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Canadian Open 2013

Canadian-Open-2013The 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

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