Canadian Open 2013

The Canadian Open 2013 is taking place on 13-20th July at the National Hotel and Suites Ottawa in Ottawa, ON. The tournament format is 9 Rounds Swiss, one section.

Rounds:
Rd.1 – Saturday, July 13; 4:30 p.m..
Rd.2 – Sunday, July 14; 10:30 a.m.
Rd.3 – Sunday, July 14; 6:30 p.m.
Rd.4-8 – Monday-Friday, July 15-19; 6:30 p.m.
Rd.9 – Saturday, July 20; 10:30 a.m.

Prize Fund (expected): $25,000

After four rounds of play GM Nigel Short, GM Ivan Sokolov, GM Eric Hansen and IM Leonid Gerzhoy are joint leaders with perfect scores. 181 players compete.

Official website

Standings after 4 rounds:

1	GM Nigel Short	2697	4
2	GM Ivan Sokolov	2642	4
3	GM Eric Hansen	2587	4
4	IM Leonid Gerzhoy	2571	4
5	GM Walter Arencibia	2610	3.5
6	IM Aman Hambleton	2580	3.5
7	IM Raja Panjwani	2517	3.5
8	IM Richard Wang	2484	3.5
9	GM Lazaro Bruzon Batista	2758	3.5
10	GM Bator Sambuev	2688	3.5
11	GM Elshan Moradiabadi	2557	3.5
12	GM Eduardas Rozentalis	2601	3.5
13	IM Keaton Kiewra	2423	3.5
14	IM Artiom Samsonkin	2557	3
15	GM Ioan Cristian Chirila	2519	3
16	GM Reynaldo Vera	2514	3
17	James Fu	2257	3
18	FM Jason Cao	2239	3
19	IM Rodney Oscar Perez Garcia	2464	3
20	FM Kevel Oliva Castaneda	2399	3
21	Geordie Derraugh	2297	3
22	IM Bindi Cheng	2516	3
23	IM Edward Porper	2494	3
24	IM Arthur Calugar	2418	3
25	FM Roman Sapozhnikov	2396	3
26	FM Michael Kleinman	2367	3
27	FM Eric Rodriguez	2318	3
28	FM Michael Dougherty	2290	3
29	Miladin Djerkovic	2287	3
30	Butch Villavieja	2275	3
31	Tanraj S Sohal	2263	3
32	Mike Ivanov	2252	3
33	Digeng Du	2009	3
34	GM Luis Manuel Perez Rodriguez	2480	3
35	Mate Marinkovic	2231	3
36	Kevin Pacey	2223	3
37	WC Alexandra Botez	2204	3
38	David Petty	2161	3
39	Ismail Ibrahim	2057	3
40	Rod Hill	1959	3
41	GM Eugene Perelshteyn	2571	3
42	Paul Leblanc	1839	3
43	FM Victor Plotkin	2394	2.5
44	IM Leon Piasetski	2392	2.5
45	Michael Song	2390	2.5
46	Alex Yam	2367	2.5
47	Evgeny Miller	2234	2.5
48	Armando Valdizon	2219	2.5
49	Ruining Ray Wu	2117	2.5
50	Daniel Van Heirzeele	2088	2.5
51	Stephan Tonakanian	2071	2.5
52	Francesco Dunne	2066	2.5
53	Dmitry Chernik	1918	2.5
54	CM David Gordon	2319	2.5
55	Jonathan Yu	2224	2.5
56	James Chan	2184	2.5
57	Steve Demmery	2110	2.5
58	Ramon J Cova	2077	2.5
59	Diwen Shi	2030	2.5
60	Yuetong [davy] Zhao	1873	2.5
61	Yinshi Li	2081	2.5
62	Amos Kuttner	1946	2.5
63	Ian Finlay	1936	2.5
64	Gilles Jobin	1942	2.5
65	William G Doubleday	2166	2.5
66	Roger Lebrun	1914	2.5
67	Danail Donev	2023	2
68	Vasil Khachidze	2359	2
69	Zachary Burrows	2031	2
70	Michel Desjardins	1996	2
71	Martial Larochelle	2232	2
72	Adam Dorrance	2185	2
73	Qiyu Zhou	2160	2
74	Stijn De Kerpel	2157	2
75	David Itkin	2151	2
76	Kevin Wan	2148	2
77	John Doknjas	2065	2
78	Chris Felix	1993	2
79	Mateusz Dydak	1975	2
80	Jason Kenney	2159	2
81	Gordon Giacomin	1951	2
82	FM Robert Hamilton	2374	2
83	Mark Plotkin	2223	2
84	Jeff Babb	2211	2
85	Lali Agbabishvili	2099	2
86	Mike Sun	2080	2
87	Joey Zhong	2033	2
88	Wenlu Yu	2032	2
89	Vladimir Drkulec	1988	2
90	Jeremy Hui	1976	2
91	Simon Kuttner	1877	2
92	Patrick Scantland	1838	2
93	Michael Su	1770	2
94	Victor Itkin	1707	2
95	Norman Devine	1631	2
96	Vitaliy Matytsyn	unr.	2
97	David Kenney	1936	2
98	Thomas Kurian	unr.	2
99	Luc Villeneuve	1931	2
100	David Forget	1921	2
101	Mario Moran-Venegas	1880	2
102	Max Gedajlovic	1875	2
103	Brian McKay	1860	2
104	Wenyang Ming	1851	2
105	Joshua Doknjas	1848	2
106	Nathan Farrant-diaz	1748	2
107	Yevgeni Nahutin	2044	2
108	Jacob Krolczyk	1909	2
109	Maurice Smith	1494	2
110	Miles Duggal	1231	2
111	Saeid Sadeghi	1978	2
112	Benjamin Blium	1927	2
113	Gordon Ritchie	1730	2
114	Cuong Quoc Nguyen	unr.	2
115	Ky Quoc Nguyen	unr.	2
116	Phap Quoc Nguyen	unr.	2
117	Rinna Yu	1301	1.5
118	Alex Y Lin	1809	1.5
119	Alex Danilov	1767	1.5
120	Kai Richardson	1626	1.5
121	Ryan Yang	1911	1.5
122	Brendon Lee	1870	1.5
123	Jeffrey Xu	1862	1.5
124	Curtis Barlow Wilkes	1861	1.5
125	Mackenzie Hardie	1838	1.5
126	Guy Piche	1745	1.5
127	Brian Murray	1459	1.5
128	Clark Zhang	994	1.5
129	David Cohen	1866	1.5
130	Alan Tomalty	1764	1.5
131	Konstantin Vlasenko	1660	1.5
132	Edward Selling	1579	1.5
133	Kyle Creamer	1838	1.5
134	Jaime Solis	1658	1.5
135	Thomas Guo	1608	1.5
136	Garland Best	1603	1.5
137	Melissa Lee	1534	1.5
138	Jatinder Dhaliwal	1461	1.5
139	Daniel Du	1038	1.5
140	Luc Gauthier	1740	1.5
141	Agastya Kalra	2130	1
142	James Currie	1999	1
143	Lenard Grossmann	1614	1
144	Ashley Tapp	1481	1
145	Kajan Thanabalachandran	1759	1
146	Chris White	1757	1
147	Robert Laszlo	1753	1
148	Robin Yu	1751	1
149	Stanley Wu	1741	1
150	Simon Perkins	1614	1
151	Samuel Chen	1339	1
152	Ken Douglas	unr.	1
153	Jean Bigras	1762	1
154	Matthew Morabito	1799	1
155	Francois Poitras	1687	1
156	Grant Schaper	1647	1
157	Conrad Macneil	1598	1
158	Frank Lee	1471	1
159	Richard Feng	1364	1
160	Ethan Low	1105	1
161	Marcel Laurin	1625	1
162	Adam Adriaanse	1924	1
163	Steven Faust	1711	1
164	Fernando Echavarria-hidalgo	1679	1
165	Walter Macneil	1655	1
166	Doug Gillis	1618	1
167	Vilas Karmalkar	1604	1
168	Jill Ding	1585	1
169	Kevin Low	1484	0.5
170	John Remillard	1633	0.5
171	Jeff Zhang	1500	0.5
172	Rowan James	1072	0.5
173	Alex Reny	1067	0.5
174	Robert J Armstrong	1590	0.5
175	Annika Zhou	1045	0.5
176	Neil Doknjas	1228	0.5
177	Keven Eyre	1536	0
178	W Thomson Bruce	1528	0
179	Dee Wu	1188	0
180	Aiden Zhou	1136	0
181	Nicholas Short	unr.	0