GTCL Grand Prix

GTCL Grand Prix 2007

 

GTCL Grand Prix 2007 winners:

First $300 Nikolay Noritsyn:
 Nikolay Noritsyn

 

Second $200 Haonan Zhou:

Zhou Haonan

Third   $125 Richard Laporte:

Richard Laporte

Fourth $75 Alex Ferreira(no photo), Jelovac Ivko(no photo) and

Avinaash Sundar:

Avinaash Sundar

Fifth $50 Sam Arfin:

Sam Arfin

 

(The above photos provided by Erik Malmsten)

With limit of one prize winner per rating class:
1) Open (2200 and above),
2) Under 2200 (from 2000 to 2199),
3) Under 2000 (from 1800 to 1999),
4) Under 1800 (from 1600 to 1799),
5) Under 1600.

CFC Membership is required.

The GTCL Grand Prix 2007 series includes the following five tournaments:

1) March Open March 16-18, 5 rounds

2) Toronto Open April 6-8, 6 rounds

3) Canada Day Open June 30-July 1 & 2 - 6 rounds

4) Thanksgiving Open October 6-8, 6 rounds

5) Holidays Open December 26-30, 6 rounds

5% from each tournament’s prize fund will be set aside for Grand Prix fund.

The tournament scores in all five events will be added up, 1 tournament point = 1 Grand Prix point (except for requested byes= 0).

GTCL Grand Prix 2007 Final Standings

# Name

Rating

 Mar Apr July Oct Dec
Total
1 Noritsyn, Nikolay 2468  4.0 4.5 5.5 4.5 3.5 22.0
2 Zhou, Haonan 1948  3.5 4.0   4.5 3.5 15.5
3 Schleifer, Michael 2347  4.0 5.5 5.0     14.5
  Southam, David 2201  3.0 4.0   3.5 4.0 14.5
  Chidley-Hill, John W 1992  2.5 3.0 3.0 3.5 2.5 14.5
6 Samsonkin, Artem 2486      5.0 4.0 5.0 14.0
7 Laporte, Richard 1631  2.0 2.0 2.5 3.5 2.0 12.0
  Sambuev, Bator 2524        5.5 5.0 10.5
9 Sapozhnikov, Roman 2213  2.5     3.5 4.0 10.0
10 Ramenaden, Matthew 1847  2.0 2.5 2.5   2.5 9.5
11 Ferreira, Alex T. 2093  3.0 3.0 2.5     8.5
  Ivko, Jelovac 2082  3.0 3.0   2.5   8.5
  Tseluiko, Oleg 1953    4.5 4.0     8.5
  Arfin, Sam 1410      2.5 3.0 3.0 8.5
  Sundar, Avinaash 2082        4.5 4.0 8.5
16 Salomaa, Markku 1717  2.5 3.5   2.0   8.0
  Yuan, Yuanling 1998      4.0 4.0   8.0
18 Hambleton, Aman 2012        4.0 3.5 7.5
19 Rogers, John A 1376  2.0 2.5 1.0   1.5 7.0
  Posaratnanathan, Juliaan unr  1.0 2.0 1.0 3.0   7.0
  Wang, Jerry Z. S. 1590  1.0     3.0 3.0 7.0
  Posaratnanathan, Roy unr  0.5 2.0 2.0 2.5   7.0
23 Wang, Jesse B.J. 1875  3.0     3.5   6.5
  Nozari, Nosrat 1880  2.5 4.0       6.5
  Zhang, Brent 1825      3.5 3.0   6.5
  Hymas, James 1905        3.0 3.5 6.5
27 Orlova, Yelizaveta 1850  3.0       3.0 6.0
  Liu, Robert 1450  3.0       3.0 6.0
  Moran-Venegas, Mario 1764  2.0 3.0 1.0     6.0
30 Kurbatov, Misha unr  1.5   2.5   1.5 5.5
  Kleinman, Michael 1976      2.5 3.0   5.5
32 Florea, Alexandru 1739  2.5 2.5       5.0
  Inigo, Aquino 1926  2.0 3.0       5.0
  Armstrong, Robert J. 1815  2.0   3.0     5.0
  Dowling, Bruce 1798  1.0 2.5 1.5     5.0
  Kaufman, Harris 1939    2.0 3.0     5.0
37 Gladstone, Simon 1839  2.5       2.0 4.5
  Buzila, Gheorgh 1766  2.0       2.5 4.5
  Guo, Josh 2207    4.5       4.5
  Villaluz, Ernesto unr    1.5 1.0 2.0   4.5
  Yu, Melvin 1948      4.5     4.5
  Ghandi, Houshyar 1739      2.5 2.0 2.0 4.5
43 Sivasankar, Balakumar 2140  4.0         4.0
  Pancer, Jeff 1233  0.5 1.5   1.0 1.0 4.0
  Ali, Hayder unr   4.0       4.0
  Divljan, Igor 2374      4.0     4.0
  Pechenkin, Vladimir 2301      4.0     4.0
  Rapoport, Alex 2002      4.0     4.0
  Maguire, Jack 1387      3.0 1.0   4.0
  Ng, Gary 2232        4.0   4.0
  Fulmyk, Wojtek 1999        4.0   4.0
  Barron, Michael 2347          4.0 4.0
  Fielder, Brian 2223          4.0 4.0
  Bluvshtein, Ilia 2183          4.0 4.0
  Egorov, Mikhail 2181          4.0 4.0
  Zeromskis, Egis 2100          4.0 4.0
  Makaremi, Sina 1718          4.0 4.0
  Garballo, Dan 1500          4.0 4.0
59 Livshits, Ron 2405  3.5         3.5
  Longo, Tyler 1914  3.5         3.5
  Kaufman, Elliot 1335    1.5 2.0     3.5
  Miletic, Dusan 2115      3.5     3.5
  Yu, Marco 2023      3.5     3.5
  Takov, Chris 1844        3.5   3.5
  Chan, Edward 1470        3.5   3.5
  Aronov, Yuri 2278          3.5 3.5
  Laughlin, Steve 1773          3.5 3.5
  Farrant-Diaz, Nathan 1432        1.0 2.5 3.5
69 Plotkin, Victor 2305  3.0         3.0
  Rakov, Pavel 1901  3.0         3.0
  Malmsten, Erik 1871  3.0         3.0
  Douglas, Steven 1628    3.0       3.0
  Wing, Richard 1781    2.0   1.0   3.0
  Dizon, Lyndon 1965      3.0     3.0
  Villalobos, Oscar 1643      3.0     3.0
  Hutchinson, Joel 1553      3.0     3.0
  Perelman, Leon 1800        3.0   3.0
  Ang, Alan 2044          3.0 3.0
  Brestoiv, Doina 2003          3.0 3.0
  Zhao, Jim 1583          3.0 3.0
  Roe, Jim 1563         3.0 3.0
82 Trifan, Victor 1983  2.5         2.5
  MacLeod, Steven 2058    2.5       2.5
  Barrios, Felix 2190        2.5   2.5
  Ivanov, Mike 1512        2.5   2.5
  Hazisprodromu, Sam 1954          2.5 2.5
  Krasnoshery, Gary 1817          2.5 2.5
88 Irimia, Andrey 1600  2.0         2.0
  Lung, Patrick 1563  2.0         2.0
  Peristy, Luke 1344  2.0         2.0
  France, Kyle 965    2.0 0.0     2.0
  Gerzhoy, Leonid 2461    2.0       2.0
  Benson, Chris 1953      2.0     2.0
  Jackiw, Mark 1657      2.0     2.0
  Archibald, Colin B. 1582        2.0   2.0
  Gowda, Ragu 1830          2.0 2.0
97 Lung, Stephen 1614  1.5         1.5
  Souchko, Larissa 1279  1.0       0.5 1.5
  Swilley, Bryan 1568  0.0 1.5       1.5
  Wu, Kevin 1481        1.5   1.5
  Wan, Karen 1260          1.5 1.5
  Caday, Rene 1200          1.5 1.5
103 Barkman, Daniel 1547  1.0         1.0
  Kasperovich, Michael unr      1.0     1.0
  Trestianski, Saveli unr        1.0   1.0
106 Smyk, Ed unr    0.5       0.5
107 Ademi, Sami 2204    0.0       0.0
  MacIlquham, Thomas 1250        0.0   0.0
  Naderi, Farhad unr        0.0   0.0

The Greater Toronto Chess League congratulates past Grand Prix winners

In 2006 a total of 269 players participated in at least one of the seven Grand Prix tournaments. Special recognition must go out to Nikolay Noritsyn who played in all events, winning in 2006 and being a co-winner in 2005. Alexander Martchenko won a prize in both years while Matthew Ramenaden played in all events in both years and won a prize in 2006.

2006 GTCL Grand Prix Winners

Nikolay Noritsyn 29.5
John Chidley-Hill 26.0
Alexander Martchenko 21.0
David Southam 20.5
Richard Laporte 20.0
Matthew Ramenaden 19.5
Liam Henry 19.0
Alex Chan 18.0
Roman Sapozhnikov 17.0
Alex Ferreira 17.0

2005 Grand Prix Winners

Jura Ochkoos
Nikolay Noritsyn
Yevgeni Nahutin
Andrei Gulko
Alexander Martchenko
Tyler Longo
Edward Phung

2004-5 Lotto Bonus Winners

Frederick Austria
Alfonso Cheng
Michal Fulmyk
Wojtek Fulmyk
Robert Hamilton
Aquino Inigo
Francis Assaripallan Inigo
Bryan Lamb
Joe Leung
Poya Oftadeh
Sasha Starr
Craig Thorvardson

2007 THANKSGIVING OPEN

THE BAYVIEW GAMES CLUB PRESENTS:

THANKSGIVING OPEN

This is a GTC L Grand Prix 2007 event Oct 6 - 8, 2007

*****A SIX ROUND SWISS TOURNAMENT *****

TIME CONTROL: Game/120

ROUNDS: 11 AM & 4 PM daily

ENTRY FEE: $76 ($55 for prize fund + $21 administration fee).

BGC will pay $21 administration fee for all its members. Late fee on day of tournament $10 extra.

Entry payments can be made by phone using VISA or MASTERCARD

CFC RATED: CFC membership or $10 tournament fee required.

PRIZES: based on entries ($55 from every entry, 5% to go to GTCL Grand Prix fund),

class prizes awarded according to turnout in rating groups.

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Early Bird Door Prizes. Enter by Sept 29 and your name will be entered into a draw for a full entry fee rebate ($55).

This will be awarded in cash at the end of the tournament.

One or more of these prizes will be awarded and may be won in addition to any other prize you may have won.

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LOCATION: Bayview Games Club, 1681 Bayview Ave., Suite 202 MAXIMUM

PARTICIPATION: 60 Players ( register early ).All equipment provided.

Entries & Info: Vlad Dobrich (416) 722-9709 Keep informed: www.torontochess.org

2007 The Holidays Open

Merry Christmas

THE BAYVIEW GAMES CLUB PRESENTS:

THE HOLIDAYS OPEN

This is the FINAL GTCL Grand Prix 2007 event

 $750 has been in the pool of GTCL Grand Prix 2007, Click here to see the details

 December 26, 27, 28, 29 & 30

***** A SIX ROUND SWISS TOURNAMENT*****
TIME CONTROL: GAME in 120 minutes

 Two games on Wednesday, Dec. 26 at 11am  & 4:30 pm

then one game per day Dec 27 thru 30 starting at 6:30 pm.

ENTRY FEE:  $90 (cash  /or cheques received by Dec 24)

The first ten entries will get a $10 discount on their entry fees

Late Fee: on day of tournament  $10 extra.

 Send entries payable to Vlad Dobrich, 717b Hillsdale Av East, Toronto M4S 1V4

PRIZES: $65 per entry entry fee ($5 to go to GTCL Grand Prix fund),
class prizes awarded according to turnout in rating groups. Based on 80 entries, First Prize will be guaranteed at $1,000!

Note: In order to acquire this excellent venue (2500 sq feet) we are assessed a $200 per day rental, hence the increased entry fees.

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EARLY BIRD door prizes.  Enter by December 17 and your name will be entered into a draw for full entry fee rebate ( $90 ) . This will be awarded in cash at the end of the tournament.  One or more of these prizes will be awarded and may be won in addition to any other prizes you may have won.

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Location: , 1669 Bayview Av.  (4 doors south of Strategy Games store)

chess sets provided - we may need more clocks, so bring if you have one.

CFC Rated: Non-members of CFC must join or pay $10 tournament fee.
Only CFC members will be eligible for Grand Prix prizes.

MAXIMUM PARTICIPATION: 80 PLAYERS ---Register early!

This site will be available for future events, IF this one is a success (60 plus entries) - please help make it happen!

Keep abreast of advance entries and other tournament information on the GTCL web site: www.torontochess.org

INFORMATION: Vlad Dobrich (416) 722-9709