July 2016 Tournament Results

photo: Boards 1-2, Rd.5 Quebec Open. 
left to right: GM Bator Sambuev, Lizandro Fernan Lopez Linarez, FM Valerian Hirschberg,  GM Alexandre Le Siege.
photo by: John Upper 

World Youth U16 Chess Olympiad 2016
July 22- 29, 2016.
Poprad–Tatry, Slovakia.

 A 9-round swiss with 54 teams from around the world. Top seed Iran won with 17/18, beating second and third place teams from Russia and Armenia and only conceding one draw against Austria... and that was when Iran forfeited on board 4!

Canada finished =17-22 with 10/18, losing 3:1 to 4th place India in the last round.

Canadian Team    (captain: GM Gergely Szabo)
player/score/TPR 

Richard Chen     3/8        2161
Joseph Bellissimo   4.5/8     2187
Sam Song      5.5/8     2251
Rohan Talukdar     4/7        2153
Maili-Jade Ouellet    1.5/5              1755

Canadian Results
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr229224.aspx?lan=1&art=8&fedb=MAC&turdet=YES&flag=30&wi=984&snr=26

Championnat Ouvert du Québec
23-29 juillet 2016.
College Ahuntsic, Montreal. 8 round Swiss.

A total of 209 players competed across the 5 sections of the 2016 Quebec Open.

The Open section was headed by three Quebec GMs: Bator Sambuev, Alexandre Le Siege, and Thomas Roussel-Roozmon. GM Le Siege won his first seven games -- including wins over Sambuev in round 5 and Roussel-Roozmon in round 6 -- before clinching with a draw against Steve Bolduc in the final round. Sambuev was clear second with 7/8, followed by Roussel-Roozmon and Bolduc with 6/8.

Section Winners
U2000 Mikhail Ivakhin with 7.5/8.
U1700 Jean-Philippe Robillard with 7/8.
U1400 Skyler Dawson with 7.5/8.
U1200 Chu Hang Zhang 6.5/8

Open Results
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr231169.aspx?lan=1&art=4&flag=30&wi=821

Photos (Chess Canada facebook page)
https://www.facebook.com/ChessCanada/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1051796604905609

PanAmerican Youth Festival
July 25-31, 2016.
Montevideo, Uruguay.

9 round swiss in U8-18 for boys and girls.

Three Canadians played: Joey Ciao (U12g), Cindy Qiao (U14g), and Hong Rui Zhu (U18).

Joey Ciao (U12g) finished =15th with 4/9.
Cindy Qiao (U14g) was on board 2 in the last round, 1/2 a point behind the leaders, but lost, finishing =7th with 5.5/9.
Hong Rui Zhu (U18) was seeded 5th, and spent the entire tournament on the top boards. In the last round he was 1/2 point out of first, but lost to the tournament winner to finish with 6/9 (+4 =4 -1), good for =4th and +24 FIDE rating points.

Homepage
http://fuajedrez.org/panamericano2016

Canadian Results
http://chess-results.com/tnr231741.aspx?lan=1&art=25&fedb=CAN&fed=CAN&turdet=YES&flag=30&wi=984

2016 Calgary International
July 27, 2016 - August 1, 2016 

IM Razvan Preotu won the 9th Calgary International.
He scored 7/9 to finish 1/2 a point ahead of GMs Kayden Troff and Gata Kamsky (both USA), and Gil Popilski (ISR).

This is the first time a Canadian has won the Calgary International outright. In 2008 IM Edward Porper and GM Anton Kovalyov (then, Argentina; now Canada) tied for 1st with 6.5/9. Previous Calgary International winners include: GMs Wesley So, Victor Mikhalevski (2x), Alex Lenderman, Dmitry Gurevich, and Anton Kovalyov.

Razvan scored +6 =2 -1 against opponents with an average rating of 2423 (August FIDE list). This equates to a TPR of 2645, and should earn him about 22 FIDE rating points, which will lift him to 2491: 9 points short of the 2500 rating he needs for the GM title.

IM Raja Panjwani drew with Kamsky in round 2 and beat Cuban GM Lazaro Bruzon in round 7, which put him on route to a GM norm; but losses to Preotu in round 8 and GM Popilski in round 9 left him with 5.5/9, tied with FM Olivier Kenta Chiku-Ratte and Daniel Kazmaier as the next highest-finishing Canadians.

The 2016 Calgary International took place July 27, 2016 - August 1, 2016 at the Calgary Chess Club. It was a 9-round swiss with five GMs entered: GM Gata Kamsky (USA), GM Lazaro Bruzon (CUB), GM Kayden Troff (USA), GM Victor Mikhalevski (ISR), GM Gil Popilski (ISR).

Results
http://www.calgary-international.com/Standings.html

2016 Maritime Open
July 30 - August 1, 2016.
UPEI MacDougall Hall, PEI

6 round Swiss, guaranteed prize fund $800.

Report by Fred McKim:

Twenty-four players came out to the Maritime Open Championship in Charlottetown this past weekend.

FM Robert Hamilton (Fredericton) captured 1st place with a round to spare, scoring 5.5 out of 6. This is his 4th time as Champion, his previous title was... 30 years ago!! I don't know if he's even played more than once since then, welcome back! Robert joins three others as a four-time champion and can try for the record in Saint John at Thanksgiving, 2017. 

Tied for second were Joe Horton (Fredericton), Jason Manley (Moncton), Richard Bowes (Hampton, NB), Bill Bogle (Saint John), Roger Patterson (Victoria, BC), and Kevin Bu (Charlottetown). Kevin took home the Top U2000 prize.

 Tied for Top U1800 were Ken Cashin (Halifax), George Hensel (Fredericton), and Tony Wu (Charlottetown)

 Tied for Top U1600 were Trevor Pardy (Fredericton) and Arnab Kundu (Charlottetown)

 Tied for top U1400 were John MacLean (Halifax) and An Vo (Charlottetown) 

Our next tournament weekend in Charlottetown is Sept 24-25, with the UPEI Fall Quick Chess Tournament on Saturday and the PEI Open (G/60) on Sunday.
http://mcc.cdevastation.com/peiop16.html

Maritime Open Winners
http://mcc.cdevastation.com/hcolpitt.html