15th Annual Grand Pacific Open

Victoria, Easter 2022

Well, another year under the belt with over the board chess slowly coming back to ...well.. almost normal. As with our other OTB tournaments in the last few months, attendance has been huge driven by a host of new players. Early indications were for well over 200 players to which we frantically arranged extra equipment and space. Registrations did slow down at the end but we still reached a record 184 participants with players from BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Quebec, and Washington despite the uncertainties with travel and the COVID pandemic. Owing to the pandemic, some of our usual side events were cancelled and it proved to be too difficult to bring in marquee players.

Notwithstanding the overall attendance, the Premier section was a bit smaller than usual. As with our other recent tournaments, the stronger players haven't fully come back to the board yet. Still, the section was highly competitive with a decided lack of draws among the top players. The final round even featured one of the old time classical gambits in the two knights variation on board 1. All of the favourites got taken out by somebody or the other at some point leading to a 5 way tie for first going into the final round. When the dust settled after the last round, we had a 3 way tie at 5points between Amirsalar Javidfard from Quebec, Neil Doknjas, and FM John Doknjas. Armirsalar had the tougher event and was himself responsible for taking out Team Doknjas resulting in his win on tiebreak, taking the trophy and becoming the 2022 Grand Pacific Open champion. Neil has some other compensation though - it seems likely that he has gotten his last norm for the NM title. The rest of the field was a point back from this.

The champion; Amirsalar Javidfard.

2nd photo: The winners: Paul Leblanc (organizer) John Doknjas, Neil Doknjas, Amidrsalar Javidfard, Elliott Raymer (TD)

A strong performance was also put in by the Top Woman winner, Erin Bian of Washington. Despite finishing with a 50% score she likely finished with a 2150 or so performance rating, well above her pre-tournament rating, taking out FM Dale Haessel along the way.

Although some of our side events got cancelled due to COVID, the ever popular Midnight Blitz was held. Free entry to one and all with a $200 prize fund. 65 players took part with Team Doknjas both winning 5-0. You can find the crosstable and prizes here:

Many thanks to all of our Sponsors , volunteers and our TDs.

Games file (PGN): Note: some games missing due to a computer hiccup....

Prize Winners $7000 plus Guaranteed Prize Fund

(apologies to any misidentified in the photos...)

Premier

1st-3rd: Amirsalar Javid (trophy), Neil Doknjas (BC Closed qualifying spot), FM John Doknjas: $667 each.

4th-5th: Andrew Hempstapat, FM Dale Haessel $125 each

U2100: Leo Lin (Trophy), Tristan Taylor, NM Roger Patterson

Top Woman: Erin Bian, Kate Jiang; $325 each.

NM Roger Patterson, Leo Lin; Erin BIan

U2000:

1st: Zachary Liu (trophy) $400

2nd-3rd, top U1800: Peter Qiu (trophy), Aiden Leong, Andrew Qiu; $242 each

U1800

2nd: Akki Mackay; $150

3rd: Chuyang Gu; $75

Top Woman: Gillian Mok; $175

Zachary Liu; Andrew Qiu, Peter Qiu, Aiden Leong; Nigel Hanrahan (Asst. TD) Akki Mackay

U1700:

1st: Timur Zaruev (trophy) $200

Top Unrated: Tao Xie $100

2nd: Tyler Sanderson (+U1400 trophy) $150

3rd-6th: Trevor Yonkman, Tyler Cruz, Peter Mingrone $19 each

U1400: Stephen Drake, Scott Gray, Peter Cheng; $100 each

Top Woman

1st: Ingrid Del Prado $100

2nd: Zoe Francis $75

3rd: April Wang $75

Tyler Sanderson; Trevor Yonkman, Scott Gray

U1100

1st: Max Qian (trophy) $125

2nd: Oscar Wu (U900 trophy) $100

3rd-6th: Finn Nakayama, Julian Tang, Robert Senatorov (U900 trophy); $25 each

Top Woman:

1st-2nd: Ivory Daffurn, YiChen Sun; $50 each

3rd: Irena Datcu-Romano $25

Top Upset: Scott Kouri (591 points) $50

Max Qian, Oscar Wu, Robert Senatorov, Zoe Francis

Organizers: Victoria Chess (Brian Raymer, Paul Leblanc, Roger Patterson)

TDs: Head TD: Elliot Raymer NA; Asst. TD: Nigel Hanrahan NA

Final Standings:

Premier

#	Name	Rating	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Rd 6	Total	Prize	Award(s)
1	Amirsalar Javidfard	2197	W24	W15	W3	W2	L6	W5	5.0	1st-3rd	Trophy + $667
2	Neil Doknjas	2241	W20	W7	W13	L1	W4	W12	5.0	1st-3rd	$667 + qual. spot for BC Closed
3	FM John Doknjas	2314	W32	W16	L1	W4	W7	W6	5.0	1st-3rd	$667
4	Leo Lin	2083	W22	W5	W12	L3	L2	W14	4.0	U2100 1st-3rd	$325
5	Andrew Hemstapat	2245	W23	L4	W9	W17	W8	L1	4.0	4th-5th	$125
6	FM Dale Haessel	2238	W25	L13	W22	W18	W1	L3	4.0	4th-5th	$125
7	Tristan Taylor	1999	W31	L2	W19	W10	L3	W15	4.0	U2100 1st-3rd	$325
8	NM Roger Patterson	2056	L14	W11	W28	W15	L5	W13	4.0	U2100 1st-3rd	$325
9	Patrick Angelo Tolentino	2204	W11	D14	L5	W24	D13	D10	3.5
10	Andrew Xu	1810	D26	D19	W21	L7	W17	D9	3.5
11	Jerry Wang	1882	L9	L8	D30	W31	W22	W21	3.5
12	Patrick Huang	2240	W21	W18	L4	D13	D16	L2	3.0
13	Erin Bian	1938	W29	W6	L2	D12	D9	L8	3.0	Top Women 1st-2nd	$325
14	Geraldo Barbosa Landre	1810	W8	D9	D17	L16	W18	L4	3.0
15	Stephen Forde	1805	W30	L1	W31	L8	W25	L7	3.0
16	Sloan Christopher Setiadikurnia	2113	W28	L3	D24	W14	D12	U---	3.0
17	Bhavik Dave	1981	D19	W26	D14	L5	L10	W25	3.0
18	Kate Jiang	1964	W27	L12	W25	L6	L14	W24	3.0	Top Women 1st-2nd	$325
19	Ron Offengenden	1749	D17	D10	L7	D30	D20	W26	3.0
20	Jingyun [Ryan] Yang	1930	L2	D31	D26	D28	D19	W27	3.0
21	Hernan Javier Ledezma Panades	1920	L12	W27	L10	D29	W28	L11	2.5
22	Isaac Trenton	1833	L4	W23	L6	D26	L11	W30	2.5
23	Ethan Su	1930	L5	L22	W27	L25	D30	W32	2.5
24	Ashton Taylor	1875	L1	W30	D16	L9	D26	L18	2.0
25	Craig Bacon	1887	L6	W32	L18	W23	L15	L17	2.0
26	Nathan Ping-Ying Wu	2054	D10	L17	D20	D22	D24	L19	2.0
27	Houshyar Ghandi	1720	L18	L21	L23	W32	W31	L20	2.0
28	Charles Wu	1855	L16	W29	L8	D20	L21	U---	1.5
29	Logan McLeod	1954	L13	L28	W32	D21	U---	U---	1.5
30	Michael A. Murray	2031	L15	L24	D11	D19	D23	L22	1.5
31	Yauheni Basko	1804	L7	D20	L15	L11	L27	B---	1.5
32	Ivan Chepelev	unr.	L3	L25	L29	L27	B---	L23	1.0

U2000

#	Name	Rating	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Rd 6	Total	Prize	Award(s)
1	Zachary Liu	1770	W20	W13	W6	D11	W5	D3	5.0	1st	Trophy + $400
2	Peter Yong Qiu	1633	W22	W10	D5	L7	W9	W6	4.5	2nd, 3rd, U1800 1st	Trophy + $242
3	Aiden Leong	1775	L27	W21	W28	W17	W11	D1	4.5	2nd, 3rd, U1800 1st	$242
4	Andrew Yu Qiu	1792	D26	D19	D27	W23	W16	W12	4.5	2nd, 3rd,	$242
5	Henry Yang	1800	W8	W28	D2	W18	L1	D7	4.0
6	Ryan Leong	1890	W25	W27	L1	W12	W7	L2	4.0
7	Alex Jiale Wang	1871	D11	W23	W16	W2	L6	D5	4.0
8	Akki Mackay	1697	L5	D14	W22	D24	W13	W11	4.0	U1800 2nd	$150
9	Chuyang Gu	1785	D23	H---	W19	H---	L2	W18	3.5	U1800 3rd	$75
10	Leo Qu	1887	W15	L2	L12	D28	W17	W20	3.5
11	Eric Jiang	1704	D7	W24	W13	D1	L3	L8	3.0
12	Jofrel Landingin	1748	L17	W29	W10	L6	W14	L4	3.0
13	Saul Magnusson	1915	W14	L1	L11	W26	L8	W16	3.0
14	Jonathan Moore	1748	L13	D8	D20	W15	L12	W25	3.0
15	David Crook	1710	L10	D22	D21	L14	W29	W23	3.0
16	H. G. Pitre	1865	W29	D17	L7	W27	L4	L13	2.5
17	Raymond Tangning Zhang	1474	W12	D16	D18	L3	L10	D21	2.5
18	Jason Williamson	1895	D19	W26	D17	L5	D20	L9	2.5
19	Philip Allan	1723	D18	D4	L9	D21	W27	U---	2.5
20	Kaiqi Qin	1652	L1	D25	D14	W22	D18	L10	2.5
21	Joshua Imoo	1624	D24	L3	D15	D19	D25	D17	2.5
22	Lucian Wu	1765	L2	D15	L8	L20	W26	W27	2.5
23	Richard Ingram	1683	D9	L7	W29	L4	D24	L15	2.0
24	Luis Eduardo Azmitia	1761	D21	L11	D25	D8	D23	U---	2.0
25	Frank O'Brien	1713	L6	D20	D24	H---	D21	L14	2.0
26	Paul Leblanc	1689	D4	L18	H---	L13	L22	W29	2.0
27	Gillian Mok	1679	W3	L6	D4	L16	L19	L22	1.5	Top Woman	$175
28	Sujan Saravanan	unr.	B---	L5	L3	D10	U---	U---	1.5
29	Keath Rycroft	1702	L16	L12	L23	B---	L15	L26	1.0

U1700

#	Name	Rating	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Rd 6	Total	Prize	Award(s)
1	Timur Zaruev	1530	W58	W49	W9	W12	W11	W5	6.0	1st	Trophy + $200
2	Tao Xie	unr.	W74	W47	W15	D4	W6	D8	5.0	Top Unrated	$100
3	Tyler Sanderson	1352	W63	W16	W30	L11	W31	W13	5.0	2nd + Top U1400	Trophy + $150
4	Trevor Yonkman	1491	W42	W59	W25	D2	L5	W11	4.5	3rd	$19
5	Tyler Cruz	1504	W66	D32	W28	W34	W4	L1	4.5	3rd	$19
6	Stephen Drake	1335	W72	W17	D7	W10	L2	W23	4.5	U1400 1st-3rd	$100
7	Scott Gray	1389	W60	W50	D6	D14	W16	D9	4.5	U1400 1st-3rd	$100
8	Peter Mingrone	1421	W21	W13	L12	W33	W18	D2	4.5	3rd	$19
9	Peter Qian Cheng	1346	W62	W24	L1	W27	W12	D7	4.5	U1400 1st-3rd	$100
10	Eric Gu	1441	W38	D34	W32	L6	W45	W24	4.5	3rd	$19
11	Mohammadsadra Zareei	1345	W56	W37	W23	W3	L1	L4	4.0
12	Colin Sargent	unr.	W35	W57	W8	L1	L9	W47	4.0
13	Aryan Mikaeili	1101	W68	L8	W57	W30	W35	L3	4.0
14	Severo [Juni] Caluza	1572	W26	L25	W42	D7	W32	D21	4.0
15	Gideon Tang	1400	W45	W31	L2	L18	W42	W33	4.0
16	Zihao William Jiang	1113	W48	L3	W49	W39	L7	W30	4.0
17	Mau-Seng Lee	1536	W53	L6	D38	W66	W34	D20	4.0
18	Adrien Howard	unr.	L30	W67	W68	W15	L8	W35	4.0
19	Azher Hossain	1470	D29	W54	D44	L26	W43	W36	4.0
20	Nicholas Pei-Chang Wu	1035	D39	L44	W54	W59	W40	D17	4.0
21	Borna Amjadi	1124	L8	D68	W71	W28	W47	D14	4.0
22	Robert Hamm	1433	L33	W51	L45	W64	W58	W26	4.0
23	James Zhang	1428	W27	W33	L11	D45	W38	L6	3.5
24	Nicolas Pennie	unr.	W43	L9	W58	W44	D26	L10	3.5
25	Wesley Russell	1325	W69	W14	L4	L31	W60	D27	3.5
26	Panshul Mishra Jaiman	1208	L14	W69	W52	W19	D24	L22	3.5
27	Ryan Bole Yu	1133	L23	W70	W48	L9	W39	D25	3.5
28	Alexander Jin	1272	D51	W29	L5	L21	W54	W45	3.5
29	Joey Xu	1155	D19	L28	W51	L32	W59	W44	3.5
30	Lucas Wang	1297	W18	W40	L3	L13	W37	L16	3.0
31	Shushrutha Bhatt	1079	W76	L15	W43	W25	L3	U---	3.0
32	Erwin Jun-Han Mok	1311	W41	D5	L10	W29	L14	D38	3.0
33	Brenden Jiang	1133	W22	L23	W40	L8	W57	L15	3.0
34	Johan Aljo	1196	B---	D10	W46	L5	L17	D41	3.0
35	Tony Dong	1256	L12	W64	W62	W37	L13	L18	3.0
36	Stephan Pepper	1227	W73	D46	L37	D41	W48	L19	3.0
37	Pierre Maheux	1681	W71	L11	W36	L35	L30	W51	3.0
38	Stefan Catona	1153	L10	W73	D17	W46	L23	D32	3.0
39	Rhyland Barker	1343	D20	D52	W50	L16	L27	W60	3.0
40	Owen Murphy	1478	W55	L30	L33	W50	L20	W58	3.0
41	Mark Gulbinowicz	877	L32	W55	D66	D36	D44	D34	3.0
42	Brad Chiu	1185	L4	W65	L14	W61	L15	W57	3.0
43	Nico Huang	1262	L24	W63	L31	W62	L19	W65	3.0
44	Emilian Holmgren	1302	D52	W20	D19	L24	D41	L29	2.5
45	Anthony Zongyue Li	1119	L15	W76	W22	D23	L10	L28	2.5
46	Nicholas Pulis	1472	W67	D36	L34	L38	W66	U---	2.5
47	Anders Palmgren	1478	D54	L2	W74	W53	L21	L12	2.5
48	Elijah Shulman	1396	L16	W60	L27	W55	L36	D50	2.5
49	Zhengyu Chen	1288	W75	L1	L16	L60	W63	D56	2.5
50	Mathew Ashley	1119	W77	L7	L39	L40	W69	D48	2.5
51	Mani Nayebi	unr.	D28	L22	L29	W74	W53	L37	2.5
52	Ingrid Hernandez Del Prado	unr.	D44	D39	L26	L54	D67	W66	2.5	Top Woman	$100
53	Paul Clarkson	1204	L17	W56	H---	L47	L51	W67	2.5
54	Don Hack	1166	D47	L19	L20	W52	L28	W71	2.5
55	Winston Huang	1185	L40	L41	W72	L48	W62	D59	2.5
56	Bill Paley	1050	L11	L53	U---	W68	W71	D49	2.5
57	Eoin O'Dwyer	1376	W64	L12	L13	W69	L33	L42	2.0
58	Kai McGrady	1201	L1	W75	L24	W63	L22	L40	2.0
59	Cypress Kouri	1239	W65	L4	H---	L20	L29	D55	2.0
60	Zoe Francis	1100	L7	L48	W75	W49	L25	L39	2.0	Top Woman 2nd	$75
61	Will Beatty	1606	H---	H---	U---	L42	W64	U---	2.0
62	Oliver Ye	1078	L9	W71	L35	L43	L55	W73	2.0
63	Zack Zhou	1083	L3	L43	W73	L58	L49	W69	2.0
64	Mats Philipzig	1089	L57	L35	W65	L22	L61	W72	2.0
65	Bill Stafford	unr.	L59	L42	L64	W72	W74	L43	2.0
66	Norman Batisse	1191	L5	W72	D41	L17	L46	L52	1.5
67	April Wang	1160	L46	L18	L69	W73	D52	L53	1.5	Top Woman 3rd	$75
68	Gilles Bruneau	1393	L13	D21	L18	L56	L72	W75	1.5
69	Marc Moisan	909	L25	L26	W67	L57	L50	L63	1.0
70	Nigel Hanrahan	1516	H---	L27	H---	U---	U---	U---	1.0
71	Iain Ireland	1220	L37	L62	L21	W75	L56	L54	1.0
72	Jason Imoo	920	L6	L66	L55	L65	W68	L64	1.0
73	James Sweet	unr.	L36	L38	L63	L67	W75	L62	1.0
74	Primo Mergal	1140	L2	H---	L47	L51	L65	U---	0.5
75	Alan M Kell	unr.	L49	L58	L60	L71	L73	L68	0.0
76	Viktor Zakharchuk	1347	L31	L45	U---	U---	U---	U---	0.0
77	Matthew Freitag	1406	L50	U---	U---	U---	U---	U---	0.0

U1100

#	Name	Rating	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Rd 6	Total	Prize	Award(s)
1	Max Qian	766	W16	W32	W10	W3	D6	W7	5.5	1st	Trophy + $125
2	Oscar Wu	866	W23	W37	L3	W30	W21	W6	5.0	2nd + Top U900	Trophy + $100
3	Finn Nakayama	1017	W45	W14	W2	L1	W20	D4	4.5	3rd-5th	$25
4	Julian Tang	941	W39	W33	D8	D20	W14	D3	4.5	3rd-5th	$25
5	Robert Senatorov	839	L20	W39	W23	D16	W8	W17	4.5	3rd-5th	$25
6	Sherwin Garcia	887	W46	W12	D7	W9	D1	L2	4.0
7	Edward Taylor	1005	W24	W13	D6	D8	W15	L1	4.0
8	Walter Zhang	791	W44	W21	D4	D7	L5	W22	4.0
9	Zekai Zhang	unr.	W34	W28	D11	L6	W19	D15	4.0
10	Bill Wang	980	W30	W22	L1	L14	W29	W20	4.0
11	Mike Zhang	906	W40	D20	D9	D19	D16	W24	4.0
12	Huy Nguyen	unr.	W18	L6	W13	L15	W33	W31	4.0
13	Glyn Zhu	587	W29	L7	L12	W44	W23	W21	4.0
14	Minh Quan Pham	644	W25	L3	W32	W10	L4	D16	3.5
15	Aaron Holmgren	857	L22	W17	W44	W12	L7	D9	3.5
16	Seth Miller	unr.	L1	W34	W35	D5	D11	D14	3.5
17	Zavosh Karimian	unr.	D26	L15	W42	W31	W18	L5	3.5
18	Kai Zhang	738	L12	W40	W22	D29	L17	W28	3.5
19	Dinesh Chanchalani	unr.	L43	W41	W25	D11	L9	W30	3.5
20	Nam Minh Luong	unr.	W5	D11	W31	D4	L3	L10	3.0
21	Yao Wang	unr.	W42	L8	W26	W28	L2	L13	3.0
22	Martin Lorenz	unr.	W15	L10	L18	W35	W34	L8	3.0
23	Duke Liu	unr.	L2	W38	L5	W36	L13	W35	3.0
24	Ivory Daffurn	unr.	L7	L29	W46	W27	W25	L11	3.0	Top Woman	$50
25	YiChen Sun	unr.	L14	W45	L19	W38	L24	W34	3.0	Top Woman	$50
26	Zachary Chua	909	D17	L36	L21	D45	W40	W33	3.0
27	Ed Wesenberg	unr.	L31	L30	B---	L24	W45	W38	3.0
28	Irena Datcu-Romano	693	W41	L9	W37	L21	D30	L18	2.5	Top Woman 3rd	$25
29	Tyler Thomassen	unr.	L13	W24	W33	D18	L10	U---	2.5
30	Ryan Delainey	unr.	L10	W27	W36	L2	D28	L19	2.5
31	Scott Kouri	446	W27	H---	L20	L17	W36	L12	2.5	Top Upset (591 pts)	$50
32	Gavin Wang	unr.	W38	L1	L14	L33	D41	W39	2.5
33	Micah Chow	unr.	W36	L4	L29	W32	L12	L26	2.0
34	Bismark Li	200	L9	L16	W40	W37	L22	L25	2.0
35	Lisem Lau	655	L37	W46	L16	L22	W44	L23	2.0
36	Malcolm Blanchard	1037	L33	W26	L30	L23	L31	W46	2.0
37	Wade Sharples	unr.	W35	L2	L28	L34	L38	B---	2.0
38	Coen Holmgren	584	L32	L23	W39	L25	W37	L27	2.0
39	Alexa Holder	unr.	L4	L5	L38	W41	W46	L32	2.0
40	Kobe Kouri	unr.	L11	L18	L34	B---	L26	W45	2.0
41	Marko Radic	unr.	L28	L19	D45	L39	D32	D42	1.5
42	James Wang	533	L21	L44	L17	L46	B---	D41	1.5
43	Johan Aljo	1196	W19	U---	U---	U---	U---	U---	1.0
44	Brendan McDougall	unr.	L8	W42	L15	L13	L35	U---	1.0
45	Michael Cotten	unr.	L3	L25	D41	D26	L27	L40	1.0
46	Derek Liu	unr.	L6	L35	L24	W42	L39	L36	1.0