The Alberta Junior Chess Championship 2011 will be held at Calgary Chess Club on November 5-6. We will have three sections: (1) Championship (2) Reserves and (3) Girls. The Championship section is open to all Alberta juniors regardless of ratings. Winner from this section will recieve ACA sponsorship to the Canadian Junior Chess Championship which will be held in Calgary on Jan 5-8, 2012. The Reserves is open to any Alberta juniors with 1400 CFC rating or below.
Both the Championship and Reserves will be 5 rounds swiss (the girl section will probably be round robin). Time control is Game in 90 minutes + 30 seconds per move.
The deadline to enter this tournament will be on November 1st at 6 P.M. You can pre-register by email to T.D/organizer Simon Ong (simong89 at gmail dot com).
Pre-registered list (players are arranged in no particular order):
1. NM Richard Wang
2. David Zhang
3. David Miller
4. Nicka Kalaydina
5. Tony Cai
6. Krish Singh
7. YueKai Wang
8. Diwen Shi
9. Raymond Ong
10. Jeff Anthony De Guzman
11. Brady Jahraus
12. Nicholas Lee
13. Chenxi Zhao
14. Mark Ting
15. David Yao
16. Zeling Li
17. John Vaganov
18. Derek Zhang
19. Makar Chenetsov
20. Seth Lalla
21. Xuyuan Zhang
22. Kaixin Wang
23. Mickail Hendi
24. Ian Zhao
25. Raphael Libre
26. Lenard Grossmann
27. Daniel Kostek
28. Kaining Lin
29. Chen Wu
30. Wayne Babiuk
31. Zehan Li
32. Rachael Gagne
33. Hope Gagne
34. Jyaree (Chantel) Bustos
35. Jane Wang
All pre-registered players must sign-in from 9:00 a.m. to 9:40 a.m (the latest) at the Calgary Chess Club.
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Saturday, October 8, 2011
2011 Alberta Junior Championship & Reserves
All participants must pre-registered by November 1st @ 6 P.M. You may pay your entry fees on site.
The Alberta Junior Championship and Reserve 2011 will be held at Calgary Chess Club on November 5-6, 2011.
Both sections will be 5 rounds swiss. The winner of the "Championship" section will recieve ACA sponsorship to the next Canadian Junior Chess Championship. Cash prizes and/or trophies will be available for both sections.
Time control is Game in 90 minutes + 30 second increments per move. The round times will be 10:00am / 2:30pm / 6:30pm on Saturday and 9:30am / ASAP on Sunday (may change to give time to player to get lunch and dinner).
All byes must be requested before round 1 (with last 2 rounds counting as 0 point bye).
The full details for this tournament can be found on the following website:
https://sites.google.com/site/2011albertajunior/
Sponsors:
Alberta Chess Association
Calgary Chess Club
Calgary Junior Chess Club
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Calgary Youth Chess Championship Report
Calgary Youth Chess Championship Report- Organizers Roy Yearwood T.D Simon Ong
On January 2nd, the 3rd annual Calgary Youth Chess Championship took place at the Calgary Chess Club. There were a total of 17 players participating in the tournament. They were grouped into sections where they battled against players their own age. Winner of each age section will be awarded a medallion, an official Calgary YCC T-shirt, and funding to play at the Alberta Youth Chess Championship. Funding is provided by the Calgary Chess Club.
There were two age sections with one player: Under 8 and Under 18. Even though both of these players won the tournament by default, they played against relatively strong oppositions and performed very well. The Under 8 and Under 18 champions were Ian Zhao and Raymond Ong, respectively. Ian managed to score 2/3 against U10 players, whereas Raymond scored 3/3 against U16 players.
There were 3 players competing in the Under 10 section. The overall winner was John Vaganov, a new player from Russia. John scored flawlessly. The other two players were Albert Lambino and Jonas Alcantara who scored 0/2 and 1/2, respectively.
Winners of the other sections were Diwen Shi (Under 12 Champion), Chenxi Zhao (Under 14 Champion), and Yuekai Wang (Under 16 Champion).
Thanks to all participants for playing the first Calgary tournament of the New Year and congratulation to all the section winners and good luck in Edmonton.
There will be regular chess lesson for youth at the Calgary Chess Club starting January 14th. See Calgary chess club website for details.
Annotations done by NM Roy Yearwood.
YueKai Wang- Tony Cai
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e5 This is the Shevesnikov variation of the Sicilian. It features the backward pawn on the d-file and the question of whether black will have enough counter-play to compensate for this weakness. 6.Ndb5 d6 7.Bg5 a6 8.Na3 b5 9.Nd5 Be7 10.Bxf6 Bxf6 11.Qd2 Better is Bd3 or c3. 11...Bg5 Diagram
12.Ne3 0–0 13.0–0–0 This is an aggressive plan for white. 13...Qb6 14.h4 Bh6 15.Be2 Be6 16.g4 Bf4 17.Kb1 Na5 18.c3 Rfd8 19.Bf3 Black has comfortable position because of white's inaccuracy on move 11. 19...Nc4 20.Naxc4 Bxc4 21.Nxc4 bxc4 22.Qc2 a5 23.Rdg1 Rdb8 24.g5 Better is a4. 24...Rb7 25.Ka1 a4 26.a3 Rab8 27.Rb1 Diagram
Unfortuately, black lost on time. After Qc5 with the idea of Rb3, black has small but persistant initiative. I guess you have to play theoretical position quickly to avoid time pressure. 1-0
Zeling Li- Nicholas Lee
1.e4 c5 2.c3 Nf6 3.e5 Nd5 4.Bc4 Nb6 5.Bxf7+?? This is a terrible error. White should know better. If you going to play theoretical openings, you should know what to do. 5...Kxf7 6.Qf3+ Ke8 7.Nh3 Nc6 8.e6 dxe6 9.Ng5 Qd5 10.Qf7+ Kd8 11.0–0?? Qxg5 12.d4 Qf6 13.Qh5 cxd4 14.Bg5 White tries to play like Tal but does not know enough about the principles required to play in this manner. 14...Qg6 15.Qxg6 hxg6 0–1
Stanley Wang-Raymond Ong
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 exd5 4.Nc3 c6 5.Nf3 Nf6 6.Bg5 Bd6 7.h3 0–0 8.Bd3 Better is Re8. 8...Nbd7 9.0–0 Qc7 10.Re1 h6 11.Bh4 g5 12.Bg3 Bxg3 13.fxg3 Qxg3 While black has won a pawn, he has lost some control of his kingside's light squares and control the b1–h7 diagonal. White must act quickly as the pawn plus will soon tell. 14.Re2 Nh5 Better would have been 14. Ne2 in order to transfer the knight to the kingside. Also, it makes way for the pawn to go to c4 for some initiative in the center. 15.Qe1!? Qxe1+ 16.Raxe1 Nf4 17.Re3 Nxd3 18.Rxd3 Nf6 19.Rde3 Better might be Be6 closing e-file. One of the way to win when you're up material is to shut down all of your opponent's counter-play. 19...Rb8 20.Na4 Ne4 This is an easy position for black to play. He can make different mis-steps, but because of his material superiority and pawn plus and solid position, white finds it very hard to make an impression in order to gain counter-play. 21.Ne5 f6 22.Nd3 Bd7 23.Nac5 Bf5 24.Nxe4 Bxe4 25.c3 Bxd3 26.Rxd3 Rfe8 27.Rde3 Kf7 28.g4 Rxe3 29.Rxe3 Re8 30.Rxe8 Kxe8 31.Kf2 Ke7 32.Ke3 Ke6 33.b4 b6 34.a4 a5 35.bxa5 bxa5 36.Kf3 f5 37.gxf5+ Kxf5 0–1
Diwen Shi-Nicholas Lee
1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.Bg5 This is the Torre attack. This is an excellent opening for white. The former Alberta Champion for youth, Richard Wang, make this a standard part of his opening theory. This opening poses some difficult problems for juniors. 3...c5 4.c3 Nc6 5.Nbd2 Be7 6.e4 b6 7.Bd3 Bb7 8.0–0 0–0 9.Re1 Rc8 10.Bf1 d5 11.h3 cxd4 12.Bxf6 Bxf6 Better is e5 according to Diwen Shi. 13.cxd4 Nxd4 14.e5 Nxf3+ 15.Qxf3 Bg5 16.Nb3 Qd7 17.Bd3 Rc7 18.h4 Be7 Nicholas is outplaying Diwen quite easily thus far. 19.Nd4 f6 20.Qh5 g6? Better is f5. g6 gives white at least a draw, but of course, he wants more. 21.Bxg6 hxg6 22.Qxg6+ Kh8 23.Qh6+ Kg8 24.Re3 Bc5 25.Rg3+ Kf7 An unfortuate turn of events for black. Unfortuately, white's growing inititative starting move 19 has resulted in the loss of a queen. Oh well, sometimes an accident will happen. 26.Rg7+ Ke8 27.Rxd7 Kxd7 28.exf6 e5 White makes good use of the overloaded bishop on c5 to advance his kingside pawns. 29.Nb3 Bd6 30.Qh7+ Ke6 31.Nd4+ exd4 32.Re1+ Be5 33.Qxc7 1–0
On January 2nd, the 3rd annual Calgary Youth Chess Championship took place at the Calgary Chess Club. There were a total of 17 players participating in the tournament. They were grouped into sections where they battled against players their own age. Winner of each age section will be awarded a medallion, an official Calgary YCC T-shirt, and funding to play at the Alberta Youth Chess Championship. Funding is provided by the Calgary Chess Club.
There were two age sections with one player: Under 8 and Under 18. Even though both of these players won the tournament by default, they played against relatively strong oppositions and performed very well. The Under 8 and Under 18 champions were Ian Zhao and Raymond Ong, respectively. Ian managed to score 2/3 against U10 players, whereas Raymond scored 3/3 against U16 players.
There were 3 players competing in the Under 10 section. The overall winner was John Vaganov, a new player from Russia. John scored flawlessly. The other two players were Albert Lambino and Jonas Alcantara who scored 0/2 and 1/2, respectively.
Winners of the other sections were Diwen Shi (Under 12 Champion), Chenxi Zhao (Under 14 Champion), and Yuekai Wang (Under 16 Champion).
Thanks to all participants for playing the first Calgary tournament of the New Year and congratulation to all the section winners and good luck in Edmonton.
There will be regular chess lesson for youth at the Calgary Chess Club starting January 14th. See Calgary chess club website for details.
Annotations done by NM Roy Yearwood.
YueKai Wang- Tony Cai
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e5 This is the Shevesnikov variation of the Sicilian. It features the backward pawn on the d-file and the question of whether black will have enough counter-play to compensate for this weakness. 6.Ndb5 d6 7.Bg5 a6 8.Na3 b5 9.Nd5 Be7 10.Bxf6 Bxf6 11.Qd2 Better is Bd3 or c3. 11...Bg5 Diagram
12.Ne3 0–0 13.0–0–0 This is an aggressive plan for white. 13...Qb6 14.h4 Bh6 15.Be2 Be6 16.g4 Bf4 17.Kb1 Na5 18.c3 Rfd8 19.Bf3 Black has comfortable position because of white's inaccuracy on move 11. 19...Nc4 20.Naxc4 Bxc4 21.Nxc4 bxc4 22.Qc2 a5 23.Rdg1 Rdb8 24.g5 Better is a4. 24...Rb7 25.Ka1 a4 26.a3 Rab8 27.Rb1 Diagram
Unfortuately, black lost on time. After Qc5 with the idea of Rb3, black has small but persistant initiative. I guess you have to play theoretical position quickly to avoid time pressure. 1-0
Zeling Li- Nicholas Lee
1.e4 c5 2.c3 Nf6 3.e5 Nd5 4.Bc4 Nb6 5.Bxf7+?? This is a terrible error. White should know better. If you going to play theoretical openings, you should know what to do. 5...Kxf7 6.Qf3+ Ke8 7.Nh3 Nc6 8.e6 dxe6 9.Ng5 Qd5 10.Qf7+ Kd8 11.0–0?? Qxg5 12.d4 Qf6 13.Qh5 cxd4 14.Bg5 White tries to play like Tal but does not know enough about the principles required to play in this manner. 14...Qg6 15.Qxg6 hxg6 0–1
Stanley Wang-Raymond Ong
1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.exd5 exd5 4.Nc3 c6 5.Nf3 Nf6 6.Bg5 Bd6 7.h3 0–0 8.Bd3 Better is Re8. 8...Nbd7 9.0–0 Qc7 10.Re1 h6 11.Bh4 g5 12.Bg3 Bxg3 13.fxg3 Qxg3 While black has won a pawn, he has lost some control of his kingside's light squares and control the b1–h7 diagonal. White must act quickly as the pawn plus will soon tell. 14.Re2 Nh5 Better would have been 14. Ne2 in order to transfer the knight to the kingside. Also, it makes way for the pawn to go to c4 for some initiative in the center. 15.Qe1!? Qxe1+ 16.Raxe1 Nf4 17.Re3 Nxd3 18.Rxd3 Nf6 19.Rde3 Better might be Be6 closing e-file. One of the way to win when you're up material is to shut down all of your opponent's counter-play. 19...Rb8 20.Na4 Ne4 This is an easy position for black to play. He can make different mis-steps, but because of his material superiority and pawn plus and solid position, white finds it very hard to make an impression in order to gain counter-play. 21.Ne5 f6 22.Nd3 Bd7 23.Nac5 Bf5 24.Nxe4 Bxe4 25.c3 Bxd3 26.Rxd3 Rfe8 27.Rde3 Kf7 28.g4 Rxe3 29.Rxe3 Re8 30.Rxe8 Kxe8 31.Kf2 Ke7 32.Ke3 Ke6 33.b4 b6 34.a4 a5 35.bxa5 bxa5 36.Kf3 f5 37.gxf5+ Kxf5 0–1
Diwen Shi-Nicholas Lee
1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.Bg5 This is the Torre attack. This is an excellent opening for white. The former Alberta Champion for youth, Richard Wang, make this a standard part of his opening theory. This opening poses some difficult problems for juniors. 3...c5 4.c3 Nc6 5.Nbd2 Be7 6.e4 b6 7.Bd3 Bb7 8.0–0 0–0 9.Re1 Rc8 10.Bf1 d5 11.h3 cxd4 12.Bxf6 Bxf6 Better is e5 according to Diwen Shi. 13.cxd4 Nxd4 14.e5 Nxf3+ 15.Qxf3 Bg5 16.Nb3 Qd7 17.Bd3 Rc7 18.h4 Be7 Nicholas is outplaying Diwen quite easily thus far. 19.Nd4 f6 20.Qh5 g6? Better is f5. g6 gives white at least a draw, but of course, he wants more. 21.Bxg6 hxg6 22.Qxg6+ Kh8 23.Qh6+ Kg8 24.Re3 Bc5 25.Rg3+ Kf7 An unfortuate turn of events for black. Unfortuately, white's growing inititative starting move 19 has resulted in the loss of a queen. Oh well, sometimes an accident will happen. 26.Rg7+ Ke8 27.Rxd7 Kxd7 28.exf6 e5 White makes good use of the overloaded bishop on c5 to advance his kingside pawns. 29.Nb3 Bd6 30.Qh7+ Ke6 31.Nd4+ exd4 32.Re1+ Be5 33.Qxc7 1–0
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Thanks to all the particpants who played in our November 13th event. While many of the games were of uneven quality there were a few that had some interesting moments. This game from round 4 for example. White:Yaroslav Babich Black:Chenxi Zhao
1e4 e5 2Nf3 Nc6 3Bc4 Nf6 Black offers up the 2kts defence. White takes up the challenge and plays the fried liver attack. 4Ng5 d5 5exd5 Na5 6Bb5+Bd7 Black prefers not to enter the complications that would ensue after 6...c6 whether this because of a knowledge of the current state of theory or not is unclear. 7a4 this is weak soft etc. better is 7Qe2 when White makes an attempt to hold onto his pawn plus. 7...Nxd5 8d3 Be7 9Qf3 An interesting moment White defends by counterattacking against the f7 and d5 squares sharp tactics indeed. 9...Nf6 Black blocks the f7 attack while at the same time moving his attacked d5 kt. 10 Bd2 Nc6 11Bc4 0-0 120-0 h6 13Ne4 Nxe4 14Qxe4 Bf6 15Nc3 this is ?! according to Babich perhaps 15c3 with an eventual d4 after some preperation to follow is a better try. 15...Nd4 16Rfc1 Bc6 17Bd5 Ne2+!? Black plays a deflecting forcing chess move. 18Qxe2 Bxd5 19Nxd5 Qxd5 20Qg4 Rfe8!?Black overlooks White's Bxh6 threat and develops his own initiative. 21Re1!? White in his turn does not ignore his responsibility towards the centre. If 21Bxh6 it's possible that the response 21...e4 might cause some problems as both ...exd3 and ...Bxb2 are threatened and if in response to 21...e4 22 dxe4 is played then a rook capture on e4 presents some trouble for the White Queen and bishop. 21...Qd4 Black now attends to the Bxh6 threat. 22Qxd4 exd4 23Bf4 c6 24 g3 Rad8 Babich thought that 24...g5 would have presented more trouble for White. 25Bc7 Rc8 26Ba5 Kf8 27Kg2 Re5 28Bb4+ c5 29Ba3? this is too decentralizing better 29Bd2. 29...b6 30Rxe5 Bxe5 31Re1 Bf6 32Re4 Re8 33Kf3 Be5 34Kg4 White's moves give the impression of someone who is playing to prey on his opponents time pressure a poor strategy 34...g6 35Kf3 Kg7 36Ke2 f5 for wich he's properly punished. 37Rxe5 Rxe5+ 38Kf3 Re8
And soon 0-1. An interesting game. The Calgary Junior Chess Club's next event is on December 4th for 1 day starting at 9:00 am full details can be found at the Alberta Chess Association's website http://www.albertachess.org/. Roy Yearwood
1e4 e5 2Nf3 Nc6 3Bc4 Nf6 Black offers up the 2kts defence. White takes up the challenge and plays the fried liver attack. 4Ng5 d5 5exd5 Na5 6Bb5+Bd7 Black prefers not to enter the complications that would ensue after 6...c6 whether this because of a knowledge of the current state of theory or not is unclear. 7a4 this is weak soft etc. better is 7Qe2 when White makes an attempt to hold onto his pawn plus. 7...Nxd5 8d3 Be7 9Qf3 An interesting moment White defends by counterattacking against the f7 and d5 squares sharp tactics indeed. 9...Nf6 Black blocks the f7 attack while at the same time moving his attacked d5 kt. 10 Bd2 Nc6 11Bc4 0-0 120-0 h6 13Ne4 Nxe4 14Qxe4 Bf6 15Nc3 this is ?! according to Babich perhaps 15c3 with an eventual d4 after some preperation to follow is a better try. 15...Nd4 16Rfc1 Bc6 17Bd5 Ne2+!? Black plays a deflecting forcing chess move. 18Qxe2 Bxd5 19Nxd5 Qxd5 20Qg4 Rfe8!?Black overlooks White's Bxh6 threat and develops his own initiative. 21Re1!? White in his turn does not ignore his responsibility towards the centre. If 21Bxh6 it's possible that the response 21...e4 might cause some problems as both ...exd3 and ...Bxb2 are threatened and if in response to 21...e4 22 dxe4 is played then a rook capture on e4 presents some trouble for the White Queen and bishop. 21...Qd4 Black now attends to the Bxh6 threat. 22Qxd4 exd4 23Bf4 c6 24 g3 Rad8 Babich thought that 24...g5 would have presented more trouble for White. 25Bc7 Rc8 26Ba5 Kf8 27Kg2 Re5 28Bb4+ c5 29Ba3? this is too decentralizing better 29Bd2. 29...b6 30Rxe5 Bxe5 31Re1 Bf6 32Re4 Re8 33Kf3 Be5 34Kg4 White's moves give the impression of someone who is playing to prey on his opponents time pressure a poor strategy 34...g6 35Kf3 Kg7 36Ke2 f5 for wich he's properly punished. 37Rxe5 Rxe5+ 38Kf3 Re8
And soon 0-1. An interesting game. The Calgary Junior Chess Club's next event is on December 4th for 1 day starting at 9:00 am full details can be found at the Alberta Chess Association's website http://www.albertachess.org/. Roy Yearwood
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
University Blitz Tournament
Adie Todd
UofC President
T.D./Organizer of U of C Blitz Tourney
Hello All,
The president of University of Calgary, Adie Todd, ran another successful blitz tournament on February 27th. It was held at the Rozsa Centre at the U of C. We had 28 players showed up including three masters: Victor Kaminski, Dan Kazmaier, and Alex Yam. The format of the blitz tournament was similar to the CCC's blitz tournament: double round robin. However, clock move was used instead of touch move to accomodate beginner players.
Alex Yam, a well-known CCC's attacking player, won the event giving 1.5 points to Dan Kazmaier who took second with 14/16. Victor Kaminski took 3rd with 13.5/16.
Other prizes were given to the following individuals:
Best Junior: YueKai Wang 10/16
2nd Best Junior: Andre Angelo Tolentino 8/16
Under 1600
1st: Curtis Goforth 9.5/16
2nd: Michael Wanless 8.0/16
Unrated
1st: Danial Cormeau 8.5/16
Complete crosstable can be found belew:
Standings. Name ID Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6 Rd 7 Rd 8 Tot
1st place
Alex Yam 138357 2222 $6 $13 $9 $8 $3 D2 $7 $4 14.5
2nd place
Daniel Kazmaier 131382 2268 $11 $5 $4 D3 $9 #1 $13 $7 14.0
3rd place
Victor Kaminski 127461 2315 $14 $7 $8 #2 L1 $4 $5 $13 13.5
4th place
Yuekai Wang 147881 1929 $17 $22 L2 $13 $5 L3 $8 L1 10.0
5th-6th place
Steven Blahitka 101574 1602 $23 L2 $20 $6 L4 $11 L3 #10 9.5
Curtis Goforth 149035 904 L1 $27 $28 L5 W20 W12 $21 #11 9.5
7th place
Vassily Vins 146917 1819 $19 L3 W12 $15 $10 $9 L1 L2 9.0
8th-11 place
Avelino Angelo Tolentino 149964 1940 $16 $28 L3 L1 #12 $18 L4 W9 8.5
Simon Ong 144016 1828 $24 $10 L1 $22 L2 L7 #12 W8 8.5
Michael Wanless 149077 1460 $21 L9 $23 W12 L7 $24 W14 D5 8.5
Daniel Cormeau 1400 L2 $19 L13 $23 $21 L5 $20 D6 8.5
12th-17th place
Adie Todd 125156 1692 W20 $15 W7 W10 D8 W6 D9 W16 8.0
Rogelio Lozano 1500 $27 L1 $11 L4 $17 $20 L2 L3 8.0
Deweese Wood 145476 1412 L3 L20 $24 W19 W15 $22 W10 W17 8.0
Devin Davis 1300 B--- L12 $25 L7 W14 L21 $27 $22 8.0
Andre Angelo Tolentino 149031 827 L8 $26 L22 L21 $27 W17 $18 W12 8.0
Nicholas Lee 150588 815 L4 W25 %21 $26 L13 W16 $19 W14 8.0
18th place
Clive Robertson unr. H--- H--- H--- H--- #22 L8 L16 B--- 7.5
19th-21st place
Lee Ma 148096 668 L7 L11 B--- W14 L24 $23 L17 $26 7.0
Patrick Angelo Tolentino 149030 667 W12 $14 L5 $28 W6 L13 L11 W21 7.0
Blake McConville unr. L10 W24 %17 $16 L11 $15 L6 W20 7.0
22nd-23rd place
Eric Limacher 149080 1468 $25 L4 $16 L9 D18 L14 $26 L15 6.5
Jackson Prather 149419 644 L5 B--- L10 L11 #26 L19 W25 $27 6.5
24th-25th place
Bill Xu 149405 738 L9 W21 L14 $25 $19 L10 U--- U--- 5.0
Steven Cawdry unr. L22 W17 L15 L24 B--- W27 W23 U--- 5.0
26th place
Eric Beaudoin unr. L28 L16 $27 L17 D23 B--- L22 L19 4.5
27th place
Aneesha D'Cruz unr. L13 L6 L26 B--- L16 W25 L15 L23 3.0
28th place
Robert Goforth 1500 $26 L8 L6 L20 U--- U--- U--- U--- 2.0
WE WOULD LIKE TO INVITE ALL PLAYERS TO OUR NEXT BLITZ TOURNAMENT AT THE U OF C ON MARCH 27th.
PLEASE EMAIL ADIE TODD AT chess@ucalgary.ca NOW!!
TD/Organizer: Adie Todd; Report: Simon Ong
Friday, January 8, 2010
UBOA Open 2010 Pre-Registered List
Hello all,
The University Battle of Alberta Open 2010 will start next Saturday, January16th. Details of this tournament is posted on the ACA, CJCC, and CCC Blog website.
As of January 8th, we have more than 40 players signed up for the tournament. Afriendly reminder that this tournament will be OPEN to everybody!! If youhaven't pre-register for this tournament, then please send me an email at simong89 @ gmail . com
We are giving $5 discount to FIDE master and $10 discount to juniors. So, theentry fee for these individuals will be $20 and $15, respectively. As foreverybody who are not university students/staffs will be $25.
For update pre-register list, please check the following website:http://sites.google.com/site/calgaryjuniorchessclub/tournament-schedule-3/university-battle-of-alberta
Thanks. Hope to see you there.
Simon Ong
The University Battle of Alberta Open 2010 will start next Saturday, January16th. Details of this tournament is posted on the ACA, CJCC, and CCC Blog website.
As of January 8th, we have more than 40 players signed up for the tournament. Afriendly reminder that this tournament will be OPEN to everybody!! If youhaven't pre-register for this tournament, then please send me an email at simong89 @ gmail . com
We are giving $5 discount to FIDE master and $10 discount to juniors. So, theentry fee for these individuals will be $20 and $15, respectively. As foreverybody who are not university students/staffs will be $25.
For update pre-register list, please check the following website:http://sites.google.com/site/calgaryjuniorchessclub/tournament-schedule-3/university-battle-of-alberta
Thanks. Hope to see you there.
Simon Ong
Saturday, December 12, 2009
University Battle of Alberta Open 2009 Pictures
JOIN THE UNIVERSITY BATTLE OF ALBERTA 2010!!
Take a look of these pictures. Hopefully after looking at these pictures you will pre-register for this event!!
Pre-registration: Email simong89@gmail.com
2009 UBOA Open Set-Up. Please suggest on how we should set up the 2010 UBOA Open (something similar to national or international FIDE event). Let me know as I am running out of ideas...lol.
More than 35 players showed up. It does not matter if you are university students, professors, or staffs. Community members are welcome!!
Experts and masters playing in the 2009 UBOA Open.
Juniors are welcome to participate in this event.
Overall winners of the event. FM Pechenkin and Expert Karmali.
Who will be the overall winner of the 2010 UBOA Open?
2009 UBOA Team Champion
Take a look of these pictures. Hopefully after looking at these pictures you will pre-register for this event!!
Pre-registration: Email simong89@gmail.com
2009 UBOA Open Set-Up. Please suggest on how we should set up the 2010 UBOA Open (something similar to national or international FIDE event). Let me know as I am running out of ideas...lol.
More than 35 players showed up. It does not matter if you are university students, professors, or staffs. Community members are welcome!!
Experts and masters playing in the 2009 UBOA Open.
Juniors are welcome to participate in this event.
I remembered a few juniors who took on university students and won their games.
Look forward to see upset victories from our juniors in the 2010 UBOA Open.
Overall winners of the event. FM Pechenkin and Expert Karmali.
Who will be the overall winner of the 2010 UBOA Open?
I guess I have to wait and see...can't wait though lol.
2009 UBOA Team Champion
lol...I wasn't in the picture even I am on the team :(
Too busy directing.
We went to Joey Tomato to celebrate the success of this tournament. You can see we have a great time playing in the 2009 UBOA Open with a thumb-up given by National Master Roy Yearwood. We are planning to do the same in the 2010 UBOA Open.
SO WHAT YOU ARE WAITING FOR...
RESERVE YOUR SPOT NOW!!
2nd Annual University Battle of Alberta Open
2nd Annual University Battle of Alberta Open
CFC Rated & FIDE Rated
Saturday and Sunday, January 16-17th 2010
Calgary Chess Club, #274, 3359-27 Street N.E.
Club Phone: 403-264-9498
Tournament Director and Organizer: Simon Ong
Open to all University and College students, professors, and staffs. Community members are encouraged to participate in the tournament.
Format: 5 round swiss
Time Control: G/90 + 30 second increment
Registration: All teams (players) must sign-in by 9:30 a.m. at the Calgary Chess Club.
Round Times: Round 1@10 am, Round 2 @2:30 pm, Round 3 @ 7 pm
Round 4@ 10 am, Round 5@ASAP
Award Ceremony @ 4 pm (We might go Boston Pizza or Joey Tomato to celebrate the success of this tournament like last year)
All byes must be requested before round 1. Last round counts as 0 point bye. Byes does not count toward team's score.
CFC Membership is required. It can be purchased on site
Entry Fee:
- $20/per university students, professors, and staff (with current CFC membership
- $30/per non-university students, professors, and staff (with current CFC membership
- $30/per university students, professors, and staff (who want to purchase one-tournament CFC membership)$20 goes to the CFC, $5 goes to the ACA,$5 goes to the prize fund
- $51/per university students, professors, and staff (who want to purchase CFC membership) $41 goes to the CFC, $5 goes to the ACA,$5 goes to the prize fund
Prize:
(1) The results of the top 4 finishers of each university/college team will count toward the score to determine the winner of University Battle of Alberta. The winning team will obtain the trophy and will be displayed in their university/college for a year.
(2) The entry fee will be used as cash prize and will be awarded to individual who have the best performance. Ex. Overall 1st, 2nd, 3rd as well as U1700 1st, 2nd, 3rd, U1400 1st, 2nd, and Unrated 1st. Community members are eligible for cash prize!!
Team Captains: U of C: Adie Todd adrienem80@hotmail.com
U of L: Thomas Fox chess.club@uleth.ca
U of A: Katlan and Georgia chem_kat@hotmail.com, gdavies@ualberta.ca
Community Members: Contact the T.D. simong89@gmail.com
Team captains are responsible to send their list of players (especially the top 4 who will represent the team to determine who is the winner) to the tournament director (that would be me) by December 31st. The pre-register list will be posted on the ACA website and this facebook event page.
Friday, December 11, 2009
University Battle of Alberta Pre-registered and Maybe's List
Hello all,
28 players pre-registered for this event..14 players said "maybe"..,.
Reserve your spot by email to Simon Ong (simong89 @ gmail . com)
Updated Pre-registered List as of December 11 @ 10 AM
1) Victor Kaminski (2315)
2) Dan Kazmaier (2257)
3) Roy Yearwood (2211)
4) Erik Tam (2038)
5) Aaron Sequillion (2011)
6) Simon Ong (1839)
7) Thomas Fox (1816)
8) Cashe Tyler (1761)
9) Nayef Daher (1734)
10) Greg Holmes (1662)
11) Slava Illyntskyy (1658)
12) Steven Blahitka (1633)
13) Josh Willie (1625)
14) Raymond Ong (1622)
15) Adie Todd (1596)
16) Ihor Kurylo (1576)
17) Shandy Booth (1548)
18) Katlan Irvine (1532)
19) Michael Wanless (1504)
20) Josh Weber (1186)
21) Ben Schmaltz (996)
22) Nikolas Macmillian (UNR)
23) Marc Bellemare (UNR)
24) Georgia Davies (UNR)
25) John Morrey (UNR)
26) Robert Goforth (UNR)
27) Jacob Smith (UNR)
28) Madhusudan Rao (UNR)
Maybe's Pre-registered List
**Either told me in person, email, or facebook**
1) FM Eric Hansen (2494)
2) FM Dale Haessel (2328)
3) David Zhang (2088)
4) Hafiz Karmali (2081)
5) Brad Willis (2053)
6) Jered Fokkema (1868)
7) Chase Cunningham (1792)
8) Micheal Sekuloff (1585)
9) Avelino Angelo Tolentino (1448)
10) Mark Ting (1342)
11) Thomas McIntyre (1274)
12) Chris Espina (UNR)
13) William Morris (UNR)
14) Wyatt Boudreau (UNR)
U of C's Top 4 Players
1) Victor Kaminski (2315)
2) Dan Kazmaier (2257)
3) Simon Ong (1839)
4) Steven Blahitka (1633)
Average Rating=2011
U of A's Top 4 Players
Maybe 1) Brad Willis (2053)
1) Nayef Daher (1734)
2) Katlan lrvine (1576)
3) Georgia Davies (UNR)
4) Nikolas Macmillian (UNR)
Average Rating=1655 (2 players)
1788 (if we include Mr. Willis on the team)
U of L's Top 4 Players
1) Thomas Fox (1816)
2) Cashe Tyler (1761)
3) Greg Holmes (1662)
4) Slava Illyntskyy (1658)
Average Rating=1724
NOTE:The name of the tournament is University Battle of Alberta but that does not mean it is restricted to University students/staffs/ and professors. I strongly encourage community members to participate in this tournament. The prize fund of this tournament is open to all players who participate in this tournament.
We have many strong community players (including Roy Yearwood, Stephan Vasilev, Hafiz Karmali) who participated last year. Last year crosstable can be found on the following link: http://www.chess.ca/xtableSQL.asp?TNum=200901055
We also encourage junior players to play in this event. Juniors who participated last year included David Zhang, Jan Lazo, Raymond Ong, Yuekai Wang, Diwen Shi, etc.
Details are posted on our facebook group
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=197706362614
(It will be posted on the ACA website soon!!)
Hope to see you in this event.
28 players pre-registered for this event..14 players said "maybe"..,.
Reserve your spot by email to Simon Ong (simong89 @ gmail . com)
Updated Pre-registered List as of December 11 @ 10 AM
1) Victor Kaminski (2315)
2) Dan Kazmaier (2257)
3) Roy Yearwood (2211)
4) Erik Tam (2038)
5) Aaron Sequillion (2011)
6) Simon Ong (1839)
7) Thomas Fox (1816)
8) Cashe Tyler (1761)
9) Nayef Daher (1734)
10) Greg Holmes (1662)
11) Slava Illyntskyy (1658)
12) Steven Blahitka (1633)
13) Josh Willie (1625)
14) Raymond Ong (1622)
15) Adie Todd (1596)
16) Ihor Kurylo (1576)
17) Shandy Booth (1548)
18) Katlan Irvine (1532)
19) Michael Wanless (1504)
20) Josh Weber (1186)
21) Ben Schmaltz (996)
22) Nikolas Macmillian (UNR)
23) Marc Bellemare (UNR)
24) Georgia Davies (UNR)
25) John Morrey (UNR)
26) Robert Goforth (UNR)
27) Jacob Smith (UNR)
28) Madhusudan Rao (UNR)
Maybe's Pre-registered List
**Either told me in person, email, or facebook**
1) FM Eric Hansen (2494)
2) FM Dale Haessel (2328)
3) David Zhang (2088)
4) Hafiz Karmali (2081)
5) Brad Willis (2053)
6) Jered Fokkema (1868)
7) Chase Cunningham (1792)
8) Micheal Sekuloff (1585)
9) Avelino Angelo Tolentino (1448)
10) Mark Ting (1342)
11) Thomas McIntyre (1274)
12) Chris Espina (UNR)
13) William Morris (UNR)
14) Wyatt Boudreau (UNR)
U of C's Top 4 Players
1) Victor Kaminski (2315)
2) Dan Kazmaier (2257)
3) Simon Ong (1839)
4) Steven Blahitka (1633)
Average Rating=2011
U of A's Top 4 Players
Maybe 1) Brad Willis (2053)
1) Nayef Daher (1734)
2) Katlan lrvine (1576)
3) Georgia Davies (UNR)
4) Nikolas Macmillian (UNR)
Average Rating=1655 (2 players)
1788 (if we include Mr. Willis on the team)
U of L's Top 4 Players
1) Thomas Fox (1816)
2) Cashe Tyler (1761)
3) Greg Holmes (1662)
4) Slava Illyntskyy (1658)
Average Rating=1724
NOTE:The name of the tournament is University Battle of Alberta but that does not mean it is restricted to University students/staffs/ and professors. I strongly encourage community members to participate in this tournament. The prize fund of this tournament is open to all players who participate in this tournament.
We have many strong community players (including Roy Yearwood, Stephan Vasilev, Hafiz Karmali) who participated last year. Last year crosstable can be found on the following link: http://www.chess.ca/xtableSQL.asp?TNum=200901055
We also encourage junior players to play in this event. Juniors who participated last year included David Zhang, Jan Lazo, Raymond Ong, Yuekai Wang, Diwen Shi, etc.
Details are posted on our facebook group
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=197706362614
(It will be posted on the ACA website soon!!)
Hope to see you in this event.
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Calgary's Weekend Tournament: Experiences vs. Raising Stars
Experiences vs. Raising Stars
Open to Juniors (21 yrs and under) and adults
Chess n 'Math and CFC
CFC membership required. It can be purchased on the site.
Format: 5 round swiss or round robin depending on the number of players
Time Control: 25 minutes
Registration: Sign in at the club 9:45 - 10: 00 am
Please pre-register by mailing me at quantum_mechanics123@hotmail.com
Entry Fee: $ 10 with membership
Prize: Cash Prize or Medallions
Round: Round 1: 10a.m-11a.m
Round 2: 11a.m-12a.m
Lunch: 12a.m-1p.m
Round 3: 1p.m-2p.m
Round 4: 2p.m - 3p.m
Round 5: 3p . m-4p.m
Note: Schedule may change depending on the situation
Entrants: So far our entrants are:
Juniors: Simon Ong, Tony Cai (maybe), Raymond Ong, Chengxi Zhao, Patrick Angelo Tolentino, Justin Prather, and Andre Angelo Tolentino
Seigneur: Roy Yearwood, Angelo Tolentino
The list will be refreshed in Yahoo! CCC group.
Tony Cai
Open to Juniors (21 yrs and under) and adults
Chess n 'Math and CFC
CFC membership required. It can be purchased on the site.
Format: 5 round swiss or round robin depending on the number of players
Time Control: 25 minutes
Registration: Sign in at the club 9:45 - 10: 00 am
Please pre-register by mailing me at quantum_mechanics123@hotmail.com
Entry Fee: $ 10 with membership
Prize: Cash Prize or Medallions
Round: Round 1: 10a.m-11a.m
Round 2: 11a.m-12a.m
Lunch: 12a.m-1p.m
Round 3: 1p.m-2p.m
Round 4: 2p.m - 3p.m
Round 5: 3p . m-4p.m
Note: Schedule may change depending on the situation
Entrants: So far our entrants are:
Juniors: Simon Ong, Tony Cai (maybe), Raymond Ong, Chengxi Zhao, Patrick Angelo Tolentino, Justin Prather, and Andre Angelo Tolentino
Seigneur: Roy Yearwood, Angelo Tolentino
The list will be refreshed in Yahoo! CCC group.
Tony Cai
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Transfer
Since I'm accepted now as a member in the Calgary Chess Club newsgroup, I'll be kibitzing there. It's in: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/calgarychess/
Check there for updates.
Check there for updates.
Round 2
Round 2 has started. The first two boards of the live games in the website have started.
Zhang-Wang
A Sicilian Rossilimo. White plays Bb5 focusing on development and the forming of the pawn center duo, d4 and e4, by playing c3. Yuekai has played the system with Qc7 and Nf6 which is usually used if Nc3 and Bb5 is played so that Nd4 Nxd4 cxd4 hits the knight. White now has formed a pawn duo but is struck back with d5. Yuekai played the Nfd7 which seems inferior. I have double check since usually, Ne4 is played. f3 is impossible right now because of the rook at e1 and knight. White has a cramping pawn on e5 should be thinking of kingside attack with Bd3-b1, Qd3, etc.
Kalaydina-Virji
A Giuoco Pianissmo. The game has just started and it is not all that clear. Both sides have their chances.
I'll get back later. I have to go somewhere. Sorry guys! Check the blog later for further updates.
Zhang-Wang
A Sicilian Rossilimo. White plays Bb5 focusing on development and the forming of the pawn center duo, d4 and e4, by playing c3. Yuekai has played the system with Qc7 and Nf6 which is usually used if Nc3 and Bb5 is played so that Nd4 Nxd4 cxd4 hits the knight. White now has formed a pawn duo but is struck back with d5. Yuekai played the Nfd7 which seems inferior. I have double check since usually, Ne4 is played. f3 is impossible right now because of the rook at e1 and knight. White has a cramping pawn on e5 should be thinking of kingside attack with Bd3-b1, Qd3, etc.
Kalaydina-Virji
A Giuoco Pianissmo. The game has just started and it is not all that clear. Both sides have their chances.
I'll get back later. I have to go somewhere. Sorry guys! Check the blog later for further updates.
Alberta Junior Chess Championsip Round 1
Hello all! This is Jan Lazo here. I'm currently in Toronto now which is why I'm not there right now. I've currently watching live games of the top 3 boards. I'm gonna do my best to kibitz and annotate some/all games since I'm somewhat busy this week and it's not school.
Shi-Zhang game was the first to finish. It was an English that turned into a hedgehog. After some inaccurate moves by Diwen Shi, David Zhang managed to equalize without much difficulty and soon got the iniative after a unsuccessful break (e4). David soon got an extra pawn through tactics. The position still had some drawing chances for White but drastically changed after misguided sac, 24. Nxb5. At first, it seems after axb5 Rc7, White regains the piece and pawn restoring material equality but after Nxf3+ gxf3 axb5, c7 is guarded. After a few moves, White resigned.
The second game to finish was Virji-Wang. After Nf6 played by Black threatening Nxe4, White played the move played more than a century ago, Nxc6. After some testing, it was shown to give Black equality cause of the center pawns. This capture is only done in the Sicilian Dragon. Since White gains time with ... bxc6 e5. Black equalized without difficulty and might actually had an advantage because of his center pawns and e1-a5 pin. Black captured a pawn on a2 and g2 to secure a pawn advantage. White was able to get back one of the pawns and actually had drawing chances because of the bishop pair and pawn structure. White, in my opinion, lost it after b4 trapping his bishop. Black used his pass pawn as a bait and attacked the king, soon leading to a mate. I have to admit that it was nice to see a mate occur. I don't know if White felt that Black deserved the priviledge of mating but I for one sure would...cause of Nxc6.
The last game of the live games to finish is Miller-Kalaydina. It was a Closed Sicilian with fianchettoed bishops as usual. The game was about equal up about move 10 but the undevelopment of the dark-squared bishop caused White some problems. h3 is usually played so that Be3 is possible without any harassment from the knights. The uncoordination of the rooks and bishops gave Black an iniative especially after e5. The knights came at d5 and f5 and totally controlled the key dark squares. Black forced a making of a backward pawn (d3) and piled up on the d-file. Simplification occured with after about every three moves exchange of pieces and Black won the ending without difficulty.
The second game has started and it seems I'm forced to go again (first the chess in the library program...now a thanksgiving celebration). Who knows what's next? Anyway, I wish all of the juniors that they fare well in this tournament. I hope you all best show your skills in the game of chess.
- Jan Edmund Lazo
Shi-Zhang game was the first to finish. It was an English that turned into a hedgehog. After some inaccurate moves by Diwen Shi, David Zhang managed to equalize without much difficulty and soon got the iniative after a unsuccessful break (e4). David soon got an extra pawn through tactics. The position still had some drawing chances for White but drastically changed after misguided sac, 24. Nxb5. At first, it seems after axb5 Rc7, White regains the piece and pawn restoring material equality but after Nxf3+ gxf3 axb5, c7 is guarded. After a few moves, White resigned.
The second game to finish was Virji-Wang. After Nf6 played by Black threatening Nxe4, White played the move played more than a century ago, Nxc6. After some testing, it was shown to give Black equality cause of the center pawns. This capture is only done in the Sicilian Dragon. Since White gains time with ... bxc6 e5. Black equalized without difficulty and might actually had an advantage because of his center pawns and e1-a5 pin. Black captured a pawn on a2 and g2 to secure a pawn advantage. White was able to get back one of the pawns and actually had drawing chances because of the bishop pair and pawn structure. White, in my opinion, lost it after b4 trapping his bishop. Black used his pass pawn as a bait and attacked the king, soon leading to a mate. I have to admit that it was nice to see a mate occur. I don't know if White felt that Black deserved the priviledge of mating but I for one sure would...cause of Nxc6.
The last game of the live games to finish is Miller-Kalaydina. It was a Closed Sicilian with fianchettoed bishops as usual. The game was about equal up about move 10 but the undevelopment of the dark-squared bishop caused White some problems. h3 is usually played so that Be3 is possible without any harassment from the knights. The uncoordination of the rooks and bishops gave Black an iniative especially after e5. The knights came at d5 and f5 and totally controlled the key dark squares. Black forced a making of a backward pawn (d3) and piled up on the d-file. Simplification occured with after about every three moves exchange of pieces and Black won the ending without difficulty.
The second game has started and it seems I'm forced to go again (first the chess in the library program...now a thanksgiving celebration). Who knows what's next? Anyway, I wish all of the juniors that they fare well in this tournament. I hope you all best show your skills in the game of chess.
- Jan Edmund Lazo
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Alberta Junior Championship and Reserve 2009
The Alberta Junior Championship and Reserve 2009 will be held at Calgary Chess Club on November 7-8, 2009. It will be a 5 round open swiss or round robin (if we have low entries). The winner of the "Championship" section will recieve ACA sponsorship to the next Canadian Junior Chess Championship. The Calgary Junior Chess Club will purchase plaques and will be given to the winner and runner-ups of both sections. Cash prizes will be available for both sections. Time control is Game in 90 minutes + 30 second increments per move. The round times will be 10:00am / 2:30pm / 6:00pm on Saturday and 10:00am / 2:30pm on Sunday (may change to give time to player to get lunch and dinner). All byes must be requested before round 1 (with last round counting as 0 point bye).
The full details for this tournament can be found on the following website: http://www.albertachess.org/Alberta_Junior.html
You can still join by emailing simong89@yahoo. ca (Tournament Director is Simon Ong).
CHAMPIONSHIP SECTION (OPEN):
(1) YueKai Wang of Calgary (1808)
(2) David Miller of Grand Prairie (1627)
(3) Aaron Ting of Calgary (1329)
RESERVE SECTION (RESTRICTION: BELOW 1700 CFC):
(1) Raymond Ong of Calgary (1613)
(2) Naveed Virgi of Edmonton (1478)
(3) Yaroslav Babich of Calgary (1256)
(4) Artsiom Akhverdziyev of Calgary (1186)
(5) Kevin Zhao of Calgary (1110)
(6) Krishneel Singh of Calgary (1077)
(7) Chenxi Zhao of Calgary (929)
(8) Jackson Prather of Calgary (877)
(9) Bill Xu of Calgary (772)
(10) Ryan John Tebbutt of Calgary (608)
(11) Andre Angelo Tolentino of Calgary (587)
(12) Lee Ma of Calgary (589)
(13) Zeling Li of Calgary (531)
(14) Patrick Angelo Tolentino of Calgary (513)
(15) Derek Zhang of Calgary (474)
(16) Imran Virji of Edmonton (UNR)
The full details for this tournament can be found on the following website: http://www.albertachess.org/Alberta_Junior.html
You can still join by emailing simong89@yahoo. ca (Tournament Director is Simon Ong).
CHAMPIONSHIP SECTION (OPEN):
(1) YueKai Wang of Calgary (1808)
(2) David Miller of Grand Prairie (1627)
(3) Aaron Ting of Calgary (1329)
RESERVE SECTION (RESTRICTION: BELOW 1700 CFC):
(1) Raymond Ong of Calgary (1613)
(2) Naveed Virgi of Edmonton (1478)
(3) Yaroslav Babich of Calgary (1256)
(4) Artsiom Akhverdziyev of Calgary (1186)
(5) Kevin Zhao of Calgary (1110)
(6) Krishneel Singh of Calgary (1077)
(7) Chenxi Zhao of Calgary (929)
(8) Jackson Prather of Calgary (877)
(9) Bill Xu of Calgary (772)
(10) Ryan John Tebbutt of Calgary (608)
(11) Andre Angelo Tolentino of Calgary (587)
(12) Lee Ma of Calgary (589)
(13) Zeling Li of Calgary (531)
(14) Patrick Angelo Tolentino of Calgary (513)
(15) Derek Zhang of Calgary (474)
(16) Imran Virji of Edmonton (UNR)
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Alberta Blitz Championship 2009
Alberta Blitz Championship 2009
Date: Saturday, November 14th, 2009
Location: University of Calgary, Macewan Hall, Room Cassio A/B
Registration: 9:00 AM to 9:45 AM (Tournament finishes around 4:00 PM)
Time Control: 5 minutes
Entry Fee: 5$ for U of C Chess Club members; 10$ for other players
Prize Fund: 100% of entry fees
Contact and Pre-Registration: Adie Todd, chess@ucalgary.ca
Pre-registration list:
(1) Ben Schmaltz
(2) Nicholas Moloney
(3) John Morrey
(4) Michael Wanless
(5) Jacob Smith
(6) Chase Cunningham
(7) Dan Kazmaier
(8) Steven Blahitka
(9) Robert Gaforth
(10) Simon Ong
(11) Monica Sommerville
(12) Brett Collier
Click the following link for the map to the playing site: http://www.ucalgary.ca/map/detailed_map/mhflo002.htm
Date: Saturday, November 14th, 2009
Location: University of Calgary, Macewan Hall, Room Cassio A/B
Registration: 9:00 AM to 9:45 AM (Tournament finishes around 4:00 PM)
Time Control: 5 minutes
Entry Fee: 5$ for U of C Chess Club members; 10$ for other players
Prize Fund: 100% of entry fees
Contact and Pre-Registration: Adie Todd, chess@ucalgary.ca
Pre-registration list:
(1) Ben Schmaltz
(2) Nicholas Moloney
(3) John Morrey
(4) Michael Wanless
(5) Jacob Smith
(6) Chase Cunningham
(7) Dan Kazmaier
(8) Steven Blahitka
(9) Robert Gaforth
(10) Simon Ong
(11) Monica Sommerville
(12) Brett Collier
Click the following link for the map to the playing site: http://www.ucalgary.ca/map/detailed_map/mhflo002.htm
Sunday, September 27, 2009
University of Calgary Simul
Hello everybody,
I got a message from Adie saying:
"U of C will be hosting a simul on Thursday, October 1st. If there are any players from the CCC who would like to participate, it's open to everyone!
Players: Daniel Kazmaier and Nicholas Moloney
Date: Thursday, October 1st
Location: North Courtyard, Macewan Hall, University of Calgary
Time: Register to play at either 11:00 AM or 1:00 PM
Email chess@ucalgary.ca to register"
They will have the giant chess set there as well so sounds like a fun event. I will encourage everyone to go there and play, give it a try. Thanks!
Stephan V.
I got a message from Adie saying:
"U of C will be hosting a simul on Thursday, October 1st. If there are any players from the CCC who would like to participate, it's open to everyone!
Players: Daniel Kazmaier and Nicholas Moloney
Date: Thursday, October 1st
Location: North Courtyard, Macewan Hall, University of Calgary
Time: Register to play at either 11:00 AM or 1:00 PM
Email chess@ucalgary.ca to register"
They will have the giant chess set there as well so sounds like a fun event. I will encourage everyone to go there and play, give it a try. Thanks!
Stephan V.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Match Day
Tired of inflexible tournament conditions? Annoyed by players hiding behind computer programs online? Need a break from the anonymity of correspondence chess?
Here's your chance to play live and on your own terms.
Every Friday, starting on September 18th, the Calgary Chess Club will be open for Match Day. Reply to this post by clicking "Comments" to appear on the club's sign-up sheet, or respond to someone else's ad by the same means. Be sure to set your conditions:
* number of games
* rated or unrated (but please include a ranking for information purposes)
* time control (with or without clock)
* bounty or no (to be decided between the players)
* standard rules, chess at odds, chess 960, or even blindfold
* starting time (remember that club hours are 6-11 PM)
Online submissions for a particular date close at 6:00 PM on that evening. Walk-ins will be accepted at any time. The cost to you will be only $2 per evening.
Let the games begin!
Bob Macfie
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Active Grand Prix #2
Hi everybody,
20 players showed up for our Active Grand Prix #2. We added another section so we had 5 sections of 4 players in each.
(btw do you like this active format? do you like the Grand Prix idea? any input would be appreciated!)
We used CFC regular ratings in order to assign sections, but the event will CFC active rated! So don't worry, your active rating will change!
Here are the results for each section:
Section I
Eric Hansen 3 pts -> $30
Stephan Vasilev 1.5 pt -> $15
Brett Campbell 1 pt
Daniel Kazmaier 0.5 pt
Section II
David Zhang 2.5 pts -> $30
Martin Robichaud 2 pts -> $15
Hafiz Carmali 1 pt
Walter Watson 0.5 pt
Section III
Brian Miller 2 pts -> $22.5
Bill Bentley 2 pts -> $22.5
Tom McKay 1 pt
Art Milne 1 pt
Section IV
Vlad Constantinescu 3 pts -> $30
Joseph Mugodo 2 pts -> $15
Cris Kuczaj 1 pt
Simon Ong 0 pts
Section V
Raymond Ong 2 pts -> $22.50
Deweese Wood 2 pts -> $22.50
Guillaume Masclet 1 pt
David Crimmins 1 pt.
Each section also contributed $15 towards the final standings in the Grand Prix.
For the Grand Prix we will tally overall scores for all six active tournaments. All of them are CFC active rated and you must be a CFC member.
New faces for the Grand Prix were master Brett Campbell, expert David Zhang, veteran A class Cris Kuszaj, Joseph Mugodo from Hamilton(he is new to our club), veteran A Class Walter Watson, as well as the current two time Alberta Champ "The Hansenator". :)
Grand Prix #3 will be on October 6th, 2009 which is a bit long to wait because we have the 5 round Fall Open starting on September 1st. The Annual General Meeting is scheduled for the 15th of September so please attend.
Thanks for playing and see you on Friday!
From TD Roy Yearwood, report - Stephan Vasilev, and Simon Ong.
Saturday, August 22, 2009
CJCC Back to School Open 2009
Hi all,
CJCC's "Back to School Open" had a modest turnout of 15 players that were put in 3 sections of 5 players each. The players were required to record their moves, the "touch move rule" was in effect, and there were medals for the top 3 of each section. In the second and third sections playoffs were necessary in order to award the medals.
Section winners are as follows:
Section 1:
1st Yuekai Wang 4 pts.
2nd Vlad Constantinescu 3pts.
3rd Diwen Shi 2.5 pts.
4th Artyom Akverdiev 2.0 pts.
5th Kevin Zhao 1 pt.
Setion 2:
1st Stanley Wang 4.5 pts.
2nd Krishneel Singh 3.5 pts.
3rd Andre Tolentino 2.5 pts
4th Patrick Tolentino 1.5 pt.
5th Lee Ma 0.5 pt.
Section 3:
1st Chenxi Zhao 3.5pts(tiebreak winnner).
2nd Zeling Li 3.5pts.
3rd Bill Xu 2.5pts(tiebreak winner)
4th Anna Chaykovska 2.5pts
5th Mehtaab Gill 0.5 pt
Thanks all for playing!
We want to see you all of you at our next tournament, which is on September 26, 2009 at St. Vincent Elementary School 4525 - 49 St. NW. Please don't show up at the chess club for this event!!! For more info or if you have any question, please contact Angelo Tolentino at 403-680-4374 or post on this board. Please show up on time for the registration of this event - from 9:00am to 9:45am!
From TD Roy Yearwood
CJCC's "Back to School Open" had a modest turnout of 15 players that were put in 3 sections of 5 players each. The players were required to record their moves, the "touch move rule" was in effect, and there were medals for the top 3 of each section. In the second and third sections playoffs were necessary in order to award the medals.
Section winners are as follows:
Section 1:
1st Yuekai Wang 4 pts.
2nd Vlad Constantinescu 3pts.
3rd Diwen Shi 2.5 pts.
4th Artyom Akverdiev 2.0 pts.
5th Kevin Zhao 1 pt.
Setion 2:
1st Stanley Wang 4.5 pts.
2nd Krishneel Singh 3.5 pts.
3rd Andre Tolentino 2.5 pts
4th Patrick Tolentino 1.5 pt.
5th Lee Ma 0.5 pt.
Section 3:
1st Chenxi Zhao 3.5pts(tiebreak winnner).
2nd Zeling Li 3.5pts.
3rd Bill Xu 2.5pts(tiebreak winner)
4th Anna Chaykovska 2.5pts
5th Mehtaab Gill 0.5 pt
Thanks all for playing!
We want to see you all of you at our next tournament, which is on September 26, 2009 at St. Vincent Elementary School 4525 - 49 St. NW. Please don't show up at the chess club for this event!!! For more info or if you have any question, please contact Angelo Tolentino at 403-680-4374 or post on this board. Please show up on time for the registration of this event - from 9:00am to 9:45am!
From TD Roy Yearwood
Monday, August 17, 2009
Positive Experiences at the Chinatown Street Festival
Hello all,
Here is a brief report of the festival:
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Chinatown Street Festival: Calgary Chess Club
Chinatown Street Festival is one of the most popular festivals in Calgary. Itconsists of merchant booths and entertainmentslocated at 3rd Ave and 1st St SE. It usually attract 50,000 people from allparts of Calgary. Every year this annual festivalconsists of the same activities: 3 on 3 soccer, mini golf, and Chinese Chess.However, there was something different about the9th annual Chinatown Street Festival. There were two tables set up with sixchess boards and pieces under 10'x 10' tent. Nextto the tent was a giant chess board that was set up by Bob Macfie, AngeloTolentino, Roy Yearwood, Raymond Ong and myself. The giant chess pieces wereassembled by our junior club players including the Tolentino brothers and Bill Xu. Then, the youngest of the Tolentino brother, Khino ("young Fischer"), placedthe assembled pieces on the giant board and ready to start a game against anyvisitors.
Regardless of the chilly weather in the morning, more and more visitors gatheredaround the giant chess board observing the gamebetween Bob Macfie and challengers from the crowd. The games on the giant chessboard were not short, the challengers actually givingBob a hard time at some point of the game. Other than the giant chess board wasa hit, visitors came to the tables to play chess against our president, StephanVasilev, and our veteran player, Roy Yearwood. Throughout the day, StephanVasilev, Roy Yearwood, and BobMacfie talked with visitors and answered any questions about our club. As wellthey handed out ACA&CCC pamphlets and Alberta Chess Reports. I helped answered any questions regarding to our junior chess club and passed out the CJCC newschedules. Stephan helped sellchess sets to visitors. It was nice to see the cooperation of our CCCexecutives.
Otherthan our CCC executives, we have many juniors playing chess in the festivalincluding David Zhang, YueKai Wang, Tony Cai,Diwen Shi, Chenxi Zhao, Kevin Zhao, Lee Ma, Gordon Cheung and juniors which Ihad already mentioned earlier in the report. Our juniors were playing blitz and bughouse. Some of our younger juniors werechallenged by visitors. It was suprising to see how our juniors were victoriousagainst visitors who are many times their age. I remembered seeing the AlbertaGrade 1 champion, PatrickTolentino, checkmating a visitor who claimed that he has been playing chess for more than 10 years. Never underestimate our juniors.
Later on the day, we have Raman Shanker dropped by to play chess games. The onlygame I saw Raman played was against Gordon Cheung. Raman easily won the game. Thanks for coming, Raman.
Overall the promotion of our club in this festival was a great success. We hopethat the visitors we met in this festival willcome to our club in the near future. It was a very positive experience for ourCCC executives, CJCC juniors, and visitors. Itwould be great if the CCC board will consider running the same thing in the 10thChinatown Street Festival. If we are doing thesame thing in the future, I strongly encourage our CCC/CJCC players to come outbecause after the festival you will be left withwonderful memories which I cannot explain unless you experience yourself.Stephan managed to capture some of the highlights of this festival and kindlyposted on the Calgary Chess Club Facebook group:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/photo_search.phpoid=2837384436&view=all
(I'm not sure if one need a facebook account to see these pictures).Again, I want to say "thank you" to all who came to help out in promoting chessand/or play chess in this festival. Special thanks to Stephan Vasilev, RoyYearwood, Bob Macfie, and Stacy Liu (Chenxi's mom) for helping with the teardown.
P.S. It would be great to see our CCC executives and CJCC players who came to the festival and write their experiences.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Simon Ong
Secretary, Calgary Chess Club
Here is a brief report of the festival:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Chinatown Street Festival: Calgary Chess Club
Chinatown Street Festival is one of the most popular festivals in Calgary. Itconsists of merchant booths and entertainmentslocated at 3rd Ave and 1st St SE. It usually attract 50,000 people from allparts of Calgary. Every year this annual festivalconsists of the same activities: 3 on 3 soccer, mini golf, and Chinese Chess.However, there was something different about the9th annual Chinatown Street Festival. There were two tables set up with sixchess boards and pieces under 10'x 10' tent. Nextto the tent was a giant chess board that was set up by Bob Macfie, AngeloTolentino, Roy Yearwood, Raymond Ong and myself. The giant chess pieces wereassembled by our junior club players including the Tolentino brothers and Bill Xu. Then, the youngest of the Tolentino brother, Khino ("young Fischer"), placedthe assembled pieces on the giant board and ready to start a game against anyvisitors.
Regardless of the chilly weather in the morning, more and more visitors gatheredaround the giant chess board observing the gamebetween Bob Macfie and challengers from the crowd. The games on the giant chessboard were not short, the challengers actually givingBob a hard time at some point of the game. Other than the giant chess board wasa hit, visitors came to the tables to play chess against our president, StephanVasilev, and our veteran player, Roy Yearwood. Throughout the day, StephanVasilev, Roy Yearwood, and BobMacfie talked with visitors and answered any questions about our club. As wellthey handed out ACA&CCC pamphlets and Alberta Chess Reports. I helped answered any questions regarding to our junior chess club and passed out the CJCC newschedules. Stephan helped sellchess sets to visitors. It was nice to see the cooperation of our CCCexecutives.
Otherthan our CCC executives, we have many juniors playing chess in the festivalincluding David Zhang, YueKai Wang, Tony Cai,Diwen Shi, Chenxi Zhao, Kevin Zhao, Lee Ma, Gordon Cheung and juniors which Ihad already mentioned earlier in the report. Our juniors were playing blitz and bughouse. Some of our younger juniors werechallenged by visitors. It was suprising to see how our juniors were victoriousagainst visitors who are many times their age. I remembered seeing the AlbertaGrade 1 champion, PatrickTolentino, checkmating a visitor who claimed that he has been playing chess for more than 10 years. Never underestimate our juniors.
Later on the day, we have Raman Shanker dropped by to play chess games. The onlygame I saw Raman played was against Gordon Cheung. Raman easily won the game. Thanks for coming, Raman.
Overall the promotion of our club in this festival was a great success. We hopethat the visitors we met in this festival willcome to our club in the near future. It was a very positive experience for ourCCC executives, CJCC juniors, and visitors. Itwould be great if the CCC board will consider running the same thing in the 10thChinatown Street Festival. If we are doing thesame thing in the future, I strongly encourage our CCC/CJCC players to come outbecause after the festival you will be left withwonderful memories which I cannot explain unless you experience yourself.Stephan managed to capture some of the highlights of this festival and kindlyposted on the Calgary Chess Club Facebook group:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/photo_search.phpoid=2837384436&view=all
(I'm not sure if one need a facebook account to see these pictures).Again, I want to say "thank you" to all who came to help out in promoting chessand/or play chess in this festival. Special thanks to Stephan Vasilev, RoyYearwood, Bob Macfie, and Stacy Liu (Chenxi's mom) for helping with the teardown.
P.S. It would be great to see our CCC executives and CJCC players who came to the festival and write their experiences.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Simon Ong
Secretary, Calgary Chess Club
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