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2014 BC Open Event Report

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2014 BC Open

Richmond, BC

Feb. 8-10

The 2014 BC Open was held Feb. 8-10 in Richmond. This was the 50 year anniversary of the event, first held in 1964 although there have been a number of years in which it was not held. 76 players participated - a historically high number for the event but similar to last year's count.

This year's edition saw some changes: a switch to 6 rounds from last year's 5, and a new restriction on how far player can play up a section. These changes were generally well received but as almost all of the eligible to play up people did play up, we will be thinking on how to best address the needs of this group of people.

The winner of the 2014 BC Open was Tanraj Sohal who repeated as champion from last year. For the most part, his opponents did not give him much trouble apart from Howard Wu who nicked him for a draw and Butch Villavieja who lost in a game that went down to the final minutes of the time scramble. Howard drew his last round as well and wound up in clear second and took the qualification spot to this year's BC Closed. Butch had a 5th round bye which when combined with his loss to Tanraj, put him out of contention for the top two places. I'm told that the bye was needed for him to attend a swearing in Canadian citizenship ceremony so a different kind of win and congratulations are in order. The last prize in the Premier section was the U2100 prize, won by Roger Patterson.

The U1800 section ended in a tie for first place between Hector Rathburn and Maven Zheng. Hector was at the top by rating so no surprise there but Maven at 1268 was something of a dark horse. Another dark horse who did well was Ben Zheng who won the unrated prize but was in contention for first until the last round. The U1500 prize was split between Neil Doknjas, Aiden Zhou, and Victor Zheng.

A big thank you to Michael Lo and Lara Lo for volunteering and to Jack Yoos for a donation to the cause.

A pgn file of games from the top section

Some photos of the winners below as well as the crosstable.

A list of previous winners is at Stephen Wright's BC Chess History site:

Prizes ($2000 guaranteed)

1st: Tanraj Sohal $600

2nd and BC Closed qualifier spot Howard Wu $300

U2100 Roger Patterson $300

U1800 Hector Rathburn and Maven Zheng $275 each

U1500 Neil Doknjas, Aiden Zhou, and Victor Zheng $50 each

Unrated: Ben Zheng

TD: Stephen Wright, FA

Organizers: Roger Patterson and Paul Leblanc (Victoria Chess)

U2100 Roger Patterson, 2nd place Howard Wu and BC Open Champion Tanraj Sohal

U1800 co-winner Maven Zheng, organizer Roger Patterson, co-winner Hector Rathburn, and organizer Paul Leblanc

The organizers with the U1500 winners

and finally, Ben Zheng for the Unrated prize.

SwissSys Standings. BC Open: Open

#	Name	Rtng	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Rd 6	Tot	Prize
1	Tanraj S Sohal	2346	W23	W13	W4	W3	D2	W5	5.5	600.00
2	Howard Wu	2224	W24	W8	W6	W7	D1	D4	5.0	300.00
3	Butch Villavieja	2227	W17	W30	W10	L1	H---	W6	4.5
4	Roger Patterson	2076	W25	W33	L1	W30	W9	D2	4.5	300.00
5	John Doknjas	2073	D31	W28	D9	W8	W13	L1	4.0
6	Max Gedajlovic	2070	W27	W20	L2	W10	W11	L3	4.0
7	Joshua Doknjas	1997	D14	W26	W15	L2	W25	D9	4.0
8	Joe Soliven	1957	W35	L2	W33	L5	W31	W15	4.0
9	Aram Arzumanyan	1923	W36	W21	D5	W14	L4	D7	4.0
10	Kim Nguyen	2109	W18	W32	L3	L6	D14	W25	3.5
11	Lukas Beaudry	2075	D26	L14	W20	W29	L6	W27	3.5
12	Peter Kalisvaart	2038	D28	D31	D25	W17	D15	D13	3.5
13	Ruining [ray] Wu	2037	W34	L1	W31	W21	L5	D12	3.5
14	Nathan Shao	1687	D7	W11	W29	L9	D10	D17	3.5
15	Robin Yu	1976	D29	W19	L7	W34	D12	L8	3.0
16	Jofrel Landingin	1905	L33	L25	L19	W38	W29	W28	3.0
17	Alex Y Lin	1872	L3	W38	W32	L12	D21	D14	3.0
18	Richard Ingram	1835	L10	W36	L30	D28	W34	D20	3.0
19	Manuel Omana Escandor	1633	H---	L15	W16	L25	D24	W31	3.0
20	Brian Sullivan	1586	B---	L6	L11	B---	D23	D18	3.0
21	James Chan	2119	W37	L9	W24	L13	D17	U---	2.5
22	Paul Leblanc	1999	L32	L29	W35	L31	D38	W36	2.5
23	Neale Monkhouse	1891	L1	D34	D28	D32	D20	D24	2.5
24	Michael Su	1860	L2	W35	L21	D36	D19	D23	2.5
25	Joe Roback	1835	L4	W16	D12	W19	L7	L10	2.5
26	Severo [juni] Caluza	1825	D11	L7	H---	D33	W32	U---	2.5
27	Philip Harris	1765	L6	H---	L34	W35	W36	L11	2.5
28	Kai Richardson	1740	D12	L5	D23	D18	W33	L16	2.5
29	Luke Pulfer	1651	D15	W22	L14	L11	L16	W34	2.5
30	Andrew Quinton Lee	1960	W38	L3	W18	L4	U---	U---	2.0
31	Karl [lizhe] Cui	1800	D5	D12	L13	W22	L8	L19	2.0
32	Joanne Foote	1721	W22	L10	L17	D23	L26	D33	2.0
33	Daniel Sutherland	1597	W16	L4	L8	D26	L28	D32	2.0
34	Duncan Haines	1735	L13	D23	W27	L15	L18	L29	1.5
35	Kevin Low	1608	L8	L24	L22	L27	B---	D38	1.5
36	Houshyar Ghandi	1601	L9	L18	W38	D24	L27	L22	1.5
37	Primero Landingin	1855	L21	H---	H---	U---	U---	U---	1.0
38	Rinna Yu	1668	L30	L17	L36	L16	D22	D35	1.0

SwissSys Standings. BC Open: U1800

#	Name	Rtng	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Rd 6	Tot	Prize
1	Hector Rathburn	1745	W20	W15	W2	W12	D7	D4	5.0	275.00
2	Maven Zheng	1268	W38	W13	L1	W27	W14	W7	5.0	275.00
3	Travis Olson	1787	W25	W19	W8	L7	D5	W15	4.5
4	Neil Doknjas	1443	W35	L7	W21	W9	W19	D1	4.5	50.00
5	Aiden Zhou	1337	W29	H---	D11	W22	D3	W17	4.5	50.00
6	Victor Zheng	1324	W36	D17	L12	W25	W13	W11	4.5	50.00
7	Ben Zheng	unr.	W24	W4	W27	W3	D1	L2	4.5	100.00
8	Kyle Zheng	1407	W26	W33	L3	L15	W21	W16	4.0
9	Clark Zhang	1202	D12	W28	D13	L4	W31	W19	4.0
10	Frank Hou	1197	L13	L31	W30	W36	W27	W20	4.0
11	Ethan Low	1597	D16	W37	D5	W17	D15	L6	3.5
12	Nathaniel Knox	1591	D9	W16	W6	L1	L17	W23	3.5
13	Andrew Hoyer	1541	W10	L2	D9	W33	L6	W24	3.5
14	Leo Qu	1377	D37	W18	L17	W24	L2	W27	3.5
15	Yekta Saremi	1281	W31	L1	W36	W8	D11	L3	3.5
16	David Jiang	771	D11	L12	W26	B---	W18	L8	3.5
17	Omkrishna Shah	unr.	W34	D6	W14	L11	W12	L5	3.5
18	Lahiru Jayaweera	1500	L33	L14	W38	W28	L16	W30	3.0
19	Matthew Geng	1291	W30	L3	W28	W31	L4	L9	3.0
20	Daniel Du	1210	L1	W30	L31	W29	W22	L10	3.0
21	Digvijay Sawant	1189	W32	L27	L4	W34	L8	W28	3.0
22	Danny Liu	1144	L27	W38	W23	L5	L20	W31	3.0
23	Li Geng	1455	L28	D26	L22	W37	W33	L12	2.5
24	Stewart Paulson	1310	L7	W29	D33	L14	W25	L13	2.5
25	Annika Zhou	1225	L3	H---	W37	L6	L24	W33	2.5
26	Aidan Madokoro	1029	L8	D23	L16	L30	W29	B---	2.5
27	Paula Brewster	1517	W22	W21	L7	L2	L10	L14	2.0
28	Patrick Huang	1131	W23	L9	L19	L18	X34	L21	2.0
29	Justin Wan	916	L5	L24	B---	L20	L26	W35	2.0
30	Griffin Keyes	unr.	L19	L20	L10	W26	W35	L18	2.0
31	Mathew Levasseur	unr.	L15	W10	W20	L19	L9	L22	2.0
32	Alex Reny	1327	L21	W35	H---	U---	U---	U---	1.5
33	Julius Briner	1144	W18	L8	D24	L13	L23	L25	1.5
34	Amir-arsalan Kashfolayat	1239	L17	L36	W35	L21	F28	U---	1.0
35	Lucian Wu	1053	L4	L32	L34	B---	L30	L29	1.0
36	Donald Chacon-Taylor	unr.	L6	W34	L15	L10	U---	U---	1.0
37	Sophie Ngo	956	D14	L11	L25	L23	U---	U---	0.5
38	George Liu	unr.	L2	L22	L18	U---	U---	U---	0.0

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2014 BC Open Event Report

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Richmond, BC

Feb. 8-10

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