[Event "2017JohnSchleinich"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "1.6"]
[White "Ebrahim-Shirzai, Behrooz"]
[Black "Ali, Husain"]
[Result "*"]
[WhiteElo "2066"]
[BlackElo "1821"]
[PlyCount "84"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 Bf5 5. Nc3 e6 6. Nh4 Bg6 7. Nxg6 hxg6 8. Bd3
Nbd7 9. Bd2 Qc7 10. h3 Bd6 11. c5 Be7 12. f4 Nh5 13. O-O f5 14. b4 Ndf6 15. Be1
Ne4 16. Nxe4 dxe4 17. Bc4 Qd7 18. Qb3 Kf7 19. Bd2 Nf6 20. Rfd1 Nd5 21. b5 g5
22. fxg5 Bxg5 23. Rf1 g6 24. Rab1 Qc7 25. bxc6 bxc6 26. Bxd5 exd5 27. Qb7 Rac8
28. Kf2 Ke6 29. Qxc7 Rxc7 30. Rb3 Rf7 31. Ke2 Rhh7 32. Rfb1 f4 33. exf4 Bxf4
34. Bxf4 Rxf4 35. Rg3 Rf6 36. Ke3 Rg7 37. Rg4 g5 38. Rb3 Rf4 39. Rxg5 Rxg5 40.
Kxf4 Rxg2 41. Ra3 Rf2+ 42. Kg4 Rg2+ *

[Event "2017JohnSchleinich"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "2.4"]
[White "Willis, Brad"]
[Black "Ali, Husain"]
[Result "*"]
[WhiteElo "1951"]
[BlackElo "1821"]
[PlyCount "48"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. f4 d5 2. Nf3 c5 3. e3 Nf6 4. b3 Nc6 5. Bb5 Bd7 6. Bb2 e6 7. O-O a6 8. Bxc6
Bxc6 9. Ne5 Rc8 10. a4 Be7 11. d3 O-O 12. Nd2 Nd7 13. Nxc6 Rxc6 14. e4 f5 15.
Qf3 Nf6 16. e5 Nd7 17. a5 g5 18. fxg5 Bxg5 19. Qe2 Kh8 20. Nf3 Rg8 21. Nxg5
Qxg5 22. Bc1 Qg7 23. Bf4 Nf8 24. Rae1 Qg4 *

[Event "2017 Red Deer Open"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.05.14"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Koperski, Dustin"]
[Black "Ali, Husain"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C40"]
[WhiteElo "1792"]
[BlackElo "1898"]
[PlyCount "44"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 f6 3. Nxe5 Qe7 4. Nf3 (4. Qh5+ g6 5. Nxg6 Qxe4+) 4... d5 (4...
Qxe4+ 5. Be2) 5. d3 dxe4 6. dxe4 Qxe4+ 7. Be2 Bf5 8. c3 Bd6 9. Be3 Ne7 10. Nbd2
Qc2 11. Qxc2 Bxc2 12. Nd4 Ba4 13. O-O Bd7 14. Ne4 Be5 15. Nf3 Nbc6 16. Nc5 Bc8
17. Nxe5 Nxe5 18. f4 N5c6 19. Rad1 b6 20. Na6 Bxa6 21. Bxa6 Rd8 22. Rxd8+ Nxd8
1-0

[Event "2017MOK"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "1.5"]
[White "Wang, Paul"]
[Black "Ali, Husain"]
[Result "*"]
[WhiteElo "1296"]
[BlackElo "1932"]
[PlyCount "71"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]
[TimeControl "90+30"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 h6 4. Nc3 Nf6 5. d3 Bb4 (5... Bc5 6. O-O O-O 7. Nd5
d6) 6. O-O O-O 7. Nd5 d6 8. Nxb4 Nxb4 9. c3 Nc6 10. h3 Na5 11. Bb3 Nxb3 12.
Qxb3 Nh5 13. d4 Qf6 14. Re1 Bxh3 15. dxe5 dxe5 16. Nxe5 Be6 17. Qb5 c6 18. Nxc6
Bd7 19. Qxh5 Bxc6 20. e5 Qe6 21. Bf4 Qd5 22. Qg4 Qe6 23. Qxe6 fxe6 24. Be3 b6
25. a4 Rfd8 26. a5 b5 27. Bc5 a6 28. Be7 Rd7 29. Bd6 Bd5 30. Re3 Rc8 31. Kh2
Kf7 32. b4 g5 33. g4 Kg6 34. Kg3 Rf7 35. Rf1 Rf4 36. f3 *

[Event "2017MOk"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "4.6"]
[White "Chen, Andrew"]
[Black "Ali, Husain"]
[Result "*"]
[WhiteElo "1577"]
[BlackElo "1932"]
[PlyCount "59"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]
[TimeControl "90+30"]

1. d4 d5 2. Bf4 e6 3. Nf3 c5 4. c3 Bd6 5. Bg3 Nc6 6. Nbd2 Nf6 7. e3 O-O 8. Bd3
Re8 9. Ne5 Qc7 10. f4 Nd7 11. Bxh7+ Kf8 12. Bd3 f5 13. Bh4 Nf6 14. h3 c4 15.
Bc2 Bxe5 16. fxe5 Ne4 17. Nxe4 dxe4 18. Qh5 Qf7 19. Qh8+ Qg8 20. Qxg8+ Kxg8 21.
Ba4 Bd7 22. Bxc6 Bxc6 23. O-O-O b5 24. Kd2 Bd5 25. a3 a5 26. Ra1 Kf7 27. Bg5 a4
28. Raf1 Kg8 29. Rf4 Kh7 30. h4 *

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Bertrand, Daryl"]
[Black "Arakelian, Henadzi"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C59"]
[WhiteElo "2035"]
[BlackElo "2096"]
[PlyCount "76"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Bc4 Nc6 4. Ng5 d5 5. exd5 Na5 6. Bb5+ c6 7. dxc6 bxc6 8.
Be2 h6 9. Nh3 Bc5 10. d3 O-O 11. Nc3 Bd4 12. Be3 c5 13. Bxd4 cxd4 14. Ne4 Rb8
15. Nxf6+ Qxf6 16. b3 Nc6 17. a3 Bxh3 18. gxh3 Qh4 19. Bf3 Ne7 20. Bg2 f5 21.
Qe2 Ng6 22. O-O Rbe8 23. Qf3 Nf4 24. Rfe1 Kh8 25. c3 dxc3 26. Rab1 Rf6 27. Bf1
Rg6+ 28. Kh1 Qg5 29. Be2 Nxe2 30. h4 Qc1 31. Rbxc1 Nxc1 32. Qd1 Na2 33. Qc2 Rd8
34. Qxa2 Rxd3 35. Qc2 e4 36. b4 Rd2 37. Qc1 Rxf2 38. b5 c2 0-1

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.25"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Porper, Edward"]
[Black "Arruebarrena, Rafael"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D37"]
[WhiteElo "2468"]
[BlackElo "2323"]
[PlyCount "40"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bf4 O-O 6. e3 c5 7. dxc5 Bxc5 8. a3
Nc6 9. cxd5 exd5 10. Bd3 Bg4 11. O-O d4 12. Ne4 Nxe4 13. Bxe4 dxe3 14. fxe3
Qxd1 15. Raxd1 Rfe8 16. Bd5 Bxe3+ 17. Bxe3 Rxe3 18. Bxf7+ Kxf7 19. Ne5+ Kg8 20.
Nxg4 Re7 1/2-1/2

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.21"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Banerjee, Bitan"]
[Black "Arruebarrena, Rafael"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E46"]
[WhiteElo "2456"]
[BlackElo "2323"]
[PlyCount "73"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. Nge2 d5 6. a3 Be7 7. cxd5 Nxd5 8.
Bd2 Nd7 9. g3 N5f6 10. Bg2 c6 11. O-O e5 12. b4 exd4 13. Nxd4 Nb6 14. Qb3 Bg4
15. h3 Bd7 16. a4 Nbd5 17. Nce2 Qc8 18. e4 Nc7 19. Kh2 Rd8 20. Rac1 a6 21. f4
Bf8 22. e5 Nfd5 23. g4 Re8 24. Ng3 Qd8 25. Ne4 Bc8 26. Rcd1 h6 27. Be1 Ne6 28.
Nf5 Qb6 29. a5 Qc7 30. Nfd6 Rd8 31. Bg3 Qb8 32. f5 Nec7 33. g5 hxg5 34. Nxg5 f6
35. Rxd5 fxg5 36. Rdd1+ Kh7 37. Qf7 1-0

[Event "Alberta Closed"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.16"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Kazmaier, Dan"]
[Black "Arruebarrena, Rafael"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A45"]
[WhiteElo "2302"]
[BlackElo "2324"]
[PlyCount "87"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. f4 c5 3. e3 e6 4. Nf3 Be7 5. Bd3 O-O 6. O-O b6 7. c3 Bb7 8. Nbd2
Nc6 9. Ne5 cxd4 10. exd4 d6 11. Nxc6 Bxc6 12. Qe2 Re8 13. Nf3 Bf8 14. Bd2 Qd7
15. Rae1 b5 16. Qf2 g6 17. Qh4 Bg7 18. Re3 Qb7 19. Rfe1 a6 20. Qh3 Rac8 21. Ng5
Qd7 22. Qh4 Bd5 23. a3 h6 24. Ne4 Nxe4 25. Bxe4 Bxe4 26. Rxe4 d5 27. R4e2 a5
28. Kf1 h5 29. g4 hxg4 30. Qxg4 b4 31. axb4 axb4 32. h4 bxc3 33. bxc3 Qb5 34.
Qf3 Ra8 35. Kg2 Ra2 36. h5 Qd7 37. Qg4 gxh5 38. Qxh5 Rb8 39. Qg5 f6 40. Qg4
Rbb2 41. Be3 f5 42. Qh5 Qf7 43. Qxf7+ Kxf7 44. Kf3 1/2-1/2

[Event "Alberta Closed"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.14"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Valencia, Belsar"]
[Black "Arruebarrena, Rafael"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A21"]
[WhiteElo "2380"]
[BlackElo "2324"]
[Annotator "Jim"]
[PlyCount "61"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Bb4 3. Qc2 Nf6 4. Nf3 Qe7 5. e4 Bxc3 6. bxc3 O-O 7. d3 h6 8. g3
d6 9. Bg2 Nbd7 10. O-O Nc5 11. Nh4 Be6 12. f4 (12. d4 $142 $14) 12... Rfe8 13.
Bd2 Rad8 14. Rae1 c6 15. d4 Bxc4 16. dxc5 Bxf1 17. Bxf1 exf4 18. Nf5 Qe5 19.
gxf4 Qxc5+ 20. Be3 Qa5 21. Qg2 Nh5 22. Bd4 g6 23. Nxh6+ Kf8 24. f5 c5 25. fxg6
cxd4 26. gxf7 Re6 27. Qg8+ Ke7 28. Nf5+ Kd7 29. f8=Q Rxf8 30. Qxf8 Rf6 31. Qe7+
1-0

[Event "Alberta Closed"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.15"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Ng, Gary"]
[Black "Arruebbarrenu, Rafael"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E05"]
[WhiteElo "2352"]
[BlackElo "2324"]
[PlyCount "80"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. c4 e6 3. g3 Nf6 4. Bg2 Be7 5. O-O O-O 6. d4 dxc4 7. Ne5 Nc6 8.
Nxc6 bxc6 9. Na3 Bxa3 10. bxa3 Nd5 11. Qa4 Nb6 12. Qxc6 Rb8 13. Qc5 Ba6 14. Rd1
Qc8 15. e4 Na4 16. Qa5 Nb2 17. Rd2 Nd3 18. Rc2 Rd8 19. Be3 Rb5 20. Qd2 Qb8 21.
Qd1 h6 22. Bf1 Qb7 23. Qg4 Kf8 24. Qh4 Re8 25. Bxd3 cxd3 26. Rd2 Rb1+ 27. Rxb1
Qxb1+ 28. Kg2 Bb7 29. Qf4 Kg8 30. f3 f5 31. Rf2 Rf8 32. Qe5 fxe4 33. Qxe6+ Kh8
34. f4 Qe1 35. Qe7 Rg8 36. Qb4 Qxe3 37. Qxb7 Qxd4 38. Qb4 Qxb4 39. axb4 e3 40.
Rb2 d2 0-1

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.21"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Matras-Clement, Agnieszka"]
[Black "Banerjee, Bitan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B90"]
[WhiteElo "2305"]
[BlackElo "2456"]
[PlyCount "132"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Be3 e5 7. Nb3 Be6 8. f3
Be7 9. Qd2 O-O 10. O-O-O a5 11. Bb5 Na6 12. g4 Nc7 13. g5 Nh5 14. Kb1 Qc8 15.
a4 Nxb5 16. Nxb5 Qc4 17. Nc3 Rfb8 18. Qd3 Qc6 19. Nd2 Rd8 20. Qb5 Rdc8 21. h4
Ra6 22. Rh2 Bf8 23. Nb3 Bc4 24. Qxc6 bxc6 25. Nc1 f6 26. Nd3 d5 27. Bc5 Bxd3
28. Bxf8 Bc4 29. Bc5 d4 30. Na2 Nf4 31. gxf6 Ne6 32. Be7 Bxa2+ 33. Kxa2 Kf7 34.
Ba3 gxf6 35. Rg2 Nf4 36. Rg3 c5 37. Rdg1 Nh5 38. Rg4 Rd6 39. Rd1 Rd7 40. Rg2
Nf4 41. Rf2 c4 42. b3 cxb3+ 43. cxb3 d3 44. Rfd2 Rdc7 45. Bb2 Rc2 46. Kb1 Ke6
47. Rc1 Rxd2 48. Rxc8 Kd7 49. Rc1 Rf2 50. Rd1 Rxf3 51. Bc3 f5 52. exf5 e4 53.
Be5 Nd5 54. Kc1 Rxf5 55. Bd4 Rf4 56. h5 Rh4 57. Re1 Ke6 58. Kd2 Rh2+ 59. Kd1
Rh4 60. Kd2 Kf5 61. Rf1+ Kg5 62. Be3+ Kg4 63. Rg1+ Kf5 64. Rf1+ Ke6 65. h6 Rh2+
66. Rf2 Nxe3 0-1

[Event "Alberta Closed"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.16"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Ng, Gary"]
[Black "Banerjee, Bitan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E68"]
[WhiteElo "2352"]
[BlackElo "2434"]
[PlyCount "72"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. g3 g6 3. b3 Bg7 4. Bb2 O-O 5. Bg2 c6 6. c4 a5 7. O-O Na6 8. Re1
d6 9. e4 e5 10. d4 exd4 11. Nxd4 Re8 12. Nc3 Nc5 13. Rb1 Ng4 14. h3 Ne5 15. Bf1
Qf6 16. Kg2 g5 17. f3 h5 18. Re3 Nxc4 19. Bxc4 Qxd4 20. Qe1 Qf6 21. Na4 Qd8 22.
Bxg7 Kxg7 23. Nxc5 dxc5 24. Rd1 Qe7 25. Qc3+ Qe5 26. Qd2 Bf5 27. Rd3 Bg6 28. a4
g4 29. Rd7 gxf3+ 30. Kh2 h4 31. Rg1 Rh8 32. Qf4 hxg3+ 33. Qxg3 Rxh3+ 34. Kxh3
Rh8+ 35. Kg4 Qxe4+ 36. Qf4 Rh4+ 0-1

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.22"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Shabalov, Alex"]
[Black "Banerjee, Bitan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A48"]
[WhiteElo "2587"]
[BlackElo "2456"]
[PlyCount "117"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Bf4 g6 3. Nf3 Bg7 4. e3 O-O 5. Be2 c5 6. c3 d6 7. Na3 cxd4 8. exd4
Nd5 9. Bg3 a6 10. Qb3 Nc7 11. Nc4 Nc6 12. Nb6 Rb8 13. Rd1 Bf5 14. O-O Ne6 15.
Nd5 b5 16. Ne3 Be4 17. Qa3 b4 18. Qxa6 Na5 19. Nd2 bxc3 20. bxc3 Bb7 21. Qd3 f5
22. Nc2 Nc7 23. Bh4 Qe8 24. Nb4 Qf7 25. f3 Ne6 26. Qe3 Rbc8 27. Bf2 Nc7 28.
Rfe1 Nd5 29. Nxd5 Bxd5 30. a4 Bf6 31. Bb5 Rc7 32. Rb1 Rfc8 33. Rec1 Kg7 34. Qd3
Qe6 35. Ba6 Ra8 36. c4 Bxf3 37. d5 Be2 38. Qa3 Qe5 39. Bb5 Qf4 40. Qe3 Qg4 41.
h3 Qh5 42. c5 Bxb5 43. axb5 Rxc5 44. Rxc5 dxc5 45. Qxc5 Nb7 46. Qe3 f4 47. Qf3
Qxf3 48. Nxf3 Rd8 49. Rd1 e5 50. Rc1 Nd6 51. b6 e4 52. Nd4 e3 53. Ne6+ Kg8 54.
Nxd8 exf2+ 55. Kxf2 Bxd8 56. Rc6 Be7 57. Kf3 Kf7 58. Rc7 Nb5 59. Rxe7+ 1-0

[Event "Alberta Closed"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.15"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Arruebarrena, Rafael"]
[Black "Banerjee, Bitan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C11"]
[WhiteElo "2324"]
[BlackElo "2434"]
[PlyCount "64"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. f4 c5 6. Nf3 Be7 7. Be3 O-O 8. Qd2
b6 9. h4 Nc6 10. h5 f5 11. dxc5 Nxc5 12. Bb5 Bb7 13. Bxc6 Bxc6 14. Nd4 Qc8 15.
O-O-O b5 16. Qe1 b4 17. Nce2 Bd7 18. g4 fxg4 19. Qg3 a5 20. Qxg4 Rf7 21. f5
exf5 22. Qg2 b3 23. Qxd5 a4 24. Nc3 bxc2 25. Kxc2 f4 26. Bxf4 Ne6 27. Be3 Nxd4+
28. Qxd4 Bf5+ 29. Kc1 a3 30. b3 Qc6 31. Bd2 Rd8 32. Qc4 Rxd2 0-1

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.24"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Haessel, Dale"]
[Black "Banerjee, Bitan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E92"]
[WhiteElo "2316"]
[BlackElo "2456"]
[PlyCount "70"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. h3 O-O 6. Nf3 e5 7. d5 a5 8. Bg5 Na6
9. Be2 Qe8 10. g4 Nd7 11. Nd2 Ndc5 12. a3 Bd7 13. Qc2 c6 14. O-O-O cxd5 15.
Nxd5 f6 16. Be3 Ba4 17. b3 Bc6 18. a4 Bxd5 19. cxd5 Nb4 20. Qb1 Rc8 21. Kb2 f5
22. gxf5 gxf5 23. f3 Kh8 24. Nc4 Qd8 25. Rhg1 Bf6 26. Rc1 f4 27. Bd2 Bh4 28.
Nxa5 Qxa5 29. Ka3 Bf2 30. Bxb4 Qb6 31. Rg2 Be3 32. Bxc5 Bxc5+ 33. Ka2 Qb4 34.
Qd3 Qa3+ 35. Kb1 Bd4 0-1

[Event "2017 Northern Alberta Open"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.02.19"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Arruebarrena, Rafael"]
[Black "Banerjee, Bitan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B99"]
[WhiteElo "2335"]
[BlackElo "2415"]
[PlyCount "98"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 Nf6 4. Nc3 cxd4 5. Nxd4 a6 6. Bg5 e6 7. f4 Be7 8. Qf3
Qc7 9. O-O-O h6 10. Bh4 Nbd7 11. g4 {More common is 11. Be2 or Bd3} g5 12. fxg5
Ne5 13. Qe2 $2 {Eventually loses a pawn. If 13.Qg3, white's position holds.}
Nfxg4 14. Rg1 hxg5 15. Bg3 {Forced. White must protect the h-pawn, but in
doing so ends his own attack on the g4 knight and g5 pawn. If 15. Be1? Rxh2
and white is in serious trouble.} Nf6 16. Nf3 g4 17. Nxe5 dxe5 18. h3 gxh3 19.
Rh1 b5 20. Bxh3 b4 21. Nd5 $1 {All other lines are losing. This move required
very precise calculation from white. Black will keep only a slight edge in
material.} exd5 22. Bd7+ Kxd7 23. Rxh8 Bb7 24. Rxa8 Bxa8 25. exd5 Nxd5 26. Bxe5
{And black emerges with knight and bishop for rook. =+} Qc6 27. Qf2 f6 28. Bd4
Kc7 29. Rg1 Qe6 30. Bc5 Bc6 31. Bxe7 Qxe7 32. Re1 Qd6 33. Kb1 Kb7 34. Rg1 {
White hasn't made any outright blunders, but the computer score has gone up
bit by bit for black.} a5 35. Rg7+ Nc7 36. b3 f5 37. Rxc7+ {Perhaps hoping to
hold the draw by eliminating the passed pawn and simplifying the position.
Black has a win, however.} Kxc7 38. Qxf5 Kb6 39. Qf2+ Qc5 40. Qd2 Kb7 41. Kb2
Qe5+ 42. c3 Kc8 43. a3 Be4 44. axb4 $4 {Black can recapture, then his b4 pawn
will be cutting into the white king's escape options.} axb4 45. Qe1 Kd7 46.
Qd2+ Ke8 47. Qe1 Kf8 48. Qf2+ Bf5 49. Qf3 Qh2+ {with forced mate to follow.}
0-1

[Event "Alberta Closed"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.14"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Haessel, Dale"]
[Black "Banerjee, Bitan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E90"]
[WhiteElo "2095"]
[BlackElo "2364"]
[PlyCount "53"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 O-O 5. Nf3 d6 6. h3 Na6 7. Bg5 Qe8 8. Be2
e5 9. d5 Nh5 10. g3 f5 11. exf5 gxf5 12. Nh4 Nf6 13. Qc2 h6 14. Be3 f4 15. gxf4
exf4 16. Bd4 (16. Bxf4 Ne4 17. Be3 Nb4 18. Qc1 Nxf2 19. Bxf2) 16... Nb4 17. Qd2
f3 18. Nxf3 Bf5 19. O-O-O Ne4 20. Rdg1 Bg6 (20... Nxd2 21. Rxg7+ Kh8 22. Rxc7+
Rf6 23. Bxf6+ Kg8 24. Rg1+ Kf8) 21. Qe3 Nxc3 22. bxc3 Qa4 23. Qd2 (23. Qe6+ Kh8
(23... Rf7 24. Qxg6 Qa3+ 25. Kd2 Qxa2+ 26. Ke1 Re8) 24. Bxg7+ Kh7 25. Qxg6+ Kg8
26. Bf6#) 23... Nxa2+ 24. Kb2 Nb4 25. cxb4 Rxf3 26. Rxg6 Qa3+ 27. Kc2 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.24"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Ng, Gary"]
[Black "Banerjee, Bitan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A11"]
[WhiteElo "2339"]
[BlackElo "2456"]
[PlyCount "66"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. b3 Bg7 4. Bb2 O-O 5. g3 c6 6. Bg2 a5 7. O-O d5 8. d3 Na6
9. Nbd2 Qb6 10. Rc1 Bf5 11. cxd5 cxd5 12. Bd4 Qd6 13. Re1 Qd7 14. Ne5 Qd8 15.
Qc2 Ng4 16. Qb2 f6 17. Nxg4 Bxg4 18. h3 Bc8 19. f4 Qd6 20. Nf3 b6 21. e4 Nb4
22. e5 Qd8 23. Rc3 Bf5 24. Bf1 Rc8 25. Rxc8 Qxc8 26. exf6 exf6 27. Bxb6 Nxd3
28. Bxd3 Bxd3 29. Kh2 Be4 30. Nd4 Qa6 31. Bc5 Rc8 32. Rc1 f5 33. a3 Bxd4 0-1

[Event "2017 Alberta Seniors Championship"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.08"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Majaducon, Willy"]
[Black "Behnke, Rick"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E68"]
[WhiteElo "1916"]
[BlackElo "1161"]
[PlyCount "89"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 d6 3. Nc3 g6 4. g3 Bg7 5. Bg2 O-O 6. Nf3 c6 7. O-O Nbd7 8. e4
Qc7 9. Re1 e5 10. dxe5 Nxe5 11. Nxe5 dxe5 12. c5 Be6 13. f3 Rad8 14. Qa4 b6 15.
Be3 b5 16. Qa6 Bc8 17. Qa3 a5 18. b4 a4 19. Rad1 Be6 20. Rd6 Ne8 21. Rxd8 Qxd8
22. Rd1 Qc8 23. Qb2 Bc4 24. Qd2 Qe6 25. h4 f6 26. Kh2 Qe7 27. Qd7 Kf7 28. Qxc6
Be6 29. Nxb5 f5 30. Bh3 Nf6 31. exf5 gxf5 32. Bg5 h6 33. Bxf6 Bxf6 34. a3 Bxh4
35. Nd6+ Kg6 36. gxh4 Qxh4 37. Rg1+ Kh5 38. Rg3 f4 39. Rg4 Qf2+ 40. Bg2 Bxg4
41. fxg4+ Kxg4 42. Qd7+ Kh5 43. Qh3+ Qh4 44. Bf3+ Kg5 45. Ne4+ 1-0

[Event "2017 Alberta Seniors Championship"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.08"]
[Round "1"]
[White "McKay, Arnold"]
[Black "Behnke, Rick"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A48"]
[WhiteElo "1819"]
[BlackElo "1161"]
[PlyCount "59"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d6 3. e3 g6 4. Bd3 Bg7 5. Nbd2 O-O 6. c3 Nbd7 7. e4 e6 8. O-O
c5 9. Re1 e5 10. d5 Rb8 11. a4 a6 12. a5 b6 13. axb6 Qxb6 14. Qe2 a5 15. Nc4
Qc7 16. Rxa5 Nb6 17. Ra3 Bd7 18. h3 Ra8 19. Nfd2 (19. b4 Rxa3 20. Bxa3) 19...
Nh5 20. Nb1 Nxc4 21. Bxc4 Rxa3 22. Nxa3 f5 23. exf5 Nf4 24. Bxf4 exf4 25. f3
Bxf5 26. Qd2 Be5 27. Rxe5 Qd7 28. Re1 Bxh3 29. gxh3 Qxh3 30. Qg2 1-0

[Event "2017 Alberta Seniors Championship"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.08"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Behnke, Rick"]
[Black "Beresinski, Piotr"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B00"]
[WhiteElo "1161"]
[BlackElo "1921"]
[PlyCount "54"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 b6 2. d4 Bb7 3. Nc3 e6 4. Bd3 Bb4 5. Bd2 Nf6 6. Qe2 d5 7. e5 Bxc3 8. Bxc3
Ne4 9. Qg4 O-O 10. Ne2 f5 11. Qh3 Nxc3 12. Nxc3 c5 13. Nb5 Ba6 14. Nd6 Bxd3 15.
Qxd3 Qg5 16. Qg3 Qxg3 17. hxg3 f4 18. f3 Nc6 19. c3 cxd4 20. cxd4 Nxd4 21. Kd2
Rad8 22. gxf4 Rxf4 23. Ke3 g5 24. Rh6 (24. Rh5) 24... Rxd6 25. exd6 Nf5+ 26.
Kf2 Nxh6 27. Rc1 Rc4 0-1

[Event "InternationalQualifier"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "1.1"]
[White "Findlay, Ian"]
[Black "Bin Shoeb, Mashad"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2280"]
[BlackElo "1848"]
[PlyCount "29"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3 Bg7 7. f3 O-O 8. Qd2
Nc6 9. O-O-O Bd7 10. g4 Rc8 11. h4 h5 12. gxh5 Nxh5 13. Rg1 Ne5 14. Bh6 Nc4 15.
Bxc4 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.30"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Mah, Sean"]
[Black "Blyznyuk, Vladimir"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B01"]
[WhiteElo "1567"]
[BlackElo "1510"]
[PlyCount "91"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Qxd5 3. Nc3 Qd6 4. d4 Nf6 5. Nf3 Bg4 6. Nb5 Qd8 7. h3 Bh5 8.
g4 Bg6 9. Bc4 c6 10. Nc3 e6 11. Qe2 Be7 12. Bf4 O-O 13. O-O-O Nd5 14. Bd2 Bb4
15. Nxd5 Bxd2+ 16. Rxd2 cxd5 17. Bd3 Bxd3 18. Rxd3 Nd7 19. Ne5 Qg5+ 20. Kb1
Nxe5 21. Qxe5 Qxe5 22. dxe5 Rac8 23. f4 Rc4 24. Rf1 Rfc8 25. Rf2 Re4 26. b3 b5
27. a3 a5 28. c3 h6 29. Rff3 Re1+ 30. Kb2 g6 31. Rde3 Rxe3 32. Rxe3 Kg7 33. Rd3
f5 34. Rd4 Kf7 35. a4 bxa4 36. Rxa4 Ra8 37. b4 Ke7 38. Rxa5 Rxa5 39. bxa5 Kd7
40. gxf5 gxf5 41. Kb3 Kc7 42. Kb4 Kc6 43. a6 Kb6 44. a7 Kxa7 45. Kc5 Kb7 46.
Kd6 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Rohatynski, Jordan"]
[Black "Blyznyuk, Vladimir"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D35"]
[WhiteElo "1656"]
[BlackElo "1508"]
[PlyCount "56"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 exd5 5. d4 Be7 6. Bf4 c6 7. e3 Bg4 8. h3
Bh5 9. g4 Bg6 10. Bd3 Ne4 11. Ne5 Bb4 12. Bxe4 Bxe4 13. f3 Qh4+ 14. Ke2 Bg6 15.
Qb3 (15. Nxd5 cxd5) 15... Bxc3 16. Qxb7 Bxb2 17. Qxa8 O-O 18. Nxg6 fxg6 19.
Rab1 Nd7 20. Qxc6 Bxd4 21. Qxd5+ Kh8 22. Qxd4 Nb6 23. Be5 Rd8 24. Bxg7+ Kg8 25.
Qf6 Qg3 26. Qxd8+ Kxg7 27. Qe7+ Kh6 28. Qf8+ Kg5 1-0

[Event "2017JohnSchleinich"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "3.2"]
[White "Findlay, Ian"]
[Black "Boehmer, Kris"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B38"]
[WhiteElo "2289"]
[BlackElo "2170"]
[PlyCount "99"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 g6 5. c4 Bg7 6. Be3 Nf6 7. Nc3 d6 8. Be2
O-O 9. O-O Nxd4 10. Bxd4 Bd7 11. Qd2 Bc6 12. f3 a5 13. Rab1 Nd7 14. Bf2 Nc5 15.
b3 e6 16. Bg3 Be5 17. Bxe5 dxe5 18. Rfd1 Qe7 19. Qd6 Qxd6 20. Rxd6 Rfd8 21.
Rbd1 Rxd6 22. Rxd6 Kf8 23. Kf2 Ke7 24. Rd2 Rd8 25. Rxd8 Kxd8 {This game has
quickly moved to an endgame where white enjoys better pawns and a more active,
but with little assurance from the computer.} 26. Ke3 Kc7 27. Bd1 Kd6 28. a3
Na6 29. Na2 Kc5 30. Nc1 b5 31. Nd3+ Kd6 32. cxb5 Bxb5 33. Be2 Nb8 34. Nb2 Bxe2
35. Kxe2 Kc5 36. Kd3 f6 37. Kc3 Nc6 38. Nd3+ Kb5 39. a4+ Kb6 40. Kc4 Nd4 41. f4
Nc2 42. fxe5 fxe5 43. Nxe5 Ne3+ 44. Kd4 Nxg2 45. Nc4+ Ka6 46. Ke5 g5 47. Kxe6
Nh4 48. e5 g4 49. Kf6 Ng6 50. Kg5 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.30"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Ludwig, Michael"]
[Black "Briones, Dante"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A22"]
[WhiteElo "1933"]
[BlackElo "1996"]
[PlyCount "158"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. g3 Bb4 4. Qb3 Nc6 5. e3 Bxc3 6. Qxc3 O-O 7. Bg2 e4 8.
Ne2 d6 9. d4 d5 10. b3 Re8 11. Bb2 a5 12. Nf4 g5 13. Nxd5 Nxd5 14. cxd5 Nb4 15.
O-O Nxd5 16. Qd2 g4 17. Rac1 Qd6 18. Rc5 b6 19. Rc2 Bd7 20. Rfc1 h5 21. a4 c6
22. Bf1 Kh7 23. Bc4 Rg8 24. Bxd5 Qxd5 25. Rc3 Rg6 26. Qe2 h4 27. Qc4 Qf5 28.
Qe2 Rh6 29. Rc4 Qd5 30. R4c3 Kg6 31. Qc4 Qf5 32. d5 c5 (32... hxg3 33. fxg3
Rxh2 34. Kxh2 Qf2+ 35. Kh1 Rh8#) 33. R3c2 Qf3 34. Qe2 Qf5 35. Qc4 f6 36. Rd1
Bc8 37. Qb5 Ba6 38. Qxb6 Bd3 39. Rcd2 Rhh8 40. Qd6 hxg3 41. fxg3 Ra6 42. Qe7
Qxd5 43. Rf1 Qg5 44. Rdf2 (44. Rf4 Rg8 45. Rdf2) 44... Bxf1 45. Qxe4+ f5 46.
Qb7 Rh7 47. Qc8 (47. Rxf1) 47... Bd3 48. Qg8+ Kh6 49. Qf8+ Kh5 50. Qe8+ Qg6 51.
Qd8 Qe6 52. Qxd3 Kg6 53. Rf4 Kg5 (53... Rd6 54. Qc3 Rd1+ 55. Rf1 Rxf1+ 56. Kxf1
) 54. Bc1 (54. e4 fxe4 55. Rxe4 Qh6 56. Qd5+ Kg6) 54... Rd6 55. Rxf5+ Qxf5 56.
Qxd6 Kh5 57. Qf4 Qxf4 58. gxf4 Re7 59. Bd2 Rb7 60. Bxa5 Rxb3 61. Bc7 Rxe3 62.
Bb6 Rc3 63. a5 c4 64. a6 Ra3 65. a7 c3 66. Bc5 Ra2 67. Be3 c2 68. f5 Rxa7 69.
Bxa7 c1=Q+ 70. Kg2 Qc2+ 71. Bf2 Qe4+ 72. Kg1 Qxf5 73. Kg2 Qf3+ 74. Kg1 Kg6 75.
Bg3 Kf5 76. Bf2 Ke4 77. Bc5 Kd3 78. h3 gxh3 79. Bf2 Qg2# 0-1

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Blyznyuk, Vladimir"]
[Black "Briones, Dante"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E92"]
[WhiteElo "1510"]
[BlackElo "1996"]
[PlyCount "62"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Nf3 O-O 6. Be2 e5 7. d5 Nh5 8. Nd2
Nf4 9. Bf3 Nd3+ 10. Ke2 Nf4+ 11. Ke1 Nd7 12. b4 Nd3+ 13. Ke2 Nxb4 14. Nb3 f5
15. Ba3 Na6 16. Qc2 Nf6 17. c5 b6 18. cxd6 cxd6 19. Nb5 Nc5 20. Bxc5 bxc5 21.
Rab1 fxe4 22. Bxe4 Nxe4 23. Qxe4 Bf5 24. Qa4 Bxb1 25. Rxb1 e4 26. Na5 Qh4 27.
g3 Qxh2 28. Rf1 Qg2 29. Nxd6 Qf3+ 30. Kd2 Qd3+ 31. Kc1 Qxf1+ 0-1

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.24"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Findlay, Ian"]
[Black "Caldera, Anuar"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C55"]
[WhiteElo "2274"]
[BlackElo "2239"]
[PlyCount "94"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 d6 5. c3 a6 6. b4 b5 7. Bb3 d5 8. exd5
Nxd5 9. O-O Be7 10. Re1 O-O 11. a4 Bb7 12. Qc2 Bf6 13. axb5 axb5 14. Rxa8 Bxa8
15. Bd2 Qd7 16. Na3 Rd8 17. Nxb5 Ncxb4 18. cxb4 Qxb5 19. Nxe5 Qb7 20. Qc4 c6
21. d4 Be7 22. Nd3 Bf6 23. Ne5 Be7 24. Ba4 Rc8 25. Rc1 Bxb4 26. Rb1 c5 27. dxc5
Nb6 28. c6 Nxc4 29. cxb7 Bxb7 30. Nxc4 Rxc4 31. Rxb4 Rxb4 32. Bxb4 g5 33. Be7
h6 34. Bf6 Be4 35. f3 Bf5 36. g4 Bh7 37. Bb3 Bg6 38. Kf2 Kf8 39. Ke3 Ke8 40.
Ba4+ Kf8 41. Bc6 Bb1 42. Kd4 Bc2 43. Ke5 Bb1 44. Be4 Ba2 45. Kd4 Bb3 46. Ke3
Bd1 47. Kd2 (47. Kf2 Bb3 48. Kg3 Kg8 49. h4) 47... Bb3 1-0

[Event "2017 Alberta Youth"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.02.25"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Saad, Mattias"]
[Black "Chandra, Anand"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B52"]
[WhiteElo "789"]
[BlackElo "1655"]
[PlyCount "58"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bb5+ Bd7 4. Bxd7+ Qxd7 5. d3 Nc6 6. Nc3 Nf6 7. Bg5 h6 8.
Bxf6 exf6 9. O-O Be7 10. b3 O-O 11. b4 {A free pawn, though the computer does
give white some compensation} Nxb4 12. a3 Nc6 13. Rb1 a6 14. a4 Nb4 15. Nd5
Nxd5 16. exd5 Rab8 17. a5 Qc7 18. Qe1 Rfe8 19. c4 Kf8 20. Qe4 {Threatening to
invade on h7} Kg8 21. Rfc1 Qxa5 22. Rc2 Bf8 23. Qe1 {Wiser is moving the Queen
to the f, g, or h file for an attack.} Rxe1+ 24. Rxe1 g5 25. Rce2 Kg7 26. Nxg5
hxg5 27. Re8 Rxe8 28. Rxe8 Qa1+ 29. Re1 Qxe1# 0-1

[Event "2017 Red Deer Open"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.05.14"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Scholz, Mike"]
[Black "Chandra, Anand Rishi"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B53"]
[WhiteElo "1495"]
[BlackElo "1747"]
[PlyCount "46"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. d4 cxd4 5. Qxd4 Nc6 6. Bb5 Bd7 7. Bxc6 Bxc6 8.
O-O e6 9. Bg5 h6 10. Bxf6 Qxf6 11. Qxf6 gxf6 12. b4 Rc8 13. Rac1 Bd7 14. Nb1
Bb5 15. Rfe1 h5 16. Na3 Bd7 17. c3 Bh6 18. h3 Bxc1 19. Rxc1 Rg8 20. Nc4 Rxc4
21. Nd2 Rc8 22. c4 e5 23. Nb3 Bxh3 0-1

[Event "2017MOK"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "4.10"]
[White "Sharma, Vishruth"]
[Black "Chandra, Anand Rishi"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1606"]
[BlackElo "1681"]
[PlyCount "53"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]
[TimeControl "90+30"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. Nc3 Nf6 6. f3 Nbd7 7. Be3 e6 8. Bc4
Ne5 9. Bb3 Bd7 10. Qd2 b5 11. O-O-O Rc8 12. g4 Nc4 13. Bxc4 bxc4 14. g5 (14. h4
g6 15. Qe2 Bg7) 14... Nh5 15. f4 g6 16. Qe2 Ng7 17. h4 Be7 18. Rdf1 a5 19. h5
Nxh5 20. Rxh5 gxh5 21. Qxh5 a4 22. f5 exf5 23. exf5 Qb6 24. f6 Be6 25. fxe7 Kd7
26. Rxf7 Bxf7 27. Qxf7 1-0

[Event "2017MOK"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "2.7"]
[White "Ali, Husain"]
[Black "Chandra, Anand Rishi"]
[Result "*"]
[WhiteElo "1952"]
[BlackElo "1681"]
[PlyCount "34"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]
[TimeControl "90+30"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 c6 4. e3 Nf6 5. Nc3 Nbd7 6. Bd3 Be7 7. O-O O-O 8. Qc2
h6 9. Re1 b6 10. Bd2 Bb7 11. cxd5 cxd5 12. Rac1 a6 13. h3 b5 14. Qb3 Nb6 15.
Ne2 Nc4 16. a4 Bc6 17. axb5 axb5 *

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Arakelian, Hernadzi"]
[Black "Chandra, Anand Rishi"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A29"]
[WhiteElo "2096"]
[BlackElo "1657"]
[PlyCount "100"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. g3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. Bg2 Be6 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. d3 h6 8. O-O
Be7 9. a3 O-O 10. Bd2 Qd7 11. Rc1 a6 12. Na4 Rad8 13. Nc5 Bxc5 14. Rxc5 Qe7 15.
Rxc6 bxc6 16. Nxe5 Qd6 17. Nc4 Qe7 18. Qa4 Nb6 19. Nxb6 cxb6 20. Qxa6 Bc8 21.
Qxb6 Qxe2 22. Bc3 Rxd3 23. Bxc6 Bh3 24. Bg2 Bxg2 25. Kxg2 Qf3+ 26. Kg1 Rfd8 27.
Re1 Rd1 28. Qe3 Rxe1+ 29. Bxe1 Qb7 30. Qe2 Qb3 31. Kg2 Qb7+ 32. f3 Qb3 33. Bc3
Qa4 34. Qe5 Qc2+ 35. Kh3 f6 36. Qe6+ Kh8 37. f4 Qb1 38. Kh4 Qc2 (38... Qd3 39.
Qe7 Rd6 40. a4 Kh7 41. a5 Qf5 42. Qxd6 g5+ 43. fxg5 fxg5+) 39. Kh3 Qb1 40. a4
Qf1+ 41. Kh4 Qg2 42. h3 Qc2 43. a5 Qd3 44. g4 Qc2 45. Kh5 Qd3 46. g5 Qf3+ 47.
Qg4 Qd5 48. Kg6 Qe4+ 49. Kh5 Rd5 50. Kh4 hxg5+ 0-1

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Dave, Bhavik"]
[Black "Chandra, Anand Rishi"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D35"]
[WhiteElo "1857"]
[BlackElo "1657"]
[PlyCount "24"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bg5 Nbd7 6. e3 c6 7. Bd3 h6 8. Bf4
Qb6 9. Qc2 Be7 10. Nge2 Nh5 11. O-O Nxf4 12. Nxf4 O-O 1-0

[Event "2017JohnSchleinich"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "2.10"]
[White "Sklenka, Steve"]
[Black "Chandra, Anand Rishi"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1642"]
[BlackElo "1617"]
[PlyCount "25"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c5 2. c3 d5 3. exd5 Qxd5 4. d4 cxd4 5. cxd4 Nc6 6. Be3 e5 7. Nc3 Bb4 8.
a3 Bxc3+ 9. bxc3 exd4 10. Bxd4 Nxd4 11. Qxd4 Qxd4 12. cxd4 Nf6 13. Nf3 0-1

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Wang, Kaixin"]
[Black "Chao, Lucy"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B22"]
[WhiteElo "1971"]
[BlackElo "1467"]
[PlyCount "95"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c5 2. c3 Nf6 3. e5 Nd5 4. Bc4 e6 5. d4 cxd4 6. cxd4 Bb4+ 7. Bd2 Qb6 8.
Nf3 Nc6 9. Bxd5 exd5 10. Bxb4 Qxb4+ 11. Qd2 d6 12. Nc3 Be6 13. a3 Qa5 14. exd6
O-O 15. O-O Rad8 16. b4 Qb6 17. Na4 Qb5 18. Nc5 Rxd6 19. Qf4 Rdd8 20. Nxe6 fxe6
21. Qg4 Rde8 22. Ng5 Nd8 23. Rae1 Qd7 24. Re2 Qe7 25. Rfe1 Qf6 26. f3 Qf4 27.
Qxf4 Rxf4 28. Nxe6 Nxe6 29. Rxe6 Rxe6 30. Rxe6 Kf7 31. Rd6 Rxd4 32. Rd7+ Kf8
33. Rxb7 a5 34. b5 Ra4 35. Rd7 Rxa3 36. b6 Ke8 37. b7 Kxd7 38. b8=Q Kc6 39.
Qe8+ Kb6 40. Qe6+ Kb5 41. Qxd5+ Kb4 42. Qd4+ Kb3 43. Qxg7 a4 44. f4 Kc4 45. f5
Rd3 46. Qa1 a3 47. f6 Kb3 48. Qf1 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.30"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Harris, Adam"]
[Black "Chao, Lucy"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A34"]
[WhiteElo "1890"]
[BlackElo "1467"]
[PlyCount "67"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. c4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. g3 e6 5. Bg2 Be7 6. O-O b6 7. e3 a6 8. d4
cxd4 9. exd4 Bb7 10. d5 Na5 11. Qd3 exd5 12. cxd5 Qc7 13. Re1 d6 14. Bf4 (14.
b4) 14... O-O 15. Rac1 Bc8 16. Nb5 Qd8 17. Nc3 Nb7 18. b4 Bd7 19. Nd4 b5 20.
Nc6 Bxc6 21. dxc6 Ng4 22. cxb7 Qb6 23. bxa8=Q Qxf2+ 24. Kh1 Rxa8 25. Qf3 Qb2
26. Qxa8+ Bf8 27. Bxd6 Nf2+ 28. Kg1 Nh3+ 29. Bxh3 Qxb4 30. Bxb4 h6 31. Bf5 g6
32. Qxf8+ Kh7 33. Qxf7+ Kh8 34. Re8# 1-0

[Event "2017MOK"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "1.5"]
[White "Ebrahim-Shirazi, Behrooz"]
[Black "Chen, Andrew"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2081"]
[BlackElo "1577"]
[PlyCount "11"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]
[TimeControl "90+30"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 Nbd7 5. Bxc4 e6 6. Bb3 1-0

[Event "2017 Red Deer Open"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.05.14"]
[Round "5"]
[White "White, Chris"]
[Black "Chen, Andrew"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D45"]
[WhiteElo "1750"]
[BlackElo "1610"]
[PlyCount "52"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e3 e6 5. Bxc4 c5 6. Nf3 Be7 7. O-O O-O 8. e4
cxd4 9. Nxd4 e5 10. Ndb5 Nc6 11. Bg5 a6 12. Qxd8 Rxd8 13. Nc7 Rb8 14. Rfd1 (14.
N3d5 Nxd5 15. exd5 Bxg5 16. dxc6 bxc6) 14... Bg4 15. f3 Bh5 16. Bxf6 Bxf6 17.
N7d5 Bg5 18. Ne2 Ne7 19. Kf2 Kf8 20. g3 f6 21. h4 Bh6 22. Nb6 Be8 23. Nc3 Bc6
24. Ncd5 Nxd5 25. Bxd5 Bxd5 26. exd5 Rd6 1/2-1/2

[Event "2017 Red Deer Open"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.05.14"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Ali, Husain"]
[Black "Chen, Andrew"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D20"]
[WhiteElo "1898"]
[BlackElo "1650"]
[PlyCount "86"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. a4 e6 4. e3 Nf6 5. Bxc4 c5 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. Bb5 Bd7 8. O-O
a6 9. Bxc6 Bxc6 10. Nc3 Be7 11. Qe2 O-O 12. Rd1 Qc7 13. e4 cxd4 14. Nxd4 Bb4
15. f3 Rfd8 16. Qc4 {A blunder. The Queen was needed to protect the d1 rook.
Now white's knight is pinned. All black needs to do is trade off his attacked
b4 bishop and then attack the knight.} Bxc3 17. bxc3 e5 {The knight cannot
move; otherwise white loses an entire rook & is under a severe attack.} 18. Bg5
exd4 19. cxd4 Rdc8 20. Rac1 Ne8 21. Rd3 {White is eyeing the pressured bishop
on c6 and wanting to push d5. But even if white manages to triple on the
c-file, black can always escape with Qb6+. As such, it's better to play d5
immediately--it's positionally viable for white, as it advances the passed
pawn, shuts down black's bishop, and opens up the position for white's own
bishop.} h6 22. Be3 Bd7 23. Qb3 Qb8 24. Rdc3 Rxc3 25. Rxc3 b5 26. a5 Qb7 27. d5
Rc8 28. Bc5 Qb8 29. Qb4 Qe5 {More favorable is a move like 29. ...f5,
attempting to break up white's pawn chain and undermine his passed pawn.} 30.
Bd4 Qd6 31. Bc5 Qb8 {Identical to the position after 29. Qb4, except it's now
white's move, thus the gain of a tempo.} 32. g3 g5 33. Qd4 f6 34. Kf2 Kf7 35.
Ke3 Nd6 36. f4 Nb7 {Missing the chance to either open up white's king with 36.
gxf4 or bring his knight to an annoying square on c4. While still better,
black would have problems after 37. Bb4} 37. e5 (37. Bb4 Rxc3+ 38. Bxc3 Qd6 39.
e5 {White would have advanced, connected passed pawns to compensate for the
earlier material loss}) 37... Nxc5 38. Rxc5 gxf4+ 39. gxf4 fxe5 40. fxe5 Rxc5
41. e6+ Bxe6 {The only move. 41. ...Kg8 and 41. ...Kg6 both result in
repetitions, as the white Queen comes in to corner the King. Black has to be
careful in those lines not to fall into mate or lose the Queen to a skewer.
Meanwhile, 41. ...Ke7 loses material after 42. Qg7+, and 41. ...Ke8 falls into
a skewer.} 42. dxe6+ Kxe6 43. Qxc5 Qe5+ {Forced into a losing King and pawn
endgame, white resigns.} 0-1

[Event "InternationalQualifier"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "1.5"]
[White "Gold, Itohan"]
[Black "Chen, Andrew"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2108"]
[BlackElo "1831"]
[PlyCount "42"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nf3 Nxe4 5. d4 d5 6. Bd3 Nc6 7. O-O Be7 8. c4
Nb4 9. Be2 O-O 10. Nc3 Bf5 11. cxd5 Nxd5 12. Qb3 Nb6 13. Be3 c6 14. Rfd1 Be6
15. Qc2 Nf6 16. Ng5 Bc4 17. Bf3 h6 18. Nge4 Nbd5 19. Nxf6+ Bxf6 20. Ne4 Ba6 21.
Nc5 Nc7 1-0

[Event "2017MOK"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "3.8"]
[White "Sklenka, Steve"]
[Black "Chen, Andrew"]
[Result "*"]
[WhiteElo "1617"]
[BlackElo "1577"]
[PlyCount "65"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]
[TimeControl "90+30"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. a4 a6 4. e3 Nf6 5. Bxc4 Bf5 6. Nf3 e6 7. O-O Be7 8. Nc3
Nbd7 9. b3 O-O 10. Re1 Ne4 11. Nxe4 Bxe4 12. Bd3 Bxd3 13. Qxd3 Nf6 14. Ne5 Nd7
15. Nf3 Bf6 16. Ba3 Rc8 17. Rac1 c6 18. Red1 Qb6 19. Nd2 Be7 20. Nc4 Qc7 21.
Bb2 Rce8 22. Qc2 Nb6 23. Ne5 Nd7 24. Nc4 Nb6 25. Ne5 Nd7 26. Nf3 Bf6 27. e4 c5
28. e5 Be7 29. b4 b6 30. Ne1 Qb7 31. bxc5 bxc5 32. Rd3 (32. Qd3) 32... cxd4 33.
Bxd4 *

[Event "2017 Alberta Youth"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.02.25"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Wang, Kaixin"]
[Black "Chen, Jeffrey"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C36"]
[WhiteElo "1848"]
[BlackElo "1451"]
[PlyCount "53"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 e5 2. f4 d5 3. exd5 exf4 4. Nf3 Qxd5 5. Nc3 Qa5 6. d4 Nf6 7. Bxf4 Bb4 8.
Bd2 {8. Bd3 is favorable for white, sacking the b2 pawn to 8. ...Bxc3+ 9.bxc3
Qxc3+ 10.Bd2 in exchange for tempos, development, and an impressive bishop
pair.} O-O 9. Be2 Bf5 10. O-O Rd8 11. Bc4 c6 $2 {The black queen is low on
squares, but still safe. The developing move 11. ...Nc6 is preferable to the
text move 11. ...c6.} 12. a3 Bxc3 13. Bxc3 Qc7 14. Ng5 (14. Ne5 {Also
threatens the f7 square along with the discovery on the f5 bishop, but also
gives white the option of trading knight for bishop on g6.}) 14... Bg6 15. Be1
Qb6 16. Bc3 h6 17. Nf3 {Missing the win available with a series of sacrifices:}
(17. Bxf7+ Bxf7 18. Nxf7 Kxf7 19. Qh5+ Kg8 20. Rxf6 gxf6 21. Qg6+ Kh8 {With a
complicated mate. White actually has time to move the rook over to join the
attack--there's nothing black can do.} 22. Qxf6+ Kh7 23. Qf7+ Kh8 24. Re1 Nd7
25. Re7) 17... Nd5 18. Ne5 Ne3 19. Qf3 Nxc4 (19... Nxf1 $2 20. Nxg6 {Taking
advantage of the pin on the f-pawn. Black will lose material and suffer a
devastating attack on the weak f7 square.}) 20. Nxg6 Qc7 (20... fxg6 21. Qf7+
Kh7 22. Qxc4 {And white has a favorable position, but the material is still
equal}) 21. Nh4 Rf8 22. Nf5 Nd7 23. Qg4 g6 24. Nxh6+ Kh7 25. Nxf7 Ne3 {A
tempting fork, but it leads to forced mate.} 26. Qh4+ Kg8 27. Qh8# 1-0

[Event "2017 Alberta Seniors Championship"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.08"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Beresinski, Piotr"]
[Black "Daniluk, Jim"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B27"]
[WhiteElo "1921"]
[BlackElo "1964"]
[PlyCount "132"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. Nf3 g6 2. e4 c5 3. c3 d5 4. Bb5+ Bd7 5. Bxd7+ Qxd7 6. exd5 Qxd5 7. O-O Nc6
8. d4 Bg7 9. Be3 cxd4 10. Nxd4 Nxd4 11. cxd4 Nh6 12. Nc3 Qd7 13. Qa4 Qxa4 14.
Nxa4 Nf5 15. Rad1 O-O 16. Nc3 Rfd8 17. d5 b6 18. Rd2 Nd6 19. Rc2 Nc4 20. Bc1
Rac8 21. Rd1 Rc5 22. b4 Rcc8 23. Nb5 Rd7 24. d6 a6 25. Na3 (25. Na7) 25... Rxd6
26. Re1 b5 27. Nxc4 Rxc4 28. Rxc4 bxc4 29. Bf4 e5 30. Be3 f5 31. Kf1 f4 32. Bc5
Rd3 33. Rc1 c3 34. f3 Kf7 35. Rc2 Ke6 36. Ke2 Rd2+ 37. Rxd2 cxd2 38. Kxd2 Kd5
39. Kd3 a5 40. a3 Bf6 41. Bf2 axb4 42. axb4 g5 43. h3 h5 44. Be1 Be7 45. Bc3
Bd6 46. Be1 Bc7 47. Bf2 Bd6 48. b5 Bb8 49. Bb6 g4 50. Bd8 gxh3 51. gxh3 Kc5 52.
b6 Kc6 53. Bc7 Bxc7 54. bxc7 Kxc7 55. Ke4 Kd6 56. Kd3 h4 57. Ke2 Kd5 58. Kd3
e4+ 59. fxe4+ Ke5 60. Kd2 Kxe4 61. Ke2 f3+ 62. Kf1 Kf5 63. Kg1 Kg5 64. Kf1 Kf4
65. Kf2 Ke4 66. Kg1 Ke3 0-1

[Event "Calgary International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "2.6"]
[White "Milne, Art"]
[Black "Daniluk, Jim"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1587"]
[BlackElo "2020"]
[PlyCount "80"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. f4 g5 2. d3 gxf4 3. Bxf4 Bg7 4. Nc3 e5 5. Bg3 d5 6. e4 d4 7. Nb1 c5 8. a4
Nc6 9. Be2 Nf6 10. c3 Qa5 11. Qd2 h5 12. Nf3 Ng4 13. O-O Bh6 14. Qe1 h4 15.
Nxh4 Ne3 16. Na3 Nxf1 17. Nc4 Qc7 (17... Nxg3 18. Nxa5 Nxe2+ 19. Qxe2 Nxa5) 18.
Qxf1 (18. Bxf1 Be6) 18... Be6 19. Qf6 Rh7 20. Nf5 Bxc4 21. Nd6+ Kf8 22. Nxc4
Bf4 23. Bxf4 exf4 24. Rf1 f3 25. Qxf3 Qxh2+ 26. Kf2 Ne5 27. Nxe5 Qxe5 28. Ke1
dxc3 29. b3 c2 30. Kd2 Qb2 31. Rc1 Rh1 32. Bf1 Qxb3 33. Rxc2 Qxa4 34. e5 Qb4+
35. Ke2 Rh4 36. e6 Qg4 37. Rxc5 Qxf3+ 38. Kxf3 fxe6 39. Rc7 Rb4 40. g4 a5 0-1

[Event "2017MOK"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "2.2"]
[White "Findlay, Ian"]
[Black "Daniluk, Jim"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2290"]
[BlackElo "1951"]
[PlyCount "43"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]
[TimeControl "90+30"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e5 6. Ndb5 d6 7. Bg5 a6 8.
Na3 b5 9. Bxf6 gxf6 10. Nd5 f5 11. Bd3 Rg8 12. c3 Rxg2 13. Qf3 (13. Ne3) 13...
Rg4 14. exf5 e4 15. Qxg4 (15. Bxe4) 15... exd3 16. O-O-O Bh6+ 17. f4 Ne5 18.
Qh5 Bb7 19. Qxh6 Bxd5 20. Rhe1 b4 21. Rxd3 Qa5 22. Qxd6 1-0

[Event "2017 Alberta Seniors Championship"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.09"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Booker, Brad"]
[Black "Daniluk, Jim"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B23"]
[WhiteElo "2200"]
[BlackElo "1964"]
[PlyCount "37"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 a6 3. a4 Nc6 4. Bc4 g6 5. f4 d6 6. Nf3 Bg7 7. d3 e6 8. O-O Nge7
9. Qe1 Nd4 10. Nxd4 cxd4 11. Ne2 d5 12. Ba2 dxe4 13. dxe4 Qc7 14. e5 Nf5 15.
Rf2 h5 16. Qd2 Bf8 17. b4 a5 18. b5 Bc5 19. Qd3 1/2-1/2

[Event "2017JohnSchleinich"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "1.6"]
[White "Dave, Bhavik"]
[Black "Daniluk, Jim"]
[Result "*"]
[WhiteElo "1909"]
[BlackElo "1995"]
[PlyCount "67"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e4 Nxc3 6. bxc3 Bg7 7. Bc4 c5 8.
Ne2 O-O 9. Be3 Qc7 10. Rc1 Rd8 (10... Re8 11. O-O Nc6 12. Qc2 Na5 13. Bb3 a6
14. dxc5 Nxb3 15. axb3 e5 16. b4 Be6 17. Rcd1 f6) 11. O-O Nc6 12. Qc2 Na5 13.
Bb3 a6 14. dxc5 Nxb3 15. axb3 e5 16. b4 Be6 17. Rcd1 f6 18. Rxd8+ Rxd8 19. Rd1
Bc4 20. f3 Rd7 21. Kf2 Bf8 22. Rxd7 Qxd7 23. Qd2 Qb5 24. g3 Kf7 25. f4 a5 26.
Ng1 exf4 27. gxf4 a4 28. Qb2 Qa6 29. Bc1 Qc6 30. Ke3 Bxc5+ 31. bxc5 Qxc5+ 32.
Kf3 Qxg1 33. Qxb7+ Kg8 34. Qc8+ *

[Event "2017JohnSchleinich"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "4.4"]
[White "Ali, Husain"]
[Black "Daniluk, Jim"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1821"]
[BlackElo "1995"]
[PlyCount "86"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e5 6. Nf5 d5 7. exd5 Bxf5 8.
dxc6 bxc6 9. Bd3 Bxd3 10. Qxd3 Qxd3 11. cxd3 O-O-O 12. Ke2 Nd5 13. g3 Nb4 14.
Rd1 Nc2 15. Rb1 Nd4+ 16. Kf1 Rd7 17. Be3 Be7 18. Rbc1 Kb7 19. Ne2 Ne6 20. Nc3
Rhd8 21. Ke2 f5 22. Na4 f4 23. Nc5+ Bxc5 24. Bxc5 Rd5 25. b4 R8d7 26. f3 h5 27.
Bf2 g5 28. h3 fxg3 29. Bxg3 Nd4+ 30. Ke3 Nf5+ 31. Kf2 h4 32. Bh2 Rxd3 33. Rxd3
Rxd3 34. Bxe5 Rd2+ 35. Kg1 Rxa2 36. Rc4 Re2 37. Bf6 Nd6 38. Rg4 Re1+ 39. Kf2
Rh1 40. Bxg5 Rxh3 41. Rd4 Nf5 42. Bf6 Rh2+ 43. Ke1 Rh3 0-1

[Event "2017MOK"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "2.10"]
[White "Papneja, Arul"]
[Black "Darvekar, Yash"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1632"]
[BlackElo "1153"]
[PlyCount "67"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]
[TimeControl "90+30"]

1. e4 e6 2. b3 d5 3. Bb2 dxe4 4. Nc3 Nf6 5. Qe2 Bc5 6. Nxe4 Nxe4 7. Qxe4 f6 8.
Bc4 e5 9. f4 Qe7 10. fxe5 fxe5 11. Qxe5 Qxe5+ 12. Bxe5 b6 13. Ne2 Bb7 14. d4
Nd7 15. Bxg7 (15. Bxc7 Rf8) 15... Rf8 16. Bxf8 Bxf8 17. O-O O-O-O 18. Rae1 Bd6
19. Nf4 Bxf4 20. Rxf4 Kb8 21. Re7 a6 22. Rff7 Nf8 23. Rxc7 Bc8 24. c3 Bd7 25.
Rxf8 Kxc7 26. Rxd8 Kxd8 27. Bxa6 Kc7 28. Bd3 h6 29. c4 Kd6 30. b4 Kc6 31. c5
bxc5 32. dxc5 Be6 33. a3 Bc8 34. Kf2 1-0

[Event "InternationalQualifier"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "1.9"]
[White "Daniluk, Jim"]
[Black "Darvekar, Yash"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2020"]
[BlackElo "1455"]
[PlyCount "33"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 c5 3. g3 Nc6 4. Bg2 Bf5 5. O-O cxd4 6. Nxd4 Nxd4 7. Qxd4 Bxc2
8. Qxd5 Nf6 9. Qxb7 Rc8 10. Nc3 Rc7 11. Qa6 Bf5 12. Rd1 Rd7 13. Bc6 e6 14. Bg5
e5 15. Qb5 Qc7 16. Bxf6 gxf6 17. Nd5 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Zeggelaar, Mike"]
[Black "Darvekar, Yash"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B27"]
[WhiteElo "2006"]
[BlackElo "1356"]
[PlyCount "47"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 g6 3. d4 cxd4 4. c3 e5 5. Nxe5 Qe7 6. cxd4 f6 7. Nf3 d5 8. e5
Bg4 9. Bb5+ Nd7 10. O-O a6 11. Bxd7+ Qxd7 12. Re1 Kd8 13. Nc3 Bb4 14. exf6 Nxf6
15. Bg5 Rf8 16. Re5 Bxc3 17. Qb3 Bxf3 18. gxf3 Kc8 19. Bxf6 Rxf6 20. Rxd5 Qh3
21. Qxc3+ Kb8 22. Rd8+ Ka7 23. Qc5+ b6 24. Qc7# 1-0

[Event "2017 Red Deer Open"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.05.14"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Findlay, Ian"]
[Black "Darvekar, Yash"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B76"]
[WhiteElo "2292"]
[BlackElo "1410"]
[PlyCount "75"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 g6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Be3 Nf6 6. Nc3 d6 7. f3 Bg7 8. Qd2
O-O 9. O-O-O Qa5 10. Kb1 Qb4 11. Nb3 a5 12. a3 Nxe4 13. Nxe4 Qxd2 14. Rxd2 f5
15. Ng5 Bh6 16. Bc4+ e6 17. Rxd6 f4 18. Nxe6 Bxe6 19. Bxe6+ Kg7 20. Bf2 Rf6 21.
Rhd1 Re8 22. Bc4 Rxd6 23. Rxd6 Kh8 24. Bb5 Rc8 25. Bxc6 bxc6 26. Nxa5 c5 27.
Nc4 Bf8 28. Rd7 Re8 29. a4 Re2 30. Rd2 Re8 31. c3 Rb8 32. Kc2 Ra8 33. a5 Be7
34. Rd7 Bd8 35. Bxc5 Bxa5 36. Bd4+ Kg8 37. Rg7+ Kf8 38. Rxh7 1-0

[Event "2017MOK"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "5.7"]
[White "Timmerman, Brian"]
[Black "Darvekar, Yash"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1754"]
[BlackElo "1153"]
[PlyCount "33"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]
[TimeControl "90+30"]

1. e4 b6 2. d4 Bb7 3. Bd3 Nf6 4. Qe2 e6 5. Nf3 Be7 6. O-O O-O 7. c3 c5 8. Bf4
d5 9. e5 c4 10. Bc2 Ne4 11. Nbd2 Nxd2 12. Bxd2 f6 13. exf6 Bxf6 14. Qxe6+ Rf7
15. Bxh7+ Kf8 16. Bg6 Re7 17. Qh3 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Tam, Erik"]
[Black "Dave, Bhavik"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C55"]
[WhiteElo "2142"]
[BlackElo "185"]
[PlyCount "82"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 Be7 5. O-O d6 6. a4 O-O 7. a5 Bg4 8. c3 a6
9. h3 Be6 10. Nbd2 d5 11. Bb3 d4 12. Nc4 Nd7 13. cxd4 exd4 14. g4 h5 15. Nh2
Nc5 16. f4 Nb4 17. f5 Bd7 18. Bc2 Bb5 19. b3 Bf6 20. Nf3 Nxe4 21. dxe4 d3 22.
e5 dxc2 23. Qe2 Be7 24. gxh5 Qd3 25. Qg2 Qxf5 26. Nd4 Qxh5 27. Nf5 Bc5+ 28. Be3
Bxe3+ 29. Ncxe3 g6 30. Rf4 Bc6 31. Qg3 Rfe8 32. Ng4 Nd5 33. Nfh6+ Kh8 34. Rxf7
Rf8 35. Raf1 Rxf7 36. Nxf7+ Kg7 37. Nfh6 Rf8 38. Rxf8 c1=Q+ 39. Rf1 Qc5+ 40.
Kh2 Bd7 41. Rf7+ Kh8 1-0

[Event "2017JohnSchleinich"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "2.6"]
[White "Ebrahim-Shirazi, Behrooz"]
[Black "Dave, Bhavik"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2066"]
[BlackElo "1909"]
[PlyCount "87"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 (2... d6 3. Nc3) 3. Nc3 d5 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. Bg5 Ne4 6. cxd5
Nxg5 7. Nxg5 e6 8. Nf3 exd5 9. e3 O-O 10. b4 Be6 11. Be2 Nd7 12. O-O Nf6 13.
Bd3 Qd6 14. Qc2 a6 15. Na4 Nd7 16. Nc5 Nxc5 17. bxc5 Qc6 18. Rab1 Rfb8 19. Rfc1
Bd7 20. e4 Be6 21. Re1 dxe4 22. Bxe4 Bd5 23. Bxd5 Qxd5 24. Qb3 Qxb3 25. Rxb3 b6
26. Re7 bxc5 27. dxc5 Rxb3 28. axb3 Rc8 29. Rd7 Bf6 30. Kf1 Kf8 31. Ke2 Ke8 32.
c6 Rb8 33. Rxc7 Rxb3 34. Nd2 Rb2 35. Kd3 Bd8 36. Ra7 Ba5 37. Nc4 Rb3+ 38. Ke4
Rb4 39. Kd5 Rb5+ 40. Kd4 Bb6+ 41. Nxb6 Rxb6 42. Ra8+ Ke7 43. c7 Rd6+ 44. Kc5
1-0

[Event "2017JohnSchleinich"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "3.4"]
[White "Ali, Husain"]
[Black "Dave, Bhavik"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1821"]
[BlackElo "1909"]
[PlyCount "53"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 O-O 8. c3
d5 9. exd5 Nxd5 10. Nxe5 Nxe5 11. Rxe5 c6 12. d4 Bd6 13. Re1 Qh4 14. g3 Qh3 15.
Be3 Bg4 16. Qd3 Rae8 17. Nd2 f5 18. Qf1 Qh5 19. f4 Kh8 20. Bxd5 cxd5 21. Qg2
Qf7 22. Nf3 Bxf3 23. Qxf3 Re4 24. Bd2 Rfe8 25. Kf2 Qc7 26. Rxe4 dxe4 27. Qe2
1-0

[Event "2017MOK"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "2.6"]
[White "Kostadinov, Georgi"]
[Black "Dave, Bhavik"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2080"]
[BlackElo "1834"]
[PlyCount "57"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]
[TimeControl "90+30"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 (3. Nf3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e4) 3... d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5
5. e4 Nxc3 6. bxc3 Bg7 7. Qa4+ Nd7 8. Qa3 c5 9. Nf3 O-O 10. Bd3 b6 11. O-O Bb7
12. Rb1 Qc7 13. Bg5 Rfe8 14. Rfe1 Rac8 15. Bh4 cxd4 16. cxd4 e5 17. Rbc1 Qb8
18. Rxc8 Rxc8 19. Bg3 f6 20. Bb5 Bc6 21. Bc4+ Kh8 22. Bb3 Rd8 23. dxe5 fxe5 24.
Ng5 Rf8 25. Nf7+ Rxf7 26. Bxf7 Nc5 27. Bd5 Bb5 28. h3 Bh6 29. Qd3 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.30"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Malek, Omid"]
[Black "Dave, Bhavik"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A45"]
[WhiteElo "2198"]
[BlackElo "1857"]
[PlyCount "49"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 Ne4 3. Bf4 (3. h4 Nxg5 4. hxg5 e6 5. Nf3 Be7 6. Qd2) 3... c5
4. d5 Qb6 5. Nc3 Nf6 6. Qd2 d6 7. e4 Nbd7 8. Nf3 g6 9. Rb1 Ng4 10. Bb5 a6 11.
Bxd7+ Bxd7 12. h3 Nf6 13. O-O Bg7 14. e5 dxe5 15. Nxe5 O-O 16. Rfe1 Rfe8 17. a3
Qd8 18. Qe3 Rc8 19. g4 b5 20. Rbd1 b4 21. Ne4 Nxe4 22. Qxe4 bxa3 23. bxa3 Bxe5
24. Qxe5 Bb5 25. Bh6 1-0

[Event "2017MOK"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "4.5"]
[White "Daniluk, Jim"]
[Black "Dave, Bhavik"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1951"]
[BlackElo "1834"]
[PlyCount "77"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]
[TimeControl "90+30"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. c4 Bg7 4. g3 (4. e3 O-O 5. Bd3 c6 6. O-O d5 7. Nc3 dxc4
8. Bxc4) 4... O-O 5. Bg2 (5. Bg5 c6) 5... c6 6. O-O d5 7. Nc3 dxc4 8. a4 Be6 9.
e4 a5 10. h3 Na6 11. Qe2 Qc8 12. Ng5 Nb4 13. Be3 Rd8 14. Rfd1 h6 15. Nxe6 Qxe6
16. Rd2 Rd7 17. e5 Nfd5 18. Ne4 Nd3 19. b3 b5 20. bxc4 bxc4 21. Rc2 Nxe3 22.
fxe3 Rb7 23. Nd2 Rb2 24. Nxc4 Qxc4 25. Rxb2 Nxb2 26. Qxb2 Qd3 27. Ra3 Qd1+ 28.
Kh2 Rf8 29. Qb3 Qxb3 30. Rxb3 Rc8 31. Rc3 e6 32. Rc5 Ra8 33. Rxc6 Ra7 34. Rc8+
Bf8 35. e4 Kg7 36. d5 exd5 37. exd5 Bb4 38. d6 f6 39. Rc7+ 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.30"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Darvekar, Yash"]
[Black "Dinelle, Robert"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B12"]
[WhiteElo "1586"]
[BlackElo "1604"]
[PlyCount "73"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Bf4 e6 5. c4 Bxb1 6. Rxb1 Bb4+ 7. Bd2 Qa5 8. Nf3
Ne7 (8... Bxd2+ 9. Nxd2 Qxa2 10. cxd5 exd5) 9. Be2 O-O 10. a3 Bxd2+ 11. Nxd2
dxc4 12. Bxc4 b5 13. Bb3 Na6 14. O-O Rfd8 15. Ne4 Nf5 16. Qh5 Qc7 17. Ng5 h6
18. Nxe6 fxe6 19. Bxe6+ Kh8 20. Qxf5 Rxd4 21. Rbd1 Rad8 22. Rxd4 Rxd4 23. Bc8 (
23. Qf8+ Kh7 24. Qg8+ Kg6 25. Qe8+ Kg5) 23... Nc5 24. Qf8+ Kh7 25. Qxc5 Rd5 26.
Qc2+ g6 27. Be6 Rxe5 28. Bb3 c5 29. g3 Qe7 30. Ba2 Re2 31. Qb3 Qg7 32. Qxb5
Rxb2 33. Qc4 Rd2 34. Re1 Qf8 35. Re7+ Kh8 36. Qc3+ Rd4 37. Rxa7 1-0

[Event "2017JohnSchleinich"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "1.10"]
[White "Chandra, Anand Rishi"]
[Black "Ding, Alice"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1617"]
[BlackElo "791"]
[PlyCount "22"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3 Bg7 7. f3 Nc6 8. Be2
Bd7 9. O-O O-O 10. Qd2 Rc8 11. Ndb5 Re8 1-0

[Event "2017JohnSchleinich"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "2.12"]
[White "Stacey, George"]
[Black "Ding, Alice"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "984"]
[BlackElo "791"]
[PlyCount "46"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 d5 2. Bf4 Nf6 3. e3 e6 4. Nd2 Be7 5. Bd3 Nc6 6. c3 Bd6 7. Bg3 Bxg3 8.
hxg3 Bd7 9. Ngf3 Qe7 10. Qe2 e5 11. dxe5 Nxe5 12. Nxe5 Qxe5 13. Nf3 Qd6 14. Nd4
O-O-O 15. Bf5 g6 16. Bxd7+ Rxd7 17. O-O h5 18. f4 Ne4 19. Kh2 h4 20. Rf3 hxg3+
21. Kg1 Rh5 22. Nb3 Rd8 23. Nd2 Rdh8 0-1

[Event "2017JohnSchleinich"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "1.7"]
[White "Papneja, Arul"]
[Black "Dodd, Mark"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1785"]
[BlackElo "1686"]
[PlyCount "28"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nd7 5. Ng5 Ngf6 6. Bd3 e6 7. c3 Be7 8.
Qe2 h6 9. N5h3 (9. N5f3 O-O 10. Qc2 Nb6 11. Bd2 Qc7) 9... O-O 10. Qc2 Nb6 11.
Bd2 Qc7 12. Bf4 Bd6 13. Bxd6 Qxd6 14. O-O-O Nbd5 1-0

[Event "2017JohnSchleinich"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "3.8"]
[White "Timmerman, Brian"]
[Black "Dodd, Mark"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1698"]
[BlackElo "1686"]
[PlyCount "47"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c6 (1... e6 2. Nc3 d5 3. Nf3) 2. Nc3 d5 3. Nf3 Bg4 4. h3 Bh5 5. exd5 cxd5
6. Bb5+ Nc6 7. g4 Bg6 8. Ne5 Qc7 9. d4 e6 10. h4 f6 11. Nxg6 hxg6 12. Qd3 Nge7
13. Bd2 a6 14. Ba4 b5 15. Bb3 g5 16. h5 g6 17. O-O-O gxh5 18. gxh5 Nf5 19. Nxd5
Qf7 20. Nb6 Ncxd4 21. Nxa8 Nxb3+ 22. axb3 Qb7 23. Ba5 Qxa8 24. Qd7# 1-0

[Event "InternationalQualifier"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "????.06.10"]
[Round "3.1"]
[White "Findlay, Ian"]
[Black "Ebrahim-Shirazi, Behrooz"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C06"]
[WhiteElo "2280"]
[BlackElo "2076"]
[PlyCount "67"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. Bd3 c5 6. c3 Nc6 7. Ne2 f6 {
Uncommon. 7. ...cxd4 or 7. ...Qb6 are the main moves. White has two good
responses to the text move: 8. Nf4 or} 8. exf6 Qxf6 9. Nf3 Bd6 10. Bg5 Qf7 11.
Bh4 {Rerouting the bishop to g3 so it can opposed black's strong bishop. An
interesting choice to do so before castling.} e5 12. dxe5 Ndxe5 13. Nxe5 Bxe5
14. Bg3 O-O 15. O-O Bg4 {Black is looking good and has better control of the
center.} 16. f3 Bd7 17. f4 Bc7 18. f5 {Yes, white just played f3-f4-f5 on
consecutive moves, but each came with a point.} Bxg3 19. Nxg3 Ne5 20. Be2 Bc6
21. Qd2 Nd7 {Allowing white to develop with tempo.} 22. Bh5 Qe7 23. Rae1 Qd8
24. Bf3 Nf6 25. Re6 Ne4 26. Bxe4 dxe4 27. Qf4 {Trying to take the e-pawn
directly results in an equal rook ending after} (27. Nxe4 Bxe4 28. Qxd8 Raxd8
29. Rxe4 Rd2 30. Rf2) 27... Qd5 28. Qxe4 Qxa2 29. Qe2 Rae8 30. c4 {The only
try for a good advantage. It's quiet, but it accomplishes two things:
interfering with the black queen's attack on the e6 rook and shutting the
black queen out of the game. Black now needs at least two tempos to get his
queen back into the game. Instead of doing so, he plays Kh8, which is a
blunder.} Kh8 $4 31. Re1 $2 (31. Nh5 {31. Nh5 is surprisingly crushing. The
lines vary greatly, though. For instance:} Qa4 (31... Rg8 32. Nxg7 Rxg7 33.
Rxe8+ Bxe8 34. Qxe8+ Rg8 35. Qe5+ Rg7 36. f6 {with mate to follow.}) 32. Qe5
Rg8 33. f6 Rxe6 34. fxg7+ Rxg7 35. Qxg7#) 31... Qa4 32. f6 gxf6 33. Re7 Qa5 $2
(33... Rxe7 34. Qxe7 Re8 35. Qxf6+ Kg8 {with a strong advantage for white.})
34. Nf5 {And black resigns. White is threatening a rook sac on h7 for mate,
but if black trades off the rook, then white can corner the king with knight +
queen.} 1-0

[Event "2017MOK"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "10.??.??"]
[Round "2.5"]
[White "Krautsov, Andrei"]
[Black "Ebrahim-Shirazi, Behrooz"]
[Result "1-0"]
[BlackElo "2081"]
[PlyCount "21"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]
[TimeControl "90+30"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Qa5 7. Bd2 Qa4 8. Qg4
Kf8 9. Ra2 c4 10. Ke2 (10. Be2 Qb5 11. Bc1 Ne7 12. g3 h5 13. Qg5 Nbc6) 10...
Qb5 11. Bc1 1-0

[Event "2017JohnSchleinich"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "3.5"]
[White "Rogers, Dustin"]
[Black "Ebrahim-Shirazi, Behrooz"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1853"]
[BlackElo "2066"]
[PlyCount "96"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 e6 (1... c6 2. d4 d5) 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3
Qa5 7. Bd2 Qa4 8. Qb1 c4 9. Ne2 Nc6 10. g3 Nge7 11. Nf4 Bd7 12. Bh3 h5 13. Qd1
h4 14. Nh5 hxg3 15. hxg3 Rh7 16. Bxe6 Bxe6 17. Nf6+ gxf6 18. Rxh7 O-O-O 19.
exf6 Ng8 20. Bg5 Re8 21. Kf1 Nb8 22. Ra2 Nd7 23. Qf3 Qb5 24. Ra1 Qb2 25. Re1
Qxc2 26. Rh8 Qg6 27. Rxe6 Rxe6 28. Qxd5 Re8 29. Qxc4+ Kb8 30. Bf4+ Ka8 31. Qc7
Ndxf6 32. Be5 Ng4 33. Rh4 Nxe5 34. dxe5 Qa6+ 35. Kg1 Qe6 36. Rd4 Qc8 37. Qxf7
Ne7 38. Rc4 Nc6 39. f4 Qd8 40. Qh5 Rh8 41. Qe2 Qd5 42. Re4 Qc5+ 43. Kg2 Qxc3
44. e6 Qf6 45. Qc4 Qh6 46. Re2 Qh1+ 47. Kf2 Rh2+ 48. Ke3 Qg1+ 0-1

[Event "2017JohnSchleinich"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "4.5"]
[White "Willis, Brad"]
[Black "Ebrahim-Shirazi, Behrooz"]
[Result "*"]
[WhiteElo "1951"]
[BlackElo "2066"]
[PlyCount "38"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Bd2 dxe4 5. Qg4 Qxd4 6. O-O-O h5 7. Qg3 Bd6 8.
Qh4 Be7 9. Qg3 Bd6 10. Qh4 Nf6 11. Bh6 Qxd1+ 12. Kxd1 Rxh6 13. Nxe4 Nxe4 14.
Qxe4 Nc6 15. Nf3 Bd7 16. Kc1 O-O-O 17. Bb5 Rg6 18. g3 e5 19. Qe2 Kb8 *

[Event "2017 Trumpeter Classic"]
[Site "Grande Prairie, AB"]
[Date "2017.06.03"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Tim Pradzinski"]
[Black "FM Ian Findlay"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B70"]
[WhiteElo "1928"]
[BlackElo "2280"]
[PlyCount "71"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. h3 Bg7 7. Be3 Nc6 8. Bb5
Bd7 9. Nxc6 bxc6 10. Bd3 Rb8 11. Rb1 Qa5 12. O-O O-O 13. Qd2 Rfd8 14. Qe2 Be6
15. Bd2 Qc7 16. b3 Nh5 17. g4 Nf4 18. Bxf4 Bxc3 19. Be3 d5 20. Rbd1 Rd7 21. f4
dxe4 22. Bxe4 Rbd8 23. Rd3 Rxd3 24. cxd3 Bd4 25. Bxd4 Rxd4 26. Qf2 Rd8 27. f5
gxf5 28. gxf5 Bd5 29. Kh1 Bxe4+ 30. dxe4 Qe5 31. Rg1+ Kh8 32. Qg2 c5 33. h4 a5
34. h5 h6 35. Qg4 Kh7 36. Qg2 1/2-1/2

[Event "2017 Trumpeter Classic"]
[Site "Grande Prairie, AB"]
[Date "2017.06.03"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Eddy Tjandrajana"]
[Black "FM Ian Findlay"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D01"]
[WhiteElo "1662"]
[BlackElo "2280"]
[PlyCount "105"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nc3 d5 3. Bg5 Nbd7 4. Nf3 h6 5. Bh4 e6 6. e4 g5 7. Bg3 dxe4 8. Ne5
Nb6 9. h4 Rg8 10. hxg5 hxg5 (10... Rxg5 11. Bh4 Rg8 12. Nxe4 Be7 13. Qf3 Nfd5
14. Qxf7#) 11. a3 a6 12. Qd2 c5 13. O-O-O cxd4 14. Qxd4 Qxd4 15. Rxd4 Bc5 16.
Rd1 Bd7 17. Nxd7 Nbxd7 18. Bc4 Rc8 19. Bb3 Bxa3 20. Kb1 Bb4 21. Ne2 Ke7 22. c3
Bc5 23. Nd4 Rh8 24. Rxh8 Rxh8 25. Bc2 Rc8 26. Nb3 e5 27. Re1 Bd6 28. Nd2 Nc5
29. f3 Nh5 30. Bf2 exf3 31. Nxf3 f6 32. Nd4 Nf4 33. Nf5+ Ke6 34. Rd1 Bf8 35.
Ne3 e4 36. Rd4 f5 37. g4 fxg4 38. Bd1 Rc6 39. Bxg4+ Kf6 40. Nf5 Nfd3 41. Bg3
Rb6 42. b4 a5 43. Bc7 Rb5 44. Bd8+ Kf7 45. Nd6+ Bxd6 46. Rxd6 Ne5 47. Bh5+ Kf8
48. Bxg5 axb4 49. c4 Nxc4 50. Rf6+ Kg7 51. Rg6+ Kh7 52. Rh6+ Kg7 53. Rg6+
1/2-1/2

[Event "InternationalQualifier"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "3.6"]
[White "Kostadinov, Georgi"]
[Black "Fernando, Ronald"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2071"]
[BlackElo "200"]
[PlyCount "32"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 f5 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. g3 O-O 6. Bg2 d6 7. O-O c6 8. b3 Ne4
9. Bb2 d5 10. Rc1 Bh6 11. e3 Be6 12. Qe2 Nd7 13. c5 Qe8 14. Ne1 Bf7 15. Nd3 g5
16. f3 Nef6 0-1

[Event "2017JohnSchleinich"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "4.1"]
[White "Nguyen, Kim"]
[Black "Findlay, Ian"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2130"]
[BlackElo "2289"]
[PlyCount "30"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 c5 3. e3 e6 4. c4 d5 5. Nc3 Nc6 6. a3 a6 7. dxc5 Bxc5 8. Be2
dxc4 9. Qxd8+ Kxd8 10. Bxc4 b5 11. Bd3 Bb7 12. Ne4 Be7 13. Bd2 Nb4 14. axb4
Nxe4 15. Bxe4 Bxe4 0-1

[Event "2017MOK"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "3.2"]
[White "Kobalenko, Jerry"]
[Black "Findlay, Ian"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E05"]
[WhiteElo "2211"]
[BlackElo "2290"]
[Annotator "Ian Findlay"]
[PlyCount "108"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]
[TimeControl "90+30"]

{This is the third game I have played Jerry since moving to Banff in July 2015.
Jerry lives in Canmore , about 20 km's from me, which makes him my nearest
competition. Jerry likes flank games as white, so the opening came as not
surprise.} 1. c4 e6 2. g3 d5 3. Bg2 Nf6 4. Nf3 Be7 5. O-O O-O 6. d4 dxc4 7. Qa4
{In my last round game against Gary Ng, I got crushed when Gary played Ne5.
Qa4 is an older approach, which was popular in the 80's.} a6 8. Qxc4 b5 9. Qc2
Bb7 10. Nc3 $5 {Bd2 was very popular in the 80's. Black finally learned how to
defend which often involves playing Be4 and then later going to g6. Bf4 and
Bg5 are the main alternatives. They are covered nicely by Jan Gustafsson on
chess24 in his video on the Catalan. Kramnik came up with many ideas for white
and Anand found many good ideas for black. Before that, Beliavsky on the white
side and Karpov on the black side.} b4 $5 {I remember Jan in his video saying
the knight is not good on c3 becuause black can chase it away with b4. Black
does gain some space and development, but the c5 square is weakened and
black's normal plan to equalize is to play c5. I did not like Nbd7, since I
remember Fuster playing Ne5 against me in speed games in the 80's where his
doubled e pawns would give him a good attack. Funny the engines don't really
worry about that.} 11. Na4 Be4 12. Qb3 Nc6 13. Bf4 Nd5 14. Qd1 $5 {Allowing
doubled f pawns which white often does in the catalan to gain more control
over the centre. Also possible was Bd2.} Nxf4 15. gxf4 Qd5 16. e3 Rab8 {
I thought for about 10 minutes here. I am working on prophalytic thinking in
my games. Here I say that white's plan should be to play Rc1 and Nc5 to
dislodge the bishop on e4 or trade for bishop on e7 when c7 will become weak.
My idea was to play Rb5 to stop this. I wanted to bring my bishop to d6, then
my knight to the kingside via e7. This play may have been too optimistic and
perhaps the simple Nb8, then Nd7 would be better. It is always harder to find
retreating moves such as Nb8.} 17. b3 Rb5 18. Ne1 Bxg2 19. Nxg2 Bd6 20. Rc1 Ne7
21. Nh4 Ng6 $6 {This does not offer black much.} (21... g5 22. Qg4 Ng6 23. Nxg6
hxg6 24. fxg5 Qxg5 25. Qxg5 Rxg5+ $15) 22. Nxg6 hxg6 23. Qg4 Rfb8 $5 {I did
not want to commit to g5, since it simplifies the game quite a bit. The
engines like g5 a little better immediately.} 24. Rc4 g5 25. fxg5 $6 {Nc5 is
slightly better and should hold the balance.} Qxg5 26. Qxg5 Rxg5+ 27. Kh1 Rbb5
28. f4 Rgf5 $6 {I must stop e4 and e5, but Rg4 was a better way to do this.}
29. Rc6 Ra5 30. Rf2 Kf8 31. Rc4 $6 {I really expected Nb6 during the game,
since Jerry had surprised me with similar tatical shots in our previous 2
games. I thought I could play the deparado Bxf4, but after Nc4 Bd6, white just
plays Rc2 with an equal game.} (31. Nb6 Bxf4 32. Nc4 Bd6 33. Rc2) 31... g5 32.
Kg2 gxf4 33. exf4 Rh5 $2 {This allows Nc5. Better was Kg7 when black has a
nice advantage.} 34. Kg3 $2 {White returns the favour, when now, black's
advantage is real again. In fairness, both players had less than 3 minutes
left on their clocks.} Rag5+ 35. Kf3 Rh3+ 36. Ke2 {I was hoping for Ke4?? f5
mate!} Rgh5 37. Nc5 a5 38. Na6 Rxh2 {Winning the h pawn, and the a pawn
eventuall also. Black is now winning and rest requires no comment.} 39. Nxc7
Bxf4 40. Na6 Bd6 41. Nc5 Rxf2+ 42. Kxf2 Rh2+ 43. Ke3 Bxc5 44. dxc5 Ke7 45. c6
Kd8 46. Rd4+ Kc7 47. Rd7+ Kxc6 48. Rxf7 Rxa2 49. Kd3 Rb2 50. Kc4 Rc2+ 51. Kd4
Rc3 52. Ra7 Kb6 53. Re7 Rxb3 54. Rxe6+ Kb5 0-1

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.24"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Villavieja, Butch"]
[Black "Findlay, Ian"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B23"]
[WhiteElo "2194"]
[BlackElo "2274"]
[PlyCount "116"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nd4 4. Bc4 e6 5. d3 Ne7 6. Bg5 h6 7. Bxe7 Bxe7 8.
Nf3 b5 9. Bxb5 Qb6 10. a4 a6 11. a5 Qb8 12. Ba4 Qxb2 13. Ne2 Nxf3+ 14. gxf3 Qf6
15. Ng3 h5 16. Ke2 Kf8 17. Nf1 Rb8 18. Rb1 Rb4 19. Rxb4 cxb4 20. Ne3 Qd4 21.
Qa1 Bc5 22. Qxd4 Bxd4 23. Rb1 Bc5 24. Nc4 Ke7 25. d4 Bxd4 26. Rxb4 Ba7 27. Nb6
Bxb6 28. Rxb6 h4 29. f4 Rh5 30. Kf3 Rxa5 31. Bb3 f5 32. e5 Ra3 33. Ke2 a5 34.
Kd2 a4 35. Bc4 Kd8 36. Bd3 Ra1 37. Rb8 Kc7 38. Ra8 Kb7 39. Ra5 Kb6 40. Ra8 Kb7
41. Ra5 a3 42. Bc4 Kb6 43. Ra8 Bb7 44. Ra4 Bc6 45. Ra6+ Kc5 46. Bd3 Bd5 47.
Ra5+ Kb6 48. Ra6+ Kb7 49. Ra5 a2 50. c4 Be4 51. Be2 Kb6 52. Ra3 Kc5 53. Ra6 Bc6
54. Bd3 Kd4 55. Ra3 Rh1 56. Rxa2 Rxh2 57. Be2 Rxf2 58. Ra3 Rxf4 0-1

[Event "2017 Red Deer Open"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.05.14"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Tran-Ly, Tristan"]
[Black "Findlay, Ian"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A61"]
[WhiteElo "1985"]
[BlackElo "2292"]
[PlyCount "68"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 e6 4. Nc3 exd5 5. cxd5 d6 6. Nf3 g6 7. h3 Bg7 8. Bf4
O-O 9. e3 a6 10. a4 Re8 11. Bd3 Nfd7 12. O-O Ne5 13. Nxe5 Bxe5 14. Bxe5 Rxe5
15. e4 Nd7 16. f4 Re8 17. Qf3 f6 18. Rae1 Qc7 19. e5 dxe5 20. f5 g5 21. Qh5 Rf8
22. Ne4 c4 23. Bb1 b5 24. Nxg5 Qc5+ 25. Kh1 fxg5 26. f6 Rf7 27. Bxh7+ Rxh7 28.
f7+ Kh8 29. f8=Q+ Nxf8 30. Qe8 Bb7 31. Qxe5+ Rg7 32. Rf7 Ne6 33. Rxb7 Re8 34.
dxe6 Qxe5 0-1

[Event "2017MOK"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "5.1"]
[White "Ng, Gary"]
[Black "Findlay, Ian"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2354"]
[BlackElo "2290"]
[PlyCount "49"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]
[TimeControl "90+30"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. g3 d5 4. Bg2 Be7 5. O-O O-O 6. d4 dxc4 7. Ne5 Nc6 8.
Nxc6 (8. Nxc4) 8... bxc6 9. Na3 (9. Bxc6) 9... c3 10. bxc3 Nd5 11. Qc2 Rb8 12.
e4 Nb6 13. Rd1 Ba6 14. c4 Qc8 15. c5 (15. e5 Nd7) 15... Nd7 16. Nc4 Bxc4 17.
Qxc4 Rd8 18. Be3 Qb7 19. Qc2 f6 20. Rab1 Qa6 21. Bf1 Qa5 22. a4 Rb4 23. Rxb4
Qxb4 24. Rb1 (24. Ra1) 24... Qa5 25. Bg2 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.21"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Haessel, Dale"]
[Black "Findlay, Ian"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E05"]
[WhiteElo "2316"]
[BlackElo "2274"]
[PlyCount "49"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. g3 d5 4. Bg2 Be7 5. c4 O-O 6. O-O dxc4 7. Ne5 c5 8. dxc5
Qc7 9. Nxc4 Rd8 10. Nbd2 Bxc5 11. b3 Nc6 12. Bb2 Bd7 13. Rc1 Rac8 14. e3 b5 15.
Bxf6 gxf6 16. Ne4 Be7 17. Ncd6 Rb8 18. Qg4+ Kf8 19. Qh5 Bxd6 20. Qh6+ Ke7 21.
Qxf6+ Ke8 22. Ng5 Bc8 23. Bxc6+ Kf8 24. Nxh7+ Kg8 25. Qg5+ 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.25"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Banerjee, Bitan"]
[Black "Findlay, Ian"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A67"]
[WhiteElo "2456"]
[BlackElo "2274"]
[PlyCount "73"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 e6 4. Nc3 exd5 5. cxd5 d6 6. e4 g6 7. f4 Bg7 8. Bb5+
Nfd7 9. Nf3 a6 10. Bd3 b5 11. O-O O-O 12. Kh1 Nf6 13. e5 dxe5 14. fxe5 Nxd5 15.
Be4 Nxc3 16. Qxd8 Rxd8 17. Bxa8 Na4 18. b3 Nb6 19. Be4 Bg4 20. Bb2 Re8 21. Rad1
N8d7 22. Bd5 Re7 23. h3 Be6 24. Bxe6 Rxe6 25. Ng5 Re7 26. Nxf7 Rxf7 27. e6 Re7
28. exd7 Nxd7 29. Bxg7 Kxg7 30. Rd6 c4 31. bxc4 bxc4 32. Rxa6 Nc5 33. Rc6 Ne4
34. Rc1 c3 35. Rc4 Kf6 36. Kh2 Kf5 37. Rf1+ 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.22"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Sohal, Tanraj"]
[Black "Findlay, Ian"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A61"]
[WhiteElo "2386"]
[BlackElo "2274"]
[PlyCount "85"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 e6 4. Nc3 exd5 5. cxd5 d6 6. Nf3 g6 7. Bf4 Bg7 8. Qa4+
Bd7 9. Qb3 b5 10. Bxd6 Qb6 11. Be5 O-O 12. e3 c4 13. Qd1 b4 14. Ne2 Rc8 15. Nf4
Bb5 16. Be2 Nbd7 17. Bd4 Qb7 18. O-O Nxd5 19. Nxd5 Qxd5 20. Bxg7 Qxd1 21. Rfxd1
Kxg7 22. Nd4 Ba6 23. Bg4 Ne5 24. Bxc8 Rxc8 25. b3 c3 26. a3 Nd3 27. axb4 c2 28.
Nxc2 Nxf2 29. Kxf2 Rxc2+ 30. Kg1 Bb7 31. Rxa7 Bxg2 32. Rdd7 Be4 33. Rxf7+ Kh6
34. Rae7 Bd3 35. Rf2 Rc1+ 36. Kg2 g5 37. Rd2 Rc3 38. Kf2 Rxb3 39. Rd7 Bg6 40.
R7d4 Kg7 41. h4 gxh4 42. Rxh4 Kf6 43. Rc4 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.20"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Miller, David"]
[Black "Findlay, Ian"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B76"]
[WhiteElo "2223"]
[BlackElo "2274"]
[PlyCount "37"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Nf3 g6 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 Bg7 6. Be3 d6 7. f3 Nf6 8. Qd2
O-O 9. O-O-O d5 10. exd5 Nxd5 11. Nxc6 bxc6 12. Nxd5 cxd5 13. Qxd5 Qc7 14. Qc5
Qb8 15. b3 a5 16. Qb5 Qc7 17. Qc5 Qb8 18. Qb5 Qc7 19. Qc5 1/2-1/2

[Event "2017 Alberta Seniors Championship"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.08"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Daniluk, Jim"]
[Black "Findlay, Ian"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A70"]
[WhiteElo "1964"]
[BlackElo "2300"]
[PlyCount "67"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. c4 c5 4. d5 exd5 5. cxd5 d6 6. Nc3 g6 7. e4 Bg7 8. Bb5+
Nbd7 9. a4 a6 10. Be2 O-O 11. O-O Re8 12. h3 Nxe4 13. Nxe4 Rxe4 14. Bd3 Re8 15.
Bg5 Nf6 16. Qd2 Qc7 17. Rfe1 Bd7 18. Nh2 Rxe1+ (18... Nxd5 19. Bxg6 hxg6 20.
Qxd5) 19. Rxe1 Re8 20. Rxe8+ Bxe8 21. Bxf6 Bxf6 22. Ng4 Bd4 23. b3 Qe7 24. Qa5
Bd7 25. Nh2 b6 26. Qd2 b5 27. Nf3 Bf6 28. Qa5 c4 29. bxc4 bxa4 30. Bc2 Qe8 (
30... Qe2) 31. Qxa6 Be7 32. Qa7 Bf6 33. Qa6 Be7 34. Qa7 1/2-1/2

[Event "2017JohnSchleinich"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "1.2"]
[White "Malek, Omid"]
[Black "Findlay, Ian"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A45"]
[WhiteElo "2182"]
[BlackElo "2289"]
[PlyCount "36"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 Ne4 3. Bf4 d5 4. e3 c5 5. Bd3 cxd4 6. exd4 Nc6 7. Bxe4 dxe4 8.
Ne2 {Caruana had this position as white in the 2014 World Blitz Championship
and went on to win in 54 moves over GM Peter Michalik. Michalik responded 8. ..
.e5!?} g6 9. d5 Bg7 $1 10. Nbc3 (10. dxc6 $2 Qxd1+ 11. Kxd1 Bxb2 12. Nbc3 Bxa1
{-+}) 10... Ne5 {A complicated pawn sac on e4.} 11. O-O (11. Nxe4 Nc4 12. b3
Bf5 13. N2g3 Qa5+ {and Black has nearly full compensation for the pawn. White
has to move his king or return the pawn on c3; otherwise black will come out
ahead on material.}) 11... Nc4 12. b3 Nd6 13. Rb1 Bg4 14. Qe1 Rc8 15. Rc1 O-O
16. Nd1 e6 17. Ne3 $4 {Attacking the troublesome g4 bishop; however, black can
win material with a combination.} Bxe2 18. Qxe2 e5 {Here, facing an FM and the
loss of a piece, white resigns. If 19. Bg3, then 19. ..f5, and white can do
nothing about the fork on f4.} 0-1

[Event "2017 Alberta Seniors Championship"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.08"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Karmali, Hafiz"]
[Black "Findlay, Ian"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A31"]
[WhiteElo "1982"]
[BlackElo "2300"]
[PlyCount "121"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. Nf3 cxd4 4. Nxd4 e5 5. Nc2 d5 6. cxd5 Qxd5 7. Nc3 Qxd1+
8. Nxd1 Nc6 9. Nc3 Bf5 10. Ne3 Be6 11. g3 Bb4 12. Bg2 Rc8 13. O-O Bxc3 14. bxc3
O-O 15. Rb1 b6 16. a4 Rfd8 17. Rd1 Rxd1+ 18. Nxd1 h6 19. e4 Na5 20. Ba3 Nc4 21.
Be7 Nd7 22. f4 f6 23. f5 Bf7 24. Nb2 Nxb2 25. Rxb2 Rxc3 26. a5 Bc4 27. Rd2 Rd3
28. Rxd3 Bxd3 29. axb6 axb6 30. Kf2 Kf7 31. Bb4 Nc5 32. Ke3 Bc2 33. Bf3 Ke8 34.
Bxc5 bxc5 35. Kd2 Ba4 36. Kc3 Bb5 37. Bd1 Ke7 38. Bc2 Kd6 39. Bd1 Be8 40. Be2
Bf7 41. Bd1 Ba2 42. Bc2 Bg8 43. Ba4 Bf7 44. Bc2 Bh5 45. Bd3 Bf7 46. Bc2 h5 47.
h4 g6 48. fxg6 Bxg6 49. Kc4 Bf7+ 50. Kc3 Kc6 51. Ba4+ Kb6 52. Bc2 Kb5 53. Bd1
c4 54. g4 hxg4 55. Bxg4 Bg6 56. Bf5 Bf7 57. Bg4 Bg6 58. Bf5 Bf7 59. Bg4 Bg6 60.
Bf5 Bf7 61. Bg4 1/2-1/2

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Harris, Adam"]
[Black "Frialde, Arniel"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E12"]
[WhiteElo "1890"]
[BlackElo "2159"]
[PlyCount "62"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 b6 4. Nf3 Bb7 5. Bg5 d5 6. e3 Be7 7. Bxf6 Bxf6 8.
cxd5 exd5 9. Qa4+ c6 10. Be2 O-O 11. O-O a5 12. Rac1 b5 13. Qc2 Na6 14. a3 Nc7
15. e4 b4 16. e5 bxc3 17. exf6 Qxf6 18. bxc3 Ne6 19. Ne5 Rad8 20. Rb1 Ba8 21.
Qa4 Nf4 22. Bf3 Rfe8 23. Qxa5 h5 24. Rfe1 Qf5 25. Qc7 Rc8 26. Qa7 f6 27. Qf7+
Kh7 28. g4 Qc2 29. Rbc1 Rxe5 30. dxe5 Nh3+ 31. Kg2 Qxf2+ 0-1

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.23"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Findlay, Ian"]
[Black "Frialde, Arniel"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B33"]
[WhiteElo "2274"]
[BlackElo "2213"]
[PlyCount "57"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e5 6. Ndb5 d6 7. Bg5 a6 8.
Na3 b5 9. Nd5 Be6 10. c3 Be7 11. Bxf6 gxf6 12. Nc2 f5 13. exf5 Bxf5 14. Nce3
Be6 15. a4 Rb8 16. axb5 axb5 17. Ra6 Qc8 18. Qf3 Nd4 19. cxd4 exd4 20. Rc6 Qd7
21. Rc7 Bxd5 22. Nxd5 Qe6+ 23. Be2 Bd8 24. Re7+ Bxe7 25. Nc7+ Kd7 26. Nxe6 fxe6
27. Qe4 Bf6 28. Bg4 Rhe8 29. O-O 1-0

[Event "2017 Alberta Seniors Championship"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.08"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Majaducon, Willy"]
[Black "Frialde, Arniel"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E92"]
[WhiteElo "2169"]
[BlackElo "1821"]
[PlyCount "74"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 c5 3. d5 d6 4. Nc3 g6 5. e4 Bg7 6. Nf3 O-O 7. Be2 e5 8. O-O h6
9. h3 a6 10. Be3 Nh5 11. Qd2 Kh7 12. Rab1 f5 13. exf5 Bxf5 14. Rbc1 Nf4 15.
Bxf4 exf4 16. Bd3 Nd7 17. Bxf5 Rxf5 18. Rfe1 Ne5 19. Qe2 b5 20. cxb5 axb5 21.
b3 b4 22. Ne4 Nxf3+ 23. gxf3 Qh4 24. Kg2 (24. Kh2 Rxa2 25. Qxa2 Rh5) 24... Re8
25. Rh1 Bd4 26. Rc2 Re7 27. Kh2 Rh5 28. Qf1 Rxe4 29. fxe4 Bxf2 30. Rg1 Bxg1+
31. Kxg1 Qg3+ 32. Qg2 Rxh3 33. Qxg3 Rxg3+ 34. Kf2 Re3 35. Re2 Rxe2+ 36. Kxe2
Kg7 37. Kf3 g5 0-1

[Event "2017 Alberta Seniors Championship"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.08"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Findlay, Ian"]
[Black "Frialde, Arniel"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B01"]
[WhiteElo "2300"]
[BlackElo "2169"]
[PlyCount "18"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 d5 2. exd5 Nf6 3. d4 Qxd5 4. Nc3 Qd8 5. Bc4 g6 6. Nf3 Bg7 7. O-O O-O 8.
h3 Nc6 9. Re1 Na5 1-0

[Event "InternationalQualifier"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "1.8"]
[White "Scholz, Mike"]
[Black "Gallemaso, Bong"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1457"]
[BlackElo "2032"]
[PlyCount "66"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c6 2. Nc3 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. d4 Nf6 5. Bb5+ Nc6 6. Nf3 a6 7. Bxc6+ bxc6
8. O-O Bg4 9. Qd3 e6 10. Ne5 Bf5 11. Qe2 Qc7 12. b3 (12. f3 Bd6 13. Bf4 O-O 14.
Na4 Nd7 15. Nxd7 Bxf4 16. Nxf8 Bxh2+ 17. Kh1 Rxf8 18. Nc5 Bd6 19. Nxa6 Qe7)
12... Bd6 13. Bf4 O-O 14. Na4 Nd7 15. Nxd7 Bxf4 16. Nxf8 Bxh2+ 17. Kh1 Rxf8 18.
Nc5 Bd6 19. Nxa6 Qe7 20. Qh5 Bg6 21. Qh3 Qf6 22. Nc5 Qxd4 23. Nxe6 Qe5 24. Nxf8
Bxf8 25. Rfe1 Qf6 26. c3 Bf5 27. Qg3 g6 28. Re8 Kg7 29. f4 Bd6 30. Rae1 Bd7 31.
R8e2 Bxf4 32. Qf2 Qg5 33. Qg1 Qh4+ 0-1

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.22"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Porper, Edward"]
[Black "Gardner, Rob"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "D37"]
[WhiteElo "2468"]
[BlackElo "2271"]
[PlyCount "79"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 d5 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bf4 O-O 6. e3 c5 7. dxc5 Bxc5 8.
cxd5 Nxd5 9. Nxd5 exd5 10. a3 Bf5 11. Bd3 Qf6 12. Bxf5 (12. Be5) 12... Qxf5 13.
O-O Nc6 14. Qb3 Bb6 15. Qb5 Qe4 16. Nd2 Qe6 17. a4 d4 18. e4 Na5 19. b4 a6 20.
Qd3 Nc6 21. Rab1 Ne5 22. Bxe5 Qxe5 23. a5 Ba7 24. b5 axb5 25. Rxb5 Qc7 26. Nf3
Rfd8 27. e5 h6 28. Qb3 Rab8 29. e6 fxe6 30. Qxe6+ Qf7 31. Qe4 d3 32. g3 d2 33.
Rd1 Re8 34. Qd5 Re1+ 35. Rxe1 dxe1=Q+ 36. Nxe1 Bxf2+ 37. Kf1 Qxd5 38. Rxd5 Rf8
39. Ke2 b6 40. Nf3 1/2-1/2

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.21"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Sevillano, Enrico"]
[Black "Gardner, Rob"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B08"]
[WhiteElo "2566"]
[BlackElo "2271"]
[PlyCount "79"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 g6 4. Be2 Nc6 5. d5 Nb8 6. Nf3 Bg7 7. O-O O-O 8. Re1
c5 9. h3 b6 10. e5 Ne8 11. Bc4 Ba6 12. Qe2 Bxc4 13. Qxc4 Nd7 14. Bf4 dxe5 15.
Nxe5 Nd6 16. Qd3 Nxe5 17. Bxe5 f6 18. Bf4 Qd7 19. a4 Rad8 20. Rad1 Rfe8 21. Re6
Nf5 22. Nb5 Bh6 23. Bh2 Ng7 24. Re2 Rc8 25. Qc4 Nf5 26. Nxa7 Ra8 (26... Qxa7
27. d6+ Kg7 28. d7 Red8) 27. Nb5 Nd4 28. Ree1 Ra5 29. Nxd4 cxd4 30. Qxd4 Rxa4
31. Qxb6 Rc4 32. c3 Rec8 33. Rd4 R4c5 34. Qb3 Kf8 35. Bg3 Bg7 36. Re6 f5 37.
Rd1 Rb5 38. Qa2 Rd8 39. d6 Ke8 40. Rde1 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.20"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Banerjee, Bitan"]
[Black "Gardner, Rob"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E46"]
[WhiteElo "2456"]
[BlackElo "2271"]
[PlyCount "91"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. Nge2 Re8 6. a3 Bf8 7. Ng3 d5 8. Be2
c5 9. dxc5 Bxc5 10. b4 Bd6 11. Bb2 dxc4 12. Nce4 Nxe4 13. Nxe4 Be7 14. Bxc4
Qxd1+ 15. Rxd1 a5 16. b5 Nd7 17. a4 Nb6 18. Bb3 Bb4+ 19. Ke2 e5 20. Ng5 Bg4+
21. f3 Bh5 22. h4 h6 23. g4 hxg5 24. gxh5 gxh4 25. h6 gxh6 26. Rxh4 Rad8 27.
Bxe5 Rxd1 28. Rg4+ Kf8 29. Bg7+ Ke7 30. Kxd1 Rd8+ 31. Kc1 Rd3 32. Re4+ Kd7 33.
Rd4+ Rxd4 34. Bxd4 Kc7 35. Kd1 f5 36. f4 Nd7 37. Bc2 Bc5 38. Bxf5 Bxd4 39. exd4
Nb6 40. Bc2 Nd5 41. f5 Kd6 42. Ke2 Ke7 43. Bb3 Nc7 44. Kf3 Kf6 45. Kf4 b6 46.
d5 1/2-1/2

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.24"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Shabalov, Alex"]
[Black "Gardner, Rob"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B09"]
[WhiteElo "2587"]
[BlackElo "2271"]
[PlyCount "73"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 g6 4. f4 Bg7 5. Bd3 Nc6 6. Nf3 Bg4 7. Be3 e5 8. dxe5
dxe5 9. Qd2 Bxf3 10. gxf3 Nd4 11. O-O-O O-O 12. fxe5 Nxf3 13. exf6 Nxd2 14.
fxg7 Kxg7 15. Rxd2 c6 16. h4 h6 17. h5 g5 18. Ne2 Qa5 19. a3 c5 20. Ng3 Rac8
21. Nf5+ Kh8 22. Nd6 Rc6 23. Bc4 f6 24. Rhd1 Rc7 25. Rd5 a6 26. Bb3 Qb6 27. e5
fxe5 28. Rxe5 Rc6 29. Re6 Qc7 30. Bc4 b5 31. Rxh6+ Kg7 32. Rg6+ Kh8 33. Nf7+
Kh7 34. Nxg5+ Kh8 35. Be6 Qe5 36. Rh6+ Kg7 37. Rd7+ 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Frialde, Arniel"]
[Black "Gardner, Robert"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A89"]
[WhiteElo "2159"]
[BlackElo "2259"]
[PlyCount "90"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 f5 2. c4 Nf6 3. g3 g6 4. Bg2 Bg7 5. Nc3 O-O 6. Nf3 d6 7. O-O Nc6 8. d5
Ne5 9. Nxe5 dxe5 10. e4 f4 11. gxf4 exf4 12. Bxf4 Nxe4 13. Nxe4 Rxf4 14. Qd2
Qf8 15. Rae1 Rh4 16. f4 Bh3 17. Bxh3 Rxh3 18. Ng5 Rh4 19. Ne6 Qf6 20. Qf2 Bh6
21. Kh1 c6 22. b3 Rh5 23. dxc6 bxc6 24. Qg2 Rc8 25. Re2 Rf5 26. Qe4 Kh8 27. Rd2
g5 28. Rfd1 Rg8 29. Rd8 gxf4 30. Rxg8+ Kxg8 31. Rg1+ Kf7 32. Nd4 Rg5 33. Qxh7+
Ke8 34. Re1 Bf8 35. Qe4 Rg6 36. Ne6 f3 37. Nxf8 Kxf8 38. Rf1 f2 39. Qe2 Rg1+
40. Rxg1 fxg1=Q+ 41. Kxg1 Ke8 42. h3 Qa1+ 43. Kh2 Qf6 44. Kg3 Qd6+ 45. Kg4 Qg6+
1/2-1/2

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Koperski, Dustin"]
[Black "Gardner, Robert"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B06"]
[WhiteElo "1760"]
[BlackElo "2246"]
[PlyCount "52"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 g6 2. d4 Bg7 3. Nc3 c6 4. Be3 d6 5. Be2 Nd7 6. g4 e5 7. dxe5 dxe5 8. Qd2
Nb6 9. Qxd8+ Kxd8 10. O-O-O+ Kc7 11. f4 Nf6 12. f5 Ne8 13. Nf3 Nd6 14. Bf2 Nbc4
15. Nd2 Bh6 16. Ncb1 Nxd2 17. Nxd2 Nxe4 18. Be1 gxf5 19. gxf5 Bxf5 20. Rf1 Be6
21. Bf3 Nxd2 22. Bxd2 Bxd2+ 23. Rxd2 Rad8 24. Rxd8 Rxd8 25. Be4 Rh8 26. Bf5 Kd6
0-1

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.30"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Ng, Gary"]
[Black "Gardner, Robert"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A26"]
[WhiteElo "2335"]
[BlackElo "2259"]
[PlyCount "84"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. Nf3 g6 2. g3 Bg7 3. c4 f5 4. Bg2 e5 5. d3 Nc6 6. Nc3 Nf6 7. Rb1 O-O 8. O-O
d6 9. b4 h6 10. b5 Ne7 11. c5 g5 12. cxd6 cxd6 13. Qb3+ Kh8 14. e4 f4 15. d4
Ng6 16. dxe5 dxe5 17. Ba3 Rg8 18. Rfd1 Qe8 19. Bf1 Bg4 20. Be2 Rc8 21. Rbc1 Be6
22. Qa4 Qf7 {Black has built himself a battalion in his kingside.} 23. Bd6 Ne8
24. Bb4 b6 25. Qa3 Bf8 26. Rd2 Nf6 27. Qb2 $2 {The first bad move for white.
The computer prefers the response 27. ...g4 28. Ne1 Nxe4 29. Nxe4 Rxc1 30.
Qxc1 Bxb4 with the clear win of a pawn and the bishop pair for black. Black's
actual move, however, also prompts white into doing something drastic.} Nxe4
28. Bxf8 $2 Nxd2 {The only winning move.} 29. Bxh6 Nxf3+ 30. Bxf3 fxg3 31. Qe2
Qf4 32. Qe3 gxf2+ 33. Kxf2 Qxh2+ 34. Bg2 Qxh6 35. Rh1 Nh4 36. Qxe5+ Qg7 37.
Rxh4+ gxh4 38. Qh5+ Qh7 39. Qe5+ Rg7 40. Qxe6 {Black has white's attempts at a
perpetual and now just needs to convert with his winning material.} Rf8+ 41.
Bf3 Rgf7 42. Qe5+ Qg7 {With no more threats and faced with losing his bishop,
white resigns.} 0-1

[Event "2017 Northern Alberta Open"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.02.18"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Ivanescu, Cristian"]
[Black "Gardner, Robert"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D02"]
[WhiteElo "1781"]
[BlackElo "2288"]
[PlyCount "105"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. Bf4 b6 4. Nbd2 Bb7 5. e3 Be7 6. h3 O-O 7. Bd3 {
Tomashevsky tried 7. ...c5 against Giri in 2016 and lost. Leko had better luck
against Kramnik in 2015, earning a draw with the same move. In this case,
black opts for the uncommon 7. ...d5} d5 8. Qe2 Ne4 9. O-O-O c5 10. c3 c4 11.
Bc2 b5 12. Nxe4 dxe4 13. Nd2 f5 {Black has gained space at the cost of
development and pawn structure. White has a protected pawn on d4 that will
figure into the endgame.} 14. g4 Nd7 15. gxf5 exf5 16. Rdg1 Nf6 17. Rh2 Nd5 18.
Rhg2 Bf6 $2 {Seems good at first, but white can combine pressure on the king
with pressure on the center, and something must give for black. Better is 18.
Rf7, limiting white's options.} 19. Bg5 Rf7 20. f3 $1 {Challenging black's
center while threatening to win a pawn. If 20. ...exf3, white will recapture
with the knight, swinging it into action at the same time that the position
opens up for white's c2 bishop.} b4 {Rather than defend, black opts for a
counterattack.} 21. Bxf6 {An immediate 21. fxe4 would put black under more
pressure.} Qxf6 22. fxe4 bxc3 23. Nxc4 cxb2+ 24. Nxb2 Nc3 $2 {Better is 24. ...
fxe4. If white tries to take the pawn on e4, disaster ensues, starting with
Rc8+. The computer favors black here, likely due to the exposure of the white
king. The text move 24. ...Nc3 creates problems for black.} 25. Qc4 $1 Rc8 26.
Rxg7+ Qxg7 27. Rxg7+ Kxg7 28. Qe6 fxe4 29. Nc4 Nxa2+ 30. Kb2 Nb4 31. Bb3 Nd3+
32. Ka3 Rc6 33. Nd6 Ra6+ 34. Ba4 Rf1 35. Qe7+ Kg6 $2 36. Nxb7 {White bravely
takes the piece on b7.} Ra1+ 37. Kb3 R1xa4 38. Qxe4+ Kf6 39. Qh4+ {Taking the
knight leads to a skewer.} Kg7 40. Qe7+ Kh6 41. Qf8+ Kh5 42. Qe8+ (42. Qf5+ Kh6
43. Nd6 {And black has to give up material to avoid checkmate}) 42... Kh4 43.
Qxa4 Rxa4 44. Kxa4 Kxh3 45. Nc5 Nb2+ $2 (45... Ne1 {Even after a long think,
the computer believes black can hold the draw with 45. ...Ne1. The practical
chances are with white, however.}) 46. Kb5 Nd1 47. e4 {White's pawns are
unstoppable. The white knight is perfectly positioned to assist them forward.}
Kg4 48. d5 Kg5 49. e5 Kg6 50. d6 Kf7 51. e6+ Ke8 52. Nb7 Nc3+ 53. Kc6 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.30"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Wang, Kaixin"]
[Black "Guevarra, Alvin"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B07"]
[WhiteElo "1971"]
[BlackElo "1917"]
[PlyCount "55"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Bd3 g6 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. O-O O-O 6. Bf4 Bg4 7. h3 Bxf3 8.
Qxf3 Nc6 9. c3 e5 10. dxe5 Nxe5 11. Bxe5 dxe5 12. Rd1 Qe7 13. Na3 Rad8 14. Qe3
a6 15. Be2 Rxd1+ 16. Rxd1 Rd8 17. Rd3 Ne8 18. Nc4 b5 19. Na5 Rxd3 20. Bxd3 Qd7
21. Nb3 Bh6 22. Qe2 Qd6 23. c4 c6 24. cxb5 cxb5 25. Qc2 Nc7 26. Be2 Bf8 27. Bg4
Ne6 28. Qd2 1/2-1/2

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Gardner, Robert"]
[Black "Guevarra, Alvin"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A14"]
[WhiteElo "2259"]
[BlackElo "1917"]
[PlyCount "45"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. c4 e6 3. g3 Nf6 4. Bg2 Be7 5. O-O O-O 6. b3 c5 7. e3 Nc6 8. Bb2 b6
9. Nc3 Bb7 10. cxd5 Nxd5 11. Nxd5 exd5 12. d4 Bf6 13. Rc1 Re8 14. Qd2 Ba6 15.
Rfd1 c4 16. bxc4 Bxc4 17. Ne5 Na5 18. Bc3 Bb5 19. Bxa5 bxa5 20. Rc5 Rb8 21.
Rxd5 Qb6 22. Rb1 Qa6 23. Qb2 1-0

[Event "2017MOK"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "4.1"]
[White "Findlay, Ian"]
[Black "Haessel, Dale"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2290"]
[BlackElo "2286"]
[PlyCount "61"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]
[TimeControl "90+30"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d3 d6 6. O-O O-O 7. Re1 Bb6 8. a4
a6 9. Nbd2 Ne7 (9... Na7) 10. a5 Ba7 11. Nf1 Ng6 12. h3 Be6 13. Bb3 Nh5 14. d4
Nhf4 15. Ng3 Qf6 16. Bc2 h6 17. Nf5 Rfb8 (17... Rab8 18. Be3 (18. Bb3) 18...
Bxf5 19. exf5 Ne7 20. dxe5 dxe5 21. Bxa7) 18. Be3 Bxf5 19. exf5 Ne7 20. dxe5
dxe5 21. Bxa7 Rxa7 22. Rxe5 Raa8 23. Qd4 g5 24. fxg6 fxg6 25. Rxe7 Nxh3+ 26.
gxh3 Qxe7 (26... Rd8) 27. Bxg6 Rd8 28. Qg4 (28. Qc4+) 28... Rf8 29. h4 Kh8 30.
h5 Qe2 31. Kg2 1-0

[Event "Alberta Closed"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.15"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Kazmaier, Daniel"]
[Black "Haessel, Dale"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D00"]
[WhiteElo "2302"]
[BlackElo "2284"]
[PlyCount "58"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 d5 3. Bxf6 exf6 4. e3 f5 5. c4 dxc4 6. Nc3 Bd6 7. Bxc4 O-O 8.
Qf3 Nd7 9. Nge2 Nf6 10. O-O-O c6 11. Kb1 Qe7 12. h3 g6 13. Rhg1 h5 14. Nf4 Kg7
15. d5 Bd7 16. dxc6 Bxc6 17. Ncd5 Qe5 18. Rd4 Bc5 19. Nd3 Bxd4 20. Nxe5 Bxe5
21. Rd1 Rad8 22. Rd3 b5 23. Bb3 Rd6 24. Qd1 Nxd5 25. Bxd5 Rfd8 26. f4 Bf6 27.
Bxc6 Rxd3 28. Qf3 Rd1+ 29. Kc2 R8d2+ 0-1

[Event "Alberta Closed"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.16"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Arruebarrena, Rafael"]
[Black "Haessel, Dale"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C67"]
[WhiteElo "2324"]
[BlackElo "2284"]
[PlyCount "92"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Nxe4 5. d4 Nd6 6. Bxc6 dxc6 7. dxe5 Nf5
8. Qxd8+ Kxd8 9. Nc3 Ke8 10. h3 h5 11. Bf4 Be7 12. Rad1 Be6 13. Ng5 Rh6 14. g3
Bxg5 15. Bxg5 Rg6 16. h4 f6 17. exf6 gxf6 18. Bf4 Nxh4 19. f3 Rd8 20. Kf2 Nf5
21. Bxc7 Rxd1 22. Rxd1 Kf7 23. Ne2 Bc4 24. Nf4 Rxg3 25. b3 Ba6 26. Rd7+ Ke8 27.
Rh7 h4 28. Ne6 Rg6 29. Bf4 Ne7 30. Nc7+ Kd8 31. Nxa6 bxa6 32. Rxh4 Rg7 33. Be3
Nd5 34. Bc5 Nb6 35. c4 a5 36. Bd4 Ke7 37. a4 Ke6 38. Re4+ Kf5 39. Ke3 Rf7 40.
Re8 Rb7 41. Kd3 Nd7 42. Kc3 Kf4 43. Re6 c5 44. Bxf6 Kf5 45. Rc6 Nxf6 46. Rxc5+
Kf4 1/2-1/2

[Event "2017MOK"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "2.3"]
[White "Timmerman, Brian"]
[Black "Haessel, Dale"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1754"]
[BlackElo "2286"]
[PlyCount "62"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]
[TimeControl "90+30"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. Re1 b5 7. Bb3 O-O 8. c3
d6 9. h3 Nb8 10. d4 Nbd7 11. Nbd2 Bb7 12. Bc2 Re8 13. Nf1 Bf8 14. Ng3 g6 (14...
g5) 15. a4 c5 16. d5 c4 17. Bg5 h6 18. Be3 Qc7 19. Qd2 h5 20. Ra3 Nc5 21. Rea1
(21. Raa1 Nfd7 22. axb5 axb5 23. Rxa8 Rxa8) 21... Nfd7 22. axb5 axb5 23. Rxa8
Rxa8 24. Rxa8 Bxa8 25. Bh6 Bg7 26. Bg5 Nf6 27. Qe2 Qa7 28. Qd1 Bb7 29. Nh4 Bc8
30. Kh2 Ng4+ 31. hxg4 Bxg4 0-1

[Event "2017JohnSchleinich"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "3.2"]
[White "Kobalenko, Jerry"]
[Black "Haessel, Dale"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A46"]
[WhiteElo "2173"]
[BlackElo "2294"]
[PlyCount "73"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. g3 b5 3. a4 {Taking this game into unfamiliar territory. More
common is Bg2, followed by castling.} b4 4. c4 Bb7 5. d4 c5 6. Bg2 e6 7. O-O
Be7 8. e3 O-O 9. b3 d5 10. Nbd2 Nc6 11. Bb2 Ne4 12. Nxe4 (12. cxd5 exd5 13.
Nxe4 dxe4 14. Nd2) 12... dxe4 13. Nd2 {Allowing f5, which will let the e4 pawn
remain firmly lodged in white's position.} cxd4 14. exd4 f5 15. Nxe4 {...
unless white sacrifices his knight to remove it. -/+} fxe4 16. Bxe4 Bf6 {
The unusual 16. ...Na5 should be considered here, threatening the b3 pawn,
while also threatening to trade off white's protective bishop. The response 17.
Bc2 allows black to begin piling up on the d4 pawn, while potentially moving
the queen onto the vulnerable h1-a8 diagonal.} 17. Qh5 h6 {17. ...g6 is more
forcing. The text move allows 18. Qg6, afterwhich black must choose between
taking a repetition or allowing his king to be flushed into the open into a
losing position.} 18. Rad1 Na5 19. Bc2 Qc7 20. Rfe1 Rfe8 21. Qg6 Kf8 22. Bc1
Qf7 23. Qh7 Qg8 24. Qg6 Qf7 25. Qh7 Re7 26. Bf4 Rd8 27. Be3 Red7 $4 {A blunder,
though hardly obvious. Black would have a nice position here after 27. ...Bf3,
up material, digging into white's position, and allowing his knight back into
the game via b7. Instead, white is able to play 28. d5, exposing the c5-f8
diagonal leading to the king, and allowing the rook access to the fourth rank.}
28. d5 Be7 (28... exd5 29. Bg6 Qg8 30. Bc5+ Be7 31. Bxe7+ Rxe7 32. Qxg8+ Kxg8
33. Rxe7 {and black will sufffer substantial material loss while white's
pieces will be able to easily coordinate an attack on the king.}) 29. Rd4 e5
30. Rg4 {Threatening 30. ...Rxg7 or Bxh6.} Rd6 31. Bxa7 Bc8 32. Rg6 Nb7 33.
Rxe5 Bf6 34. Qh8+ Qg8 35. Qxg8+ Kxg8 36. Re1 Kf7 37. Kg2 {Black has defused
white's attack, but white has four pawns for the knight, including multiple
protected passed pawns. According to Kobalenko, his plan was to secure the g6
rook and protect the d5 pawn before pushing c5.} 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.21"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Porper, Edward"]
[Black "Haessel, Dale"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E60"]
[WhiteElo "2468"]
[BlackElo "2316"]
[PlyCount "79"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nf3 Bg7 4. e3 O-O 5. Be2 c5 6. d5 e6 7. Nc3 exd5 8. cxd5
d6 9. O-O Re8 10. Nd2 a6 11. a4 Nbd7 12. e4 Rb8 13. f4 h5 14. a5 b5 15. axb6
Nxb6 16. h3 Qc7 17. Bf3 c4 18. Na4 Bh6 19. Nxb6 Rxb6 20. Ra4 Qc5+ 21. Kh1 Rb4
22. Rxb4 Qxb4 23. Qc2 Bxf4 24. Nxc4 Bxc1 (24... Nxd5 25. exd5) 25. Rxc1 Bd7 26.
Qc3 Qxc3 27. bxc3 Nxe4 28. Bxe4 Rxe4 29. Nxd6 Re5 30. c4 Kf8 31. Rd1 Ke7 32. c5
Re2 33. Nb7 Rc2 34. c6 Bxc6 (34... Bc8 35. d6+) 35. dxc6 Rxc6 36. Kg1 Rc7 37.
Na5 Rc5 38. Nb3 Rb5 39. Nd4 Ra5 40. Nc6+ 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.22"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Matras-Clement, Agnieszka"]
[Black "Haessel, Dale"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C24"]
[WhiteElo "2305"]
[BlackElo "2316"]
[PlyCount "73"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 e5 2. Bc4 Nf6 3. d3 c6 (3... d5 4. exd5 Nxd5 5. Nf3 Nc6) 4. Nf3 d5 5. Bb3
Bd6 6. exd5 Nxd5 7. O-O O-O 8. Re1 Re8 9. Nbd2 Bc7 10. Ne4 Nd7 11. Bg5 N7f6 12.
h3 Bf5 13. Nh4 Be6 14. c4 Nf4 15. Nxf6+ gxf6 16. Bxf4 exf4 17. d4 Qd6 18. d5
cxd5 19. cxd5 Bd7 20. Qh5 Re5 21. Qh6 Rae8 22. Rxe5 fxe5 23. Qg5+ Kh8 24. Bc2
Rg8 (24... e4 25. Re1 (25. Nf5 Qe5 26. Nh6 Rf8 27. Qxe5+ Bxe5 28. Bxe4 f5 29.
Bf3 Kg7) 25... f3 26. g3 Rg8 27. Qh6) 25. Qh5 Rg7 26. Nf5 Bxf5 27. Qxf5 Qxd5
28. Be4 Qd2 29. Qc8+ Bd8 30. Bf3 Rg8 31. Qxb7 Bb6 32. Qxf7 Qxf2+ 33. Kh1 Qc5
34. Be4 Rg7 35. Qe8+ Rg8 36. Qf7 Rg7 37. Qe8+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "2017 Alberta Youth"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.24"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Ding, Alice"]
[Black "Han, Yi"]
[Result "*"]
[ECO "D50"]
[WhiteElo "935"]
[PlyCount "51"]
[EventDate "2017.04.24"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 Nf6 3. Nc3 Nc6 {Uncommon, blocking the c-pawn from challenging
the center or supporting the d-pawn.} 4. Bg5 e6 5. e3 Bb4 6. Qc2 O-O 7. Nf3 h6
8. Bh4 Re8 9. Bd3 {White is quietly moving her pieces into the game while
leaving open her castling options.} e5 {Trying to break open the center or
attack the pinned c3 knight before white can castle, but white is in no danger
here.} 10. dxe5 Nxe5 11. Nxe5 Rxe5 12. O-O d4 $2 13. Bg3 {13.Nd5 is better,
attacking the pinned Knight on f6 as well as the undefended bishop on b4.
After 13. ...Be7 white wins the d-pawn and has all of her pieces in prime
attacking position.} Re8 14. exd4 Qxd4 {A pawn black should not recover} 15.
Nb5 Qd7 16. Nxc7 Re7 {Better to lose the undeveloped rook on a8, but white
makes quick work of it, winning the black queen in just a few moves.} 17. Nxa8
Qe6 18. Nc7 Rxc7 19. Bxc7 Ng4 20. Rad1 Bd6 $2 21. Bxd6 Qxd6 $4 22. Bh7+ Kh8 23.
Rxd6 g6 24. Qc3+ Kxh7 25. Rd8 Bf5 26. Qh8# *

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Ivanescu, Mark"]
[Black "Harder, Nancy"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A46"]
[WhiteElo "1683"]
[BlackElo "1329"]
[PlyCount "31"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. Bf4 Be7 4. h3 O-O 5. e3 c6 6. Bd3 d5 7. Nbd2 c5 8. c3
Nc6 9. O-O Nh5 10. Bh2 f5 11. Ne5 f4 12. Qxh5 g6 13. Bxg6 Kg7 14. Qxh7+ Kf6 15.
Ng4+ Kg5 16. Qh6# 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.30"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Darvekar, Yash"]
[Black "Harder, Nancy"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B22"]
[WhiteElo "1586"]
[BlackElo "1329"]
[PlyCount "37"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. c3 e6 4. d4 cxd4 5. cxd4 d6 6. Nc3 a6 7. Bf4 Nf6 8. Bc4
b5 9. Bb3 b4 10. Ne2 Nxe4 11. Qd3 d5 12. Ba4 Bb7 13. Rc1 Rc8 14. Ne5 Qb6 15.
Qc2 Be7 16. Nxc6 O-O (16... Bxc6) 17. Nxe7+ Kh8 18. Nxc8 Rxc8 19. Qxc8+ 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Wei, Daniel"]
[Black "Harris, Adam"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C45"]
[WhiteElo "1721"]
[BlackElo "1890"]
[PlyCount "100"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Bb4+ 5. c3 Bc5 6. Be3 Qf6 7. Bc4 Qg6 8.
O-O Ne5 9. Bb3 d6 10. Qe2 Nf6 11. f3 O-O 12. Nd2 Bd7 13. Bc2 Qh5 14. a4 a6 15.
b4 Bb6 16. Rfb1 Rfe8 17. a5 Ba7 18. c4 c6 19. b5 axb5 20. cxb5 cxb5 21. Nxb5
Bxb5 22. Rxb5 Bxe3+ 23. Qxe3 Nxf3+ 24. gxf3 Qxb5 25. Bd3 Qc5 26. Qxc5 dxc5 27.
Nc4 Red8 28. Be2 Nh5 29. Rb1 Nf4 30. Bf1 Rab8 31. Rb5 Nd3 32. Bxd3 Rxd3 33. a6
Rd1+ 34. Kf2 Ra1 35. axb7 Kf8 36. Ne5 Rd1 37. Nc6 Rxb7 38. Rxb7 f6 39. Rb8+ Kf7
40. Nd8+ Ke7 41. Nc6+ Kf7 42. Rb5 Rh1 43. Rxc5 Rxh2+ 44. Kg3 Rh1 45. Nd4 g6 46.
Ne2 h5 47. Kg2 Rd1 48. Rc6 g5 49. Nc3 Rd2+ 50. Kg1 Rb2 1/2-1/2

[Event "2017MOK"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "2.4"]
[White "Kobalenko, Jerry"]
[Black "Harris, Adam"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2211"]
[BlackElo "1868"]
[PlyCount "61"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]
[TimeControl "90+30"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. g3 g6 3. b3 Bg7 4. Bb2 O-O 5. Bg2 d5 6. O-O c5 7. d4 cxd4 8. Nxd4
Nc6 9. Nd2 Qb6 10. e3 e5 11. Nxc6 bxc6 12. Bxe5 Bg4 13. Qc1 Rfe8 14. Bd4 c5 15.
Bb2 Rad8 16. h3 Bf5 17. g4 Bc8 18. Re1 h5 19. g5 Ne4 20. Bxg7 Kxg7 21. Nxe4
Rxe4 22. Qb2+ Kg8 23. Bxe4 dxe4 24. Rad1 Re8 25. Qf6 Qa5 26. Re2 Qb6 27. Rd6
Qb5 28. c4 Qa5 29. Red2 Qa3 30. Rd8 Qc1+ 31. Rd1 1-0

[Event "InternationalQualif8ier"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "1.14"]
[White "Fernado. Ronald"]
[Black "Harris, Adam"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "200"]
[BlackElo "1863"]
[PlyCount "66"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Nxe4 6. d4 b5 7. Bb3 d5 8. dxe5
Be6 9. c3 Be7 10. h3 O-O 11. Bc2 Qd7 12. Nbd2 f5 13. exf6 Nxf6 14. Re1 b4 15.
Ba4 Bc5 16. Qe2 bxc3 17. bxc3 Ne4 18. Nxe4 dxe4 19. Qxe4 Bd5 20. Qxd5+ Qxd5 21.
Bb3 Rad8 22. Be3 Bxe3 23. Rxe3 Kh8 24. Bxd5 Rxd5 25. Rb1 Ra5 26. Rb7 Rxa2 27.
Rxc7 Nd8 28. Ree7 Rg8 29. Rcd7 h6 30. Ne5 Kh7 31. Ng4 Kg6 32. Rd6+ Kh5 33. Kh2
Rxf2 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Harder, Nancy"]
[Black "Harris, Adam"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C47"]
[WhiteElo "1329"]
[BlackElo "1890"]
[PlyCount "46"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Be2 Nf6 4. Nc3 Bc5 5. h3 O-O 6. O-O Re8 7. Nh2 a6 8. a3
b5 9. b4 Ba7 10. Bb2 Bb7 11. Ng4 Nd4 12. Nxf6+ Qxf6 13. Bg4 Qg6 14. d3 f5 15.
Bh5 Qg5 16. Bc1 f4 17. Nd5 Bxd5 18. Bxe8 Be6 19. Bxd7 Bxd7 20. g4 h5 21. Kh2
hxg4 22. c3 Nf3+ 23. Kh1 Qh4 0-1

[Event "2017MOK"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "5.2"]
[White "Haessel, Dale"]
[Black "Harris, Adam"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2286"]
[BlackElo "1868"]
[PlyCount "59"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]
[TimeControl "90+30"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. Nge2 d5 6. a3 Be7 7. Nf4 b6 8. cxd5
exd5 9. g3 c6 10. Bg2 (10. Nd3 c5 11. Bg2 Ba6) 10... Ba6 11. Nd3 c5 12. O-O
cxd4 13. exd4 Nc6 14. Re1 Bb7 15. Nf4 Na5 16. Qd3 Nb3 17. Ncxd5 Bxd5 18. Nxd5
Nxc1 19. Nxe7+ Qxe7 20. Raxc1 Qd7 21. Bxa8 Rxa8 22. Rc2 h5 23. Rec1 h4 24. Rc7
Qh3 25. Qc4 Rf8 26. Rc8 Ng4 27. Rxf8+ Kh7 28. Qd3+ g6 29. Rxf7+ (29. Rf1) 29...
Kh6 30. Qd2+ 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.30"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Dave, Bhavik"]
[Black "Harris, Adam"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D96"]
[WhiteElo "1857"]
[BlackElo "1890"]
[PlyCount "109"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. Qb3 dxc4 6. Qxc4 Nbd7 7. e4 Nb6 8.
Qd3 O-O 9. Be2 Nfd7 10. h4 c5 11. d5 f5 12. h5 fxe4 13. Nxe4 c4 14. Qc2 Nf6 15.
hxg6 Bf5 16. gxh7+ Kh8 17. Nh4 Nxe4 18. g4 Bd4 19. gxf5 Bxf2+ 20. Kf1 Bxh4 21.
Qxe4 Bf6 22. Bh6 Qxd5 23. Qxd5 Nxd5 24. Bxf8 Rxf8 25. Kg2 Nf4+ 26. Kf3 Nxe2 27.
Kxe2 Bxb2 28. Raf1 Rf7 29. Rd1 Rf8 30. Rd7 Ba3 31. Rxb7 a5 32. Rc7 Kg7 33. Rxc4
Rh8 34. Rg4+ Kf7 35. Kf3 Bb2 36. Rgh4 Bf6 37. Rh6 Kf8 38. a4 Kf7 39. Ke4 Kf8
40. Kd5 Kf7 41. Kc6 Bg7 42. R6h3 Kf6 43. Rg1 Kf7 44. Rxg7+ Kxg7 45. Kb5 Rb8+
46. Kxa5 Kh8 47. Ka6 Rb4 48. a5 Rb2 49. Ka7 Rb5 50. a6 Rxf5 51. Kb6 Rf2 52. Rh5
Rf6+ 53. Kb7 Rf2 54. Ra5 Rb2+ 55. Kc6 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.30"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Kobalenko, Jerry"]
[Black "Henadzi, Arakelian"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E60"]
[WhiteElo "2209"]
[BlackElo "2096"]
[PlyCount "94"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. g3 g6 3. b3 Bg7 4. Bb2 O-O 5. Bg2 d6 6. d4 c6 7. c4 Re8 8. Nc3 d5
9. Ne5 dxc4 10. Nxc4 Nbd7 11. f4 Nb6 12. Ne5 Ng4 13. Nxg4 Bxg4 14. h3 Be6 15.
Ne4 Bd5 16. O-O Nd7 17. Rc1 h6 18. g4 Qb6 19. Ng3 Bxg2 20. Kxg2 Rad8 21. e3 e5
22. fxe5 Nxe5 23. Qe2 Nd7 24. Qf3 Nf6 25. Rce1 Qc7 26. Re2 Nh7 27. Rh1 Ng5 28.
Qf2 c5 29. Rf1 cxd4 30. exd4 Rxe2 31. Nxe2 Qc6+ 32. Kh2 Qc2 33. Ba1 Re8 34. Ng1
Qxf2+ 35. Rxf2 Re1 36. Bb2 Rxg1 37. Kxg1 Nxh3+ 38. Kg2 Nxf2 39. Kxf2 h5 40.
gxh5 gxh5 41. Kg3 Kh7 42. Kf4 Kg6 43. a4 h4 44. Kg4 h3 45. Kxh3 Kf5 46. Kg3 Ke4
47. Kf2 Bxd4+ 0-1

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.21"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Findlay, Ian"]
[Black "Heredia Serrano, Carla"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C07"]
[WhiteElo "2274"]
[BlackElo "2082"]
[PlyCount "111"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 c5 4. exd5 Qxd5 5. Ngf3 Nc6 6. Bc4 Qd7 7. Nb3 cxd4 8.
Nbxd4 Nxd4 9. Qxd4 Qxd4 10. Nxd4 Bd7 11. Bf4 Rc8 12. Bb3 Nf6 13. O-O Bc5 14.
Rad1 a5 15. a4 O-O 16. Rfe1 Rfd8 17. c3 Kf8 18. Kf1 h6 19. h3 Nd5 20. Be5 Nb6
21. Nb5 Bxb5+ 22. axb5 a4 23. Ba2 Be7 24. Rxd8+ Bxd8 25. Re4 Bf6 26. Bxf6 gxf6
27. Rh4 a3 28. Rb4 axb2 29. c4 Nxc4 30. Bxc4 Rxc4 31. Rxb2 Ke7 32. Ke2 Kd6 33.
Kd3 Kc5 34. g4 Rd4+ 35. Ke3 f5 36. gxf5 exf5 37. Rc2+ Rc4 38. Rd2 Rc3+ 39. Kf4
Rxh3 40. Rd7 b6 41. Rxf7 Kxb5 42. Rxf5+ Ka4 43. Kg4 Rh1 44. Rh5 Rg1+ 45. Kf5 b5
46. Rxh6 b4 47. Ra6+ Kb5 48. Ra8 b3 49. f4 Rc1 50. Rb8+ Ka4 51. Ra8+ Kb4 52.
Rb8+ Kc3 53. Rc8+ Kb2 54. Rb8 Rc4 55. Ke5 Kc3 56. f5 1/2-1/2

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.25"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Shabalov, Alex"]
[Black "Heredia Serrano, Carla"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C11"]
[WhiteElo "2587"]
[BlackElo "2082"]
[PlyCount "55"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. f3 e6 4. Nc3 Nf6 5. e5 Nfd7 6. f4 c5 7. Nf3 Nc6 8. Be3 Qb6
9. Na4 Qa5+ 10. c3 cxd4 11. b4 Qc7 12. Nxd4 Nxd4 13. Bxd4 Be7 14. Bd3 b6 15.
O-O g6 16. Qe2 Bb7 17. Rac1 O-O 18. Qe3 Qd8 19. a3 Bc6 20. Nb2 a5 21. Nd1 Rc8
22. Qg3 axb4 23. axb4 Kh8 24. Qh3 Bb7 25. f5 Bg5 26. Rc2 gxf5 27. Rxf5 exf5 28.
Qxf5 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.30"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Koperski, Dustin"]
[Black "Ivanescu, Mark"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B21"]
[WhiteElo "1760"]
[BlackElo "1682"]
[PlyCount "19"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c5 2. d4 cxd4 3. c3 dxc3 4. Nxc3 a6 5. Nf3 Nc6 6. Bc4 h6 7. O-O d6 8. Qe2
Bg4 9. Rd1 Qc7 10. Bb3 1/2-1/2

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Kobalenko, Jerry"]
[Black "Ivanescu, Mark"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A49"]
[WhiteElo "2209"]
[BlackElo "1683"]
[PlyCount "65"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. g3 g6 3. b3 Bg7 4. Bb2 d6 5. d4 O-O 6. Bg2 Re8 7. O-O Nbd7 8.
Nbd2 c5 9. c4 Qc7 10. Qc2 Nb6 11. a4 Bg4 12. a5 Nbd7 13. h3 Bxf3 14. Bxf3 Rab8
15. Bg2 b5 16. e3 cxd4 17. exd4 bxc4 18. bxc4 d5 19. c5 e5 20. Rfc1 exd4 21.
Bxd4 Rb5 22. c6 Nb8 23. Bf1 Rxa5 24. Rxa5 Qxa5 25. c7 Rc8 26. cxb8=Q Rxb8 27.
Qc7 Qxc7 28. Rxc7 a5 29. Ra7 Ne4 30. Bxg7 Nxd2 31. Bc3 Nxf1 32. Kxf1 Rb3 33.
Ra8+ 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Frialde, Arniel"]
[Black "Ivanescu, Mark"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E72"]
[WhiteElo "2189"]
[BlackElo "1683"]
[PlyCount "53"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. g3 d6 4. Bg2 Bg7 5. Nf3 O-O 6. Nc3 Nbd7 7. e4 e5 8. dxe5
Nxe5 9. Nxe5 dxe5 10. Bg5 c6 11. Qe2 Be6 12. Rc1 Qc7 13. O-O Rfd8 14. Nd5 cxd5
15. cxd5 Qd6 16. dxe6 Qxe6 17. f4 exf4 18. Rxf4 h6 19. Bxf6 Bxf6 20. Rcf1 Bd4+
21. Kh1 Rd7 22. Rh4 Qxa2 23. Qd2 h5 24. Bh3 Rdd8 25. Qg5 Qxb2 26. Be6 Bf6 27.
Qxg6+ 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Kobalenko, Jerry"]
[Black "Ivey, James"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D02"]
[WhiteElo "2209"]
[BlackElo "1726"]
[PlyCount "67"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. Nf3 d5 2. g3 c5 3. Bg2 Nc6 4. d4 Nf6 5. O-O Bf5 6. e3 e6 7. b3 Be7 8. Bb2
Nb4 9. Na3 O-O 10. Ne5 cxd4 11. exd4 Nd7 12. g4 Be4 13. f3 Bg6 14. Nxg6 hxg6
15. c3 Nc6 16. f4 Nf6 17. Qe2 Kh7 18. Rae1 Rh8 19. Nb1 Bd6 20. h3 Kg8 21. Nd2
Qc7 22. Qf3 g5 23. fxg5 Ne8 24. c4 Bb4 25. Re2 Bxd2 26. Rxd2 dxc4 27. bxc4 Nd6
28. g6 Rf8 29. Qf4 Qe7 30. Ba3 Rd8 31. gxf7+ Kf8 32. Re2 Rh6 33. g5 Rh8 34.
Rfe1 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.30"]
[Round "5"]
[White "MacDonald, Dean"]
[Black "Ivey, James"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E90"]
[WhiteElo "1410"]
[BlackElo "1726"]
[PlyCount "50"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Nf3 O-O 6. Bg5 Nbd7 7. Bd3 h6 8. Bd2
e5 9. d5 Nc5 10. Bc2 a5 11. O-O Nh5 12. Qc1 Kh7 13. Be3 b6 14. Na4 Nd7 15. Re1
Ndf6 16. Nh4 Ng4 17. Nf3 f5 18. exf5 Bxf5 19. h3 Nxe3 20. fxe3 Bxh3 21. Qd1 Bg4
22. Rf1 Ng3 23. Rf2 e4 24. Kh2 exf3 25. Kxg3 Be5+ 0-1

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Offengenden, Ron"]
[Black "Kalisvaart, Peter"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C55"]
[WhiteElo "1608"]
[BlackElo "2089"]
[PlyCount "94"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Nc3 Nxe4 5. Nxe4 d5 6. Bxd5 Qxd5 7. Nc3 Qd8
8. d3 Bd6 9. Be3 O-O 10. Qd2 f5 11. Qe2 Nd4 12. Qd1 f4 13. Bxd4 exd4 14. Nxd4
Ba3 15. Nde2 Bxb2 16. Rb1 Bxc3+ 17. Nxc3 Qf6 18. Ne4 Qg6 19. g3 f3 20. Nc3 Bh3
21. Nd5 Rae8+ 22. Kd2 Qg5+ 23. Ne3 Qa5+ 24. c3 Qxa2+ 25. Qc2 Qxc2+ 26. Kxc2
Rxe3 27. fxe3 f2 28. Rhf1 Bxf1 29. Rxf1 Rf3 30. d4 g5 31. Kd2 g4 32. Ke2 a5 33.
h3 h5 34. hxg4 hxg4 35. c4 Kf7 36. e4 b6 37. Kd2 Ke6 38. Ke2 c6 39. Kd2 b5 40.
cxb5 cxb5 41. d5+ Kd6 42. Kc2 b4 43. Kb2 a4 44. Ka2 a3 45. Ka1 b3 46. Kb1 Re3
47. Ka1 Re1+ 0-1

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.30"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Ludwig, David"]
[Black "Kalisvaart, Peter"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A26"]
[WhiteElo "1853"]
[BlackElo "2076"]
[PlyCount "87"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. c4 Nc6 2. Nf3 e5 3. Nc3 g6 4. g3 Bg7 5. Bg2 Nge7 6. O-O O-O 7. d3 d6 8. Ne1
f5 9. f4 exf4 10. Bxf4 Nd4 11. Qd2 c6 12. Bh6 Qb6 13. Be3 f4 14. gxf4 Nef5 15.
Bf2 Qa5 16. Nf3 Ne6 17. e3 d5 18. cxd5 (18. d4 dxc4 19. Ne5) 18... cxd5 19. d4
b6 20. Nxd5 Qxd5 21. Ne5 Qd8 22. Bxa8 Ba6 23. Bg2 Bxf1 24. Rxf1 g5 25. Nc6 Qd6
26. fxg5 Nxg5 27. Qb4 Qxb4 28. Nxb4 Re8 29. Re1 Ne4 30. Bxe4 Rxe4 31. Nd5 Kf7
32. Nc3 Re8 33. Kg2 b5 34. a3 Rb8 35. Ne4 b4 36. axb4 Rxb4 37. Re2 Bf8 38. Rc2
Rb3 39. Ng5+ Kg6 40. Ne6 Bh6 41. e4 Ne3+ 42. Bxe3 Rxe3 43. e5 Kf5 44. Nc5 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Rohatynski, Jordan"]
[Black "Kalisvaart, Peter"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A27"]
[WhiteElo "1656"]
[BlackElo "2089"]
[PlyCount "92"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. Nf3 Nc6 2. c4 e5 3. Nc3 g6 4. a3 Bg7 5. g3 Nge7 6. e4 O-O 7. b4 d6 8. Bb2
Bg4 9. h3 Bxf3 10. Qxf3 Nd4 11. Qd1 f5 12. Bg2 f4 13. Nd5 Nxd5 14. Bxd4 exd4
15. cxd5 f3 16. Bf1 c6 17. Bc4 b5 18. Bb3 c5 19. d3 cxb4 20. axb4 a5 21. bxa5
Rxa5 22. O-O Rxa1 23. Qxa1 Qd7 24. Kh2 h5 25. Qc1 Qe7 26. h4 Kh7 27. Qc6 Be5
28. Kh3 g5 29. hxg5 Qxg5 30. Qd7+ Kh8 31. Ra1 Rg8 32. Ra7 Rg7 33. Ra8+ Kh7 34.
Qf5+ Qxf5+ 35. exf5 Rf7 36. g4 hxg4+ 37. Kxg4 Kg7 38. Rb8 Kf6 39. Rg8 Rg7+ 40.
Rxg7 Kxg7 41. Kxf3 b4 42. Kg4 Bf6 43. Kh5 Be5 44. f3 Bf4 45. Kg4 Bc1 46. f4 Kf6
1/2-1/2

[Event "2017 Alberta Seniors Championship"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.08"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Frialde, Arniel"]
[Black "Karmali, Hafiz"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A84"]
[WhiteElo "2189"]
[BlackElo "1982"]
[PlyCount "71"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 e6 2. Nf3 f5 3. g3 b6 4. Bg2 Bb7 5. O-O Nf6 6. Bg5 Be7 7. c4 O-O 8. Nc3
d6 9. Bxf6 Bxf6 10. Qb3 c5 11. dxc5 dxc5 12. Rad1 Qe7 13. Nb5 Nc6 14. Nd6 Na5
15. Qc2 Bc6 16. b4 cxb4 17. c5 Bc3 18. e4 fxe4 19. Nxe4 Bxe4 20. Qxe4 bxc5 21.
h4 g6 22. Ng5 Rae8 23. Bh3 Rf6 24. f4 Bd4+ 25. Kh2 Nc4 26. Rfe1 Nd6 27. Qc6 Nf5
28. Ne4 Rff8 29. Ng5 e5 30. fxe5 Bxe5 31. Bxf5 Rxf5 32. Re3 Ref8 33. Rde1 Qf6
34. Qd5+ Kg7 35. Rxe5 Rf1 36. Re7+ 1-0

[Event "2017 Alberta Seniors Championship"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.09"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Daniluk, Jim"]
[Black "Karmali, Hafiz"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E10"]
[WhiteElo "1964"]
[BlackElo "1982"]
[PlyCount "63"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. c4 Ne4 4. Nbd2 f5 5. g3 b6 6. Bg2 Bb7 7. O-O c5 8. e3 (
8. d5 exd5 9. cxd5 Bxd5 10. Ng5 Qxg5 11. Nxe4 Qg6) 8... d6 9. Qa4+ Nd7 10. Re1
Be7 11. Qc2 O-O 12. b3 Ndf6 13. dxc5 bxc5 14. Ng5 Nxg5 15. Bxb7 Nh3+ 16. Kg2
Rb8 17. Bf3 Ng5 18. Be2 Qc7 19. h4 Qb7+ 20. f3 Ng4 21. Nf1 Nf7 22. Bb2 Bf6 23.
Rad1 Rbd8 24. Bxf6 Nxf6 25. Bd3 g5 (25... Ne5) 26. Bxf5 exf5 27. Qxf5 Qe7 (
27... Ne5 28. Qxg5+ Kh8) 28. hxg5 Nh5 29. f4 Ng7 30. Qd5 Qe6 31. Rd3 Qxd5+ 32.
Rxd5 1/2-1/2

[Event "Alberta Closed"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.15"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Valencia, Belsar"]
[Black "Kazmaier, Dan"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A25"]
[WhiteElo "2380"]
[BlackElo "2302"]
[PlyCount "77"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. c4 d6 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. g3 e5 4. Bg2 f5 5. d3 Nf6 6. e3 g6 7. Nge2 Bg7 8. f4 O-O
9. O-O Ne7 10. Rb1 c6 11. b3 Qa5 12. Bd2 Qc7 13. Rc1 Be6 14. Na4 c5 15. Nac3 a6
16. e4 Rab8 17. Nd5 Qd7 18. a4 b5 19. Nxf6+ Bxf6 20. axb5 axb5 21. fxe5 dxe5
22. Be3 Rfd8 23. Bxc5 Qxd3 24. Qxd3 Rxd3 25. cxb5 Rxb5 26. b4 Bg5 27. Rc3 Rd7
28. Rc2 Bb3 29. Rb2 Bc4 30. Ra1 Rc7 31. Bf2 Bxe2 32. Rxe2 Rxb4 33. exf5 Nxf5
34. Rxe5 Bf6 35. Re8+ Kf7 36. Rae1 Be7 37. Ra8 Rb2 38. Bd5+ Kg7 39. Ra2 1/2-1/2

[Event "Alberta Closed"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.16"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Banerjee, Bitan"]
[Black "Kazmaier, Dan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A41"]
[WhiteElo "2434"]
[BlackElo "2302"]
[PlyCount "109"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 d6 2. c4 e5 3. d5 f5 4. e4 fxe4 5. Nc3 Nf6 6. Bg5 Bf5 7. Nge2 Be7 8. Ng3
Bg6 9. h4 h6 10. Bxf6 gxf6 11. Be2 O-O 12. Bg4 f5 13. Bxf5 Rxf5 14. Qg4 Rf6 15.
h5 Qd7 16. Rh4 Qxg4 17. Rxg4 Kf7 18. hxg6+ Rxg6 19. Rxg6 Kxg6 20. Ngxe4 a6 21.
Ke2 Nd7 22. a3 h5 23. Rh1 Rf8 24. b4 h4 25. Rh3 Rf4 26. Rd3 Kf5 27. f3 Kg6 28.
Rd1 Rf8 29. Rc1 Nb6 30. c5 Nc4 31. a4 dxc5 32. bxc5 c6 33. d6 Bd8 34. Nd1 b5
35. cxb6 Nxb6 36. Rxc6 Nxa4 37. Rxa6 Nb6 38. Ne3 Rh8 39. Ra5 Nd7 40. Ra7 Nb6
41. Rb7 h3 42. gxh3 Rxh3 43. Ng4 Kf5 44. Rf7+ Ke6 45. Rf8 Bh4 46. Rh8 Nd5 47.
Rh6+ Kf5 48. d7 Nf4+ 49. Ke3 Be7 50. Nd6+ Kg5 51. Nf7+ Kf5 52. Rd6 Ng2+ 53. Kf2
Nh4 54. Ne3+ Kf4 55. Nd5+ 1-0

[Event "2017MOK"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "4.11"]
[White "Qin, Kevin"]
[Black "Khoshooei, Milad"]
[Result "*"]
[WhiteElo "1158"]
[BlackElo "1304"]
[PlyCount "35"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]
[TimeControl "90+30"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 d6 4. dxe5 Nxe5 5. Nxe5 dxe5 6. Qxd8+ Kxd8 7. Nc3 c6
8. Bc4 f6 9. O-O Kc7 10. Be3 Bb4 11. Ne2 Bg4 12. f3 Bh5 13. Ng3 Bg6 14. a3 Ba5
15. b4 Bb6 16. Bxb6+ axb6 17. Rfd1 h5 (17... b5 18. Bb3 h5 19. Nf5 Bxf5 20.
exf5 Ne7 21. Be6 Rad8 22. c4 g6 23. fxg6 Nxg6 24. Bf5 Nf4 25. Kf2 Rhg8 26. g3)
18. h4 *

[Event "InternationalQualifier"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "3.5"]
[White "Bin Shoeb, Mashad"]
[Black "Kluytmans, Frank"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1848"]
[BlackElo "1658"]
[PlyCount "83"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c5 2. Bc4 e6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. O-O a6 5. c3 Qc7 6. Na3 b5 7. Be2 Nf6 8. d3
Be7 9. Nc2 O-O 10. h3 h6 11. Be3 d5 12. exd5 Nxd5 13. d4 c4 14. Qd2 Nxe3 15.
Nxe3 Rd8 16. Qc2 Bb7 17. Rad1 Bf8 18. Ng4 Ne7 19. Nge5 Nd5 20. Nd2 Nf4 21. Bf3
Bxf3 22. Ndxf3 f6 23. Ng6 Nxg6 24. Qxg6 Qf7 25. Qe4 Rd5 26. Rfe1 Re8 27. b3 g5
28. bxc4 bxc4 29. Nd2 Ra5 30. Ra1 Ra3 31. Nxc4 Rxc3 32. d5 e5 33. Rac1 (33.
Rab1) 33... Rxc1 34. Rxc1 Rd8 35. Rd1 Bc5 36. a4 Bd4 37. Ne3 Bxe3 38. fxe3 Kg7
39. Qc4 f5 40. Qc6 Qa7 41. Rd3 f4 42. a5 1-0

[Event "2017JohnSchleinich"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "2.2"]
[White "Findlay, Ian"]
[Black "Kobalenko, Jerry"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2289"]
[BlackElo "2173"]
[PlyCount "63"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nc3 Qc7 6. Be2 Nf6 7. O-O a6 8.
Be3 Bb4 9. Na4 Bd6 10. f4 Nxe4 11. c4 Nc5 12. Nf5 exf5 13. Nxc5 O-O 14. Na4 Re8
15. Rf3 b5 16. Nb6 Rxe3 17. Nxa8 Qa7 18. Rxe3 Bc5 19. Kh1 Bxe3 20. cxb5 axb5
21. Bxb5 Qxa8 22. Qe2 Bc5 23. Qe8+ Bf8 24. Bc4 d5 25. Bxd5 Qb7 26. Qxc6 Qxb2
27. Rd1 Qe2 28. Bf3 Qe6 29. Qxe6 fxe6 30. Rc1 Bd7 31. Bc6 Bxc6 32. Rxc6 1-0

[Event "2017MOK"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "4.3"]
[White "Timmerman, Brian"]
[Black "Kobalenko, Jerry"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1754"]
[BlackElo "2211"]
[PlyCount "32"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]
[TimeControl "90+30"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. Nc3 Qc7 6. g3 b5 7. Bg2 Bb7 8. a3
Nf6 9. O-O b4 10. axb4 Bxb4 11. Re1 Nc6 12. Nd5 exd5 13. c3 Nxd4 14. Qxd4 Bc5
15. exd5+ Kf8 16. d6 Bxd4 0-1

[Event "InternationalQualifier"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "1.2"]
[White "Dave, Bhavik"]
[Black "Kobalenko, Jerry"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1845"]
[BlackElo "2176"]
[PlyCount "51"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. f4 c5 6. d5 O-O 7. Nf3 Nbd7 8. Bd3 e6
9. O-O exd5 10. exd5 Re8 11. f5 Ng4 12. Bg5 Bf6 13. fxg6 hxg6 14. Qd2 Kg7 15.
h3 Bxg5 16. Nxg5 Nh6 17. Nxf7 Nxf7 18. Rxf7+ Kxf7 19. Qh6 Nf8 20. Rf1+ Bf5 21.
Bxf5 Kg8 (21... Kf6 22. Bxg6+) 22. Bxg6 Re7 23. Ne4 Nxg6 24. Nf6+ Kf7 25. Qh7+
Kf8 26. Qg8# 1-0

[Event "2017MOK"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "1.4"]
[White "Sharma, Vishruth"]
[Black "Kobalenko, Jerry"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1608"]
[BlackElo "2211"]
[PlyCount "58"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]
[TimeControl "90+30"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 a6 5. Be3 Nf6 6. Nc3 Qc7 7. f3 Bb4 8. Qd2
d5 9. Bd3 e5 10. Nb3 d4 11. Nxd4 exd4 12. Bxd4 (12. Ne2) 12... Nbd7 13. O-O-O
Bc5 14. Qe3 O-O 15. g4 Bxd4 16. Qxd4 Qf4+ 17. Kb1 Ne5 18. Rhf1 Nxf3 19. Qf2
Bxg4 20. Be2 Nd2+ 21. Ka1 Qxf2 22. Rxf2 Bxe2 23. Rxe2 Nc4 24. e5 Ng4 25. e6
fxe6 26. Rxe6 Rae8 27. Rxe8 Rxe8 28. h4 Nge3 29. Rc1 Rf8 0-1

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Ali, Husain"]
[Black "Kobalenko, Jerry"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B44"]
[WhiteElo "1833"]
[BlackElo "2209"]
[PlyCount "85"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Be2 Qc7 6. O-O Nf6 7. Nb5 Qb8 8.
Bd3 a6 9. N5c3 b5 10. Bg5 Bb7 11. Nd2 Bd6 12. f4 h6 13. Bxf6 gxf6 14. Qg4 Qa7+
15. Kh1 O-O-O 16. Rae1 Rdg8 17. Qh4 h5 18. h3 Rh6 19. Rf3 Rhg6 20. Bf1 Nd4 21.
Rd3 Bc7 22. Ree3 Nxc2 23. Rg3 Nb4 24. Rdf3 f5 25. Rxg6 fxg6 26. a3 Bd8 27. Qe1
Nc6 28. Rd3 Bc7 29. Qh4 Bd8 30. Qe1 b4 31. Na4 Bc7 32. e5 Ne7 33. axb4 Nd5 34.
Nc4 Nxf4 35. Nd6+ Kb8 36. Rd1 Nxh3 37. Nc5 Bxd6 38. Rxd6 Rg7 39. Qh4 Nf2+ 40.
Qxf2 Ka8 41. Qd4 Bc8 42. Bxa6 Kb8 43. Bxc8 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.30"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Chandra, Anand Rishi"]
[Black "Koperski, Dustin"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B34"]
[WhiteElo "1657"]
[BlackElo "1720"]
[PlyCount "50"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 g6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nc3 Bg7 6. Be3 Nf6 7. Be2 O-O 8.
O-O d5 9. exd5 Nxd5 10. Nxd5 Qxd5 11. Bf3 Qd7 12. Nxc6 bxc6 13. Qxd7 Bxd7 14.
Rad1 Rfd8 15. Rxd7 Rxd7 16. Bxc6 Rad8 17. Bxd7 Rxd7 18. b3 Bc3 19. g3 e6 20.
Kg2 a6 21. Kf3 Kg7 22. Ke2 Kf6 23. Rd1 Rxd1 24. Kxd1 Kf5 25. h3 h5 1/2-1/2

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Windram, James"]
[Black "Koperski, Dustin"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B35"]
[WhiteElo "1359"]
[BlackElo "1760"]
[PlyCount "39"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 g6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nc6 5. Nc3 Bg7 6. Be3 Nf6 7. Bc4 Qa5 8.
f3 Qb4 9. Ndb5 O-O 10. Bb3 a6 11. Na3 Nxe4 12. fxe4 Bxc3+ 13. bxc3 Qxa3 {
Black is up a pawn, but white has full compensation in the open f-file, bishop
pair, and weakened squares around the black king.} 14. Bh6 Rd8 $4 {A blunder
that falls to a surprising tactic. Better is 14. ...Qc5, giving up the
exchange but grabbing a pawn on c3 with check. The material is roughly equal,
with the computer giving a slight edge to black, as the white king will be
exposed.} (14... Qc5 15. Bxf8 Qxc3+ 16. Kf2 Kxf8) 15. Bxf7+ Kxf7 $4 {The king
has to retreat to h8 instead and attempt to survive. Accepting the bishop
leads to forced mate.} 16. O-O+ {An uncommon notation!} Kg8 17. Qf3 Qc5+ 18.
Kh1 Qc4 {Nothing more black can do.} 19. Qf8+ Rxf8 20. Rxf8# {With the queen
sac to finish off the opponent.} 1-0

[Event "2017MOK"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "3.2"]
[White "Haessel, Dale"]
[Black "Kostadinov, Georgi"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2286"]
[BlackElo "2081"]
[PlyCount "52"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]
[TimeControl "90+30"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e3 a6 5. Nf3 Bf5 6. Be2 e6 7. Nh4 Be4 8. f3 Bg6
9. O-O c5 10. cxd5 exd5 11. Nxg6 hxg6 12. Qc2 Bd6 13. a3 cxd4 14. exd4 Nc6 15.
Be3 Kf8 16. Rfe1 Qc7 17. Bf1 Na5 18. Rac1 Rc8 19. Bf2 b5 20. Qb1 Qb7 21. a4 Nc4
22. axb5 axb5 23. Nxb5 Qxb5 24. b3 Qd7 25. bxc4 dxc4 26. Qa1 (26. Qa2 c3 27.
Rc2 Bb4 28. Qb3 Qd6 29. Bc4) 26... c3 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Mah, Sean"]
[Black "Ludwig, David"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B05"]
[WhiteElo "1567"]
[BlackElo "1853"]
[PlyCount "58"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 Nf6 2. e5 Nd5 3. d4 d6 4. c4 Nb6 5. Nf3 Bg4 6. Be2 dxe5 7. Nxe5 Bxe2 8.
Kxe2 e6 9. b3 N8d7 10. Bb2 Nxe5 11. dxe5 Qg5 12. Rg1 Rd8 13. Qc2 Qh5+ 14. f3
Qxh2 15. Nd2 Bc5 16. Rgf1 Qxg2+ 17. Ke1 O-O 18. Qc1 Be3 19. Bc3 Bf4 20. Rf2 Bg3
21. Ne4 Bxf2+ 22. Nxf2 Qxf3 23. Qc2 Rd7 24. Bd2 Rfd8 25. Bg5 f6 26. exf6 gxf6
27. Bh6 Kh8 28. Rd1 Rxd1+ 29. Nxd1 Qh1+ 0-1

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Dinelle, Robert"]
[Black "Ludwig, Michael"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C42"]
[WhiteElo "1604"]
[BlackElo "1933"]
[PlyCount "62"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nf3 Nxe4 5. Be2 Be7 6. O-O O-O 7. Re1 d5 8.
d4 Nc6 9. h3 f5 10. Nbd2 Kh8 11. Nf1 f4 12. Bd3 Bf5 13. c3 g5 14. Qc2 Qd7 15.
N3h2 Bd6 16. Nd2 Nxd2 17. Bxd2 Bxh3 18. gxh3 Qxh3 19. Bf1 Qh5 20. f3 Ne7 21.
Re6 Nf5 22. Rae1 Qh4 23. Bc1 g4 24. Nxg4 h5 25. Nh6 Rg8+ 26. Bg2 Ne3 27. Nxg8
Qxe1+ 28. Kh2 Qh4+ 29. Kg1 Qe1+ 30. Kh2 Qg3+ 31. Kh1 Nxc2 0-1

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Young, Joseph"]
[Black "MacDonald, Dean"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B13"]
[WhiteElo "1784"]
[BlackElo "1426"]
[PlyCount "51"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Bf4 d5 3. e3 c5 4. c3 Nc6 5. Bd3 cxd4 6. exd4 e6 7. Nf3 Bd6 8. Bg3
Ne4 9. Bxe4 dxe4 10. Nfd2 Bxg3 11. hxg3 f5 12. Qh5+ g6 13. Qh6 (13. Qxg6+ hxg6
14. Rxh8+) 13... Qe7 14. Na3 Bd7 15. Nac4 O-O-O 16. b4 Rdf8 17. b5 Nd8 18. a4
Nf7 19. Qe3 Nd6 20. Nxd6+ Qxd6 21. Nc4 Qe7 22. Qf4 g5 23. Qe5 Qf6 24. Qc5+ Kb8
25. Qd6+ Kc8 26. b6 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Chao, Lucy"]
[Black "Mah, Sean"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B13"]
[WhiteElo "1467"]
[BlackElo "1567"]
[PlyCount "71"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. Nf3 Nc6 5. Be3 Qb6 6. Qc1 Nf6 7. c3 Ne4 8.
Nbd2 Bf5 9. Nxe4 Bxe4 10. Be2 e6 11. O-O Bd6 12. c4 Qc7 13. c5 Be7 14. Qd2 f6
15. Qd1 g5 16. Bd3 Bg6 17. h3 f5 18. Ne5 Nxe5 19. dxe5 Kf7 20. Bd4 Bxc5 21. Rc1
b6 22. b4 Rac8 23. bxc5 bxc5 24. Qc2 c4 25. f4 gxf4 26. Rxf4 Qe7 27. Be2 Qg5
28. Rcf1 Rhg8 29. Kh2 Kf8 30. Bd3 Ke7 31. Be2 Bf7 32. Bd1 h5 33. Qb2 c3 34.
Qa3+ Ke8 35. Ba4+ Rc6 36. Bxc6+ 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Koperski, Dustin"]
[Black "Mah, Sydney"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C00"]
[WhiteElo "1760"]
[BlackElo "1317"]
[PlyCount "63"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 e6 2. b3 d5 3. Bb2 Nd7 4. exd5 exd5 5. Qe2+ Qe7 6. Qxe7+ Nxe7 7. Nc3 Nf6
8. h3 a6 9. Nf3 Nc6 10. Be2 Bf5 11. d3 Bb4 12. O-O O-O 13. Nd1 Rfe8 14. Ne3 h6
15. a3 Bc5 16. Nxf5 Rxe2 17. Rac1 (17. Nxh6+ gxh6 18. Bxf6 Rxc2) 17... Rd8 18.
Nxh6+ gxh6 19. Bxf6 Rd6 20. Bb2 d4 21. Rfe1 Rde6 22. Kf1 Rxe1+ 23. Rxe1 Rxe1+
24. Nxe1 b5 25. Ke2 Bb6 26. Kf3 Ne7 27. Ke4 f5+ 28. Ke5 c5 29. Bc1 Kf7 30. Kd6
Ke8 31. Bxh6 Kd8 32. Bg5 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.30"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Chao, Lucy"]
[Black "Mah, Sydney"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C07"]
[WhiteElo "1467"]
[BlackElo "1317"]
[PlyCount "46"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 c5 4. dxc5 Bxc5 5. Bd3 Nc6 6. Ne2 Nf6 7. O-O Qb6 8. c3
O-O 9. Qb3 Qc7 10. exd5 exd5 11. Nf3 Bd6 12. h3 Be6 13. Ned4 Nxd4 14. Nxd4 Bd7
15. Nb5 Bxb5 16. Bxb5 a6 17. Bd3 Rfe8 18. Bg5 Nh5 19. Qxd5 Re5 20. Bxh7+ Kxh7
21. Qd3+ Kg8 22. f4 Qc5+ 23. Kh2 Rxg5 0-1

[Event "2017 Alberta Seniors Championship"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.08"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Findlay, Ian"]
[Black "Majaducon, Willy"]
[Result "*"]
[ECO "B12"]
[WhiteElo "2300"]
[BlackElo "1821"]
[PlyCount "83"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 d6 2. d4 c6 3. Nc3 Qc7 4. Be3 e5 5. Qd2 Nf6 6. f3 d5 7. exd5 (7. dxe5
Qxe5 8. Bd4 Qe6) 7... Nxd5 8. Nxd5 cxd5 9. dxe5 Qxe5 10. O-O-O Be7 11. Bf4 Qf6
12. Ne2 Be6 13. h4 h6 14. Bg5 Qe5 15. Bxe7 Kxe7 16. Nf4 Rd8 17. Bd3 Nc6 18.
Rde1 Qc7 19. Bf5 Rd6 20. Bxe6 fxe6 21. Nxd5+ Rxd5 22. Qxd5 Qf4+ 23. Kb1 Qf6 24.
Qb5 Kf8 25. Rd1 Rc8 26. Rd7 a6 27. Qc5+ Ne7 28. Qb4 b5 29. Qd4 Rc4 30. Qxf6+
gxf6 31. Rhd1 Nd5 32. Rh7 Rc5 33. c3 Kg8 34. Ra7 Rc6 35. Rd4 f5 36. g4 f4 37.
Kc2 Rd6 38. Kd2 e5 39. Rd3 Kf8 40. b3 Ke8 41. a3 Rd8 42. Rxa6 *

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Wei, Daniel"]
[Black "Malek, Omid"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C01"]
[WhiteElo "1721"]
[BlackElo "2198"]
[PlyCount "51"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 exd5 4. Bd3 c5 5. dxc5 Bxc5 6. h3 Nf6 7. Nf3 O-O 8.
O-O Qd6 9. Be3 Bxe3 10. fxe3 Re8 11. Qe1 Nc6 12. Nc3 a6 13. Qf2 Nb4 14. Rad1
Qb6 15. Nd4 Nxd3 16. Rxd3 Rf8 17. Qh4 Be6 18. Rxf6 gxf6 19. Nxd5 Bxd5 20. Nf5
Kh8 21. Rxd5 Rad8 22. Qh6 Rg8 23. Ne7 Rxd5 24. Nxd5 Qd6 25. Nxf6 Rg7 26. Qxg7+
1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Ivey, James"]
[Black "Malek, Omid"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C04"]
[WhiteElo "1726"]
[BlackElo "2198"]
[PlyCount "46"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 Nc6 4. c3 e5 5. exd5 Qxd5 6. Ngf3 exd4 7. Bc4 Qh5 8.
cxd4 Be6 9. Qe2 O-O-O 10. Bxe6+ fxe6 11. Qxe6+ Kb8 12. O-O Bd6 13. h3 Nh6 14.
Nb3 Rde8 15. Qc4 Rhf8 16. Nbd2 g5 17. Ne5 Bxe5 18. dxe5 Nxe5 19. Qc3 g4 20. Re1
Nhf7 21. Ne4 gxh3 22. Nf6 Qg6 23. Qxh3 Qxf6 0-1

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.22"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Arruebarrena, Rafael"]
[Black "Matras-Clement, Agnieszka"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B45"]
[WhiteElo "2323"]
[BlackElo "2305"]
[PlyCount "59"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e6 6. Nxc6 bxc6 7. e5 Nd5 8.
Ne4 Qc7 9. f4 Qb6 10. c4 Bb4+ 11. Ke2 Ba6 12. Kf3 f5 (12... Ne7 13. a3 Bc5 14.
b4) (12... Nc7 13. Be3 Qb7 14. c5) 13. exf6 Nxf6 14. c5 Qa5 15. Nxf6+ gxf6 16.
Bxa6 Qxa6 17. Qd4 Qb5 18. Be3 O-O-O 19. Rhc1 Ba5 20. b4 e5 21. Qc4 Qxc4 22.
Rxc4 Bc7 23. a4 a6 24. b5 cxb5 25. axb5 axb5 26. Rb4 Kb7 27. Rxb5+ Kc6 28. Rb3
Ra8 29. Rxa8 Rxa8 30. fxe5 1/2-1/2

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.20"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Heredia Serrano, Carla"]
[Black "Matras-Clement, Agnieszka"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B15"]
[WhiteElo "2082"]
[BlackElo "2305"]
[PlyCount "90"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nf6 5. Nxf6+ exf6 6. Nf3 Bd6 7. Be2 O-O
8. O-O Re8 9. Re1 Nd7 10. c4 Nf8 11. Bd3 Bg4 12. Rxe8 Qxe8 13. Be3 Qd7 14. h3
Bh5 15. Be2 Re8 16. Qd2 Bc7 17. Rd1 Qd6 18. d5 Rd8 (18... Bxf3 19. Bxf3 Qh2+
20. Kf1 Ng6 {favors black.}) 19. dxc6 Qxd2 20. Rxd2 Rxd2 21. Bxd2 bxc6 {
This 3 on 2 queenside majority is critical to the endgame; watch for
breakthrough opportunities here. White is giving herself every chance to win -
she'll have more space, a better pawn structure, and more queenside
possibilities.} 22. Be3 Bb6 23. c5 Bc7 24. g4 Bg6 25. Nd4 Be4 26. b4 Ne6 27. a4
Nf4 $4 {There is a win for white here, but she must be willing to trade into a
knight v bishop ending. It turns out the knight is stronger than the bishop,
and the combination of the knight and the queenside pawns is unstoppable.} 28.
Bxf4 $4 {White misses the win and instead simplies into an opposite-colored
bishop ending.} (28. Bf3 $1 {Two of black's pieces are attacked. Black's
light-squared bishop can't leave the a8-h1 diagonal lest the weak c pawn falls.
Thus, black is forced into a trade.} Bxf3 29. Bxf4 $1 {Again, black has two
pieces attacked.} Bxf4 30. Nxf3 {Black's c-pawn is undefendable. If black
tries to prevent the knight from attacking it with 30. ...Be5, then 31. Nxe5
trades into a winning king and pawn endgame for white, with white able to
launch a breakthrough on the queenside. Meanwhile, the knight is stopping the
bishop from reaching the d2 square to counterattack on the white's b-pawn. If
black tries to bring in the King with 30. Kf8, then 31. Nd4 wins the c and a
pawns.} Be5 (30... Kf8 31. Nd4 Bc1 32. Nxc6 Ba3 33. Nxa7 Bxb4 34. c6 Ba5 35.
Nb5 Ke7 36. Kf1) (30... Bb8 31. Nd4 Kf8) 31. Nxe5 fxe5 32. b5 Kf8 33. b6) 28...
Bxf4 29. b5 Be5 30. Nxc6 Bxc6 31. bxc6 {Some straightforward technique from
black will stop these isolated, doubled, passed c-pawns.} Kf8 32. Bc4 Ke7 33.
Kf1 Bd4 34. Bxf7 {The first of several offered sacrifices by white. Of course,
black can't take the bishop without the c-pawn queening.} Bxc5 35. Bg8 Kd6 36.
Bd5 Bb6 37. Be4 h6 38. f4 g5 39. fxg5 hxg5 40. Ke2 Bd4 41. Kd3 Be5 42. Kc4 Kc7
43. Kd5 Bc3 44. Bf3 Bb2 45. Ke6 Bc3 {The c-pawn is firmly blockaded, the
bishops have nothing to attack, and neither side can attempt a breakdown
without losing.} 1/2-1/2

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.24"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Sevillano, Enrico"]
[Black "Matras-Clement, Agnieszka"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B22"]
[WhiteElo "2566"]
[BlackElo "2305"]
[PlyCount "51"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c5 2. c3 d5 3. exd5 Qxd5 4. d4 Nf6 5. Nf3 Bg4 6. Be2 e6 7. O-O Nc6 8. h3
Bh5 9. Be3 cxd4 10. Nxd4 Bxe2 11. Qxe2 Nxd4 12. Bxd4 Be7 13. Rd1 Qc6 14. Nd2
O-O 15. Nf3 Rfd8 16. Ne5 Qe4 17. Qf1 Nd5 18. Rd3 Bf8 19. Re1 Qh4 20. Rf3 f6 21.
Ng4 e5 $2 22. Bxe5 $1 fxe5 $2 23. Rxe5 Rd6 24. Rxd5 Rxd5 25. Qc4 Rad8 26. Rf5
1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.25"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Caldera, Anuar"]
[Black "Matras-Clement, Agnieszka"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D45"]
[WhiteElo "2239"]
[BlackElo "2305"]
[PlyCount "76"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e3 e6 5. b3 Nbd7 6. Nf3 Bd6 7. Bb2 O-O 8. Qc2
Qe7 9. Be2 Re8 10. O-O Ba3 11. Ne5 Bxb2 12. Qxb2 Nxe5 13. dxe5 Nd7 14. f4 b6
15. Rad1 f6 16. Bh5 Rf8 17. Bf3 Bb7 18. Qd2 Rad8 19. cxd5 exd5 20. exf6 Nxf6
21. Rfe1 Kh8 22. Qb2 Ba6 23. Rd4 Rfe8 24. Qd2 Bb7 25. b4 c5 26. bxc5 bxc5 27.
Nxd5 Nxd5 28. Rxd5 Bxd5 29. Bxd5 Qe4 30. Bxe4 Rxd2 31. Bc6 Rc8 32. Bb7 Rc7 33.
Rb1 g6 34. g4 c4 35. f5 gxf5 36. gxf5 c3 37. Bf3 c2 38. Rf1 Rcd7 0-1

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.21"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Frialde, Arniel"]
[Black "Matras-Clement, Agnieszka"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D11"]
[WhiteElo "2213"]
[BlackElo "2305"]
[PlyCount "79"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. g3 Bf5 5. Bg2 e6 6. O-O Nbd7 7. Qb3 Qb6 8. c5
Qa6 9. Bf4 Ne4 10. Nc3 Be7 11. h4 O-O 12. Rfc1 Rfc8 13. e3 b6 14. Bf1 Qa5 15.
Ne5 Nxe5 16. Bxe5 Nd2 17. Qd1 Nxf1 18. Kxf1 bxc5 19. g4 Qa6+ 20. Kg2 Bd3 21.
dxc5 Bxc5 22. Na4 Be7 23. Nc5 Bxc5 24. Rxc5 f6 25. Bd6 Be2 26. Qd4 e5 27. Qb4
Qb6 28. Qa4 Qxb2 29. Rac1 Bb5 30. Qc2 Qxc2 31. R1xc2 Kf7 32. R5c3 d4 33. exd4
exd4 34. Rc5 Rd8 35. Bf4 Rd7 36. Rd2 Rad8 37. a4 Bxa4 38. Rc4 Bb3 39. Rb4 Bd5+
40. Kg3 0-1

[Event "2017 Alberta Seniors Championship"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.09"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Frialde, Arniel"]
[Black "McKay, Arnold"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D36"]
[WhiteElo "2169"]
[BlackElo "1819"]
[PlyCount "107"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3. c4 e6 4. Bg5 Be7 5. Nc3 O-O 6. Bxf6 {Uncommon, giving
up the bishop pair. 6. e3 is the main move.} Bxf6 7. e3 c6 8. Bd3 Nd7 9. cxd5
exd5 10. Qc2 h6 11. h4 Nb6 12. O-O-O Bg4 {A nice example of opposite-side
castling.} 13. Rdg1 Bxf3 14. gxf3 Nd7 15. Bf5 Re8 16. Kb1 Nf8 17. f4 Ne6 18.
Qd1 Kf8 19. Qf3 Re7 20. Rg4 Ke8 21. h5 Qb6 22. Rhg1 {Black hasn't made any
progress in his attack, whereas white has doubled rooks on the half-open
g-file and advanced his pawns.} Rd8 23. Bxe6 Rxe6 24. Na4 Qc7 25. Nc5 Red6 26.
Rxg7 Bxg7 27. Rxg7 b6 28. Nd3 Ke7 $2 {Walking into a pin and potential skewer.
This move gives white tactical opportunities while limiting black's options.}
29. Ne5 Rf6 30. Qg3 (30. Ng6+ {presents some real problems for black.} Kd6 31.
e4 dxe4 32. Qxe4 Re6 33. Ne5 $18) 30... Qc8 31. Qh4 Qf5+ 32. Kc1 Ke6 33. Ng4 (
33. Rxf7 {After this, the computer finds various winning lines for white.} Rxf7
34. Qxd8) 33... Rf8 34. Kd2 c5 35. Qxf6+ {Cashing in the attack to trade into
a favorable endgame.} Qxf6 36. Nxf6 Kxf6 37. Rh7 cxd4 38. Rxh6+ Kf5 39. Kd3
dxe3 40. fxe3 Rd8 41. Kd4 Rd7 42. Rc6 f6 43. h6 {If black tries to take the h6
pawn with his king, both black pawns on f6 and d5 fall, leaving white with
connected passed pawns.} Rh7 44. Kxd5 Rxh6 45. e4+ {Giving up a pawn to force
a winning king and pawn endgame, where white's king reaches the opposing pawns
first.} Kxf4 46. e5 Kf5 47. Rxf6+ Rxf6 48. exf6 Kxf6 49. Kc6 Ke5 50. Kb7 Kd4
51. Kxa7 b5 52. Kb6 Kc4 53. Ka5 b4 54. b3+ 1-0

[Event "2017 Alberta Seniors Championship"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.08"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Karmali, Hafiz"]
[Black "McKay, Arnold"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E54"]
[WhiteElo "1982"]
[BlackElo "1819"]
[PlyCount "145"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. Bd3 d5 6. Nf3 c5 7. O-O cxd4 8. exd4
dxc4 9. Bxc4 b6 10. Qb3 Bxc3 11. bxc3 Qc7 12. Ne5 Nc6 13. Nxc6 Qxc6 14. Bb5 Qc7
15. g3 Bb7 16. Bf4 Qe7 17. Rfe1 Nd5 18. Bc1 Rfd8 19. Bf1 Nf6 20. Bg2 Bxg2 21.
Kxg2 Qb7+ 22. f3 Rd5 23. Bb2 Rad8 24. c4 Rf5 25. Rad1 Qc6 26. Re3 Rc8 27. Rc3
Rh5 28. d5 exd5 29. cxd5 Qd7 30. Rxc8+ Qxc8 31. h4 Nd7 32. Re1 h6 33. Re7 Rf5
34. Qb5 Qc2+ 35. Re2 Qc8 36. Qc6 Qd8 37. d6 Rc5 38. Qb7 Rc8 39. Kh3 Nc5 40. Qe7
Qd7+ 41. g4 Qxe7 42. Rxe7 Rd8 43. Be5 Rd7 44. Rxd7 Nxd7 45. Bd4 f6 46. f4 Kf7
47. f5 Ke8 48. g5 h5 49. Kg3 Nc5 50. Kf4 Kf7 51. g6+ Ke8 52. Bxc5 bxc5 53. Ke4
c4 54. Kd4 c3 55. Kxc3 Kd7 56. Kc4 Kxd6 57. Kd4 a5 58. a4 Kc6 59. Kc4 Kd6 60.
Kb5 Ke5 61. Kxa5 Kxf5 62. Kb6 Kg4 63. a5 Kxh4 64. a6 Kg5 65. a7 Kxg6 66. a8=Q
Kh6 67. Kc5 g5 68. Qh8+ Kg6 69. Qe8+ Kh6 70. Qf7 h4 71. Qxf6+ Kh5 72. Qf3+ Kh6
73. Kd4 1-0

[Event "2017 Alberta Seniors Championship"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.09"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Beresinski, Piotr"]
[Black "McKay, Arnold"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A01"]
[WhiteElo "1921"]
[BlackElo "1819"]
[PlyCount "97"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. b3 e5 2. Bb2 Nc6 3. e3 d6 4. Bb5 Bd7 5. Ne2 Nf6 6. d4 exd4 7. Nxd4 Nxd4 8.
Bxd7+ Qxd7 9. Qxd4 Qg4 10. Qxg4 Nxg4 11. Nd2 Ne5 12. O-O-O O-O-O 13. h3 Rg8 14.
Bxe5 dxe5 15. Nc4 Rxd1+ 16. Rxd1 f6 17. e4 Bc5 18. f3 Rd8 19. Rd5 Rxd5 20. exd5
b5 21. Na5 Kd7 22. c4 Bb6 23. Nc6 bxc4 24. bxc4 Ke8 25. Kc2 Kf7 26. Kd3 Kg6 27.
Ke4 Kg5 28. Ne7 g6 29. Ng8 Bd4 30. h4+ Kxh4 31. Nxf6 h5 32. g4 Kg5 33. Nh7+ Kh6
34. Nf6 Kg5 35. Nxh5 gxh5 36. gxh5 Kxh5 37. f4 exf4 38. Kxd4 Kg4 39. c5 f3 40.
d6 cxd6 41. c6 f2 42. c7 f1=Q 43. c8=Q+ Kg5 44. Qg8+ Kh6 45. Qe6+ Kg5 46. Qd5+
Kg4 47. Qe4+ Kg5 (47... Qf4 48. Qxf4+ Kxf4 49. Kd5 (49. a4 Kf5 50. Kd5 Kf6 51.
Kxd6 Kf5 52. a5 Ke4 53. Kc6 Kd4 54. Kb7 Kc5 55. a6 Kd6 56. Kxa7 Kc7 57. Ka8 Kb6
58. a7 Kc7) 49... Ke3 50. Kxd6 Kd4 51. Kc6) 48. Qd5+ Kg4 49. Qe4+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.23"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Matras-Clement, Agnieszka"]
[Black "Miller, David"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C41"]
[WhiteElo "2305"]
[BlackElo "2223"]
[PlyCount "49"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 e5 4. Nf3 Nbd7 5. Bc4 Be7 6. O-O O-O 7. h3 c6 8. a4
Qc7 9. Qe2 b6 10. Rd1 Bb7 11. Ba2 a6 12. Bg5 h6 13. Bh4 Bd8 14. dxe5 dxe5 15.
Bg3 Be7 16. Nh4 Kh7 17. Nf5 Bc5 18. Qf3 g6 19. Bh4 Nh5 20. Rd2 Nf4 21. Rad1 Bc8
22. Ne7 Bd4 23. Ne2 Nxe2+ 24. Rxe2 f6 25. Qg4 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Ivey, James"]
[Black "Miller, Reuben"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C45"]
[WhiteElo "1926"]
[BlackElo "1368"]
[PlyCount "25"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 Nc6 2. d4 e5 3. Nf3 exd4 4. Nxd4 Nxd4 5. Qxd4 Nf6 6. Bc4 c5 7. Qd3 b6 8.
O-O Bb7 9. e5 d5 10. exf6 gxf6 11. Bb5+ Ke7 12. Re1+ Kd6 13. Qg3# 1-0

[Event "Calgary International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "1.7"]
[White "Kostadinov, Georgi"]
[Black "Milne, Art"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2071"]
[BlackElo "1587"]
[PlyCount "68"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]
[TimeControl "90"]

1. d4 d6 2. c4 f5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nf3 g6 5. g3 Bg7 6. Bg2 O-O 7. O-O Na6 8. Qc2
c5 9. d5 Bd7 10. Re1 Rb8 11. Rb1 Nc7 12. b3 a6 13. Bb2 b5 14. Nd2 Ng4 15. Nd1
Ne5 16. f4 Nf7 17. Bxg7 Kxg7 18. Nf2 e6 19. e4 Qf6 20. Nf3 exd5 21. e5 dxe5 22.
fxe5 Qb6 23. Nd3 dxc4 24. bxc4 Ne6 25. Nf4 Nxf4 26. gxf4 Be6 27. Bf1 Qc6 28.
Kf2 Rfd8 29. Red1 b4 30. Bg2 Qc7 31. Rbc1 h6 32. h4 h5 33. Rg1 Nh6 34. Ng5 Qe7
0-1

[Event "2017JohnSchleinich"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "2.7"]
[White "Zhao, Ian"]
[Black "Milne, Arthur"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1803"]
[BlackElo "1665"]
[PlyCount "96"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 a6 2. d4 b5 3. Nf3 Bb7 4. Bd3 d6 5. O-O Nd7 6. Bf4 Ngf6 7. Re1 e6 8. c3
Be7 9. h3 O-O 10. Nbd2 Re8 11. Bh2 Bf8 12. e5 Nd5 13. Qc2 g6 14. Ne4 N7b6 15.
Rad1 Nc8 16. b4 Bg7 17. Bg3 h6 18. Qd2 Qe7 19. Bc2 a5 20. a3 Rd8 21. Bb3 axb4
22. axb4 Ncb6 23. Qe2 Bc6 24. Ra1 Na4 25. Qc2 Ndb6 26. Nfd2 dxe5 27. Bxe5 Bxe5
28. dxe5 Nd5 29. Nf3 Nab6 30. Rad1 Nf4 31. Nd4 Be8 32. Nf6+ Kg7 33. Qc1 Nbd5
34. Ne4 Ra6 35. Kh2 g5 36. Nc5 Ra7 37. g3 Ng6 38. Qc2 Kf8 39. Qd3 Ra3 40. Qf3
Kg8 41. Bxd5 Rxd5 42. Nf5 Qd8 43. Rxd5 Qxd5 44. Qxd5 exd5 45. Nxh6+ Kh7 46. Ng4
Bc6 47. Re3 Kg7 48. Rd3 Ra2 1-0

[Event "2017MOK"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "1.1"]
[White "Ng, Gary"]
[Black "Milne, Arthur"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2354"]
[BlackElo "1656"]
[PlyCount "57"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]
[TimeControl "90+30"]

1. Nf3 a6 2. c4 b5 3. b3 Bb7 4. e3 c6 5. Bb2 d6 6. d4 Nd7 7. Nbd2 Ngf6 8. Bd3
g6 9. O-O Bg7 10. Qc2 O-O 11. Rfe1 Re8 (11... Rc8 12. e4 Nh5 13. Rad1 Nf4 14.
Bf1 e5 15. g3 Ne6 16. dxe5 dxe5 17. Bh3 Qe7 18. Nf1 Rfd8 (18... Rcd8 19. Ne3
Bc8 20. cxb5 axb5 21. Qxc6) 19. Ne3) 12. e4 Nh5 13. Rad1 Nf4 14. Bf1 e5 15. g3
Ne6 16. dxe5 dxe5 17. Bh3 Qe7 18. Nf1 Red8 19. Ne3 Bc8 20. cxb5 axb5 21. Qxc6
Rxa2 22. Nd5 Qe8 23. Bxe6 Qxe6 24. Qc7 Re8 25. Qc1 Qg4 26. Rd3 f5 27. Nd2 Bb7
28. Ne3 Qh3 29. Rxd7 1-0

[Event "Alberta Closed"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.15"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Haessel, Dale"]
[Black "Ng, Gary"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E46"]
[WhiteElo "2284"]
[BlackElo "2352"]
[PlyCount "125"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. Nge2 Re8 6. a3 Bf8 7. g3 d5 8. cxd5
exd5 9. Bg2 c6 10. O-O Bf5 11. f3 g6 12. Nf4 Bg7 13. g4 Bc8 14. h3 Nfd7 15. e4
dxe4 16. fxe4 Nf8 17. Be3 Ne6 18. Nfe2 Qh4 19. Qd2 h6 20. d5 cxd5 21. exd5 Ng5
22. Nf4 Qg3 23. Rae1 Be5 24. Kh1 Nxh3 25. Nce2 Qh4 26. Nxh3 Bxg4 27. Bf2 Qd8
28. Nd4 Bxh3 29. Bxh3 Qxd5+ 30. Bg2 Qd7 31. Qxh6 Nc6 32. Nxc6 bxc6 33. Rd1 Qc7
34. Bd4 Rab8 35. Rd3 Red8 36. Bxe5 Qxe5 37. Rh3 Qg7 38. Qxg7+ Kxg7 39. b3 Rh8
40. Rxh8 Rxh8+ 41. Kg1 Rb8 42. Bxc6 f5 43. b4 Rb6 44. b5 a6 45. a4 axb5 46.
axb5 Kf6 47. Re1 g5 48. Re8 f4 49. Rg8 Kf5 50. Kf2 g4 51. Bd7+ Ke5 52. Rxg4 Rd6
53. Bc6 Rd2+ 54. Ke1 Rb2 55. Rg2 Rb1+ 56. Kd2 Rb3 57. Kc2 Rh3 58. Rd2 f3 59.
Rd5+ Kf4 60. Rf5+ Kxf5 61. Bd7+ Ke4 62. Bxh3 Kd5 63. Kd2 1-0

[Event "2017MOK"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "4.2"]
[White "Kostadinov, Georgi"]
[Black "Ng, Gary"]
[Result "*"]
[WhiteElo "2080"]
[BlackElo "2354"]
[PlyCount "76"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]
[TimeControl "90+30"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. g3 Ba6 5. Qa4 c5 6. Bg2 Bb7 7. e3 Be7 8. Nc3
O-O 9. O-O Qc8 10. Rd1 a6 11. Bd2 d6 12. Rac1 Nbd7 13. a3 Bc6 14. Qb3 Rb8 15.
d5 exd5 16. Nxd5 Bxd5 17. cxd5 b5 18. Bc3 Ne4 19. Ba5 (19. Be5) 19... Qe8 20.
Qc2 f5 21. Ne1 Bd8 22. Bxd8 Rxd8 23. Nd3 g5 24. a4 Ne5 25. Nxe5 Qxe5 26. Bf1
Rb8 27. axb5 axb5 28. Ra1 c4 29. Ra7 Ra8 30. f4 Qe8 31. Rda1 Rxa7 32. Rxa7 Qb8
33. Ra6 Rc8 34. Qd1 Qb7 35. Ra1 Qb6 36. Qd4 Qxd4 37. exd4 gxf4 38. gxf4 Kf7 *

[Event "2017MOK"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "2.1"]
[White "Zhao, Ian"]
[Black "Ng, Gary"]
[Result "*"]
[WhiteElo "1859"]
[BlackElo "2354"]
[PlyCount "111"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]
[TimeControl "90+30"]

1. e4 c5 2. c3 Nf6 3. e5 Nd5 4. d4 e6 5. Nf3 Be7 6. c4 Nb6 7. d5 d6 8. exd6
Qxd6 9. Nc3 exd5 10. cxd5 a6 11. Be3 O-O 12. Qd2 Bf5 13. Bf4 Qd8 14. d6 Bf6 15.
Be2 Re8 16. O-O Nc6 17. Bd3 Qd7 18. Rad1 c4 19. Bxf5 Qxf5 20. Be3 Nd7 21. Nd4
Nxd4 22. Bxd4 b5 23. Bxf6 Nxf6 24. Nd5 Nxd5 25. Qxd5 Qxd5 26. Rxd5 Rad8 27.
Rfd1 Rd7 28. Kf1 f6 29. Rc5 Rb8 30. Rc7 Rdd8 31. Rc6 a5 32. Rd5 Kf7 33. Rcc5
Ke6 34. Rxb5 Rxb5 35. Rxb5 Kxd6 36. Ke2 Kc6 37. Rxa5 Rb8 38. b3 cxb3 39. axb3
Rxb3 40. Ra7 g5 41. Rxh7 Kd6 (41... Rb6) 42. h4 gxh4 43. Rxh4 Ke5 44. Rh5+ Ke6
45. f3 Rb2+ 46. Kf1 Kf7 47. Rd5 Ke6 48. Rd3 Kf5 49. Re3 Kf4 50. Re4+ Kg5 51.
Re2 Rb1+ 52. Kf2 Rb5 53. g3 Kf5 54. g4+ Kg6 55. Kg3 Kf7 56. Re4 *

[Event "Alberta Closed"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.16"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Valencia, Belsar"]
[Black "Ng, Gary"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A28"]
[WhiteElo "2380"]
[BlackElo "2352"]
[PlyCount "71"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. a3 d5 5. cxd5 Nxd5 6. e4 Nb6 7. Bb5 Bd6 8. d4
exd4 9. Nxd4 Bd7 10. Be3 Qh4 11. g3 Qe7 12. Nxc6 bxc6 13. Be2 O-O 14. O-O Be6
15. Qc2 Nc4 16. Nd1 Nxe3 17. Nxe3 Be5 18. Bc4 Bh3 19. Rfd1 Qf6 20. Rab1 Bd4 21.
Nf5 Bxf5 22. exf5 c5 23. b3 Rfe8 24. Re1 Re5 25. Rxe5 Qxe5 26. Kg2 Re8 27. Qd3
Kf8 28. Qf3 Qe4 29. Qxe4 Rxe4 30. Kf3 Re5 31. g4 Ke7 32. Rd1 a5 33. Rd2 f6 34.
Re2 Kd6 35. Rxe5 Kxe5 36. a4 1/2-1/2

[Event "Alberta Closed"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.14"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Kazmaier, Daniel"]
[Black "Ng, Gary"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E15"]
[WhiteElo "2302"]
[BlackElo "2352"]
[Annotator "Jim"]
[PlyCount "100"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. c4 b6 4. g3 Ba6 5. Qc2 c5 6. Bg2 Bb7 7. O-O Nc6 8. Rd1
Nb4 9. Qb3 Be4 10. Na3 Be7 11. Bd2 O-O 12. Ne5 Bxg2 13. Kxg2 Qb8 14. Bxb4 cxb4
15. Nc2 a5 16. Qa4 Rc8 17. Ne3 Qb7+ 18. f3 d6 19. Nd3 d5 20. b3 Qa6 (20... Ne8
$1 {Gary finds this correct plan 3 moves later}) 21. Ne5 Rc7 22. Rac1 {2
minutes left to move 40!} Rac8 23. Rc2 Ne8 24. Rdc1 Nd6 25. Kf2 Bg5 26. f4 Bf6
27. a3 Ne4+ 28. Ke1 Bxe5 29. fxe5 Nc3 30. Rxc3 bxc3 31. Rxc3 Qb7 32. c5 Qc6 (
32... bxc5 $142 33. Rxc5 Rxc5 34. dxc5 Rb8 $19) 33. Qxc6 Rxc6 34. b4 bxc5 35.
bxc5 Rb8 36. Nd1 f6 37. exf6 gxf6 38. Kd2 Kf7 (38... e5 39. e3) 39. Rf3 Rc7 40.
Nc3 {Dan made move 40 with 7 seconds left. Gary had 3 minutes.} Rcb7 41. Rf1
Rb2+ 42. Kd3 R8b3 (42... R2b3 $142) 43. a4 $2 (43. c6 Rb8 44. e4 Rc8 $17) 43...
Ke7 44. g4 Ra2 45. Rf3 Kd7 (45... e5 $142 46. dxe5 fxe5 47. Rf5 Ke6 48. Rh5 d4)
46. h4 e5 47. Rxf6 e4+ 48. Ke3 Rxc3+ 49. Kf4 Rxe2 50. Rf7+ Ke6 0-1

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.20"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Sevillano, Enrico"]
[Black "Ng, Gary"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B00"]
[WhiteElo "2566"]
[BlackElo "2339"]
[PlyCount "129"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 b6 2. Nf3 Bb7 3. Nc3 e6 4. g3 Nf6 5. d3 Be7 6. Bg2 O-O 7. O-O d6 8. h3 c5
9. Re1 a6 10. Ne2 c4 11. g4 Nbd7 12. Ng3 cxd3 13. cxd3 Rc8 14. b3 Ne5 15. Be3
Rc3 16. Nxe5 dxe5 17. d4 Qc7 18. dxe5 Rd8 19. Qe2 Nd7 20. Bd4 Rc2 21. Qe3 Bc5
22. Red1 Rc8 23. Bxc5 Rxc5 24. f4 Rc3 25. Rd3 Rxd3 26. Qxd3 g5 27. Nh5 Nc5 28.
Qe3 Rd8 29. Rc1 a5 30. h4 gxh4 31. f5 Kf8 32. Qh6+ Ke8 33. fxe6 Qxe5 34. exf7+
Ke7 35. Qxb6 Qd4+ 36. Kh1 h3 37. Qxc5+ Qxc5 38. Rxc5 hxg2+ 39. Kg1 Rd1+ 40.
Kxg2 Bxe4+ 41. Kg3 Kxf7 42. Rxa5 Bc2 43. Kf4 Rd4+ 44. Kg3 Rd1 45. g5 Rg1+ 46.
Kf4 Rf1+ 47. Ke3 Rb1 48. Nf4 Bxb3 49. Ra7+ Kg8 50. axb3 Rxb3+ 51. Ke4 Rg3 52.
Kf5 Rf3 53. Ke5 Rf1 54. Ne6 Rb1 55. Rg7+ Kh8 56. Rf7 Rb8 57. Kf6 Kg8 58. Rg7+
Kh8 59. Rd7 Kg8 60. Rd8+ Rxd8 61. Nxd8 Kf8 62. Nf7 Kg8 63. Nh6+ Kh8 64. Nf5 Kg8
65. Ke7 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Thiel, Rodney"]
[Black "Ng, Gary"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E15"]
[WhiteElo "1965"]
[BlackElo "2335"]
[PlyCount "82"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. g3 Ba6 5. Qc2 c5 6. Bg2 Bb7 7. O-O Nc6 8. Rd1
Nb4 9. Qb3 Be4 10. Na3 Be7 11. dxc5 bxc5 12. Bf4 O-O 13. Rd2 d5 14. Ng5 Bxg2
15. Kxg2 Nh5 16. Nh3 Nxf4+ 17. Nxf4 Bg5 18. e3 Rb8 19. Qd1 Bxf4 20. gxf4 Qf6
21. Qh5 h6 22. Kh1 Rfd8 23. Rg1 dxc4 24. Nxc4 Rxd2 25. Nxd2 Nd3 26. Qe2 Nxb2
27. Ne4 Qf5 28. f3 Rb6 29. Qg2 g6 30. Qd2 e5 31. Qd8+ Kh7 32. Ng3 Qf6 33. Qf8
Qg7 34. Qxc5 Nd3 35. Qc2 exf4 36. Nh5 Qe5 37. Qxd3 Qxh5 38. e4 Rb2 39. Rg2 Qb5
40. Qxb5 Rxb5 41. Rc2 Kg7 0-1

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.24"]
[Round "7"]
[White "Porper, Edward"]
[Black "Ng, Gary"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "E21"]
[WhiteElo "2468"]
[BlackElo "2339"]
[PlyCount "90"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. Nc3 Bb4 5. Qb3 c5 6. Bg5 h6 7. Bh4 g5 8. Bg3
Ne4 9. e3 Bb7 10. Rd1 O-O 11. a3 cxd4 12. axb4 dxc3 13. bxc3 Nxg3 14. hxg3 Qf6
15. Be2 Rd8 16. O-O Nc6 17. Rd2 d6 18. Rfd1 Qe7 19. Nd4 d5 20. cxd5 Nxd4 21.
Rxd4 Bxd5 22. c4 Bb7 23. Qd3 Rxd4 24. Qxd4 e5 25. Qd7 Qxd7 26. Rxd7 Be4 27. b5
a5 28. bxa6 Rxa6 29. Bh5 Ra1+ 30. Kh2 Bg6 31. Bxg6 fxg6 32. Re7 Rc1 33. Rxe5
Rxc4 34. Re6 Kf7 35. Rxb6 Rc2 36. f3 g4 37. fxg4 Re2 38. Rb3 Kf6 39. Kg1 Kg5
40. Kf1 Ra2 41. Rb4 Rc2 42. Rf4 Ra2 43. e4 Ra1+ 44. Kf2 Ra2+ 45. Kf1 Ra1+
1/2-1/2

[Event "InternationalQualifier"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "1.4"]
[White "Husain, Ali"]
[Black "Nguyen, Kim"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1837"]
[BlackElo "2127"]
[PlyCount "84"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nd7 5. Nf3 Ngf6 6. Nxf6+ Nxf6 7. Bc4 Bf5
8. O-O e6 9. Re1 Qc7 10. Be3 Bd6 11. h3 Nd5 12. Bd2 O-O-O 13. a4 h6 14. Qe2 g5
15. Bd3 g4 16. Bxf5 gxf3 17. Bxe6+ fxe6 18. Qxe6+ Kb8 19. g4 Bf4 20. Be3 Bxe3
21. Rxe3 Nxe3 22. Qxe3 h5 23. g5 h4 24. Re1 Rhg8 25. Qxf3 Rxg5+ 26. Kf1 Rdg8
27. Re4 Qd6 28. c3 Rf8 29. Qe3 Rgf5 30. Re8+ Rxe8 31. Qxe8+ Kc7 32. Qe4 Qf6 33.
Qe2 Qg5 34. Qc2 Qf4 35. Qe2 Qc1+ 36. Kg2 Rg5+ 37. Kf3 Rf5+ 38. Kg2 Qg5+ 39. Kf1
Rf7 40. Qe4 Qg3 41. Qe2 Qxh3+ 42. Ke1 Qf5 0-1

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Mah, Sydney"]
[Black "Offengenden, Ron"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C61"]
[WhiteElo "1317"]
[BlackElo "1608"]
[PlyCount "82"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nd4 4. Nxd4 exd4 5. d3 Nf6 6. a3 Bd6 7. Nd2 a6 8.
Bc4 Be5 9. Nf3 d6 10. Bd2 Be6 11. Bxe6 fxe6 12. Ng5 Qe7 13. f4 Nxe4 14. Nxe4
Bf6 15. Qf3 d5 16. Nxf6+ Qxf6 17. O-O-O O-O-O 18. Rde1 Rhe8 19. Rhf1 g6 20. Re5
Rd6 21. g4 h6 22. Rfe1 g5 23. f5 c5 24. Qf2 Rf8 25. c3 dxc3 26. Qxc5+ Rc6 27.
Qxc6+ bxc6 28. Bxc3 Qd8 29. fxe6 Re8 30. e7 Qd7 31. Ba5 Qxg4 32. Re6 Kd7 33.
Rxh6 Rxe7 34. Rxe7+ Kxe7 35. Bb4+ Kd7 36. Bd6 Qd4 37. Bg3 Qxd3 38. Rd6+ Ke7 39.
Rxc6 Qf5 40. Kd2 Qf1 41. Kc3 Qc1+ 0-1

[Event "2017MOK"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "3.5"]
[White "Harris, Adam"]
[Black "Papneja, Arul"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1868"]
[BlackElo "1632"]
[PlyCount "68"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]
[TimeControl "90+30"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Nc3 a6 4. a4 Nc6 5. Nf3 Nf6 6. e3 Bg4 7. Bxc4 e6 8. h3
Bh5 9. Be2 Bd6 10. O-O O-O 11. e4 Bxf3 12. Bxf3 e5 13. d5 Nd4 14. Be3 Bc5 15.
Kh1 Qd6 16. Rc1 Nd7 17. Bg4 Bb6 18. Bxd7 Qxd7 19. Ne2 Nxe2 20. Qxe2 Bxe3 21.
Qxe3 Rac8 22. Rc4 c6 23. Rfc1 f6 24. dxc6 Rxc6 25. Rxc6 bxc6 26. Qc5 Rb8 27. f3
Rc8 28. Qc4+ Kh8 29. Qxa6 Rc7 30. Qc4 Qd4 31. Qb3 Qa7 32. Rd1 Qa8 33. Qb6 Qc8
34. a5 Rb7 1-0

[Event "2017 Red Deer Open"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.05.14"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Koperski, Dustin"]
[Black "Papneja, Arul"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B21"]
[WhiteElo "1792"]
[BlackElo "1569"]
[PlyCount "54"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c5 2. d4 cxd4 3. c3 dxc3 4. Nxc3 Nc6 5. Nf3 d6 6. Bc4 e6 7. O-O Be7 8.
Qe2 Nf6 9. Rd1 e5 10. h3 O-O 11. Bg5 Be6 12. Nd5 Bxd5 13. Bxd5 Nxd5 14. exd5
Bxg5 15. dxc6 Bf6 16. cxb7 Rb8 17. Qe4 Qb6 18. Rab1 Rfd8 19. Rd3 Qxb7 20. Nd2
d5 21. Qg4 e4 22. Rb3 Qe7 23. Rxb8 Rxb8 24. Qf4 Be5 25. Qe3 Rxb2 26. Rxb2 Bxb2
27. Qb3 Be5 1/2-1/2

[Event "2017JohnSchleinich"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "2.8"]
[White "Timmerman, Brian"]
[Black "Papneja, Arul"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1698"]
[BlackElo "1457"]
[PlyCount "103"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. h3 e6 7. g4 Be7 8. g5
Nfd7 9. h4 Nc6 10. Be3 Qc7 11. Qd2 Nce5 12. f4 Nc4 13. Bxc4 Qxc4 14. f5 Ne5 15.
O-O-O Qc7 16. b3 Bd7 17. h5 O-O-O 18. Kb2 Kb8 19. Nce2 Ng4 (19... Nc4+) 20. g6
Nxe3 21. Qxe3 e5 22. Nf3 fxg6 23. hxg6 h6 24. Nc3 Bc6 25. Nd5 Qd7 26. Rd3 Bxd5
27. Rxd5 Rc8 28. Rhd1 Rc6 29. Kb1 Rhc8 30. Nxe5 Qc7 31. Nxc6+ Qxc6 32. Qd3 Ka8
33. Rd2 Qc7 34. Rxd6 Qa5 35. Qd5 Rc5 36. Rd8+ Ka7 37. Qd3 Bf6 38. Rd5 Qa3 39.
c4 Rxd5 40. exd5 Bg5 41. d6 Bxd2 42. Qxd2 Qc5 43. d7 Qxf5+ 44. Kb2 Qf6+ 45. Ka3
Qf8+ 46. c5 Qd8 47. b4 h5 48. Qf2 (48. Qe2 Kb8) 48... Kb8 49. Qf4+ Ka8 50. Qf7
Kb8 51. Qxg7 h4 52. Qe5+ 1-0

[Event "2017 Trumpeter Classic"]
[Site "Grande Prairie, AB"]
[Date "2017.06.03"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Tim Pradzinski"]
[Black "Paul McGinnis"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B07"]
[WhiteElo "1928"]
[BlackElo "1625"]
[PlyCount "51"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Bd3 Nbd7 4. h3 e5 5. Be3 Be7 6. Ne2 c6 7. O-O Qc7 8. Nd2
h6 9. f4 exf4 10. Bxf4 g5 11. Bh2 Qb6 $2 12. Nc4 Qd8 13. Bxd6 (13. Nxd6+ Bxd6
14. Bxd6 {and black simply doesn't have any good moves. A natural move like 14.
...Nb6 to alleviate the cramping fails to 15. Rxf6! Qxf6 16. Be5 with a skewer
on the undefendable h-rook.}) 13... b5 14. Bxe7 Qxe7 15. Na5 Nb8 {Attempts to
win back the pawn on e4 fail after 15. ...Nxe4 16. Nxc6 and the Queen can't
continue defending the knight on e4.} 16. Ng3 Qb4 17. Rxf6 Qxa5 18. Qf3 Be6 19.
Rxe6+ fxe6 20. Qf6 Rh7 21. Qg6+ Rf7 22. Rf1 Qc7 23. Qxe6+ $2 {Good enough. But
Qg8+ is mate in four.} Qe7 24. Qc8+ Qd8 25. Qxd8+ Kxd8 26. Rxf7 {Down too much
material, black resigns.} 1-0

[Event "2017 Alberta Seniors Championship"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.08"]
[Round "3"]
[White "McKay, Arnold"]
[Black "Pedersen, Rick"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B07"]
[WhiteElo "1819"]
[BlackElo "1773"]
[PlyCount "109"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 g6 2. e4 Bg7 3. Nf3 d6 4. Bd3 Nc6 5. c3 Nf6 6. O-O O-O 7. Bf4 h6 8. Qc2
Nh5 9. Be3 Bg4 10. Nbd2 e5 11. h3 Bd7 12. dxe5 Nxe5 13. Nxe5 dxe5 14. Nf3 g5
15. Bc4 Nf4 16. Rad1 Qe7 17. Rd2 Rad8 18. Bxf4 exf4 19. Re1 b5 20. Bd3 c5 21.
Nh2 c4 22. Be2 Kh8 23. Bf3 f5 24. Rde2 g4 25. exf5 Qg5 26. hxg4 h5 27. gxh5
Bxf5 28. Be4 Qxh5 29. Bxf5 Rxf5 30. Qe4 f3 31. Nxf3 Rdf8 32. Qh4 Qxh4 33. Nxh4
Rg5 34. Re8 Kh7 35. Rxf8 Bxf8 36. Nf3 Rd5 37. g3 a5 38. Re5 Rd3 39. Kg2 b4 40.
cxb4 axb4 41. Re3 Bh6 42. Rxd3 cxd3 43. Kf1 Kg7 44. Ne5 d2 45. Ke2 Bg5 46. Nf3
Bf6 47. b3 Bc3 48. Nxd2 Kg6 49. Ne4 Bg7 50. g4 Bf8 51. f4 Kg7 52. Kd3 Kf7 53.
Kc4 Kg7 54. Kd5 Kf7 55. g5 1-0

[Event "2017 Alberta Seniors Championship"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.09"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Karmali, Hafiz"]
[Black "Pedersen, Rick"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B08"]
[WhiteElo "1982"]
[BlackElo "1773"]
[PlyCount "79"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 d6 2. d4 Nf6 3. Nc3 g6 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. Bc4 O-O 6. O-O c6 7. Be3 d5 8. Bd3
dxe4 9. Nxe4 Ng4 10. c3 Nxe3 11. fxe3 Nd7 12. Qb3 Nf6 13. Neg5 Qb6 14. Ne5 Qxb3
15. axb3 h6 16. Ngf3 (16. Ngxf7 Rxf7 17. Nxf7 Kxf7 18. e4 Kg8 19. e5 Nd5 20.
Bxg6) 16... Ng4 17. Nxg4 Bxg4 18. e4 Bxf3 19. gxf3 a6 20. e5 Rad8 21. Be4 g5
22. Kf2 f5 23. Bd3 e6 24. h4 Kf7 25. Ke3 Ke7 26. Rh1 g4 27. fxg4 (27. h5) 27...
fxg4 28. Bg6 Rf3+ 29. Ke2 Rdf8 30. Raf1 c5 31. Rxf3 Rxf3 32. Be4 Rh3 33. Rxh3
gxh3 34. Bxb7 cxd4 35. cxd4 h2 36. h5 Kd7 37. Kf2 Kc7 38. Bf3 Bf8 39. Kg2 Bb4
40. Kxh2 1/2-1/2

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.22"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Banerjee, Bitan"]
[Black "Porper, Edward"]
[Result "*"]
[ECO "E46"]
[WhiteElo "2456"]
[BlackElo "2468"]
[PlyCount "63"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O 5. Nge2 Re8 6. a3 Bf8 7. Ng3 d5 8. Be2
b6 9. cxd5 exd5 10. b4 a6 11. O-O Bb7 12. Qb3 c6 13. Bd2 b5 14. Bf3 Nbd7 15. e4
Nb6 16. e5 Nfd7 17. Nce2 Nc4 18. Bc3 f6 19. exf6 Nxf6 20. Nf4 Bc8 21. Qd1 Bd6
22. Nd3 Ra7 23. a4 Rae7 24. axb5 axb5 25. Re1 Rxe1+ 26. Bxe1 Ne4 27. Bg4 Nxg3
28. hxg3 Re4 29. Bf3 Re7 30. Bg4 Re4 31. Bf3 Re7 32. Bg4 *

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.23"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Reeve, Jeff"]
[Black "Porper, Edward"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C01"]
[WhiteElo "2295"]
[BlackElo "2468"]
[PlyCount "66"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Bd3 c5 4. exd5 Qxd5 5. Nc3 Qxd4 6. Nb5 Qd8 7. Bf4 Na6 8.
Qe2 Nf6 9. O-O-O Qb6 10. Nf3 (10. Bc4 Be7 11. Rd6 Bxd6 12. Nxd6+ Ke7 13. Nf5+)
10... Nd5 11. Bg3 Be7 12. h4 h6 13. Be5 Bd7 14. a4 Nab4 15. Bc4 a6 16. Nc3 Nf6
17. g4 O-O-O 18. g5 Ne8 19. Bf4 hxg5 20. hxg5 Rxh1 21. Rxh1 Bd6 22. Be5 Bc6 23.
Re1 Bxf3 24. Qxf3 Bxe5 25. Rxe5 Nc6 26. Re1 Nd6 27. Bf1 Nd4 28. Qg4 Qb4 29. Qg2
N4f5 30. g6 Nh4 31. Qh3 Nxg6 32. Kb1 Nf4 33. Qf3 Nd5 0-1

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.24"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Sevillano, Enrico"]
[Black "Porper, Edward"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C18"]
[WhiteElo "2556"]
[BlackElo "2468"]
[PlyCount "65"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Qa5 7. Bd2 Qa4 8. Nf3
b6 9. h4 Ba6 10. h5 Ne7 11. h6 gxh6 12. Bxh6 Nd7 13. Bg5 Ng6 14. Bd3 Rc8 15.
Qd2 Bxd3 16. cxd3 cxd4 17. cxd4 Rc2 18. Rc1 Rxc1+ 19. Qxc1 Ne7 20. Bxe7 Kxe7
21. Qg5+ Ke8 22. O-O h6 23. Qg7 Rf8 24. Rc1 Kd8 25. Qxh6 Qxa3 26. Qg5+ f6 27.
exf6 Nxf6 28. Ne5 a5 29. g3 a4 30. Rc6 Qa1+ 31. Kg2 Qxd4 32. Rxe6 Kc8 33. Qg7
1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.20"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Frialde, Arniel"]
[Black "Porper, Edward"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E04"]
[WhiteElo "2213"]
[BlackElo "2468"]
[PlyCount "84"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. d4 e6 3. g3 d5 4. c4 Bb4+ 5. Nbd2 O-O 6. Bg2 Nc6 7. Qc2 dxc4 8.
Qxc4 Qd5 9. O-O Bxd2 10. Qxd5 exd5 11. Bxd2 Bg4 12. Be3 Rfe8 13. Rac1 Rac8 14.
Rfe1 h6 15. h3 Bf5 16. g4 Be4 17. g5 hxg5 18. Nxg5 Bxg2 19. Kxg2 Ne4 20. Nf3
Re6 21. Kh2 f6 22. Rg1 Kf7 23. Rg2 Ne7 24. Rcg1 g5 25. Bc1 Nf5 26. e3 Rh8 27.
Nd2 Nh4 28. Nxe4 dxe4 (28... Nf3+ 29. Kg3 dxe4 30. Rh1) 29. Rg3 Nf3+ 30. Rxf3
exf3 31. Kg3 f5 32. Kxf3 Rxh3+ 33. Ke2 g4 34. Bd2 Rh2 35. Rg3 Re4 36. Rg1 Ke6
37. a4 Kd5 38. b3 Re7 39. Rc1 g3 40. Kd3 gxf2 41. Bb4 Rg7 42. Rc5+ Ke6 0-1

[Event "2017 Alberta Seniors Championship"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.08"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Seehagen, Terry"]
[Black "Purewal, Sardul"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C15"]
[WhiteElo "1844"]
[BlackElo "1968"]
[PlyCount "59"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. a3 Bxc3+ 5. bxc3 dxe4 6. f3 {After 6. f3,
direct attempts to hang on to the extra pawn are faulty. Best here is 6. ...c5,
b6, or Bd7. Even Nf6 scores poorly. We'll see what happens if black tries to
trade the pawn off.} exf3 7. Nxf3 {White is down a pawn and his pawn structure
is terrible, but this gambit allows white to quickly develop an attack while
tying up black's pieces.} Nf6 8. Bg5 Nbd7 9. Bd3 c6 10. O-O Qa5 11. c4 c5 12.
d5 Nb6 $2 {A mistake. Best is castling, as white is able to put a lot of
pressure on the half-open e-file.} 13. Ne5 Nbd7 14. Ng4 {Crushing is 14. Nxf7.
For example} (14. Nxf7 Kxf7 15. dxe6+ Kxe6 16. Bf5+ Ke7 17. Qd5 Qb6 18. Rae1+
Kd8 19. Re6 $18) 14... Qc3 15. dxe6 fxe6 16. Nxf6+ Nxf6 17. Bxf6 gxf6 18. Qh5+
{White is still only down a pawn, while the black's king is exposed and his
pieces--other than his queen--are still undeveloped.} Kd8 19. Qxc5 Bd7 20. Rad1
Rc8 21. Qxa7 Ke7 22. Qxb7 Qxa3 23. Bf5 Qc5+ 24. Kh1 Qc6 25. Qb4+ Qc5 26. Qe1
Qxc4 27. Bh3 Qc5 $4 {The queen walks out on the vulnerable e-pawn. White can
sack on d7 for a forced mate now.} 28. Rxd7+ Kxd7 29. Qxe6+ Kc7 30. Qd7+ {
Black resigns with mate in a few left. The white rook will slide across to b1
to assist in the attack.} 1-0

[Event "2017 Alberta Seniors Championship"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.08"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Behnke, Rick"]
[Black "Purewal, Sardul"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B90"]
[WhiteElo "1161"]
[BlackElo "1968"]
[PlyCount "78"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 a6 6. Bd3 Nc6 7. Nb3 e5 8. O-O
Be7 9. h3 b5 10. a3 Be6 11. Be3 Qc7 12. Ne2 O-O 13. Qd2 Nd7 14. f4 f6 15. f5
Bf7 16. g4 d5 17. Nbc1 Bc5 18. b4 Bxe3+ 19. Qxe3 Qb6 20. Qf2 Qxf2+ 21. Rxf2 Nb6
22. Nb3 Na4 23. Nc5 Nxc5 24. bxc5 Rfc8 25. Nc3 Nd4 26. Nxd5 Rxc5 27. c3 Nb3 28.
Nb6 Rd8 29. Rd1 Rxc3 30. Nd5 Bxd5 31. exd5 Nd4 32. Be4 Rdc8 33. Kg2 Rxa3 34.
Rdd2 Kf8 35. Ra2 Rcc3 (35... Rxa2 36. Rxa2) 36. d6 Ke8 37. Bd5 Kd7 38. Bb7 Rxh3
39. Bxa6 Rag3+ 0-1

[Event "2017MOK"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "3.11"]
[White "Samy, Mikesh"]
[Black "Qin, Kevin"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1068"]
[BlackElo "1158"]
[PlyCount "31"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]
[TimeControl "90+30"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O b5 6. Bb3 d6 7. c3 Bg4 8. Re1
Be7 9. d4 exd4 10. cxd4 Bxf3 11. Qxf3 Nxd4 12. Qg3 Nxb3 13. axb3 Qd7 14. Qxg7
Rg8 15. Qh6 Qg4 16. Qh3 1-0

[Event "2017MOK"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "1.9"]
[White "Harris, Adam"]
[Black "Qin, Kevin"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1868"]
[BlackElo "1158"]
[PlyCount "76"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]
[TimeControl "90+30"]

1. Nf3 Nc6 2. c4 Nf6 3. Nc3 e6 4. d3 Bb4 5. e4 d6 6. Be2 Bxc3+ 7. bxc3 O-O 8.
O-O h6 9. Rb1 b6 10. Qc2 e5 (10... Bb7 11. d4) 11. d4 exd4 12. cxd4 Bg4 13. Be3
Bxf3 14. Bxf3 Re8 15. e5 dxe5 16. Bxc6 (16. dxe5) 16... exd4 17. Bxe8 Nxe8 18.
Rbd1 c5 19. Rd3 Qc7 (19... Qd7) 20. Bc1 Nf6 21. Rg3 Nh5 22. Rf3 Re8 23. Bd2 Nf6
24. Rxf6 gxf6 25. Qf5 Qe5 26. Qg4+ Kh7 27. Qh4 h5 28. h3 Qf5 29. Re1 Rxe1+ 30.
Bxe1 Qg5 31. Qxg5 fxg5 32. Bd2 f6 33. a4 Kg6 34. Kf1 Kf5 35. Ke2 Ke4 36. f3+
Ke5 37. Kd3 f5 (37... Kf5 38. g4+) 38. g4 fxg4 1-0

[Event "2017MOK"]
[Site "0-1"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "5.8"]
[White "Chandra, Anand Rishi"]
[Black "Qin, Yilong"]
[Result "*"]
[WhiteElo "1681"]
[PlyCount "54"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]
[TimeControl "90+30"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Bb6 5. d4 d6 (5... g6 6. dxe5) 6. dxe5
dxe5 7. Qxd8+ Nxd8 8. Nxe5 Nf6 9. f3 O-O 10. Bg5 Nd7 11. Nxd7 Bxd7 12. Na3 Ne6
13. Bd2 Rad8 14. O-O-O (14. Rf1 Nc5 15. Bg5 Rde8 16. h4 Be6 17. b4 Na4) 14...
Nc5 15. Bg5 Rde8 16. h4 Be6 17. b4 Na4 18. Kc2 Bxc4 19. Nxc4 Bf2 20. Rd7 f6 21.
Bf4 b5 22. Nb2 Nxb2 23. Kxb2 c6 24. h5 Bb6 25. h6 g5 26. Rg7+ Kh8 27. Bd6 Rg8 *

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.30"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Offengenden, Ron"]
[Black "Razzaq, Ali"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B13"]
[WhiteElo "1608"]
[BlackElo "1818"]
[PlyCount "50"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. exd5 cxd5 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. Bf4 Nc6 6. Nc3 e6 7. Bd3 Be7 8.
Qe2 O-O 9. O-O Qb6 10. Rab1 Nxd4 11. Nxd4 Qxd4 12. Qf3 Bd7 13. Rfd1 Qb6 14. Qg3
Nh5 15. Qh3 g6 16. Nxd5 exd5 17. Qxd7 Bc5 18. Bc7 Bxf2+ 19. Kh1 Qe6 20. Qxe6
fxe6 21. Bd6 Rf7 22. c4 Rd8 23. Be5 Kf8 24. cxd5 Rxd5 25. Bc3 Ng3+ 0-1

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.22"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Findlay, Ian"]
[Black "Reeve, Jeff"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B33"]
[WhiteElo "2295"]
[BlackElo "2274"]
[PlyCount "34"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e5 6. Ndb5 d6 7. Bg5 a6 8.
Na3 {Findlay played the same opening in the very next game, against Frialde,
to much better results.} Be6 9. Nc4 Rb8 10. Nd5 Bxd5 11. Bxf6 Qxf6 12. Qxd5 Nb4
13. Qd2 d5 14. exd5 Rd8 15. Ne3 Bc5 {All normal so far. Black has aggressive
peices, but white has several good moves, such as 16. 0-0-0 or 16.Bd3} 16. Bc4
$4 Bxe3 {The best response the computer can come up with is moving the queen
and playing down a piece. Findlay opts to make his opponent find the tactic.}
17. fxe3 (17. Qxe3 {Obviously not 17. Qxe3, given the royal fork on c2.}) 17...
Qh4+ {There's no saving the c4 bishop for white. White will not only be down a
piece, but facing further loss of material. Findlay did go on to reel off
three straight wins after this loss.} 0-1

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.30"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Ivanescu, Cristian"]
[Black "Robertson, Trevor"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D02"]
[WhiteElo "1953"]
[BlackElo "1645"]
[PlyCount "95"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 e6 3. Bf4 Bd6 4. e3 Nf6 5. Ne5 c6 6. c3 Qc7 7. Nd2 Nbd7 8. Nxd7
Nxd7 9. Qg4 g6 10. Bh6 Bf8 11. Bf4 Bd6 12. Bxd6 Qxd6 13. Nf3 O-O 14. Qg5 f6 15.
Qh6 Rf7 16. h4 e5 17. h5 Qf8 18. hxg6 Rg7 19. gxh7+ Kh8 20. Nh4 Qf7 21. Nf5
Rxh7 22. Qxh7+ Qxh7 23. Rxh7+ Kxh7 24. Nd6 Kg6 25. g3 Nf8 26. Nxc8 Rxc8 27. Bh3
Rc7 28. Ke2 b6 29. Bg2 e4 30. f3 f5 31. g4 Rh7 32. gxf5+ Kf6 33. fxe4 dxe4 34.
Bxe4 c5 35. Rh1 Rxh1 36. Bxh1 Kxf5 37. e4+ Kf4 38. Kd3 cxd4 39. cxd4 Ne6 40.
Kc4 Nc7 41. a4 a5 42. d5 Ke5 43. b4 axb4 44. Kxb4 Kd6 45. Kc4 Na6 46. Kb5 Nc5
47. a5 bxa5 48. e5+ 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Samalio, Izacc"]
[Black "Robertson, Trevor"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D52"]
[WhiteElo "1076"]
[BlackElo "1664"]
[PlyCount "100"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 c6 5. Nf3 Nbd7 6. e3 Bb4 7. Qb3 Qa5 8. Rc1
Ne4 9. a3 Bxc3+ 10. bxc3 Nxg5 11. Nxg5 dxc4 12. Bxc4 Qxg5 13. O-O Nf6 14. f4
Qh4 15. h3 Ne4 16. Qc2 Nd6 17. Be2 O-O 18. Kh2 Nf5 19. Rf3 g6 20. g3 Qe7 21. e4
Ng7 22. a4 b6 23. g4 c5 24. Re3 Qc7 25. Rf3 Bb7 26. Bd3 Rac8 27. Kg3 cxd4 28.
cxd4 Qxc2 29. Bxc2 Rxc2 30. Rxc2 Bxe4 31. Re3 Bxc2 32. Rc3 Bxa4 33. Ra3 Bc6 34.
Rxa7 Ra8 35. Rc7 Bd5 36. Rd7 b5 37. Rd6 b4 38. Rb6 Ra3+ 39. Kf2 Kf8 40. Rxb4
Rxh3 41. Rb8+ Ne8 42. Kg1 Rg3+ 43. Kh2 Rxg4 44. Kh3 Rxf4 45. Rb4 Nf6 46. Rb8+
Kg7 47. Rb4 h5 48. Kg3 Rg4+ 49. Kf2 Rg2+ 50. Ke3 g5 0-1

[Event "2017JohnSchleinich"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "4.5"]
[White "Dave, Bhavik"]
[Black "Rogers, Dustin"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1909"]
[BlackElo "1853"]
[PlyCount "60"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. Nf3 Bxc3+ 5. bxc3 c5 6. e3 Qa5 7. Qc2 Nc6 8.
Bd2 d6 9. Be2 O-O 10. O-O e5 11. d5 Ne7 12. h3 Bf5 13. Qb2 e4 14. Nh4 Bd7 15.
g4 Qa6 16. f4 Nfxd5 17. cxd5 Qxe2 18. Rf2 Qb5 19. Qxb5 Bxb5 20. a4 Bd3 21. Nf5
Nxf5 22. gxf5 f6 23. Bc1 b6 24. Rb2 (24. Raa2) 24... Rab8 25. Kf2 Rf7 26. Ke1
a6 27. Rd2 Rfb7 28. Rda2 b5 29. axb5 Rxb5 30. Rxa6 Rb1 0-1

[Event "2017JohnSchleinich"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "2.6"]
[White "Daniluk, Jim"]
[Black "Rogers, Dustin"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1995"]
[BlackElo "1853"]
[PlyCount "66"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 e6 3. c4 b6 4. a3 Bb7 5. Qc2 Be7 6. Nbd2 d5 7. e3 Nbd7 8. b3
Rc8 9. Bd3 c5 10. Bb2 cxd4 11. exd4 h6 12. Qb1 O-O 13. O-O Rc7 14. Re1 (14. Rc1
Qa8 15. Bf1 Rfc8 16. Ne5 Nxe5 17. dxe5 Ne4 18. Nxe4 dxe4) 14... Qa8 15. Bf1
Rfc8 16. Ne5 Nxe5 17. dxe5 Ne4 18. Nxe4 dxe4 19. Bc1 Qb8 20. Be3 Bc5 21. b4
Bxe3 22. Rxe3 Rd7 23. Qb2 Rcd8 24. Qc3 Rd4 25. c5 bxc5 26. bxc5 Bc6 27. f4 exf3
28. gxf3 Qc7 29. Rc1 Qe7 30. Re2 Rd1 31. Rb2 Qh4 32. Kg2 g6 33. Rb4 R8d4 0-1

[Event "InternationalQualifier"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "3.7"]
[White "Dave, Bhavik"]
[Black "Rogers, Dustin"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1846"]
[BlackElo "1921"]
[PlyCount "47"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 b6 4. g3 Bb7 5. Bg2 c5 6. e3 Qc7 7. b3 Be7 8. Bb2
cxd4 9. exd4 d6 10. O-O O-O 11. Nc3 Nbd7 12. Nb5 Qb8 13. Re1 Re8 14. Qc2 a6 15.
Nc3 h6 16. Rad1 Qc7 17. Qd3 Rad8 18. d5 e5 19. Ba3 Bf8 20. Nh4 Nc5 21. Bxc5
bxc5 22. Re2 Bc8 23. Rde1 Bd7 24. Ne4 0-1

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Malek, Omid"]
[Black "Rohatynski, Jordan"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A46"]
[WhiteElo "2198"]
[BlackElo "1656"]
[PlyCount "59"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 d6 3. e3 Nbd7 4. Nf3 h6 5. Bh4 c6 6. Be2 Qc7 7. Nbd2 e5 8. O-O
e4 9. Ne1 d5 10. Bg3 Bd6 11. Bxd6 Qxd6 12. c4 Nf8 13. f3 Bf5 14. Qb3 O-O-O 15.
Qa4 Kb8 16. b4 g5 17. b5 c5 18. fxe4 Bxe4 19. dxc5 Qxc5 20. Rxf6 Qxe3+ 21. Rf2
Qxd2 22. Qa3 Qd4 23. Rd1 Qe5 24. c5 f5 25. b6 axb6 26. cxb6 d4 27. Rc1 Bc6 28.
Rxc6 bxc6 29. Qa7+ Kc8 30. Ba6# 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Dave, Bhavik"]
[Black "Samalio, Izacc"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D35"]
[WhiteElo "1857"]
[BlackElo "1076"]
[PlyCount "47"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e4 Bb4 6. exd5 Bxc3+ 7. bxc3 exd5
8. Ba3 Be6 9. Nf3 Nc6 10. Rb1 Rb8 11. Bb5 Bd7 12. O-O a6 13. Re1+ Be6 14. Bxc6+
bxc6 15. Ne5 Rxb1 16. Qxb1 Qa8 17. Qb4 Qd8 18. Nxc6 Qf6 19. f4 Kd7 20. Ne5+ Kc8
21. Rb1 Kd8 22. Qa4 Qxf4 23. Rb8+ Bc8 24. Qd7# 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "3"]
[White "MacDonald, Dean"]
[Black "Samalio, Izacc"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C70"]
[WhiteElo "1426"]
[BlackElo "1076"]
[PlyCount "49"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 b5 5. Bb3 Nf6 6. Ng5 d5 7. exd5 Na5 8. Nc3
Nxb3 9. axb3 Bc5 10. Nge4 Ng4 11. Nxc5 Qe7 12. N5e4 f5 13. Ng3 h5 14. f3 f4 15.
fxg4 fxg3 16. gxh5 gxh2 17. Rxh2 g6 18. d3 gxh5 19. Rxh5 Rxh5 20. Qxh5+ Kd7 21.
Bg5 Qg7 22. O-O-O b4 23. Ne4 Bb7 24. Nc5+ Kc8 25. Qe8# 1-0

[Event "2017MOK"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "4.8"]
[White "Papneja, Arul"]
[Black "Samy, Mikesh"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1637"]
[BlackElo "1068"]
[PlyCount "70"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]
[TimeControl "90+30"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3 Bg7 7. f3 O-O 8. Qd2
Bd7 9. O-O-O Nc6 10. g4 Rb8 11. h4 Nxd4 12. Bxd4 a5 13. h5 b5 14. h6 Bh8 15. g5
e5 16. Bxe5 dxe5 17. gxf6 Qxf6 18. Qxd7 Rfd8 19. Qg4 Rxd1+ 20. Nxd1 b4 21. Ne3
Qd8 22. Nd5 a4 23. Bc4 Rc8 (23... b3 24. axb3) 24. b3 axb3 25. cxb3 Ra8 26. Rd1
Kf8 27. Kb1 Qa5 28. Qg2 Bg7 29. hxg7+ Kxg7 30. Rd2 Qc5 (30... Qxd5) 31. Qg5 Ra3
32. Qf6+ Kf8 33. Qd8+ Kg7 34. Qf6+ Kf8 35. Ne3 Qxe3 1-0

[Event "InternationalQualifier"]
[Site "Cakgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "1.11"]
[White "Wu, Chenxi"]
[Black "Samy, Mikesh"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1917"]
[BlackElo "1086"]
[PlyCount "63"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 d6 5. c3 b5 6. Bc2 Nf6 7. d3 Be7 8. Nbd2
O-O 9. O-O Bg4 10. h3 Bh5 11. Re1 a5 12. Nf1 b4 13. Ng3 bxc3 14. bxc3 Rb8 15.
Nxh5 Nxh5 16. Nxe5 Nxe5 17. Qxh5 Ng6 18. Be3 c5 19. d4 cxd4 20. Bxd4 Nh4 21. e5
Ng6 22. e6 Rb2 23. exf7+ Rxf7 24. Bb3 d5 25. Bxd5 Qf8 26. Re3 Kh8 27. Bxf7 Qxf7
28. Rf3 Qc4 29. Qxa5 h6 30. Qh5 Nh4 31. Qxh6+ Kg8 32. Qxg7# 1-0

[Event "InternationalQualifier"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "1.12"]
[White "Bin Shoeb, Mashad"]
[Black "Samy, Mikesh"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1848"]
[BlackElo "1086"]
[PlyCount "25"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c5 (1... e5) 2. c3 d5 3. exd5 Qxd5 4. d4 e6 5. Nf3 Nc6 6. Be3 Nf6 7. Bd3
c4 8. Be2 b5 9. O-O g6 10. Nbd2 Bg7 11. Qc2 O-O 12. h3 Bb7 13. b3 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Ivanescu, Cristian"]
[Black "Sasata, Alexander"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D02"]
[WhiteElo "1953"]
[BlackElo "1410"]
[PlyCount "69"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Bf4 e6 4. e3 c5 5. c3 Nc6 6. Nbd2 Be7 7. h3 O-O 8. Bd3
Qb6 9. Rb1 cxd4 10. exd4 Re8 11. O-O Qd8 12. Re1 Bd6 13. Ne5 Ne7 14. c4 Ng6 15.
Nxg6 fxg6 16. Bxd6 Qxd6 17. c5 Qf4 18. Nf3 Rf8 19. Qd2 Nh5 20. Qxf4 Nxf4 21.
Be2 Bd7 22. b4 a6 23. Ne5 Ba4 24. Bg4 Bc2 25. Rbc1 Bf5 26. Rc3 Be4 27. g3 h5
28. gxf4 hxg4 29. hxg4 Rxf4 30. f3 Bxf3 31. Rxf3 Rxd4 32. a3 g5 33. Kg2 g6 34.
Rf6 Re8 35. Rh1 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Ludwig, David"]
[Black "Sasata, Robert"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D34"]
[WhiteElo "1853"]
[BlackElo "2341"]
[PlyCount "54"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e6 3. g3 d5 4. cxd5 exd5 5. d4 c5 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. Bg2 Be7 8. O-O
O-O {We've transposed to the mainline of the Queen's Gambit Declined -
Tarrasch. Normal here is Bg5 or cxd5, isolating black's pawn. Instead, white
opts for an unusual move which blocks in his bishop.} 9. e3 c4 10. b3 cxb3 11.
Qxb3 Na5 12. Qc2 Bd7 13. Ne5 Rc8 14. Bd2 Be6 15. a4 Ne4 16. Bxe4 $2 {
Attempting to win a pawn, but tactically faulty.} dxe4 17. Qxe4 Nb3 {Forking
the rook and the undefended bishop, which is in turn guarding the knight on c3.
White can't protect everything.} 18. Qc2 Nxd2 19. Qxd2 Bb4 {Better than taking
the exchange, which would only leave black up a small amount of material.} 20.
Rfc1 Qa5 21. Qd3 Bxc3 22. Rab1 Bb4 23. Nc4 Qxa4 24. d5 (24. Ra1 {If 24. Ra1,
attempting to dislodge the queen, 24. ...Bxc4 wins more material.}) 24... Rfd8
25. e4 a5 26. Qf3 Bd7 27. Ra1 $4 Qb5 {Much more entertaining is 27. ...Rxc4...
but 27. ...Qb5 is enough to make white resign, as he's down a full piece with
little compensation beyond the strong d-pawn. Meanwhile black has the bishop
pair and an extra piece and can start trading off some pieces soon.} (27...
Rxc4 28. Rxa4 Rxc1+ 29. Kg2 Bxa4) 0-1

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.22"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Shabalov, Alex"]
[Black "Sevillano, Enrico"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C96"]
[WhiteElo "2587"]
[BlackElo "2566"]
[PlyCount "101"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O b5 6. Bb3 Be7 7. d4 d6 8. c3
O-O 9. h3 Bb7 10. Re1 Nd7 11. Nbd2 Na5 12. Bc2 c5 13. d5 Bc8 14. b4 Nb7 15. a4
Nb6 16. a5 Nd7 17. Nf1 c4 18. Be3 Nf6 19. N3h2 Ne8 20. Qd2 g6 21. f4 Ng7 22.
Nf3 f6 23. g4 Bd7 24. Ng3 exf4 25. Bxf4 Qc8 26. Kh2 Nd8 27. Rg1 Nf7 28. Rg2 Kh8
29. Kh1 Qb7 30. Rag1 Rae8 31. Bh6 Rg8 32. Be3 Qc8 33. Bd4 Ne5 34. Rf2 Ref8 35.
Nh4 Ne8 36. Ng2 Rg7 37. Nf4 Kg8 38. Rgf1 Kh8 39. Be3 Rgg8 40. Nge2 Ng7 41. Nd4
Re8 42. Nfe2 Ref8 43. Bh6 Nf7 44. Nf4 Nd8 45. g5 Ne8 46. Bxf8 Rxf8 47. gxf6
Rxf6 48. e5 dxe5 49. Nxg6+ hxg6 50. Qh6+ Kg8 51. Bxg6 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.25"]
[Round "9"]
[White "Miller, David"]
[Black "Sevillano, Enrico"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C18"]
[WhiteElo "2223"]
[BlackElo "2556"]
[PlyCount "78"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e5 c5 5. a3 Bxc3+ 6. bxc3 Qc7 7. Qg4 Ne7 8. Bd3
cxd4 9. Ne2 dxc3 10. Qxg7 Rg8 11. Qf6 Nd7 12. Bb5 Nc6 13. Qh4 Qxe5 14. Qxh7 Rh8
15. Qd3 Rxh2 16. Rg1 Qh8 17. Qxc3 Qxc3+ 18. Nxc3 a6 19. Bf4 Rh4 20. g3 Rxf4 21.
gxf4 axb5 22. Nxb5 Ke7 23. Rg8 Nf6 24. Rh8 Ra5 25. Rxc8 Rxb5 26. O-O-O Ne8 27.
f5 Nd6 28. f6+ Kxf6 29. Rc7 Ra5 30. Rd7 Nc4 31. Rxb7 Rxa3 32. Rd3 Ra1+ 33. Rb1
Ra8 34. Kd1 Ke5 35. c3 Ra2 36. Ke1 Ke4 37. Rh3 N6e5 38. Rd1 Nf3+ 39. Kf1 Rc2
0-1

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.23"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Banerjee, Bitan"]
[Black "Sevillano, Enrico"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D35"]
[WhiteElo "2456"]
[BlackElo "2566"]
[PlyCount "74"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 exd5 5. Bg5 c6 6. Qc2 Be7 7. e3 Be6 8. Bd3
Nbd7 9. h3 g6 10. Bh6 Bf8 11. Bxf8 Kxf8 12. Nge2 Kg7 13. f4 Re8 14. O-O Nf8 15.
f5 Bd7 16. Rf3 g5 17. Rg3 h6 18. Rf1 N8h7 19. h4 Qe7 20. hxg5 hxg5 21. Nf4 Kh8
22. Nh3 Nh5 23. f6 N7xf6 24. Rxf6 Nxg3 25. Qf2 Qxe3 26. Rxf7 Bxh3 27. gxh3 (27.
Rf8+ Rxf8 (27... Kg7 28. Rf7+ Kg8) 28. Qxe3) 27... Qxf2+ 28. Kxf2 Ne4+ 29. Bxe4
dxe4 30. Ke3 Re6 31. Rxb7 Rf8 32. Rxa7 Rf3+ 33. Ke2 Rxh3 34. d5 cxd5 35. Nxd5
e3 36. Re7 Rh2+ 37. Kd3 Rd2+ 0-1

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.21"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Arruebarrena, Rafael"]
[Black "Sevillano, Enrico"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B15"]
[WhiteElo "2323"]
[BlackElo "2566"]
[PlyCount "158"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 g6 2. d4 c6 3. Nc3 d5 4. h3 Bg7 5. Nf3 dxe4 6. Nxe4 Nf6 7. Nxf6+ exf6 8.
Bc4 O-O 9. O-O Nd7 10. Re1 a5 11. a4 Nb6 12. Bb3 Nd5 13. c4 Nb4 14. Be3 Be6 15.
Qd2 Qd7 16. Rad1 Rfd8 17. d5 cxd5 18. Bb6 dxc4 19. Bxd8 Qxd2 20. Rxd2 cxb3 21.
Bc7 Nc6 22. Nd4 Nxd4 23. Rxd4 f5 24. Be5 Rc8 25. Bxg7 Kxg7 26. Re5 b6 27. Rd6
Rc4 28. Rxb6 Rxa4 29. f3 Rc4 30. Rxa5 Rc2 31. Rab5 Rxb2 32. Rb4 Kf6 33. h4 h6
34. Kh2 Kg7 35. Kg3 g5 36. hxg5 hxg5 37. R6b5 Kf6 38. Rb6 Kg7 39. R6b5 Rc2 40.
Rxb3 f4+ 41. Kh2 Bxb3 42. Rxb3 Kg6 43. Rb8 Rc6 44. Kg1 Re6 45. Kf2 Kf5 46. Ra8
Re5 47. Ra7 f6 48. Ra8 Rd5 49. Re8 Rd2+ 50. Kf1 Rd5 51. Ra8 Re5 52. Kf2 Kg6 53.
Ra6 Kf7 54. Ra7+ Re7 55. Ra5 Re8 56. Rb5 Kg6 57. Rb6 Rf8 58. Ra6 Kh5 59. Ra7 f5
60. Ra5 Kg6 61. Ra6+ Kh5 62. Ra5 Kh4 63. Ra7 g4 64. fxg4 fxg4 65. g3+ fxg3+ 66.
Kg2 Rf2+ 67. Kg1 Rb2 68. Rh7+ Kg5 69. Rg7+ Kh5 70. Rh7+ Kg6 71. Rh8 g2 72. Rh2
Kg5 73. Rxg2 Rxg2+ 74. Kxg2 Kf4 75. Kf2 g3+ 76. Kg2 Kg4 77. Kg1 Kf3 78. Kf1 g2+
79. Kg1 Kg3 1/2-1/2

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.20"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Reeve, Jeff"]
[Black "Shabalov, Alex"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B70"]
[WhiteElo "2295"]
[BlackElo "2587"]
[PlyCount "80"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be2 Bg7 7. O-O O-O 8.
Bg5 Nc6 9. Nb3 a6 10. f4 b5 11. Bf3 Bb7 12. Kh1 Nd7 13. Qd2 Nb6 14. Nd1 Nc4 15.
Qc1 Rc8 16. c3 Qb6 17. Bh4 Bh6 18. Bf2 Qc7 19. g3 f5 20. Qc2 e5 21. exf5 exf4
22. Qe4 Nd8 23. Qd3 Ne5 24. Bd5+ Kh8 (24... Qf7) 25. Qe4 gxf5 26. Qg2 Bxd5 27.
Qxd5 fxg3 28. Bxg3 f4 29. Bh4 Ne6 30. Nf2 Ng7 31. Nd4 Qd7 32. Ne4 Ng4 33. Qxd6
Qb7 34. Rae1 Rfe8 35. Nf3 Rxe4 36. h3 Rxe1 37. Bxe1 Nf5 38. Qe6 Nge3 39. Rf2
Bg7 40. Kh2 Ng3 0-1

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.23"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Ng, Gary"]
[Black "Shabalov, Alex"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A33"]
[WhiteElo "2339"]
[BlackElo "2587"]
[PlyCount "66"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. Nf3 c5 2. c4 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 e6 6. Nc2 d5 7. e3 Bc5 8. Rb1
a5 9. Be2 O-O 10. O-O Qe7 11. cxd5 exd5 12. Nd4 Rd8 13. b3 Nxd4 14. exd4 Bf5
15. Ra1 Bb4 16. Bb2 Rac8 17. Rc1 Rc6 18. Bf3 h5 19. Re1 Ne4 20. Re3 Ba3 21.
Nxe4 Bxb2 22. Rxc6 dxe4 23. Rc2 Rxd4 24. Rd2 Qb4 25. Rxd4 Bxd4 26. Bxh5 Bxe3
27. fxe3 Qc3 28. Kf2 Qf6 29. Kg1 Qh6 30. Kf2 g6 31. Be2 Qxh2 32. Qd8+ Kh7 33.
Qxa5 Qh4+ 1/2-1/2

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.24"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Sohal, Tanraj"]
[Black "Shabalov, Alex"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D26"]
[WhiteElo "2386"]
[BlackElo "2585"]
[PlyCount "124"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Nf3 a6 4. e3 e6 5. Bxc4 Nf6 6. O-O Nbd7 7. Nc3 c5 8. Bb3
b5 9. dxc5 Bxc5 10. Qe2 Bb7 11. Bc2 Rc8 12. e4 Qc7 13. Bg5 h6 14. Bh4 Nh5 15.
Kh1 b4 16. Na4 Ba7 17. Bb3 Qc6 18. Rac1 Qxc1 19. Rxc1 Rxc1+ 20. Ng1 Nhf6 (20...
g5 21. Bg3 Ndf6 22. Qd2 Nxg3+ 23. hxg3 Rf1) 21. Qd2 Rc8 22. Qxb4 Bxe4 23. Nc3
Bc5 24. Qc4 Bb7 25. Qe2 O-O 26. Nf3 Bb4 27. Bc4 a5 28. h3 Bxc3 29. bxc3 Ne4 30.
Bb3 Nxc3 31. Qd2 Nb6 32. Ne5 a4 33. Bc2 Nbd5 34. Qd3 f5 35. Ng6 Rf7 36. a3 Rfc7
37. Bg3 Ne4 38. Bxa4 Kh7 39. Ne5 Nf4 40. Qe3 Rc1+ 41. Kh2 Nh5 42. Bh4 R8c3 43.
Nd3 Rb1 44. Qd4 Rxa3 45. Bc2 Rf1 46. f3 Raa1 47. Ne1 Rc1 48. fxe4 Rfxe1 49.
Bxe1 Rxc2 50. Bd2 Bxe4 51. Kg1 Nf6 52. g4 Nd5 53. gxf5 Bxf5 54. h4 Ra2 55. Bc1
Re2 56. Bb2 Nf6 57. Qb6 Nh5 58. Ba3 Nf4 59. Qc7 Rg2+ 60. Kf1 Bd3+ 61. Ke1 Re2+
62. Kd1 Bc2+ 0-1

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.21"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Porper, Edward"]
[Black "Shabalov, Alex"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A85"]
[WhiteElo "2468"]
[BlackElo "2567"]
[PlyCount "56"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 e6 2. c4 b6 3. a3 f5 4. Nc3 Nf6 5. Nf3 Ba6 6. b3 c6 7. d5 cxd5 8. cxd5
Bd6 9. Bb2 O-O 10. e3 Bxf1 11. Kxf1 Qe7 12. Qd3 e5 13. Qxf5 Na6 14. b4 e4 15.
Nd2 Rae8 16. Ke2 Be5 17. Rhc1 g6 18. Qg5 Qf7 19. Qh4 Nxd5 20. Nd1 Bxb2 21. Nxb2
Nac7 22. Nd1 Qf5 23. Nb3 Ne6 24. Ra2 a5 25. bxa5 Ndf4+ 26. exf4 Qb5+ 27. Kd2
Qxb3 28. Nc3 Nxf4 0-1

[Event "2017JohnSchleinich"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "1.7"]
[White "Zhao, Ian"]
[Black "Sharma, Vishruth"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1803"]
[BlackElo "1653"]
[PlyCount "51"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. c3 Nf6 5. d3 O-O 6. O-O Bb6 7. h3 d6 8. Bb3
Be6 9. Bc2 Nd7 10. Ng5 h6 11. Nxe6 fxe6 12. Nd2 Qh4 13. Nf3 Qg3 14. d4 Qg6 15.
Be3 Rf7 16. Kh2 Raf8 17. b4 a6 18. a4 d5 19. b5 exd4 20. bxc6 dxe3 21. cxd7
exf2 22. a5 Bc5 23. Qd3 Rxd7 24. e5 Qf5 25. Qxf5 exf5 26. Bb3 1-0

[Event "2017MOK"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "3.6"]
[White "Dave, Bhavik"]
[Black "Sharma, Vishruth"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1834"]
[BlackElo "1608"]
[PlyCount "63"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]
[TimeControl "30+30"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. f4 O-O 6. Nf3 c5 7. d5 a6 8. Be2 e6
9. O-O exd5 10. exd5 Re8 11. Bd3 Nbd7 12. f5 Nf8 13. Qc2 Bd7 14. Bf4 Qc7 15. a4
Rab8 16. fxg6 hxg6 17. Ng5 Nh5 18. Nxf7 Nxf4 (18... Kxf7) 19. Rxf4 Re7 20. Bxg6
Be8 21. Raf1 b6 22. Bh5 Rb7 23. Nh6+ Bxh6 24. Rxf8+ Bxf8 25. Bxe8 Rxe8 26. Qg6+
Qg7 27. Qxe8 Re7 28. Qh5 Qd4+ 29. Kh1 Qxc4 30. Qg6+ Bg7 31. Qf5 Re8 32. Qf7+
1-0

[Event "2017JohnSclenich"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "2.7"]
[White "Dodd, Mark"]
[Black "Sharma, Vishruth"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1686"]
[BlackElo "1541"]
[PlyCount "82"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. h3 O-O 6. Bg5 c5 7. d5 Nbd7 8. Qd2
Re8 9. Bd3 Ne5 10. Nge2 Nxd3+ 11. Qxd3 h6 12. Be3 Kh7 13. Rb1 Nd7 14. f4 Qa5
15. O-O a6 16. Kh1 Rb8 17. Bd2 b5 18. Nxb5 Qxa2 19. Nbc3 Qb3 20. Nc1 Qb6 21. g4
Qd8 22. N1e2 a5 23. Nb5 Ba6 24. Bc3 Bxb5 25. cxb5 Qb6 (25... Rb6) 26. Bxg7 Kxg7
27. Nc3 Rec8 28. Rbe1 c4 29. Qf3 (29. Qg3) 29... Nc5 30. f5 Nd3 31. f6+ Kh7 32.
fxe7 Ne5 33. Qf6 Re8 34. h4 Rb7 35. h5 Rbxe7 36. g5 hxg5 37. h6 Kxh6 38. Re3
Qxe3 39. Qxd6 Qh3+ 40. Kg1 Qg4+ 41. Kf2 Nd3+ 0-1

[Event "2017MOK"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "3.6"]
[White "Dave, Bhavik"]
[Black "Sharma, Vishruth"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1834"]
[BlackElo "1608"]
[PlyCount "37"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]
[TimeControl "90+30"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 (3. Nf3 Bg7 4. e4 d6) 3... Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. f4 O-O 6.
Nf3 c5 (6... a5 7. d5 c6 8. Be2 e6 9. O-O exd5 10. cxd5 Re8 11. Bd3 Nbd7 12. f5
Nf8 13. Qc2 Bd7 14. Bf4 Qc7) 7. d5 a6 (7... e6 8. Be2) 8. Be2 e6 9. O-O exd5
10. exd5 Re8 11. Bd3 Nbd7 12. f5 Nf8 13. Bf4 Qc7 14. a4 Rb8 15. fxg6 hxg6 16.
Ng5 Nh5 17. Nxf7 Nxf4 18. Rxf4 Re7 19. Bxg6 1-0

[Event "2017 Canadian Open"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.07.13"]
[Round "6"]
[White "Cherniaev, Alexander"]
[Black "Shi, Diwen"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B23"]
[WhiteElo "2426"]
[BlackElo "2293"]
[PlyCount "62"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nc3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nd4 4. Bc4 g6 5. Nf3 Bg7 6. Nxd4 cxd4 7. Qf3 Nh6 (
7... Nf6 8. e5 dxc3) 8. Ne2 Qc7 9. d3 O-O 10. Nxd4 Ng4 11. Nb5 Qc5 12. Qxg4 d5
13. Qg5 Bf5 14. exf5 dxc4 15. f6 Qb4+ 16. c3 exf6 17. cxb4 fxg5 18. dxc4 Rfc8
19. c5 a5 20. Nd6 Rc7 21. Bxg5 Bxb2 22. Rb1 Bc3+ 23. Ke2 axb4 24. Be3 Rxa2+ 25.
Kf3 Rd7 26. Ne4 f5 27. Nxc3 bxc3 28. Rhc1 c2 29. Rb3 Rd1 30. Ke2 (30. Rxb7 Rxc1
31. Bxc1 Ra1 32. c6 Rxc1 33. c7 Rb1) 30... h5 31. Rxc2 Rxc2+ 1-0

[Event "2017JohnSchleinich"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "1.11"]
[White "Stacey, George"]
[Black "Shoeb, Mashad Bin"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "984"]
[PlyCount "26"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Bf4 d5 3. e3 c5 4. dxc5 Nc6 5. c3 e5 6. Bg3 Bxc5 7. Nd2 O-O 8.
Ngf3 Re8 9. Bb5 Bg4 10. h3 Bh5 11. Be2 d4 12. cxd4 exd4 13. Nxd4 Nxd4 0-1

[Event "2017MOK"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "4.7"]
[White "Zhao, Ian"]
[Black "Sklenka, Steve"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1859"]
[BlackElo "1637"]
[PlyCount "79"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]
[TimeControl "90+30"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nxe5 d6 4. Nf3 Nxe4 5. d4 d5 6. Bd3 Be7 7. O-O O-O 8.
Re1 Bf5 9. c3 Re8 10. Qc2 Bd6 11. Be3 Bg6 12. Nbd2 Nxd2 13. Bxd2 Bxd3 14. Qxd3
f6 15. Qb5 Rxe1+ 16. Rxe1 Kf8 17. Qxb7 Nd7 18. Qxd5 Rb8 19. b3 Nb6 20. Qf5 (20.
Qg5) 20... Kg8 21. c4 Bf8 22. d5 Bc5 23. Bc3 Nd7 24. Kf1 Nf8 25. Qe4 Ng6 26.
Nd4 Bxd4 27. Bxd4 a6 28. f4 Qd6 29. g3 Rd8 30. Qe3 f5 31. Bc5 Qd7 32. Qe6+ Qxe6
33. Rxe6 a5 34. Ke2 Kf7 35. Kd2 h5 36. h4 Nf8 37. Bxf8 Kxf8 38. Ra6 (38. Rg6 a4
) 38... a4 39. Rxa4 c6 40. Ra5 1-0

[Event "2017MOK"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "2.9"]
[White "Khoshooei, Milad"]
[Black "Sklenka, Steve"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1304"]
[BlackElo "1637"]
[PlyCount "58"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]
[TimeControl "90+30"]

1. e4 e5 (1... c5 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nc3 Nc6 4. Bc4 Nxe4 5. Nxe4 d5 6. Bxd5 Qxd5 7.
d3 Bf5 8. O-O O-O-O 9. h3) 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. Nc3 Nc6 4. Bc4 Nxe4 5. Nxe4 d5 6. Bxd5
Qxd5 7. d3 Bc5 8. O-O O-O 9. h3 Bb6 10. Nfg5 f6 11. Nc3 Qd8 12. Nge4 a6 13. Be3
Nd4 14. Ne2 f5 15. Bxd4 exd4 16. Nd2 c5 17. f4 Qd5 18. Ng3 Bd7 19. Qh5 Be8 20.
Qe2 Bc6 21. Rf2 Rae8 22. Qh5 Re3 23. Kh2 Bc7 24. Nc4 Re6 25. Qf3 Qd8 26. Qd1
Qd5 27. Qf3 Qd8 28. Qd1 Qh4 29. Qh5 Qf6 0-1

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.22"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Sevillano, Enrico"]
[Black "Sohal, Tanraj"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "B22"]
[WhiteElo "2566"]
[BlackElo "2386"]
[PlyCount "66"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c5 2. c3 d5 3. exd5 Qxd5 4. Nf3 Nf6 5. Na3 e6 6. Be2 Nc6 7. O-O Be7 8. d4
cxd4 9. Nb5 Qd8 10. Nbxd4 Nxd4 11. Nxd4 O-O 12. Bf4 Bc5 13. Nb3 Bb6 14. Bf3 Nd5
15. Bg3 Qg5 16. Re1 Nf4 17. Qd6 Ng6 18. a4 Nh4 19. Be4 f5 20. a5 Bxf2+ 21. Bxf2
fxe4 22. Bxh4 Qxh4 23. g3 Qd8 24. Qxd8 Rxd8 25. Rxe4 Rd6 26. Nd4 Bd7 27. Rae1
Re8 28. Re5 Kf7 29. R1e3 Kf6 30. h4 h6 31. Kf2 Rc8 32. g4 g5 33. Kg3 Rd5
1/2-1/2

[Event "2017 Alberta Active Championship"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.03.25"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Smith, Kevin"]
[Black "Superceanu, Bogdan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B37"]
[WhiteElo "1785"]
[BlackElo "1826"]
[PlyCount "42"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 g6 5. c4 Bg7 6. Nc3 Bxd4 7. Be2 d6 8.
Nb5 Bg7 9. O-O Nf6 10. f3 Qb6+ 11. Kh1 O-O 12. g4 a6 13. Nc3 Be6 14. h4 Ne5 15.
f4 Nexg4 16. Qe1 Rac8 17. Qg3 Bxc4 18. Bxc4 Rxc4 19. Nd5 Nxd5 20. exd5 h5 21.
f5 Rc2 0-1

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Robertson, Trevor"]
[Black "Tam, Erik"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A21"]
[WhiteElo "1646"]
[BlackElo "2142"]
[PlyCount "42"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Bb4 3. d3 Bxc3+ 4. bxc3 Nf6 5. g3 O-O 6. Bg2 Re8 7. Qb3 e4 8.
d4 h6 9. Be3 Nc6 10. Nh3 Na5 11. Qb4 b6 12. Nf4 Ba6 13. c5 d5 14. cxd6 cxd6 15.
O-O g5 16. Nd3 exd3 17. Bxa8 dxe2 18. Rfe1 Qxa8 19. Qxd6 Qf3 20. c4 Nxc4 21.
Qc7 Bb7 0-1

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "1"]
[White "MacDonald, Dean"]
[Black "Thiel, Rodney"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E94"]
[WhiteElo "1426"]
[BlackElo "1965"]
[PlyCount "48"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. c4 Bg7 4. Nc3 O-O 5. e4 d6 6. Be2 e5 7. dxe5 dxe5 8. O-O
Nbd7 9. Qc2 c6 10. Bg5 h6 11. Be3 Ng4 12. Bd2 Qe8 13. Ne1 Ngf6 14. f4 exf4 15.
Bxf4 Qe6 16. Rd1 Re8 17. Rd6 Qe7 18. Bf3 Ne5 19. Bxe5 Qxe5 20. Qd3 Ng4 21. Bxg4
Bxg4 22. Nf3 Qc5+ 23. Kh1 Be6 24. b3 Bxc3 0-1

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.30"]
[Round "5"]
[White "Windram, James"]
[Black "Thiel, Rodney"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C41"]
[WhiteElo "1359"]
[BlackElo "1965"]
[PlyCount "60"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. h3 Nf6 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bc4 c6 6. d3 O-O 7. Bb3 Nbd7 8. Be3
Qc7 9. Ne2 Nc5 10. Ng3 Nxb3 11. axb3 a6 12. Nh4 Nxe4 13. Nxe4 Bxh4 14. Qh5 Be7
15. Qf3 f5 16. Nc3 d5 17. Nd1 f4 18. Bd2 Bf5 19. Nc3 Bd6 20. Rg1 e4 21. dxe4
dxe4 22. Qh5 e3 23. fxe3 fxe3 24. Bxe3 Rae8 25. Kd2 Rxe3 26. Kxe3 Bc5+ 27. Kd2
Qf4+ 28. Ke1 Qf2+ 29. Kd1 Bxc2+ 30. Kc1 Be3# 0-1

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Ivanescu, Cristian"]
[Black "Thiel, Rodney"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "A48"]
[WhiteElo "1953"]
[BlackElo "1965"]
[PlyCount "46"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. Bf4 Bg7 4. h3 O-O 5. Qc1 Re8 6. Bh6 Bh8 7. e3 c5 8. c3
b6 9. Nbd2 Bb7 10. Qc2 Nc6 11. Be2 cxd4 12. exd4 Rc8 13. O-O d5 14. Qa4 a6 15.
Rfe1 b5 16. Qd1 Ne4 17. Bd3 e5 18. Nxe4 dxe4 19. Bxe4 exd4 20. Nxd4 Qh4 21.
Bxc6 Bxd4 22. Rxe8+ Rxe8 23. Bxe8 Qxf2+ 0-1

[Event "2017MOK"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "3.7"]
[White "Wang, Paul"]
[Black "Timmerman, Brian"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1296"]
[BlackElo "1754"]
[PlyCount "50"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]
[TimeControl "90+30"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. Nc3 Nc6 4. d4 cxd4 5. Nxd4 Qc7 6. Be3 a6 7. Be2 b5 8. Qd2
Bb7 9. O-O Nf6 10. Nxc6 Bxc6 11. Bf4 d6 12. f3 Be7 13. Rad1 Rd8 14. a3 O-O 15.
Qe3 Nd7 16. Rd2 Ne5 17. Rfd1 Bb7 18. Bg5 h6 19. f4 Nc4 20. Bxc4 Qxc4 21. f5 e5
22. Qd3 Rc8 23. Nd5 Bxd5 24. Qxd5 Qxd5 25. exd5 Bxg5 0-1

[Event "2017 Alberta Active Championship"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.03.25"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Koperski, Dustin"]
[Black "Valencia, Belsar"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B21"]
[WhiteElo "1760"]
[BlackElo "2380"]
[PlyCount "118"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c5 2. d4 cxd4 3. c3 d3 4. Bxd3 d6 5. c4 e6 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. O-O Nf6 8. h3
Be7 9. Be3 O-O 10. Nc3 b6 11. Rc1 Bb7 12. Qe2 Rc8 13. b3 Nd7 14. Rfd1 Nde5 15.
Nxe5 dxe5 16. Bb1 Qc7 17. Nb5 Qb8 18. Rd7 Rfd8 19. Rcd1 Rxd7 20. Rxd7 a6 21.
Nc3 Rd8 22. Qd2 Qc8 23. Rxd8+ Qxd8 24. Qxd8+ Bxd8 {Queens and rooks have just
come off down the open d-file. Ostensibly, white is better, with a
three-on-two majority on the queenside and perfect pawns. The computer agrees,
putting white's advantage at >0.4. Black, however, has the advantage of 600
rating points.} 25. Na4 Nd4 {One knight goes to the side of the board, while
the other heads to the center, where it's hard to remove without giving black
the advantage of a passed pawn or bishop pair.} 26. f3 Bc6 27. Nc3 Be7 28. Kf2
Bc5 29. Ne2 f6 30. Nc1 a5 31. Nd3 Ba3 32. Ne1 Kf7 33. Nc2 Bc5 34. Ne1 Ke7 35.
Nd3 {The same position as 31. Nd3, except black has moved his King from g8 to
e7. White, meanwhile, is in the middle of moving his knight 13 times in a row.}
Ba3 36. Ne1 Bb4 37. Nc2 Bc5 {Not quite a repeat of the position, though white
is certainly trying to force a draw by repetition here.} 38. Ne1 Kd6 39. Nd3
Ba3 40. Ne1 g6 41. Nc2 Nxc2 {Finally stopping that knight once and for all.}
42. Bxc2 Bc5 43. a3 Bxa3 44. Bxb6 Bc5+ {White offers a trade of pawns and ends
up in a same-color bishop ending. The black king's activity gives black the
smallest of advantages.} 45. Bxc5+ Kxc5 46. Ke3 f5 47. g4 f4+ 48. Kd3 Kb4 {
White has several moves to hold the draw--namely shutting down the kingside
with either h4 or g5, or shuffling the bishop back and forth from c2-d1. Black
continues pushing for the win, however, and after many bishop moves, White
makes a critical mistake. Believing his kingside to be in danger, White moves
his bishop from the c2-d1 diagonal to oppose black's bishop--however, in doing
so he loses the opposition. at this point, the players were no longer writing
moves due to time pressure (this was an active game), thus the following is a
condensed recreation, excluding many of the bishop moves:} 49. Bd1 h5 50. Bc2
h4 51. Bd1 g5 52. Kd2 a4 53. bxa4 Kxc4 54. Bc2 Kb4 55. Bd1 Bb7 56. Bc2 Bc8 57.
Bd1 Ba6 58. Be2 $4 Bxe2 59. Kxe2 Kxa4 {And black has the opposition. White
resigns a few moves later.} 0-1

[Event "Alberta Closed"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.16"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Haessel, Dale"]
[Black "Valencia, Belsar"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E92"]
[WhiteElo "2284"]
[BlackElo "2380"]
[PlyCount "122"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. h3 O-O 6. Nf3 e5 7. d5 a5 8. Bg5 Na6
9. Be2 Nc5 10. Nd2 c6 11. Qc2 Bd7 12. g4 a4 13. Be3 Qa5 14. g5 Ne8 15. Bg4 f5
16. gxf6 Nxf6 17. f3 Be8 18. h4 cxd5 19. Nxd5 Nxd5 20. exd5 a3 21. Ke2 axb2 22.
Rab1 e4 23. Nxe4 Ba4 24. Qd2 Qa6 25. Nxc5 dxc5 26. Be6+ Kh8 27. Rxb2 Qxc4+ 28.
Kf2 b5 29. h5 g5 30. Bxg5 Qd4+ 31. Be3 Qxb2 32. Qxb2 Bxb2 33. Bxc5 Rac8 34.
Bxf8 Rxf8 35. Ke3 Kg7 36. Bd7 Be5 37. Rb1 Rb8 38. Rb4 Kf6 39. f4 Bd6 40. Re4
Bc5+ 41. Kd3 Bd1 42. Re6+ Kf7 43. Rc6 Be7 44. Be6+ Kf8 45. h6 Rd8 46. Ke4 Bd6
47. Rc1 Ba4 48. Rg1 Bc2+ 49. Kd4 Ke7 50. Rg7+ Kf6 51. f5 Ra8 52. Rxh7 Ra4+ 53.
Kc3 Rc4+ 54. Kd2 Bf4+ 55. Ke2 Be4 56. Rf7+ Ke5 57. h7 Rc2+ 58. Kf1 Rh2 59. Kg1
Rh5 60. Rg7 Be3+ 61. Kf1 Bf3 0-1

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.24"]
[Round "8"]
[White "Matras-Clement, Agnieszka"]
[Black "Valencia, Belsar"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B22"]
[WhiteElo "2305"]
[BlackElo "2373"]
[PlyCount "64"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c5 2. c3 d5 3. exd5 Qxd5 4. d4 Nf6 5. Nf3 e6 6. Bd3 Be7 7. Be3 cxd4 8.
cxd4 Nc6 9. Nc3 Qd6 10. O-O O-O 11. a3 b6 12. Qe2 Bb7 13. Rad1 Rad8 14. Rfe1
Qb8 15. Bb1 Nd5 16. Ng5 g6 17. Qg4 Nxe3 18. fxe3 f5 19. Qh4 Bxg5 20. Qxg5 Kg7
21. Ba2 h6 22. Qh4 g5 23. Qh5 Qd6 24. Nb5 Qe7 25. e4 f4 26. e5 f3 27. Rf1 Nxe5
28. Bb1 fxg2 29. Rxf8 Rxf8 30. Rc1 Qf6 31. Qe2 Nf3+ 32. Kxg2 Nxd4+ 0-1

[Event "Alberta Closed"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.15"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Banerjee, Bitan"]
[Black "Valencia, Belsar"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A45"]
[WhiteElo "2434"]
[BlackElo "2380"]
[PlyCount "89"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Bg5 c5 3. d5 Ne4 4. Bf4 d6 5. f3 Nf6 6. e4 g6 7. Nc3 a6 8. a4 b6
9. Qd2 Nbd7 10. Nh3 Ne5 11. Nf2 h5 12. Be2 Bg7 13. Be3 Qc7 14. g3 Bb7 15. h3
Ned7 16. Rd1 h4 17. g4 Nh7 18. f4 g5 19. fxg5 Nhf8 20. Nd3 Ng6 21. O-O Nde5 22.
Nf4 Nxf4 23. Rxf4 Ng6 24. Rf2 Be5 25. Nb1 Rh7 26. c3 Rb8 27. Na3 Bc8 28. Qc2
Rg7 29. Rff1 Bg3 30. Bd3 Ne5 31. Qe2 Ra8 32. Nc4 Ng6 33. Bc1 b5 34. Na3 c4 35.
Bb1 Bd7 36. axb5 axb5 37. Nc2 Ne5 38. Nd4 Ra1 39. Be3 e6 40. Qd2 exd5 41. exd5
Rxb1 42. Rxb1 Qb7 43. Qg2 Nd3 44. Ra1 Be5 45. Nc6 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.06.21"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Shabalov, Alex"]
[Black "Valencia, Belsar"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B50"]
[WhiteElo "2587"]
[BlackElo "2373"]
[PlyCount "75"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 e6 3. Nc3 a6 4. g3 Nc6 5. Bg2 d6 6. O-O Nf6 7. d3 Be7 8. Ng5
O-O 9. f4 Rb8 10. Kh1 Bd7 11. Be3 b5 12. Bg1 Ne8 13. Nf3 Nc7 14. Qd2 b4 15. Nd1
d5 16. Ne3 dxe4 17. dxe4 Bc8 18. Qf2 Nb5 19. g4 Nbd4 20. Rfd1 Qc7 21. Nd2 Bb7
22. h4 Rbd8 23. Bh2 Na5 24. Rac1 Nb5 25. h5 c4 26. h6 c3 27. hxg7 Rfe8 28. bxc3
Nxc3 29. Re1 Bc5 30. g5 Rxd2 31. Qxd2 Rd8 32. Qf2 Nc4 33. f5 e5 34. g6 fxg6 35.
fxg6 Nxe3 36. gxh7+ Kxh7 37. Qh4+ Kxg7 38. Bf3 1-0

[Event "?"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.26"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Chao, Lucy"]
[Black "Wang, Jeff"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B76"]
[WhiteElo "1459"]
[BlackElo "1870"]
[PlyCount "50"]
[EventDate "2017.04.26"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3 Bg7 7. f3 O-O 8. Qd2
Nc6 9. O-O-O {So far identical to Shi-Zita, but this one turns out quite
differently.} d5 10. exd5 Nxd5 11. Nxc6 bxc6 12. Nxd5 cxd5 13. Qxd5 Qc7 {
A known rook sac. White can take it, but she'll have to give up her queen for
two rooks and a pawn and fend off a big attack.} 14. Qxa8 Bf5 15. Qxf8+ Kxf8
16. Rd2 {Precise, and giving an equal score. Incorrect is 16. c3, which loses
material to Bxc3. Unfavorable is 16. Bd3, when 16. ...Qe5 flushes the king out
of hiding.} h5 {Allowing the f5 bishop to remain on its attacking diagonal.}
17. Be2 Qb8 18. b3 Qc7 19. Rhd1 Kg8 {Avoiding the backrank mate} 20. Bc4 Kh7
21. h3 Qa5 22. Kb1 {White has played carfeully so far, but this moves walks
into line with the f5 bishop while limiting the King's escaping ability. A
pretty, forced mate follows.} Qc3 23. Bd4 Bxd4 24. Rxd4 Qxc2+ 25. Ka1 Qc3# 0-1

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Ludwig, Michael"]
[Black "Wang, Kaixin"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "A12"]
[WhiteElo "1933"]
[BlackElo "1971"]
[PlyCount "33"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. c4 c6 2. Nf3 Nf6 3. b3 d5 4. cxd5 cxd5 5. e3 Nc6 6. Bb2 Bf5 7. Nh4 Bg4 8.
Be2 Bxe2 9. Qxe2 e5 10. Nf3 Bd6 11. O-O O-O 12. d3 a6 13. Nbd2 Qc7 14. e4 d4
15. Nc4 Be7 16. Rac1 b5 17. Ncxe5 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Chandra, Anand Rishi"]
[Black "Wang, Kaixin"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B52"]
[WhiteElo "1971"]
[BlackElo "1657"]
[PlyCount "52"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. Bb5+ Bd7 4. Bxd7+ Nxd7 5. O-O g6 6. c3 Ngf6 7. Re1 Bg7 8.
d4 cxd4 9. cxd4 e5 10. Nc3 O-O 11. h3 Qb6 12. dxe5 Nxe5 13. Nd4 Rfe8 14. Ndb5
Nc4 15. Be3 Nxe3 16. Rxe3 Rad8 17. a4 a6 18. a5 Qc5 19. Na3 Qxa5 20. Nc4 Qc5
21. Na5 Qb6 22. Nc4 Qc7 23. Qb3 Nxe4 24. Nd5 Qc5 25. Ra4 b5 26. Na3 bxa4 0-1

[Event "2017MOk"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "4.9"]
[White "Darvekar, Yash"]
[Black "Wang, Paul"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1153"]
[BlackElo "1246"]
[PlyCount "125"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]
[TimeControl "90+30"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Bxc6 dxc6 5. O-O Bd6 6. d4 exd4 7. Nxd4 Nf6 8.
e5 c5 9. Nf3 Bg4 10. exd6 cxd6 11. h3 Bh5 12. Bg5 h6 13. Bh4 g5 14. Bg3 g4 15.
Re1+ Kf8 16. Bxd6+ Kg7 17. hxg4 Bxg4 18. Re3 Rc8 (18... Rb8) 19. Nc3 Qb6 20.
Ne4 Rcd8 21. Rb3 Qc6 22. Ne5 Qxe4 23. f3 Qd4+ 24. Qxd4 cxd4 25. Be7 Be6 26.
Bxd8 Bxb3 27. Bxf6+ Kxf6 28. Ng4+ Kg5 29. axb3 Rc8 30. Ra5+ Kg6 31. Ne5+ Kg7
32. Rd5 Rxc2 33. Rxd4 Rxb2 34. b4 b5 35. Nd3 Rd2 36. Rg4+ Kf6 37. Nc5 Ra2 38.
Rf4+ Kg5 39. Rxf7 Kh4 40. Ra7 Kg3 41. Rxa6 Rb2 42. Ne4+ Kf4 43. Rxh6 Rxb4 44.
Nc3 Rb3 45. Rh4+ Kg5 46. Rg4+ Kf5 47. Ne2 Rb1+ 48. Kf2 b4 49. Nd4+ Kf6 50. Ke2
Rc1 51. Nb3 Rc2+ 52. Kf1 Rb2 53. Rxb4 Kf5 54. Nd4+ Kf4 55. Rxb2 Kg3 56. Rb6 Kf4
57. g4 Kg5 58. f4+ Kxg4 59. f5 Kf4 60. f6 Kg4 61. f7 Kh5 62. f8=Q Kg4 63. Rg6+
1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Kalisvaart, Peter"]
[Black "Wei, Daniel"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D18"]
[WhiteElo "2076"]
[BlackElo "1721"]
[PlyCount "45"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Nf3 dxc4 5. a4 Bf5 6. e3 h6 7. Bxc4 e6 8. O-O
Nbd7 9. Qe2 Bg6 10. e4 Bb4 11. d5 e5 12. dxc6 bxc6 13. Nh4 Bh5 14. f3 Nb6 15.
Nf5 O-O 16. Rd1 Qc8 17. a5 Nxc4 18. Qxc4 Rb8 19. Ra4 Qb7 (19... Bxc3 20. Ne7+)
20. a6 Qb6+ 21. Be3 c5 22. Na2 Qc6 23. Ne7+ 1-0

[Event "2017 Red Deer Open"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.05.14"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Chandra, Anand Rishi"]
[Black "White, Chris"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C10"]
[WhiteElo "1747"]
[BlackElo "1710"]
[PlyCount "49"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 dxe4 4. Nxe4 Nd7 5. Nf3 Ngf6 6. Nxf6+ Nxf6 7. c3 Be7
8. Bd3 O-O 9. O-O b6 10. Qc2 Bb7 11. Ne1 Qd5 12. f3 c5 13. Be3 Qh5 14. Be2 Nd5
15. Bc1 cxd4 16. cxd4 Rac8 17. Qd1 Rc7 18. f4 Qg6 19. Bh5 Qf6 20. Rf3 Bb4 21.
Rg3 Bxe1 22. Qxe1 Qxd4+ 23. Kh1 Nxf4 24. Be3 Qf6 (24... Nxg2 25. Bxd4 Nxe1+ 26.
Kg1) 25. Qb4 0-1

[Event "2017JohnSchleinich"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "3.6"]
[White "Daniluk, Jim"]
[Black "Willis, Brad"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1995"]
[BlackElo "1961"]
[PlyCount "86"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 f5 2. Nc3 d5 3. e4 dxe4 4. Bc4 Nf6 5. Nh3 e6 6. Nf4 Qe7 7. d5 e5 8. Bb5+
Kf7 9. Nh3 h6 10. Bc4 Qc5 11. Qe2 a6 12. Be3 Qa5 13. Bd2 Qc5 14. b4 Qd6 15. O-O
g5 16. Kh1 Kg7 17. Rad1 Qd8 18. Nb1 Bd6 19. Bb3 Qe7 20. a3 Nbd7 21. c4 b6 22.
Bc3 Nf8 23. Qb2 Ng6 24. Rfe1 Bd7 25. Nd2 Rae8 26. Nf1 f4 27. Ng1 Bf5 28. f3 e3
29. Bc2 Bxc2 30. Qxc2 e4 31. Bd4 Be5 32. fxe4 Bxd4 33. Rxd4 Nxe4 (33... Ne5 34.
h3) 34. h3 Qe5 35. Nf3 Qe7 36. Qb2 Kf7 37. d6 cxd6 38. Qb3 Kf8 39. Rd5 Qf6 40.
Nd4 Re5 41. Nf3 Rxd5 42. cxd5 Nh4 43. Nd4 Qxd4 0-1

[Event "2017JohnSchleinich"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "1.4"]
[White "Rogers, Dustin"]
[Black "Willis, Brad"]
[Result "*"]
[WhiteElo "1853"]
[BlackElo "1951"]
[PlyCount "29"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 a6 4. Ba4 Nf6 5. O-O Be7 6. d3 b5 7. Bb3 d6 8. a4 b4
9. a5 O-O 10. h3 Bb7 11. Bg5 Ne8 12. Be3 Qd7 13. Nbd2 Kh8 14. g4 Nd8 15. d4 *

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Darvekar, Yash"]
[Black "Windram, James"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "B22"]
[WhiteElo "1358"]
[BlackElo "1486"]
[PlyCount "64"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. c3 d5 4. exd5 Qxd5 5. d4 Bg4 6. Be2 e6 7. O-O Nf6 8. Be3
cxd4 9. cxd4 Bb4 10. Nc3 Bxc3 11. bxc3 O-O 12. c4 Qd6 13. Rb1 b6 14. c5 bxc5
15. dxc5 Qc7 16. Ba6 Rab8 17. Qe2 Ne5 18. Bf4 Nxf3+ 19. Qxf3 Qxc5 20. Qg3 Rxb1
21. Rxb1 Rd8 22. Be5 Qc2 23. Rf1 Qg6 24. Bxf6 gxf6 25. Qc7 Rd2 26. Qxa7 Rxa2
27. Qb8+ Kg7 28. Bc4 Rc2 29. Qb5 Bh3 30. Qc6 Rxc4 31. Qf3 Bxg2 32. Qg3 Qxg3 0-1

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Guevarra, Alvin"]
[Black "Windram, James"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D24"]
[WhiteElo "1917"]
[BlackElo "1359"]
[PlyCount "101"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 d5 2. Nf3 Bf5 3. c4 dxc4 4. Nc3 Nf6 5. e3 Nbd7 6. Bxc4 e6 7. O-O Be7 8.
h3 O-O 9. Nh4 Be4 10. Nxe4 Nxe4 11. Nf3 Ndf6 12. Qb3 Rb8 13. Rd1 c6 14. a4 Kh8
15. Ne5 Nd6 16. Be2 Qc7 17. Bd2 Rbd8 18. Rac1 Nd5 19. Bf3 Qb6 20. Qc2 Bf6 21.
a5 Qc7 22. Nc4 Nxc4 23. Qxc4 Ne7 24. b4 Qd6 25. b5 Rc8 26. Bb4 Qc7 27. d5 exd5
28. Bxd5 Rcd8 29. Bxf7 Rxd1+ 30. Rxd1 h6 31. Be6 Rd8 32. Rc1 Ng6 33. Qe4 Ne5
34. Bb3 g5 35. Qf5 Qg7 36. bxc6 Nxc6 37. Be1 Ne5 38. Rc8 Rxc8 39. Qxc8+ Kh7 40.
f4 Ng6 41. Bc2 gxf4 42. exf4 Bd4+ 43. Kh1 Qe7 44. Bc3 Bxc3 45. Qxc3 Qf7 46. f5
Nf8 47. Bb3 Qd7 48. h4 Qg7 49. f6 Qd7 (49... Qh8 50. Qd3+ Ng6) 50. Qg3 Ng6 51.
h5 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Ng, Gary"]
[Black "Young, Joseph"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D02"]
[WhiteElo "2335"]
[BlackElo "1789"]
[PlyCount "63"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. g3 Nc6 3. d4 d5 4. Bg2 Bf5 5. O-O e6 6. c4 Be7 7. cxd5 exd5 8.
Nc3 Nb4 9. Bf4 O-O 10. a3 Na6 11. b4 Ne4 12. Rc1 c6 13. Qb3 Nxc3 14. Rxc3 Bd7
15. Ne5 Be8 16. b5 cxb5 17. Bxd5 Qb6 18. Rb1 g5 19. Be3 Kg7 20. Bg2 f6 21. Nd3
Rd8 22. d5 Qa5 23. Bxa7 Ra8 24. Bd4 Bd6 25. Be4 Kh6 26. f4 gxf4 27. gxf4 Bg6
28. Qxb5 Qd8 29. Qb2 Rh8 30. f5 Bh5 31. Qd2+ Kg7 32. Qg5+ 1-0

[Event "2017 Edmonton International Qualifier"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.29"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Robertson, Trevor"]
[Black "Young, Joseph"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "D37"]
[WhiteElo "1664"]
[BlackElo "1789"]
[PlyCount "88"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. Nc3 Be7 5. e3 O-O 6. Bd3 b6 7. cxd5 exd5 8. Bd2
Bb7 9. Qc2 c5 10. O-O Nbd7 11. Rac1 c4 12. Bf5 g6 13. Bh3 Bb4 14. b3 Bxc3 15.
Bxc3 Ba6 16. Rfe1 Re8 17. g3 Ne4 18. bxc4 Bxc4 19. Bxd7 Qxd7 20. Ne5 Qf5 21.
Nxc4 dxc4 22. Re2 Qf3 23. Be1 Ng5 24. h4 Ne4 25. Qd1 Nd6 26. Rec2 Qe4 27. Bb4
Nf5 28. Rc3 b5 29. a4 a6 30. axb5 axb5 31. Ra1 h6 32. Rca3 Rad8 33. Rb1 g5 34.
hxg5 hxg5 35. f3 Qe6 36. Ba5 Rb8 37. d5 Qd6 38. f4 Qxa3 39. e4 Qxg3+ 40. Kh1
Kg7 41. Bc3+ f6 42. Bxf6+ Kg6 43. e5 Kf7 44. fxg5 Rh8+ 0-1

[Event "2017 Alberta Youth"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.02.26"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Ivanescu, Mark"]
[Black "Zhao, Ian"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "A48"]
[WhiteElo "1709"]
[BlackElo "1836"]
[PlyCount "56"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. Bf4 Bg7 4. e3 d6 5. Bd3 O-O 6. Nbd2 c5 7. c3 b6 8. Qc2
Bb7 9. O-O Nbd7 10. Rfe1 Re8 11. Bc4 e5 12. dxe5 dxe5 13. Bg3 h6 $4 {Both
sides must have missed the pin on the f-pawn, because this game would be lost
after 14. Qxg6} 14. e4 a6 15. a4 Qe7 16. Qb3 Bc6 17. Nxe5 Nxe5 18. Bxe5 Qb7 {
White wins a pawn. If 18. ...Qxe5, things get complicated, with the computer
eventually settling on a 0.0 score.} (18... Qxe5 19. Bxf7+ Kh7 20. Bxe8 Qxe8
21. Qxb6 Rb8) 19. Bxf6 Bxf6 20. Bd5 Rad8 21. Bxc6 (21. c4 {Positionally better.
This wedges the light squared bishop into the d5 outpost, where it can't be
removed without giving white a passed pawn.}) 21... Qxc6 22. Qc2 Re6 23. Rad1
Qc7 24. Nc4 Rde8 25. f3 Qf4 26. Qd2 Qxd2 27. Rxd2 Bg5 28. Rd7 f5 {And white
agrees to a draw. It looks as though black is winning his pawn back, but the
computer evaulates this position at nearly +3 with the following:} (28... f5
29. Rb7 fxe4 30. Rxb6 e3 31. Rxe6 Rxe6 {The e-pawn eventually falls, leaving
white up two pawns with little counterplay from black.}) 1/2-1/2

[Event "217MOK"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "5.3"]
[White "Kobalenko, Jerry"]
[Black "Zhao, Ian"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2211"]
[BlackElo "1859"]
[PlyCount "65"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]
[TimeControl "90"]

1. Nf3 Nf6 2. g3 g6 3. Bg2 Bg7 4. c4 O-O 5. O-O d6 6. d4 c5 7. Nc3 Bg4 8. h3
Bxf3 9. Bxf3 Qb6 10. dxc5 dxc5 11. Be3 Nbd7 12. b3 Rfd8 13. Qc2 Rac8 14. Rad1
e6 15. Bg2 a6 16. g4 Qc7 17. f4 b6 18. f5 gxf5 19. gxf5 e5 20. Bg5 Re8 21. Nd5
Nxd5 22. Bxd5 Nf6 23. e4 b5 24. Qg2 Kh8 25. Kh1 h6 26. Bh4 Rg8 27. Rg1 Kh7 28.
Qf3 Rcf8 29. Rxg7+ Kxg7 30. Rg1+ Kh7 31. Bxf6 Rxg1+ 32. Kxg1 Rg8+ 33. Kh2 1-0

[Event "2017MOK"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "3.4"]
[White "Ebrahim-Shirazi, Behrooz"]
[Black "Zhao, Ian"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2081"]
[BlackElo "1859"]
[PlyCount "140"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]
[TimeControl "90+30"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Be2 O-O 6. Bg5 h6 7. Be3 a6 8. Qd2
Kh7 9. h4 Ng4 10. Bxg4 Bxg4 11. h5 g5 12. f3 Bd7 13. Nge2 Nc6 14. O-O e5 15. d5
Ne7 16. g4 Qe8 17. Ng3 b5 18. c5 dxc5 19. Bxc5 Nc8 20. Rac1 Nd6 21. b3 Bf6 22.
Nd1 Be7 23. Qc3 f6 24. Bb4 Rc8 25. Ne3 Rf7 26. Rfd1 Qf8 27. a3 Kh8 28. Qd2 Kh7
29. Rc2 Nb7 30. Rdc1 Bxb4 31. Qxb4 Qd8 32. Ngf5 Be8 33. Kg2 Bd7 34. a4 a5 35.
Qa3 b4 36. Qb2 Be8 37. Rd2 Nd6 38. Rc5 Nb7 39. Rcc2 Nd6 40. Qc1 Bd7 41. Nxd6
cxd6 42. Rxc8 Bxc8 43. Rc2 Ba6 44. Nf5 Rd7 45. Kg3 Bb7 46. Qg1 Ba8 47. Qf1 Bb7
48. Qb5 Bc8 49. Qb8 Ba6 50. Qxd8 Rxd8 51. Rc7+ Kh8 52. Kf2 Bc8 53. Nxd6 Rxd6
54. Rxc8+ Kg7 55. Rc5 Ra6 56. Ke2 Kf7 57. Kd3 Ke7 58. Kc4 Kd7 59. Kb5 Ra7 60.
Rc6 Ke7 61. Kb6 Ra8 62. Kb7 Rd8 63. Rc5 Kd6 64. Rc6+ Ke7 65. Re6+ Kf7 66. Kc7
Rg8 67. Rb6 Ke7 68. Rb8 Rg6 69. Rh8 Kf7 70. d6 Ke6 1-0

[Event "2017JohnSchlenich"]
[Site "Calgary"]
[Date "2017.??.??"]
[Round "3.7"]
[White "Papneja, Arul"]
[Black "Zhao, Ian"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "1457"]
[BlackElo "1803"]
[PlyCount "68"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 Bc5 5. Nb3 Bb6 6. Nc3 Nf6 7. Bg5 d6 8.
Bb5 h6 9. Bh4 Bd7 10. Qe2 a6 11. Bc4 g5 12. Bg3 Qe7 13. O-O-O O-O-O 14. Rhe1
Ne5 15. Bxe5 dxe5 16. Nd5 Nxd5 17. exd5 f6 18. Rd2 Qd6 19. Kb1 Kb8 20. f3 Rde8
21. Qd1 f5 22. Rde2 Ba7 23. Nd2 Re7 24. Bb3 b5 25. c4 Rhe8 26. Qc2 Bc5 27. h3
Rf8 28. g4 Bd4 29. Rc1 c5 30. a3 Ree8 31. Ba2 Rc8 32. Qb3 Ka7 33. Ka1 Rb8 34.
Qd3 Bxb2+ 0-1

[Event "2017 Alberta Youth"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.02.25"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Shi, Diwen"]
[Black "Zita, Matthew"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B76"]
[WhiteElo "2277"]
[BlackElo "1719"]
[PlyCount "53"]
[EventDate "2017.04.24"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3 Bg7 7. f3 O-O 8. Qd2
Nc6 9. O-O-O Bd7 10. g4 Rc8 11. h4 Ne5 12. Be2 a6 $2 {The first new move in an
otherwise familiar position. 12. ...Nc4 would win the bishop pair at the cost
of allowing white to further his pawn storm on the kingside, while 12. ...h5,
which scores quite well for black, would attempt to shut down white's attack.}
13. h5 Nc4 14. Bxc4 Rxc4 {Black gets the bishop pair, but too late.} 15. Kb1 b5
16. Nb3 (16. e5 $1 dxe5 17. Nb3 Rc8 18. g5 {and black can't hold on to both
knight and bishop. Attempting it with 17. ...Rb7 loses even more material
after 18. Bb6}) 16... a5 17. Bh6 Bxh6 18. Qxh6 {Threatening to open the h-file,
followed by Nd5 or g5 and a black must lose a knight to avoid checkmate.} Rxc3
19. bxc3 Qc7 20. Qd2 $2 (20. hxg6 {Winning.} fxg6 21. g5 Nh5 22. Rxh5 $1 {
If black recaptures, the King chase is on, with the white Queen capturing
pawns with check and the rook on d1 sliding over to assist in an eventual mate.
} gxh5 23. g6 hxg6 24. Qxg6+ Kh8 25. Qxh5+ Kg7 26. Rg1+ Kf6 27. Rg6+ Kf7 28.
Rh6+ Kg8 29. Qg6# {The actual move, 20. Qd2, allows black to cling to life.})
20... Be6 {Logical was a4, continuing the queenside pawn storm.} 21. Nd4 Bc4
22. Ka1 e6 23. Qg5 Nd7 $2 24. Qe7 {An uncomfotable pin for black} e5 25. hxg6
hxg6 {Allowing mate in 3} 26. Qh4 Kg7 27. Nf5+ {Black resigns with mate on the
next move regardless} 1-0

[Event "2017 Alberta Seniors Championship"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2017.04.08"]
[Round "3"]
[White "Seehagen, Terry"]
[Black "Purewal, Sardul"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C15"]
[WhiteElo "1844"]
[BlackElo "1968"]
[PlyCount "59"]
[SourceDate "2017.09.01"]

1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. a3 Bxc3+ 5. bxc3 dxe4 6. f3 exf3 7. Nxf3 Nf6 8.
Bg5 Nbd7 9. Bd3 c6 10. O-O Qa5 11. c4 c5 12. d5 Nb6 13. Ne5 Nbd7 14. Ng4 Qc3
15. dxe6 fxe6 16. Nxf6+ Nxf6 17. Bxf6 gxf6 18. Qh5+ Kd8 19. Qxc5 Bd7 20. Rad1
Rc8 21. Qxa7 Ke7 22. Qxb7 Qxa3 23. Bf5 Qc5+ 24. Kh1 Qc6 25. Qb4+ Qc5 26. Qe1
Qxc4 27. Bh3 Qc5 28. Rxd7+ Kxd7 29. Qxe6+ Kc7 30. Qd7+ 1-0

