Run by Hans Rudolf Jung from Friday February 15 - Sunday February 17 at Kitchener city hall, CAN. One game on the Friday night produced some 1st or 2nd round byes for commuting players. This format added a slightly longer time control for the weekend days such that the organizing club wasn't trying to sneak in a 1st round shortened time control game on a Saturday morning. So this tournament had a morning and late afternoon game on each of Saturday and Sunday, instead of an early Saturday afternoon and late supper game afterwards for that day.

Restaurants nearby provided easy luncheon access for the majority of players that would've finished before the next round.

By being the only player to concede only as much as a single draw in this event, the clear winner Samsonkin went on to later represent Canada at the 2010 Olympiad. Noritsyn took a bye in the 2nd round and tied for share of 2nd-3rd.

http://chess.ca/crosstable?tourname...

    Player                  R1   R2   R3   R4   R5  Total
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1   Samsonkin, Artiom      W 26 W 4  D 3  W 5  W 8   4.5
2   Noritsyn, Nikolay      W 18 D 0  W 13 D 3  W 7   4.0
3   Quan, Zhe              W 12 W 10 D 1  D 2  W 13  4.0
4   Morrison, Kyle         W 8  L 1  W 15 D 13 W 16  3.5
5   Yuan, Yuanling         D 0  W 19 W 20 L 1  W 10  3.5
6   Humphreys, Michael     D 7  W 21 W 23 L 8  D 9   3.0
7   Martchenko, Alexander  D 6  D 9  W 24 W 14 L 2   3.0
8   Sambuev, Bator         L 4  W 17 W 11 W 6  L 1   3.0
9   Miletic, Damir         D 0  D 7  D 10 W 12 D 6   3.0
10  Pryor, Jamieson        W 16 L 3  D 9  W 23 L 5   2.5
11  Inigo, Aquino          D 0  D 25 L 8  W 22 D 14  2.5
12  Lacau-Rodean, Iulia    L 3  D 16 W 25 L 9  W 23  2.5
13  Raheb, David           W 22 W 24 L 2  D 4  L 3   2.5
14  Dougherty, Michael     D 0  D 15 W 22 L 7  D 11  2.5
15  Fiedler, Brian         D 19 D 14 L 4  W 17 D 21  2.5
16  Drkulec, Vladimir      L 10 D 12 W 19 W 20 L 4   2.5
17  Leu, Richard           D 0  L 8  D 21 L 15 W 26  2.0
18  McDonald, Justin       L 2  L 23 W 26 D 21 D 20  2.0
19  Mohammed, Ricardo      D 15 L 5  L 16 W 26 D 22  2.0
20  Brestoiu, Doina        D 0  W 27 L 5  L 16 D 18  2.0
21  Filipovich, David      D 0  L 6  D 17 D 18 D 15  2.0
22  Whissell, Mavros       L 13 W 26 L 14 L 11 D 19  1.5
23  Sapozhnikov, Roman     D 0  W 18 L 6  L 10 L 12  1.5
24  Dragusanu, George      W 25 L 13 L 7  L 0  L 0   1.0
25  Nemati, Omid           L 24 D 11 L 12 L 0  L 0   0.5
26  Becker, Paul           L 1  L 22 L 18 L 19 L 17  0.0
27  Bond, Hal              L 0 L 20  L 0  L 0  L 0   0.0
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