Scarborough Chess Club: Spring into Summer Swiss 2018

Selected games

Thanks to Hugh Brodie via Chesstalk

Southam,D-Zhao,J

King’s  Indian Classical 7.Be3

SCC rd5

After 24.Nxc5(Diagram)

White just took a pawn but loses the game now

How can this be exploited?

After 24.Nxc5

 

 

CHAMPIONNAT OUVERT DE LAVAL 2018 (section ouverte)

Final Ranking after 5 Rounds

FM CHIKU-RATTE Olivier Kenta took clear first with 4-5/5

Games will be available soon hopefully

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	RtgI	TB1
1	3	FM	CHIKU-RATTE Olivier Kenta	CAN	2264	4,5
2	1	GM	LE SIEGE Alexandre	CAN	2522	4,0
	4	FM	RODRIGUE-LEMIEUX Shawn	CAN	2223	4,0
4	5	IM	DUONG Thanh Nha	CAN	2201	3,5
	9	FM	HUANG Qiuyu	CAN	2104	3,5
	10		SPRUMONT Oscar	CAN	2046	3,5
7	2	FM	ZHU Hong Rui	CAN	2293	3,0
	8	NM	BEAULIEU Eric	CAN	2125	3,0
	11		TANAKA Tyler	CAN	2038	3,0
	12		DURETTE Francis	CAN	2031	3,0
	13		ZHENG Richard	CAN	1991	3,0
	14		NIKULICH Oleksandr	CAN	1982	3,0
	18		NUNEZ-PAINCHAUD Raphael	CAN	1907	3,0
14	6	CM	SAKR Nassim	LBN	2175	2,5
	16	CM	ZHONG Kevin	CAN	1927	2,5
	26		VIGNALOU Joseph	CAN	1756	2,5
	27		STEINBERG Ellis	CAN	1699	2,5
	29		RICHARD Leo	CAN	1658	2,5
19	15		COUTURE Jonathan	CAN	1928	2,0
	17		ABBAS Talal	CAN	1914	2,0
	20		GONZALEZ Daniel	CAN	1833	2,0
	21		BARAN Marius	CAN	1823	2,0
	23		GAUTHIER Denis	CAN	1791	2,0
	24		JOANIS Marc-Andre	CAN	1783	2,0
	25		LESAGE Philippe	CAN	1779	2,0
	30		TINICA Gabriel	CAN	1635	2,0
	31		PAGE Dany	CAN	1630	2,0
	33		CHANG Alexander R.Z.	CAN	1567	2,0
29	7	NM	TOMB Maroun	LBN	2170	1,5
	19		DESCHAMPS Martin	CAN	1869	1,5
31	22		MARCHAND Jacques	CAN	1802	1,0
	28		SUPSUP Ferdinand	CAN	1698	1,0
	34		LAFLECHE Alain	CAN	1510	1,0
34	32		GAUTHIER Luc	CAN	1581	0,5

Canadian Chess Challenge 2018

see Canadian Chess Challenge Report

Another great event!

“120 provincial champions, 12 per province, gathered at the Memorial University, in St. John, Newfoudland, on Victoria Day weekend for the ultimate school competition of the year: the Canadian Chess Challenge, a tournament organized by theChess’n Math Association which aims to proclaim the national champion by grade.(more)…”

This was the 30th edition of the event

TWIC 1231 Canadians in Action

TWIC 1231 is now available

Selected games features Panjwani,R

Panjwani-Perez Ponsa

Queen’s Gambit Declined

13th American Continental rd9

After 29..Ne4(Diagram)

White seemed to do nothing really special and arrived at this position

What do you recommend for White?

After 29..Rb6

IM Panjwani finished with 6,5/11 in the tournament

13th American Continental Montevideo URU Fri 1st Jun 2018 – Sun 10th Jun 2018 Leading Final Round 11 Standings:
Rk	SNo	Name	Ti	FED	Rtg	Pts	TB1	TB2	TB3
1	1	Shankland Samuel	GM	USA	2717	9.0	0.0	7	5
2	6	Flores Diego	GM	ARG	2614	8.5	0.0	7	6
3	27	Salinas Herrera Pablo	IM	CHI	2463	8.0	0.0	7	6
4	4	Mareco Sandro	GM	ARG	2643	8.0	0.0	6	6
5	36	Escalante Ramirez Brian Sebasti	IM	PER	2422	8.0	0.0	6	6
6	2	Cori Jorge	GM	PER	2659	8.0	0.0	6	5
7	26	Cori Quispe Kevin Joel	IM	PER	2468	8.0	0.0	6	5
8	22	Hungaski Robert	GM	USA	2510	8.0	0.0	5	6
9	5	Cordova Emilio	GM	PER	2621	8.0	0.0	5	5
10	31	Vazquez Guillermo	IM	PAR	2436	7.5	0.0	7	5
11	30	Sosa Tomas	IM	ARG	2453	7.5	0.0	6	6
12	16	El Debs Felipe De Cresce	GM	BRA	2537	7.5	0.0	6	6
13	15	Martinez Alcantara Jose Eduardo	GM	PER	2539	7.5	0.0	6	5
14	7	Delgado Ramirez Neuris	GM	PAR	2613	7.5	0.0	6	5
15	8	Cruz Cristhian	GM	PER	2576	7.5	0.0	6	5
16	3	Xiong Jeffery	GM	USA	2656	7.5	0.0	5	5
17	11	Erenburg Sergey	GM	USA	2563	7.5	0.0	5	5
18	9	Liang Awonder	GM	USA	2571	7.5	0.0	5	5
19	17	Di Berardino Diego Rafael	IM	BRA	2525	7.5	0.0	5	5
20	10	Pichot Alan	GM	ARG	2564	7.5	0.0	4	6
21	14	Mekhitarian Krikor Sevag	GM	BRA	2546	7.5	0.0	4	6
22	32	Roselli Mailhe Bernardo	IM	URU	2433	7.0	0.0	6	6
23	40	Pierrot Facundo	IM	ARG	2392	7.0	0.0	6	6
24	68	Fernandez Maria Florencia	WIM	ARG	2203	7.0	0.0	6	6
25	64	Gauche Charles	FM	BRA	2235	7.0	0.0	6	6
26	23	Terry Renato	IM	PER	2503	7.0	0.0	6	5
27	19	Henriquez Villagra Cristobal	GM	CHI	2518	7.0	0.0	6	5
28	34	Campora Daniel H.	GM	ARG	2424	7.0	0.0	6	5
29	20	Vera Siguenas Deivy	IM	PER	2516	7.0	0.0	5	6
30	44	Soto Vega Jorge	FM	PER	2357	7.0	0.0	5	6
31	52	Colas Joshua	FM	USA	2285	7.0	0.0	5	5
32	42	Santarius Erik	FM	USA	2387	7.0	0.0	5	5
33	12	Perez Ponsa Federico	GM	ARG	2556	7.0	0.0	4	6
34	35	Quintiliano Pinto Renato R.	IM	BRA	2423	7.0	0.0	4	5
35	65	Teixeira Ricardo Da Silva	FM	BRA	2235	6.5	0.0	6	6
36	21	Morovic Fernandez Ivan	GM	CHI	2513	6.5	0.0	6	5
37	39	Gemy Jose Daniel	IM	BOL	2393	6.5	0.0	6	5
38	50	Grabinsky Aaron		USA	2296	6.5	0.0	6	5
39	101	Caceres Vasquez Sergio	FM	CHI	2041	6.5	0.0	6	5
40	28	Tristan Leonardo	IM	ARG	2459	6.5	0.0	5	6
41	76	Carvalho Herbert Abreu		BRA	2149	6.5	0.0	5	6
42	25	Hoffman Alejandro	GM	ARG	2475	6.5	0.0	5	5
43	13	Moradiabadi Elshan	GM	USA	2549	6.5	0.0	5	5
44	45	De Dovitiis Alejo	IM	ARG	2343	6.5	0.0	5	5
45	24	Rodriguez Vila Andres	GM	URU	2483	6.5	0.0	5	5
46	41	Bick Gabriel		USA	2391	6.5	0.0	5	5
47	54	Coro Lucas	FM	ARG	2269	6.5	0.0	5	5
48	49	Foisor Sabina-Francesca	WGM	USA	2301	6.5	0.0	5	5
49	18	Alonso Salvador	GM	ARG	2519	6.5	0.0	4	6
50	29	Panjwani Raja	IM	CAN	2456	6.5	0.0	4	5

 

 

Sentenced to Chess(!)

Sentenced to Chess

See story from Chessbase

The research team

“A different approach is now being tested in Lethbridge, Canada, where a group of scientists created a program to use chess instead. The program is called “Chess for Life” and so far has been a success…(more)”

 

 

2018 Golden Horseshoe Chess Championship 2018-GM Sambuev

More info see Elevate My Chess

Report see Gary Hua on Chesstalk

Open Final Ranking after 5 Rounds

GM Sambuev took clear first with 4.5/5

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Club/City	TB1
1	2	GM	Sambuev Bator	CAN	2589	QC	4,5
2	1	GM	Preotu Razvan	CAN	2626	ON	4,0
	3	IM	Krnan Tomas	CAN	2499	ON	4,0
4	4	FM	Hua Eugene	CAN	2411	ON	3,5
	15	CM	Noorali Aahil	CAN	2047	ON	3,5
6	6	NM	Li William	CAN	2219	ON	3,0
	14		Profit Brian	CAN	2054	ON	3,0
	18		Feng Richard	CAN	1993	ON	3,0
	19	CM	Atanasov Anthony	CAN	1982	ON	3,0
10	5	CM	Issani Nameer	CAN	2221	ON	2,5
	7	NM	Buscar Michael	CAN	2215	ON	2,5
	8		Jiang Brian	CAN	2124	ON	2,5
	9	NM	Casareno Erwin	CAN	2120	ON	2,5
	12		Xu Daniel	CAN	2075	ON	2,5
	13		Ning Eric	CAN	2068	ON	2,5
	20		Rusonik Max	CAN	1976	ON	2,5
	25		Papneja Arul	CAN	1934	ON	2,5
18	10	CM	Kang Dorian	CAN	2102	ON	2,0
	16	CM	Chen Max	CAN	2026	ON	2,0
20	11		Lin Benjamin	CAN	2093	ON	1,5
	17		Brajkovic Nikola	CAN	1998	ON	1,5
	22		Zhao Jeffrey Renfei	CAN	1965	ON	1,5
	23	WFM	He Emma	CAN	1949	ON	1,5
24	21		Nemati Omid	CAN	1972	ON	1,0
25	24		Chakkoli Shiva	CAN	1945	ON	0,5

U2000 Final Ranking after 5 Rounds

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Club/City	TB1
1	2		Bu Kevin (yihuan)	CAN	1958	ON	4,5
2	15		Supsup Ferdinand	CAN	1754	ON	4,0
3	5		Subramanian Arun	CAN	1950	ON	3,5
	8		Nazareno Merlin	CAN	1894	ON	3,5
5	1		Khachaturov Vadim	CAN	1966	ON	3,0
	3		Calvelo Jelvis	CAN	1950	ON	3,0
	4		Huang Youhe	CAN	1950	ON	3,0
8	6		Talsma Shawn	CAN	1940	ON	2,5
	9		Milinkovic Mate	CAN	1869	ON	2,5
	13		Hack Justin	CAN	1761	ON	2,5
	14		Gao Raymond	CAN	1756	ON	2,5
	16		Joseph Benher Savio	CAN	1722	ON	2,5
13	7		Bergeron Matthew	CAN	1909	ON	2,0
	10		Liu Harrison (hangchen)	CAN	1839	ON	2,0
	11		Liao Joseph	CAN	1801	ON	2,0
	17		Wang Eric	CAN	1684	ON	2,0
	18		Ran Xiaoyu (charles)	CAN	1655	ON	2,0
18	12		Gillanders Robert	CAN	1763	ON	1,5
	19		Zarezadegan Fariborz	CAN	1603	ON	1,5

U1750 Final Ranking after 5 Rounds

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Club/City	TB1
1	2		Xu Eddie	CAN	1632	ON	4,0
	4		Liu Harry	CAN	1600	ON	4,0
	9		Benggawan Undriadi	CAN	1540	ON	4,0
4	8		Zhang Jonathan	CAN	1558	ON	3,5
	20		Yuen Noah Nathaniel	CAN	1479	ON	3,5
	24		Li Wing	CAN	1418	ON	3,5
7	3		Gilani Mysha	CAN	1625	ON	3,0
	10		Xiang Christopher	CAN	1536	ON	3,0
	12		Verde Pino	CAN	1530	ON	3,0
	13		Cao Bruce	CAN	1516	ON	3,0
11	5		Gao Lucy	CAN	1596	ON	2,5
	7		Zhang Henry Xianrui	CAN	1568	ON	2,5
	19		Liu Henry	CAN	1495	ON	2,5
	23		Hughes Henry	CAN	1433	ON	2,5
15	6		Clarke Brian	CAN	1570	ON	2,0
	17		Hua Michelle	CAN	1501	ON	2,0
	18		Lin Angela	CAN	1501	ON	2,0
	22		Cloete Jack	CAN	1445	ON	2,0
19	11		Shen Isamel	CAN	1530	ON	1,5
	21		Chen Andrew	CAN	1476	ON	1,5
21	1		Ramesh Bharath	CAN	1638	ON	1,0
	14		Karmalkar Vilas	CAN	1515	ON	1,0
	15		Li Jerry	CAN	1515	ON	1,0
	16		Gao William (zhimao)	CAN	1504	ON	1,0

 

U1500 Final Ranking after 5 Rounds

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Club/City	TB1
1	10		Han Richard	CAN	1322	ON	4,0
	11		Dey Jai	CAN	1316	ON	4,0
3	1		Cater Brendan	CAN	1482	ON	3,5
	9		Locham Divjot	CAN	1346	ON	3,5
	17		Mugunthan Vaamanan	CAN	1219	ON	3,5
6	7		Sprague John	CAN	1386	ON	3,0
	15		Gauthier David	CAN	1292	ON	3,0
	16		Dhanoa Jeeven	CAN	1266	ON	3,0
9	4		Wang Andrew	CAN	1464	ON	2,5
	6		Ripley Sam	CAN	1431	ON	2,5
	8		Dong Yiwei	CAN	1361	ON	2,5
	13		Yang Brett	CAN	1304	ON	2,5
	19		Shi Kevin	CAN	1200	ON	2,5
	21		Xie Joanna (ruo Jin)	CAN	0	PE	2,5
15	2		Chakkoli Anirud	CAN	1474	ON	2,0
	12		Chen Derek	CAN	1315	ON	2,0
17	3		Botescu Adrian	CAN	1471	ON	1,5
	5		Lim Carl	CAN	1459	ON	1,5
	14		Stroganov Victor	CAN	1303	ON	1,5
20	18		Archibald Colin B.	CAN	1201	ON	1,0
21	20		Wang Zhixing (daniel)	CAN	1161	ON	0,5

U1250 Final Ranking after 5 Rounds

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Club/City	TB1
1	15		Vidan Curtis	CAN	1107	ON	5,0
2	4		Sarkar Rishi	CAN	1207	ON	4,0
	14		Zhang Daniel	CAN	1111	ON	4,0
4	1		Huang Richard	CAN	1231	ON	3,5
	19		Li Michael	CAN	1050	ON	3,5
6	2		Blachford Michael	CAN	1221	ON	3,0
	5		Ripley Noah	CAN	1191	ON	3,0
	6		Prema Sam	CAN	1188	ON	3,0
	9		Fedyushchenko Alexander [sash	CAN	1166	ON	3,0
	13		Glinnyi Danylo	CAN	1123	ON	3,0
	21		Cheng Adam	CAN	1021	ON	3,0
	22		Zhao Yicheng	CAN	970	ON	3,0
13	11		Huang Danny	CAN	1131	ON	2,5
	17		Teeple Keith	CAN	1072	ON	2,5
	23		Pugach Daniel	CAN	965	ON	2,5
16	3		Granic Luka	CAN	1207	ON	2,0
	7		Ran Sean	CAN	1186	ON	2,0
	12		Wang Henry	CAN	1126	ON	2,0
	18		Chen Alina	CAN	1054	ON	2,0
	20		Yao Henry	CAN	1048	ON	2,0
	25		Mane Arnav	CAN	955	ON	2,0
22	8		Tuong Truong Cat	CAN	1183	ON	1,5
	26		Wang Xiuqi (arthur)	CAN	929	ON	1,5
24	16		Hay John	CAN	1098	ON	1,0
	24		Liao Jody	CAN	963	ON	1,0
26	10		Gao George	CAN	1162	ON	0,0

U1000 Final Ranking after 5 Rounds(Partial)

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Club/City	TB1
1	2		Dalrymple Izayah	CAN	979	ON	5,0
2	6		Yang Larry	CAN	895	ON	4,0
3	1		Gangolli Rahul	CAN	981	ON	3,5
	5		Li Eric	CAN	913	ON	3,5
	16		Yang Lefan	CAN	759	ON	3,5
6	7		Liu Gloria	CAN	879	ON	3,0
	10		Kaur Eveleen	CAN	849	ON	3,0
	11		Green Hallie	CAN	839	ON	3,0
	15		Liu Zi	CAN	790	ON	3,0
	19		Guo Anni	CAN	706	ON	3,0

U750 Final Ranking after 5 Rounds

Rk.	SNo		Name	FED	Rtg	Club/City	TB1
1	16		Huang Justin	CAN	564	ON	4,5
	34		Cowan Ryan	CAN	0	ON	4,5
3	13		Tso Kevin	CAN	585	ON	4,0
	25		Lin Joey	CAN	370	ON	4,0
	33		Ching Davin	CAN	0		4,0
	41		Wang Andy Hai Zhou	CAN	0		4,0
	44		Wu Sunny	CAN	0	ON	4,0
	46		Yan Jacob	CAN	0	ON	4,0
9	10		Sreekumar Gauri	CAN	619	ON	3,5
	11		Tao Andrew	CAN	607	ON	3,

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Round 1 games-Thanks to Hugh Brodie

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Southam,D-Huang,Y

3.f3 Anti-Grunfeld

After 18..Bd7(Diagram)

White has brutal intentions on the kingside

What do you recommend for White?

After 18..Bd7

Zhao,J(1833)-Yi,K(2135)

Sicilian Paulsen

After 26..Nxe4(Diagram)

The heavy rating favourite won eventually but in this position, What do you recommend for White?

After 26..Nxe4