Canadian Closed 2009 - Round 5 Reports!

[Christopher Mallon]

SwissSys Standings. 2009 Canadian Closed: 2009 Canadian Closed
# Name ID Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Tot
1 GM Mark Bluvshtein 2634 D17 W14 D8 W9 3.0
2 IM Artiom Samsonkin 2584 W11 D4 W16 D3 3.0
3 IM Leonid Guerzhoy 2524 W24 W30 D9 D2 3.0
4 IM Jean Hebert 2442 W18 D2 D19 W17 3.0
5 IM Ron Liv****s 2416 D20 D6 W30 W19 3.0
6 Louie Jiang 2252 D7 D5 W27 W21 3.0
7 FM Raja Panjwani 2472 D6 W20 D17 D12 2.5
8 FM Jonathan Tayar 2436 D19 W22 D1 D10 2.5
9 Roman Sapozhnikov 2348 W31 W27 D3 L1 2.5
10 Victor Kaminski 2334 D26 D13 W31 D8 2.5
11 Trevor Vincent 2290 L2 W18 D13 W24 2.5
12 Liam Henry 2280 D15 D21 W28 D7 2.5
13 Thomas Kaminski 2183 D16 D10 D11 W22 2.5
14 FM Hans Jung 2140 B--- L1 D15 W27 2.5
15 IM Edward Porper 2556 D12 L17 D14 W30 2.0
16 Victor Plotkin 2366 D13 W26 L2 D20 2.0
17 Alex Martchenko 2300 D1 W15 D7 L4 2.0
18 Joey Qin 2240 L4 L11 B--- W28 2.0
19 Aman Hambleton 2234 D8 W29 D4 L5 2.0
20 Nicolas Arsenault 2229 D5 L7 W29 D16 2.0
21 IM Tomas Krnan 2534 D22 D12 D24 L6 1.5
22 FM Dale Haessel 2276 D21 L8 W26 L13 1.5
23 Erwin Casareno 2264 L27 L24 W25 D29 1.5
24 Arthur Calugar 2262 L3 W23 D21 L11 1.5
25 Kevin Me 2188 D29 L28 L23 W31 1.5
26 Yves Morin 2160 D10 L16 L22 B--- 1.5
27 IM Nikolay Noritsyn 2534 W23 L9 L6 L14 1.0
28 FM Shiyam Thavandiran 2464 L30 W25 L12 L18 1.0
29 FM Igor Divljan 2412 D25 L19 L20 D23 1.0
30 Keith MacKinnon 2251 W28 L3 L5 L15 1.0
31 Michael Humphreys 2169 L9 B--- L10 L25 1.0

Pairings for Round 5. 2009 Canadian Closed: 2009 Canadian Closed
Bd Res White Res Black
1 GM Mark Bluvshtein (2634 : WW : 3.0) IM Jean Hebert (2442 : b : 3.0)
2 IM Artiom Samsonkin (2584 : w : 3.0) IM Ron Liv****s (2416 : b : 3.0)
3 Louie Jiang (2252 : w : 3.0) IM Leonid Guerzhoy (2524 : BB : 3.0)
4 Thomas Kaminski (2183 : w : 2.5) FM Raja Panjwani (2472 : b : 2.5)
5 FM Jonathan Tayar (2436 : w : 2.5) Trevor Vincent (2290 : b : 2.5)
6 Liam Henry (2280 : WW : 2.5) Roman Sapozhnikov (2348 : b : 2.5)
7 FM Hans Jung (2140 : W : 2.5) Victor Kaminski (2334 : b : 2.5)
8 Aman Hambleton (2234 : w : 2.0) IM Edward Porper (2556 : b : 2.0)
9 Victor Plotkin (2366 : WW : 2.0) Joey Qin (2240 : B : 2.0)
10 Alex Martchenko (2300 : w : 2.0) Nicolas Arsenault (2229 : b : 2.0)
11 Kevin Me (2188 : b : 1.5) IM Tomas Krnan (2534 : BB : 1.5)
12 Arthur Calugar (2262 : WW : 1.5) FM Dale Haessel (2276 : b : 1.5)
13 Erwin Casareno (2264 : w : 1.5) Yves Morin (2160 : B : 1.5)
14 Michael Humphreys (2169 : W : 1.0) IM Nikolay Noritsyn (2534 : b : 1.0)
15 FM Shiyam Thavandiran (2464 : w : 1.0) FM Igor Divljan (2412 : BB : 1.0)
1 Keith MacKinnon (2251 : w : 1.0) BYE


First two games have finished. Martchenko defeats Arsenault, and Sapozhnikov defeats Henry.

[Event "Canadian Closed 2009"]
[Site ""]
[Date ""]
[Round "5"]
[White "Liam Henry"]
[Black "Roman Sapozhnikov"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo ""]
[BlackElo "2348"]
[Source "MonRoi"]
[EventDate ""]
[TimeSpend "9561"]


1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 O-O 6.Be2 e5 7.d5 a5 8.Bg5 h6 9.Bh4 Na6 10.Nd2 Qe8 11.O-O Nh7 12.a3 h5 13.f3 Bd7 14.b3 Bh6 15.Rb1 Be3 16.Bf2 Bc5 17.Qc1 Qe7 18.Na2 Qg5 19.b4 Bh3 20.g3 Bxf1 21.Kxf1 axb4 22.axb4 Bxf2 23.Kxf2 f5 24.exf5 gxf5 25.Nf1 f4 26.Kg2 Qg6 27.Nc3 Ng5 28.Nd2 fxg3 29.hxg3 h4 30.g4 Qf7 31.Qe1 h3 32.Kh1 Qf4 33.Nce4 Nb8 34.Qh4 Nxe4 35.Nxe4 Nd7 36.Ng5 Nf6 37.Qh6 Rf7 38.Nxf7 Qg3 0-1

[Christopher Mallon]

In his return to Board 1, Bluvshtein draws with Hebert.

(Also my apologies to Jean, I don't know how to make the accent on the E on my laptop.)

[Stephen Wright]

é is alt 130 in ASCII

[Christopher Mallon]

I know how to do it on a normal keyboard but I don't have a numpad on my laptop.

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Character Map?

copy+paste èéêëėęěēέε (or does it show correctly only on my screen?)

[Christopher Mallon]

Tayar defeats Vincent.


[Event "Canadian Closed 2009"]
[Site ""]
[Date ""]
[Round "5"]
[White "Jonathan Tayar"]
[Black "Trevor Vincent"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo ""]
[BlackElo ""]
[Source "MonRoi"]
[EventDate ""]
[TimeSpend "12088"]


1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nb5 d6 6.Bf4 e5 7.Be3 a6 8.N5c3 Nf6 9.Bc4 Be6 10.Nd5 Nxe4 11.Bb6 Qg5 12.Nc7 Kd7 13.Be2 Rc8 14.Nxe6 fxe6 15.O-O d5 16.c4 d4 17.Nc3 Nxc3 18.bxc3 Bd6 19.f4 exf4 20.cxd4 f3 21.Rxf3 Rhf8 22.Rh3 Rf4 23.Rd3 Ke7 24.c5 Bc7 25.Bxc7 Rxc7 26.d5 exd5 27.Rxd5 Rf5 28.Rxf5 1-0

[Christopher Mallon]

Plotkin defeats Qin


[Event "Canadian Closed 2009"]
[Site ""]
[Date ""]
[Round "5"]
[White "Victor Plotkin"]
[Black "Joey Qin"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2366"]
[BlackElo ""]
[Source "MonRoi"]
[EventDate ""]
[TimeSpend "12966"]


1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.g3 g6 4.Bg2 Bg7 5.d3 d6 6.f4 e6 7.Nf3 Nge7 8.O-O O-O 9.Be3 Nd4 10.Qd2 Nec6 11.Nd1 Nxf3 12.Bxf3 f5 13.c3 Qe7 14.d4 cxd4 15.cxd4 fxe4 16.Bxe4 d5 17.Bg2 Qb4 18.Qxb4 Nxb4 19.Rf2 Bd7 20.Nc3 Rac8 21.Rd2 Nc6 22.Bf2 Na5 23.Bh3 Rc7 24.Re2 Kf7 25.Rae1 Re8 26.g4 Bc6 27.f5 Rce7 28.fxg6 Kxg6 29.b4 Nc4 30.b5 Bd7 31.Nxd5 Rf7 32.Nc7 Ref8 33.Nxe6 Bxe6 34.Rxe6 Kg5 35.Re7 Bf6 36.Rxf7 Rxf7 37.Bf1 Nd6 38.Re6 Nc8 39.Be2 Nb6 40.h4 Kf4 41.Kg2 Nd5 42.Bg3# 1-0

[Christopher Mallon]

Panjwani defeats T. Kaminski
Me and Krnan draw

[Christopher Mallon]

[Event "Canadian Closed 2009"]
[Site ""]
[Date ""]
[Round "5"]
[White "Thomas Kaminski"]
[Black "Raja Panjwani"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo ""]
[BlackElo "2472"]
[Source "MonRoi"]
[EventDate ""]
[TimeSpend "13205"]


1.d4 d6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 Nf6 5.Be2 O-O 6.Nf3 Nbd7 7.O-O e5 8.d5 Nc5 9.Qc2 a5 10.Ne1 Ne8 11.Be3 f5 12.f3 f4 13.Bf2 g5 14.g4 fxg3 15.hxg3 Nf6 16.Kg2 g4 17.Nd3 gxf3 18.Bxf3 Nxd3 19.Qxd3 Ng4 20.Bg1 Qg5 21.c5 Qh5 22.cxd6 Ne3 23.Qxe3 Bh3 24.Kf2 Bh6 25.Qd3 Rxf3 26.Qxf3 Rf8 27.Qxf8 Bxf8 28.Rfe1 Bxd6 29.Ke3 Qe8 30.a4 Qg6 31.Kd3 Bb4 32.Be3 h5 33.Rh1 Bg4 34.Rhf1 Qa6 35.Nb5 Bd7 36.Ke2 Qg6 37.Nxc7 Qxe4 38.Ne6 Qxd5 39.Ng5 Bg4 40.Kf2 Bd2 0-1

[Christopher Mallon]

Draw on Board 2, Samsonkin-Liv****s


[Event "Canadian Closed 2009"]
[Site ""]
[Date ""]
[Round "5"]
[White "Artiom Samsonkin"]
[Black "Ron Liv****s"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "2612"]
[BlackElo ""]
[Source "MonRoi"]
[EventDate ""]
[TimeSpend "14962"]


1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.f4 d5 4.fxe5 Nxe4 5.Qf3 Nxc3 6.dxc3 Be7 7.Bf4 Be6 8.Bd3 c5 9.O-O-O Nc6 10.Bc4 g5 11.Bg3 g4 12.Qf2 Qa5 13.Rxd5 Bxd5 14.Bxd5 O-O-O 15.Qf5 Kb8 16.e6 Ka8 17.Ne2 c4 18.Rd1 fxe6 19.Qxe6 Bg5 20.Kb1 Ne7 21.Bd6 Qb6 22.Qe5 Nxd5 23.Rxd5 Qe3 24.Qxg5 Qxe2 25.b3 Qe6 26.Qd2 Rhe8 27.Kb2 Qe3 28.Qd1 Rc8 29.b4 Qe2 30.Qg1 Qe1 31.Qd4 Qe4 32.Qd2 Rcd8 33.Rd4 Qe3 34.Qxe3 Rxe3 35.Rxg4 b6 36.Bc7 Rc8 37.Rg7 h5 38.g3 Re2 39.h4 Rce8 40.Bf4 R8e7 41.Rg8 Kb7 42.b5 a5 43.Rb8 Ka7 44.Rc8 R2e4 45.Rh8 Re2 46.Rc8 R2e4 47.Rh8 Re2 48.Rc8 R2e4 1/2-1/2