The Canadian Closed/Zonal and the Goddesschess Canadian Women’s Closed are happening together, August 4 to 11 in Montréal. Canada’s elite players will be competing for the title of Canadian Champion and Canadian Women’s Champion.
As zonal events, the tournaments will not only qualify one player for the 2013 World Cup and one player for the Women’s Chess Championship, but will also be able to award six new FIDE titles: two FMs, one IM, two WFMs, and one WIM.
2011 Canadian Champion,
Bator Sambuev2011 Canadian Women's Champion,
Natalia Khoudgarian
Tournament Information
Full details, including a list of registered players, are available on the official tournament website.
The 2011 Canadian Closed took place in Guelph, and the winner was GM Bator Sambuev. The 2011 Women’s Championship took place in Toronto, and the winner was WIM Natalia Khoudgarian. Both current champions are registered to defend their titles this summer!
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1. Juliaan Posaratnanathan – 336-pt draw vs. David Itkin in the Open section
2. Lawrence Day – 321-pt draw vs. Bindi Cheng in the Open
3. Juliaan Posaratnanathan – 304-pt draw vs. Wajdy Shebetah in the Open
4. Jose Cabioc – 231-pt draw vs. Patrick Yu in the U2000 Section*
4. David Itkin – 231-pt draw vs. Victor Plotkin in the Open
* Since Juliaan Posaratnanathan had already won 1st prize, we moved to the 4th place, which was a tie: both Jose Cabioc and David Itkin drew against exactly the same rating differential. After some consultation, we decided to award the prize to Jose Cabioc, since two prizes had already been awarded in the Open section.
Final Standings
SwissSys Standings. 15th Canadian Women's Championship 2011
#
Name
ID
Rtng
Rd 1
Rd 2
Rd 3
Rd 4
Rd 5
Rd 6
Tot
Prize
1
Natalia Khoudgarian
109626
2252
W5
W11
W2
W7
W3
D4
5.5
500.00
2
Iulia Lacau-rodean
144348
1994
W13
W9
L1
W12
W7
D3
4.5
240.00
3
Yelizaveta Orlova
138247
1994
W9
W13
D11
W4
L1
D2
4.0
120.00
4
Jackie Peng
142388
2142
W10
W12
L7
L3
W11
D1
3.5
5
Chang Yun
149639
1833
L1
W14
L12
W13
D6
W8
3.5
6
Jiaxin Liu
149747
1502
L7
W15
D9
D8
D5
W16
3.5
7
Daniela Belc
121686
2052
W6
W8
W4
L1
L2
U—
3.0
8
Qiyu Zhou
151707
1839
W15
L7
D10
D6
W12
L5
3.0
9
Rebecca Giblon
141076
1611
L3
L2
D6
W14
W15
D12
3.0
10
Melissa Lee
139352
1585
L4
W16
D8
L11
D13
W15
3.0
11
Myriam Roy
139360
2001
W14
L1
D3
W10
L4
U—
2.5
12
Olya Chichkina
120564
1885
W16
L4
W5
L2
L8
D9
2.5
13
Melissa Giblon
142624
1519
L2
L3
W16
L5
D10
W14
2.5
14
Jessica Danti
151192
1367
L11
L5
W15
L9
W16
L13
2.0
15
Rachel Tao
146055
1157
L8
L6
L14
W16
L9
L10
1.0
16
Taylor Zhang
150152
1203
L12
L10
L13
L15
L14
L6
0.0
SwissSys Standings. 2011 Toronto Thanksgiving Open: Open Section
#
Name
ID
Rtng
Rd 1
Rd 2
Rd 3
Rd 4
Rd 5
Rd 6
Tot
Prize
1
Nikolay Noritsyn
132534
2634
W11
W8
W3
W7
W2
D4
5.5
1500.00
2
Roman Sapozhnikov
138609
2449
W15
W30
W14
W24
L1
W7
5.0
500.00
3
Arthur Calugar
130889
2376
W31
W34
L1
D14
W16
W9
4.5
125.00
4
Nikita Gusev
128168
2230
W28
W32
L7
W15
W10
D1
4.5
125.00
5
Victor Plotkin
142063
2387
W18
D12
L24
W31
D13
W14
4.0
6
Razvan Preotu
146124
2071
L7
W28
W29
L10
W19
W13
4.0
150.00
7
Bindi Cheng
141968
2533
W6
W10
W4
L1
D9
L2
3.5
8
Hans Jung
100182
2298
W17
L1
H—
H—
D14
W15
3.5
9
Lawrence Day
101024
2212
H—
W13
H—
W11
D7
L3
3.5
10
Konstantin Semianiuk
144290
2204
W19
L7
W12
W6
L4
D11
3.5
11
David Southam
102535
2102
L1
W17
W19
L9
W18
D10
3.5
12
Mike Ivanov
140557
2178
W20
D5
L10
D26
L15
W21
3.0
13
David Itkin
140216
2156
D22
L9
W20
W30
D5
L6
3.0
14
Aquino Inigo
136995
2154
W23
W24
L2
D3
D8
L5
3.0
15
Alex T Ferreira
127516
2048
L2
W21
W22
L4
W12
L8
3.0
16
Lali Agbabishvili
150778
2036
L24
W35
W34
H—
L3
D17
3.0
17
Daniel Wiebe
132137
1996
L8
L11
H—
W20
W27
D16
3.0
18
Dmitry Chernik
149932
2039
L5
L19
W28
W34
L11
D22
2.5
19
Mark Plotkin
141086
1906
L10
W18
L11
W22
L6
D23
2.5
20
Zehn Nasir
148198
1841
L12
H—
L13
L17
W35
W31
2.5
21
Jose Luis Campos
1823
L30
L15
H—
W35
W31
L12
2.5
22
Juliaan Posaratnanathan
146059
1820
D13
D26
L15
L19
W34
D18
2.5
23
Pi Nasir
148197
1770
L14
H—
L26
D28
W33
D19
2.5
24
Michael Kleinman
132631
2385
W16
L14
W5
L2
U—
U—
2.0
25
Bryan Lamb
106974
2145
W35
U—
U—
U—
H—
H—
2.0
26
Wajdy Shebetah
148432
2124
L34
D22
W23
D12
U—
U—
2.0
27
Venci Ivanov
2100
L32
L31
D35
W29
L17
D28
2.0
28
Ian Finlay
101866
1933
L4
L6
L18
D23
W29
D27
2.0
29
Bryant Yang
141088
1669
H—
H—
L6
L27
L28
W33
2.0
30
Dale McTavish
104887
2183
W21
L2
D31
L13
U—
U—
1.5
31
Yuanchen Zhang
148449
2013
L3
W27
D30
L5
L21
L20
1.5
32
Artiom Samsonkin
146305
2556
W27
L4
U—
U—
U—
U—
1.0
33
Hugh Siddeley
120619
2024
H—
H—
U—
U—
L23
L29
1.0
34
Gangadhar Vaidy
unr.
W26
L3
L16
L18
L22
U—
1.0
35
Omid Nemati
130676
1806
L25
L16
D27
L21
L20
U—
0.5
SwissSys Standings. 2011 Toronto Thanksgiving Open: Under 2000 Section
#
Name
ID
Rtng
Rd 1
Rd 2
Rd 3
Rd 4
Rd 5
Rd 6
Tot
Prize
1
Stephan Tonakanian
150629
1989
W28
W9
H—
W5
W6
W7
5.5
500.00
2
Pierre Maheux
105147
1750
D11
D19
D10
W14
W17
W5
4.5
200.00
3
Jaime Solis
102297
1723
W24
W11
L21
D17
W16
W6
4.5
200.00
4
Stephen Ye
149965
1970
W15
W21
D6
D7
L5
W12
4.0
50.00
5
Paul Leblanc
104186
1911
W16
W22
W7
L1
W4
L2
4.0
50.00
6
Joseph Bellissimo
147544
1895
W26
W14
D4
W21
L1
L3
3.5
7
Lin (xin) Song
146772
1837
W17
W20
L5
D4
W12
L1
3.5
8
Yimang Yang
144916
1772
D19
D10
D14
D13
D11
W21
3.5
9
Edward Chan
145594
1678
W25
L1
W20
L12
W21
D10
3.5
10
Owen Qian
148880
1610
D12
D8
D2
D11
W13
D9
3.5
11
Sergey Noritsyn
146893
1595
D2
L3
W15
D10
D8
W19
3.5
12
Patrick Yu
143209
1754
D10
D23
W22
W9
L7
L4
3.0
13
Shafkat Ali
149142
1742
L14
H—
W26
D8
L10
W24
3.0
14
Hanyuan Ye
144844
1585
W13
L6
D8
L2
W18
D15
3.0
15
Daniel Zotkin
146857
1690
L4
H—
L11
W26
D19
D14
2.5
16
Marcus Wilker
102713
1689
L5
W18
W19
H—
L3
U—
2.5
17
Joey Orozco
1668
L7
W28
W23
D3
L2
U—
2.5
18
Richard Wing
103265
1660
L21
L16
W24
H—
L14
B—
2.5
19
Zhanna Sametova
145911
1629
D8
D2
L16
W23
D15
L11
2.5
20
Jeffrey Lee
146793
1407
B—
L7
L9
L22
D24
W23
2.5
21
Mohammad Zaki Uddin
152024
1778
W18
L4
W3
L6
L9
L8
2.0
22
Yakos Spiliotopoulos
151471
1646
W27
L5
L12
W20
U—
U—
2.0
23
Jose Cabioc
146261
1523
H—
D12
L17
L19
B—
L20
2.0
24
Mark Bercovici
148103
1437
L3
H—
L18
H—
D20
L13
1.5
25
Greg Stavropoulos
108628
1850
L9
U—
U—
H—
U—
U—
0.5
26
Genadi Medvedev
144164
1682
L6
H—
L13
L15
U—
U—
0.5
27
M Hassan Pishdad
146931
1338
L22
U—
U—
H—
U—
U—
0.5
28
John Zhang
150339
1700
L1
L17
U—
U—
U—
U—
0.0
SwissSys Standings. 2011 Toronto Thanksgiving Open: U1600 Section
September 3 to 5, we had a great Toronto Labour Day Open at Annex Chess Club to kick off our fall schedule – check final results.
GM Nigel Short visit
September 19, Nigel Short gave an impressive and entertaining endgame lecture (where he introduced “vacuum chess” and “the final frontier” among other things), then he gave a 32-player simul (where, after 6 hours, he finished with a record of 28-1-3 against our Toronto players) … and then he came out to the pub with us!
David Lawless was the sole Toronto player who managed to take a full point – after Nigel apparently failed to notice a queen check! See the results page. We’ll have some more games from the simul, soon.
Meanwhile, on the regular club tournament front, we’ve got our First Anniversary Swiss under way – one round each Monday night. Check the latest results, and come join us for the next round!
GTCL Championships at ACC
Coming up after Thanksgiving, Annex Chess Club is pleased to host these GTCL championships:
Annex Chess Club is pleased to host the 2011 Canadian Women’s Chess Championship.
WIM Natalia Khoudgarian is the new Canadian Women’s Champion – see the results page.
This event is sanctioned by the Chess Federation of Canada (CFC). The winner will become the Canadian Women’s Champion, and will earn a place on the 2012 Olympiad Women’s Team. The event will also raise funds for the 2012 Olympiad Women’s Team. former Women's Champion,
Dina Kagramanov
15th Canadian Women’s Chess Championship 2011
Saturday October 8 to Monday October 10
Organized by:
Chess Institute of Canada (CIC)
c/o Ted Winick, 41 Nina Street, Toronto, ON M5R 1Z5
Tournament Director:
Bryan Lamb
Location:
Annex Chess Club, 918 Bathurst Street, Toronto, ON
Format:
6-round Swiss
Schedule:
registration – Saturday @ 9 am
Round 1 – Saturday @ 10 am
Round 2 – Saturday @ 4 pm
Round 3 – Sunday @ 10 am
Round 4 – Sunday @ 4 pm
Round 5 – Monday @ 10 am
Round 6 – Monday @ 4 pm
Playoffs – immediately following, or at a mutually convenient time
Those who cannot play Saturday because of Yom Kippur can play the first two rounds in advance
All players must be up-to-date CFC members. The tournament will also be FIDE rated.
Equipment:
Chess sets, chess boards, and digital chess clocks will be provided
Prizes:
Projected Prize Fund: $1000
We are pleased to announce an additional prize, as follows: $250 to be shared among all players with a perfect score of 6/6. There has never been a perfect score in the Canadian Women’s Championship!
The 2011 champion will also receive free accommodation in Montreal for the 2012 Canadian Women’s Championship (courtesy of the 2012 organizers)
Entry Fee:
$150
Advance Registration:
pay by credit card to CFC,
mail cheque to CIC (see address above),
or pay by credit card to CIC (see PayPal registration below)
On-site Registration:
cash only
Filming Notice:
A Chess Institute of Canada camera crew will be on site, Monday October 10, filming for a video on chess in Toronto. By registering for the tournament, you are giving permission to appear in this film unless you indicate otherwise on your registration. If you do not wish to take part in the film, please inform the organizers on your registration form, and you will be seated so your game is not on camera.
PayPal Registration
Pay by VISA, MC, or Amex:
15th Canadian Women’s Chess Championship 2011
Entry Fee: $150
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Players
#
Name
CFC/
Expiry
CFC Rating
FIDE/
FIDE Rating
FIDE Title
Notes
Rds 1 and 2 in advance
9
Daniela Belc
121686
CFC expired
2052
2603861
2053
WFM
women’s Olympiad team 2000
no
10
Myriam Roy
139360
OK
2001
2032589
1957
top female player in Quebec, rated 2088 FQE
no
4
Iulia Lacau-Rodean
144348
OK
1994
1211285
2008
women’s Olympiad team 2010
poss.
5
Liza Orlova
138247
OK
1994
2601826
1931
WCM
women’s Olympiad team 2010
poss.
1
Olya Chichkina
120564
CFC expired
1885
—
0
no
3
Natasa Serbanescu
111320
OK
1869
2605724
1824
no
12
Qiyu Zhou
151707
OK
1811
505161
1660
no
8
Rebecca Giblon
141076
OK
1564
2608324
1732
yes
11
Melissa Lee
139352
CFC expired
1563
2614448
0
no
2
Jiaxin Liu
149747
OK
1502
2611872
0
WCM
no
7
Melissa Giblon
142624
OK
1474
2608286
1580
yes
6
Jessica Danti
151192
OK
1367
2613573
0
no
#
Name
CFC#
Expiry
Rating
FIDE#
Rating
Title
Notes
1 & 2 in advance
Also, the following players have indicated that they will play:
#
Name
CFC#
Expiry
CFC Rating
FIDE#
FIDE Rating
FIDE Title
Notes
Rds 1 and 2 in advance
#
Taylor Zhang
150152
OK
1215
2615665
0
no
#
Rachel Tao
146055
OK
1155
2616300
0
no
#
Name
CFC#
Expiry
Rating
FIDE#
Rating
Title
Notes
1 & 2 in advance
15th Canadian Women’s Ch. – Advance Group
Rounds 1 and 2, results from games played in advance