Twenty-eight players have started the tournament. You can join the tournament November 12 or November 19 with half-point byes for Round 1 and/or Round 2.
Round 1 saw a number of upsets and near-upsets. Once the game scores are all entered, we’ll try to analyze the key moments – just as Jack did some 20 years ago.
| Bd | Res | White | Black | Res | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Isaac Wiebe (2239) | Keith Czarny (1628) | 0 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Mike Skop (1621) | Theo Wolchock (2234) | 1 | ||
| 3 | 0 | Michael Hopper (2101) | Ievgeniia-Diana Furda (1604) | 1 | ||
| 4 | 0 | John Remillard (1568) | Oyeyemi A Abioye (2068) | 1 | ||
| 5 | 1 | Jaroslaw Czypinski (1975) | Aibike Myrzaibraimova (1566) | 0 | ||
| 6 | 0 | Bruce Leaden (1512) | Colin Prince (1884) | 1 | ||
| 7 | 1 | Cory Letain (1838) | Keith Gannon (1503) | 0 | ||
| 8 | 0 | Peter Magyar (1502) | Jim Green (1835) | 1 | ||
| 9 | 0 | Udaya Annakkage (1803) | Philipp Gregoryanz (1482) | 1 | ||
| 10 | 0 | Francis Trueman (1452) | Ken Einarsson (1800) | 1 | ||
| 11 | 0.5 | Sunyo Kim (1778) | Richard Ott (1432) | 0.5 | ||
| 12 | 1 | Alia Myrzaibraimova (1062) | James A. Melnyk (1670) | 0 | ||
| 13 | 1 | Gary Crawford (1649) | Cory Ash (unr.) | 0 | ||
| 0.5 | Harshani Konara (1968) | BYE | ||||
| 1 | Emmanuel Odeyemi | BYE |