2007 Canterbury/Box Hill Open

The 2007 Canterbury/Box Hill Open was held between 21/09/07-02/11/07. The top seeds included Sam Chow (2327), IM Leonid Sandler (2319) and Chris Wallis (2202). The tournament ended in a 6-way tie for 1st place. I came =1st and became Canterbury/Box Hill Open Champion on countback (in all countback systems). Michael Chan {803(!)} won the B Division with an amazing 7/7 (B Division players are mixed with A Division players, which made it an even more important feat).

Here are the final standings of the tournament.

Division A

Place Name Div Rtg Score

1-6 Lin, Zhigen A 2095 5.5
Sandler, Leonid A 2319 5.5
Wallis, Chris A 2202 5.5
Chow, Samuel A 2327 5.5
Bourmistrov, Denis A 2089 5.5
Kempen, Leon A 2051 5.5
7 Chmiel, Rad A 1667 5
8-11 Cheng, Bobby A 2019 4.5
Voon, Richard A 1852 4.5
Cook, Geoff L A 1794 4.5
Liston, Howard A 1771 4.5
12-16 Raine, Marcus A 1932 4
Mijatovic, Bosko A 1866 4
Lawson, Shane A 1689 4
Schulzer, Peter A 1672 4
Croft, Roger A 1645 4
17-21 Chung, Francisco A 1762 3.5
Vijayakumar, Rengan A 1689 3.5
Schneider, David A 1582 3.5
Matheson, Laurence A 1488 3.5
Tan, Justin A 1193 3.5
22-33 Schön, Eugene A 1888 3
Brooks, Chris A 1803 3
Sharman, Scot A 1762 3
Podvorac, Zeljko A 1721 3
Lin, Hong A 1701 3
Escribano, Jose A 1700 3
Flude, David A 1679 3
Tionko, Efrain A 1675 3
Hinton, Guy A 1601 3
Omeragic, Jusuf A 1486 3
Glenton, Alan A 1452 3
Neymanis, Eric A 1282 3
34-37 Elbrish, Sam A 1393 2.5
Dalton, Laurie A 1300 2.5
Ng, Isaac A 1206 2.5
Sannidhanam, Anurag A 1201 2.5
38-42 Tang, Jason A 1679 2
Umber, George A 1610 2
Renzies, Elliott A 1452 2
Fielder, Shaun A 1260 2
Feng, Thomas A 1250 2
43 Lundgren, Leif A 1651 0

Division B

Place Name Div Rtg Score

1 Chan, Michael B 803 7
2 Feng, Tim B 1185 5
3-4 Toper, David B 1030 4
Ang, Stephanie B 793 4
5 Lemmel, Oliver B 908 3.5
6-11 Cuxson, Stuart B 1149 3
Lyons, Linden B 1127 3
Kiripitige, Punala B 1084 3
Muthusamy, Jayan B 838 3
Yuan, Daniel B 686 3
Guo, Murphy B 525 3
12 Ng, Joshua B 788 2.5
13-15 Gurevich, Andrew B 1095 2
Chan, Raymond B 857 2
Gibson, Kyle B 539 2
16-19 Alfons, Bishoy B 815 1
Lim, Neilson B 801 1
Brown, Chris B 601 1
Yuan, David B 512 1
20-23 Tsai-Luong, Eric B 851 0
Kwok, Nigel B 601 0
Thiel, Anton B 501 0
Ju, William B 401 0