The Greater Toronto Chess League  

2005 GRAND PRIX STANDINGS
Website Last updated: 2005.12.31      

For previous GTCL Index page from 2003 and 2004 click here


GTCL *LOTTO BONUS* WINNERS 2004 - 2005 *
Name          Amount    Score Section   Tournament  *LOTTO BONUS*

Alfonso Cheng     $150 <1600 5/5 2004 March - Tartu
Sasha Starr       $400 <2200 6/6 2004 April - Tartu
Bryan Lamb        $200 <2200 5/5 2004 May - Tartu
Francis Assaripallan Inigo $500 <2000 5/5 2004 May - Tartu
Craig Thorvardson $350 <1800 5/5 2004 May - Tartu
Aquino Inigo      $200 <1600 5/5 2004 May - Tartu
Wojtek Fulmyk     $150 <1800 6/6 2004 September - Macedonian
Michal Fulmyk     $150 <1600 6/6 2004 September - Macedonian
Poya Oftadeh      $300 <1800 5/5 2004 November - Tartu
Robert Hamilton  $1500 - OPEN 5/5 2005 March - Tartu
Joe Leung         $260 <1600 5/5 2005 March - Tartu
Frederick Austria $500 <2200 6/6 2005 September Labour Day Macedonian


2005 - A GRAND PRIX BONUS PRIZE SYSTEM
The tournament scores in all four events will be added up, 1 tournament point = 1 Grand Prix point (except for requested byes). The Grand Prix winner for each five rating sections will be the player with the most points after the Thanksgiving Open. Five percent of the entry fee goes to this prize.  Standings of 1st Event March 12-13

1.  March 12-13 - Brampton Chess Club - Organizer  and TD Barry Thorvardson  No. 1 - GTCL Grand Prix
2.  July 2-3 - Bryan Lamb - Organizer and Tournament Director No. 2 - GTCL Grand Prix PRIZE WINNERS
3.  September 3, 4 & 5 - Randy Moysoski Organizer and TD Bryan Lamb
4.  October 8, 9 & 10 - Chess'n Math Association - Larry Bevand, Tournament Director and Organizer


GTCL Grand Prix Winners 2005

Open: Jura Ochkoos, Nikolay Noritsyn, 15.5 points
U2200: Yevgeni Nahutin, Andrei Gulko, 13.5 points
U2000: Alexander Martchenko, 14.5 points
U1800: Tyler Longo, 11.5 points
U1600: Edward Phung, 14.5 points

Bravo to the players who played in all four Grand Priz weekend Swisses:
Nikolay Noritsyn, Jura Ochkoos, Yevgeni Nahutin, Alan Ang, Alexander
Martchenko,  Conrad Ho, Jordan Palmer, Arthur Calugar, Nikita Gusev, Brent
Zhang, Tyler Longo, Matthew Ramenaden, Edward Phung, Roman Sapozhnikov, and
Nathan Farrant-Diaz.


  15 players played in all four events.
  33 played in 3,
  36 played in 2,
141 only played once.
225 Total

open: 35 players, 60 entries
under 2200: 24 players, 43 entries
under 2000: 51 players, 97 entries
under 1800: 38 players, 61 entries
under 1600: 77 players, 115 entries
Total: 225 players, 376 entries

GTCL Grand Prix 2006
series will include the following tournaments:

1) March Open - March 17-19, 5 rounds
2) Toronto Open - April 15-17, 6 rounds
3) Ontario Open - May 20-22, 6 rounds
4) Canada Day Open - June 30-July 2, 5 rounds
5) Labour Day Open - September 2-4, 6 rounds
6) Thanksgiving Open - October 7-9, 6 rounds
7) Holidays Open - December 26-30, 6 rounds

Erik Malmsten - GTCL Grand Prix Coordinator


FINAL Standings Last updated: 2005.10.17
A player is placed in the lowest section they have played in. "u" means they played in a higher section. The rating is their pre-tournament rating for the first event they played in.

OPEN Grand Prix Standings
#  Name
ID
Rtng
March
July
September
October
Total
1 Jura Ochkoos
102669
2302
4
4
3
4.5
15.5
  Nikolay Noritsyn
132534
2355
3
4.5
4
4
15.5
3 Igor Divljan
109214
2319
3
4.5
 
7.5
  Kevin Chung
133914
1992
1
3
3.5
7.5
5 Ron Livshits
102042
2486
3
4
 
7.0
6 Shiyam Thavandiran
127431
2247
3.5
3
 
6.5
  Victor Plotkin
142063
2342
4
2.5
 
6.5
  Goran Milicevic
105291
2371
2.5
4
 
6.5
9 David [Yu] Peng
133671
2176
3
3
 
6.0
  David Southam
102535
2127
2
 
2.5
1.5
6.0
  Hazel Smith
125546
2068
2
1
3
 
6.0
12 Robert Hamilton
102629
2415
5
   
5.0
  Brian Fiedler
101805
2222
   
5
 
5.0
  Liam Henry
127769
2120
0
3
2
5.0
15 Raja Panjwani
121202
2241
2.5
2
4.5
  Leonid Gerzhoy
142916
2418
     
4.5
4.5
17 Natalia Khoudgarian
109626
2298
1.5
2.5
 
4.0
  Hugh Siddeley
120619
2050
 
4
 
4.0
19 Warrick Rolfe
111945
2186
 
3.5
 
3.5
  Christian Stevens
120171
2354
 
3.5
 
3.5
21 Ilia Bluvshtein
125934
2198
2
1
 
3.0
  Bindi Cheng
141968
2338
3
   
3.0
  David Wang
136860
2167
 
3
 
3.0
  Michael Buscar
110977
2216
 
3
 
3.0
  Keith Wight
102934
2003
 
3
 
3.0
  Roman Golts
103597
2244
 
3
 
3.0
  David Filipovich
103521
2242
     
3
3.0
28  Grant Spraggett
103110
2368
2.5
 
2.5
29 Nosrat Nozari
122103
1898
2
 
2.0
  Sammy Yao
134979
1966
 
2
 
2.0
31 Andre Zybura
107851
1914
 
1.5
 
1.5
  Candea Gheorghe
142397
2269
 
1.5
 
1.5
  Doina Brestoiu
127807
2040
1.5
 
1.5
34 Ken Le
111318
1759
 
1
 
1.0
  Nava Starr
105860
2204
 
1
 
1.0
  U2200 Grand Prix Standings
#  Name
ID
Rtng
March
July
September
October
Total
1 Andrei Gulko
127505
2079
4.5
 
4.5
4.5
13.5
  Yevgeni Nahutin
123265
2091
3
3
2.5
5
13.5
3 Federico Austria
120232
2213
2u
6
3.5
11.5
4 Alan Ang
130643
1895
1.5
2
2.5
2.5
8.5
5 Ang Meng
112053
2150
2
3
2.5
.5
8.0
  Marius Zubac
111138
2213
2u
2.5u
3.5
8.0
7 Timothy Tam
121114
1775
2.5
2.5
2.5
 
7.5
8 Steve Laughlin
108998
2023
3
2u
2
7.0
Donald Deiseach
103484
2008
1u
4
 
 
5.0
10 Digeng Du
107986
1916
4
 
4.0
  Inigo Francis Assaripallam
135189
2090
4
   
4.0
12 Nikola Anastasovski
136999
2102
 
3.5
 
3.5
  Joseph Lentini
121831
2123
 
3.5
 
3.5
14 Walter Chan
125705
1915
3
 
3.0
  Mann-Kee Li
134002
1827
3
   
3.0
  Bill Evans
103309
2036
   
3
 
3.0
  Olga Shishkina
120564
1993
   
3
 
3.0
18 Paul Becker
107968
1964
2.5
   
2.5
19 John Upper
101925
2109
1.5
   
1.5
  Athavan Mylvannan
135339
1848
1.5
   
1.5
  Wylon Wong
122512
1935
 
1.5
 
1.5
22 Geordie Derraugh
122512
1911
 
.5
 
.5
  James Hymas
107702
1955
 
.5
.5
24 Sheng-Jun Xu
110260
2077
0
 
0
U2000 Grand Prix Standings
#  Name
ID
Rtng
March
July
September
October
Total
1
Alexander Martchenko
132495
1840
1.5u
3
5
5
14.5
2 Conrad Ho
135744
1617
3
3u
4.5
1
11.5
  Jordan Palmer
127560
1911
2.5
2
4
3
11.5
Arthur Calugar
130889
2015
4
2.5
0u
4
10.5
5 Sheldon Pimentel
120959
1939
3u
4
2.5
9.5
  Alex Ferreira
127516
1811
3
3
3.5
9.5
Nikita Gusev
128168
1680
2u
2.5
3
2
9.5
Brent Zhang
137853
1502
2
1u
2.5
3
8.5
9 Morgon Mills
127517
1946
3.5
4.5u
8.0
  Arash Shahi
126825
1579
2
3
3
8.0
  Richard Marks
109180
1772
1
5
2
8.0
12  Aquino Inigo
136995
1821
2.5
1u
3.5
7.0
13 Jonathan Yu
126131
1702
4
2.5
6.5
  Matthew Lai
128368
1786
2
2
2.5
6.5
  Barry Thorvardson
101072
1960
2u
4.5
6.5
  Poya Oftadeh
126890
1599
1
2
3.5
6.5
  Dina Kagramanov
106715
1930
3
3.5u
6.5
18 Luc Chamberland
107346
1928
2.5
 
3.5
6.0
  Victor Leung
120122
1916
3.5
2.5u
6.0
  Alex Rapoport
106977
1877
3
3
6.0
  Ian Findlay
101866
1868
 
3
3
6.0
22 Klaus Schaefer
137256
1770
3
2.5
5.5
23 Brendan Fan
128589
1778
     
5
5.0
24 Mark Dutton
100317
1935
 
4.5
4.5
  Wojtek Fulmyk
130863
1892
 
4.5
4.5
26 Sam Haziprodromu
106156
1778
4
 
4.0
  Danny McGlynn
121790
1670
 
4
4.0
  Karoly Szalay
134902
1865
 
4
4.0
  Aman Hambleton
129797
1891
   
4
4.0
30 Andrew Pastor
127521
1808
 
3.5
3.5
  David Henry
105200
1852
 
3.5
3.5
  Thomas Curmyth
142296
1977
3.5
 
3.5
33 Brian Macleod
120061
1820
3
 
3.0
  Anne-Marie Charbonneau
113051
1978
 
3
3.0
  Kerry Lem
102759
1833
 
3
3.0
  Warren Dutton
106571
1865
 
3
3.0
37  Colin Archibald
103766
1599
 
2.5
2.5
  Athavan Mylvannan
135339
1807
 
2.5
2.5
  Greg Beal
101490
1841
   
2.5
2.5
  Luc Chamberland
107346
1879
   
2.5
2.5
  Angel Xia
124805
1876
   
2.5
2.5
  Pepin Manalo
112277
1845
   
2.5
2.5
43 Sergiy Orlov
122416
1891
2
 
2.0
  Victor Itkin
142274
1712
 
2
2.0
  Chris Takov
101371
1807
     
2
2.0
46 Fred Henderson
102107
1651
   
1.5
1.5
  Jaime Solis
102297
1780
   
1.5
1.5
  Richard Wing
103265
1768
   
1.5
1.5
49 Jim Cunningham
111942
1677
 
1
1.0
50 Alexandra Benggawan
120637
1835
.5
 
.5
  Pino Verde
108688
1702
   
.5
.5
U1800 Grand Prix Standings
#  Name
ID
Rtng
March
July
September
October
Total
1 Tyler Longo
135360
1639
3
3u
3.5u
 2u
11.5