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EN PASSANTFebruary 2000 No.160 février 2000

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16 Oropesa del Mar was once again host to the World YouthChess Festival, and Team Captain Ole Hellsten of Winnipegprovides us with an extensive report and many pictures ofthe event. Many thanks to the players who worked hard andsent us their comments and annotated games!

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2 PresidentÕs Message, and Letters to the Editor.

12 Intended as an abbreviated kick-off for a new magazinecolumn, the editor shares one of his own games in ÒOpeningPreparationÓ. Anyone out there who has a crushing noveltyto share with the rest of us?

13 The 1999 Magazine Index.

15 Gregory Harris won second place in a writing competitionfor his short story on ÒWhat Book Influenced You the MostÓ,which was subsequently read on CBC Radio and publishedrecently in Avenue Magazine (reprinted with permission).

33 ÒAn Interview with IM Danny KopecÓ offers a number ofinteresting and revealing insights into Canadian chess fromthe perspective of a well known chess personality who hasbeen a frequent visitor.

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Letters

President�s Message

St.Catharines, ONThere have been many fine articlesin the En Passant in the past.However, the best article by farwhich I have ever read and studiedwas in the February 1999 issue.ÒDorfman: The New Nimzovich?ÓMany, many thanks for such aprecise explanation of whatconstitutes a slight advantage ordisadvantage on the board.

Donald MacKinnon

Winnipeg, MBAs a student of chess history, Iwould like to draw attention to aminor technical point in RobertSasataÕs article ÒImproving YourTactical VisionÓ in the October issueof En Passant. In the game fragmentMenchikÐGraf, Semmering 1937, thecommentary Òwith his tactical radarflashing, White searches for a way tocheck Black and end the gameÓ failsto identify the White player as VeraMenchik (1906Ð1944), winner ofevery WomenÕs World Ch. matchfrom 1927 to 1944. A student ofMaroczy, she numbered among her

male victims in tournament play,Max Euwe, Sammy Reshevsky,Sultan Khan and Sir George Thomas.In 1934 she placed third after Pircand Steiner ahead of Spielmann atMaribor. In 1942 she defeatedJacques Mieses in match play.Tragically, she and her sister andmother perished in a Londonbombing raid in 1944.

In no way is this meant as a criticismof Mr. SasataÕs excellent andinstructive articles, which I continueto enjoy and hope to see more of.

D. Brandson

Ottawa, ONFirst, a general observation: EnPassant is improving in format,proof-reading, editing, content, andquality of photos. Congratulations.

You stated that the heart of themagazine is the ÒRating ListÓ, theÒAcross CanadaÓ reports and theÒComing EventsÓ section. You arecorrect that this cannot change untilmost, if not all, CFC members haveaccess to the Internet. In any event, Ithink that most CFC members with

Internet access still like to see thisinformation in print. I once thoughtthat many Across Canada reportscould be abbreviated by eliminatingcomments about sponsors, playingsites and volunteers. Now, however,I appreciate that the organizers,sponsors and TDs make a vitalcontribution to chess, and thus theyshould be acknowledged.

You raised several issues:

ÒEncouraging Masters to contributearticles to the magazineÓ. My view: ifthey donÕt contribute, itÕs probablybecause they canÕt write well or areuncomfortable in the role of chessjournalist, annotator or columnist.From a club player perspective, theauthorsÕ writing ability and insightsare more important than a high Elo,although it is nice when the two canbe combined!

ÒRequiring players subsidized by theCFC to contribute articlesÓ. My view:Such a policy is both unreasonableand unenforceable. Furthermore, ifsubsidized players canÕt or wonÕtwrite, why compel and pay them formaterial that nobody wants to read?

the 2001 Canadian Open. Specificallyit will be held at Mt. AllisonUniversity. It has been many yearssince this event was held in theMaritimes, and I am sure it will be adelightful experience to return tothat area. This yearÕs tournament tobe held in Edmonton in July shouldbe a first class event, and I lookforward to seeing many of ourmembers participating.

The Canadian Junior will be held inMontreal the first weekend in May.This is another area that has beenmissing from our National events fortoo long. I anticipate that our risingyoung stars will very much enjoy theexperience of playing in thatfascinating city.

This is an Olympic year, with theevent scheduled for Istanbul inOctober. Our members casn help ourteam in more than one way.Donations to the Olympic Fund arealways welcome and are taxdeductible. Also, every time a

member purchases chess suppliesfrom the CFC it helps our financialsituation and makes it easier tosupport our National and Teamevents.

As I look through upcoming eventsacross Canada, I see an abundanceof tournaments that members canparticipate in. I congratulate ourorganizers for their initiative andtireless work in arranging theseevents. Also, I encourage ourmembers to take advantage of theseopportunities.

Finally, if you are able to access ourwebsite and you have not yet doneso, I urge you to take a look. I thinkyou will agree that as far as chesswebsites go, we are number one.

I wish all our members a veryenjoyable year in chess.

Maurice SmithPresidentChess Federation Of Canada

I would like all of our members to beaware of some recent news items. Tobegin with, the Executive passed thefollowing motion ÒThat effective inthe April En Passant, organizerswishing to advertise in the ComingEvents section must indicate that thethe prize fund is based on aminimum percentage of the entryfees. Specific guaranteed amountsare exempt from this ruling.Ó Thepresent system of prize fund $$BENmeans Òbased on entriesÓ. However,this means absolutely nothing. Oneorganizer can give out 10% andanother organizer 80%. This newruling aids all players in letting themknow that there is a minimumpercentage of entry fees that will bedistributed. Also, organizers stillhave the flexibility of determiningthat percentage based on pastperformances and projectedexpenses. This should be a bigimprovement for everyone.

The Executive have approved a bidfrom Sackville, New Brunswick for


ÒRegional representationÓ. My view: Ihave lived in many parts of ourcountry, and while I admire theaccomplishments of our GMs andIMs from Quebec, Ontario andBritish Columbia, I also like to readabout the exploits of old friends andnew stars in places I used to live!

Among my recent favorite featurearticles are Deen HergottÕs reportand annotations of the 33rdOlympiad (February 1999); thereport on the Canadian Open andDale KirtonÕs ÒThe Gothenburg BustÓ(August 1999); Gregory HarrisÕÒSearch for the Great Canadian ChessLibraryÓ and the always entertainingand instructive ÒMastersÕ ForumÓ(October 1999); the annotated gamesof the SpraggettÐYermolinsky matchand the historical report ÒTale ofThree Cities, 1895Ó (December 1999).

Thanks for the opportunity tocomment, and thanks for a goodmagazine.

Michael Holmes

Hamilton, ONWhat should be included orexcluded from En Passant is adecision which I am happy is yoursto make and not mine! In the Aprilissue, Mr. J.A.E. Allum raised aninteresting point, although theparticular game he referred to didnot contain the sort of error hecomplained of, because it was not anannotated game! Irwin simplyincluded a crucial game in histournament report, with but a singlecomment and diagram inserted. Hadhe actually annotated the game, hewould hardly have missed the winpointed out by Mr. Allum. Obviouslynot all games can be annotated fullydue to space limitations, and readersshould understand that most gameswill contain undiscovered errors andmissed opportunities.

On the other hand, when a gamepurports to be annotated in somedetail, perhaps a higher standard canbe expected, and it is difficult to sayto what extent the editor shouldcorrect obvious mistakes in analysis.Most readers will understand theobvious limitations of annotationsproduced by an 1800 or 1900 player.

The April issue has three games fromDavid Ottosen which are interestingin light of Mr. AllumÕs letter from thesame issue. Mr. Ottosen is a regular

contributor, and much of his work isquite good, but some is not:

It is hard to imagine that bothplayers during the game, in postmortem, and then in annotationcould miss the mate in two for Blackon move 32 of OttosenÐWong! Or inthe game QuiringÐOttosen, how canone fail to mention 20Ö¼xe3?

More could be said about thosegames, but OttosenÐOdachowski,annotated by both players, is worse.The note to BlackÕs 11th movesuggests a line which would be adisaster for Black after 13.f5! when IdonÕt see anything better for Blackthan 13Ö0-0 since 13Ö»c4 14.fxe6! or13Öe5? 14.»d5 ½d8 15.»e6! andother tries are insufficient. I analyzedthis position quite extensively, andwhile the above is just a startingpoint, how does anyone who playssuch an opening not immediatelysee 13.f5? Then there is the note toBlackÕs 19th, which gives a faultyline to claim that 19Ö»xd6 is forced,and apparently overlooking 21Öf622.½xc4 ½xc4 23.ºxc4 »e3!

And the note to BlackÕs alternative20Öºb7 gives 21.½g4 as unclear.After 21Ö»f6 22.ºxf6 gxf6! thingslook pretty grim for White. Trulyunclear after 20Öºb7 would be21.fxe6 »e3 22.Qd2 or e2 »xf123.¼xf1 f6. But more directly on thepoint raised by Mr. Allum is thefailure to mention ºxd5 for White onboth the 25th and 28th moves. Surelythat is exactly the sort of move thatrequires mention! As it happens, theexchange is more obvious on the28th move, but stronger on the 25th!

I donÕt agree with Mr. AllumÕssuggestion that space is wasted onmoves Òno one in their right mindwould consider.Ó The second branchof his complaint is more meritorious.Where a move seems obvious andstrong, but doesnÕt work, a commentis useful. But the annotator can onlycomment on what he sees himself!The bottom line is that readers haveto trust their own judgment and notexpect perfection. En Passantcontains many excellent articles byour best players; the writings ofLesiege, Hergott, Day, OÕDonnell,Spraggett and Zugic are of very highquality, and I wish they could bepersuaded to write more often.

Please keep up the good work.There were occasions in past years

when the magazine seemed tocontain a lot of ÒfillerÓ of no realinterest, and you have eliminatedthat problem.

Denis Allan

Cambridge, ONI offer rebuttal to Mr. HarrisÕ ÒEthicalQuotientÓ column of last issue.Questions 1, 3 and 4 fall under thelaw of averages. For every gameyouÕve blundered away and everywin on time youÕve played for,thereÕs an opponent doing the same.Care to enter the ethical debate thatsurrounds sudden death timecontrols? I offer a hypotheticalsituation for questions 3 and 4. Howdoes a player convert a ¾+º+» vs.¾ endgame within five minutes ofsudden death? Since you know itÕstheoretically dead lost, ethically, youshould resign? With regard toquestion 2, clocks are the rite ofpassage between skittles and seriouschess. As a newcomer I had anopponent take advantage of my lackof understanding, and I wouldnÕthesitate to do it to a rookie.

Questions 5, 8 and 9 have more todo with playing rule ignorance thanethics. If everyone was betterinformed about the rules, perhapsthey would complain less aboutobvious situations.

Scott Kuehl

Toronto, ONI read with a great deal of pleasureGregory HarrisÕ somewhat tongue-in-cheek article about chess etiquette inthe December issue of En Passant.The pleasure obviously derived fromthe civil style and subtle humor ofthe author, and not from themonstrosities depicted in his writing.

At the outset, I would like to makemy own recommendation to theÒroguesÕ galleryÓ in the dauntingpersonality of one-time WorldChampion Alexander Alekhine, whowas seen at times to hurl his favoritecat (or its successors?!) across thestage of the playing hall in theexasperation occasioned by anobviously undeserved loss sufferedby this gigantic egotist.

Mr. HarrisÕ thirty-year old trash-talking Internet opponent, evidentlyassuming the disguise of a nine-year-old child (for what real nine-year-oldwould be familiar with a word such


as the astericized expletivementioned in the article?), in myopinion deserves to be left to hisown devices. Let he and his like behurled across the stage of history or,to change the metaphor slightly,allowed to stew in his own juices,confined to tournaments for the foul-mouthed. If civilized players were tocondescend to his company, thiswould just encourage him to persistin his loutishness. So my suggestionis: resign the game and leave theplaying screen to those brought upon Internet. One of the great thingsabout this world-wide chat and surftoy is that it can make impudenceand idiocy universally accessible.

Another instructive item in thecurrent issue is the FIDE PresidentÕsfacetious, if not slightly impertinent,invitation to Canada to host thecancelled WomenÕs World Ch.Knockout tournament if ourdelegate, Mr. Haley is so concernedabout the expenses incurred in vainby our representative in saidcancelled tournament.

This brings up an unfortunatecontradiction inherent in our post-modern millennial state of affairs.Impoverished countries such asMoldavia have a tradition ofintellectual and spiritual pastimessuch as chess, which they are unableto serve due to financial constraints.Affluent countries like Canada, onthe other hand, which could affordto handle the LadiesÕ Knockout ismore interested in pursuing extremesports, for example CentrifugalBumble-Puppy. Of course, there arenotable exceptions to the above,such as the United States, UnitedKingdom, Germany, France,Switzerland, the Netherlands,Sweden, Italy, Spain, and others!

So, let us tie on our skates, put onour parkas, get into our comfortableBombardier snowmobiles - and sitdown to our even more comfortableInternet terminals for a bit of trah-chatting and extreme chess cumBumble-Puppy.

Andrew Pressburger

Blenheim, ONWhile perusing the December 1999issue I came across the article andquiz ÒMinding Your ChessboardMannersÓ by Gregory Harris.Ultimately, with only four ÒcorrectÓanswers, Mr. Harris thinks that I

should apparently forget chess andconsider a career in professionalwrestling. This came much to mydelight, as I am a professionalwrestler. At least thereÕs no disparitybetween the two!

James Mack

Toronto, ONResponding, briefly, to your lasteditorial, I think En Passant does agood job at covering the Canadianscene, and I wouldnÕt recommendtampering with your presentformula. I would like to see evenmore historical pieces and, as aninactive player, I would also enjoy afew chess problems in each issue.

As to proportional regional coverage,I agree with you: DonÕt go there. Byall means continue in your efforts torecruit new columnists, but theselection of such people up here isnot enormous, so donÕt sweat it. Youdo fine, for the most part.

Wayne Daniels

Ann Arbor, USAs a life member, although not aCanadian, here is my feedback:

1) I agree that those without Internetaccess should not be made secondclass citizens. Keep the ratings andtournament notices in the magazine.Although more frequent up-to-dateratings are available on the Internet,and someday I suppose print mediawill be obsolete, we arenÕt there yet!

2) Requiring small contributionsfrom supported players as a quid proquo makes sense to me, but as apotential beneficiary and not oneaffected directly, I am perhaps a littlebiased. Strong weight should begiven to what your strongest playersthink as a group would be a fairpayback, if anything. They reallyshould contribute out of their ownvolition, not because of arequirement that may in fact justproduce second-rate material fromthose with Òbad attitudesÓ.

Moral persuasion such as ÒIt reallyisnÕt so unreasonable to ask for thenotes to one or two gamesÖÓ mightwork best, particularly if players areselected by subjective criteria, andplayers known to snub thepublication might lose a fewbrownie points for the next selectionprocess.

In general, I like the magazine andhave no complaints. My favorites arethe ÒMastersÕ ForumÓ and the nowdefunct ÒKomputer KornerÓ. Maybesomeone with TomaltyÕs expertisecan be found to resurrect thecolumn?

Bob Avery

Calgary, ABI have been a member of the ChessFederation of Canada for about sixmonths and regularly read EnPassant. Perhaps I am biased afterhaving recently moved from anothercountry, but I have found themagazine to be quite lacking ininternational content. Specifically, itseems the only thing you areinterested in covering is Canadians.Serious chess players from anynationality are interested in readingabout the top players in the world.Perhaps the mandate of En Passant isonly to give a local flavor.

Another section that should beadded are book reviews. Since mostchess books are not available inregular book stores, having reviewsof content and recommendations bychess playing level would beextremely valuable.

[The CFC website offers many suchreviews at http://www.chess.ca Ed.]

Matt Oettli

Ajax, ONIf my wishes for the new year wouldcome true Ö the CFC would finallyget together with ChessÕn Math forthe benefit of our young players.

I also wish that more of our strongplayers, especially those who playedin this yearÕs national championshipin Brantford, would submit gamesfor everyone else to learn from. I wasvery disappointed to find not asingle game from Alexandre Lesiege,Kevin Spraggett, Lawrence Day,Brian Nickoloff, Michael Schleifer,Thanh Nha Duong or Jack Yoos.Many heartfelt thanks for the veryentertaining and insightfulsubmissions by David Ross, MaratKhassanov, Tom Schmidt and RobertGardner. I can appreciate that EnPassant and organizers donÕt want tostep on any toes by pressuringplayers to submit games, so I amasking for the rest of us!

Jason Berson


Smiths Falls, ONYour last editorial has encouragedme to add my two cents worth! I willstart with the items specificallyreferred to:

ÒMasters ForumÓ: I donÕt think itwould be amiss if the editor threw acurve or two at the Mastersoccasionally with a well-playedgame between amateurs, or perhapsa GM Blitz battle from the ICC server.

ÒComing EventsÓ is a section thatmany of our Internet savvy readersprobably skip over. To me, a friendlyreminder about a future appointmentnever hurts! Keep it, because itÕs likea PSA on television or radio.

The ÒRating ListÓ could definitely bedropped from the magazine. Themajority of those concerned aboutreceiving this data are either ratings-conscious players or organizers and

TDs who are mostly able to get whatthey want from the CFC web pages.

ÒKomputer KornerÓ always wrotelucid, to-the-point, and currentreviews, but I donÕt miss this for onesecond: how many of us are in theposition of owning several databaseor playing programs? The makers ofthese programs maintain their owninformation sharing mechanisms viatheir websites, and thus interestedplayers can go elsewhere for thisinformation.

IM Deen HergottÕs ÒApprenticeÕsWorkshopÓ was an excellent serieswith nicely varied content. For someof us instructional material like this isvery interesting, but perhaps toothers it looks too much likehomework from their school days!Robert SasataÕs articles were an

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excellent source of similar material,and I would like to see more.

One area that we neglect shamefullyin play and seem to neglect in ournational magazine as well is chessendings. The commercial success ofrecent endgame books is proof thatthis is not such a dry subject after all.

Some suggestions to improve themagazine would include:

1) Sign IM Lawrence Day to a long-term contract and just let him writeabout his vast chess experience.

2) More photographs of players, andmaterial on their personalities etc.

3) CFC President Maurice Smithstarted ÒThe Lighter Side of ChessÓ,and surely there must be morecontributions out there?

Robert N Webb


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Ontario

St.Valentine's Day OpenDate: February 4Ð6Place: Best Western Primrose Hotel,

111 Carlton Street, TorontoRds: 5Type: Regular SwissTC: 40/120, SD/60Times: 7 / 10, 4:30 / 10, 4:30EF: $60; $20 late fee after February

3; less $20 Jr./Sr., women, titledplayers and 2400+

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Misc: Bye 1Ð4 max. 2; special rate atBest Western Primrose Hotel1Ð800Ð268Ð8082

Toronto Closed ChampionshipDate: February 9 Ð March 8 (Mon/

Wed/Fri)Place: 1681 Bayview Ave., two blocks

south of Eglinton, aboveChessÕn Math, Toronto

Rds: 11Type: Regular RRTC: 40/120, SD/60Times: 6EF: $60Sec: Championship, ReservePrizes: $$G1440Reg: Cheques to Mark S. Dutton,

Suite 3910, Leaside Towers, 95Thorncliffe Park Drive, Toronto,ON, M4H 1L7 by February 4


Misc: Top section FIDE rated

Kingston OpenDate: February 12Ð13Place: QueenÕs University, John

Deutsch Centre (NE corner ofUnion St. and University Ave.)

Rds: 5Type: Regular SwissTimes: 9:30, 2:30, 7:30 / 9:30, 2:30TC: 30/90, SD/60EF: Open $35, U1950 $30, U1600

$26; less $10 Sr/Jr. Free to IMs.Late fee $5 after February 6

Sec: Open, U1950, U1600Prizes: $$BENReg: After 08:00 at site; or cheques to

Rob Hutchison, 109 York St.,

Kingston, ON, K7K 1P9Org: Rob Hutchison (613)544Ð3515Misc: Bye 1Ð3; an EOCA Grand Prix

event; bring sets and clocks

John Allan Memorial ActiveDate: February 19Place: Corner of Currie St. & Dieppe

Road, St.Catharines, ONRds: 5Type: Swiss ActiveTimes: 11TC: G/30EF: $12; $8 Sr./Jr., womenSec: Open, U1800Prizes: $$BENReg: 10:15Ð10:45 at siteOrg: St. Catharines CCMisc: Bye 1Ð3, TD: Keith Wight

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Collegiate, 1176 Pharmacy Ave.Rds: 6Type: Active SwissTimes: 1, 2:30, 3:45, 5:15, 6:30, 7:45TC: G/30EF: $25; $5 late fee; less $5 Jr./Sr.Prizes: $$BENReg: 11:00Ð12:30 at site; or cheques

to Scarborough Chess Club, 250Cassandra Blvd Apt # 330, DonMills, ON, M3A 1T9

Org: Bryan Lamb (416)391Ð4777,[email protected]

Scarborough Youth Tournaments#6, #7, #8, #9

Dates: January 29, February 26, March25, May 6

Place: Scarborough CC, WexfordCollegiate, 1176 PharmacyAvenue (north of Lawrence)

Rds: 5Type: Swiss, open to U18 by Jan.1,

2000Times: 11:15, 12:20, 1:30, 2:50, 4TC: G/15EF: $10; $7 SCC Jr. membersSec: 1Prizes: Scarborough CC and CFC

memberships, trophies andmedals

Reg: 10:15Ð11:00 at site; or chequesto Scarborough Chess Club, 250Cassandra Blvd, Apt#330, DonMills, ON, M3A 1T9

Org: Bryan Lamb, (416)391Ð4777,[email protected]

Toronto Class ChampionshipDate: March 10Ð12Place: Best Western Primrose Hotel,


111 Carlton Street, TorontoRds: 5Type: Regular SwissTimes: 7 / 10, 4:30 / 10, 4:30TC: 40/120, SD/60EF: $60; $20 late fee after March 9;

less $20 Jr./Sr., women, titledplayers and 2400+

Sec: Masters, Experts, U2000, U1800,U1600, U1400/UR


to Mark S. Dutton, Suite 3910,Leaside Towers, 95 ThorncliffePark Drive, Toronto, ON, M4H1L7 by March 6


Misc: Bye 1Ð4 max. 2; top sectionFIDE rated; brings sets, clocks;special rate at Best WesternPrimrose Hotel 1-800Ð268Ð8082

Scarborough March ActiveDate: March 18Place: Scarborough CC, Wexford

Collegiate, 1176 Pharmacy Ave.Rds: 6Type: Active SwissTimes: 1, 2:30, 3:45, 5:15, 6:30, 7:45TC: G/30EF: $25; $5 late fee; less $5 Jr./Sr.Prizes: $$BENReg: 11:00Ð12:30 at site; or cheques

to Scarborough Chess Club, 250Cassandra Blvd Apt # 330, DonMills, ON, M3A 1T9

Org: Bryan Lamb (416)391Ð4777,[email protected]

RA Spring OpenDate: March 18Ð19Place: RA Centre, 2451 Riverside Dr.,

OttawaRds: 5Type: Regular SwissTimes: 9, 2:15, 7:30 / 9, 2:15TC: 30/90, SD/60EF: $35; $10 late fee; less $5 for RA

CC members; less $15 foramateurs (not eligible forprizes, must be rated U1600 orUR and play in the U1600section, may deduct $5 for RACC membership)

Sec: Open, U2100, U1850, U1600Reg: By March 16 at 19:30 at RA CC;

at site by 08:45 on March 18; orcheques to Doug Burgess, 126Rutherford Court, Kanata, ON,K2K 1N5, by March 10th

Misc: Byes 1Ð3, max. 1; EOCA GrandPrix event

Guelph Spring OpenDate: April 8Ð9Place: Room 332, Guelph University

CentreRds: 5Type: Regular Swiss

Times: 9, 2, 7TC: 30/85, SD/60EF: $35; less $10 Jr./Sr.; $10 late fee

after April 5Sec: Open, U2000, U1700Prizes: $$BENReg: Until 08:45 at site; or cheques to

Hal Bond, 39 SouthamptonStreet, Guelph, ON, N1H 5N3

Org: Hal Bond (519)822Ð2162,[email protected]

Misc: Bye 1Ð3; bring sets, clocks;SWOCL Grand Prix event

Toronto Open ChampionshipDate: April 21Ð23Place: Best Western Primrose Hotel,

111 Carlton Street, TorontoRds: 6Type: Regular SwissTimes: 10, 4:30 / 10, 4:30 / 10, 4:30TC: 40/120, SD/60EF: $70; $20 late fee after April 20;


Sec: Open/U2300, U2100, U1700,U1900, U1500/UR


to Mark S. Dutton, Suite 3910,Leaside Towers, 95 ThorncliffePark Drive, Toronto, ON, M4H1L7 by April 17


Misc: Bye 1Ð5 max. 3; top sectionFIDE rated; brings sets, clocks;special rate at Best WesternPrimrose Hotel 1Ð800Ð268Ð8082

Ontario High School ChampionshipDate: May 12Ð14Place: New College, University of

TorontoRds: Championship 5, Intermediate

& Beginner 6Type: Regular SwissTimes: Championship 1, 7 / 9, 3 / 9;

Intermediate & Beginner 1, 7 /9, 2, 7 / 9

TC: Championship Rds. 1Ð2 G/120,Rds. 3Ð5 30/90, SD/60;Intermediate G/120; BeginnerG/90

EF: $20; $10 late fee after April 20Sec: Open, Intermediate U1500 &

UR, Beginner U1100 & URPrizes: Individual and team prizesReg: Cheques to Ontario High

School Chess Championship, c/o Stephen Leacock CI, 2450Birchmount Rd, Agincourt, ON,M1T 2M5 by April 20

Org: Christopher Field(416)926Ð0033,[email protected]

Misc: If a school has three or moreplayers in the same section,they are eligible for specialteam prizes. If a school has at

Scarborough ChessClub Tournament

ScheduleAll events have the following

information in common unlessnoted otherwise.

Place: Scarborough ChessClub, Wexford Collegiate, 1176

Pharmacy Avenue,Scarborough, ON

Club Hours: Sundays12:30Ð20:30 (games at 13:00),Tuesdays 18:30Ð23:00 (games

at 19:00), Thursdays18:30Ð23:00 (games at 19:00)

Org: Bryan Lamb(416)391Ð4777

[email protected]

Misc: Scarborough Chess Clubmembership required ($100/yrAdult, $75/yr Jr. & Sr.). Events

are CFC-rated (CFCmembership required). Entry

fees to events covered by clubmembership

Special Events:

Thursday Evening EventsTC: 30/75, SD/30

Times: 7, one game per week

Sunday Afternoon EventsTC: 40/120, SD/60

Times: 1, one game per week

Scarborough Youth #7, #8, #9Date: Feb. 26, Mar. 25, May 6

Type: Active SwissRds: 5

Times: 11

SCC Millenium RRDate: Jan. 27 to Feb. 24

Type: Regular RRRds: 5

SCC Millenium SwissDate: Feb. 13 to Mar. 26

Type: Regular SwissRds: 5

Scarborough CC ActivesDate: Feb. 20, Mar. 18, Apr. 15

Type: Active SwissRds: 6

Times: 1

SCC Spring SwissDate: March 9 to May 4

Type: Regular SwissRds: 7

SCC Spring RRDate: April 2 to May 14

Type: Regular RRRds: 5

Ongoing Blitz TournamentsSundays: G/5, $10 at 17:00

Tuesdays: G/15, $10 at 19:00


least one player in each section,it will be eligible for thecombined team prizes

Toronto Father�s Day OpenDate: June 16Ð18Place: Best Western Primrose Hotel,

111 Carlton Street, TorontoRds: 5Type: Regular SwissTimes: 7 / 10, 4:30 / 10, 4:30TC: 40/120, SD/60EF: $60; $20 late fee after June 15;


Sec: Open/U2300, U2100, U1900,U1700, U1500/UR


to Mark S. Dutton, Suite 3910,Leaside Towers, 95 ThorncliffePark Drive, Toronto, ON, M4H1L7 by June 12


Misc: Bye 1Ð4 max. 2; brings sets,clocks; special rate at BestWestern Primrose Hotel1Ð800Ð268Ð8082

Canada Day OpenDate: July 1Ð3Place: 1681 Bayview Ave., two blocks


Rds: 6Type: Regular SwissTC: 40/120, SD/60Times: 10, 4:30 / 10, 4:30 / 10, 4:30EF: $60; $20 late fee; less $20 Jr./

Sr., women, titled players,2400+; GMs free

Sec: Open, U2000, U1600Prizes: $$BENReg: 08:30Ð09:30 at site, or cheques

to Mark S. Dutton, Suite 3910,Leaside Towers, 95 ThorncliffePark Drive, Toronto, ON, M4H1L7 by June 26


Misc: Bye 1Ð5, max. 3; top sectionFIDE rated; bring sets, clocks

Simcoe Day OpenDate: August 5Ð7Place: 1681 Bayview Ave., two blocks


Rds: 6Type: Regular SwissTC: 40/120, SD/60Times: 10, 4:30 / 10, 4:30 / 10, 4:30EF: $60; $20 late fee; less $20 Jr./

Sr., women, titled players,2400+; GMs free

Sec: Open, U2100, U1700Prizes: $$BENReg: 08:30Ð09:30 at site, or cheques

to Mark S. Dutton, Suite 3910,

Dutton ChessY2K Toronto EventsAll events have the following

information in common unlessnoted otherwise.

Place: Best Western PrimroseHotel, 111 Carlton Street (at

Jarvis Street), Toronto

Rds: 5 Type: Regular Swiss

TC: 40/120, SD/60

Org: Mark S. Dutton(416)467Ð9715,

[email protected], http://www.play.at/duttonchess

Misc: GTCL sanctioned

Events:

St. ValentineÕs Day OpenFebruary 4Ð6

Toronto Class ChampionshipMarch 10Ð12

Toronto Open ChampionshipApril 21Ð23; 6 rds.

Ontario OpenMay 20Ð22; 6 rds.

FatherÕs Day OpenJune 16Ð18

Canada Day OpenJuly 1Ð3; 6 rds.

Simcoe Day OpenAugust 5Ð7; 6 rds.

Toronto Summer InternationalAugust 16Ð20; 9 rds.

$G15,000; FIDE rated

All events have the followinginformation in common unless

noted otherwise.

Place: Dutton Chess Club,1681 Bayview Avenue

Misc: Adults $99, Jr./Sr. $69;join anytime with byes!

Mondays:

G/15 events starting at 19:30EF: $10

Wednesdays:

Cabin Fever SwissFebruary 9 to March 15

Spring SwissMarch 22 to April 26

Mayflower SwissMay 3 to June 7

Summer SwissJune 14 to July 19

Saturdays:

G/5 Blitz; 7 double rds. SwissTimes: 13:00 & 16:00 EF: $10

Leaside Towers, 95 ThorncliffePark Drive, Toronto, ON, M4H1L7 by July 31


Misc: Bye 1Ð5, max. 3; top sectionFIDE rated; bring sets andclocks

British Columbia

Elod Macskasy Memorial ActiveDate: February 5Place: Vancouver Bridge Centre, 2776

East Broadway, VancouverRds: 5Type: Active SwissTimes: 11, 12:15, 2, 3:15, 4:30TC: G/30EF: $20; $15 Jr./Sr., Masters; 50% off

new CFC membersPrizes: $$BENReg: 10:30Ð11:00 at siteOrg: BCCF; Chris Spicer

(604)688Ð4253

Vancouver YMCA ActiveDate: February 11, 18, 25Place: YMCA, 955 Burrard Street,

VancouverRds: 6 (two rounds per night)Type: Active SwissTimes: 7:30, asapTC: G/30EF: $15Reg: 19:00Ð19:30 at siteOrg: Dave Hunter (604)588Ð2560

Kelowna Winterfest, BCDate: February 12Ð13Place: Sandman Hotel 2130 Harvey

Avenue, Kelowna, BC1Ð800Ð726Ð4118

Rds: 5Type: SwissTimes: 9, 2, 7 / 9, asapTC: 30/90 SD/60EF: $30, $25 Sr.,$15 Jr.Prizes: $$BENReg: 08:30Ð09:00 at siteOrg: Wally Steinke and Ian Higgs;

[email protected]: Bring clocks

West Coast OpenDate: February 18Ð20Place: Vancouver Bridge Centre, 2776

East Broadway, VancouverRds: 5Type: Regular SwissTimes: 7 / 10:30, 5 / 9:30, asapTC: 40/120, SD/60EF: $35; $25 Jr./Sr., Masters; 50% off


(604)688Ð4253


Misc: Bye 1Ð4 max. 2

John Prentice Memorial ActiveDate: March 4Place: Vancouver Bridge Centre, 2776

East Broadway, VancouverRds: 5Type: Active SwissTimes: 5, asapTC: G/30EF: $20; $15 Jr./Sr., Masters; 50% off


(604)688Ð4253

Vancouver Spring OpenDate: March 17Ð19Place: Vancouver Bridge Centre, 2776

East Broadway, VancouverRds: 5Type: Regular SwissTimes: 7 / 10:30, 5 / 9:30, asapTC: 40/120, SD/60EF: $35; $25 Jr./Sr., Masters; 50% off


(604)688Ð4253Misc: Bye 1Ð4 max. 2

April Fool's ActiveDate: April 1Place: Vancouver Bridge Centre, 2776

East Broadway, VancouverRds: 5Type: Active SwissTimes: 5, asapTC: G/30EF: $20; $15 Jr./Sr., Masters; 50% off


(604)688Ð4253,[email protected]

British Columbia OpenDate: April 21Ð23Place: Vancouver Bridge Centre, 2776

East Broadway, VancouverRds: 6Type: Regular SwissTimes: 10:30, 5 / 10:30, 5 / 9:30, asapTC: 40/120, SD/60EF: $45; $30 Jr./Sr., Masters; 50% off


(604)688Ð4253Misc: Bye 1Ð5 max. 2; BC Closed

qualifier

Paul Keres MemorialDate: May 13Ð22Place: Totem Park, University of BC,

Vancouver

Junior Chess in BC Lower Mainland 1999-2000Organized by the British Columbia Chess Federation (BCCF). Prizes,

books, gifts, and/or trophies and/or certificates for participants. Eventsmay qualify winners to participate in provincial and national events.Rated by the Chess Federation of Canada. Unless otherwise stated,

events are open to all junior players at all playing levels.

Details for all Vancouver, Surrey, and JCC Junior Open events:

Rds: 5 minimum Type: Regular Swiss TC: At TD discretion

Sec: 3 maximum Reg: Until 09:40 at the site

Times: Start at 10 or asap, finish between 3 and 5

EF: $13 CFC members, $25 all others (incl. $13 CFC ParticipatingMembership), unless noted otherwise

Prizes: Trophies, prizes, books, or cash guaranteed for 1st and 2ndplaces in each section

Org: Richard Krys 986Ð6216, Joshua Keshet 873Ð0957, Katherine Davies266Ð5842, Stephen Miller 299Ð4203 (BCIT events), or Harold Daykin

597Ð6488 (Surrey and Fraser Valley events)

Misc: Bye 1Ð5. Interested chess promoters: We will be glad to assistwith the arrangement of more events anywhere in the Lower Mainland,as well as special events in schools. BCCF web site at www.chess.bc.ca

Site Information:

Vancouver: Bridge Centre, 2776 East Broadway, Vancouver, BC

BCIT: Town Square Rooms (AÐD), BCIT, Canada Way & Willingdon,Burnaby, BC

Surrey: Bethany Newton Church, corner 148 St. & 60th Ave., Surrey, BC

JCC: Jewish Community Centre, corner 41 & Oak, Vancouver, BC

Event Information:

00/2/5 Surrey Fraser Valley CYCC (EF: $15, $20 non-members)

00/2/13 Vancouver Vancouver CYCC (EF: $15, $20 non-members)

00/3/4 Surrey Fraser Regional Chess Challenge (Grades K-7); SchoolBoard Conference Centre, #400, 140 St. & 92 Ave. (#)

00/3/5 Vancouver BCIT Vancouver Regional Chess Challenge (#)

00/4/1Ð2 Vancouver Provincial CYCC (EF: $25) (#)

00/4/22 Vancouver BCIT Provincial Chess Challenge (#)

00/5/TBA Surrey Junior Open (2000 Junior qualifier) (#)

00/6/4 Vancouver JCC Junior Open (2000 Junior qualifier) (#)

Notes: (#) Ñ CFC membership is not required

Rds: 10Type: Regular SwissTimes: TBATC: GM 40/120, 20/60, SD/30;

Other 40/120, SD/60EF: $105 by February 29, $125 by

April 30; $150 thereafter; GMsfree; less $50 Jr./Sr., women, IM

Sec: GM (>2100), U2300, U2000,U1700, U1400

Prizes: $$BENReg: Cheques to BCCF, PO Box

15548, Vancouver, BC, V6B 5B3Org: Estonian Consulate of Canada,

BCCF, Vancouver EstonianSociety, Jason (604)899Ð0611,or Lyle (604)980Ð2040

Misc: Bye 1Ð10 max.4; bring clocks;GM Section is FIDE rated;several accelerated schedulesavailable to accommodateworking players; info at http://www.chess.bc.ca; we have alimited number of dormaccommodation packages

Alberta

ECC John TournamentsDate: Monday nightsPlace: Edmonton Chess ClubRds: 4


Type: Active SwissTC: G/30EF: $2Reg: 18:30Ð19:15 at siteOrg: John Quiring (403)468Ð9173

Words Books U1900 ActiveDate: 1st Saturday of each monthPlace: Words Books and Cappuccino

Bar, 1715 17th Ave. SW, CalgaryRds: 5Type: Active SwissTimes: 10Ð4:30TC: G/30EF: $7Reg: 9:30Ð10:00 at siteOrg: Tedge Davies,

[email protected]

New Brunswick

Fredericton Snowflea IIDate: March 10Ð12Place: Centre Communautaire Sainte-

Anne, Room DÐ203, 715Priestman Street

Rds: 5Type: Regular SwissTimes: 6:30 / 10, 4 / 9, 3TC: Rd. 1: G/120; Rds. 2Ð5: 40/120,

SD/60EF: $25; $20 Jr. U1600; $10 Cd.; less

$2 for ÒClub dÕechecs Sainte-AnneÓ members; free entry fornew CFC members

Prizes: $$BENReg: 17:30Ð18:15 at siteOrg: Chris Maund,

[email protected]: Bye 1Ð4; bring sets and clocks

C.R.C.C. TornadosDate: March 18, May13, July 1,

September 2, November 4

Place: N.B.C.C. Youghall Drive,Bathurst

Rds: 4Type: Regular SwissTimes: 9, 11, 2, 4pmTC: G/60EF: $15; Cd. $10; $2 new CFC

membersPrizes: $$BENReg: 08:00Ð08:45 at site; or call Leo

Legacy (506)783Ð3121Misc: Bring sets and clocks

North Shore OpenDate: April 8Ð9Place: N.B.C.C. Youghall Drive,

BathurstRds: 5Type: Regular SwissTimes: 9, 2:30, 8 / 8, 2TC: 30/90, SD/60EF: $25; Jr./Sr. $20; Cd. $10, $2

new CFC membersPrizes: $$BENReg: 07:00Ð08:30 at site; or cheques

to Leo Legacy, 101 ChamplainStreet, Petit Rocher, NB, E8J 1S1

Misc: Bring sets and clocks

Fredericton Victoria WeekendDate: May 19Ð21Place: Centre Communautaire Sainte-

Anne, Room DÐ203, 715Priestman Street

Rds: 5Type: Regular SwissTimes: 6:30 / 10, 4 / 9, 3TC: Rd. 1: G/120; Rds. 2Ð5: 40/120,

SD/60EF: $25; $20 Jr. U1600; $10 Cd.; less

$2 for ÒClub dÕechecs Sainte-AnneÓ members; free entry fornew CFC members

Prizes: $$BEN

Reg: 17:30Ð18:15 at siteOrg: Chris Maund,

[email protected]: Bye 1Ð4; bring sets and clocks

Prince Edward Island

Charlottetown OpenDate: May 6Ð7Place: Colonel Gray High School

LibraryRds: 5Type: SwissTimes: 9:30, 1, 7 / 9, 2TC: Rd.1 G/90; Rds.2Ð5 40/120, SD/

60EF: $25, $15 Jr., $10 elementary

school playersPrizes: $$G450Reg: 09:00 at siteOrg: Fred McKim (902)566Ð8244(w)

or (902)894Ð4171(h)

Nova Scotia

4th Annual Lunenburg County OpenDate: April 14Ð16Place: Wandlyn Inn, BridgewaterRds: 5Type: Regular SwissTimes: 7 / 9:30, 3 / 9, 2:30EF: $25; $10 Jr./Sr., Masters; free for

new CFC membersSec: Open, U1700Prizes: $$BENReg: 18:00Ð19:00 at siteOrg: Steve Saunders (902)624Ð9361,

[email protected], [email protected]

Misc: Bye 1Ð5; Speed chess eventSaturday at 20:00; Wandlyn Inn(902)543Ð7131

First, second and third prizes go to the players who accumuate the most pointsin the Open sections of seven events. Other prizes are won by those

accumulating the most points in all events, in any section. Rating category isdetermined by established rating appearing in the 1999 Annual Rating List. Allother (unrated, provisionally rated, not on 1999 list, etc.) are eligible for the

Unestablished Rating prize. Best Overall Total is open to all and is in additionto any other prize won.

Grand Prix PrizesFirst Prize: $618Second Prize: $318Third Prize: $2171950Ð2199 $2181700Ð1949 $218Under 1700 $218Unestablished Rating: $118Best Overall Total: $118Total Prizes: $2044

Grand Prix Winners1982-83 Kevin Spraggett; 1983-84 Stephen Ball; 1984-85 Brian Hartman; 1985-86 Gordon

Taylor; 1986-87 Brian Hartman; 1987-88 John Armstrong & Glenn Johnstone; 1988-89 DeenHergott; 1989-90 Deen Hergott; 1990-91 Deen Hergott; 1991-92 Deen Hergott; 1992-93 DeenHergott; 1993-94 Gordon Taylor; 1994-95 Gordon Taylor; 1995-96 Glenn Johnstone; 1996-97

Deen Hergott; 1997-98 Deen Hergott & Michael Schleifer; 1998-99 Deen Hergott

Grand Prix Schedule6. Kingston Open R.Hutchinson February 12Ð13

7. R.A. Spring Open D.Burgess March 18Ð198. Arnprior Open M.Wasmund May 6Ð7

9. Eastern Ontario Open D.Burgess June 10Ð11


EDMONTON

2000

The

Edmonton Chess Club - Alberta Chess Association - Chess Federation of Canadapresent the

2000 Canadian OpenChess Championship

$20,000 Prize Fund Based on 200 EntriesFeaturing

GM Kevin Spraggett (CA)GM Joel Benjamin (US)

GM Peter Wells (GB)FM Jack Yoos (CA)

online registration form and info at http://members.home.net/cdnopen2000 [email protected]

Date: July 8th 2000 to July 16th 2000Place: University of Alberta Conference Centre, Edmonton, ABRds: 10Type: Regular Swiss, CFC and FIDE rated, one sectionTC: 40/120, 20/60, SD/30EF: $85 before 2000/02/29; $105 before 2000/05/31; $125 at the site

Discounts: IMs and GMs free; Juniors (U20) 50% off; FIDE rated 25% offOrg: Grant Brown (780)433Ð1505, [email protected]; David Ottosen (780)425Ð1584, [email protected]: Cheques payable to the Chess Federation of Canada; and send with your name, address, CFC membership number,

phone, eMail and birthdate (Juniors only) to 2212 Gladwin Crescent E1, Ottawa, ON, K1B 5N1; phone(613)733Ð2844 or fax (613)733Ð5209; www.chess.ca; [email protected]

Accomodations: All package deals below include your entry fee, 9 nights accommodation, t-shirt, closingceremonies banquet, and a tournament book mailed to your home address. No substitutions.

Dorm rooms: Located next to the tournament site. Each room has 2 single beds, 2 desks, 2 wardrobes, and 2bureaus. There are common bathrooms and a common kitchen on each floor.

Hotel suites: Located three blocks from the tournament site. They contain a bedroom with a queen-sized bed, aliving-room area with a pull-out, queen-sized sofa-bed, and a kitchenette. Laundry facilities are available. Pleaseinquire about available family rates.

Discounts on package deals: Juniors $50 off; FIDE rated players $25 off.

Details: Parking and tennis courts next to tournament site are available; as are renewable three-day passes forall other University of Alberta recreational facilities.

All of the above prices are in Canadian funds, and are fully refundable up to May 31, 2000

Dorm Rooms Hotel Suitesdouble single double single

before Feb. 29 $350 $450 $600 $1000Mar. 1 Ð May 31 $370 $470 $620 $1020after May 31 $390 $490 $640 $1040


OpeningPreparation

by Knut Neven

In spite of his eventual loss in thelatter part of the middlegame, BlackÕsopening idea remains a viable wayto equalize against a popular Whitesetup in the Gr�nfeld Defense.

Curious readers are referred to Newin Chess YBs No.41 and No.50, aswell as Informant 67/541, where thefollowing game was first published.

Notes by

Knut Neven

Smirin, IlyaNeven, Knut

Calgary CA op (3), 1996Grünfeld: Exchange D85

1.c4 »f6 2.»c3 g6 3.d4 d5 4.cxd5»xd5 5.e4 »xc3 6.bxc3 ºg77.»f3 c5 8.¼b1 O-O 9.ºe2 »c610.d5 »e5 11.»xe5 ºxe512.½d2 e6 13.f4 ºc7 14.ºc4 a6

Mark Dvoretsky suggests theimmediate 14Öb5 15.¼xb5 ºa616.¼xc5 ºb6. However, 17.dxe6ºxc5 18.exf7+ ¼xf7 19.ºxa6 looksrather promising for White.

Smirin himself did not fare well with14Öe5 15.½f2 exf4 16.ºxf4 ½f6 17.0-0 ºxf4 18.½xf4 ½xc3 19.e5 b520.¼xb5 ºa6 21.¼c5 ½xb4 22.¼c6ºb7 23.d6 ½b2 24.ºxf7+ ¾g7 25.¼f2Ø WellsÐSmirin, Antwerp op 1994.

15.a4 b5 16.axb5 axb5 17.ºxb5

Now after 17.¼xb5 ºa6 18.¼xc5 ºb6the disappearance of a-¹s leaves º/a6 protected, and Black is clearlybetter after 19.¼c6 ºb7 20.¼xb6½xb6 21.dxe6 fxe6.

17Öexd5 18.ºc6

The alternative 18.exd5 ºb7 19.ºc4¼e8+ 20.¾f2 ºc8! gives Blackexcellent compensation.

Critical however is 18.½xd5 ½xd519.exd5 ºf5 20.¼b2 (20.¼b3 ¼a2)when Black needs to avoid 20Öºxf421.ºxf4!? ¼a1+ 22.¾f2 ¼xh1 23.¼d2

¼b1 24.c4 with a huge passed pawn;but 20Öºa5 looks ok. Now 21.¾d2and 21.¼b3 are both met by 21Öºe4while 21.ºd2 ºxc3 22.ºxc3 ¼a1+23.¾f2 ¼xh1 24.¼d2 ¼b1 25.ºc6¼c1 gives Black a better version ofthe ending after 20Öºxf4 examinedpreviously.

18Ö¼a6 19.ºxd5

Black is definitely fine after 19.½xd5½f6 20.ºb5 ¼a1 21.¼xa1 ½xc3+22.½d2 ½xa1.

Very complicated is 19.exd5 ºf5(Geoffrey Borg suggested 19Ö¼xc6!?20.dxc6 ¼e8+ 21.¾f2 ½f6�):

A) 20.¼b3 c4 21.¼b7 ºb6 and Blackhas nice play;

B) 20.¼b5 ºd7! 21.ºxd7 ½xd7 22.c4¼e8+ 23.¾f2 ¼e4 is ;

C) 20.¼b7 ºb6! 21.0-0 ºc8 22.¼b8½c7 23.¼xb6 ¼xb6 leads to forcingplay after 24.f5 f6! 25.fxg6 hxg626.½h6 ºf5 27.ºf4 (or 27.¼e1 ¼xc6!28.dxc6 ½xc6 29.¼e7 ¼f7=) 27Ö½e728.d6 ½e6 29.d7 ¼d8 30.ºc7 ¼xc631.ºxd8 ½xd7 and Black is fine;

D) 20.¼b2 c4 21.0-0 ½f6 is probablybest after 22.¼b7 (Not so good is22.¼e1 ºa5 23.¼e5 ºb6+ 24.¾h1ºc7 25.¼e8 ¼xe8 26.ºxe8 ºe4; or22.¼f3 ºe4 23.¼h3 ¼d8) 22Öºa523.ºb2 ¼d8 24.½e3 (Also interestingis 24.½e1 ºd3 25.¼f3 ºb6+ 26.¾h1ºe4! 27.½xe4 ½xc6 28.¼b8 ½b529.¼xd8+ ºxd8 30.ºc1 ¼d6)24Ö¼c6! 25.dxc6 ½xc6 26.½a7 ¼d227.½a8+ ºd8 28.¼b8 ½xa8 29.¼xa8ºe4 30.¼xd8+ ¼xd8=.

19Ö¼d6 20.O-O

After 20.½e2 ¼xd5 21.exd5 ¼e822.ºe3 ºxf4 23.ºxf4 ¼xe2+24.¾xe2 ½xd5 White remains withmany weaknesses and an exposedking. Geoffrey Borg analyzed 20.ºa3ºf5 21.ºxc5 ¼xd5 22.exd5 ºxb123.ºxf8 ½xf8 24.¾f2 ºe4°.

20Öºf5!!

The key idea!

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21.½c2

Here BorgÐNeven, cr 1996 wasagreed drawn after 21.exf5 ¼xd522.½f2. Smirin continues to pressBlack on his misplaced ¼/f5.

21Ö¼xd5 22.exf5 ¼xf5 23.c4 h5?!

Smirin suggests 23Ö¼f6 24.f5 ½d7=.

24.g3 ½d4 25.¾h1 ¼d8

But not 25Ö¼e8 26.¼d1! ½e427.½xe4 ¼xe4 28.¼d7 when Blackcannot allow ¼b8+ followed by ºb2.

26.ºb2 ½d3 27.½xd3 ¼xd3=28.¼be1 ¼d8 29.h4!?

Further restricts BlackÕs waywardrook by preventing the Ög5 break.

29Öºd6 30.¾g2 ºf8 31.¼d1¼xd1?

Here 31Ö¼c8 (Smirin) or 31Ö¼a8(Yudasin) draw easily. GM KevinSpraggett offered his condolences bysharing with me that he once lost anidentical ending some years agoÖ

32.¼xd1 ºg7 33.ºxg7 ¾xg734.¾f3 ¾f6?«

Here 34Ö¼f6 is BlackÕs last chance.

35.¾e4 ¾e6 36.¼d2 f6

36Ö¾e7 37.¼d5 ¾e6 38.¼e5+!«.

37.¼a2 ¾f7 38.¼a7+ ¾g8 39.¼d7¾f8 40.¼d5 ¼xd5 41.¾xd5 ¾e742.¾xc5 ¾e6 43.¾b6 ¾f5 44.c5¾g4 45.c6 ¾xg3 46.c7 ¾xf447.c8½ g5 48.½e6 ¾g3 49.½xf6¾h4 50.¾c5 Ø.


1999 IndexEvents and Articles142Ð33 means issue #142, page 33.Players and ECO Codes: +, Ð, = isWhiteÕs score. If the number is inbold face, the first named player hadWhite. For example, Acker had theBlack pieces against Savoia inEP#150, p.35. We know that he hadBlack because the numbers are notin bold, and we know he wonbecause the Ð tells us that Black wonthat game.

Across Canada 154Ð36 155Ð33 156Ð35157Ð31 158Ð39 159Ð40

BC Closed, The 1999 158Ð14Calculation and Analysis 156Ð13Canadian Championship, The

1999 159Ð30Canadian Girls Closed, The 156Ð16Canadian Junior, The 1998 154Ð22Canadian Open, The 1999 157Ð18Canadian Youth Championships, The

1999 157Ð23CFC Associations List 157Ð16CFC Catalogue 155Ðinsert 159ÐinsertCFC Clubs List 157Ð16CFC GovernorÕs Listing 157Ð10Coming Events 154Ð4 155Ð4 156Ð6

157Ð4 158Ð4 159Ð4CYCC Rating List 157Ð29Dorfman: New Nimzovich? 158Ð34Editorial 155Ð2 156Ð2 158Ð2 159Ð2Elista Olympiad, The 1998 154Ð8FIDE Reports 159Ð14GM Factory 154Ð9Gothenburg Bust, The 157Ð12Komputer Korner 154Ð28ICCL Championship 154Ð30Improving your Tactical

Vision 158Ð11Index 1998 154Ð16Kasparov vs. Rest of World 159Ð15Koltanowski International Team

Match, The 156Ð22Las Vegas FIDE Wch 159Ð10Letters 154Ð2 155Ð2 156Ð2 157Ð2

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B95 157+34B98 157+12C00 154+39 155Ð23 155Ð35C01 154Ð34C02 154+32 154=39 158+15 159Ð41C05 154Ð25 158Ð19C06 155+11C07 157Ð20 158Ð34C13 159Ð17C16 154Ð42C23 155=25C25 155+28C26 154Ð33 156Ð2 159=21C41 155Ð21 156=41 157+38 159+34C42 155+24 155Ð24C44 157+19C45 157+26C50 156Ð18C52 155+24C54 155+20C55 155+20 155=42C63 156+41C92 158+21D00 154=38 155Ð16 155Ð22 155Ð22D02 154Ð13 155Ð42 157Ð26D03 155+26D11 156Ð37D15 158+16D20 154Ð26 156Ð19D31 155Ð21D32 155=41D33 156+25D36 156=28 157+36D37 159Ð17D41 159Ð22D45 156+27 157Ð32D55 156Ð18D60 157=38D73 159=13D82 156Ð23D85 156=34D94 159=11 159=24E11 155+14 156=39E12 155=41E15 156+24E17 156=31E26 157+32E32 158+15E41 155Ð41E61 154Ð40E62 157+39E69 159Ð37E90 157Ð39E92 154+35 156=26E93 158Ð21E94 159=12 159+13M 154Ð25 154Ð25 154+26 155=2

155+9 155=9 155+10 155+10155Ð10 155Ð11 155+11 155Ð25156+13 156+20 156+28 156Ð36158Ð11 158Ð11 158Ð11 158Ð12158+12 158+12 158+12 158+13158+19 158=20 158+20

PlayersAlberoni Ensor,A 155+20Allen,D Gardner,R 159Ð35Afrah,N Charbonneau,P 154+24

Henson,J 154+27Allen,G McTavish,D 154+41Aquino,M Milne,A 156Ð2Baragar,F Sasata,R 158=28


Bates,D Ivankovic,G 157+33Becerra,J Zilberman,Y 155=2Benggawan,Am Smeltzer,W 157+38

Langer,H 157=38Bergeron,F Stroud,M 155Ð41Berry,J Kostadinov,G 157+32Bhat,V OÕDonnell,T 156+27Bjornsson,Y Schaeffer,K 154+32Blackburne,H Mackenzie 158Ð12Boehmer,K Schleifer,M 156=39Boleslavsky Kholmov 158+13Brennan,J Saunders,S 158+42Browne,W Zugic,I 156=34Bruziewicz,A Ochkoos,J 154=38Cafengiu,G Demmery,S 155Ð42

Hartman,B 155=42Carlisle,M Charbonneau,P 154Ð25Cartagena,O 156+25Chaikovskaya Stendelite 158+12Charbonneau,P Hua,L 154+23

Afrah,N 154+24 Carlisle,M 154Ð25Sadoway,S 157+28

Chatzillias,A Moffat,A 155Ð40Lazarev,V 158+19

Cheng,A Goutor,V 157+26Chu,C Liu,J 155Ð15Chu,S Pila,G 154+20 Mogilevsky,O

156Ð19CITY San Francisco CITY Victoria

159Ð17 CITY Victoria 159Ð17 CITYVancouver 159+18 CITYVancouver 159Ð18

CITY Vancouver CITY San Francisco159+18 CITY San Francisco159Ð18

CITY Victoria CITY San Francisco159Ð17 CITY San Francisco159Ð17

Clarke,B Devisser,P 157Ð39Coleman,T Jackson,G 155+24Davies,A Milicevic,D 158+16Day,L Santa Torres,J 154+12 Garcia,J

154Ð13 Nickoloff,B 155Ð27Winterton,K 155+28 Livshits,R157+35 OÕDonnell,T 159+20Glinert,S 159+21 Rajlich,V 159=21

De Firmian,N Zugic,I 156Ð30Hergott,D 156=33

Demmery,S Cafengiu,G 155Ð42Den-Otter,A Litchfield,G 157+39Denker,A Fairbairn,S 159=24Devisser,P Clarke,B 157Ð39Divljan,I OÕConnor,M 155=41Djerkovic,M Pushkedra,F 158+21Dombrowski Neven,K 155=9Dougherty,M Maric,B 154Ð34Dutton,M Spraggett,K 156+41Dutton,W Olson,H 154Ð26 Palsson,H

158Ð19Dzindzichashvili,R Zugic,I 156=24Ensor,A Alberoni 155+20 Ryan,J

155+20 Smith,W 155+20 White,J155Ð21 Northcote,H 155Ð21

Fairbairn,S Minev,N 159=23Denker,A 159=24

Feoktistov,D Gushuliak,J 157+25Ferguson,J Moore,H 159+40Filipovich,D Neven,K 155Ð11

Mitrovic,M 156Ð37 Segovia,J 159Ð22Friberg,B Neven,K 155Ð11Fullbrook,N Odachowski,A 159+23

Schmidt,T 159+32Garcia,J Day,L 154Ð13Gardner,R Rajski,P 155=36 Jung,H

159+34 Ross,D 159Ð34 Allen,D159Ð35

Gentes,K Kirton,D 157+12Khassanov,M 159+38

Glinert,S Day,L 159+21

Goldenberg,D Hergott,D 158Ð21Golts,D Kazakevich,A 156Ð18 Goutor,V

156Ð18Golts,R OÕConnor,M 155=41Gomboc,D Ottosen,D 158Ð34Goutor,V Golts,D 156Ð18

Kazakevich,A 156=18 Cheng,A157+26

Graf,S Menchik,V 158+12Grumic,S Milne,A 159Ð41Gushuliak,J Stevens,C 157Ð24

Feoktistov,D 157+25Gygli Henneberger 158Ð11Hacat,K Riwanto,H 155+39Hallam,J Milat,M 158+16Hartman,B Cafengiu,G 155=42Henneberger Gygli 158Ð11Hergott,D Rey,G 156=26 Lobo,R

156=31 Goldenberg,D 158Ð21Sikharulidze,G 159+19

Hicks,W Hale,J 155Ð22 Narraway,J155Ð22 Jackson,G 155Ð23 Howe,H155=23

Hale,J Hicks,W 155Ð22Howarth,A McKim,F 156+43Howe,H Hicks,W 155=23 Jackson,G

155=25Hua,L Charbonneau,P 154+23

Pechisker,A 154+24 Olson,H154+26

Hebert,J Tyomkin,D 158=20Hummel,P 158+22

Henderson,J Jackson,G 155Ð25Henson,J Reddy,T 154Ð25 Afrah,N

154+27Hergott,D Pavasovic,D 154Ð9

Kurajica,B 154=11 Lobo,R 156=31De Firmian,N 156=33

Heseltine-Nutch,K Nowicki,G 154=39Hummel,P Tyomkin,D 158+19

Hebert,J 158+22Ivankovic,G Bates,D 157+33Jackson,G Hicks,W 155Ð23 Smith,W

155+24 Ramsey,R 155Ð24Coleman,T 155+24 Howe,H155=25 Henderson,J 155Ð25

Jiganchine,R Sokourinsky 155+33Jung,H Gardner,R 159+34Karlin,D Lamb,B 155Ð13Kasparov,G Rest of World 159+15Kazakevich,A Golts,D 156Ð18

Goutor,V 156=18Keatinge-Clay,A Ottosen,D 154+31Khan,Z Voloaca,M 154Ð25Khassanov,M Gentes,K 159+38Khaziyeva,D Rodina,N 156=19Kholmov Boleslavsky 158+13Kirton,D Gentes,K 157+12Kiviaho,B Laitila,H 154+39 Mitro,D

154+40Kostadinov,G Berry,J 157+32Kowalczyk,T Tootoosis,H 157+34Kuczaj,C Lapides,A 156Ð36Kurajica,B Hergott,D 154=11Ladsaria,A Shefer,D 154Ð30Laitila,H Kiviaho,B 154+39Lamb,B Karlin,D 155Ð13 Spraggett,K

156=42Langer,H Benggawan,Am 157=38Lapides,A Tot,N 154Ð37 Kuczaj,C

156Ð36 OÕDonnell,T 157Ð20Lasker,E Thomas,G 156+14Lavrovsky,A Shishkina,O 156Ð19Lazarev,V Chatzilias,A 158+19 Taylor,G

158+20Lentini,J Wang,H 157Ð26Linnemann Neven,K 155Ð10Litchfield,G Den-Otter,A 157+39Liu,J Chu,C 155Ð15

Livshits,R Day,L 157+35 Williams,P157+36 Spraggett,K 158+40

Lobo,R Zugic,I 156+28 Hergott,D156=31

Mackenzie Blackburne,H 158Ð12Manalo,P Spraggett,K 156=41Maric,B Dougherty,M 154Ð34Martinovsky,I Milat,M 158+14McKim,F Howarth,A 156+43McTavish,D Allen,G 154+41Menchik,V Graf,S 158+12Milat,M Ristovic,N 157+18

Martinovsky,I 158+14 Yoos,J158+15 Niksic,J 158+15 Hallam,J158+16

Milicevic,G Schleifer,M 155+26Milicevic,D Davies,A 158+16Milne,A Aquino,M 156Ð2 Grumic,S

159Ð41Minev,N Fairbairn,S 159=23Mitro,D Kiviaho,B 154+40Mitrovic,M Filipovich,D 156Ð37Moffat,A Chatzillias,A 155Ð40Mogilarov,D Zugic,I 154Ð21Mogilevsky,O Chu,S 156Ð19Moore,H Ferguson,J 159+40Mulyar,M Tyomkin,D 158Ð23Myers,L Webb,R 154Ð40Narraway,J Hicks,W 155Ð22Neven,K Schrickel 155+9 Dombrowski

155=9 Uthe 155+10 Stolz 155+10Linnemann 155Ð10 Friberg,B155Ð11 Filipovich,D 155Ð11 Yee,A155Ð11

Ng,K Tovar,C 155+14Nickoloff,B Day,L 155Ð27Niksic,J Milat,M 158+15NN Stoner 158Ð11Northcote,H Ensor,A 155Ð21Nowicki,G Heseltine-Nutch,K 154=39OÕConnor,M Golts,R 155=41 Divljan,I

155=41OÕDonnell,T Bhat,V 156+27 Vucic,M

156=28 Zugic,I 156Ð30 Lapides,A157Ð20 Rajlich,V 157=37 Day,L159+20

Ochkoos,J Bruziewicz,A 154=38Odachowski,A Ottosen,D 155=37

Fullbrook,N 159+23Olson,H Dutton,W 154Ð26 Hua,L

154+26Olszewski,P 155Ð16Orlov,G Yoos,J 157Ð19 Teplitzky,Y

157=31Ottosen,D Keatinge-Clay,A 154+31

Quiring,J 155Ð35 Wong,F 155Ð35Odachowski,A 155=37 Gomboc,D158Ð34 Tot,N 158+36

Palsson,H Dutton,W 158Ð19Pavasovic,D Hergott,D 154Ð9Pechisker,A Hua,L 154+24Pila,G Chu,S 154+20Pinto,M Zugic,I 156+24Pupols,V Wong,S 157Ð32Puri,V Teplitzky,Y 154+35Pushkedra,F Djerkovic,M 158+21Quiring,J Ottosen,D 155Ð35Rajlich,V OÕDonnell,T 157=37 Day,L

159=21Rajski,P Gardner,R 155=36Ramsey,R Jackson,G 155Ð24Raygada,M Olszewski,P 155Ð16Reddy,T Henson,J 154Ð25Regimbald,A Shernoff,L 154Ð33Rest of World Kasparov,G 159+15Rey,G Zugic,I 156Ð23 Hergott,D

156=26Ristovic,N Milat,M 157+18Riwanto,H Hacat,K 155+39


Rodina,N Khaziyeva,D 156=19Ross,D Gardner,R 159Ð34 Zugic,I

159Ð37Ryan,J Ensor,A 155+20Sadoway,S Charbonneau,P 157+28Santa Torres,J Day,L 154+12Sasata,R Baragar,F 158=28Saunders,S Brennan,J 158+42Schaeffer,K Bjornsson,Y 154+32Schleifer,M Milicevic,G 155+26

Boehmer,K 156=39Schmidt,T Fullbrook,N 159+32Schrickel Neven,K 155+9Segovia,J Filipovich,D 159Ð22Shefer,D Ladsaria,A 154Ð30Shernoff,L Regimbald,A 154Ð33Shishkina,O Lavrovsky,A 156Ð19Sikharulidze,G Hergott,D 159+19Smeltzer,W Benggawan,Am 157+38Smith,W Ensor,A 155+20 Jackson,G

155+24Sokourinsky Jiganchine,R 155+33Spraggett,K Dutton,M 156+41

Manalo,P 156=41 Lamb,B

156=42 Livshits,R 158+40Yermolinsky,A 159=11Yermolinsky,A 159=12Yermolinsky,A 159=13Yermolinsky,A 159+13

Stendelite Chaikovskaya 158+12Stevens,C Gushuliak,J 157Ð24Stolz Neven,K 155+10Stoner NN 158Ð11Stroud,M Bergeron,F 155Ð41Taylor,G Lazarev,V 158+20Teplitzky,Y Puri,V 154+35 Orlov,G

157=31Thomas,G Lasker,E 156+14Tootoosis,H Kowalczy,T 157+34Tot,N Lapides,A 154Ð37 Ottosen,D

158+36Tovar,C Ng,K 155+14Tsui,E Wing,R 157+19Tyomkin,D Hummel,P 158+19

Hebert,J 158=20 Mulyar,M158Ð23

Uthe Neven,K 155+10Van Leeuwen,J Wood,B 154Ð42

Voloaca,M Khan,Z 154Ð25Vucic,M OÕDonnell,T 156=28Wang,H Lentini,J 157Ð26Webb,R Myers,L 154Ð40White,J Ensor,A 155Ð21Williams,P Livshits,R 157+36Wing,R Tsui,E 157+19Winterton,K Day,L 155+28Wong,F Ottosen,D 155Ð35Wong,S Pupols,V 157Ð32Wood,B Van Leeuwen,J 154Ð42Yee,A Neven,K 155+11Yermolinsky,A Spraggett,K 159=11

Spraggett,K 159=12 Spraggett,K159=13 Spraggett,K 159+13

Yoos,J Orlov,G 157Ð19 Milat,M158+15

Zugic,I Mogilarov,D 154Ð21 Rey,G156Ð23 Pinto,M 156+24Dzindzichashvili,Z 156=24Cartagena,O 156+25 Lobo,R156+28 De Firmian,N 156Ð30OÕDonnell,T 156Ð30 Browne,W156=34 Ross,D 159Ð37

Zilberman,Y Becerra,J 155=2

�What Book Influenced You the Most?�by Gregory Harris

One weekend, when I was in juniorhigh school, I got to play in abasketball tournament inDrumheller. An added bonus wasthat our girls team was also playing.

The smooth talkers on the buspaired up with the opposite sex, butI was far too shy for that. I sat withan unremembered buddy, consciousof my own inadequacies butclaiming a secret victory in sitting infront of Becky Letourneau.

Was that her name? She wasbeautiful, of course. I whiled awaythe miles wondering if I would ever

do anything heroically enough tocommand her attention.

Not far down the highway a girlÕsvoice rose above the adolescent din.It was Becky, distressed.

ÒOh my God! WhatÕs THIS?Ó

I turned and looked. Becky held inher delicate, 15-year-old hands abook Ð a very large book. It was TheComplete Chess Course by FredReinfeld, all 692 pages. I had packedold Fred, in God knows what state ofimpaired judgment, to read on thetrip. Somehow he escaped my gymbag and migrated to BeckyÕs side ofthe seat.

ÒIs it yours?Ó she asked, horrified.

ÒSorry,Ó I said, snatching it back. Atide of laughter surged through thebus; I felt nauseous.

Today my wife speculates unkindlyabout where Becky wound up, but Itry to be more forgiving. Fred and Idid have a falling out after that trip,but it wasnÕt BeckyÕs fault.Impressionable and dying to fit in, Iembraced the code of the bus; liketoo many others, I let my peers tellme what to like and dislike.

Somehow, though, Fred stuck by me.And today his mere presence on mybookshelf carries more influencethan any other volume IÕve everread. He speaks to me withShakespearian eloquence: ÒTo thineown self be true.Ó


Oropesa del MarWorld Youth

Chess Festival

wire money from his parents inMontreal.

Andrey, Joseph, Justin and I sharedan apartment with two full baths,and I have to say that both theaccommodations and the buffet stylecafeteria food were very good. Mostof the children did get a bit tired ofthe food during the second week,although the menu of seafood wasnicely varied, which I and many ofthe parents really enjoyed.Fortunately for the kids, the hotelserved better french fries than any Ihave ever tasted before!

The initial delegatesÕ meeting wasscheduled for 10:00 a.m. on the firstmorning, and after unsuccessfullytrying to find the location for thisparticular gathering, I accidentallywalked in on a meeting fortournament directors and ended upvolunteering as an auxiliary arbiter. Iwas to work under Johan Swanepol,who was in charge of the U14 boysand girls. He is a retired professorwith immense experience indirecting tournaments, including theFIDE World Championship atGroningen in 1998. The Dutchgovernment also calls upon him to

direct other sports events such asWorld Championship Volleyball!

Working with Johan was a greatexperience for me. We facednumerous problems, mostly of atechnical nature and not to do withthe children, except for one playerfrom the US who had a tempertantrum after losing one of hisgames. We were using BHB and ACSclocks, which look identical exceptfor the label. The organizers hadbought the ACS clocks this yearthinking they were the same as theBHBs. Well, ACS clocks would stopunexpectedly, keep slow time, andthe winding screws would fall off.Troy and David, donÕt ever sell thisimitation garbage!

By 11:00 a.m. the delegateÕs meetingfinally started, and after verifying ourteam lineup we also selected anappeals committee. I nominated GMJohn Fedorowicz of the US, who wasvery happy to accept this role as itallowed him to wander around in themain tournament hall. The hall isclosed to spectators, and only theplayers, arbiters, press, and appealspanel members are allowed access. Ifound it especially useful andexciting to actually be at the playingsite, watching our children competewith the best of the world. They allplayed hard and the competition wasunbelievably fierce; with more than afew tears shed by the participantsand anxiously waiting parents.

Dina was listed to play in the G18Section, and as she is only 13 yearsold, she asked me to switch her tothe G14. This, however, would be

by Ole HellstenTeam Captain

We almost didnÕt get away as Justinarrived at the Winnipeg InternationalAirport without his passport, butfortunately a speedy cab-drivercarried the valuable item from BirdsHill in time for us to catch the planefor Toronto. I should have realizedthat this was not to be the beginningof a holiday in Spain, but rather avery eventful two weeks of franticactivity away from home!

Continuing on our way, we barelycaught our connecting flight forFrankfurt in Toronto, followed by afive hour wait in Germany for ourfinal connection to Barcelona. It hadbeen a very long and exhausting dayalready by the time we discoveredthat our luggage had gone missing;which meant that our team was nowwithout uniforms or the Canadianflag we would need for the openingceremonies!

The bus ride to Oropesa, a resorttown 250 km south of Barcelona onthe Mediterranean Sea, took anotherthree hours, followed by a lengthycheck-in at Hotel Marina dÕOr wherethe staff was simply overwhelmed bythe 1,500 chess playing children,parents and coaches that descendedon them in the space of a few hours.

And then a serious problem. Andrey,who was looking for less expensiveaccommodation elsewhere, wouldnot be allowed to play in the event!One of the regulations of thetournament is that all players mustreside in the hotel complex, and wesoon learned that Marina dÕOr wascharging everyone premium summerrates in spite of the fact that the restof the resort area at this time of theyear is virtually deserted. Thisexplains why the World Youth ChessFestival will be held here again nextyear for the third time runningÖ

Andrey was eventually given anextension to pay until he was able to Left to right: Roman Golts, Amanda Benggawan, Gordana Maric, Patricia Chiroiu, Hao Yuan Wang, Joseph

Lentini, Anastasia Kazakevich, Ole Hellsten, Alexandra Benggawan, Anne-Marie Charbonneau, BojanaMitrovic, Michael Buscar, James Peterson, Andrey Moskvitch, Diana Golts, Dina Kagramanov, PascalCharbonneau, Justin Gushuliak, Christian Stevens (missing is Stefanie Chu)


possible only if she was prepared topay for her accommodations andmeals seperately at over $1000.Naturally she elected to stay in theG18 Section, where she managed toreach a very respectable four pointsagainst players up to five years olderthan her. Quite an accomplishment,and I expect to see her become oneof our future leaders.

I will let Knut, our capable editorgive a breakdown of the individualplayer scores, but will mention thatthe girls outscored the boys, comingfrom behind in the last two rounds.

One person I would like to mentionis Pascal. He, his sister Anne-Marie,and their very helpful mother wereour neighbors. Pascal would come toour suite every morning, help someof the younger children analyze, orplay a few games of blitz. Theyounger boys and girls all look up toPascal, not only because of hisfriendly and outgoing personality,but also because of his play. He wasthe only Canadian player in thetournament of world stature. He wason occasion seen playing tennis withIrina Krush of the US. Irina, althoughonly fifteen, is the US WomenÕsChampion, and is well-known forher role as one of the four youngplayers who led the Internet ÒWorldTeamÓ against Kasparov.

One serious incident of cheatingtranspired at the tournament whenthe Chinese team only submitted thecorrect name and rating of one oftheir players. Their coach decidedillegally to invert first and last names,and thus cover up the identity of hisplayers. We knew the Chinese weregoing to be strong, but this practicegave them a great advantage in thefirst half of the tournament, until thecheating became public knowledge.Opponents were not able to preparefor their Chinese opponents, as ofcourse no games could be found inthe databases. Pascal played theeventual second place winner fromChina in one of the early rounds,and after losing a tough game, to hiscredit, he did not complain.However, the tournament officialsdid not penalize the Chinese team,probably because they were afraid ofan international incident.

Our missing luggage was found onthe following Monday, and hadprobably been misdirected while wemade our connecting flight in

Toronto. To our frustration, and inspite of numerous phone calls toBarcelona, it would take another twodays for it to arrive in Oropesa. Thuswe were without a change of clothesfor more than three days Ñ the paceof life in Spain is very unhurried! So,finally our uniforms had arrived, andthe children looked terrific. Severalpeople even approached me andwanted to buy a shirt, which remindsme to extend my sincere thanks toJustinÕs grandfather, David Butt, whomanaged to arrange for individualand corporate donations to covermost of the cost.

The weather was terrific, withtemperatures generally in the lowtwenties. Many of the childrenenjoyed an occasional swim in theMediterranean Sea, although thebeach there does not compare wellwith Grand Beach in Manitobawhere I usually hide away for mostof the summer.

Most unfortunately, three of our boysÐ Andrey, Joseph and Justin Ð wererobbed of their possessions whileswimming by the town beach.During the ensuing chase JosephÕswallet was recovered, but poorAndrey lost everything, including hisshoes and clothes. He caused quite astir when he arrived back at thehotel, chauffeured by the nationalguard, and only wearing his bathingtrunks! The boys did believe thatanother player and not a localperson stole their belongings,although both the suspect and histeam captain denied anywrongdoing.

Later two of our parents had theirrental car broken into and vandalisedin Barcelona. Mind you, we werenÕtperfect either. Three of our boysnoticed that a vending machinewould deliver the canned drink andalso return the coin! They promptlytreated their friends to free drinksand also filled up my fridge. Theywere not so cheerful when I orderedthem the following morning to returnthe extra drinks and pay for the onesthey had consumed!

It is my observation that our teamtruly had a wonderful time. Theymade or renewed friendships amongthemselves and met children frommany other countries. We definitelylooked the best and partied the best.On the other hand, I think at timeswe did not focus sufficiently on ourgames. Justin for example wouldprepare for his opponent a mere tenminutes before the start of the game.

Roman told me of one particularlyfunny incident after his game againsta Russian player. He had greeted hisopponent in English, and when theirhard-fought game was finally drawn,he overheard his opponent say to afriend in Russian that ÒCanadiansdonÕt know how to play chess, howdid he give me such a hard game?ÓThis gave Roman the chance to replythat he spoke Russian also!

The final evening in Oropesa wastaken up with a truly memorableawards ceremony followed by awonderful action-packed stage playand fantastic fireworks. Many newfriends said their tearful good-byes,but there is always the chance of

AGE BOYS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 Total

B10 Peterson, James = = = = = = = = = = = 5=B12 Gushuliak, Justin 0 1 1 0 = 1 0 1 0 1 0 5=B12 Buscar, Michael = 1 = 0 1 = = 0 = 0 = 5B12 Stevens, Christian 0 0 1 1 = 0 0 1 = 0 0 4B14 Lentini, Joseph 1 = = 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 4B14 Wang, Hao Yuan 0 = 1 = 1 = 0 0 1 0 = 5B16 Charbonneau, Pascal 1 1 0 = 1 1 0 1 = = = 7B18 Golts, Roman 0 1 = 0 0 1 0 = = = 0 4B18 Moskvitch, Andrey 0 0 0 = 0 1 = 0 1 1 0 4

AGE GIRLS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 Total

G12 Kazakevich, Anastasia = 0 0 = = 1 = 0 0 = 0 3=G12 Benggawan, Alexandra 0 0 1 0 0 = = = 1 1 1 5=G12 Maric, Gordana 0 = 1 0 = 0 1 = 1 0 0 4=G12 Golts, Diana 0 0 1 = 1 0 0 1 0 = 1 5G14 Charbonneau, Anne-Marie 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 4G14 Chiroiu, Patricia = 1 0 = 1 1 0 = 0 = = 5=G14 Benggawan, Amanda = = = = = 1 0 0 = 0 = 4=G16 Chu, Stephanie 1 0 0 1 = 0 1 1 1 0 0 5=G16 Mitrovic, Bojana 1 0 0 1 = = = 0 1 0 = 5G18 Kagramanov, Dina 0 = 0 = 0 = 1 0 0 1 = 4


meeting them again next October inOropesa. We left on the bus toBarcelona in the middle of the night,and with a long and tiresome triphome ahead of us, what I remembermost were the children playing blitzon the floor of the Barcelona airport.They never seem to tire of thiswonderful game!

Amanda BenggawanThere arenÕt quite enough words todescribe my trip to Spain. But if Ihad to, IÕd start with some grade 2vocabulary and say that it was, well,fun! Most of us arrived in Spain onNovember 23, and although theorganizers seemed a lot betterprepared than last year, we were stillhit with misfortune right away. Ourteam captain, Ole Hellsten and JustinGushuliak had lost their luggageduring transit, and so our teambegan the event without our teamuniforms! Fortunately for our anxiousparents, Ole did manage to providethem with ongoing reports of ourprogress because he acted as one ofthe assistant tournament arbiters.Indeed, later on the desperate needfor qualified staff became apparentwhen my sister Alexandra played thefollowing game:

Benggawan, AlexandraSteiner, Tanya

Oropesa del MarWYCF G12 (8), 1999

Four Knights C47

1.e4 e5 2.»f3 »c6 3.»c3 »f64.d4 exd4 5.»xd4 ºb4 6.»xc6dxc6 7.½xd8+ ¾xd8 8.ºd3

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8Ö0-0-0!

The arbiter did not speak muchEnglish and asked Alexandra if heropponent touched the king or rookfirst Ð no doubt a common complaintthat the arbiter was familiar with.

Alexandra told her the king, but thenshowed how the king had gone frome8 to d8. The arbiter obviously justdid not understand and walkedaway, saying Òcastle Ð OK!Ó Thegame went on to end with a draw,but the incident makes you wonder.

But on a happier note, the event gotoff to a nice start for the U16 teamwhen everyone won their first roundgame. Eventually each categorywould take its turn, alternating gooddays with bad days. The tournamentheld some strange experiences formany. Among them was StefanieChuÕs impressive string of threesuccessive victories after the freeday, and James PetersonÕs elevendraws. You could always count onJimmy for at least that half point, andas the youngest player he alsoserved as team mascot.

Since the games didnÕt start until15:30, the mornings held manyopportunities for fun and play, afterpreparing for our next opponent ofcourse! The cafeteria food was quitecontroversial, especially when theusual selection of seafood creatures,mystery meat and french friesbecame repetitive after the first fewdays. SomeoneÕs discovery of anearby Pizza Hut proved to be apopular choice!

Our scores may not impress manyback home, but I know thateveryone tried their very best andgained valuable experience. Theonly above 50% score came fromPascal, who definitely deserves somespecial recognition.

Throughout the year everyone workshard to gain a spot on the Canadianteam. WhatÕs so great about it? Couldit be the fabulous shorts and T-shirt

weather, the experience of beingable to witness a new and differentculture, the opportunity to meet newfriends from around the world, ormaybe itÕs just for the time off fromschool! Perhaps itÕs something in thatMediterranean sea waterÖ

Pascal CharbonneauFor the second year in a row, theWorld Youth Chess Festival was heldin Oropesa del Mar, a small touristtown situated approximately an houraway from Valencia. The weatherpleased us again this year, and theSpanish were very impressed by ourcourage to brave the ocean water atthis time of the year!

The Canadian team was probably thelargest ever, with an especially greatrepresentation of players in the girlssections. This proved to be a lot forour team captain Ole Hellsten totake care of, but he delivered withan excellent performance.

For many of my teammates thisevent was their first experience onthe international scene, and so fewof them realized that the differencein playing level is not all that great.Once the tension was eased for eachof them with a first win or draw, itoften seemed like a huge weight hadbeen lifted from their shoulders. Asour most experienced ÒveteranÓ atthe tournament, I tried to assist theothers whenever possible.

I donÕt have enough space tocomment on each playerindividually, but I believe that mostof the team members should besatisfied with their result and thevery valuable experience theygained by playing in an event of thisnature. In my case I was perhaps

G16 Stefanie Chu

B16 Pascal Charbonneau

B12 Justin Gushuliak


slightly disappointed after scoringhalf a point less than last year, butmy opposition was very muchstronger this time. I had hoped for aTop 10 or even a Top 5 finish in mylast year in the B16 Section, but tomy frustration I failed to convertseveral promising positions in thelatter stages of the event.

The lesson I was able to take homewith me is that I need to work onimproving my technique in superiorpositions. On the international scenethe players are tough fighters with astrong will to win, and who wonÕt godown easily and make you work forthe the full point every time.

My experience earlier this year at thevery strong (average FIDE Elo 2350)World Junior Championships inArmenia also confirmed thisassessment, when several winningpositions against very strong playerssuch as GM Galkin and IM Vajdawould end up drawing or losing.

Ultimately, this year has proved tobe extremely valuable in mydevelopment as a player, and Iwould like to thank the CFC forpaying for my trip, and Ole Hellstenon behalf of the whole team for histerrific effort!

The Games

Notes by

Hao Yuan Wang

Wang, Hao YuanAreshchenko, Alexander

Oropesa del MarWYCF B14 (1), 1999Sicilian: Najdorf B97

1.e4 c5 2.»f3 d6 3.d4 cxd44.»xd4 »f6 5.»c3 a6 6.ºg5 e67.f4 ½b6 8.½d2 ½xb2 9.¼b1

Among the many wild possibilities inthe Poisoned Pawn Variation, 9.»b3is a more positional approach.

9Ö½a3 10.f5 »c6 11.fxe6 fxe612.»xc6 bxc6 13.ºe2 ºe714.ºf3 ºd7 15.ºe3

Here there are many possibilities.During the game I analyzed 15.¼b7¼d8 when my º/f3 no longer attacksanything on the f3-a8 diagonal; andafter 15.¼b3 ½a5 his queen escapesback into his camp with a clear pawnin hand.

15Ö½a5 16.ºb6 ½e5 17.ºd4

½a5

Now the draw is there for the taking,but this is hardly what I wanted inthe first round of such a tournament!

18.e5?

Alas, a blunder on my next move. Ithought that the text traps his queen,but square-d6 is now vacant forretreat. I only realized this after I hadmade my move.

18Ödxe5 19.ºb6 ½a3

Now I realized that 19.¼b3 ½d6 isjust a waste of time, and so I decidedto prevent Ö½d6 and look forcomplications.

20.ºc7 e4

Black doesnÕt mind giving up a pawnto mobilize his pieces in thisposition.

21.»xe4 »d5 22.ºe5

White still has the more centralizedpieces for the pawn, and therefore adraw is still within reach.

22Ö0-0 23.0-0 ¼f5

I was quite relieved when myopponent didnÕt play 23Ö½e3+. Thequeen trade would bring his knightto e3 in a favorable position.

24.ºd4

Now he canÕt trade queens anymore.

24Öe5 25.ºf2

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Here the exchange sacrifice 25Ö¼xf326.gxf3 ½xf3 is quite interesting.White has 27.½d3 when A) 27Ö½g4+forces 28.ºg3 (28.»g3 »f4 29.½e4ºf5! 30.½xf5 ½f3¬) 28Öºf529.»f6+ ºxf6 30.½xf5 with twopawns for the exchange; or B)27Ö½h5 28.»g3 and White canprobably hold on.

26.½e2

Interesting here is 26.¼xb4 »xb4(26Ö½xb4 27.»f6+!) 27.½xd7 withtwo pieces for the rook. Although

WhiteÕs minors are better than theopposing rooks right now, hisqueenside pawns are very weak.

26Ö¼d8 27.¼b3 ½a5 28.c4 »c3

The tables have been turned andWhite has compensation for thepawn. Black will have to tradeknights, and his pieces will bepushed back shortly afterwards.

29.½c2 »xe4 30.ºxe4 ¼h5

Black would rather misplace one ofhis major pieces and defend hispawn, than try to hold on to hiscrumbling position.

31.¼d3

Right here 31.c5 meets with the reply31Öºe6.

31Öºe8

My opponent still seems intent onhanging on to every single one of hisweak pawns, even at the cost of abad position. Here I should haveplayed 31Ö¼fd8 to keep control ofthe d-file.

32.¼xd8 ½xd8 33.c5 ºa534.¼d1?!

White misses two really good movesin 34.ºe1! which threatens 35.½c4+winning; or the immediate 34.½c4+to win his a/¹.

34Ö½c8 35.¼d6?

For some reason I thought I couldsacrifice the exchange and queen my

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B12 Christian Stevens


pawn, but it turns out that I justdidnÕt calculate enoughÖ

35Öºc7

Even at the cost of a lost tempo, itÕsstill not too late for me to retreat; butgoing for the adventure cost me thegame.

36.ºxc6? ºxd6 37.ºxe8 ½xe838.cxd6

Here I still believed that the pawnwill queen easily, but it turns outthat its advance will be halted.

38Öe4 39.½b3+ ¾f8 40.ºe1 ½d7

The rest is easy.

41.ºb4 ¼f5 42.½e3 ¾g8 43.h3½b7 44.½c3 h6 Ù.

Notes by

Joseph Lentini

Murariu, AndreiLentini, Joseph

Oropesa del MarWYCF B14 (1), 1999Sicilian: Closed B25

1.e4 c5 2.»c3 »c6 3.d3 g6 4.g3ºg7 5.ºg2 d6 6.f4 e6 7.»f3»ge7

Personally I think that this is BlackÕsbest setup against the ClosedSicilian. It allows the bishop tocontrol more space along the a1-h8diagonal and prepares plansinvolving Öf5 and Öd5. Later playingÖ¼b8 prevents any harm comingfrom WhiteÕs bishop along the h1-a8diagonal.

8.0-0 0-0 9.ºe3 ¼b8

BlackÕs normal plan here is the pushÖb5-b4 to create pressure on the

queenside, while White tries to makeprogress on the kingside.

10.e5

This is premature, and White shouldconcentrate on developing hisremaining pieces before advancingin the center.

10Ödxe5 11.fxe5 »xe5 12.»xe5ºxe5 13.ºxc5 ºd4+ 14.ºxd4½xd4+ 15.¾h1 »f5 16.½e2 b5

Here 16Ö»e3 isnÕt very good onaccount of 17.¼f4 when both17Ö½c5 or 17Ö½b6 (17Ö½e5 18.¼e4loses the knight) run into 18.»a4.The text instead plans to trade offWhiteÕs superior bishop for myinferior specimen! Black incidentallyalso has the possibility to continuewith Öb4 to put pressure on ¹/b2.

17.¼f4 ½g7

It is important to keep the queen onthe a1-h8 diagonal to protect theking and keep pressure on b2.

18.¼e1

I assumed that White plans 19.½e5here to exchange queens, whileoverprotecting square-e3 andpreventing a possible Öe5 counter.

18Öb4 19.»d1 ºb7 20.c3 ºxg2+21.½xg2 bxc3 22.bxc3 ¼b123.½c2 ¼fb8 24.¼c4 ½h6

Black threatens the direct 25Ö»xg3+and also provides an escape hatchfor his own monarch.

25.¼g1 ½h3 26.¼c8+ ¼xc827.½xb1 ½g4

The well known tactical motif here is28Ö½f3+ 29.¼g2 ½f1+ 30.¼g1 »xg3+31.hxg3 ½h3# forcing checkmate.

28.½c2

White should prefer 28.½b7 to attackBlackÕs ¼/c8 and retain some controlover the h1-a8 diagonal.

28Ö½f3+ 29.¼g2 ¼c5

The same motif in another disguise:Black threatens 30Ö½f1+ 31.¼g1»xg3+ 32.hxg3 ¼h5+ when White isforced to give up his queen.

30.½e2 ½b7 31.d4 ¼b5 32.¾g1¼b1 33.h3? ¼c1? 34.½d3?

Both players have missed the finalcombination because of time trouble.

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ItÕs about time!

35.½xd1 ½xg2+! Ù.

Notes by

Dina Kagramanov

Kagramanov, DinaRapcsak, Andrea


Giuoco Piano C55

1.e4 e5 2.»f3 »c6 3.ºc4 »f64.d3 h6 5.c3 ºe7 6.»d2 d6 7.h3ºe6

The text is possible, but I wouldsuggest 7Öºd7 followed by 8Ö0-0 asan improvement for Black.

8.ºxe6 fxe6

White could have waited for Black toexchange after 8.0-0 0-0 9.¼e1 with9Öºxc4 10.»xc4 when WhiteÕs planis to play 11.»e3 and 12.»f5followed by the b4 pawn push.

9.½b3 ½c8 10.d4 exd4 11.»xd4»xd4 12.cxd4 0-0 13.0-0 d514.¼e1

Against 14.e5 Black plays 14Ö»d7and the possibility of somecounterplay with Öc5.

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B14 Hao Yuan Wang


Now White threatens 20.ºxh6 gxh621.»g6+ ¾g7 22.»xe7+ to winBlackÕs queen!

19Öºxh4 20.½xh4 c5 21.dxc5½xc5 22.ºe3 ½b5 23.b4

Here White wins after 23.¼ac1 ¼ac824.¼xc8 ¼xc8 25.½e7 ½c6 26.¼c1.Instead, after the capture 23Ö½xb224.¼b1 ½xa3 25.¼xb7 White gets astrong attack after 26.ºxh6 gxh627.½xh6.

[In the latter sequence, Black seemsto defend with 27Ö¼e7 Ed.]

23Ö½a4 24.¼ec1 a5

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25.g3?

After the more direct 25.¼c7 axb426.ºxh6 ¼g8 27.½e7 Whitethreatens mate, and against 25Ö¼g826.ºxh6 also wins for White.

25Öaxb4 26.½xb4 ½xb4 27.axb4¼xa1 28.¼xa1 »g5 29.¾g2 Ú.

Notes by

Roman Golts

Golts, RomanLonders, Jan

Oropesa del MarWYCF B18 (2), 1999

Sicilian B57

After a loss to Israel in the first roundI was very eager to win this game.

1.e4 c5 2.»f3 d6 3.d4 cxd44.»xd4 »f6 5.»c3 »c6 6.ºc4½b6 7.»b3 e6 8.ºf4 »e5 9.ºe3½c7 10.ºe2 a6 11.0-0 ºe7 12.f4»ed7

An unexpected move, since it blocksthe logical retreat for the »/f6 andalso prevents the development ofBlackÕs light squared bishop byexposing the h1-a8 diagonal. Thebetter retreat is 12Ö»c6 whichblocks the long diagonal and leavessquare-d7 vacant for the otherknight.

13.ºf3

White gets ready to punish 13Öb5with 14.e5.

13Ö0-0 14.g4 h6

This move helps White to openBlackÕs kingside, and is partly thefault of the »/f6 which doesnÕt haveany good escape squares.

15.ºg2 ¼b8 16.a4

Before starting any action on thekingside, I prevent any Blackaggression on the queenside.

16Öb6 17.»d4

The knight returns to its centraloutpost to put pressure on ¹/e6.

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18.g5 hxg5 19.fxg5 »h7 20.g6

Here I had planned 20.½h5 but after20Öºxg5 21.ºxg5 ½c5 Black wins apawn. I decided to continue to openmy opponentÕs kingside.

20Öfxg6 21.»xe6 ¼xf1+ 22.½xf1½c6 23.»d5 ºf8

This is a blunder, but even after23Öºh4 BlackÕs position is hard todefend.

24.»xf8 Ø.

Notes by

PascalCharbonneau

Alcazar Jimenez, JesusCharbonneau, Pascal

Oropesa del MarWYCF B16 (2), 1999Sicilian: Paulsen B47

1.e4 c5 2.»c3

The beginning of a rarity. Four of myopponents, maybe because theywere worried about the Kalashnikov,played 2.»c3 followed by 3.»f3 tolimit my options. It seems like all myopponents were preparing the samevariation; as three played the 6.g3

variation of the Taimanov, while thefourth couldnÕt because I played theAccelerated Dragon! One of thecharacteristics of these events is theamount of time you get to prepare,often with the help of a coach.Therefore it is essential to haveseveral finely tuned weapons, andstill I felt that my repertoire was a bittoo narrow at times.

2Öa6

A strange move, you will say, but itavoids a lot of theory in the ClosedSicilian. White will often choose totranspose to the Paulsen.

3.»f3 e6 4.d4 cxd4 5.»xd4 ½c76.g3

An interesting system, still favoredby many top players, it is not asinoffensive as some may be led tobelieve.

6Ö»f6 7.ºg2 »c6 8.0-0

The Paulsen is a relatively newopening for me, and my repertoireagainst each White variation is quitelimited. The fact that three playersused 6.g3 against me made me feelslightly worried!

8Öºc5 9.»b3

9.»xc6 is a much better way to testBlack, as Acher played against me ina later game.

9Öºe7 10.ºe3 d6

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11.»a4?

White should play either 11.a4 or11.f4 for a normal set-up, albeit withhis knight a bit oddly placed at b3.

11Ö»d7 12.f4 b5 13.»c3 0-014.a4 b4 15.»e2 »b6³

WhiteÕs tempo loss has caused asignificant acceleration in BlackÕsqueenside counterplay.

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17Ö»d7

I had refuted 17.½b5 with 17Ö»c4!!18.ºc1 (18.½xc4 ºa6¬) 18Öºa619.½h5 ºf6 when analyzing 16Öa5earlier in the game. Black is incomplete control of the position, butsomehow I couldnÕt remember thesequence later at the board, and justplayed the wrong move instead! It isvery important to maintain yourconcentration at all times and makesure all variations are clear in yourhead Ñ confusion can easily occurin a chess playerÕs mind!

18.½h5 ºa6 19.¼f2 g6 20.½h3

I was secretly hoping for the originalfinish 20.½f3 »ce5 21.fxe5 »xe522.½f4 g5!¬.

20Öºxe2!

A difficult positional decision forBlack, as his bishop is normally apowerful piece in the Sicilian.However, here Black gains control ofsquare-d4, hence keeping WhiteÕsknight shut out of the game at b3.

21.¼xe2 ºf6 22.¼f1

White gives up a pawn hoping to getan attack. Objectively it must bebetter to defend with 22.¼b1.

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25Öºg7!

Black calmly rejects the offer, andindeed the line 25Ö¾xf7 26.½xh7+ºg7 27.¼f2+ »f6 28.ºg5 ½b629.ºxf6 ½xf2+ 30.¾xf2 ¾xf6 31.e5+is far from clear.

26.¼f1 »de5 27.¼ef2 ½e728.ºh6?

A final blunder caused by timepressure, but White is positionallylost anyway.

28Öºxh6! 29.½xh6 »g4¬ Ù.

Notes by

Justin Gushuliak

Valeanu, EduardGushuliak, Justin

Oropesa del MarWYCF B12 (3), 1999Sicilian: Moscow B31

1.e4 c5 2.»f3 »c6 3.ºb5

An earlier game of mine from thisevent featured a loss in thisparticular system, and I suspect thatmy opponent had spent some timepreparing for our game.

3Ög6

I have tried this move in numerousspeed chess games and like it betterthan the usual 3Öe6.

4.0-0 ºg7 5.ºxc6 bxc6

Black wants to stay within hisprepared setup with Öf6, Ö»h6-f7,ÖO-O and Öd6 with a very solidposition.

6.e5!?

This is a new move for me, and sinceit isnÕt mentioned in NCO it must

either be a novelty or a mistake. Itseems now that BlackÕs pawnadvances Öf6 or Öd6 arenÕt so strong.For example, if 6Öd6 7.exd6 exd68.¼e1+ »e7 (after 8Öºe6 9.d4BlackÕs king is stuck in the center)9.½e2 and now Black must wasteseveral tempi to castle since 9Öºe6is met by 10.»g5. Here 7Ö½xd6 isinteresting as well: Black gets activepieces and the two bishops inexchange for his bad pawns, but thatmight prove fatal in the endgame.

6Öf6

Black thinks that he can open the f-file and maybe obtain a strongcentral pawn structure, but his ideaweakens the f7 and e7 squares. It isnot easy to castle when ¹/e7 isattacked twice.

7.¼e1 fxe5 8.»xe5 ½c7

8Öd6 is interesting, since 9.»xc6 ½c710.½f3 ºb7 traps the knight.

9.»f3 d6

Played to gain space with the Öe5advance.

10.»c3 e5

My opponent looked surprised afterthis move, IÕm not sure why!

11.d4 cxd4 12.½xd4

If 12.»xd4 then just 12Ö»e7.

12Öºe6

Black needs to stop 13.½c4 whichtemporarily prevents him fromcastling kingside.

13.½a4

I briefly looked at 13.»g5 but thisfails to 13Öexd4 14.»xe6 ½c8 whenWhite has nothing.

13Öh6

Black permanently prevents theannoying »g5.

14.ºe3 »e7 15.¼ad1 0-0

Now my king is finally safe, andBlack can formulate a plan anddecide where the rooks should go.

16.»e4 »f5 17.ºd2 ºd5

In response to Öd5 White alwaysplays »c5.

18.c4 ºxe4 19.¼xe4 ½b7

Black prepares the thrust Öd5. Theimmediate 19Öd5 runs into 20.cxd5cxd5 21.½b3.

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WhiteÕs threat of 22.c5 would reallymess up my pawns. While BlackÕsmove looks really bad and leaves ahole on d5, White has no threats,and Black retains control over thecenter and a healthy spaceadvantage. The text also opens theh1-a8 diagonal for BlackÕs queen.

22.ºa5 ¼de8 23.b4 e4

Time to complicate things, althoughBlack isnÕt immediately threatening24Öexf3 due to his hanging ¼/e8.

24.bxc5 dxc5 25.¼d7?

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This is the losing move. With 25.»d2White stays in the game longer.

25Ö½a6 26.¼d5

After 26.»d2 ºc3 27.»b3 »d428.»xd4 cxd4 WhiteÕs º/a5 hangs,and BlackÕs d/¹ is ready to advance.

26Ö¼b8! 27.»d2 ¼b4 28.½a3ºb2

Now Black wins a piece and thegame.

29.½h3 ½xa5 30.¼xe4

There is no hope whatever for Whitein 30.¼xf5 ¼xf5 31.½xh6 ¼b6followed by 32Öºg7.

30Öºg7 31.g4 »d4 32.¼d7 ½a4!

Here I carefully analyzed the finalvariations, leaving myself with onlythree minutes on the clock for thenext eight moves until time control.

33.¼ee7 ½d1+ 34.¾g2

With 34.»f1 ºe5! Black puts Whitepractically in Zugzwang! Now35.½xh6 ½xg4+ 36.»g3 ¼b1+37.¾g2 ¼xf2+! and 38Ö½f3# is mate;while 35.¼xe5 is answered with35Ö»f3+ and 36Ö½xd7.

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Notes by

Roman Golts

Pridorozhni, AlexeyGolts, Roman

Oropesa del MarWYCF B18 (3), 1999French: Tarrasch C09

I was very much looking forward toplaying Russia and was reallypleased with the pairing.

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.»d2 c5 4.exd5exd5 5.»gf3 »c6 6.ºb5 ºd67.0-0 »ge7 8.dxc5 ºxc5 9.»b3ºd6 10.ºg5 0-0 11.ºxc6 bxc612.c4

This variation was new to me, and ittook me some time to decide if Ishould take the pawn.

12Ödxc4 13.»a5

This move gives Black someinitiative for his bad pawn structure.

13Ö½xa5 14.½xd6 »g6

The knight is headed for e5 where itwill protect ¹/c4 and put pressure onthe kingside. The next few movesare played in order to gain access tosquare-e5.

15.ºe3 ºg4 16.½xc6 ½h517.»d4 »e5 18.½a4 ¼fd8 19.f3

A necessary precaution against Blackideas based on Ö¼xd4 and Ö»f3+.

19Öºd7 20.½a6 ¼db8 21.½d6

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21Ö¼d8

I thought about 21Ö¼xb2 for a longtime and concluded that I canÕt takethe pawn. Unfortunately I thusmissed a beautiful win with 22.½d5¼e8 23.f4 because I missed that after23Ö½g6 24.fxe5 ¼xe5 Black winsback the piece with a decisiveadvantage. Now I am forced to fightfor a draw.

[After 21Ö¼xb2! White can do a littlebetter than the horrible 22.½d5 with22.ºc1 (or perhaps 22.¼f2) when A)22Ö¼xg2+ 23.¾xg2 ºh3+ 24.¾f2ºxf1 25.ºf4 (25.¾xf1 ½xh2)25Ö»xf3 (25Ö»g6 26.¾xf1 ½h3+27.¾f2 ½h4+ 28.ºg3 ¼d8 29.»f5)26.¼xf1 »xd4 27.½xd4 ½h4+ 28.¾g2½g4+ 29.¾h1 ½e2 leads nowhere;but B) 22Ö¼b6 23.½c7 ºc6 stilllooks promising for Black. Ed.]

22.½c5 ¼ac8

B12 Michael Buscar

G16 Bojana Mitrovic


The pin on the fifth rank is hard toendure.

23.½xa7 »d3 24.½a3 ½e525.»c2 ½xb2 26.½xb2 »xb227.ºb6 ¼e8 28.¼fe1 ºa429.¼xe8+ ¼xe8 30.ºd4

In this position I should have tradedknights, but I was relying on my c/¹and underestimated his a/¹.

30Ö»d3 31.»a3 ¼c8 32.¼b1 f633.ºc3 ¾f7 34.¼b7+ ¾g6 35.¼a7ºc6 36.h4 ¼a8 37.¼xa8 ºxa838.»b1

After 38.»xc4 ºd5 Black gets hispawn back. Now White sacrifices apawn in order to advance his a/¹.

38Ö¾h5 39.a4 ¾xh4 40.a5 »c541.¾f2 »d3+ 42.¾g1 »c543.»a3 ºd5 44.¾f2 h5 45.¾e3»e6

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The knight blocks the enemy kingand is heading for a8. Once bothpawns are blocked securily the gameshould end in a draw.

46.ºe1+ ¾g5 47.a6 f5 48.a7 f4+49.¾f2 »c7 50.ºa5 »a8 51.¾e2¾f5 52.»b5 g5 53.»d4+ ¾e554.ºc3 ¾d6 55.»f5+ ¾c756.»g7 ºf7 57.»f5 ºg6 58.»d4ºd3+ 59.¾f2 ¾b6 60.»e6 ¾xa761.»xg5 »c7 62.ºe5 »d563.»e6 c3 64.ºxc3 »xc365.»xf4 ºb1 66.»xh5 ¾b767.¾e3 ¾c7 68.¾d4 »e2+ Ö

And the game finished in a drawsoon after.

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Notes by

A. Kazakevich

Steiner, TanjaKazakevich, Anastasia


Queen�s Gambit Orthodox D37

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.»c3 »f6 4.»f3

»c6 5.ºg5 h6 6.ºh4 ºe7 7.e3a6 8.a3 »e4 9.ºxe7 ½xe710.»xe4 dxe4 11.»d2 f5 12.f3

Probably better is 12.½h5+ ½f713.½xf7+ ¾xf7 14.g4 fxg4 15.»xe4e5 16.d5 with the better endgame.

12Öexf3 13.»xf3 ºd7 14.½b3 0-0-0 15.c5 ºe8 16.0-0-0 ½d717.»e1?

Here 17.ºe2 is much better.

17Öºf7 18.½c2 e5 19.dxe5½xd1+ 20.½xd1 ¼xd1+ 21.¾xd1»xe5 22.»f3 »xf3 23.gxf3 ¼e824.¾e2 ¼e5 25.b4 g5 26.h3 h527.¼g1 ºc4+ 28.¾f2 ºxf129.¼xf1

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29Ög4? 30.fxg4 fxg4 31.hxg4hxg4 32.¼g1 ¼e4 33.¾e2 b534.cxb6 cxb6 35.¾d3 ¼e536.¼xg4 a5 37.¼c4+ ¾b7 38.¾d4¼h5 39.e4 axb4 40.axb4 b541.¼c5 ¼xc5 42.¾xc5 ¾c743.¾xb5 ¾d7 44.¾c5 ¾c7 45.e5¾d7 46.b5 ¾c7 47.b6+ ¾c848.¾c6 ¾b8 49.b7 ¾a7 50.¾c7Ø.

Notes by

Hao Yuan Wang

Wang, Hao YuanBerczes, Csaba


Sicilian: Scheveningen B81

1.e4 c5 2.»f3 e6 3.d4 cxd44.»xd4 »f6 5.»c3 d6 6.g4 h67.½f3?!

Probably not best. Now after thecorrect 7Ö»bd7 BlackÕs knight willjump to e5 and White is already introuble. The better move here is 7.h4followed by ½f3 and then g5.

7Ö»c6?! 8.ºb5 ºd7 9.ºxc6bxc6 10.h4 c5 11.»de2 ºc612.g5 hxg5 13.ºxg5

White should play 13.hxg5 and traderooks. If I wanted to play ºxg5 inthe first place, then I shouldnÕt havewasted a move on ½f3.

13Öºe7 14.0-0-0

Now Black gets some pressureagainst my queenside. However,White has little choice since heobviously cannot castle kingside orleave his king in the center for long.

14Ö¼b8 15.½d3 ½b6

Since Black hasnÕt castled, I wouldlike to smash open the center to getat his king.

16.b3 ½b4

A surprise, as I expected Black toadvance his a/¹ to join the attack.Now his queen is attacking my e/¹and Black is ready for the Öc4 push.

17.f3 ¼b6

Here I noticed that his queentemporarily has few retreat squares,and I decided to set a little trap!

18.»b1!?

White plans on bringing the otherknight to c3, which will cover all ofthe holes in my queenside.

18Öºb5?

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19.c4 ºc6 20.ºd2

And the trap snaps shut! Black hadto give up his bishop on theprevious move to save his queen.

20Öa5 21.ºxb4 axb4

Unfortunately I now had somedifficulty in driving home mymaterial advantage, so please bearwith me through the next few movesas I try to open the position!

22.»g3 »d7 23.f4 ¼a6 24.¼d2

This is probably the most efficientway of defending my pawn.

24Ö¾d8 25.h5 ¾c7 26.¼hh2ºb7 27.»h1?! e5!

White has played very slowly, andnow Black is threatening Öºg5 to


win back an exchange. Fortunatelymy advantage is so large that itdoesnÕt make a difference in the finalresult.

28.f5 ºg5 29.»g3 »f6 30.¾d1ºxd2 31.¼xd2 »xh5? 32.»xh5¼xh5 33.a4!

Finally White breaks through, helpedby his pressure against ¹/d6.

33Öbxa3 34.»xa3 ¼h6 35.»b5+¾d7 36.¾c2 ¼a2+ 37.¾c3 ¼a638.¾b2 ºa8 39.½g3 ºxe440.½xe5 ºb7 41.½xg7 ¼h142.½xf7+ ¾d8 43.½c7+

My opponent decided to play on inthis position, probably because hethought that I might have troublemating him after my earlier show ofpoor technique!

43Ö¾e8 44.¼e2+ ¾f8 45.½e7+¾g8 46.½g5+ ¾h8 47.¼e8+ ¾h748.½g6# Ø.

Notes by

Hao Yuan Wang

Trent, LawrenceWang, Hao Yuan


Sicilian: Grand Prix B23

1.e4 c5 2.»c3 »c6 3.f4 d6

More accurate here is 3Ög6. BlackÕsd/¹ should be used later to advanceto d5 without wasting a tempo.

4.»f3 g6 5.ºc4

I prepared for my opponents bychecking my database before eachround. This time I found that heusually plays 5.ºb5 which is a more

positional line and probably moresound than the text. He probably feltin the mood for a sharp andaggressive tactical fight.

5Öºg7 6.0-0 e6 7.f5 exf5

Now the weakness of BlackÕs ¹/d6becomes apparent, and White canimmediately begin his attack whileBlack is still uncastled.

8.d3 »ge7 9.½e1 »d4 10.½h4

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10Öºe6

Here 10Ö»xc2 is very dangerous forBlack, who probably cannot affordto expend more tempi chasing aftersmall material gains. After 11.ºg5»xa1 12.»d5 the position looks verypromising for White. For example,after 12Öf6? 13.ºxf6 ºxf6 14.»xf6+¾f8 15.½h6# is mate.

Castling kingside at any time forBlack looks suspicious becauseWhite is able to attack the weak ¹/h7 with ºh6 and »g5. Capturing one4 is also bad, because ¹/f7 is toovulnerable. White has excellentcompensation for the pawn, andBlackÕs plan is to exchange as manypieces as possible to help relieve thepressure on his position.

11.ºg5 ºxc4 12.dxc4 h6

Black cannot allow a White knight tocome to d5 while his own knight isstill pinned, and so this question toWhiteÕs bishop makes sense.

13.ºxe7 ½xe7 14.½xe7+ ¾xe7

Now Black is a pawn up, but Whitestill has some play against ¹/f7 andalong the e-file. Since square-d5 isnow available for WhiteÕs knight, thisposition is probably equal.

15.»d5+ ¾f8

Black plans on protecting ¹/f7 withhis king, while continuing to tradepieces. However, the remaining pinalong the f-file allows White tocreate some problems for Black.

16.exf5 »xf5 17.g4 »d4?

A thoughtless oversight, and nowBlack drops a pawn. 17Ö»e7 to getrid of the »/d5 is better.

18.»h4 ¾g8

There is really no other move in thisposition, since 18Ö¾e8 loses to19.»c7+ and there is no other way toprotect ¹/g6.

19.»e7+ ¾h7 20.¼xf7

Although material is now even, Blackis in quite a bit of trouble.

20Ö¼hf8 21.¼af1

Unfortunately for White capturing ¹/g6 with the straight-forward 22.¼xf8¼xf8 23.»exg6 ¼f6 gives Black theupper hand.

21Ög5

Now is the right time for this push,since White cannot reply with 22.»f5this time.

22.»hg6?!

WhiteÕs knights Òlook goodÓ, but areactually in an awkward situation,stuck here until an opportunity for asuitable trade presents itself.

22Ö¼xf7 23.¼xf7

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23Ö»e6

G14 Anne-Marie Charbonneau

B18 Andrey MoskvitchB10 James Peterson


After 24Ö»xc2 25.»f5 ¾xg6 (25Ö¼g826.»ge7«) 26.¼xg7+ ¾f6 27.¼h7White has good endgame chances.

[Here 27.¼xb7 is better, since after27.¼h7 ¾e5 provides Black with acertain amount of activity. Ed.]

24.¾f2 ¼e8 25.c3

My opponent is playing for a win!Against 25Ö»d8 he has prepared26.¼f3 »c6 27.¼e3 when 27Öºd4has been prevented.

25Öa6

Black threatens to open up thequeenside with 26Öb5 to hisadvantage. White will have to play26.a4 to stop BlackÕs advance, butthis later allows BlackÕs knight toattack ¹/c4 from a5 when White nolonger has the defensive move b3.

26.a4 »d8 27.¼f3 »c6 28.¼f7»d8 29.¼f3 »c6 30.¼e3

With 30.¼f7 White still has a draw.

30Ö»a5

Now the weakness of ¹/c4 becomesvery clear.

31.¼e4 ºe5!

He cannot take, because White islosing after 32.»xe5 ¼xe7. NowBlack threatens to take on h2,followed by Ö¾g7-f6 to attackWhiteÕs stranded »/e7.

32.h3 ¾g7 33.¾f3

The only move to try and save thegame. White loses two pawns withthe alternate 33.¾e3 ¾f6 34.»xe5¼xe7 36.»d3 »xc4+.

33Ö¾f6 34.»xe5 ¼xe7 35.»d3¼xe4 36.¾xe4 ¾e6

Now ¹/c4 falls to give Black awinning endgame. The immediate36Ö»xc4 37.¾d5 is not so good,because it lets WhiteÕs king throughto the queenside.

37.b4 cxb4 38.cxb4 »xc4 39.¾d4»e5 40.»f2

This endgame should be winning forBlack. In knight endgames, usuallywhoever would win in a pawnendgame, should win if a knight isadded to the board. Knights are slowpieces, therefore it usually doesnÕtmake a huge difference.

40Ö»c6+ 41.¾c4 b6 42.»h1

White tries to bring his knight to f5.

42Öd5+ 43.¾c3 ¾e5 44.»g3 »e745.»e2

Now I sat at the board for about halfan hour, and amazingly came to theconclusion that I couldnÕt win! Whata terrible misjudgment, as after45Ö¾e4 46.»d4 »g6 Black shouldhave no problems at all. Myopponent looked at me like I hadgone absolutely mad, and gladlyaccepted my draw offer. He thentold me that the endgame wascompletely winning, which wasconfirmed by my teammates in alengthy session on endgametechnique later that evening!

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Notes by

A. Kazakevich

Raeva, EvaKazakevich, Anastasia


Caro-Kann: Advance B01

1.e4 d5 2.e5 ºf5 3.»f3 e6 4.d4 c55.ºd3 ºxd3 6.½xd3 ½d7 7.c3 c48.½c2 »e7 9.0-0 »f5 10.ºg5ºe7 11.ºxe7 ½xe7 12.b3 b513.bxc4 bxc4 14.»bd2 »c615.¼ab1 0-0 16.¼fc1 ¼ab817.½a4 ½c7 18.»e1 »ce719.»c2 ¼xb1 20.¼xb1 ¼b821.»a3 ¼xb1+ 22.»dxb1 g623.g4 »g7 24.½b4 »c6 25.½c5½b6 26.½xb6 axb6 27.»b5 »e828.»1a3 ¾f8 29.¾f1 f6 30.f4¾e7 31.¾e1

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31Ö¾d7

Here Black missed a chance to winwith 29Ög5 32.fxg5 fxe5 33.¾e2 exd434.»xd4 »xd4+ 35.cxd4 e5 36.dxe5¾e6 37.¾e3 ¾xe5.

32.¾d2 fxe5 33.fxe5 »c7 34.»d6»e8 35.»f7 ¾e7 36.»g5 h637.»f3 »c7 38.»e1 ¾d7 39.»g2¾e7 40.»f4 ¾f7 41.»c2 g542.»e2 b5 43.¾c1 ¾e7 44.¾b2»a6 45.¾a3 ¾d7 46.»g3 ¾e7

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Notes by

Dina Kagramanov

Jauk, NadineKagramanov, Dina


King�s Indian Attack A08

1.e4 e6 2.d3 d5 3.»d2 c5 4.g3»c6 5.ºg2 »f6 6.»f3 ºd6 7.0-00-0 8.¼e1 ½c7 9.½e2 »g4

Black tries to prevent her opponentfrom playing the advance e4-e5 andprovokes a kingside weakness incase of 10.h3.

10.h3 »ge5 11.»xe5 ºxe5

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12.»f3

With 12.f4 White creates a bigweakness, but after 12Öºd4+13.¾h2 ºf6 14.e5 »d4 15.½d1 ºe7and now 16.c3 or 16.»f3 she doesget some play.

[With 12.exd5 exd5 13.ºxd5 ºxg3(White threatens 13.ºxc6 and14.½xe5. Instead 13...ºd4 14.»e4!?ºxh3 15.c3 is very good for White)14.fxg3 and now A) 14Ö½xg3+15.ºg2 ºxh3 (15Ö»d4 16.½e5)16.»f1; or B) 14Ö»b4 15.ºg2 »xc216.»e4 »xa1 17.ºf4 White retains adecisive material advantage. Ed.]

12Öºd6 13.e5 ºe7 14.c3 ºd715.g4 f6

White has weakening the darksquares around her king, and soBlack reacts by opening lines.

16.exf6 ºxf6 17.g5 ºe7 18.h4ºd6 19.d4?

Maybe 19.h5 to continue her attackis better, but WhiteÕs weaknessesmake for easy targets.


19Öcxd4 20.cxd4 ¼xf3 21.½xf3»xd4 22.½d3 »c2 23.¼d1 »xa124.ºe3 ½c2 25.½f1 ºb5 26.½e1½xb2 27.ºd4 ½e2 28.¼xa1½xe1+ 29.¼xe1 ¾f7 30.¼e3 g631.ºh3 ºd7 32.¼f3+ ¾e833.¼e3 ¾e7 34.ºf6+ ¾f7 35.¼f3¾e8 36.¼e3 ¼c8 37.ºxe6 ºxe638.¼xe6+ ¾d7 39.¼e3 ¼c440.¼h3 ¼a4 41.¼d3 ¼xa242.¼xd5 ¾c6 43.¼d3 ¼a4 44.¼h3¼a3 45.¼xa3 ºxa3 46.f4 ºc147.ºe5 ¾d5 48.¾f2 ¾e4 49.¾g3b5 Ù.

Notes by

Stefanie Chu

Chu, StefanieOrriols Miro, Clara

Oropesa del Mar WYCFG16 (7), 1999

Sicilian: Dragon B76

1.e4

I was off to a disappointing start at2.5/6 after facing several top-rankedplayers early in the tournament.However, after an extremely relaxingfree day spent shopping and gettinglost in a nearby town, I wasrecharged and determined to fightmy way back!

1Öc5 2.»f3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.»xd4»f6 5.»c3 g6 6.ºe3

Of course 6Ö»g4?? is a knownblunder that loses a piece to 7.ºb5+.

6Öºg7 7.f3 0-0 8.½d2 »c6 9.g4

White avoids the theoretical jungleof unclear variations after 9.0-0-0 andhopes for a quick kingside attack incase Black is slow to react.

9Öºd7

More common is 9Öºe6 when thetypical 10.0-0-0 »xd4 11.ºxd4 ½a512.¾b1 ¼fc8 13.a3 ¼ab8 14.h4 b515.»d5 ½xd2 16.¼xd2 »xd5 17.exd5ºxd4 18.¼xd4 ºd7 gives a slightedge to White.

10.h4 h5 11.g5!?

An unusual and interesting move inhindsight, but not typical of thestandard idea to pry open the g- andh-files. Here White hopes to benefitfrom the misplacement of BlackÕs »/f6. The normal 11.0-0-0 seemsattractive at first, since 11Öhxg412.h5 may be somewhat dangerousfor Black. The problem comes whenBlack chooses to defer her capture

on g4 by playing for example11Ö½a5. White is again faced withthe question of what to do with her¹/g4.

11Ö»e8 12.f4

White takes control of square-e5 andpossibly threatens to advance futheron the kingside.

12Ö¼c8

The idea of loosening WhiteÕsposition with 12Öe5 only exposesBlackÕs ¹/d6 after for example thesequence 13.»db5 exf4 14.ºxf4 »e515.0-0-0.

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Black prepares the obvious andannoying 14Ö½b4. I spent almosthalf an hour before finally replying14.a3 since 14.»b3 ºxc3 15. bxc3½a4 didnÕt look good. Black wouldbe very happy with her c-file andideas involving Ö»c7-b5.

However, after 14.»b3 ºxc3 Whitehas the much stronger 15.»xa5!ºxd2 16.ºxd2 »xa5 17.ºxa5 toretain a pleasant edge, since17Ö¼xc2 18.ºc3 traps the rook.

14.a3 ¾h7?!

A surprising choice. I wasnÕt able tofigure out the meaning of thiscurious move.

15.¼f1 »xd4

Black looks for simplification torelieve some of the pressure on herposition.

16.ºxd4 ºxd4 17.½xd4 ½c518.½d3 »c7 19.f5

This advance is more effective whenthere is no longer a Black knightready to settle on e5.

19Ö¾g8?

A much better try is the solid19Ö½e5 to centralize BlackÕs queenfor defensive duty.

20.f6

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20Öexf6

[Safer looks 20Öe6 since immediatetactical fireworks such as 21.ºxh5gxh5 (or even 21Ö»b5) areinadequate. Ed.]

21.gxf6 ºe6

[21Öd5 is an interesting and thematictry, but after the careful and sensible22.O-O-O White is better. Ed.]

22.0-0-0

A sneaky move to prepare ¼g1 withthe double threat of ºxh5 and ¼g5coming next.

22Ö¼cd8 23.¼g1 ½e5 24.¼df1

The queen looks badly in need of asquareÖ

24Öd5 25.exd5 »xd5 26.¼xg6+Ø.

Notes by

Dina Kagramanov

Kagramanov, DinaZapata Campos, Karen

Oropesa del MarWYCF G18 (8), 1999French: Tarrasch C06

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.»d2 »f6 4.e5»fd7 5.ºd3 c5 6.c3 »c6 7.»e2½b6 8.»f3 cxd4 9.cxd4 f610.exf6 »xf6 11.0-0 ºd6 12.b30-0 13.ºb2 ºd7 14.h3?

This is a poor choice and onlyweakens her kingside pawnstructure. Normally White playssomething like 14.»g3 ¾h8 15.¾h1¼ae8 here.

14Ö¼ae8 15.»e5

White rejects 15.¼e1 because BlackÕsposition after 15Öe5 16.dxe5 »xe517.»xe5 ºxe5 is better.

15Ö¼e7 16.»f4


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16Ög5?

This is a very risky advance forBlack, since almost all of WhiteÕspieces are aiming for the kingside. Abetter move is probably 16Öºe8 toprotect square h5.

17.»h5 »xh5

A big fight is ahead after 17Öºe818.»xf6+ ¼xf6 19.½g4 h6 20.h4 ¼g7.

18.½xh5 »xd4 19.½xg5+ ¼g720.»xd7 ½c7 21.ºxh7+ ¾h822.½xg7+ ¾xg7 23.»xf8 ºxf824.ºxd4+ e5 25.ºxe5+ ½xe526.f4??

White blunders away a bishop andwith it the game.

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Notes by

Stefanie Chu

De los Santos, MariaChu, Stefanie


Sicilian: Scheveningen B85

1.e4 c5 2.»f3 d6 3.d4 cxd44.»xd4 »f6 5.»c3 a6 6.ºe2 e67.0-0

In my experience these typicalSchevenigen positions are usuallyquite comfortable for Black.

7Ö»c6 8.a4 ½c7 9.¾h1 ºe710.f4 0-0 11.ºf3 ¼e8 12.ºe3ºf8!?

In the main line Black usuallycontinues with 12Ö¼b8 here, but thetext seeks to deploy the Black forcesin a more harmonious fashion.

13.»b3 b6

Black prevents her opponent fromgaining an annoying spaceadvantage with 14. a5.

14.½e1 ¼b8

Black prepares Ö»a5 and removesher rook from the influence ofWhiteÕs º/f3.

15.g4 »a5 16.»xa5?

Now Black is set to wreak havoc onthe queenside. A better continuationfor White might be 16.¼d1 so that16Ö»c4 can be readily answered by17.ºc1.

16Öbxa5

Although BlackÕs queenside pawnstructure certainly looks a littlestrange, my idea is to use the openb-file to advantage and play againstWhiteÕs weaknesses on b2, d4 anda4.

17.¼b1 ¼b4 18.g5 »d7 19.ºg2ºb7

Black adds pressure against ¹/e4.

20.b3 g6

And finally º/f8 is again ready foractive duty. Note that Black is notafraid of 21.»a2 since 21Ö¼xe4! isextremely dangerous for White.

21.ºd2 »c5 22.½e2 ºg723.¾g1?

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23Öºd4+

A tempting check to push WhiteÕsking back on the vulnerable h1-a8diagonal. However, also possible is23Ö»xb3!? 24.cxb3 ºxc3 25.¼fc1½b6+ to win a pawn.

24.¼f2

A wise decision. Rather thanallowing 24.¾h1 ºxc3 25.ºxc3 ¼xe4White decides to offer the exchange.

[Here, after 26.½f2 (26.½d2 isdecidedly worse after 26Öe5 27.ºxa5½e7 28.b4!? »e6) the position looksrather unclear. Ed.]

24Öºc6

Black clears a path for the retreat ofher ¼/b4.

25.»d1 ¼bb8

Instead 25Öºxf2+ is risky for Black,since I will miss my dark squaredbishop after 26.»xf2 ¼bb8 27.»g4.

26.ºe3 ºg7 27.ºxc5 dxc528.»e3

White just blunders a pawn. Perhapsa better try is 28.¼c1. An unfortunatecrumble in time pressure.

28Öºxa4 29.¼d1 ºb5 30.½f3ºc6 31.½h3 ¼bd8 32.¼xd8¼xd8 33.»g4 ¼d1+ 34.¼f1 ¼xf1+35.¾xf1 ½xf4+ Ù.

Notes by

Justin Gushuliak

Gushuliak, JustinBassem, Amin


Ruy Lopez: Exchange C68

1.e4 e5 2.»f3 »c6 3.ºb5 a64.ºxc6

I donÕt normally play this. My moodtoday wanted a slow game, whereas4.ºa4 forces you to calculate muchmore in the middlegame.

4Ödxc6 5.»c3

Faced with the Exchange Variationfor the first time and unfamiliar withits theory, I now would prefer thenormal 5.0-0.

5Öºc5 6.0-0

Another possibility is 6.»xe5 ºxf2+7.¾xf2 ½d4+ 8.¾e1 ½xe5 9.d4 ½d6(or 9Ö½e7 10.½f3) 10. ºe3 withchances for both sides.

6Ö½d6 7.½e2

WhiteÕs plan is to break in the centerwith the pawn advance d4 after duepreparation with ¼ad1 and, aftermoving my knight from c3, c2-c3.This takes time of course, but afterachieving this advance it should beeasier for White to exchange piecesand reach a favorable endgame.

7Öºg4 8.d3 0-0-0 9.ºe3 ¾b810.¼ad1 »e7

Black wants to play Ö¼hf8 and Öf5.

11.h3 ºxf3

If Black retreats with 11Öºh5 then12.g4 ºg6 13.d4 gives the advantageto White because of his superior


pawn structure, space advantage,and piece coordination.

12.½xf3 f6 13.»e2 ºxe314.½xe3

My mind was on the endgame a lotduring this game. I didnÕt want toruin my pawn structure with 14.fxe3c5 15.c3 ½b6 and now my d4 breakis hard to get in.

14Ö½e6 15.a3 g5?

Black tries to control square-f4 andattack on the kingside, but he reallycannot afford to add a backward ¹/f6to his already doubled c-pawns.

16.d4

The best reply to an attack on thewing is a counterattack in the center!

16Ö»g6 17.»g3 »f4 18.¼fe1 h5?

Black still pursues his faulty plan.

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White prepares to exchange queenswith 21.dxe5 ½xe5 22.½xe5 fxe5 toreach the better ending, while after21Öfxe5 22.½c5 White is ready for½e7 in response to Öb6 with yetanother favorable endgame.

20Öh4 21.f3

White stops his opponentÕs attackwith just one move. My response to20Ög4 would have been 21.h4.

21Öexd4 22.½xd4 »g6 23.b3

White can afford to take his time,since 23.½d7 ½a2 could beannoying.

23Ö½e5?

Black should not voluntarily go intothe endgame.

24.c4 ½xd4+ 25.¼xd4

Now White gets what he wants. Ihave control of the only open file,more space, and the better pawnstructure going into the endgame.

25Ö¼d8 26.¼ed1 ¾c8 27.¾f2¼xd4 28.¼xd4 ¼d8 29.g3

White wants to increase hisadvantage by trading pawns on theside where he has the pawnmajority.

29Ö¼xd4 30.»xd4 hxg3+31.¾xg3 »f4 32.h4 c5 33.»c2

A nice defensive move. After 33.»f5»e2+ 34.¾g4 gxh4 followed by35Ö»c1 White is forced to trade offBlackÕs doubled c-pawns with 36.b4cxb4 37.axb4 and although this stillmay be winning for White, it isnÕt asclear as the text.

[White perhaps has a better tempothan, say, 35.»xh4 or 35.¾xh4 butwith 37Öc5 Black does create anoutside passed pawn which WhiteshouldnÕt underestimate! Ed.]

33Ö¾d7 34.¾g4 »e6 35.h5 ¾e736.»e3 c6 37.»f5+ ¾f8

Not 37Ö¾f7? 38.»d6+.

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Black is basically in Zugzwang, andWhite wins a pawn.

42Ö»e5+ 43.¾xg5 ¾h7 44.¾f5»f3 45.e5 ¾xh6 46.e6

After the game I found out that myopponent was a FIDE Master, but Ithink that he played weaker than anFM should.

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Notes by

Stefanie Chu

Chu, StefanieSmirnova, Marina


Sicilian: Moscow B31

1.e4 c5 2.»f3 »c6 3.ºb5

Interestingly enough, this was mythird outing with this system in thetournament! I suspected somespecial preparation by my opponent,

since the move 2Ö»c6 is inconsistentwith her other games in mydatabase.

3Ög6 4.0-0 ºg7 5.c3 e5 6.d4

This is merely a temporary pawnsacrifice in exchange for acomfortable positional bind. WhiteÕsideas include ºf4-d6 and »bd2-b3,when the extra pawn on d4 iseventually won back as well.

6Öcxd4 7.cxd4 exd4 8.ºf4 »ge79.ºd6

This bishop proves to be a realnuisance to Black, who has greatdifficulties untying her position. Ihave learned from experience thatdefending such unpleasant andcramped positions can be insanelyfrustrating!

9Ö0-0 10.»bd2 a6 11.ºd3!?

The text looks natural enough, but isprobably not the best. Quiteinteresting is 11.ºc4 b5 12.ºd5!when Black has to watch out forpossible sacrifices on f7.

11Ö¼e8 12.»b3 b6

Black tries to uncoil with Öºb7followed by Ö»c8 to remove theintruder º/d6.

13.»g5

White probes the weak ¹/f7. Alsopossible again is 14.ºc4.

13Ö¼f8 14.f4 ¾h8?!

More logical appears 14Öºb7.

15.ºc4 ½e8 16.a4

White restricts her opponent evenfurther by preventing the expansionÖb5 once and for all.

16Öf6 17.»f3 ºb7 18.½d3

I need to protect ¹/e4 beforeadvancing any further!

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since the ¼/f1 may have a future onthe kingside after ¼f3-h3.

19Ö¼f6?!

Although White retains an edge, amuch better try than the text is19Öfxe4 20.¼xe4 »b4 21.ºxb4 ºxe422.½xe4 d5 23.½xe7 (23.ºxd5 »xd524.½xd5 ½e3+ 25.¾h1 ¼ad8 26.½c4and Black looks quite comfortable)23Ödxc4 24.½xe8 ¼fxe8 25.»bxd4¼e4 26.ºc3.

20.e5

White cements her position anddeprives Black of all counterplay.

20Ö¼f8 21.»fxd4 ½d8 22.¼ad1h6 23.e6 ¼f6

More tenacious defense is providedby 23Ö¼e8.

24.»xc6 »xc6 25.e7 ½e8 26.ºa3ºc8 27.½d5

Quicker is 27.½e3 since 27Ö¼b828.¼d6 ºb7 29.½xb6 pretty muchcleans up.

27Ö¼b8 28.»d4 ºb7

After 28Ö»a5 29.½g8+ ½xg830.ºxg8 the pawn crashes through.

29.»f3 »a5

[Against 29Ö»xe7 both 30.½xd7 and30.¼xe7 are convincing enough. Ed.]

30.½g8+ ½xg8 31.ºxg8 ¼e832.ºa2 ºc6 33.»e5 ºxa434.»f7+ ¾h7 35.»d6 ¼xe736.¼xe7 ºxd1 37.¼xg7+ ¾xg738.»e8+ ¾h8 39.»xf6 ºa440.¾f2 ºc6 41.ºb4 ¾g7 42.»d5ºxd5 43.ºxd5 »c6 44.ºc3+¾f8 45.¾e3 ¾e7 46.h3 b547.ºxc6 dxc6 48.ºb4+ ¾e649.¾d4 g5 50.g3 g4 51.h4 ¾d752.¾e5 c5 53.ºxc5 ¾c6 54.ºb4¾b6 55.¾xf5 a5 56.ºe7 b457.¾xg4 Ø.

Notes by

Hao Yuan Wang

Wang, Hao YuanCosta Ferrer, Alexandre


Sicilian: Kan B42

1.e4 c5 2.»f3 e6 3.d4 cxd44.»xd4 a6 5.ºd3 »f6 6.0-0 ½c77.½e2 d6 8.c4 »c6

According to ECO ÒBÓ, here 8Ög6 isthe correct continuation.

9.»xc6 bxc6 10.»c3 ºb7

It is clear that his plan is to push Öd5to gain more space, and so thefollowing few moves fight overcontrol of square-d5.

11.f4 e5?!

This is inconsistent and weakens hiscontrol of square-d5. Black remainswith a space disadvantage and aweakened backward pawn on the d-file.

12.ºe3 ºe7 13.¼ad1 0-0 14.ºc2

White plans to recycle the bishop tob3 in order to support square-d5 andhelp prevent any Black queensideactivity while he builds his attack onthe kingside. Another possible planfor White is to play on the queensidewith a4, b4 and b5 intending toremove BlackÕs ¹/c6 and gain accessto square-d5 for his knight.

14Ö¼ad8 15.ºb3 ¼fe8

A better try is 15Öexf4 16.ºxf4 »d7followed by the occupation ofsquare-e5 with some counterplay.

16.f5

With square-d5 secured, I can nowbegin a kingside pawn storm.

16Ö¼d7 17.g4 ¼ed8 18.g5 »e819.½g2

White threatens to run over Blackwith 20.f6 and adds yet anotherpiece to watch over square-d5. It isabsolutely critical that I do not letBlack break open the center.

However, there is a much bettermove here in 19.g6! to open up theb3-g8 diagonal and threaten 20.ºb6!!to win the exchange. BlackÕs piecesare too cramped and uncoordinatedto offer much resistance.

19Öºf8 20.¼f3 ½a5 21.¼h3

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21Öd5!?

After 21Öf6 22.c5+ d5 (22Ö¾h823.¼xh7+«) 23.exd5 cxd5 with the

idea 24.»xd5?? ºxd5 25.ºxd5+ ¼xd526.¼xd5 ½e1+ Black wins a piece.After the text his only alternative isto sacrifice the pawn in order to stopthe threats.

[on 21Öf6 White has the stinger22.¼xh7! fxg5 23.½h3 »f6 24.¼h8+¾f7 25.ºb6! with the idea 25Ö½xb6+26.c5+ ½xb3 27.axb3 and a winningmaterial advantage. Ed.]

22.cxd5 ºc5

Black needs more space and tries totrade off some material.

23.¾h1 ºxe3 24.¼xe3 cxd525.exd5 »c7 26.¼xe5 ¾f8

Down two pawns for nothing, Blackis clearly lost.

27.f6!

White prevents the defensive Öf6.My opponent canÕt take the pawnbecause mate on g7 follows.

27Ö»b5?!

Now the rest is easy.

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White needs to avoid 30.½h4?! h531.gxh6 because I will be smashed inthe center after 31Öºxd5+ 32.ºxd5¼xd5 33.¼exd5 ¼xd5 34.¼xd5 ½f1#;and the immediate 30.¼e1 ºxd531.ºxd5 ¼xd5 (note that BlackÕsqueen guards square-e8) 32.¼xd5½xd5 pins WhiteÕs queen andprevents the mate.

My attack here is just a little tooslow, and what I really need is to getBlackÕs queen off the e8-a4 diagonal!

30.ºc4! ºxd5

If Black removes his queen from thecritical diagonal, then 31.¼e1 winsimmediately. And on 30Ö½a4 31.b3finally forces the queen away.Similarly, WhiteÕs ¹/b2 is immune.

31.¼exd5 ¼xd5 32.¼xd5 Ø.


Notes by

Joseph Lentini

Bicho, DanielLentini, Joseph


Sicilian: Lasker B59

1.e4 c5 2.»f3 »c6 3.d4 cxd44.»xd4 e5 5.»b3

I havenÕt seen this move before; hereWhite usually plays 5.»b5 intending6.»d6+. I assume that he played thismove to avoid theory, or he is justinexperienced in this opening.

5Öd6 6.»c3 »f6 7.ºe2 ºe7 8.0-0 ºe6 9.f4 exf4 10.ºxf4 0-0

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11.»d4?!

This elementary mistake loses apawn without any compensation.Correct is 11.½d2 or 11.¾h1.

11Ö½b6 12.ºe3 ½xb2 13.½d2½a3 14.»xc6?!

This only helps Black because Whitereally has no target on the b-file. Thesquares b5 and d5 are now coveredby a pawn, and the disappearance ofknights releases the remainingcentral tension.

14Öbxc6 15.¼f3 ºg4 16.¼g3?

This is the final and decisive mistake.The only plausible White response is16.¼f2.

16Öºxe2 17.»xe2

Not 17.½xe2? ½xc3.

17Ö»xe4 18.¼xg7+?

In desperation White hopes to dosome damage on the dark squares,but this is highly unlikely to meetwith success because Black still hashis queen and dark-squared bishop.

18Ö¾xg7 19.ºh6+ ¾h820.½d4+?

This is a mistake too, but thealternative is just to resign.

20Öºf6 21.½xe4 ºxa1 22.c3?ºxc3 23.»xc3 ½xc3 24.½e7?¼ae8! Ù.

Notes by

PascalCharbonneau

Rainfray, ArnaudCharbonneau, Pascal


Sicilian: Alapin B22

1.e4 c5 2.»f3 »c6 3.c3

Another White player avoids theKalashnikov, this time playing a lineI use as White. One might expect meto know it very wellÖ

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15Öºe7??

Yet I play too quickly and forget thecorrect continuation 15Öf6 16.bxc3¾f7 17.»b5 a6 18.ºe3 axb5 19.ºxb6¼xa1 20.¼xa1 ½e8 21.¼a5 b4 22.c4½c6 23.¼b5 ºe7 24.ºa5 ¼a8 25.h3¾g8 26.½e1 ºc5 27.ºxb4 ºd428.ºc3 ºc5 29.ºb4 ºd4 30.ºc3 ºc531.½d2 b6 32.b4 ºe7 33.¼xb6 ½xc434.½d7 ¼a1+ 35.ºxa1 ½c1+ Úfrom the game LautierÐGelfand,Linares, 1994. White gets virtuallynothing out of the opening, andvarious alternatives also seem to giveBlack easy equality.

16.»f5 ºf6

Unfortunately forced. Now BlackÕsking is stuck in the middle and Whitegets a crushing attack Ñ exactlywhat I would like to obtain Ö asWhite!

17.½b5+ ¾f8 18.bxc3 g6!?

I wanted to complicate matters, butthis is hard to do when my major

pieces control mainly the cornersquares of the board.

19.½b4+ ¾g8

It is quite funny that my good buddyFritz believes in BlackÕs chanceshere. Of course it underestimates theenormous value of WhiteÕscompensation for the pawn, but atleast for once it is taking my side!

20.»h6+ ¾g7 21.»g4

I was almost crying in this position,as it seems that Black is hopelesslylost. Then I saw a most bizarremove, and I began to smile again.

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21Ög5!

A losing move, truth be told, but onethat surprises!

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23.f4!!

White opens the floodgates againstmy king, and my smile has fadedonce more.

23Ö¾g7 24.fxg5?

The worst of the three possibilitiesfor White. Even though the arrival ofhis queen on f6 or h6 looks strong, Ibelieve Black can successfullydefend his position. Here 24.fxe5 isthe most obvious, when White winsafter 24Ö½d8 25.ºe3 ¼e8 (25Ö»d526.½xb7) 26.¼ad1 ½e7 27.½xe7¼xe7 28.ºxg5«; or the highlyoriginal 24.½e7! ½d8 (24Ögxf425.½g5+ ¾f8 26.ºa3+) 25.½xe5+ f626.½f5«.


24Ö¼e8

Now I feel safe again, and my smilereturns!

25.½h4 ½c7 26.c4 ¾g8 27.ºb2»d7 28.¼f3 »f8 29.¼af1 ¼ad830.½f2

30.¼xf7 still looks very strong, sinceWhite can take the ¹/e5 after Blacktrades his queen for the two rooks.Black should have prevented thiswith 29Ö»g6 or 29Ö¼e7.

30Ö¼d7 31.¼e3

Black meets 31.½xa7 with 31Öe4!?

31Ö¼e6 32.¼fe1 »g6 33.g3 ½d8

Finally BlackÕs pieces are wellplaced, and he has good play.

34.h4 ¼d2 35.¼1e2 ¼d1+ 36.¾h2f6!

Black creates more complications inhis opponentÕs time trouble.

37.h5 »f8 38.gxf6

38.½f5 ¼d2 might cause Black somedifficulties, but itÕs a hard move tofind in time trouble.

38Ö¼xf6 39.½g2 »d7! 40.ºxe5¼f5 41.½h3

Against 41.g4? Black wins with41Ö¼xe5! 42.¼xe5 »xe5 43.¼xe5½h4+ 44.½h3 ¼d2+.

41Ö¼xe5

And the draw was agreed in view ofBlackÕs perpetual check on WhiteÕsfirst and second rank.

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Notes by

PascalCharbonneau

Charbonneau, PascalDominguez, Leinier


Sicilian: Alapin B22

1.e4 c5 2.c3

The most recent addition to myrepertoire.

2Ö»f6 3.e5 »d5 4.d4 cxd4 5.»f3»c6 6.ºc4 »b6 7.ºb3 d6 8.exd6½xd6 9.0-0 ºe6 10.»a3 ºxb3

BlackÕs main and most dangerousoption is 10Ödxc3. The text is ratherdrawish and Black hardly ever wins.

11.½xb3 e6 12.¼d1 ½d5 13.»b5½xb3

Here 13Ö0-0-0!? 14.»xa7+ »xa715.½xb6 ºc5 16.½a5 »c6 17.½a8+¾c7 18.½a4 was roughly level inBlatnyÐKotronias, Debrecen 1992.

14.axb3 ¼d8 15.»fxd4 »xd416.¼xd4 ¼xd4 17.»xd4 a6 18.b4¾d7

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Joel Benjamin, who plays this line asWhite, told me that White had to bemuch better here. However, whenlooking at it closely with him, wecould not find anything convincingfor White. BlackÕs play looks verysuspicious, but turns out well.

19.b5 axb5 20.¼a7 ºc5!

Passive alternatives would let Whiteget an advantage.

21.¼xb7+

Very strong looks 21.»b3 but thenBlack has the very surprising21Ö¼d8!! 22.»xc5+ ¾c6 and it isWhite who finds himself in trouble!

21Ö¾c8 22.¼xf7 ºxd4 23.cxd4¼d8

And now, despite his extra pawn,White canÕt hope to win. A short butsurprising game, punctuated byBlackÕs amazing 21Ö¼d8!! resource.

24.ºe3 ¼d7 25.¼xd7 ¾xd726.¾f1 »c4 27.ºc1 ¾c6 28.¾e2¾d5 29.¾d3 »a5 30.f3 »c631.ºe3 »b4+ 32.¾c3 »c6 33.h4h5 Ú.

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An Interview with IM Danny Kopecstructures and their necessary levers.For me these videos are a naturalextension of what I have beenteaching for over twenty years, andprovide a coherent chess curriculumthat I hope will leave a lasting legacyof my approach to the game.

You have lived and taught in manyplaces. What have been your mostrecent chess experiences and whatwere the highlights?

During my two years in London,England I coached several of thecountryÕs top U12 players. Mostrecently I have been teaching at thePolgar Chess Authority in Queens,New York which is run by WomenÕsWorld Champion, Susan Polgar.

I would like to mention thatalthough the CFC largely ignored mypresence during my VisitingProfessor year in Ottawa between1992Ð93, I did meet several very nicepeople. Among them were the everefficient Doug Burgess of the RAChess Centre, and several studentsand friends like Michel Tordion, XinGuo, Emanual Amigues and hisfather, Alex Danilov, Steven vanAdel, Mike Mansfield, and MikeMagnon. Sadly, I must add thatduring my eleven months visit I wasnever invited to give any lectures,simuls or classes other than the onesI organized and those scheduled byPerry Morin at Carleton University.The RA Club Schedule for the yearhad already been made Ð at least thatwas the explanation I was providedwith!

Over the years I have particularlyspecialized in testing, evaluating andteaching players rated between1600Ð2000, trying to help them getover 2000, and on occasion playersrated over 2000 who want to becomeMasters.

Did you play any chess yourselfduring your stay in Canada?

I did tie for first that year at the bigOpen in Quebec City in February,followed in April by a tie for secondwith Hergott at a strong Opentournament in Toronto. After mydeparture later that year, my numberfour ranking on CanadaÕs top ratinglist disappeared very quickly fromthe magazine. I did write an article

on the 1992 FischerÐSpassky rematchin En Passant followed by a poorlyattended lecture on the same subjectat the RA Centre.

It sounds like you were somewhatdisappointed with your stay in ourcountry. Any comments?

Overall, I donÕt think that the CFCtreats strong foreign players verywell. In fact, it seems that foreignplayers are discouraged from visitingand, worse yet, surely they shouldnÕtimmigrate! And yet you cannot dowithout them Ñ for chess lifequickly gets quite boring at the topwithout the occasional infusion offoreign blood. The result are thefrequent and nearly ÒincestuousÓrematches which occur so often inyour tournaments.

A good (and well-known) Canadianfriend confided to me that I wasquite unpopular after my ÒopenarticleÓ in En Passant #69 where Idescribed my personal views of eachof my fellow participants in theCanadian Closed of 1984. I wrote itas I saw it Ð honest and from theheart, leaving nothing out.Unmentioned went the fact that I didnot pursue a playoff match withBrian Hartman (which I was entitledto for Olympic Team representation)because I knew I was leavingCanada to return to the US. Mydescription of several incidentsinvolving IM Bryon NickoloffÕsinability to make the time control fellon deaf ears, and it seems thatsimilar events continue to cause astir in a recent issue of En Passantsome ten years later!

The fact is that top players fromrelatively small chess nations likeCanada and Scotland donÕtappreciate the valuableopportunities for competition theyreceive by representing their countryinternationally. As an American Ihave had far fewer opportunities toachieve an IM or GM norm than Iwould have had in Canada.

Gordon Taylor deserves my thanksand a special mention in myattainment of the IM title. Afterleaving Canada in August of 1984 forSan Diego, California I achieved myfinal IM norm at the 1st LabateÕs

Tell us a little bit about yourprofessional and chess background?

Since earning my Ph.D. in MachineIntelligence at the University ofEdinburgh in Scotland in 1983, Ihave earned my living as a ComputerScience Professor and havemaintained income as a chess semi-professional since 1976. Among mychess accomplishments are a sharedsecond place at the 1976 CanadianOpen in Toronto, the ScottishChampionship 1980Ð81, sharedsecond at the 1984 CanadianChampionship, the IM title in 1985,and several third place finishes at theUS Open between 1974 and 1988.

You have been a chess educator andwriter for some time. Tell us more.

I learned the moves and spirit of thegame from my cousin Joe Donath ata young age. Joe was never higherrated than in the low 2000s, but hetaught me an approach to chesswhich infused a life and logic intomy chess studies that cannot bereplaced by pure book learning.

What I saw I embraced andremembered Ñ these were lessonswhich effectively became my firstexperience as a chess educator. Icontinue for example to expouse thenotions of ÒGrand Central StationÓ asa way of describing the four centralsquares that my cousin Joe left mewith. He also encouraged me to playout unannotated games frommagazines, which were then muchmore commonly found inpublications everywhere.

I would play through a magazinecover to cover, noting any moves orideas I felt I could improve upon,and take them to Joe for comment.This independent work led totremendous gains in confidence andfast improvement. After all, chessconfronts one with problems anddecisions which no one else canresolve for you.

I carried this approach to chessthrough in my series of five trainingvideos, parts of which werepublished as recently as 1996. In thefinal volume I try to teach openingswithout the usual emphasis onmemorization, focusing instead onconcepts involving typical pawn


International Tournament in LosAngeles on the last day of 1984.

Gordon, as CFC Secretary, performedall of the necessary steps to apply forthe IM title on my behalf. Hecompleted his task most efficiently,effectively, and unequivocably. Forthis, where many others in hisposition would have failed, I willalways be grateful to Gordon Taylor.

How would you compare your chessexperiences in Quebec and Ontarioand elsewhere in Canada?

As mentioned earlier, I lived inMontreal for about 18 monthsbetween 1983Ð84 and in Ottawa foreleven months in 1992Ð93, but Ihave also visited and played inseveral other provinces, includingNew Brunswick and Alberta at othertimes. My experience has been thatstrong players are treated muchbetter and respected more inQuebec. Elsewhere they are largelytaken for granted. A basic fact forexample is that in Quebec titledplayers almost always receive freeentry to tournaments.

In Canada, as most anywhere else inthe world, it can be difficult to breakinto the little ÒcliquesÓ of players andearn their respect while stillremaining Òone of the guysÓ. Isuppose that is one of the difficultiesof a ÒtravellingÓ existence like mine.While I feel that I am basically veryapproachable, I also think that thereare distinct differences in abilitiesbetween National Masters, FIDEMasters, International Masters andGrandmasters!

How do you feel about so-calledChess Professionalism?

I have witnessed for many years howmy peers in the US have tried to callthemselves chess professionals, andthe challenging effect that 25 years ofmass immigration by strong playersfrom the former Soviet Union havehad on their lives. But rather thanreal advances in professionalism interms of teaching and studymethodology or tournamentpreparation, I see mostly prejudice,cliques, selective promotion, andÒclosed shopsÓ. To be fair, in recentyears the situation has improvedsomewhat, largely by necessity.

Former World Champion EmmanuelLasker was determined not to die apauper, as did his predecessorWilhelm Steinitz, and it is

unfortunate that the time anddedication which chess demands isso rarely properly compensated inour society.

What can you tell us about some ofthe top Canadian players you havemet?

First of all, let me state that KevinSpraggett is one of the very bestchessplayers I have come to know,and please donÕt take this statementlightly! I am including here the LarryChristiansenÕs, Nick de FirmianÕs, andRussians like Alexander Yermolinskyand Igor Ivanov; and yet Kevin hasimpressed me the most. Hisconvincing 4.5/5 score against me isbetter than anyone elses. Kevin isstrong enough to be able to easilychange his style as the situationdictates. He can attack, he candefend, he can play dynamically,positionally, with good pawnstructures and bad ones, and he cansqueeze subtle endings. This abilityto be flexible is truly indicative of astrong player. It is a shame thatSpraggett has not published more,but perhaps we can expectsomething in the years to come.

Jean Hebert is also a friend andobviously a very strong player withthe very deep understanding of thegame required to achieve both theInternational Master andCorrespondence Grandmaster titles.Understandably, he has been one ofthe dominant players in Quebec formany years. Jean has had otherinterests besides chess, and in recentyears has started a family. This goesa long way to explain his variedresults. Jean has always beenoutspoken and unwilling to holdback on his genuine beliefs, which attimes has caused him to have tomake personal sacrifices to hold onto his integrity.

Lawrence Day has impressed mewith his genuinely intellectualapproach to chess, coupled with thelong term success he has enjoyeddespite some serious healthproblems in the past. BryonNickoloff is infinitely talented, buthis play can also be quite varied.

I donÕt know Alexandre Lesiege verywell, but I have seen him improvesteadily over the course of my visitsto Canada in recent years. He is ofcourse a very strong and improvingGrandmaster, as well as your current

Canadian Champion. Today, hisresults may be better thanSpraggettÕs, but this does not meanhe is necessarily a better player thanKevin ever was. As you get older andreach your forties you donÕtnecessarily lose energy, but yourenergy gets dispersed in differentways. Responsibilities such as familyconcerns and possible healthproblems tend to relegate chess to aless important role in life. Insteadyou may turn your attention to moresustainable products like books,videos, teaching, camps, andÒsystemsÓ which may have a longerterm positive influence on people.

You are no longer very active in thetournament arena. Where do yourinterests lie now?

Usually the most successful playerstend to be rather one-dimensional.Spreading out in other directionscauses them to lose their focus andcompetitive edge, and the hungerwhich goes hand in hand withcompetitive success. For others likemyself this is not the case, and Ihave always liked to fill my life withother things like family, work,articles, books, videos, and eventennis, etc.

These alternatives provide a defensemechanisms to the possibility thatyour chess play may not ultimatelybe successful enough, and also helpimprove your self-confidence ingeneral. Yet these alternatives may inthemselves hinder your chess; theline is a very fine one. In my case, Ihave dedicated most of time andenergy since 1994 to teaching andauthoring activities, while theoccasional tournament appearancehas no longer been a very gratifyingexperience for me.

Between 1995 and 1997 I alsodedicated a lot of energy tocorrespondence chess, ultimatelyachieving an IM Norm at the 4thNorth American Team Tournamenton board two for the US.


Across Canada

BC

British Columbia

UBC Tuesday Night SwissTop rated Stephen Wright seemedto be rolling to victory until topjunior Roman Jiganchine held him toa draw after a tough defence. Thisallowed David Hladek to share tophonors with Wright at 4/5. JasonFeng took top U1800 at 3/5.

TD/Rep: Lyle Craver

Vernon Silver Star QualifierJack Yoos swept cleanly throughthe field with a perfect 5/5 to winthis BC Closed qualifier. Second wasAlex Davies at 4/5. Class prizes wentto Gerry Neufahrt, Dave Moore andGreg Woodward in the >1800Section, while Wally Steinke won theU1800 prize. The U1600 Section waswon by Petr Labic. The friendly andenjoyable tournament drew 21entries.

Rep: Wally Steinke

Cranbrook Fall ClassicThe annual Cranbrook Fall Classicwas won by Castlegar resident, TonyBerrocoso with a perfect 5/5 record.Tony appeared to be in trouble inseveral games, his strong defensiveplay prevailed. Andy Alfoldy tooksecond at 4/6, and James Bouffardwon the U1600 prize with 2/5.

TD/Rep: Johnny Lancaster

Claremont Junior ChristmasAn enthusiastic group of 25 juniorsgathered at Claremont Senior HighSchool to compete in our lasttournament of this century. DmitriMoisseev claimed top spot at 5/5.Second place went to long inactiveJacob Wasser on tiebreak at 4/5. Topgirl was Marissa Litster with 4/5followed by Amy-Marie Miller at 3/5.Top U1100 was Zachary Aylward at

4/5 ahead of Colin Sargeant, MikeCarere, Zachary Currie and JoshBandt. Top Unrated was GraemeSargeant.

TD: David Gardner, Dan Myers, LynnStringer

UBC November Tuesday NightAlthough he had previously tied forfirst in the UBC Tuesday Nighttournaments, David Hladek won hisfirst tournament outright with a solidperformance against most of the topplayers. Top U1800 went to Peter DeVries at 3/5. Xin Jiang had a chanceto tie for first, but was demolished inthe last round in a fine tacticalperformance by Jason Williamson.

TD/Rep: Lyle Craver

AB

Alberta

Grande Prairie Fall ActiveThe annual Grande Prairie ChessClub Fall Active drew ten players.Grant Mactavish of Dawson Creekbeat Larry Stutzman of Fort St.John inthe final round to post a 4/4 score.This threw Larry into a tie for secondwith Phil Lefkowitz of the GrandePrairie home club. Dean Johnsontook the U1600 Section with 2/4, andIan Brown returned from a 15 yearhiatus to claim second at 1.5/4.

TD: Phil Lefkowitz

Southern Alberta OpenRobert Gardner and David Ottosenof Edmonton were unable to hold offthe posse of Calgary Masters in thefinal round and allowed AndrewLapides to win a hotly contestedSouthern Alberta Open by scoring 4/5 to qualify for a place in the 2000Alberta Closed. Favorite ArthurOdachowski, who had won the firsttwo qualifiers, tied for first but hadthe inferior tiebreak. Tied for third at

3.5/5 were the other six Masters inthe tournament, Greg Huber, RobGardner, Dale Haessel, DavidOttosen, Roy Yearwood, andWarrick Walker.

Also tied for third were Jim Danilukand Ron Hinds, who split the U2200Section. Hinds scored an outstanding2.5/4 against the four Masters heplayed. Brian Miller took the U1900Section at 3/5, followed by BillBentley in second with 2.5/5. KevinThompson surprised everyone byscoring 2.5/4 against a Master andthree Experts to post a total 3/5 toearn top spot in the U1650 Section.Tom McKay, Paul Viminitz and BrianTitley split second with 2.5/5.Thanks to Warrick Walker, RodWeis, Jim Daniluk and John Quiringfor helping with the equipment, andto John for taking byes to even thepairings.

TD/Rep: Walter Watson & DavidOttosen

MB

Manitoba

Winnipeg Thanksgiving OpenNigel Fullbrook of BC was inWinnipeg this month to share firstplace in the Thanksgiving Open withDale Kirton at 5.5/6. Kris Gibsontook U1800 honors with 4/6, JustinGushuliak the U2200 Section, andDale Gustafson the U2000 top spotat 3.5/6.

Rep: Cecil Rosner

Winnipeg Mike Shpan MemorialSerge Sadov scored 5.5/7 to capturethe Winnipeg Chess Centre's ClubChampionship for 1999. Sadov, a co-champion a year ago, earns freeentry into any and all Tuesday nightevents he chooses to play in nextyear. The tournament featured manysurprising results, and John Klokow,


Harley Greenberg and Ron Moffateach distinguished themselves withtheir fine play throughout the twomonth event.

The tourney was renamed this yearto honor the memory of Mike Shpanwhose death in October shockedand saddened the local chesscommunity. Soft spoken and good-natured in manner, as a player Mikewas original and inventive. Histenacity and absolute relentlessnessbecame his trademark. Mike will alsobe remembered for his many years ofremarkable service to the ChessCentre, both as membershipcoordinator and the man who saw toit that the club was open everyWednesday night for over a decade.

ON

Ontario

DCC Autumn Wednesday SwissGermanyÕs Nico Michaelis ledthroughout and was undefeated ashe won the second DCC WednesdayAutumn Swiss by a full point overthe field. He was followed byWarren Dutton and Hugh Siddeley at4.5/6. Previous Wednesday Swisswinner Ignac Vucko finished in a tiewith Nosrat Noazri and RolfStoltefuss, all at 4/6.

TD/Org/Rep: Mark S. Dutton

Toronto Remembrance Day OpenInternational Master Ron Livshitsscored his second consecutiveToronto Chess Championship withanother convincing 4.5/5 final tally.Michael Dougherty lost only to thewinner to finish alone in secondplace with 4/5. Giorgi Khomerikifrom Tbilisi, Georgia scored 3.5/5 totie for third place with TorontoMaster Robert Murray. NicoMichaelis from Germany eaked outa half point margin to finish in solepossession of the Expert prize. Tiedfor second were juniors YevgeniSolodar, Christian Stevens, IgnacVucko and David Lawless.

The U2000 Section was split byWarren Dutton and VladimirRubanovski with undefeated 4/5scores. Mory Hunter and junior JasonDai finished a half point back. In theU1800 Section Dave Barber postedthe only perfect score of thetournament. Newmarket junior ScottHare finished in second, followed byAllan Howard and J.A.E. Allum.Brendan Duggan and PetroMocharenko tied for top honors inthe U1600 Section with 4/6, followedby Rod Nault of Malton. Scarboroughjunior Jacky Zhao captured theU1400 Section, leaving HassanHassan with the Top Unrated prize.


Sudbury Chess ChampionshipWith this victory Bob Kiviaho wentthrough the entire 90Õs decadewinning every Sudbury andNortheastern Ontario Championship.Nevertheless, there are clues tosuggest that his reign may be injeapardy at some future time, such as14-year-old Michael WangÕsshocking upset of last yearÕs runner-up Joe Dumontelle. In the finalround Michael clinched second spotby demonstrating to Derrick Flemingthat the game almost plays itselfonce a knight gets established on thesixth rank! Tied for third wereDumontelle, giant killer Ron Kawaand relative newcomer Art Lebel.

Rep: Bob Kiviaho

London Fall HarvestThis first event of the SWOCL GrandPrix drew 32 players. In the OpenSection Frank Pushkedra showedup fresh after his battles in theCanadian Closed to take first at 4/5.Anthony Van de Ven and Kirk Duvalshared second with 3.5/5. The U1700Section was split between MiltonBruvelaitis and junior star AdamPhares each scoring 4/5.

TD/Org/Rep: Gerry Litchfield

St.Catherines Junior / SeniorThe St.Catherines Chess Clubcontinued its junior support programwith a Scheveningen-style eventfeaturing four Junior and four Seniorplayers. Veteran Eric Van Dusenwon with 3.5/4 followed by juniorLucas Laszlo, who scored animpressive 3/4. The Upset Awardwent to 10-year-old Evan Chan who

defeated an opponent rated 320points higher.

Niagara FallsÕ double U15 NationalJunior Champion, Joseph Lentini,blasted through two higher ratedplayers in matches designed toprepare him for his appearance inthe World Junior Championships inSpain. Lentini defeated ExpertWarrick Rolfe 2.5Ð1.5, and thensurvived a rally by near-Master KeithWight to take the match with a3.5Ð2.5 score. More junior focusedtournaments and matches areplanned by the club for the spring.

TD/Org/Rep: Andrew Kempner

Blue Mountain Ontario OpenThis centuryÕs final Ontario Openattracted thirty-seven players to theBlue Mountain resort, who weretreated to a fine site with excellentplaying conditions as well as somegreat indian summer weather toenjoy their stay. Visiting IM DavidCummings edged out JuraOchkoos to win the Open Sectionwith an undefeated 5.5/6, followedclosely by Ochkoos at 5/6. The topU2200 prize went to Srdjan Zlobecwith 3.5/6, while Steve McGrahansecured second with 2.5/6.

In the U2000 Section RobertSherman showed good form to taketop honors at 4.5/6. Nick Zimninskilooked unbeatable until he lost toJason Dai in the final round and hadto settle for second place with 4/6.Robert Beaubien showed hisopponents no mercy by winning theU1800 Section with 4.5/6, leavingAlexandra Benggawan, Donald Prattand Harry Regu tied for second.

In the U1600 Section Bryan Woodgot some help from one opponent toemerge in first place with anundefeated 5/6, ahead of Chris Fieldin second at 4.5/6. Daniel Ma wonthe Top Unrated prize with 1/6.

Notes by

Tim Knechtel

Dai, JasonZimninski, Nick

Ontario Open (6), 1999French: Advance C02

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.c3

This is better than 4.dxc5 ½a5+ 5.c3e6 6.b4 ½d8.


[You are basically playing a ÒnormalÓFrench Advance line here, but Blackis down a pawn and two tempi!Where is his counterplay comingfrom in this line? Probably necessaryis 5Ö½xc5 and, surely, the retreat6Ö½c7 is better than 6Ö½d8 Ed.]

4Ö»c6 5.»f3 e6 6.a3!

White avoids 6.ºe2 cxd4 7.cxd4ºb4+ 8.»c3 »ge7.

6Öcxd4 7.cxd4 »ge7 8.ºd3 »g69.0-0 ºe7

Perhaps Black should play 9Ö»h410.ºe3 »xf3+ 11.½xf3 ºe7.

10.»c3 0-0 11.g3! ¼e8

Better is 11Ö½b6 12.ºe3 ºd713.½e2 f6 14.ºxg6 hxg6.

12.h4 ºd7 13.»g5 ºxg5?

Black fails to play 13Ö½b6 14.»f3 a615.ºc2.

[If WhiteÕs intention is to continuewith 15Ö¼ac8 16.½d3 then thestandard maneuver 16Ö»a7intending 17Ö»b5 would be ratherpleasant for Black, who can alwaysanswer h5 with Ö»f8 Ed.]

14.ºxg5 »ce7 15.h5 »f816.»b5!?

Another idea here for White is16.½g4 ¾h8 17.h6 »fg6 18.hxg7+¾xg7 19.½h5 with an attack.

16Öºxb5 17.ºxb5 »d7 18.½g4!¾h8 19.½f4 ¼f8

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[Here 19Öh6 is better, since 20.ºxh6gxh6 21.½xh6+ does not lead tomate Ed.]

20.h6 »g6 21.hxg7+ ¾xg722.ºh6+!

Also playable is 22.½e3 ½c7 23.¼ac1which wins BlackÕs »/d7.

22Ö¾g8 23.½f3 ¼e8?

Black must give up the exchangehere by trying 23Öf5 24.ºxf8 »dxf825.¼fc1.

24.ºxd7

Black resigns, because 24Ö½xd7allows 25.½f6 and mate next.

Ø.

Org: Liana Macmillan; TD/Rep: TimKnechtel

Kitchener KW September ActiveThe winners in the open sectionwere Jura Ochkoos and MiloradDimitrijevic. Jarret Tremblay wasfirst in the U1600, followed by AndreSecours in second place.

TD/Rep: Albert Den-Otter

PI Active Chess at the BayPickering Master Florante Alcaidewon the first day of the 16-playerqualifier with a perfect 4/4. He wasfollowed by Jordan Berson, whofinished in second spot afterupsetting Eduardo D. Teodoro IV inthe third round of this KO-styleevent.

Giorgi Khomeriki, formerly of theYouth Professional Chess Club inGeorgia, prevailed on the secondday of qualification play to earn hisseat in the playoff match. Elsewherethe KO-style event produced anumber of surprise upsets, includingVicentiu TipuÕs first round loss toChessÕn Math employee Omar Shah,and Eduardo TeodoroÕs loss tosecond place finisher Nico Michaelis.

On the final day, Giorgi Khomerikiwon the Òbest of threeÓ finalchampionship 2Ð0 against FloranteAlcaide to become the 1999 PI ActiveChess Champion. KhomerikiÕs solidpositional style never left theoutcome in any doubt.


Kitchener KW Fall Open50 people competed in this yearÕsedition of the event; and after thedust had settled the prize winnerswere Frank Pushkedra in the OpenSection, followed by MiloradDimitijevic and Andre Zybura. TheU2100 winners were Steve Demmeryand Pete McKillop; and in the U2000Section David Gebhardt finishedahead of Gerry Crowley, TomMcClelland and Hugh Siddeley. TopU1700 was shared by MatanPrilletensky and Aiken van Spyk;while Richard Riedstra prevailed inthe U1600 Section ahead of BryanWood and Adam Phares. Top U1400was Scott Sitar. Steve Demmery also

won the Brilliancy Prize after a splitdecision from the judging panel.

Notes by

Steve Demmery

NNDemmery, Steve

Kitchener KW Fall op, 1999Slav: Exchange D10

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.cxd5 cxd54.»c3 »c6 5.»f3 a6

Black plays a waiting move to seehow White will develop, and plansan eventual Öb5.

6.a3 g6 7.e3 ºg7 8.ºd3 »f6 9.h3

White does not allow BlackÕs lightsquared bishop access to g4.

9Ö0-0 10.0-0 b5 11.b4 ºb712.ºb2 e6 13.½e2 »e8

Black prepares for the maneuverÖ»d6-c4.

14.¼ad1 ½b6 15.»d2 »d616.»b3 ¼ad8 17.»c5 ºa818.ºb1 ½a7 19.h4 ¼fe8 20.f4 f521.g4 »b8

The knight aims for f6 or b6.

22.¼f2 »d7 23.g5 »b6 24.»d3»bc4

White should keep in mind thatcapturing BlackÕs »/c4 would lead tothe opening of the h1-a8 diagonalfor his opponentÕs queen andbishop.

25.ºc1 »e4 26.»xe4 dxe427.»e5?!

This mistake leaves Black with aclassic good knight vs. bad bishopgame. Probably 27.»c5 is better.

27Öºxe5 28.fxe5 ºd5 29.¼h2¼d7 30.¼f1 »b6 31.¼ff2 ¼c832.½e1 ¼dc7 33.¼c2 ºc4 34.h5ºd3 35.¼xc7 ½xc7 36.ºb2ºxb1 37.½xb1 »d5 38.½e1gxh5

White has stopped his opponent onthe queenside, and so the time hascome for Black to shift his attentionto the kingside.

39.½e2 ½f7 40.¼xh5 »xe341.½h2 ¼c2 42.½h4

An oversight that misses BlackÕscounter 44.¼g5 ¼g2+ two moveslater.

42Ö¼xb2 43.g6 ½xg6+ Ù.

Rep: Brian Clarke


Hamilton City CC ChampionshipThe 1999 Hamilton City CCChampionship resulted in a tie forthe second time in the last six years.Majid Terkhani and Ron Bricetopped the competition at 6/7, whenthe latter came from behind with asixth round wictory for the tie.Michael Egorov and Ron Puschkescored 5/7 to share third, while KyleMorrison led the U1700 Section.

Notes by

Ron Brice

Taherkhani, MajidBrice, Ron

Hamilton City CC ch (6), 1999Modern Benoni: Mikenas A66

1.d4 »f6 2.c4 e6 3.»c3 c5 4.d5exd5 5.cxd5 d6 6.e4 g6 7.f4 ºg78.e5

A dangerous system that is rarelyseen these days because Black hasadequate defensive resources.

8Ödxe5 9.fxe5 »fd7 10.e6 fxe611.dxe6 ½e7 12.»d5!

Unclear is 12.ºe2 »b6 13.ºf4 ºxe614.»f3 ºc4 15.0-0 ºxe2 14.»xe2»c6 17.¼e1 0-0 18.ºd6 ½e3+19.¾h1 ¼fe8.

12Ö½xe6+ 13.½e2 ½xe2+14.ºxe2 O-O!?

The older move 14Öºe5 leads to aclear advantage for White after15.»f3 »f6 16.ºc4 »xd5 17.ºxd5ºf6 18.0-0 »c6 ºg5± as played inLputianÐNorwood, Lvov 1986.

15.»c7 »c6 16.»xa8 »b4

Black has seized the initiative at thecost of a rook, and White mustreturn the booty to achieve aplayable game.

17.¼b1?!

17.¾d1 »e5 18.ºd2 »bd3 leads tosimilar difficulties for White as thetext. Necessary but unclear is 17.»f3»c2+ 18.¾d1 »xa1 19.ºc4+ ¾h820.¼e1 a6 21.ºe6 »e5!

17Ö»e5 18.»f3 ºf5²

White has trouble completing hisdevelopment. Also possible is18Ö»xf3+ followed by 19Öºf5.Black now regains a piece to remainonly an exchange down, but with amore active position.

19.a3 »bd3+ 20.¾f1 ¼xa821.»xe5 ºxe5

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22.¼a1?

This is too passive. Better is themuch more active 22.ºe3.

22Öºd4!

This move practically forces White tosurrender his only active piece, andleaves Black with the bishop pair.

23.ºxd3 ºxd3+ 24.¾e1 c4!

The text combines a bind on thelight squares with the threat topenetrate to the 7th rank, and isstronger than winning ¹/g2 with24Öºe4.

25.ºh6 ¼e8+ 26.¾d1 ºxb227.¼c1 c3

After 27Öºxc1 the opposite bishopendgame would be difficult to win.Black now threatens to occupy thed1-a4 diagonal with his bishop andwin back the exchange.

28.¼c2 ºxc2+ 29.¾xc2 ºxa3!¬

After 29Ö¼e2+ 30.¾b3 BlackÕsbishop is marooned on b2.

30.¾xc3 ºf8 31.ºf4 ºg7+32.¾b3 ¼e4 33.g3 a5 34.h4 a4+35.¾a2 b5 36.¼c1 ¼e2+ 37.¾b1¼b2+ 38.¾a1 ¼c2+ 39.¾b1¼xc1+ 40.¾xc1 h5 41.¾c2 ¾f742.ºd6 ¾e6 Ù.

Notes by

Ali Zakrajsek

Egorov, MichaelZakrajsek, Aljosa

Hamilton City CC ch, 1999Caro Kann B17

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.»c3 dxe44.»xe4 »d7 5.ºc4 »gf6 6.»g5e6 7.½e2

This queen move is important forWhite, since after 7.»1f3 or 7.»e2Black gets a good game with moveslike Öh6, Öb5!, Öºd6, Ö½c7, Öc5,and Öºb7.

7Ö»b6

The White threat to meet here is ofcourse 8.»xf7!

8.ºd3

The retreat 8.ºb3 is answered with8Öh6 and subsequent queensideaggression based on Öa5-a4 and theÖc5 break.

8Öºe7

Considerably inferior is 8Ö½xd49.»1f3 intending 10.»e5 with adouble attack on ¹/f7. Now 9Ö½g410.h3 ½xg2? 11.¼g1 wins BlackÕsqueen, and Soltis gives 9Ö½d510.»e5 ½xg2 11.¼f1 h6 (11Öºe712.»exf7 ¼f8 may be suspect ifWhite castles long) 12.»exf7 ¼g813.»xe6 ¾xf7?? 14.»d8#.

9.»1f3 h6 10.»e4 »bd5?!

10Ö»xe4 followed by Ö»d5-f6 ismore thematic.

11.»xf6+ »xf6 12.0-0 b6

Too cautiously played; 12Öb5 tocontrol square c4 and prepare foractivity on the queenside is better.

13.ºf4 ºb7 14.¼ad1 ½d5?

Black worries that his developmentwill be difficult after 14Ö0-0 15.c4which is precisely why 12Öb5 wasthe better move.

15.»e5

Here 15.c4 ½h5 16.d5 cxd5 17.cxd50-0 (17Öºxd5 18.ºb5+ looks toostrong) 18.d6 or 18.dxe6 is good forWhite.

15Ö0-0

Not 15Ö½xd4 16.ºg6 (or 16.»xf7)16Ö½xf4 17.ºxf7+ ¾f8 18.»g6+.

16.ºc4?!

Black probably wonÕt survive longenough to see the endgame after16.c4 ½a5 17.ºd2 ½xa2 18.»g6«.

16Ö½e4 17.½xe4?

White should maintain the tensionwith 17.ºe3.

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Here 18Öc5 19.d5 exd5 20.ºxd5ºxd5 21.¼xd5 »f6 seems to hold,but then I noticed that Black cannotchallenge White on the d-filebecause 22.¼d3 ¼ad8 23.¼xd8 ¼xd824.»c6! wins material for White.

19.»g6

Cute, and I didnÕt even see it! I wasthinking more about 19.»xf7 ¾xf7(or 19Ö¼xf7) 20.¼xe6 ¼e8 21.¼de1when 21Ö»d5! seems to equalize.

[After 19.»xf7 ¾xf7 20.¼xe6(20.ºe6+ ¾g6) 20Ö»d5 Black isclearly better; while 19Ö¼xf720.ºxe6 (20.¼xe6 ¾f8 21.¼de1»d5) keeps Black tied up a bit,although the long-term prospectsseem unclear to me. Ed.]

19Ö¼fe8 20.»xe7+ ¼xe7 21.ºc1¼d8 22.ºe2

This move blocks the e-file. I prefer22.ºb3 to keep an eye on possiblesquare e6/f7 sacrifices.

22Ö¼ed7 23.c3 »d5 24.ºf3 ¼c8

Although queenside expansion withÖb5, Öa5 and Öb4 looks tempting, Ialso wanted to play the ÒrequiredÓbreak Öc5.

25.a3 c5 26.c4! »f6 27.ºxb7¼xb7 28.dxc5 ¼xc5 29.b3 b530.ºe3 ¼e5 31.c5 »d5

Both players believe they have thebetter position here! I like my knight,and Mike likes his protected passedpawn.

32.b4 a6 33.g3 ¼e4 34.¼d4?!¼xd4 35.ºxd4 »e7!

Black prepares to claim the d-file.Now 36.¼d1 ¼d7 pins the bishop.

36.f4 ¼d7 37.ºe5 ¼d3 38.¼a1»c6 39.ºd6! »d4?!

BlackÕs last three moves no longerappeal to me too much, since Whitewill now play for the natural a4 toreactivate his rook.

I now expected 40.a4 »c2 41.axb5»xa1 42.bxa6 »c2 43.a7 ¼a3 44.ºb8»d4 with a successful blockade ofb5 and c6. However, I missed theimprovement 43.b5 »d4 44.b6 »c645.a7 ¼a3 46.ºb8 when Whitequeens one of his pawns. ZvonkoObrovac suggested 39Ö¼b3 as asuitable alternative.

40.¼a2 f6 41.a4 »c6

[With 41Ö¼b3 Black keeps an edge.Ed.]

42.axb5 axb5 43.¼a6 »xb4

44.¼b6 ¼d1+ 45.¾g2 ¼d2+46.¾g1 ¼d1+ 47.¾g2 ¼d2+

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48.¾h3

White tries for the win, but hischoice of escape square turns outvery badly. A march towards thequeenside is much more interesting.

48Ö»d3 49.¼xb5

The direct 49.c6 meets a tragic endafter 49Ö»f2+ 50.¾h4 »e4 (50Ö¼xd651.c7«) 51.c7 ¼xh2+ 52.¾g4 f5+53.¾f3 »d2+ 54.¾e3 »c4+.

49Ö»f2+ 50.¾h4 »e4 51.¾h5

White hopes for an incidental matethreat, and 51Ö»xd6 52.¾g6 »f753.¼b8+ ¼d8 54.¼b7 ¼f8 55.c6 looksunclear to me.

[Why not 52Ö»xb5? Also, with52.cxd6 White can reach a rookending that he may be able to drawwith diligent defense. Ed.]

51Ö¾h7 52.ºf8? f5! 53.h3 ¼h2Ù.

TD/Rep: Steve McGrahan

DCC End of Century SwissWarren Dutton and HughSiddeley finished in a tie for tophonors in this twenty player event,followed by Chris Benson and ScottHare. Amazingly, 7-year-old AlinaSviridovitch and 9-year-old IrakliVadachkoriya both posted 1700+performances!


DCC December BlitzBranimir Vujic finished at 12/14 towin our ÒFinal Blitz of the CenturyÓtournament. Alan Brown resurfacedafter twenty years in Vancouver tospeed his way into second placeahead of Srdjan Zlobec. Richard Ruizand Nikola Brajkovic split the U2100Section, while Slava Sviridovitchtook the U1900 bounty.


DCC Monday NightInternational Master TomOÕDonnell scored his secondconsecutive Monday Night 15-MinuteChampionship with an impressive 5/6 final tally in an extremely strongfield of sixteen competitors. SrdanZlobec and Bosko Maric split secondplace, while Nikola Brajkovic tookhome top spot in the U2100 Sectionahead of Richard Ruiz.


DCC Wednesday ChampionshipNico Michaelis became the 1999Dutton Chess Club Champion bywinning his second consecutiveWednesday night Swiss with anundefeated 5/6 score in a 25 playerfield. Ignac Vucko lost only toMichaelis to finish alone in secondplace at 4.5/6. Sergio Quesada,Guido Bortolotti and Rolf Stoltefussall tied for third at 4/6.


Scarborough CC Thursday Autumn SwissA field of 36 competitors watchedfavorite Joachim Hentschel cruiseto first place with 4.5/5 after taking alast round draw with Jim Paterson.Paterson shared second with newarrival Nico Michaelis fromGermany, Tom Bozinoski andAndre Rolavs, all with 4/5. TheU1800 Section was shared by RobertArmstrong and John Friendly at 3.5/5. A special thanks to our membersfor their continued support of clubevents, from the 1999Ð2000 SCCPresident, Bryan Lamb.

TD/Org/Rep: Bryan Lamb

Scarborough CC Sunday Fall SwissJim Paterson dominated this 24player event with a 5.5/6 final score,followed by CFC President MauriceSmith at 5/6. Silvano Mesiti finishedin a tie for third with RobertArmstrong. The most notable resultfrom the bottom half of the eventwas registered by Vineet Joag, whoscored 3.5/6 to gain almost 100rating points. Congratulations!


Scarborough Fall ActiveThe first event of our ActiveTournament season was attended bysuch notables as Jura Ochkoos,Florante Alcaide, Bryan Lamb, NicoMichaelis and Roderick Teodoro.


Surprisingly, however, thistournament was to be full of upsets,and none of the top seeds was ableto prevent Milan Zagar from puttingon a spectacular show that includedsuccessive wins over Alcaide,Richard Ruiz, and Roderick Teodorofor an impressive final 5.5/6 score!

Alcaide came clear second, whilethird place was shared by BryanLamb and Rubanovski at 4.5/5. Wewere quite happy to see a largeturnout by young players, includingsome who played in their first Activetournament. Hopefully this positivetrend will continue in future events!


Scarborough Christmas ActiveThe final SCC Active event of themillennium proved to be one of itsbest yet, when a total of 51 playersturned up to compete for the $1000prize fund. Among the players werestrong Masters Igor Zugic, JuraOchkoos, Vincent Tipu, MichaelDougherty, Milan Mitrovic, BorisRositsan and Nechemia Kasimov.

Excitement prevailed right down tothe last round, when Mitrovic cameup with a narrow victory overKasimov to overtake him at the wirewith his final 5.5/6 score. Tied withKasimov for second place wereDougherty and Zugic at 5/6. VinceTipu was also in the running afterwinning his first four games, butfaltered with losses to Kasimov andnewcomer Branimir Vujic.

Another strong new player wasjunior Artem Gurevich, who logged anear 2100 TPR. I expect we will behearing more from him in the future.However, the best showing by ayoung player was the performanceof young Irakli Vadachkoriya, whoscored 3.5/6 with a 2000+ TPR!


Scarborough Youth Tournament #4Artem Gurevich was the handywinner this time with a perfect 5/5.Second place was taken by Jian Lu,who finished with 4/5, followed bynewcomer Stuart Wright in third.Other participants included HazelSmith, David Hier, Jonathan andJeffrey Yu, Vincent Cuevas andLukas Beaudry.


Scarborough Youth #5Many of our participants seem to bedoing quite well and are noticeablyimproving. This tournament saw astrong performance by Grade 3student Hazel Smith, who won theevent on tiebreak over Grade 11student Jian Lu. We were alsopleased to see the return of Jeremyand Stuart Wright, Jonathan andJeffrey Yu, David Hier and MitchellDembowski.


DCC New Millennium Saturday ActiveA record 36 players were present tokick off the 2000 chess season at theDutton Chess Club, and were treatedto an impressive display by 11-year-old Mark Bluvshtein. Formerly ofIsrael, he finished the event with aconvincing 5.5/6 score, leavingbehind Warren Dutton in secondplace. The U2200 Section wasdominated by Richard Ruiz at 4.5/5,followed by Vladimir Rubanovski,Ignac Vucko and Nico Michaelis.

The U2000 prize money went toBroadcast News announcer StephenFairbairn, while juniors Omar Shahand Hao Yuan Wang tied for secondspot. Peter Hollo won the U1800Section ahead of Markka Salomaaand junior Chirstian Stevens. Next,Steve Laughlin easily won theU1600 Section, while Agincourtjunior Kevin Teh scored 3/6 to winthe U1400 Section.


PQ

Quebec

Outaouais OpenThe Outaouais Open was held in thevery comfortable Maison du Citoyenin Hull for the second consecutiveyear and attracted an impressive 112players from Quebec and Ontario tofight for a total prize fund of $2500.The event was sponsored by the Cityof Hull and ChessÕn Math, whichoffered $145 in prizes for juniors andcadets.

In the Open Section a traffic jam leftDeen Hergott, Gzim Guzinjac,Miladin Djerkovic, IliasBaiguildine and ArmandoValdizon in a share for first place at4/5. Mihnea Voloaca and JonathanGottlieb split Top Junior honors at3.5/5. The U2000 Section witnessedan exceptional performance by 11-year-old Sebastian Predescu, whotied for first with Jean-PascalMorin at 4.5/5. EmmanuelDesmarais and Lethyn Hua won theJunior and the Cadet prizes. EricLawson scored 4.5/5 to win theU1700 Section, while KiranRamaswamy won the Cadet prize.Finally, in the U1400 Section,another traffic jam at 4/5 leftGuillaume Dufour, Luc Villeneuveand Andre Levesque to share topspot. Jonathan Perecowicz finishedfirst among the Cadets.

In round three our referees GaetanMorin and Serge Archambault faceda very unusual situation, when twoplayers in the Open Section agreedto a draw without playing anymoves! While we are all only toofamiliar with ÒGrandmaster drawsÓ,this particular case caused Gaetanand Serge to search for an originalsolution: the players were bothcredited with half a point, and werepaired again in the next round!

Overall our event was once again agreat success, and I would to thankall of the participants and those whohelped me put on a great show. Seeyou next year!

Org/Rep: Hubert Seguin

NS

Nova Scotia

Nova Scotia Junior ChampionshipAttendance at the event was reducedat the last possible moment, whenseveral Juniors decided to participatein the Shearwater Fall Open, whichwas also held on the same weekendat CFB Shearwater. In the end thosewho did participate were allenthusiastic and enjoyed the


competition. Jason Kenney andAlex Livingstone both finished at4/5 to force a playoff, which Jasonwon convincingly to earn hisqualification spot for the nextCanadian Junior Championship. TheTop U1500 trophy went tonewcomer Alex Lanoszka after hewon a playoff match with StefanBehme.

Rep: David Kenney

Halifax Remembrance Day OpenAs expected, visiting IM TomOÕDonnell won the Expert Sectionwith 4.5/5. The U2000 Section waswon by Eduard Morariu, also at 4.5/5, followed by Alex Fraser and AlbertEde in second with 4/5. A total of 38players took part.

Notes by

Tom O'Donnell

O'Donnell, TomCharlton, Glenn

Halifax Remembrance Day op(3), 1999Pirc B06

1.e4 g6 2.d4 d6 3.»c3 ºg7 4.ºe3a6 5.½d2 »f6 6.ºh6 0-0 7.ºxg7¾xg7 8.0-0-0

White now follows pretty much thesame plan he did in his round onegame vs. Kenney. BlackÕs attack is alittle faster in this variation, but I stillprefer White. Modern players whoface this line might try eitherdelaying Öºg7 or alternatively findsome way to make Ö0-0-0 work.

8Öb5 9.f3 ºb7 10.g4 »bd711.»ge2

11.¾b1 looks playable, though after11Öb4 12.»ce2 »xe4 13.fxe4 ºxe414.»g3 ºxh1 15.»xh1 things getquite messy. The idea behind thetext, rather than 11.h4 for example,is to play g4-g5 when on Ö»h5 themove »g3 opens the h-file.

11Öc5 12.g5 »g8 13.dxc5 »xc514.h4 ¼c8 15.h5?

A very weak move. Simply 15.¾b1leaves White with a large edge and astrong attack, while BlackÕscounterplay is going nowhere.

15Öb4 16.½d4+

I originally considered lines with16.hxg6 but then the simple 16Öfxg6is fine for Black.

16Öe5 17.½xb4 ½xg5+ 18.¾b1¼fd8 19.hxg6 hxg6 20.¼g1 ½e3

I had analyzed up to here whenplaying 15.h5? and for some reasonfelt that White is much better. Intruth, the position is simply unclear.

21.ºh3 ¼b8 22.»g3

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22Öºxe4?

Very tempting, but wrong. NowBlack loses a piece, though he canget three pawns for it. A betterchoice is to step out of the pin with22Ö¾f8 as suggested by Glenn afterthe game. Now White is better again.

23.½a5!?

During the game I thought that thismove is best, but Fritz says that23.½c4 d5 24.»cxe4 (I missed that!)24Ö½xg1 25.¼xg1 dxc4 26.»xc5 isbetter for White.

23Ö½h6?

Better is 23Ö½xf3 24.¼df1 ºxc2+25.¾xc2 when WhiteÕs extra piece isworth more than the three pawns.Now Black is lost.

24.fxe4 ½xh3 25.»f5+ ¾f826.»xd6 »e6 27.½xe5 »e728.¼h1 Ø.

Notes by

Tom O'Donnell

Urquhart, EdO'Donnell, Tom

Halifax Remembrance Dayop, 1999

Sicilian: Grand Prix B25

1.e4 c5 2.»c3 »c6 3.f4 g6 4.g3ºg7 5.ºg2 d6 6.d3 e5

I usually play 6Öe6 here, but Edlooked like the kind of guy whomight try a kingside pawn storm. Ineeded at least a draw to maintainmy tournament lead, and AlexandreLesiegeÕs success with this line wasalso an inducement to give it a try.

7.»ge2 »ge7 8.ºe3 »d4 9.½d2

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9Ö0-0

I spent a lot of time on 9Öºh3?! (or9Öºg4) 10.»xd4 (10.0-0 is also fine)10Öºxg2 11.»e6 fxe6 12.½xg2 and Ihave no idea who is better.

10.0-0 ¼b8 11.h3 b5 12.»d1 ºe613.c3 »xe2+ 14.½xe2 ½d715.¾h2 f5 16.fxe5 ºxe5 17.ºh6ºg7 18.ºxg7 ¾xg7 19.»e3?!

Perhaps 19.»f2 intending torecapture on e4 with the knight isbetter. Black is just a little better inthe final position, since after 19Öfxe420.dxe4 White has a bad º/g2.

Ú.

TD/Org/Rep: Kim Tufts

Shearwater Fall OpenNineteen players turned out for theShearwater Fall Open, who werepromptly greeted by problems withthe heating system that forcedeveryone to wear coats during thefirst three rounds! Alvah Mayoseemed least distracted and finisheda full point clear of the field at 4.5/5.Glenn Charlton, Steve Saunders andJohn Klapstein finished in a tie forsecond at 3.5/5. The top U1500 prizewent to Jerrett Gabriel, who endedthe tournament with 3/5.

Rep: David Kenney

NB

New Brunswick

Fredericton November OpenNeil Davis won the event with 4.5/5, followed by Cliff Godsoe at 3.5/5.


In the U1600 Section Chris Maund,James Livingstone and Andrzej Palakhad to be content with a share of topspot at 3/5.

TD/Org/Rep: Chris Maund

Pumpkin Match IIAndrew Sullivan won the PumpkinMatch II with 4.5/5 points, leavingTerry Carr in second place at 3/5.The U1600 produced a tie betweenYvon Leger, Kyle Johnson andAndrew Lord, all at 2.5/5.

TD/Org/Rep: Chris Maund

Fredericton Sainte-Anne Active, NBTen players from Fredericton,Moncton, St.John and St.Stephenwatched Andrew Sullivan ofFredericton capture top spot with his4/5 final score. Neil Davis and RogerTremblay tied for second at 3.5/5.

Rep: Roger Tremblay

Saint John New Brunswick ActiveChampionship

Neil Davis cruised through the fieldto win with a perfect 5/5 score.Second went to 14-year-old RonakKapadia, who lost only to Davis anddefeated a couple of experts alongthe way. Most Improved went to 11-year-old Kyle Johnson, while LoganDavidson took second MostImproved. Twelve played.

TD/Org/Rep: Fred McKim

PE

Prince Edward Island

Summerside YCA November ActiveFred McKim was able to eke out anarrow margin of victory in theNovember Active by achieving athree-fold repetition in a drawnbishop ending with Scott Landry, ashis flag was hanging. This wasMcKimÕs second lucky escape of theday! Justin Gulati settled for secondwith 4/5, while Landry captured theTop Junior prize at 3.5/5. KyleJohnson was Most Improved.

TD/Org/Rep: Fred McKim

Maritime Open

Notes by

Alvah Mayo

Doucette, RaymondMayo, Alvah

Maritime op (1), 1999Queen Pawn: London A46

1.d4 »f6 2.»f3 c5 3.ºf4? cxd44.»xd4?

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4Öd6?

Of course 4Öe5! 5.ºxe5 ½a5+ wins apiece, as pointed out in the postmortem by Richard Bowes.

5.»b3 g6 6.e3 ºg7 7.c3 »c68.»1d2 O-O 9.ºd3 ºd7 10.h4 a511.»f3

White should take a moment todelay BlackÕs counterplay with 11.a4.

11Öa4 12.»bd2 a3 13.h5 axb214.¼b1 ¼xa2 15.½b3

An alternative is the sharper attempt15.hxg6 hxg6 16.ºxg6 with the pointthat 16Öfxg6 allows 17.½b3+winning ¼/a2 but Black can simplycontinue with a move like 16Ö½a5and keep the advantage.

15Öºe6 16.½xb7 ½a8 17.¼xb2½xb7 18.¼xb7

The rook lands on the seventh rank,but its action is limited by theopponentÕs untouchable »/c6.

18Ö»xh5

Black harvests another pawn andimmediately eyes the c3 weakie.

19.ºb1 ¼a1 20.¼c7 ¼c8!

Black forces further simplification, sothat »/c6 can be activated.

21.¼xc8+ ºxc8 22.c4 »a5 23.O-O »xf4 24.exf4 ºa6 25.¼c1»xc4!

WhiteÕs ¼/c1 is overworked, and amass exchange on c4 followed byÖ¼xb1+ favors Black even more.

26.»b3 ¼a3 27.»fd4 e5 28.fxe5dxe5 29.»c5 exd4 30.»xa6 ¼a131.¾h2 ºe5+ 32.g3 d3 33.»b4d2 34.¼d1 »b2 35.¼xd2 ¼xb136.»c6 ºf6 37.¼c2 »d338.¾g2?? »e1+ Ù.

Notes by

Alvah Mayo

Mayo, AlvahGulati, Justin

Maritime op (2), 1999Reti A49

1.d4 »f6 2.»f3 g6 3.g3 b6 4.ºg2ºb7 5.O-O d5 6.b3 ºg7 7.ºb2»bd7 8.»bd2 c5 9.c4 O-O10.¼e1 e6 11.¼c1 ¼e8

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12.¼c2!?

White gets ready to double rooks onthe c- or e-file and prepares forÖ

12Öa6 13.½a1!

Mike EldridgeÕs influence, and acommon motif of Richard RetiÕs.

13Ö¼c8 14.h3 cxd4 15.ºxd4½e7 16.»e5 »xe5 17.ºxe5 »h518.ºxg7 »xg7 19.¼ec1 dxc420.ºxb7 ½xb7 21.»xc4

The flurry of exchanges has endedwith White enjoying a slight edge.

21Ö¼c5?? 22.»d6 ½d5 23.»xe8»xe8 24.¼xc5 bxc5 25.½c3 h626.½xc5 ½d2 27.½e3!

After 27Ö½xa2? 28.¼c8! wins »/e8.

27Ö½d7 28.½xh6 Ø.

Notes by

Alvah Mayo

Livingston, JamesMayo, Alvah

Maritime op (3), 1999Queen Pawn: Torre Attack A40

1.d4 g6 2.»f3 ºg7 3.ºg5 c5 4.e3»c6 5.c3 cxd4 6.exd4 d6 7.ºe2


Too passive, the bishop belongs ond3 to help with a kingside attack.

7Öºg4 8.»bd2 »f6 9.ºxf6 ºxf610.O-O O-O 11.h3 ºd7

I donÕt share my opponentÕsenthusiasm for giving up the bishoppair, nor does the tempo expendedon provoking 11.h3 seem reallyworthwhile.

12.½b3 ½c7 13.¼fe1 a6 14.a4?!

White plays on the wrong side of theboard, and his activity there onlyaccelerates BlackÕs counterplay.

14Ö¼fc8 15.¼ac1 ¼ab8 16.»e4ºg7 17.ºf1

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Another move that lacks punch.White could try ideas like ºd3, »g5,h4-h5, and perhaps a rook lift to thekingside.

17Öb5! 18.axb5 axb5 19.½c2?

Also bad is 19.ºxb5 since after19Ö»a7 Black wins back his pawnwith even more open lines on thequeenside.

19Ö»xd4 20.»xd4 ºxd421.½d2 ºg7 22.»g3 ºe6 23.»e2ºc4 24.»d4 e5!?

Black increases his central influence,and if White trades bishops then hewill lose a second pawn.

25.ºxc4?

Better is 25.»c2 followed by 26.»b4with a nice blockading square on d5.

25Öexd4 26.ºxf7+

Desperation!

26Ö½xf7 27.cxd4 ¼xc1 28.¼xc1¼f8 29.¼f1 ½d5 30.¼d1 ¼e8

Threatening 31Ö¼e4 winning ¹/d4.

31.f3 ¼c8 32.½e3 h6 33.b3 b434.¾h1 ¼c3 35.½e8+ ¾h736.½d7 ¼xf3

A cute tactic since 37.gxf3 ½xf3+picks up the ¼/d1.

37.¾h2 ¼xb3 38.¼e1 ½xd439.¼e7 ½f4+ 40.¾g1 ¼b1+ Ù.

Notes by

Alvah Mayo

Breau, RobertMayo, Alvah

Maritime op (4), 1999Benoni: Beefeater A40

1.d4 g6 2.»f3 ºg7 3.c4 c5 4.d5d6 5.»c3?! ºxc3+!?

We have transposed to the DzindziIndian. Black gives his bishop toinflict permanent damage on WhiteÕsqueenside pawn structure, andintends to use his knights in theresulting closed position to outplayWhiteÕs clumsy bishop pair.

6.bxc3 f5

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7.»g5?!

In an unfamiliar opening Whitemakes another dubious move;moving the same piece a secondtime so early without any otherdeveloped pieces and without anyviable targets canÕt be correct.

7Ö½a5 8.½b3 »f6 9.½b5+ ½xb510.cxb5 »xd5 11.g3 h6 12.»h3e5 13.c4 »b6 14.e3 ºe6 15.ºg2¼h7!

This move completely neutralizesWhiteÕs pressure on ¹/b7.

16.a4 »xc4 17.O-O g5 18.f4

Here 18.¾h1 intending »g1 and »e2as circumstances dictate is better.

18Ög4 19.»f2 e4 20.¼d1 d521.ºf1 »a5 22.ºb2 »d7 23.¼a3»b6 24.¼aa1 »bc4 25.ºxc4»xc4 26.ºc1 ¼d7 27.¼e1 ¾f728.h3 h5 29.hxg4 hxg4 30.¾g2¼h8 31.»d1 d4 32.exd4 cxd433.»b2 »xb2 34.ºxb2 e3!?

The shot 35.¼xe3 dxe3 wins ¼/h8but Black can just ignore the capturewith the decisive 35Öºd5+.

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Notes by

Alvah Mayo

Mayo, AlvahGuignard, Michael

Maritime op (5), 1999King�s Indian: Sämisch E87

1.d4 »f6 2.c4 g6 3.»c3 ºg7 4.e4d6 5.f3 O-O 6.ºe3 e5 7.d5 »h58.»ge2 f5 9.½d2 »bd7 10.»c1a5 11.»d3 b6 12.ºe2 »c513.»xc5 bxc5 14.O-O-O ¼f715.¾b1 ºd7 16.»b5 ºxb517.cxb5 fxe4 18.fxe4 ½h419.ºd3 »f6 20.ºg5 ½g4 21.h3½d7 22.½c2 »h5 23.¼he1 h624.ºe3 ½e7 25.½c4 »g3 26.¼c1h5 27.¼c3 ºf6! 28.¼a3 ºg529.ºg1 ºd2 30.¼d1 ½g5 31.ºc2h4 32.¼d3?! »f1! 33.ºxc5!

Fighting fire with fire!

33Ödxc5 34.d6

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34Ö¾g7

[Lines such as 34Ö»e3 35.¼xe3 ºxe336.ºb3 ¼af8 37.dxc7 among othersare fatal for Black Ed.]

35.ºb3

[Black seems okay after 35.½d5 ¼af8(35Ö¼d8 36.ºb3 ¼ff8 37.¼f3 isnÕt soclear, but I suspect that White hasthe better chances) 36.d7 (or 36.¼f3¼xf3 37.gxf3 »e3 38.½xd2 cxd6)36Ö»e3 37.d8½ ¼xd8 38.½xd8 Ed.]

35Ö¼af8 36.dxc7?

Much better is 36.d7.

36Ö½f4?

The post mortem centered aroundthe simple 36Ö¼xc7 and despiteseveral attractive looking tacticalshots for White, Black should win.

37.¼f3 »e3 38.½xf7+ ¼xf739.¼xf4 ¼xc7 40.¼f7+! ¼xf741.ºxf7 »xd1 42.b6 Ø.


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www.chess.caCFC# column containsthe playerÕs CFC number.Name column has theplayerÕs Last, First name.Rtng column has thememberÕs current rating.If the rating is xxxx thenthe person has an expiredmembership. Highcolumn has the hghestrating we have for thismember. If the number isless than 25 it indicatesthat the member has aprovisional rating and it isthe number of games he/she has played.

108558 Fic, Joe 1247 1327125916 Fleming, Balin 1557 23122165 Forsyth, Bruce 1382 1382122172 Forsyth, Brendan 1238 7112641 Friesen, David 1583 1611125914 Friesen, Ronald 1523 18124835 Gait, Joshua 1017 15124836 Gait, Andrew 970 15125850 Gao, Mamie 200 5103649 Gaudry, Gil 1560 1700111013 Gemmell, Ian 1344 1371126136 George, George 695 5125693 Giesbrecht, Peter 1063 5123205 Gill, Gurpreet 1523 19122351 Glusica, Momir 2023 2086110906 Goldstein, Rhys 1862 1862123238 Goutor, Evgeni 1730 20121339 Goutor, Yaroslav 1588 1728121338 Goutor, Valentina 1542 1580126069 Grady, Jocelyn 430 10110908 Grey, Wayne 1641 1691123841 Guze, Matthew 639 10101879 Hallam, John 2230 2323123566 Halmaghi, Cristi 642 642123565 Halmaghi, Horatio 1070 1070103261 Hamanishi, Neil 1897 2015107504 Hansen, Niels 1465 1571125356 Hardie, Derek 1598 12109623 Harding, Doug 1559 1650125539 Hardy, Justin 1415 1435112513 Haukenfrers, Dale 2214 2214121695 Henrey, Michael xxxx 1213121694 Henrey, Andrew xxxx 1379125938 Herman, Andrew 929 5125939 Herman, Eric 908 4108423 Higgs, Ian 1851 2003125909 Hipkin, John xxxx 3121071 Hladek, David 2103 2103121613 Hobbs, Jennifer 298 8123693 Hockstra-Atwood, Liberty 439 16109482 Holubowicz, Kazimziercz 1688 1823102299 Horning, Ira 1338 1367126275 Huang, Edward 550 5122885 Iancu, Victor 898 900125971 Illig, Ray 1120 3126276 Inclan, JR 200 5125416 Ivankovic, Goran 1936 19126221 Jeong, Max 694 9125373 Ji, Dawei 833 15123793 Jiang, Xin 2090 2103123082 Jiganchine, Roman 2153 2160108082 Jones, Cliff 1833 1861125900 Jose, Jonathan 896 5120077 Jose, Marionito 1843 1892125917 Juhasz, David 779 6120241 Juverdeanu, Mircea 1303 1371123722 Kao, Leo 1331 1342123692 Kao, Amy 1146 1146123098 Karakas, Aram 689 689120242 Kelly, Joseph 799 1004124316 Kelly, Patrick 1544 22124360 Kelly, Liam 831 15126219 Kelly-Butler, Jade 282 4103255 Keshet, Ilan 1375 1393126000 Kikstra, Henk 1718 5109405 Kindret, Mike 1829 1900125540 Kirkland, Simon 1136 9108816 Kleiman, Avi 643 643108813 Kleiman, Yarin 664 664104177 Kleiman, Bram 1257 1318110075 Kojic, Stefan 1176 1289125843 Kolody, Adrienne 272 5120324 Kostadinov, George 2188 2297126057 Kostic, Miodrag 1473 4104683 Kovacs, George 1787 1819125906 Kraus, Bill 1473 5102841 Krys, Mark 1943 1950111002 Krys, Richard 1249 1308102462 Krys, Christopher 1707 1742124649 Kwok, Shing 1323 8123808 Labik, Peter 1546 9104559 Lam, Brian 735 15123100 Lambert, Robert 303 303100289 Lancaster, Johnny 1733 1800106064 Lee, Jason 1884 1884125514 Lee, Kenneth 546 10125844 Lee, Samantha 338 5126218 Lee, Gabrielle 227 4125856 Lee, Katia 200 5101054 Legaspi, Ritchie xxxx 9125735 Leku, Eset 1713 11122196 Lepsoe, Michael 1478 1478123392 Lindelauf, Justin 1488 24124020 Litster, Marissa 1226 14123463 Liu, Kai 1724 1728110351 Long, Hugh 1928 1928102303 Loseth, Tim 1066 1076123694 Lum, Katrina 280 9126297 Lutter, Nicolas 459 4123778 Lyakh, Alexey 1607 1782100164 Macdonald, Hugh K.M. 1566 1600105327 MacKay, Stuart 1387 1500107927 Mair, Bob 1695 1695122651 Majewski, Michael 1315 1352124431 Makowichuk, John 1883 11125845 Malone, Christina 738 5126277 Marayag, Lady-Daise 200 5126278 Marayag, Marc-Edward 377 5121341 Martinescu, Mike 970 1084109234 Martinovsky, Ian 2215 2261122911 Martinson, Rick 1657 1671125940 Mathon, Dave 1247 3113123 McCusky, Louis 1551 1628125983 McDonell, Tavish 1584 5123696 McKay, Laurie 623 10125851 McKenzie, Jenny 200 5

125857 McKenzie, Megan 200 5112021 McLaren, Sean 2075 2131124728 McPhee, David 811 11104893 McPherson, Tristram 2085 2092101550 Medalen, David 1806 2042106573 Medina, Mark 1422 1502113007 Melesko, Chris 1525 13125380 Merat, Sean 1058 10104727 Milat, Marcel 2357 2372120075 Milicevic, Dragoljub 2324 2345108774 Miller, Stephen 1308 1320105939 Miller, Max 1597 1717110536 Miller, Amy-Marie 1022 1022123445 Moisseev, Dimitri 1958 1971125566 Mok, Justin 1273 10106767 Monteith, Don 1855 1924101014 Moore, David 1956 2100123860 Morrison, Dan 1727 1740100224 Mueller, Wilf 1438 1500123567 Nasonov, Yan 1244 21107627 Nathani, Kaleim 1966 1966126156 Nathon, Dave 1504 5109673 Nebel, Rick 1677 1706105750 Neufahrt, Gerhard 2089 2227104786 Neufeld, John D. 1910 2007125852 Ng, Bianca 265 5120554 Nguyen, Trieu 1126 1186125377 Nguyen, Sophie 585 585100318 Niksic, John 2145 2200125907 Nisbet, Bob xxxx 10124377 Norris, Sam xxxx 10124378 Norris, Henry xxxx 10106910 North, Robert 1993 2100122068 Novotny, Mike 1282 7109818 Olson, Byron 1514 1605120252 Osthoff, Dieter 1610 20105682 Parker, Glenn 1477 1581126155 Parlee, Brandon 1010 4104330 Pechisker, Alfred 2185 2244122820 Pelcher, Jonathan 1055 16126279 Petchenov, Andrew 308 5122886 Peterson, James 1647 1647108831 Pildysh, Rostyslav 1495 1601108125 Pitts, Matthew 1829 1870100259 Planas, Rodolfo 1596 1809103074 Poitras, Luc 2185 2300105227 Prabhakaran, Aarthi 850 863104016 Prabhakaran, Sugumar 1216 1265111443 Prokopowicz, Monika 1135 1278125517 Ravindran, Sivatharan 273 15104948 Reaville, Mike 1905 1933125846 Reid, Brianna 472 5124834 Reid, Alexander 1126 1126123707 Rekart, Emma 585 10125518 Ren, Owen 868 10126280 Rezansoff, Nadya 200 5106022 Roebuck, Scott xxxx 1382124225 Rosenberg, Karia 855 20124226 Rosenberg, Priya 882 20120471 Rosnes, Kyle 874 19126001 Rosset, Steve 1491 5126066 Rycroft, Sean 1050 8106541 Sadoway, Steven 2007 2026110084 Sadoway, Graham 1020 1020123104 Sally, James 558 558126215 Sargeant, Geoff 681 5126214 Sargeant, Colin 913 5125905 Sargent, Graeme 1534 10125970 Schmeisser, Alex 1073 5103414 Scoones, Dan 2302 2302126067 Scott, Danny 969 5124021 Seads, Jesse 1205 1205122519 Sedlock, Jim 1614 15110550 Service, Christina xxxx 833123712 Shang, Alice 769 13124409 Sieben, Perry 376 9123844 Sieben, Alois 729 20125420 Siglos, Teresa 986 12124314 Siglos, Tyrone 1083 1122125568 Silley, Monty xxxx 22126003 Slambor, Jan 1215 4107409 Slambor, Jiri 1805 1829106383 Spicer, Christopher 1943 2018110554 Stanford, Mike 1991 1991100331 Steinke, Wally 1745 1839126002 Steinmetz, Fred 911 5100346 Stockhausen, Peter 1726 1728103750 Sullivan, Brian 1733 1769120436 Sum, Peter 1208 1214123564 Tang, Tiffany 960 960123723 Tang, Edward 1455 1455123689 Tang, Laureen 1081 14123631 Tassel, Ben 726 10107829 Taylor, Nicholas 1870 2100125853 To, Sharon 200 5123708 To, Gloria 301 9123845 Trandafir, Stefan 1129 1155101209 Trotter, Don 1710 1717125397 Vakili, Annie 1078 12125378 Van, Joseph 517 15105021 Vanderleeden, Han 1545 16123805 Virk, Narinder xxxx 1119126097 Vowles, Greg xxxx 4120239 Wang, Yamei 1646 1646120237 Wang, Fei 1523 1523125246 Ward, Hilton 1341 1341120587 Warko, Andrew 1466 1492126216 Wasser, Reuben 693 5103853 Wasser, Jacob 1456 1456123106 Wee, Michael 658 658125477 Werth, Guido 1474 12122520 Wetterlind, Jason 1653 16125854 White, Alexandra 200 5107142 Whitman, Alan 1696 1800111246 Williams, David xxxx 1595106287 Williamson, Jason 2046 2100

110849 Wilson, John 1709 1752123863 Wilson, Scott xxxx 16126296 Winkelmans, Paul 1017 5102664 Wolfman, Yasha 908 995125847 Wong, Andrea 538 5120829 Wong, Lincole 1261 1315101237 Wong, Samuel 2082 2097125855 Wong, Adelina 380 5111941 Woodward, Greg 1983 2041108715 Wright, Stephen 2238 2343126217 Wylie, Megan 200 4125901 Xu, Charles 724 5101701 Yee, Peter 1993 2023107994 Yoos, John C. 2483 2483124832 Young, Bryan 649 15102642 Zamorano, Alex 1731 1828126281 Zhang, Hans 775 5101537 Zuk, Bob 2290 2317

ManitobaCFC# Name Rtng High125989 Bura, Rene 1332 1120822 Charter, Bennet 1686 1690111659 Cleto, Sam 1887 1992111806 Czypinski, Jaroslaw 1938 2046125471 Gable, Reid 1370 16105641 Gannon, Keith 1650 1725107847 Gibbons, Lorne 1416 1446107754 Gibson, Kris 1796 1832107168 Greenberg, Harley 1736 1779120178 Gushuliak, Justin 2097 2118102670 Hanrahan, Nigel 1669 1735111177 Hassain, Mahmud 1959 2019112549 Kaptsan, Aron 2108 2300102391 Khedkar, Jay S. xxxx 2038109416 Kirton, Dale 2234 2300108919 Klokow, John 1757 1852125472 Lafreniere, Adrian 1737 1738121761 Lasker, Justin 1215 1223105377 Lipnowski, Samuel 2027 2030107190 Lukic, Luka 1952 2047109208 Magyar, Peter 1500 1503123828 Medes, Bartek 1570 1599103189 Milord, Frank 1772 1782125988 Moffat, Brian 1225 4104799 Moffat, Ron 1747 1763108926 Ott, Richard 1450 1572123648 Park, Kent 1732 17121132 Pratt, Robert 1336 1360103105 Rasmussen, Barry 2229 2269104699 Remillard, John 1603 1732109227 Repa, Jason 1911 1960123575 Sadov, Serge 2072 2073106687 Schulz, Waldemar 2053 2095106493 Schulz, Manfred 1939 2030110840 Sekhar, Ganesan 1945 1967120094 Sitar, Scott 1335 21103193 Trueman, Francis 1556 1564120176 Weijs, Harry 1484 1667120248 Xia, Yanchong 1768 1814

New BrunswickCFC# Name Rtng High107246 Arsenault, Normand 1585 1796126235 Aubie-Couture, Jeremir 767 5125336 Bastarache, Matt 1132 15126120 Bent, Alex 710 4125343 Berkane, Yanice 739 9110522 Bhandari, Ashish 1108 9126092 Blagirov, Dima 1166 5106172 Bogavac, Milic 1944 1951126124 Bone, Mike 1053 5125173 Bordage, Samuel 1066 24109835 Bordage, Don 1566 1620104373 Boudreau, Pierre 1385 1486125313 Boudreau, Remi 1019 19103047 Bowes, Richard 2012 2064113027 Boyce, Brian 1774 1872108718 Breau, Robert 2088 2137100253 Brun, Jacques 1856 1905108103 Carr, Terry 1884 1884106930 Cole, Don 1504 1607125331 Cormier, Jean-Francois 826 10111760 Davis, Neil 2067 2172126125 Debertin, Allan 1160 4123224 Deguire, Benoit 1248 1261123574 DeGuire, Martin 1029 14126078 Deslauriers, Jean-Phil. 1111 5121511 Deveau, Justin 1346 1367126123 Dobbelsteyn, Mike 1345 4112674 Doucette, Raymond 1574 1726102718 Duff, Ken 1807 2000108882 Duivenvoorden, Hubert 1739 1900124897 Elmajian, Emmanuel 1121 18126112 Fairweather, Andrew 587 4109507 Fyffe, Larry 1696 1696125332 Gaudet, Remi 732 9126240 Gionet, Jeffrey 1120 5121364 Girouard, Mathieu 1212 1219125556 Godin, Robert 1362 24107486 Godsoe, Cliff 1822 1823121685 Goguen, Michelle 1014 10126121 Gorman, Mike 865 4107764 Grant, Hector 1527 1705105843 Grover, Brian 1835 1944104152 Guignard, Michael 2042 2091111207 Hache, Sony 1383 23125180 Hache, Thierry 1236 14107785 Haggarty, Don 1169 1235126118 Harriety, Arron 630 4125167 Harris, Ray 947 12108799 Harris, Joe 1549 1600108109 Hensel, George 1710 1792121367 Johnson, Ghislaine 1317 1386120429 Johnson, Kyle 1558 1610


126076 Johnson, Serge 937 5126077 Johnson, Marc 570 4108430 Kapadia, Ronak 1818 1818120130 King, Peter 1542 1582126115 Lacey, Joel 680 4121684 Laforest, Gilles 1529 1639121683 Lambert, Pierre 1902 1902126075 Landry, Justin 669 5125344 Laplante, Marc Andre 821 9126119 Lavigne-Theriault, Francis 907 4126211 Leblanc, Stephan 1313 1109003 Legacy, Leo 1473 1641112095 Leger, Yvon 1595 1693126071 Levesque, Ghislain 949 8126080 Lirette, Joshua 430 4126110 Locke, Jared 840 4125972 Lord, Andrew 1306 10123196 Losier, Francis Hebert 1274 1274126083 Madden, Dylan 921 5125184 Maltais, Michael 1337 1337110482 Marks, Reginald 1504 1560126111 Mathew, Sam Lit 1000 4103904 Maund, Chris 1410 1417126237 McGraw, Crystal 1124 3126236 McGraw, Keith 1233 5123543 Melanson, Michel 1182 1297126238 Melanson, Cory 1253 5108737 Mills, Ken 1842 1842126241 Moris, Daniel 986 5110191 Nechita, Andrei 1327 13111808 Ossinger, Brian 1602 1733125335 Otis, Justin 497 9100315 Papenhausen, Richard 2000 2018125186 Pelletier, Miguel 1460 1460126127 Pierce, Billy 587 4125316 Poirier, Mathieu 956 10126081 Poirier, Rosanna 977 5126084 Poirier, Mario 984 5126126 Raye, Stephen 748 4104837 Riordon, Jason 1755 1921126082 Rioux, Margo 730 1120904 Robichaud, Nick 1699 1713106788 Robichaud, Martin 1953 1999109026 Rocca, John 1880 1920121366 Sadeghi, Sam 1129 14125329 Sadeghi, Cirous 951 10126079 Squires, Chad 627 4109891 Sullivan, Andrew 2034 2100126122 Tatton, Dave 753 4124419 Taylor, David 1280 20126116 Thomson, Kalem 870 4123071 Tremblay, Eric 1396 1472103901 Tremblay, Roger 1411 1432123070 Tremblay, Rebecca 1142 24125147 Tremblay, Jonah 908 9126239 Trevors, Mark 1386 5105827 Trofimencoff, Pierre 1848 1900126114 Vihvelin, Derek 937 5109315 Vihvelin, Tom 1607 1695126113 Vihvelin, Hugo 870 4126085 Wallace, Fraser 616 5126117 Waycott, Craig 778 4104469 Woodman, George 1933 1933

NewfoundlandCFC# Name Rtng High125280 Alacoque, Daniel xxxx 10126171 Andrews, Tyler 413 5126270 Aziz, Daniel 1005 4121195 Barbour, Stephen 1271 1295125274 Barbour, Kevin xxxx 10122243 Barbour, Les 1019 1019125272 Biswall, Divyajyoti xxxx 10125271 Biswall, Devyani xxxx 10125228 Boland, Steven xxxx 10126165 Brown, Andrew 496 5125276 Buckingham, Aaron xxxx 10125290 Buckley, Peter xxxx 9126266 Bursey, Gabriel 695 6126262 Bursey, Evan 701 4124182 Carayanniotis, George 1137 20120932 Carayanniotis, Jason 794 794125728 Chen, Zening 542 16125875 Chudinov, Sergi 1581 4126179 Coish, Brian 618 3104218 Deal, Peter 1183 1224104072 Dollimount, Kyrl 1350 1350126169 Dunn, Rory 320 5126164 Elkins, Zachary 828 5125227 Faour, David xxxx 858126178 Green, Beth 418 3123128 Hayward, Thomas xxxx 441126268 Hennessey, Connor 504 5113038 Herritt, Brent xxxx 16126267 Hornell, David 620 6126163 House, Thomas 774 11126159 House, Louis 664 5126261 Houston, Neil 745 5126258 Houston, Sean 945 5126172 Johnson-Hartley, Shane 254 4126162 Jones, Ryan 700 4107651 Joshi, Nikhil 1667 1782104077 Joshi, Anand 2047 2118123729 Keats, Jason 1205 9126176 Kennedy, Mark 712 5125284 King, Ryne 612 17126259 King, Brandon 781 4122246 Lebedev, Alexander 1215 1339126269 Logan, Ross 490 5125407 Lui, Ming 1319 1319126174 Lynn, Bobby 253 4121203 Malone, Derek xxxx 18122952 Malone, Christopher xxxx 544125729 Martin, Rick 1264 12125730 Martin, Steve xxxx 15122387 McKenzie, Michael 891 891

122388 McKenzie, David 867 11126177 Miller, Daniel 1370 3126161 Molyneux, Joey 306 3125277 Morey, Jarod xxxx 10124084 Myler, Sid 1016 13126157 Myles, Andrew 484 5126181 Newhook, Amy 890 4121087 Oliver, Brian 1271 1285126260 Ormsby, Alanna 808 4126265 Ormsby, Scott 849 6122954 Panjwani, Dilip 1504 1504121202 Panjwani, Raja 1185 1292126180 Patey, David 819 3126175 Penton, Joel 200 2126173 Power, Patrick 200 4126263 Price, Myfanwy 437 4125230 Price, John xxxx 20125229 Price, Christina xxxx 11126158 Pye, Jeremy 688 5125285 Ransom, Zachary xxxx 14126264 Redmond, Luke 437 4126182 Rideout, Crystal 1490 4124463 Roberts, Granville 1150 16123124 Rogers, Kyle xxxx 21126166 Ryan, Daniel 638 5125234 Simms, Jesse xxxx 9120806 Simpson, Malcolm 776 776126170 Snow, John 519 5125289 Sullivan, Michael 1124 22126184 Timothy, David xxxx 4123927 Toope, Adam 797 13103802 Tsui, Alick 1111 1250110990 Tsui, Edwin 1510 1590125697 Vujic, Branimir 2268 2271125727 White, Chris 818 8126183 Will, Francois 200 3122967 Wiseman, Shane 1164 1225121199 Woodworth, Claire 882 882122247 Woodworth, Bob 960 16121198 Woodworth, Steven 1004 1004126160 Young, Matthew 434 5

Nova ScotiaCFC# Name Rtng High104592 Armstrong, Brad 1774 1900105503 Beals, George 1595 1767124248 Behme, Stefan 1230 15110332 Boyle, Phil 1617 1641106633 Brennan, Jim 1947 1962108219 Burgess, Brian 1923 1952106351 Burton, Andrew 1317 1317110924 Burton, Ian 957 19103179 Cashin, Ken 1717 1719103015 Charlton, Glenn 2178 2212125798 Cooper, Jim 1183 16125363 Crowley, Darren 1210 1244125673 Currell, Sarah 686 9125671 Currell, Mike 828 14125672 Currell, Sean 1133 1133108860 Drummond, Carlos 1812 1817105141 Ede, Albert 1802 1860126062 El-din, Alaa 1784 5104341 Eldridge, Michael 1902 2051109707 Fleury, Bruce 1719 1805101724 Fraser, Alex 1730 1730120900 Gabriel, Jarrett 1479 1505104320 Gilks, James 1718 1718126004 Joudrey, Gary 1481 10126006 Kenney, Krista 744 3120195 Kenney, Bryan 1169 1224123642 Kenney, Jonathan 1125 23110204 Kenney, Jason 1943 2086103040 Kenney, David 1965 2024102829 Kimber, David 1441 1544108446 Klapstein, John 1840 1883126005 Lanoska, Mark 1478 3126007 Lanoska, Alex 1084 9124480 LeBlanc, C. Stephen 1730 1803120340 Lindsay, Robin 1517 1560106811 Livingston, Alex 1136 1136123143 Livingstone, James Brian 1437 1437108891 MacLean, John 1446 1499125677 MacNeil, Danny 1396 14105142 Mayo, Alvah 2165 2165120927 McGrath, Brian 1448 1601110037 McKinnon, Paul 1584 13120649 Mercer, Jason 1469 1478125678 Morariu, Eduard 1733 19125711 Nearing, Joe 1327 8123376 Ng, Gary 1734 1734126061 Nuschke, Michael 1646 4125712 Nuschke, Alex 1526 15124179 Palak, Andrzej 1487 1495104589 Phillips, Gary 1828 1898106289 Poirier, David 1828 1858111124 Reddy, Tyler 2185 2185103353 Saunders, Stephen 2088 2109109017 Shea, Joseph 1580 1623124479 Spencer, David 1432 1432125427 Teichmann, Erik 2336 2368102861 Toth, Steve 1411 1555104815 Urquhart, Ed 2206 2230101504 Uuetoa, Harold 1806 1806

OntarioCFC# Name Rtng High107642 Abt, Michael 1696 1862125614 Acayan, Raymund 1426 14126012 Acheson, Mark 1358 10126013 Addley, Matthew 911 4123274 Agabekian, Konstantin 1786 1786106553 Alcaide, Florante 2116 2200120631 Aliev, Inara 1301 1301112687 Allen, Graham 2201 2225108984 Allum, J.A.E. 1778 1812

126423 Alvardo, Juan 2109 5125812 Amato, Brad 1531 3110109 Arabacioglu, Murat 2102 2130106356 Armstrong, Dale 1478 1478125571 Armstrong, Tavish 1075 11110365 Armstrong, Wayne 1502 1583100034 Armstrong, Robert J. 1734 1800103145 Armstrong, Don 1580 1765101203 Arseneau, Peter 1956 1990121549 Asghari Shekhy, Arash 2025 2025120202 Ash, Brian 1444 1477102698 Atayde, Merlin 1675 1784112022 Atkinson, Harold 1800 1856105528 Bachmann, Mark 1878 1934120266 Badal, Mark 1567 1567125521 Baiguildine, Ilias 2274 23107158 Bailey, Timothy 1465 1600126435 Bailey, Keno 548 5110464 Balcombe, Darren 1505 1505121230 Baljeu, Alan 1991 2001102436 Baltgailis, Vesma 1968 2002120161 Bambrick, James 1664 1683108147 Barber, Dave 1713 1779121157 Barnes, Derek xxxx 1694121161 Baxter, Ward 1534 1618124420 Baxter, Shawn 1229 1105210 Beaubien, Robert 1767 1767126304 Beaudion, Yannick 1543 5126054 Beaudry, Lukas 1611 16108170 Beisheim, Carl 1997 2002109793 Bellomo, Joe 1766 1934107301 Benggawan, Undriadi 1947 2007120636 Benggawan, Amanda 1933 1984120637 Benggawan, Alexandra 1550 1650110150 Benson, Chris 1949 2025125667 Berengolts, Isai 2201 10103293 Bergeron, Florian 2024 2133112590 Berman, Corey 1727 1776103050 Best, Garland 1562 1600125934 Bluvshtein, Ilia 2033 13125709 Bluvshtein, Mark 2262 2262111830 Bond, Hal 1961 2021108790 Boross-Harmer, Peter 2013 2150103523 Bortolotti, Guido 1875 1987111452 Bourque, Lionel 1315 15120980 Bowers, Roger 1574 1613107747 Bozinoski, Tom 1989 2000102666 Brice, Ron 2082 2247126134 Brock, Adam 950 4102882 Brown, John R. 1730 1970109255 Brusset, Jean-Louis 1392 1392112638 Bruvelaitis, Milton 1628 1843126209 Bryskine, Marina 2096 5120345 Buckley, Matthias 1482 1510123153 Bulyaki, Kal 1034 13100046 Bunning, Les 1842 2100101613 Burgess, Doug 1890 1974125432 Burke, Jim 1526 8110977 Buscar, Michael 1972 2013123535 Bushell, Bernie xxxx 1549105619 Buzdon, Paul 1623 1691125710 Bytyqi, Gezim 2068 10108519 Cafengiu, Greg 2122 2122121776 Cai, Christopher 1585 1588108909 Callaghan, Kenneth J. 1487 1588101324 Campbell, Brett 2229 2388109977 Canham, Cecil 1599 1813125090 Cappiello, Tom 1025 14108396 Carr, Malcolm 1620 1746125980 Cesaroni, Kristofer 345 5123521 Chamberland, Pierre 1235 9125084 Chan, Leo 1499 13124515 Chan, York 1317 19123266 Chan, Evan 1559 1559121112 Chan, Jonathan 1040126414 Chan, Peter 1318 6125769 Chartand, Chris 1482 3121110 Cheng, Alfonso 1391 1391107197 Cheron, Anthony 2012 2024126418 Cheung, Andrea 1169 5103479 Cheyne, Robert 2076 2114105987 Cheyne, Chris 1426 15108273 Chiroiu, Patricia 1981 2002105296 Chobanov, Gabriel 1883 1946124932 Chong, William 1187 21123903 Chopra, Amit 371 15126417 Chu, Mathew 1011 6112146 Chu, Stefanie 2076 2086109384 Chuderski, Jan 1721 1785105738 Chyurlia, Jerome 1793 1875123411 Clairmont, Prentis 1117 17109127 Clark, Paul 1292 1435123264 Clark, Doug 1502 1502106389 Clarke, Brian 1595 1628105333 Clayton, William J. 1760 1843126243 Coe, Mathew 977 4104041 Coe, Larry 1900 1900100234 Cohen, David 2015 2067123549 Cokorillo, Radisav 2196 18107872 Coleman, John 1923 1976120423 Colvin, Ted 1542 1585103305 Conroy, Stephen 1628 1700126311 Cooke, Matthew 1143 6108236 Cooper, Andrew 1470 1534107987 Cope, Ray 1544 1732109046 Corvo, Paul 1813 1959123439 Courtney, Brian 1425 18121659 Courtney, Al 1698 18113056 Coxhead, Randall 1422 1422111286 Critchley, Don 1379 12101349 Crowley, Gerry 1922 2020125618 Cuevas, Vincent 1549 15123161 Cummings, David 2435 2442120629 Dai, Jason 1965 1966102589 Daku, Zoltan 1716 1800123618 Dalla Ave, George 1591 1591

107299 Dangberg, Karl 1802 1879101895 Danilov, Alex 1874 2100124513 D'Araujo, Stuart 1621 9126432 de Castro, Alex 551 3124403 Deakin, John 1435 14126305 Dearborn, Mark 1210 5104844 DeCastro, Dan 1847 2000102011 DeKerpel, Stijn 2102 2161103637 Delane, Ross A. 1322 7125783 Delane Jr., Ross J. 1587 5126321 Della - Selva, James 2098 2098125547 Dembowski, Mitchell 1357 1357109477 Demmery, Steve 2015 2162110803 Den-Otter, Albert 1562 1647100170 Devenport, Martin 2254 2300123550 Devisser, Paul 1525 1525125936 Didomenico, Stefano 1156 8124262 Dimitrijevic, Milorad 2328 10109214 Divljan, Igor 2208 2255104754 Dixon, Frank 2081 2081101065 Djerkovic, Miladin 2357 2402126375 Dokuchayev, Andrey 2261 2261126312 Doubrough, Joe 861 5100294 Dougherty, Michael 2349 2368113062 Draak, Jan 1256 1328125528 Dragusanu, George 1395 13125994 Dubeau, Jason 1617 15125682 Duggan, Brendan 1467 1487103373 Dumontelle, Joe 1878 1993111907 Duong, Brian 1985 2011105998 Duralia, John 1746 1915106571 Dutton, Warren Richard 2039 2257125573 Dutton, Janice 1127 7126203 Dutton, Christine 995 3106324 Duval, Kirk 1904 1947102279 Eckert, Frank 1997 2020110299 Egorov, Michael xxxx 2046106512 Ehrman, Carl 2174 2202108293 Ellis, John 1771 1848101459 Ellis, Joe T. 1848 1900126313 Enero, Reynaldo 1792 5103011 Erickson, John 1717 1789103309 Evans, Bill 2153 2300124625 Evans, Tom 1275 22101981 Fabris, Al 1809 1987101722 Fan, Yibing 1864 15104809 Ferderber, Harold 1804 1804110743 Ferencz, Joseph 1555 1745109715 Ferguson, Jim 2200 2313108098 Field, Christopher 1458 1636103521 Filipovich, David 2347 2370126303 Fillion, Nicolas 1313 5105001 Findlay, Dave 1828 1879107539 Finkenzeller, Aaron 1755 1787122745 Fittler, David 1525 12112619 Fleischmann, Michael 2052 2052100055 Fleming, Terry 1744 2003122479 Fleming, Alan 1549 1549112308 Fleming, Derrick 1647 1731108498 Flitton, David 1833 2004126108 Fournier, Jordan 907 3125025 Francispragasam, Nichi xxxx 20125062 Francispragasam, Mario 1251 1251106109 Franke, Raymond 1727 1769123621 Friendly, Brooke xxxx 1437109170 Friendly, John 1761 1814104235 Friis, Torben 1717 1928102447 Frilles, Ruperto 2170 2302120219 Gajic, Steve 1840 1937123492 Galka, Mike 1540 1540126422 Garcia, Omar 2468 5108027 Gasparac, Marijan 1991 2036123546 Gay, Ann K. 895 3124454 Gayman, Ian 1520 1520105416 Gebhardt, David 1944 1973110983 Gilchrist, Raymond 1632 1660108202 Gillanders, Robert 1834 2140103711 Glinert, Stephen 2354 2354107605 Godbout, Joseph 1946 1946104325 Golebiewski, Sofie 1648 1728103597 Golts, Roman 2279 2321109888 Golts, Diana 1772 1772106629 Gordon, David 2196 2255125839 Gourevich, Artem 2145 2145126302 Graham, Neil 1171 5123493 Graydon, Mike 1353 1386110824 Grebenc, John 1724 1787102884 Grinbergs, Daniel 1664 1703126406 Groberman, Elina 2055 2055122962 Gumama-Hillyard, Abul. 1215 1215105318 Guo, Josh 2201 2256126242 Gurr, David 1572 8125692 Gusinjac, Gzim 2353 2353112613 Hacat, Kevork 2219 2219104833 Hadley, Ryan 1866 1866126306 Hahn, Bernt 1668 1668126437 Haksar, Ravi 735 3126436 Haksar, Jay 806 3105867 Hall, Milo 1357 1402104591 Handelman, Michael 1863 1942104804 Handelman, Danny 1649 1756109113 Hanna, Raoul 1879 1951106963 Hardie, Mackenzie 1864 2062123559 Hare, Scott 1815 1815126307 Harley, Eric 1528 5108322 Harrison, Jeff 1468 1535110832 Harvey, Maurice 1472 1592123136 Harvey, Tim 1473 1493126393 Hasan, Shahzad 1236 6126055 Hassan, Hassan 1729 8110105 Hassan-Gordon, Tariq 1803 1824122340 Hayman, Colin 1477 1489106156 Haziprodromu, Sam 2012 2187101100 Heldman, Nile 1470 1531105731 Hendon, Lee 1513 1513105200 Henry, David 1914 2088

101426 Hentschel, Joachim 2166 2314106436 Hergott, Deen 2484 2580111719 Heringer, Chris 2142 2233126408 Herzberg, Matthew 1534 6125002 Hier, David 1365 24108908 Hillyard, Larry 1534 1756121115 Ho, Jeffrey 982 993123135 Hoch, Doug 1347 1347107184 Holmes, Michael J 1813 1813120380 Holowaty, Alex 1231 6103578 Horvat, Miro 2044 2130106551 Howard, Allan 1719 1857122382 Huang, Kelvin xxxx 10105297 Huband, Ken 1829 1964107565 Hubley, Roger 1992 2100104957 Huebel, Stephen 1817 1854123678 Hui, Jack 799 807123677 Hui, Katrina 1212 1252109011 Hum, Peter 2184 2300123505 Hung, Joshua 788 788121116 Hunter, Mory 2059 2059112242 Hurley, Paul 2143 2160112109 Hurst, Bruce 1517 1580107357 Hush, John 1634 1664102054 Husic, Elvis 1940 2031126373 Huynh, Wilson 1128 6105228 Ibrahim, Ismail 1946 1956122801 Iqbal, Shan 1584 1661126407 Ivrii, Oleg 1799 6120795 Iwinski, Tom 1471 1471100030 Jackson, David 2240 2302123270 Jacobs, Chaim-Akiva 1575 1575111338 Jagla, Frank 1965 1999122635 Jaimungal, Paul 1662 1662106205 Jando, Edmond 1709 1709104380 Jaques, Wray 1287 1404123623 Jekeswaran, Kumana xxxx 2181124816 Joag, Vineet 1555 1566104694 Johnson, Wylie 1598 1651107581 Joseph, Steve 1896 1934100182 Jung, Hans 2287 2346106044 Jurjans, Martin 1232 1379106715 Kagramanov, Dina 1883 1932124895 Kain, Andrew 1190 1230106121 Kanakos, Mike 1520 5125361 Kaplan, Youri 1481 19103282 Kawa, Ron 1567 1567102619 Kekki, Klaus 1833 2015111936 Kerr, Ian 1236 1278123674 Kerr, Wesley xxxx 1113109418 Kimber, Mathew 2232 2247107850 Kirby, Patrick 2063 2133126424 Kirchner, Rory 1825 5101198 Kiss, Istvan 2007 2083101913 Kitenbergs, Alek 1747 1928102232 Kiviaho, Robert 2321 2334106376 Knechtel, Tim 1948 2087100336 Knox, Alexander N. 1730 1853111905 Kocela, Manuel 1396 1396121178 Konakanchi, Krishna 1642 1738102599 Kosic, Dusan 1731 1861126291 Kostioutchenko, Igor 756 6125707 Kreinine, Victor 1345 14109814 Kreis, Fritz 1490 1554105549 Kret, Ted 2222 2266109158 Kristjanson, Scott 1862 1881102648 Krupka, David 2294 2307108817 Kubik, Rob 1699 1754110732 Kuehl, Scott 2050 2120104537 Kurkowski, Ken 1822 1900101366 Kwasnychka, Mike 1909 1960123895 Labre, Clifford 1618 10120201 Lackey, Ryan 1424 1424102419 Laimer, Alice 1601 1664123752 Laitila, Henry 1498 17126394 Lambert, Bryan 1093 5123072 Lamond, Bruce 1775 19101595 Lancia, Nicholas 1732 1914111929 Lane, Art 1352 1352103482 Langen, Roger 2238 2288100319 Langer, Herb 1827 1991104634 Laszlo, Lucas 1712 1848121507 Lau, Daniel 889 895126056 Lau, James 1130 10112068 Lawless, David 2028 2157111318 Le, Ken xxxx 1937126399 Le Clair, Denise 1091 2126401 Le Clair, Nesser 1244 1125681 Lebedev, Iuri 2126 10120977 Lebel, Art 1521 19123665 Lee, Michael xxxx 967126244 Lee, Daniel xxxx 5120630 Lee, KaHo 1671 1671105108 Lehmann, James E. 1714 1852121831 Lentini, Joseph 2107 2107123904 Leung, Clinton 610 610126380 Leung, Tom 1716 6120122 Leung, Victor 1666 1718125731 Leung, Kevin 1532 13126130 Li, Andrew 962 9105262 Lidstone, Phil 1685 1938113017 Liles, Kerry 1842 1865100355 Litchfield, Gerry 1851 1851102042 Livshits, Ron 2535 2536123227 Livshits, Vitaly 1719 1719105027 Long, Robert S. 2203 2203108038 Louie, Kim 1779 1862123190 Love, Robert 1571 1612125617 Lozano, Albert L. 1366 15124977 Lu, Jian 1584 1584109393 Luiting, Larry 1844 1907126196 Luzius-Vanin, Robbie 736 6123759 Luzius-Vanin, Michael 911 1008125903 Ma, Daniel 1091 10125979 Ma, Judith 505 5123540 Maccarrone, Giovanni 1136 9


112124 MacGrady, Ralf 1595 1595123180 Mack, Jamie 1287 1287120061 MacLeod, Brian 1867 1939109694 MacMillan, Liana 1637 1700112732 Maenpaa, David 1775 1790105147 Maheux, Pierre 2007 2050125600 Mai, Lloyd 1067 11101824 Maister, Martin 1929 1952123011 Majstorovic, Andrew 1223 1257100338 Majstorovic, Dan 2070 2102123763 Mak, Calvin 937 937112277 Manalo, Pepin 1843 1971111933 Marcille, Gord 1890 1959107391 Marghetis, Aris 1997 2048122440 Maric, Gordana 1648 1717107185 Marinelli, Philip 1681 1700109180 Marks, Richard 1839 2000106665 Marshall, Peter 2220 2258103806 Martens, Bill 1601 1610103429 Martin, Carl 2004 2100121347 Massoulie, Francois 1560 1618109627 Matchim, William 1589 1695124263 Mazin, Alexander 1571 13104319 McCarthy, William S. 1636 1671100298 McClelland, Tom 1922 2000125585 McGilly, Craig 991 5106266 McGrahan, Steve 1949 1995125825 McGuire, Paul 1772 5111614 McKay, Sean 1895 1929126109 McKay, Thomas 1638 4106075 McKay, Geoff 2116 2159106713 McKillop, Peter 1997 2015120120 McMillan, Andrew 1903 1917110766 McTavish, David 2207 2300121270 Mehta, Gy 1856 1886126317 Meinrenken, Ekhard 2155 5100297 Mendrinos, Ari 1547 1763112053 Meng, Ang 2163 2214107489 Mesiti, Silvano 1753 1930120200 Meyer, Kiel 1466 1466125874 Michaelis, Nico 2057 2118123188 Michalowski, Lukasz 1898 1903120541 Miletic, Damir 2203 2220105291 Milicevic, Goran 2412 2424106645 Millar, David 1908 1989103982 Milne, Reg 2023 2100103288 Min, Frank 1463 12104248 Mitchell, Joe 1450 1453103626 Mitrovic, Bojana 1979 1987102310 Mitrovic, Milan 2305 2320120638 Mocharenko, Petro 1557 1557110453 Moline, Robert 1980 1992122106 Morgan, Bryan 1251 1279108896 Morra, Lui 1837 1900102970 Morrell, Gord 2256 2263106826 Morrison, Kyle 1515 1515109825 Moser, Dorothy 1313 1500123672 Moy, Tiffany xxxx 9121239 Moy, Nicholas xxxx 863125406 Mross, Lazo 1346 10106574 Mucignat, Ermanno 2097 2127102906 Murray, Robert 2268 2321106173 Nadeau, Richard 1766 1776106050 Nagy, Julius 1775 1981108506 Naish, Scott 1681 1692123664 Narayanan, Arun 835 837113098 Nault, Rod 1539 1539126310 Nedeljkovic, Jovan 1649 1649102685 Neilsen, Steve 1365 12101676 Ng, Kit-Sun 2056 2056126421 Nguyen, Cuong 1162 6103659 Nickoloff, Bryon 2521 2536126416 Nishikawn, Tak 1427 6126429 Nitsch, Paul 773 5100042 Nock, David 1657 1700125489 Norwood, Tyler 1431 1431122103 Nozari, Nosrat 1899 24121335 Nunes, Paulo 1437 1437112040 Oates, Eric 1924 1968123894 O'Brien, Luke 986 14104561 Obrovac, Zvonko 1973 2066102669 Ochkoos, Jura 2355 2437106245 O'Donnell, Tom 2460 2500102746 Oldland, Ray 1656 1726106639 Ollers, Ian 1772 1772126371 Olschewske, Stephan 1194 6106370 Olszewski, Piotr 2361 2368123019 O'Neill, Connor 1605 22126412 Onique, Bailey 1534 6107005 Ooms, Albert 1216 1300104907 Oraha, Zaki 1687 1907102500 Orloff, Irv 1407 1600123481 Orsini, Mike 1217 5103144 Ortiz, Hugo 1807 1807109579 Ouellette, Michael xxxx 16103715 Pacey, Kevin 2311 2336121545 Page, Peter 1400 1413123499 Palliser, Cameron xxxx 17106856 Palsson, Halldor Peter 2211 2244101329 Parisi, Joe 1793 1928102570 Paterson, Jim 2090 2109103043 Patterson, Roger 2290 2305122285 Pauric, Allen 1510 1552101816 Pauric, Ivan 2113 2126122223 Peev, Pavel 2117 2117106982 Pejovic, Mike 1878 1900126252 Pell, Richard 1564 1100049 Percival, Stan 1919 2000109785 Perger, Dennis 1615 1615107582 Perkins, Simon 1769 1832107646 Perovic, Bozidar 2034 2108126300 Pescarus, Radu 2003 2003107977 Peterson, George xxxx 15120803 Phares, Adam 1536 1548111407 Philip, Andrew 1828 2032101917 Phillips, Patrick W. 1910 1935

124208 Phung, Khoa Dang 1579 21125815 Picana, Andrew 1852 5110626 Pietroniro, John 1349 22120959 Pimentel, Sheldon xxxx 1758123186 Pisanski, Peter 961 17108062 Pleau, Derek 1847 1870112028 Poitras, Francois 1681 1729125773 Polczynski, Sebastian 867 8125074 Poon, Douglas xxxx 22102775 Predescu, Sebastian 2004 2004102736 Pretti, John 1337 1406110701 Pribyl, Tomas 1733 1733105444 Profit, Brian 2062 2200107306 Provencher, Bernard 2063 2100104903 Puiras, Jarmo 1841 1900108329 Puschke, R.F. 1785 1890101150 Pushkedra, Frank 2319 2319105358 Quesada, Sergio 2010 12107964 Rabethge, Brad 1967 1980124124 Radovic, Aleksandar 1722 22120954 Raheb, David 2172 2172125902 Rainsberger, Joe 1271 7108279 Rakhinshteyn, Fima 2262 2262100257 Raletich, George 1844 2100101082 Ramzi, Murtadha 1711 1900106977 Rapoport, Alex 2126 2142100138 Regu, Harry 1700 1800126289 Rene, Chris 1158 4122971 Requadt, Guenter 1332 1425125247 Revich, Dan 1409 1409111115 Richardson, Ross 1896 2078105991 Riedstra, Richard F. 1601 1733109327 Rivas, Edgar 1831 1947109190 Riwanto, Heru 1972 2105110012 Riwanto, Hendry 1978 2194100053 Rodgers, R.F. 1968 2200124806 Rodin, Yuriy 1778 21124206 Rodina, Nataliya 2009 2009120383 Rolavs, Andre 1907 2003111945 Rolfe, Warrick 2111 2130111209 Roller, Robert 1923 1994121661 Roncal, Justin 1760 1803113055 Roschman, Paul 1555 18103199 Rositsan, Boris 2279 2279101799 Rowles, Christopher 1772 1910125766 Rubanovski, Vladimir 2032 21111463 Ruiz, Richard 2135 2176122938 Rutnam, Johann 1689 1743110752 Saleh, Maher 2322 2368106615 Sarkar, Prosanto 2162 2317108609 Schumacher, Albin 1587 1700104545 Schwartz, Lorne 1601 1662111713 Secours, Andre 1395 1493123223 Seguin, Marc 1709 1718123727 Sequillion, Aaron 1468 1515103877 Serdula, Jay 1895 1958121329 Shah, Omaray M. 1799 1799125969 Sharma, Mohit K 874 5100280 Sharpe, Michael D. 1829 1849102927 Sherman, Sam 1253 19105109 Sherman, Robert 1958 2004120564 Shishkina, Olya 1970 1971126419 Shiu, Philip 1146 6120619 Siddeley, Hugh 1860 1923125410 Sidhom, Raouf 1814 10125933 Sidler, Hans 1328 6108869 Siegel, Andre 1642 1700109808 Simic, Dusan 2291 2309111290 Smilovici, Emil 1973 2075125620 Smith, Duncan 1268 5123272 Smith, Andrew James 1674 1708101793 Smith, Maurice 1852 1967125546 Smith, Hazel 1438 1438102297 Solis, Jaime 1890 2011123265 Solodar, Yevgeni 2128 2159105764 Soriano, Romeo E. 2002 2103125533 Spraggett, Chris 1770 1770108627 Stein, Jacob 1724 1734120171 Stevens, Christian 1974 1981104516 Stewart, Taki 1466 1499125968 Stoltefuss, Rolf 1936 7108689 Stonkus, Raymond J 1998 2072109057 Strehlow, Chris 1781 11107059 Streiter, Michael 1621 1688110035 Strojevs, Alexander 1872 1942123896 Superina, Mark 2087 10112423 Surlan, Dan 2192 2202126093 Sviridovitch, Alina 1570 9126201 Sviridovitch, Slava 1668 7123551 Swart, Michael 1574 1574108802 Szatmary, Alex 1945 1972121237 Taherkhani, Majid 2123 2193101371 Takov, Chris 1739 2087121114 Tam, Timothy 1396 1396126295 Tan, Paul 1441 5123670 Tan, Samantha 697 20126415 Tao, Heng 1358 6125574 Taradash, Brett 1215 8103641 Taylor, Gordon 2364 2456120140 Tebbs, Gary 1594 1693103699 Tebbs, Frank J 1650 1769101786 Tebbs, Frank 1540 1700124501 Teh, Kevin 1488 1499108777 Teplitsky, Yan 2546 2552107314 Teram, Eli 1388 1539106474 Termeer, Ted 1452 1721120295 Thomann, Olivier 1770 17106868 Thompson, Ed G. 1475 1536123874 Thomson, Matt 1752 9106110 Thorvardson, Steve 2061 2088103841 Thurairasah, Shivaharan 1744 1877101079 Tipu, Vincent 2275 2383112353 Tomalty, Alan 1694 2000125937 Tomaszewski, Tom 987 4110864 Tomlinson, John B 1729 1911123669 Tong, Michael xxxx 900

110282 Toolsie, Alexander 1777 1896112885 Towsley, Dan 1690 1713120634 Tran, Mike xxxx 16126413 Tran, William 1619 5111224 Tremblay, Brent 1631 1814123261 Tsimakouridze, Elena 1308 1361107368 Tuca, Tony xxxx 12124498 Tursman, Richard 1766 15125770 Tweedy, Chris 1052 1101925 Upper, John xxxx 2109125708 Uwland, Jaco 1326 1359126202 Vadachkoriya, Irakli 1645 8120618 Vaidyanath, Rahul 1610 1619125532 Vaingorten, Yaaqov 2218 2218125491 Vaithianathan, Kajan xxxx 23101864 Valdizon, Armando 2334 2334111795 Van Adel, Steven 1917 2145103420 Van de Ven, Anthony 2016 2025106830 Van der Velde, W. H. 1933 1940125621 Van Sant, Adam 973 8120086 Van Spyk, Aiken 1711 1723104269 Vandermeer, Ben 1830 1919124396 VanderWillik, Ben 1449 15107974 Vassanji, Anil 2003 2081101858 Veltmann, Alfred 1818 2002102372 Venning, Ron 1640 1855126430 Ventaktaraman, Ashwin 922 5107979 Vera, Jesus 1493 1675122790 Verma, Tony 1862 1965124243 Veron, Elvis 1663 23107520 Villagracia, Ruben 1654 1657122286 Vincent, Rob 1676 1698126315 Vinimitz, Sasha 1681 5124342 Vivas, Fabio 1583 1588120516 Voloaca, Mihnea 2194 2251106693 Vucko, Ignac 2065 2165120071 Wallbank, Andrew 1812 1820126316 Wan, Michael 1241 5125862 Wang, Larry 878 5121192 Wang, Michael 1766 1766105702 Wang, Hao Yuan 2043 2114103753 Wannamaker, David 1626 1793125955 Wassenaar, Daniel 1158 7100074 Webb, Robert N. 1847 1938108288 Wesingi, Brice 1657 1800121463 Wettengl, Willi 1538 1538125863 Whiteside, Jeff 1089 5102934 Wight, Keith 2142 2208110348 Williams, Paul D. 2317 2390105942 Williamson, James 1503 1637126301 Wilson, Brian 1808 5123761 Wilton, Taylor 822 822103265 Wing, Richard 1895 1978110257 Wojciechowski, Filip 1801 1813123675 Wong, Brandon 1128 1132111913 Wong, Edwin 1934 1934123676 Wong, Jordan 1151 1218109682 Wong, Jack 1798 1799126308 Wong, Allen 1444 6122512 Wong, Wylon 1576 1597111044 Wood, Adrian 1482 1531109506 Wood, Bryan 1590 1600126129 Wright, Jeremy 1262 10126128 Wright, Stuart 1583 10124805 Xia, Angel 1743 1743110260 Xu, Sheng-Jun 2113 2201126334 Yagnow, Luke 1542 6123377 Young, Trevor 1491 12123378 Young, Andrew 1505 17126131 Yu, Jonathan 1322 16126132 Yu, Jeffrey 1351 16126431 Yung, Wilfred 791 6101317 Zagar, Milan 1936 2135107387 Zakrajsek, Aljosa 1962 2088126314 Zapatel, Richel 1689 5125087 Zhao, Jacky 1425 10125904 Zheng, San San 790 6109603 Zimmer, Antonin 1990 1990121546 Zlatkoff, Rob 1482 1482120850 Zlobec, Srdan 2109 2143104898 Zugic, Igor 2453 2453107851 Zybura, Andre 2078 2078

Prince Edward IslandCFC# Name Rtng High104781 Bruneau, Philippe 1548 24110208 Gulati, Ashish 2120 2159125217 Judson, Jessy 1146 19111891 Keunecke, Ed 1713 1774100145 McKim, Fred 2098 2132121861 Paulowich, David 1793 1890

QuebecCFC# Name Rtng High101258 Angers, Gilles 2041 2085102413 Arsenault, Michel 1981 2008105909 Auger, Bertrand xxxx 1892109160 Bachand-Fleurent, Julien 1985 2027120268 Beaudoin, Stephane xxxx 9120278 Belanger, Martin xxxx 20103240 Bergeron, Michel xxxx 1816126040 Bouchard, Alexandre 922 5126042 Brault, Stephan 880 4100101 Brodie, Hugh 1968 2100125637 Brouilland, Mathieu xxxx 13123743 Bussiere, Denis xxxx 10101380 Carrier, Claude 2077 2077109843 Charbonneau, Alain 1996 2092108065 Charbonneau, Pascal 2377 2385113099 Christian, Mark 1350 14104967 Cloutier, Richard xxxx 15126035 Corriveau, Phillipe xxxx 5103228 Cote, Jacques 2152 2318109091 Danis, Jacques 1765 1793123353 Desmarais, Emanual xxxx 1956

121304 Dufour, Guillaume xxxx 5122035 Duplessis, Jean Roch xxxx 10120269 Duquette, Patrick xxxx 2010107620 Fortin, Marc 2029 2059108633 Fortin, Frederique 1821 1875126038 Francoeur, Francois 1871 5103399 Gagnon, Fabien 2112 2122110490 Goldenberg, Danny 2312 2388101700 Gottlieb, Jonathan 2054 2131110526 Gould, Charles 1985 2186102539 Groleau, Gilles 2058 2200101280 Hebert, Jean 2491 2534104160 Hould, Richard 1369 1500111469 Hua, Lefong 2368 2370106736 Hua, Lethyn xxxx 1593105317 Hua, Chinh 1499 23105287 Jolicoeur, Alain xxxx 1952121232 Khassanov, Marat 2413 2496122023 Khaziyeva, Dinara 1912 1932101285 Lacroix, Serge 2112 2206126041 Larochelle, Louis 1144 5102939 Laurin, Jacques 1937 2096102780 Lavergne, Daniel 1654 1801125452 Lawson, Jonathan xxxx 9123478 Lawson, Eric 1644 1644107017 Legault, Stephane 1595 1595104158 Lemieux, Richard 1780 1860106923 Lesiege, Alexandre 2615 2618120275 Levesque, Andre 1437 1437125461 Masse, Hugues xxxx 9125795 McAlpin, John Francis 1844 5123740 Menard, Marc 1466 9125742 Michoura, Mikhail 2121 14120107 Mikanovic, Goran 2420 2434122024 Mogilevsky, Olga 1819 1889126043 Morelli, Adamo 818 5109288 Morin, Jean-Pascal xxxx 1984107464 Morin, Louis xxxx 2022123741 Moss, Laurent xxxx 22109130 Myre, Eric 1959 14125749 Papineau, Daniel 1724 14120273 Paquette, Jean-Guy 1290 15110740 Perecowicz, Jonathan xxxx 19110245 Pescarus, Dana 1577 15126037 Pierre, Hebert 1023 1126039 Ramaswamy, Kiran 1714 9120203 Ramaswany, Kishor 1518 18111745 Rashev, Nick 2107 2152109836 Rouleau, Paul xxxx 2002126034 Rousseau, Robert 1546 2122701 Roussel-Roozmon, T. 1940 1956107948 Roy, Roger 1846 1901105905 Saint-Amand, Paul 2200 2219100103 Sauve, Richard 1948 1948106803 Scantland, Patrick 1646 1646103553 Schleifer, Michael 2435 2491107078 Senecal, Jean-Pierre 1655 1817107402 Shvab, Boris xxxx 18125645 Simard, Francois xxxx 13123358 Simard, Jole xxxx 13126036 Smith, Danny 1569 5102205 Thibault, Mario xxxx 1978101307 Trottier, Yves xxxx 1879110232 Trottier, Julie 1908 1908107885 Trottier, Stephane 2119 2176112806 Van Dusen, Eric 1919 1919

SaskatchewanCFC# Name Rtng High108707 Knapper, Brian 2067 2067

Yukon TerritoryCFC# Name Rtng High109874 Winberg, Jim 1750 1837

ForeignCFC# Name Rtng High126353 Abramian, Armen 200126360 Aigner, Michael 2052 2052126425 Asher, Don 999 4126387 Ashton, Jeffrey 2169 2169126427 Austin, Frederick 1138 4126342 Avalos, Carlos 1973 1973126405 Averbukh, Alex 2133 2133126352 Bar-Tzur, Gavriel 1066 6126379 Bedriana, Igor 1875 1875126426 Berthoud, Eric 1148 3126420 Berthoud, Kevin 1429 4126434 Berthoud, Kent 953 4126433 Berthout, Kyle 1209 4126364 Bhat, Harish 1961 1961126320 Blekherman, Gregor 2144 2144126350 Carroll, Franklin 1576 4126368 Cawthon, Michael 1164 3126349 Chubukov, Victor 1838 1838126325 Chudnovsky, Jacob 2345 2345126309 Coderre, Nicolas 1156 5126404 Dean-Kaqamura, Ben 2132 2132126383 del Mundo, Anton 2256 2256126391 Drosdoff, David 1448 6126388 Ezeocha, Adindu 1808 1808126324 Felecan, Florin 2377 2377126372 Fewel, Nathan 1901 1901126359 Fletcher, Adam 1741 6108673 Foord, Allan 1627 1743126357 Garcia, Nicolas 1928 1928126327 Gasis, Joey 2018 2018126355 Gelman, Charles 2273 2273126330 Gross, Matthew 2088 2088103437 Gustafson, Dale 1990 2031126392 Hendrickx, Mark 1450 3126402 Hevey, David xxxx 4126400 Hottenstein, Boyd 880 6126363 Hudec, Carl 1697 6126381 Hudson, Matt 1722 6

126343 Ilfeld, Etan 2173 2173126428 Itkin, Aleksey 1819 1819126382 Jahedi, Salar 1736 1736126346 Juodeikis, Monroe Ged. 1589 6126344 Kaltman, Michael 1659 1659126328 Kamat, Komal 1835 1835126053 Khomeriki, Giorgi 2339 5126398 Law, Peter 965 3126410 Livshits, Louiza 1561 6126409 Loberant, Raphael 1705 1705126323 Lopes, William 2213 2213126384 Malkiel, Daniel 1872 1872126395 Martinez, Alexia 1210 5126369 Marts, Bradley 1400 6126339 McClelland, Shear 2187 2187126361 Mercado, Julius 1789 1789110329 Morabito, Matthew 1980 2003126354 Morrison, William 2378 2378126351 Moulton, Charles 1086 6126365 Nowland, Seneca 1681 1681126385 Ong, Diana 1578 6103005 Orlov, Georgi 2608 2614126370 Owens, Scott D. 1361 5126376 Pecora, David 2070 2070126348 Perchach, Kurt 1407 6126336 Perelshteyn, Eugen 2442 2442126345 Perez, Jose Rafael 1710 6126362 Phelps, David 1637 6123157 Pratt, Donald 1736 23113065 Prilleltensky, Isaac 1569 1578126338 Pruess, David 2240 2240120049 Rajlich, Vasik 2353 2376126288 Randall, Paul A. 2302 3126378 Riordan, Charles 1966 1966126377 Rozenvasser, Antho 2179 2179126390 Ruggiero, Michael 1235 5126366 Salazar, Jaime 1299 5126386 Sawakis, Molly 1548 6123380 Segovia, Javier 2237 2237126403 Sherman, Alan xxxx 1774126331 Shin, David 1916 1916126337 Shiroma, Gustavo 2093 2093126335 Shmachkov, Igor 1569 1569126318 Shulman, Yuri 2556 2556126367 Singh, Carolyn 1350 6126389 Singhal, Sachin 1650 1650126396 Smith, Bryan 2296 2296126340 Steele, David 2065 2065126329 Szafran, Martin 1735 1735126358 Titus, Frank 1829 1829126333 Tovar, Carlos 2021 2021126326 Traldi, Arthur 2094 2094126341 Tsibulevsky, Mikhail 2035 2035126374 Tsvetkov, Leonid 2213 6126411 Wang, Henrey 1445 6126322 Wang, Philip 2302 2302126356 Whatley, Andrew 2292 2292124808 Williams, Vance 2137 20126332 Willis, Charles 1556 5126397 Yin, Lu 1831 1831125935 Zaremba, Andrei 2339 5126347 Ziane, Noureddine 2190 2190126319 Zilberstein, Dmitr 2344 2344102172 Zimninski, Nick 1929 2022

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AlbertaCFC# Name Rtng High123306 Anderson, Ashton xxxx 1776125093 Balla, John 771 7105484 Bjornson, Jonathan 1644 1682121267 Booth, Shandy 1490 1490110558 Booth, Glenn 1713 1800120375 Borowski, Ted 1565 1609122776 Boyd, Doug 1497 20126008 Brown, Ian 1514 4101519 Campbell, Stephen 1461 1531120411 Canal, Richard 1390 17108292 Chi, Jonathan 1198 1218102956 Chiba, James 1636 1653112298 Chrumka, Colin 1720 1828125761 Clark, Casey 1467 4105606 Daniluk, Jim 2022 2135123560 Deimert, David 1250 7106163 Deimert, Elroy 1572 21121190 Eshleman, Brandon 1368 1427106228 Ferrar, John 2137 2137120299 Flodberg, Jason 1563 1580105644 Hansen, Steve 1638 1711122495 Haynes, Nicolas 1514 1514121097 Hinds, Riana 1186 20123872 Hudson, Richard xxxx 1412110040 Johnson, Dean 1517 16125944 Kassamali, Salimah 648 4121625 Kazakevich, Anastasia 1293 1294125895 Kessler, Nina 1112 5121301 Kirchner, Kieran 1202 1277

120194 Knoll, Frank 1532 1788124459 Kucharski, Evan 637 637101953 Kuczaj, Chris 2038 2038121783 Lapides, Paul 1514 1514122675 Lapides, Andrew 2192 2192103595 Lefkowitz, Phil 1707 1851121303 Li, Zhuoran 1402 1402110115 Macfarlane, Don 1438 1567125668 McDonald, Luke J. 823 3101022 McKay, Tom 1648 1705120082 McMaster, Carolyn 1437 1496101874 Milne, Arthur 2011 2127123323 Milward, Dave 1590 1594126299 Mioc, Alex 1017 2109973 Nazarian, Farzan 1979 2100111962 Nguyen, Kim 1721 1721103046 Parrott, F. John 2023 2149120149 Redes, John xxxx 1880122861 Ryner, Aaron 1331 19105680 Scherer, Gerhard 1583 1672106341 Scherer, Max xxxx 14124742 Shukuda, Jason 931 23120858 Smith, Mike 1553 1640123604 Stadnyk, Leighton 471 12123605 Stadnyk, Mathew 578 15124063 Stainer, Joel 1415 1415123460 Sun, Ke 1346 1346101473 Thompson, Kevin 1525 20103593 Turner, Cliff J. 1686 8123395 Valeroso, Bert 1639 1686112618 Ward, Kevin 1619 1619101495 Watson, Walter 1922 1922107355 Weis, Rodney 1803 1882123461 Williamson, Ben 907 907102743 Yearwood, Roy 2091 2115126101 Yngvason, Daniel 200 4120291 Zinner, Gabor 1208 9

British ColumbiaCFC# Name Rtng High122964 Armatage, Kyle 941 941104388 Atkinson, Gavin 1914 10125756 Balasubramaniam, Nish. 1189 3123690 Balasubramaniam, Nish. 1003 3100238 Barnes, Mark 1568 1633102357 Basanta, Gary 2383 2403124072 Batisse, Norman 891 5123791 Bernhardt, Travis 923 7105840 Boyer, Chip 1158 1234103833 Boyer, Scott 1383 1435107783 Campbell, Dale 1424 11126234 Campbell, Clayton 1436 4120408 Campbell, Tom 1403 14120552 Carlisle, Michael 1885 22126033 Chiang, Berthold 1410 10103155 Chis, Liviu 1120 10103158 Chis, Sinziana 1465 10106001 Chranowski, Rick 1881 1881111363 Daswani, Benedict 1589 5106424 Deline, Toni 1771 1799108072 Devries, Peter 1692 12104911 Feng, Jason 1647 1700123040 Forman, Ken 1237 12122172 Forsyth, Brendan 858 858122171 Forsyth, Gavin 507 507121234 Fowler, Stephen 1487 16125986 Ghanipour, Pejman 1139 3123205 Gill, Gurpreet 1402 13123882 Greening, Corbin 200 22101879 Hallam, John 2114 2166103261 Hamanishi, Neil 1626 1774125985 Hamida, Tarek 940 3125372 Hsu, James xxxx 5120077 Jose, Marionito 1774 20125760 Kalagehdrah, Vanathy xxxx 3100221 Kanester, Jim 1731 1811102841 Krys, Mark 1525 15123876 Le, Jamie 235 22125981 Lister, Curtis 1858 6123778 Lyakh, Alexey 1447 5107531 MacTavish, Grant 2047 2047124509 Manouchehiian, Salar 1085 4125982 Manzer, Karl 1588 3121341 Martinescu, Mike 1179 10113123 McCusky, Louis 1306 1348125983 McDonell, Tavish 1063 5101550 Medalen, David 1572 1572120075 Milicevic, Dragoljub 2085 2112105939 Miller, Max 1390 15123881 Miller, Rene 326 22125566 Mok, Justin 1153 5106767 Monteith, Don 1638 1638107627 Nathani, Kaleim 1721 19120592 Nguyen, Vinh 594 594126138 Pettigrew, Juston 200 12123885 Posselt, Marc 200 22105227 Prabhakaran, Aarthi 1141 5104016 Prabhakaran, Sugumar 1429 5111443 Prokopowicz, Monika 1448 5111132 Remedios, Russell 1844 1884122817 Rutledge, Brian 529 12106541 Sadoway, Steven 1890 1890123844 Sieben, Alois 1400 4124409 Sieben, Perry 1168 4111374 Skoczylas, Slawomir 1566 10123432 Sokourinski, Sergei 2090 5103030 Stutzman, Larry 1930 1935120436 Sum, Peter 1178 10123564 Tang, Tiffany 1004 10123723 Tang, Edward 1633 5100325 Taylor, James 1646 20126139 Toews, Alex 229 12123877 Vaughan, Kevin 200 22126137 Whitwell, Adam 329 12106287 Williamson, Jason 1799 1800110849 Wilson, John 1719 10

ManitobaCFC# Name Rtng High105641 Gannon, Keith 1547 1633107754 Gibson, Kris 1722 18123575 Sadov, Serge 2025 5106687 Schulz, Waldemar 1883 1917103193 Trueman, Francis 1291 16120248 Xia, Yanchong 1636 9

New BrunswickCFC# Name Rtng High107246 Arsenault, Normand 1502 1554103047 Bowes, Richard 1852 22108718 Breau, Robert 1939 1941100253 Brun, Jacques 1615 1772109657 Cartwright, Joseph 1643 1700106930 Cole, Don 1413 1508110492 Davidson, Logan 1303 1303111760 Davis, Neil 2061 2072123224 Deguire, Benoit 1173 1176121511 Deveau, Justin 1045 1045107486 Godsoe, Cliff 1752 1752120429 Johnson, Kyle 1420 1420126076 Johnson, Serge 857 10121367 Johnson, Ghislaine 1133 1175108430 Kapadia, Ronak 1690 1690121684 Laforest, Gilles 1407 1407103904 Maund, Chris 918 12123543 Melanson, Michel 971 971100315 Papenhausen, Richard 1627 1700104837 Riordon, Jason 1657 1657120904 Robichaud, Nick 1331 18109891 Sullivan, Andrew 2014 2019103901 Tremblay, Roger 1104 13

NewfoundlandCFC# Name Rtng High121195 Barbour, Stephen 745 18122243 Barbour, Les 714 22122954 Panjwani, Dilip 872 892121202 Panjwani, Raja 693 16103802 Tsui, Alick 799 814110990 Tsui, Edwin 1063 1063125697 Vujic, Branimir 2241 12

OntarioCFC# Name Rtng High107642 Abt, Michael 1661 1687126013 Addley, Matthew 1313 3123274 Agabekian, Konstantin 1669 1756106553 Alcaide, Florante 2234 2246125603 Amann, Max 951 6109089 Amann, Greg 1182 18125571 Armstrong, Tavish 1168 17100034 Armstrong, Robert J. 1605 1656110365 Armstrong, Wayne 1318 1368125622 Armstrong, Leslie 936 11101203 Arseneau, Peter 1764 1816121549 Asghari Shekhy, Arash 1872 1879123152 Balboa, Manuel xxxx 6126054 Beaudry, Lukas 1765 6106106 Beckwith, Paul H. 2055 2101109793 Bellomo, Joe 1668 1834122797 Berda, Jeffrey 1383 13110630 Berson, Jordan 2116 2116125709 Bluvshtein, Mark 2382 6123042 Bojovic, Gavrilo 2008 17108790 Boross-Harmer, Peter 2094 2098103523 Bortolotti, Guido 1886 1912120980 Bowers, Roger 1449 2107747 Bozinoski, Tom 1720 1754112638 Bruvelaitis, Milton 1558 1788126209 Bryskine, Marina 2112 6123153 Bulyaki, Kal 1168 16100046 Bunning, Les 1893 2100101613 Burgess, Doug 1824 1900110977 Buscar, Michael 2069 2069108909 Callaghan, Kenneth J. 1406 1512126210 Carter, John 1714 6123266 Chan, Evan 1585 1585121110 Cheng, Alfonso 1473 6109384 Chuderski, Jan 1654 1703105738 Chyurlia, Jerome 1776 1776106389 Clarke, Brian 1535 1589100234 Cohen, David 1967 1967123549 Cokorillo, Radisav 1970 1970103526 Crnilovic, Greg 1830 23102589 Daku, Zoltan 1801 1840107299 Dangberg, Karl 1792 1805102011 DeKerpel, Stijn 1967 2011109477 Demmery, Steve 2095 2095110803 Den-Otter, Albert 1477 1674103285 Desforges, Jean 1970 20100170 Devenport, Martin 2251 2301123550 Devisser, Paul 1435 1435124262 Dimitrijevic, Milorad 2183 5100294 Dougherty, Michael 2367 2376113062 Draak, Jan 1393 22125528 Dragusanu, George 1012 10125682 Duggan, Brendan 1138 8106571 Dutton, Warren Richard 2067 2195125573 Dutton, Janice 1032 22125575 Dutton, Lucas 783 783106324 Duval, Kirk 1739 1739110299 Egorov, Michael xxxx 1911101459 Ellis, Joe T. 1905 1955103011 Erickson, John 1777 1793103309 Evans, Bill 2144 2144101981 Fabris, Al 1680 1800111839 Fairbairn, Stephen 2045 2045108098 Field, Christopher 1592 1592107176 Fintas, Randy 1624 8122745 Fittler, David 1709 20100055 Fleming, Terry 1808 1877

122479 Fleming, Alan 1437 1439104235 Friis, Torben 1699 1699102447 Frilles, Ruperto 2123 2250120219 Gajic, Steve 1725 10124454 Gayman, Ian 1464 21111022 Gillis, Doug 1638 1722106528 Gomes, Jose 1909 2033125839 Gourevich, Artem 2089 6102884 Grinbergs, Daniel 1631 1649122962 Gumama-Hillyard, Abul. 1526 3125692 Gusinjac, Gzim 2301 5104833 Hadley, Ryan 1547 1547100027 Haley, Philip G. 1713 1900125685 Hancas, Marius 1986 10109113 Hanna, Raoul 1868 12123559 Hare, Scott 1654 23123136 Harvey, Tim 1442 15110105 Hassan-Gordon, Tariq 1716 23122340 Hayman, Colin 1363 4105731 Hendon, Lee 1440 1511108908 Hillyard, Larry 1302 17121115 Ho, Jeffrey 1193 7123135 Hoch, Doug 1163 1163105422 Hollo, Peter 1724 1800107184 Holmes, Michael J 1678 16126089 Hosseini, Saeed 1504 5123678 Hui, Jack 1395 3123677 Hui, Katrina 1509 4120795 Iwinski, Tom 1266 1266106205 Jando, Edmond 1637 1637124816 Joag, Vineet 1375 11107581 Joseph, Steve 1770 1888125361 Kaplan, Youri 1243 22111284 Kasimov, Nechemia xxxx 16101198 Kiss, Istvan 1879 1989106376 Knechtel, Tim 1785 2000120759 Knezevic, Adam 1563 1563105549 Kret, Ted 1945 2162109158 Kristjanson, Scott 1716 21104537 Kurkowski, Ken 1622 1700106974 Lamb, Bryan 2025 2122108998 Laughlin, Steve 2020 6112068 Lawless, David 1948 2008111318 Le, Ken xxxx 1780125657 Leeming, Mike 1230 9123227 Livshits, Vitaly 1746 23108038 Louie, Kim 1723 1723122695 Lovi, Wray 1069 4110214 Lucki, Arnie 1894 2010125903 Ma, Daniel 875 5123180 Mack, Jamie 1608 15112732 Maenpaa, David 1652 1672100338 Majstorovic, Dan 1962 2054112277 Manalo, Pepin 1867 1887107391 Marghetis, Aris 1849 1849106665 Marshall, Peter 1994 1994102498 Martin, Ian 2217 2265121347 Massoulie, Francois 1163 8100298 McClelland, Tom 1747 1900106266 McGrahan, Steve 1910 2067125825 McGuire, Paul 959 10121270 Mehta, Gy 1923 1951125874 Michaelis, Nico 2151 22124203 Miletic, Dusan 2314 6103982 Milne, Reg 1878 1878102310 Mitrovic, Milan 2360 2400103626 Mitrovic, Bojana 1591 1591106826 Morrison, Kyle 1425 1425125406 Mross, Lazo 1122 15121335 Nunes, Paulo 1347 13104561 Obrovac, Zvonko 1912 1950102669 Ochkoos, Jura 2329 2409102746 Oldland, Ray 1655 16103715 Pacey, Kevin 2240 2270121545 Page, Peter 1438 13106856 Palsson, Halldor Peter 2123 2126125813 Parikh, Jugal 1147 11104721 Patton, Mark 1583 1583122223 Peev, Pavel 1897 24101770 Peredun, Andrew 1950 10122604 Piggott, Scott 1320 15123186 Pisanski, Peter 1255 9125074 Poon, Douglas xxxx 6126186 Poplawski, Matthew 1114 3108329 Puschke, R.F. 1729 1786124124 Radovic, Aleksandar 1701 6100257 Raletich, George 1899 2000111115 Richardson, Ross 1896 1896100053 Rodgers, R.F. 1918 1992103199 Rositsan, Boris 2271 2369101799 Rowles, Christopher 1780 1812125766 Rubanovski, Vladimir 2014 18111463 Ruiz, Richard 2039 2039111803 Ryzycki, Bohdan 1773 1822110752 Saleh, Maher 2237 2306108545 Salomaa, Markku 1954 6106615 Sarkar, Prosanto 2264 2271104545 Schwartz, Lorne 1774 1810111713 Secours, Andre 1330 24123223 Seguin, Marc 1611 10123727 Sequillion, Aaron xxxx 1439121329 Shah, Omaray M. 1916 1916126142 Sharma, Rahul 1312 6125969 Sharma, Mohit K 960 6120619 Siddeley, Hugh 1757 1763108869 Siegel, Andre 1570 1578109808 Simic, Dusan 2089 10123265 Solodar, Yevgeni 2059 2079102535 Southam, David 2135 2200120171 Stevens, Christian 1823 1823125968 Stoltefuss, Rolf 1855 6112423 Surlan, Dan 2206 2206126093 Sviridovitch, Alina 1316 6126201 Sviridovitch, Slava 1541 6121114 Tam, Timothy 1171 20123670 Tan, Samantha 1168 5

126295 Tan, Paul 1338 6124501 Teh, Kevin 1340 24112575 Teodoro, Roderick 2089 2295112698 Teodoro IV, Eduardo D. 2402 2450106474 Termeer, Ted 1481 1692110020 Thiede, Gunther 1627 2106868 Thompson, Ed G. 1387 24106110 Thorvardson, Steve 1962 1962120209 Thorvardson, Craig 1544 1544101072 Thorvardson, Barry 2030 2030101079 Tipu, Vincent 2306 2321110282 Toolsie, Alexander 1732 1758102820 Trbic, Milan xxxx 2141111224 Tremblay, Brent 1604 1604124455 Tremblay, Jarrett 1805 5120254 Trkulja, Mladen 1844 1856124498 Tursman, Richard 1425 11102986 Urbanc, Peter 1869 1899120384 Urbanc, Lea 1392 9125708 Uwland, Jaco 1577 1126202 Vadachkoriya, Irakli 2091 5125532 Vaingorten, Yaaqov 2115 6112660 Vanderlee, Chris 1539 1600101858 Veltmann, Alfred 1787 1900102372 Venning, Ron 1571 1698107979 Vera, Jesus 1576 1622120516 Voloaca, Mihnea 2261 16106693 Vucko, Ignac 2058 2143105702 Wang, Hao Yuan 1929 1929111913 Wong, Edwin 1453 15123676 Wong, Jordan 1214 4123675 Wong, Brandon 1502 7122512 Wong, Wylon 1274 1274124805 Xia, Angel 1502 6123378 Young, Andrew 1619 5123377 Young, Trevor 1282 4101317 Zagar, Milan 2056 2140107387 Zakrajsek, Aljosa 2004 2004110755 Zambo, Viktor 2045 2045125904 Zheng, San San 1362 12120850 Zlobec, Srdan 2197 2209104898 Zugic, Igor 2323 2323107851 Zybura, Andre 1948 1948

Prince Edward IslandCFC# Name Rtng High104781 Bruneau, Philippe 1482 21123488 Casey, Adam 1242 1280106527 England, Michael 1599 1715110208 Gulati, Ashish 2088 2119102875 Landry, Scott 1599 1617100145 McKim, Fred 2005 2051109557 Parker, Ian 1398 24108960 Parker, Kim 1649 15121861 Paulowich, David 1776 1801106600 Quigley, Nick 1558 1584120187 Wright, Danny 1130 9

QuebecCFC# Name Rtng High125967 Laflamme, Jean-Philippe 1821 6112806 Van Dusen, Eric 1854 1935

ForeignCFC# Name Rtng High126053 Khomeriki, Giorgi 2515 6125984 Melde, Volker 1733 4110329 Morabito, Matthew 1883 1931113065 Prilleltensky, Isaac 1456 1456102172 Zimninski, Nick 1810 1821

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