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Event Report 2013

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7th Annual Grand Pacific Open

Easter 2013

Victoria BC.

The 7th annual Grand Pacific Open took place on a gorgeous spring weekend. With temperatures of 20+ degrees it was definitely the place to be in Canada. Jack Yoos coming off a disastrous BC Closed made sure to keep his street cred up by winning the main event with a convincing score of 5.5/6 including victories over several of his competitors for the title of BC champion. $5000 in guaranteed prizes were awarded (actually $5020 due to a late donation) as well as $100 for the midnight blitz side event and numerous door prizes.

(photo BlueGiraffe photography)

Our 2013 Champion: Jack Yoos with his trophy. (photo: BlueGiraffe photography)

Roughly 106 players took part in the main event with players from four different countries, four provinces, and five US states. We have an informal prize for furthest traveled which was almost a tie! It turns out that Japan and England are within a few 100 km of the same distance from Victoria. Breaking the tie came down to considering the exact city. In addition, there were a number of side events - a YCC to qualify for this year's CYCC, a four round active event, Midnight Blitz, and of course a Bughouse event to close the weekend.

This year we even had an official photographer -Douglas Bain of BlueGiraffe photography. Photos for YCC, GPO, and Bughouse are at his home page http://bluegiraffephoto.zenfolio.com (under galleries/events/chess). Prints can be ordered directly from his webpage.

The location was the superb Hotel Grand Pacific situated in downtown Victoria on the waterfront, next to the BC legislature. Next year's event is already booked for Easter 2014, April 18-21. Make your plans now!. More details will be forthcoming soon on this website: www.grandpacificopen.com.

Full reports for all events with crosstables, pgn file, and photos are given below.

Many thanks to our sponsors, those who have donated, and to the volunteers that make all this possible.

Donations:

Anonymous (several)

Patrick Huang

Doug Sly

Emanuel Pantazi

Chris Eve

Derek Chu

Lawrence Cohen

Sponsors

Hotel Grand Pacific

Goddess Chess
Bard and Banker

Photography: BlueGiraffe Photography

pgn File: GAMES

Organizers:

Roger Patterson, Brian Raymer, Paul Leblanc

TDs

Main Event TD: Mark S. Dutton, I,A.

Side Event TD: Tian Tian Geng

Event Reports:

YCC

Qualification to the CYCC is listed on the crosstables (below)

Crosstables:

YCC photos:

Active Event

This year's event drew 10 participants and was won by Tanraj Sohal with a perfect score. It was not as easy for him as one might think - his first round game against Robert Hamm was pretty scarey and probably lost - but experience and time pressure brought the win in for him.

Crosstable (VCC rated)

No.	Name	Old Rtg	Perf	New Rtg	1	2	3	4	Score
1.	Sohal, Tanraj	2099	2099	2103	+7	+5	+6	+8	4.0
2.	Patterson, Roger	2097	2358	2105	+4	+3	T		3.0
3.	Lampman, Rebecca	1975	1866	1972	+9	-2	+5	+10	3.0
4.	Blanchard, Sean	1564	1766	1577	-2	+9	+8	+6	3.0
5.	Richardson, Kai	1605	1745	1612	+10	-1	-3	+7	2.0
6.	Edgar, Garth	1292	1670	1321	+8	+7	-1	-4	2.0
7.	Hamm, Robert	1575	1177	1550	-1	-6	+10	-5	1.0
8.	Luttin, Shaun	1491	1161	1469	-6	+10	-4	-1	1.0
9.	Pope, John	1200	1182	1198	-3	-4			0.0
10.	Lathwell, Jordan	1007	1007	1005	-5	-8	-7	-3	0.0

Legend: T: TD Bye; B (except when showing color): half point bye; f: forfeit win; F: forfeit loss.

Midnight Blitz

1st $50: Awatramani, Janak
U1800 $25, Escandor, Manuel, Blanchard, Sean
U1500 $25 Hiebert, Kenji

MIDNIGHT BLITZ - FINAL STANDINGS:

SwissSys Standings. GPO Blitz 2013: GPO M Blitz 2013

#	Name	Rtng	Post	Grd	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Tot	Prize
1	Awatramani, Janak	2240	2267		$14	$8	W2	$7	$9	9.0	$50
2	Rohonyan, Katerina	2300	2314		$15	$5	W1	$6	W3	8.0
3	Villavieza, Butch	2294	2278		$13	#9	W4	#5	W2	7.0
4	Davies, Lucas	2240	2215		$16	W10	W3	W9	$8	7.0
5	Hui, Jeremy	1936	1972		$22	L2	$16	D3	$12	6.5
6	Airapetian, Chouchanik	2131	2105		$18	W12	$10	L2	W7	6.0
7	Daswani, Benedict	2000	2008		$17	W11	$12	L1	W6	6.0
8	Roback, Joe	1873	1874		$23	L1	$14	$17	L4	6.0
9	Lampman, Rebecca	1931	1979		$19	D3	$11	W4	L1	5.5
10	Gedovjiovic, Max	1892	1893		$20	W4	L6	W11	#16	5.5
11	Landingin, Jofre	1852	1834		$24	W7	L9	W10	#17	5.5
12	Xiao, Alice	1859	1849		$21	W6	L7	$13	L5	5.0
13	Escandor, Manuel	1622	1583		L3	W19	$21	L12	$20	5.0	$12.50
14	Blanchard, Sean	1564	1532		L1	$23	L8	$21	W15	5.0	$12.50
15	Hiebert, Kenji	1200	1290		L2	$22	L17	$19	W14	5.0	$25
16	Ding, Jill	1580	1594		L4	$20	L5	$22	D10	4.5
17	Peters, Nick	1449	1465		L7	$24	$15	L8	D11	4.5
18	Tapp, Ashley	1559	1439		L6	L21	W19	W20	#22	3.5
19	Hou, Frank	1198	1197		L9	W13	W18	L15	W23	3.0
20	Reny, Alex	981	1024		L10	L16	$24	W18	L13	3.0
21	Zheng, Victor	890	942		L12	$18	L13	L14	W24	3.0
22	Zheng, Kyle	1360	1304		L5	L15	$23	L16	D18	2.5
23	Zheng, Maven	960	957		L8	L14	L22	W24	W19	2.0
24	Lathwell, Jordan	800	804		L11	L17	L20	W23	W21	2.0

Bughouse

Crosstable:

Bughouse Photos:

The Main Event: the Grand Pacific Open

Prize Winners:

Open Section:
$1150+Trophy + qualification to next BC Closed: FM Jack Yoos
2nd-3rd ($575 each) NM Alfred Pechisker , NM Tanraj S Sohal ($575 each)

U2100
On Tiebreak 1st - $170+Trophy: Matthew Herdin

2nd-5th: $170 each: Jingzhou [Peter] Lai, John Doknjas, Jeremy Hui, Robert North

Top Women (Courtesy of Goddess Chess)

1st: $80 WGM Katerina Rohonyan ,
2nd-3rd $65 each: WFM Chouchanik Airapetian, Becca Lampman
4th-5th: $45 each Alice Huanyi Xiao and Joanne Foote

U1800 Section:
1st: $425+Trophy: Duncan Haines
2nd $325 Sean Blanchard

U1500
1st $350+Trophy: Kevin Low
2nd $250 Conrad Burgert

Top Unrated - (Highest score in either section) $100 Peter Kenyon
Biggest Upset $100 Patrick Huang (628 points)
Top Woman $20 (Donated by Laurence Cohen) Ashley Tapp

Furthest Traveled:

David Gates (Great Britain)

Honorable mention: Kenji Hiebert (Japan)

pgn File: GAMES

Photos

Main Event color photos by Blue Giraffe

Main Event monochrome photos by Blue Giraffe

Facebook Photo Album by Mark S. Dutton

Crosstable:

FINAL - SwissSys Standings. 2013 Grand Pacific Open (7th Annual): OPEN (FIDE and CFC rated)

#	Name	ID	Rtng		Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Rd 6	Tot	TBrk[C]	TBrk[O]	Prize
1	FM John C [Jack] Yoos	107994	2355	2387	+64	+18	+3	=4	+8	+10	5.5	19.5	87	$1150
2	NM Alfred Pechisker	104330	2255	2282	+39	+14	-4	+22	+28	+8	5.0	17	85.5	$575
3	NM Tanraj S Sohal	135830	2240	2262	+37	+23	-1	+17	+30	+9	5.0	17	80.5	$575
4	WGM Katerina Rohonyan	151130	2347	2355	+48	+30	+2	=1	=9	=5	4.5	18	87.5
5	Lucas Davies	110614	2233	2248	+56	+38	=11	=28	+29	=4	4.5	17	76.5
6	FM Jason Cao	149413	2208	2215	+49	=33	+13	+7	-10	+19	4.5	16.5	79.5
7	Alisher Sanetullaev	153722	2158	2162	+54	=21	+16	-6	+20	+18	4.5	15.5	74
8	IM Lawrence Day	101024	2227	2243	+53	+29	+10	+11	-1	-2	4.0	18	87
9	Jamin Gluckie	127161	2200	2198	+41	=19	+24	+20	=4	-3	4.0	16.5	83
10	NM Butch Villavieja	151916	2294	2293	+42	+22	-8	+15	+6	-1	4.0	16	88
11	NM Howard Wu	105433	2259	2253	+43	+40	=5	-8	+38	=13	4.0	15.5	78.5
12	Janak Awatramani	142084	2240	2220	+47	=24	=15	=14	=16	+29	4.0	14	71
13	Matthew Herdin	143881	2094	2109	+60	=32	-6	+41	+21	=11	4.0	14	71
14	Jingzhou [Peter] Lai	144566	2029	2057	+66	-2	+59	=12	=31	+32	4.0	13.5	64
15	John Doknjas	141225	2094	2095	=46	+51	=12	-10	+34	+33	4.0	13	65
16	Jeremy Hui	145233	1936	1958	=51	+45	-7	+58	=12	+30	4.0	13	65
17	Robert North	106910	1938	1948	-58	+62	+63	-3	+35	+28	4.0	12	55
18	NM Georgi Kostadinov	120324	2136	2122	+44	-1	+49	=31	+26	-7	3.5	13.5	73.5
19	Michael A Murray	132150	1921	1956	+57	=9	H---	+25	H---	-6	3.5	13.5	49
20	David Kenney	103040	1905	1924	=45	+46	+27	-9	-7	+41	3.5	13	66.5
21	Ross Richardson	111115	1810	1897	+25	=7	-30	+27	-13	+40	3.5	12.5	74.5
22	Dan Erichsen	145706	2103	2095	+36	-10	+34	-2	=43	+31	3.5	12	71.5
23	Darko Dimitrijevic	104350	2028	2019	+35	-3	=41	+50	-32	+39	3.5	12	64.5
24	Ruining [Ray] Wu	150768	2019	2015	+59	=12	-9	-26	+44	+43	3.5	11.5	62.5
25	NM Jason Kenney	110204	2226	2182	-21	+54	+42	-19	=39	+47	3.5	11	58.5
26	Jofrel Landingin	141991	1856	1890	-32	=35	+60	+24	-18	+38	3.5	10.5	62
27	Roy Imlach Yearwood	102743	2137	2105	H---	+58	-20	-21	+52	+42	3.5	10.5	49.5
28	Ryan Lo	145788	2196	2166	+34	=31	+33	=5	-2	-17	3.0	14	80
29	Benedict Daswani	111363	1983	2000	+50	-8	+52	+32	-5	-12	3.0	13	76
30	WFM Chouchanik Airapetian	USCF	2131	2109	+62	-4	+21	+39	-3	-16	3.0	13	73
31	Pavel Trochtchanovitch	143763	1919	1949	+61	=28	=32	=18	=14	-22	3.0	13	70.5
32	NM Harry Moore	101144	2245	2201	+26	=13	=31	-29	+23	-14	3.0	12.5	76
33	Becca Lampman	153846	1931	1937	+55	=6	-28	H---	+36	-15	3.0	11.5	57
34	Ken Forman	123040	1801	1814	-28	+65	-22	+57	-15	+56	3.0	9	51
35	Lionel Han	147578	1630	1689	-23	=26	=43	+37	-17	+49	3.0	8.5	58
36	Alex Y Lin	153738	1726	1754	-22	-42	+56	+61	-33	+53	3.0	8	49
37	Joshua Doknjas	146444	1832	1808	-3	=50	=51	-35	+63	+54	3.0	7.5	50.5
38	Lawrence Cohen	150883	1973	1939	+63	-5	=58	+44	-11	-26	2.5	11	63.5
39	Alice Huanyi Xiao	148766	1859	1887	-2	+66	+40	-30	=25	-23	2.5	10	65
40	NM Roger Patterson	103043	2100	2052	+52	-11	-39	+46	=42	-21	2.5	10	61
41	Constantin Rotariu	152476	1803	1805	-9	+57	=23	-13	+51	-20	2.5	9	67.5
42	Max Gedajlovic	153166	1892	1902	-10	+36	-25	+59	=40	-27	2.5	9	61.5
43	Joe Roback	143038	1873	1856	-11	=60	=35	+63	=22	-24	2.5	8.5	57.5
44	H G Pitre	110863	1755	1761	-18	=64	+55	-38	-24	+58	2.5	7.5	54
45	Tian Tian Geng	147673	1454	1510	=20	-16	=47	=52	-56	+60	2.5	7.5	50
46	Joanne Foote	143555	1697	1708	=15	-20	=64	-40	=55	+61	2.5	7	51
47	George Kosinski	106565	1855	1823	-12	-59	=45	+66	+58	-25	2.5	7	48
48	David Crook	111494	1894	1844	-4	-52	-61	=62	+66	+50	2.5	4.5	42
49	Colin D Aykroyd	100288	1803	1761	-6	+61	-18	=51	=50	-35	2.0	7.5	58
50	Robin Yu	150227	1619	1648	-29	=37	+53	-23	=49	-48	2.0	7.5	50.5
51	Luke Pulfer	149297	1595	1621	=16	-15	=37	=49	-41	=52	2.0	7	57
52	Deron Stewart	142413	1710	1708	-40	+48	-29	=45	-27	=51	2.0	7	53
53	Christopher Baumgartner	152931	1829	1766	-8	=55	-50	=60	+57	-36	2.0	6	49
54	Philip Harris	112311	1801	1771	-7	-25	=66	=55	+59	-37	2.0	5.5	47
55	Jill Ding	146400	1518	1543	-33	=53	-44	=54	=46	=59	2.0	5.5	43.5
56	Paul Leblanc	104186	1832	1772	-5	-63	-36	+65	+45	-34	2.0	5	48.5
57	Adam Rahemtulla	151924	1504	1533	-19	-41	+62	-34	-53	+63	2.0	5	46
58	Kai Richardson	152020	1605	1624	+17	-27	=38	-16	-47	-44	1.5	8	61.5
59	Manuel Omana Escandor	137035	1622	1623	-24	+47	-14	-42	-54	=55	1.5	5.5	52
60	Michael Su	149622	1637	1615	-13	=43	-26	=53	=61	-45	1.5	5	51.5
61	Louis Lapi	102089	1496	1510	-31	-49	+48	-36	=60	-46	1.5	5	45
62	Elroy Deimert	106163	1742	1696	-30	-17	-57	=48	-65	+66	1.5	2.5	38.5
63	George Wesley Lundy III	153589	1607	1591	-38	+56	-17	-43	-37	-57	1.0	5	49
64	Philip Allan	101947	1895	1879	-1	=44	=46	U---	U---	U---	1.0	4.5	34
65	Li Geng	150799	1433	1454	U---	-34	U---	-56	+62	U---	1.0	2	16.5
66	Polly P Wright	150795	1635	1608	-14	-39	=54	-47	-48	-62	0.5	2	43

FINAL - SwissSys Standings. 2013 Grand Pacific Open (7th Annual): Under 1800 (CFC Rated)

#	Name	ID	Rtng	Post	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Rd 6	Tot	TBrk[C]	TBrk[O]	Prize
1	Duncan Haines	153739	1565	1655	+32	+13	+6	+11	+2	+5	6.0	21	87
2	Sean Blanchard	154156	1564	1618	+29	+26	+7	+5	-1	+6	5.0	19	87
3	Peter Kenyon	NEW	unr.	1771	+24	+16	=8	+7	-5	+12	4.5	17	79
4	Kevin Low	151636	1231	1353	+10	+14	-5	+8	=19	+11	4.5	16	81.5
5	Florian Bergeron	103293	1674	1661	+38	+21	+4	-2	+3	-1	4.0	17	89.5
6	Kent Cronin	101743	1732	1701	+28	+18	-1	+20	+17	-2	4.0	16	83.5
7	Mau-seng Lee	100313	1764	1732	+25	+19	-2	-3	+24	+13	4.0	14	79.5
8	Brian Sullivan	103750	1562	1541	+33	=31	=3	-4	+25	+22	4.0	13.5	67.5
9	Ashley Tapp	150538	1559	1522	-27	+34	=24	=22	+28	+18	4.0	11.5	55.5
10	Manfrei Aquino	110160	1768	1714	-4	+30	-13	+34	+23	+17	4.0	11	64.5
11	Pablo Diemecke	106458	1776	1734	+23	+20	+12	-1	H---	-4	3.5	15.5	73.5
12	Bill Tate	105952	1566	1543	+34	+27	-11	+26	=13	-3	3.5	15	72
13	Conrad Burgert	138747	1254	1318	X41	-1	+10	+14	=12	-7	3.5	13	73
14	David A Gates	154377	1619	1570	+40	-4	+31	-13	H---	+19	3.5	11.5	52
15	Heiner Schwarz	111472	1558	1493	-31	+32	=23	=24	=29	+30	3.5	10.5	51
16	Robert Hamm	108361	1588	1541	=30	-3	+40	-23	+31	+29	3.5	10	54.5
17	Shaun Luttin	150798	1469	1445	-26	+29	+25	+18	-6	-10	3.0	12	67
18	Kyle Zheng	140424	1355	1361	+22	-6	+38	-17	+27	-9	3.0	12	65.5
19	Samuel Chen	150247	1370	1345	+35	-7	=27	+31	=4	-14	3.0	12	65
20	Nicholas Peters	133193	1449	1428	+42	-11	+28	-6	-22	+26	3.0	11	62
21	Rinna Yu	150248	1359	1325	+39	-5	=22	=27	=26	=23	3.0	11	62
22	Rod Brown	NEW	unr.	1399	-18	+40	=21	=9	+20	-8	3.0	10.5	61
23	Neil Doknjas	151942	1253	1296	-11	+42	=15	+16	-10	=21	3.0	10.5	58.5
24	Matthew Geng	147851	1273	1301	-3	+33	=9	=15	-7	+32	3.0	9.5	65
25	Frank Hou	149229	1189	1196	-7	+36	-17	+32	-8	+33	3.0	9	54.5
26	Victor Zheng	150532	859	927	+17	-2	+30	-12	=21	-20	2.5	11	76
27	Ethan Low	151629	960	1022	+9	-12	=19	=21	-18	=28	2.5	10	70
28	Kenji Hiebert	JAPAN	1155	1148	-6	+35	-20	+33	-9	=27	2.5	8.5	58.5
29	Brenden Wu	152091	971	1012	-2	-17	+35	+38	=15	-16	2.5	8	61
30	Tony Xun	154160	1061	1057	=16	-10	-26	+36	+35	-15	2.5	8	49.5
31	Patrick Huang	152240	930	981	+15	=8	-14	-19	-16	=38	2.0	9	63.5
32	Alex Reny	154137	981	996	-1	-15	+36	-25	+38	-24	2.0	6	58.5
33	Maven Zheng	149220	963	971	-8	-24	+39	-28	+34	-25	2.0	6	48.5
34	Daniel Du	151621	1046	1035	-12	-9	+42	-10	-33	+39	2.0	5	46.5
35	Gregory Skala	146600	718	753	-19	-28	-29	+40	-30	+42	2.0	4	38.5
36	Jordan Lathwell	133205	746	778	-37	-25	-32	-30	+42	+40	2.0	3	33.5
37	Li Geng	150799	1433	1434	+36	H---	U---	U---	U---	U---	1.5	8	3
38	Rowan James	153852	1141	1081	-5	+39	-18	-29	-32	=31	1.5	5.5	55
39	Miron Gogoescu	NEW	unr.	799	-21	-38	-33	+42	-40	-34	1.0	3	29.5
40	Edward Enns	122461	1110	1048	-14	-22	-16	-35	+39	-36	1.0	2	42.5
41	Curtis Sleypen	NEW	unr.	0	F13	H---	U---	U---	U---	U---	0.5	2	0
42	Olivija Stoilova	154380	779	719	-20	-23	-34	-39	-36	-35	0.0	0	36.5