Canadian Closed 2009 - Round 4 Reports!

[Christopher Mallon]

Pairings for round 4:
Pairings for Round 4. 2009 Canadian Closed: 2009 Canadian Closed
Bd Res White Res Black
1 IM Leonid Guerzhoy (2524 : B : 2.5) IM Artiom Samsonkin (2584 : B : 2.5)
2 Roman Sapozhnikov (2348 : WW : 2.5) GM Mark Bluvshtein (2634 : W : 2.0)
3 FM Raja Panjwani (2472 : W : 2.0) Liam Henry (2280 : B : 2.0)
4 IM Jean Hebert (2442 : W : 2.0) Alex Martchenko (2300 : B : 2.0)
5 Victor Kaminski (2334 : W : 2.0) FM Jonathan Tayar (2436 : B : 2.0)
6 IM Ron Liv****s (2416 : W : 2.0) Aman Hambleton (2234 : BB : 2.0)
7 IM Tomas Krnan (2534 : B : 1.5) Louie Jiang (2252 : B : 2.0)
8 Nicolas Arsenault (2229 : WW : 1.5) Victor Plotkin (2366 : W : 1.5)
9 Trevor Vincent (2290 : W : 1.5) Arthur Calugar (2262 : W : 1.5)
10 FM Dale Haessel (2276 : W : 1.5) Thomas Kaminski (2183 : B : 1.5)
11 IM Nikolay Noritsyn (2534 : W : 1.0) FM Hans Jung (2140 : b : 1.5)
12 IM Edward Porper (2556 : W : 1.0) Keith MacKinnon (2251 : BB : 1.0)
13 Joey Qin (2240 : w : 1.0) FM Shiyam Thavandiran (2464 : B : 1.0)
14 FM Igor Divljan (2412 : B : 0.5) Erwin Casareno (2264 : B : 1.0)
15 Kevin Me (2188 : W : 0.5) Michael Humphreys (2169 : b : 1.0)
1 Yves Morin (2160 : B : 0.5) BYE

[Christopher Mallon]

Board 1 is finished with a draw.
Also, T Kaminski has defeated Haesell.

[Event "Canadian Closed 2009"]
[Site ""]
[Date ""]
[Round "4"]
[White "Leonid Guerzhoy"]
[Black "Artiom Samsonkin"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo ""]
[BlackElo "2612"]
[Source "MonRoi"]
[EventDate ""]
[TimeSpend "4579"]


1.e4 c5 2.c3 d5 3.exd5 Qxd5 4.d4 Nf6 5.Nf3 Bg4 6.Be2 e6 7.h3 Bh5 8.O-O Nc6 9.Be3 cxd4 10.Nxd4 Bxe2 11.Qxe2 Nxd4 12.Bxd4 Be7 13.Rd1 Qc6 14.Nd2 O-O 15.Qc4 Qxc4 16.Nxc4 Rac8 17.Ne3 Bc5 18.Bxc5 Rxc5 1/2-1/2

[Christopher Mallon]

Porper defeats MacKinnon

[Christopher Mallon]

Bluvshtein just traded his Queen and a Pawn for both rooks and a bishop.

[Christopher Mallon]

Me defeats Humphreys, Liv****s defeats Hambleton.

Bluvshtein has won a pawn and threatens more, it is now K+2R+B+6P vs K+Q+5P, and 3 of the 5P's are isos.

[Christopher Mallon]

Bluvshtein wins!


[Event "Canadian Closed 2009"]
[Site ""]
[Date ""]
[Round "4"]
[White "Roman Sapozhnikov"]
[Black "Mark Bluvshtein"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2348"]
[BlackElo ""]
[Source "MonRoi"]
[EventDate ""]
[TimeSpend "13153"]


1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.d4 Nxe4 4.Bd3 d5 5.Nxe5 Nd7 6.Nc3 Nxc3 7.bxc3 Nxe5 8.dxe5 Bc5 9.O-O Be6 10.Rb1 Bb6 11.Qh5 h6 12.a4 Qd7 13.Bg5 Rg8 14.Be3 Bxe3 15.fxe3 O-O-O 16.Qh4 c5 17.Rb5 Qc6 18.Rfb1 Rd7 19.Ra5 Kb8 20.Ra6 Qc7 21.Bb5 Rdd8 22.Rc6 bxc6 23.Ba6 Ka8 24.Bb7 Qxb7 25.Rxb7 Kxb7 26.Qe7 Kb6 27.a5 Ka6 28.Qxc5 Rc8 29.Kf2 Rgd8 30.Ke2 Rd7 31.e4 dxe4 32.c4 h5 33.h3 g6 34.Ke1 Rb7 35.Kd2 Rb2 36.Kc3 Ra2 37.Qd4 Ra4 38.Kd2 Rxc4 39.Qd6 h4 40.Qe7 Rb8 41.Kc1 Rb5 42.Qg5 Rbc5 0-1

[Christopher Mallon]

Tayar and V.Kaminski draw.


[Event "Canadian Closed 2009"]
[Site ""]
[Date ""]
[Round "4"]
[White "Victor Kaminski"]
[Black "Jonathan Tayar"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2334"]
[BlackElo ""]
[Source "MonRoi"]
[EventDate ""]
[TimeSpend "13431"]


1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Bg2 O-O 5.c4 d6 6.Nc3 Nbd7 7.O-O e5 8.e4 a6 9.Re1 exd4 10.Nxd4 Ng4 11.h3 Qf6 12.hxg4 Qxd4 13.Nd5(=) c6 14.Ne7 Kh8 15.Qxd4 Bxd4 16.Be3 Bxe3 17.Rxe3 Ne5 18.Nxc8 Raxc8 19.b3 f6 20.f4 Nf7 21.b4 Rfe8 22.Rd3 Rcd8 23.Rb1 Kg7 24.Kf2 Kf8 25.Rh1 h6 26.Rhd1 Ke7 27.a4 Rd7 28.a5 g5 29.Bf1 Kd8 30.Kf3 Ree7 31.c5 dxc5 32.bxc5 Rxd3 33.Rxd3 Rd7 34.Rxd7 Kxd7 35.Bc4 Ne5 36.fxe5 fxe5 1/2-1/2

[Christopher Mallon]

Henry and Panjwani draw.


[Event "Canadian Closed 2009"]
[Site ""]
[Date ""]
[Round "4"]
[White "Raja Panjwani"]
[Black "Liam Henry"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2472"]
[BlackElo ""]
[Source "MonRoi"]
[EventDate ""]
[TimeSpend "14014"]


1.e4 e6 2.d3 c5 3.g3 Nc6 4.Bg2 g6 5.Nc3 Bg7 6.Be3 d6 7.Qd2 Qa5 8.Nge2 Nd4 9.Rb1 Ne7 10.b4 cxb4 11.Bxd4 Bxd4 12.Nxd4 bxc3 13.Qh6 a6 14.Nf3 Qxa2 15.O-O f6 16.Qg7 Rf8 17.Rfc1 Qa5 18.Qxh7 Rb8 19.Qh6 b5 20.d4 e5 21.h4 Be6 22.h5 g5 23.Nxg5 Bg8 24.Nf3 b4 25.g4 exd4 26.g5 fxg5 27.Qxd6 Qb6 28.Qe5 Rd8 29.Nxg5 d3 30.cxd3 Qxf2 31.Kh1 Rxd3 32.Qb8 Rd8 33.Qxb4 Qh4 34.Nh3 Be6 35.Rxc3 Qxh5 36.Qc5 Qxc5 37.Rxc5 Rh8 38.Rc3 Rd2 39.Rb8 Rd8 40.Rb6 Rc8 41.Rxc8 1/2-1/2

[Christopher Mallon]

Hebert defeats Martchenko

[Christopher Mallon]

Vincent defeats Calugar

We also I think have a new record for number of games still going after 7pm!