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Leonid Gerzhoy
Number of games in database: 180
Years covered: 1999 to 2014
Last FIDE rating: 2430
Highest rating achieved in database: 2530
Overall record: +73 -36 =71 (60.3%)*
   * Overall winning percentage = (wins+draws/2) / total games
      Based on games in the database; may be incomplete.

MOST PLAYED OPENINGS
With the White pieces:  Sicilian (9)      B22 B28 B30 B32 B92  Slav (9)      D10 D15 D18 D11 D12  English (8)      A15 A13 A14  King's Indian (8)      E97 E94 E62 E60  Reti System (8)      A04  Grunfeld (6)      D85 D94	With the Black pieces:  Sicilian (17)      B56 B31 B39 B52 B88  Caro-Kann (13)      B18 B12 B14 B11  Queen's Gambit Declined (9)      D31 D37 D35 D38 D30  Nimzo Indian (8)      E32 E21 E20 E42 E41  French Defense (7)      C18 C00 C13 C01 C05  Queen's Indian (5)      E12 E15

NOTABLE GAMES: [what is this?]
   M Dougherty vs L Gerzhoy, 2011 0-1
   D Yang vs L Gerzhoy, 2012 0-1
   L Gerzhoy vs H Masse, 2012 1-0

NOTABLE TOURNAMENTS: [what is this?]
   Canadian Closed (2006)
   PWC Toronto Open (2009)
   Canadian Open (2009)
   41st Annual World Open (2013)
   Israeli Championship (2004)
   Canadian Open (2007)
   Chess Olympiad (2010)
   Chess Olympiad (2012)

GAME COLLECTIONS: [what is this?]
   2010 Montreal open by gauer

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LEONID GERZHOY (born Nov-07-1987, 27 years old) Israel (citizen of Canada) [what is this?] He is an IM, won the 2006 Toronto Closed, took 2nd in the 2006 Canadian Championship, won the Canadian 2007 Junior and won the 2010 Hart House Reading week open tournament. In 2011, he won the Philadelphia International with 8/9 and tied for 1st-2nd with Bator Sambuev in the Ontario open. In 2003 at Denizli, he played 1st board for Israel in the World Youth U16 Chess Olympiad and acheived 8 points in 10 games played for a team placement of 6th of 23 participating teams. His Chess Olympiad (2010) debut on the Canadian 3rd board earned him 3 wins and 3 draws (in 9 games played). He returned to the Chess Olympiad (2012) in Turkey on board 2 (finishing with 3 wins and 4 draws for a score of 5/9) to qualify for Canada for his 2nd time, accumulating 11½/25 in Olympiad points by 2014. He also participated in the Chess Olympiad (2014) (+1-4=2 at 3rd board). He tied with Bindi Cheng for share of 17th-28th with 5½/9 at the 41st Annual World Open (2013) (6) and tied for 5th-13th with 6/9 at the Washington (D. C.) International in 2013 (7). References: (1) http://www.chess.ca/ (Canadian Chess Federation), (2) http://www.olimpbase.org/ (Olympiad & team chess chronological catalog), (3) http://torontochess.org/drupal/ (Greater Toronto Chess League - GTCL), (4) http://www.chessontario.com/ (Ontario Chess Association - OCA), (5) http://chesstournamentservices.com/... (Continental Chess Association), (6) http://www.worldopen.com/, (7) http://www.internationalchess.net/, (8) https://sites.google.com/site/ottaw... . Wikipedia article: Leonid Gerzhoy

page 1 of 8; games 1-25 of 180  Game   Result Moves Year Event/Locale Opening 1. L Gerzhoy vs R Panjwani   1-0 50 1999 Canadian Junior Championship E94 King's Indian, Orthodox 2. L Gerzhoy vs D Baratosi   1-0 36 2001 EYCC B14 A25 English 3. Ruixin Yang vs L Gerzhoy   ½-½ 64 2001 WYB14 B23 Sicilian, Closed 4. L Gerzhoy vs De Vreugt   ½-½ 55 2001 Czech Open A09 Reti Opening 5. L Gerzhoy vs Karjakin   ½-½ 82 2001 EYCC B14 A25 English 6. V Mikhalevski vs L Gerzhoy   1-0 40 2001 Israel Open Ch E06 Catalan, Closed, 5.Nf3 7. C Hall vs L Gerzhoy   0-1 42 2001 EYCC B14 D30 Queen's Gambit Declined 8. L Gerzhoy vs J Banawa   ½-½ 31 2001 WYB14 A38 English, Symmetrical 9. E Romanov vs L Gerzhoy   0-1 47 2001 EYCC B14 B39 Sicilian, Accelerated Fianchetto, Breyer Variation 10. L Gerzhoy vs Sutovsky   0-1 25 2001 Israel Open Ch A15 English 11. J Lechtynsky vs L Gerzhoy   0-1 40 2001 Czech Open B39 Sicilian, Accelerated Fianchetto, Breyer Variation 12. L Gerzhoy vs D Baramidze ½-½ 37 2001 EYCC B14 D02 Queen's Pawn Game 13. L Gerzhoy vs B Predojevic   ½-½ 58 2001 EYCC B14 A04 Reti Opening 14. L Gerzhoy vs Wang Yue   0-1 29 2001 WYB14 A04 Reti Opening 15. L Gerzhoy vs V Talla   ½-½ 41 2001 Czech Open A04 Reti Opening 16. L Gerzhoy vs V Laznicka   ½-½ 16 2001 EYCC B14 A13 English 17. P Scharrer vs L Gerzhoy   0-1 36 2001 EYCC B14 B56 Sicilian 18. M Lepan vs L Gerzhoy   0-1 36 2001 WYB14 A45 Queen's Pawn Game 19. L Voloshin vs L Gerzhoy   ½-½ 31 2001 Czech Open D38 Queen's Gambit Declined, Ragozin Variation 20. S Zavgorodniy vs L Gerzhoy   ½-½ 44 2001 EYCC B14 B31 Sicilian, Rossolimo Variation 21. L Gerzhoy vs Wang Yue   ½-½ 38 2002 WYb16 A90 Dutch 22. L Gerzhoy vs A Rinberg   1-0 38 2004 Israeli Championship E97 King's Indian 23. L Gerzhoy vs E Shachar   ½-½ 65 2004 Israeli Championship A96 Dutch, Classical Variation 24. G Livshits vs L Gerzhoy   1-0 51 2004 Israeli Championship B56 Sicilian 25. P Kantarji vs L Gerzhoy   0-1 40 2004 Israeli Championship B57 Sicilian  page 1 of 8; games 1-25 of 180

Jun-08-10    Catfriend: I remember playing Leonid Gerzhoy at a local park, we were about the same age (8-10), but naturally the results weren't that similar:)

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