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British Columbia Chess Federation - BC Chess ReportsBC Junior - 2004 The 2004 B.C. Junior attracted a total of twenty-five participants to the Vancouver Bridge Centre on the November 26-28 weekend. The fourteen-player Championship Section included three players over 2000 (Fanhao Meng, Lucas Davies, and Andrey Kostin), and in the end these three tied for first with 3.5/5 each. Favourite Fanhao Meng won his first three games and drew with Davies in the fourth round, but seemed psychologically unprepared when Kostin used one of Meng’s own defences (the Schliemann Ruy Lopez) against him in the last round, losing in under twenty moves. Kostin executed a Swiss gambit (not voluntarily!), going down to defeat against Ivan Petrov in the first round but entering the winner’s circle by virtue of his victory over Meng. Davies played solidly, if slightly below expectations; his three draws left him as the only undefeated player in the Championship Section. Look at the complete crosstable from the event. Here are some photos taken by Andrei Botez. More will be posted soon. Look at all of the games here!
Close behind the three winners was another triumvirate, consisting of Ben Daswani, Ivan Petrov, and Sam Churchill, who all scored 3 points. Going into the last round Daswani and Churchill both had chances to tie for first, but were held to draws by Davies and Peter Sum respectively. (Absent from the competition was Noam Davies, who like his brother last year missed the entire tournament due to illness).
In the Reserve Section Arik Milner took first place with a perfect score, Stoyan Petrov came second with 3.5/5. Alex Sabaratnam and Foster won the two U1100 prizes. The tournament was organized and directed by Katherine Davies and Stephen Wright. View all the games.
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