2021 National Capital Open November 5,6,7

[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!!