rc2+ 54.Ke3 Rg2 55.Kd4 Rd2+ 56.Kc5 Rc2+ 57.Kd6 Ra2
58.g6 Ra6+ 59.Kc5 fxg6 60.Qxg6+ Kf8 61.Kb5 1-0



[Event "2021 National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.07"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Tanaka, Tyler"]
[Black "Tomb, Maroun"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A20"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.c4 e5 2.g3 h5 3.Nf3 e4 4.Nd4 Nc6 5.Nc2 h4 6.Bg2 f5 7.Rg1 Nf6
8.d3 hxg3 9.hxg3 d5 10.cxd5 Qxd5 11.Nc3 Qf7 12.Bf4 Be6 13.dxe4
fxe4 14.Nxe4 Nxe4 15.Bxe4 Rd8 16.Qb1 Kd7 17.Ne3 Kc8 18.Bxc6 Bb4+
19.Kf1 bxc6 20.Qe4 Bh3+ 21.Ng2 Qxa2 22.Rc1 Qa4 23.f3 Kb7 24.Qc4
Rd7 25.Kf2 Re8 26.Be3 Bxg2 27.Rxg2 Rde7 28.Bf4 g5 29.b3 Rxe2+
30.Kg1 Re1+ 31.Rxe1 Rxe1+ 32.Kh2 Qa5 33.Bxg5 Bd6 34.f4 Qa1 35.Rc2
Rh1+ 36.Kg2 Qg1+ 37.Kf3 Qd1+ 38.Kg2 Rg1+ 39.Kh2 Bc5 40.Qe2 Qd5
41.Kh3 Qf5+ 42.Kh2 Rh1+ 43.Kxh1 Qh3+ 44.Qh2 Qf1+ 45.Qg1 Qxg1# 0-1



[Event "2021 National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.07"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Xu, Eddie"]
[Black "Demchenko, Svitlana"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E84"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f3 O-O 6.Be3 Nc6 7.Nge2
a6 8.Qd2 Rb8 9.h4 h5 10.Nc1 e5 11.d5 Nd4 12.Nb3 c5 13.dxc6 bxc6
14.Nxd4 exd4 15.Bxd4 Qe7 16.O-O-O Qb7 17.b3 Be6 18.g4 hxg4 19.h5
gxh5 20.Qg5 Qe7 21.c5 dxc5 22.Bxc5 Qc7 23.Bd6 Qb6 24.Be5 Ne8
25.Bd4 Qb4 26.Qxh5 f6 27.f4 Qa3+ 28.Kd2 Rd8 29.Ke3 Rxd4 30.Rxd4
Qc1+ 31.Kd3 Qxf4 32.Qh7+ Kf7 33.Qh5+ Ke7 34.Qc5+ Kf7 35.Be2 f5
36.Rf1 Qg3+ 37.Kc2 Bxd4 38.Qxd4 f4 39.Qe5 Ke7 40.Bc4 Rf6 41.Qc5+
Kf7 42.e5 Rh6 43.Ne2 Rh2 44.Kb1 Rxe2 45.Bxe2 Bf5+ 46.Ka1 Ng7
47.Qd4 Ne6 48.Bc4 f3 49.Rh1 Kg6 50.Bxe6 Bxe6 51.Qe4+ Kg5 52.Qe3+
Kg6 53.Rh6+ Kf7 54.Qa7+ Kf8 55.Rf6+ Kg8 56.Rg6+ Kf8 57.Qg7+ 1-0



[Event "2021 National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.07"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Li, William"]
[Black "Adam, Rafael"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C82"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Nxe4 6.d4 b5 7.Bb3
d5 8.dxe5 Be6 9.c3 Bc5 10.Nbd2 O-O 11.Qe2 Nxd2 12.Bxd2 Qd7 13.Rad1
f6 14.exf6 gxf6 15.Bh6 Rfe8 16.Qd2 Rad8 17.Rfe1 Ne7 18.Nd4 Bf7
19.Qf4 Qd6 20.Qg4+ Ng6 21.Nf5 Rxe1+ 22.Rxe1 Qd7 23.Bc2 Re8 24.Rxe8+
Qxe8 25.Kf1 Bf8 26.h4 Bxh6 27.Nxh6+ Kf8 28.h5 Ne7 29.Qf4 Qc6
30.Nxf7 Kxf7 31.Bxh7 a5 32.h6 b4 33.cxb4 axb4 34.Bd3 Qa4 35.Ke2
Qe8 36.Kd2 c5 37.Qg4 Qh8 38.Qh5+ Ke6 39.g4 Qb8 40.Bf5+ Nxf5 41.Qxf5+
Ke7 42.h7 b3 43.axb3 c4 44.g5 Qxb3 45.Qxf6+ Kd7 46.Qc3 Qb6 47.Qg7+ 1-0



[Event "2021 National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.07"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Pace, Christopher"]
[Black "Sadeghi, Saeid"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B10"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c6 2.d3 d5 3.Nd2 dxe4 4.dxe4 e5 5.Ngf3 Bg4 6.h3 Bxf3 7.Qxf3
Nf6 8.Nc4 Nbd7 9.Bg5 Qc7 10.O-O-O O-O-O 11.Bxf6 gxf6 12.Qh5 Bc5
13.Be2 b5 14.Ne3 Bxe3+ 15.fxe3 Nc5 16.Rhf1 Kb8 17.Qh4 Rxd1+ 18.Bxd1
Rd8 19.Bf3 f5 20.exf5 e4 21.Bxe4 Qd6 22.Bf3 Qd2+ 23.Kb1 Rd7 24.Qf4+
Kb7 25.a3 Qa5 26.b4 Qxa3 27.bxc5 Qxc5 28.Rd1 1-0

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "2021 National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.07"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Villeneuve, Robert"]
[Black "Ramesh, Sanjay"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B13"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.Nf3 Nf6 5.Ne5 Nc6 6.Bb5 Bd7 7.Nxd7
Qxd7 8.O-O e6 9.Bf4 Bd6 10.Bxd6 Qxd6 11.c3 O-O 12.Re1 a6 13.Bf1
b5 14.a3 Rab8 15.Nd2 a5 16.Nf3 b4 17.axb4 axb4 18.Ra6 1/2-1/2

[Event "2021 National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.07"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Han, Johnathan"]
[Black "Abrahams, Daniel"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C41"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 d6 2.d4 Nf6 3.Nc3 e5 4.Nf3 Nbd7 5.Bc4 Be7 6.O-O O-O 7.Re1
c6 8.a4 a5 9.h3 Nb6 10.Ba2 Nfd7 11.Be3 exd4 12.Nxd4 Nc5 13.Bb3
Nxb3 14.Nxb3 Nc4 15.Bc1 Bf6 16.Qd3 Ne5 17.Qf1 Be6 18.f4 Bc4 19.Qf2
Nd7 20.Nd2 Ba6 21.Nf3 Re8 22.Kh1 Qb6 23.Qxb6 Nxb6 24.Nd1 Re6
25.Nf2 Rae8 26.g4 g6 27.f5 R6e7 28.g5 Be5 29.Nxe5 Rxe5 30.Ng4
gxf5 31.Nxe5 Rxe5 32.Bf4 Rxe4 33.Rxe4 fxe4 34.Bxd6 Be2 35.Bc5
Nd5 36.Re1 Bf3+ 37.Kh2 Kg7 38.Kg3 Kg6 39.c4 Nc7 40.Be3 Na6 41.h4
Nb4 42.Bb6 Nd3 43.Rb1 h6 44.gxh6 Kxh6 45.Bxa5 f5 46.Bd2+ Kg6
47.b4 Kf6 48.Bf4 Ke6 49.a5 Be2 50.b5 cxb5 51.Rxb5 Nxf4 52.Kxf4
Bxc4 53.Rxb7 Kd5 54.h5 1-0

[Event "2021 National Capital Open U1900"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.07"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Samuel, Victor"]
[Black "Laurin, Marcel"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A04"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.Nf3 b6 2.d4 Bb7 3.g3 e6 4.Bg2 Ne7 5.O-O d6 6.c4 Nd7 7.b3 h6
8.Bb2 Rb8 9.Nbd2 Rg8 10.e4 g5 11.h3 Ng6 12.Qc2 h5 13.e5 g4 14.hxg4
hxg4 15.Nh2 Bxg2 16.Kxg2 Qg5 17.Ne4 Qh5 18.Rh1 Qh3+ 19.Kg1 Nf4
20.gxf4 dxe5 21.Ng5 Rxg5 22.fxg5 exd4 23.Bxd4 e5 24.Be3 g3 25.Nf1
gxf2+ 26.Qxf2 Qg4+ 27.Ng3 Nc5 28.Rf1 f5 29.gxf6 Ne4 30.Qf3 Qxg3+
31.Qxg3 Nxg3 32.f7+ Kd7 33.Rd1+ Kc6 34.Rh8 Nf5 35.Bg5 Bc5+ 36.Kg2
Rxh8 37.Rh1 Rxh1 38.Kxh1 Bf8 39.Kg2 Kd7 40.Kf3 Nd6 41.Bf6 Ke6
42.Bd8 c6 43.Bc7 Nxf7 0-1

[Event "2021 National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.07"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Dukic, Zachary"]
[Black "Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B12"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.h4 h5 5.Bd3 Bxd3 6.Qxd3 e6 7.Nf3 Qa5+
8.Nbd2 Qa6 9.c4 Nd7 10.O-O Ne7 11.b3 Nf5 12.a4 Be7 13.Ba3 Bxa3
14.Rxa3 O-O 15.Rb1 c5 16.b4 dxc4 17.Nxc4 cxb4 18.Rxb4 Rfd8 19.Rb5
Rac8 20.Ne3 Ne7 21.Ng5 Ng6 22.Qe2 Ndf8 23.Qb2 Rc7 24.d5 exd5
25.Nxd5 Rc4 26.g3 Rxa4 27.Rf3 Rxd5 28.Rxd5 Ra1+ 29.Kh2 Qf1 30.Qxa1
Qxa1 31.Nxf7 Qa2 32.Rd8 Qe6 33.Rb8 b6 34.Rd8 a5 35.Ng5 Qxe5 36.Kg2
a4 37.Re3 Qf6 38.Rb8 Qc6+ 39.Kg1 a3 40.Kh2 Nxh4 0-1

[Event "2021 National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.07"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Sambuev, Bator"]
[Black "Jaferian, Koosha"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E14"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.e3 b6 4.Bd3 Bb7 5.O-O Be7 6.c4 c5 7.Nc3 cxd4
8.exd4 d5 9.cxd5 Nxd5 10.Ne5 O-O 11.Qg4 Nxc3 12.bxc3 Bf6 13.Bh6
Nd7 14.Rad1 Qe7 15.Rfe1 Rfd8 16.h4 Kh8 17.Bg5 h6 18.f4 Nxe5 19.dxe5
Qc5+ 20.Kh2 Bxg5 21.fxg5 Qxc3 22.gxh6 gxh6 23.Qf4 Rxd3 24.Qxh6+
Kg8 25.Rxd3 Qxd3 26.Re3 Qxe3 27.Qxe3 Rc8 28.Qg5+ Kf8 29.Qd2 Rc4
30.g3 Be4 31.Qd8+ Kg7 32.Qf6+ Kf8 33.Qd8+ Kg7 34.Qg5+ Kf8 35.h5
Rc2+ 36.Kg1 Rxa2 37.Qd8+ Kg7 38.Qf6+ Kf8 39.h6 Ke8 40.h7 Bxh7
41.Qh8+ Ke7 42.Qxh7 Ra4 43.Qg8 Rd4 44.Qb8 Rd7 45.Kf2 a5 46.Qxb6
Rd5 47.Qb8 a4 48.Qb4+ Ke8 49.Qxa4+ Kf8 50.Qf4 Kg7 51.g4 Rc5 52.Qf6+
Kg8 53.g5 Rc2+ 54.Ke3 Rg2 55.Kd4 Rd2+ 56.Kc5 Rc2+ 57.Kd6 Ra2
58.g6 Ra6+ 59.Kc5 fxg6 60.Qxg6+ Kf8 61.Kb5 1-0

[Event "2021 National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.07"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Tanaka, Tyler"]
[Black "Tomb, Maroun"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A20"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.c4 e5 2.g3 h5 3.Nf3 e4 4.Nd4 Nc6 5.Nc2 h4 6.Bg2 f5 7.Rg1 Nf6
8.d3 hxg3 9.hxg3 d5 10.cxd5 Qxd5 11.Nc3 Qf7 12.Bf4 Be6 13.dxe4
fxe4 14.Nxe4 Nxe4 15.Bxe4 Rd8 16.Qb1 Kd7 17.Ne3 Kc8 18.Bxc6 Bb4+
19.Kf1 bxc6 20.Qe4 Bh3+ 21.Ng2 Qxa2 22.Rc1 Qa4 23.f3 Kb7 24.Qc4
Rd7 25.Kf2 Re8 26.Be3 Bxg2 27.Rxg2 Rde7 28.Bf4 g5 29.b3 Rxe2+
30.Kg1 Re1+ 31.Rxe1 Rxe1+ 32.Kh2 Qa5 33.Bxg5 Bd6 34.f4 Qa1 35.Rc2
Rh1+ 36.Kg2 Qg1+ 37.Kf3 Qd1+ 38.Kg2 Rg1+ 39.Kh2 Bc5 40.Qe2 Qd5
41.Kh3 Qf5+ 42.Kh2 Rh1+ 43.Kxh1 Qh3+ 44.Qh2 Qf1+ 45.Qg1 Qxg1# 0-1

[Event "2021 National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.07"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Xu, Eddie"]
[Black "Demchenko, Svitlana"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E84"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f3 O-O 6.Be3 Nc6 7.Nge2
a6 8.Qd2 Rb8 9.h4 h5 10.Nc1 e5 11.d5 Nd4 12.Nb3 c5 13.dxc6 bxc6
14.Nxd4 exd4 15.Bxd4 Qe7 16.O-O-O Qb7 17.b3 Be6 18.g4 hxg4 19.h5
gxh5 20.Qg5 Qe7 21.c5 dxc5 22.Bxc5 Qc7 23.Bd6 Qb6 24.Be5 Ne8
25.Bd4 Qb4 26.Qxh5 f6 27.f4 Qa3+ 28.Kd2 Rd8 29.Ke3 Rxd4 30.Rxd4
Qc1+ 31.Kd3 Qxf4 32.Qh7+ Kf7 33.Qh5+ Ke7 34.Qc5+ Kf7 35.Be2 f5
36.Rf1 Qg3+ 37.Kc2 Bxd4 38.Qxd4 f4 39.Qe5 Ke7 40.Bc4 Rf6 41.Qc5+
Kf7 42.e5 Rh6 43.Ne2 Rh2 44.Kb1 Rxe2 45.Bxe2 Bf5+ 46.Ka1 Ng7
47.Qd4 Ne6 48.Bc4 f3 49.Rh1 Kg6 50.Bxe6 Bxe6 51.Qe4+ Kg5 52.Qe3+
Kg6 53.Rh6+ Kf7 54.Qa7+ Kf8 55.Rf6+ Kg8 56.Rg6+ Kf8 57.Qg7+ 1-0

[Event "2021 National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.07"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Li, William"]
[Black "Adam, Rafael"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C82"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Nxe4 6.d4 b5 7.Bb3
d5 8.dxe5 Be6 9.c3 Bc5 10.Nbd2 O-O 11.Qe2 Nxd2 12.Bxd2 Qd7 13.Rad1
f6 14.exf6 gxf6 15.Bh6 Rfe8 16.Qd2 Rad8 17.Rfe1 Ne7 18.Nd4 Bf7
19.Qf4 Qd6 20.Qg4+ Ng6 21.Nf5 Rxe1+ 22.Rxe1 Qd7 23.Bc2 Re8 24.Rxe8+
Qxe8 25.Kf1 Bf8 26.h4 Bxh6 27.Nxh6+ Kf8 28.h5 Ne7 29.Qf4 Qc6
30.Nxf7 Kxf7 31.Bxh7 a5 32.h6 b4 33.cxb4 axb4 34.Bd3 Qa4 35.Ke2
Qe8 36.Kd2 c5 37.Qg4 Qh8 38.Qh5+ Ke6 39.g4 Qb8 40.Bf5+ Nxf5 41.Qxf5+
Ke7 42.h7 b3 43.axb3 c4 44.g5 Qxb3 45.Qxf6+ Kd7 46.Qc3 Qb6 47.Qg7+ 1-0


[Event "2021 National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa "]
[Date "2021.11.07"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Pace, Christopher"]
[Black "Sadeghi, Saeid"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B10"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark " "]

1.e4 c6 2.d3 d5 3.Nd2 dxe4 4.dxe4 e5 5.Ngf3 Bg4 6.h3 Bxf3 7.Qxf3
Nf6 8.Nc4 Nbd7 9.Bg5 Qc7 10.O-O-O O-O-O 11.Bxf6 gxf6 12.Qh5 Bc5
13.Be2 b5 14.Ne3 Bxe3+ 15.fxe3 Nc5 16.Rhf1 Kb8 17.Qh4 Rxd1+ 18.Bxd1
Rd8 19.Bf3 f5 20.exf5 e4 21.Bxe4 Qd6 22.Bf3 Qd2+ 23.Kb1 Rd7 24.Qf4+
Kb7 25.a3 Qa5 26.b4 Qxa3 27.bxc5 Qxc5 28.Rd1 1-0

[Aris Marghetis]

If I may suggest, check out the game Tanaka-Tomb, so many unique ideas in it!!