2012 Goddesschess Canadian Women's Chess Championshiip R1

Official website.

Chess-results.com is providing results and standings for the Tournament!  Our good chess friend in Montreal, Bernard Quimet, is acting as Arbiter for the event.  I'll report as soon as I have something.  Play is underway.

Updated 7:50 p.m.

Results thus far:

Round 1 on 2012/08/04 at 16:00
Bo.No.RtgNameResultNameRtgNo.
111925AGBABISHVILI Lali1 - 0MA Indy149010
221362SHI Ling YunSERBANESCU Natasa18249
332158WIMKHOUDGARIAN Natalia1 - 0ZHOU Qiyu18368
441886YUN Chang1 - 0WCMLIU Jiaxin16667
551982ROY Myriam1 - 0WCMPENG Jackie20096

Due to circumstances beyond her control, Natasa Serbanescu was granted a postponement of her R1 game.  That game will be played on Tuesday August 7 at 10:00 a.m.  Until the results of that game are available, no women's standings will be published.

As you can see, decisive games all around!  These ladies ain't fooling around.  An expenses-paid trip to the Women's World Championship is on the line.  Ladies' games in PGN at the end of this post. 
Photographs and video by Don McLean:

The gift bags that Mrs. Dumont so kindly assembled for us and got delivered to the playing venue:






Well darlings, probably no dude is interested in our gift bags, but they are a big thing for the ladies.  Thank you so much, Mrs. Dumont and volunteers for giving your time to put everything together for us and getting the bags delivered to the playing venue, they turned out fabulously!

The playing venue -- at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal.


 This is a sculpture of baseball Hall-of-Famer Jackie Robinson, who played for the Montreal
Royals in the 1940's before he became the first black man to play for a major league baseball
team in the United States in the 1950's.  I did not know he had played baseball in Canada before
he played in the U.S.  Just goes to show - you learn something new every day!  Taken
outside the playing venue.
Video of the opening remarks:



Games in PGN:

[Event "Women's Closed / Championnat féminin"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2012.08.04"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Khoudgarian, Natalia"]
[Black "Zhou, Qiyu"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "C47"]
[WhiteElo "2158"]
[BlackElo "1836"]
[PlyCount "107"]
[EventDate "2012.??.??"]
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. d4 exd4 5. Nxd4 Bb4 6. Nxc6 bxc6 7. Bd3 d5 8.
exd5 cxd5 9. O-O O-O 10. Bg5 c6 11. Qf3 Be7 12. h3 Be6 13. Ne2 c5 14. c3 Nd7
15. Bxe7 Qxe7 16. Rfe1 Ne5 17. Bxh7+ Kxh7 18. Qh5+ Kg8 19. Qxe5 Qb7 20. Nf4
Rfe8 21. b3 f6 22. Qd6 Bf7 23. Qxc5 Rxe1+ 24. Rxe1 Rc8 25. Qd4 Qc6 26. Re3 Qc5
27. Qxc5 Rxc5 28. b4 Rc4 29. Ne2 Kf8 30. Nd4 Rc7 31. Kf1 a6 32. Ke2 Rb7 33. Kd2
a5 34. a3 Rb6 35. f4 Rb7 36. g4 Rb6 37. Kc2 Be8 38. Kb3 a4+ 39. Kc2 Kf7 40. Nf5
g6 41. Ne7 Rd6 42. Nxg6 d4 43. cxd4 Rxd4 44. Re7+ Kxg6 45. f5+ Kg5 46. Rxe8 Rf4
47. Re3 Rf1 48. b5 Kf4 49. Rc3 Rf2+ 50. Kd3 Rb2 51. Rc4+ Kg3 52. Rb4 Rh2 53. b6
Rxh3 54. b7 1-0

[Event "Women's Closed / Championnat féminin"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2012.08.05"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Agbabishvili, Lali"]
[Black "Ma, Indy"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "E34"]
[WhiteElo "1925"]
[BlackElo "1490"]
[PlyCount "67"]
[EventDate "2012.??.??"]
1. c4 Nf6 2. Nc3 e6 3. d4 Bb4 4. Qc2 O-O 5. e3 d5 6. Bd3 dxc4 7. Bxc4 c5 8. a3
Qa5 9. Nge2 Bxc3+ 10. Qxc3 Nc6 11. dxc5 Qxc5 12. b4 Qe5 13. Bb2 Qxc3+ 14. Nxc3
Rd8 15. Be2 Ne5 16. O-O Bd7 17. Rfd1 Rac8 18. Nb5 Nc4 19. Bxf6 gxf6 20. Nxa7
Ra8 21. Bxc4 Rxa7 22. Bb5 b6 23. Rd6 Rb7 24. Rad1 Bxb5 25. Rxd8+ Kg7 26. Ra8
Bd7 27. a4 Rc7 28. b5 Bc8 29. h3 Bb7 30. Ra7 Bf3 31. Rxc7 Bxd1 32. Rc6 Bxa4 33.
Rxb6 Kf8 34. Rb7 1-0

[Event "Women's Closed / Championnat féminin"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2012.08.05"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Roy, Myriam"]
[Black "Peng, Jackie"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B74"]
[WhiteElo "2040"]
[BlackElo "2009"]
[PlyCount "53"]
[EventDate "2012.??.??"]
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be2 Bg7 7. O-O O-O 8.
Nb3 Nc6 9. Be3 b6 10. f4 Bb7 11. Bf3 Nd7 12. Qd2 Rc8 13. Rad1 Bxc3 14. bxc3 Nc5
15. Nxc5 dxc5 16. Qf2 Qc7 17. Qh4 e5 18. f5 f6 19. Bh6 g5 20. Qg4 Rfd8 21. h4
Kh8 22. hxg5 fxg5 23. Qxg5 Ba6 24. Rfe1 Bc4 25. Bh5 Qe7 26. f6 Qd7 27. f7 1-0

[Event "Women's Closed / Championnat féminin"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2012.08.05"]
[Round "1"]
[White "Yun, Chang"]
[Black "Liu, Jiaxin"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "B30"]
[WhiteElo "1886"]
[BlackElo "1666"]
[PlyCount "103"]
[EventDate "2012.??.??"]
1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 e6 4. O-O Nge7 5. b3 a6 6. Bxc6 Nxc6 7. Bb2 f6 8. d4
cxd4 9. Nxd4 Nxd4 10. Bxd4 e5 11. Bb2 Qe7 12. Na3 b5 13. c4 b4 14. Nc2 Qf7 15.
Qd2 a5 16. a3 bxa3 17. Bxa3 Bxa3 18. Rxa3 Bb7 19. f3 Qe7 20. Rxa5 Rxa5 21. Qxa5
O-O 22. Qb4 Qxb4 23. Nxb4 Rb8 24. Nd3 d6 25. Rb1 Ba6 26. Rb2 Kf8 27. Kf2 h5 28.
Ke3 g5 29. Kd2 Ke7 30. Kc3 Rc8 31. Ra2 Ra8 32. Nb4 Bb7 33. Rxa8 Bxa8 34. Nd5+
Bxd5 35. cxd5 Kd7 36. Kb4 Kc7 37. Ka5 Kb7 38. h3 Ka7 39. b4 Kb7 40. b5 Ka7 41.
g4 h4 42. b6+ Kb8 43. Ka6 Ka8 44. b7+ Kb8 45. Kb6 f5 46. Kc6 f4 47. Kxd6 Kxb7
48. Kxe5 Kc7 49. Kf5 Kd6 50. Kxg5 Ke5 51. Kxh4 Kd4 52. g5 1-0

Video of the start of ladies' play:

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