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BC Closed 2017

Page history last edited by roger patterson 6 years, 5 months ago

2017 BC Closed

Oct. 6-9, 2017

Victoria BC

 

2017 BC Co-Champions Grigorii Morozov and Tanraj Sohal

 

 

 

 

The 102nd BC Closed Chess Championship took place in Victoria Oct. 6-9.  The front runners for most of the event were John Doknjas, Grigorii Morozov, and Tanraj Sohal with Tanraj ahead by a half point.     Things could easily been different though.    In round 1, Morozov agreed to a perpetual check against Pechisker in a messy double rook and opposite colour bishop endgame.

 

 

 

Play continued 37. c7 Bg2+ 38 Ke2 Bf1+ 39 Kf3 Bg2+ etc. overlooking that 38 Kg3! is good for white as R5d3+ loses (!) to 39 f3!.   Black can bail with 38 Rc1 which winds up down an exchange.   Justice was done perhaps as the position was lost earlier in the game.

 

The steady progression of the front runners stopped in round 6 when the wheels nearly came off the bus for all of them.    Doknjas lost to Pechisker, Morozov was worse against Hemstapat before gradually climbing out of the pit to a winning position only to walk into a perpetual, while Sohal was patiently wearing down Wu when things went bad - offering a draw which was accepted before Wu realized the tide had turned.

 

Congratulations to our new champions!

 

Name:

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

Total

1 Joshua Doknjas

XX

0

1

½

1

½

1

½

2 Morozov

1

XX

1

½

½

1

½

½

5

3 Wu

0

0

XX

½

½

½

½

½

4 Sohal

½

½

½

XX

1

1F

1

½

5

5 Hemstapat

0

½

½

0

XX

1

½

0

6 Gansvind

½

0

½

0F

0

XX

0

0

1

7 Pechisker

0

½

½

0

½

1

XX

1

8 John Doknjas

½

½

½

½

1

1

0

XX

4

 

pgn file of games:

 

 

Participants: (left to right)  Grigorii Morozov, John Doknjas, Joshua Doknjas, Valeria Gansvind, Roger Patterson (organizer), Paul Leblanc (TD), Andrew Hempstapat, Howard Wu, Alfred Pechisker.

photo courtesy Victoria Doknjas 

 

 

Organizer:  Victoria Chess (Roger Patterson)

TD:   NA Paul Leblanc (assistant TD:  Roger Patterson)

 

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