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2013 Toronto Women’s and Junior Championships

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Annex Chess Club is proud to present the 2013 Toronto Women’s Chess Championship and 2013 Toronto Junior Chess Championship.

Officially sanctioned by the GTCL, these are “closed championships”; only the top eight (by CFC rating) eligible players who apply will be able to participate.

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The Toronto Junior Championship consists of the top 8 CFC-rated Greater Toronto Area junior chess players who apply (born 1994 or after)

Preregistered: Daniel Zotkin, Zehn Nasir, Alexandre Michelashvili

The Toronto Women’s Championship consists of the top 8 CFC-rated Greater Toronto Area female chess players who apply (of any age)

Preregistered: Jiaxin Liu, Rebecca Giblon

Here are the details:

Chief Arbiter: Alex Ferreira
Deputy Arbiter: Tyler Longo
8-player Round Robin, FIDE-rated
Rounds: Monday nights at 918 Bathurst at 7:30 pm
Time control: game/90′ +30″/move
October 21 to December 2 (make-up Dec 9)
$60 entry fee ($10 off for ACC members)
Prizes: $200/$100/$60
Tie-breaks (head-to-head, and then Sonneborn-Berger) will be used to determine the official champion, but will not affect prizes

email info@annexchessclub.com for advance registration or more information

deadline for registration is Sunday October 13, as pairing numbers will be drawn at the Toronto Thanksgiving Open

Grab flyers, below:

2013 Toronto Womens and Junior Chess Championship flyers

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2012 Toronto Junior

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2012 Toronto Junior Chess Championship

Sanctioned by the GTCL, which represents Greater Toronto in the Ontario Chess Association, this is an eight-player round-robin tournament, featuring the top eight Toronto junior players (born 1993 or later) who applied. It will be played on Monday nights at Annex Chess Club, 918 Bathurst, from October 15 to December 3.

# Name CFC rating FIDE rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 total
1 Zhang, John 1973 × ½ 1 F 0 0 0 1 0 2.5
2 Zotkin, Daniel 1865 1775 ½ × ½ ½ 0 0 1 ½ 3.0
3 Renteria, Alejandro 1364 1693 0 F ½ × 0 0 0 0 0 0.5
4 Nasir, Zehn 1915 1870 1 ½ 1 × 0 1 1 1 5.5
5 Ivanov, Mike 2270 2050 1 1 1 1 × 1 F 1 0 6.0
6 Florea, Alexandru 2179 2013 1 1 1 0 0 F × 1 0 4.0
7 D’Souza, Justin Quinn 1517 0 0 1 0 0 0 × 0 1.0
8 Plotkin, Mark 2092 1916 1 ½ 1 0 1 1 1 × 5.5
Mark Plotkin
Mike Ivanov
 Justin Quinn D’Souza
Zehn Nasir
John Zhang
Alex Florea
Daniel Zotkin
Alejandro Renteria

Mike Ivanov wins the tournament! Mike won clear first with a 6.0/7 record. Congratulations, Mike, you are the 2012 Toronto Junior Chess Champion!

Rd 1 (Oct 15): 1-8, 2-7, 3-6, 4-5.
Rd 2 (Oct 22): 8-5, 6-4, 7-3, 1-2.
Rd 3 (Oct 29): 2-8, 3-1, 4-7, 5-6.
Rd 4 (Nov 5): 8-6, 7-5, 1-4, 2-3.
Rd 5 (Nov 19): 3-8, 4-2, 5-1, 6-7.
Rd 6 (Nov 26): 8-7, 1-6, 2-5, 3-4.
Rd 7 (Dec 3): 4-8, 5-3, 6-2, 7-1.

The Toronto Women’s and Junior Championships closing ceremony will take place at Hart House during Winter Open – on Saturday, January 5, just before round 3 – at 3:50 pm.
All Toronto Women’s and Junior Championships participants will get book prizes donated by our perennial sponsor – Mr. J. Ken MacDonald.

Results

2011 Toronto Championship Results

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2011 Toronto Women’s Championship

2011 Toronto Junior Championship

GTCL

These annual championships are sanctioned by the Greater Toronto Chess League, and proudly hosted this year by Annex Chess Club.

Schedule

Rounds are scheduled on Monday nights, 7:30 to 10:30 pm, October 17 to November 28.

Tournament details

Check tournament details on the registration page.

Toronto Senior Championship

The Toronto Senior Championship ran concurrently at Willowdale CC on Tuesday nights.
The winner was Sai Vergara, with a perfect 9.0/9 score. Check complete results.

2011 Toronto Women’s Championship

round 1 | round 2 | round 3 | round 4 | round 5 | round 6 | round 7
winner: Liza Orlova

Liza Orlova (1st)
# Name rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 total
1 WCM Liza Orlova 2015 × ½ 1 1 1 1 1 5.5
2 Dalia Kagramanov 1931 ½ × 1 ½ 1 1 1 5.0
3 Manuela Renteria 1750 0 0 × 0 0 1 1 2.0
4 Zhanna Sametova 1623 0 ½ 1 × 0 ½ 1 3.0
5 WCM Jiaxin Liu 1538 0 0 1 1 × 1 ½ 3.5
6 Shabnam Abbarin 1288 0 0 0 ½ 0 × 1 1.5
7 Jennifer Ugodnikov 1161 0 0 0 0 ½ 0 × 0.5

Round 1 (October 17):

# White result Black result note
1 Jiaxin Liu 0 Liza Orlova 1
2 Dalia Kagramanov 1 Jennifer Ugodnikov 0
3 Manuela Renteria 1 Shabnam Abbarin 0
Zhanna Sametova BYE

Round 2 (October 24):

# White result Black result note
1 Jennifer Ugodnikov 0 Manuela Renteria 1
2 Liza Orlova ½ Dalia Kagramanov ½
3 Zhanna Sametova 0 Jiaxin Liu 1
Shabnam Abbarin BYE

Round 3 (October 31):

# White result Black result note
1 Dalia Kagramanov ½ Zhanna Sametova ½
2 Manuela Renteria 0 Liza Orlova 1 played Nov 28
3 Shabnam Abbarin 1 Jennifer Ugodnikov 0
Jiaxin Liu BYE

Round 4 (November 7):

# White result Black result note
1 Liza Orlova 1 Shabnam Abbarin 0
2 Zhanna Sametova 1 Manuela Renteria 0
3 Jiaxin Liu 0 Dalia Kagramanov 1
Jennifer Ugodnikov BYE

Round 5 (November 14):

# White result Black result note
1 Manuela Renteria 0 Jiaxin Liu 1
2 Shabnam Abbarin ½ Zhanna Sametova ½ played Dec 5
3 Jennifer Ugodnikov 0 Liza Orlova 1 played Dec 12
Dalia Kagramanov BYE

Round 6 (November 21):

# White result Black result note
1 Zhanna Sametova 1 Jennifer Ugodnikov 0
2 Jiaxin Liu 1 Shabnam Abbarin 0
3 Dalia Kagramanov 1 Manuela Renteria 0
Liza Orlova* BYE *WYCC

Round 7 (November 28):

# White result Black result note
1 Shabnam Abbarin 0 Dalia Kagramanov 1
2 Jennifer Ugodnikov ½ Jiaxin Liu ½
3 Liza Orlova 1 Zhanna Sametova 0 played Nov 14
Manuela Renteria BYE

2011 Toronto Junior Championship

round 1 | round 2 | round 3 | round 4 | round 5 | round 6 | round 7
winner: Michael Song (on tie-break over David Itkin)

L-R: David Itkin (2nd), Mike Ivanov (3rd), Michael Song (1st)
# Name rating 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 total
1 Mike Ivanov 2178 × 0 0 ½ 1 1 1 1 4.5
2 David Itkin 2156 1 × 0 ½ 1 1 1 1 5.5
3 Michael Song 2119 1 1 × ½ 0 1 1 1 5.5
4 Alexandru Florea 2067 ½ ½ ½ × 1 0 ½ ½ 3.5
5 Joseph Bellissimo 1884 0 0 1 0 × 1 0 0 2.0
6 Zehn Nasir 1861 0 0 0 1 0 × ½ ½ 2.0
7 Pi Nasir 1802 0 0 0 ½ 1 ½ × ½ 2.5
8 Daniel Zotkin 1673 0 0 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ × 2.5

Round 1 (October 17):

# White result Black result note
1 David Itkin 1 Daniel Zotkin 0
2 Mike Ivanov 0 Michael Song 1
3 Pi Nasir ½ Zehn Nasir ½
4 Joseph Bellissimo 0 Alexandru Florea 1 played Nov 26

Round 2 (October 24):

# White result Black result note
1 Daniel Zotkin ½ Alexandru Florea ½
2 Zehn Nasir 0 Joseph Bellissimo 1
3 Michael Song 1 Pi Nasir 0
4 David Itkin 1 Mike Ivanov 0

Round 3 (October 31):

# White result Black result note
1 Mike Ivanov 1 Daniel Zotkin 0 played in advance
2 Pi Nasir 0 David Itkin 1
3 Joseph Bellissimo 1 Michael Song 0 played at SCC Nov 3
4 Alexandru Florea 0 Zehn Nasir 1

Round 4 (November 7):

# White result Black result note
1 Daniel Zotkin ½ Zehn Nasir ½
2 Michael Song ½ Alexandru Florea ½
3 David Itkin 1 Joseph Bellissimo 0
4 Mike Ivanov 1 Pi Nasir 0 played Nov 29

Round 5 (November 14):

# White result Black result note
1 Pi Nasir ½ Daniel Zotkin ½
2 Joseph Bellissimo 0 Mike Ivanov 1
3 Alexandru Florea ½ David Itkin ½
4 Zehn Nasir 0 Michael Song 1

Round 6 (November 21):

# White result Black result note
1 Daniel Zotkin 0 Michael Song* 1 *WYCC/played Dec 5
2 David Itkin 1 Zehn Nasir 0
3 Mike Ivanov* ½ Alexandru Florea ½ *WYCC/played Dec 5
4 Pi Nasir 1 Joseph Bellissimo 0

Round 7 (November 28):

# White result Black result note
1 Joseph Bellissimo 0 Daniel Zotkin 1
2 Alexandru Florea ½ Pi Nasir ½
3 Zehn Nasir 0 Mike Ivanov 1
4 Michael Song* 1 David Itkin 0 *WYCC/played Dec 10

2011 Toronto Junior Reserve Section

round 1 | round 2 | round 3 | round 4 | round 5 | round 6
winner: Hayk Oganesyan

# Name rating 1 2 3 4 total
1 Hayk Oganesyan 1475 ×× 11 ½½ 11 5.0
2 Alejandro Renteria 1433 00 ×× 01 11 3.0
3 Eric Wang 1366 ½½ 01 ×× 11 4.0
4 Alan He 1016 00 00 00 ×× 0.0

Round 1 (October 17):

# White result Black result note
1 Hayk Oganesyan ½ Eric Wang ½ played Nov 28
2 Alan He 0 Alejandro Renteria 1

Round 2 (October 24):

# White result Black result note
1 Eric Wang 0 Alejandro Renteria 1
2 Hayk Oganesyan 1 Alan He 0

Round 3 (October 31):

# White result Black result note
1 Alan He 0 Eric Wang 1
2 Alejandro Renteria 0 Hayk Oganesyan 1 played Dec 5

Round 4 (November 7):

# White result Black result note
1 Eric Wang ½ Hayk Oganesyan ½
2 Alejandro Renteria 1 Alan He 0

Round 5 (Novmber 14):

# White result Black result note
1 Alejandro Renteria 0 Eric Wang 1
2 Alan He 0 Hayk Oganesyan 1

Round 6 (November 21):

# White result Black result note
1 Eric Wang 1 Alan He 0
2 Hayk Oganesyan 1 Alejandro Renteria 0
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Fall Events at ACC

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Labour Day Open

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.

Upcoming Events…

Thanksgiving weekend tournaments

ACC First Anniversary Swiss

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:

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Toronto Championships at ACC

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Toronto Women’s and Toronto Junior at ACC this fall

These events are sanctioned by the Greater Toronto Chess League (GTCL). Both events will be CFC- and FIDE-rated.

The tournaments started Monday October 17 – Check results and pairings.

2011 Toronto Women’s Chess Championship

2011 Toronto Junior Chess Championship

Monday October 17 to Monday November 28

Organized by:

  • Annex Chess Club

Tournament director:

  • Hugh Siddeley

Location:

  • 918 Bathurst Street, Toronto, ON, M5R 3G5

Format:

  • 6-player round robin

Schedule:

  • Round 1 – Monday October 17 @ 7:30 pm
    Round 2 – Monday October 24 @ 7:30 pm
    Round 3 – Monday October 31 @ 7:30 pm
    Round 4 – Monday November 7 @ 7:30 pm
    Round 5 – Monday November 14 @ 7:30 pm
    Round 6 – Monday November 21 @ 7:30 pm
    Round 7 – Monday November 28 @ 7:30 pm

Time Control:

  • game/90 minutes; 30-s increment from move 1

CFC/FIDE:

  • All players must be up-to-date CFC members. The tournament will also be FIDE rated.

Prizes:

  • First place: $200 and trophy
    Second place: $100
    Third place: $60
    Reserve section: 75% of entry fees

Entry Fee:

  • $60 ($10 discount for ACC members)

Advance Registration:

  • Late entries may be accepted at Annex Chess Club on October 17

Pre-registered List (Toronto Women’s):

# Title Name CFC# Expiry CFC Rating FIDE# FIDE Rating Notes
1 WCM Liza Orlova 138247 OK 1994 2601826 1931 at WYCC, Nov 17-27
3 Dalia Kagramanov 127820 expired 1931 2604728 1868
# Manuela Renteria 152627 OK 1750 4406168 1916
2 Zhanna Sametova 145911 OK 1623 2613336 0
# WCM Jiaxin Liu 149747 OK 1502 2611872 0
# Shabnam Abbarin 151181 OK 1288 — 0
# Jennifer Ugodnikov 151196 OK 1161 — 0
# title name cfc# expiry rating fide# rating notes

Pre-registered List (Toronto Junior):

# Title Name CFC# Expiry CFC Rating FIDE# FIDE Rating Notes
6 Mike Ivanov 140557 OK 2178 2613158 1977
5 David Itkin 140216 OK 2156 2611813 2031
# Michael Song 144236 exp Nov 1 2120 2613190 2036 at WYCC, Nov 17-27
3 Alexandru Florea 138594 OK 2067 2608375 1991
# Joseph Bellissimo 147544 OK 1884 2609843 1813
# Zehn Nasir 148198 OK 1861 2613239 0
# Pi Nasir 148197 OK 1802 2615886 0
7 Daniel Zotkin 146857 OK 1673 2615339 0
# title name cfc# expiry rating fide# rating notes

Pre-registered List (Toronto Junior Reserve):

# Title Name CFC# Expiry CFC Rating Notes
1 Hayk Oganesyan 152587 renewed 1475
Alejandro Renteria 152628 OK 1433
4 Eric Wang 149398 OK 1366
2 Alan Yulun He 141522 expired 1016
# title name cfc# expiry rating notes