2023 National Capital Open November 3, 4, 5

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.03"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Sambuev Bator (CAN)"]
[Black "Azar Sebastien"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D30"]
[WhiteElo "2483"]
[BlackElo "2208"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.e3 e6 5.Nbd2 Nbd7 6.Bd3 Be7 7.O-O
dxc4 8.Nxc4 b5 9.Nce5 Nxe5 10.Nxe5 Bb7 11.Bd2 a5 12.Be2 O-O 13.Rc1
Qb6 14.a4 Rfd8 15.Qb3 Bb4 16.Bxb4 bxa4 17.Qxa4 axb4 18.Qb3 Nd5
19.Rc5 Qc7 20.Rfc1 Rdc8 21.Bf3 Qb6 22.g3 Ra5 23.Bxd5 exd5 24.Qxd5
Rxc5 25.Qxf7+ Kh8 26.Rxc5 Qa6 27.Qe6 h6 28.Nf7+ Kh7 29.Qf5+ g6
30.Qd7 1-0

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.03"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Campbell Ryan"]
[Black "Di Matteo Alesso"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B42"]
[WhiteElo "2260"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 a6 5.Bd3 Bc5 6.Nb3 Ba7 7.Qf3
Ne7 8.Nc3 Nbc6 9.Qg3 Ng6 10.h4 Bb8 11.f4 h5 12.Be3 b5 13.e5 Rh6
14.O-O-O f5 15.exf6 Qxf6 16.Rhf1 Nce7 17.Qf3 d5 18.g3 Ba7 19.Bxa7
Rxa7 20.Qe3 Rc7 21.Rde1 Kf7 22.f5 exf5 23.Nxd5 Qd6 24.Nxc7 Qxc7
25.Nd4 Kg8 26.Nxf5 1-0

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.03"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Xu, Daniel"]
[Black "Aayush Ajith "]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B80"]
[WhiteElo "2339"]
[BlackElo "2131"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.f3 e5 7.Nb3
Be7 8.Be3 Be6 9.Qd2 h5 10.Nd5 Nxd5 11.exd5 Bf5 12.Be2 Bh4+ 13.g3
Be7 14.O-O Bh3 15.Rf2 Nd7 16.Na5 Qc7 17.c4 f5 18.Bd3 Nf6 19.b4
Qd7 20.Bc2 h4 21.Bb3 hxg3 22.hxg3 f4 23.gxf4 e4 24.Qe2 Qf5 25.Rh2
Qg6+ 26.Kh1 Nh5 27.Rg1 Ng3+ 28.Rxg3 Qxg3 29.fxe4 Bg4 30.Rxh8+
Kf7 0-1

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.03"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Wang Derek"]
[Black "Han Johnathan (CAN)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A35"]
[WhiteElo "2013"]
[BlackElo "2274"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.Nf3 c5 2.d4 cxd4 3.Nxd4 Nc6 4.c4 Nf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.e3 Bg7 7.Be2
O-O 8.O-O d5 9.Bf3 dxc4 10.Nxc6 bxc6 11.Qa4 Be6 12.Rd1 Qc7 13.Qxc6
Qxc6 14.Bxc6 Rab8 15.e4 Ng4 16.Ba4 Ne5 17.Bc2 Nc6 18.Rb1 Nb4
19.Ba4 Nd3 20.Bc2 Nxc1 21.Rdxc1 Rfd8 22.Rd1 Rxd1+ 23.Nxd1 Rd8
24.Ne3 Bh6 25.Nd5 Bxd5 26.exd5 Rxd5 27.Rd1 Rb5 28.b3 c3 29.Kf1
Bd2 30.Rb1 Rd5 31.Rd1 Ra5 32.a4 Rh5 33.h3 a5 34.Rb1 Rh4 35.Rd1
Kg7 36.Ke2 Kf6 37.Rb1 Rb4 38.Rd1 e5 39.Rb1 Ke6 40.Rd1 Kd6 41.Rb1
Kc5 42.Rd1 Rd4 43.Ra1 Kb4 44.f3 h5 45.g3 Rd8 46.Rb1 Rd6 47.Kf2
Bh6 48.Rd1 Rxd1 49.Bxd1 Ka3 50.Ke2 Kb2 51.Kd3 f5 52.b4 axb4 53.a5
b3 54.a6 c2 55.Bxc2 bxc2 56.a7 c1Q 57.a8B Qc2# 0-1

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.03"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Fritzsche Helmut (GER)"]
[Black "Sowa Ryan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C03"]
[WhiteElo "2022"]
[BlackElo "2337"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nd2 Nc6 4.c3 e5 5.dxe5 dxe4 6.Qe2 Nxe5 7.Qxe4
Bd6 8.f4 Nf6 9.Qe2 O-O 10.fxe5 Bxe5 11.Qxe5 Re8 12.Qxe8+ Qxe8+
13.Be2 Bf5 14.Nc4 Qe4 15.Ne3 Re8 16.Nxf5 Qxg2 17.Ng3 Ne4 18.Nxe4
Rxe4 19.Bd2 Rxe2+ 0-1

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.03"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Latorre Vincent (CAN)"]
[Black "Krishna G V, Sai"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C55"]
[WhiteElo "2214"]
[BlackElo "2502"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bc4 Nf6 4.d3 h6 5.O-O d6 6.c3 g6 7.Re1 Bg7
8.d4 O-O 9.dxe5 Nxe5 10.Nxe5 dxe5 11.Qc2 Nh5 12.Be3 Nf4 13.Nd2
Kh8 14.Kh1 Ne6 15.a4 f5 16.exf5 gxf5 17.Rad1 Qf6 18.f3 Rg8 19.Bd3
Nd8 20.f4 e4 21.Bf1 Be6 22.Nb3 b6 23.Nd4 Bf7 24.a5 Nb7 25.axb6
axb6 26.Ra1 c5 27.Nb3 Qc6 28.Nd2 Nd6 29.Be2 Bf6 30.Rg1 Be6 31.Rxa8
Rxa8 32.h3 Qd7 33.g4 Rg8 34.Qd1 Qc7 35.Rg2 Ra8 36.Qf1 Ra4 37.g5
hxg5 38.fxg5 Be5 39.Bf4 Qg7 40.g6 e3 41.Bxe5 Qxe5 42.Nf3 Qf4
43.g7+ Kg8 44.Qd1 Ra7 45.Rg6 Rxg7 46.Rxe6 Qg3 47.Qg1 Ne4 48.Rxe4
Qxh3+ 49.Qh2 Qxh2+ 50.Nxh2 fxe4 51.Ng4 Kf7 52.Bc4+ Kg6 53.Nxe3
Kg5 54.Kg2 Rd7 55.b3 Kf4 56.Nd5+ Rxd5 57.Bxd5 Ke3 58.Kg3 Kd3
59.Kf4 Kxc3 60.Kxe4 1/2-1/2

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.03"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Chiku-Ratte Olivier-kenta (CAN)"]
[Black "Moses Neil"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D30"]
[WhiteElo "2452"]
[BlackElo "1969"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.g3 c6 5.Bg2 Nbd7 6.Qc2 Bd6 7.O-O
O-O 8.Nbd2 Re8 9.Rd1 Qe7 10.e4 dxe4 11.Nxe4 Nxe4 12.Qxe4 e5 13.Bg5
f6 14.Be3 exd4 15.Qxe7 Rxe7 16.Nxd4 Be5 17.Nf5 Re8 18.Nd6 Re7
19.Bh3 Bxd6 20.Rxd6 Kf7 21.Bf1 Ne5 22.h3 Bf5 23.f4 Nd7 24.Kf2
Nb6 25.b3 Rae8 26.Bc5 h5 27.Rd2 Rd7 28.Rxd7+ Nxd7 29.Be3 c5 30.Rd1
b6 31.Be2 Bxh3 32.Bxh5+ g6 33.Bf3 Be6 34.g4 Rc8 35.Bc1 Rc7 36.Bb2
Nf8 37.Rh1 Rd7 38.Ke3 Ke7 39.Rh8 Rd8 40.g5 fxg5 41.fxg5 Kf7 42.Bf6
Rd7 43.Bc6 Rd6 44.Be4 Rd1 45.Bd3 Bf5 46.Be2 Rd6 47.Rh1 Nd7 48.Bc3
a5 49.Rh7+ Ke6 50.Rh8 Bb1 51.a3 Kf5 52.Rh1 Bc2 53.Rg1 Ne5 54.Rc1
Kxg5 55.Bxe5 Re6 56.Rg1+ Kf5 57.Bg4+ Kxe5 58.Bxe6 Kxe6 59.Kd2
Bf5 60.Re1+ Kd6 61.Re8 Kd7 62.Rg8 Kc6 63.Rg7 Bb1 64.Rf7 Bf5 65.Rf6+
Kc7 66.Kc3 Kb7 67.b4 axb4+ 68.axb4 cxb4+ 69.Kxb4 Kc7 70.Kb5 Bd7+
71.Ka6 Bf5 72.Kb5 Bd7+ 73.Kb4 Bf5 74.Kc3 Bb1 75.Kd4 Bf5 76.Kd5
Bd3 77.Rf7+ Kb8 78.Re7 Bf1 79.Kd4 Bh3 80.Kc3 Bf5 81.Kb4 Kc8 82.Kb5
Bd3 83.Kc6 Kb8 84.Kxb6 Kc8 85.c5 1-0

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.03"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Lawson Eric (CAN)"]
[Black "Xu Philip"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C02"]
[WhiteElo "2371"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.c3 Nc6 5.Nf3 Bd7 6.Be2 Qb6 7.O-O cxd4
8.cxd4 Nge7 9.Na3 Nf5 10.Nc2 Be7 11.Bd3 g6 12.b3 f6 13.Bxf5 gxf5
14.exf6 Bxf6 15.Bg5 Qd8 16.Qd2 O-O 17.Rfe1 Bxg5 18.Nxg5 Qf6 19.Nf3
Rac8 20.Nb4 Kh8 21.Nxc6 Bxc6 22.Rac1 Rc7 23.Ne5 Rfc8 24.Qf4 h6
25.h4 Kh7 26.Rc3 Qg7 27.Rg3 Qf8 28.Nxc6 Rxc6 29.h5 Re8 30.Rg6
Re7 31.Re3 Re8 32.Reg3 Re7 33.Qe5 Qf7 34.Kh2 Rec7 35.f4 Rc3 36.Qxe6
Qxe6 37.Rxe6 Rxg3 38.Kxg3 Rc3+ 39.Kf2 Rc2+ 40.Re2 Rc7 41.Re5
Rc2+ 42.Kg3 Rxa2 43.Rxf5 Kg7 44.Rxd5 b6 45.Rd7+ Kf6 46.Rd6+ Kg7
47.Rd7+ Kf6 48.Rh7 Ra3 49.Kg4 b5 50.Rxh6+ Kg7 51.Rc6 a5 52.Rc7+
Kh6 53.Kh4 Ra1 54.g4 Rh1+ 55.Kg3 Rd1 56.Rc5 Rd3+ 57.Kh4 1-0

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.03"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Leung Joseph"]
[Black "Latorre Vincent (CAN)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B06"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "2214"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nc3 d6 4.Be3 a6 5.Qd2 b5 6.f3 Nd7 7.a4 b4
8.Nd1 a5 9.c4 Ngf6 10.Bd3 O-O 11.Ne2 e5 12.O-O Ba6 13.b3 Nh5
14.Bh6 Bxh6 15.Qxh6 exd4 16.Nxd4 Qf6 17.Qe3 Nf4 18.Be2 Nxe2+ 0-1



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.03"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Stopic Alexander"]
[Black "Xu, Daniel"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E92"]
[WhiteElo "1851"]
[BlackElo "2339"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 g6 3.d4 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 O-O 6.Be2 e5 7.d5 a5
8.O-O Na6 9.Ne1 Ne8 10.Be3 f5 11.f3 f4 12.Bf2 g5 13.Nd3 Rf7 14.c5
Bf8 15.Rc1 Rg7 16.cxd6 Bxd6 17.Nb5 h5 18.Qb3 g4 19.Nxd6 cxd6
20.Bb6 Qh4 21.Rxc8 Rxc8 22.Bxa5 Qe7 23.Rd1 Nf6 24.a4 Kh7 25.Qa3
h4 26.fxg4 Nxg4 27.Bf3 Ne3 28.Rb1 h3 29.g3 Nc2 30.Qb3 Nd4 31.Qd1
fxg3 32.Bg4 gxh2+ 33.Kxh2 Qh4 0-1



[ePGN "0.1;DGT LiveChess/2.2.5"]
[Event "2023 National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa, Canada"]
[Date "2023.11.04"]
[Round "3.1"]
[White "Campbell, Ryan"]
[Black "Chiku-Ratte, Olivier, Olivier Kenta"]
[Result "0-1"]
[TimeControl "90 min plus 30 sec/move"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2260"]
[BlackElo "2425"]

1. e4 {[%clk 01:30:47]} {[%emt 00:10:33]} e5 {[%clk 01:28:34]} 2. Nf3 {[%clk
01:31:08]} Nc6 {[%clk 01:28:40]} 3. Bb5 {[%clk 01:31:29]} a6 {[%clk 01:28:28]}
4. Ba4 {[%clk 01:31:53]} Nf6 {[%clk 01:28:31]} 5. O-O {[%clk 01:31:52]} b5
{[%clk 01:28:55]} 6. Bb3 {[%clk 01:32:15]} Bc5 {[%clk 01:27:18]} 7. Nxe5 {[%clk
01:15:55]} Nxe5 {[%clk 01:21:08]} 8. d4 {[%clk 01:16:18]} Bxd4 {[%clk
01:20:55]} 9. Qxd4 {[%clk 01:16:41]} Qe7 {[%clk 01:01:07]} 10. Bg5 {[%clk
00:55:40]} Bb7 {[%clk 00:37:40]} 11. f4 {[%clk 00:46:33]} Nc6 {[%clk 00:37:04]}
12. Qc3 {[%clk 00:34:48]} b4 {[%clk 00:35:47]} 13. Qc4 {[%clk 00:31:51]} Na5
{[%clk 00:28:31]} 14. Qxc7 {[%clk 00:28:00]} Qxe4 {[%clk 00:25:07]} 15. Qe5+
{[%clk 00:28:17]} Kf8 {[%clk 00:13:08]} {[%emt 00:01:54]} 16. Qd6+ {[%clk
00:24:49]} {[%emt 00:03:58]} Kg8 {[%clk 00:13:06]} {[%emt 00:00:31]} 17. Qd2
{[%clk 00:24:50]} {[%emt 00:00:29]} Nxb3 {[%clk 00:11:58]} {[%emt 00:01:37]} 18.
axb3 {[%clk 00:24:59]} {[%emt 00:00:22]} Nd5 {[%clk 00:11:16]} {[%emt
00:01:12]} 19. Re1 {[%clk 00:24:33]} {[%emt 00:00:56]} Qg6 {[%clk 00:10:07]}
{[%emt 00:01:38]} 20. Ra5 {[%clk 00:21:41]} {[%emt 00:03:23]} Qb6+ {[%clk
00:09:56]} {[%emt 00:00:41]} 21. Kh1 {[%clk 00:21:07]} {[%emt 00:01:04]} Qxa5
{[%clk 00:10:21]} {[%emt 00:00:05]} 22. c4 {[%clk 00:19:51]} {[%emt 00:01:46]}
bxc3 {[%clk 00:10:39]} {[%emt 00:00:12]} 23. Nxc3 {[%clk 00:20:08]} {[%emt
00:00:12]} h6 {[%clk 00:10:44]} {[%emt 00:00:25]} 24. Bh4 {[%clk 00:18:44]}
{[%emt 00:01:55]} Nxc3 {[%clk 00:11:01]} {[%emt 00:00:13]} 0-1



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.03"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Joseph Jonath"]
[Black "Lawson Eric (CAN)"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B50"]
[WhiteElo "2100"]
[BlackElo "2371"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.c3 Nf6 4.Be2 Nbd7 5.d3 c4 6.O-O cxd3 7.Bxd3
e6 8.Bf4 Be7 9.Bc2 Qc7 10.Re1 e5 11.Bg3 O-O 12.Nfd2 Nc5 13.c4
Bg4 14.f3 Be6 15.Nc3 Qb6 16.Bf2 Qxb2 17.Nb5 Qb4 18.Nb3 Qxc4 19.Nxd6
Bxd6 20.Qxd6 Qxc2 21.Nxc5 Rad8 22.Qxe5 Rd2 23.Rec1 Qb2 24.Qxb2
Rxb2 25.Nxe6 fxe6 26.Bxa7 Ra8 27.Bd4 Rd2 28.Bc3 Rdxa2 29.Rxa2
Rxa2 30.Bxf6 gxf6 31.Rc8+ Kg7 32.Rc7+ Kg6 33.Rxb7 e5 34.h3 h5
35.Kh2 h4 1/2-1/2



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.03"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Azar Sebastien"]
[Black "Rousskikh Maxim"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B12"]
[WhiteElo "2208"]
[BlackElo "1961"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.Nf3 e6 5.Be2 c5 6.Be3 Nc6 7.dxc5 Nge7
8.Nc3 a6 9.Na4 Qc7 10.c4 Rd8 11.Nb6 d4 12.Bg5 d3 13.Bf1 Nxe5
14.Qa4+ N5c6 15.O-O-O h6 16.Be3 g6 17.Nd4 Bg7 18.Nxf5 Nxf5 19.Bd2
O-O 20.Qa3 Qe5 21.Kb1 Qd4 22.f3 Qf2 23.Be1 Qc2+ 0-1



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.03"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Aayush Ajith "]
[Black "Krishna G V, Sai"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E90"]
[WhiteElo "2131"]
[BlackElo "2502"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 O-O 6.h3 e5 7.dxe5 dxe5
8.Qxd8 Rxd8 9.Bg5 c6 10.Nxe5 Re8 11.O-O-O Na6 12.Nf3 Nc5 13.Nd2
h6 14.Bxf6 Bxf6 15.f3 Bxc3 16.bxc3 f5 17.exf5 Bxf5 18.g4 Nd3+
19.Bxd3 Bxd3 20.Rde1 Kg7 21.c5 g5 22.Nb3 Bc4 23.Kb2 Kf6 24.Nd4
b6 25.cxb6 axb6 26.a3 c5 27.Nf5 Red8 28.Ne3 Rd2+ 29.Kc1 Rd3 30.Kc2
Rxa3 31.Nxc4 Raxc3+ 32.Kb2 Rxc4 33.h4 Rxf3 34.hxg5+ Kxg5 35.Re6
Rb4+ 36.Kc2 Rf6 37.Rxf6 Kxf6 38.Rxh6+ Kg5 39.Re6 Kxg4 40.Rf6
Kg5 41.Rf8 Rf4 42.Rb8 Rf6 43.Kc3 Kf5 44.Kc4 Ke5 45.Rb7 Rf4+ 46.Kc3
Rb4 47.Rh7 Kd6 48.Rh6+ Kc7 49.Rh7+ Kc6 50.Rh6+ Kb5 51.Rh5 Rg4
52.Rh8 Rg3+ 53.Kc2 Kb4 54.Rh4+ c4 55.Rh2 b5 56.Kb2 Rb3+ 57.Ka2
Ra3+ 58.Kb2 c3+ 59.Kb1 Kb3 60.Rb2+ Kc4 61.Rh2 b4 62.Rh4+ Kb3
63.Rh2 c2+ 0-1



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.03"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Han Johnathan (CAN)"]
[Black "Sambuev Bator (CAN)"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C79"]
[WhiteElo "2274"]
[BlackElo "2483"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O d6 6.Re1 Bd7 7.c3
g6 8.d4 Bg7 9.h3 O-O 10.Bc2 Nh5 11.a4 b6 12.Na3 h6 13.Nc4 Re8
14.Be3 exd4 15.cxd4 Nb4 16.Bb1 a5 17.Qd2 g5 18.d5 Qe7 19.Ra3
Qf8 20.Bd4 Nf4 21.Ne3 Na6 22.Bxg7 Qxg7 23.Nd4 Nc5 24.Nef5 Bxf5
25.Nxf5 Qf6 26.Rf3 Re5 27.g3 Nh5 28.Nd4 Qg7 29.Rfe3 f6 30.Nf5
Qg6 31.Kh2 Kh8 32.f4 Ree8 33.e5 gxf4 34.gxf4 fxe5 35.Nh4 Qf6
36.Ng6+ Kg8 37.fxe5 dxe5 38.Rxe5 Rxe5 39.Rxe5 Ng7 40.Ne7+ Kh8
41.Ng6+ Kg8 42.Qe2 Nd7 43.Ne7+ Kh8 44.Ng6+ Kg8 1/2-1/2



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.03"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Sowa Ryan"]
[Black "Latreille Etienne"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B38"]
[WhiteElo "2337"]
[BlackElo "2178"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 g6 5.c4 Bg7 6.Be3 d6 7.Nc3
Nf6 8.Be2 O-O 9.O-O Bd7 10.Qd2 Nxd4 11.Bxd4 Bc6 12.f3 a5 13.b3
Nd7 14.Be3 Nc5 15.Rac1 Qb6 16.Rc2 Qb4 17.Rb1 f5 18.exf5 gxf5
19.Qc1 Qb6 20.a3 f4 21.Bf2 Qd8 22.Qd2 Nd7 23.Nd5 Be5 24.b4 axb4
25.axb4 e6 26.Nc3 Nf6 27.Nb5 Qe7 28.c5 Nd5 29.Nxd6 Qg7 30.Kh1
Rf6 31.Nc4 Rg6 32.Nxe5 Qxe5 33.b5 Qg5 34.Bf1 Ne3 35.Bxe3 fxe3
36.Qe2 Bd5 37.Re1 Rg7 38.Qxe3 Qxe3 39.Rxe3 Ra1 40.Kg1 Rb1 41.Kf2
Bb3 42.Rd2 Rc7 43.Bd3 Rc1 44.Be4 Ba4 45.b6 Re7 46.Ra3 Be8 47.Rc2
Rb1 48.Ra7 Bg6 49.Bxg6 hxg6 50.c6 1-0



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.03"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Kot Emmanuel"]
[Black "Guillemette Hugo"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B49"]
[WhiteElo "2114"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be2 a6 7.Be3
Nf6 8.O-O Bb4 9.Na4 Be7 10.Nxc6 bxc6 11.Nb6 Rb8 12.Nxc8 Qxc8
13.Bd4 c5 14.Be5 Rb6 15.Qd3 d6 16.Bc3 O-O 17.Rad1 Nd7 18.Qg3
g6 19.Rd2 Qc6 20.Qf4 e5 21.Qe3 Nf6 22.Bf3 Rc8 23.g3 c4 24.Bg2
Rb5 25.Rfd1 Qb7 26.h3 Nd7 27.Rd5 Nc5 28.b3 cxb3 29.cxb3 Qc7 30.Rc1
Ne6 31.Bb2 Qb8 32.Rxc8+ Qxc8 33.Rxb5 axb5 34.Bf1 Qc2 35.Qe2 Qb1
36.Bc3 b4 37.Bxb4 Nd4 38.Qa6 Nf3+ 39.Kh1 Qxe4 40.Qd3 Qxb4 41.Qxf3
e4 42.Qd1 Qc5 43.Kg2 d5 44.Qe2 Qc6 45.Qa6 Qxa6 46.Bxa6 d4 47.g4
Kg7 48.f3 f5 49.gxf5 gxf5 50.fxe4 fxe4 51.Bb7 e3 52.Kf3 Kf6 53.Be4
h6 54.a4 Bb4 55.Bd3 Ke5 56.Bc4 Bc3 57.Bd3 Kd5 58.Kg4 Kc5 59.Kf3
Kb4 60.Bc4 Ka3 61.Ke2 Kb2 62.Kd3 Kc1 63.Ke2 Kc2 64.b4 Bxb4 65.Bd3+
Kb3 66.Bb5 Bc3 67.Be8 Kb4 68.Bd7 Kc5 69.Be8 Kd5 70.Bg6 Ke5 71.Kf3
Kf6 72.Bd3 Kg5 {And drawn in a few moves.} 1/2-1/2

[Halldor P. Palsson]

Pairings for Round 4.

2023 National Capital Open

Bd # Res White # Res Black
1 3 IM Olivier Kenta Chiku-Ratte (2425 3.0) 1 GM Bator Sambuev (2575 2.5)
2 2 IM Sai Krishna G V (2501 2.5) 7 Ryan Sowa (2304 2.5)
3 10 Vincent Latorre (2239 2.5) 4 FM Johnathan Han (2418 2.5)
4 5 FM Daniel Xu (2376 2.0) 12 Emanuel Kot (2160 2.0)
5 6 IM Eric Lawson (2334 2.0) 14 Aayush Ajith (2131 2.0)
6 16 Jonath Joseph (2110 2.0) 8 Ryan Campbell (2260 2.0)
7 17 Hugo Guillemette (2097 2.0) 11 Neil Moses (2179 2.0)
8 33 Jacob Jolicoeur (1894 2.0) 13 Etienne Latreille (2145 1.5)
9 18 Derek Wang (2094 1.5) 34 Michel Desjardins (1884 1.5)
10 32 Lucy Gao (1896 1.5) 30 April Yunwei Zhong (1914 1.5)
11 31 Wah Sing [joseph] Leung (1902 1.5) 37 Elber Zhu (1829 1.5)
12 38 Philip Xu (1818 1.5) 9 Sebastien Azar (2253 1.0)
13 15 Saeid Sadeghi (2112 1.0) 28 Alexander Stopic (1930 1.0)
14 29 Henry Hughes-Dupuy (1922 1.0) 19 Alessio Di Matteo (2066 1.0)
15 21 Michael Shi (2020 1.0) 36 Anais Chloe Fiset (1857 1.0)
16 35 Oliver Byl (1865 1.0) 27 Savas Marin Stoica (1947 1.0)
17 25 Eric Qian (1982 0.5) 23 Mark Nassar (2014 0.5)
18 26 Helmut Fritzsche (1962 0.5) 20 Ryan Yunhui Zhong (2035 0.0)
22 1 Ben Kellar (2017 0.0) BYE
24 ½ Maxim Rousskikh (1995 2.0) BYE

Pairings for Round 4.

2023 National Capital Open: 2023 National Capital U1900

Bd # Res White # Res Black
20 8 Lucas Pitre (1745 3.0) 4 Ashley Qian (1797 3.0)
21 15 Aarush Ajith (1681 2.0) 17 Jacob Stephen Burton (1655 2.5)
22 19 Babacar Sonko (1611 2.0) 6 Vladimir Dukkardt (1769 2.0)
23 1 Thomas Guillemette (1898 1.5) 11 Iassen Pelev (1717 2.0)
24 5 Douglas Graham (1777 1.5) 9 Arnaud Jutras (1741 1.5)
25 10 Justin Huang (1728 1.5) 13 Valentyna Lohozynska (1692 1.5)
26 22 Ting En Ryan Wu (1542 1.5) 2 Denys Lohozynskyi (1842 1.0)
27 23 Cristian Scrieciu (1526 1.0) 18 Anton Gribanov (1639 1.0)
28 20 Stefaniia Shevtsova (1602 1.0) 21 Edison Zhu (1559 1.0)
16 1 Ankita Jain (1669 0.0) BYE
14 ½ Aris Marghetis (1690 0.5) BYE
12 ½ Abdelaziz Mahdjoubi (1701 2.0) BYE
3 0 Philip Xu (1818 0.0) BYE
7 0 Daniel Kearnan (1757 0.0) BYE

Pairings for Round 4.

2023 National Capital Open: 2023 National Capital U1600

Bd # Res White # Res Black
30 19 Devon Pollard (1393 3.0) 3 Justin Jean (1537 3.0)
31 17 Randy Taylor (1430 3.0) 28 Xiangbin Wang (1304 3.0)
32 24 Zipei Liu (1354 2.5) 1 Raja Ravi Kiran Reddy Karra (1595 2.5)
33 5 Noah Witmer (1522 2.5) 35 Victor Samuel (1244 2.5)
34 7 Simon Perkins (1493 2.5) 36 Parker Thompson (1222 2.5)
35 52 Sasha Ioffine (1091 2.5) 11 Justin Wen (1470 2.5)
36 39 Daniel Ribero Pinto (1205 2.5) 13 Shuwen Tan (1453 2.5)
37 40 Eric Moore (1203 2.0) 4 Spencer Martin (1535 2.0)
38 6 Samuel Filion (1500 2.0) 38 Gregory Marcelin (1217 2.0)
39 14 Christopher Sailus (1450 2.0) 42 Lwazi Bhebhe (1195 2.0)
40 45 Stephane Sonko (1182 2.0) 16 William Gao (1430 2.0)
41 56 Anthony McCormick (1056 2.0) 20 Damien Lamontagne (1392 2.0)
42 58 Noah Stelmach (1046 2.0) 21 Alexander Hodgins (1385 2.0)
43 75 Mohammadreza Mohseni (unr. 2.0) 23 Tom Leschinski (1370 2.0)
44 25 Romy Peters (1352 2.0) 41 Sébastien Belliveau (1197 2.0)
45 27 Aaron Sethi (1307 2.0) 57 Niam Moses (1047 2.0)
46 31 Sachen Gombu (1273 2.0) 78 Jonathan Deslauriers (unr. 2.0)
47 77 Eric Muddiman (unr. 2.0) 32 Greg Garber (1268 2.0)
48 67 Subaru Ishii ( 884 2.0) 8 Yves Filion (1492 1.5)
49 10 Cody Griffiths (1475 1.5) 44 John If Lukezich (1183 1.5)
50 46 Siddhaarth Aravinthan (1170 1.5) 12 Stephane Legault (1468 1.5)
51 18 Jeremy Sztuka (1427 1.5) 47 Katherine Leung (1160 1.5)
52 29 John Hay (1297 1.5) 53 Danny Nguyen (1077 1.5)
53 54 Laurent Bergeron-Collin (1064 1.0) 9 Anuj Radia (1490 1.0)
54 59 Dylan Linus Sy (1045 1.0) 26 Tyler Lagace (1327 1.0)
55 60 Iain Wong (1013 1.0) 30 Nathaniel Lays (1273 1.0)
56 33 Alain Brisebois (1260 1.0) 61 Justin Hum ( 988 1.0)
57 79 Simon Al Aranji-Rouleau (unr. 1.0) 34 Paul Shedden (1246 1.0)
58 37 Jonathan Cao (1220 1.0) 72 Ryan Daoust (unr. 1.0)
59 81 Gwenael Laurent-Guy (unr. 1.0) 49 Ozan Cecen (1154 1.0)
60 69 Naomi Tominaga ( 720 1.0) 43 Daniel Vanderveen (1195 1.0)
61 48 Anton Karpov (1157 1.0) 74 Ryan Ward (unr. 1.0)
62 50 Erik Laska (1149 1.0) 76 Thanish Karuvarasan (unr. 1.0)
63 82 Solomon Wb (unr. 1.0) 51 Pierre Arcand (1127 1.0)
64 22 Caspar Sun (1374 0.5) 2 Grant Schaper (1569 0.5)
65 63 Anya Jain ( 969 0.5) 55 Daniel Davydov (1062 0.0)
66 62 Hao En Colin Wu ( 969 0.0) 68 Ojayit Basu ( 865 0.0)
67 65 Adhvik Aravinthan ( 943 0.0) 70 Anvi Jain ( 652 0.0)
68 71 Scott Hefkey ( 646 0.0) 66 Ian Luo ( 901 0.0)
73 1 Greg Khachatryan (unr. 0.0) BYE
80 ½ Brian Batchelar (unr. 2.0) BYE
15 ½ Alois Clerc (1441 1.0) BYE
64 ½ Andrew Svensson ( 946 0.5) BYE

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.03"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Leung Joseph"]
[Black "Latorre Vincent (CAN)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B06"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "2214"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nc3 d6 4.Be3 a6 5.Qd2 b5 6.f3 Nd7 7.a4 b4
8.Nd1 a5 9.c4 Ngf6 10.Bd3 O-O 11.Ne2 e5 12.O-O Ba6 13.b3 Nh5
14.Bh6 Bxh6 15.Qxh6 exd4 16.Nxd4 Qf6 17.Qe3 Nf4 18.Be2 Nxe2+ 0-1

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.03"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Stopic Alexander"]
[Black "Xu, Daniel"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E92"]
[WhiteElo "1851"]
[BlackElo "2339"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 g6 3.d4 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 O-O 6.Be2 e5 7.d5 a5
8.O-O Na6 9.Ne1 Ne8 10.Be3 f5 11.f3 f4 12.Bf2 g5 13.Nd3 Rf7 14.c5
Bf8 15.Rc1 Rg7 16.cxd6 Bxd6 17.Nb5 h5 18.Qb3 g4 19.Nxd6 cxd6
20.Bb6 Qh4 21.Rxc8 Rxc8 22.Bxa5 Qe7 23.Rd1 Nf6 24.a4 Kh7 25.Qa3
h4 26.fxg4 Nxg4 27.Bf3 Ne3 28.Rb1 h3 29.g3 Nc2 30.Qb3 Nd4 31.Qd1
fxg3 32.Bg4 gxh2+ 33.Kxh2 Qh4 0-1

[ePGN "0.1;DGT LiveChess/2.2.5"]
[Event "2023 National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa, Canada"]
[Date "2023.11.04"]
[Round "3.1"]
[White "Campbell, Ryan"]
[Black "Chiku-Ratte, Olivier, Olivier Kenta"]
[Result "0-1"]
[TimeControl "90 min plus 30 sec/move"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2260"]
[BlackElo "2425"]

1. e4 {[%clk 01:30:47]} {[%emt 00:10:33]} e5 {[%clk 01:28:34]} 2. Nf3 {[%clk
01:31:08]} Nc6 {[%clk 01:28:40]} 3. Bb5 {[%clk 01:31:29]} a6 {[%clk 01:28:28]}
4. Ba4 {[%clk 01:31:53]} Nf6 {[%clk 01:28:31]} 5. O-O {[%clk 01:31:52]} b5
{[%clk 01:28:55]} 6. Bb3 {[%clk 01:32:15]} Bc5 {[%clk 01:27:18]} 7. Nxe5 {[%clk
01:15:55]} Nxe5 {[%clk 01:21:08]} 8. d4 {[%clk 01:16:18]} Bxd4 {[%clk
01:20:55]} 9. Qxd4 {[%clk 01:16:41]} Qe7 {[%clk 01:01:07]} 10. Bg5 {[%clk
00:55:40]} Bb7 {[%clk 00:37:40]} 11. f4 {[%clk 00:46:33]} Nc6 {[%clk 00:37:04]}
12. Qc3 {[%clk 00:34:48]} b4 {[%clk 00:35:47]} 13. Qc4 {[%clk 00:31:51]} Na5
{[%clk 00:28:31]} 14. Qxc7 {[%clk 00:28:00]} Qxe4 {[%clk 00:25:07]} 15. Qe5+
{[%clk 00:28:17]} Kf8 {[%clk 00:13:08]} {[%emt 00:01:54]} 16. Qd6+ {[%clk
00:24:49]} {[%emt 00:03:58]} Kg8 {[%clk 00:13:06]} {[%emt 00:00:31]} 17. Qd2
{[%clk 00:24:50]} {[%emt 00:00:29]} Nxb3 {[%clk 00:11:58]} {[%emt 00:01:37]} 18.
axb3 {[%clk 00:24:59]} {[%emt 00:00:22]} Nd5 {[%clk 00:11:16]} {[%emt
00:01:12]} 19. Re1 {[%clk 00:24:33]} {[%emt 00:00:56]} Qg6 {[%clk 00:10:07]}
{[%emt 00:01:38]} 20. Ra5 {[%clk 00:21:41]} {[%emt 00:03:23]} Qb6+ {[%clk
00:09:56]} {[%emt 00:00:41]} 21. Kh1 {[%clk 00:21:07]} {[%emt 00:01:04]} Qxa5
{[%clk 00:10:21]} {[%emt 00:00:05]} 22. c4 {[%clk 00:19:51]} {[%emt 00:01:46]}
bxc3 {[%clk 00:10:39]} {[%emt 00:00:12]} 23. Nxc3 {[%clk 00:20:08]} {[%emt
00:00:12]} h6 {[%clk 00:10:44]} {[%emt 00:00:25]} 24. Bh4 {[%clk 00:18:44]}
{[%emt 00:01:55]} Nxc3 {[%clk 00:11:01]} {[%emt 00:00:13]} 0-1

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.03"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Joseph Jonath"]
[Black "Lawson Eric (CAN)"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B50"]
[WhiteElo "2100"]
[BlackElo "2371"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.c3 Nf6 4.Be2 Nbd7 5.d3 c4 6.O-O cxd3 7.Bxd3
e6 8.Bf4 Be7 9.Bc2 Qc7 10.Re1 e5 11.Bg3 O-O 12.Nfd2 Nc5 13.c4
Bg4 14.f3 Be6 15.Nc3 Qb6 16.Bf2 Qxb2 17.Nb5 Qb4 18.Nb3 Qxc4 19.Nxd6
Bxd6 20.Qxd6 Qxc2 21.Nxc5 Rad8 22.Qxe5 Rd2 23.Rec1 Qb2 24.Qxb2
Rxb2 25.Nxe6 fxe6 26.Bxa7 Ra8 27.Bd4 Rd2 28.Bc3 Rdxa2 29.Rxa2
Rxa2 30.Bxf6 gxf6 31.Rc8+ Kg7 32.Rc7+ Kg6 33.Rxb7 e5 34.h3 h5
35.Kh2 h4 1/2-1/2

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.03"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Azar Sebastien"]
[Black "Rousskikh Maxim"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B12"]
[WhiteElo "2208"]
[BlackElo "1961"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 Bf5 4.Nf3 e6 5.Be2 c5 6.Be3 Nc6 7.dxc5 Nge7
8.Nc3 a6 9.Na4 Qc7 10.c4 Rd8 11.Nb6 d4 12.Bg5 d3 13.Bf1 Nxe5
14.Qa4+ N5c6 15.O-O-O h6 16.Be3 g6 17.Nd4 Bg7 18.Nxf5 Nxf5 19.Bd2
O-O 20.Qa3 Qe5 21.Kb1 Qd4 22.f3 Qf2 23.Be1 Qc2+ 0-1

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.03"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Aayush Ajith "]
[Black "Krishna G V, Sai"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E90"]
[WhiteElo "2131"]
[BlackElo "2502"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nf3 O-O 6.h3 e5 7.dxe5 dxe5
8.Qxd8 Rxd8 9.Bg5 c6 10.Nxe5 Re8 11.O-O-O Na6 12.Nf3 Nc5 13.Nd2
h6 14.Bxf6 Bxf6 15.f3 Bxc3 16.bxc3 f5 17.exf5 Bxf5 18.g4 Nd3+
19.Bxd3 Bxd3 20.Rde1 Kg7 21.c5 g5 22.Nb3 Bc4 23.Kb2 Kf6 24.Nd4
b6 25.cxb6 axb6 26.a3 c5 27.Nf5 Red8 28.Ne3 Rd2+ 29.Kc1 Rd3 30.Kc2
Rxa3 31.Nxc4 Raxc3+ 32.Kb2 Rxc4 33.h4 Rxf3 34.hxg5+ Kxg5 35.Re6
Rb4+ 36.Kc2 Rf6 37.Rxf6 Kxf6 38.Rxh6+ Kg5 39.Re6 Kxg4 40.Rf6
Kg5 41.Rf8 Rf4 42.Rb8 Rf6 43.Kc3 Kf5 44.Kc4 Ke5 45.Rb7 Rf4+ 46.Kc3
Rb4 47.Rh7 Kd6 48.Rh6+ Kc7 49.Rh7+ Kc6 50.Rh6+ Kb5 51.Rh5 Rg4
52.Rh8 Rg3+ 53.Kc2 Kb4 54.Rh4+ c4 55.Rh2 b5 56.Kb2 Rb3+ 57.Ka2
Ra3+ 58.Kb2 c3+ 59.Kb1 Kb3 60.Rb2+ Kc4 61.Rh2 b4 62.Rh4+ Kb3
63.Rh2 c2+ 0-1

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.03"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Han Johnathan (CAN)"]
[Black "Sambuev Bator (CAN)"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C79"]
[WhiteElo "2274"]
[BlackElo "2483"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O d6 6.Re1 Bd7 7.c3
g6 8.d4 Bg7 9.h3 O-O 10.Bc2 Nh5 11.a4 b6 12.Na3 h6 13.Nc4 Re8
14.Be3 exd4 15.cxd4 Nb4 16.Bb1 a5 17.Qd2 g5 18.d5 Qe7 19.Ra3
Qf8 20.Bd4 Nf4 21.Ne3 Na6 22.Bxg7 Qxg7 23.Nd4 Nc5 24.Nef5 Bxf5
25.Nxf5 Qf6 26.Rf3 Re5 27.g3 Nh5 28.Nd4 Qg7 29.Rfe3 f6 30.Nf5
Qg6 31.Kh2 Kh8 32.f4 Ree8 33.e5 gxf4 34.gxf4 fxe5 35.Nh4 Qf6
36.Ng6+ Kg8 37.fxe5 dxe5 38.Rxe5 Rxe5 39.Rxe5 Ng7 40.Ne7+ Kh8
41.Ng6+ Kg8 42.Qe2 Nd7 43.Ne7+ Kh8 44.Ng6+ Kg8 1/2-1/2

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.03"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Sowa Ryan"]
[Black "Latreille Etienne"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B38"]
[WhiteElo "2337"]
[BlackElo "2178"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 g6 5.c4 Bg7 6.Be3 d6 7.Nc3
Nf6 8.Be2 O-O 9.O-O Bd7 10.Qd2 Nxd4 11.Bxd4 Bc6 12.f3 a5 13.b3
Nd7 14.Be3 Nc5 15.Rac1 Qb6 16.Rc2 Qb4 17.Rb1 f5 18.exf5 gxf5
19.Qc1 Qb6 20.a3 f4 21.Bf2 Qd8 22.Qd2 Nd7 23.Nd5 Be5 24.b4 axb4
25.axb4 e6 26.Nc3 Nf6 27.Nb5 Qe7 28.c5 Nd5 29.Nxd6 Qg7 30.Kh1
Rf6 31.Nc4 Rg6 32.Nxe5 Qxe5 33.b5 Qg5 34.Bf1 Ne3 35.Bxe3 fxe3
36.Qe2 Bd5 37.Re1 Rg7 38.Qxe3 Qxe3 39.Rxe3 Ra1 40.Kg1 Rb1 41.Kf2
Bb3 42.Rd2 Rc7 43.Bd3 Rc1 44.Be4 Ba4 45.b6 Re7 46.Ra3 Be8 47.Rc2
Rb1 48.Ra7 Bg6 49.Bxg6 hxg6 50.c6 1-0

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.03"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Kot Emmanuel"]
[Black "Guillemette Hugo"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B49"]
[WhiteElo "2114"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 Qc7 6.Be2 a6 7.Be3
Nf6 8.O-O Bb4 9.Na4 Be7 10.Nxc6 bxc6 11.Nb6 Rb8 12.Nxc8 Qxc8
13.Bd4 c5 14.Be5 Rb6 15.Qd3 d6 16.Bc3 O-O 17.Rad1 Nd7 18.Qg3
g6 19.Rd2 Qc6 20.Qf4 e5 21.Qe3 Nf6 22.Bf3 Rc8 23.g3 c4 24.Bg2
Rb5 25.Rfd1 Qb7 26.h3 Nd7 27.Rd5 Nc5 28.b3 cxb3 29.cxb3 Qc7 30.Rc1
Ne6 31.Bb2 Qb8 32.Rxc8+ Qxc8 33.Rxb5 axb5 34.Bf1 Qc2 35.Qe2 Qb1
36.Bc3 b4 37.Bxb4 Nd4 38.Qa6 Nf3+ 39.Kh1 Qxe4 40.Qd3 Qxb4 41.Qxf3
e4 42.Qd1 Qc5 43.Kg2 d5 44.Qe2 Qc6 45.Qa6 Qxa6 46.Bxa6 d4 47.g4
Kg7 48.f3 f5 49.gxf5 gxf5 50.fxe4 fxe4 51.Bb7 e3 52.Kf3 Kf6 53.Be4
h6 54.a4 Bb4 55.Bd3 Ke5 56.Bc4 Bc3 57.Bd3 Kd5 58.Kg4 Kc5 59.Kf3
Kb4 60.Bc4 Ka3 61.Ke2 Kb2 62.Kd3 Kc1 63.Ke2 Kc2 64.b4 Bxb4 65.Bd3+
Kb3 66.Bb5 Bc3 67.Be8 Kb4 68.Bd7 Kc5 69.Be8 Kd5 70.Bg6 Ke5 71.Kf3
Kf6 72.Bd3 Kg5 {And drawn in a few moves.} 1/2-1/2

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[ePGN "0.1;DGT LiveChess/2.2.5"]
[Event "2023 National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa, Canada"]
[Date "2023.11.05"]
[Round "4.1"]
[White "Krishna G V, Sai"]
[Black "Sowa, Ryan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[TimeControl "90 min plus 30 sec/move"]
[WhiteClock "00:23:20"]
[BlackClock "00:21:19"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2501"]
[BlackElo "2304"]

1. e4 {[%clk 01:30:58]} {[%emt 00:14:43]} e5 {[%clk 01:30:50]} 2. Nf3 {[%clk
01:31:26]} Nc6 {[%clk 01:31:12]} 3. Bb5 {[%clk 01:31:53]} Nf6 {[%clk 01:31:32]}
4. O-O {[%clk 01:32:19]} Nxe4 {[%clk 01:31:43]} 5. d4 {[%clk 01:32:46]} Nd6
{[%clk 01:32:00]} 6. Ba4 {[%clk 01:33:14]} e4 {[%clk 01:32:08]} 7. Re1 {[%clk
01:33:40]} Be7 {[%clk 01:32:32]} 8. Ne5 {[%clk 01:34:06]} O-O {[%clk 01:32:50]}
9. Nc3 f5 {[%clk 01:32:43]} 10. Bb3+ {[%clk 01:24:56]} Kh8 {[%clk 01:33:02]} 11.
Re3 {[%clk 01:25:13]} Nxe5 {[%clk 01:23:38]} 12. dxe5 {[%clk 01:25:39]} Nf7
{[%clk 01:23:57]} 13. Nd5 {[%clk 01:07:54]} Ng5 {[%clk 01:12:01]} 14. Rc3
{[%clk 00:50:43]} {[%emt 00:02:55]} c6 {[%clk 00:51:23]} {[%emt 00:31:21]} 15.
Nxe7 {[%clk 00:49:18]} Qxe7 {[%clk 00:51:47]} 16. Bxg5 {[%clk 00:44:50]} Qxg5
{[%clk 00:52:08]} 17. Qd6 {[%clk 00:44:52]} Qd8 {[%clk 00:45:34]} {[%emt
00:04:27]} 18. Rh3 {[%clk 00:39:50]} {[%emt 00:05:32]} Qe8 {[%clk 00:45:03]}
{[%emt 00:01:02]} 19. Re1 {[%clk 00:39:36]} {[%emt 00:00:44]} f4 {[%clk
00:32:11]} {[%emt 00:13:22]} 20. Rxe4 {[%clk 00:37:39]} {[%emt 00:02:27]} b6
{[%clk 00:32:36]} {[%emt 00:00:05]} 21. Rh4 {[%clk 00:29:36]} {[%emt 00:35:00]}
Bb7 {[%clk 00:30:38]} 22. Rexf4 {[%clk 00:27:41]} Rxf4 {[%clk 00:30:52]} 23.
Rxf4 {[%clk 00:28:06]} c5 {[%clk 00:29:02]} 24. Rf7 {[%clk 00:22:29]} Bc6
{[%clk 00:28:35]} 25. h4 {[%clk 00:22:47]} Qb8 {[%clk 00:21:36]} 26. Qe7 {[%clk
00:23:02]} Qd8 {[%clk 00:21:48]} 27. Rxg7 {[%clk 00:23:24]} Qxe7 {[%clk
00:22:12]} 28. Rxe7 {[%clk 00:23:51]} Rf8 {[%clk 00:22:10]} 29. g3 {[%clk
00:23:20]} 1-0



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.03"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Jolicoeur Jacob"]
[Black "Latreille Etienne"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B20"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "2178"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.b3 g6 3.Bb2 Nf6 4.Qf3 d6 5.Bb5+ Nbd7 6.Bxf6 exf6 7.Qd3
a6 8.Bxd7+ Bxd7 9.Nc3 Bc6 10.Nd5 Bg7 11.Ne2 f5 12.Rd1 fxe4 13.Qxe4+
Kd7 14.Qf3 f5 15.O-O Qa5 16.c4 Rae8 17.Rfe1 Qxa2 18.g4 Qc2 19.Ng3
Rxe1+ 20.Rxe1 Be5 21.gxf5 Qxd2 22.Rd1 Bxd5 23.Qxd5 Qxd5 24.Rxd5
gxf5 25.Nxf5 Rg8+ 26.Kh1 Rf8 27.Nh6 Rxf2 28.Kg1 Rb2 29.Ng4 Bd4+
30.Kh1 Rxb3 31.Rh5 b5 32.Rxh7+ Kc6 33.Ra7 bxc4 34.Rxa6+ Kd5 35.h3
Rxh3+ 36.Nh2 Be5 37.Kg1 Rxh2 38.Ra3 Rb2 39.Re3 c3 40.Rd3+ Bd4+ 0-1



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.03"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Chiku-Ratte Olivier-kenta (CAN)"]
[Black "Sambuev Bator (CAN)"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D38"]
[WhiteElo "2452"]
[BlackElo "2483"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 Bb4 5.cxd5 exd5 6.Qa4+ Nc6 7.Bg5
h6 8.Bh4 Bf5 9.e3 O-O 10.Be2 g5 11.Bg3 Ne4 12.Qb3 h5 13.a3 Bxc3+
14.bxc3 Na5 15.Qb4 b6 16.h3 c5 17.Qb2 Nxg3 18.fxg3 Qd6 19.Kf2
Rae8 20.Rhe1 f6 21.Rad1 c4 22.Bf1 Rf7 23.Qb4 Qxb4 24.axb4 Nb3
25.Re2 a5 26.bxa5 bxa5 27.Ra2 Ra7 28.Nd2 Rb8 29.Be2 g4 30.hxg4
hxg4 31.Nxc4 dxc4 32.Bxc4+ Kg7 33.Bd5 a4 34.e4 Bd7 35.Ke3 Na5
36.c4 Rb3+ 37.Rd3 Bc6 38.Bxc6 Rxd3+ 39.Kxd3 Nxc6 40.Ra3 Kf7 41.c5
Ke7 42.Kc4 Kd7 43.d5 Ne5+ 44.Kb4 Kc7 45.c6 Kb6 46.Rxa4 Nd3+ 47.Ka3
Rxa4+ 48.Kxa4 Nc5+ 49.Kb4 Nxe4 50.Kc4 Nxg3 51.Kd4 Nf1 52.Ke4
g3 53.Kf4 Kc7 54.Kf3 Kd6 55.Kf4 Nd2 56.Kxg3 Ke5 57.c7 Ne4+ 58.Kh4
Nd6 59.g4 Kf4 60.Kh5 Nc8 61.Kg6 Ke5 62.Kf7 Nd6+ 63.Ke7 Nc8+ 64.Kd8
Nb6 65.c8Q Nxc8 66.Kxc8 Kxd5 67.Kd7 Ke5 68.Ke7 Kf4 69.Kxf6 Kxg4 1/2-1/2



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.03"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Latorre Vincent (CAN)"]
[Black "Han Johnathan (CAN)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B80"]
[WhiteElo "2214"]
[BlackElo "2274"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.h4 e5 7.Nb3
Be7 8.f3 Be6 9.Be3 b5 10.Qd2 Nbd7 11.O-O-O O-O 12.g4 b4 13.Nd5
Bxd5 14.exd5 Nb6 15.Na5 Nbxd5 16.Nc6 Qc7 17.Nxe7+ Nxe7 18.Qxd6
Qb7 19.Bc4 Rfc8 20.b3 Nc6 21.Bg5 Ne8 22.Qd7 Rc7 23.Qf5 Rac8 24.Kb1
Nd4 25.Qxe5 Nxf3 26.Qd5 Qxd5 27.Rxd5 Rc5 28.Rxc5 Rxc5 29.Bf4
Nf6 30.Rd1 Rc8 31.Bxa6 Re8 32.Bb5 Rc8 33.Bd6 Rd8 34.Be2 Nxh4
35.Bxb4 Re8 36.Bb5 Rb8 37.a4 Nxg4 38.Be7 Nf5 39.Rd8+ Rxd8 40.Bxd8
Nd4 41.Bc4 Ne3 42.Bd3 Nc6 43.Bg5 Nd5 44.Bd2 Kf8 45.Be4 Nde7 46.a5
f5 47.Bf3 Ke8 48.b4 g5 49.b5 Nd4 50.Bh5+ Kd7 51.c4 g4 52.Be3
Ne6 53.a6 Nc7 54.a7 Na8 55.Kc2 Nc8 56.Bf7 f4 57.Bxf4 Nxa7 58.Bh5
Nb6 59.Bxg4+ Ke7 60.Be2 Kf6 61.Be3 Nac8 62.c5 Nd5 63.Bd4+ Kf5
64.Bf3 Nce7 65.c6 Kf4 66.Bxd5 Nxd5 67.Kd3 h5 68.Kc4 Ne7 69.Bc5
Ng6 70.Bd6+ Kf5 71.c7 1-0



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.03"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Joseph Jonath"]
[Black "Campbell Ryan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B11"]
[WhiteElo "2100"]
[BlackElo "2260"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c6 2.Nf3 d5 3.Nc3 Bg4 4.h3 Bxf3 5.Qxf3 e6 6.Be2 d4 7.Nb1
Ne7 8.c3 c5 9.cxd4 Qxd4 10.Nc3 Nbc6 11.d3 Ne5 12.Qg3 N7c6 13.O-O
h5 14.Be3 h4 15.Qh2 Qd7 16.Rad1 a6 17.f4 Ng6 18.e5 Nd4 19.Bg4
Ne7 20.Bxd4 Qxd4+ 21.Kh1 g6 22.Rfe1 Qb4 23.Re2 Nc6 24.g3 hxg3
25.Qxg3 O-O-O 26.Ne4 Be7 27.Rc1 Rd4 28.a3 Qb5 29.Rc3 Rhd8 30.Re3
Qxb2 31.Qe1 Kb8 32.Bf3 Ra4 33.Re2 Qb5 34.Qc1 Qa5 35.Rb2 Ka8 36.Nxc5
Rxf4 37.Nxb7 Qxe5 38.Bxc6 Rc8 39.Nd6+ Rxc6 40.Rxc6 Qd5+ 41.Kh2
Rf2+ 42.Rxf2 Bxd6+ 43.Rxd6 1-0



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.03"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Wang Derek"]
[Black "Desjardins Michel (CAN)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D14"]
[WhiteElo "2013"]
[BlackElo "1907"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.Nf3 d5 2.d4 Nf6 3.c4 c6 4.Nc3 a6 5.cxd5 cxd5 6.Bf4 Nc6 7.e3
Bf5 8.Bd3 Bxd3 9.Qxd3 e6 10.O-O Bd6 11.Bxd6 Qxd6 12.Rfc1 O-O
13.Na4 Nd7 14.a3 Rfb8 15.Nd2 h6 16.Nc5 Nxc5 17.dxc5 Qe5 18.b4
d4 19.Nc4 Qf5 20.Qxf5 exf5 21.Nb6 Ra7 22.exd4 Nxd4 23.Rd1 Ne6
24.Rac1 a5 25.b5 a4 26.Rc4 Ra5 27.Rb1 Rd8 28.g4 Nc7 29.c6 bxc6
30.bxc6 Rd3 31.Nd7 Rxa3 32.Rb8+ Kh7 33.Nf8+ 1-0



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.03"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Xu, Daniel"]
[Black "Kot Emmanuel"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B61"]
[WhiteElo "2339"]
[BlackElo "2114"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bg5 Bd7 7.Qd2
Rc8 8.f4 Nxd4 9.Qxd4 Qa5 10.e5 dxe5 11.fxe5 e6 12.O-O-O Bc5 13.Qd3
Nd5 14.Nxd5 exd5 15.Qxd5 Bc6 16.Qb3 O-O 17.Bc4 Bb4 18.Qg3 Be4
19.Rd4 Bg6 20.Kb1 Qc5 21.Qe3 b5 22.Bd3 Bd2 23.Qxd2 Qxd4 24.Bxg6
Qxd2 25.Bxh7+ Kxh7 26.Bxd2 Rfe8 27.Bc3 Rc4 28.a3 Rd8 29.Rf1 Rd7
30.Kc1 Kg6 31.Rf3 Rg4 32.Rf2 Rc4 33.Rf3 Rg4 34.Rf2 Rc4 35.Rf3 1/2-1/2



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.03"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Guillemette Hugo"]
[Black "Moses Neil"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B30"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "1969"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 e6 4.Bxc6 bxc6 5.d3 Ne7 6.O-O Ng6 7.Ng5
f6 8.Nh3 d5 9.Qh5 Bd6 10.f4 O-O 11.Nc3 Bd7 12.Kh1 Be8 13.Qe2
Qd7 14.Bd2 f5 15.Rae1 Bf7 16.b3 Rad8 17.Rd1 Kh8 18.Na4 e5 19.fxe5
Nxe5 20.exf5 Rde8 21.Ng5 Nc4 22.Nxf7+ Rxf7 23.Qf2 Nxd2 24.Qxd2
Rxf5 25.Rde1 Rh5 26.h3 h6 27.Qf2 Rf8 28.Qe2 Rhf5 29.Rxf5 Qxf5
30.Qe3 d4 31.Qg1 Qf4 32.c3 Qg3 33.cxd4 cxd4 34.Nb2 Rf2 35.Nc4
Bc7 36.a4 Kh7 37.Rd1 Rf4 38.b4 Rf3 0-1

[Halldor P. Palsson]

Pairings for Round 5. 2023 National Capital Open: 2023 National Capital Open
Bd # Res White # Res Black
1 2 IM Sai Krishna G V (2501 3.5) 3 IM Olivier Kenta Chiku-Ratte (2425 3.5)
2 1 GM Bator Sambuev (2575 3.0) 10 Vincent Latorre (2239 3.5)
3 11 Neil Moses (2179 3.0) 16 Jonath Joseph (2110 3.0)
4 4 FM Johnathan Han (2418 2.5) 14 Aayush Ajith (2131 2.5)
5 13 Etienne Latreille (2145 2.5) 5 FM Daniel Xu (2376 2.5)
6 24 Maxim Rousskikh (1995 2.5) 6 IM Eric Lawson (2334 2.5)
7 7 Ryan Sowa (2304 2.5) 18 Derek Wang (2094 2.5)
8 12 Emanuel Kot (2160 2.5) 32 Lucy Gao (1896 2.5)
9 9 Sebastien Azar (2253 2.0) 31 Wah Sing [joseph] Leung (1902 2.0)
10 29 Henry Hughes-Dupuy (1922 2.0) 17 Hugo Guillemette (2097 2.0)
11 33 Jacob Jolicoeur (1894 2.0) 21 Michael Shi (2020 2.0)
12 37 Elber Zhu (1829 2.0) 15 Saeid Sadeghi (2112 1.5)
13 34 Michel Desjardins (1884 1.5) 25 Eric Qian (1982 1.5)
14 27 Savas Marin Stoica (1947 1.5) 30 April Yunwei Zhong (1914 1.5)
15 28 Alexander Stopic (1930 1.5) 35 Oliver Byl (1865 1.5)
16 19 Alessio Di Matteo (2066 1.0) 38 Philip Xu (1818 1.5)
17 20 Ryan Yunhui Zhong (2035 1.0) 22 Ben Kellar (2017 1.0)
18 36 Anais Chloe Fiset (1857 1.0) 23 Mark Nassar (2014 0.5)
26 1 Helmut Fritzsche (1962 0.5) BYE
8 0 Ryan Campbell (2260 2.0) BYE




Pairings for Round 5. 2023 National Capital Open: 2023 National Capital U1900
Bd # Res White # Res Black
20 11 Iassen Pelev (1717 3.0) 8 Lucas Pitre (1745 4.0)
21 4 Ashley Qian (1797 3.0) 6 Vladimir Dukkardt (1769 3.0)
22 15 Aarush Ajith (1681 3.0) 12 Abdelaziz Mahdjoubi (1701 2.5)
23 9 Arnaud Jutras (1741 2.5) 13 Valentyna Lohozynska (1692 2.5)
24 17 Jacob Stephen Burton (1655 2.5) 19 Babacar Sonko (1611 2.0)
25 23 Cristian Scrieciu (1526 2.0) 22 Ting En Ryan Wu (1542 2.0)
26 10 Justin Huang (1728 1.5) 1 Thomas Guillemette (1898 1.5)
27 2 Denys Lohozynskyi (1842 1.5) 20 Stefaniia Shevtsova (1602 1.5)
28 21 Edison Zhu (1559 1.5) 5 Douglas Graham (1777 1.5)
29 18 Anton Gribanov (1639 1.0) 16 Ankita Jain (1669 1.0)
14 0 Aris Marghetis (1690 1.0) BYE
3 0 Philip Xu (1818 0.0) BYE
7 0 Daniel Kearnan (1757 0.0) BYE

Pairings for Round 5. 2023 National Capital Open: 2023 National Capital U1600
Bd # Res White # Res Black
30 3 Justin Jean (1537 4.0) 17 Randy Taylor (1430 4.0)
31 1 Raja Ravi Kiran Reddy Karra (1595 3.5) 11 Justin Wen (1470 3.5)
32 35 Victor Samuel (1244 3.5) 7 Simon Perkins (1493 3.5)
33 4 Spencer Martin (1535 3.0) 39 Daniel Ribero Pinto (1205 3.5)
34 28 Xiangbin Wang (1304 3.0) 6 Samuel Filion (1500 3.0)
35 16 William Gao (1430 3.0) 27 Aaron Sethi (1307 3.0)
36 32 Greg Garber (1268 3.0) 19 Devon Pollard (1393 3.0)
37 21 Alexander Hodgins (1385 3.0) 31 Sachen Gombu (1273 3.0)
38 23 Tom Leschinski (1370 3.0) 41 Sébastien Belliveau (1197 3.0)
39 12 Stephane Legault (1468 2.5) 67 Subaru Ishii ( 884 3.0)
40 36 Parker Thompson (1222 2.5) 5 Noah Witmer (1522 2.5)
41 42 Lwazi Bhebhe (1195 2.5) 10 Cody Griffiths (1475 2.5)
42 13 Shuwen Tan (1453 2.5) 80 Brian Batchelar (unr. 2.5)
43 53 Danny Nguyen (1077 2.5) 14 Christopher Sailus (1450 2.5)
44 56 Anthony McCormick (1056 2.5) 18 Jeremy Sztuka (1427 2.5)
45 20 Damien Lamontagne (1392 2.5) 52 Sasha Ioffine (1091 2.5)
46 9 Anuj Radia (1490 2.0) 50 Erik Laska (1149 2.0)
47 34 Paul Shedden (1246 2.0) 81 Gwenael Laurent-Guy (unr. 2.0)
48 78 Jonathan Deslauriers (unr. 2.0) 48 Anton Karpov (1157 2.0)
49 26 Tyler Lagace (1327 2.0) 58 Noah Stelmach (1046 2.0)
50 30 Nathaniel Lays (1273 2.0) 69 Naomi Tominaga ( 720 2.0)
51 57 Niam Moses (1047 2.0) 37 Jonathan Cao (1220 2.0)
52 61 Justin Hum ( 988 2.0) 40 Eric Moore (1203 2.0)
53 75 Mohammadreza Mohseni (unr. 2.0) 45 Stephane Sonko (1182 2.0)
54 51 Pierre Arcand (1127 2.0) 77 Eric Muddiman (unr. 2.0)
55 2 Grant Schaper (1569 1.5) 46 Siddhaarth Aravinthan (1170 1.5)
56 44 John If Lukezich (1183 1.5) 8 Yves Filion (1492 1.5)
57 47 Katherine Leung (1160 1.5) 29 John Hay (1297 1.5)
58 66 Ian Luo ( 901 1.0) 33 Alain Brisebois (1260 1.0)
59 70 Anvi Jain ( 652 1.0) 43 Daniel Vanderveen (1195 1.0)
60 49 Ozan Cecen (1154 1.0) 72 Ryan Daoust (unr. 1.0)
61 73 Greg Khachatryan (unr. 1.0) 54 Laurent Bergeron-Collin (1064 1.0)
62 55 Daniel Davydov (1062 1.0) 79 Simon Al Aranji-Rouleau (unr. 1.0)
63 74 Ryan Ward (unr. 1.0) 60 Iain Wong (1013 1.0)
64 76 Thanish Karuvarasan (unr. 1.0) 64 Andrew Svensson ( 946 1.0)
65 68 Ojayit Basu ( 865 0.5) 22 Caspar Sun (1374 0.5)
66 63 Anya Jain ( 969 0.5) 62 Hao En Colin Wu ( 969 0.5)
71 1 Scott Hefkey ( 646 0.0) BYE
24 0 Zipei Liu (1354 2.5) BYE
59 0 Dylan Linus Sy (1045 1.0) BYE
82 0 Solomon Wb (unr. 1.0) BYE
15 0 Alois Clerc (1441 1.5) BYE
25 0 Romy Peters (1352 2.0) BYE
38 0 Gregory Marcelin (1217 2.0) BYE
65 0 Adhvik Aravinthan ( 943 0.0) BYE

[Halldor P. Palsson]

Final Standings.

2023 National Capital Open

# Name ID Rating Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Total
1 IM Sai Krishna G V 2501 W15 D3 W14 W7 D2 4.0 $725
2 IM Olivier Kenta Chiku-Ratte 148376 2425 W26 W12 W25 D5 D1 4.0 $725
3 Vincent Latorre 162297 2239 W33 D1 W27 W9 D5 4.0 $725
4 Jonath Joseph 171981 2110 H--- W24 D6 W25 W12 4.0 $725
5 GM Bator Sambuev 146462 2575 W37 W11 D9 D2 D3 3.5
6 IM Eric Lawson 123478 2334 H--- W30 D4 D14 W19 3.5
7 Ryan Sowa 150020 2304 D20 W32 W13 L1 W18 3.5
8 Emanuel Kot 167543 2160 H--- W20 D17 D10 W24 3.5 U2200 $200
9 FM Johnathan Han 161709 2418 W38 W18 D5 L3 D14 3.0
10 FM Daniel Xu 160020 2376 W19 L14 W22 D8 D13 3.0
11 Sebastien Azar 167031 2253 W23 L5 L19 W30 W27 3.0
12 Neil Moses 170949 2179 W28 L2 W23 W17 L4 3.0
13 Etienne Latreille 154563 2145 D34 W21 L7 W28 D10 3.0
14 Aayush Ajith 167780 2131 W35 W10 L1 D6 D9 3.0
15 Michael Shi 167348 2020 L1 L22 W26 W36 W28 3.0 U2050 $200
16 Saeid Sadeghi 139655 2112 H--- L27 D30 D22 W29 2.5
17 Hugo Guillemette 167806 2097 H--- W34 D8 L12 D23 2.5
18 Derek Wang 166573 2094 W36 L9 D29 W34 L7 2.5
19 Maxim Rousskikh 173654 1995 L10 W35 W11 H--- L6 2.5
20 Eric Qian 167975 1982 D7 L8 L33 W38 W34 2.5
21 Savas Marin Stoica 167056 1947 H--- L13 D36 D35 W33 2.5
22 Alexander Stopic 160017 1930 L25 W15 L10 D16 W35 2.5
23 Henry Hughes-Dupuy 160188 1922 L11 W37 L12 W31 D17 2.5
24 Lucy Gao 161206 1896 H--- L4 W38 W33 L8 2.5
25 Ryan Campbell 175910 2260 W22 W31 L2 L4 U--- 2.0
26 Ben Kellar 148170 2017 L2 L28 L15 B--- W37 2.0
27 Wah Sing [joseph] Leung 167606 1902 H--- W16 L3 D29 L11 2.0
28 Jacob Jolicoeur 184193 1894 L12 W26 W31 L13 L15 2.0
29 Elber Zhu 174325 1829 L31 B--- D18 D27 L16 2.0
30 Philip Xu 167580 1818 B--- L6 D16 L11 D31 2.0
31 Alessio Di Matteo 165337 2066 W29 L25 L28 L23 D30 1.5
32 Helmut Fritzsche 145427 1962 H--- L7 L34 L37 B--- 1.5
33 April Yunwei Zhong 167271 1914 L3 D38 W20 L24 L21 1.5
34 Michel Desjardins 131936 1884 D13 L17 W32 L18 L20 1.5
35 Oliver Byl 174403 1865 L14 L19 W37 D21 L22 1.5
36 Anais Chloe Fiset 173894 1857 L18 H--- D21 L15 D38 1.5
37 Ryan Yunhui Zhong 166737 2035 L5 L23 L35 W32 L26 1.0
38 Mark Nassar 185266 2014 L9 D33 L24 L20 D36 1.0


Standings. 2023 National Capital Open: 2023 National Capital U1900
# Name ID Rating Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Total
1 Lucas Pitre 157622 1745 W12 W16 W8 W5 D4 4.5 $600
2 Vladimir Dukkardt 163375 1769 D11 D20 W16 W8 W5 4.0 $300
3 Aarush Ajith 167781 1681 L5 W23 W18 W11 W10 4.0 $300
4 Iassen Pelev 153414 1717 W17 W18 L5 W13 D1 3.5 U1750 $200
5 Ashley Qian 168050 1797 W3 W7 W4 L1 L2 3.0
6 Arnaud Jutras 172491 1741 H--- L11 W9 W14 D7 3.0
7 Valentyna Lohozynska 180308 1692 W22 L5 D14 W15 D6 3.0
8 Babacar Sonko 177467 1611 W23 W14 L1 L2 W11 3.0
9 Cristian Scrieciu 179493 1526 W10 L13 L6 W20 W17 3.0
10 Abdelaziz Mahdjoubi 155558 1701 L9 W12 W20 H--- L3 2.5
11 Jacob Stephen Burton 167700 1655 D2 W6 W13 L3 L8 2.5
12 Stefaniia Shevtsova 185025 1602 L1 L10 W19 D16 W18 2.5
13 Thomas Guillemette 172489 1898 H--- W9 L11 L4 D15 2.0
14 Douglas Graham 169362 1777 W19 L8 D7 L6 D16 2.0
15 Justin Huang 166068 1728 L16 W19 D17 L7 D13 2.0
16 Edison Zhu 174324 1559 W15 L1 L2 D12 D14 2.0
17 Ting En Ryan Wu 172850 1542 L4 W21 D15 D18 L9 2.0
18 Denys Lohozynskyi 180309 1842 W21 L4 L3 D17 L12 1.5
19 Ankita Jain 163409 1669 L14 L15 L12 B--- D20 1.5
20 Anton Gribanov 171361 1639 H--- D2 L10 L9 D19 1.5
21 Aris Marghetis 107391 1690 L18 L17 H--- H--- U--- 1.0
22 Philip Xu 167580 1818 L7 U--- U--- U--- U--- 0.0
23 Daniel Kearnan 137473 1757 L8 L3 U--- U--- U--- 0.0

2023 National Capital Open: 2023 National Capital U1600
# Name ID Rating Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Total
1 Randy Taylor 175695 1430 W72 W70 W9 W24 W5 5.0 $800
2 Raja Ravi Kiran Reddy Karra 160649 1595 W53 D67 W30 W37 W10 4.5 $333.33
3 Simon Perkins 107582 1493 W28 W8 H--- W18 W17 4.5 $333.33
4 Daniel Ribero Pinto 177775 1205 W69 W11 D34 W36 W21 4.5 $333.33
5 Justin Jean 141554 1537 W54 W25 W16 W22 L1 4.0
6 Samuel Filion 182218 1500 L70 W76 W43 W52 W24 4.0
7 Alexander Hodgins 181627 1385 W74 L42 W56 W29 W26 4.0
8 Greg Garber 158478 1268 W60 L3 W61 W32 W22 4.0
9 Sébastien Belliveau 175567 1197 W63 W12 L1 W49 W23 4.0 U1300 $300
10 Justin Wen 174383 1470 W71 D17 W67 W42 L2 3.5
11 Stephane Legault 107017 1468 W68 L4 H--- W55 W30 3.5
12 Christopher Sailus 156624 1450 W45 L9 W53 D19 W43 3.5
13 William Gao 162775 1430 H--- D52 W70 W54 D16 3.5
14 Jeremy Sztuka 162452 1427 W73 H--- L17 W41 W44 3.5
15 Damien Lamontagne 173310 1392 H--- W41 D21 D44 W42 3.5
16 Aaron Sethi 184769 1307 W81 W20 L5 W45 D13 3.5
17 Victor Samuel 112306 1244 W62 D10 W14 W34 L3 3.5
18 Parker Thompson 184493 1222 W32 D64 W35 L3 W34 3.5
19 Lwazi Bhebhe 179270 1195 W80 L36 W48 D12 W35 3.5
20 Brian Batchelar 169909 unr. W39 L16 W51 H--- W36 3.5
21 Spencer Martin 103276 1535 D55 W40 D15 W39 L4 3.0
22 Devon Pollard 183157 1393 W46 W61 W33 L5 L8 3.0
23 Tom Leschinski 182035 1370 W82 L29 W28 W31 L9 3.0
24 Xiangbin Wang 175680 1304 W58 W31 W29 L1 L6 3.0
25 Nathaniel Lays 181990 1273 W79 L5 L45 W73 W58 3.0
26 Sachen Gombu 155110 1273 W59 L34 W46 W33 L7 3.0
27 Paul Shedden 182259 1246 L31 W58 L32 W69 W63 3.0
28 Erik Laska 176968 1149 L3 W59 L23 W62 W48 3.0
29 Noah Stelmach 182515 1046 W65 W23 L24 L7 W50 3.0
30 Subaru Ishii 184385 884 W50 W47 L2 W64 L11 3.0
31 Mohammadreza Mohseni 184900 unr. W27 L24 W50 L23 W54 3.0
32 Eric Muddiman 185301 unr. L18 W68 W27 L8 W57 3.0
33 Jonathan Deslauriers 185191 unr. W38 W49 L22 L26 W56 3.0
34 Noah Witmer 175301 1522 W56 W26 D4 L17 L18 2.5
35 Cody Griffiths 172958 1475 D43 W55 L18 W40 L19 2.5
36 Shuwen Tan 177847 1453 W44 W19 D42 L4 L20 2.5
37 Zipei Liu 177533 1354 H--- W75 W64 L2 U--- 2.5
38 Jonathan Cao 180255 1220 L33 L46 W81 W59 D45 2.5
39 Eric Moore 174350 1203 L20 W77 W62 L21 D46 2.5
40 John If Lukezich 146765 1183 D47 L21 W75 L35 W64 2.5
41 Katherine Leung 172773 1160 H--- L15 W66 L14 W67 2.5
42 Sasha Ioffine 177593 1091 W48 W7 D36 L10 L15 2.5
43 Danny Nguyen 180472 1077 D35 W66 L6 W67 L12 2.5
44 Anthony McCormick 184334 1056 L36 W69 W47 D15 L14 2.5
45 Niam Moses 171947 1047 L12 W63 W25 L16 D38 2.5
46 Justin Hum 181353 988 L22 W38 L26 W51 D39 2.5
47 Grant Schaper 132741 1569 D40 L30 L44 W66 D55 2.0
48 Anuj Radia 183825 1490 L42 W73 L19 W71 L28 2.0
49 Romy Peters 135706 1352 W77 L33 W57 L9 U--- 2.0
50 Tyler Lagace 176369 1327 L30 W82 L31 W72 L29 2.0
51 Alain Brisebois 179131 1260 L61 W72 L20 L46 W77 2.0
52 Gregory Marcelin 181507 1217 H--- D13 W80 L6 U--- 2.0
53 Daniel Vanderveen 182089 1195 L2 W81 L12 L58 W78 2.0
54 Stephane Sonko 177904 1182 L5 W78 W65 L13 L31 2.0
55 Siddhaarth Aravinthan 181781 1170 D21 L35 W76 L11 D47 2.0
56 Anton Karpov 181778 1157 L34 W79 L7 W61 L33 2.0
57 Pierre Arcand 160146 1127 L64 W60 L49 W80 L32 2.0
58 Naomi Tominaga 169826 720 L24 L27 W68 W53 L25 2.0
59 Ryan Daoust 184335 unr. L26 L28 W74 L38 W70 2.0
60 Greg Khachatryan 174013 unr. L8 L57 L72 B--- W71 2.0
61 Ryan Ward 184426 unr. W51 L22 L8 L56 W73 2.0
62 Thanish Karuvarasan 181868 unr. L17 W71 L39 L28 W76 2.0
63 Gwenael Laurent-Guy 182074 unr. L9 L45 W77 W70 L27 2.0
64 Yves Filion 146488 1492 W57 D18 L37 L30 L40 1.5
65 Alois Clerc 176395 1441 L29 W74 L54 H--- U--- 1.5
66 Caspar Sun 177019 1374 D75 L43 L41 L47 W81 1.5
67 John Hay 162669 1297 W78 D2 L10 L43 L41 1.5
68 Daniel Davydov 173336 1062 L11 L32 L58 W75 D69 1.5
69 Simon Al Aranji-Rouleau unr. L4 L44 W82 L27 D68 1.5
70 Ozan Cecen 183051 1154 W6 L1 L13 L63 L59 1.0
71 Laurent Bergeron-Collin 184914 1064 L10 L62 W78 L48 L60 1.0
72 Dylan Linus Sy 184482 1045 L1 L51 W60 L50 U--- 1.0
73 Iain Wong 179340 1013 L14 L48 W79 L25 L61 1.0
74 Hao En Colin Wu 175981 969 L7 L65 L59 D81 D75 1.0
75 Anya Jain 182589 969 D66 L37 L40 L68 D74 1.0
76 Andrew Svensson 143414 946 H--- L6 L55 H--- L62 1.0
77 Ian Luo 185294 901 L49 L39 L63 W79 L51 1.0
78 Anvi Jain 182592 652 L67 L54 L71 W82 L53 1.0
79 Scott Hefkey 179023 646 L25 L56 L73 L77 B--- 1.0
80 Solomon Wb 184837 unr. L19 B--- L52 L57 U--- 1.0
81 Ojayit Basu 184818 865 L16 L53 L38 D74 L66 0.5
82 Adhvik Aravinthan 181782 943 L23 L50 L69 L78 U--- 0.0

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[ePGN "0.1;DGT LiveChess/2.2.5"]
[Event "2023 National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa, Canada"]
[Date "2023.11.05"]
[Round "4.1"]
[White "Krishna G V, Sai"]
[Black "Sowa, Ryan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[TimeControl "90 min plus 30 sec/move"]
[WhiteClock "00:23:20"]
[BlackClock "00:21:19"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2501"]
[BlackElo "2304"]

1. e4 {[%clk 01:30:58]} {[%emt 00:14:43]} e5 {[%clk 01:30:50]} 2. Nf3 {[%clk
01:31:26]} Nc6 {[%clk 01:31:12]} 3. Bb5 {[%clk 01:31:53]} Nf6 {[%clk 01:31:32]}
4. O-O {[%clk 01:32:19]} Nxe4 {[%clk 01:31:43]} 5. d4 {[%clk 01:32:46]} Nd6
{[%clk 01:32:00]} 6. Ba4 {[%clk 01:33:14]} e4 {[%clk 01:32:08]} 7. Re1 {[%clk
01:33:40]} Be7 {[%clk 01:32:32]} 8. Ne5 {[%clk 01:34:06]} O-O {[%clk 01:32:50]}
9. Nc3 f5 {[%clk 01:32:43]} 10. Bb3+ {[%clk 01:24:56]} Kh8 {[%clk 01:33:02]} 11.
Re3 {[%clk 01:25:13]} Nxe5 {[%clk 01:23:38]} 12. dxe5 {[%clk 01:25:39]} Nf7
{[%clk 01:23:57]} 13. Nd5 {[%clk 01:07:54]} Ng5 {[%clk 01:12:01]} 14. Rc3
{[%clk 00:50:43]} {[%emt 00:02:55]} c6 {[%clk 00:51:23]} {[%emt 00:31:21]} 15.
Nxe7 {[%clk 00:49:18]} Qxe7 {[%clk 00:51:47]} 16. Bxg5 {[%clk 00:44:50]} Qxg5
{[%clk 00:52:08]} 17. Qd6 {[%clk 00:44:52]} Qd8 {[%clk 00:45:34]} {[%emt
00:04:27]} 18. Rh3 {[%clk 00:39:50]} {[%emt 00:05:32]} Qe8 {[%clk 00:45:03]}
{[%emt 00:01:02]} 19. Re1 {[%clk 00:39:36]} {[%emt 00:00:44]} f4 {[%clk
00:32:11]} {[%emt 00:13:22]} 20. Rxe4 {[%clk 00:37:39]} {[%emt 00:02:27]} b6
{[%clk 00:32:36]} {[%emt 00:00:05]} 21. Rh4 {[%clk 00:29:36]} {[%emt 00:35:00]}
Bb7 {[%clk 00:30:38]} 22. Rexf4 {[%clk 00:27:41]} Rxf4 {[%clk 00:30:52]} 23.
Rxf4 {[%clk 00:28:06]} c5 {[%clk 00:29:02]} 24. Rf7 {[%clk 00:22:29]} Bc6
{[%clk 00:28:35]} 25. h4 {[%clk 00:22:47]} Qb8 {[%clk 00:21:36]} 26. Qe7 {[%clk
00:23:02]} Qd8 {[%clk 00:21:48]} 27. Rxg7 {[%clk 00:23:24]} Qxe7 {[%clk
00:22:12]} 28. Rxe7 {[%clk 00:23:51]} Rf8 {[%clk 00:22:10]} 29. g3 {[%clk
00:23:20]} 1-0

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.03"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Jolicoeur Jacob"]
[Black "Latreille Etienne"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B20"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "2178"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.b3 g6 3.Bb2 Nf6 4.Qf3 d6 5.Bb5+ Nbd7 6.Bxf6 exf6 7.Qd3
a6 8.Bxd7+ Bxd7 9.Nc3 Bc6 10.Nd5 Bg7 11.Ne2 f5 12.Rd1 fxe4 13.Qxe4+
Kd7 14.Qf3 f5 15.O-O Qa5 16.c4 Rae8 17.Rfe1 Qxa2 18.g4 Qc2 19.Ng3
Rxe1+ 20.Rxe1 Be5 21.gxf5 Qxd2 22.Rd1 Bxd5 23.Qxd5 Qxd5 24.Rxd5
gxf5 25.Nxf5 Rg8+ 26.Kh1 Rf8 27.Nh6 Rxf2 28.Kg1 Rb2 29.Ng4 Bd4+
30.Kh1 Rxb3 31.Rh5 b5 32.Rxh7+ Kc6 33.Ra7 bxc4 34.Rxa6+ Kd5 35.h3
Rxh3+ 36.Nh2 Be5 37.Kg1 Rxh2 38.Ra3 Rb2 39.Re3 c3 40.Rd3+ Bd4+ 0-1

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.03"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Chiku-Ratte Olivier-kenta (CAN)"]
[Black "Sambuev Bator (CAN)"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D38"]
[WhiteElo "2452"]
[BlackElo "2483"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 Bb4 5.cxd5 exd5 6.Qa4+ Nc6 7.Bg5
h6 8.Bh4 Bf5 9.e3 O-O 10.Be2 g5 11.Bg3 Ne4 12.Qb3 h5 13.a3 Bxc3+
14.bxc3 Na5 15.Qb4 b6 16.h3 c5 17.Qb2 Nxg3 18.fxg3 Qd6 19.Kf2
Rae8 20.Rhe1 f6 21.Rad1 c4 22.Bf1 Rf7 23.Qb4 Qxb4 24.axb4 Nb3
25.Re2 a5 26.bxa5 bxa5 27.Ra2 Ra7 28.Nd2 Rb8 29.Be2 g4 30.hxg4
hxg4 31.Nxc4 dxc4 32.Bxc4+ Kg7 33.Bd5 a4 34.e4 Bd7 35.Ke3 Na5
36.c4 Rb3+ 37.Rd3 Bc6 38.Bxc6 Rxd3+ 39.Kxd3 Nxc6 40.Ra3 Kf7 41.c5
Ke7 42.Kc4 Kd7 43.d5 Ne5+ 44.Kb4 Kc7 45.c6 Kb6 46.Rxa4 Nd3+ 47.Ka3
Rxa4+ 48.Kxa4 Nc5+ 49.Kb4 Nxe4 50.Kc4 Nxg3 51.Kd4 Nf1 52.Ke4
g3 53.Kf4 Kc7 54.Kf3 Kd6 55.Kf4 Nd2 56.Kxg3 Ke5 57.c7 Ne4+ 58.Kh4
Nd6 59.g4 Kf4 60.Kh5 Nc8 61.Kg6 Ke5 62.Kf7 Nd6+ 63.Ke7 Nc8+ 64.Kd8
Nb6 65.c8Q Nxc8 66.Kxc8 Kxd5 67.Kd7 Ke5 68.Ke7 Kf4 69.Kxf6 Kxg4 1/2-1/2

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.03"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Latorre Vincent (CAN)"]
[Black "Han Johnathan (CAN)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B80"]
[WhiteElo "2214"]
[BlackElo "2274"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.h4 e5 7.Nb3
Be7 8.f3 Be6 9.Be3 b5 10.Qd2 Nbd7 11.O-O-O O-O 12.g4 b4 13.Nd5
Bxd5 14.exd5 Nb6 15.Na5 Nbxd5 16.Nc6 Qc7 17.Nxe7+ Nxe7 18.Qxd6
Qb7 19.Bc4 Rfc8 20.b3 Nc6 21.Bg5 Ne8 22.Qd7 Rc7 23.Qf5 Rac8 24.Kb1
Nd4 25.Qxe5 Nxf3 26.Qd5 Qxd5 27.Rxd5 Rc5 28.Rxc5 Rxc5 29.Bf4
Nf6 30.Rd1 Rc8 31.Bxa6 Re8 32.Bb5 Rc8 33.Bd6 Rd8 34.Be2 Nxh4
35.Bxb4 Re8 36.Bb5 Rb8 37.a4 Nxg4 38.Be7 Nf5 39.Rd8+ Rxd8 40.Bxd8
Nd4 41.Bc4 Ne3 42.Bd3 Nc6 43.Bg5 Nd5 44.Bd2 Kf8 45.Be4 Nde7 46.a5
f5 47.Bf3 Ke8 48.b4 g5 49.b5 Nd4 50.Bh5+ Kd7 51.c4 g4 52.Be3
Ne6 53.a6 Nc7 54.a7 Na8 55.Kc2 Nc8 56.Bf7 f4 57.Bxf4 Nxa7 58.Bh5
Nb6 59.Bxg4+ Ke7 60.Be2 Kf6 61.Be3 Nac8 62.c5 Nd5 63.Bd4+ Kf5
64.Bf3 Nce7 65.c6 Kf4 66.Bxd5 Nxd5 67.Kd3 h5 68.Kc4 Ne7 69.Bc5
Ng6 70.Bd6+ Kf5 71.c7 1-0

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.03"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Joseph Jonath"]
[Black "Campbell Ryan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B11"]
[WhiteElo "2100"]
[BlackElo "2260"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c6 2.Nf3 d5 3.Nc3 Bg4 4.h3 Bxf3 5.Qxf3 e6 6.Be2 d4 7.Nb1
Ne7 8.c3 c5 9.cxd4 Qxd4 10.Nc3 Nbc6 11.d3 Ne5 12.Qg3 N7c6 13.O-O
h5 14.Be3 h4 15.Qh2 Qd7 16.Rad1 a6 17.f4 Ng6 18.e5 Nd4 19.Bg4
Ne7 20.Bxd4 Qxd4+ 21.Kh1 g6 22.Rfe1 Qb4 23.Re2 Nc6 24.g3 hxg3
25.Qxg3 O-O-O 26.Ne4 Be7 27.Rc1 Rd4 28.a3 Qb5 29.Rc3 Rhd8 30.Re3
Qxb2 31.Qe1 Kb8 32.Bf3 Ra4 33.Re2 Qb5 34.Qc1 Qa5 35.Rb2 Ka8 36.Nxc5
Rxf4 37.Nxb7 Qxe5 38.Bxc6 Rc8 39.Nd6+ Rxc6 40.Rxc6 Qd5+ 41.Kh2
Rf2+ 42.Rxf2 Bxd6+ 43.Rxd6 1-0

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.03"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Wang Derek"]
[Black "Desjardins Michel (CAN)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D14"]
[WhiteElo "2013"]
[BlackElo "1907"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.Nf3 d5 2.d4 Nf6 3.c4 c6 4.Nc3 a6 5.cxd5 cxd5 6.Bf4 Nc6 7.e3
Bf5 8.Bd3 Bxd3 9.Qxd3 e6 10.O-O Bd6 11.Bxd6 Qxd6 12.Rfc1 O-O
13.Na4 Nd7 14.a3 Rfb8 15.Nd2 h6 16.Nc5 Nxc5 17.dxc5 Qe5 18.b4
d4 19.Nc4 Qf5 20.Qxf5 exf5 21.Nb6 Ra7 22.exd4 Nxd4 23.Rd1 Ne6
24.Rac1 a5 25.b5 a4 26.Rc4 Ra5 27.Rb1 Rd8 28.g4 Nc7 29.c6 bxc6
30.bxc6 Rd3 31.Nd7 Rxa3 32.Rb8+ Kh7 33.Nf8+ 1-0

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.03"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Xu, Daniel"]
[Black "Kot Emmanuel"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B61"]
[WhiteElo "2339"]
[BlackElo "2114"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 Nc6 6.Bg5 Bd7 7.Qd2
Rc8 8.f4 Nxd4 9.Qxd4 Qa5 10.e5 dxe5 11.fxe5 e6 12.O-O-O Bc5 13.Qd3
Nd5 14.Nxd5 exd5 15.Qxd5 Bc6 16.Qb3 O-O 17.Bc4 Bb4 18.Qg3 Be4
19.Rd4 Bg6 20.Kb1 Qc5 21.Qe3 b5 22.Bd3 Bd2 23.Qxd2 Qxd4 24.Bxg6
Qxd2 25.Bxh7+ Kxh7 26.Bxd2 Rfe8 27.Bc3 Rc4 28.a3 Rd8 29.Rf1 Rd7
30.Kc1 Kg6 31.Rf3 Rg4 32.Rf2 Rc4 33.Rf3 Rg4 34.Rf2 Rc4 35.Rf3 1/2-1/2

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.03"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Guillemette Hugo"]
[Black "Moses Neil"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B30"]
[WhiteElo "0"]
[BlackElo "1969"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 e6 4.Bxc6 bxc6 5.d3 Ne7 6.O-O Ng6 7.Ng5
f6 8.Nh3 d5 9.Qh5 Bd6 10.f4 O-O 11.Nc3 Bd7 12.Kh1 Be8 13.Qe2
Qd7 14.Bd2 f5 15.Rae1 Bf7 16.b3 Rad8 17.Rd1 Kh8 18.Na4 e5 19.fxe5
Nxe5 20.exf5 Rde8 21.Ng5 Nc4 22.Nxf7+ Rxf7 23.Qf2 Nxd2 24.Qxd2
Rxf5 25.Rde1 Rh5 26.h3 h6 27.Qf2 Rf8 28.Qe2 Rhf5 29.Rxf5 Qxf5
30.Qe3 d4 31.Qg1 Qf4 32.c3 Qg3 33.cxd4 cxd4 34.Nb2 Rf2 35.Nc4
Bc7 36.a4 Kh7 37.Rd1 Rf4 38.b4 Rf3 0-1

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[ePGN "0.1;DGT LiveChess/2.2.5"]
[Event "2023 National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa, Canada"]
[Date "2023.11.05"]
[Round "5.2"]
[White "Krishna G V, Sai"]
[Black "Chiku-Ratte, Olivier Kenta"]
[Result "1/2"]
[TimeControl "90 min plus 30 sec/move"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2501"]
[BlackElo "2425"]

1. e4 {[%clk 01:30:56]} {[%emt 00:00:03]} e5 {[%clk 01:28:09]} {[%emt
00:02:51]} 2. Nf3 {[%clk 01:31:24]} {[%emt 00:00:03]} Nc6 {[%clk 01:28:31]}
{[%emt 00:00:07]} 3. Bb5 {[%clk 01:31:52]} {[%emt 00:00:02]} a6 {[%clk
01:28:57]} {[%emt 00:00:04]} 4. Ba4 {[%clk 01:32:19]} {[%emt 00:00:02]} d6
{[%clk 01:29:23]} {[%emt 00:00:04]} 5. O-O {[%clk 01:32:41]} {[%emt 00:00:08]}
Bd7 {[%clk 01:29:44]} {[%emt 00:00:08]} 6. d4 {[%clk 01:32:37]} {[%emt
00:00:35]} Nxd4 {[%clk 01:29:56]} {[%emt 00:00:18]} 7. Bxd7+ {[%clk 01:33:01]}
{[%emt 00:00:06]} Qxd7 {[%clk 01:30:22]} {[%emt 00:00:04]} 8. Nxd4 {[%clk
01:33:29]} {[%emt 00:00:02]} exd4 {[%clk 01:30:46]} {[%emt 00:00:06]} 9. Qxd4
{[%clk 01:33:55]} {[%emt 00:00:03]} Nf6 {[%clk 01:30:22]} {[%emt 00:00:54]} 10.
b3 {[%clk 01:33:04]} {[%emt 00:01:22]} Be7 {[%clk 01:28:34]} {[%emt 00:06:19]}
11. Bb2 {[%clk 01:33:31]} O-O {[%clk 01:28:38]} 12. Nc3 {[%clk 01:33:57]} c6
{[%clk 01:20:55]} {[%emt 00:04:44]} 13. Rad1 {[%clk 01:33:12]} {[%emt
00:55:36]} Qe6 {[%clk 01:19:39]} 14. Rfe1 {[%clk 01:26:33]} Rad8 {[%clk
01:13:54]} 15. Ne2 {[%clk 01:19:24]} Qe5 {[%clk 01:01:51]} 16. Ng3 {[%clk
01:10:32]} Qxd4 {[%clk 01:01:28]} 17. Bxd4 {[%clk 01:10:34]} g6 {[%clk
01:01:02]} 18. Rd3 {[%clk 01:01:19]} {[%emt 00:02:24]} Rfe8 {[%clk 00:55:33]}
{[%emt 00:16:18]} 1/2-1/2



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.05"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Sambuev Bator (CAN)"]
[Black "Latorre Vincent (CAN)"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A30"]
[WhiteElo "2483"]
[BlackElo "2214"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c5 4.g3 b6 5.Bg2 Bb7 6.O-O d6 7.Re1 Be7
8.e4 O-O 9.d4 cxd4 10.Nxd4 Qc8 11.Be3 a6 12.Rc1 Nbd7 13.f4 Rd8
14.g4 Nc5 15.Bf2 e5 16.Nf5 Bf8 17.Nd5 Nxd5 18.cxd5 a5 19.fxe5
dxe5 20.Bg3 Re8 21.Qf3 Qd7 22.g5 Bc8 23.Rf1 Qa7 24.Rcd1 Bxf5
25.Qxf5 Bd6 26.h4 Qd7 27.Qf3 Rf8 28.Qe2 Rae8 29.Kh2 Qe7 30.Rf5
g6 31.Rff1 f5 32.gxf6 Rxf6 33.Rxf6 Qxf6 34.Qb5 Qd8 35.Rf1 Rf8
36.Rxf8+ Kxf8 37.Qc6 Qc7 38.Qb5 Kg7 39.Bf2 Be7 40.Bg3 Nd7 41.a3
Nf6 42.Qc6 Qxc6 43.dxc6 Bd6 44.b4 axb4 45.axb4 Bc7 46.Be1 Kf7
47.Kg3 Ke6 48.b5 Nh5+ 49.Kg4 Nf4 50.Bf1 Kf6 51.Bb4 h5+ 52.Kg3
Ne6 53.Bc4 Nd8 54.Kf3 Nf7 55.Bd2 g5 56.hxg5+ Nxg5+ 57.Ke3 h4
58.Be1 h3 59.Bg3 Ke7 60.Be2 Kd6 61.Bg4 Kc5 62.Bd7 Kc4 63.Bh2
Kc5 64.Bg3 Kc4 1/2-1/2



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.05"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Sowa Ryan"]
[Black "Wang Derek"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D00"]
[WhiteElo "2337"]
[BlackElo "2013"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 d5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bf4 c5 4.e4 dxe4 5.dxc5 Qxd1+ 6.Rxd1 a6 7.Na4
Nbd7 8.b4 e6 9.a3 Be7 10.Bc4 O-O 11.Ne2 Bd8 12.Bb3 Nb8 13.Rxd8
Rxd8 14.Nb6 e5 15.Bxe5 Nfd7 16.Bc7 Nxb6 17.Bxd8 N6d7 18.Bc7 Nf6
19.Be5 Ng4 20.Bxb8 Rxb8 21.h3 Nf6 22.Nc3 Bf5 23.Ke2 b6 24.cxb6
Rxb6 25.Rd1 Kf8 26.Nd5 Nxd5 27.Bxd5 e3 28.c4 exf2 29.Kxf2 Ke7
30.c5 Rb8 31.Bc4 Bc8 32.Rd6 a5 33.b5 Bd7 34.Rb6 Rxb6 35.cxb6
Kd8 36.Ke3 Kc8 37.Kd4 f6 38.Kc5 Bf5 39.Bd5 Bd3 40.Bc6 g5 41.Kd6
f5 42.Ke5 h6 43.Kf6 g4 44.h4 f4 45.Ke5 f3 46.gxf3 g3 47.f4 Bxb5
48.Bg2 Kd7 49.b7 Kc7 50.f5 Ba6 51.f6 Bc4 52.Kf4 a4 53.Kxg3 Bb3
54.Kf4 Bf7 55.Ke5 h5 56.Bd5 Bg6 57.Ke6 Be8 58.f7 1-0



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.05"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Latreille Etienne"]
[Black "Xu, Daniel"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B51"]
[WhiteElo "2178"]
[BlackElo "2339"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bb5+ Nd7 4.a4 Ngf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.O-O Bg7 7.Re1
O-O 8.a5 a6 9.Bf1 b5 10.axb6 Nxb6 11.d4 cxd4 12.Nxd4 Bb7 13.Nb3
Qc7 14.Na5 Rfc8 15.Ra3 Nfd7 16.Be3 Nc5 17.Qa1 Nbd7 18.Nd5 Bxd5
19.exd5 Ne5 20.Kh1 Ng4 21.Nc6 Nxe3 22.Raxe3 e6 23.Qa2 a5 24.Bc4
e5 25.Ra3 f5 26.f3 e4 27.Rf1 Re8 28.b4 Nb7 29.bxa5 Nc5 30.Qb1
exf3 31.gxf3 Bh6 32.Qd1 Be3 33.a6 f4 34.Nd4 Qb6 35.Ne6 Qb4 36.Rxe3
fxe3 37.Qd4 Nxe6 38.dxe6 Re7 39.c3 Qc5 40.Qe4 Rc8 41.Bd5 Qxc3
42.a7 e2 43.Qxe2 Qa5 44.a8Q Rxa8 45.Bxa8 Qxa8 46.Re1 1/2-1/2



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.05"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Kot Emmanuel"]
[Black "Gao, Lucy"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B14"]
[WhiteElo "2114"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 g6 3.c3 d5 4.e5 a6 5.d4 Nc6 6.h3 Bg7 7.Bd3 f6 8.exf6
Nxf6 9.O-O O-O 10.Be3 Nh5 11.Re1 Qb6 12.Qb3 Qxb3 13.axb3 Bxh3
14.dxc5 Nf4 15.Bf1 Bg4 16.Nbd2 e5 17.b4 d4 18.cxd4 exd4 19.Bxf4
Rxf4 20.b3 Nxb4 21.Ra4 a5 22.Rea1 d3 23.Rxa5 Rxa5 24.Rxa5 Bb2
25.Ra7 Rf7 26.Ra4 Bxf3 27.Nxf3 Bc3 28.Ra3 d2 29.Nxd2 Bxd2 30.Bc4
Kg7 31.Bxf7 Kxf7 32.Ra7 Nd3 33.Rxb7+ Ke6 34.c6 Bf4 35.Rxh7 1-0



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.05"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Rousskikh Maxim"]
[Black "Lawson Eric (CAN)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C47"]
[WhiteElo "1961"]
[BlackElo "2371"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.d4 exd4 5.Nxd4 Bb4 6.Nxc6 bxc6
7.Bd3 O-O 8.O-O d5 9.exd5 Bg4 10.Ne2 cxd5 11.h3 Bh5 12.c3 Bc5
13.Qc2 Bg6 14.Bf4 c6 15.Rad1 Ne4 16.Nd4 Qf6 17.Be3 Rfe8 18.Rfe1
Bb6 19.f3 c5 20.Nb5 c4 21.Bxc4 dxc4 22.fxe4 Bxe3+ 23.Rxe3 Qg5 0-1



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.05"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Moses Neil"]
[Black "Joseph Jonath"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C20"]
[WhiteElo "1969"]
[BlackElo "2100"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 e5 2.Ne2 Nf6 3.d4 d5 4.dxe5 Nxe4 5.Ng3 Nxg3 6.hxg3 c6 7.Be3
Qe7 8.Qd4 Nd7 9.f4 f6 10.Bd3 fxe5 11.fxe5 Nxe5 12.Kd2 Qb4+ 13.Nc3
Qxd4 14.Bxd4 Nxd3 15.cxd3 Bf5 16.Rae1+ Kd7 17.Re5 Bg6 18.Ne2
Bb4+ 19.Bc3 Bxc3+ 20.bxc3 Rae8 21.Rg5 Rhf8 22.Nf4 Rf6 23.Rh4
Rf5 24.Rxf5 Bxf5 25.Rh5 Rf8 26.Ke3 h6 27.Rh1 Re8+ 28.Kd2 Kc7
29.Rf1 Bg4 30.Rf2 Kd6 31.Nh3 Re7 32.Ng1 Bh5 33.Nf3 Rf7 34.Ke3
g5 35.Rb2 Re7+ 36.Kd2 Bxf3 37.gxf3 h5 38.Rb1 h4 39.gxh4 gxh4
40.Rh1 Rh7 41.Ke3 Ke5 42.f4+ Kf5 43.Kf3 h3 44.Rh2 c5 45.a4 b6
46.Kg3 a6 47.Kf3 b5 48.axb5 axb5 49.Kg3 b4 50.cxb4 cxb4 51.Kf3
b3 52.Kg3 Rh8 53.Rh1 h2 54.Kg2 b2 55.d4 Rh7 56.Kf3 b1Q 57.Rxb1
h1Q+ 0-1



[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.05"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Han Johnathan (CAN)"]
[Black "Aayush Ajith "]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B99"]
[WhiteElo "2274"]
[BlackElo "2131"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4
Be7 8.Qf3 Qc7 9.O-O-O Nbd7 10.f5 e5 11.Nde2 b5 12.Bxf6 Nxf6 13.Nd5
Nxd5 14.exd5 Qc5 15.h4 Bd8 16.Ng3 Bb6 17.Kb1 Qe3 18.Qg4 g6 19.Bd3
h5 20.Qh3 Qh6 21.Qh2 O-O 22.Rhf1 Bd7 23.Rf3 Be3 24.Ne2 e4 25.Bxe4
Rae8 26.Qxd6 Rxe4 27.Qxd7 Bd2 28.Ng3 Re1 29.Rxe1 Bxe1 30.fxg6
Qxg6 31.Nf5 Qxg2 32.Qe7 Bxh4 33.Qe3 Qh1+ 34.Qc1 Qxf3 35.Nxh4
Qxd5 36.a3 Rd8 37.Qg1+ Kh7 38.Qf2 Qd1+ 1/2-1/2

[Halldor P. Palsson]

[ePGN "0.1;DGT LiveChess/2.2.5"]
[Event "2023 National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa, Canada"]
[Date "2023.11.05"]
[Round "5.2"]
[White "Krishna G V, Sai"]
[Black "Chiku-Ratte, Olivier Kenta"]
[Result "1/2"]
[TimeControl "90 min plus 30 sec/move"]
[WhiteTitle "IM"]
[BlackTitle "IM"]
[WhiteElo "2501"]
[BlackElo "2425"]

1. e4 {[%clk 01:30:56]} {[%emt 00:00:03]} e5 {[%clk 01:28:09]} {[%emt
00:02:51]} 2. Nf3 {[%clk 01:31:24]} {[%emt 00:00:03]} Nc6 {[%clk 01:28:31]}
{[%emt 00:00:07]} 3. Bb5 {[%clk 01:31:52]} {[%emt 00:00:02]} a6 {[%clk
01:28:57]} {[%emt 00:00:04]} 4. Ba4 {[%clk 01:32:19]} {[%emt 00:00:02]} d6
{[%clk 01:29:23]} {[%emt 00:00:04]} 5. O-O {[%clk 01:32:41]} {[%emt 00:00:08]}
Bd7 {[%clk 01:29:44]} {[%emt 00:00:08]} 6. d4 {[%clk 01:32:37]} {[%emt
00:00:35]} Nxd4 {[%clk 01:29:56]} {[%emt 00:00:18]} 7. Bxd7+ {[%clk 01:33:01]}
{[%emt 00:00:06]} Qxd7 {[%clk 01:30:22]} {[%emt 00:00:04]} 8. Nxd4 {[%clk
01:33:29]} {[%emt 00:00:02]} exd4 {[%clk 01:30:46]} {[%emt 00:00:06]} 9. Qxd4
{[%clk 01:33:55]} {[%emt 00:00:03]} Nf6 {[%clk 01:30:22]} {[%emt 00:00:54]} 10.
b3 {[%clk 01:33:04]} {[%emt 00:01:22]} Be7 {[%clk 01:28:34]} {[%emt 00:06:19]}
11. Bb2 {[%clk 01:33:31]} O-O {[%clk 01:28:38]} 12. Nc3 {[%clk 01:33:57]} c6
{[%clk 01:20:55]} {[%emt 00:04:44]} 13. Rad1 {[%clk 01:33:12]} {[%emt
00:55:36]} Qe6 {[%clk 01:19:39]} 14. Rfe1 {[%clk 01:26:33]} Rad8 {[%clk
01:13:54]} 15. Ne2 {[%clk 01:19:24]} Qe5 {[%clk 01:01:51]} 16. Ng3 {[%clk
01:10:32]} Qxd4 {[%clk 01:01:28]} 17. Bxd4 {[%clk 01:10:34]} g6 {[%clk
01:01:02]} 18. Rd3 {[%clk 01:01:19]} {[%emt 00:02:24]} Rfe8 {[%clk 00:55:33]}
{[%emt 00:16:18]} 1/2-1/2

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.05"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Sambuev Bator (CAN)"]
[Black "Latorre Vincent (CAN)"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A30"]
[WhiteElo "2483"]
[BlackElo "2214"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.Nf3 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 c5 4.g3 b6 5.Bg2 Bb7 6.O-O d6 7.Re1 Be7
8.e4 O-O 9.d4 cxd4 10.Nxd4 Qc8 11.Be3 a6 12.Rc1 Nbd7 13.f4 Rd8
14.g4 Nc5 15.Bf2 e5 16.Nf5 Bf8 17.Nd5 Nxd5 18.cxd5 a5 19.fxe5
dxe5 20.Bg3 Re8 21.Qf3 Qd7 22.g5 Bc8 23.Rf1 Qa7 24.Rcd1 Bxf5
25.Qxf5 Bd6 26.h4 Qd7 27.Qf3 Rf8 28.Qe2 Rae8 29.Kh2 Qe7 30.Rf5
g6 31.Rff1 f5 32.gxf6 Rxf6 33.Rxf6 Qxf6 34.Qb5 Qd8 35.Rf1 Rf8
36.Rxf8+ Kxf8 37.Qc6 Qc7 38.Qb5 Kg7 39.Bf2 Be7 40.Bg3 Nd7 41.a3
Nf6 42.Qc6 Qxc6 43.dxc6 Bd6 44.b4 axb4 45.axb4 Bc7 46.Be1 Kf7
47.Kg3 Ke6 48.b5 Nh5+ 49.Kg4 Nf4 50.Bf1 Kf6 51.Bb4 h5+ 52.Kg3
Ne6 53.Bc4 Nd8 54.Kf3 Nf7 55.Bd2 g5 56.hxg5+ Nxg5+ 57.Ke3 h4
58.Be1 h3 59.Bg3 Ke7 60.Be2 Kd6 61.Bg4 Kc5 62.Bd7 Kc4 63.Bh2
Kc5 64.Bg3 Kc4 1/2-1/2

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.05"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Sowa Ryan"]
[Black "Wang Derek"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D00"]
[WhiteElo "2337"]
[BlackElo "2013"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.d4 d5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bf4 c5 4.e4 dxe4 5.dxc5 Qxd1+ 6.Rxd1 a6 7.Na4
Nbd7 8.b4 e6 9.a3 Be7 10.Bc4 O-O 11.Ne2 Bd8 12.Bb3 Nb8 13.Rxd8
Rxd8 14.Nb6 e5 15.Bxe5 Nfd7 16.Bc7 Nxb6 17.Bxd8 N6d7 18.Bc7 Nf6
19.Be5 Ng4 20.Bxb8 Rxb8 21.h3 Nf6 22.Nc3 Bf5 23.Ke2 b6 24.cxb6
Rxb6 25.Rd1 Kf8 26.Nd5 Nxd5 27.Bxd5 e3 28.c4 exf2 29.Kxf2 Ke7
30.c5 Rb8 31.Bc4 Bc8 32.Rd6 a5 33.b5 Bd7 34.Rb6 Rxb6 35.cxb6
Kd8 36.Ke3 Kc8 37.Kd4 f6 38.Kc5 Bf5 39.Bd5 Bd3 40.Bc6 g5 41.Kd6
f5 42.Ke5 h6 43.Kf6 g4 44.h4 f4 45.Ke5 f3 46.gxf3 g3 47.f4 Bxb5
48.Bg2 Kd7 49.b7 Kc7 50.f5 Ba6 51.f6 Bc4 52.Kf4 a4 53.Kxg3 Bb3
54.Kf4 Bf7 55.Ke5 h5 56.Bd5 Bg6 57.Ke6 Be8 58.f7 1-0

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.05"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Latreille Etienne"]
[Black "Xu, Daniel"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B51"]
[WhiteElo "2178"]
[BlackElo "2339"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bb5+ Nd7 4.a4 Ngf6 5.Nc3 g6 6.O-O Bg7 7.Re1
O-O 8.a5 a6 9.Bf1 b5 10.axb6 Nxb6 11.d4 cxd4 12.Nxd4 Bb7 13.Nb3
Qc7 14.Na5 Rfc8 15.Ra3 Nfd7 16.Be3 Nc5 17.Qa1 Nbd7 18.Nd5 Bxd5
19.exd5 Ne5 20.Kh1 Ng4 21.Nc6 Nxe3 22.Raxe3 e6 23.Qa2 a5 24.Bc4
e5 25.Ra3 f5 26.f3 e4 27.Rf1 Re8 28.b4 Nb7 29.bxa5 Nc5 30.Qb1
exf3 31.gxf3 Bh6 32.Qd1 Be3 33.a6 f4 34.Nd4 Qb6 35.Ne6 Qb4 36.Rxe3
fxe3 37.Qd4 Nxe6 38.dxe6 Re7 39.c3 Qc5 40.Qe4 Rc8 41.Bd5 Qxc3
42.a7 e2 43.Qxe2 Qa5 44.a8Q Rxa8 45.Bxa8 Qxa8 46.Re1 1/2-1/2

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.05"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Kot Emmanuel"]
[Black "Gao, Lucy"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B14"]
[WhiteElo "2114"]
[BlackElo "0"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 g6 3.c3 d5 4.e5 a6 5.d4 Nc6 6.h3 Bg7 7.Bd3 f6 8.exf6
Nxf6 9.O-O O-O 10.Be3 Nh5 11.Re1 Qb6 12.Qb3 Qxb3 13.axb3 Bxh3
14.dxc5 Nf4 15.Bf1 Bg4 16.Nbd2 e5 17.b4 d4 18.cxd4 exd4 19.Bxf4
Rxf4 20.b3 Nxb4 21.Ra4 a5 22.Rea1 d3 23.Rxa5 Rxa5 24.Rxa5 Bb2
25.Ra7 Rf7 26.Ra4 Bxf3 27.Nxf3 Bc3 28.Ra3 d2 29.Nxd2 Bxd2 30.Bc4
Kg7 31.Bxf7 Kxf7 32.Ra7 Nd3 33.Rxb7+ Ke6 34.c6 Bf4 35.Rxh7 1-0

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.05"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Rousskikh Maxim"]
[Black "Lawson Eric (CAN)"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C47"]
[WhiteElo "1961"]
[BlackElo "2371"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nc3 Nc6 4.d4 exd4 5.Nxd4 Bb4 6.Nxc6 bxc6
7.Bd3 O-O 8.O-O d5 9.exd5 Bg4 10.Ne2 cxd5 11.h3 Bh5 12.c3 Bc5
13.Qc2 Bg6 14.Bf4 c6 15.Rad1 Ne4 16.Nd4 Qf6 17.Be3 Rfe8 18.Rfe1
Bb6 19.f3 c5 20.Nb5 c4 21.Bxc4 dxc4 22.fxe4 Bxe3+ 23.Rxe3 Qg5 0-1

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.05"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Moses Neil"]
[Black "Joseph Jonath"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C20"]
[WhiteElo "1969"]
[BlackElo "2100"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 e5 2.Ne2 Nf6 3.d4 d5 4.dxe5 Nxe4 5.Ng3 Nxg3 6.hxg3 c6 7.Be3
Qe7 8.Qd4 Nd7 9.f4 f6 10.Bd3 fxe5 11.fxe5 Nxe5 12.Kd2 Qb4+ 13.Nc3
Qxd4 14.Bxd4 Nxd3 15.cxd3 Bf5 16.Rae1+ Kd7 17.Re5 Bg6 18.Ne2
Bb4+ 19.Bc3 Bxc3+ 20.bxc3 Rae8 21.Rg5 Rhf8 22.Nf4 Rf6 23.Rh4
Rf5 24.Rxf5 Bxf5 25.Rh5 Rf8 26.Ke3 h6 27.Rh1 Re8+ 28.Kd2 Kc7
29.Rf1 Bg4 30.Rf2 Kd6 31.Nh3 Re7 32.Ng1 Bh5 33.Nf3 Rf7 34.Ke3
g5 35.Rb2 Re7+ 36.Kd2 Bxf3 37.gxf3 h5 38.Rb1 h4 39.gxh4 gxh4
40.Rh1 Rh7 41.Ke3 Ke5 42.f4+ Kf5 43.Kf3 h3 44.Rh2 c5 45.a4 b6
46.Kg3 a6 47.Kf3 b5 48.axb5 axb5 49.Kg3 b4 50.cxb4 cxb4 51.Kf3
b3 52.Kg3 Rh8 53.Rh1 h2 54.Kg2 b2 55.d4 Rh7 56.Kf3 b1Q 57.Rxb1
h1Q+ 0-1

[Event "National Capital Open"]
[Site "Ottawa (Canada)"]
[Date "2023.11.05"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Han Johnathan (CAN)"]
[Black "Aayush Ajith "]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B99"]
[WhiteElo "2274"]
[BlackElo "2131"]
[Annotator ""]
[Source ""]
[Remark ""]

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4
Be7 8.Qf3 Qc7 9.O-O-O Nbd7 10.f5 e5 11.Nde2 b5 12.Bxf6 Nxf6 13.Nd5
Nxd5 14.exd5 Qc5 15.h4 Bd8 16.Ng3 Bb6 17.Kb1 Qe3 18.Qg4 g6 19.Bd3
h5 20.Qh3 Qh6 21.Qh2 O-O 22.Rhf1 Bd7 23.Rf3 Be3 24.Ne2 e4 25.Bxe4
Rae8 26.Qxd6 Rxe4 27.Qxd7 Bd2 28.Ng3 Re1 29.Rxe1 Bxe1 30.fxg6
Qxg6 31.Nf5 Qxg2 32.Qe7 Bxh4 33.Qe3 Qh1+ 34.Qc1 Qxf3 35.Nxh4
Qxd5 36.a3 Rd8 37.Qg1+ Kh7 38.Qf2 Qd1+ 1/2-1/2