Canadian Open 2005

This event took place on 9-17 july, 2005. in Edmonton, Alberta. It gathered quite a few of World`s ellite players - GM Vassily Ivanchuk (2739), GM Alexei Shirov (2737) and GM Viktor Bologan (2700).

After 10 rounds have been played we got five participants to share first place with 8 points each. The most pleasent suprise is certainly the result of 17-years old GM Mark Bluvstein who fought well with big guns and even beat Shirov in a very important game.







Final standings:
1-5 Ivanchuk Vassily (2792 gm), Shirov Alexei (2745 gm), Bluvshtein Mark (2529 gm), Bologan Viktor (2740 gm), Chowdhury SR (2421 im) with 8 points, 6-11 Ganguly,SS (2636 gm), Quan Zhe (2396 fm), Kidambi S. (2524 im), Kunte Abhijit (2601 gm), Krnan Tomas (2462 fm), Roussel-Roozmon Thomas (2417 im) with 7.5 points etc.

Shirov,A (2705) - Bluvshtein,M (2525) Canadian Open Edmonton CAN (9)
16.07.2005
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.d4 d5 6.Bd3 Bd6 7.0-0 0-0 8.c4 c6 9.Qc2 Na6 10.a3 Bg4 11.Ne5 Bf5 12.b4 f6 13.Nf3 Qe8 14.b5 Qh5 15.bxa6 Bg4 16.Re1 Bxf3 17.gxf3 Qxh2+ 18.Kf1 19.cxd5 cxd5 20.fxe4 fxe4 21.Bxe4 dxe4 22.Be3 Bg3 23.Ra2 Rf3 0-1

Sandipan,C (2560) - Shirov,A (2705) Canadian Open Edmonton CAN (10)
17.07.2005
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 0-0 8.d4 d6 9.c3 Bg4 10.a4 Bxf3 11.gxf3 Na5 12.Ba2 c5 13.Na3 cxd4 14.cxd4 b4 15.Nc4 b3 16.Nxa5 Qxa5 17.Bxb3 exd4 18.Kh1 Qh5 19.Rg1 Nd7 20.Bd5 Rab8 21.Ra3 Bf6 22.Qf1 Nc5 23.f4 d3 24.Be3 Rxb2 25.e5 Nd7 26.Bc6 dxe5 27.Bc1 Rc2 28.Bxd7 Qf3+ 29.Qg2 Qxg2+ 30.Kxg2 d2 31.Bxd2 Rxd2 32.Bc6 exf4 33.a5 Rb8 34.Re1 g5 35.Kf3 Rbb2 36.Rf1 h5 37.h4 g4+ 38.Kxf4 Bxh4 39.Rh1 Rxf2+ 40.Ke4 Be7 0-1

This event was broadcasted live on WorldChessNetwork with Audio comments by GM Alex Finkel and GM James Plaskett.