Hart House Open Toronto 2013 Final Standings

The U of T Hart House Open was a big success. See HHchess UToronto.
Great photos from HH albums. Games coming later.

Spectators

Great photos by Egidijus Zeromskis from HH albums. 

Nice Chess Lady, Liza

Great photos by Egidijus Zeromskis from HH albums. 

Event Report by Alex Ferreira from chesstalk

'The event took off with a lecture by Grandmaster Bator Sambuev. Over 30 people came in for that and had the pleasure to learn themes in "Tal - Art of Attack"

185 players competed, which is a record for us at Hart House. This includes the recently past Labour Day, and according to Bryan Lamb, we would have to go back about 10-12 years for a higher turn-out. Still not quite as big as Brian Fiedler's PwC Toronto Open (203 players?) or the Canadian Opens, but not too bad!

Definitely not without its challenges, we need to evolve and adjust if we are to be able to maintain such big crowds and aim to get even more people. Most of the feedback was quite positive, and we welcome constructive criticism. Many people filled out a survey and we've had a couple of e-mails with ideas as well.

Note that at Hart House tournaments, we give free entry to those who are playing in their first ever CFC tournament. It can be a turn-off paying an entry fee as well as membership dues to those starting out. 15 people took advantage of this, welcome to the tournament scene!

Bryan Lamb, great as always, Geordie Derraugh, superb in all fronts while also playing (!), and myself, take much of the credit by being in the spotlight at the tournaments. However there are a million little things that we needed help with, and I'd like to give a big thanks to Leon Perelman,Chris Wehrfritz, Ben Hahn, Lali Agbabishvili, Andrew McMillan, Kit Ng, Adie Todd, Jack Ding , Tyler Longo, Day Milman & Aquino Inigo. 

They made the difference in making sure things ran as smoothly as they could. Without them the tournament would have been completely chaotic, disorganized, and unpleasant experience I am sure. 

We also always welcome help from High School students who are looking to do some volunteering, like Aquino. Students need to complete 40 (or 50?) hours of volunteer work as part of the curriculum to graduate, and we gladly provide a letter for some help.(more)' 

Section Open
Artiom Samsonkin took clear first with 4.5/5.

Jura Ochkoos
Great photos by Egidijus Zeromskis from HH albums

#	Name	CFC Ratng	Total	Prize
1	Artiom Samsonkin	2547	4.5	1500
2	Bator Sambuev	2684	4	750
3	Nikita Gusev	2309	4	750
4	Nikolay Noritsyn	2598	3.5
5	Tomas Krnan	2576	3.5
6	Bindi Cheng	2485	3.5
7	Michael Song	2322	3.5
8	David Cummings	2443	3
9	Roman Sapozhnikov	2440	3
10	Arthur Calugar	2429	3
11	Victor Plotkin	2350	3
12	Razvan Preotu	2300	3
13	Michael Dougherty	2271	3	150
14	Michael Humphreys	2269	3	150

Under 2200

James Fu was clear first with 4.5/5.

#	Name	CFC Ratng	Total	Prize
1	James Fu	2127	4.5	500
2	Aquino Inigo	2193	4	120
3	Wajdy Shebetah	2144	4	120
4	Leon Perelman	2112	4	120
5	Derick Joshua Twesigye	2095	4	120
6	Jonathan Yu	2046	4	120
7	Yelizaveta Orlova	2071	3.5
8	Mark Plotkin	2161	3
9	Alexandru Florea	2133	3
10	Stephan Tonakanian	2107	3
11	Zehn Nasir	2059	3
12	Agastya Kalra	2047	3
13	Sergey Noritsyn	1924	3

Under 1900
Troy Hansen and Robert Li shared first with 4.5/5.

#	Name	CFC Ratng	Total	Prize
1	Troy Hansen	1612	4.5	430
2	Robert Li	1526	4.5	430
3	Pi Nasir	1852	4	85
4	Randy Moysoski	1829	4	85
5	Jiaxin Liu	1736	4	85
6	Steve Nickoloff	1712	4	85
7	Shankar Balakrishnan	1839	3.5
8	John W Chidley-hill	1839	3.5
9	Mickey Stein	1890	3
10	Aris Marghetis	1872	3
11	Sasha Chuchin	1833	3
12	Jack Ding	1822	3
13	Brian Clarke	1753	3
14	Alex Kitaygorodsky	1676	3
15	Lakes Liang	1670	3
16	Sankar Govindarajan	1614	3
17	Daniel Sirkovich	1612	3
18	Richard Wing	1599	3
19	Justin Quinn D'Souza	1564	3
20	Harmony Zhu	1538	3
21	Thomas Guo	1501	3
22	Benjamin Lin	1469	3
23	Emmanuel Cousin	unr.	3

Under 1600
Yanchun Zhao, Patrick L Huang and Amir Mohammad Shafiee shared first with 4.5/5.

#	Name	CFC Ratng	Total	Prize
1	Yanchun Zhao	1519	4.5	400
2	Patrick L Huang	1382	4.5	400
3	Amir Mohammad Shafiee	unr.	4.5
4	John Young	1548	4	50
5	Daniel Molev	1514	4	50
6	Michael Rogers	1499	4	50
7	Richard Guo	1487	4	50
8	Alexandre Michelashvili	1565	3.5
9	Ken Kurkowski	1555	3.5
10	George Supol	1514	3.5
11	Kyle France	1478	3.5
12	Michael Ashcroft	1449	3.5
13	Leonid Aghamalian	1435	3.5
14	Graeme Knight	1310	3.5	166.67
15	Daniel Muntaner	1265	3.5	166.67
16	Vlad Nitu	1135	3.5	166.67
17	Harry Zhao	1596	3
18	John R Brown	1586	3
19	Gary Hua	1492	3
20	Constance Wang	1414	3
21	Daniel Liu	1350	3
22	Nika Akophyan	1271	3
23	Milan Cvetkovic	1222	3
24	Nameer Issani	1048	3