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2009 PWC TORONTO OPEN CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP

Posted January 18th, 2009 by Webmaster of GTCL

2009 PWC TORONTO OPEN CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP

APRIL 17TH to 19TH, 2009

PRESENTED BY: PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS
IN ASSOCIATION WITH: THE GREATER TORONTO CHESS LEAGUE
LOCATION: The Suites at 1 King West, Grand Banking Hall.
Financial District, Downtown Toronto. See overleaf for map.
STYLE: 5 Round Swiss System, 3 Sections (Open, < 2000, <1600), CFC rated.
TIME CONTROL: Round 1 30 moves in 90 minutes, 1 hour for remainder (SD)
Rounds 2 to 5 40 moves in 2 hours, 1 hour for remainder (SD)
SCHEDULE: Friday April 17th 7pm Sharp!
Saturday April 18th 11am and 5pm
Sunday April 19th 10am and 4pm
Sunday April 19th Awards Presentation 10:45pm
PRIZE FUND: $17,000+ Guaranteed! See overleaf for more details.
ENTRY FEE: $90 per person. All participants must be, or become, CFC members.
To enter see details overleaf.
ACCOMMODATION: Special Chess Rate of $169.00 is being offered by The Suites at 1 King West. Book early; a limited number of rooms are available at this rate.
BYES: Maximum of 2 available rounds 1-4
EQUIPMENT: Bring your own chess sets and clocks. None will be provided.
TD: Bryan Lamb 905 554-4548, 416 904-5938 bryan.lamb@rogers.com
ORGANIZER: Brian Fiedler 416 733-3199, 416 480-8801 fiedlerbrian@yahoo.com.au
WEBSITE: www.GTAchessevents.memberlodge.com or www.monroi.comn

PRIZE FUND DETAILS:

Tournament Placement Prizes* Open <2000 <1600
1st $3000 $1000 $1000
2nd $2000 $750 $750
3rd $1000 $500 $500
4th $250 $250 $250
5th $250 $250 $250
Top <2200 $500    
Top <1800   $500  
Top <1400     $500
Top Junior (<18) $250 $250 $250
Top Senior (50+) $250 $250 $250

Top Female

 $250 $250 $250

Individual Game Prizes:

Biggest Upset in Tournament (Rating Point Differential) $250
Brilliancy Prize** (For Winner) $250
Best Game ** (Opponents Share Equally) $250

Special Prizes:

Chess Trivia Contest Winner $250
Best Dressed** $250
Others TBA
*Each participant can claim only oe tournament placement prize
n**As determined by special judges

LOCATION:
THE SUITES AT 1 KING WEST
1 King Street West,
Toronto, Ontario
M5H 1A1
Telephone: 416 548-8100 or 1 866 470-5464
www.onekingwest.com
reservations@onekingwest.com (Chess Rate:10B3TP)
Just steps away from King St. TTC subway station.

Please make cheques payable to: “2009 Toronto Open Chess”

By Mail Send Entry to:
Brian Fiedler
P.O. Box 67083,
Yonge & Eglinton P.S.
2300 Yonge St.,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M4P 3C8
Or,
In Person at Strategy Games Stores:
Toronto: 701 Mt. Pleasant Road,
416-486-3395
Ottawa: 250 Bank Street, 613-565-3662
Montreal: 3423 St. Denis Street,
514-845-8352
Enter Early – Spaces are Limited! Your entry fee will be fully refunded if your plans change before April 13th. All entries must be received no later than April 13th, 2009. No entries will be accepted at the site on the day of the tournament!

Comments

List of PwC Toronto Open Prize winners

On May 17th, 2009 Erikm says:
Open 5-0 GM Bator Sambuev and GM Joshua Friedel Each won $ 2,500. Sambuev took the PwC trophy on tie-break. 4.5 FM Goran Milicevic. 4 GM Hikaru Nakamura, GM Eugene Perelshteyn, IM Leonid Gerzhoy, IM Nikolay Noritsyn, IM Artiom Samsonkin. 4 Chessn' Math Top Junior Alex Martchenko. 3.5 Top U2200 Nikita Gusev. 3 PwC Top Lady Iryna Zenyuk 2.5 RBC Dominion Securities Retirement Plan Top Senior IM Lawrence Day Under 2000 Section 4.5 Manuel Balboa, RobertBzikot, Jim Zhao 4 Yuriy Kryvoshlyk, Laurent Allard, Jeffery Nool 4 RBC Dominion Securities Retirement Plan Top Senior Randy Moysoski, Ian Finlay 3.5 Top U1800 David Gunapalan 3 PwC Top Lady Yelizaveta Orlova, Olya Chichkina 3 Chessn' Math Top Junior Aaron Wu, Brent Zhang, David Itkin Under 1600 Section 4.5 Mike Ivanov, Joey Orozco, Ferdinand Cale 4 James Fu, Misha Kurbatov 4 RBC Dominion Securities Retirement Plan Top Senior Alice Laimer 4 U1400 Tony Lin 3.5 PwC Top Lady Rebecca Giblon 3.5 Chessn' Math Top Junior Patrick Yu, Yutong Luo, Daniel Molev CN Tower Reach for the Top Biggest Upset Simon Gladstone Strategy Games Chess Trivia Contest Omar Shah, IM Hans Jung, Liam Henry, FM Shiyam Thavandiran, Keith Wight Best Dressed Prize 1st Drake Lalonde 2nd Devon Thomas - Mark's Work Wearhouse Gift Certificate 3rd Brett Gugel - Mark's Work Wearhouse Tote Bag Tournament Evaluation Lucky Draw Misha Kurbatov - CN Tower Passes RBC Dominion Securities Lucky Draw Andrei Moffat -Digital Picture RBC Dominion Securities Lucky Draw John Chidley-Hill -Keg Gift Certificate Lexus Brilliancy Prize IM Artiom Samsonkin Runner Up Alex Martchenko - CN Tower Passes Toyota Quality Award for Best Game Shabolov-Milicevic Runner ups Bindi Cheng, Felix Barrios - CN Tower Passes

Prize Winning Games from the Toronto Open

On May 17th, 2009 Erikm says:
[Event "2009 PWC Toronto Open"] [Site "Toronto"] [Date "2009.04.19"] [Round "4"] [White "Samsonkin, Artiom"] [Black "Nakamura, Hikaru"] [Result "1-0"] [WhiteELO "2548"] [WhiteTitle "IM"] [BlackELO "2757"] [BlackTitle "GM"] [Source "MonRoi"] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.Nc3 a6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 Qc7 6.Bd3 Be7 7.O-O Nf6 8.a4 b6 9.Qe2 d6 10.f4 Bb7 11.Bd2 Nbd7 12.Rae1 Nc5 13.b4 Nxd3 14.cxd3 Nd7 15.Rc1 Qd8 16.f5 e5 17.Ne6 fxe6 18.Qh5 g6 19.fxg6 Nf6 20.g7 Kd7 21.Qf7 Qe8 22.gxh8N Qxh8 23.Ne2 b5 24.Bg5 Qg8 25.Rxf6 Qxg5 26.Qxe6 Kd8 27.Rc7 Qe3 28.Kf1 Kxc7 29.Qxe7 Kb6 30.Qxd6 Ka7 31.Qc7 1-0 [Event "2009 PWC Toronto Open"] [Site "Toronto"] [Date "2009.04.19"] [Round "4"] [White "Shabalov, Alexander"] [Black "Milicevic, Goran"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteELO "2630"] [WhiteTitle "GM"] [BlackELO "2340"] [BlackTitle "FM"] [Source "MonRoi"] 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.c3 Nc6 5.Nf3 Qb6 6.a3 c4 7.Nbd2 Na5 8.h4 Bd7 9.h5 f5 10.exf6 gxf6 11.g3 Nh6 12.Bh3 O-O-O 13.O-O Rg8 14.Re1 e5 15.Bxd7 Rxd7 16.Nh4 e4 17.Rb1 f5 18.b4 Qf6 19.Ng2 Nc6 20.Nf1 Bd6 21.Bf4 Ng4 22.Qa4 Bxf4 23.Nxf4 b6 24.Qa6 Kb8 25.a4 Qd6 26.a5 Nxf2 27.Kxf2 Rxg3 28.Nxd5 Rf3 29.Ke2 Qxd5 30.Ne3 Nxd4 0-1 [Event "2009 PWC Toronto Open"] [Site "Toronto"] [Date "2009.04.18"] [Round "3"] [White "Whissell, Mavros"] [Black "Martchenko, Alexander"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteELO "2067"] [WhiteTitle ""] [BlackELO "2272"] [BlackTitle ""] [Source "MonRoi"] 1.e4 c5 2.Nc3 d6 3.g3 Nc6 4.Bg2 g6 5.d3 Bg7 6.Be3 Rb8 7.f4 Nd4 8.h3 b5 9.Qd2 e6 10.Nf3 Nxf3 11.Bxf3 Ne7 12.O-O O-O 13.Bg2 Qc7 14.g4 b4 15.Nd1 f5 16.Qf2 Bb7 17.c4 Nc6 18.Rb1 Nd4 19.b3 Kh8 20.Bc1 e5 21.gxf5 gxf5 22.exf5 exf4 23.Be4 Be5 24.Kh2 Rxf5 25.Bxf5 f3 26.Kh1 Nxf5 27.Bb2 Rg8 28.Bxe5 dxe5 29.Rg1 Ng3 30.Rxg3 Rxg3 0-1 [Event "2009 PWC Toronto Open"] [Site "Toronto"] [Date "2009.04.19"] [Round "4"] [White "Mackinnon, Keith"] [Black "Cheng, Bindi"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteELO "2250"] [WhiteTitle ""] [BlackELO "2376"] [BlackTitle "FM"] [Source "MonRoi"] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e6 6.Be3 a6 7.f3 b5 8.g4 h6 9.Qd2 Nbd7 10.O-O-O Bb7 11.h4 b4 12.Na4 Qa5 13.b3 Nc5 14.a3 Nxa4 15.axb4 Qc7 16.bxa4 d5 17.e5 Nd7 18.f4 Nb6 19.Bf2 Rc8 20.Rh3 Qd7 21.Rb3 Nc4 22.Bxc4 dxc4 23.Ra3 a5 24.c3 axb4 25.cxb4 c3 26.Rxc3 Bxb4 27.Rxc8 Qxc8 28.Qc2 Qa8 29.Qb3 Be7 30.Qb5 Kf8 31.f5 Bd5 32.Qd7 Ba3 33.Kb1 Kg8 34.fxe6 fxe6 35.Nxe6 Qb8 36.Qb5 Qxb5 37.axb5 Bxe6 38.Rd8 Kh7 39.Rxh8 Kxh8 40.b6 Bd5 41.Bd4 Kg8 42.Be3 Kf7 43.h5 Be7 44.Kc2 Ke6 45.Kd3 Bg5 46.Bc5 Bf4 47.Kd4 Bxe5 48.Ke3 Kf6 0-1 [Event "2009 PWC Toronto Open"] [Site "Toronto"] [Date "2009.04.19"] [Round "4"] [White "Derraugh, Geordie"] [Black "Barrios, Felix"] [Result "0-1"] [WhiteELO "2063"] [WhiteTitle ""] [BlackELO "2161"] [BlackTitle ""] [Source "MonRoi"] 1.e4 b6 2.d4 Bb7 3.Nc3 e6 4.Nf3 d6 5.Bd3 Nd7 6.O-O g6 7.Re1 Bg7 8.Bg5 Ne7 9.Qd2 O-O 10.Bh6 e5 11.Bxg7 Kxg7 12.Ne2 h6 13.dxe5 dxe5 14.Qc3 Nc6 15.Rad1 Qf6 16.Ng3 Nc5 17.Bb5 Rfd8 18.b4 Nd4 19.Nxd4 exd4 20.e5 Qh4 21.Qd2 Ne6 22.Bf1 a5 23.a3 axb4 24.axb4 Ra3 25.Ra1 Rda8 26.Rxa3 Rxa3 27.Qe2 Qf4 28.Qd1 h5 29.Bc4 h4 30.Bxe6 fxe6 31.Nf1 Qg5 32.g3 c5 33.bxc5 bxc5 34.Qe2 Qf5 35.Nd2 Rc3 36.Qb5 Bd5 37.Qe2 Rxc2 38.g4 Qf4 39.Rd1 c4 40.Qe1 0-1

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