Alberta Chess Report

Alberta Chess Report ● August 2013 4
someone’s phone and thought that she
turned it off (or maybe on silence).
Unfortunately, this phone started making
noises which were a pre-set alarm. This
was an official competition so the Arbiter
Ali Razzaq had no choice but to enforce
the tough ruling of forfeit for Armine as
her mobile device made a sound.
Arzumanyan,Armine -
Kalaydina,Nicka [B45]
Alberta Women's Championship
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6
5.Be2 Nf6 6.Nc3 Bb4 7.Qd3 d5 8.Nxc6
bxc6 9.0–0 0–0 10.e5 Nd7 11.Qg3 0-1
(This was the unfortunate time of the
cellphone violation. The game Sihite,C.M
(2162) - Kalaydina,R.V. (1928) from the
World Under 20 Championship last year
continued:
11...Kh8 12.a3 Bc5 13.Bd3 a5 14.Bg5
Qc7 15.Qh4 g6 16.Na4 Ba7 17.Rfe1 Kg8
18.Bf4 Qd8 19.Qh6 f6 20.Bxg6 hxg6
21.Qxg6+ Kh8 22.Qh6+ Kg8 23.Qg6+
Kh8 24.Qh5+ Kg8 25.Bh6 Qe7 26.Qg6+
Kh8 27.Bxf8 Qxf8 28.exf6 Nxf6 29.Re2
Qg7 30.Qxg7+ Kxg7 31.c4 Ne4 32.Nc3
Nxf2 33.Rxf2 Ba6 34.Re1 Rf8 35.Nd1
Bxf2+ 36.Nxf2 Bxc4 37.Rxe6 c5 38.Rc6
Rb8 39.Rxc5 Rxb2 40.h4 a4 41.Ng4 Bb3
42.h5 Rc2 43.Rxc2 Bxc2 44.Ne3 Be4
45.g4 Kf6 46.Kf2 Kg5 47.Kg3 d4 48.Nc4
d3 49.Nd2 Bd5 50.Nf3+ Kf6 51.Kf4 Bc6
52.g5+ Kg7 53.h6+ Kh7 54.Ke3 Bb7
55.Ne5 Ba6 56.Nxd3 Kg6 57.Ne5+ 1–0
It would be interesting to see how Nicka
would improve on this game,
unfortunately we would have to wait for
another opportunity.)
This incident meant that going into the
last round, Nicka could only be caught by
Jina Burn. While the rating difference
between the two was almost 400 points,
Nicka knew that she couldn’t relaxed as
she was in a similar situation last year,
when Jina was also half a point behind and
accepted the draw in a position which
turned out to be objectively close to
winning for her. This year; however,
Nicka dominated from the start and won
the event with a perfect 5/5 which earned
her $1000 plus $1000 for chess travel.
Second place in the Women’s section went
to the surprising Carla Robitu who is not
playing chess for too long, but was able to
recover from her first round loss and
finished with 4/5 earned her a nice sum of
$750! Third and best under 1800 was
shared by Armine Arzumanyan and Jina
Burn with 3.5/5 each. They won $425 for
their efforts. Best under 1600/1400 and
1200 was shared by: Ancy Chacko,
Sydney Mah and Maria Dziarkach who
scored 3/5 each, earning them $250. Best
in the u-1000 went to players who recently
picked up the game as Ivanka Bondarchuk
and Maria Munroe earned $50 each after
scoring one point.
In the open competition, Round 4 saw the
creation of the sole leader as IM Edward
Porper outplayed NM Brad Booker. IM
Richard Wang won the battle of the
Richard’s when he defeated Richard Pua.
On board 3 I was able to defeat NM Rob
Gardner in what was my first victory over
“The Rocket” in close to 8 years! Going
into the last round the two main
contenders were finally slotted to meet,
with Edward having the white pieces;
unfortunately, after Edward played a solid
opening, Richard decided to not tempt
faith and offered a draw which gave
Edward a clear first and guaranteed
Richard a share of second. On board two I
defeated Arden G. Abad, while on board 3
we saw that Nicka and Nina were not the
only members of the Kalaydin family who
could play chess. Oleksandr Kalaydin did
not play competitive chess for 30 years,
but back in the Ukraine he held the rank of
a Candidate Master, which can loosely
describe someone with a 2200+
(sometimes way higher) rating.
In the last round, Oleksandr defeated NM
Brad Booker in a nice tactical game to take
a share of 2 nd . In the end, IM Edward
Porper earned $1000 for his efforts. The
second-fourth place participants which
included: IM Richard Wang, Oleksandr
Kalaydin and myself each earned $416.
Best under 2100 (and best local player)
was Ico Van Den Born who scored 3.5/5.
Ico won $350. The best under 1800 and
under 1600 prize was shared between the
local players: Arden Troy G. Abad, Fabio
Santos, and Bill Kraus (3/5 each). They
earned $188. Edmontonian Stuart Riesen
also scored 3/5 but he was eligible for the
u-1400 prize which earned him $200. The
Best under 1200 award was split among
beginners which scored one point each.
They were: Francois Guillaume Marais,
Samy Mikesh, Daniel Tarasenco and
Chenrayan Thirusutharsan. Each of them
earned $25 for their efforts.
I would like to add that the closing
ceremony was quite nice as some of the
sponsors came to give a speech. The list
of sponsors that made this event possible
is quite impressive and hopefully their
contribution would continue for years to
come as chess in Fort McMurray continues
to grow and prosper.
Event sponsors: PLATINUM
Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo,
Alberta Chess Association, LaPrarie Crane
GOLD
The Bouchier Group, Sunset Recycle &
Sales Ltd, Chez Dube, Nexen Inc
SILVER
A.P.E. Maintenance, Campbell’s’ Music,
Snow White Productions, Boston Pizza,
Pizza Hut
BRONZE
APEGA, CEP Local 707, Yougen Fruz,
Girls Inc, Photo Source, Domestic
Goddess, Fort McMurray Public Library,
Wal-Mart, Sobeys, Marc Sicotte
Kalaydin,Oleksandr (UNR)-
Booker,Brad (2205) [A24]
Fort McMurray Open
1.c4 Nf6 2.Nc3 g6 3.g3 Bg7 4.Bg2 0–0
5.d3 e5 6.e3 d6 7.Nge2 c6 8.0–0 Nbd7
9.Rb1 Nc5 10.b4 Ne6 11.e4N Nh5 12.b5
Bd7 13.Ba3 Qc7 14.Bb4 f5 15.f4 Rf7
16.exf5 gxf5 17.Kh1 Bh6 18.bxc6 bxc6
19.Ng1 Nhg7 20.Nb5 cxb5 21.Bxa8 exf4
22.Bd2 bxc4 23.dxc4 Qxc4 24.Rb8+ Ne8
25.Nh3 N6c7 26.Bxf4 Nxa8 27.Bxh6
Bc6+ 28.Kg1 Qe4
29.Rf3! Rf6 30.Qb3+ Kh8 31.Qc3 Kg8
32.Qxf6 Qe1+ 33.Rf1
1–0