Annex Chess Club

Welcome, Spring!

It’s finally here! Spring flowers are poking up, TIFF is up and running, and the weather is starting to get nice enough to sit on a patio – maybe even without a winter coat.

At Annex, we’re launching our ACC Welcome Spring Swiss. Five rounds. Three sections (by CFC rating):

Crown (minimum 1700* to qualify)
Reserve A / U1800* (minimum 1300*)
Reserve B / U1400*

* The rating floors/ceilings are 100 points lower than usual, because we’ve temporarily lost a number of our top players to the Toronto Closed – running concurrently with the regular club tournament. Lower cut-offs help to even out the sections.

All club tournament games are CFC-rated. “Welcome Spring” rounds are on Monday nights, April 7 to May 12. We’re closed April 21 for Easter Monday – but don’t miss the Toronto Open on Easter weekend, April 18-20.

Round One – April 7

The first round gets started with 42 players sitting down to 21 David-versus-Goliath match-ups. It’s the way the first round is always paired in a Swiss tournament.

At the end of the night, the Goliaths have won most of their games, as they usually do in chess, but there are a few draws – and even some upsets. Top- and middle-section Goliaths mostly walk away unscathed – other than Hooshang Abbarin, who falls to Bill Thornton. But the U1400 section is rife with David-over-Goliath triumphs as Larissa Souchko, Kaizen Liu, Tigran Ghazarian, and Howard Halim all emerge victorious from their battles against much higher-rated opponents!

Round Two – April 14

In the Crown section, young Nicholas Vettese, already rated 1974 and top on the Canadian Under-10 list, may soon have his rating over 2000. At least he’s 2-0 in this tournament after defeating Harmony Zhu last round and now Adie Todd this round. Nicholas will enter Round Three in a two-way tie for the lead with Hart House player, Jonathan Yu.

In the U1800 section, Bill Thornton is a giant killer, rolling through the top-rated players in the section. He follows up his Round-One victory over Hooshang Abbarin by knocking off Ulli Diemer. Bill is now in a three-way tie for the lead with Jack Maguire and Marcus Wilker.

Bill “Giant Killer” Thornton

In the U1400 section, there’s still a big group at the top as Richard Morrison, Raymond Lin, Nick Mourtos, and Alex Geddie are in a four-way tie for the lead at 2.0/2.

See full results below. (Hopefully, the new “Swiss Manager” format is not too confusing.)

Round Three is Monday April 28 at 7:30 pm

Note that we’re closed Easter Monday April 21, but don’t miss the Toronto Open, Friday April 18 to Sunday April 20.

Round Two Results

Welcome Spring Swiss Crown

Ranking Crosstable after Round 2

Rank	SNo.	Name	Rtg	FED	1.Rd.			2.Rd.			Pts.
1	1	Yu Jonathan	2092	CAN	7	w	1	5	b	1	2
	6	Vettese Nicholas	1974	CAN	13	w	1	10	b	1	2
3	3	Bellissimo Joseph	2051	CAN	9	w	1	-	-	½	1½
	5	Shah Omaray M.	2030	CAN	12	b	1	-	-	½	1½
5	2	Siddeley Hugh	2076	CAN	8	b	1	1	w	0	1
	4	Longo Tyler	2039	CAN	-	-	½	-	-	½	1
	7	Zotkin Daniel	1973	CAN	1	b	0	11	w	1	1
	8	Bergenstam Olof	1932	CAN	5	w	0	13	b	1	1
	9	Gellner Nicholas	1837	CAN	3	b	0	12	w	1	1
10	12	Todd Adie	1718	CAN	-	-	½	2	w	0	½
	13	Surya Benito	1703	CAN	-	-	½	7	b	0	½
12	10	Cheryachukin Yury	1813	CAN	4	w	0	9	b	0	0
	11	Zhu Harmony	1792	CAN	2	b	0	8	w	0	0

Welcome Spring Swiss U1800

Ranking Crosstable after Round 2

Rank	SNo.	Name	Rtg	FED	1.Rd.			2.Rd.			Pts
1	3	Maguire Jack	1646	CAN	18	b	1	7	w	1	2
	5	Wilker Marcus	1623	CAN	12	b	1	9	w	1	2
	11	Thornton Bill	1509	CAN	14	b	1	6	w	1	2
4	1	Sirkovich Daniel	1788	CAN	17	b	1	-	-	½	1½
	6	Armstrong Robert J.	1603	CAN	13	w	½	17	b	1	1½
6	4	Diemer Ulli	1643	CAN	11	w	1	3	b	0	1
	7	Patton Mark A.	1595	CAN	15	b	1	1	b	0	1
	8	Renteria Manuela	1569	CAN	-	-	½	-	-	½	1
	9	Mendoza Armand Jess	1553	CAN	16	w	1	2	b	0	1
	13	Sottile Claudio	1454	CAN	-	-	½	13	b	½	1
	14	Gelowitz Mark A.	1434	CAN	6	b	0	18	w	1	1
	15	Radpey Abdolreza	1377	CAN	2	w	0	-	-	1	1
	16	Supol George	1373	CAN	5	b	½	10	w	½	1
14	2	Ab-Barin Hooshang	1699	CAN	3	w	0	-	-	½	½
	17	Goldfarb Adam	1367	CAN	7	w	0	-	-	½	½
	18	Vigneswaramoorthy Vinorth	1332	CAN	9	b	0	-	-	½	½
17	10	Allen Joshua	1541	CAN	4	w	0	5	w	0	0
	12	Pirri Daniele	1472	CAN	1	w	0	11	b	0	0

Welcome Spring Swiss U1400

Ranking Crosstable after Round 2

Rank	SNo.	Name	Rtg	FED	1.Rd.			2.Rd.			Pts.
1	2	Morrison Richard	1305	CAN	17	w	1	8	b	1	2
	6	Lin Raymond	1183	CAN	9	b	1	6	w	1	2
	8	Mourtos Nick	1139	CAN	15	b	1	7	w	1	2
	9	Geddie Alex	1095	CAN	11	w	1	10	b	1	2
5	1	David Jean-Marc	1360	CAN	6	b	0	13	w	1	1
	10	Souchko Larissa	1080	CAN	5	w	1	2	b	0	1
	12	Liu Kaizen	1059	CAN	16	w	1	3	b	0	1
	13	Ghazarian Tigran	987	CAN	12	b	1	1	w	0	1
	14	Rashid Jian	953	CAN	2	w	0	16	b	1	1
	15	Halim Howard	916	CAN	14	b	1	4	w	0	1
	17	Gangolli Rahul	897	CAN	4	b	0	17	b	1	1
12	4	Teram Eli	1258	CAN	8	w	0	-	-	½	½
	5	Li Dennis	1214	CAN	-	-	½	5	b	0	½
	7	Hillel Alexander	1177	CAN	10	w	0	-	-	½	½
	16	Schneider Mitchell	908	CAN	3	w	0	-	-	½	½
16	3	Cvetkovic Milan	1286	CAN	7	b	0	9	w	0	0
	11	Pamwar Manish	1075	CAN	1	b	0	11	w	0	0