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Canadian Open (2007)

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Bu Xiangzhi, Nigel Short, Vadim Milov, Alex Yermolinsky, Sergei Tiviakov, Chanda Sandipan, Kamil Miton, David Howell, Suat Atalik, Victor Mikhalevski, Anton Kovalyov, Mark Bluvshtein, Sipke Ernst, Andrey Rychagov, Nikolay Noritsyn, Anton Shomoev, Eric Hansen, Abhijit Kunte, Bator Sambuev, Valeriy Aveskulov, Leonid Gerzhoy, Borislav Ivkov, Hoang Thong Tu, Tomas Likavsky, Thomas Roussel Roozmon, Francisco De la Paz Perdomo, Bindi Cheng, Alexander Reprintsev, Ekaterina Polovnikova-Atalik, Shiyam Thavandiran, Aman Hambleton, Joseph M Bradford, Arkadi Eremeevich Vul, Daniel Rensch, Tomas Krnan, Lawrence Day, Artem Samsonkin, Raja Panjwani, Lefong Hua, Victor Plotkin, Joost Michielsen, Jonathan Tayar, Rick Lahaye, James Critelli, Tom O'Donnell, Gregory Huber, Yuanling Yuan, Michael Barron, Louie Jiang, Nikita Kraiouchkine, Minhea Voloaca, Michael Dougherty, Kubra Ozturk, Victor Kaminski, Goran Mikanovic, Duong Thanh Nha, Liam Henry, Lloyd Mai, John D Bick, Joey Qin Zi Yi, Dusan Simic, Timon Van Dijk, David Gordon, Robert Gardner, Maher Saleh, Peter Taylor, Kevin Pacey, Jeff Reeve, Miladin Djerkovic, Saeid Sadeghi, Paul Saint-Amand, Sebastian Predescu, Keith MacKinnon, Avinaash Sundar, Jerry Xiong, Josh Guo, William Doubleday, Wayne Barclay, Karoly Szalay, Alex Davies, Lucas Davies, Trevor Vincent, Richard Ziegler, Ray Kuryliw, Vladimir Semyonov, Steve Demmery, Geordie Derraugh, Vladimir G Pestov, Helmut Fritzsche, Noam Davies, Peter Hum, Dina Kagramanov, Ian Aird, Haonan Zhou, Gilles Groleau, Ralf Ostermeier, Thomas Kaminski, Laurentiu Grigorescu, Dane Mattson, Barry Thorvardson, Peter Bokhout, Scott Cliff, Brendan Fan, David Begoray, Sam Sharpe, Yiming Han, Pavel Peev, Tri Bao Trinh, John Upper, Ali Hayder, Melvin Yu, Tyler Longo, Aquino Inigo, Roger Le Brun, Marco Yu, Richard Huang, Elias Oussedik, Sean Rachar, Michel Desjardins, Vladimir Gaciu, Danilo Aniag, Liam Keith Jacques, Gabriel Brown, Hal Bond, Robert Gillanders, Robert Armstrong, Wolfgang Ferner, Steven Faust, Yvan Brousseau, Halldor Peter Palsson, Stephane Dallaire, Dalia Kagramanov, Noel Pagayatan, Lyndon Dizon, Evan Raymer, Mark Christian, Charlie Ozkan, Daryl Bertrand, Ahmad Abou Nassif, Alex Danilov, Li Ruokai, Christian Pepin, M Saleh, Brian Mckay, Laurent Allard

 page 1 of 15; games 1-25 of 356  PGN Download
Game  ResultMoves Year Event/LocaleOpening
1. L Day vs W Barclay  1-018 2007 Canadian OpenC00 French Defense
2. Short vs V Kaminski 1-024 2007 Canadian OpenC18 French, Winawer
3. W Doubleday vs F De la Paz  1-046 2007 Canadian OpenE91 King's Indian
4. T Krnan vs J Bick 1-037 2007 Canadian OpenC47 Four Knights
5. A Reprintsev vs J Guo  1-034 2007 Canadian OpenB20 Sicilian
6. G Huber vs T Roussel Roozmon  0-160 2007 Canadian OpenC26 Vienna
7. L Gerzhoy vs M Dougherty  1-040 2007 Canadian OpenA53 Old Indian
8. L Mai vs Bradford 0-145 2007 Canadian OpenC00 French Defense
9. E Polovnikova-Atalik vs P Taylor  1-062 2007 Canadian OpenA61 Benoni
10. L Jiang vs N Noritsyn  0-134 2007 Canadian OpenB74 Sicilian, Dragon, Classical
11. P Saint-Amand vs L Hua  ½-½31 2007 Canadian OpenB22 Sicilian, Alapin
12. L Henry vs N Davies  1-030 2007 Canadian OpenB42 Sicilian, Kan
13. E Hansen vs J Michielsen  1-036 2007 Canadian OpenC11 French
14. M Yu vs D Kagramanov  0-136 2007 Canadian OpenB41 Sicilian, Kan
15. R Gardner vs D Rensch  0-149 2007 Canadian OpenA02 Bird's Opening
16. M Barron vs Hoang Thong Tu 0-142 2007 Canadian OpenB59 Sicilian, Boleslavsky Variation, 7.Nb3
17. T Likavsky vs M Voloaca  0-155 2007 Canadian OpenD11 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
18. C Sandipan vs J Tayar  1-047 2007 Canadian OpenB51 Sicilian, Canal-Sokolsky (Rossolimo) Attack
19. S Thavandiran vs A Shomoev  ½-½87 2007 Canadian OpenB96 Sicilian, Najdorf
20. V Mikhalevski vs D Simic  1-030 2007 Canadian OpenE73 King's Indian
21. T Van Dijk vs S Atalik ½-½57 2007 Canadian OpenA20 English
22. R Panjwani vs Tiviakov  0-139 2007 Canadian OpenB54 Sicilian
23. K Miton vs Duong Thanh Nha  1-048 2007 Canadian OpenE06 Catalan, Closed, 5.Nf3
24. G Mikanovic vs V Milov  0-171 2007 Canadian OpenE91 King's Indian
25. A Vul vs Bu Xiangzhi  0-151 2007 Canadian OpenD11 Queen's Gambit Declined Slav
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Jul-15-07  Pulse: Bu wins! Congratulations to him!
Jul-15-07  chessmoron: Bu Xiangzhi wins. 8/10. Milton vs Chanda: http://www.monroi.com/wdc/flashview...

Please draw. HEHE!

Jul-15-07  Pulse: Chanda is defending very well. Miton needs to be careful not to overextend.
Jul-15-07  hitman84: Congrats to Bu and <chessmoron> :) Looks like Chanda is winning.
Jul-15-07  chessmoron: I hope that Milton sees Qg3! and not to worry about the horse. If 38...fxe5? 39 Qxg7+ Bf7 40 Rd7+! and getting the Queen.
Jul-15-07  hitman84: Looks like Milton found a better move. He played Bd7.
Jul-15-07  Pulse: Uh oh. I think 38. Bd7 was bad. Chanda should now have two pieces for the rook, although for the moment the rook is more active. I'm not sure how long that will last, though.
Jul-15-07  chessmoron: <hitman84> But I feel that Chanda's N and B is superior to the one R
Jul-15-07  hitman84: Yes. Chanda will have to coordinate his pieces. Milton will pick up the e5 pawn and with his control over the d file and pawn majority has more winning chances than Chanda.
Jul-15-07  chessmoron: DRAW! Bu Xiangzhi--Winner of 2007 Canadian Open. Good Luck in Biel 2007 next! Go China!
Jul-15-07  yalie: draw in miton-chanda. Bu wins the tourney
Jul-15-07  slomarko: come on guys stop with these <I think>, <I feel>.. you all have the engine running hehe
Jul-15-07  hitman84: Game drawn. Congrats to BU!
Jul-15-07  Pulse: Congratulations to Bu for a well-played tournament. I hope he does well in Biel and gets more rating points. :)
Jul-15-07
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  Marmot PFL: Looks like Nigel might win the rook ending.
Jul-15-07  arunjangity: niggle won!
Jul-15-07
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  Marmot PFL: Looked to be a drawn ending but it shows the difference between GM and IM.
Jul-15-07
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  notyetagm: <chessmoron: DRAW! Bu Xiangzhi--Winner of 2007 Canadian Open. Good Luck in Biel 2007 next! Go China!>

Go Bu! Woohoo! Looks like China may soon have =two= 2700-rated GMs, Bu Xiangzhi and Wang Yue.

Jul-15-07  doremi: Well, there are more than a billion Chinese! On the other hand, almost nobody plays chess in China. They all play Chinese chess which is different from the chess we are talking about here.
Jul-15-07  trapdor: There must be something wrong with the live game website I was looking at. Sorry for the confusing message. But I am more than happy to know Xiangzhi Bu won!!
Jul-15-07  DUS: Congrats to GM Xiangzhi Bu of China!! It was predictable success of course.
Jul-16-07  Dr.Lecter: <doremi> The Chinese chess is different from chess, but not altogether different. When I play Chinese chess, I am sometimes able to use my almost non-nonexistent chess knowledge on it.
Jul-16-07  anandr: Not a bad performance and result for Sandipan, given his current ELO rating. I wonder how many ELO points he takes away from this tournament.

Rising Chinese power is beginning to show, though they admittedly still have some way to go. I'm sure tournaments like the M-Tel will start featuring some of them very soon.

Jul-16-07  Akuni: <DUS> Not completely predictable, Short was =1 last year, and I think the top players average Elo was much higher. :)
Jul-18-07  DUS: <Akuni> You are right, in sport nothing is completely predictable. :)
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