Results of Borden Park Outdoor Chess on Sunday, July 18:
Section A: 1. Derek Thomas, 2. Noah Hoffner, 3. Dennis Situ, 4.
Dante Chan
Section B: 1. Allan Stanislus, 2. Luciano Di Blasi, 3. Poplar Wang, 4. Alex Broughton
Section C: 1.
Mehrshad Sahebsara, 2. Austin Hesse, 3. Kevin Stanislus, 4. Dianna Muzyka 5. Henry Song
Section D: 1. Tosin
Kuye, 2. John Cervantes, 3. Kaixin Wang, 4. Destin Chan
Section E: 1. Patrick Cervantes, 2. Jadyn
Buchanan, 3. Willem Jakobs, Tied 4-5 Soheyl Makiabady, Daniel Zhang
6. Jarod Hasell
Remember: if you have to withdraw from an event after registering, please e-mail rovingchessnuts@shaw.ca
On the day of the event, if you have to withdraw or will be late, call 780-554-7280. If you just do not show up and do
not notify that you are withdrawing, you will be paired and will forfeit one or more games.
Results of the Pre-Father's
Day Tournament - Sunday, June 13, Edmonton Chess Club, 10840 124 Street
Section A: 1. Derek Thomas, 2. Noah Hoffner, 3.
David McCullough, 4. Tony Yang
Section B: 1. Dante Chan, 2. Thomas Nef-Ojedi, 3. Ian McCullough, 4. Rishi Durupala,
Section C: 1. Sebastien Despres, 2. Prabjeet Bansal, 3. Luciano Di Blasi, Tied 4. Allan Stanislus & Alex
Broughton, 6. Mark Nie,
Section D: 1. Rayden Lin, 2. Austin Hesse, 3. Mehrshad Sahebsara, Tied 4. Filip
Stevanovic & David Yao
Section E: 1. Dianna Muzyka, 2. Poplar Wang, 3. Andrei Niculescu, Tied 4. Ryan Jensen
& Vinh Nguyen, 6, Andrew Keates
Section F: 1. Colin Tran, 2. Ibrahim Elmallah, 3. Destin Chan, 4. John Cervantes,
Tied 5. Ryan Nowakowsky & Artur Lyssenko
Section G: 1. Kaixin Wang, 2. Kevin Stanislus, 3. Henry Song, 4. Boris Stevanovic,
5. Collin Harrison, 6. Jeremy Kerr
Section H: 1. Patrick Cervantes, Tied 2. Darren Li & Jadyn Buchannan, 4. Raghu
Manohar
Tied 5.
Tosin Kuye, Norman Fu, Ying Li & Daniel Zhang
> The July 15 Pizza
Tournament was won by Alex Broughton who lost only one game while Andrew Keates took the silver medal and John Cervantes captured
bronze. Thank you to all players who participated in the two July pizza tournaments. Congratulations to Ryan Nowakowsky
for being the top player at the Roving ChessNuts Chess Camp which wrapped up on July 16. Kaixin Wang and Alex Broughton tied
for second in the camp tournament.
The 5th International Chess
Tournament at Edmonton Chess Club finished the afternoon of August 2 and was won by Grandmaster Magesh Panchanathan of India
who scored 8.5 out of a possible 9. Grandmaster Jesse Kraai of the U.S.A. was second with 7.0 while Grandmaster Mikheil
Kekelidze of Georgia and International Master Edward Porper of Edmonton tied for third with 6.5 each. The youngest
participant, Richard Wang of Edmonton, was fifth in the 10-person round-robin played and scored 4.5, missing his first international
master norm by 1.5 points. Wang managed a draw against GM Kekelidze. The remaining competitors were: Rob Gardner
of Edmonton (3.5), FM Michael Langer of the U.S.A (3.0), FM Vladimir Pechenkin of Edmonton (2.5), FM Dale Haessel of Calgary (2.0)
and Daniel Van Heirzeele of Belgium (1.0).