2009 Montreal Open Chess Championship

I've been waiting for these for hours! Finally - some results to report! From Monroi.com. After Round 2: In Group A (42 players), WGM Salome Melia is the only chess femme participating in the Open, and she is currently in 2nd place, with two wins, nominally tied with several chess hommes: # Name ID Rtng Tot 1 GM Bator Sambuev 100539 2531 2 2 *Melia Salome 2441 2 3 Jean Hebert 10495 2418 2 4 Louie Jiang 100245 2278 2 5 Roland Chabot 24838 2245 2 6 Kishor Ramaswamy 11002 2202 2 7 Lloyd Mai 74384 2194 2 8 Daniel Rousseau 44662 2149 2 There aren't too many chess femmes playing in the B Group (55 players): # Name ID Rtng Tot 54 *Kelly Wang 101318 1529 0 55 *Marguerite Yang 101308 1317 0 C Group (62 players) - one chess femme has a share of first place: 7 *Mei Chen Lee 1516 2 19 *Claire Trottier 88121 1202 1,5 31 *Indy Ma Olivier 100247 1371 1 55 *Shi Lingyun 101549 1211 0 57 Cendrina Bilodeau-Savaria 101304 1109 0 60 *Esther Paquette 101011 992 0 62 *Jesrael Noelle Del Agua unr. 0 Group D (32 players): 9 *Kate Brichko 101557 1054 1,5 17 *Lorraine Dubois 100010 989 1 21 *Sandy Dormeus 101959 850 1 27 *Christine Gao 101555 1105 0,5 28 *Catherine Gao 102392 747 0 I count 191 players - unfortunately, as far as I can tell, Zahira El Ghaby is not playing after all. Perhaps next year? I do not know if 191 players is a record - it will have to wait until after the end of the tournament and all the smoke has cleared because I am certain that right now, my contacts at Ahuntsic Chess Club (organizer) are very busy! I'm waiting to hear from Mr. Don - and hopefully find out what happened to his downloaded videos and photos.