2012 Quebec Open Chess Championship

For our friends in the FQE.  The Quebec Open takes place July 21 - 28, 2012 in wonderful Montreal at the beautiful College Brefeuf playing venue.  This place just takes your breath away, it is so gorgeous!

There is only one chess femme competing in the Invitational - WGM Melissa Greef from South Africa.  She is competing in a touch field!  Here are the standings after R4:

Rg.		Name	FED	ELO	Pts.	Dep.1
1	GM	SO Wesley	PHI	2650	3.5	9.00
2	GM	BRUZON BATISTA Lazaro	CUB	2711	3.0	8.00
3	GM	SUMETS Andrey	UKR	2618	3.0	6.75
4	IM	SMITH Bryan G	USA	2441	3.0	6.50
5	IM	HANSEN Eric	CAN	2460	3.0	5.25
6	IM	GERZHOY Leonid	CAN	2459	3.0	4.50
7	IM	NARODITSKY Daniel	USA	2486	3.0	3.00
8	GM	ARENCIBIA RODRIGUEZ Walter	CUB	2526	2.5	5.50
9	GM	KOVALYOV Anton	ARG	2614	2.5	5.25
10	FM	JIANG Louie	CAN	2337	2.5	4.25
11	GM	ROZENTALIS Eduardas	LTU	2600	2.5	3.75
	GM	BOJKOV Dejan	BUL	2556	2.5	3.75
13	FM	OLIVA CASTANEDA Kevel	CUB	2320	2.5	3.50
14	IM	NORITSYN Nikolay	CAN	2460	2.0	3.25
15	IM	YANG Darwin	USA	2498	2.0	2.50
	IM	PEREZ GARCIA Rodney Oscar	CUB	2412	2.0	2.50
	IM	CALUGAR Arthur	CAN	2273	2.0	2.50
18	GM	VERA GONZALEZ-QUEVEDO Reynaldo	CUB	2489	2.0	2.25
19	IM	PANJWANI Raja	CAN	2392	2.0	2.00
20	GM	SAMBUEV Bator	CAN	2542	2.0	1.50
21		MASSE Hugues	CAN	2232	1.5	3.50
		BERUBE Antoine	CAN	2152	1.5	3.50
23	IM	PIASETSKI Leon	CAN	2290	1.5	3.25
24	FM	KLEINMAN Michael	CAN	2293	1.5	2.50
25	FM	LEVEILLE Francois	CAN	2301	1.5	2.00
26	FM	THAVANDIRAN Shiyam	CAN	2301	1.5	1.75
27		QIN Zi Yi Joey	CAN	2198	1.0	1.50
28	FM	VOSKANYAN Vahagn	CAN	2240	1.0	1.00
29		HUMPHREYS Michael	CAN	2179	1.0	0.50
	WGM	GREEFF Melissa	RSA	2091	1.0	0.50
31		KRAIOUCHKINE Nikita	CAN	2204	0.5	1.50
32		PRAHOV Valentin	BUL	2209	0.0	0.00

There was a great turnout for all sections.  I will report on the final standings of any chess femmes whose names I recognize (I have a very difficult time identifying players with names that don't originate from my own English-speaking background - sorry) at the end of play!  Good luck to all of the chess femmes.  I know some of the ladies who will be competing for the Canadian Women's Chess Champion title in August are playing in this event.