2008 Victoria Chess Festival

 

The 2008 Victoria Chess Festival held March 21-24, 2008 comprised three events:

The Grand Pacific Scholastic Chess Tournament; A 5 round Active Swiss in 3 sections for Juniors.

The Grand Pacific Open; The main event. A 6 round FIDE & CFC rated Swiss with a $2000 guaranteed prize fund.

Open Bughouse Tournament; aka Siamese chess.

 

In addition, a lecture on Saturday by FM Bindi Cheng was part of the Festival.

 

Attendance at the Festival exceeded expectations with 83 players in the main event, double last year's attendance.

 

Winners in the main event, the Grand Pacific Open, were:

 

1st FM Bindi Cheng with 6 points receving a trophy and $500.

2nd (on tiebreak) Roger Patterson with 5 points receiving a trophy, $200 and the qualifying spot for the next BC Closed*.

3rd-4th FM David R. Bragg and Noam Davies with 5 points receiving $200 each.

 

1st under 2000 Kelvin Cletheroe with 4.5 points receiving a trophy and $300.

2nd-5th under 2000 Jack Cheng, Jingzhou Lai, Tanraj Sohal, and Bill Tate with 4 points receiving $62.50 each.

 

1st under 1600 (on tiebreak) Joshua Renaud with 3.5 points receiving a trophy and $150.

2nd under 1600 Victoria Jung Doknjas with 3.5 points receiving a trophy and $150.

3rd-7th under 1600 Deron Stewart, Tim Rhodes, Nathan Martin, Jeremy Hui, and Malcolm Bowles with 3 points receiving $10 each.

 

1st under 1200 (on tiebreak) Justin Wong with 2.5 points receiving a trophy.

2nd under 1200 Alejandro Torres Lopez with 2.5 points receiving a trophy.

3rd under 1200 Daniel Lee with 2 points receiving a trophy.

 

* The BCCF informs us that Bindi Cheng has already qualified for the next BC Closed by virtue of winning the BC Junior Championship. 

The GPO qualifying spot therefore goes to the next ranked BC player on tiebreak.

 

Congratulations to all of the winners.

Thanks too, to Chief Arbiter Mark S. Dutton, I.A. and to Assistant Arbiter Lynn Stringer, I.A.

 

A special prize donated by Envision Financial to the player who traveled the furthest went to Olafur Kristjansson, all the way from Iceland!

Roger Patterson (left) and Olafur Kristjansson from Iceland.   Champagne, glasses and cedar box donated by Envision Financial.

A best sportsman award was made to Alejandro Torres-Lopez for being so understanding with an opponent's ferry delay

 

Some notable upsets were Joshua Renaud (1452) beating James Chan (2102), Joshua Renaud (again!) drawing IM Lawrence Day (2312), and Jingzhou Lai (1610) beating Glen Morin (2276).

 

See Wallchart or Standings for the final crosstable.

 

Game Scores:  are posted here.

 

FIDE Rating Changes 

 

Photos:

 

Our New Champion, FM Bindi Cheng (playing FM David Bragg)

 

More photos (uncaptioned) here.

Even more photos here including the award ceremonies.

 

TV Video

 

You can see a TV news report on one of the juniors here (requires Windows Media Player)

 

Grand Pacific Scholastic Results

K-3  1st Iain Ang  2nd Tony Liu  3rd Joshua Doknjas

4-7  1st Yiming Han  2nd Yifei Han 3rd Donovan Zhao

8-12  1st Dylan parker  2nd TianTian Geng  3rd Alejandro Torres-Lopez

 

Bughouse Tournament Results

Team Name	Members	Rating		Section
NastEE BoiZ	Ben "Grimey" Daswani and Noam "Dirtbag" Davies	4287	1st Place	>12
The Abstract Nouns	Sam Churchill and Josh Renaud		2nd Place	>12
The Geriatrics	Harry Moore and Glenn Morin		3rd Place	>12
Beef	Howard Wu and James Chan		3rd Place	>12
Top Two	Alejandro Torres-Lopez and Foster Tom		1st Place	≤12
The Two Heads	Tanraj Sohal and Moise Herringer		2nd Place	≤12
The Grand Pacific	Yiming Han and Dylan Parker		3rd Place	≤12
Other Teams
Team Rocket	Evan and Elliot Raymer
2 Seeds	Ivo Wright and Ryan Lo
You going so down You going up	Algerd Karavai and Yifei Han
	Tony Liu and Jill Ding
	Sebastien Guillemot and Garrett Peterson
	Justin Wong and Daniel Lee
	TianTian Geng and Bill Liu
	Jack Cheng and Alexandra Botez

 

Thanks to all of our sponsors and volunteers!

 

 

Results from the 2007 Victoria Chess Festival

2007 Victoria Chess Festival

Photos from the 2007 Grand Pacific Open

 

 

Our Sponsors:

 

 

Gold Level Sponsors Victoria Chess Festival

Contributor - Prizes for Scholastic Tournament

 

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