Canadian Closed 2009 - Round 6 Reports!

[Christopher Mallon]

... OK how many people have been eagerly waitingg for this?


9 players top the field with 3.5.
SwissSys Standings. 2009 Canadian Closed: 2009 Canadian Closed
# Name ID Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot
1 GM Mark Bluvshtein 2634 D12 W13 D6 W8 D5 3.5
2 IM Artiom Samsonkin 2584 W15 D5 W10 D3 D7 3.5
3 IM Leonid Guerzhoy 2524 W29 W23 D8 D2 D9 3.5
4 FM Raja Panjwani 2472 D9 W25 D12 D16 W19 3.5
5 IM Jean Hebert 2442 W24 D2 D18 W12 D1 3.5
6 FM Jonathan Tayar 2436 D18 W17 D1 D11 W15 3.5
7 IM Ron Liv****s 2416 D25 D9 W23 W18 D2 3.5
8 Roman Sapozhnikov 2348 W30 W27 D3 L1 W16 3.5
9 Louie Jiang 2252 D4 D7 W27 W21 D3 3.5
10 Victor Plotkin 2366 D19 W20 L2 D25 W24 3.0
11 Victor Kaminski 2334 D20 D19 W30 D6 D13 3.0
12 Alex Martchenko 2300 D1 W14 D4 L5 W25 3.0
13 FM Hans Jung 2140 B--- L1 D14 W27 D11 3.0
14 IM Edward Porper 2556 D16 L12 D13 W23 D18 2.5
15 Trevor Vincent 2290 L2 W24 D19 W29 L6 2.5
16 Liam Henry 2280 D14 D21 W22 D4 L8 2.5
17 FM Dale Haessel 2276 D21 L6 W20 L19 W29 2.5
18 Aman Hambleton 2234 D6 W31 D5 L7 D14 2.5
19 Thomas Kaminski 2183 D10 D11 D15 W17 L4 2.5
20 Yves Morin 2160 D11 L10 L17 B--- W28 2.5
21 IM Tomas Krnan 2534 D17 D16 D29 L9 D26 2.0
22 FM Shiyam Thavandiran 2464 L23 W26 L16 L24 W31 2.0
23 Keith MacKinnon 2251 W22 L3 L7 L14 B--- 2.0
24 Joey Qin 2240 L5 L15 B--- W22 L10 2.0
25 Nicolas Arsenault 2229 D7 L4 W31 D10 L12 2.0
26 Kevin Me 2188 D31 L22 L28 W30 D21 2.0
27 IM Nikolay Noritsyn 2534 W28 L8 L9 L13 D30 1.5
28 Erwin Casareno 2264 L27 L29 W26 D31 L20 1.5
29 Arthur Calugar 2262 L3 W28 D21 L15 L17 1.5
30 Michael Humphreys 2169 L8 B--- L11 L26 D27 1.5
31 FM Igor Divljan 2412 D26 L18 L25 D28 L22 1.0

Pairings for Round 6. 2009 Canadian Closed: 2009 Canadian Closed
Bd Res White Res Black
1 IM Ron Liv****s (2416 : W : 3.5) GM Mark Bluvshtein (2634 : W : 3.5)
2 Roman Sapozhnikov (2348 : W : 3.5) IM Artiom Samsonkin (2584 : B : 3.5)
3 IM Jean Hebert (2442 : W : 3.5) IM Leonid Guerzhoy (2524 : B : 3.5)
4 FM Raja Panjwani (2472 : W : 3.5) FM Jonathan Tayar (2436 : B : 3.5)
5 Victor Plotkin (2366 : W : 3.0) Louie Jiang (2252 : B : 3.5)
6 Victor Kaminski (2334 : W : 3.0) Alex Martchenko (2300 : B : 3.0)
7 Trevor Vincent (2290 : W : 2.5) FM Hans Jung (2140 : b : 3.0)
8 IM Edward Porper (2556 : W : 2.5) Thomas Kaminski (2183 : B : 2.5)
9 Yves Morin (2160 : w : 2.5) Liam Henry (2280 : B : 2.5)
10 FM Dale Haessel (2276 : W : 2.5) Aman Hambleton (2234 : B : 2.5)
11 Joey Qin (2240 : w : 2.0) IM Tomas Krnan (2534 : B : 2.0)
12 Nicolas Arsenault (2229 : W : 2.0) FM Shiyam Thavandiran (2464 : B : 2.0)
13 Keith MacKinnon (2251 : w : 2.0) Kevin Me (2188 : BB : 2.0)
14 IM Nikolay Noritsyn (2534 : W : 1.5) Arthur Calugar (2262 : W : 1.5)
15 Michael Humphreys (2169 : b : 1.5) Erwin Casareno (2264 : B : 1.5)
1 FM Igor Divljan (2412 : B : 1.0) BYE


Bluvshtein defeats Liv****s
Haessel defeats Hambleton
Humphreys defeats Casareno
MacKinnon - Me Draw

[Event "Canadian Closed 2009"]
[Site ""]
[Date ""]
[Round "6"]
[White "Dale Haessel"]
[Black "Aman Hambleton"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2412"]
[BlackElo ""]
[Source "MonRoi"]
[EventDate ""]
[TimeSpend "11944"]


1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 b5 4.cxb5 a6 5.bxa6 g6 6.Nc3 Bxa6 7.g3 d6 8.Bg2 Bg7 9.Nf3 O-O 10.O-O Nbd7 11.Rb1 Nb6 12.b3 Ne8 13.Bb2 Nc7 14.Qd2 Bxc3 15.Bxc3 f6 16.Nh4 Qc8 17.Rfe1 g5 18.Ba5 Rb8 19.Nf3 Ncxd5 20.Nxg5 Qf5 21.Nh3 Nc7 22.e4 Qh5 23.Nf4 Qh6 24.Rbd1 Bc8 25.Bxb6 Rxb6 26.Qa5 Rb7 27.e5 fxe5 28.Bxb7 Bxb7 29.Qxc7 Bf3 30.Qxe7 Rxf4 31.Rxd6 Re4 32.Rd8 1-0

[Christopher Mallon]

Krnan defeats Qin
V. Kaminski and Martchenko draw

[Christopher Mallon]

[Event "Canadian Closed 2009"]
[Site ""]
[Date ""]
[Round "6"]
[White "Joey Qin"]
[Black "Tomas Krnan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo ""]
[BlackElo ""]
[Source "MonRoi"]
[EventDate ""]
[TimeSpend "12386"]


1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.d4 exd4 5.O-O Bc5 6.e5 d5 7.exf6 dxc4 8.Re1 Be6 9.Ng5 Qd5 10.Nc3 Qf5 11.g4 Qg6 12.Nce4 Bb6 13.f4 d3 14.Kh1 Bd5 15.f5 Qxf6 16.Nf3 Bxe4 17.Rxe4 Kf8 18.cxd3 h5 19.g5 Qxf5 20.Bd2 cxd3 21.Rf4 Qd5 22.Bc3 Be3 23.Ra4 Bxg5 24.h4 b5 25.Ra6 Bxh4 26.Qf1 Rh6 27.Kh2 Bf6 28.Bd2 Rg6 0-1

[Christopher Mallon]

Hebert defeats Gerzhoy. Unfortunately Gerzhoy's Monroi died midgame so we'll have to wait for his game to show up on here.

Anyway... I was going to do this last night but I was really tired.

Anyway, in addition to the 1 IM and 2 FM titles available to be won in this event, you can get norms regarless of who you played - strictly by performance rating. Also this counts as a 13 game norm instead of a 9 game norm.

Up to the end of Rd 5 performing at an IM norm level: Sapozhnikov, Martchenko, Jiang.

Jung is just shy of that level, and Henry, Tayar and Panjwani are a little further back.

[Christopher Mallon]

Panjwani defeats Tayar


[Event "Canadian Closed 2009"]
[Site ""]
[Date ""]
[Round "6"]
[White "Raja Panjwani"]
[Black "Jonathan Tayar"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2472"]
[BlackElo ""]
[Source "MonRoi"]
[EventDate ""]
[TimeSpend "13851"]


1.d4 Nf6 2.Bg5 e6 3.e4 h6 4.Bxf6 Qxf6 5.c3 d6 6.Bd3 e5 7.Ne2 Nc6 8.O-O g5 9.Bb5 Bd7 10.d5 Ne7 11.Bxd7 Kxd7 12.Qa4 Kd8 13.Qb5 Rb8 14.Qa5 a6 15.c4 h5 16.Nbc3 g4 17.c5 Bh6 18.Rad1 h4 19.Rd3 Nc8 20.c6 h3 21.g3 Qg6 22.f4 f5 23.cxb7 Rxb7 24.b3 fxe4 25.f5 Qf7 26.Nxe4 Rb5 27.Qxa6 Rxd5 28.N2c3 Rd4 29.Qb5 Rf8 30.Rxd4 exd4 31.Nd5 Re8 32.Nb4 Be3 33.Kh1 c5 34.Nc6 Kc7 35.Na5 Kd8 36.Qc6 Re7 37.Nxd6 Nxd6 38.Qxd6 Ke8 39.Qb8 Kd7 40.Qb7 1-0

[Bob Armstrong]

Hi Chris:

Me !!

Bob

P.S. Thanks a lot for giving such timely reports - feels like we're there as they play.

[Christopher Mallon]

Calugar defeats Noritsyn

[Christopher Mallon]

Sapozhnikov and Samsonkin draw

[Christopher Mallon]

Noritsyn's MonRoi seriously died 30 seconds after his game ended, so we have to wait for it to charge up a bit before I can get the game off it.


[Event "Canadian Closed 2009"]
[Site ""]
[Date ""]
[Round "6"]
[White "R. Sapozhnikov"]
[Black "Artiom Samsonkin"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo ""]
[BlackElo "2612"]
[Source "MonRoi"]
[EventDate ""]
[TimeSpend "14518"]


1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 O-O 6.Be2 Na6 7.O-O e5 8.Re1 c6 9.Bf1 exd4 10.Nxd4 Ng4 11.h3 Qb6 12.hxg4 Qxd4 13.Be3 Qxd1 14.Raxd1 Bxg4 15.f3 Be6 16.Rxd6 Rfe8 17.Rdd1 b6 18.Bd4 f6 19.Bf2 Kf7 20.a3 Rad8 21.Rxd8 Rxd8 22.b4 f5 23.e5 Rd2 24.c5 Rc2 25.Bxa6 Rxc3 26.cxb6 axb6 27.Bxb6 Rxa3 28.Bb7 Bf8 29.Rb1 Ra4 30.Bc5 Bxc5 31.bxc5 Rc4 32.Bxc6 Rxc5 33.Rb7 Kg8 34.Bd7 Rxe5 35.Bxe6 Rxe6 36.Kf2 Rf6 37.f4 Rf7 38.Rb6 Kg7 39.Kf3 Rc7 40.Rb3 Kh6 41.g4 Rc1 42.gxf5 gxf5 43.Rb7 Kg6 44.Kg3 h6 45.Rb6 Kh5 46.Rf6 Rc3 47.Kg2 Kg4 48.Rg6 Kxf4 49.Rxh6 Rc2 50.Kf1 Kg4 51.Ra6 Rb2 52.Ra4 f4 53.Ra3 1/2-1/2

[Christopher Mallon]

Only 3 games still going! They're getting faster and faster as the event goes on!