Hello everyone! ACC has completed another exciting Club tournament, and we are eagerly anticipating the start of our six-round ACC Club Championship, which will start on Monday January 30. If you haven’t already registered, you can register for the Championship by emailing info@annexchessclub.com. There is a first place prize in each section: Championship ($200); and Reserve (U1800 – $100). We will also be using two DGT boards to display the top board for each section on a weekly basis.
Our club has been a real hive of activity lately, with visitors from the Toronto Star and journalism students from Toronto Metropolitan University interviewing Club players and staff. Of course, there has been great interest in the fact that Cincinnati Reds first baseman Joey Votto has been a regular at our club for a few months. He has been tweeting his enthusiasm for chess lately. Last night, our club was also visited by CanadianGM Eric Hansen, notably one of the main hosts of the Chessbrah online channel. This created a lot of excitement among our club members.
With our Winter is Coming tournament completed, congratulations are in order for our winners.
Crown: Nader Hadji Ghanbari, with 4.0/5.0
U1800: We have a tie! Congrats to both Ara Chanoian and Jose Escobar, each scoring 4.0/5.0.
U1400: Congratulations to Robert Joy, who won his section with a perfect 5.0/5.0.
Here are the results:
Results for Round 5: Crown
Bd
#
Res
White
#
Res
Black
1
7
1
Nader Hadji Ghanbari (1956)
18
0
Charis Zhu (1657)
2
4
1
Merlin Nazareno (2014)
9
0
Charlie Grisar (1883)
3
13
0
John Fines (1735)
6
1
Richard Douglas (2000)
4
16
0
Arkadiy Ugodnikov (1685)
1
1
David Southam (2110)
5
3
½
Brett Campbell (2081)
19
½
Omaray M. Shah (1833)
15
1
Albion Kolndreu (1709)
BYE
Results for Round 5: U1800
Bd
#
Res
White
#
Res
Black
6
9
0
Jose Escobar (1516)
2
1
Ara Chanoian (1573)
7
8
½
Adie Todd (1517)
7
½
Stephen Papadatos (1530)
8
18
½
Leon Noel Merse (1416)
25
½
Justin Huang (1325)
9
10
½
Umid Allahverdi (1502)
1
½
Toy Chack Kwan (1583)
10
26
½
Ivan Huang (1271)
3
½
Glib Dunikov (1572)
11
4
½
J. Armstrong Robert (1558)
13
½
Robert Wagner (1481)
12
5
1
Jim Sadden (1535)
16
0
Isabelle Zhu (1437)
13
21
½
Javier Dixon (1376)
14
½
Arkady Tenkov (1445)
14
24
½
Leeor Greenblat (1330)
19
½
David Dunikov (1403)
15
29
1
Afeez Sanni (unr.)
17
0
Ian Greig (1424)
16
12
1 X
Dragan Jevtic (1491)
28
0 F
Dan Hayes (unr.)
17
22
½
Anna Gavrileva (1352)
32
½
Atiba Yusuf (unr.)
18
27
1 X
James Mourgelas (1255)
23
0 F
Christopher Kuchma (1349)
19
11
1
George Supol (1413)
33
0
Neil Goel (1231)
Results for Round 5: U1400
Bd
#
Res
White
#
Res
Black
19
4
0
Onur Naiboglu (1213)
3
1
Robert Joy (1275)
20
15
0
Paul Kemp (1100)
10
1
Sivaram Maneharan (1157)
21
30
0
Joshua Bakradze ( 883)
11
1
Ivan Moshe (1140)
22
2
1
Nicolas Bonnard (1278)
16
0
Benjamin Kamnitzer (1070)
23
21
1
Zeyu Liu (1047)
50
0
Joseph Votto (unr.)
24
1
0
Daniel Rokhvarger (1336)
33
1
John Zabbal ( 820)
25
12
0
Richard Kang (1138)
45
1
Jeremiah Cashore (unr.)
26
20
½
Abdullah Caglayon (1050)
34
½
Glen Newbury ( 762)
27
47
1
Philip Melnik (unr.)
31
0
Tsing Yee [Tina] Hui ( 874)
28
32
0
Gabriel Saimovici (863)
48
1
Alan Peng (unr.)
30
26
1
Andre Pereira ( 972)
43
0
Ziya Musayev ( 362)
31
42
0
Alex Rooznon ( 420)
8
1
Adam Comer (1162)
32
36
0
Peter Grucza ( 687)
37
1
Larry Zhou Chen ( 665)
34
49
1
Samantha Tajik (unr.)
28
0
George Flagg ( 909)
35
9
1
Alex Geddie (1158)
51
0
Luc Leclair ( 382)
36
41
1
Evan Nearing ( 515)
27
0
Anoush Avakian ( 966)
37
35
1
Preston Rehdner ( 707)
53
0
Demir Genkin (unr.)
And the final standings of the tournament are below.
ACC held its final meeting of the club for 2022 yesterday, at which round two of our current tournament was contested.
We’re taking a few weeks off for the holidays, and will return on January 9, 2023. We wish you all a safe and happy holiday, and all the best for 2023.
