
The 2018 Québec Open was held July 21-28, 2018, at the Sandman Hotel in Longueuil, Québec, just across the river from Montréal.
It was a 9-round Swiss, with one round per day, except Sunday July 22 with rounds 2 and 3.
It had a prize fund of $15,000 and attracted 175 players in five sections, with Open section topped by six GMs: Romain Edouard (FRA), Victor Mikhalevski (ISR), Alexandre Le Siege (CAN), Bator Sambuev (CAN), Razvan Preotu (CAN), and Alexander Cherniaev (RUS).
GM Razvan Preotu (CAN) won with an undefeated 7.5/9, including wins over 2nd and 4th place GMs Edouard and Mikhalevski. GM Romain Edouard (FRA) was second with 7/9. GMs Bator Sambuev (CAN) recovered from a stretch of 0.5/3 to win his last four games to tie with GM Victor Mikhalevski (ISR) for =3rd-4th with 6.5.
Open Section Results: (via Chess-Results.com)
Rk. | Name | FED | 1.Rd | 2.Rd | 3.Rd | 4.Rd | 5.Rd | 6.Rd | 7.Rd | 8.Rd | 9.Rd | Pts. | |
1 | GM | Preotu Razvan | CAN | 38w1 | 20b1 | 4w1 | 2w1 | 8b½ | 5b½ | 6w1 | 7b½ | 10w1 | 7.5 |
2 | GM | Edouard Romain | FRA | 34w1 | 39b1 | 7w1 | 1b0 | 10w1 | 8b½ | 5w1 | 4w½ | 11b1 | 7 |
3 | GM | Sambuev Bator | CAN | 48b1 | 21w1 | 40b0 | 20w0 | 25b½ | 36w1 | 26b1 | 8w1 | 15w1 | 6.5 |
4 | GM | Mikhalevski Victor | ISR | 25b1 | 29w1 | 1b0 | 6w½ | 36b1 | 11w1 | 20w1 | 2b½ | 5w½ | 6.5 |
5 | FM | Chiku-Ratte Olivier-Kenta | CAN | 17b1 | 9w1 | 8b0 | 31w1 | 29b1 | 1w½ | 2b0 | 12w1 | 4b½ | 6 |
6 | Zhao Jim | CAN | 43b1 | 8w0 | 25b1 | 4b½ | 21w1 | 39w1 | 1b0 | 24b½ | 16w1 | 6 | |
7 | GM | Cherniaev Alexander | RUS | 30b1 | 31w1 | 2b0 | 15w1 | 11b½ | 10b½ | 23w1 | 1w½ | 8b½ | 6 |
8 | GM | Le Siege Alexandre | CAN | 16w1 | 6b1 | 5w1 | 40b½ | 1w½ | 2w½ | 13b1 | 3b0 | 7w½ | 6 |
9 | Malek Omid | CAN | 44w1 | 5b0 | 39w0 | 42b1 | 28b1 | 33w1 | 11b0 | 14w½ | 24w1 | 5.5 | |
10 | IM | Kaufman Raymond | USA | 23w½ | 22b1 | 36b1 | 26w1 | 2b0 | 7w½ | 12b½ | 13w1 | 1b0 | 5.5 |
11 | FM | Voskanyan Vahagn | CAN | 32b1 | -½ | 24w1 | 23b½ | 7w½ | 4b0 | 9w1 | 20b1 | 2w0 | 5.5 |
12 | Bremner William | CAN | 18w½ | 23b0 | 35w1 | 19b½ | 44w1 | 22b1 | 10w½ | 5b0 | 21w1 | 5.5 | |
13 | NM | Beaulieu Eric | CAN | 47w½ | -½ | 30b½ | 32w1 | 26b1 | 24b1 | 8w0 | 10b0 | 23w1 | 5.5 |
14 | NM | Upper John | CAN | 24b0 | -½ | 44w0 | 35b1 | 18w½ | 48w1 | 31b1 | 9b½ | 20w1 | 5.5 |
Other Winners
William Bremner was the big rating winner at the Quebec Open, where he earned 155 FIDE rating points! Add that to the 62 points he got in the U18 section at the CYCC (where he tied for 1st), and the 91 points from the U2000 section at the Canadian Open (which he won with +7 =2 -0), and William finishes an awesome July in Quebec by earning a total of 307.8 FIDE Rating points!
FM GV Sai Krishna, Indian federation but playing out of Montreal, registered for only the first four rounds before he had to head out of town, but in those four games scored +3 =1 -0, including a win against GM Sambuev and a draw vs GM Le Siege. That score earned him 21 FIDE rating point so push his rating over 2400 and that combines with earlier IM Norms is enough for him to become an IM!
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Final Standings on Chess-Results