2018 Canadian Junior: Results

Submitted by John Upper on Tue, 08/14/2018 - 14:27

The Canadian Junior Chess Championship ran August 8-12, 2018 at Humber College, Toronto.

It featured four sections:

a 10-player invitiational RR, where the top male and female win the right to represent Canada at the World Junior in Turkey (Sept 4-16), and get $1500 for travel,
Open Swiss (25 players, 9-round swiss),
U1800 (40 players, 9-round swiss),
U1300 (70 players, 6-round swiss).

Winners:
FM Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux won the Invitational after a 4-game rapid and blitz playoff over FM Mark Plotkin; both finished with 7/9.
Sherry Tian was top girl with 3.5/9.

Open:
Jeffrey Xu lost his first game, but scored 7.5/8 to win the Open section. Harry Zhou lost to Jeffrey, but scored 6.5/8 in his other games to finish clear second.

U1800:
Mao Fengxi and Ahmed Syed Ibrahim tied for 1st with 7/9, and Ibrahim winning the rapid playoff 1.5/2. Michelle Hua was top girl with 5.5/9.

U1300:
Harry Xue won with 5.5/6. Ethan Lin and Alina Chen tied for second with 5/6, with Alina finishing as top girl.

Congratiulations to the winners, and thanks to the organizers: Mikhail Egorov and Gary Hua.

Invitational Section final Crosstable (via chess-results.com)

Rk.	Title	Name	Rtg	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Pts.
1	FM	Rodrigue-Lemieux Shawn	2352	*	0	½	1	1	1	½	1	1	1	7
2	FM	Plotkin Mark	2332	1	*	1	½	½	½	½	1	1	1	7
3	FM	Vettese Nicholas	2329	½	0	*	1	0	1	1	1	1	1	6.5
4	CM	Liang Hairan	2286	0	½	0	*	1	1	1	1	1	1	6.5
5	FM	Hua Eugene	2446	0	½	1	0	*	1	½	1	1	1	6
6		Nasir Zehn	2306	0	½	0	0	0	*	½	1	1	1	4
7		Tian Shi Yuan (sherry)	2028	½	½	0	0	½	½	*	0	½	1	3.5
8		Zhu Brandon	2149	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	*	½	1	2.5
9	WFM	Qiao Cindy	2016	0	0	0	0	0	0	½	½	*	1	2
10	WFM	Wang Constance	2044	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	*	0