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Event Report Jack Taylor 2017

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32nd Annual Jack Taylor Memorial Chess Tournament

Nov. 17-19, 2017

Event Report

68 players turned out for the 32 annual Jack Taylor Memorial with representatives from Germany, Roumania, US, as well as the usual crowd from BC. This is a record turnout for us, so much so that we had to rent an extra room at the last minute to accommodate the overflow. It seems we have outgrown the Royal Scott Hotel as a venue and have a new venue booked for next year. Next year's event will be in late October so that we avoid competition with office Christmas parties for room space (which was a problem this year).

The top players were not seriously threatened for the top places by the rest of the field apart from an early draw given up by Gansvind and the winner determined by games between themselves. Jason Kenney emerged on top thanks to wins against Harry Moore in round 4 and an endgame massage in round 5 against Sergui Paramanov from Roumania.

As has been the case for the last few years, this event was generously sponsored by the Jack Taylor family, Many thanks!

Some photos, pgn game file, and standings are below.

Winner Jason Kenney and runner up Harry Moore.

All of the runner ups (2nd-4th): Bennett Schnabel (Germany), Valeria Gansvind, Harry Moore, with organizer/TD Roger Patterson

U1600 Winner Shayan Rahimabadi

One of the U1400 winners Kate Jiang (they start smaller every year....)

Prize Winners: ($1500 guaranteed)

Premier Section:

1st: Jason Kenney $400

2nd-4th: Harry Moore, Valeria Gansvind, Bennett Schnabel $100 each.

U1800 1st-3rd: Chuyang Gu, Callum Lehingrat, Ross Richardson $100 each.

U1600 Section:

1st: Shayan Rahimabadi $200

2nd: Eric Gu $100

U1400 1st-3rd: Kate Jiang, Haibo Sun, Isaac Trenton $70 each

pgn game file:

Final Standings:

Premier Section:

#	Name	Rtng	St	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Tot	Prize
1	NM Jason Kenney	2233	BC	W15	W12	D5	W2	W8	4.5	$400
2	NM Harry Moore	2205	BC	W34	W13	W19	L1	W5	4	$100
3	NM Valeria Gansvind	2188	BC	D20	H---	W34	W9	W13	4	$100
4	Bennett Schnabel	2110	Germany	W26	L19	W20	W14	W12	4	$100
5	NM Brian McLaren	2148	BC	W16	W14	D1	W6	L2	3.5
6	Patrick Huang	2067	BC	D28	W32	W10	L5	W19	3.5
7	Michael A. Murray	2106	US	W27	D17	D25	D19	D16	3
8	Sergiu Paramanov	2053	Roumania	D21	W38	D17	W25	L1	3
9	Aiden Zhou	1942	BC	D22	W28	W30	L3	D15	3
10	Jason Williamson	1910	BC	W31	D25	L6	D21	W27	3
11	Paul Leblanc	1900	BC	L32	W31	D15	D20	W26	3
12	Raymond Manguerra	1900		W23	L1	W27	W17	L4	3
13	Rowan James	1884	BC	W33	L2	W26	W18	L3	3
14	Chuyang Gu	1794	BC	B---	L5	W22	L4	W25	3	$100
15	Callum Lehingrat	1762	BC	L1	W23	D11	W34	D9	3	$100
16	Ross Richardson	1736	BC	L5	D24	W28	W30	D7	3	$100
17	Houshyar Ghandi	1782	BC	W24	D7	D8	L12	D20	2.5
18	Severo [Juni] Caluza	1778	BC	H---	D22	W32	L13	D21	2.5
19	Frank O'Brien	1777	BC	W36	W4	L2	D7	L6	2.5
20	Nicolau Machado de Oliveira	1738	BC	D3	W35	L4	D11	D17	2.5
21	Ken Forman	1679	BC	D8	L30	W24	D10	D18	2.5
22	Philip Harris	1652	BC	D9	D18	L14	D23	W31	2.5
23	Brian Sullivan	1554	BC	L12	L15	W37	D22	W30	2.5
24	Jerry Wang	1509	BC	L17	D16	L21	W38	W36	2.5
25	Bill Tate	1764	BC	W37	D10	D7	L8	L14	2
26	Deron Stewart	1716	BC	L4	W36	L13	W32	L11	2
27	Jorge Prieto	1692	BC	L7	W37	L12	W33	L10	2
28	Richard J Lapenna	1691	BC	D6	L9	L16	D35	W34	2
29	NM Roger Patterson	2134	BC	H---	U---	W38	U---	U---	1.5
30	Jofrel Landingin	1872	BC	H---	W21	L9	L16	L23	1.5
31	Kent Cronin	1606	BC	L10	L11	W35	H---	L22	1.5
32	Cliff Jones	1558	BC	W11	L6	L18	L26	D33	1.5
33	Nigel Hanrahan	1517	BC	L13	L34	W36	L27	D32	1.5
34	Rod Brown	1761	BC	L2	W33	L3	L15	L28	1
35	Paul McNichol	1510	BC	H---	L20	L31	D28	U---	1
36	Mau-Seng Lee	1461	BC	L19	L26	L33	W37	L24	1
37	Andrew Xu	1450	BC	L25	L27	L23	L36	W38	1
38	Marionito Jose	1539	BC	H---	L8	L29	L24	L37	0.5

U1600 Section:

#	Name	Rtng	St	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Tot	Prize
1	Shayan Rahimabadi	1256	BC	W29	W16	W3	W6	W7	5	$200
2	Eric Gu	1467	BC	H---	W22	W20	W9	W10	4.5	$100
3	Brian Yang	1400	BC	W15	W12	L1	W17	W11	4
4	George Feng	1460	BC	D20	W13	L5	W25	W17	3.5
5	Haibo Sun	1312	BC	W24	D14	W4	L7	W15	3.5	$70
6	Kate Jiang	1312	BC	W25	W21	W11	L1	D9	3.5	$70
7	Isaac Trenton	1235	BC	W17	D9	W8	W5	L1	3.5	$70
8	Gurbaz Singh	1425	BC	L14	W26	L7	W23	W22	3
9	Stephanie Gu	1394	BC	W23	D7	W14	L2	D6	3
10	Ivan Nicolici	1362	BC	L22	W27	W16	W21	L2	3
11	Bernie Stanley	1283	BC	W26	W28	L6	W22	L3	3
12	William Landstrom	1242	BC	W30	L3	L22	W26	W21	3
13	Bo Wen [Angelina] Yang	1177	BC	H---	L4	W19	D14	W18	3
14	Eric Jiang	1177	BC	W8	D5	L9	D13	D16	2.5
15	Al Hui	1039	BC	L3	W29	D25	W20	L5	2.5
16	Jordan Beller	920	ON	W19	L1	L10	W28	D14	2.5
17	Jason Bell	1470	BC	L7	W24	W23	L3	L4	2
18	Stephen Drake	1405	BC	L21	L20	W27	W24	L13	2
19	Trevor Soare	1399	BC	L16	L25	L13	W29	W27	2
20	Jeffrey Street	1212	BC	D4	W18	L2	L15	D23	2
21	Inna Rabinovich	1159	BC	W18	L6	W28	L10	L12	2
22	Simon J Smith	905	BC	W10	L2	W12	L11	L8	2
23	Jordan Lathwell	918	BC	L9	W30	L17	L8	D20	1.5
24	William Li	889	BC	L5	L17	W29	L18	D26	1.5
25	Curtis Sleypen	840	BC	L6	W19	D15	L4	U---	1.5
26	William Jiang	736	BC	L11	L8	W30	L12	D24	1.5
27	Marc Moisan	690	BC	L28	L10	L18	W30	L19	1
28	William Ma	unr.	BC	W27	L11	L21	L16	L29	1
29	Zhiheng Luo	unr.	BC	L1	L15	L24	L19	W28	1
30	John Sleypen	unr.		L12	L23	L26	L27	U---	0