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En Passant No 174 — June 2002 1 EN PASSANT June 2002 No.174 juin 2002 phone: 613–733–2844 fax: 613–733–5209 toll free order line: 1–800–563–4476 editor: [email protected] office: [email protected] internet: www.chess.ca En Passant Staff Editor: Knut Neven Layout/Design: Knut Neven Cover Design: Knut Neven Technical Assistance: Serge Archambault Publisher En Passant, Publishers Ltd. Address 2212 Gladwin Cres, EÐ1 Ottawa, Ontario K1B 5N1 Canada ISSN 0822Ð5672 Distributed six times a year for the months of February, April, June, August, October and December. All articles, annotations, or notes not otherwise credited are written by the Editors. Opinions expressed are those of the writers and do not necessarily represent the opinions of En Passant, Publishers Ltd. Advertising Rates Black & White Ads Ad Size 1 Issue 2 Issues 6 Issues 1 Page $530 $875 $2260 1/2 Page $295 $460 $1230 1/3 Page $200 $335 $ 860 1/4 Page $170 $280 $ 675 1/6 Page $130 $210 $ 510 1/8 Page $100 $180 $ 430 add $75 for inside front cover (full page ads only) Color Ads Outside Back Cover $870 Inside Front Cover $810 (rates for one issue only) Discounts CFC-Rated events 50% Note Rates are for camera-ready copy. Layout rates are $150 for color layout and $55 for black & white layout. on the cover... 8 IM Pascal Charbonneau is surrounded on the cover by GM Kevin Spraggett, IM Jean Hebert, GM Alexandre Lesiege and FM Stephen Glinert. Many thanks to Jonathan Berry for providing the photography, and also the players who chose to contribute game annotations for our extensive tournament coverage. Richmond, British Columbia was the setting for the 2002 Canadian Zonal Championship and PascalÕs biggest chess achievement to date: still only eighteen years old at the time, Pascal scored several important wins over his main rivals in the final few rounds of the main tournament to qualify for a playoff against GM Kevin Spraggett. After what was probably a sleepless night for both, the two players met the following morning for two Active games where Kevin proved to be far more tense and nervousÖ inside... 2 Editorial, and Letters to the Editor. 33 Stephen Wright remembers Lionel Berry Joyner in a short tribute that includes several games of the late Canadian Champion. 36 Across Canada. advertisers... IFC Canadian Zonal Crosstable 4 Coming Events 7 EOCA Grand Prix 35 SWOCL 39 ICC 40 Rating Lists IBC Olympic Fund OBC Guelph Pro-Am International Duel Timer

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En Passant No 174 — June 2002 1

EN PASSANTJune 2002 No.174 juin 2002

phone: 613–733–2844 fax: 613–733–5209 toll free order line: 1–800–563–4476editor: [email protected] office: [email protected] internet: www.chess.ca

En Passant StaffEditor: Knut Neven

Layout/Design: Knut NevenCover Design: Knut Neven

Technical Assistance:Serge Archambault

PublisherEn Passant, Publishers Ltd.

Address2212 Gladwin Cres, EÐ1

Ottawa, OntarioK1B 5N1Canada

ISSN 0822Ð5672

Distributed six times a year for themonths of February, April, June,

August, October and December. Allarticles, annotations, or notes not

otherwise credited are written by theEditors. Opinions expressed are thoseof the writers and do not necessarilyrepresent the opinions of En Passant,

Publishers Ltd.

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8 IM Pascal Charbonneau is surrounded on the cover by GMKevin Spraggett, IM Jean Hebert, GM Alexandre Lesiege andFM Stephen Glinert. Many thanks to Jonathan Berry forproviding the photography, and also the players who chose tocontribute game annotations for our extensive tournamentcoverage.Richmond, British Columbia was the setting for the 2002Canadian Zonal Championship and PascalÕs biggest chessachievement to date: still only eighteen years old at the time,Pascal scored several important wins over his main rivals in thefinal few rounds of the main tournament to qualify for aplayoff against GM Kevin Spraggett.After what was probably a sleepless night for both, the twoplayers met the following morning for two Active gameswhere Kevin proved to be far more tense and nervousÖ

inside...

2 Editorial, and Letters to the Editor.

33 Stephen Wright remembers Lionel Berry Joyner in a shorttribute that includes several games of the late CanadianChampion.

36 Across Canada.

advertisers...

IFC Canadian Zonal Crosstable4 Coming Events7 EOCA Grand Prix

35 SWOCL39 ICC40 Rating Lists

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Letters

Editorial

Halifax, NSI think it is about time for the CFC tobegin rating standard time controlgames on the internet, just as they donow for active games on ICC. Andwhy not Ñ the popularity of internetchess has had a negative impact onthe number of people who attendregular over the board events in manyparts of the country, and the futuresuccess of organizations like the CFCmay depend on joining the internetrevolution. The technology to make ithappen is available today.

David Poirier

Victoria, BCI am looking for members of theCanadian Forces or DND civilianemployees who are interested inrepresenting Canada at the NATOChess Championships in France inOctober 2002. Canada has been

LetÕs start this editorial off with thedetails about our reader photo contestfrom the last issue: the picture wastaken in June of 1962 during theCuracao Candidates tournament, andthe person on the left is, of course,Robert James Fischer. The lady on theright, however, proved to be muchmore difficult to identify, and sheturns out to be Ocsana Geller, wife ofGrandmaster Efim Geller.

Only a handful of readers got all fourquestions right, and the first twocorrect entries arrived in my mailboxa mere twenty minutes apart! Thewinners are Omar Shah and AndrewMcMillan, both of Toronto, Ontario.

My favorite response, however, wasthat received from Jay Zendrowski,who wrote ÒLittle did Bobby Fischerknow that his chance meeting withyoung Miss Kasparova at a seasideresort in Baku in July of 1962 wouldhave such future repercussions on thechess world.Ó Fascinating theory!

IM Yan Teplitsky will return in thenext issue with another edition of hisÒApprenticeÕs WorkshopÓ series, aswill IM David Ross with more gamesby top Canadian juniors in ÒGM

FactoryÓ. This time an unusually largerating list squeezed out severalcontributions at the last moment.

In this monthÕs ÒLettersÓ (see below)David Poirier of Halifax, NS makes aninteresting point: attendance at manytraditional chess events has sufferedbecause of competition from onlinechess servers, and an opportunitycertainly exists for the CFC and othernational federations to compete for aslice of that pie. However, I am not atall sure about the best way for us toapproach this challenge.

Few people would now argue withthe fact that the internet has madechess a more popular activity amongcasual players everywhere, but theconvenience of online play has alsobegun to change the landscape formore serious players. I suspect thatoffering access to online rated playmight boost CFC membership, butlikely at the expense of even fewerentries in regular tournaments. Is thiswhat we want, or should we look atother ways to increase participation intraditional events? Perhaps ultimatelythose impressive online numbers ofcasual players will translate into more

members for us as well. No one reallyknows, but I think the issue is a lotmore complex than it first appears.

For one thing, current technology isstill incapable of reliably detectingonline cheaters. One need only lookto several recent high-profile eventsto know that this is a problem. Moneyis another issue: establishing andmaintaining a viable online chessserver requires very deep pockets.The USCF, for example, spent overUSD$200,000 on a version of theirown that has floundered miserably inthe face of competition from sites likeICC and World Chess Network. Yes,hooking up with someone else mightbe a solution, but then much of thecontrol is in the hands of otherpeopleÖ

Chess has benefit from the internetmedium more than any other sport orgame, but I wouldnÕt yet hold mybreath for any dramatic changes thatcome from national chess federations.Instead, look for FIDE and a few bigcommercial players to clear a path forothers to follow.

Knut Neven

invited to send a team of four to sixplayers. For more information, I canbe contacted at [email protected]

Paul Leblanc

Downsview, ONI am appalled at the number of errorsin the April issue of En Passant, and Iinvite all readers to beat a GM or anIM at grammar. For example, inÒMastersÕ ForumÓ, both Deen Hergottand Yan Teplitsky describe how theyÔlearntÕ (sic) to play chess. However,we find that they both have notlearned the past tense of the verb,learn. See how easy it is to beat twoIMs in a row at grammar?

LetÕs continue with the interestingword ÔZeitnotÕ from the article ÒAnInterview with Irwin LipnowskiÓ. Thisword is found in no English dictionaryand is not part of the Englishlanguage. Therefore it should be

italicized or else it is a spellingmistake. By the way, does anyoneknow what this word means? And inJonathan BerryÕs article ÒNorth andSouth of the BorderÓ the paragraphthat starts with ÒJenniferÕs victoryÖÓtruly did go south of the bordergrammatically.

Now for the ultimate challenge: Iinvite all readers to beat a GM atgrammar. Place Kevin SpraggettÕsarticle ÒUnder the MicroscopeÓ underyour grammatical microscope and seewhat you can find. Yes, you too canbeat an IM or a GM Ð at grammar.

Anthony Cheron

[The verb ÔlearnÕ is both regular andirregular, and the use of either ÔlearntÕor ÔlearnedÕ to indicate past tense iscorrect. ÔZeitnotÕ is German for Ôshortof timeÕ, and used routinely in Englishchess literature. Also familiar to many

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Adult Junior Jr. Part. FamilyAnnual Membership CFC Prov $$ CFC Prov $$ CFC Prov $$ CFC Prov $$Alberta 33 5 38 22 3 25 10 1 11 16.50 2.50 19British Columbia 33 12 45 22 3 25 10 3 13 16.50 6 22.50Manitoba 33 20 53 22 10 32 10 3 13 16.50 10 26.50New Brunswick 33 3 36 22 2 24 10 2 12 16.50 1.50 18Newfoundland 33 3 36 22 2 24 10 2 12 16.50 1.50 18Nova Scotia 33 7 40 22 3 25 10 3 13 16.50 2.50 19Northwest Territories 33 0 33 22 0 22 10 0 10 16.50 0 16.50Ontario 33 7 40 22 3 25 10 2 12 16.50 3.50 20Prince Edward Island 33 0 33 22 0 22 10 0 10 16.50 0 16.50Quebec 33 0 33 22 0 22 10 0 10 16.50 0 16.50Saskatchewan 33 10 43 22 7 29 10 0 10 16.50 5 21.50Yukon 33 0 33 22 0 22 10 0 10 16.50 0 16.50Foreign 33 0 33 22 0 22 10 0 10 16.50 0 16.50

ÒNoteÓ The CFC column is the amount collected by the Chess Federation of Canada. The Prov column is theamount collected by each provincial association. The $$ column is the amount the member must pay.

Adult Memberships are open to anyone over the age of 17. Pay theamount in the Adult $$ column.

Junior Memberships are open to individuals aged 17 or less. Pay theamount in the Junior $$ column.

Junior Participating Memberships are open to individuals aged 17 orless. These members can play in tournaments, but do not receive En

Passant. Pay the amount in the Participating $$ column.

Family Memberships: the first member pays the Adult fee in the $$column. Each other member at the same address pays the Family fee in the

$$ column.

Life Membership rates depend on age: 30 & under $660; 31Ð40 $577.50;41Ð50 $495; 51Ð60 $412.50; 61 and over $330. Provincial dues are not

included in Life rates. Supply proof of age if over 30.

people is the excellent German wordÔverbotenÕ, which means ÔforbiddenÕand in this case adds a bit of fun toJonathan BerryÕs account of JenniferÕs(apparently) quite entertainingdemonstration of Sitzfleisch!? Pleasecontact your editor for the meaning ofÔSitzfleischÕ and ÔEn PassantÕ. Ed.]

Toronto, ONGrandmaster SpraggettÕs insightfulessay on the psychology of GM EfimGellerÕs approach to chess is one ofthe most remarkable pieces of chessjournalism I have ever come across.The author leads the reader withdetective-like precision toward hisconvincing conclusion, without evercommitting the error of oversimplification.

Equally impressive is his method ofpresenting the illustrative gameswithout analysis, concentrating insteadon the minds and personalities of theantagonists involved. For, in order to

understand why the best player of histime never became World Champion,GM Spraggett holds up the mirror ofcontrasting personalities. BorisSpassky and, to a lesser degree,Tigran Petrosian highlight the fatalflaw in GellerÕs flawed striving toprove the validity of his conviction.

Maybe GM Spraggett could amplifyhis brilliant analysis with two or threefurther examples of psychologicalflaws, crafting in the process a bookof pioneering significance in the fieldof the epistemology of chess. Anexamination of Karpov vs Kasparovcomes to mind, but equally fascinatingwould be a fresh look at Steinitz vsChigorin or Lasker vs Capablanca,Capablanca vs Alekhine, and perhapsEuwe vs Alekhine.

A wealth of material on these chesspersonalities already exists, but isalmost all based on game analysisinstead of SpraggettÕs method of

contrasting personalities in theprocess of strategic evaluation.

Andrew Pressburger

Kingston, ONI want to offer my congratulations onyour solid showing in the 2002Canadian Zonal. For someone whohasnÕt played for three years youcertainly held your own! I know frompersonal experience how tough it isto play successfully while devotingseveral hours each day to othertournament related duties.

Your internet coverage showed areally hard fought tournament, withplayers like Pascal Charbonneau,Stephen Glinert and Eric Lawsondemonstrating their youthful strengthin the final rounds. My only complaintis that a short playoff match at G/30 isnot really an appropriate way todecide our national championship.

Frank Dixon

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Coming EventsThe Coming Events advertising section

is brought to you by theChess Federation of Canada.

Note: This is free for allCFC-Rated events.

Players: When you enter by mail,include your name, address, CFC

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Ontario

Sarnia Chemical Valley OpenDate: June 1Ð2Place: Room A208, Lambton College,

1457 London RoadRds: 5Type: Regular SwissTimes: 9, 1, 7 / 9, asapTC: Rd.1 SD/90; Rds.2Ð5 30/90, SD/

60EF: $40; less $10 Jr/SrPrizes: $$BENReg: At site; or cheques to Samuel

Carr, 509 Nassau Crescent,Sarnia, N7S 4H8

Org: Samuel Carr (519)383Ð7202Misc: $10 dorm rooms available,

book early

Ottawa Eastern Ontario OpenDate: June 8Ð9Place: RA Centre, 2451 Riverside DriveRds: 5Times: 9, 2, 7 / 9, 2TC: 30/80, SD/60EF: $35; less $5 RACC members;

$15 amateur (no prizes U1600or UNR); $5 for section up; $10late fee

Sec: Open, U2100, U1850, U1600Prizes: $$BENReg: Until 08:30 at site; or cheques to

Michael Holmes, 762 SmythRoad, Ottawa, ON, K1G 1P1 byMay 31

Org: Michael Holmes (613)733Ð4247Misc: Bye 1Ð3, max. 1; bring clocks;

EOCA Grand Prix event

DCC Father’s Day OpenDate: June 14Ð16Place: 1681 Bayview Avenue, two

blocks south of Eglinton, aboveChessÕn Math, Toronto

Rds: 5Type: Regular SwissTimes: 7 / 11, 5:30 / 11, 5:30TC: 40/120, SD/60EF: $60; less $10 Jr/Sr; $20 late feeSec: Open/U2200, U2000, U1800,

U1600/URPrizes: $$BEN 70%Reg: 17:30Ð18:30 at site; or cheques

to Mark S. Dutton, Suite 3301,Leaside Towers, 95 ThorncliffePark Dr, Toronto, ON, M4H 1L7

Org: Mark S. Dutton (416)467Ð9715Misc: Bring clocks; www.play.at/

duttonchess

Brantford OpenDate: June 22Ð23Place: The Dunn Building, 440 Elgin

StreetRds: 5Type: Regular SwissTimes: 9, 12:30, 5 / 10, asapTC: Rd1 G/90+10; Rds2Ð5 G/120+10EF: $40; less $5 Jr/Sr/BCC

members; GMs IMs free; $10late fee

Prizes: $$BENReg: Until 08:45 at site; or cheques to

Brantford Chess Club, 58Woodlawn Avenue, Brantford,ON, N3V 1B1 by June 14

Org: Tony Ficzere (519)752Ð[email protected]

Misc: SWOCL Grand Prix event;www.swocl.com

Hanover Grey-Bruce OpenDate: June 29Ð30Place: Hanover Civic Centre, 451 10th

AvenueRds: 5Type: Regular SwissTimes: Rds 1Ð3 9:30, 1:15, asap; Rds4Ð5

9:30, 1:15TC: 30/75, SD/30EF: $30; less $5 Jr/Sr, $5 late fee

after June 28Prizes: $$BENReg: 08:30Ð09:15 at site; or cheques

to Scott Turner, RR2 Durham,ON, N0G 1R0

Org: Scott Turner (519)369Ð[email protected]

Misc: Bye 1Ð4, max 2; http://133045398.icq.com/home.html

DCC Canada Day OpenDate: June 29 to July 1Place: 1681 Bayview Avenue, two

blocks south of Eglinton, aboveChessÕn Math, Toronto

Rds: 6Type: Regular SwissTimes: 11, 5:30 / 11, 5:30 / 11, 5:30TC: 40/120, SD/60EF: $60; less $10 Jr/Sr, 2400+, titled,

women, GMs free; $20 late feeafter June 28

Sec: Open/U2200, U2000/U1800,U1600/UNR

Prizes: $$BENReg: 08:30Ð09:30 at site; or cheques

to Mark S. Dutton, Suite 3301,Leaside Towers, 95 ThorncliffePark Dr, Toronto, ON, M4H 1L7by June 24

Org: Mark S. Dutton (416)467Ð9715Misc: Bye 1Ð5, max. 2; bring clocks;

www.play.at/duttonchess

DCC Saturday ActivesDate: July 6, August 17, September 28Place: 1681 Bayview Ave, two blocks

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Prizes: $$BEN 70%Reg: 11:00Ð12:00 at site; or cheques

to Mark S. Dutton, Suite 3301,Leaside Towers, 95 ThorncliffePark Dr, Toronto, ON, M4H 1L7

Org: Mark S. Dutton (416)467Ð9715Misc: Bring clocks; www.play.at/

duttonchess

Toronto CMA Futurity QualifierDate: July 26Ð28Place: Dutton Chess Club, 1685

Bayview AvenueRds: 5Type: Regular SwissTimes: 7 / 10:30, 5 / 10:30, 5TC: 40/120, G/60EF: $60; $50 Jr; $20 late feePrizes: Qualification to CMA Futurity,

$$G290Reg: 17:30Ð18:30 at site; or cheques

to ChessÕn Math, 1685 BayviewAvenue, Toronto, ON, M4G 3C1

Misc: CMA Futurity in Toronto August12-21; info at (416)486Ð3395

DCC Simcoe Day OpenDate: August 3Ð5Place: 1681 Bayview Avenue, two

blocks south of Eglinton, aboveChessÕn Math, Toronto

Rds: 6Type: Regular SwissTimes: 11, 5:30 / 11, 5:30 / 11, 5:30TC: 40/120, SD/60EF: $60; less $10 Jr/Sr, 2400+, titled,

women, GMs free; $20 late feeafter August 2

Sec: Open/U2300, U2100/U1900,U1700/UNR

Prizes: $$BENReg: 08:30Ð09:30 at site; or cheques

to Mark S. Dutton, Suite 3301,Leaside Towers, 95 ThorncliffePark Dr, Toronto, ON, M4H 1L7by July 29

Org: Mark S. Dutton (416)467Ð9715Misc: Bye 1Ð5, max. 2; bring clocks;

www.play.at/duttonchess

Guelph Pro-Am InternationalDate: August 7Ð11Place: Peter Clark Hall, Guelph

University CentreRds: 9Type: Regular SwissTimes: 5 / 10, 5 / 10, 5 / 10, 5 / 10, 5TC: G/150/30EF: Pro $100 by May 31, $115 by

July 20, $130 at site; Amateur$50 by May 31, $60 by July 20,$70 at site

Sec: Pro; Amateur U2200, U2000,U1800, U1600

Prizes: Pro $$G2000; Amateur trophiesReg: Cheques to Hal Bond, 6

Wildwood Place, Guelph, ON,N1H 7X9

Org: Hal Bond [email protected]: FIDE rated; bring digital clocks

south of Eglinton, aboveChessÕn Math, Toronto

Rds: 6Type: Active SwissTimes: 12:30, 1:45, 3, 5, 6:15, 7:30TC: G/30EF: $40; $10 late fee; less $10 Jr/Sr,

women, titled, 2400+Sec: Open, U2000, U1600

ScarboroughChess ClubTournament

ScheduleAll events have the followinginformation in common unless

noted otherwise.

Place: Scarborough Chess Club,Stan Wadlow Park Clubhouse,373 Cedarvale Road (1 blockeast of Woodbine, 2 blockssouth of OÕConnor Drive)

Info: [email protected]://webhome.idirect.com/

~blamb

Org: Bryan Lamb(416)391Ð4777

[email protected]

Misc: SCC membershiprequired ($100 Adult, $75 Sr,$50 Jr). Events are CFC rated(CFC membership required).

Entry fees to events covered byclub membership. Half price foradditional family members andplayers from the same school.

Special Events

Thursday Evening EventsTC: 30/75, SD/30

Times: 19:30, weekly

SchoolÕs Out Thursday SwissJune 6, 13, 20, 27, July 4, 11

Type: Regular SwissRds: 6

Summer Thursday SwissDate: July 18, 25, August 1,8, 15

Type: Regular SwissRds: 5

Sunday Afternoon EventsTC: 30/90, SD/30

Times: 13:30, weekly

Sunday Summer SwissJune 9, 23, July 7, 14, 21, 28

Type: Regular SwissRds: 6

Tuesday Evening EventsTC: 30/75, SD/30

Times: 19:30, weekly

Tuesday Spring SwissMay 21, 28, June 4, 11, 18

Type: Regular SwissRds: 5

Tuesday Summer SwissJune 25, July 2, 9, 16, 23

Type: Regular SwissRds: 5

Dutton Chess ClubToronto Events

Major events share the followingdetails unless noted otherwise.

Place: Dutton Chess Club, 1681Bayview Avenue, 2nd floor

EF: $60; Jr/Sr/Ladies/Titled $50TC: 40/120, SD/60 FIDE rated

Misc: Open to anyone; nomembership required; bring

clocks, sets are provided

Times: Wed 11 & 5, Fri 7

Org/TD: Mark S. Dutton(416)467Ð9715, (416)219Ð7933

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

Weekend Slow Tournaments

FatherÕs Day OpenJune 14Ð16 5 rds

Canada Day OpenJune 29 to July 1 6 rds

Simcoe Day OpenAugust 3Ð5 6 rds

Active Tournaments

DCC Active Series #27Ð29G/30; 6 rds.; EF $40, Jr/Sr $30

July 6, August 17, September 28

Place: Dutton Chess Club, 1681Bayview Avenue, 2nd floor

Misc: Adults $150, Jr/Sr $100;join anytime with 1/2 pt. byes!

Mondays

G/15 Events; Open 18:00Ð23:006rds; start at 19:30; EF $10

Wednesdays

40/120, SD/60; start 18:305rds; CFC Rated Regular Swiss

Lazy Hazy Days of Summer IIIEvening Swiss

July 3 to July 31

Saturdays

Blitz: G/5; 13:00&16:00EF $10; 7dblrds

Regular: 40/120, SD/6012:00Ð18:00; 5rds

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Junior Chess in BCLower Mainland

2001-2002Unless otherwise noted, the

following events are open to alljunior players at all levels. Prizes

vary, and include trophies,books, gifts, and cash. Some

events qualify the winner(s) forprovincial or national

championships, and while allevents are CFC rated, Juniors

only events do not require CFCmembership.

Playing Sites

VBC: Vancouver Bridge Centre,2776 East Broadway

BCIT: BCIT Student AssociationCampus Centre, 3700 Willingdon

Avenue, Burnaby

Surrey: Bethany NewtonChurch, corner of 148 St & 60

Avenue, Surrey

Org/TD: Katherine Davies(604)266Ð5842 mail-for-

[email protected]; StephenWright (604)221Ð7148

[email protected];www.chess.bc.ca

Event Info

VBC Thanksgiving OpenOctober 6Ð8

VBC Junior OpenOctober 14

Surrey Junior OpenOctober 20

VBC BC Junior ChampionshipNovember 10Ð12

VBC Junior OpenNovember 25

BCIT BCÐWashington MatchDecember 1

VBC Junior Open BlitzDecember 9

BCIT Junior Grade OpenJanuary 27

York House ProvincialInterschool Team (Grades 1-7)

February 2

St.GeorgeÕs School ProvincialInterschool Team (Grades 8-12)

February 23

BCIT VancouverRegional Chess Challenge

March 10

BCIT Provincial Chess ChallengeMarch 30

Victoria CYCC Provincial FinalsMay 5

Renfrew OpenDate: August 24Ð25Place: Renfrew Collegiate Institute, 184

Bonnechere Street SouthRds: 5Type: Regular SwissTimes: 9, 2, 7 / 9, 2TC: 30/90, SD/60EF: $30; $25 Jr/Sr; $10 late feePrizes: $$BENReg: 08:00Ð08:30 at site; or cheques

to Peter Naish, 831 Raglan StreetSouth, Renfrew, ON, K7V1S3

Org: Peter NaishMisc: Bye 1Ð3; bring sets, clocks;

EOCA GP event

K-W Fall ActiveDate: September 7Place: Kitchener City HallRds: 5Type: Active SwissTimes: 9:30, TBATC: SD/30EF: $25; less $5 Jr/Sr; $10 late fee

after August 31Sec: Open, U1600Prizes: $$BENReg: 08:30Ð09:15 at site; or cheques

to Albert Den-Otter, 11 HermiePlace, Kitchener, ON, N2H 4X9

Org: Albert Den-Otter (519)744Ð[email protected]

Misc: Bye 1Ð4

Toronto Macedonian Labour Day OpenDate: August 31ÐSeptember 2Place: Macedonian Community Hall,

76 Overlea Blvd.Rds: 6Type: Regular SwissTimes: 11, 5:30 / 11, 5:30 / 10, 4TC: 40/120, SD/60Sec: Open, U2200, U2000, U1800,

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Most chess puzzle books put youin an artificial situation: you aretold a combination exists, what thetheme is and what you arerequired to achieve. This one isdifferent. In a real game situation,a player may sometimes need tofind a combination. On the otherhand he may need to reject atactical idea and simply find agood positional move. Thepuzzles in this book put youprecisely in that situationÖ

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The

Media attention was lavish from startto finish, and included live internetcoverage by World Chess Networkwith the capable technical assistanceof Stephen Wright and your editor.

A total of 36 players from nearly allparts of Canada made the long trip toRichmond, some in search of a shot atadvancing to the next FIDE WorldChampionship Knockout event and its$3,000,000 prize fund, some hopingto earn one of the available titlenorms (IM=7.5/11 & FM=5.5/11) anda result that might make themcandidates for the next Olympic teamselections, while the rest perhapswanted nothing more than test theirmettle against a crop of the bestplayers in the country.

In a long event like this no one isimmune from having a bad day Ðreaders will witness many accidents inthe games section Ð and I cannotthink of a single player who didnÕtblunder away a draw or win in at leastone or two games. There is of courseno sure remedy to this problem, otherthan PascalÕs very practical attitude ofnot letting such a game affect yourstate of mind in later rounds. What isdone is done!?

The latest FIDE time control of 40/100 followed by 20/50 and G/10 plusa 30 second increment starting on thefirst move was almost universallypreferred by the players over the stillfaster controls at last yearÕs event,which had rendered too manydecisions as a random function ofblunders committed in serious timetrouble. Playing with the new digitalclocks, perhaps surprisingly, has notreally caught on in Canada yet, andtheir use does take some getting usedto. Whereas time trouble at the old-fashioned controls and using analogclocks is usually a temporary ailment(after the control is made playgenerally returns to a more relaxedpace) here time management is alittle more complex: players foolishenough to consume most of theirtime early in the second control will

find themselves constantly fighting tostay ahead of the clock and its ÔgiftÕ ofanother 30 second increment witheach move on the board. Only rarelyis it possible to shake off trouble onthe clock once most of your cache ofinitial time has been depleted. On theother hand, I know of only two casesin nearly two hundred games where aplayer actually lost on time?!

For some of the players who stayedaway the prize fund of $11,000 was adisappointment, particularly since thetrip to Richmond on the west coastfrom the other end of the countrywould tax the pocket book andvacation time allowance for manyÔchess touristsÕ. To be fair, however,the size of the prize fund was nobetter or worse than that of any otherCanadian Championship in recentmemory. The fact that the eventhappened to take place far awayfrom Quebec and Ontario Ð who didnot express an interest in holding theevent Ð is no fault of the organizerwho did an excellent job in almostevery conceivable detail. Besides, thelast time the event was held inOntario, fewer players showed upthan the 36 at this yearÕs edition.

Another contentious issue is the fairlysteep entry fee of $300 for the lowestrated players in the event, althoughGMs and IMs participated for free andmost of the remaining field paid about$200 each. This is not exactly cheap,I agree, but then the new Open Swissformat places such a financial burden

by Knut Neven

The 76th Canadian

Championships were

held at the Vancouver

Airport Conference Resort

in Richmond, British

Columbia from March 21

to April 1, 2002. Peter

Stockhausen, who is the

hotelÕs general manager,

once again lived up to his

reputation as one of

CanadaÕs premiere

organizers, and together

with his hotel staff and

TDs Lynn Stringer, Mark

Barnes, Lyle Craver and

Serge Archambault put on

a classy event that many

players felt was among

the very best national

chess championships

they have attended.

Canadian ZonalChess Championship

Richmond, British Columbia

Pascal Charbonneau

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on the organizer and our nationalfederation that at least some of thecosts need to be subsidized by theattending players. The conditions forthe top players in todayÕs new styleevents do not compare well withthose they experienced years ago inRound Robin invitationals, but onceagain the fault does not lie with theorganizer since he does not make therules. At issue, perhaps, is the failureof chess in Canada to attract the kindof corporate sponsorship that hasmade similar events in some othercountries rather more successful whencompared strictly on a financial basis.

With a relatively leisurely schedule ofa single game per day (except forrounds 4 and 5 on Sunday, but a restday on Monday) the tournamentseemed a bit like a chess vacation tomany players in the first few days, butsoon enough many of us realized thatin this kind of field there were notgoing to be any easy rounds oropponents, nor any quarter given inthe drive for that top placing or shinytitle norm. For the top players a gameagainst an outsider is a must-winsituation, for the relatively strongMasters in the middle of the fieldevery day means either defendingagainst a top player or collecting atough point against a slightly weakeropponent, and for the tail-enders yetanother tough grind to avert defeat.

Round 1Lesiege 1-0 HaesselDivljan 0-1 Spraggett

Cummings 1-0 ZubacWu 0-1 Hebert

Charbonneau 1-0 PoitrasJiganchine Ú Yoos

Ross Ú PattersonRoussel-Rooz. 0-1 Glinert

Berry Ú LawsonKret 0-1 Reeve

Ristovic 1-0 StanfordMilicevic 1-0 Bogle

Neven 1-0 SalcedoMayo Ú Huber

McLaren 1-0 LeBlancSladek 0-1 Herder

Gardner 0-1 HladekYousefzadeh 0-1 Sokourinski

GM Larry Christiansen, commentinglive online for World Chess Network,described Dale HaesselÕs choice ofGrŸnfeld variation as Òtheory, butknown to be bad for Black.Ó Still moreinteresting though was AlexandreÕscomment in the hotel lounge after thefinal round that he now consideredchoosing White for his first game asignificant strategical error: he wenton to explain that in a tournamentlike this the first and last rounds tendto count for very little, and thereforechoosing Black in round one wouldlikely have given him an extra Whitein the important games betweenrounds two and ten!?

On board two TorontoÕs Igor Divljanalso betrayed little intimidation, butwas eventually ground down in aninferior minor piece ending by GMKevin Spraggett.

Elsewhere IM Pascal Charbonneauwon a complicated and protractedendgame struggle with rook, bishopand extra pawn versus his opponentÕstwo rooks after the opening had gonevery wrong against Sergei Sokourinski.Also on the winning side in round onewere IMs Jean Hebert and DavidCummings, as well as FM StephenGlinert.

Round 2Reeve Ú Lesiege

Spraggett 1-0 MilicevicHerder 0-1 CummingsHebert 1-0 Neven

Sokourinski 0-1 CharbonneauGlinert 1-0 McLarenHladek Ú Ristovic

Yoos 1-0 MayoLawson Ú Ross

Patterson Ú BerryStanford 0-1 GardnerSalcedo Ú WuHaessel 1-0 Kret

Huber 0-1 Jiganchine

Bogle Ú DivljanPoitras 1-0 SladekZubac 1-0 Yousefzadeh

LeBlanc 0-1 Roussel-Rooz.

Dragoljub MilicevicÕs ScandinavianDefense against Spraggett lookedsuspect right from the start, andallowed the Grandmaster to demolishBlackÕs position with a quick action onthe queenside. GM Alexandre Lesiegehad to work much harder against JeffReeveÕs Open Sicilian, which aftersome early aggression soon led to anexchange of queens and a drawaround move twenty.

On board five, IM Pascal Charbonneauwon a wild game against Sokourinskiby trapping his opponentÕs king inthe center, while IMs Jean Hebert andDavid Cummings also continued theirwinning ways together with StephenGlinert.

Round 3Charbonneau Ú Spraggett

Cummings 0-1 HebertLesiege 1-0 GlinertRistovic 0-1 Yoos

Jiganchine Ú ReeveRoss Ú Hladek

Berry Ú SokourinskiMilicevic Ú Haessel

Neven 1-0 ZubacRoussel-Rooz. 0-1 Herder

McLaren 1-0 PoitrasGardner 1-0 Patterson

Huber Ú LawsonDivljan 1-0 Salcedo

Wu Ú BogleMayo, 0-1 KretSladek Ú Stanford

Yousefzadeh 0-1 LeBlanc

On top board IM Charbonneau andGM Spraggett settled for an early andpeaceful handshake, with the gamefollowing a Spraggett game from the2000 Istanbul Olympiad. Perhaps bothplayers were motivated to conserveenergy in anticipation of tomorrowÕsschedule of two games.

Alexandre Lesiege on the other hand,slowed in his pace by yesterdayÕsdraw with Jeff Reeve, left no doubt asto his intentions in todayÕs matchupagainst FM Glinert. Stephen managedto steer the game into a complicatedending, but ultimately failed to stophis opponentÕs passed pawn.

With the top seeds just short of therequired perfect score, QuebecÕs JeanHebert moved into clear first place bydefeating fellow IM David Cummings.

Kevin Spraggett

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British ColumbiaÕs NM Jack Yoos alsoserved notice with a win over NenadRistovic to move into a share forsecond place at 2.5/3.

Notes byKnut Neven

Neven, KnutZubac, Marius

Richmond CA zt (3), 2002Dutch: Stonewall A91

1.d4 f5 2.g3 »f6 3.ºg2 e6 4.c4 d55.»h3 c6 6.½c2 ºe7 7.0-0 0-08.»d2 b5!? 9.c5 e5N

In round one Zubac played the same8Öb5 line against David Cummings,which then continued 9Öa5 10.»f3»a6 11.»f4 ºd7 12.»e5 »g4?!13.»xg4 fxg4 14.e4 and David wenton to win a short game by targetingBlackÕs weak ¹/g4.

10.dxe5 »fd7 11.»f3 »xc5

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Marius told me after the game that heand IM Cummings looked at 9Öe5 forsome time in their post mortem, butcould not find an advantage for Whiteanywhere in the present position.

12.»d4!

Apparently they didnÕt consider thetext, which is meant to inhibit thedevelopment of BlackÕs queenside inview of tactical threats introduced bythe ÔunmaskingÕ of WhiteÕs lightsquared bishopÖ

12Ö½c7?

Black need not blunder a pawn ofcourse, but his position is quiteuncomfortable anyway in view ofthreats like 13.b4 and 13.»f4 etc.

13.»xb5 ½d7 14.»d4 ºb7 15.b4

Probably even stronger is 15.»f4.

15Ö»e6 16.»xf5 ºxb4 17.¼b1 a518.e4! d4 19.½b3 ¾h8 20.¼d1

The text doesnÕt spoil anything, butafter the game I was disappointed

when I realized that my originallyintended 20.a3!? »c5 21.½a2 ºc3basically wins on the spot after22.½c4 or even 22.e6. I had onlyconsidered 22.»g5 which looks a bitmessy after ºa6!?

20Ö»a6?!

More tenacious is 20Öºa6 althoughWhite still has a large advantage after21.»f4.

21.a3 »ac5 22.½a2 ºc3 23.ºd2ºxd2 24.½xd2 ¼fd8 25.»d6 ºa626.f4 a4

Black is completely lost, so Mariuscomes up with a final attempt toblock the b/file.

27.f5 »b3 28.¼xb3 axb3 29.fxe6½xe6 30.»g5

Black can do nothing about the knightfork on f7.

30Ö½e7 31.»gf7+ ¾g8 32.»xd8¼xd8 33.½xd4 ¼b8 34.¼b1 h635.½c3 ½g5 36.¼xb3 ¼xb337.½xb3+ ¾h7 38.½c3 ½g439.½f3 Ø.

Round 4Hebert Ú Lesiege

Spraggett 1-0 CummingsYoos Ú Charbonneau

Glinert 1-0 JiganchineReeve 1-0 GardnerHerder 1-0 NevenHladek 0-1 McLaren

Sokourinski 0-1 RossHaessel 1-0 BerryDivljan 1-0 RistovicLawson Ú Milicevic

Patterson Ú HuberZubac Ú Roussel-Rooz.

Kret 1-0 WuPoitras 1-0 Bogle

LeBlanc 0-1 StanfordSalcedo 0-1 Mayo

Yousefzadeh Ú Sladek

Jean HebertÕs ambitious center turnedout to be fully balanced by LesiegeÕssolid control of d5, and the game soonended in a draw. Kevin SpraggettÕsÔno squaresÕ strategy on board twoproduced a much more entertainingbattle for the spectators, as the GMmercilessly disposed of fellowOlympic team member IM DavidCummings in typical fashion.

Round 5Hebert 0-1 SpraggettLesiege 1-0 Herder

Charbonneau 1-0 Glinert

McLaren Ú YoosRoss Ú Reeve

Haessel 1-0 DivljanCummings 1-0 Poitras

Milicevic Ú JiganchineNeven Ú Lawson

Gardner 1-0 KretBerry 1-0 Hladek

Ristovic 1-0 PattersonRoussel-Rooz. Ú Huber

Stanford Ú SokourinskiMayo 0-1 Zubac

Wu H Ú LeBlancBogle Ú Sladek

Salcedo 0-1 Yousefzadeh

Today even the obligatory handshaketo launch the game was dismissed byGM Kevin Spraggett and IM JeanHebert on top board, in what wasobviously a grudge match for the twoplayers. JeanÕs position once againlooked promising initially, but thenKevinÕs thematic 26Öd5! revealedseveral important weaknesses in hisopponentÕs slightly overextendedposition.

On board three Pascal Charbonneautook revenge on Stephen Glinert forthe painful loss he inflicted in theirrecent Canadian Junior matchup inWinnipeg. GlinertÕs Pirc cost Stephena lot of time on the clock for the firsttwenty moves, and ultimately led to afatal weakening of his queensidepawn structure. On board two NMDavid Herder, who earned a fullydeserved FM title for his performancein Richmond, lost to GM Lesiege. JackYoos drew with Brian McLaren tomove to 3.5/5, together with JeffReeve, who drew with IM Dave Ross.

Round 6Spraggett 0-1 Lesiege

Charbonneau 0-1 HebertYoos 1-0 Haessel

Reeve Ú McLarenGlinert 1-0 CummingsHerder Ú Ross

Berry Ú GardnerLawson 1-0 RistovicZubac 1-0 Milicevic

Jiganchine Ú NevenHuber 1-0 Divljan

Sokourinski 0-1 KretPoitras Ú Stanford

Hladek 0-1 Roussel-Rooz.Mayo 0-1 Wu

Patterson Ú LeBlancBogle 0-1 Yousefzadeh

Sladek Ú Salcedo

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TodayÕs round brought the highlyanticipated matchup between the topseeds, with most observers predictinga tense fight. Alexandre counteredKevinÕs initially careful strategy withthe aggressive Najdorf Variation andthe novelty 16Öa5, but Kevin repliedconfidently with the risky maneuver19.»d5 to exchange two rooks forLesiegeÕs queen. For a while thebishop pair seemed to give Spraggettthe upper hand, but towards the endof the first control Alexandre had fullyequalized. Kevin then launched whatlooked like a dangerous attack onBlackÕs king, but two moves latersimply dropped a whole bishop tothe astonishment of the spectators.These things happen, and at thismoment the tournament seemed tobe decidedÖ

Pascal Charbonneau handled theopening ambitiously against Hebert,but found his king in hot water on thequeenside after hurriedly evacuatingthe center in the nick of time.

Notes byJean Hebert

Charbonneau, PascalHebert, Jean

Richmond CA zt (6), 2002Pirc B07

1.e4 g6

This looked like a good choice againstan aggressive and theoretically wellprepared opponent. In Modern or Pircsetups, knowledge of concrete lines ismuch less important than strategicunderstanding.

2.d4 ºg7

I have often played other secondmoves to avoid committing my darksquared bishop too early. The factthat this bishop doesnÕt always belongon the fianchetto square can beillustrated easily enough with a linelike 2Öc6 3.f4?! d5 4.e5 h5 when thebishop is far more useful on the a3-f8diagonal to support the break Öc5.

3.»c3 d6 4.ºe3

A flexible move. White can nowprepare queenside castling with ½d2followed by a kingside offensive withh4, or he can simply continue withthe development of his kingsideminor pieces if he so wishes.

4Ö»f6

Played with a specific idea in mind, asotherwise I would have played theroutine 4Öc6 followed by Öb5.

5.»f3

Here 5.f3 to rule out Ö»g4 looksmore natural.

5Ö0-0 6.½d2

White clearly aims to exchange darksquared bishops with ºh6 next, butalthough the system has been playedby no less than GM Michael Adams Ifind the idea a bit too straightforwardto cause Black real problems.

6Öa6!

Black now probably has a dozenreasonable moves, which proves oncemore how important understanding isin such positions compared toknowledge of specific variations. Themain thing is to come up with a planof development that will createsufficient counterplay. Compared tothe more common 6Öc6 the text hasseveral advantages: BlackÕs º/b7attacks ¹/e4 directly, and c6 remainsfree for the knight to pressurize theother central pawn. Note that if Whitehad played 5.f3 instead of 5.»f3 then6Öa6 would be pointless because ¹/e4 is securely defended.

7.ºd3

Pascal follows his intended setupwithout noticing the peculiarities ofthe position. He would have beenbetter off with 7.ºh6 ºg4 8.0-0-0ºxf3 9.gxf3 »bd7 10.ºxg7 ¾xg711.f4 when White appears to havegood prospects on the kingside, butBlackÕs solid game was not withoutcounterchances in AdamsÐSvidler,Groningen 1995. Black also had littleto fear after 7.a4 b6 8.ºh6 ºb7 9.ºd3»bd7 10.0-0 e6 11.ºxg7 ¾xg712.¼fe1 c5 in GallagherÐVan Wely,Krumbach 1991.

7Öºg4

The most logical reply now that ¹/e4has been secured. The idea is to spoilWhiteÕs pawn structure and putpressure on ¹/d4 with Ö»c6. Alsopossible is 7Öb5 8.a4 b4 9.»e2 a510.»g3 »g4 11.ºg5 f6 12.ºf4 e513.dxe5 dxe5 14.ºc4+ ¾h8 15.½xd8¼xd8 16.ºd2 with no apparent edgefor White in FontaineÐBeim, DE 2001.

8.ºh6?!

This typical maneuver appearsunsatisfactory here because Black isable to play Ö»c6 with strongpressure on ¹/d4. BlackÕs game also

looks quite pleasant after 8.0-0-0 e59.d5 ºxf3 10.gxf3 »h5 when thebishop pair was meek compensationfor WhiteÕs inferior pawn structure inCarlierÐGurevich, Cappelle la Grande1995. Perhaps the retreat 8.ºe2 issafest, and White retains a small spaceadvantage after 8Ö»c6 (8Öb5?! 9.a3)9.d5 ºxf3 10.ºxf3 »e5 11.ºe2.

8Ö»c6

Also possible is 8Öºxf3 9.ºxg7 ¾xg710.gxf3 »c6.

9.ºxg7 ¾xg7 10.d5?

A positionally undesirable move thatleads to a difficult game. It was stillnot too late to bail out of the worstwith 10.ºe2 even though it is quiteclear that 10Öºxf3 (or 10Öe5)11.ºxf3 e5 gives Black an easy game.

10Öºxf3! 11.dxc6 ºxg2 12.¼g1

Black had to see earlier that hisadventurous bishop does not get intotrouble after 12.cxb7 ºxh1 13.bxa8½½xa8 14.½e2 ºg2 15.f4 ºh3.

12Öºh3 13.cxb7 ¼b8 14.ºxa6

WhiteÕs extra pawn is a temporaryluxury. After it falls, White has to copewith his opponentÕs superior pawnstructure and active heavy pieces onthe queenside where WhiteÕs king islikely to seek shelter.

14Öc6 15.½e3

During the game I momentarilyfeared 15.e5 but realized quickly thatWhiteÕs problems have magnifiedafter 15Ödxe5 16.½xd8 ¼fxd8.

15Ö½a5 16.ºc4

Trying to hold on to ¹/b7 with16.½d3 ºe6 17.¼g3 »d7 does notsolve WhiteÕs problems.

Jean Hebert

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16Öºe6! 17.ºxe6 fxe6

The bishop exchange has activatedBlackÕs ¼/f8 and supplied the secondplayer with a useful pawn mass in thecenter.

18.f4

With his game already on the criticallist, Pascal goes for complications.

18Ö¼xb7 19.0-0-0 »h5?!

More precise is to force a weakeningof the pawn structure surroundingWhiteÕs king with 19Ö½b4! 20.b3 »h521.»e2 (the ending after 21.¼df1»xf4 22.¼xf4 ¼xf4 23.½xf4 ½xc324.¼f1 ½f6 is very pleasant for Black)21Ö½a3+ 22.¾d2! ½a5+ (but not22Ö½xa2? 23.½c3+ followed by24.¼a1 to trap BlackÕs queen)23.½c3+ ½xc3+ 24.¾xc3 »xf425.»xf4 ¼xf4 26.e5! d5 and despiteWhiteÕs Fritz-like ingenuity, Blackmaintains a serious advantage.

20.¼df1 ½b4 21.»d1 »f6 22.¼e1

After 22.f5 »xe4 23.fxe6 ¼bb8 Fritzclaims approximate equality, and it isonly after a further 24.¼xf8 ¼xf825.¼g4 d5 26.¼h4 h5 27.¼f4 ¼f628.¼xf6 ¾xf6 that he admits hisearlier poor positional judgment.

22Öd5

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23.f5?

Things have seemingly gone sowrong for White that Pascal is in nomood to conceive of survival bymeans of normal moves. Far moresensible than giving up a pawn is23.exd5! cxd5 (White also hascounterplay after 23Öexd5 24.f5 »e425.fxg6 hxg6 26.h4) 24.a3 ½a425.½e5 and WhiteÕs dominant queenmakes the position difficult to assess.

23Ö»xe4 24.fxg6 h6!

I am still not completely sure ifBlackÕs cautious approach in the gameis correct, but it seems that 24Öhxg625.h4 ¼f5 26.¼g4 gives Whiteadequate counterplay after 26Ö½a5

27.a3 (but not 27.¼eg1? ½xa228.¼xg6+ ¾f7 29.½a3 ½xa3 30.bxa3¼f3) 27Ö¼f3 28.¼xg6+!! ¾xg629.¼g1+ ¼g3 30.¼xg3+ »xg331.½xg3+ ¾f7 32.h5 when BlackÕsking is in danger.

25.¼ef1 ¼f6

With his king completely safe, plus animpressive central pawn mass and adominant knight in his favor, BlackÕspositional advantage is huge.

26.¼f4 ½b6

Probably a wise decision, since27.¼h4 could have been bothersome.

27.½xb6 ¼xb6 28.¼fg4 h529.¼4g2 ¼a6!

Just a little move to make sure thatWhiteÕs a/¹ does not get to a4.

30.a3 c5

Black plans to provoke his opponentinto playing c3 after Öc4 whenWhiteÕs queenside pawn structure iscompletely fixed.

31.c4 d4?

Easily BlackÕs worst move of thegame, probably provoked by the urgeto go forward in a superior position.To be honest, I did not fully realizethe consequences of this move otherthan contemplating the poor state ofWhiteÕs »/d1. Correct instead is toforce White to undouble my pawnswith 31Ö¼a4! 32.cxd5 exd5 and Blackis now blessed with two connectedpassers along with his other trumps.

32.¼e2 »d6 33.¼e5 ¼c6 34.¼gg5?

Pascal, sometimes a defensive moveis good!? Instead 34.b3! gives Whitethe advantage after 34Ö¼xg6 (34Öh435.¾c2 ¼xg6 36.¼xg6+ ¾xg637.¼xe6+ ¾f7 38.¼h6 ¼a6 39.a4)35.¼xg6+ ¾xg6 36.»f2!

34Ö»xc4 35.¼xc5 e5!

Thanks to this elegant tactical moveBlack regains his advantage.

36.¼xc6 ¼xc6 37.»f2

Worse is 37.b3 »e3+ 38.¾d2 ¼c2+39.¾d3 e4+ and Black wins.

37Ö»xa3+

Very much unclear is 37Ö»e3+38.¾b1 ¼c2 39.»d3 ¼xh2 40.»c5!

38.¾d1 »c4 39.b3 »e3+ 40.¾e2¼c2+ 41.¾f3

After reaching time control and givingthe position some thought I came tothe conclusion that Black should win if

he can maintain a healthy pair ofconnected passed pawns.

41Ö»g4!

Simplification looks like BlackÕs mostpractical approach to the position,although Fritz has a strong preferencefor 41Ö»f1 42.¼xe5 »xh2+ 43.¾g3(43.¾g2?? ¼xf2+) 43Ö»f1+ 44.¾f3»d2+ 45.¾f4 »xb3 46.¼xe7+ ¾xg6which should also win. However, tome BlackÕs disconnected pawns lookfar less imposing.

42.»xg4 hxg4+ 43.¼xg4

Naturally trading rooks with 43.¾xg4¼g2+ is immediately fatal. Here I hada rather long think, oscillatingbetween taking the h/¹ or the b/¹.

43Ö¼xh2!

I was worried that the quick advanceof WhiteÕs h/¹ with h4-h5-h6 couldbecome a source of counterplay, andquite rightly so after 43Ö¼c3+?44.¾g2! (the retreat covers the h/filein case Black wants to stop the h/¹from behind. Black does win after44.¾e4? ¼e3+ 45.¾f5 d3 46.¼g1 d247.¼d1 ¼e2 followed by Öe4-e3 andÖ¼e1) 44Ö¼xb3 45.h4 ¼b8 46.¼g5e4 47.¼e5 d3 48.¼xe7+ ¾xg649.¼xe4 and White draws.

44.b4 ¼b2 45.¼e4 ¼b3+

Chasing the king further east. A littlemore difficult for Black is 45Ö¾xg646.¼xe5 ¾f6 47.¼h5 e5 48.¾e4¼e2+ 49.¾d3 ¼e3+ 50.¾c4.

46.¾g4 ¾xg6 47.¼xe5 ¾f648.¼h5!

David Herder

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Pascal sets up a clever trap, andmomentarily makes me regret thecheck on move 45. However, wehave already seen why the immediate45Ö¾xg6 is not clearly better. Whitefails to put up resistance in the line48.¼b5 ¼b1 49.¾f3 e5 50.¾e4 ¼e1+.

48Öe5

After 48Ö¼xb4 49.¾f4 Black cannoteasily get his pawns connected andmobilized, since 49Öe5+ 50.¾e4 leadsto a theoretically drawn position.

49.¼h6+ ¾e7 50.¾f5

WhiteÕs defensive plan is to tie hisopponentÕs rook to the defense of ¹/e5, which in turn lets his b/¹ run free.

50Ö¼e3 51.b5 d3 52.b6 ¾d7!

Fortunately Black does not miss that52Öd2? 53.b7 d1½? (White still stealsa draw with 53Ö¼b3 54.¼h1! ¼xb755.¾xe5; or 53Ö¼f3+ 54.¾xe5 ¼e3+55.¾f5) 54.¼h7+ wins for White!

53.¼h7+ ¾c8 54.b7+ ¾b8 55.¼d7e4 56.¾e5 ¼e2?!

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Black has a shorter and infinitely morebeautiful win with the Zugzwangmaneuver 56Ö¼e1! 57.¾f4 ¼e2!!58.¾e5 d2.

57.¾d5! ¾a7!

WhiteÕs last move sent chills down myspine, as White now threatens toforce a perpetual check by BlackÕsrook after his king reaches c6. Asample line goes 57Öd2?? 58.¾c6d1½ 59.¼xd1 ¼c2+ with a draw.

58.¾c5 ¼b2 59.¾d4 ¼xb7 60.¼d8¼e7 61.¾e3

It seems that White has established aperfect blockade, but it is not so.WhiteÕs rook cannot stay behind thed/¹ forever, and at the right momentBlack will sacrifice ¹/e4 to ensure theother pawnÕs decisive advance.

61Ö¾b6 62.¼d5 ¾c6 63.¼a5

Black also breaks through after63.¼d8 ¼d7 64.¼c8+ ¾d5 65.¼a8

¾c4 66.¼c8+ ¾b3 67.¼b8+ ¾c268.¼c8+ ¾d1.

63Ö¼d7! 64.¼a1 ¾c5 65.¾d2 ¾d466.¼a4+ ¾e5 67.¼a1 ¼h7 Ù.

Notes byDavid Ross

Herder, DavidRoss, David

Richmond CA zt (6), 2002Modern B06

1.d4 d6 2.e4 g6 3.ºe3 ºg7 4.»c3a6 5.½d2 b5

Many players feel that 5Ö»d7 is moreaccurate, but in spite of preparing allmorning I now played this insteadÖ

6.ºd3

White can also try to take advantageof BlackÕs last with the immediatequeenside expansion 6.a4!

6Ö»d7 7.a4 b4 8.»ce2 ¼b89.a5!?» c5 10.c3 bxc3 11.bxc3cxd4 12.cxd4 »c5 13.ºc2 »b314.ºxb3 ¼xb3 15.»c3 »f6

Here Black offered a draw.

16.»ge2

Also possible is 16.f3 to first supportthe center and take away g4 fromBlackÕs pieces.

16Öºe6!?

Even better is 16Ö»g4! 17.ºf4 e518.dxe5 »xe5 19.0-0 0-0 20.¼fd1ºe6 with compensation for BlackÕspawn investment after 21.½xd6½xd6 22.¼xd6 »c4 23.¼d3 ¼c8.

17.d5

Approximately equal is 17.f3 ºc418.0-0 0-0 19.ºh6 ºxe2 20.»xe2ºxh6 21.½xh6 ½d7.

17Öºd7 18.»d4

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18Ö¼xc3!?

I just couldnÕt resistÖ

19.½xc3 »xe4 20.½c2 »c5??

The bishop pair and a pawn is usuallysufficient compensation for theexchange, but here BlackÕs hugeblunder immediately ruins his game.Instead, Black does have enoughcounterplay after 20Ö»f6!

21.0-0 ½a8 22.¼ab1!

The move I missed.

22Ö0-0 23.»c6! ºxc6 24.dxc6¼c8 25.¼b6

White should win straight away with25.ºxc5! ½xc6 26.½d3 dxc5 27.¼b6½c7 28.½xa6.

25Ö¼xc6 26.¼fb1 ¼c8 27.ºxc5dxc5 28.½c4 ºd4 29.¼b7 ºf630.g3 ¾g7 31.h4 h5

HerderÕs time trouble is the only thingthat saves BlackÕs hide.

32.¼1b6?

Instead 32.¼d7 ½c6 33.¼bb7 ¾g8may be survivable for Black.

32Ö¼d8 33.½xc5?

Similar to the game, but even betterfor White is 33.½xa6 ¼d1+ 34.¾g2½d8 35.½c4 ½d2.

33Ö¼d1+ 34.¾h2 ½d8

It may be hard to believe, but nowthat WhiteÕs pieces are all far awayfrom the kingside Black can probablyjust draw by creating threats againstthe enemy king.

35.¼b3?

White does keep an edge after35.¼xa6! ½d3 36.¼xf6 exf6 37.¼b8¾h7 38.¼f8.

35Ö½d2!

Incredibly, Black is now better.

36.½e3 ½xa5 37.¼a3 ½f5 38.½f3½c2 39.¼xa6 ¼d2 40.¼xf6

WhiteÕs draw offer at this moment isactually ridiculous, since Black has

David Ross

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some chances to win but absolutelyno chances to lose.

40Öexf6 41.¾g2 ¼d3! 42.¼c7½xc7 43.½xd3 ½e5 44.½d7 ½e4+45.¾g1 g5! 46.hxg5 fxg5 47.½d2

About twenty years ago IM TomOÕDonnell attended a lecture by IMMinev in Seattle. When I asked him ifhe had learned anything, his replywas Òyes, it is advantageous to havefewer pawns on the board in queenendings because then the strongerside has more squares to trade queensonÓ. Interestingly, the opposite is truefor rook endings. In this particularqueen ending Black probably doeshave some winning chances, but notafter Black allows his opponent toadvance the g/¹ on move 61.

47Ö½e5 48.½d8 ½e1+ 49.¾g2½e4+ 50.¾g1 ½g4 51.½e7 ½f552.½d8 h4 53.½d4+ ½f6 54.½e4hxg3 55.fxg3 ½c3 56.¾g2 ¾f657.½d5 ½c2+ 58.¾g1 ½f559.½d6+ ¾g7 60.½d4+ f6 61.g4½e6 62.¾g2 ¾f7 63.½a7+ ¾e864.½d4 ¾e7 65.¾f3 ½c6+ 66.¾f2½d6 67.½e4+ ¾f8 68.½a8+ ¾f769.½b7+ ½e7 70.½d5+ ¾g771.½f5 ½a7+ 72.¾g2 ½d4 73.½e6¾f8 74.¾f3 ½f4+ 75.¾g2 ½e576.½d7 ½e2+ 77.¾g3 ½e778.½c8+ ¾f7 79.¾f3 ½a3+80.¾g2 ½b2+ 81.¾f3 ½b3+82.¾f2 ½d5 83.½c7+ ¾e684.½c8+ ½d7 85.½c4+ ¾e786.½e4+ ½e6 87.½d4 ½a2+88.¾f3 ½b3+ 89.¾e4 ¾e690.½e5+! ¾f7 91.½c7+ ¾g692.½d7 ½c4+ 93.¾f3 ½f4+94.¾g2 ½e4+ 95.¾g3 ½e5+96.¾g2 Ú.

Elsewhere Jack Yoos climbed overDale Haessel to move to 4.5/6, whileFM Stephen Glinert also stayed incontention with a win over thestruggling David Cummings.

Notes byStephen Glinert

Glinert, StephenCummings, David

Richmond CA zt (6), 2002Sicilian: Closed B25

1.e4 c5 2.»c3 »c6 3.g3 g6 4.ºg2ºg7 5.d3 d6 6.f4 e6 7.»f3 »ge78.0-0 0-0 9.ºe3 »d4 10.e5 ºd711.»e4 »ef5 12.ºf2 »xf3+

We have been following the gameGlinertÐLesiege, Brantford CA ch

2001, where 12Öºc6? led to atheoretically winning position forWhite. David plays the main line.

13.ºxf3 ºc6 14.c3 h5 15.d4 cxd416.cxd4 ¼c8

I expected 16Öd5 with a boringposition that is probably a little betterfor White because he has long termchances on the kingside.

17.h3

A useful move to prepare an eventualg4 while forcing BlackÕs hand in thecenter without committing my majorpieces too early.

17Ödxe5?!

Turning WhiteÕs impotent º/f2 into apowerful piece.

18.dxe5 ½a5 19.½e1 ½xe1

By trading queens White tries to takeadvantage of his opponentÕs weakqueenside. During the game I thoughtthat 19Ö½a6 might be troublesome,but after 20.a4 Black has problemsdealing with the threat 21.ºe2. After20Ö½d3 (or 20Ö½c4 21.b4 withcomplications in a balanced position)White has a choice between 21.¼a3and 21.ºg2.

20.¼fxe1 ºd5?!

Now White wins a pawn. More sensemakes 20Öb6 or 20Öa6 when Whiteretains some advantage due to hisstronger bishops and potential pawnbreaks on the queenside.

21.g4 hxg4 22.hxg4 »h6 23.ºxa7¼c2 24.ºd4 ºxe4

Hasty. More accurate is 24Ö¼fc8 withthe threat of 25Ö¼8c4.

25.¼xe4 ¼d8 26.ºc3 ºf8

David isnÕt too tempted by myinvitation to sacrifice an exchangewith 26Ö¼d3 27.ºe2 ¼g3+ 28.¾h2¼xg4 29.¾h3 ¼xe2 30.¼xe2 ¼xf4since WhiteÕs queenside majoritywould quickly decide the game.

27.¼e2!

White has the bishop pair and a safeextra pawn.

27Ö¼xe2 28.ºxe2 ¾g7 29.¾g2b5?!

An attempt to stir up trouble.

30.ºxb5?

I originally wanted to play 30.g5 »f531.ºxb5 »e3+ 32.¾f3 »d5 but wasworried that Black might find a drawafter 33.ºd2 (later I realized that

33.ºa5 leaves Black with absolutelynothing) 33Ö¼b8 34.a4 »c7.

30Ö»xg4 31.¾f3 »h6 32.a4?!

Now Black gets unnecessarycounterplay. White should insteadplay for control of the d/file and keephis opponentÕs knight out of play with32.ºe2 followed by 33.¼d1.

32Ö»f5 33.a5 ºc5

David doesnÕt have time for 33Ö»d4+34.ºxd4 ¼xd4 35.a6 and the a/¹costs Black a piece.

34.ºc4

A desperate attempt to hold on to thebishop pair.

34Ö»e3 35.ºe2 »d5 36.ºe1

Black seems to be holding in theopposite colored bishop ending after36.a6 »xc3 37.bxc3 ¼d7 and soWhite decides to sacrifice the b/¹.

36Ö¼b8 37.b4!

Trading rooks. Minor pieces tend tobe terrible at defending against rookpawns.

37Ö»xb4 38.¼b1 »c6

Perhaps 38Ö¾f8 is a little better,although White should still win after39.¼c1 ºe7 40.a6.

39.¼xb8 »xb8 40.ºb5!

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BlackÕs knight is trapped, and Whitenow threatens to trade the other pairof minor pieces and queen his pawn.

40Öf6?

David eases my task considerably. IfBlack simply waits (intending tosacrifice his knight for the a/¹) hemight be able to hold despite beingdown a piece. However, White isbetter off playing ºh4-d8-c7 first totie down BlackÕs bishop on a7. Whitecan then bring in his king and wincomfortably.

41.ºc3 f5

Now the weakness of BlackÕs ¹/e6gives White another important target.

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42.a6 ¾f7 43.ºd2 »xa6 44.ºxa6ºd4

David wants to trade more pawns.

45.¾e2 g5 46.¾d3 ºb2 47.ºc3!

White uses the fact that Black cannever trade bishops to his advantage.

47Öºc1 48.fxg5 ºxg5 49.ºd2ºh4 50.ºf4

The winning plan is simple, and Blackcan only watch helplessly while hisopponent rounds up ¹/e6.

50Öºf2 51.ºc8 ºc5 52.¾c4 ºa353.¾b5 ¾e7 54.¾c6 ºb4 55.ºa6ºc3 56.ºe2 ºd4 57.ºh5 Ø.

Round 7Lesiege 1-0 YoosGlinert Ú SpraggettHebert 1-0 Reeve

McLaren 0-1 CharbonneauRoss Ú Zubac

Haessel 0-1 HerderGardner 0-1 Lawson

Cummings 1-0 HuberRoussel-Rooz. Ú Berry

Kret 0-1 NevenRistovic 1-0 JiganchineStanford 0-1 MilicevicDivljan Ú Poitras

Yousefzadeh 0-1 WuLeBlanc 0-1 SokourinskiSladek Ú Patterson

Salcedo Ú BogleHladek 1-0 Mayo

GM Lesiege could not afford to taketodayÕs challenger lightly, but JackÕsdecision to forego his usual KingÕsIndian in favor of the less familiarNimzo-Indian proved to be anawkward one. Black managed to pickup an extra pawn, but only at theexpense of allowing his opponent tolaunch a decisive attack on his king inthe center of the board.

GM Spraggett no doubt wanted to putthe previous roundÕs accident to rest,but after losing a pawn in a misplayedopening instead had to bear down fora tough defense against FM Glinert.The online commentators were criticalof WhiteÕs decision not to play on, butwith time trouble an issue and hisposition no longer so convincing afterSpraggettÕs accurate defense, Stephenwisely decided not to risk everything.

Elsewhere Hebert won a long gameagainst Jeff Reeve, and Charbonneauoutplayed Brian McLaren.

Notes byLawson&Gardner

Gardner, RobertLawson, Eric

Richmond CA zt (7), 2002Sicilian: Kalashnikov B32

RG: For me this was one of thoseÒhow could this happenÓ games, andso the following analysis was bothpainful and productive for me.

1.e4 c5 2.»f3 »c6 3.d4 cxd44.»xd4 e5

EL: I had played the Pelikan againstGregory Huber earlier in the event, sothis time the Kalashnikov seemed likea better choice to avoid RobertÕspreparation.

5.»b5 d6 6.g3

EL: The bishop fianchetto is unusual inthis position, but according to thedatabases WhiteÕs approach scoreswell in practice. Since I had neverexamined this variation before, areally aggressive approach instead ofdeveloping normally seemed fine.

6Öh5

EL: The text has actually been playedbefore, but BlackÕs three losses cannotbe attributed to the opening. Myopponent now took some time for hisresponse, which likely means that Isurprised him with my plan.

RG: I knew that Lawson plays theKalashnikov, and in my preparationsbecame intrigued by the obscure 6.g3move. However, shortly before theround I found out that Pinski andAagard consider 6Ö»f6 7.ºg2 (better7.ºg5 ) 7Öºg4 to be favorable forBlack. EricÕs reaction is considereddubious, but I cannot now recall why.

7.h3

RG: White prevents the annoying pinÖºg4 while preparing for the comingadvance Öh4.

7Öa6 8.»5c3 h4

EL: Black tries to create dark squareweaknesses in WhiteÕs camp.

9.g4 »ge7 10.ºg2 »g6 11.»d5»ce7?!

EL: Black should prefer 11Öºe7 witha slight edge to White.

12.»bc3

RG: By now I was very happy withmy control of d5.

12Öºe6?! 13.ºg5

RG: Reasoning that the reply Öf6 atsome point weakens the light squareson my opponentÕs kingside.

13Ö¼b8

EL: Black wants to dislodge WhiteÕs»/c3 with the pawn advance Öb5-b4,which also helps with BlackÕspotential weakness on b6.

14.a4

RG: Playing for control of b6 isthematic in these positions.

14Öf6

EL: This move does weaken my lightsquares, but the pin on my »/e7 wasjust too annoying.

15.ºe3 »xd5 16.exd5?!

EL: With 16.»xd5 White retains asmall advantage. After seeing the textI felt that Black is now almost equal.

RG: Perhaps I was too happy with myposition at this point and should havepreferred the much more sensible16Öºxd5 17.exd5 »f4 18.ºe4 (or18.ºxf4) with a pleasant edge toWhite. In retrospect, I failed toaccurately assess the strength ofBlackÕs counterplay after the text, andinstead found myself aimlesslysearching for an advantage in spite ofa sense that I simply wasnÕtcalculating well on this dayÖ

16Öºf7

RG: Somehow I had paid far moreattention to 16Öºd7 and only nowrealized that BlackÕs bishop does afine job protecting his kingside afterEricÕs move.

17.ºe4 »e7

EL: Black still has rather aggressiveintentions, and now plans to expandon the kingside with Ög6 and Öf5.

RG: And only here did I realize thatBlack has a plan to reorganize his

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kingside with Ög6, Öºg7 and Ö0-0followed by Öf5.

18.½f3 »g8!

EL: Necessary to protect ¹/f6.

19.a5 g6 20.ºb6 ½d7 21.»a4

EL: WhiteÕs plan looks a little slow.

RG: One serious drawback to my 16thmove is that White now has troublefinding an assignment for his »/c3.

21Öºg7 22.ºa7

RG: This attempt to harrass BlackÕspieces is risky, since the bishopeventually gets cut off from thedefense of his kingside.

22Ö¼d8 23.»b6

RG: I was by now considerablybehind Eric on the clock, and theneed to pick up the pace might havehad something to do with the errorsthat eventually ruin WhiteÕs game.

23Ö½b5

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RG: On 23Ö½c7 24.¼a3 Whiteintends 25.¼c3 next.

24.b3

EL: The only way for White to poseproblems for his opponent is 24.½a3.

RG: More sense makes 24.½a3 whenWhite threatens to pick up animportant pawn after 25.c4 ½c526.½xc5 dxc5 27.»a4. Black canmove his king to make room for hisqueen to retreat, but that does nothelp improve the coordination of hispieces.

24Ö»e7 25.¼a4

RG: Here 25.c4 can be met by25Ö½b4+ 26.¾d1 f5 when theweakness of ¹/b3 allows Black tofight for the center.

25Ö0-0

RG: Black finally coordinates hispieces on the kingside.

26.c4 ½e8 27.0-0 ¾h8

EL: We have reached a positiontypical of KingÕs Indian structures.

Black is busted on the queenside, butrelies on counterplay against WhiteÕsslightly exposed king.

28.b4

EL: (?)

RG: I had dreams of creating a passedpawn on the queenside in the distantfuture, but this plan is too slow andfor the time being actually weakensmy c/¹.

28Öf5

EL: Playing too fast, Black misses28Ö»c8 to win an exchange plus apawn. In retrospect, I was too focusedon my kingside attacking plans.

29.ºc2

RG: After 29.gxf5 gxf5 30.ºc2 ºh5Black can follow up with Öºh6 andthe occupation of the g/file. Instead, Iprefer the structure that arises afterBlack initiates the pawn exchange.

29Öºg8 30.¼a3 fxg4 31.½xg4 ¼f4

RG: A very nice outpost for BlackÕspieces.

32.½e2 »f5 33.»a4

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EL: (!) This sacrifice is logical. Blackgains access to d4 for his knight inexchange for a pawn and cuttingWhiteÕs º/a7 off from the kingside.

RG: This sacrifice surprised me,although Black now gets control of d4and my dark squared bishop is cut offfrom the rest of his army.

34.axb6 »d4 35.½d1 ½f7 36.f3

EL: WhiteÕs plan is to limit his BlackÕspressure down the f/file by bringinghis light squared bishop to e4.

RG: White is concerned with a piecelanding on f3, but now I think thatpreserving the bishop and preventingthe annoying Öe4 with 36.ºb1 is abetter approach to my problems.Black can build up with 36Ö¼f8 (theimmediate occupation of f3 can nowbe dealt with adequately after 36Ö¼f3

37.¼xf3 »xf3+ 38.¾g2 ¼f8 39.ºe4;while 36Ö»f3+ 37.¼xf3 ¼xf3 38.b7might provoke Black into taking aperpetual check with 38Ö½f4 39.¾g2¼g3+) 37.f3 »f5 (Black cannot forgetabout his opponentÕs b/¹, viz.37Ö»xf3+ 38.¼axf3 ¼xf3 39.¼xf3½xf3 40.½xf3 ¼xf3 41.b7) 38.ºe4when White still holds on.

36Ö»xc2 37.½xc2 e4 38.½e2

RG: White has two better tries: here38.½d1 prevents Öºd4+ and leads toa very unclear position with mutualpromotion threats after 38Ö¼f839.¼e3 ½d7 40.¼xe4 ¼xe4 41.fxe4¼xf1+ 42.¾xf1 ½xh3+. And Whitecan also return material with 38.b7½xb7 39.ºe3 ¼xf3 40.¼xf3 exf341.»b6 when there is no guaranteethat Black will keep his extra pawn.

38Ö¼f8 39.¾g2 ½f6! 40.b7

RG: In time trouble I just didnÕt seeEricÕs response, but there really wasnÕtanything better available for Whiteanyway. After 40.¼e3 ½g5+ 41.¾h1½f5 42.½h2 (Black also wins after42.¾g2 ºd4 43.¼xe4 ½g5+ 44.¾h1¼xf3) 42Öexf3 43.b7 ¼xc4 44.b8½¼xb8 45.ºxb8 ¼c2 White is helplessin spite of his extra rook.

40Ö½e7! 41.b8Q

EL: In time pressure White misses41.¼e3 with a tougher defense.

RG: (?) White inexplicably took 35 ofhis remaining 51 minutes on the clockfor this blooper, when instead 41.¼e3exf3+ 42.¼fxf3 ½xb7 43.ºb6 (on43.¼xf4 ¼xf4 Black has the additionalthreat 44Ö¼xc4) 43Öºxd5 44.cxd5½xd5 gives a position where Blackcan easily regain his piece, but somepractical problems remain before hecan convert his advantage. GMAlexey Shirov once said that it isimportant psychologically to forgetabout what happened before the timecontrol, and focus on the position athand. Here I clearly failed to do so,still angry at myself for blowing such agood position and landing in one thatI should now be happy to survive.

41Öexf3+ 42.½xf3 ¼xf3 43.¼fxf3

EL: A little better is 43.¼axf3 althoughWhite is still completely lost.

43Ö¼xb8 44.ºxb8 ½e2+!

RG: During my long think over the41st move I had concentrated onfinding ways that Black might use hisqueen to trap my º/b8. I saw that44Ö½b7 45.ºxd6 is fine, but that

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alone didnÕt convince me that thebishop is safe. Had I found a linewhere the bishop dies I would havegiven up on 41.b8½ in favor of aplayable alternative, and a convincingline that shows it was safe would havemade me look for alternatives andprobably led to the discovery of theobvious check that Eric played in thegame?! The lesson to remember isthat a more methodical approach tomy analysis during the game mighthave prevented wasting half an houron the clock on an irrelevant sideline!

45.¼f2 ½xc4

EL: WhiteÕs poorly coordinated pieceshave no way of coping with BlackÕsinvading queen and bishop pair.

RG: The remainder is a slaughter, andWhite lets his clock run down whileEric weaves a mating net with hisbishops.

46.»b6 ½xb4 47.¼xa6 ½e4+48.¾g1

EL: Equally hopeless is 48.¾f1 ½d3+as well as 48.¾h2 ºe5+.

48Öºd4 49.¼aa2 ºxb6 50.ºxd6½e1+ 51.¾g2 ºxd5+ 52.¼f3½g1# Ù.

Notes byKnut Neven

Kret, TedNeven, Knut

Richmond CA zt (7), 2002Grünfeld: Exchange D85

1.d4 »f6 2.c4 g6 3.»c3 d5 4.cxd5»xd5 5.e4 »xc3 6.bxc3 ºg77.»f3 c5 8.¼b1 0-0 9.ºe2 »c6

While many GrŸnfeld playersinevitably choose 9Öcxd4 10.cxd4½a5+ 11.ºd2 ½xa2 in this position, Ihave never trusted BlackÕs positionafter 12.0-0. GM Khalifman, forexample, not too long ago publisheda lengthy article in New In Chess thatvirtually refutes the 12Öºg4 mainline. Buyer beware!

10.d5 »e5 11.»xe5 ºxe5 12.½d2e6 13.f4 ºc7

This retreat is a lot more reliable thanBlackÕs other options. While FtacnikÕs13Öºg7 is the main line, I have neverliked defending against WhiteÕs pawnroller in the resulting positions.

14.0-0

GM Smirin tried 14.ºc4 against me inSmirinÐNeven, Calgary CA op (3)

1996, but got nothing after 14Öa615.a4 b5. Ted plays the main line.

14Öexd5 15.exd5 ºa5 16.f5

White has several important options,but this is one of his most aggressive.Ted was prepared!

16Öºxf5 17.¼xb7 ½f6 18.ºb2½e5

Fritz also likes 18Ö¼fb8 with anevaluation that is probably bestdescribed as unclear. During the gameI couldnÕt recall if the queen shouldnow go to d6 or e5. There is animportant tactic somewhere in arelated line where Ö½e5 must beinserted en route to d6, but the detailshad long since been forgotten.

19.ºf3?

In the post mortem Ted and I lookedmostly at the push 19.d6 which is themost critical test of BlackÕs setup andleads to interesting if totally unclearcomplications after 19Ö¼ab8. WhiteÕs¹/d6 looks intimidating on first sight,but in many lines turns out to be aliability for WhiteÕs poorly coordinatedpieces.

19Öc4!

Totally thematic. Black buries hisopponentÕs dark squared bishop, andthe opening of the a7-g1 diagonalsuddenly creates a number of seriousthreats against WhiteÕs king.Moreover, ¹/d5 is now permanentlycut off from his neighbor on the c/file,and Black gets to use d3 as apotential outpost for his bishop.

20.¼e1 ½d6 21.¾h1 ¼fe8!?22.¼b5?

White hasnÕt seen the danger yet, butBlack is much more comfortable evenafter 22.g3 or 22.ºc1.

22Öºb6?!

What a shame. Black can wrap thingsup neatly with 22Ö½f4! 23.½f2 ºb6.

23.¼b4?

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Again 23.ºc1 ºd3 and 23.g3 ½d7 arebetter defensive tries, but White islost positionally in any case.

23Ö½f4!

Nice. White cannot defend againstmate on the back rank and the b8-h2diagonal at the same time.

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Round 8Charbonneau 1-0 Lesiege

Yoos Ú HebertSpraggett 1-0 Herder

Lawson Ú GlinertNeven Ú Cummings

McLaren Ú RossReeve 1-0 Zubac

Wu Ú BerryGardner 1-0 RistovicMilicevic 0-1 Roussel-Rooz.

Huber 1-0 HaesselJiganchine 1-0 Sokourinski

Kret 0-1 DivljanPoitras 1-0 Hladek

Patterson 1-0 YousefzadehBogle 1-0 StanfordMayo 0-1 Sladek

LeBlanc 1-0 Salcedo

A tournament that seemed well on itsway to an early decision was thrownwide open again when IM PascalCharbonneau overcame AlexandreLesiegeÕs normally rock solid defenseto administer a harsh defeat and pullthe Grandmaster back into the pack!

Knut Neven

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Notes byPascalCharbonneau

Charbonneau, PascalLesiege, Alexandre

Richmond CA zt (8), 2002Caro-Kann: Advance B12

This game proved to be the turningpoint of the tournament. Lesiege wasa full point ahead, and only a winwould keep me in the race.

1.e4 c6

Somewhat of a surprise: Alexandrehas mostly preferred the Najdorfrecently, but the Caro-Kann hasalways been a solid backup in hisrepertoire.

2.d4 d5 3.e5

Alexandre was certainly well preparedfor my usual Panov-Botvinnik Attack,and so on this occasion the AdvanceVariation gets its first outing everÖ

3Öºf5 4.»f3 e6 5.a3

This sutble move is quite popular atGM level. The idea is to prepare thepawn advance c4 to cramp Blackwhile avoiding the check Öºb4+.

5Öh6?!

Black avoids 5Ö»e7 6.»h4 when hisbishop is traded off against the knight,but the text is too passive andweakens BlackÕs kingside structure.

6.ºe2 »e7 7.0-0 »d7 8.»bd2ºh7 9.b3 c5?!

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This move allows White to open theposition with a big development lead.

10.dxc5! »xc5 11.b4 »d7

Objectively 11Ö»e4 may be best,although White has a very scaryinitiative after 12.»xe4 ºxe413.ºb5+ »c6 14.»d4 ½c7 15.f3 ºg616.c4 with ideas of ½a4 and cxd5.

12.c4 dxc4 13.»xc4 »d5 14.ºb2ºe7 15.»a5!

A strong move that cramps BlackÕsposition for the rest of the game.

15Ö½b8 16.ºc4 »5b6 17.ºb3 0-018.½e2 ¼d8 19.¼ad1 ¾h8?!

Black plays a strange waiting move toforce his opponent to commit himself.The problem is that after 19Ö»f820.»d4 »g6 21.f4 the threat 22.f5 iscrushing.

20.¼fe1!?

Once again Alexandre is forced intothe defensive maneuver Ö»f8-g6because otherwise »d4 followed byf4-f5 runs over his position on thekingside.

20Ö»f8 21.»d4 »d5 22.f4?!

Pure craziness! White has a simplewin at his disposal with 22.½f3 ¾g823.»b5 when BlackÕs »/d5 cannotmove because ¹/b7 hangs, forcinginstead 23Öa6 24.»d6 ºxd6 25.exd6and now both captures on d6 lose anexchange. Also simple and strong is22.g3 followed by f4.

22Ö»xf4

I had dismissed this capture far tooquickly, and now realized that Blackhas a new lease on life.

23.½f3 »8g6

White is much better after 23Ö»d524.½xf7 ºg8 25.½f3.

24.g3?!

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White is only slightly better after24.»xb7 »h4 25.½xf4 ½xb7 26.½g4.

24Ö»h3+?

In the post mortem Alexandre and Idiscovered that after 24Ö»d5!25.½xf7 »xe5 26.½xe6 ºf6 Whitehas a very hard time proving anyadvantage. Even Fritz did not offerany helpful suggestions!

25.¾g2 »xe5

After 25Ö»g5 26.½xb7 ½xb7+27.»xb7 ¼d7 28.»a5 Black literallyhas a knightmare on his hands withhis »/g5.

26.½xb7

Now Black magically loses material.

26Öºf6 27.½xb8 ¼axb8 28.¾xh3»d3 29.¼xd3!

White keeps a winning advantagebecause of the fork on c6.

29Öºxd3 30.»ac6 ¼bc8 31.»xd8¼xd8 32.¼d1

The only move, but White keeps hisadvantage.

32Öºe4 33.ºc3 ¼c8 34.ºe1 ¼d835.ºf2 ºd5 36.ºxd5 ¼xd537.¼d2 ºg5 38.¼c2 a6 39.¼c5¼d8 40.¼a5 ¼d6 41.¾g2 ¾h742.¼c5 ºf6 43.¼c6 ¼d8 44.»c2¼d2 45.a4 e5 46.a5 e4 47.¾f1 ºe748.b5 axb5 49.a6

This game is my first win ever againsta Canadian Grandmaster at regulartime controls. The timing couldnÕthave been better, and I now feltconfident about my chances since Ihad already faced most of the othertop players in the field.

Ø.

On board two IM Jean HebertÕsattempt to take over sole possessionof first place fell short against JackYoos, whose reputation for a killeropening repertoire with the Whitepieces is fully deserved. The openingbattle ultimately led to a maneuveringmiddlegame and a Black draw offerby move 40 which was declined.Hebert subsequently managed to holdthe balance, but then 60Ö¾a7? cost apawn and unleashed a vicious attackon his king. Most online observersnow considered BlackÕs positionresignable, but not so in the playing

Alexandre Lesiege

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hall where Jack was visibly nervous inthe face of some pressure on theclock and what seemed to be toomany winning alternatives. At themoment Jack played the unbelievable74.¾h2? Jean shot up a disbelievingglance at his opponent for this gift ofa draw by perpetual check. Yoos, tohis huge credit, took it all in strideafter the game, commenting only thatit had been fun putting the screws tohis opponent for such a long time inthe game. Hebert, apparently, hasvery little respect for JackÕs abilitiesÖ

Notes byRomanJiganchine

Jiganchine, RomanSokourinski, Sergei

Richmond CA zt (8), 2002Caro-Kann: Panov B13

Preparation for a game is a trickything: often we get a chance to lookvery deeply into a certain variation,but without any guarantee that thesame position will appear on theboard in your next game. Knowingjust how much time and effort toexpend on such specific preparationis a skill that depends as much onluck as it does on an accurateassessment of your opponent and hispreferences.

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 cxd5 4.c4»f6 5.»c3 »c6 6.»f3 ºg4 7.cxd5»xd5 8.½b3 ºxf3 9.gxf3 e610.½xb7 »xd4 11.ºb5+ »xb512.½c6+ ¾e7 13.½xb5 ½d714.»xd5+ ½xd5 15.ºg5+ f616.½xd5 exd5 17.ºe3 ¾e6 18.0-0-0 ºb4 19.a3 ¼hc8+ 20.¾b1 ºc521.¼he1 ºxe3 22.¼xe3+ ¾d623.¼de1 ¼c4

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Although this is a theoretical positionthat promises Black sufficientcounterplay based on hitting WhiteÕsweakened kingside structure with

moves like Ö¼f4 and Ö¼h4, my ownexperience from the other side of theboard has made it clear that far moreprecision is required from Black, whileWhite rarely risks losing.

24.¼e7

During my home preparation my aimwas to concentrate on the destructionof BlackÕs kingside pawns, whichinvolves far less risk for White thanthe alternative approach 24.¼e6+¾c5 25.¼a6.

24Ö¼h4

After 24Ö¼f4 25.¼1e6+ ¾c5 26.¼xg7¼xf3 27.¼xh7 ¼xf2 28.¼f7 ¼g829.¼exf6 ¼g1+ 30.¾a2 ¼e2 31.¼f2¼g2 32.¼xe2 ¼xe2 White is also up apawn, but it is unclear if he can win.

25.¼1e6+ ¾c5 26.¼xg7 ¼xh227.¼xf6 ¼xf2 28.¼xh7 ¼b829.¼c7+ ¾d4 30.¼c2 ¼xc231.¾xc2

I actually had this very position on mycomputer the morning before thegame! BlackÕs response looks verynatural because 31Ö¾e3 supports theadvance of BlackÕs d/¹ and attacksthe opponentÕs ¹/f3. Therefore Ichecked the move with Chess Tigeron my computer, and the machineÕsresponse seemed rather convincing.

31Ö¾e3?!

During the game I worried about31Ö¼h8 although 32.b4 probablygives White better prospects after32Ö¼h2+ 33.¾b3. For the moststringent theoretical test of thevariation one must look deeply into31Öa5!? 32.¼a6 ¼c8+ 33.¾b3 (a gamebetween Belikov and Dreev ended ina draw after 33.¾d2 ¼b8 34.¾c2¼c8+ 35.¾d2) 33Ö¼b8+ 34.¾a2 ¼b5.

32.¼e6+ ¾xf3?

Better practical chances for survivalare offered by 32Ö¾d4 33.f4 ¼h8.

33.b4!

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Although Black has recovered hispawn, the price he pays is too high.White threatens to transfer his king tod4, while BlackÕs monarch is cut offon the kingside. This is, in fact, themost pleasant position for White that Iexamined in my preparation.

33Ö¾f4

The alternative 33Öa5 also leads totrouble for Black after 34.bxa5 ¼b535.a6 ¼a5 36.¾b3 d4 37.¾b4 ¼d538.a7 ¼d8 39.¾b5 d3 when 40.¼d6!?leads to a won queen vs rook endingafter, for example 40Ö¼xd6 41.a8½+¾e3 42.½e8+ ¾d4 43.½h8+ ¾e444.¾c5 ¼d5+ 45.¾c4 ¼d6 46.½h7+¾e5 47.½e7+ ¼e6 48.½g5+ ¾d6 (or48Ö¾e4 49.½d5+) 49.¾xd3.

34.¾c3!

Much better than 34.¾d3? when Blacktakes advantage of his access to b3with 34Öa5! 35.bxa5 ¼b3+ 36.¾d4¼xa3 37.a6 ¼a5 and a sure draw.

34Ö¾f5 35.¼a6 ¾e4

Far too passive is 35Ö¼b7 36.¾d4¼d7 when BlackÕs king remainsisolated on the kingside.

36.¼xa7

The stronger side normally winspositions with two pawns versus onewhen the defending king supports hisown passed pawn as he does here.Eventually White sacrifices his rookfor the d/¹, leaving BlackÕs rookdefenseless against the far advancedand connected passed pawns on thequeenside. Here, however, a degreeof accuracy is still required sinceBlackÕs pawn is already far advancedwhile my own passers have barelystarted on their journeyÖ

36Ö¼e8

Tempting, but in fact less resilient is36Öd4+ 37.¾b3 d3 38.¼e7+ ¾d439.a4 d2 40.¼d7+ ¾e3 41.b5 ¾e242.¾b4 d1½ 43.¼xd1 ¾xd1 44.a5when the position of BlackÕs rook infront of his opponentÕs pawns ratherthan behind them makes his defensea hopeless one after 44Ö¾c2 45.a6¼a8 46.¾a5 ¼h8 47.a7 ¾c3 48.b6¾c4 49.b7.

37.¾b3 ¼d8!?

This is BlackÕs best try. Objectively37Öd4 38.¼d7 is lost too, but the postmortem revealed that matters are farfrom trivial. Black is just a singletempo short in the line 38Öd3(38Ö¼e5 39.¾c4) 39.b5 ¼b8 40.a4¾e3 41.¾c4 d2 42.¾c5 ¼c8+ 43.¾b6

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¼c1 44.a5 d1½ 45.¼xd1 ¼xd1 46.a6¼a1 47.¾a7 ¾d4 48.b6 since a ¾/c5would now secure the draw for Black.

38.¼e7+ ¾d3 39.b5 d4 40.a4 ¾d241.b6 d3 42.¼h7?

The purpose of 38.¼e7+ was to trapBlackÕs king in front of his own pawn.The text lifts this restriction, givingBlack some hope of scrambling to adraw after all. Instead, WhiteÕs easiestroute to victory is 42.b7! ¾d1 (or42Ö¼b8 43.a5 ¾c1 44.a6 d2 45.¼c7+¾b1 46.¼d7; or 42Ö¾c1 43.¼c7+¾b1 44.¼c8) 43.a5 d2 and now thesimple 44.¼h7 ¾e2 45.¼h2+ ¾e346.¼xd2 ¾xd2 47.a6 ¼b8 48.¾c4.

42Ö¾e3 43.¼h1?!

White should in fact question BlackÕsking as to his intentions with theintermediate check 43.¼h3+! since on43Ö¾e2 (the retreat 43Ö¾d4 44.¾b4d2 45.¼h1 is completely hopeless,since the d/¹ is blocked with ¼d1)BlackÕs king has taken anotherimportant step away from WhiteÕsadvancing queenside pawns andWhite gains a critical tempo in theline 44.¼h2+! (but not 44.¾b4? with adraw after 44Öd2 45.¼h1 ¼f8! 46.a5¼f1 47.¼h2+ ¼f2 48.¼h1 ¼f1)44Ö¾e3 45.a5! d2 46.¼xd2 ¼xd247.b7 ¼d1 48.¾c2 ¼d2+ 49.¾c1 ¼d850.a6 ¼b8 51.a7.

43Öd2 44.¾b4?

Only at home after the game did alook at this position with an endgametablebase reveal that a study-like winis possible with the very precisemove order 44.a5 d1½+ 45.¼xd1¼xd1 46.¾c4! ¾e4 47.a6! ¼c1+48.¾b4!! (here 48.¾b5 ¾d5 49.a7¼b1+ 50.¾a4 ¼a1+ is only a draw,and White even has to avoid losingwith 51.¾b3? ¾c6) 48Ö¾d4 (alsoinsufficient is 48Ö¾d5 49.a7 ¼b1+50.¾c3) 49.a7 ¼b1+ 50.¾a3 ¾c351.¾a2 ¼b2+ 52.¾a1.

44Öd1½

During the game I was concernedabout 44Ö¼c8 when the threat45Ö¼c1 forces the response 45.¼d1(a silly oversight is 45.b7? ¼b8!46.¾c3 with a draw). Practicallyspeaking this is no longer important,however, since we can demonstrate adraw for Black after the text.

45.¼xd1 ¼xd1

Endgame theory constantly preachesthat rooks belong behind passedpawns, and here, too, BlackÕs activerook should secure the drawÖ

46.¾c5 ¼c1+

Black can already force a draw bystalemate with 46Ö¾e4! 47.b7 ¼b148.¾c6 ¼c1+ 49.¾b6 ¾d5 50.a5¼b1+ 51.¾c7 ¼c1+ 52.¾b8 ¾c653.a6 ¼b1! 54.¾a8 ¾c7 55.a7 ¼xb7.

47.¾d5 ¼b1 48.a5

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48Ö¼b5+??

The critical error. During the gameboth players missed that 48Ö¾d3!holds the position for Black on thestrength of his ideally placed rook.After 49.¾c6 (on 49.¾c5 ¼a1 50.a6the typical check 50Ö¼a5+! securesthe draw) 49Ö¼c1+! 50.¾b7 (blockingone of his pawns with the king afterthe text is WhiteÕs only try, since50.¾d7 ¼b1 just repeats the position)50Ö¾c4 51.a6 ¾b5 52.a7 ¼a1! Blackis just in time to pick up ¹/b6 withthe king after he sacrifices his rook forWhiteÕs a/¹.

49.¾c6 ¼xa5 50.b7 ¼a6+ 51.¾c5¼a5+ 52.¾c4 ¼a4+ 53.¾c3 ¼a3+54.¾b2 ¼d3 55.b8½

Even Svidler failed to win this endingagainst fellow GM Gelfand at therecent FIDE KO event in Moscow, but

this curiosity is due almost entirely tothe new FIDE time controls.

55Ö¼d2+ 56.¾c3 ¼d3+ 57.¾c4¼d4+ 58.¾c5 ¼d3 59.½e5+ ¾d260.¾c4 ¼f3 61.½g5+ ¾e2 62.¾d4¾f2 63.¾e4 ¼g3 64.½d2+ ¾f165.¾f4 ¼g2 66.½c1+ ¾e267.½c2+ ¾f1 68.½c1+ ¾f269.½d1 ¼h2 70.½d2+ ¾g171.½e1+ ¾g2 72.¾g4 ¼h173.½e2+ ¾g1 74.¾g3 Ø.

Notes byEric Lawson

Lawson, EricGlinert, Stephen

Richmond CA zt (8), 2002Trompowsky A45

After consecutive wins in rounds sixand seven I still had a chance for theIM title Ð as, of course, did myopponent!

1.d4 »f6

After the game Stephen indicated thathe considered avoiding my usualTrompowsky with 1Öb6.

2.ºg5 e6 3.e4 h6 4.ºxf6 ½xf65.»c3

This particular line gives White a bigdevelopment lead in exchange forBlackÕs bishop pair and solid position.

5Öºb4 6.½d2

White plans the pawn advance f4next, and Black reacts by breaking inthe center immediately.

6Öc5 7.a3 ºxc3

This exchange is probably BlackÕssafest response. Also played is theretreat 7Öºa5 or the capture 7Öcxd4.

8.bxc3 d6 9.f4 0-0

The immediate central counter 9Öe5is considered better by theory.

10.»f3 b6

Stephen readies for his queensidedevelopment.

11.ºd3 ºb7 12.e5

BlackÕs threat was 12Öc4!?

12Ö½e7 13.0-0 dxe5 14.fxe5

The pawn exchange on e5 hascreated chances for White on the halfopen f/file.

14Ö¼d8 15.½f4

The queen is much more activelyplaced here, and it makes sense to

Eric Lawson

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get off the d/file in case Black finds away to create problems there.

15Öºa6 16.c4

White declines his opponentÕs offer totrade off one of his main attackingpieces, and now threatens with thedeadly 17.½e4.

16Öºb7

BlackÕs bishop retreats to prevent thethreat 17.½e4 and gives Whiteenough time to consolidate his center.

17.c3 »a6

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18.d5!?

Instead of the normal attacking planwith 18.¼f2 White goes for acontinuation that either forces Blackto give an exchange, or leads to avery cramped and defensive positionafter White gets in 19.d6.

18Öexd5 19.cxd5 ¼xd5

Black has to take the pawn beforeWhite plays c4, but cannot do so withthe bishop since his »/a6 requiresprotection.

20.½e4

Forcing BlackÕs response, since21.½h7+ as well as 21.ºxa6 arethreatened.

20Ö¼xd3 21.½xd3 ¼d8 22.½e2

BlackÕs solid position and extra pawnprovide some compensation for thelost exchange.

22Ö»c7 23.¼ad1 »d5

White can meet 23Öºa6 with theexchange 24.¼xd8+ ½xd8 25.¼d1and control of the d/file.

24.½d3? c4!

Nicely played by Stephen, who willpick up my ¹/a3 no matter where myqueen goes now. The structuralchange is in his favor, since it createsa passed a/¹ for Black and a weak c/¹ for White. Therefore Whiteliquidates into a drawn endgame.

25.½xc4 »e3 26.¼xd8+

Unfortunately now 26.½b4 ¼xd1plays into BlackÕs hands, since27.½xe7 (27.¼xd1 ½xb4 28.¼d8+fails to 28Ö½f8) 27Ö¼xf1# is mate.

26Ö½xd8 27.½d4 ½xd4 28.»xd4»xf1 29.¾xf1 ¾f8 30.¾f2 ¾e731.g3 f6 32.exf6+ ¾xf6 33.»b5

WhiteÕs knight maneuver completelylevels the position.

33Öa6 34.»d6 ºc6 35.¾e3 ¾e6

Obviously bad is 35Ö¾e5 36.»c4+followed by 37Ö»xb6.

36.»c4 b5 37.»a5 ºd5

WhiteÕs king reaches d4, followed ifnecessary by c4 to exchange morepawns.

Ú.

Round 9Lesiege Ú Lawson

Yoos Ú SpraggettHebert 0-1 GlinertReeve Ú Charbonneau

Cummings 1-0 McLarenRoss 1-0 Gardner

Roussel-Rooz. Ú NevenHerder Ú Huber

Berry 1-0 PoitrasDivljan 0-1 WuZubac 1-0 Jiganchine

Ristovic Ú HaesselPatterson 1-0 Milicevic

Sokourinski 1-0 SladekLeBlanc 0-1 KretHladek 0-1 Bogle

Yousefzadeh 1-0 MayoStanford 1-0 Salcedo

Towards the end of a tournamentwhere the number of rounds farexceeds the number required todetermine a clear winner, strangethings start to happen with thepairings. For the most part, the topseeds have all played each other, andthe tournament directors must nowdig a little deeper into the pool ofplayers to find legal pairings. For thecontenders this meant facing anenergetic underdog every day for theremainder of the way, and the trickytask of deciding when it might bemore prudent to surrender animportant half point instead of riskinga loss in an unjustified attempt tomake something out of nothing...

Today GM Lesiege faces MontrealÕsyoung Eric Lawson, who had playedhimself into impressive form in thefirst half of the tournament, and nowposed a formidable challenge even

for the top seeds in the event. EricÕsslightly offbeat treatment of a Nimzo-Indian Defense with an early Ö»d6allowed Alexandre to firmly take theinitiative based on his bishop pair, butthe game would ultimately find itsway into a complicated endgame.While the online pundits were stillpredicting an easy win for Alexandrewith the simple 36.»b5! the GMinstead sent his king on an awkwardjourney to the queenside, whichallowed Eric to secure a draw bymunching on his opponentÕs nowunprotected kingside pawns.

Notes byEric Lawson

Lesiege, AlexandreLawson, Eric

Richmond CA zt (9), 2002Nimzo-Indian: Rubinstein E43

Considering that this was my first evergame against a Grandmaster, and thefact that the game would be broadcastlive on the internet, my only hopewas to play well.

1.d4 »f6 2.c4 e6 3.»c3 ºb4 4.e3

Alexandre often plays the RubinsteinSystem against the Nimzo-Indian, andhas an impressive score with it.

4Öb6 5.ºd3

The first surprise already, asAlexandre usually plays 5.»ge2.

5Öºb7 6.»f3 »e4 7.½c2?!

Alexandre and I, purely by chance,wound up sitting next to each otheron the plane back to Montreal, and hesuggested that 7.0-0 at this moment isin fact better than the text. Later athome my database confirmed this.

7Öf5 8.0-0 ºxc3 9.bxc3 0-010.»e1

WhiteÕs usual alternative is 10.»d2.

10Ö»d6

Black immediately launches an attackon the opponentÕs ¹/c4. My databaedoesnÕt turn up any examples of thetext, and we eventually transpose toother lines in any case.

11.f3 »c6 12.ºa3 »a5!?N

Several Grandmaster games continue12Ö¼f6 with satisfactory results, butmy move also looks logical.

13.ºb4

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Aside from the text, White can alsotry 13.c5?! »dc4; or 13.½e2!? ºa6!14.c5 ºxd3 15.»xd3 »dc4 16.ºb4;and even 13.½a4 ºc6 14.½b4 »ab7!which looks unclear.

13Öc5!?

Black wants counterplay against ¹/c4,even at the cost of a temporary pawnsacrifice.

14.dxc5

Understandably White keeps his darksquared bishop, since 14.ºxa5 bxa515.dxc5 »f7 16.e4 »e5 17.exf5 »xd318.½xd3 ¼xf5 19.½d6 ºc6 looksquite unclear.

14Öbxc5 15.ºxc5 ½c7 16.ºb4!

Here 16.ºxd6? ½xd6 is only equal.

16Ö»axc4?

Wrong. Instead 16Ö¼fc8!? 17.c5 »dc418.½e2 »e5 gives Black reasonablecompensation for the pawn in view ofhis active pieces and the poorlycoordinated White pieces.

17.ºxc4 »xc4 18.ºxf8 »xe319.½d3 »xf1 20.ºd6 ½c6 21.»c2½b6+?!

Although 21Öºa6! followed bysomething like 22.½d4 ½c4 23.»b4½e2 24.½f2 ½xf2+ 25.¾xf2 ºc426.¼d1 a5 27.»d3 »xh2 28.ºxh2ºxa2 is objectively BlackÕs best try, Ifelt that the check offered betterpractical chances.

22.¾xf1 ºa6 23.c4 ºxc4 24.½xc4½xd6 25.h3?

White, amazingly, is going to regretthis choice, and he should preferinstead 25.½d4!

25Ö¼b8 26.½d4 ½xd4 27.»xd4¼b2

White is certainly winning here, butmatters arenÕt as trivial as they lookÖ

28.»b3 ¾f7 29.¼d1 ¼xa230.¼xd7+ ¾f6 31.»c5 ¼c2?

Black gives a second pawn, butreaches an ending that isnÕt easy to

convert for his opponent. Alexandrewas getting short of time by, and thatdoesnÕt make his task any easier.

32.¼c7 ¾g6 33.»xe6 ¼xc734.»xc7 a5 35.¾e2 a4

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36.¾d3??

On the plane we analyzed 36.»b5!for hours, and finally came up with36Öf4 37.¾d3 ¾h5 38.»c3! (38.¾e4?g5 39.¾f5 h6 40.¾f6 ¾h4 41.¾g6¾g3 42.¾xh6 ¾xg2 43.¾xg5 ¾xf344.h4 ¾g3 only draws) 38Öa3 39.¾c2and White wins because his knightprevents an invasion by BlackÕs kingjust in time after 39Ö¾h4 40.»e2.

36Öa3 37.¾c2 ¾h5 38.»e6 ¾h439.»xg7 ¾g3 40.»xf5+ ¾xg241.¾b3 Ú.

GM Kevin Spraggett, meanwhile, hadto contend with Jack Yoos in an OpenSicilian. The resulting battle involvedmutual attacks on opposing wings,but a peaceful handshake concludedthe affair before the full story couldunfold. Elsewhere IM Charbonneaudrew with Jeff Reeve, while FMStephen Glinert closed the gapbetween himself and the leaders witha tight endgame win over IM Hebert.

Notes byGlinert & Hebert

Hebert, JeanGlinert, Stephen

Richmond CA zt (9), 2002Irregular B00

SG: With three rounds to go I nowneeded 2.5/3 for the IM title. Afterbarely scraping a draw against Lawsonin the previous round, todayÕs pairingwith Black against Hebert certainlywasnÕt an easy one, and made evenmore difficult by the fact Jean alsoneeded a win to stay in contentionwith Charbonneau, Spraggett andLesiege at the top of the leaderboard.

1.e4 b6 2.d3

SG: (!?) Jean mentioned after thegame that he expected 1Öb6 but atthe last moment decided that hewanted a non-theoretical battle.

2Öºb7 3.f4 e6 4.»f3 d5 5.e5 c56.c3 d4

SG: (!?) Black doesnÕt want to play aFrench structure. Instead, this advanceweakens e4, but in exchange gainscontrol of f5 for Black together withprospects of coming into e3 later.

7.»bd2 »e7 8.»e4 »f5 9.ºe2ºe7 10.0-0

SG: During the game the line 10.g4»h4 11.0-0 »xf3+ 12.ºxf3 »c6seemed possible, although Blacklooks perfectly fine with ideas likeÖdxc3 Ö½d7 and Ö0-0-0.

10Öh5 11.»fg5 g6 12.ºf3 »c613.¼b1

SG: White should probably block thecenter with the pawn advance c4followed by a kingside attack. BlackÕscounterplay comes from opening fileson the queenside. If White waits toolong, then Black again gets to playÖdxc3 followed by Ö½d7 and Ö0-0-0with pressure on the d/file.

13Ö½d7 14.b4

SG: (?) Jean wants to open theposition, but here it is BlackÕs piecesthat spring to life.

14Ödxc3 15.bxc5

SG: But not »xc3? ½d4+.

15Ö»cd4

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SG: The weakness of d4 causes Whitea multitude of problems. Not only doI get rid of his powerful º/f3, butBlack also threatens to play 16Öc2 aswell as reducing WhiteÕs mobility byblockading ¹/d3.

16.¼b4 c2 17.½e1 »xf3+ 18.¼xf3bxc5 19.¼c4 ºd5 20.¼xc2

SG: This exchange sacrifice doesnÕtreally help White. Better is 20.¼c3followed by 21.ºa3 with pressure on

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¹/c5. Although Black is a pawn ahead,the position remains complicated.

20Ö»d4 21.¼ff2 »xc2 22.¼xc2ºxe4

SG: Else White has 23.¼xc5.

23.»xe4 ½xd3

SG: (!?) A slightly risky capture. Blackthinks he can defend against WhiteÕsattack and, if necessary, return theexchange to reach an endgame withan extra pawn or two.

24.¼d2 ½c4 25.»d6+ ºxd626.exd6 0-0

SG: I considered 26Ö0-0-0 but after27.ºa3 Black already has troubledefending his ¹/c5 against 28.½e3 or28.½d1 while also worrying about thecounterplay White obtains if he canget his queen to the a8-h1 diagonal.After the text, Black can always playÖf6 to defend on the kingside.

27.ºb2 ½xf4

SG: Insurance?!

28.ºe5 ½c4

SG: (?!) Much stronger is 28Ö½b4when Black has threats of his own.White cannot, for example, play29.½f2 (against 29.½e3 Black has29Ö½b1+ 30.¾f2 ½f5+ followed byÖf6 and either Ö¼d8 or Ö¼b8 with arock solid defense) 29Ö½b1+ with anexchange into a won ending.

29.½e3 f6 30.ºc3 ¼ab8 31.h3 e5

SG: (?!) The wrong idea. Much betteris 31Ö¼f7! and Black stops the d/¹.

32.ºa5

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32Ö½f4

SG: In BlackÕs time trouble this queenexchange seems safest. The two extrapawns, even though doubled, shouldbe enough to win, or so I hoped.However, with two minutes left onthe clock Black doesnÕt notice thebeautiful line 32Ö¼b1+ 33.¾h2 ½c134.½h6 (the move I was worriedabout) 34Ö½g1+ 35.¾g3 h4+! and

now 36.½xh4 (or 36.¾xh4 ½e1+37.¾g4 ½e4+ 38.¾g3 g5!) 36Ö½e1+37.¼f2! ½xa5 38.½e4 f5 (38Ö½c3+39.¾h2 ½c1 40.½xg6+ ¾h8 41.¼f5 isa draw) 39.½xb1 ½c3+ 40.¾h2 ½d4leads to a position where Black shouldbe able to win WhiteÕs ¹/d6 cleanly.

33.½xf4 exf4 34.d7 ¼bd8

JH: After an early middlegameblunder White has managed to crawlinto this position which is about toturn into a rook ending. If I start hereinstead of at a later point, it is becausethe next move turns out to be crucial,despite its unpretentious look.

35.a3!

SG: A critical move, whoseimportance becomes apparent later.

JH: But not 35.a4 as we shall see later.The a4 square should stay availablefor the rook.

35Ö¾f7 36.ºxd8 ¼xd8 37.¼d5¾e6

SG: No better is 37Öc4 38.¼c5 ¼xd739.¼xc4 when 39Ög5 40.¼a4 leavesBlack with the same problems as thegame continuation. Note that if Whitehad played the natural 35.¾f2 insteadof 35.a3! Black could instead pick upthe a/¹ with 39Ö¼d2+.

38.¼xc5 ¼xd7 39.¼a5

SG: Suddenly BlackÕs rook is tied tothe passive defense of his a/¹, whilehis king cannot advance across thefifth rank.

JH: White is two pawns down on thekingside, but BlackÕs doubled f/¹s andmy own ideally placed rook give megood chances to draw. However,nothing is easy for the defender aftera long struggle to avert defeatÖ

39Öh4

SG: Still in time trouble, Black avoids39Ög5 40.h4.

JH: BlackÕs main idea is to push his g/¹ all the way to g3 and then go after¹/g2. However, this plan cannot beachieved against a responsibledefense.

40.¾f2 f5 41.¼a6+ ¾f7 42.¼a5?!

JH: This careless move allows BlackÕsking to find a safe haven on g5.Instead, after 42.¼a4! no such try ispossible and White draws easily after42Ög5 43.¼a6 ¼b7 44.¼a4 ¼b3 (or44Ö¾g6 45.¼a6+ ¾h5 46.¼a5)45.¼xa7+ ¾g6 46.¼a6+ ¾h5 47.¼a5.

42Ö¾f6 43.¼a6+ ¾g5 44.¼a4!

JH: Black wins without difficulty after44.a4? ¼d2+ 45.¾f3 ¼d3+ 46.¾f2¼g3 47.¼xa7 f3 48.gxf3 ¾f4.

44Ö¼d2+ 45.¾f3 ¼d3+ 46.¾f2¼g3!

SG: Black decides to forge ahead withhis planned sacrifice, seeing no otherway to try for a win. The end positionwas a little murky, but I definitelycannot lose.

JH: The only way to create moreproblems.

47.¼xa7 f3 48.gxf3 ¼xh3 49.¾g2!¼g3+ 50.¾f2 ¼h3

JH: Had the a/¹ been on a4, Blackwould now win as shown earlier by50Ö¾f4.

51.¾g2 ¼g3+ 52.¾f2 f4 53.¼h7 h3

SG: Black wants to trap hisopponentÕs king on the back rank,followed by winning WhiteÕs a/ and f/¹s. Easier said than done!

54.a4 ¾f5

SG: First BlackÕs king needs to bebrought closer to the action.

55.a5 ¾e5 56.a6 ¼g2+ 57.¾f1 ¼a2

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58.¼e7+

SG: (?) During the game neitherplayer was sure that White candefend after 58.¼xh3 ¾d4 59.¼h6¼xa6 60.¾f2. However, Black nowhas to give his g/¹ to make progress,and as long as WhiteÕs king is able toretreat to the Ôshort sideÕ, i.e. the h/file, the position remains a book draw.

JH: (??) The losing move. I becamevery worried about the Black kingreaching e3 and wanted to preventthis possibility by giving a series ofchecks on the d/ and e/files ifnecessary. What I missed during thegame is that Black has to give his g/¹in order for his king to reach e3. After58.¼xh3 ¾d4 59.¼h6 ¼xa6 60.¾f2¾d3 61.¼h8 ¼a2+ 62.¾g1 ¾e363.¼g8 ¾xf3 64.¼xg6 we havereached a theoretically drawn

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position, demonstrably becauseWhiteÕs king is chased away on theÔshort sideÕ. The game now ends in apicturesque drawing position after64Ö¼a1+ 65.¾h2 ¾f2 66.¼b6 (here66.¼g2+ ¾e3 67.¼b2 is also a draw)66Ö¼e1 67.¼b2+ ¼e2 68.¼b3 f369.¼b8 ¾f1+ 70.¾g3 f2 71.¾f3!

58Ö¾d6!

JH: That I missed!

59.¼h7

SG: At this point Jean wrote 59.¼g7on his scoresheet, but realized in timethat the pawn queens after 59Ö¼a1+60.¾f2 h2. Therefore the rook has toreturn, and the game is lost.

JH: I had planned 59.¼g7 h2 60.¼h7¾e5 61.a7 ¼xa7 62.¼xh2 but muchto my dismay discovered later that59Ö¼a1+ 60.¾f2 h2 wins for Black.

59Öh2 60.a7

SG: White is in a kind of Zugzwang.On 60.¼h6 ¾c7 Black picks up the a/¹; while 60.¾e1 ¼a1+ loses instantly.

60Ö¼xa7

SG: Now 61.¼xh2 ¼a1+ 62.¾g2 ¼a2+leads to an easily won pawn endgamefor Black. A difficult loss, which putJean out of contention for first place.

JH: Now 60Ö¼xa7 61.¼xh2 ¼a1+forces the rook exchange and leads toa winning pawn endgame. It wasduring this crucial game that I realizedhow tired I felt after several long andhard fought earlier games that lasted5Ð6 hours each. But explaining mypoor showing at the end of this eventby fatigue alone would be too simple.My general lack of ambition, based onthe assumption that the top placeswere out of my reach, was mistaken.And when I found myself in a tie forfirst place after eight rounds I wasunprepared psychologically to keepfighting for one of the top spots.

Ù.

Notes byDavid Ross

Ross, DavidGardner, Robert

Richmond CA zt (9), 2002Irregular A40

This game has some personalhistorical interest, because it marksthe last game in a string of 23 playedin Canadian Championships without aloss. Mind you, alert readers will be

quick to point out that my record alsoincludes 16 draws and only 7 wins!Anyway, in round ten GM Spraggettwould torture me for nearly sevenhours before forcing my resignation.

1.d4 b5!?

The ÔRocketÕ, as he is affectionatlyknown in some circles, counters withan opening that is completelyunknown to me?! You have to love agame where such surprises on thevery first move are still possible afterthirty years!

2.e4 ºb7 3.ºxb5!

I have always successfully answeredthe Sokolsky after 1.b4 e5 2.ºb2 with2Öºxb4 and it makes sense that herethe extra tempo should promiseWhite a fine game. Gregory Hubertold me that the Albertans dismissedmy move during their preparationswith the comment that Òno humanwould play that!Ó It is a good thingthat my feelings arenÕt hurt easilyÖ

3Öºxe4 4.»f3 e6 5.0-0 ºe7

Most games continue with 5Ö»f6 butRobert has a different idea in mind.

6.¼e1 f5?

Black wants to create an outpost one4, but there just isnÕt enough timefor such luxuries.

7.c4 »f6 8.»c3 0-0 9.»xe4 »xe410.ºa4!

This retreat is surprisingly difficult tomeet. White intends to attack »/e4while recycling the bishop to a moreflexible square.

10Öc5 11.d5!

Black may well be lost already.

11Ö»a6 12.ºc2 »b4

Black sacrifices a pawn that I shouldprobably have accepted.

13.ºb1?!

It seems ridiculous to me now thatduring the game I wanted to play formore than the huge advantage Whitehas after 13.ºxe4!? fxe4 14.¼xe4exd5 15.cxd5 ºf6 16.a3 »a6 17.d6.

13Öexd5 14.a3 ½a5?

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Already in time trouble, Robert fails tonotice that his opponent has aconcrete refutation to this excursion.

15.ºd2! »xd2 16.»xd2

The text is good enough also, butWhite can win beautifully with16.½xd2! ºf6 17.ºa2!! »c6 18.cxd5½xd2 since 19.dxc6+ is now checkthanks to the º/a2.

16Öºf6 17.»b3

The point. White picks up the knight.

17Ö½a4 18.axb4 ½xb4 19.½xd5+¾h8 20.ºc2 ºxb2 21.¼ab1 ½c322.¼e2 ¼ae8 23.½xc5 ¼g824.½xf5 g6 25.½d3 a5 26.»xa5½xa5 27.¼xb2

And Black resigns, since 27Ö½e1+28.¼xe1 ¼xe1+ 29.½e1 doesnÕt work.

Ø.

Round 10Cummings Ú LesiegeSpraggett 1-0 Ross

Lawson 0-1 CharbonneauGlinert 1-0 Yoos

Berry Ú HebertNeven Ú ReeveHerder 1-0 Zubac

Wu Ú Roussel-Rooz.McLaren Ú Patterson

Huber Ú GardnerKret 0-1 Ristovic

Sokourinski 1-0 BogleHaessel 0-1 Poitras

Jiganchine 0-1 Divljan

David Cummings

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Sladek Ú MilicevicStanford 1-0 YousefzadehLeBlanc 0-1 MayoSalcedo Ú Hladek

GMs Alexandre Lesiege and KevinSpraggett now shared the lead withIM Pascal Charbonneau, who hadquietly managed to collect therequired number of full points overthe last several rounds. Also still incontention were FM Stephen Glinertand IM Jean Hebert, whose play,however, by now seemed to be in acrisis after his earlier bid for thetournament lead.

IM David Cummings did his best totest GM Lesiege in a Meran Variationof the Slav, and his bishop pairtogether with a pawn sacrifice inreturn for some pressure did lookquite menacing until well into theendgame. But then a small oversightallowed Alexandre to bring his piecesback to life with 33Ö¼xe4! which wasjust enough to escape with a draw.

Notes byDavid Cummings

Cummings, DavidLesiege, Alexandre

Richmond CA zt (10), 2002Slav: Meran D46

1.c4 c6 2.»f3 d5 3.d4 »f6 4.e3 e65.»c3 »bd7 6.½c2 ºd6 7.ºd3 0-0 8.0-0 dxc4 9.ºxc4 a6 10.¼d1½c7

The critical test and also a more activecontinuation is 10Öb5.

11.»e4!

Much better than 11.e4 which can beanswered by 11Öe5. After the text,WhiteÕs queen and light squaredbishop soon combine to generate aninitiative against BlackÕs kingside.

11Ö»xe4 12.½xe4 c5 13.ºd3 »f614.½h4 e5

Otherwise White plays 15.e4 with astrong attack.

15.dxe5 ºxe5 16.»xe5 ½xe517.ºd2!

Why waste time defending the b/¹?

17Ö½xb2

The capture looks risky, but sinceBlack is bound to suffer under WhiteÕsbishop pair in any case, he might aswell grab a pawn for compensation.

18.¼ac1 h6 19.ºc3 ½b6 20.a4!

Since the ending after 20.ºxf6 ½xf621.½xf6 gxf6 22.¼xc5 ºe6 is fine forBlack, White needs to find anotherway to improve his position before hecan make any progress. With this ideain mind, White prepares for a betterversion of the same ending by firstfixing BlackÕs queenside structure.

20Ö¼e8 21.a5 ½e6 22.ºc4 ½e723.ºxf6 ½xf6 24.½xf6 gxf625.ºd5 ¼e5?!

Black can try 25Ö¼b8 although Whiteremains with the better ending after26.¼xc5 b6 27.¼b1. Trying to hold onfor the draw, however, did not suitAlexandreÕs tournament position.

26.e4 ºe6?

Objectively, this move allows Whiteto force a position in which every oneof BlackÕs pieces has been trapped.

27.f4 ¼h5 28.ºxb7 ¼a7 29.¼b1?!

The text doesnÕt spoil anything, butWhite has a simple win after 29.¼d8+when 29Ö¾g7 (and 29Ö¾h7 30.¼b8ºb3 31.¼c3 c4 32.e5! fxe5 33.ºf3traps BlackÕs rook) 30.¼b8 ºb331.¼c3 c4 32.¼g3+ ¾h7 33.¼gg8forces a quick mate.

29Öºa2 30.¼b6 c4 31.f5

BlackÕs king remains trapped and outof play after 31.¼d8+!

31Ö¾f8 32.¼d7

Much simpler is 32.¼d8+ ¾e7 33.¼c8.

32Ö¼h4 33.¼c7??

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White allows the only tactical snare inthe positionÖ

33Ö¼xe4! 34.¼xf6

I had seen BlackÕs last, but missed thatAlexandre now defends with thesimple 34.¼c8+ ¼e8.

34Öc3 35.ºxe4?

White has lost his composure. Givenmy intention to take the rook withºxe4 infinitely better is 35.¼cxf7+ºxf7 36.ºxe4.

35Ö¼xc7 36.ºc2 ºc4 37.¼xh6

¾e7 38.g4 ºd5 39.¼xa6 ¼c440.f6+ ¾d7 41.¼b6 ¼xg4+ 42.¾f1¾c7

During the game I was concernedabout 42Ö¼g2 but after 43.ºa4+ ¾c744.¼b5 ºc4+ 45.¾xg2 ºxb5 46.ºc2White is doing well.

43.¾e2 ¼h4 44.¾e3 ¼xh2 45.¾d3ºe4+ 46.¾xe4 ¼xc2 47.¾d3 ¼a248.¼a6 ¾b7 49.¼b6+ ¾c7 50.¼a6¾b7 51.¼b6+ ¾c7 Ú.

Eric LawsonÕs strange opening choiceleft the young Montrealer with a verytough defensive battle against IMPascal Charbonneau. While this gameis not indicative of EricÕs real strength,it is an excellent example of PascalÕssmooth technique!

Notes byPascalCharbonneau

Lawson, EricCharbonneau, Pascal

Richmond CA zt (10), 2002Trompowsky A45

Eric Lawson is a young player whohas taken chess very seriously in thepast year. He has made tremendousprogress, and was still undefeatedafter nice rounds! As for me, Iabsolutely had to win to keep pacewith Spraggett on the leader board.

1.d4 »f6 2.ºg5

As expected, Eric plays his favoriteTrompowsky, and Black reacts with aline that leads to unbalanced andcomplicated positions.

2Öc5!? 3.ºxf6 gxf6 4.d5 ½b65.½c1 ºh6!?

This unusual move is perhaps not allthat useful, but it has scored well inpractice. BlackÕs normal plan is toomit the bishop maneuver and justplay Öd6 followed by Öf5 and Öºg7.

6.e3 d6 7.c3 »d7 8.»d2 f5 9.»h3

Eric was still moving quickly, which Itook as a sign of deep preparation.The position is roughly level.

9Ö¼g8!?

Hard to say where BlackÕs king shouldgo. Also interesting is 9Ö0-0 followedby Ö¾h8 and then Ö¼g8. Later in thegame we will see that the king can bein danger on the queenside!

10.»c4 ½c7 11.a4 »f6 12.½d2 b6

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Black plays to put pressure on ¹/d5,and eventually he will follow up withÖe6 to open the game for his bishops.

13.»a3 a6 14.¼d1 ºb7 15.c4 ½d716.½c2 e6 17.½b3! ½c7 18.g3

White has been forced to place hispieces on funny squares: both knightsare on the edge of the board, and thebishop will not be too happy on g2.

18Ö0-0-0 19.ºg2 e5!

Closing the center is correct, andBlack now has a definite edge.Instead the exchange 19Öexd5 givesWhite access to c4. Also, after the textWhiteÕs »/h3 can no longer join thebattle via f4.

20.0-0 ºg7 21.¼a1 ¾b8 22.½c2ºc8 23.¼fb1

WhiteÕs best chance is 23.a5!? OnceBlack locks up the queenside, he hasa free hand on the other wing.

23Öa5! 24.»b5 ½e7 25.¼a3

The impulsive 25.b4 cxb4 26.¼xb4axb4 27.a5 bxa5 28.¼xa5 ºb7 doesnÕtseem to lead to mate.

25Öh5 26.»g5 h4 27.¼b3 hxg328.hxg3 »g4 29.»f3 e4 30.»e1ºe5 31.»c3 ¾a7 32.»e2 ºd733.¼a3 ¼g7

Black has plenty of time to mobilizehis forces for the final assault onWhiteÕs king.

34.»f4 ¼dg8

Not so easy for Black is 34Öºxf435.exf4 e3 36.f3.

35.¾f1 ½g5 36.¾e2

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36Ö»xf2! 37.¾xf2 ½xg3+ 38.¾f1ºxf4 39.exf4 e3 40.¾e2 ½xf4

Even better is 40Ö½h2 41.¾f1 (or41.¾xe3 ¼xg2) 41Ö¼xg2 42.»xg2e2+ and White can resign.

41.ºf3 ½h2+ 42.¾d1 ½e5 43.½c3f4 44.½xe5 dxe5 45.»d3 ºf546.¼ba1? ºxd3 47.¼xd3 ¼g1+48.¾c2 ¼xa1 49.d6 e4 50.ºxe4 e251.d7

After this game I watched Kevintorture IM David Ross for severalhours to win a long game, whichmeant that I needed to win my finalgame alsoÖ

Ù.

Notes byJonathan Berry

Berry, JonathanHebert, Jean

Richmond CA zt (10), 2002French: Advance C02

In a nine round event, I never wouldhave met a higher-rated opponent. SoI must thank Peter Stockhausen, notonly for organizing the tournament,but for adding two rounds to it. So,coming up for air and reaching a plusscore for the first time in the event, Iwas to meet a familiar rival. Jean and Ifirst met in the 1972 Canadian Junior.

1.e4

A study of my opponent after thisunexpected move showed surprise,but any hope of 45 minutes ofsquirming was dashed in 30 seconds.

1Öe6

I had also prepared for the Pirc andRat, the Sicilian, and even the Caro-Kann! Depth, of course, suffers at theexpense of breadth.

2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.»f3 »c6 5.dxc5½c7!

So much for my preparation. ECOmentions only 5Öºxc5.

6.»c3

It seems natural to bring out a pieceand threaten 7.»b5 but all is not wellwith this conception.

6Öºxc5 7.ºf4 a6

Fritz and I like 7Ö½b6!? which Jeanrejected because of 8.½d2. But then8Öºxf2+! 9.½xf2 ½xb2 10.»b5½xa1+ 11.¾d2 ¾f8 is too speculativeeven for me, and so I was going toplay 8.ºd3 ºxf2+ 9.¾f1 a6 10.»a4½a7 11.½e2 instead. WhiteÕs attack isstill speculative, but at the cost ofonly a pawn.

8.ºd3 »ge7 9.0-0 h6 10.a3

Lackadaisical. More energetic and tothe point is 10.ºg3

10Öf5 11.exf6 ½xf4 12.fxe7 »xe713.b4 ºa7 14.»e2 ½f6

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15.c4!

In accord with John WatsonÕs advicein Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy,knights are close range pieces, andtheir possessor often needs to openthe position to bring them intocontact with the enemy. Sure, weknow that the opposite often holds instatic positions, but not all positionsare static. I only wish that I couldbetter absorb the lessons of WatsonÕsbook and also of Alex YermolinskyÕsRoad to Chess Improvement.

15Ö0-0 16.¼c1 ºd7 17.ºb1 ¼ad818.½c2

After needlessly investing 22 minuteson the last two moves, White is nowdown to 3 minutes to reach move 40.

18Ög6

JeanÕs choice came as a shock, since Iexpected 18Ö»f5. Brave souls mightalso try 18Öºc6 when the check19.½h7+ isnÕt fatal.

19.»g3 ºc6 20.cxd5

One minute left. After the game JackYoos gently scolded by thanking mefor providing the audience with theentertainment of playing 20 or somoves in the final minute or two inseveral of my games.

20Öºxd5

The capture with the bishop allowsWhite to gain access to e4 for aknight, but the capture 20Öexd5 alsoinvolves concessions and thus WhiteÕsaggression on moves 13 and 15 isjustified. After the early loss of thebishop pair I was not happy with myposition and reacted in ÔcounterplayÕmode, but I have to admit now thatWhite is perfectly ok.

21.»h5

The position is equal after 21.»e4!

21Ö½h8 22.½c7 gxh5

Fritz suggests 22Ö¼de8 again with23Öºb8 as a possible threat.

23.½xe7 ºb8

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Jean guards against the rook invasion,and now 24.ºe4 should be equal.

24.¼fd1 ºd6 25.½h4 ½g7?

Black optimistically delays Öºxf3 justin case Ö¼xf3 is better, but this allowsWhite to eliminate his opponentÕsthreats and reach a comfortableposition.

26.¼xd5 exd5 27.½xh5

Thanks to the 30 second increment, Iwas up to two minutes again. Whitehas a pawn for the exchange, saferking, and ¹/d5 is a goner.

27Öºf4 28.¼d1 ºg5 29.h4 ºf630.ºa2 ¾h8 31.ºxd5 ¼fe8

Jean offered a draw around here.

32.g3

By making safety moves, Whiteallows his best winning chance toevaporate. Possible, for example, is32.¼c1 ºb2?! 33.¼c4 ºxa3 34.¼g4½a1+ 35.¾h2 ºc1 36.»d4 ¼e737.½f5 with a winning advantage.

32Ö¼e7 33.¾g2 ¼ed7 34.½f5?!ºb2 35.¼d3?!

With the clock ticking and no clearplan of progress in sight, I nowoffered a draw, but Black already hasno worries. White can also try 35.a4.

35Ö½h7 36.½xh7+ ¼xh7 37.¼b3

Also possible is 37.a4 ¼hd7 38.¼b3.

37Öºxa3 38.ºxb7 ¼xb7 39.¼xa3¼d6 40.¼a4

White overlooks the equalizing40.»e5 ¾g7 41.»d3.

40Ö¼b5 41.»e1 ¼e5

With a sinking heart, I now realizedthat my planned maneuver »f3-e1-c2-e3 could not be completed.

42.»c2 ¼d2 43.»a1!

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An oft-overlooked property of aknight in the corner of the board isthat it cannot be pinned!

43Ö¼f5! 44.¼xa6 ¼fxf2+

Unaccountably, on 44Öh5 I intendedto play not 45.¾h3! but the awful45.¾g1? ¼fxf2 46.¼h6+ ¾g7 47.¼xh5overlooking 47Ö¼g2+ 48.¾f1 ¼df2+49.¾e1 ¼a2 50.¾f1 ¼gb2.

45.¾h3 ¾g7 46.¼a7+ ¾g647.¼a6+ ¼f6 48.»b3 ¼b2 49.»c5¼xa6 50.»xa6 ¾f5 51.»c7 ¼xb452.»d5 ¼b3 53.»f4 ¼b2 54.»d3¼e2 55.»f4 ¼d2 56.»h5 ¼d757.g4+ ¾e5 58.g5 ¼d3+ 59.¾g4¼d4+ 60.¾h3 hxg5 61.hxg5 ¾f562.»g3+ ¾xg5 63.¾g2 ¾g464.»e2 ¼d2 65.¾f2 ¼d3 66.»c1

Jean smiled and said ÒItÕs a drawÓ. In asimilar position at slow time controls,Lubomir Kavalek made fellow GMDuncan Suttles stay for a couple ofextra hours at the 1971 CanadianOpen. Duncan eventually asked for amirror, because Kavalek was makingno progress, only repeating mirror-image positions. The game, of course,was drawn, and Kavalek did not winthe tournament.

Ú.

Elsewhere IM David Ross resigned forthe first time in this tournament afterdefending for a long time in a toughand complicated game against GMSpraggett, while Stephen Glinert beatJack Yoos in an important battle forthe sole available IM title norm. Theyoung FM now needs only a draw inthe final round to collect the norm.

Round 11Reeve 0-1 Spraggett

Charbonneau 1-0 CummingsLesiege 1-0 BerryGlinert Ú HerderHebert Ú Roussel-Rooz.

Yoos 1-0 NevenRoss 1-0 Wu

Lawson 1-0 McLarenZubac Ú Huber

Gardner 1-0 DivljanPoitras 0-1 Sokourinski

Patterson 1-0 SalcedoMilicevic 0-1 Kret

Bogle 0-1 HaesselSladek 1-0 LeBlanc

Hladek Ú YousefzadehMayo Ú Stanford

With IM Pascal Charbonneau and GMKevin Spraggett tied for the lead itwas up to the spoilers, Jeff Reeve andDavid Cummings, to alter the courseof Canadian chess history. Pascal,however, disposed of fellow IM DavidCummings in a direct kingside attack,while GM Spraggett ended up in a

slow maneuvering Hedgehog gameagainst ReeveÕs Sicilian. Spraggett, intypical fashion, patiently ignored hisopponentÕs early provocations andeventually built up a decisive kingsideinitiative that culminated in a prettytactical finale against WhiteÕs king.

Notes byPascalCharbonneau

Charbonneau, PascalCummings, David

Richmond CA zt (11), 2002Sicilian: Taimanov B49

This is probably the most nervousgame I have ever played. I had towin in order to ensure a tie for firstplace, and this caused me to perhapsstart a bit too aggressivelyÖ

1.e4 c5 2.»f3 e6 3.d4 cxd44.»xd4 »c6

David is a very solid IM, and a toughlast round opponent. The Taimanov ishis long time favorite, but also anopening I play often with Black. Forthe occasion I had prepared a verycomplicated line that I hoped he hadnever faced before.

5.»c3 ½c7 6.ºe2 a6 7.ºe3 »f68.a3!?

This move has been played hundredsof times by players who want tocastle queenside and avoid the pinÖºb4. But it can also be used as asuper aggressive tool to steer thegame away from the kinds ofpositions that Taimanov playersconsider their bread and butter.

8Öºe7 9.f4 d6 10.g4!

The point of WhiteÕs hyper aggressiveopening setup.

10Ö0-0

Black has a number of ways to snatchthe g/¹, but all of them hand controlof d5 to White. In exchange for thepawn White gets plenty of pressurein the center and along the half openg/file. For an example of this strategyreaders should examine the gameMovsesianÐVan der Sterren, DE 2000.

11.g5 »d7 12.h4 ¼e8

Very good for White is 12Ö»xd413.½xd4 e5 14.½d2 exf4 15.ºxf4»e5 16.»d5.

13.½d2 b5 14.h5 »xd4 15.ºxd4ºb7 16.0-0-0 e5 17.ºe3 exf418.ºxf4

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White has an overwhelming attack,and it should be only a few moves forhim to break through to BlackÕs king.

18Öºf8

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19.¼df1?!

All of WhiteÕs moves leading up tothis position were fine, but now thetext lacks the required punch. Muchmore aggressive is 19.g6 whenBlackÕs king finds itself under fire.

19Ö»c5 20.g6! ¼xe4 21.ºf3?!

A better reaction is 21.gxf7+ ¾h8(Black loses after 21Ö½xf7 22.»xe4½a2 23.»c3 ½a1+ 24.»b1 »b3+25.cxb3 ¼c8+ 26.½c2) 22.h6 when22Ö¼xf4 23.½xf4 ºxh1 24.hxg7+ºxg7 25.¼xh1 should win for White.

21Öb4! 22.axb4 ¼xb4 23.gxf7+?

And that is simply bad?! Much better isto exchange the bishops first with23.ºxb7 ½xb7 24.gxf7+ ¾h8 (or24Ö½xf7 25.ºxd6) 25.h6 ¼xb226.hxg7+ ºxg7 27.½h2 and Blackmust resign.

23Ö½xf7

The tide has turned completely, and itis now Black who has a strong attack!

24.»d5 ¼a4! 25.b4

Here I began to panic, feeling thatthe position has completely driftedaway from me.

25Ö¼a1+?

Fritz gives Black a winning advantageafter 25Ö¼a3!

26.¾b2 ¼xf1 27.¼xf1 »e6

Despite his opponentÕs slight materialadvantage, White has good chances toexpose BlackÕs king and queen.

28.ºe3 ½f5 29.c3 ¼b8 30.½g2!½e5 31.»f6+!

White has reason to be confidentagain, but only after sweating it outfor at least the last ten moves!?

31Ö½xf6 32.ºxb7 ½e5 33.ºd2»c7 34.h6 ºe7??

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David falters in time pressure andallows his opponent to finish thegame in style. Instead, after 34Ög635.½f2 White just has compensationfor the pawn.

35.¼f5!! Ø.

Notes byJean Hebert

Hebert, JeanRoussel Roozmon, Thomas

Richmond CA zt (11), 2002Queen Pawn A30

1.d4 »f6 2.»f3 e6 3.g3 b6 4.ºg2ºb7 5.0-0 c5 6.c4 cxd4 7.½xd4

Even though I have played againstthe Hedgehog structure many timesover the last 25 years I have recentlycome to understand a few importantthings about it for the White side: 1)your next pawn move may be anoverextension; 2) you shall not beoverly ambitious; 3) I still have moreto learn about chess.

7Öºe7 8.»c3 d6 9.ºg5

White plays an old system which waspopular in the 1980s. The main ideais to take on f6 when Black is unableto recapture with a knight, thuscreating some disharmony and a lossof time for Black.

9Öa6

The most frequently played reactionto prevent 10.»b5. However 9Ö»bd710.»b5 d5 is playable.

10.ºxf6 ºxf6 11.½d3 ºxf312.ºxf3

Probably better is 12.½xf3; or even12.exf3.

12Ö¼a7 13.¼fd1 ºe7 14.ºg2 0-015.¼ac1 »d7 16.b3 ½b8 17.e3¼c7 18.½b1 »f6?!

Black is fine after 18Öb5!? 19.cxb5¼fc8 20.»e2 axb5 21.»d4 d5.

19.»e2 ¼d8 20.»d4 ½c8 21.b4!

The point of WhiteÕs previous knightmaneuver. The threat to invade c6after White plays b5 forces Black toreact in the center.

21Öd5?!

I expected 21Öe5 22.»f5 ºf8 when itis not altogether easy to justify theposition of WhiteÕs »/f5, especially ifit eventually lands on h4. In thatcontext best seems 23.ºh3 (Blackequalizes with 23.ºf1 g6 24.»h4 d5)23Ö¾h8 24.½b2 to make the moveÖg6 seem risky. Pawn snatching with21Ö¼xc4?? loses convincingly to22.¼xc4 ½xc4 23.¼c1.

22.cxd5 »xd5 23.¼xc7 ½xc7

Perhaps Black can hold after 23Ö»xc724.»c6 ¼xd1+ 25.½xd1 ½e8.

24.¼c1 »c3 25.½c2 ¼c8

After 25Öºxb4 26.»c6 ¼d7 27.»xb4»e2+ 28.½xe2 ½xc1+ 29.ºf1 a530.½a6 ½c7 31.»d3 White is on top.

26.»c6 ºf6?!

Here 26Öºxb4! is better than on thepreceeding move, since 27.»xb4»e2+ 28.½xe2 ½xc1+ 29.ºf1 a530.»d3 ½c2 31.½f3 ½xa2 32.»e5¼f8 33.»d7 ¼d8 34.»xb6 is drawn.

27.½d3 ¼d8!?

On 27Ö»xa2 I had planned 28.¼c2»c3 29.½xa6.

28.»xd8 »e2+ 29.½xe2 ½xc1+30.ºf1 ºxd8 31.½xa6 g6 32.½b5¾g7

Thomas Roussel Roozmon

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White is a sound pawn up, but thepresence of opposite colored bishopsgreatly increases the defenderÕschances. WhiteÕs plan lies inimproving his king position beforecreating a passed pawn, andexchanging queens if possible.

33.½e5+

White seizes the long diagonal withhis queen, whereas 33.a4? ½c3 onlyweakens ¹/b4 and leads to apremature exchange of b/¹s.

33Ö¾g8

White quickly creates a dangerouspassed pawn after 33Öºf6 34.½d6.

34.½d4 ½c7 35.a3!

Once again 35.a4 reduces WhiteÕsscope for torturing his opponent.

35Öºe7 36.½b2 ½d6 37.ºe2 ºf838.½c2 ºe7 39.ºf3 ºf6 40.¾f1¾f8 41.¾e2 ¾g7 42.ºe4 h5

Reducing the number of Black pawnsstanding on light squares with 42Öh6!?looks like a good idea in principle.

43.h4 ¾f8 44.½c4 ºe7 45.ºc6½e5?

It is doubtful if White can make muchprogress after the sensible 45Öºf6!46.a4 (after 46.ºb5 ½e5 47.¾f3 ½c3!the queen exchange does not favorWhite; and the position also looksequal after 46.½b5 ½d8 47.a4 ºc348.¾f1 ½d2 49.½xb6 ºxb4) and nowthe simple 46Ö½e5 instead of themistake 46Öºe7? 47.a5 bxa5 48.bxa5½c5 49.½xc5 ºxc5 50.¾d3 ¾e751.¾c4 ºa7 52.¾b5.

46.½d4! ½xd4 47.exd4 g5 48.hxg5ºxg5 49.a4 h4

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50.¾d3??

What a terrible lemon, and playedafter a long think! Why I felt thatdefending ¹/d4 was importantremains incomprehensible to me,especially since White has theobvious 50.a5! bxa5 51.bxa5 ºd852.a6 ºb6 53.gxh4 ºxd4 54.f4 ¾g7

55.¾d3 ºa7 56.ºf3 with a winningposition. Black cannot stop bothpassed pawns, nor is it possible totrade WhiteÕs a/ and f/¹s to reach adrawn h/¹ vs wrong color bishopposition.

50Öhxg3 51.fxg3 ¾e7 52.a5 bxa553.bxa5 ¾d6 54.ºe8 f6 55.a6 ¾c756.ºd7 ¾b6 57.ºc8 ºc1 58.¾c4ºb2 59.g4 ºa1 60.ºxe6 ¾xa661.¾c5 ¾b7 62.d5 ¾c7 63.d6+¾d8 64.¾d5 ºb2 Ú.

Notes byEric Lawson

Lawson, EricMcLaren, Brian

Richmond CA zt (11), 2002Sicilian: Accelerated Dragon B34

A win in the last round would give methe desired FM title norm.

1.d4 c5 2.e4

A good move when you want to win.In this case we transpose to an OpenSicilian.

2Öcxd4 3.»f3 »c6 4.»xd4 g65.»c3

WhiteÕs best way to deal with theAccelerated Dragon is 5.c4 but I hadsomething else in mind.

5Öºg7 6.ºe3 »f6 7.»b3

White prevents the freeing Öd5 andsteers the game into positionalchannels.

7Öd6 8.ºe2 ºd7 9.0-0 a6?

More careful is 9Ö0-0.

10.»d5!

The only way to take advantage ofBlackÕs mistake. White aims for theweakened square b6.

10Ö»xd5?

The opening of the e/file putsannoying pressure on ¹/e7, and soBlack should prefer to remove hisking to safety with 10Ö0-0.

11.exd5 »a5? 12.»xa5?!

After 12.ºd4! BlackÕs position isalready critical.

12Ö½xa5 13.ºd4 0-0 14.ºxg7¾xg7 15.½d4+!

Centralization with tempo gain.

15Ö¾g8 16.ºf3 ¼ac8 17.c3 ½c518.½d2 b5 19.¼fe1 e5?!

The protective 19Ö¼fe8 20.¼e2 isbetter, but gives White pleasantpressure down the half open e/file.

20.dxe6 fxe6 21.¼ad1 d5 22.¼e5½b6 23.h4?!

More accurate is to prevent Öb4 withthe immediate 23.a3.

23Ö¼c4 24.h5 ¼cf4 25.hxg6 hxg626.a3 ¾g7 27.¼de1 ½d8 28.¼1e3?

Far more troublesome for Black is28.½e3 with the threat to invade thequeenside by 29.½a7.

28Ö½f6 29.¼e2 ¼h8?

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WhiteÕs advantage can be neutralizedcompletely with 29Ög5.

30.ºxd5!! ½h4

The crazy bishop is forbidden fruit,considering 30Öexd5? 31.¼e7+ ¾h6(or 31Ö¾f8 32.½xd5) 32.g3; whileneither 30Ö¼fh4 31.g3 exd5(31Ö¼4h7 32.ºg2) 32.¼e7+ ¾f833.gxh4; nor 30Ö¼d8 31.½e3 exd532.¼e7+ ¾g8 33.¼xd7 ¼e4 34.½d2¼xd7 35.¼xe4 can save Black either.

31.g3 ½h2+ 32.¾f1 ½xg3

Again White wins easily after32Öexd5? 33.¼e7+ ¼f7 (or 33Ö¾f634.½xf4+; or 33Ö¾f8 34.½xf4+; or33Ö¾g8 34.½xd5+ ¾f8 35.½a8+; or33Ö¾h6 34.½xf4+) 34.¼xf7+ ¾xf735.½xd5+ ¾g7 (or 35Ö¾f6 36.½e5+¾f7 37.½e7+ ¾g8 38.½d8+ ¾h739.½xd7+ ¾h6 40.½d2+; or 35Ö¾f836.½d6+ ¾g8 37.½xg6+ ¾f8 38.½f6+¾g8 39.½d8+) 36.½xd7+ ¾h637.½d2+ ¾g7 38.¼e7+.

33.¼2e3?!

Even better is 33.ºg2!

33Ö½g4 34.ºg2 ºc8 35.¼3e4¼hf8 36.¼xf4 ¼xf4 37.¼c5! e5

Brian decides to give a pawn in orderto bring his bishop back into thegame. Worse is 37Ö¼c4 38.f3!! or37Ö¼f8 38.¾g1!

38.¼xe5 ¼f7 39.½d4

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The endgame is easily won, givenWhiteÕs extra pawn and favorablepawn structure.

39Ö½xd4 40.cxd4 ºf5 41.¾e2¼c7 42.¼c5 ¼e7+ 43.¾d2 ºd7?44.¼c7 ¾f6 45.ºc6! ºxc646.¼xc6+ ¾f5 47.¼xa6 ¾e448.¼xg6 ¾xd4 49.¼g4+ ¾d550.¼b4 ¼f7 51.f4 Ø.

Notes byDavid Ross

Ross, DavidWu, Howard

Richmond CA zt (11), 2002English A30

This yearÕs Zonal tournament waseasily the most enjoyable of the four Ihave played in, and PeterStockhausen together with the othervolunteers who worked on the eventdeserve our deepest thanks. My onlycritisism is the eleven round format,which made the final two roundsentirely superfluous and only resultedin a short playoff at a faster timecontrol to decide our representative atthe World Championships. Olderplayers tend to have a hard timesustaining energy for such a longevent, and maybe in the future wecan revert to the old nine roundformat and use the extra two days atthe end for the playoff if necessary.But anyway, congratulations to Pascaland best of luck at the worlds!

Credit also goes out to Eric Lawson,who played the best chess so far ofhis young life en route to the FM title,and also to Stephen Glinert, whose

fine performance earned him thecoveted IM title. If this tournament isany indication, chess in Canada isbecoming a young personÕs game andI, for one, think that is a fine thingÖ

The tournament was a strange one forme, and in a sense I was just along forthe ride. I had promised Eric Lawsoneight months ago that I would takehim to Vancouver if I was satisfiedwith his progress and work ethic,even though this meant that he wouldmiss several weeks of school andprivate lessons at home. The timingof the event in the spring rather thanthe summer makes it difficult for ouryoung players to participate. Anyway,Eric did his part, and so I kept mypromise!

In my own early games I noticed asevere lack of energy and focus thatwould manifest itself during the fourthhour of play, and since this happenedrepeatedly I decided to save myenergy for the second half of theevent while carefully and graduallyincreasing my playing time fromround to round. My opening choices,too, were rather funny: I noticed astreet near the hotel named ÔBirdÕ, aÔDragonÕ restaurant, and a ÔHouse ofRattonÕ Ñ and so in the tournamentmy openings would mirror the sightsfrom my daily walks with Eric!?

By the end of the tournement myform had returned, and it felt good toplay like a 2400 again for the firsttime in several years. I had evenworked my way into a position wherea last round win would take homesome prize moneyÖ

1.c4

The English has served me well for along time as a last round ÔmoneygameÕ weapon. Maybe I should play itmore often!

1Öc5 2.»f3 g6 3.e3!

This is not such a fantastic move, butit guarantees a dynamic game andwinning chances for both sides. It isimportant to set your opponent manyproblems if you want to win.

3Öºg7 4.ºe2 »f6 5.0-0 0-0 6.d4cxd4 7.exd4 d5!

So we have a Reverse Tarrasch, and aposition that gives no theoreticaladvantage to White at all. But what isimportant is that I like the positionand am comfortable playing it. NowWhite has to decide how to best usehis extra tempo.

8.h3!?

White decides to prevent the usualmain lines by taking g4 away fromBlackÕs bishop.

8Ödxc4 9.ºxc4 »bd7!

Howard plays what is supposed to bethe best move. Black wants toblockade the isolated d/¹ before itcauses any problems.

10.»c3 »b6 11.ºb3 »bd5 12.¼e1b6

BlackÕs other development choices forhis dark squared bishop are 12Öºe6and 12Öºf5.

13.»e5!N

Hard to believe, but this natural movecannot be found in my own largegame collection or the ChessBaseonline database of games.

13Öºb7 14.ºg5 »xc3?!

I was expecting 14Ö¼c8 15.¼c1 (butnot 15.½d2? »xc3 16.bxc3 »e4!)when White might be able to claim avery small edge, although objectivelythe position is probably equal.

15.bxc3 e6?

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Clearly much better is 15Ö¼c8 with asmall edge to White. The text looksnatural enough because it limitsWhiteÕs pressure on ¹/f7, butstrangely causes a huge amount ofdamage to BlackÕs position. Theproblem is a tactical one!

16.»g4! h5

The only defense.

17.»e5 ½c7 18.½d3

The weakening of BlackÕs kingsidewith 16Öh5 has suddenly led to manysacrificial possibilities for hisopponent.

18Ö»d5!

A good try.

19.ºd2

Here 19.»xg6? fxg6 20.¼xe6 ½f721.¼e7! wins on the spot, but Black

Jeff Reeve

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has 20Ö¼f5! instead. White, in turn,can also try 19.c4!?

19Ö»e7?

Better is 19Ö¼ad8.

20.ºc1?!

Why not the far more active 20.ºf4!

20Ö¼ad8 21.ºf4 ºxe5?

Black looks like he is in big trouble,but HowardÕs decision to exchangeWhiteÕs dominant knight providesonly a temporary solution to hisproblems. Instead he should preservehis dark squared bishop and take hischances with 21Ö½c8 when the byno means forced sacrifice 22.»xf7(also better for White is 22.ºg5! ¼de823.¼ad1) 22Ö¼xf7 23.ºxe6 ½c624.f3 »f5 25.¼ad1 gives White apleasant advantage, and there areother attractive options as well.

22.¼xe5

Also fine is 22.ºxe5!?

22Ö½c6 23.f3

This move is WhiteÕs simplest andmost permanent solution to BlackÕsbattery on the long diagonal.

23Ö»d5 24.ºd2 ¾g7 25.c4 »c726.½e3! ½d6?

This mistake is immediately fatal, butWhite also wins after 26Ö¼h8 27.d5½c5 (or 27Ö½d6 28.¼e1) 28.½xc5bxc5 29.ºa5.

27.½h6+ ¾g8 28.ºc3 »e8 29.d5!

Howard resigns before White has thepleasure of sacrificing his queen for aforced mate beginning with 30.½h8+!or mate again after 29Ö»g7 30.¼xh5!

Ø.

Also noteworthy is Stephen GlinertÕsdrawing effort against Dave Herder,which earned Stephen the coveted IMtitle at 7.5/11, and David a welldeserved FM title. Congratulations toboth! GM Alexandre Lesiege hauled inthe point against CGM Jonathan Berry,but of course that was half a pointshort of the required score for thenext dayÕs playoff eventÖ

Notes byJonathan Berry

Lesiege, AlexandreBerry, Jonathan

Richmond CA zt (11), 2002Nimzo-Indian E20

The top boards were running out ofopponents, so I was lucky to meetsuch strong opposition in the lastround. The heavily-grained woodenboard and pieces that weighed twiceas much as the regular plastic onesfelt strangely unfamiliar.

1.d4 »f6 2.c4 e6 3.»c3 ºb44.»f3

I was prepared for AlexandreÕs usual4.e3 and »e2 treatment against theNimzo-Indian, but a 2100 player hadforced him to squirm for a draw in arecent tournament in England.

4Öc5 5.g3 0-0

I started to eat time here. As oftenbefore in the tournament, I knew ingeneral terms what I wanted to do,but my opponent knew exactly whatto do. Alexandre would get up aftereach move, and I could hear himlaughing with friends in the hallwayoutside.

6.ºg2 cxd4 7.»xd4 d5

I used to get this sort of position a lotwhen I played the Benko Gambit.

8.cxd5 »xd5 9.½b3

Possible, of course, is 9.ºd2.

9Ö»c6

HortÐKindermann, Dortmund 1985,continued 9Ö½b6 10.e3 »c6 11.»xc6bxc6 12.0-0 ºa6 13.¼d1 ¼ab814.ºd2 ½a5.

10.»xc6 bxc6 11.0-0 ½a5

White has an edge after 11Öºxc312.bxc3 ºa6 13.c4 »b6 14.ºa3.

12.ºd2

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After this routine move Alexandre didnot get up for once, which remindsme of another story that relates totiming and body language in chesspsychology. Several decades ago inGuadalajara I played an Expert whomade some threat that I could seedidn't work. But rather than go into along huddle I just made the obviousmove, he played the faulty idea atonce Ð there was an element ofmachismo Ð and I won a pawn andlater the game.

Some years later at the 1999 Zonal inBrantford I was strolling while NMHans Jung struggled with a complexposition. Brett Campbell, in a losingrook ending, made a move so quicklythat it caught my eye. So I walkedover, and in a few seconds saw thetrap and a way for Robert Breau towin the game. But to my amazementpoor Robert lost his rook and thegame, and I could rejoice that I was atouch more methodical than to fallinto something like that?! Soon Hansmade his move, and even though itwas one that I had only looked at inother positions my stereotypicalresponse followed in a few briefseconds, losing all of my advantageand landing in a position that I wasable to draw only because thatÕs whatHans needed for the FM title!

12Öºa6?

Later Jack Yoos asked if this was adeep postal chess preparation. Alas,no. A pawn is a pawn, and the line12Öºxc3 13.ºxc3 »xc3 14.bxc3 ºa6does not look horribly scary.

13.»xd5!

Great. A pawn down against aGrandmaster still with the fullcomplement of time on his clock.

13Öºxd2 14.»e7+ ¾h8 15.»xc6½c7 16.¼fd1 ºg5 17.h4

After calculating for 14 minutes, Whitegoes for the full court press rather

Jack Yoos

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than relax with 17.e3 which preparesd4 as a resting spot for the knight.

17Öºf6 18.¼ac1 ½b6 19.e4

After a further 12 minutes, Alexandrecontinues on the road to total worlddomination. Also strong is 19.¼c2.

19Öºxb2 20.¼b1

White wants to trade queens withoutpromoting BlackÕs ¹/a7 to relativesafety on b6.

20Ö½xb3?

Black mistakenly assumes that thetext is even better than 20Ö½xc621.e5 ½c7 (Fritz suggests 21Ö½c522.ºxa8 ºd4 23.ºf3 ºxf2+; but not21Öºc4 22.½xb2 ºd5 23.ºxd5 exd524.½b7 ½xb7 25.¼xb7) 22.ºxa8ºxe5 when White is still ahead, butthe position is messy.

21.axb3 ºc3 22.¼bc1 ºb2

On 22Öºe2 follows 23.¼d7.

23.¼c2 ¼ac8 24.¼dd2

Not only did I overlook this quietmove which threatens 25.»b4 but theintended 24.¼xb2 ¼xc6 is also goodfor White after 25.¼d7 ¼b6 26.¼xa7.

24Öºa3

The bishops have no home.

25.e5 ºb7 26.»xa7 ¼xc2

White also has an advantage after26Ö¼b8 27.¼d3.

27.¼xc2 ºxg2 28.¾xg2 f6 29.exf6gxf6 30.»b5 ºb4 31.¼c4 ºd232.»d4 e5 33.»f5 ¾g8

Or lights out after 33Ö¼b8 34.¼c6¾g8 35.¼xf6 ¼xb3 36.¼e6 ºc337.¼e7 ¼b2 38.»h6+ ¾h8 39.»g4ºd4 40.h5.

34.¼c7 ¼f7 35.¼c6 h5 36.¼d6ºc1 37.¼c6 ºd2 38.»d6

The postmortem was brief. ÒALS:12Öºa6 was a bad move. JB: Yeah,but you made it harder than it neededto be. ALS: I had to play sharply sothat you could not go Öºb7 andmaybe get bishops of oppositecolors.Ó Well, I beg to differ.Conversion of the pawn advantagewould not have strained AlexandreÕstechnique, and IÕm inclined to agreewith Pascal CharbonneauÕs observationthat sometimes Alexandre calculatestoo much.

My games against Hebert and Lesiegedo have something in common: inboth cases an exchange sacrificeshould have been an easy swim, butdeclining led to an ugly loss. Well, I

suppose that Òthe manufacturer is notresponsible for customer misuseÓapplies in my case!?

Ø.

PlayoffSince WCN was unable to cover theplayoff live, your editor agreed totransmit the moves to an eager onlineaudience live via his own website intext format. Other than a technicalglitch that momentarily interruptedthe flow of moves to the website atthe half-way mark of the first playoffgame, this awkward transmissionactually worked fine. Unfortunatelyfor me, this also meant that I missedthe spectacle of Pascal raising his fistin victory immediately after Kevinconceded defeat in the second game.

Notes byRobert Byrne

Charbonneau, PascalSpraggett, Kevin

Richmond CA zt playoff active(2), 2002

Sicilian: Paulsen B42

1.e4 c5 2.»f3 e6 3.d4 cxd44.»xd4 a6

In the Paulsen Variation of the SicilianBlack conceals his intentions for thedevelopment of his minor pieces,while his second and fourth movescontrol the important knight intrusionsquares d5 and b5 without giving hisopponent any clear targets.

5.ºd3 »f6 6.0-0 d6 7.c4 »bd78.»c3 ½c7 9.b3

Pascal might have tried 9.ºe3although now 9Ö»e5 10.ºe2 ºd711.¼c1 »xc4 12.ºxc4 ½xc4 13.»cb5axb5 14.¼xc4 bxc4 15.½b1 bringsabout material equality in a positionthat is solid enough for Kevin.

9Öb5

This thematic advance on thequeenside is often not so easy toachieve for Black, but here WhiteÕstimid last move allows Kevin to playthis thrust immediately.

10.ºb2 b4 11.»a4 ºb7 12.½e2ºe7 13.f4 0-0 14.¾h1 g6

Although White controls more space,his opponentÕs position is quite solid,and a kingside attack based on g4weakens his own position along thea8-h1 diagonal.

15.f5 e5 16.»c2 a5 17.a3

Pascal decides to pursue his chanceson the queenside.

17Öbxa3 18.»xa3 ºc6 19.»b5

This knight outpost also shields thebackward b/¹.

19Ö½b7 20.¼ae1 ¼fe8 21.½f3ºf8 22.ºc1 ½b8 23.g4 ºg724.ºa3

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24Öd5!?

Spraggett mounts a spirited challengein the center in order to avoid driftinginto a passive position.

25.exd5 ºxb5 26.cxb5 e427.ºxe4 »e5 28.½g3 »xe4?

Much better is 28Ö»exg4!? when29.ºg2 ½xg3 30.¼xe8+ ¼xe831.hxg3 »h5! 32.ºd6 ºe5 33.ºxe5¼xe5 34.d6 »xg3+ 35.¾g1 »e2+leads to a draw by perpetual check.

29.¼xe4 ½xb5 30.¼fe1 ¼ad8

Perhaps 30Ö½xd5 31.»b6 hadescaped BlackÕs attention when heplayed his 28th move.

31.d6 ½d5 32.¾g1

By now Spraggett despairs of copingwith the passed d/¹ and decides tosacrifice the exchange in a bid toreach a survivable ending.

32Ö¼xd6 33.ºxd6 ½xd6 34.»b2½b6+ 35.¾g2 ½c6 36.¾h3 f637.»c4

Pascal makes optimal use of the pinon the e/file.

37Ögxf5 38.gxf5 ½d7 39.»xe5fxe5

Kevin cannot interpolate 39Ö½xf5+?because then 40.½g4 ¼xe5 41.¼xe5½xg4+ 42.¾xg4 fxe5 43.¼a1 ishopeless.

40.¼xe5 ¼xe5 41.¼xe5 ¾f742.¼c5 Ø.

Congratulations Pascal!

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In Memoriam

details of games long after they wereplayed, and he had the ability to playmany blindfold games simultaneously.In his Montreal days Lionel was alsoactive as a correspondence player,and in other pursuits was a formidablebridge player.

The following game is particularlyinteresting, since the move 16.»e3stood at the center of a theoreticaldispute with Nigel Fullbrook aboutthe Milner-Barry Gambit in theAdvance French. Joyner was a man ofstrong opinions: ÒI have alternatedbetween playing the French andSicilian Defenses for over 40 yearsand have never lost a game to theMilner-Barry, but not many of myopponents have played it against me.Consequently, just prior to the start ofthe 1988 BC Championship, I wasdelighted to find out that I was to bepaired as Black against Nigel, since hewas sure to employ this gambit.Ó

Notes byLionel Joyner

Fullbrook, NigelJoyner, Lionel

Vancouver BC ch (5), 1988French: Advance C02

1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.c3 »c65.»f3 ½b6 6.ºd3

WhiteÕs move order 6.ºd3 almostsurely signals that he intends to playthe Milner-BarryÖ

6Öcxd4

Note that move order is importanthere as the immediate 6Öºd7 permitsthe strong 7.dxc5! when Black isadvised to play 7Ö½c7 since 7Öºxc58.b4! forces Black to sacrifice a piecefor two pawns or be strangled todeath. Readers can search forimprovements on the line 8Öºxf2+9.¾e2 a5 10.¼f1 axb4 11.¼xf2 b312.¾f1 »a5 13.¼b2 but now 13Öºa4cannot be played because of 14.axb3and BlackÕs ¼/a8 hangs.

7.cxd4 ºd7 8.O-O

This is the starting point of the Milner-Barry Gambit. White can also play theNimzovich retreat 8.ºe2 though after

8Ö»h6! 9.b3 »f5 10.ºb2 ºb4+11.¾f1 O-O Black plays Öf6 withheavy pressure down the f/file. Not agood retreat is 8.ºc2 on account ofthe obvious 8Ö»b4 9.»c3 »xc2+10.½xc2 ¼c8 11.O-O »e7 12.ºe3»c6 13.½d2 13.¼ac1 »a5 (White isstrategically lost after 13Öºb4 14.a3ºxc3 15.bxc3 »a5) from the gameSteinitzÐBurn, Vienna 1898.

8.O-O »xd4 9.»xd4 ½xd410.»c3 ½xe5!

Black is at least equal after 10Öa611.½e2 »e7 12.¾h1 »c6 13.f4 »b414.¼d1 »xd3 15.¼xd3 ½b6 16.ºe3ºc5 17.ºxc5 ½xc5 18.f5 d4! but thetext is an even more convincingrefutation of the gambit. WhiteÕscenter has been destroyed and he ispositionally lost because he lacks astronghold to offset BlackÕs d5 point.Only a tactical solution in the nextfew moves can prevent his defeat.

11.¼e1

White doesnÕt appear to haveanything better.

11Ö½b8

The game SuttlesÐJoyner, CA ch1965, continued 12.»b5 ºxb513.ºxb5+ ¾d8 14.ºd2 »f6 15.½a4½b8! 16.ºa5+ b6 17.ºc6 ºd618.ºxa8 bxa5 19.ºc6 ºxh2+ 20.¾h1ºc7 21.¼e2 h5! 22.¼d1 ½b4 with awinning edge for Black. The samevariation also occurred inReeveÐJoyner, Vancouver Keres mem1985, where Black was also winningafter 15.½f3 »f6 16.ºf4 ½b6 17.ºa4ºc5! 18.ºg5 ¾e7. Earlier in this gamethe moves a3 a5 had been inserted,but this had no effect on the play.

However, since all of this looks a littleloose and White may have bettermoves than those found by Suttlesand Reeve, it is much more prudentto return one pawn and retain a sure

by Stephen Wright

It is with sadness that we learn of thepassing of former Canadian ChampionLionel Joyner at age 69.

Born and raised in Montreal, LionelBerry Joyner learnt chess at therelatively late age of sixteen, butprogressed so rapidly that he camethird in the 1950 Quebec provincialchampionship two years later. Thefollowing year Lionel representedCanada in the first World Juniorchampionship held in Birmingham,England Ð this by virtue of beatingRoss Siemms in a match 3.5Ð2.5.

In 1952 Joyner spent some time inCalifornia, where he won the LosAngeles County championship. Hewas invited to participate in aninternational event in Hollywood, andtied for fourth in a field that includedGligoric, Pomar, Steiner, Kashdan andDake: in those days this was quite aresult for a 20-year-old, particularlyone who had only been playing forfour years! Lionel also representedCanada internationally at the 1958Munich Olympiad, playing board 5.Nationally he participated in sixCanadian championships, scoring+40=15Ð13 or 69.8%. Joyner won thetitle at Brockville in 1961 and placedsecond in 1965; the lowest he everfinished was 5th.

Lionel moved to Edmonton in 1964and subsequently to Port Coquitlam in1972, but the duel commitments ofwork (an accountant by profession,Joyner also worked as a stockbrokerand tax auditor) and family restrictedhis participation in competitive chessfor most of the 1970s and early1980s. He made a triumphant returnin the 1985 Paul Keres Memorial,sharing first with John Braley and JohnDonaldson. His last rated tournamentwas in 1989.

A positional player with a classicalstyle, Joyner had strong endgametechnique and a good eye forcombinations. Although Lionel was ofIM strength he never held aninternational title, and only obtained aFIDE rating in 1989! Blessed with aphenomenal memory, he could recall

28 March 1932 to 28 June 2001Lionel Joyner

Lionel Joyner

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positional and material advantage withthe text.

12.»xd5

White really has nothing better thanto accept BlackÕs offer to return thepawn.

12Öºd6 13.½g4

Here 13.ºd2 transposes to the mainline.

13Ö¾f8 14.ºd2 h5!

Black drives the queen to possibly theworst square on the board.

15.½h3 ºc6

Almost as good is 15Ö»h6 16.»e3¾g8 17.ºc3 »g4! 18.»xg4 hxg419.½xg4 ºxh2+ 20.¾f1 ½f8 whenWhite has helped Black develop bothrooks, as well as exposing his ownking to attack.

16.»e3

The supposed improvement! WhiteÕsknight is a most unhappy fellow as hecontinually gets in the way of theother pieces. He clearly belongs at f3in this position, but has no way to getthere in time to do any good! Indeed,after 16.»b4 ºe8! White could notfind a good plan in the gameBurnettÐWatson, Los Angeles 1982,and lost after 16.»b4 ºe8! 17.ºc4(after 17.ºc3 Black plays Ö»e7-d5-f4) 17Ö»f6 18.»d3 »g4 19.g3 b520.ºb3 ºc6! 21.»f4 ½b6 22.ºe3 ºc523.ºxc5+ ½xc5 24.¼e2 ¼e8 25.¼c2½b6 26.¼ac1 ºa8 27.¼c5 ½b728.½g2 ½d7! 29.½f1 h4! 30.½d1hxg3! 31.fxg3 ¼xh2 Ù.

16Ö»f6 17.ºc3

In the game RectorÐWatson, FortWorth 1984, there followed 17.»c4ºc7 18.½h4 »g4 19.h3? ºd8 with awinning advantage to Black. Borgsuggests the text as an improvementover the game BorgÐNikolic, Kavalazt (1) 1985, with unclear play.However, John Watson commentsÒafter 17Öºe5 how unclear is it?Ó

17Öºe5 18.¼ac1 ºxc3 19.¼xc3¼h6!

At this point I could hear WhiteÕs ¼/e1 and ½/h3 complain about thehapless »/e3. Indeed, thatÕs no wayto treat a lady, especially consideringwhat further indignities await her!

20.½h4

The unfortunate »/e3 cannotrelinquish his post, because thensquare/d5 falls prey to BlackÕs happyknight.

20Ö»g4!

Thematic. WhiteÕs queen must remainlocked up.

21.f3?

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An attempt by the knight to die anhonorable death.

21Ög5!

The final indignity to the queen. Thecheeky pawn points a dagger at herthroat.

22.½h3

Alas! The cheeky fellow cannot beremoved, as White is lost after22.½xg5 ½xh2+ 23.¾f1 ºxf3!

22Ö»xe3 23.¼xe3 ½f4 24.ºe2¼d8 25.g3 ½f6 26.½f1 h4 27.g4¼d2 28.½c1 ½d4 29.¾f1 ºb530.¾e1 ¼xe2+ 31.¼xe2 ºxe232.¾xe2 ½e5+ 33.¾f1 ¼f634.½d2 ¼f4 35.½e3 ½xe336.¼xe3 ¼c4 37.¼e2 ¾e7 38.¾f2f6 39. ¾e3 e5 40. b3 ¼d4 41.¼c2¾d7 42.¼c1 b6 43.¼c2 a5 44.¼c1a4 45.bxa4 ¼xa4 46.¼c2 ¾d647.h3 b5 48.¼d2+ ¾c5 49.¼c2+¾d5 50.¼d2+ ¼d4 51.¼b2 b452.¼c2 e4 53.fxe4+ ¼xe4+ 54.¾f3¼c4 55.¼d2+ ¼d4 56.¼b2 ¼d3+57.¾g2 ¼g3+ 58.¾h2 ¾c459.¼c2+ ¼c3 60.¼b2 ¼a3 61.¼c2+¾d3 62.¼f2 ¼c3 63.¼f3+ ¾d264.¼xf6 ¼a3 65.¼f5 ¾c2 66.¼c5+¾b2 67.¼b5 ¼xa2 68.¼xg5 b369.¾g2 ¾a1+ 70.¾f3 b2 71.¼b5¼a3+ 72.¾f4 b1=½ 73.¼xb1+¾xb1

ÒOne can understand the lack ofinternational advocates of the Milner-Barry gambit. I issue an appeal tolocal players while playing the Blackpieces to assist in stamping out 1.e4as an opening move. Play the French!This is not as funny as it reads.Already there are reports ofinternational players avoiding 1.e4against noted French Defense players,and they are referring to the defenseas the ÔFrench DiseaseÕ. As far as the

Milner-Barry Gambit is concerned,White has yet to solve his problemsagainst 10Öa6 or 11Ö½d6 or 15Ö»h5in addition to the main line 15Öºc6.In my opinion, there is no adequatesolution in sight. The French Defenseis too solid to permit White tosurrender two center pawns, and anysuccess achieved by White will be inspite of the gambit, not because of it.The Milner-Barry Gambit is onlysuitable for coffee house games,speed chess, or the occasional outingagainst an unprepared opponent.Ó

Ù.

Isaac Kashdan became a Grandmastertwo years after the following lossagainst Joyner.

Notes byAbe Yanofsky

Joyner, LionelKashdan, Isaac

Hollywood, 1952Nimzo-Indian: Rubinstein E49

1.d4 »f6 2.c4 e6 3.»c3 ºb4 4.e3O-O 5.ºd3 c5 6.»ge2 d5 7.cxd5exd5 8.a3 ºxc3+ 9.bxc3

By transposition, the position arrivedat is the same asBotvinnikÐCapablanca, AVRO 1938.The usual continuation here is 9Öb6followed by 10Öºa6 with a slight plusto White.

9Ö¼e8 10.O-O »c6

Black gives up all chances ofexchanging WhiteÕs powerful bishopwith the Öºa6 maneuver, and as aresult his game becomes difficult.

11.f3 ½c7 12.»g3 ºd7 13.¼a2¼ad8 14.¼e2 ºc8 15.ºb2

This bishop later plays a critical part inWhiteÕs attack, but for the momentWhite needs to overprotect ¹/d4before venturing ahead with thecentral push e4.

15Ö»a5

This is an error of judgement, eventhough Black trades off theopponentÕs light squared bishop.Under the cover of his strong centerWhiteÕs kingside attack soonoverwhelms his opponent.

16.½e1 »c4 17.ºxc4 dxc4 18.e4»d7 19.f4 f6 20.½f2 b5 21.¼e3»f8 22.f5

WhiteÕs attack has become almostirresistible.

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22Ö¼e7 23.»h5 ¼de8 24.½h4 ¼f7

Black must defend ¹/f6 againstpossible sacrifices after White doubleshis rooks on the g/file.

25.¼g3 ½e7 26.¼f4 ¾h8 27.h3

White takes the time to create anescape square for his king since27.¼fg4 ºxf5! is problematic.

27Ö¾g8 28.¼fg4

Resignation seems a bit premature,but actually Black is quite lost in thevariation 28Ög6 29.fxg6 hxg630.¼xg6+! »xg6 31.¼xg6+ followedby 31Ö¾f8 (or 31Ö¾h8 32.»xf6+¼h7 33.¼h6!) 32.»xf6 ½b7 (or32Ö¼xf6 33.¼xf6+ mates or wins thequeen; or 32Ö½e6 33.¼g8+ ¾e734.¼xe8+) 32Ö½b7 33.½h8+ ¾e734.½xe8+ ¾d6 35.»d5+ and mate intwo moves.

Ø.

Notes byNathan Divinsky

Grimshaw, DavidJoyner, Lionel

Brockville CA ch (6), 1961King's Indian: Classical E91

1.d4 »f6 2.c4 g6 3.»c3 ºg7 4.e4d6 5.ºe2 O-O 6.»f3 c6 7.O-Oºg4 8.ºe3 »bd7 9.h3 ºxf310.ºxf3 e5 11.dxe5 dxe5

White has not obtained any advantagefrom the opening. He now tries forsomething concrete Ð a spaceadvantage Ð but this endeavor turnsout to be quite dangerous.

12.c5 ½e7 13.b4 ¼fd8 14.½b3 »f815.ºe2

Quite attractive also looks 15.¼ad1.

15Ö»e6 16.ºc4 »d4 17.½b2 »h518.»e2

Perhaps White should cover the darksquares on his kingside with 18.g3instead. Black has taken over theinitiative and White must play mostcarefully to maintain equality.

18Ö½h4 19.f3

After 19.ºxd4 ½xe4! Black wins backhis piece with great advantage.

19Ö»f4 20.¾h2 h5 21.»xf4?

White gets into real trouble after this,whereas a reasonable defense is stillpossible after 21.»xd4 exd4 22.ºxf4½xf4+ 23.g3 ½e3 24.¼ac1 d3 25.½b3½e2+ 26.¾h1.

21Öexf4 22.½f2 ½g5 23.ºd2»xf3+!! 24.gxf3 ½g3+!

The point. This forced queenexchange removes the protectionfrom WhiteÕs º/d2.

25.½xg3 fxg3+ 26.¾xg3 ºxa127.ºg5 ¼d4!

Black has not miscalculated. Thecombination is sound because ofWhiteÕs unprotected º/c4. After a fewmore subtleties Black emerges up anexchange. A really first class game bythe champion.

28.ºb3 ºb2 29.ºf6 ¼d2 30.ºxb2¼xb2 31.¼d1 a5 32.bxa5 ¼xa533.¼d8+ ¾g7 34.¼d7 ¾h6! 35.h4f6 36.¼f7 ¼xc5 37.¼xf6 b5 38.¼f7¼c1 39.¼c7 ¼g1+ 40.¾f4 ¼h241.¼xc6 ¼xh4+ 42.¾e3 ¼h2 43.e5h4 44.e6

White continues to struggle andcreate problems, but Lionel finds amate soon enough.

44Ö¼e1+ 45.¾f4 ¼he2 46.¼c8¼e5 47.¼f8 g5+ 48.¾g4 ¼g1+49.¾h3 ¼e2 Ù.

Despite battling diabetes in his lastyears Lionel still played in teammatches for the Port Coquitlam club,and he was justifiably proud of theconclusion of the following game.

SWOCLSouth Western Ontario Chess League

2002 Grand PrixTournament Schedule

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Mar 23Ð24 Brantford Winter OpenApr 13Ð14 Golden Horseshoe Niagara

Apr 20Ð21 London Spring ThunderMay 4Ð5 Guelph Spring Pro-AmJune 1Ð2 Sarnia Chemical Valley

June 24Ð25 Brantford OpenAug 7Ð11 Guelph International

CFC Rated Grand Prix Prizes!!Cash Prizes in Open Section

Trophies in U20 U18 U16 U14 Sections

Prizes awarded at the Guelph International Pro-Am

See Coming Events for tournament info

For more information visit www.swocl.com or call (519)571Ð0889

Notes byStephen Wright

Potoma, MikeJoyner, Lionel

Burnaby-Port Coquitlam tt,1997

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BlackÕs kingÕs rook delivers matewithout ever moving in the game. Afitting end to a lifetime in chess.

Ù.

[The author would like toacknowledge the assistance of LenMolden, Wilhelm Hansen, JohnDonaldson and Gladys Joyner in thepreparation of this tribute]

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Across Canada

BC

British Columbia

UBC February-March Tuesday Night SwissHee Seid disposed of his top rivalswith ease to post a 5/5 clean sweep.Charles Fekete, who lost only to Seid,finished in second at 3.5/5.

TD/Org/Rep: Lyle Craver

UBC March-April Tuesday Night SwissThough won by top ranked Hee Seidwith 4/5, the tournament was muchmore hotly contested than the finalcrosstable might suggest. Seid was inbad form and allowed draws withCharles Fekete and Peter Broz, andremarked after the tournament that itwas a good thing he decided to skipthe Canadian Championship, whichtook place at the same time in nearbyRichmond.

TD/Org/Rep: Lyle Craver

Vancouver March QualifierJack Yoos surprised no one byoutclassing the field and taking homethe first prize paid entry to theCanadian Zonal with a perfect 5/5score. A full point back at 4/5 insecond place were Bruce Harper,Mayo Fuentebella and Sean McLaren,while 3/5 proved to be enough toshare the U2000 prize among BenDaswani, Lucas Davies, EvgeniGoutor, Justin Hardy, Don Monteithand Edward Tang.

EdwardÕs sister Tiffany Tang postedher best performance ever to win thetop U1600 prize, with Stewart Paulsonand newcomer Leo Erazo dividingsecond place money.

Org: Katherine Davies;TD/Rep: Stephen Wright

AB

Alberta

Edmonton Spring OpenMicah Hughey posted a perfect 4/4to win the Spring Open, followed byDanny Mcintosh with a big rating gainfor his 3/4, and Alex PetroskyÕs 2/4 inhis first CFC rated tournament. Specialthanks go out to Terry Marks, who dida great job as tournament director andeven took several byes so that otherplayers wouldnÕt have to.

TD: Terry Marks; Rep: Micah Hughey

Edmonto April SwissFirst place went to Robert Gardnerand Micah Hughey at 3.5/4 after atough draw in their individual contest,while Jonathan Day and TheoBuitendyk had to settle for a share ofthird with 3/4. ECC President BobDavies directed the tournament, anddeserves a special thanks for takingseveral byes so that none of the otherplayers would have to sit out.

TD: Bob Davies; Rep: Micah Hughey

MB

Manitoba

Winnipeg Manitoba ReservesAron Kaptsan finished clear firstwith 4.5/5 in a field of 21 players,with juniors Adrian Lafreniere andYuchen Mu tied for second place at4/5. Claude Tetrault took home fourthplace with 3.5/5, while Jay Khedkar,Trevor Vincent, Michael Strub andHrvoje Sapina followed next at 3/5.

TD/Rep: Lorne Gibbons

Winnipeg February TNTTopping the field with a perfect 4/4was Alex Nikouline, followed insecond place at 3.5/4 by Roy Proulx.Jay Khedkar was in third with 3/4,while Rory Curtis, Mark Wasney,Claude Tetrault and Francis Truemantied for fourth at 2.5/4.

TD/Rep: Lorne Gibbons

Winnipeg March TNTWaldemar Schulz posted 4/4 to winthe March edition of our TNT seriesconvincingly ahead of Jay Khedkarand Jaroslav Czypinski in secondplace at 3/4. Harley Greenberg, BlairRutter and Carl Pottinger all scored2.5/4 for a share of fourth.

TD/Rep: Lorne Gibbons

Winnipeg Spring SwissAron Kaptsan continued his recentwinning ways by drawing his lastround game with Danny Federkevicfor a first place tie with 4/5 in the 22player event held at the University ofWinnipeg.

John Katona and junior player YuchenMu scored 3.5/5 to share the U1800prize money, while Manitoba Grade 7Champion Devarshi Shome tookhome the top U1600 prize with thesame 3.5/5 total. Carl Pottinger, JohnRemillard and Graham Verch were apoint behind at 2.5/5. My own firstexperience directing a tournamentwas a positive one, but my advice toothers is to definitely avoid playing inthe same event yourself!

TD/Rep: Nigel Hanrahan

ON

Ontario

Concordia Winter OpenSteve Joseph confirmed his win ofthe Concordia Club Trophy by postinga winning 4/5 score at the WinterOpen. His only defeat came in the

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last round against Joe Boronka, whotied for second place with BradRabethge at 3.5/5.

Rep: Steve Joseph

Sudbury Sandbaggers OpenCongratulations to Mathew Cookewho put on an excellent performanceto win the tournament with a perfect5/5 score. Robert Hiuser startedstrongly also, but succumbed toMathew in the deciding final game.Newcomer Lorne Goodwin of ParrySound defended well against the topfinishers, but settled for third with 3/5.

TD/Org/Rep: Mathew Cooke

DCC Malcolm Sim MemorialDavid Cohen and Mark Duttonorganized and directed this roundrobin event following the successful2002 Toronto Closed. MartinVeltmann won Group 1 ahead ofNikolay Noritsan, while David Millartriumphed in Group 2. The event isnamed after Malcolm Sim, who was aFIDE International Judge (1951),Canadian Correspondence Champion(1918), problem composer, and chesscolumnist at the Toronto Telegram(1922Ð56).

Org: David Cohen;TD/Rep: Mark S. Dutton

DCC Spring Fever IIIFred Henderson won first placewith 4.5/5, half a point ahead ofPepin Manalo and Alan Hutchinson inthe 32 player event.

Notes byFred Henderson

Barabas, IstvanHenderson, Fred

DCC Spring Fever III (1),2002

Sicilian B38

1.e4 c5 2.c4 »c6 3.»f3 g6 4.d4cxd4 5.»xd4 ºg7 6.ºe3 »f67.»xc6 bxc6 8.ºd4 d6 9.½c2 0-010.ºd3 e5 11.ºc3 »h5 12.ºe2½g5 13.g3 f5 14.h4 ½f6

Black doesnÕt have to worry aboutplacing his queen on the samediagonal as WhiteÕs dark squaredbishop, since the pressure down thef/file is worth more.

15.¼h2 fxe4 16.½xe4 ºb717.ºxh5 d5 18.cxd5 cxd5?

19.½b4 ¼ab8 20.ºe2 ºa6 21.½c5d4 22.ºxa6?! ½xa6 23.½a5?

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23Ödxc3! 24.½xa6

Black also wins after 24.½xc3 e4.

24Öcxb2 25.½c4+ ¾h8 26.½c3 e4Ù.

TD/Org/Rep: Mark S. Dutton

DCC Days of Winter IIFred Henderson and David Hiershared first with 4.5/5 at this 14player Saturday afternoon event.

TD/Org/Rep: Mark S. Dutton

DCC Saturday Active #24Evgeny Frungorts and FM IanFindlay shared top spot in thisweekÕs edition of our regular SaturdayActive event, while Martin Veltmannand Juan Carlos Torres posted 4/6final scores in the U2200 Class. In theU2000 Class Milan Trbic and ArnieLucki shared the prize money, whileJeffery Butt and regular Tony Vermasplit the spoils in the U1800 Class.

TD/Org/Rep: Mark S. Dutton

DCC Saturday Active #2538 players saw Evgeny Frungortstie for first with David Filipovichand Eddie Urquhart in the TopSection, while Martin Veltmann, JuanCarlos Torres and David Raheb pickedup cheques in the U2200 Section.Trent Davis and Ryan Arcandsurprised everyone by finishing ontop in the U2000 Section with 4/6,despite having just moved up fromthe U1800 Section in the previousevent. Jesus Vera, Steve Karpik andPaul Transky won the U1600 money.

TD/Org/Rep: Mark S. Dutton

Sudbury Winter OpenFor the first time in ten years RobertKiviaho did not win the SudburyChampionship, conceding top spot toMathew Cooke who finished half a

point ahead of the CGM at 3.5/4. RayLandry and Richard Cote shared theU1800 prize, while Nathan Jongsmacaptured the U1600 money with 3/4in spite of his 1200 rating!

TD/Org/Rep: Mathew Cooke

Niagara Golden HorseshoeChess League Championship

Chess has now established itself in thehoneymoon capital of the world withthe Golden Horseshoe Chess LeagueChampionship, primarily with thehelp of organizer and tournamentdirector John Erickson and the supportof the SWOCL.

Hans Jung prevailed over FrankPushkedra in the final round to takeclear first place in the Open Sectionahead of second place finisher KeithWight. Rob Gillanders and GordonGooding split the U2000 Section,while Milos GajÕs 3.5/5 was enough tobest Don Gareau in the U1700. Ourspecial thanks must go out to DrewWard of the Niagara Shrine Club forhis hospitality, and to John Ericksonfor his tireless efforts as organizer andtournament director.

TD/Org: John Erickson;Rep: Tony Ficzere

Guelph Pro-AmFrank PushkedraÕs domination of theGuelph Pro-Am series was ended withan impressive 4.5/5 score by HansJung, who beat the fellow FM in theirsecond round game. The Pro Sectioncontinues to be the smallest group inthe event in spite of the generousprize fund, while a much larger fieldplays for trophies and the love of thegame in the Amateur Section. BobGillanders won the U2000 Sectionwith 4/5, and Norm Wenz went 5/5in the U1700 Section.

All games in the tournament featureSaitek digital clocks with a ten secondincrement, thereby eliminating anypotential problems at the end of thegame involving Òpractical winningchancesÓ etc.

TD/Org/Rep: Hal Bond

DCC March Into April IIDavid Yu Peng, formerly of Beijing,beat co-winner Nikolay Noritsan intheir round four encounter, but tookbyes in the first two rounds to alsosettle for 4/5. Last yearÕs winner FredHenderson finished alone in third with3.5/5. Junior players Hazel Smith and

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Shiyam Thavandiran were a half pointback together with Craig Martin andAlan Hutchinson in a tie for fourth.

TD/Org/Rep: Mark S. Dutton

Toronto Open ChampionshipHao Yuan Wang posted a stunningperformance with consecutive drawsagainst IM opposition in the final tworounds en route to his first place finishat the Toronto Open with 5/6. Closebehind in second place was IM YanTeplitsky and Yaaqov Vaingorten,who ended a run up the chart by IMLawrence Day in the final round.

Day, LawrenceWang, Haoyuan

Toronto op (1), 2002Sicilian B20

1.e4 c5 2.a3 e6 3.b4 cxb4 4.axb4ºxb4 5.ºb2 »f6 6.e5 »d5 7.½g40-0 8.»f3 ºe7 9.»a3 »c6 10.ºc4»b6 11.ºb3 f6 12.0-0 fxe513.»xe5 ºf6 14.f4 d5 15.d4 ºd716.c3 »e7 17.ºc2 »f5 18.½h3ºxe5 19.dxe5 ¼f7 20.g4 ½h421.½f3 »h6 22.h3 ¼af8 23.½e3

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23Öd4 24.cxd4 »d5 25.½d3 g626.f5 gxf5 27.g5 ¼g7 28.ºc1 f429.¾h2 »g4+ 30.¾g1 »ge331.ºxe3 ¼xg5+ Ù.

Perfect scores were posted by KevinTeh in the U1700 Section, while 5.5/6by Martin Veltmann in the U2100Section can also be considered quiteperfect as his half point surrendercame from a bye. Just behind Martinwas Steve Macleod, who had led thefield until his loss to the sectionwinner. Shiyam Thavandiran, whorepresented Canada in the B10Section at the last World YouthChampionships, took home first prizein the U1900 Section a full pointahead of his nearest challenger. Keepyour eye out for this young meteoritein the future!

Rep: Stefanie Chu

NB

New Brunswick

Bathurst Northshore OpenTop honors went to Kyle Johnson,Dave Assaff and Patrick Caissie at4/5, while Francis Losier took theU1700 Section with 3.5/5. PierreLosier captured the U1500 prize, andthe U1300 money went to JordanHovey with an impressive 3/5.

Rep: Leo Legacy

Dieppe 50th Anniversary OpenJonathan MacDonald won thetournament with 5/6, half a pointahead of Ronak Kapadia at 4.5/6.23 players participated.

Notes byChris Maund

Hovey, JordanMaund, Chris

Dieppe op (3), 2002White has a achieved decisivematerial advantage, but it is BlackÕsmove and he delivers a pretty mateagainst his opponentÕs exposed kingjust in the nick of time.

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1Ö»c5+! 2.¾c3

Forced mate is also unavoidable after2.½xc5 ½e4+ 3.¾c3 ½c2# or 2.dxc5½e4#.

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Notes byJonathanMacDonald

Davis, NeilMacDonald, JonathanDieppe op (3), 2002

Benoni A60

1.d4 »f6 2.c4 c5 3.d5 e6 4.dxe6

White should not abandon the centervoluntarily. Better is to continue hisdevelopment with 4.»c3.

4.. fxe6 5.»c3 ºe7

ECO suggests 5Öd5 as an alternative.

6.e4 »c6 7.»f3 0-0 8.ºd3 d5

Black decides to make use of hisdevelopment advantage by sacrificingtwo pawns for a long term initiative.

9.exd5 exd5 10.cxd5 »d4 11.ºc4ºd6 12.»xd4 cxd4 13.½xd4 »g414.ºe3 ºf5

White is left contemplating where tomove his king.

15.h3

WhiteÕs material advantage doesnÕtmake up for his unsafe king. The textweakens g3, but after 15.0-0-0 ¼c8followed by Öºe5 and Ö½a5 BlackÕsposition is very threatening. Perhapsthe careful retreat 15.ºe2 mellowsthings a bit.

15Öºe5 16.½d2 »xe3 17.½xe3

Also trouble for White is 17.fxe3ºg3+ followed by 18Ö¼c8 with lotsof Black pressure.

Haoyuan Wang

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17Ö½h4!

White now cannot castle to eitherside, and Black threatens to bring hisother rook to the center.

18.ºe2

After 18.0-0 ¼ae8 Black threatensboth queen and bishop.

18Ö¼ae8 19.g3 ½b4 20.½d2 ºxc321.bxc3 ½b5!

Black threatens 22Ö¼xe2 followed by23Ö¼e8 while Öºd3 is also in the air.

22.¾f1

White can also try 22.¾d1 but after22Ö¼xe2 23.½xe2 ½a4+ 24.¾c1 ¼c8!the end seems near.

22Ö¼xe2 23.a4 ½c4 24.½d4 ¼e4+

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Top Rating ListsThese lists include current members that have been rated in a CFC event within the last twelve months

Top Canadians1. Lesiege, Alexandre PQ 26462. Spraggett, Kevin ON 26293. Teplitsky, Yan ON 25234. Linskiy, Oleg PQ 25035. Hebert, Jean PQ 24806. Cummings, David ON 24747. Zugic, Igor ON 24718. Hergott, Deen ON 24699. Charbonneau, Pascal PQ 2469

10. Nickoloff, Bryon ON 246811. Barbeau, Sylvain PQ 246012. O'Donnell, Tom ON 245313. Khassanov, Marat PQ 243614. Livshits, Ron ON 243415. Day, Lawrence ON 243316. Yoos, John C. BC 243017. Hartman, Brian ON 242618. Milicevic, Goran ON 241419. Basanta, Gary BC 241020. Glinert, Stephen ON 240421. Schleifer, Michael PQ 240422. Dougherty, Michael ON 239323. Allan, Denis ON 239324. Ross, David PQ 238525. Duong, Thanh Nha PQ 237226. Bluvshtein, Mark ON 237127. Hamilton, Robert ON 237028. Ochkoos, Jura ON 236629. Mikanovic, Goran PQ 236530. Reeve, Jeff AB 236031. Findlay, Ian ON 235932. Olszewski, Piotr ON 235933. Pacey, Kevin ON 235834. Taylor, Gordon ON 235735. Berry, Jonathan BC 235636. Hua, Lefong PQ 235537. Gentes, Kevin MB 235438. Fuentebella, Mayo BC 234839. Harper, Bruce BC 233540. Mitrovic, Milan ON 233441. Phillips, Ray PQ 232142. Ristovic, Nenad AB 231843. Goldenberg, Danny PQ 231844. Lipnowski, Irwin MB 231245. Gurevich, Artem ON 231046. Filipovich, David ON 230947. Herder, David BC 230748. Neven, Knut SK 230549. Vujic, Branimir ON 230450. Vaingorten, Yaaqov ON 230451. Howarth, Anthony PE 230452. Valdizon, Armando ON 230353. Pushkedra, Frank ON 230254. Kiviaho, Robert ON 230155. Scoones, Dan BC 2300

Top FIDE1. Lesiege, Alexandre PQ 25842. Spraggett, Kevin ON 25153. Teplitsky, Yan ON 24534. Zugic, Igor ON 24505. Marantz, Michael ON 24206. Suttles, Duncan BC 24207. Pelts, Roman ON 2417

8. Nickoloff, Bryon ON 24179. Linskiy, Oleg PQ 2417

10. Hebert, Jean PQ 241111. Hartman, Brian ON 240512. Charbonneau, Pascal PQ 240513. Schulte, Oliver BC 239714. Barbeau, Sylvain PQ 239715. Hergott, Deen ON 238816. Schleifer, Michael PQ 238817. Teodoro IV, Eduardo D. ON 238718. Bluvshtein, Mark ON 238019. Cummings, David ON 238020. Alipayo, Rodulfo ON 238021. Khassanov, Marat PQ 237022. O'Donnell, Tom ON 236723. MacPhail, John ON 236524. Milicevic, Goran ON 236025. Kleinplatz, Sam PQ 235526. Amos, Bruce ON 235527. Piasetski, Leon BC 2350

Top Women1. Starr, Nava ON 22752. Mitrovic, Bojana ON 21763. Belc, Daniela ON 21384. Chu, Stefanie ON 20955. Benggawan, Amanda ON 20826. Bryskine, Marina ON 20687. Kagramanov, Dina ON 20578. Khaziyeva, Dinara PQ 20199. Charbonneau, Anne-Marie PQ 1948

10. Baltgailis, Vesma ON 1933

Top U201. Charbonneau, Pascal 19 PQ 24692. Glinert, Stephen 18 ON 24043. Bluvshtein, Mark 14 ON 23714. Hua, Lefong 20 PQ 23555. Gurevich, Artem 19 ON 23106. Wang, HaoYuan 16 ON 22807. Golts, Roman 20 ON 22748. Lawson, Eric 18 PQ 22539. Hacat, Kevork 19 ON 2245

10. Divljan, Igor 16 ON 2239

Top U181. Glinert, Stephen 18 ON 24042. Bluvshtein, Mark 14 ON 23713. Wang, HaoYuan 16 ON 22804. Lawson, Eric 18 PQ 22535. Divljan, Igor 16 ON 22396. Roussel-Roozmon, T 14 PQ 22317. Miller, Evgeni 17 ON 22118. Stevens, Christian 15 ON 22119. Reddy, Tyler 18 NS 2205

10. Lentini, Joseph 17 ON 2186

Top U161. Bluvshtein, Mark 14 ON 23712. Wang, HaoYuan 16 ON 22803. Divljan, Igor 16 ON 22394. Roussel-Roozmon, T 14 PQ 22315. Stevens, Christian 15 ON 2211

6. Krnan, Tomas 14 ON 21647. Predescu, Sebastian 14 ON 20998. Buscar, Michael 15 ON 20869. Benggawan, Amanda 16 ON 2082

10. Kagramanov, Dina 16 ON 2057

Top U141. Bluvshtein, Mark 14 ON 23712. Roussel-Roozmon, T 14 PQ 22313. Krnan, Tomas 14 ON 21644. Predescu, Sebastian 14 ON 20995. Noritsyn, Nikolay 11 ON 20556. Panjwani, Raja 12 ON 20357. Meng, Fanhao (Bobby)14 BC 19998. Ramaswamy, Kishor 14 PQ 19689. Leung, Victor 14 ON 1948

10. Eshleman, Brandon 11 AB 1942

Top U121. Noritsyn, Nikolay 11 ON 20552. Panjwani, Raja 12 ON 20353. Eshleman, Brandon 11 AB 19424. Vadachkoriya, Irakli 12 ON 19185. Sviridovitch, Alina 10 ON 18706. Hier, David 11 ON 18567. Thavandiran, Shiyam 10 ON 18518. Vincent, Trevor 12 MB 18389. Smith, Hazel 11 ON 1754

10. Cuevas, Vincent 12 ON 1745

Top U101. Sviridovitch, Alina 10 ON 18702. Thavandiran, Shiyam 10 ON 18513. Mai, Lloyd 9 ON 14154. Kaufman, Harris 10 ON 14015. Gorgevik, Kristijan 10 BC 13846. Fan, Brendan 9 ON 13747. Aylward, Zachary 10 BC 13698. Young, Bryan 10 BC 13449. Kaminski, Thomas 7 AB 1306

10. Wiratunga, Sheran 10 ON 1305

Top Active Ratings1. Spraggett, Kevin ON 25432. Hartman, Brian ON 25203. Day, Lawrence ON 24944. Schleifer, Michael PQ 24885. O'Donnell, Tom ON 24486. Cummings, David ON 24237. Teodoro IV, Eduardo D. ON 23988. Milicevic, Goran ON 23859. Livshits, Ron ON 2371

10. McTavish, David ON 236011. Findlay, Ian ON 235812. Dougherty, Michael ON 234213. Mitrovic, Milan ON 233814. Vujic, Branimir ON 233515. Ochkoos, Jura ON 231616. Tipu, Vincentiu ON 231417. Spraggett, Grant ON 231018. Reeve, Jeff AB 230419. Bluvshtein, Mark ON 228820. Gardner, Robert J. AB 228721. Haessel, Dale AB 2285

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Regular Ratings

AlbertaCFC# Name Rtng High131399 Aggarwal, Anil 1185 17120820 Andersen, Sune 1985 2065123306 Anderson, Ashton 1901 1901108876 Baunok, Zoltan 2050 2200132688 Beairsto, Brennan xxxx 5128141 Beebe, Greg 1646 1731131400 Beebe, Amanda 821 4103443 Bentley, Bill 1947 2000107595 Bertrand, Daryl xxxx 1963132770 Bodnar, Dan 790 5106248 Boehmer, Kris 2110 2207131279 Boik, Andrew 1543 18132097 Bondarenko, James 1108 4120375 Borowski, Ted xxxx 1682111135 Brazeau, Robert 1784 1816132690 Breathwaite, Elizabeth xxxx 5111306 Brodmann, David 1771 1796107545 Brown, Grant 2107 2133133117 Brown, Travis 1132 7102719 Buitendyk, Theo 1758 1758131398 Buitendyk, Anthony 1150 10131397 Buitendyk, Andrew 1024 9132719 Caddel, Paul 1532 7129688 Campbell, Steve 1502 1540106967 Camphaug, Lincoln 1623 1721120411 Canal, Richard 1712 1712125470 Caouette, Jules xxxx 12131402 Cardinal, Blaine 951 4129419 Caughlin, Wade 1475 10128090 Chapman, James 1535 1535108292 Chi, Jonathan 1679 1698123601 Chi, Megan 1288 1295120745 Clark, Alan xxxx 2055112570 Clark, Chris 1451 1538131276 Climenhaga, Harold 1896 1995125775 Cole, Mark 1260 1301132492 Conner, Kris 1559 5132478 Cruz, Adrian xxxx 7105606 Daniluk, Jim 2020 2193132855 Dauphinas, Paul 790 5109618 Davies, Robert 1710 1748107487 Day, Jonathan 1745 1917123560 Deimert, David 1439 1453106163 Deimert, Elroy 1621 1783103550 Demers, Christopher 2250 2285108124 Dewindt, Cor 1495 1813131383 Dinca, Cornelia 1658 21131384 Dinca, Tudor 1231 9103726 Doo, Alvin 1768 1828106324 Duval, Kirk 2031 2031132479 Dziuba, Carter xxxx 7104965 Elberhardt, Gary 1655 24121190 Eshleman, Brandon 1942 1942121620 Eshleman, Lucas 1171 1195104952 Fitzgerald, Jerry xxxx 9102103 Flemming, James 1946 2056131959 Fokkema, Jered 634 5108323 Gardner, Robert J. 2273 2387133118 Gehl, Lane 1231 7132476 Godor, Mitchell xxxx 7132481 Godor, Louis xxxx 7100353 Gomboc, Dave 1891 2144129401 Graham, William xxxx 1506109051 Grumic, Sasha 2200 2276112476 Haessel, Dale 2267 2310130002 Hamblin, Steven 1700 1700132475 Hansen, Eric xxxx 7122495 Haynes, Nicolas 1934 1999132856 Henbest, Ben 901 5132857 Henbest, Rynier 1111 4121097 Hinds, Riana 1226 1331106102 Hinds, Dr. Ronald 2087 2109132744 Ho, David 1649 5132769 Howlett, Brett 634 5133119 Huang, Stephen 931 7109674 Huber, Gregory 2290 2385123872 Hudson, Richard 1624 1687109502 Hughey, Micah 2126 2207132473 Hunt, Sean xxxx 7111589 Ibach, Horst 1350 1432132472 Ironside, Dana xxxx 7110040 Johnson, Dean 1619 1619130882 Jolicoeur, Simone-Daniel 999 10107156 Jones, Frank 1904 1935127461 Kaminski, Victor 1452 1452130786 Kaminski, Thomas 1306 1332131260 Kaminski, Lucas 1409 1409

107385 Karmali, Hafiz 1979 2196122426 Kazakevich, Alexander 1692 1794121625 Kazakevich, Anastasia 1743 1753131382 Kazmaier, Daniel 1757 1757132477 Kinash, Gregory xxxx 7129402 Klyashitsky, Aleksander xxxx 15108707 Knapper, Brian 2058 2074131960 Korsountsev, Stanislav 961 9127128 Kuwair, Martin 1788 1866122934 Leduc, James 1616 20103595 Lefkowitz, Phil 1680 1800133116 Leung, Sonia 831 7131951 Lin, David 1168 5131963 Lin, Mark 923 5107443 Ludwig, David 1673 1825111831 Luyben, Norm 1698 1801108542 Lynham, Ron xxxx 1451110115 Macfarlane, Don 1543 1670111989 Macfie, Bob 1717 1736133115 MacKinnon, Robert 1032 7132687 Mah, Travis 1251 12124431 Makowichuk, John 1851 16128332 Malo, Scott xxxx 11132858 Manning, Blaze 981 4103010 Marks, Terry 1512 1649132689 Marshall, Jesse 1362 12125668 McDonald, Luke J. 1018 10132400 McDonald, Louise 434 8111917 McIntosh, Danny 1681 21101022 McKay, Tom 1513 1743132474 McLean, Michael xxxx 7120082 McMaster, Carolyn 1519 1630129945 Miller, Mitch 1398 7102547 Miller, Brian 1759 1909112716 Miller, Chris 1524 1569101874 Milne, Arthur 1837 2068123323 Milward, Dave 1731 1797132480 Morgan, Joshua xxxx 7109724 Newton, Geoff 1989 2105121343 Ng, Mitchell 1169 1184126459 Ng, Myron 614 14111962 Nguyen, Kim 1989 2114108406 Odachowski, Arthur 2294 2336104728 Ottosen, David 2062 2237101694 Palcic, Branko 1624 1800133256 Petrosky, Alexander 1407 7123257 Pivovarov, Juraj 1823 1848104195 Podolchak, Nick 1634 1700131259 Pradhan, Sarah 901 17131258 Pradhan, Faruq 1226 1226101588 Pradzinski, Tim 1903 1989131213 Pua, Richard 1604 15106052 Quiring, John 1884 2078106812 Rajchel, John xxxx 1931111232 Rajski, Piotr 1746 1784103400 Reeve, Jeff 2360 2400106711 Regimbald, Adrien 1735 1771110140 Ristovic, Nenad 2318 2365101005 Roy, Jim 1923 1964121763 Santbergen, Joseph 1850 1850133379 Sauve, Maurice 1315 1132021 Scornaiencki, Carmen 1378 20131916 Sermak, Martin xxxx 4126271 Skrzypniak, George 1707 1719132691 Smiddy, Michael xxxx 5120858 Smith, Mike 1503 1711127190 Smorshchok, Daniel 720 16120289 Sorgard, Graham 1790 1790102314 South, Fred xxxx 2300128379 Stark, Mark 1809 1879131915 Sturm, Doug xxxx 4123460 Sun, Ke 1428 1428107048 Szulski, Adam 1647 1735111298 Tam, Erik 1962 1962127550 Tassone, Adam 1764 1851125865 Taylor, Ian xxxx 18100070 Taylor, William 1923 2022111530 Thimm, Harald 1911 1924132053 Thomas, Derek 1239 9124092 Tinio, Alfredo 1944 18132067 Tse, Chris 1207 5132860 Usenka, Nastasia 501 4132859 Usenka, Andrei 857 5111433 Van Ieperen, Taco 1983 1999103039 Ventura, Jason 1622 1629105520 Verlik, Val 1566 1704127208 Wang, Amanda 776 9112618 Ward, Kevin 1761 1817130881 Ward, Fouad 1344 3101495 Watson, Walter 2030 2071132482 Weaver, Colin xxxx 7107355 Weis, Rodney 1819 1935127469 West, Thomas xxxx 16132483 West, Peter xxxx 7127483 Wihnon, Jason 1659 1696131709 Williams, Philip 1268 9131958 Williamson, Aaron 590 5100276 Wong, Ford 2020 2040102410 Yamach, Ahmet 1843 1900102743 Yearwood, Roy 2177 2286132861 Zayshley, Erik 711 4

British ColumbiaCFC# Name Rtng High109863 Aartsen, Keith 1419 1419133078 Ahmadi, Ardalan 1087 6132571 Aippensback, Alex xxxx 4130116 Ali, Tariq xxxx 11133034 Ali, E'zaaz 660 5133048 Ali, Zubair 792 5122856 Allen, Dave 1262 1283133041 Allen, Spencer 512 5121445 Almasan, Ovidiu 1106 1106131857 Almond, Mikaila xxxx 3127625 Anderson, Philip 688 13132597 Appleton, Scott xxxx 3110160 Aquino, Manfrei 1976 2031133486 Ardelean, Titus 618 4129728 Arnold, Dex 755 755131733 Arnold, Abigail 200 4131911 Arnold, Madeline xxxx 5133012 Arrance, Rebel 548 4132575 Arseneau, Francis xxxx 5128752 Arslanyan, Natalie 517 7131858 Arslanyan, Alex xxxx 3133530 Athwal, Amir 543 5110005 Atkinson, Neil 1091 1098104388 Atkinson, Gavin 1790 1840

The following lists containplayers who have beenrated in CFC events withinthe last twelve months (acomplete rating list andcrosstables are available at

www.chess.caCFC# column contains theplayerÕs CFC number.Name column has theplayerÕs Last, First name.Rtng column has thememberÕs current rating. Ifthe rating is xxxx then theperson has an expiredmembership. High columnhas the hghest rating wehave for this member. Ifthe number is less than 25it indicates that themember has a provisionalrating and it is the numberof games he/she hasplayed.

127562 Au, Kevin 1031 1071132584 Au, Segal xxxx 9129759 Azzoni Gravel, Dan xxxx 655121355 Bailey, Phil xxxx 4133018 Baldwin, Jeffrey 834 11128830 Baldwinson, Ted 1771 10125716 Bandstra, John 1260 20131267 Barabana, Parish xxxx 14132518 Barber, Austin 364 17131859 Barclay, Fraser xxxx 3132182 Barker, Alexander 610 18132583 Barker, James 404 9132179 Barker, Andrew 688 5131977 Barkhouse, John xxxx 2100238 Barnes, Mark 1613 1831121361 Barnett, David 1383 6131861 Barsballe, Torben xxxx 2131860 Barsballe, Quinn 415 24131862 Basich, Nicole xxxx 3130512 Bassett, Erick 777 11130509 Bassett, Westley 657 9133059 Bassett, Kimberlye 200 5132814 Batryn, Matts 384 10132818 Batryn, Sam 200 7123780 Bau, Lawrence 1572 1619123779 Bau, Jonathan 1389 1452132588 Beaty, Angus xxxx 4128809 Beaudin, Jesse xxxx 20106921 Becherer, Michael 1603 1733133098 Becker, Mike 779 3128236 Bell, Patricia 1130 4103633 Bell, Barry 1724 1761131863 Benetti, Ben xxxx 3130730 Bennett, Spencer 523 10120095 Beqo, Besnik 2151 2151127573 Bergen, Ben xxxx 9100040 Berry, Jonathan 2356 2400132408 Beschea, Mihai 824 861133055 Bhaie, Jaelem 426 2128662 Bild-Enkin, Daniel xxxx 495131864 Bild-Enkin, Simon xxxx 8126913 Bishop, Cassius 521 14126095 Bishop, Greg xxxx 18131099 Blomgren, Darcy 750 9133203 Boersma, Joshua 333 6129831 Bohn, Alexandre xxxx 12130208 Booth, Kyle 765 9130011 Boswell, Ben xxxx 13132416 Botez, Alexandra 859 874133127 Botter, Jordan 776 5132582 Bowers, Andrew xxxx 3123856 Bowles, Malcolm 1208 1229133201 Boyd, Megan 200 6127927 Bradley, Eric 708 15131056 Bramsleven, Orland 271 10126212 Brandt, Josh 1222 1222132991 Brinkworth, Eric 269 5132596 Brockway, Gavin 503 14122965 Brodie, Graham 1297 1314130731 Brown, Gornel 704 8101468 Broz, Peter 1686 1804127870 Burger, Kris 562 10133508 Burgoyne, Tristan 345 5133564 Burns, Mike 613 5133262 Busby, Kristina 258 4132695 Butchofsky, Kathryn xxxx 4108008 Butler, Thor 1706 1706130009 Caborne, Connor xxxx 11128705 Callow, Dylan 935 1016104730 Caluza, Juni 1850 1911133056 Camille Segui, Angelica 200 5120408 Campbell, Tom 1674 1765107783 Campbell, Dale 1391 14133523 Campbell, Rachael 651 5132189 Campbell, Joshua 410 5123111 Canning, Patrick 794 794131738 Canuel, Maddison 375 3120650 Caouette, Gerald 1459 1459133534 Carkner, Taylor 477 5133484 Carlson, Robby 588 5132569 Carr, Lauren 690 24132709 Cavey, Laura 351 9132699 Cavey, David 870 16127353 Chan, Rachelle xxxx 12130210 Chan, Elisa xxxx 10124646 Chan, Justin 1420 1434129331 Chan, Leonard 986 986126697 Chan, Cleo 841 846132607 Chan, Dominic xxxx 2129744 Chang, Max 819 819130476 Chao, Alan 751 751124901 Chao, Jonathan 693 693112091 Chapman, Robert 1553 1622133064 Chatur, Azar 217 5133145 Chau, Zerlinda 411 6126594 Chee, Kathleen 645 645126558 Chee, Justin 982 1034125849 Chee, Colleen 1140 1155129826 Chee, Jordan 804 804125848 Chen, Mary 1118 1118130102 Chen, Kenny 912 12126274 Chen, Daniel 984 984127320 Chen, Hong Yu 963 963133033 Chen, Jonathan 692 11133412 Chen, Christine 1142 4123699 Cheng, Lesley 1152 1212120825 Cheng, Louis xxxx 1838123691 Cheng, Andrea xxxx 1105133192 Cheng, Jack 1065 16132821 Cheng, Andrew 1360 15133045 Cheung, Ivan 468 5123848 Chhor, Kelly 950 1119120308 Chiang, Albert 550 550126033 Chiang, Berthold 1486 1540133214 Chipil, Nicholas 456 5133075 Chiu, Mikey 459 5106480 Choi, Jonathan 1001 1181125512 Choi, David 418 19127924 Choi, Jasmine 809 15130451 Chou, Irene 800 18130502 Chou, Tony xxxx 9127333 Chou, Patrick xxxx 547126920 Chou, Winston 797 797129756 Chou, Mason 727 727133044 Chou, Christopher 560 5127937 Chow, Lo-Ching 1019 1050123094 Chow, Philip 799 871125376 Chow, Thomas 1205 1210120437 Chow, Nathan Yongxu 1145 1261

133226 Chow, Sunny 976 4106001 Chranowski, Rick 1889 2000131865 Christ, Kalen xxxx 3128203 Christensen, Erik 1586 1617132840 Chuang, Junior 672 5127211 Chung, Emily 792 792125758 Chung, Michael xxxx 8125859 Chung, Elaine xxxx 18123849 Churchill, Sam 1202 1205133027 Clark O'Neil, Kit 758 11133099 Cleeve, Geoff 586 4131739 Clements, Kylie 580 12133139 Clements, Brodie 754 20133559 Clifton, Tommy 646 5133043 Clutchey, Emmy 560 5104013 Cody, Philip 1592 1800107375 Coertze, Tim xxxx 1574130454 Collett, Harrison 549 16128729 Combes, Colin 962 21131987 Combes, Keegan 481 10133218 Combes, Eileen 959 5132998 Comeau, Gilbert 419 4132987 Comeau, Luc 443 6132986 Comeau, Celine 238 6132994 Comeau, Monigue 200 4131866 Conklin, Randy xxxx 2133554 Connie, Justin 1020 5128608 Conrad, George xxxx 8126560 Cook, Matthew 1005 1023127028 Coombes, Gareth 807 987132412 Costea, Mihai 738 738128544 Crabb, Rayann xxxx 655128538 Crabb, Tyson 899 899111500 Craig, James 1727 1731100314 Craver, Lyle 1758 1906132603 Cuculea, Razvan xxxx 6132585 Cuculea, Filip xxxx 9132605 Cuculea, Bobby xxxx 4131854 Cuizon, Paul xxxx 5133257 Cullen, Sam 557 10132517 Cunningham, Dylan 515 8123875 Currie, Robert 1507 1538132573 Cuthbertson, Lauren xxxx 9130200 Cymet, Eli xxxx 10130500 Dang, Michael 408 8126703 Daniels, Justin 946 980132164 Danner, Jason 1739 8111363 Daswani, Benedict 1784 1834110646 Davidson, Brian xxxx 1853122884 Davies, Noam 1700 1754110614 Davies, Lucas 1905 1996132185 Davies, Zach 484 5133153 Davis, Tessa 249 5133140 Davis, Joren 388 8133545 Dawe, Neil 200 5133514 Dawe, Graeme 766 5107711 Dayan, Daniel xxxx 1383131867 Dealy, Lindsay xxxx 3132172 Debroni, Sean 904 904101919 Demers, Darwin 1609 1691123077 Demers, Matthew xxxx 1697132407 Demian, Mihai 939 14132594 Dent, Isaac xxxx 4132521 DesJarlais, Dylan 353 17132555 Deveau, Kevin xxxx 11107057 Devindisch, William 1504 2108072 Devries, Peter 1701 1814131869 Dew-Jones, Thomas xxxx 3131868 Dew-Jones, Taylor xxxx 3133557 Dhaliwal, Jovan 786 5132570 Dhanani, Hafiz 766 15121838 Dhanjal, Avtar Singh 1168 3131870 Dickau, Mike xxxx 8132054 Dickau, Lisa xxxx 5133511 Dieleman, Mitchell 266 5133208 Doffe, Jerry 202 5132730 Donahue, Joe xxxx 4131979 Donkersgoed, Kalen xxxx 5133000 Donohue, Joe 1015 21133154 Dufour, Dan 516 5132806 Dugdale, Christopher J. 542 14126926 Dunstan, Shara 611 14128622 DuPlessis, Jean Paul 1754 1786133128 Duquette, Nicole 209 5105455 Dyck, Barry 1545 16127936 Dyson, Devy 486 7133209 Dzinovic, Jasenko 1096 15131871 Dziuba, Brandon xxxx 3132574 Eadie, Patrick xxxx 15133040 Egenias, Allen Ryen C 620 5133130 Ennis, Robbie 277 4133129 Ennis, Mark 200 4121223 Erazo, Leo 1937 5133006 Erickson, Dylan 537 10133032 Esler, Jack 752 5131829 Espinoza, David xxxx 5133560 Evans, Steven 675 5133196 Evans, Carson 361 6133149 Ewers, Katlyn 574 6132174 Falkiner, Nick 705 24132175 Falkiner, Pat 795 18133413 Farrell, Careis 775 5131872 Fast, Ben xxxx 3130528 Fawcett, Dexter 547 14133005 Fayusal, Vincent 679 5133003 Fayusal, Steven 780 5108064 Fekete, Charles 1794 1964132565 Fenton, Yvonne 229 8109715 Ferguson, Jim 2210 2313133134 Finch, Patrick 623 5132837 Flood, Stuart xxxx 4131873 Follack, Garrett xxxx 3133031 Fong, Theodore 669 11132411 Forest, Levi 1034 21133676 Forman, Taryn 481 5122172 Forsyth, Brendan 1242 1306128481 Forsyth, Alan 1382 1403122171 Forsyth, Gavin 1041 1041122165 Forsyth, Bruce 1492 1522130732 Fox, Lusian 649 10126578 Franklin, Elliott xxxx 20131971 Fraser, Nico xxxx 2131874 Frechette, Tanner xxxx 3132516 Freundlich, Andrew xxxx 5132519 Freundlich, Philip xxxx 5128396 Friedman, Jordan xxxx 18104947 Fuentebella, Mayo 2348 2348126579 Fukuhara, Richard xxxx 11133677 Fulawka, Riley 500 5

103643 Fullbrook, Nigel 2207 2373130045 Fung, Emmanuel 828 19130044 Fung, Ephraim 581 18132704 Fung, Cherry xxxx 5132278 Fung, Don xxxx 3131655 Gagnon, Rusty 1385 5123562 Gallagher, Evan 730 730131830 Gann, Connor 918 938131875 Gao, Cathy xxxx 3133517 Garcha, Kelvin 732 5132595 Gatt, Molly xxxx 3133141 Gaudet, Rochelle 699 15133150 Gaudet, Joel 853 22133170 Gaulin, Richard 1492 9133512 Gavrilovits, Deiana 200 4130194 Gazin, David 583 14130163 Gazin, Andrew 565 22130444 Gee, Brayden 515 15111013 Gemmell, Ian 1400 1448128829 Gent, Fred V. 1323 9133515 George, Benjamin 810 5133532 George, Jean Louis 518 5104264 Geszler, Joe xxxx 1711132581 Giang, Howard xxxx 8131912 Gibbs, James xxxx 5131011 Gillis, Kyle 559 11128552 Girard, Jessica xxxx 19131877 Girard, Phillip xxxx 3131876 Girard, Alexander xxxx 3123783 Glum, Matthew 548 548126601 Glum, Rebekah xxxx 22133155 Gomez, Manuel 449 5132705 Goodarzi, Arashk xxxx 5131878 Gordon Duford, Rachel xxxx 1126640 Gorgevik, Kristijan 1384 1416121339 Goutor, Yaroslav 1560 1728123238 Goutor, Evgeni 1869 1869121338 Goutor, Valentina 1705 1818133060 Gower, Sharon 200 5127321 Graffos, Angelo 878 878132702 Graffos, Spencer 793 16129840 Granotte, Josh xxxx 10133058 Gray, Connor 200 5133260 Greenlees, Daniel 200 5129729 Gronotte, Dave xxxx 15129730 Gronotte, Janelle xxxx 19126577 Gronotte, Josh 404 22131879 Groom, Hayden xxxx 2133026 Grossmann, Luke 742 5133070 Grossmann, Morgana 280 5132171 Guldbrandsen, Justin 200 5132177 Gunn, Connor xxxx 10132187 Gunn, Riley xxxx 11123841 Guze, Matthew xxxx 824130733 Hale, Dallas 377 10123566 Halmaghi, Cristi xxxx 642123565 Halmaghi, Horatio xxxx 1090103261 Hamanishi, Neil 1810 2015132807 Hamidi, Khusro 1683 14131053 Hamilton, Zachary 663 11133030 Hamilton, Connor 662 5132808 Hamon, Matthew xxxx 5129920 Hampton, Matthew xxxx 8133572 Hampton, Pip 481 5130359 Hanna, Josh 1598 24130122 Haran, Jeff 1379 22125539 Hardy, Justin 1825 1826133131 Hardy, Grant 226 4102677 Harper, Bruce 2335 2352129675 Harper, Jamie 1271 1275129322 Harper, Laura 1130 1130132186 Harper, Elliot 377 4133156 Harris, Phelan 658 16112513 Haukenfrers, Dale 2160 2216127343 Hausch, Alex xxxx 17130734 He, Jimmy 916 916133142 Heine, Chris 281 4121694 Henrey, Andrew 1462 1462123704 Heppenstall, Lara 956 956103127 Herder, David 2307 2311133197 Herringer, Michael 267 1133191 Herringer, Moise 873 6108423 Higgs, Ian 1836 2003133135 Hill, Lexxie 310 4132608 Hill, Colm xxxx 4132819 Hilts, Matthew 706 15131988 Hilts, Morgan 577 5133528 Hirsch, Max 566 5121071 Hladek, David 2091 2104129821 Ho, Ellis 659 24130303 Ho, Michael xxxx 15129828 Ho, Beverly 438 20131334 Ho, Winston 734 734130304 Hoang, Jason 1228 1228132041 Hohmann, Rosi xxxx 6131881 Holland, Luke xxxx 3109482 Holubowicz, Kazimziercz 1579 1823125372 Hsu, Lee James 871 871132990 Hsu, Janine 204 4133025 Hu, Chester 657 11132829 Hu, Bruce 620 8130923 Hua, Peter 850 850126695 Huang, Chris 1064 1101133065 Huang, Chelsea 200 5132838 Huang, Bobby xxxx 2133015 Huang, Jason 561 5132563 Hudson, Kohen xxxx 4132564 Hudson, Aisha xxxx 4133061 Hui, Christopher 946 10132598 Hui, Desmond xxxx 5132586 Hui, Denis xxxx 6131882 Hunter, Christian xxxx 3131967 Huntley, Eric xxxx 4130050 Husband, Sean xxxx 14131982 Hutchinson, Tim xxxx 5132601 Hutchinson, Matt xxxx 5129749 Hutton, Adrienne 396 18133047 Ikeda, Ryan 355 11133011 Ikeda, Jacob 645 5128117 Immaraju, Amrit 577 577132567 Indich, Stefan xxxx 5130445 Ip, Clement 766 15133002 Ip, Joshua 749 5127934 Iverson, Logan 337 14133567 Iverson, Jessie 470 4130099 Jain, Nikhil 1304 1304130924 Jain, Varun 667 9133063 Jan, Jasmine 242 5133077 Jan, Annie 200 4

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133217 Jansson, Blake 446 5132592 Javer, Jamil xxxx 8131973 Jeffrey, Joe xxxx 5131734 Ji, Daisy 290 5129740 Jiang, Nan 948 24129751 Jiang, Chen xxxx 19123082 Jiganchine, Roman 2224 2253132562 Jin, Melissa 719 9123851 Johnson, Shara 761 761107019 Johnson, Tyler 2115 2200126564 Johnson, Chris 799 799126596 Johnson, James xxxx 22130747 Johnstone, Kyle 337 9108082 Jones, Cliff 1709 1878123858 Jordan, Ellis 819 819120077 Jose, Marionito 1726 1892101521 Joulovian, Timour 2098 6128541 Jung, Hannah xxxx 18130032 Jung, Desmond xxxx 8132560 Kaga, Jordan xxxx 10132556 Kaga, Daniel xxxx 13130048 Kaiser, Justin 574 18132561 Kaiser, Sean 622 14123098 Karakas, Aram 808 916133482 Karp, Steven 1405 5131084 Karras, James 618 9133029 Karunaneithi, Thavaseelan 676 16130031 Kassam, Farris 462 22130342 Katunar, Chad 1005 1005132188 Keefe, Brodi 428 5128668 Kendrick, Jill xxxx 16111400 Ker, Jeordie 858 858103255 Keshet, Ilan 1488 1489131855 Khan, Sammy 1366 3133573 Khan, Faisal 355 5132514 Khoo, Alex xxxx 5133097 Kiezebrink, Steven 1083 3132836 Kim, Chris xxxx 4132055 Kimola, Doug xxxx 5131974 Kinarthy, Ariel 640 15109405 Kindret, Mike 1777 1900133535 King, Matthew 384 5132992 Kinnear, Ryan 200 4108816 Kleiman, Avi xxxx 706104177 Kleiman, Bram 1215 1318132587 Ko, Sean xxxx 5133054 Ko, Andy 408 5100252 Koke, Conrad 1684 1800130453 Koo, Ryan 687 687131883 Kools, Isaac xxxx 3129502 Koopmans, Al 1324 19132809 Kovamees, Erik xxxx 1131654 Kruithof, Simon 1079 4102841 Krys, Mark 1798 1950101530 Krzyzowski, Ernest 1787 2000133558 Kubeska, Tyler 864 5133198 Kuhnert, Drew 821 6131075 Kumlin, Joel 770 10133024 Kuno, Christopher 549 11132684 Kupsch, Joshua 1264 5130534 Kurath, Kevin 992 9126588 Kwan, Matthew 620 620133017 Kwan, Derek 862 11133120 Kwon, Terry 944 5133132 Kyaw, Max 248 5131046 La Couvee, Connor 622 15132170 La Rue, Brad 906 5123808 Labik, Petr xxxx 1819131989 Labossiere, Pam 802 5130748 Lacey, Stewart 760 10131985 Lafleur, Ken 1229 4126565 Lai, Carrie 799 804126642 Laine, Evan xxxx 839130479 Lakhani, Alizah xxxx 10130018 Lakhani, Alam 513 19133542 Laldnde, Austin 471 2127335 Lam, Courtney 806 849126589 Lam, Gregory 765 765126552 Lam, Athena 972 972104559 Lam, Brian 907 981130441 Lam, Levana 398 7133039 Lam, Susan 674 5133001 Lam, Latonia 711 11133023 Lam, Winson 619 11100289 Lancaster, Johnny 1719 1800133483 Lasaleta, Christian 926 5133205 Lathwell, Jordan 556 5132578 Lau, Christopher xxxx 4123876 Le, Jamie 1052 1068104186 LeBlanc, Paul 2050 2136127577 Lee, Peter xxxx 16127777 Lee, William (Bill) xxxx 4129739 Lee, Daniel xxxx 22106064 Lee, Jason 1884 1990129649 Lee, Justin 794 794133123 Lee, Michael 733 5133121 Lee, David E 759 8133122 Lee, David J 898 9132580 Lee, Peter xxxx 8132568 Lee, Kevin xxxx 13132572 Lee, Nicholas xxxx 9131913 Lemay, Nicholas xxxx 5132417 LePage, Treven xxxx 8127872 Leung, Simeon xxxx 19133021 Leung, Zoe 766 16133509 Leung, Yicnok 415 5130287 Lewis, Aaron 949 15132558 Li, Tom xxxx 4132593 Li, Shawn xxxx 2133014 Liang, Jason 510 4132513 Liira, James xxxx 3132591 Lister, Kenta xxxx 8128539 Litman, Raviv 794 794133028 Liu, George 704 5133072 Liu, Alison 398 5132996 Lo, Jefferson 593 4133556 Lockhart, Adam 866 5110351 Long, Hugh 1943 1945129736 Loseth, Tara 693 9102303 Loseth, Tim 1024 1076130104 Lowes, Derek xxxx 15132694 Lowes, Brett xxxx 5133069 Lu, Vivien 513 4132817 Luca, George 566 23132414 Luca, Ana Maria 630 630130302 Lushchenko, Alexey 1282 1282132245 Lynd, Jason 1453 17133261 MacArthur, Scott 702 10

133143 MacDonald, Nickolas 673 5101642 MacDonell, Paul 1438 14105327 MacKay, Stuart 1401 1500128550 Mackie, Parsa 945 945133562 Macskasy, Malcolm 617 5107531 MacTavish, Grant 2062 2062133062 Macy, Bowen 436 5133204 Maier, Mackenzie 200 5107927 Mair, Bob 1731 1731125845 Malone, Christina 803 840133038 Malone, Ciara 591 9122841 Mandic, Slaven 2079 2079131884 Mangelsen, Riley xxxx 8131885 Mansell-Roy, Cuilean xxxx 2129819 Mao, David 655 20133519 Marschal, Stephanie 617 5133540 Marschal, Matthew 280 5133574 Martinez, Nicholas 389 5132606 Mashreghi, Tina xxxx 10131886 Maslany, Miranda xxxx 3131077 Matlock, Scott 345 9133520 May, Jordan 677 5131069 McCarthy, Basil 774 10131087 McCarthy, Steven 506 9133678 McCarthy, Caitlin 412 5131887 McColl, Stuart xxxx 3131980 McCue, Ryan xxxx 4113123 McCusky, Louis 1576 1628133555 McDonell, Matt 936 5131888 McEvoy, Katie xxxx 2131968 McFarland, Trevor xxxx 5128397 McKay Jefferson, Matt 1039 1086131983 McKean Harvey, Jesse xxxx 5131914 McKinnon, Mark xxxx 5100088 McLaren, Brian 2284 2300112021 McLaren, Sean 2065 2131110535 McLean, Jimmy 1360 1375120735 McNichol, Paul 1671 1742132168 McPeake, Daniel 633 5101550 Medalen, David 1806 2042106573 Medina, Mark 1436 1502103657 Meharg, Bruce xxxx 1929123794 Mendoza, Jennifer xxxx 1202127900 Meng, Fanhao (Bobby) 1999 2003132406 Menold, Jonathan xxxx 11132405 Menold, Stephen 415 21133531 Mey, Jeanot 403 5128674 Meyer, Susanne 428 24120075 Milicevic, Dragoljub 2277 2353126555 Miller, Noah 847 900128838 Miller, Cameron 570 19123881 Miller, Rene 882 882133568 Miller, Reggie 623 5128816 Misener, Dan 1530 14133513 Moallef, Soroush 868 5133570 Moallef, Cina 546 5133525 Moallef, Cyrus 604 5133053 Mohseni, Arash 393 11106767 Monteith, Don 1798 1924111039 Monteith, Palmer xxxx 850101144 Moore, Harry xxxx 2365101014 Moore, David 1937 2100124223 Moore, Brenden 1013 1013133510 Morewood, Pauline 460 4133020 Morin, Bret 858 11127938 Morrow, Lauson 802 10127574 Moscoso, Camilo 848 20132181 Mots, Nathaniel 610 5132520 Mots, Tim xxxx 3132600 Moulds, Bobbie xxxx 3133013 Murao, Natalie 523 5133074 Nanda, Arjun 343 5107627 Nathani, Kaleim xxxx 1966104786 Neufeld, John D. 1852 2007133136 Neufeld, Kyle 686 10130040 Ng, Howard xxxx 14111439 Ng, Jordan 1323 1348132703 Ng, Matthew xxxx 5125377 Ngo, Sophie 909 922130498 Ngo, Victor 783 15133100 Ngo, Kevin 809 14130113 Nguyen, David 1259 9120554 Nguyen, Trieu xxxx 1263120592 Nguyen, Vinh xxxx 1055133215 Nguyen, Tribesty 306 3133221 Nguyen, Victor 1060 5133210 Nguyen, Huy 957 5131966 Nicol, Brian xxxx 4133522 Nightingale, Jamie 677 5133516 Nijjal, Avnoor 810 5100318 Niksic, John 2058 2200130292 Nogayev, Glen 1501 1501133220 Noorian, Danny 972 4131735 Noormohamed, Zahra 265 5128718 Norman, Alistair xxxx 569132813 Norrie, Austin xxxx 2106910 North, Robert 2125 2141131675 North, Brian 489 4132835 Oblak, Grant xxxx 4132577 O'Callaghan, Sean xxxx 9128793 O'Dwyer, Eoin 1288 1388133124 Oh, Eric 782 4131969 O'Hara, Jessica xxxx 5132184 Oldfield Lindsay, Marina 485 485132173 Oldfield Lindsay, Cristi 746 746133258 Ollis, Nate 630 10127925 Olsen, Deidre 788 18130749 Olsen, Davis 492 10133541 Olsen, Deni 288 4120252 Osthoff, Dieter xxxx 1600130735 Otamendi, Daniel 772 10131889 Overweel, Nic xxxx 3131890 Overweel, David xxxx 2131825 Pacheco, Sigfrido 1944 6132557 Palmer, James xxxx 12132415 Panaitiu, Gabriel 799 799132409 Panaitiu, Iolanda 756 17132410 Panaitiu, Cristian 867 19133066 Pang, Michael 489 5130167 Pannu, Steven 613 22132834 Paracy, Tyler xxxx 4131891 Parfett, Michael xxxx 3131981 Pargee, Cody xxxx 4105682 Parker, Glenn 1371 1581133137 Partington, Joshua 200 4132737 Pasha, Sasan 1814 16132812 Pastiu, Daniel xxxx 4132579 Paterson, Natalie xxxx 11

132697 Paterson, Tyler xxxx 5128609 Paulson, Stewart 1536 1582133037 Pearson Currie, Adam 693 5104330 Pechisker, Alfred 2106 2244132602 Pei, Annie xxxx 3130014 Pellerin, Daniel xxxx 10130012 Pellerin, Chantal xxxx 11126279 Petchenov, Andrew 1289 1374127865 Peters, Jeffrey 787 14132043 Peters, Reign 1201 5133193 Peters, Nicholas 533 6132042 Peters, Gerald xxxx 6133206 Peterson, Kevin 359 5127219 Pettersen, Graeme 799 19126599 Phan, Christine 607 607131254 Phonchiangkwong, Sumon xxxx 20128671 Picard Friesen, Nicholas xxxx 8131892 Picard Friesen, Ben xxxx 3127133 Pierce, Adam 892 20108831 Pildysh, Rostyslav 1502 1601127939 Pinder, Jage 573 14108125 Pitts, Matthew 1836 1898100259 Planas, Rodolfo 1500 1809132590 Plaschinski, Carlos xxxx 1133526 Point, Anthony 584 5103074 Poitras, Luc 2221 2300131976 Powell, Casey xxxx 5104016 Prabhakaran, Sugumar 1394 1394105227 Prabhakaran, Aarthi 920 920130114 Prasad, Himesh 1301 17130736 Prentice, Ken 613 10130751 Prentice, Connor 573 10132833 Presnilla, Fil-Adrian xxxx 4133536 Probyn, Christopher 506 3111443 Prokopowicz, Monika 1183 1278133151 Prontzos, Yeorglos 402 6133146 Prontzos, Eleni 582 6133036 Quon, Marcus 693 5133009 Ragasa, Mark 587 5129774 Rai, Akshay 347 10133565 Rainbow, Bryan 658 5130739 Rak, Alex 845 10131978 Randhawa, Kevin xxxx 5127866 Rasmussen, Marshall 1071 1072133216 Rasmussen, Tyler 825 9133152 Raven, Jeff 402 6126641 Raymer, Evan 1234 1277127485 Raymer, Elliot 1192 1193132832 Rebko, Seth xxxx 4132825 Rebko, Kerim xxxx 4132599 Redston, Jenny xxxx 3102822 Reedyk, Peter 1509 1509127227 Regan, Tanner 685 19125846 Reid, Brianna 893 930124834 Reid, Alexander 1290 1420123707 Rekart, Emma 683 683128828 Rice, Grant xxxx 9132816 Richardson, Colby xxxx 5132183 Rieberg, Jordan 543 5132176 Riley, Fulawka 654 15133485 Ristea, Alex 694 4127883 Ritchie, Aaron 728 17133073 Ritchie, Trevor 403 5133679 Ritchie, Matt 200 5132988 Robbie, Scott 351 4127214 Robertson, Sean 737 737106022 Roebuck, Scott 1282 1382120218 Roebuck, Graham 630 630130488 Roller, Steven 913 913132246 Rootman, Adam 1245 21132823 Ross, Graeme 1138 14133213 Ross, Derek 939 5129332 Ruby, Samantha xxxx 8132811 Rusk, Andrew xxxx 2129522 Russell, Jonathan 448 4110084 Sadoway, Graham 1588 1615129678 Sahebi, Nima xxxx 5130300 Sakai, Kyle 1055 1055132839 Sakai, Megan 1056 11111528 Salcedo, Daniel 2046 2199132701 Sanderson, Brandon 605 10131893 Santiago, Thomas xxxx 3130533 Savrtka, Titus 514 10133138 Sawatsky, Haddon 657 5130108 Sayeed, Rashid xxxx 16132604 Scales, Giordano xxxx 4125970 Schmeisser, Alex 1194 10103414 Scoones, Dan 2300 2302130352 Scott, Mason 1331 2103673 Seid, Hee 2143 2278123888 Seidemann, Hans 1203 21133144 Seroka, Nikolai 514 5104910 Seru, Surbhi 813 18131895 Sheerin, Izaiah xxxx 3129734 Shenker, Michael 1116 1150126765 Sherman, Amanda xxxx 17126481 Sherrin, Mitchell 1427 16129910 Short-Gershman, Jesse 474 17132169 Shular, Wayland 421 5124409 Sieben, Perry 1033 1033123844 Sieben, Alois 1173 1179132523 Sikorski, Henry 1248 4126569 Silva, Alejandro xxxx 534130109 Sim, Bryan 1016 23129822 Sine, Jennifer 424 14133004 Sine, Avilgayle 745 5130115 Singh, Manu 1283 17133101 Singh, Inderpreet 754 5133102 Singh, Angad 1230 10133103 Singla, Nilu 372 4127576 Singleton, Brendan 651 11129757 Sirohi, Shruti 577 16131896 Sirohi, Abhi 427 7132413 Skolovy, Daniel xxxx 8101193 Sladek, Vaclav 2116 2116104822 Smith, Bruce 1473 17131897 Smith, Jasper xxxx 3130755 Smith, Paul 659 10132824 Smith, Taylor 1176 18131898 Smith, Finlay xxxx 3130754 Smith, Zack 604 10129837 Sobotka, Jan xxxx 12123432 Sokourinski, Sergei 2262 2268133052 Soleimani, Ahmad 565 5127367 Solnicka, Lucy xxxx 1051130740 Sommerfield, Sean 759 10130756 Sommerfield, Colin 663 10122592 Soo, Raymond 959 20

133068 Soo, Christopher 269 4133194 Sorko, Nicholas 711 11133544 Southand, Sierra 471 2133538 Southand, Taryn 552 2102833 Spears, Nicholas 2215 2239131899 St. Arnault, Aarun xxxx 3131092 St.Pierre, Brandon 691 10110554 Stanford, Mike 2165 2187132180 Staples, Brent 534 8131268 Steif, Jonathan 1260 1262100331 Steinke, Wally 1700 1839126002 Steinmetz, Fred xxxx 8132279 Stetler, Walter xxxx 4132083 Stevens, Macaullay xxxx 4133076 Stevens Gudiel, A. 402 5131677 Stevenson, Edward 324 4131676 Stevenson, James 394 4131070 Stewart, Alexander xxxx 10100346 Stockhausen, Peter 1646 1735133561 Stoker, Brian 688 5128533 Stokes, Leo 1017 1080128532 Stokes, Vaughn 890 920125519 Straathof, Andreas 1093 15132515 Strauss, Jaedon xxxx 5100205 Stringer, Lynn 1564 1700133022 Stringfellow, Gregory 626 11132708 Strong, Wesley xxxx 5103030 Stutzman, Larry xxxx 1910103750 Sullivan, Brian 1866 1866120436 Sum, Peter 1417 1500133571 Summers, Adam 414 5133569 Sundar, Navin 556 5130006 Sundarajan, Shweta xxxx 22131900 Sylvester, Jace xxxx 8133067 Szeto, Eric 629 5132989 Tadesse, Merone 355 5133049 Tai, Albert 241 10131907 Taison, Henry xxxx 3130043 Tam, Zachary xxxx 13133202 Tamayo Henderson, Marti 674 6123564 Tang, Tiffany 1384 1384123723 Tang, Edward 1825 1834123631 Tassel, Ben 954 1014105952 Tate, Bill 1928 2002129754 Taylor, Ben A. 1306 3107829 Taylor, Nicholas xxxx 2100100325 Taylor, James 1684 1800132693 Tehrani, Arya 1641 1641131975 Telford, Patrick xxxx 5131902 Thow, Ayden xxxx 3131901 Thow, Taylor xxxx 3127325 Tichelman, Jeffrey 704 704132707 Tichelman, Laura 411 15132827 Tikhomolov, Vitali 1256 9133219 Tikhomolov, Max 1271 14133211 Timmons, Eric 670 5133200 Timmons, Trent 395 6133207 Timmons, Tanya 349 5132696 Tindle, James xxxx 4133042 Toombs, Brayden 438 4133147 Toop, Arther 869 6131903 Toshiro, Uyeda xxxx 3126602 Townsend, Jonah xxxx 632133259 Toynbee, Lucas 437 5123845 Trandafir, Stefan 1126 1210129521 Travers, Francis xxxx 10131984 Trawer, Lillian xxxx 5101209 Trotter, Don 1685 1717132993 Trottier, Fraser 393 4132999 Trottier, Riley 266 4132566 Tsai, Nikky 915 14126639 Tsang, Bonita 872 906133008 Tseng, Crystal 646 10133524 Tuura, Nathan 668 5133125 Um, Peter 501 4130289 Vahabpour, Behnam xxxx 24131904 Vegt, Raffi xxxx 3132810 Veitch, Peter xxxx 2100277 Veszely, Frank 1945 2106131905 Voldeng, Ayla xxxx 3133529 Waddell, Russell 543 5133212 Wagner, David 322 4126583 Wai, Timothy 803 827127904 Wallace, Greg 1189 20127877 Wallace, Eric 1002 20127861 Wallace, Katie 415 14127215 Walsh, Clinton 587 587130757 Wambolt, Brittany 454 9120239 Wang, Yamei 1895 1895133222 Wang, Jerry 870 5127210 Ward, Jackson 778 15126216 Wasser, Reuben xxxx 997126593 Watanabe, Tiga xxxx 631130179 Watts, Josh 352 9132815 Way, Jacob xxxx 3123106 Wee, Michael 1036 1042130452 Wee, Victoria xxxx 9131970 Weeds, Colby xxxx 2132178 Weiss, Colin 688 5132831 Welch, Gordon 754 10131736 Westergaard, Ava 386 8133566 White, Kalin 643 5107142 Whitman, Alan 1665 1800126137 Whitwell, Adam xxxx 9133035 Wickett, Alexandra 623 11105889 Wiebe, Warren xxxx 2045130180 Wiebenga, Kyle 471 9131906 Wigen, Robin 488 12126767 Wild, Joshua 1006 1006132995 Wilde, Nicholas 750 8129833 Williams, Nicholas xxxx 17110849 Wilson, John 1906 1906123863 Wilson, Scott 1332 1390103771 Wilson-Tagoe, George 1764 1900126296 Winkelmans, Paul 1044 1092133051 Winkler, Kyle 471 10106051 Winslow-Hansen, Andrew 1099 1099133518 Winthrope, Marika 694 5133050 Wishart, Ross 312 5133575 Wlasichuch, Tommy 200 5124837 Wong, Jonathan xxxx 9126694 Wong, Scott 1099 1175126918 Wong, Steven 774 774130042 Wong, Matthew 863 863131333 Wong, Brad 1224 1224132700 Wong, Mackenzie 666 10132576 Wong, Joseph xxxx 9133019 Wong, Samuel 727 11

129884 Wooder, Jack 952 952130182 Woodin, Hayley xxxx 9127380 Wou, Darren 1081 19127326 Wou, Kieren 808 808132826 Wowk, Kyle xxxx 4132589 Wray, Iona xxxx 3105433 Wu, Howard 2222 2230133007 Wu, Jeffrey 628 11133148 Wynker, Jared 869 6132997 Xie, Frank 702 4129490 Xiong, Kevin 920 957130110 Xu, David 799 19133057 Xu, James 200 5128536 Yamamoto, Simon 655 655132508 Yan, Charlie xxxx 9133016 Yan, Katarina 804 11133071 Yang, Eugenia 200 5133195 Yates, Dawson 439 6131045 Yates, Davis 726 11101701 Yee, Peter 1876 2023133046 Yee, Matthew 456 3131737 Yee, Janelle 263 8132830 Yeh, Jyh-Yuan xxxx 5133133 Ying, Ken 556 5133104 Ying, Jun 636 5127579 Yip, Wayne 1070 1091133680 Yoon, Cassandra 450 4131050 Yoon, Christopher 985 16107994 Yoos, John C. 2430 2483126574 Young, Alisa 1082 1130129329 Young, Kevin 793 793124357 Young, Eric 1040 1108124832 Young, Bryan 1344 1344127022 Young, Anita 739 739130361 Yousefzadeh, Mehrdad 2041 2041128249 Yu, Danny 1324 1338132559 Yuen, Geoffrey 675 23102642 Zamorano, Alex 1750 1828132554 Zawalsky, Ryan 1005 19126281 Zhang, Hans xxxx 1063132828 Zhang, Kevin 1092 10133563 Zonneveld, Dayton 677 5132820 Zonruiter, Chris 200 10132822 Zyrianov, Ivan 1289 14

ManitobaCFC# Name Rtng High128822 Anderson, Collin 1522 23102141 Babb, Jeff 2171 2257124005 Barkman, Daniel 1663 1691110941 Bays, Derek 1544 1573130321 Benson, Darren 459 7130315 Bicklmeier, Dakota 640 5130316 Bicklmeier, Hunter 280 5105630 Brandson, Doug 1563 1563125496 Charles, Christopher xxxx 23120822 Charter, Bennet 1740 1827108827 Cowdrey, Eric 1764 1817108023 Curtis, Rory 1649 1793106887 Czarny, Keith 1725 1739111806 Czypinski, Jaroslaw 1940 2046108290 Federkevic, Danny 2009 2011130312 Fehr, William 517 6128557 Fox, Doug xxxx 4105641 Gannon, Keith 1542 1725112445 Gentes, Kevin 2354 2395107847 Gibbons, Lorne 1239 1446132549 Gibson, Fred 905 5122619 Gray, Colin xxxx 14107168 Greenberg, Harley 1757 1779120178 Gushuliak, Justin 2046 2185121031 Haapamaki, Eric 1827 1827102670 Hanrahan, Nigel 1639 1747112064 Harding, Mike J. 1839 1900130954 Hogeveen-Rutter, Alex 1246 21131215 Hou, Jeff 1361 21133732 Husband, Ryan 517 3112549 Kaptsan, Aron 2132 2300104550 Katona, John 1776 1820133734 Kennett, Brendon 260 2101470 Kernested, Gavin 1302 1407102391 Khedkar, Jay S. 1996 2064132548 Klassen, Paul xxxx 4108919 Klokow, John 1782 1852132634 Kohalmi, Andy 1575 14132138 Krueger, Simon 770 3131214 Kwiatek, Jordan 1404 23125472 Lafreniere, Adrian 1817 1817130940 Laverge, Michael xxxx 3105377 Lipnowski, Samuel 2014 2090105352 Lipnowski, Michael 1919 1919125303 Magnusson, Saul 915 17132636 Magnusson, Bryan 1176 2109208 Magyar, Peter 1621 1621111120 Martens, Peter 1189 16130297 Marx, Les xxxx 3103189 Milord, Frank 1659 1796133733 Minor, Jenna 200 3127554 Mu, Yuchen 1802 1802112475 Nikouline, Alexandre 2137 2140108926 Ott, Richard xxxx 1572130986 Pilotte, Richard 1357 1389124202 Pottinger, Carl 1569 1569121132 Pratt, Robert 1364 1364104122 Proulx, Roy 1714 1775131407 Reimer, Bruce xxxx 11104699 Remillard, John 1546 1732131216 Rist, Joshua 1422 11132113 Rutter, Blair 1604 1604131012 Santelices, Philip xxxx 1567130295 Sapina, Hrvoje 1631 9106687 Schulz, Waldemar 2059 2095132635 Semenko, Rena 1191 11130955 Shome, Devarshi 1434 20103306 Siegers, John 1587 1700132237 Strick, Garry xxxx 8127559 Strub, Michael 1741 1844131365 Szabo, Frank 1207 9121137 Tetrault, Claude 1584 1584121352 Tetrault, Charles xxxx 1622129531 Toews, Brian xxxx 9103193 Trueman, Francis 1479 1564132114 Verch, Graham 1418 21125311 Vincent, Trevor 1838 1838109884 Walker, Sean xxxx 1672109457 Wasney, Mark 1653 1716120176 Weijs, Harry 1529 1667132137 Wiebe, Daniel 1016 4

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New BrunswickCFC# Name Rtng High128835 Arbeau, Nathan 1466 21107246 Arsenault, Normand 1477 1796102063 Assaff, David 1824 1941131847 Bastarache, Joshua xxxx 7126092 Blagirev, Dima 1024 1024105067 Bogle, Bill 2127 2290104373 Boudreau, Pierre 1261 1486131848 Bourgeois, Brandon xxxx 7103047 Bowes, Richard 2087 2087128788 Bradley, Patrick 1338 1354128614 Breau, Joshua 1377 1451128632 Brewer, Tim 1352 1376133738 Brown, Matthew 578 4133739 Brown, Marc 650 4133745 Brown, Amanda 426 4100253 Brun, Jacques 1750 1905131926 Butland, Brad 1004 12131925 Butland, Gene 1352 13128633 Caissie, Patrick 1695 1695131851 Casey, Michael xxxx 7130266 Chiasson, Marc 1553 1588109056 Chrisjohn, Roland D. 1457 1457106930 Cole, Don 1522 1607129598 Collette, Samuel 560 10133742 Collette, Mélanie 828 5126207 Comeau, Georges 1834 1838131845 Comfort, Daniel 903 16131849 Dalrymple, Brad 930 18111760 Davis, Neil 2003 2172121511 Deveau, Justin 1621 1629133737 Doiron, Yannick 839 5112947 Doucet, Daniel 1579 1835112674 Doucette, Raymond 1692 1799129290 Duchesne McCarthy , K 684 18102718 Duff, Ken 1778 2000108882 Duivenvoorden, Hubert 1658 1900133746 Dupuis, Jean-Luc 741 5133753 Dupuis, Sébastien 807 5104228 Frenette, Franco 1806 1967133578 Frenette, Catherine 988 5133747 Gallant, Martin 879 5125332 Gaudet, Remi 842 17129601 Gautreau, Pierre 719 21125556 Godin, Robert 1421 1454131008 Good, Shane 1586 17107764 Grant, Hector 1427 1705101501 Graves, Charles 1961 1971105843 Grover, Brian 1886 1944133750 Guillaume-Landry, Franc 918 5125180 Hache, Thierry 1460 1460107785 Haggarty, Don 970 1235109309 Hand, Frank 1517 1517109799 Hebert, Rodrigue 1815 2000123196 Hebert-Losier, Francis 1614 1614129513 Hill, Rod 1970 1970129619 Hovey, Jordon 1352 1417129597 Hutchinson, Jason 1109 1150107073 Jobin, Sylvain 1597 1695133735 Joel, Michael 399 4133749 Johannesen, Colton 482 4126076 Johnson, Serge 1030 1124120429 Johnson, Kyle 1830 1883121367 Johnson, Ghislaine 1273 1386108430 Kapadia, Ronak 2158 2185120130 King, Peter 1361 1582107009 Knappic, Pascal 1784 1888121684 Laforest, Gilles 1489 1639131850 Lamarre, Marc-Antoine xxxx 8121683 Lambert, Pierre 1749 1902133740 Lamprea, Sebastian 1257 6129608 Laplante, Patrick 828 15129609 LaPlante, Sophie 588 22125344 Laplante, Marc Andre 1228 1240110255 Larmer, Robert 1814 1847126119 Lavigne-Theriault, Francis 1021 1021129596 LeBlanc, Patrick 682 15109003 Legacy, Leo 1535 1641132711 Legault, Marc 1027 5129582 Léger, Jérémie 953 953133743 Léger, Janelle 631 5133754 Léger, Éric 715 5103984 Lewis, Dale 1635 1635103780 Losier, Pierre 1438 1637129612 Lutes, Jason 725 14109325 MacDonald, Jonathan 2077 2273133752 MacLeod, Matthew 1015 5104793 Malley, Clarence 1554 1676110482 Marks, Reginald 1487 1579100343 Massey, Phil 1814 1900126624 Mathew, Litt 1240 1240103904 Maund, Chris 1326 1421108737 Mills, Ken 1722 1953132712 Nussey, Lisa 1180 5111808 Ossinger, Brian 1708 1733129610 Oulton, Mathieu 724 15125337 Oussedik, Elias 958 958133736 Owen, Jeffrey 668 4100315 Papenhausen, Richard 2005 2057109311 Parker, James J. 1724 1784132045 Pelletier, Guillaume 958 9107532 Peters, Michael 1722 1757102028 Phillips, Brian J. 1536 1553133748 Phillips, Ian 674 5128803 Potter, Daniel 859 13104837 Riordon, Jason 1954 1979104580 Roach, Albert 1495 1600120904 Robichaud, Nick 1658 1713106788 Robichaud, Martin 2006 2011132751 Robichaud, Julien 964 3109026 Rocca, John 1953 1971131846 Ryder, Evan 914 19131852 Sanderegger, Jérémie xxxx 7133741 Sawyer, Dylan 1063 9133744 Sethi, Arjan Singh 839 5129616 Smith, Kyle 1282 1288104579 Smith, Jody 1707 1830110147 St.Pierre, Jean-Marie 1694 1843129613 Storey, Ross 612 13129603 Storey, Jared 726 15132710 Stote, Karen 1163 4109891 Sullivan, Andrew 1967 2100124419 Taylor, David 1419 1437130714 Thébeau, Denis 1215 3129602 Thibeau, Jeremy xxxx 13133751 Thibodeau, Jean-Marc 1477 5

103901 Tremblay, Roger J.A. 1385 1432105827 Trofimencoff, Pierre 1768 1900126113 Vihvelin, Hugo 1106 12109315 Vihvelin, Tom 1551 1695126114 Vihvelin, Derek 1128 19131844 Wallace, Colin 1055 13103405 Wilson, Brian xxxx 1903131009 Wilson, Renald 1560 22132080 Wilson, Sylvie 1043 4129588 Wood-Seems, Zachery 534 10

NewfoundlandCFC# Name Rtng High122243 Barbour, Les 1415 1415121195 Barbour, Stephen 1678 1800125290 Buckley, Peter xxxx 1323131653 Burry, Jon 1285 5120932 Carayanniotis, Jason 1460 1511130332 Collins, Ryan 1063 24125265 Crockwell, Shawn 1128 1134104218 Deal, Peter 1781 1781129711 Dervisevic, Nihad 2017 2017131652 Dorion, Brad 1094 1103678 Dunn, Paul xxxx 1596132291 Hagi, Romeo xxxx 3129362 Hammond, Daryl 1680 1699105580 Hanlon, Scott G. 1890 1928131842 Jackson, Doug 1271 5108262 Jacobs, Rene 1603 1603125284 King, Ryne 1637 1643125730 Martin, Steve 1642 1783122388 McKenzie, David 1349 21123582 Michaux, Aaron 1476 13121087 Oliver, Brian 1422 1657108190 Piercy, Christopher 1313 13122284 Simpson, Alexander 613 23120806 Simpson, Malcolm 1388 1388122283 Simpson, Griffin 1166 1179110197 Smith, Andrew 1844 2000130764 Sridhar, Pooja xxxx 22125289 Sullivan, Michael 1702 1759133167 Tilley, Michael 1203 4110990 Tsui, Edwin xxxx 1887103802 Tsui, Alick 1326 1585109425 Watson, Michael 1884 1884131373 Whiffen, Bruce 1584 18125727 White, Chris 1490 1501130387 Wilkins, Claude 1406 5130771 Wilkins, Stephen 1391 15122967 Wiseman, Shane 1635 1635121199 Woodworth, Claire 1542 1604129363 Young, Heather 1458 1458

Nova ScotiaCFC# Name Rtng High133835 Abunaameh, Shaker 1005 5104592 Armstrong, Brad 1739 1900133710 Aucoin, Patrick 1231 10133824 Bajona, Richard 603 5133709 Barrett, Kyle 1204 10105503 Beals, George 1534 1767133721 Bennet, Stephen 927 5108248 Bernard, Gilbert 1833 1900133717 Bernier, Devon 1253 10105484 Bjornson, Jonathan 1610 1671133839 Bogdanov, Stefan 923 5132537 Bourgault, Daniel 1178 10110332 Boyle, Phil 1679 1749126656 Brannan, Travis 1105 24133831 Burnett, Kyle 1273 5125118 Candow, John 1724 1858103179 Cashin, Ken 1669 1719133838 Cass, Chantal 1072 5103015 Charlton, Glenn 2182 2212108251 Clair, Joe 1854 1862132672 Clair, Jordan 1767 5125798 Cooper, Jim xxxx 1221127413 Cooper, Tyler 809 11133715 Crooks, David 1110 5128000 Crosby, Pat 828 10133708 Curran, Martin 980 10133674 Doucette, Daniel S. 1234 5125676 Dunphy, Callum 927 928125675 Dunphy, Andrew 1523 1523125674 Dunphy, Bruce 1411 1411133720 Dyke, Tyler 1086 10105141 Ede, Albert 1709 1860104341 Eldridge, Michael G. 1888 2058133840 Fair, Robert 872 5133705 Farrow, Anthony 1253 5120900 Gabriel, Jarrett 1559 1587109838 Gibson, Jamie xxxx 1891104320 Gilks, James 1622 1718133825 Grimes, Brandon 483 5133832 Hanko, Scott 1213 5133711 Harker, David 1025 5133826 Head, Jarret 1266 5132046 Huber, Robert 2230 4133823 Isnor, Chad 942 5133722 Jenkins, Thomas 727 5126004 Joudrey, Gary 1583 1583133830 Kang, Mickey 1058 5133713 Kendall, Joseph 1229 10123642 Kenney, Jonathan 1176 1194103040 Kenney, David 1982 2024110204 Kenney, Jason 2017 2086120340 Lindsay, Robin 1646 1660106811 Livingston, Alex 1556 1556123143 Livingstone, James Brian 1496 1654108420 MacDonald, Troy 1890 1900133719 MacDougall, Aaron 1329 10108891 MacLean, John 1371 1499130912 Maclean, Donald 1313 16125677 MacNeil, Danny 1383 1383123434 Mahendranathan, Prem 1334 1498105142 Mayo, Alvah 2097 2213132044 McCleave, Harry 1435 14125679 McGillivary, Mike 1654 15120927 McGrath, Brian xxxx 1601130004 McKay, Brian 1436102363 McKearney, Ed 1632 1731129546 McLeod, Steve 1377 1377133716 Myers, Brandon 1110 5125711 Nearing, Joe 1401 1401129544 Newman, Eric 1472 1605123376 Ng, Gary 1967 1967125712 Nuschke, Alex 1733 1733

102652 Parker, Laurie 1772 1796132538 Parker, Daniel 814 5121635 Paul, Jarrod 1644 1687130636 Paul, Garrett 1515 20133706 Pawlus, Greg 1120 5133834 Penwell, Ed 1016 5104589 Phillips, Gary 1739 1898106289 Poirier, David 1845 1915107992 Poulette, Bradley 1687 1687130294 Priest, Alex 1398 5133707 Purdy, Nathaniel 1053 5130079 Richard, Peter D. 1250 5127403 Richardson, Mark 1198 21133828 Ryerson, Keith 1152 5103353 Saunders, Stephen 2040 2145120336 Saunders, Robin 1352 1396133829 Shiels, Luke 1085 5126658 Smith, Christopher 1303 1303127400 Solomon, Geoffrey 1112 18133837 Sommerville, Campbell 1137 5124479 Spencer, David 1597 1597133827 Stawitz, Ben 1147 5133822 Tan, Shah 1042 5130358 Tarrant, Georgina 1764 1774133836 Toner, Nathan 1340 5133833 Tucker, Devon 1016 5101504 Uuetoa, Harold 1668 1806133712 Vaughan, Matt 891 5101284 Villeneuve, Robert 2109 2200133714 Wight, Andrew 1402 10133718 William, John 977 5108575 Wysocki, Antoni 2085 2120

OntarioCFC# Name Rtng High130825 Abraham, Arun 1023 12107642 Abt, Michael 1689 1862129417 Abu Safat, Ahmad 1208 16132972 Adams, Michael xxxx 5123274 Agabekian, Konstantin 1893 1943132886 Ahmed, Fozi xxxx 6133814 Ahmed, Zohair 1106 6132916 Ahsan, Amir xxxx 6132645 Ainspac, Kirsten xxxx 5132420 Aitkin, Brian 797 19132867 Alarie, Aaron 741 10130601 Alberto, David 353 9133801 Alderton, Edward 998 6120631 Aliev, Inara 1417 1418130633 Allaire, Nicolas 369 9130577 Allaire, Olivier 560 20133492 Allaire, Eric 624 5132796 Allard, Sam xxxx 5112687 Allen, Graham 2123 2225129313 Allen, Cameron xxxx 15108984 Allum, J.A.E. 1607 1812107100 Alvarez, Alfonso 1511 1805132887 Amadot, Adam xxxx 6109721 Amodeo, George 1791 1849133081 Amri, Hamed 674 3133174 Anastasiou, Michael 1136 5129191 Anderson, Eli xxxx 10130560 Anderson, Michael 445 20133440 Anderson, Kyle 898 5131780 Anderson, Cameron xxxx 5131774 Anderson, Graeme xxxx 5131442 Anderson, Albert xxxx 10129137 Andre, Bobby xxxx 20133173 Andrieux, Francois 1327 5124988 Andronache, Victor 1381 1390126834 Andronache, Daniel 1113 1170132275 Andronache, Tiberiu 1748 5130643 Ang, Alan 1010 6130642 Ang, Adrian 900 3128354 Angeconeb-Nawagesic, H 799 899128355 Angeconeb-Nawagesic, M xxxx 735131385 Arandia, Henry E. 1990 12132015 Aranov, Yuri xxxx 5132949 Aravindanathan, Gowth xxxx 6132977 Aravindanathan, Bibu xxxx 5132950 Aravindanathan, Sithu xxxx 6132010 Arcand, Ryan 1597 10132542 Ardila Garcia, Alex 1567 5131711 Armit, Ethan xxxx 10103145 Armstrong, Don xxxx 1765100034 Armstrong, Robert J. 1681 1911132146 Arnold, Christopher xxxx 3130390 Arnott, Whitney 481 10132243 Arulsubramaniam, Babujie 1347 5128063 Aspinall, Adam 1655 1683133725 Aspinall, Michael 890 5102698 Atayde, Merlin xxxx 1784128012 Atebati, Arman 1480 1480127051 Atkinson, Greg xxxx 23108568 Atwood, Cliff xxxx 1541131753 Atwood, Holly 1309 5131759 Atwood, Morgan 703 5133364 Aubin, Tiffany 488 4133336 Auclair, Patrick 609 5132430 August, James xxxx 5130816 Awad, Mohamed 994 11131557 Ayotte, Richard 299 10132917 Babad, Luke xxxx 6132681 Babic, Ivo xxxx 9132797 Babic, David xxxx 5108153 Baglien, Brandon 1606 1641130688 Bainard, Nicholas 1175 1175131671 Balcom, Jonathon 200 5110464 Balcombe, Darren 1751 1751133397 Balcombe, Jeff 1076 5128866 Baleck, Chris xxxx 18133798 Balint, Tristan 1112 6132727 Baltz, Samuel 1038 5132726 Baltz, Aaron 1100 4128073 Banihashemi, Amir 1421 15131538 Bank, Diego 989 6131537 Bank, Robert 1315 7132918 Bar, Basel xxxx 6128239 Barabas, Istvan 1501 1555107393 Barankin, Garry 1997 2102105732 Barbatbun, John 1487 1543129296 Barber, Spencer 432 432108147 Barber, Dave 1605 1779107304 Barclay, Wayne 2276 2300107592 Barclay, Douglas 1331 1534121157 Barnes, Derek xxxx 1694133388 Bartlett, Ben 861 5124420 Baxter, Shawn 1532 1589

131443 Baxter, Kendall xxxx 10133615 Bayko, Eric 906 3105210 Beaubien, Robert 1800 1912133342 Beaudoin, Jason 448 4126054 Beaudry, Lukas 1977 2060131788 Beauregard, Joline xxxx 5133548 Bechard, Miguel 461 5107968 Becker, Paul 1976 2026133543 Bedard, Isaac 627 5131693 Bedard, Shannon 377 5133447 Bedard, Jean-Paul 523 5133632 Begall, Kurt 977 5128881 Begin, Marc Alain 479 16110479 Belanger, Alexander xxxx 1201131777 Belanger, Tyler xxxx 10133353 Belanger, Martin 224 5133434 Belanger, Andrew 966 5131639 Bell, Justin 327 5131636 Bell, Steven 200 4109793 Bellomo, Joe 1658 1934120636 Benggawan, Amanda 2082 2108120637 Benggawan, Alexandra 1773 1842107301 Benggawan, Undriadi 1884 2007125667 Berengolts, Isai 2279 2279131472 Berezowski, Daniel xxxx 10129726 Bergeron, Simon 1005 21103293 Bergeron, Florian 1866 2133132453 Bergeron, Annie 721 10128909 Bernard, Richard 787 787127292 Bernard, Keegan xxxx 14132436 Bernard, Joby 502 10133495 Bernier, Michel 511 5132871 Bernier Gagnon, Sophie 516 5110630 Berson, Jordan 2144 2201133623 Berswick, Callie 606 3133471 Bertrand, Fanny 383 4133500 Berube, Vanessa 508 5133539 Berube, Pierre 452 5131595 Bérubé, Stéphane 654 10129209 Bessette, David xxxx 24133430 Bethune, Spencer Hamilton 328 5133387 Beukeboom, Jordon 994 5133550 Bezeau, Jean-Felix 493 5132117 Bigblood, Joshua xxxx 10126734 Bilodeau, Christopher xxxx 938126746 Bilodeau, Annie xxxx 792126714 Bilodeau, Josee xxxx 19122935 Biro, Zoltan 1393 1440123498 Bishop, Ian 960 961133770 Biskaborn, Kevin 1058 5125272 Biswal, Divyajyoti 1182 1186125271 Biswal, Devyani 996 996126747 Blab, Danielle xxxx 799101163 Blackman, Gord 1797 1937132731 Blackshaw, Graham 1258 4131393 Blakely, Matt 1951 15131809 Blanchard, Joseph xxxx 5109007 Bledzinski, Ian 2100 2110133080 Blium, Benjamin 723 12102671 Bloom, Daniel 1577 1577125709 Bluvshtein, Mark 2371 2382131775 Bodnarchuk, Jessica xxxx 10132493 Bodyakin, Ilya 773 17131716 Boileau, Andrew 210 5132441 Boissoneault, Ashley 569 9133521 Boisvert, Guillaume 679 4131555 Boisvert, Alexandre 325 10132884 Boisvert, Stéphane 379 9133549 Boisvert, Annie 453 5127100 Bolan, Joshua 908 15131305 Bolarinho, Aaron 1185 7111830 Bond, Hal 1888 2021129815 Bordas, Gyula 2109 2157131816 Borger, Travis xxxx 5133281 Borodinas, Viktoras 1313 8110947 Boronka, Joseph 1720 1785108790 Boross-Harmer, Peter 2046 2150103523 Bortolotti, Guido 1732 1987111626 Bos, Peter 1880 1905133599 Boshkaykin, Douglas 1143 5133588 Bosma, Avery 710 5129220 Botel, Shaundra xxxx 9129179 Botel, Aleecea xxxx 15133328 Bouchard, Brandon 863 5132466 Bouchard, Alain 528 9131679 Bouchard, Tyson xxxx 9133618 Boucher, Aaron 568 4133501 Boucher, Alain 478 5132656 Boucher, Nathan A.J. xxxx 5132919 Boudreau, Rachel xxxx 6131683 Boutilier, Rayan 633 5131661 Boyd, Zane xxxx 10129120 Boyle, Tommy xxxx 17131721 Boyles, Katie 510 5107747 Bozinoski, Tom 1949 2000133418 Bradley, Kelsi 776 5133171 Brajak, Nathalie 1167 5133172 Brajak, Kurtis 1167 5131422 Brandrick, Robbie xxxx 11131624 Brassard, Adam 816 11132166 Brauer, Mark 1093 10131808 Braun, Brittany xxxx 10132458 Brazeau, Mathew xxxx 5127705 Breed, Cory 1493 1493133274 Bregin, Paul 1657 4132789 Brennan, Nigel xxxx 3131634 Brewer, Meagan 513 5102666 Brice, Ron 2070 2247133346 Brisson, Claudia 374 5133767 Brisson, Lee 1249 6132888 Broadbent, Victoria xxxx 6127784 Broersen, Hans 1952 1980133441 Bronson, Alicia 506 3127774 Brookes, Alec 1552 1552131673 Brooks, Adam 601 17133314 Brousseau, Chad 308 5102882 Brown, John R. 1743 1970127626 Brown, Gabriel 1224 1224129719 Brown, Jennifer 792 10126209 Bryskine, Marina 2068 2118127657 Bui, David 1439 17127278 Bulmer, Alex xxxx 22100046 Bunning, Les 1820 2100128970 Bunting, Gerald xxxx 15131524 Bunting, Kyle xxxx 10131480 Bunting, Benny xxxx 10131518 Bunting, Rochele xxxx 9130799 Burdyna, Kamil 1154 22

133467 Bureau, Tina 590 5101613 Burgess, Doug 1736 1974125432 Burke, Jim 1555 1565129038 Burns, Mathew xxxx 24129194 Burton, Todd xxxx 15110977 Buscar, Michael 2086 2149133802 Butler, Michael 998 6133164 Butt, Jeffery 1638 6133177 Buttineau, Jeremy 980 4133396 Butzer, Meredith 609 5105619 Buzdon, Paul 1481 1691131484 Bye, Hayden xxxx 10132541 Bzikot, Robert 1707 14133645 Cada, Miranda 777 5107907 Cadamov, Angel 1961 2046108519 Cafengiu, Greg 1980 2122126888 Cai, Allan 2137 2137129213 Cain, Krystin xxxx 10129225 Cain, Adam xxxx 10102214 Cairns, James 1769 1869129224 Caldwell, Jason xxxx 10129180 Caldwell, Adam xxxx 10108909 Callaghan, Kenneth J 1573 1592130889 Calugar, Arthur 1088 1122126706 Cameron, Kirk 1068 1068131512 Cameron, Jonah xxxx 24132131 Cameron, Travis xxxx 5132550 Cameron, Adolphus 1083 15101324 Campbell, Brett 2259 2388132339 Campeau, Jayson 1056 5132800 Cantal, Kyle xxxx 5133493 Cantin, Jean-Michel 639 5131767 Caren, Sarah xxxx 5133817 Carney, Michael 1112 6128960 Carpenter, Fred xxxx 695128977 Carpenter, Maureen xxxx 570106875 Carr, Samuel 1706 1827130428 Carr, Christine 879 11108396 Carr, Malcolm 1647 1746128962 Carrie, Jason xxxx 814126729 Carrie, Daniel 1245 1245107687 Carrier, Maurice 1751 5133313 Carrier, Alex 302 4132428 Carrier, Kevin xxxx 4130586 Carrière, Daniel 588 588132880 Carrigan, Benoit 289 10109628 Carroll, Terry 1566 1566131574 Carroll, Donald xxxx 10132920 Casey, Patrick xxxx 6128059 Casselman, James 1067 15129871 Casselman, Lauren 997 14132062 Casselman, Frank xxxx 5132063 Casselman, Kay xxxx 4133333 Castonguay, Kevin 708 5112795 Catona, Dan 1812 1950132366 Caza, Adam 1288 6132788 Cermak, Jennifer xxxx 5131584 Chabot, Pierre 652 21128912 Chalifoux, Claude xxxx 13131804 Chambers, Jamie xxxx 5133310 Champagne, Chad 550 4133332 Champagne, Patrick 696 5125466 Chan, Michael 1032 1032125705 Chan, Walter H. 1824 1846133247 Chan, Jasmine 1170 3133286 Chan, Herbert 837 2133253 Chan, Alex 565 8108642 Charland, Roger 1477 1489132023 Chaw, Vincent xxxx 3113008 Che, Tai 1562 14132794 Cheevers, Ben xxxx 5132795 Cheevers, Zach xxxx 5129479 Chen, Christopher xxxx 882131710 Cherian, John xxxx 10133621 Cherneske, Destiny 706 3133583 Cherneske, Devin 843 5125060 Cheung, Timothy 1396 1428128253 Cheung, Jessica xxxx 1072130975 Cheung, Eric 1123 1160103479 Cheyne, Robert 2076 2114105987 Cheyne, Chris 1375 1388132091 Chief, Charlie xxxx 4133159 Chilmak, Darin 1606 10133792 Chirpac, Andrei 1398 6132921 Chisholm, Sean xxxx 6130307 Chita, Liviu xxxx 994132461 Chmilewski, Ashley xxxx 5133277 Cho, Emerson 1371 2129097 Chochla, David xxxx 15133301 Cholette, Kyle 502 5130874 Chong, Michael 1074 8129005 Chorney, Jaden xxxx 14126860 Chow, Kevin xxxx 18123685 Chow, Elbert xxxx 8129480 Chow, Brian xxxx 887133795 Chow, Nathan 1283 6132922 Christian, Tiffany xxxx 6130574 Christiansen, Allen 543 15132147 Chu, Freddy 755 755109384 Chuderski, Jan 1551 1785129686 Chuprys, Viktar 1907 20130159 Churchley, Jeffrey xxxx 12105738 Chyurlia, Jerome 1654 1875133648 Cimprich, Timmy 637 2133799 Clark, Becky 867 6106389 Clarke, Brian 1625 1705122920 Clarke, Terry 1814 4133444 Clatworthy, Melina 723 5129430 Claude, Jason xxxx 1079105333 Clayton, William J. 1672 1843130565 Clément, Marc 322 14132923 Climans, Josh xxxx 6132459 Cloutier, Roxanne 377 10131908 Coakly, Sean xxxx 1816129727 Cober, Keith 1031 9133727 Cody, Roya 569 6133108 Cody, Bill 972 4104041 Coe, Larry 1863 1900100234 Cohen, David 1952 2067131713 Colby, Kyle 410 5110578 Coleman, Mike 2097 2179132951 Coleman, Matthew xxxx 6124279 Collingwood, Jessy 1571 18131718 Cologna, Dylan 577 5120423 Colvin, Ted 1586 1706131028 Commodaro, Angelo 1226 1226129202 Cook, Mike xxxx 20103885 Cook, George 1474 1687

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131781 Cook, Ashley xxxx 10129395 Cooke, Tanya 1388 1388126311 Cooke, Matthew 2075 2082130349 Cooke, Nathan xxxx 1456132644 Copenace, Niko xxxx 5102378 Coppin, Wayne 2070 2114130617 Corbeil, Pierre-Olivier 631 9133303 Cormier, Richard 482 5129116 Cortens, Tommy xxxx 15107524 Coruzzi, Frank 1593 1603109046 Corvo, Paul 1819 1959128591 Cosmin, Sergiu 1086 1151129481 Cosmin, Ovidiu 1001 1001130576 Cossette, Caroline 846 10110316 Cote, Richard 1660 1868133546 Cote, David 568 5131553 Cote, Mickahel 550 10133370 Cote, Jimmy 391 5126989 Cottrell, Nila xxxx 10129150 Courchene, Samantha xxxx 20129141 Courchene, Chalynne xxxx 9133369 Courchesne, Angelique 354 5129725 Cousins, Jenessa 700 16132385 Cousins, Dan 200 5129193 Coutts, Doug xxxx 15131773 Coutts, Angus xxxx 10131723 Cowan, Dean xxxx 10132004 Cowan, Benson 1287 5133435 Cowan, Ricky 486 5132952 Cox Gordon, Karen xxxx 5133803 Coyne, Jared 1283 6124697 Crane, Leland xxxx 12132528 Craven, Ted 1738 4131687 Crevier, Lindsey xxxx 10123726 Crichton, Laurence xxxx 15133312 Croisetiere, Valerie 434 5129153 Cross, Carla xxxx 14129140 Crosson, Drake xxxx 19132646 Crow Greene, Karlee xxxx 5101349 Crowley, Gerry 1842 2020133724 Cservenyi, Thomas 1182 5133774 Csik, Julian 1388 6125618 Cuevas, Vincent 1745 1745131107 Cuglietta, Kristina xxxx 10131717 Cull, Nathan 200 5123161 Cummings, David 2474 2490129683 Cushing, Ted 1661 1661133769 Cvitkusic, Josip 417 6131606 Cyr, Kyle 564 15133371 Dagenais, Julie 200 4128840 Daigle, Jennifer xxxx 15124723 Daigle, Christopher xxxx 842124722 Daigle, Melissa xxxx 821102589 Daku, Zoltan 1694 1800123618 Dalla Ave, George xxxx 1729133349 Dallaire, Patrice 508 5131550 Dallaire, Patrick 757 20133533 Dallaire, Derik 746 5133462 Dallaire, Vanessa 736 5132802 Dalrymple, Melissa xxxx 5129079 Dampier, Shane xxxx 9131641 Dampier, Jesse 361 4132973 Danaila, Andrei 1214 16107299 Dangberg, Karl 1611 1879132787 Danial, Anton xxxx 5130425 Danilko, Alex 1189 22101895 Danilov, Alex 1839 2100133628 Dao, Tram 1110 5132799 Dao, Donny xxxx 5111980 Darbyson, Roy 1381 1409133423 Dart, Shelby 734 5124996 Dattani, Neil 1224 1257128692 Davidson, Cody 870 870110120 Davies, Alex 2233 2263106987 Davis, Trent 1942 1953128570 Dawson, Adam 1154 1154101024 Day, Lawrence 2433 2510132386 Day, Andrew 200 5109777 De Jesus, Enrique 2044 2058102011 De Kerpel, Stijn 2146 2194102955 de la Parra, Francisco xxxx 1908133350 de Laplante, Ghislain 810 5133389 de Roode, Elizabeth 461 5124403 Deakin, John 1437 1454104176 Dean, Andrew 2024 2034131662 Decheno, Wyatt 358 5131790 Degagne, Cody xxxx 4133505 DeGrace, Stephanie 427 5131828 Deighton, Gary 1573 16130625 DeLaplante, Ghislain 684 15105261 DeLugt, Gerald 1731 1861125547 Dembowski, Mitchell 1465 1524109477 Demmery, Steve 2127 2174110803 Den Otter, Albert 1390 1647131696 Dennis, Christine 724 5132035 Derevianko, Nick xxxx 3128943 Derksen, Cole xxxx 17133184 Derouck, Sally 710 5132393 Derraugh, Geordie 1331 22131803 Desaulniers, Chris xxxx 10131690 Desaulniers, Laura xxxx 10131740 Desautels, Marcie xxxx 10131034 Deshpande, Nathaniel 1396 18133354 Desjardins, Marc 316 4129416 Deslauriers, Brian 1918 1965126986 Desmoulin, Kenneth G. xxxx 612131660 Desmoulin, Katie 328 5131613 Desrivieres, Steven xxxx 14132429 Desrivieres, Sylvain xxxx 5131776 Desserre, Dustin xxxx 10100170 Devenport, Martin 2187 2300131429 Devin, Rio xxxx 10127087 Dickerson, Tyler 564 17108434 Dickey, Len 1581 1581125936 Didomenico, Stefano 1236 12132786 Dion, Mark xxxx 5112312 Dionne, Louis 1539 1600132389 Dirks, David 323 5109214 Divljan, Igor 2239 2255104754 Dixon, Frank 1942 2090132889 Djankovic, Nicholas xxxx 4101065 Djerkovic, Miladin 2263 2402131441 Doblej, Keon xxxx 10105728 Dobrishman, Liat 1874 1968128386 Dobson, Marc Albert 1331 21133643 Dohan, Nick 843 5133491 Doiron, Briana 627 5133601 Dolph, Andrew 943 5

131686 Donaldson, Darcie xxxx 10126824 Donan, Eduardo 1528 15131744 Dorge, Garret xxxx 9131745 Dorge, Meagan xxxx 10132455 Dorland, Sidney 489 10132790 Dort, Heather xxxx 5133341 Dorval, Sebastien 477 5133800 Doub, Jasmin 998 6109006 Doucette, Patrick 1885 1885100294 Dougherty, Michael 2393 2393101523 Douglas, Steven 1189 10106524 Douglas, Mike 1705 1858131191 Douglas, Richard 1251 1259133602 Dove, Jake 877 5133758 Dowling, Ed 541 6123319 Downs, Steve 1581 1587133337 Doyon, Steve 610 5113062 Draak, Jan 1270 1350125528 Dragusanu, George 1558 1614133308 Drolet, Eric 698 5133343 Drouin, Sylvie 477 5125994 Dubeau, Jason 1931 1931131922 Dubeau, Rick 1409 5132242 Dubinsky, Lev 1334 10132890 Dubinsky, Michael xxxx 6133489 Dubosq, Jean 618 5132866 Dubosq, Stéphanie 758 10132464 Dubosque, Mathieu 499 10128908 Duchaine-Roussy, Rick 883 883133613 Duchesne, Kevin 648 4133636 Duchesne, Jordan 910 5133755 Duff, Steve 1394 6132088 Duff, Timothy xxxx 10133459 Duffresne, Brandon 560 4133340 Dufresne, Amy 468 4132978 Duggal, Anuroop xxxx 5125682 Duggan, Brendan 1629 1646132848 Dujmovic, Marko 906 3133347 Dumont, Vicky 463 5103373 Dumontelle, Joe 1785 1993129863 Dunn, Spencer xxxx 11128900 Duquette, Michael 585 24132426 Duquette, Alfred xxxx 5105998 Duralia, John 1817 1915129185 Durand, Alyson xxxx 15129226 Durand, Nicolas xxxx 14133265 Dusper, Ivo 1407 4131646 Dutil, Rock 512 5132471 Dutrisac, Patrick 537 15106571 Dutton, Warren Richard 1993 2257126719 Eady, Ken xxxx 523129192 Eady, Chrstina xxxx 15133181 Eberhard, Monika 868 4107233 Eberle, Mark 1946 1980132274 Eggeling, Philipp 1868 5110299 Egorov, Mikhail 2024 2063106512 Ehrman, Carl 2192 2202129692 Elia, Matthew 865 15128948 Ellis, David xxxx 13101459 Ellis, Joe T. 1937 1990132382 Ellis, Eric 585 5101361 Emery, Charlie 1618 1618133438 English, Matt 1031 5103011 Erickson, John 1780 1807133165 Erramilli, Anand 1137 12132953 Etemadi, Sobhan xxxx 5132891 Etemadi, Farid xxxx 5132954 Ethayarajan, Kirishika xxxx 5132924 Ethayarajan, Nethursan xxxx 5124625 Evans, Tom 1300 1447103309 Evans, Bill xxxx 2300126988 Ewen, Carlee xxxx 10128812 Fabienski, Andrew 1371 20101981 Fabris, Al 1911 1987133772 Fadaiefard, Orang 553 6131786 Fairfield-Checko, Peter xxxx 10128589 Fan, Brendan 1374 1398131920 Fan, Valerie xxxx 717133166 Fan, Simon 1437 5131432 Faragher, Chad xxxx 10127687 Farian, Vadim 1260 9131284 Farlo, Martin xxxx 1564126998 Farmer, Kyle xxxx 20112776 Fattali, Simon 1878 2000124683 Faust, Julian xxxx 992133818 Fawzy-Mousa, Khaled 770 6132692 Fergeson, Matt xxxx 18131697 Ferguson, Christina xxxx 10131678 Ferguson, Amy xxxx 9133639 Ferguson, Tiffany 910 5132543 Fernandes, Kevin 1713 5102366 Ferner, Wolfgang 2009 2027127516 Ferreira, Alex 1532 10104137 Ficzere, Tony 1829 1929108098 Field, Christopher 1398 1636130575 Filion, Nikesh 908 908132875 Filion, Jonas 373 8131591 Filion, Kevin 390 8133185 Filion, Melissa 866 5132437 Filion, Alexia 672 14103521 Filipovich, David 2309 2370133498 Fillion, Mathieu 485 5132450 Fillion, Stéphanie 715 10101737 Findlay, Ian 2359 2435105001 Findlay, Dave 1880 1880133420 Finney, Jordan 843 5128426 Finnie, Matt 1323 23128968 Fisher, Mario xxxx 874128008 Fisher, Glenn xxxx 738128765 Fisher, Kari 1138 1138131520 Fisher, Karen xxxx 14131532 Fisher, Dennis xxxx 20132659 Fisher, Michaela xxxx 5133657 Fisher, Blair 910 5131509 Fisher, Starleen xxxx 20112308 Fleming, Derrick 1625 1774127002 Flinders, Falon xxxx 594133610 Flis, Travus 743 5108498 Flitton, David 1853 2004126999 Fogg, Jason xxxx 745133278 Fok, Felix 837 2130550 Fong, Jason 865 893132792 Fong, Anthony xxxx 4133272 Fong, Michael 1201 4128007 Fontaine, Brent xxxx 863131502 Fontaine, Mary xxxx 10128895 Forest, Zachary xxxx 10133338 Forget, Erik 530 5

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132930 Kozovski, Victor xxxx 6101982 Krajcovic, Dominik 1731 1742125707 Kreinin, Victor 1356 20105549 Kret, Ted 2203 2266132215 Krnan, Tomas 2164 2178129058 Kroker, Chris xxxx 9128919 Krukowski, Andrzej 1619 18124677 Krumenacher, Jesse xxxx 822133187 Krupka, Kelta 944 5130988 Kruse, Scott 1463 10130651 Kryvoshlyk, Yuriy 1546 22108817 Kubik, Rob 1747 1754131331 Kudelka, Ivan 1619 14132900 Kudtarkar, Siddhesh 1115 11110732 Kuehl, Scott xxxx 2120132403 Kulasegaram, Chandra 1649 11132957 Kulyov, George xxxx 6124457 Kuntz, Michael 1355 11128921 Kupila, Alyssa xxxx 21104537 Kurkowski, Ken 1712 1900105482 Kuryliw, Ray 1945 2003133788 Kwan, Henry 1194 6133813 Kwan, Chi Tat 1169 6130666 Kwee, Justin 1200 10133650 Laakso, Carey 1348 4133796 Labau, Adrian 1194 6133633 Labelle, Meaghan 843 5123895 Labre, Clifford 1545 20133547 Lachance, Karianne 435 5131540 Lachance, Venessa 622 24108267 Lacroix, Raymond 1165 10133552 Lacroix, Casey 243 5132462 Lacroix, Nicholas xxxx 5123324 Lafleche, Patrick 897 897130554 Lafleche, Jonathan 813 813133307 Laforge, Remi 200 5128368 Lai, Matthew 1111 1111133780 Lai, Martin 951 6102419 Laimer, Alice 1639 1664133605 Laine, Lari 877 5123752 Laitila, Henry 1523 22133316 Lajeunesse, Dana 200 5132469 Lallier, Dave 742 13132445 Lallier, Meagan 490 10131597 Lallier, Joel 649 10133297 Lallier, Kevin 686 4126891 Lam, Yin Pak 1519 1519132383 Lam, Donovan 303 5132958 Lam, Nathan xxxx 6106974 Lamb, Bryan 2134 2350133704 Lamba, Manpreet 988 3133703 Lamba, Gurkaran 988 3130564 Lambert, Justin 471 10132881 Lambert, Joshua 512 10132901 Lambertucci, Kierra xxxx 6127519 Lambruschini, Alex 1703 1703123072 Lamond, Bruce 1812 1812131605 Lamothe, Justin 611 14133317 Lamoureux, Francois 258 5101595 Lancia, Nicholas 1806 1914131510 Land, Justin xxxx 15132643 Land, Quinton xxxx 5129708 Landerby, Don N 1152 1197132668 Landon, Mick xxxx 5122919 Landry, Raymond 1577 1615131651 Landry, Andrew 646 5100319 Langer, Herb 1688 1991101665 Langill, Ron 1619 1754133398 Lanham, Curtis 942 5127656 Lankage, Dinush 1215 1215130808 Lankage, Sashi xxxx 8131635 Lanteigne, Cody 451 5132463 Lantier, Lori xxxx 5130396 Lapensee, Andy 837 9130436 Lapensee, Jonah 414 10130567 Laplante, Christine 467 20131588 Larcher Pelland, Jean F 533 10133553 Larcher-Pelland, Genevieve 200 5133401 Larmer, John 641 6132447 Larochelle, Brandon 604 8132454 Larochelle, Mandy 404 10133335 Larocque, Melina 560 5131722 Larocque, Miranda xxxx 10131596 Larocque, Angèle 830 830132460 Larose, Nathalie 561 10132444 LaRouche, Émilie Anne 308 8130792 Lau, Michael 1156 9108998 Laughlin, Steve 2010 2114126984 Lauzon, Joel 454 19133507 Lauzon, Julie 248 5124607 Lavigne-Lagace, Etienne 728 728124613 Lavigne-Legace, Hugo 980 9132438 Lavoie, Jeremy 678 10132931 Laza, Sergiu xxxx 6111318 Le, Ken 1810 1937126893 Le, Thien xxxx 11120977 Lebel, Art 1459 1487133452 Lebel-Bernard, Jesse-Ann 544 4129463 LeBlanc, Ron 1660 1677130566 Leblanc, Justin-Pierre 396 396131757 Leblanc, Chris xxxx 10132467 Leblanc, Keith 879 10101017 Lebrun, Roger 2039 2100127009 Leclair, Joshua xxxx 24129134 LeClair, Jaret xxxx 20130604 Leclerc, Patrick 679 10132864 Lecoqc, Patricia 1412 4132446 Lecour, Brandon 439 10131694 Lederer, Nathan 377 5109116 Lee, Tom 2135 19132902 Lee, Christopher xxxx 5132959 Lee, Sharon xxxx 6133450 Lefebre, Joel 506 5133344 Lefebvre, Jessica 476 5132885 Lefebvre, Corey 200 4104130 Lehman, Andrew 1690 1690105108 Lehmann, James E. 1700 1852132781 Lekushoff, Matthew 1426 6105747 Lemay, Francois 1803 1898133466 Lemieux, Mireille 482 4133494 Lemieux, Martin 558 5121831 Lentini, Joseph 2186 2186131796 Leonard, Roel xxxx 5130790 Lepitchev, Velislav 1286 12124687 Leroux, Tyler xxxx 866132129 Letandre, Traci xxxx 5133443 Letourneau, Merrick 746 5133473 Letourneau, Maxime 363 5

131298 Letourneau, Ryan 1179 5131703 Letourneau, Allan G. 1011 5132217 Letourneau, Gary 1272 5131551 Létourneau, Mérick 515 10120122 Leung, Victor 1948 1948133663 Leung, Desmond 766 6128892 Levesque, Kevin xxxx 9133378 Levesque, Sebastien 200 5131724 Levesque, Monique 833 5133472 Levesque, Kelly 745 5128758 Li, Wilbur xxxx 949131921 Li, King xxxx 18105262 Lidstone, Phil 1751 1938132544 Liem, Matthew 1032 10113017 Liles, Kerry 1917 1949129229 Lind, Trevor xxxx 10132387 Linsley, Tristan 701 5130806 Lipson, Alex 1310 1310100355 Litchfield, Gerry 1789 1854130973 Liu, Fangqi 1318 1368130979 Liu, Jackson xxxx 819132022 Liu, Jamie xxxx 12102042 Livshits, Ron 2434 2536129321 Lizak, Stephen 1713 1713128186 Loeb, Kurt 1532 1590107201 London, John 1773 1773105767 Lopez, Oscar 2103 2115133781 Lopez, Jesus 927 6132865 Lostum, Sacha 1405 5132424 Lostun, Sacha xxxx 5120256 Lourie, William John 1282 1282123190 Love, Robert 1670 1701132610 Lovett, Kevin xxxx 5124977 Lu, Jian 1573 1621131036 Lu, David 1043 1043110214 Lucki, Arnie 1900 2100124499 Lui, Tommy 1585 19109393 Luiting, Larry 1745 1958129232 Luptak, Melanie xxxx 8131817 Luptak, Brian xxxx 5132903 Lurti, Reza xxxx 6127277 Lusignan, Eli xxxx 1156131812 Lusignan, Nadia xxxx 10112397 Lust, Arthur 1172 8133439 Lynch, Adam 898 5125903 Ma, Daniel 1326 1337132425 MacGowan, Rob xxxx 4132090 Mach, Justin xxxx 4133271 Mack, Timon 1385 4128146 MacLeod, Neil 1657 1667104111 MacLeod, Steven 2070 2174120061 MacLeod, Brian 1845 1939128868 MacNeill, Alexis xxxx 9129952 MacNevin, Dave 1396 1396131782 MacQuarrie, Kyle xxxx 5131807 MacQuarrie, Jordan xxxx 5112732 Maenpaa, David 1747 1790128850 Maerz, Lorne xxxx 18122135 Maguire, Matt 1265 1265132904 Maher Krawiec, Justian xxxx 6105147 Maheux, Pierre 2007 2050125600 Mai, Lloyd 1415 1415133348 Maille, Benjamin 343 5133448 Maille, Marie-Louise 572 4123763 Mak, Calvin 1086 1200131682 Malashewski, Dylan xxxx 4121868 Malette, Martin 2104 12132960 Malhotra, Ankush xxxx 6132981 Malik, Saikaran xxxx 5130608 Malo, Joshua 686 10112277 Manalo, Pepin 1908 1971132640 Mandamin, Jessica xxxx 5132126 Mandamin, Kerry xxxx 10132661 Mandamin, Theoren xxxx 5132658 Mandamin, Bethanie xxxx 5132654 Mandamin, Stacey xxxx 5132650 Mandamin, Summer xxxx 4132667 Mandamin, EJ xxxx 5132662 Mandamin, Randy xxxx 5132124 Mandamin, Tashina xxxx 10132648 Mandamin, Vincent xxxx 5132666 Mandamin, Amelia xxxx 5132649 Mandamin, Rhyse xxxx 5112465 Mandoshkin, Jake 1999 1999131771 Manduca, Joe xxxx 3133603 Mannisto, Kyle 877 5127274 Manns, Robert xxxx 16133771 Mansouri, Kamal 866 6133726 Marcus, Cody 885 6107391 Marghetis, Aris 1863 2048122440 Maric, Gordana 1712 1731133315 Marien, Patrick 217 5126710 Marineau, Jean-Philippe 1050 1064132869 Marineau, Maxime 587 5109180 Marks, Richard xxxx 2000124544 Marks, Kyle 986 13129177 Marlowe, James xxxx 15132791 Marquez, Carlo xxxx 5132495 Martchenko, Alexander xxxx 3103806 Martens, Bill 1559 1610101975 Martin, Craig 1543 1543133655 Martin, Lara 948 4129210 Masson, Cody xxxx 14109627 Matchim, William 1576 1695133622 Mawhinney, Amy 706 3133661 Maxwell, Adam Wynter 867 6129109 McArthur, Travis xxxx 20104319 McCarthy, William S. 1553 1671100298 McClelland, Tom 1879 2000133593 McComb, Kara 643 5126716 McConnell, Matthew xxxx 20128006 McDonald, Gay 895 9129131 McDonald, Jordan xxxx 10127490 McDonald, Justin 1623 1623127489 McDonald, Patrick 1010 1010126992 McDonald, Jamal 800 800128009 McDonald, Janna 822 822132200 McDonald, Brian xxxx 4131529 McDonald, Ashley 749 10133637 McDonald, Jordan 910 5132092 McDonald, James xxxx 8129197 McDonell, Logan xxxx 10131458 McDougall, Matt xxxx 10133647 McDowell, Cale 588 4133757 McEachern, Bryan 541 6129129 McGee, Tyler xxxx 10127798 McGeough, Shaun 799 799125585 McGilly, Craig 1414 1485

102892 McGowan, Alan 2021 2021112010 McGraw, Colin 1850 1900130386 McGregor, Brayden 777 15131714 McIntomney, Aaron xxxx 10111614 McKay, Sean 1796 1929126756 McKay, Jonathan xxxx 21129122 McKay, Melissa xxxx 8130615 McKay, Patrick 770 770106075 McKay, Geoff 2069 2159131477 McKay, Davey xxxx 10133394 McKechnie, Allan 743 5127444 McKeon, Michael xxxx 870106713 McKillop, Peter 1889 2015132442 McLaughlin, Kim 504 9109541 McLean, Doug 1823 1840107145 McLean, Russell xxxx 15131631 McLeod, Cameron xxxx 10129128 McMillan, Tyson xxxx 20132798 McRae, Uzzah xxxx 5110766 McTavish, David 2131 2300131719 Meekis, Savannah 577 5129183 Meilleur, Angelle xxxx 15129215 Meilleur, Justin xxxx 8131106 Mellerup, Soren xxxx 15133254 Melnik, Alex 248 3133322 Melville, Owen 884 5100297 Mendrinos, Ari 1475 1763112053 Meng, Ang xxxx 2228130580 Mercier, Joey 616 14133635 Mercier, Simone 977 5132427 Mercier, Roger xxxx 4132388 Mercier, Tyler 282 5132485 Merkley, Steve 1521 11107489 Mesiti, Silvano 1598 1930111470 Meszaros, Joe xxxx 11120200 Meyer, Kiel 1638 1638121781 Miaco, Trifelino 2006 2082133176 Michaelis, Ryan 664 4128985 Michaud, Michael xxxx 792131496 Michaud, Craig xxxx 10133311 Michaud, Sean 589 5131645 Michelle, Travis 502 4131647 Michelle, Destiny 417 4132547 Michno, Eva 673 4132433 Mignault, Yzabel 732 15132440 Mignault, Émilie 662 15128884 Migneault, Dominik 1041 1046132422 Migneault, Robert 1621 9129304 Mikula, Kristen xxxx 1042131792 Miles, Jessica xxxx 5120541 Miletic, Damir xxxx 2247105291 Milicevic, Goran 2414 2429106645 Millar, David 1933 2014127534 Miller, Evgeni 2211 2223125006 Miller, Russell 1034 1042131435 Miller, Jordan xxxx 10133662 Miller-Kay, Jeremy 1032 6133592 Millman-Sawchuk, Helen 710 5127517 Mills, Morgon 1895 1917103982 Milne, Reg 2047 2100133395 Milwain, Justin 677 5104248 Mitchell, Joe xxxx 1534131794 Mitchell, Keighnyn xxxx 5104906 Mitro, Dave 1897 2065133487 Mitron, Myriam 668 5103626 Mitrovic, Bojana 2176 2176132932 Mohanaraj, Thanraj xxxx 6123445 Moisseev, Dmitri 1892 1971132197 Molenaar, Hank xxxx 5110453 Moline, Robert 1952 2027133157 Mollison, Billy 1034 11133158 Mollison, Shawn 815 10133630 Monkhouse, Mike 1043 5131691 Monks, Damian 510 5132287 Montero, Jose 1640 14133598 Mooney, Liam 388 4133606 Mooney, Samantha 877 5107023 Moore, Andrew xxxx 1633102805 Moorehouse, Daniel 1727 1865131680 Moorey, Kyler xxxx 4128380 Moran, Richard C. 2010 15133595 Morden, Andrew 548 4130612 Morin, Kevin 590 15130613 Morin, Michel xxxx 8131712 Morin, Daniel 477 5132468 Morin, André xxxx 4132878 Morin, Joshua 396 9133351 Morin, Alex 833 5131575 Morin, Cody xxxx 9132202 Morissette, Greg xxxx 1133360 Morneau, Joel 200 4133646 Morningstar, Benji 588 4108896 Morra, Lui 1700 1963124579 Morris, Collin 991 24133506 Morrisette, Lyannie 238 4106826 Morrison, Kyle 1691 1693131909 Morrison, Nathaniel xxxx 1587133768 Morun, Bogdan 1198 6129198 Mosbeck, Justin xxxx 10109825 Moser, Dorothy 1334 1500133175 Moses, Nick 796 4128973 Mosiomier, Chance xxxx 20106342 Moysoski, Randy 1975 2155132933 Mrkonjic, Christopher xxxx 6106574 Mucignat, Ermanno 1984 2127131499 Muckle, Alyssa xxxx 19132612 Muckle, Alex xxxx 5131505 Muckle, Melody xxxx 19131514 Muckle, Taylor xxxx 14132116 Muckle, Terry xxxx 5131515 Muckle, James xxxx 15109430 Mugford, Chris 1679 1702129721 Murphy, Joel 1164 1164128144 Murray, Brian 1405 18131749 Murray, David 1699 5131750 Murray, Chancy 1506 5125537 Mustafa, Vasile 1758 1765132391 Mutagi, Rohan 1654 9128923 Mutz, Matt xxxx 20129139 Nabigon, Curtis xxxx 10131658 Nabigon, Jordan xxxx 10130609 Nadeau, Jamie 604 10126715 Nadeau, Jérémie 977 977126735 Nadeau, Francois 1108 1108126728 Nadeau, Dominique 1146 1146106173 Nadeau, Richard 1775 1802126666 Nadeau, Gabrielle 1035 1035130557 Nadeau, Emmanuel 898 898

126881 Nagar, Ravendra 1126 1129132074 Nagarathinam, Kajamugan 943 13106050 Nagy, Julius 1759 1981133806 Namasivayam, Anujan 1159 6132195 Napierala, Al 1932 13133586 Nazvesky, Sam 777 5133617 Nazvesky, Becca 677 5127273 Neagle, Joey xxxx 19102685 Neilsen, Steve 1457 19130990 Nelson, Reuben 1200 1212130676 Nemati, Omid 1837 1856130616 Neron, Mark 803 803126464 Nezirovic, Ozren 2034 2073124967 Ng, Kaspar 1190 21132725 Ng, Wendy 746 12128592 Ngan, Henry 960 1002132982 Ngo, Thanh xxxx 5130647 Nguyen, Thang 1272 23130648 Nguyen, Toan 1343 22120654 Nguyen, Long 1083 16133327 Nguyen, Simon 587 4133793 Nham, David 1226 6133428 Nichol, Curtis 1029 6133402 Nichol, Thomas 983 6108201 Nickoloff, Steve xxxx 1912103659 Nickoloff, Bryon 2468 2536132961 Nicolas, Dean xxxx 6131799 Niskanen, Marlys xxxx 6100042 Nock, David 1695 1707126730 Nodin, Thomas xxxx 882129046 Nodin, Carl xxxx 19131446 Nodin, Garrett xxxx 9131449 Nodin, Quentin xxxx 10132534 Noritsyn, Nikolay 2055 2055132535 Noritsyn, Elizabeth 1343 17133624 Norris, Erika 606 3132682 Norris-Roozman, Alex xxxx 6122103 Nozari, Nosrat 1913 1999133377 Nugent, Shawn 200 5121335 Nunes, Paulo 1681 1681102646 Nunes, Garvin 1759 1901133178 Nutter, Rachel 1271 5133607 O`Shea, Riley 1106 3112040 Oates, Eric 1847 1968121880 Obidzinski, Michael 1589 22123894 O'Brien, Luke 1034 1034131826 O'Brien, Marc 1286 12104561 Obrovac, Zvonko 2024 2092102669 Ochkoos, Jura 2366 2437131632 O'Connor, Jordan 628 5132934 Odziemkowski, Adam xxxx 6132974 Odziemkowski, Peter xxxx 5131779 O'Flaherty, Jacob xxxx 5106011 Ogden, Steve 1138 1340131299 Oke, Isdin 1308 17106639 Ollers, Ian 1734 1783131742 Olson, Mitch xxxx 10101332 Oparic, Ivan 2109 2109131699 Opas, Ryne xxxx 10102500 Orloff, Irv 1276 1600103144 Ortiz, Hugo 1692 1807131802 Ostlund, Suzanne xxxx 4130558 Ouellet, Francois 456 10132470 Ouellette, Jason 704 14133468 Ouellette, Maxim 533 5131495 Oustan, Jordan xxxx 9132397 Owen, Phillip xxxx 6131642 Oyakawa, Ko xxxx 9103715 Pacey, Kevin 2358 2358103404 Pagayatan, Noel 1931 2147121545 Page, Peter 1418 1474123499 Palliser, Cameron 995 995127560 Palmer, Jordan 1806 1806113023 Palozzi, Sebastian 1416 1416106856 Palsson, Halldor Peter 2143 2244133189 Pamajewon, Nwahtin 883 5133183 Pamajewon, Zakkary 1060 4122954 Panjwani, Dilip 1739 1764121202 Panjwani, Raja 2035 2035133654 Papaquash, Ashton 1043 5133300 Papineau, Patrick 611 5127183 Papp, Leslie 1667 1667132962 Pappin, Billy xxxx 6126972 Paquette, Mitch xxxx 740131798 Paquette, Derek xxxx 4121164 Parandeh, Ali 1776 1776125813 Parikh, Jugal 1172 1172133357 Parisien, Marc Andre 200 5133644 Park, Sasha 910 5132905 Park, Jake xxxx 6131669 Parks, Justin 574 5132398 Partland, Anthony 970 12127089 Pasley, Zac 949 17130433 Pasley, Jessica 780 10127521 Pastor, Andrew 1716 1716129303 Patel, Nikesh 785 785126898 Patel, Rushang 933 22133731 Patel, Nikhil 615 6102570 Paterson, Jim 1895 2127132421 Paterson, Hays xxxx 5103043 Patterson, Roger 2242 2305133392 Patterson, Justin 1010 5133400 Patterson, Neil 742 5106406 Paulsen, Lorenzo 1516 1664101816 Pauric, Ivan 2073 2126122285 Pauric, Allen 1825 1872128599 Pauric, Denis 1632 1641128911 Pauze, Mathieu 747 747131649 Pawluk, Josh 1095 5133551 Payne, Steve 413 5132119 Paypompee, Sidney xxxx 5129299 Pearce, Mitchell 331 331132160 Pearson, Jack xxxx 1716133653 Peckover, Adelle 1108 4122223 Peev, Pavel 2000 2120106982 Pejovic, Mike 1890 1900132496 Pelan, Karl xxxx 3128767 Peltier, Carl 1168 1282131698 Pelto, John xxxx 10132121 Penace, Nicki xxxx 5132655 Penace, Nicholas xxxx 5132664 Penace, Nolan xxxx 5132665 Penace, Robert xxxx 5132122 Penace, Tara xxxx 10132670 Penace, Arthur xxxx 5133671 Peng, David (Yu) 2229 3110101 Penner, Len 1500 1531131058 Pentland, Ralph 1359 1359

133411 Pequenat, Victoria 200 5101770 Peredun, Andrew 2286 2301109785 Perger, Dennis 1562 1615129186 Perlette, Alyssa xxxx 9128564 Perlmutter, Sam 966 1041107646 Perovic, Bozidar 1963 2108132451 Perras, Kayla xxxx 5132431 Perras, Danièle xxxx 5132449 Perras, Michèle 713 10133276 Perri, Matteo 1034 4133815 Perrigo, Robby 1001 6132335 Peters, Cory 725 6132201 Petralla, Phil xxxx111840 Petrosian, Tigran xxxx 1951133775 Petrov, Andrey 1203 6132529 Pettit, Jonathan 1436 3120803 Phares, Adam 1558 1583111407 Philip, Andrew 1706 2032128508 Phillips, Andrew 1102 1102132883 Phillips, Preston 261 4130614 Phonekéo, Vanhmano 621 14125815 Picana, Andrew 2066 2107133469 Picard, Joannie 553 5133298 Piche, Jason 769 4133334 Pichette, Kyle 627 5133376 Pier Lamontagne, Marie 200 5104880 Pierre, Rolland 1581 1581122604 Piggott, Scott 1549 1586128373 Pilgram, Barry xxxx 10130800 Pilgun, Nikita 1034 11133325 Pilobello, Alvin 871 5133326 Pilobello, Allison 666 5120959 Pimental, Sheldon 1734 1758132669 Pinesse, Vicky xxxx 5132983 Pirri, Daniele 1071 9128896 Plamondon, Andreanne 902 902128899 Plamondon, Alain 732 732110001 Plaxton, Dave 1833 1900108062 Pleau, Derek 1950 2010133299 Plourdes, Pascal 575 5130398 Plumley, Brandon 815 5124608 Plumpton, Stephen 587 9132276 Pokorn, Luc 702 10130978 Pokorn, Adam 834 851133368 Poliquin, Nicholas 508 5130581 Poliquin-Boutin, Félix 576 10130388 Pollard, Jonathan 634 10109167 Polywkan, Roman 1383 1454124943 Poon, Dora xxxx 1231125074 Poon, Douglas 1550 1598132935 Poon, Kelvin xxxx 6129950 Popa, Larry 1588 1588130985 Poppa, Ryan 1388 12133427 Porter, Chris 857 6132963 Porter, Samuel xxxx 6132190 Postma, John 1523 4133266 Postrozny, Michael 1446 4106619 Posylek, Caesar 1828 1968131643 Potan, Cass 754 5126981 Potts, Roberts xxxx 15131725 Potts, Greg xxxx 10133437 Poulton-McGraw, Priam 1031 5101151 Powell, Bryson 2014 2120129359 Power, Alan xxxx 1242129461 Prabaharan, Brandon xxxx 1254129106 Prager, Brent xxxx 15129103 Prager, Erik xxxx 10130681 Preda, Andrei 1002 20102775 Predescu, Sebastian 2099 2142111625 Preisman, Henry 1997 2052110701 Pribyl, Tomas 1612 1758122905 Prinoski, Michael 1615 18127606 Prodaniuk, John xxxx 20133580 Proud, Connor 910 5133464 Proulx, Nicole 728 5133537 Proulx, Phillipe 698 5131614 Proulx, Maxime xxxx 10132123 Prouty, Creed xxxx 5132729 Pryor, Jamieson 1127 3131672 Pucknell, Bryan 987 17125656 Puddephatt, Tony 1265 10133403 Puffer, James 926 6108329 Puschke, R.F. 1647 1890129068 Pushkar, John xxxx 835101150 Pushkedra, Frank 2302 2337133616 Pussinen, Stacy 906 3130797 Puzanov, Benjamin 1052 12133729 Pye, Nicholas 773 6127287 Pyykka, John xxxx 20129143 Quisess, Leunne xxxx 10129944 Raats, Dan 1955 1955107964 Rabethge, Brad 1927 1980133455 Rachette, Miguel 355 5133280 Rachmin, Boaz 824 2131720 Racicot, Marissa xxxx 10133604 Radford, Brody 877 5112735 Radonich, Lucas 1741 1900131451 Raffield, Greg xxxx 10120954 Raheb, David 2218 2262133789 Raheel Khilji, Mohammad 1055 6132964 Rahman, Abeer xxxx 6132936 Rahman, Abidur xxxx 6133331 Rains, Marcel 425 3133808 Rajbhai, Huzefa 998 6108279 Rakhinshteyn, Fima 2167 2262100257 Raletich, George 1733 2100130930 Ramesh, Vivek 1043 1095101082 Ramzi, Murtadha 1619 1900131768 Randle, Joey xxxx 4131765 Randle, Charles xxxx 5107079 Ranger, Jeffrey 1933 1943106977 Rapoport, Alex 2049 2142133811 Rascanu, Vladimir 1135 5133809 Rascanu, Alexandru 1263 6131640 Ray, Sarah 200 5131650 Ray, Lance 1113 5129147 Rayasi, Michael xxxx 20132642 Redsky, Kristen xxxx 5132652 Redsky, Dakota xxxx 4132965 Reesor, Andrew xxxx 5130933 Reginold, William xxxx 13131564 Reid, Marcus xxxx 10131580 Reid, Matthew xxxx 8132380 Reilly, Logan 295 5109637 Reinwald, John 1331 1447131998 Reniers, Brennan xxxx 10122971 Requadt, Guenter 1302 1425125247 Revich, Dan 1554 1707

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133638 Reynolds, Allison 843 5133591 Reynolds, Aaron 710 5133584 Reynolds, Will 843 5133445 Rheault, Chad 718 5133490 Rheault, Catherine 584 5128882 Rheaume, Jesse 600 21133352 Rheaume, Francois 426 5133275 Ribeiro, Andrew 1251 4129072 Rich, Chris Sean xxxx 10127010 Rich, Duane xxxx 20131783 Richard, Nicky xxxx 5131702 Richard, Amy 200 5126736 Richards, Brandon xxxx 1053131715 Richards, Kimberley xxxx 10111115 Richardson, Ross 1959 2078112451 Riddell, Robert xxxx 1556105991 Riedstra, Richard F. 1595 1733130473 Riley, Daniel 891 9133359 Rioux, Eric 200 4133361 Rivers, Ashley 200 5127787 Robertson, Archie 1870 1932126977 Robinson, Ashley xxxx 15129138 Robinson, Danielle xxxx 15129161 Robinson, Sarah-Jane xxxx 10133431 Robinson, Russell 728 5133339 Robinson, Michel 543 5131468 Robinson, Michelle xxxx 10133393 Robinson, Rachel 1010 5126979 Robitaille, Serge xxxx 20132906 Rodinciuc, Andreea xxxx 5129467 Rodriguez, Brany 1511 18133587 Rogers, Chris 777 5133620 Rogers, Jonathon 806 3133611 Rogozinski, Scott 743 5133766 Rohaili, Zohail 1038 6133764 Rohaili, Hamid 1300 6133763 Rohaili, Maseeh 1334 6120383 Rolavs, Andre 1754 2003111945 Rolfe, Warrick 2149 2185111209 Roller, Robert 1857 1994132850 Romero, Sebastian 1844 3126707 Ronaldson, D.J. xxxx 20132984 Ros, Cheatta xxxx 4113055 Roschman, Paul 1719 1719107313 Rosevear, J.P. 1909 1930133410 Ross, Zoey 200 5132651 Ross, Travis xxxx 4133373 Rousseau, Emmanuel 200 5131543 Roussel, Régis 424 10133374 Roussel, Ricky 200 4131656 Rousselle, Jordan xxxx 9101799 Rowles, Christopher 1802 1910132723 Rowse, Steve 1040 8130619 Roy, Stéphane 249 9128901 Roy, Thea 573 573105258 Roy, Larry 1791 1844133363 Roy, Mathieu 616 4132439 Roy, Marie-Josée 612 15132879 Roy, Nathalie 510 9131583 Roy, Martin 781 781125766 Rubanovski, Vladimir 2020 2071132966 Ruckstuhl, Andrew xxxx 6106779 Rumazza, Steven 1580 1581100198 Runstedler, Albert 1891 2092133321 Rupke, Paul 1386 5132434 Russell, Cameron 695 10131644 Ruth, Sean 625 4102198 Rutherford, John 1587 1625132167 Rutherford, Andrew 680 7107106 Ryan, Ronald 1387 1500133179 Rysdale, Megan 900 4111803 Ryzycki, Bohdan 2055 2055132937 Sabanathan, Vinnoth xxxx 6111481 Sabau, Ioan xxxx 2037128487 Sadler, Kirk 1132 14127525 Sadler, Craig 1320 1378127607 Saharinen, Cody xxxx 19131198 Sahu, Jyothi 573 17133109 Sahu, Roshan 544 6130671 Sakhuja, Akshay 1005 15108545 Salomaa, Markku 1814 1872131819 Sampson, Brendan xxxx 4131473 Sandberg, Robert xxxx 592133794 Sandoval, Gino 1077 6132448 Sapinsky, David 732 10106615 Sarkar, Prosanto 2097 2317126725 Sarrasin, Morgan xxxx 11132967 Sasitharan, Rishiharan xxxx 6129055 Saunders, Cole xxxx 12129061 Saunders, Jared xxxx 10133417 Saunders, Amanda 909 5132034 Savinkov, Danny xxxx 12132907 Savja, Faheem xxxx 6132741 Schaper, Grant 1497 10103937 Schiele, Robin xxxx 1550128841 Schimper, Shawn xxxx 20124545 Schley, Aaron 720 13133323 Schneider, Jan 1189 5133309 Schnob, Danielle 635 5106569 Schofield, Mike 1712 1785108609 Schumacher, Albin 1582 1700131521 Scott, Regina xxxx 20131519 Scott, Jolene xxxx 10131508 Scott, Marlen xxxx 8131507 Scott, Melina xxxx 14132663 Scott, Bertrand xxxx 5131530 Scott, George xxxx 10133760 Scrimgeour, Chris 947 6133386 Seabrooke, Conor 728 5123223 Seguin, Marc 1676 1718133504 Seguin, Kimberly 307 4132938 Sellathamby, Kevin xxxx 6103877 Serdula, Jay 1837 1958127740 Sexton, Mason 1184 1197121329 Shah, Omaray M. 1909 1936103540 Shahi, Bahram 1841 23132851 Shaikh, Usman 1120 9132846 Shand, Spencer xxxx 5129042 Shapwaykeesic, Anthony xxxx 20125969 Sharma, Mohit K 1193 1226100280 Sharpe, Michael D. 1846 1849100349 Sharpe, Sam 2060 2153109898 Sharpe, John 1714 1714132337 Sharpe, Alex 1077 9131993 Shaw, Vincent xxxx 15109017 Shea, Joseph 1704 1704132753 Shen, Michelle xxxx 1133786 Sherif, Mohammed 1226 6

133787 Sherif, Abdullah 1113 6105109 Sherman, Robert 1813 2004106005 Shildrick, Robert xxxx 1426133596 Shipston-Duchenes, A 468 4126744 Shoppoff, Eric 837 837125078 Shoshani, Sanar xxxx 9132742 Shoshani, Manar xxxx 3133626 Shottler, Christie 506 3128458 Shulman, Lorne 1420 22128459 Shulman, Cory 1329 1329124970 Shum, Edwin 1280 1280131706 Shusterman, Ryan xxxx 17127801 Shyr, Jonathan 874 880127800 Shyr, Justin 1193 1224127799 Shyr, Aaron 1170 1170102717 Sibbald, Peter R. 2001 2081120619 Siddeley, Hugh 1745 1923125410 Sidhom, Raouf 1836 23109808 Simic, Dusan 2238 2309129056 Simmons, Nathan xxxx 15127604 Simpson, Brittany xxxx 20133597 Simpson, Alyssa 388 4132220 Sina, Robert 1533 5132396 Singm, Navi xxxx 3131249 Sithamparapillai, Aravind 915 993131248 Sithamparapillai, Arjun xxxx 1004130823 Sivakumaran, Arunan 1063 1072133797 Skalin, Chris 1155 6132657 Skead, Michael xxxx 5132653 Skead, Nevada xxxx 4132968 Skinner, Jonathan xxxx 6133656 Slaney, Sheena 788 4131789 Slater, Emily xxxx 5131797 Slater, Isaac xxxx 4133589 Slipperjack, Robin 710 5129341 Sliwa, Jozef 1533 1533133358 Sloan, Randy 284 5130663 Small, Andre 1070 9111290 Smilovici, Emil 2011 2075101793 Smith, Maurice 1640 1967113075 Smith, Steven 1181 9108041 Smith, Ben xxxx 1635107311 Smith, Eric 2028 2123126709 Smith, Gregory xxxx 874125620 Smith, Duncan 1371 15125546 Smith, Hazel 1754 1766131743 Smith, Jonathon xxxx 5131701 Smith, Randi 391 5133634 Smith, Allison 977 5132118 Smith, Robert xxxx 6133608 Smith, Allisa 810 5131778 Smith, Davis xxxx 5131607 Smith, Jesse xxxx 9131481 Smith, Curtis xxxx 9104479 So, Kevin 750 15132847 So, Adrian 900 5133082 So, Brian 474 3133730 Sobczak, Justin 787 6132134 Sokolov, Mikhael 1202 8132743 Solari, Ernesto xxxx 4131919 Sole, Leonard xxxx 6129117 Soley, Alex xxxx 19102297 Solis, Jaime 1941 2011123265 Solodar, Yevgeni 2122 2159132939 Sooriyaganthan, Sarmilan xxxx 6129195 Sorenson, Thomas xxxx 861129184 Sorenson, Peter xxxx 20105764 Soriano, Romeo E. 1818 2103133330 Soucy, Ken 713 5102535 Southam, David 2191 2347132686 Sovric, Vladimir 1151 2106383 Spicer, Christopher 2002 2018105153 Spraggett, Kevin 2629 2665129314 Squibb, Steven 966 22123789 Srinivasan, Gajana 1941 2025132443 St Amour, Daniel 361 14132882 St Denis, Chad 364 9132868 St Pierre, Jordan 826 5133488 St. Arnand, Mathieu 653 5131623 St. Pierre, Stephane 871 16133461 St.- Pierre, Vicky 653 5128153 Stala, Henryk 1564 1683131629 Stancescu, Radu 1515 19132545 Stephens, Paul 1788 5120171 Stevens, Christian 2211 2211131810 Stewart, Nikki xxxx 5128597 St-Jean, Benoit 1603 10108689 Stonkus, Raymond J 1964 2072127755 Storrar, Jonathan 947 18109057 Strehlow, Chris 1635 1650107059 Streiter, Michael 1612 1688133426 Stringer, Randa 1029 6132940 Sturrup, Gareth xxxx 5132975 Su, Zi Ying xxxx 4127702 Su Wu, Sterling 1273 17124001 Sudds, Matt 1010 6108550 Super, Russell 1628 1800130925 Suresh, Prasanna 1144 1144112423 Surlan, Dan 2185 2221132970 Suthaharan, Ragulan xxxx 6132969 Suthaharan, Prasath xxxx 6131748 Sutherland, Tyler xxxx 5126201 Sviridovitch, Slava 1888 2002126093 Sviridovitch, Alina 1870 1925132609 Swain, Curtis xxxx 3131522 Swan, Miranda xxxx 15131500 Swan, Stacy xxxx 10131533 Swan, Clayton xxxx 10133756 Swanek, Brock 1029 6133399 Sweetland, Brett 676 5126978 Swentik, Ethan xxxx 19106730 Syed, Ali 1833 1918133414 Syvret, Samantha 200 5108802 Szatmary, Alex 1925 1972133816 Szelzki, Jeff 1112 6101371 Takov, Chris 1944 2087127520 Tam, Christopher 1555 21121114 Tam, Timothy 1525 1559133778 Tam, Steve 1226 6133324 Tam, Kenneth 868 5133385 Tamlin, Jay 594 5132024 Tan, Nicholas xxxx 3133759 Tang, Matt 1124 6133252 Tang, Evan 847 8132194 Tanz, Helmut xxxx 5126955 Tardioli, Brandon xxxx 16128650 Tarnowka, Edward 1562 1606133255 Tarsky, Simona 648 3

126821 Tatikian, Garni 1076 1089132941 Tauro, Emily xxxx 6132908 Tauro, Michael xxxx 5133658 Tayar, Jonathan 1341 3133660 Tayar, Joshua 700 3129231 Taylor, Amanda xxxx 9133406 Taylor, Sarah 641 6133416 Teatro, Willie 200 5101786 Tebbs, Frank 1372 1700103699 Tebbs, Frank J 1682 1798124501 Teh, Kevin 1691 1728129962 Tellier, Raymond 1554 1569108777 Teplitsky, Yan 2523 2549107314 Teram, Eli 1422 1539106474 Termeer, Ted 1621 1721131685 Terry, Samantha 577 5124866 Tester, Dean 1949 1949125772 Tester, Cory 1106 1111127431 Thavandiran, Shiyam 1851 1861127423 Thavandiran, Nimalan 1649 1757132016 Theberge, Jean 1158 20132465 Theriault, Kimberly 702 13132452 Therrien, Marc André 693 10131586 Therrien, Anabel 467 11132942 Thiageshvaran, Kabilan xxxx 6128897 Thibert-Leduc, Julien 779 779128910 Thibert-Leduc, Philippe 813 813133457 Thiffeault, Eric 237 5131995 Thistle, Doug 1412 18129724 Thoennes, Falko 919 10113114 Thomas, Mario 1865 10129222 Thomas, John xxxx 16122409 Thomas, Dan 2201 2201132943 Thomas, Adrian xxxx 6106868 Thompson, Ed G. 1543 1543131793 Thompson, Jowan xxxx 5123874 Thomson, Matt 1924 1987101072 Thorvardson, Barry 2038 2187120209 Thorvardson, Craig 1786 1786130555 Thrones, Tyler 751 751131282 Thung, Lucas 1872 1872103841 Thurairasah, Shivaharan 1717 1877133422 Thurston, Mitchell 1001 5126727 Tibbs, Kailee xxxx 893131523 Tikanye, Jonah xxxx 9132394 Tiselsky, Eugene 742 24131667 To, David xxxx 883128107 Tobolovsky, Evgeni 1560 8126875 Tolnai, David 1571 1582131395 Toma, Mihai 1373 8129205 Tomiczek, Cody xxxx 15127772 Tong, Steven 1382 1382110282 Toolsie, Alexander 1832 1896102615 Torres, Jose Francisco 1829 1829131320 Torres, John Carlos 2048 2058123005 Tota, Allan 1095 1107132870 Towsley, Caleb 557 5126983 Traini, Travis xxxx 849132944 Tran, Stanley xxxx 6129406 Transky, Paul 1364 1422111224 Tremblay, Brent 1735 1814126908 Tremblay, Benoit 1368 1368133305 Tremblay, Steven 200 5132435 Tremblay, Alexandre 685 10131594 Tremblay, André 610 15133304 Tremblay, Maxim 200 5131787 Tribe, Robert xxxx 9126489 Trichtchenko, Alex 1474 13131304 Tripp, Mark 1453 23131569 Trovarello, Elsa xxxx 10131572 Trovarello, Elliot xxxx 10123437 Truong, William 1328 1328132985 Tsui, Severn xxxx 4123187 Tsung, Timothy 1525 1525130976 Tsung, Jonathan 933 933107368 Tuca, Tony 1773 1773132909 Tucci, Matthew xxxx 6132196 Turjanyi, John 1710 13128356 Turner, Matt 983 983128867 Turner, Jared xxxx 14128357 Turner, Scott 1328 1356131386 Turner, Bev 1436 10124498 Tursman, Richard 1691 1718130556 Turuba, Roxanne 512 10127271 Turuba, James 1151 1189131539 Turuba, Michael 888 15131815 Tuusa, Noah xxxx 5129142 Twance, Katie xxxx 14132625 Tyson, Kevin 1373 2102136 Ungor, Imre 1827 1864133405 Upton, Kyle 698 6104815 Urquhart, Eddie 2246 2252125708 Uwland, Jaco 1425 1464126202 Vadachkoriya, Irakli 1918 2042125532 Vaingorten, Yaaqov 2304 2326101864 Valdizon, Armando 2303 2341131741 Valley, Cody xxxx 10131301 Van Aalst, Kees 940 5111795 Van Adel, Steven 1979 2145106830 Van der Velde, W. H. 1906 1975131795 van Doorne, Nick xxxx 5112806 Van Dusen, Eric 1887 1942131746 van Haesondonck, Steff xxxx 5133429 Van Haltern, Caleb 686 6124546 Van Haltren, Eric 792 14120087 Van Leeuwen, John 1478 1574112660 Vanderlee, Chris 1693 1823131668 Vasathanayan, Seyon 960 24133791 Vasquez, Ben 998 6107974 Vassanji, Anil 1888 2081129855 Vatcher, John xxxx 10132801 Vatcher, Mitchel xxxx 5102877 Vaydin, Mike 1672 1820132910 Vaziri, Arman xxxx 6132945 Vaziri, Armin xxxx 6133527 Veilleux, Simon 797 5133458 Veilleux, Angele 936 5102604 Veltmann, Martin 2125 2300101858 Veltmann, Alfred 1813 2002102372 Venning, Ron 1672 1855107979 Vera, Jesus 1468 1675108688 Verde, Pino 1831 2014132685 Vergara, Isaiah 1809 19131664 Verkhovsky, Paul 975 1030122790 Verma, Tony 1773 2030112840 Verma, Rajan 1736 1900132159 Vermont, Bryan xxxx 1998126975 Vezeau-Richer, Jason xxxx 19

133268 Vidic, Miroslav 1195 4132145 Vieira, Tiago xxxx 6133372 Vien, Christine 200 5107520 Villagracia, Ruben xxxx 1684133453 Villeneuve, Chloe 268 4133362 Villeneuve, Eric 672 5132874 Villeneuve, Vincent 311 9132863 Villeneuve, Frédérick 1452 4122286 Vincent, Rob 1819 1910132946 Vinginanalingiam, Presan xxxx 6101891 Vlasov, John 2036 2036129486 Vlasov, Nick 1869 16126713 Vollett, Tristan xxxx 24128800 von Keitz, Michael 1479 1572106693 Vucko, Ignac 1882 2165125697 Vujic, Branimir xxxx 2321129411 Vukovic, Vladimir 1726 1726128935 Wachter, Lindsey xxxx 14101142 Wagner, Dan 1624 1776132094 Walden, Jamie xxxx 4126316 Wan, Michael 1654 1654130308 Wan, Karen 837 13105702 Wang, HaoYuan 2280 2280132947 Wang, Zi xxxx 6132089 Wapioke, Rayne xxxx 10131476 Wapioke, John xxxx 10127018 Ward, Gerald 1660 1747133188 Ward, Hailey 654 5131466 Warioke, Rayne Boe xxxx 10128951 Warmbier, Erich xxxx 18112717 Warzywoda, Adam 2174 2174107494 Wasmund, Miles 1555 1557132911 Watters, Isaac xxxx 2133609 Watts, Matt 743 5131498 Wawance, Raelynn xxxx 19131470 Wayash, Damon xxxx 15132120 Wayash, B.J. xxxx 10100074 Webb, Robert N. 1800 1938132793 Welsh, Oscar xxxx 5113097 Wenz, Norman 1704 20132948 Werek, Ethan xxxx 4121463 Wettengl, Willi 1465 1538112769 Whissell, Mavros 1727 1727125863 Whiteside, Jeff 1051 22133805 Whitney, Jessica 1043 5129094 Wideman, Troy xxxx 10126755 Wiebe, Ryan xxxx 824131791 Wiens, Josh xxxx 4101431 Wierda, Tony xxxx 1538102934 Wight, Keith 2203 2208106595 Wignarajah, Kanji 1452 17130798 Wilkes, Robin 1223 12102469 Wilkinson, Allan 1597 1791106290 Williams, Mike xxxx 2013132647 Williams, Angel xxxx 4132912 Williams, Nicholas xxxx 5132660 Williams, Kimberly xxxx 5105942 Williamson, James 1468 1637131042 Williamson, Ryan 1105 7133436 Willms, James 415 5133590 Wilson, Cam 710 5131806 Wilson, Brittany xxxx 5133629 Wilson, Emily 1110 5131755 Wilson, Mitsuru 1103 5131751 Wilson, Warren 1434 5131764 Wilson, Mark 1440 10133790 Wilson, Colin 1112 6133649 Wiltsey, James 1377 5103265 Wing, Richard 1768 1978127541 Wiratunga, Sheran 1305 1422133246 Wolf, Katye 1479 5122512 Wong, Wylon 1738 1798132395 Wong, Herman xxxx 3109506 Wood, Bryan 1484 1600131692 Wood, Madison 443 5131633 Woods, Ashley 433 4132161 Woods, Dan xxxx 1599131747 Woodworth, Josh xxxx 5126475 Woolner, Nicholas 1258 18130431 Wright, David 990 10130430 Wright, Daniel 596 9130429 Wright, Josh 963 10127700 Wu, Adrian 1061 1097132683 Wu, Rafael 565 9129468 Wunder, Tyler 1747 9131756 Wynn, Robert 903 5131758 Wynn, Jonathan 703 5131752 Wynn, Lois 1305 5133251 Wynter Maxwell, Adam 799 3131840 Xiao, Andrew 962 975132913 Xu, Ran xxxx 6131035 Yam, Richard 1361 1361133761 Yang, Nan 1609 6130469 Yardy, Stephen 718 10133776 Yatsenko, Yuri 1022 6132914 Yeatman, Mitchell xxxx 6100255 Yee, Lorne 2222 2285132849 Yeshayav, Aviv 1143 4129549 Yeung, Benzi 814 903133779 Yeung, William 998 6130801 Yonzon, Adam 1034 17108051 Young, Jordan 310 5131695 Young, Dustin 310 5131700 Young, Chad 393 5131726 Young, Nathan 566 5131727 Young, Joel 633 5126131 Yu, Jonathan 1746 1746131837 Yuen, Kelvin 849 849133783 Yung, Vincent 905 6131813 Zacharias, Janelle xxxx 10101317 Zagar, Milan 1951 2135131559 Zahavi, Nimi 1790 1790133765 Zamkanei, Kali 714 6132976 Zarabi, Mahmood xxxx 5131992 Zare, Mehrdad 1516 15124633 Zavery, Hatim 581 13102582 Zendrowski, Jay 2273 2307132546 Zhao, Bo xxxx 5129642 Zhu, Tony 1241 1259132915 Zhu, Beverly xxxx 6132971 Zilbergerts, Dima xxxx 5102172 Zimninski, Nick 1775 2022132072 Zisckind, Tal 983 983121546 Zlatkoff, Rob 1629 1645111138 Zubac, Marius 2242 2304133812 Zvorygin, Andrew 1112 6133282 Zvyropin, Andrew 1104 2107851 Zybura, Andre 1978 2094

129190 Zygmunt, Ryan xxxx 10

Prince Edward IslandCFC# Name Rtng High130275 Ellis, Marshall 845 20110208 Gulati, Ashish (Justin) 2156 2159129797 Hambleton, Aman 1161 1161111891 Keunecke, Ed 1625 1774102875 Landry, Scott 1409 1423125207 MacKenzie, Nicholas xxxx 550127512 MacKenzie, Dalton 696 696100145 McKim, Fred 2050 2132125212 Parker, David 1072 1091121861 Paulowich, David 1733 1890

QuebecCFC# Name Rtng High133292 Alain, Christian 1493 5131940 Amesse, Louis Philippe xxxx 5101258 Angers, Gilles 1998 2085123360 Archambault, Serge 1845 1857102413 Arsenault, Michel 2134 2183109792 Auger, Denis xxxx 22109160 Bachand-Fleurent, Julien 2006 2027125747 Bannon, Eric xxxx 2195120268 Beaudoin, Stephane xxxx 13124075 Beaudry, Michel 1333 5120278 Belanger, Martin xxxx 1300105187 Bergeron, Pascal xxxx 15120272 Boutin, Andre 1353 10104782 Bowles, Charles 1693 1746131932 Brousseau, Yvan xxxx 6123743 Bussiere, Denis 1776 22131934 Campbell, M-A xxxx 5131942 Caron, Gabriel xxxx 4113051 Charbonneau, Anne-Marie 1948 1948108065 Charbonneau, Pascal 2469 2469132804 Choiniere, David xxxx 5113099 Christian, Mark 1545 1617131929 Clouthier, Mario xxxx 4126035 Corriveau, Phillipe 1824 14105062 Cote, Denis xxxx 1603131937 Dallaire, Dominic xxxx 5131938 Delisle, Louis Martin xxxx 5131927 Descoteaux, Michel 1277 5131945 Descoteaux, Sylvain xxxx 5131936 Desjardins, Michel xxxx 5123353 Desmarais, Emanual xxxx 2036127421 Dessmark, Anders xxxx 15107950 Duong, Thanh Nha 2372 2433122035 Duplessis, Jean Roch xxxx 19131946 Duret, Serge xxxx 2131627 Esterez, Emmanuel 1870 9103661 Ethier, Valori xxxx 20108237 Fillion, Steve xxxx 2189131948 Forte, Martin xxxx 5126038 Francoeur, Francois xxxx 10108043 Gagne, Marc xxxx 1500103399 Gagnon, Fabien 2127 2141122734 Gaspariants, Vladimir 2256 2266123739 Gauthier, Luc xxxx 10131947 Gelinas, Jacques xxxx 5131935 Gerard, Patrice xxxx 5111771 Gravel, Simon xxxx 2452102889 Grenier Jr., Marcel 1391 5102539 Groleau, Gilles 2122 2200127505 Gulko, Andrei 2164 23108647 Hastie, Robert xxxx 2031101280 Hébert, Jean 2480 2534131943 Jutras, Marc Andre xxxx 5128176 Katch, Gary xxxx 18122023 Khaziyeva, Dinara 2019 2019109739 Lacroix, Michel 1728 1728101285 Lacroix, Serge xxxx 2206110358 Larochelle, Martial 2215 2282102939 Laurin, Jacques 2000 2096100337 Laurin, Marcel 1823 1978102780 Lavergne, Daniel 1869 1869123478 Lawson, Eric 2253 2253125452 Lawson, Jonathan 1676 1679106923 Le Siège, Alexandre 2646 2660121167 Lemelin, Marc 1649 5104158 Lemieux, Richard 1899 1899103912 Leutschaft, Martin xxxx 2163120275 Levesque, Andre 1456 1472106262 Liard, Serge 1901 1901122046 Libersan, Thierry xxxx 9131933 Libersan, Mattieu xxxx 5125461 Masse, Hugues 2106 2130130355 Maxant, Joseph 1643 11125795 McAlpin, John Francis 1915 1915127203 Miron, Francois xxxx 19131941 Miron, Gilles xxxx 4101986 Morrison, Hugh 1475 1600110488 Moskvitch, Andrei 2228 2228132297 Norton, Michael 1025 13131928 Ouimet, Bernard xxxx 5120273 Paquette, Jean-Guy 1291 23106922 Paradis, Francine 1706 1706131930 Poirier, Erik xxxx 5131931 Pregent, Daniel xxxx 4120203 Ramaswamy, Kishor 1968 1970128774 Rheault, Alexandre xxxx 6131944 Robillard, Guillaume xxxx 5124250 Rose, Richard 1779 1814105274 Ross, David 2385 2439122701 Roussel-Roozmon, Thomas2231 2231105905 Saint-Amand, Paul 2177 2245100103 Sauve, Richard 2011 2011106803 Scantland, Patrick 1561 1650103553 Schleifer, Michael 2404 2491107078 Senecal, Jean-Pierre 1539 1817123358 Simard, Jole xxxx 18132803 Skiljevic, Vukola xxxx 5126036 Smith, Danny xxxx 15111541 Soudre, Nicolas xxxx 2194104735 St. Pierre, Benoit 2268 2268107302 Talajic, Milenko 2007 2139123738 Tessier-Desrosiers, Olivier 2015 2057102205 Thibault, Mario 1870 1978130071 Tomb, Maroun 1979 14128772 Tri Trinh, Bao xxxx 19110232 Trottier, Julie 1885 1973107885 Trottier, Stephane 2104 2176123745 Villeneuve, Luc 1643 1706120516 Voloaca, Mihnea 2284 2326131939 Ya Goub, Nacim xxxx 3

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ForeignCFC# Name Rtng High132235 Brussel, Kevin xxxx 3132706 Chang, Mikayla xxxx 5132698 Chang, Ryan xxxx 5132219 Collins, Sam 1983 5123416 Gaspariants, Garry xxxx 24133245 Hervieux, Donald 1876 1876101337 Imai, Toshio 1510 1807131761 Kaufman, Raymond 2162 4125630 Lazarev, Vladimir xxxx 2546131760 McGrath, David 1525 6132677 McKenna, Geoffry xxxx 5110329 Morabito, Matthew 1858 2003132073 Papp, Gellert 2165 4131561 Ross, Gregory 1991 4132551 Schwartz, Ylan xxxx 2322132738 Takamura, Atsushi 1484 14132078 Townsend, Ralph 1724 5132079 Townsend, Kevin 1423 5123304 Tyomkin, Dimitri xxxx 2523131324 Voskanian, Vahagn xxxx 18103395 Walker, Andrew 1860 1860

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AlbertaCFC# Name Rtng High131399 Aggarwal, Anil 1040 24120820 Andersen, Sune 2117 12132399 Armstrong, Brett xxxx 5133700 Bakker, Bryce 828 4128141 Beebe, Greg 1363 15131400 Beebe, Amanda 470 18132775 Beson, Alisha xxxx 5132770 Bodnar, Dan 708 15133093 Bodnar, Kristine 610 5131279 Boik, Andrew 1354 23132097 Bondarenko, James 1134 3121267 Booth, Shandy 1497 1497120375 Borowski, Ted 1508 1609133666 Boulet, Joel 1298 5131956 Bowman, Danny xxxx 4111306 Brodmann, David 1450 4131397 Buitendyk, Andrew 1033 9131398 Buitendyk, Anthony 664 15122305 Bundscherer, Peter 924 17132780 Caduette, Landon xxxx 5129688 Campbell, Steve 1301 11120411 Canal, Richard 1789 1789131402 Cardinal, Blaine 709 10129419 Caughlin, Wade 1616 7132233 Chaschin, Dima xxxx 4123601 Chi, Megan 825 24102956 Chiba, James 1656 1668112298 Chrumka, Colin 1658 1828132779 Clark, Tommy xxxx 5132051 Cloutier, Jordan xxxx 6125775 Cole, Mark 1101 12133690 Crozier, Robert 668 4133667 Cui, May Lin 1066 5132774 Dauphinais, Stephen 782 10132855 Dauphinas, Paul 874 5109618 Davies, Robert 1673 1700107487 Day, Jonathan 1685 1711123560 Deimert, David 1358 17106163 Deimert, Elroy 1508 1535133668 Deng, Simon 808 4108124 Dewindt, Cor 1471 1600132049 Diederichs, Hunter xxxx 6131383 Dinca, Cornelia 1013 8131384 Dinca, Tudor 1072 5103726 Doo, Alvin 1720 1720121620 Eshleman, Lucas 1048 21121190 Eshleman, Brandon 1714 1725133094 Farrants, Patrick 620 4133087 Farrants, Justin 773 5133687 Field, Matthew 760 5133697 Fischer, Jeff 747 5133092 Fokkema, Zack 477 5131959 Fokkema, Jered 1023 23108323 Gardner, Robert J. 2287 2300121808 Gibson, Vince 1200 12131244 Gilkison, Chris 912 5127637 Giterman, Daniel xxxx 8133686 Godin, Julie 947 5100353 Gomboc, Dave 2001 2039121140 Goude, Brian 1575 19133699 Grierson, Tyler 747 5133694 Grierson, Jordan 1027 5112476 Haessel, Dale 2285 2300132778 Halabi, Nadine xxxx 5130002 Hamblin, Steven 1395 3133689 Harder, Devin 988 4103209 Harris, Stephen 1807 1824122495 Haynes, Nicolas 1563 1563106102 Hinds, Dr. Ronald 1908 2005132769 Howlett, Brett 921 15109502 Hughey, Micah 1944 1944110040 Johnson, Dean 1511 23131403 Jones, Brendon xxxx 10131260 Kaminski, Lucas 1078 5127461 Kaminski, Victor 1642 10130786 Kaminski, Thomas 1308 10121625 Kazakevich, Anastasia 1461 1461133669 Khimji, Hussain 947 5132232 Klose, Nicholas xxxx 9133095 Knezevich, Theodore 1020 4131957 Koornhof, Geran xxxx 13

131960 Korsountsev, Stanislav 904 19127128 Kuwair, Martin 1581 18133698 Lamb, Willy 613 5103595 Lefkowitz, Phil 1658 1851131951 Lin, David 1343 14131963 Lin, Mark 733 15132050 Lynn, Timothy xxxx 6110115 Macfarlane, Don 1428 1567133691 MacKenzie, Luke 1160 5131949 Markovic, Igor xxxx 5131961 Markovic, Predrag xxxx 4131954 Martin, Steven xxxx 4133695 Mazur, Dylan 827 5120785 Mazurek, Andrew 1798 1803108745 McCann, Jim 1688 1688132400 McDonald, Louise 620 10125668 McDonald, Luke J. 962 962111917 McIntosh, Danny 1219 1219101022 McKay, Tom 1558 1705133090 McNary, Brendan 906 5131404 Merrel, Neal xxxx 10102547 Miller, Brian 1608 1667101874 Milne, Arthur 1913 2127133696 Mombourquette, Tylor 1013 5131953 Mouris, Daniel xxxx 9126459 Ng, Myron 745 745121343 Ng, Mitchell 989 1065111962 Nguyen, Kim 1766 1782132052 O'Reilly, Conner xxxx 6133086 Pacholok, Tanya 921 5133085 Pacholok, Stephan 750 5101694 Palcic, Branko 1415 20129905 Paolini, Rick 1200 6125599 Papez, Peter xxxx 5133692 Paquin, David 1160 5131994 Parent, Paul 831 3132768 Park, Roland xxxx 5132771 Park, Katherine xxxx 5133091 Parker, Brandon 654 5132777 Parsons, Travis xxxx 5131952 Pasek, Geoffrey xxxx 5133670 Persaud, Hemant 1097 5123257 Pivovarov, Juraj 1652 1652133088 Poseluzny, Nikita 801 5131259 Pradhan, Sarah 480 10131258 Pradhan, Faruq 871 10132776 Prouty, Nicole xxxx 5111232 Rajski, Piotr 1628 1688103400 Reeve, Jeff 2304 2304131962 Reuter, Erik xxxx 15110382 Reuter, Nils xxxx 1166133089 Robidoux, Daniel 705 5101005 Roy, Jim 1730 1800122861 Ryner, Aaron 1512 1512121763 Santbergen, Joseph 1922 1975131964 Sarmiento, Kevin xxxx 5131405 Schulbert, Alexander xxxx 20132021 Scornaiencki, Carmen 1153 6132772 Shindak, Shea xxxx 5120858 Smith, Mike 1591 1640127190 Smorshchok, Daniel 918 918122943 Spink, Hunter 1548 5133693 Stang, Brennan 827 5128379 Stark, Mark 1267 10132001 Stenberg, Doug 1111 4132231 Stewart, James xxxx 9121623 Stone, Stephen 1178 8123460 Sun, Ke 1331 1346127550 Tassone, Adam 1421 9132053 Thomas, Derek 902 902131955 Tuong, Kevin xxxx 4111433 Van Ieperen, Taco 1770 1900105520 Verlik, Val 1444 1637127208 Wang, Amanda 797 797112618 Ward, Kevin 1699 1743101495 Watson, Walter 1875 1922107355 Weis, Rodney 1780 1882127483 Wihnon, Jason 1441 12131958 Williamson, Aaron 871 4133688 Yackulic, Simon 1308 4102743 Yearwood, Roy 2033 2121132773 Zeitz, Erik xxxx 5

British ColumbiaCFC# Name Rtng High129489 Arbuckle, Robyn 1052 3128830 Baldwinson, Ted 1712 1764131990 Bokvist, Kris 655 7131987 Combes, Keegan 555 7111500 Craig, James 1579 19107057 Devindisch, William xxxx 23130528 Fawcett, Dexter 855 7131986 Fehr, Nathan 505 7122172 Forsyth, Brendan 932 932122171 Forsyth, Gavin 665 665128481 Forsyth, Alan 1400 14111013 Gemmell, Ian 1585 15112513 Haukenfrers, Dale 2032 2061103127 Herder, David 2008 20129717 Hickford, Ted 1266 23131988 Hilts, Morgan 455 7130342 Katunar, Chad 1245 4128340 Kelso, Steve 1700 1700100252 Koke, Conrad 1678 1800130534 Kurath, Kevin 705 7128397 McKay Jefferson, Matt 1730 10100266 McLean, Brent 1826 1826132168 McPeake, Daniel 1523 4100318 Niksic, John 1975 1975127485 Raymer, Elliot 1645 10126641 Raymer, Evan 1585 9108137 Rodger, Derek 1444 10102481 Rycroft, Don xxxx 1782103414 Scoones, Dan 2113 2201126481 Sherrin, Mitchell 1741 1741101193 Sladek, Vaclav 1924 1935104822 Smith, Bruce 1653 1785100205 Stringer, Lynn 1537 1584107829 Taylor, Nicholas xxxx 1861100296 Wilkins, Robert T. 1625 15

ManitobaCFC# Name Rtng High101126 Boron, Anthony 1898 1898111806 Czypinski, Jaroslaw 1824 1824121031 Haapamaki, Eric 1707 4112475 Nikouline, Alexandre 1877 13

104699 Remillard, John 1275 8106687 Schulz, Waldemar 1847 1917121137 Tetrault, Claude 1237 8121352 Tetrault, Charles 1401 8103193 Trueman, Francis 1300 1300109457 Wasney, Mark 1739 14120176 Weijs, Harry 1375 12

New BrunswickCFC# Name Rtng High128632 Brewer, Tim 1257 9100253 Brun, Jacques 1596 1772128633 Caissie, Patrick 1529 19130266 Chiasson, Marc 1590 1665105843 Grover, Brian 1625 1628107785 Haggarty, Don 902 937129619 Hovey, Jordon 1207 9129597 Hutchinson, Jason 1224 8120429 Johnson, Kyle 1551 1551121684 Laforest, Gilles 1360 1407125344 Laplante, Marc Andre 1348 6104837 Riordon, Jason 1769 1769104579 Smith, Jody 1609 20129616 Smith, Kyle 1265 6133263 Taylor, Cory 1198 6133264 Wilson, Ian 924 4

NewfoundlandCFC# Name Rtng High131653 Burry, Jon 998 5104218 Deal, Peter 1725 16122392 Eddy, Rick 1455 20129362 Hammond, Daryl 1546 15131842 Jackson, Doug 1341 10125284 King, Ryne 1576 19125730 Martin, Steve 1801 10124084 Myler, Sid 1417 1417121087 Oliver, Brian 1343 1343110197 Smith, Andrew 1856 1856125289 Sullivan, Michael 1869 19103802 Tsui, Alick 1246 1247110990 Tsui, Edwin 1481 1481131373 Whiffen, Bruce 1827 5125727 White, Chris 1554 5122967 Wiseman, Shane 1440 1497129363 Young, Heather 1099 10

Nova ScotiaCFC# Name Rtng High125675 Dunphy, Andrew 1557 1563123376 Ng, Gary 1870 1870

Northwest TerritoriesCFC# Name Rtng High132763 Akearok, Jason xxxx 5132761 Casey, Peter xxxx 5132766 Ittinuar, Shawn xxxx 5123729 Keats, Jason xxxx 15132764 Marriot, Scott xxxx 5124775 Plunkett, Andrew 1774 15132760 Plunkett, Brenda xxxx 5132762 Sageaktook, Patrick xxxx 5132765 Wisintainer, Mark xxxx 5

OntarioCFC# Name Rtng High132346 Aarssen, Audrey xxxx 3107642 Abt, Michael 1742 1742123274 Agabekian, Konstantin 1785 1792112687 Allen, Graham 1874 1968130426 Anderson, Jake xxxx 5132275 Andronache, Tiberiu 1346 10126834 Andronache, Daniel 1390 1390124988 Andronache, Victor 1627 1627131385 Arandia, Henry E. 1986 18132010 Arcand, Ryan 1947 12100034 Armstrong, Robert J. 1679 1706101203 Arseneau, Peter 1754 1816132251 Askes, Andrew xxxx 4132252 Askes, Scott xxxx 3128063 Aspinall, Adam 1348 24133685 Avzan, Les 1291 5132353 Baabbad, Khalid xxxx 5131831 Babcock-Doyle, Harley J 1261 6128073 Banihashemi, Amir 1283 17131537 Bank, Robert 1560 4131538 Bank, Diego 1543 4105732 Barbatbun, John 1678 4107592 Barclay, Douglas 1400 1400107304 Barclay, Wayne 2213 2300132784 Barmasch, Oswald 1593 11121157 Barnes, Derek xxxx 7132259 Bartja, James xxxx 8132323 Bartlett, Andrew xxxx 5107235 Bates, Josh 1372 2101490 Beal, Greg 1593 22126054 Beaudry, Lukas 1909 1980132324 Beaule, Gilbert xxxx 5107968 Becker, Paul 1916 1971121686 Belc, Daniela 1932 1952108516 Bilbey, Brian 1501 1501122935 Biro, Zoltan 1413 10132325 Blain, Carl xxxx 5132326 Blain, Chris xxxx 3131393 Blakely, Matt 2205 12109007 Bledzinski, Ian 2113 2114132254 Bliss, Taylor xxxx 3125709 Bluvshtein, Mark 2288 2292132309 Bond, Brandon xxxx 5108432 Boone, Keith 1448 1500110947 Boronka, Joseph 1552 12108790 Boross-Harmer, Peter 1940 2098111626 Bos, Peter 1834 1834133684 Bost, Bill 1342 5133296 Braby, Jamie 200 6112136 Brajkovic, Nikola 2058 2219132621 Braund, Corey xxxx 6102666 Brice, Ron 1993 2100127784 Broersen, Hans 1735 1787132623 Brooks, Dale xxxx 6132310 Bruhlman, Derek xxxx 5126209 Bryskine, Marina 1966 1980130898 Bugno, Lukasz 1022 19132340 Bunke, Jeff xxxx 5100046 Bunning, Les 1866 2100

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101613 Burgess, Doug 1776 1900110977 Buscar, Michael 2117 2142133164 Butt, Jeffery 1802 12105619 Buzdon, Paul 1511 1593132327 Bysma, Michael 999 11102214 Cairns, James 1686 20132366 Caza, Adam 1344 11125466 Chan, Michael 1234 10125705 Chan, Walter H. 1721 6132341 Christian, D.J. xxxx 5132298 Christie, Chad xxxx 5109384 Chuderski, Jan 1620 1703105738 Chyurlia, Jerome 1804 1818106389 Clarke, Brian 1494 1589133163 Cocks, Steve 803 6110578 Coleman, Mike 1856 19126311 Cooke, Matthew 1550 1550113058 Cooke, Christopher 1676 7132316 Crabb, Kody xxxx 4101349 Crowley, Gerry 1709 1845123161 Cummings, David 2423 2442129683 Cushing, Ted 1702 10107299 Dangberg, Karl 1662 1805101895 Danilov, Alex 1870 1966111980 Darbyson, Roy 1255 14132617 Davidson, Courtney 746 13128692 Davidson, Cody 1070 1122110120 Davies, Alex 1962 24129435 Davis, Chad 1185 10106987 Davis, Trent 1893 21101024 Day, Lawrence 2494 2514104844 de Castro, Dan 1691 1827109777 De Jesus, Enrique 1815 22102011 De Kerpel, Stijn 2023 2023102955 de la Parra, Francisco xxxx 3124403 Deakin, John 1378 1403132317 Delia, Michael xxxx 5105261 DeLugt, Gerald 1742 20125547 Dembowski, Mitchell 1414 1440109477 Demmery, Steve 2067 2162110803 Den Otter, Albert 1414 1674132367 Dennis, Kirk 992 9109214 Divljan, Igor 2113 2201104754 Dixon, Frank 1746 1772101065 Djerkovic, Miladin 2245 2259132303 Dobrara, Kasim xxxx 5100294 Dougherty, Michael 2342 2376123319 Downs, Steve 1811 10125528 Dragusanu, George 1257 1258125994 Dubeau, Jason 1622 16132242 Dubinsky, Lev 1351 12130264 Dupuis, Christie xxxx 5106571 Dutton, Warren Richard 2007 2195132286 Dykes, Adam 1340 12107233 Eberle, Mark 1729 23110299 Egorov, Mikhail 1867 1918106512 Ehrman, Carl 2157 2174101459 Ellis, Joe T. 1884 1955103011 Erickson, John 1748 1900103309 Evans, Bill xxxx 2144101981 Fabris, Al 1713 1800111839 Fairbairn, Stephen 2002 2045131360 Feijoo, Manuel xxxx 6102366 Ferner, Wolfgang 1935 2000103521 Filipovich, David 2207 2209101737 Findlay, Ian 2358 2448105001 Findlay, Dave 1807 1807107539 Finkenzeller, Aaron 1720 1720128426 Finnie, Matt 1185 13132304 Forrest, Rease xxxx 5132362 Fortunato, Daniel xxxx 5111695 Fragakos, Angelo 1986 2040130092 Francis, William xxxx 5131800 Francis, Peter 808 5126498 Friedman, Alexander 1727 22104235 Friis, Torben 1699 1719132782 Frungorts, Evgeny 2282 18131014 Fryer, Eric xxxx 11130869 Fulmyk, Michal 1249 20126508 Fulmyk, Pavel xxxx 1782102942 Furstner, Nandor 1948 2055132311 Galbraith, Neil xxxx 5111383 Gallant, Lloyd 1898 1915131560 Gallant, Steve 1333 11104173 Gareau, Don 1665 1861105218 Garel, Richard 1764 1848112426 Gashgarian, Rob 1740 1780108027 Gasparac, Marijan 1907 1959131241 Geaman, Horia 1891 18104272 Gelblum, Robert 2200 2212132629 Gellner, Alexander 1127 4132628 Gellner, Nicholas 1717 5132626 Gellner, Zenon 1383 4108202 Gillanders, Robert 1797 1962122659 Giroux, Dave 1975 7132328 Glasier, Adam xxxx 5128756 Glew, Richard 1822 20132536 Glozman, Igor 1836 6131183 Glozman, Matvey 1753 6109888 Golts, Diana 1735 24103597 Golts, Roman 2102 2102106528 Gomes, Jose 1893 2033102579 Gordon, Dave 1838 20104833 Hadley, Ryan 1759 1759100027 Haley, Philip G. 1683 1900132750 Haniford, Alicia xxxx 5130545 Harb, Roddey 1388 4104354 Harkes, Lewis 2033 2092130897 Harley, Adam 1075 19132104 Harrison, Dave 1415 11111177 Hassain, Mahmud 1815 1815106156 Haziprodromu, Sam 2021 2169132018 He, Tara 358 4132342 Heide, Juan xxxx 5102107 Henderson, Fred 1713 1783105731 Hendon, Lee 1462 1511127769 Henry, Liam 1799 1799125002 Hier, David 1620 1698108908 Hillyard, Larry 1373 21123135 Hoch, Doug 1398 1398132745 Hogarth, Sarah xxxx 5105422 Hollo, Peter 1704 1800107184 Holmes, Michael J 1776 1782132347 Howard, Josh xxxx 5133294 Howard, Graham 913 7110145 Howell, Mark xxxx 20129371 Hsiung, Timothy 1187 5105297 Huband, Ken 1826 1826

107565 Hubley, Roger 1876 1876132312 Hummel, Brandon xxxx 5100293 Hutchinson, Alan R. 1459 1459112983 Hutchison, Rob 1723 11132329 Innes, Jamie xxxx 5100030 Jackson, David 2105 2183132615 Jacobson, Eric xxxx 10132614 Jacobson, Colin xxxx 10106205 Jando, Edmond 1575 1722133480 Jankowski, Mateusz 898 11132330 Jaques, Brian xxxx 5132299 Jenner, Britton xxxx 5124816 Joag, Vineet 1575 1575109033 Johnson, Charles Edward 1629 1740127185 Jordan, Harry G. 1649 12100182 Jung, Hans 2255 2323126499 Kacic, Mladen 1134 22106715 Kagramanov, Dina 1869 1869132318 Kahlon, Pushpinder xxxx 5124895 Kain, Andrew 1331 1331133478 Kania, Robert 570 11133479 Kania, Adrian 472 10125361 Kaplan, Youri 1389 1389109746 Karpik, Steve 1383 1434126832 Kaufman, Harris 1404 11132613 Kay, Mike xxxx 5132619 Kay, Nicole xxxx 12130347 Killi, Steve 1324 5132260 Kim, Mira xxxx 4107850 Kirby, Patrick 1913 1913132331 Klassen, Jamie xxxx 5128581 Klimaszewski, Marek 1930 15106376 Knechtel, Tim 1768 1846128787 Kniat, Philip 919 16132356 Knight Messenger, And xxxx 5130785 Ko, Kelvin 1398 11130093 Komer, Matthew 844 844125925 Komer, Robert 841 841125924 Komer, Brent 911 20125923 Komer, William 1024 1024129709 Kop, Michael 1551 1593132256 Korten, Joshua xxxx 11132255 Korten, Nathan xxxx 11132332 Kotvu, Jared xxxx 5112640 Kouba, Jaromir 1462 1500101982 Krajcovic, Dominik 1672 17131924 Krasimir, Nikov xxxx 6105549 Kret, Ted 2001 2162109158 Kristjanson, Scott 1699 1699131331 Kudelka, Ivan 1689 11104537 Kurkowski, Ken 1614 1700105482 Kuryliw, Ray 1826 22132265 Kuziak, Terry xxxx 7132258 Kuziak, Kevin xxxx 8132319 Kydd, Andrew xxxx 5132363 Labbee, Ryan xxxx 5106974 Lamb, Bryan 2025 2122132333 Landschoot, Derek xxxx 5132250 Langford, Craig 1160 16101665 Langill, Ron 1422 1534130792 Lau, Michael 1229 5121507 Lau, Daniel xxxx 961108998 Laughlin, Steve 1942 1996112068 Lawless, David 1882 2008129463 LeBlanc, Ron 1467 21132334 Lee, T xxxx 4132013 Legault, Ben 1618 5132014 Legault, Dan xxxx 5104130 Lehman, Andrew 1425 19105108 Lehmann, James E. 1503 1592132012 Lenord, Phil 1310 4132305 Lesperanee, James xxxx 5132217 Letourneau, Gary 1232 3131703 Letourneau, Allan G. 1160 4131298 Letourneau, Ryan 1592 11132359 Li, Peng xxxx 5113017 Liles, Kerry 1734 22132320 Linton, Rob xxxx 5130806 Lipson, Alex 1264 6100355 Litchfield, Gerry 1643 1777131040 Livingstone, Ryan 1308 6102042 Livshits, Ron 2371 2468101686 Loadman, Ian 2070 16128186 Loeb, Kurt 1282 1282107201 London, John 1670 1670130260 Long, Alex xxxx 3110214 Lucki, Arnie 1926 2010123759 Luzius-Vanin, Michael xxxx 4126196 Luzius-Vanin, Robbie xxxx 3128146 MacLeod, Neil 1369 1391129952 MacNevin, Dave 1518 9130724 Madore, Chris 1409 1427125600 Mai, Lloyd 1539 5127442 Malik, Paul xxxx 7127441 Malik, John xxxx 6112277 Manalo, Pepin 1822 1918132306 Manon, Jenny xxxx 5107391 Marghetis, Aris 1804 1849132616 Martin, Kristy xxxx 6132618 Martin, Justin xxxx 6132368 Martin, Trevor xxxx 4132622 Martin, Jason xxxx 6101975 Martin, Craig 1286 16133477 Maternicki, Philip 389 11129669 McCallion, Robert 1464 1464100298 McClelland, Tom 1667 1900127490 McDonald, Justin 1344 1344125585 McGilly, Craig 1259 1291102892 McGowan, Alan 1914 15132343 McGuigan, Scott xxxx 5106075 McKay, Geoff 1926 18127444 McKeon, Michael xxxx 998132369 McKeon, Jeremy xxxx 2132344 McLaucklin, Jamie xxxx 4132360 McQueen, Joey xxxx 5132749 Mercer, Lisa xxxx 6129568 Merkley, Scott xxxx 4120200 Meyer, Kiel 1580 1580121781 Miaco, Trifelino 1854 1854133295 Michalchuk, Zackary 211 3130899 Michalski, Artur 1000 19127534 Miller, Evgeni 2151 2173127517 Mills, Morgon 1601 1601103626 Mitrovic, Bojana 1989 1989102310 Mitrovic, Milan xxxx 2400132287 Montero, Jose 1486 6106826 Morrison, Kyle 1390 1425132391 Mutagi, Rohan 1520 6

132074 Nagarathinam, Kajamugan 865 11102685 Neilsen, Steve 1748 7132348 Nickerson, Kris xxxx 5132534 Noritsyn, Nikolay 1943 18132535 Noritsyn, Elizabeth 1199 6128072 Novakowski, Christopher xxxx 8122103 Nozari, Nosrat 1760 1855121335 Nunes, Paulo 1447 1447120159 Nurmi, Kari xxxx 20121880 Obidzinski, Michael 1604 14104561 Obrovac, Zvonko 2041 2041106245 O'Donnell, Tom 2448 2478106011 Ogden, Steve 1655 11101018 Okolotowicz, Zbigniew xxxx 2148127482 O'Neil, Gary xxxx 1444102500 Orloff, Irv 1372 20103144 Ortiz, Hugo 1679 20103715 Pacey, Kevin 2267 2270103404 Pagayatan, Noel 1977 1979121545 Page, Peter 1494 1494127560 Palmer, Jordan 1662 1662121202 Panjwani, Raja 1160 1160121164 Parandeh, Ali 1635 5132364 Pare, Rolo xxxx 5132401 Pasternak, Jack 1103 4127521 Pastor, Andrew 1558 24103043 Patterson, Roger 2119 2200106406 Paulsen, Lorenzo 1284 2122223 Peev, Pavel 1848 1887133671 Peng, David (Yu) 1888 6131058 Pentland, Ralph 1475 12129282 Perez, Anthony xxxx 10132335 Peters, Cory 1254 11132300 Pettitt, Richard xxxx 5128508 Phillips, Andrew 1071 1071133319 Phillips, Peter 613 7133318 Phillips, Nigel 506 7132624 Phillips, Tony 612 13125815 Picana, Andrew 1992 2112122604 Piggott, Scott 1452 1496129459 Plotnikov, Vladimir 1649 1771109167 Polywkan, Roman 1505 10132321 Poore, Kyle xxxx 5101151 Powell, Bryson 1902 2022132349 Powell, Mike xxxx 5102775 Predescu, Sebastian 2016 20132313 Price, Jeff xxxx 5132301 Prociw, Phil xxxx 5105444 Profit, Brian 2005 2007108329 Puschke, R.F. 1693 1786129944 Raats, Dan 1969 13120954 Raheb, David 2095 2095108279 Rakhinshteyn, Fima 2056 2200100257 Raletich, George 1873 2000132336 Reaume, Raymond xxxx 5132370 Redman, John xxxx 4122971 Requadt, Guenter 1302 17132767 Reynolds, Steve xxxx 5132263 Rice, Danielle xxxx 16111115 Richardson, Ross 1840 1896132783 Rivera, Adan 1649 6127787 Robertson, Archie 1544 15111268 Robinson, Kenneth C. xxxx 1826129467 Rodriguez, Brany 1452 10132314 Rogers, Blair xxxx 5113055 Roschman, Paul 1594 1594132620 Roy, Destiny xxxx 6111463 Ruiz, Richard 1978 2118100198 Runstedler, Albert 1766 1939132167 Rutherford, Andrew 862 4127525 Sadler, Craig 1613 7132350 Sadler, Bryan xxxx 5128487 Sadler, Kirk 1304 14130259 Sagacak, Berk 1048 11132371 Salive, Daniel xxxx 2108545 Salomaa, Markku xxxx 1897132011 Saulnier, Nick 1673 5132748 Schmidt, Alexandra xxxx 6103877 Serdula, Jay 1727 1727121329 Shah, Omaray M. 1858 1916132337 Sharpe, Alex 1181 11132019 Shaw, Randy 260 3109017 Shea, Joseph 1349 17128458 Shulman, Lorne 1434 7128459 Shulman, Cory 1457 9127799 Shyr, Aaron 1134 1149127800 Shyr, Justin 1176 1176127801 Shyr, Jonathan 939 939102717 Sibbald, Peter R. 1770 21120619 Siddeley, Hugh 1798 1798109808 Simic, Dusan 2148 14132220 Sina, Robert 1989 6130823 Sivakumaran, Arunan 1072 1072132746 Slater, Karen xxxx 6132338 Smith, Derrek xxxx 5125546 Smith, Hazel 1440 23132264 Smith, Jordan xxxx 4132257 Smith, Jason xxxx 4132253 Smith, Tim xxxx 4107311 Smith, Eric 1976 2059132134 Sokolov, Mikhael 1482 9122937 Spektor, Vitali xxxx 13123789 Srinivasan, Gajana 1830 1840132372 St. Denis, Rene xxxx 4132354 Stajic, Sinisa xxxx 5131629 Stancescu, Radu 1717 5132355 Steiner, Steve xxxx 5120171 Stevens, Christian 2127 2129132357 Stevenson, Matt xxxx 5132351 Stewart, Jamie xxxx 5108689 Stonkus, Raymond J 1726 1911111468 Stroud, Mike 2220 2228132365 Sulatycki, Fraser xxxx 4132075 Suntharalingam, Thash xxxx 6126201 Sviridovitch, Slava 1736 18126093 Sviridovitch, Alina 1508 1526106730 Syed, Ali 1663 1702133481 Syposz, Anna 731 9121237 Taherkhani, Majid 2078 2078101371 Takov, Chris 1889 2116133320 Taylor, Elliot 305 6124501 Teh, Kevin 1479 1479133409 Teitsson, Magnus 1889 5112698 Teodoro IV, Eduardo D. xxxx 2450107314 Teram, Eli 1233 1233106474 Termeer, Ted 1484 1692127431 Thavandiran, Shiyam 1883 1883132315 Thomas, Chris xxxx 5

113114 Thomas, Mario 1406 5106868 Thompson, Ed G. 1319 1404132261 Thompson, Lauren 829 20132262 Thorsteinson, Katherine 958 15131282 Thung, Lucas 1865 22132361 Tian, Feng xxxx 5101079 Tipu, Vincentiu 2314 2321130972 Tolton, Martin 1234 20132747 Tomaszewski, Leah 692 13130091 Tomaszewski, Daniel 971 21102615 Torres, Jose Francisco 1868 24131320 Torres, John Carlos 2107 2107132358 Toye, Alex xxxx 5129406 Transky, Paul 1505 23102820 Trbic, Milan 1887 2141126908 Tremblay, Benoit 1426 12126489 Trichtchenko, Alex 1044 1107368 Tuca, Tony 1585 4131801 Turnbull, Ian xxxx 10132307 Ty, Robert xxxx 5105191 Ugge, Robin 1835 1835120384 Urbanc, Lea 1337 1409104815 Urquhart, Eddie 2156 2156126202 Vadachkoriya, Irakli 1962 2081125532 Vaingorten, Yaaqov 2217 2243132345 van de Kleut, Aaron xxxx 5106830 Van der Velde, W. H. 1832 1940112806 Van Dusen, Eric 1843 1935120087 Van Leeuwen, John 1479 15132308 Vassiliev, Alan xxxx 5102604 Veltmann, Martin 2136 2200101858 Veltmann, Alfred 1751 1900102372 Venning, Ron 1390 1698107979 Vera, Jesus 1599 1622108688 Verde, Pino 1640 1658122790 Verma, Tony 1790 1947112840 Verma, Rajan 1405 23129787 Vermette, D'Arcy 1575 1575132484 Vladimir, Epov 1720 5101891 Vlasov, John 1811 1859132352 von Bondenhausen, S xxxx 5125697 Vujic, Branimir 2335 2348132017 Waite, Timothy 800 12126316 Wan, Michael 1512 1512105702 Wang, HaoYuan 2057 2057127018 Ward, Gerald 1543 1543133476 Wardzinski, Adam 498 11132302 Welch, Matt xxxx 5121463 Wettengl, Willi 1279 1342130253 Wieringa, Kip xxxx 5122512 Wong, Wylon 1491 1491132322 Wonncott, Kurtis xxxx 5129978 Woodard, Vince xxxx 3131992 Zare, Mehrdad 1622 11102582 Zendrowski, Jay 2213 2232107851 Zybura, Andre 1999 1999

Prince Edward IslandCFC# Name Rtng High123488 Casey, Adam 1228 1280130916 Champion, Nicholas 1237 5133248 Champion, Philip 1038 4130275 Ellis, Marshall 1298 16110208 Gulati, Ashish (Justin) 2070 2155129797 Hambleton, Aman 1631 1631125217 Judson, Jessy 1291 1306111891 Keunecke, Ed 1669 1669102875 Landry, Scott 1537 1617125207 MacKenzie, Nicholas xxxx 12109360 Marzari, Italo 1633 1636100145 McKim, Fred 1948 2051125212 Parker, David 1434 1442121861 Paulowich, David 1730 1846104903 Puiras, Jarmo 1622 17106600 Quigley, Nick 1620 1662

QuebecCFC# Name Rtng High123360 Archambault, Serge 1888 1903102413 Arsenault, Michel 1855 20129715 Beland, Stephane 1669 1669125637 Brouillard, Mathieu 1509 6103228 Cote, Jacques 2058 2106107950 Duong, Thanh Nha 2192 15102780 Lavergne, Daniel 1673 10125703 MacDonald, Weldon 1603 10107237 Maisonneuve, Paul 1383 15103041 Mangahas, Ronald 1860 1864101986 Morrison, Hugh 1511 1511132718 Ouellet, Gérard 1592 5126039 Ramaswamy, Kiran 1949 12120203 Ramaswamy, Kishor 1789 12111541 Soudre, Nicolas 1747 14120516 Voloaca, Mihnea 2232 2247

SaskatchewanCFC# Name Rtng High125384 Amundson, Kristofor 1503 15125580 Porter, Patrick 1699 1699

ForeignCFC# Name Rtng High131307 Ashish, Vaja 2004 15132755 Baldauf, Luciano 1830 10132504 Bell, Daniel 1475 9100244 Bibuld, Jerome 1040 1128661 Bocharov, Dmitry xxxx 10132759 Boneri, Steven xxxx 5130368 Brown, Lance 1927 16129791 Bustillo, Joaquin xxxx 1906131358 Campers, Willie xxxx 10130996 Carlisle, Vincent xxxx 11132219 Collins, Sam 1911 12132065 Dobrev, Nanko 2298 2328131391 Dowd, Steven B. 2057 15131356 Dresher, Kevin 1820 1820132503 Dueker, John T xxxx 5131273 Field, Douglas xxxx 12130370 Fortune, Jon xxxx 4130994 Galyean, Dave 1590 10132066 Griffin, Adam xxxx 10132756 Heise, Robert xxxx 5129969 Hill, Martin 1729 1776132758 Huggins, Jim S. xxxx 5130995 Ibrahim, Mohamed xxxx 9101337 Imai, Toshio 1508 1508

131311 Ipinza, Marco 1776 6131761 Kaufman, Raymond 2105 6132754 Kiriakov, Petr xxxx 2558129966 Krivosheya, Sergei xxxx 14129977 Kunschek, Horst xxxx 1793112070 Laird, John P. xxxx 4131187 Lindberg, Uno xxxx 10132757 Louis, Thomas C. 1684 15132506 Lustig, Andrew xxxx 2129975 Moore, Mike xxxx 19110329 Morabito, Matthew 1846 1931132501 Moraes, Nelson xxxx 5130378 Natoli, Joseph xxxx 10131355 Nixon, Rod xxxx 10129794 Nkili, Joseba xxxx 19132073 Papp, Gellert 2088 12130366 Peredy, Ferenc xxxx 9131269 Pereira, Juliano Resende 2064 2064110863 Pitre, H. G. 1833 1929123108 Plesset, Kiven 1954 16132505 Reis, Alan xxxx 4131359 Salinnikov, Denis xxxx 15130992 Seeman, Tarvo 2329 2333131005 Shamilov, Edward xxxx 10131270 Sierra, Miguel 2157 2157131175 Smith, Patrick W 1503 1531131188 Soza, Jose xxxx 10131923 Trobough, Warren xxxx 4132502 Turzo, Attila xxxx 2357123285 Wilson, John 1808 1808129965 Zarnicki, Pablo xxxx 20

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