RON LIVSHITS, I.M. WINS $500. FIRST PRIZE
AT THE OCTOBER FALL OPEN IN TORONTO

International Master Ron Livshits won the 1999 October "Fall" Open at the Primrose Hotel in Toronto with a 4.5 score out of 5 to win the $500 First Prize!  Gordon Morrell of Kitchener and junior Mark Bluvshtein from Israel both scored 4 points to win $250. each.  David Filipovich of Toronto and Keith Wight of St. Catharines both scored 3.5-1.5 results to win $150 each in the 26-Player OPEN section.  Six players tied for a split of $100. in the Under 2300 Section with 3-2 scores.  They included  Bill Evans, Robert Murray, Javier Segovia, and juniors Warrick Rolfe, Igor Divljan and Kevork Hacat.  

The Under 2100 Section was shared by Pierre Maheux of Ottawa and Vladimir Rubanovski who split $325. with 4-1 scores, while David Cohen, Brian Duong and Warren Dutton shared third in this section.

The Under 1900 Section was won easily by Ross Richardson with a 4.5 result to take home $200 while J.A.E. Allum, Robert Armstrong, Rahul Vaidyanath and John Tomlinson split another $200 four ways.

The Under 1700 Section was won by junior female Angel Xia who took a first round bye and then won all her games to finish with a 4.5 clear first, while Paul Buzdon of Guelph took home second place and Merlin Atayde won third spot.

The Under 1500 Section saw junior female Inara Aliev score 4-1 to win $150 first place while another junior Brian Courtney win the $100 second prize with 3.5-1.5.   Ilia Blushtein (Mark's father) won the top "unrated" prize in this section with a similar undefeated 4-1 score (3 wins and 2 byes!)

A total of 80 players participated in this "pre SPAIN" event and many are already planning their return for the 1999 Remembrance Day Open (a GTCL sanctioned event) that will take place from November 12 to 14 at the same location.  Players from Michigan and New York state dominated the early rounds but fell to the "locals" in the end.  Complete crosstables and new ratings will be available from the CFC website this Tuesday, October 19th at  http://chess.ca

Mark S. Dutton
Tournament Director

1999 OCTOBER FALL OPEN AT THE PRIMROSE

FINAL Standings

Name rtng post ID No. rd 1 rd 2 rd 3 rd 4 rd 5 TOT

1 Livshits, Ron I.M..2519 2529 103553 + 21 + 14 + 4 = 6 + 7 4«

2 Morrell, Gordon.......2240 2279 102970 H--- + 16 + 12 = 13 + 6 4

3 Bluvshtein, Mark......2139 2197 125709 + 17 + 18 H--- H--- + 13 4

4 Filipovich, David.....2366 2372 103521 + 11 + 10 - 1 = 9 + 15 3«

5 Wight, Keith..........2136 2178 102934 H--- + 22 - 6 + 14 + 17 3«

6 Zaremba, Andrei.......2390 2380 NEW + 15 = 9 + 5 = 1 - 2 3

7 Murray, Robert........2245 2255 102906 + 20 = 12 = 9 + 8 - 1 3

8 Segovia, Javier.......2244 2233 123380 - 16 + 23 + 24 - 7 + 19 3

9 Divljan, Igor.........2197 2215 109214 + 26 = 6 = 7 = 4 = 10 3

10 Hacat, Kevork.........2172 2189 112613 + 13 - 4 B--- = 18 = 9 3

11 Evans, Bill...........2165 2176 103309 - 4 H--- + 22 = 12 + 20 3

12 Rolfe, Warrick........2078 2105 111945 B--- = 7 - 2 = 11 + 18 3

13 Rajlich, Vasik........2372 2337 120049 - 10 + 20 + 19 = 2 - 3 2«

14 Kret, Ted.............2226 2212 105549 + 25 - 1 = 16 - 5 + 24 2«

15 Berengolts, Isai......2173 2184 125667 - 6 = 17 + 25 + 16 - 4 2«

16 Xu, Sheng-Jun.........2107 2117 110260 + 8 - 2 = 14 - 15 + 26 2«

17 Glinert, Stephen F.M..2345 2301 103711 - 3 = 15 H--- + 26 - 5 2

18 Vaingorten, Yaaqov....2233 2201 125532 + 23 - 3 H--- = 10 - 12 2

19 Raheb, David..........2143 2128 120954 = 22 = 24 - 13 + 23 - 8 2

20 Williams, Vance.......2129 2127 124808 - 7 - 13 + 21 + 25 - 11 2

21 Michaelis, Nico.......2195 2149 125874 - 1 - 25 - 20 B--- = 23 1«

22 Lentini, Joseph.......2045 2019 121831 = 19 - 5 - 11 = 24 = 25 1«

23 Zybura, Andre.........2019 2000 107851 - 18 - 8 B--- - 19 = 21 1«

24 Vassanji, Anil........1992 1988 107974 H--- = 19 - 8 = 22 - 14 1«

25 Mitrovic, Bojana......1987 1990 103626 - 14 + 21 - 15 - 20 = 22 1«

26 Le, Ken...............1918 1900 111318 - 9 B--- H--- - 17 - 16 1«

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