The Canadian Open came down to the final round on July 30th, where top seed GM Alexei Shirov won his game to take first place by half a point at 8.5/10. He scored two wins and three draws against the other five grandmasters and won the rest of his games.
Second place goes to GM Illya Nyzhnyk at 8/10, and third place was shared by GM Dimitri Komarov, FM Anthony Atanasov, and Ryan Campbell at 7.5/10. Three Albertans, IM Bitan Banerjee, Sherzod Khodjimatov, and Maxim Vasic, tied for 6th-15th at 7/10.
Full standings and results here, and top games from each round are viewable here. Check out the Calgary Chess Club facebook page for photos throughout the event. Thanks and well done to the organizing team, led by Lars Lowther.
Congratulations to the winners at the Canadian Youth Championship, which had 454 total players the week prior:
U18O – Tymur Keleberda
U18G – Julia Tsukerman
U16O – Max Chen
U16G – Valerie Ruchinskaya
U14O – Emil Soberov
U14G – Hanxi (Hancy) Jiang
U12O – Neil Moses
U12G – Laksshana Deepak
U10O – Edison Zhu
U10G – Ashley Qian
U8O – Venkat Karthikeya Reddy Kola
U8G – Florence Zixin Xu
Full results here. Thanks to the Youth organizing team, led by Wanjing Hu.