Scarborough Community of Toronto Chess News & Views Newsletter of / Le Journal de Scarborough Chess Club “ FRIENDLY Chess Since 1960 ” ITEMS OF INTEREST TO BOTH MEMBERS & NON-MEMBERS Issue # 13-24 – August 15, 2012 2012 Canadian Closed/ Women’s Closed Championships The 9 round swiss Closed/Zonal was recently played in Montreal, Quebec. Here is the result: Canadian Closed Champion – GM Bator Sambuev ( was defending champion ) – 8.5/9 pts. – undefeated ______________________Continued on next page___________________________ SCTCN&V Website : http://scarboroughchess.webhop.net SCC e – mail : [email protected]SCC Website : http://www.ScarboroughChessClub.ca Birkdale Community Ctre, 1299 Ellesmere Road ( between Midland Ave. and Brimley Road )
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Scarborough Community of Toronto
Chess News & Views
Newsletter of / Le Journal de
Scarborough Chess Club
“ FRIENDLY Chess Since 1960 ”
ITEMS OF INTEREST TO BOTH MEMBERS & NON-MEMBERS
Issue # 13-24 – August 15, 2012
2012 Canadian Closed/ Women’s Closed Championships The 9 round swiss Closed/Zonal was recently played in Montreal, Quebec. Here is the result: Canadian Closed Champion – GM Bator Sambuev ( was defending champion ) – 8.5/9 pts. – undefeated
______________________Continued on next page___________________________
SCC e – mail : [email protected] SCC Website : http://www.ScarboroughChessClub.ca Birkdale Community Ctre, 1299 Ellesmere Road
( between Midland Ave. and Brimley Road )
As the winner, he will get $ 2000 for his participation to the World Cup in Tromso, Norway in 2013. As a result of point totals in the Closed, our newest Canadian IM is Richard Wang of Alberta, and our two new Canadian FM’s are Nikita Gusev and Michael Humphreys of Ontario. The Canadian Women’s Closed/Zonal was a 10-player round-robin, played at the same time and place as the Closed: Canadian Women’s Closed Champion – WIM Natalia Khoudgarian ( was defending champion ) – 8.5/9 pts. – undefeated.
. As the winner, she will get $ 1000 for her participation to the 2012 Women’s world championship in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia on Nov. 9- Dec. 3 – a 64-player Knockout. Here are the top finishers in each tournament: Closed: Final Ranking after 9 Rounds Rk. Name FED Rtg Club/City Pts.1 GM SAMBUEV Bator CAN 2523 QC 8.52 GM KOVALYOV Anton CAN 2605 QC 7.03 IM NORITSYN Nikolay CAN 2472 ON 6.0
FM WANG Richard CAN 2338 AB 6.0 CM GUSEV Nikita CAN 2117 ON 6.0 Women’s Closed: Final Ranking after 9 Rounds Rk. Name FED Rtg Club/City Pts.1 WIM KHOUDGARIAN Natalia CAN 2158 ON 8.52 AGBABISHVILI Lali CAN 1925 ON 7.0
ROY Myriam CAN 1982 QC 7.0 Scarborough CC Goes Mobile! ( by SCC Website Administrator, Steve Karpik ) According to a new study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, it was found that almost 90 percent of U.S. adults own a cell phone and as of April 2012, more than half of them (55 percent) use their phone to surf the Internet from time-to-time — up from 31 percent in 2009. Even more significant is the fact that about 17 percent of all American adult cell phone owners rely on smartphones almost exclusively for their Internet browsing. Figures for Canada are likely very similar. In other parts of the world, like India and other rapidly developing nations, access to the Internet using mobile devices is even more prevalent. So why does this matter to a chess club like the SCC? The Internet is an important communication tool for organizations like the Scarborough Chess Club. Our website is essential both for communicating with existing club members and to attract new members. The club website is often the source of first contact for many individuals who join the SCC. Up until recently having a website that works well on a desktop computer or laptop was more than sufficient but with the explosion in mobile Internet usage, a mobile-friendly website is almost a necessity. In response to these changing times, I’m happy to announce that the Scarborough Chess Club has a new mobile-friendly website. Now if you visit www.scarboroughchessclub.ca using your iPhone, Android phone or Blackberry, you will be re-directed to a special mobile-friendly version of the SCC website. At the present time, the mobile website has basic club information but over the next few weeks and months new features will be added to make the mobile version of the SCC website even more useful. So from now on if you visit the SCC website with your desktop computer or laptop, you’ll get the same website you’ve been seeing for several years. However, if you use your smartphone, you’ll arrive at a site that looks like the accompanying screenshot.
Be sure to visit www.scarboroughchessclub.ca on your smartphone and give me feedback about how the mobile site looks and what you think (Steve Karpik : [email protected] ). Russian Championships
Dima Andreikin
won his 1st Russian Championship! He took a quick final round draw in the tiebreakers against Vladimir Potkin. Has the next generation of Russian talent arrived? He is the only player U 22 years old in the World rankings from 11-30!
GM Natalia Pogonina ( who has a very good website – http://pogonina.com/index.php?lang=english ) won the Women’s title.
( adapted from TWIC ) The Biel Chess Festival took place from 23rd July to 2nd August. Magnus Carlsen ( Norway ) returned to defend the title he won last year. Alexander Morozevich ( Russia ) also returned to an event where he has seen much success but he lost his first two games and then became so ill he was forced to withdraw and Viktor Bologan ( Russia ) stepped in to play the games he was supposed to play. Hikaru Nakamura ( USA ), Wang Hao ( China ), Etienne Bacrot ( France ) and Anish Giri ( Netherlands ) were the other players in this 6 player 10 round Double Round Robin.
The winner was Wang Hao ( China ),
based on the Bilbao scoring system ( win = 3 pts.; draw = 1 pt.; loss = 0 pts. ). Under normal scoring, Magnus would have won. Former two-time Canadian champion, IM Jean Hebert, weighed in on the CMA ChessTalk discussion board, critical of the Bilbao system ( the “ soccer “ system ): “ Six wins, one draw and three losses are better than four wins, six draws and no loss ? A 2858 performance is better than Carlsen's 2878 ? Unless the ELO system is declared obsolete and meaningless, I don't believe in this. I don't believe in a system that produces controversial winners. “ Do you agree with Jean, or with the international organizers who imposed the alternate scoring system. The alleged purpose of the Bilboa system is to encourage more “ fighting “ games, played ‘til the last dog is hung, and fewer draws. Here is the final round win by Wang over Giri, that clinched him the title ( Annotations by Bob Armstrong, using Fritz ): Wang, Hao (2739) − Giri, Anish (2696) [A15] 45th Biel GM Biel SUI (10), 02.08.2012
1.Nf3² 0.29 Fritz 13 evaluates the position as a " slight " advantage to W. This evaluation is not
generally accepted. Many feel W has " initiative ", but Bl. can equalize. 1...Nf6 2.c4?!= ( verified
XABCDEFGHY 8-+rwq-+k+( 7+-+-+-snp' 6-+-+psnpvl& 5zp-vL-sN-+-% 4Lzp-+-+-+$ 3+-+-+-+-# 2PzPR+QzPPzP" 1+-+-+-mK-! xabcdefghy Ne4?+− 3.25 [29...Nd5 30.Qf3 Bf4+− 2.43] 30.Nc6 threatening the fork on e7 30...Rxc6 31.Bxc6 Hao is up the exchange 31...Nxc5 32.Rxc5+− 3.52 1-0
Here is the final standings:
45th Biel GM Biel SUI Sat 21st Jul 2012 - Fri 3rd Aug 2012 Leading Final Round 10 Standings:
Rk Name FED Rtg Gms Pts
1 Wang Hao CHN 2739 10 19
2 Magnus Carlsen NOR 2837 10 18
3 Anish Giri NED 2696 10 16
4 Hikaru Nakamura USA 2778 10 16
5 Etienne Bacrot FRA 2713 10 7
6 Victor Bologan MDA 2732 8 4
Canadian Amateur Chess Championships
This 7 round swiss in five sections was played Aug. 3-6 at Kitchener, Ontario, and attracted 83 players. The Champions are: Over 2000 – Roman Sapozhnikov of Richmond Hill, Ont. – 5.5/7 pts. ( undefeated ); Over 1600 – Owen Qian of Mississauga, Ont. – 6/7 pts. ( undefeated ): Over 1200 – Wenyang Ming ( SCC Junior ) of Markham, Ont. - 5.5/7 pts. Rookie – Gary Hua of Waterdown, Ont., and Mathanhe Kaneshalingam ( SCC Junior ) of Stouffville, Ont. – 5.5 pts. – both undefeated
Canadian Seniors Chess Championship
This 7 round swiss was played Aug. 3-6 at Kitchener, Ontario, and attracted 11 players. The defending champion, Ralph Deline was back to defend his title. The new Canadian Seniors Champion, undefeated, with 6.5/7 pts. is Andre Zybura of Kitchener. He wins the right to represent Canada at the FIDE World Senior Championship Dinesh’s Chess Humour ( by columnist/SCC member, Dinesh Dattani )
Rick’s Chess Trivia ( questions/presentations researched by columnist Rick Garel,
former SCC Executive, former SCC member, Orillia CC President ) Last Issue’s Chess Trivia was the Question: . A Novel called, Six Days of the Condor used quotations from which chess author to introduce some of its chapters?
Answer : James Grady's 1974 novel Six Days of the Condor used quotations from Reinfeld's 1959 The Complete Chess Course as introductions to three of its chapters. Bragging Rights Winner : Rick stumped our subscribers with this one! No winner.
Today’s Trivia Question is: Who set the record for non stop chess? You can use any resource available to answer the question ! Just find it fast and send it in as fast as you can, by e-mail, to Rick: [email protected]
The first correct e-mail received wins, and gets bragging rights. Also, we will publish the honoured winner’s name in the next newsletter, along with a few details they provide as to their chess experience ( if they wish ), along with the researched answer. Thanks for playing !! Chess History is fun !!
Also write Rick if you have any chess trivia questions or presentations you’d like him to consider for his column. We will give credit to the author if we use your suggestion. 2011-2 SCC Club Championship
The SCC Championship is played in three sections : Championship Round Robin; Reserves -1400+ ( with accelerated pairings since it is the larger swiss ) and Reserves - U 1400 ( 1300’s have the right to play up ).The Championship started Thursday, March 22 and ran to May 17.
The Championship Section is a 10-player round robin of the 9 highest rated club members registering, plus the winner of the prior year’s Open Reserves Section ( or the next place finisher in case the winner qualifies by rating or is not playing ). Unfortunately, Master Josh Guo ( 2324 ), last year’s champion, is not returning to defend his title.
Here are the 9 players by rating in the first 9 of 10 spots, and the possible replacements if someone had dropped out ( ratings as of CFC 12/3/21 rating update ):
1. Dave Southam ( 2222 ); 2. Andrew Picana ( 2044 ); 3. Junior Tony Lin ( 2042 – last year’s Reserves winner, but now qualifying by
rating; 4. Ilyas Nasirov ( 2024 ); 5. Dave Krupka ( 2009 ); - subsequent Reserves Qualifier, but now qualifying by
1st Replacement – Junior Eric Wang ( 1789 ) 2nd Replacement – Junior Yinshi Li ( 1777 ) 3rd Replacement – Scott Huston ( 1758 )
It was a little tricky determining the 10th entry, who is the prior year’s Open Reserve winner ( or replacement on a trickle down method ). Here were the 2011-2 Reserves placings ( those qualifying to # 17 in bold ): SCC Championship 2010-2011: Reserves (1700+) – Standings ( with tie-break ) Name Tony (juntao) Lin Alex T Ferreira
Joshua Sherman Kevin Wu David Krupka Lin (xin) Song Sam Sharpe Juliaan Posaratnanathan Mario Moran-Venegas Daniel Wiebe Greg Stavropoulos Stanley Su Arkadiy Ugodnikov Dean Ward Joseph Bellissimo Haqi Al Ganabi Robert J Armstrong Abdolreza Radpey Doug Gillis Lui Morra Jim Paterson Kevin Gaffney Scott Huston Peter Xie Silvano Mesiti John Zhang Ferdinand Cale Stephen [si Yu] Bao William Rutherdale Robert Bzikot Martin Maister Jack Triefeldt Joe Bellomo Of the top 10 placers, 4 already qualified by rating, and 5 were ineligible for failing to meet the activity rule. One declined to play. Thus, going into the playing hall for Rd. 1, the 10th player was still unknown. Steve Karpik, pairings administrator, had determined who was eligible from # 11 – 16 - one already qualified by rating, 2 were ineligible, 2 declined to play, and one didn’t show for Rd. 1. That left…guess who? Yup, your intrepid editor, Bob Armstrong, who was # 17! …and rated only 1683! But always being up for a challenge, I accepted this suicide mission! It demonstrates the worthwhileness of playing in the 1400+ Reserves, since the qualifier may be found well beyond the top finishers, depending, next year, on who has raised their rating, who is playing, who will commit to the 9-round round robin, etc.
The average rating of this section then, at the start of the tournament, was 1961. This is a substantially weaker championship than last year where the average rating was 2157 and boasted 5 masters.
52 members registered for the Reserves – 1400+. It was headed by 2 experts – Mikhail Egerov; Wajdy Shebetah. There were 7 1300’s who decided to play up in this section.
35 members registered for the Reserves - U 1400. It is interesting to note that the mid-point for the club in this championship is in
the 1400’s. The total registrants is 97, somewhat less than our first four tournaments of the season ( in two we broke 100 players, and one got 99 players! ). After completion of the full 9 rounds, the winners are: Championship Section – 1st - 8 pts.( undefeated ) – Expert Andrew Picana ( presented with the trophy on Thursday, June 14 at SCC )
2nd – 7.5 pts. - junior expert Tony Lin ; 3rd - 5.5 pts. – Master Dave Southam
Reserves -1400+ - 1st – 7.5 pts. ( undefeated ) - Expert Mikhail Egorov ( trophy also presented on June 14 );
2nd – 7 pts. – junior Daniel Zotkin; 3rd – 7 pts. - Daniel Wiebe
Reserves U 1400 – 1st – 8.5 pts. ( undefeated ) Hamid Azizi ( presented with the trophy on Thursday, June 14 at SCC );
Games are collected each week (the white score sheet is handed in; the player gets the yellow carbon ) – this is mandatory on all members. But no games of this tournament are to be sent out to members in database format, nor published, until the full tournament has concluded ( this is the SCC policy concerning score sheets, the games database, and the newsletter. If anyone is interested in getting a copy of this policy, just e-mail me at [email protected] .)
The SCC games database is administered for the club by the SCC Games Database Committee, a volunteer member committee composed, currently, of Ken Kurkowski, Martin Maister, Dinesh Dattani and I ( Bob Armstrong ). Ken and I are “ enterer/annotator’s “. We enter the SCC games each week into the tournament database; also, I analyze or partly analyze a substantial number of the games, and, from time to time, Ken also analyzes a few games for the newsletter and/or the database. Martin and Dinesh are “ annotators “. They each annotate one game per week for the database/newsletter.
As was said, the tournament database has now be sent out to members since the tournament is concluded ( it does not contain the games we will be publishing in our coverage of the tournament in the newsletter – these are the best games, and they have been held back for the newsletter ). There was a short delay in sending out the database, as the Executive, at the request of an SCC junior playing in the CYCC ( July 3-6 ) in Vancouver, had directed the SCC Games Database Committee, not to publish the database ‘til the conclusion of the CYCC ( after July 6 ).
Here are, in my opinion, the most interesting ( not necessarily the best ) games from Rd. 6: Championship Round-Robin
( Introduction by Martin Maister ) White’s pieces did not always find the right squares e.g. 25.Qc2 and 28.Qb4 which helped Black. Black’s great 29th move was the
clincher! A nice game full of action. Well done junior Juliaan Posaratnanathan and junior Lin Song!
Here is the game ( Annotations by Martin Maister, using Fritz ): Posaratnanathan, Juliaan − Song, Lin [B33] Scarborough CC Champ Toronto, 26.04.2012
] B33: Sicilian: Pelikan and Sveshnikov Variations 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 e5 6.Ndb5 d6 7.Nd5 Nxd5 8.exd5 Nb8 9.a4 a6 10.Na3 Nd7 11.Be2 Be7 12.Nc4 Nb6 13.a5 Nxc4 14.Bxc4 Bg5= Interesting! Fritz played 14..Bf5, yet both ..Bf5 and ..Bg5 were given virtually
exactly equal. 15.0-0 Bxc1 16.Qxc1 [if 16.Rxc1 Qxa5 17.Qe2 0-0∓] 16...0-0 17.Qe3 Bf5= 18.c3 Rc8 (until now, the position was constantly within a few hundreths of units from exact equality.
White's 19th move will change this. 19.Ra4∓ This allows Black to win a pawn. [¹19.Be2= (0.00)
(23.h3 b5∓) 23...Qa1+ 24.Bf1 Bb5-+] 22.Bd3 f5³ Black should take that pawn to keep the
advantage. [22...Rxa5 23.Rxa5 Qxa5 24.h4∓ (24.Rxb7? does not save the pawn 24...Qa1+ 25.Bf1 Bb5 26.Rxb5 axb5-+) 24...Bc8∓] 23.Rb1∓ This restricts the rook. [23.c4 f4 24.Qe2 g6³]
25.Qc2∓ I am not sure what the Queen does here. [25.Ra1! Kg7 (‹25...Rxd5 26.Bc4 Be6 27.Qe4±) 26.Rc4 Rxc4 (‹26...Rxa5 27.Rxc7 Rxa1+ 28.Qf1 Rxf1+ 29.Kxf1±) 27.Bxc4 Qc5³]
25...Be8= [¹25...Bc8!?∓ The squares c8 and e8 for the B is the difference of clear advantage and
equality. On c8, that one B loses freedom. In return, all the other Black pieces gain freedom.]
26.Qb3= Rf7= (0.00) [Inferior is 26...Qxa5 27.Rxb7 Rc8 28.Be2±] 27.Rb6?∓ Black will likely win a
pawn anyway. With Ra1, the White pieces become very active and the position becomes unclear.
[¹27.Ra1= and White can hope to survive; 27.Ra1 Rxa5 28.Rxa5 (28.Re1 b5∓) 28...Qxa5
lasts slightly longer by delaying ..f3] 42...f3+ 43.Ke1 [if 43.Kf1 e2+ 44.Ke1 Ra7 Ding Dong the
King is dead.] 43...e2 [43...Ra7 44.fxe3+ (44.Kd1 Kc3 45.Bd3 (45..Kxd3 is too simple for a
computer!) 45...Ra1+ 46.Bb1 Rxb1#) 44...Kxe3 45.Kd1 Ra1+ 46.Kc2 Ra2+ 47.Kc3 (47.Kd1 f2-+) 47...Re2!!-+] 44.h3 Ra7 [44...Ra7 45.Bxe2 fxe2 46.Kxe2 Kc3-+] 0-1 About the middle of the game, Jim Paterson
got a “ clear “ advantage against Master Dave Southam,
but he couldn’t enhance his position, and near the end was losing his advantage. A draw resulted. Here is the game ( Annotations by Bob Armstrong, using Fritz ):
Southam, David (2222) − Paterson, Jim (1822) [D10] Scarborough CC Champ ( Champ Sec. ) Toronto (6), 26.04.2012
[A2 − Armstrong, Robert] 1.d4² 0.29 Fritz 13 evaluates the position as a " slight " advantage to W. This evaluation is not
generally accepted. 1...d5 2.c4 ( verified depth 26 ) 2...Bf5?!± Dave gets an early " clear "
got a nice attack against your intrepid editor, Bob Armstrong, and finished it off in style with a R-sac/mate. Here is the game ( Annotations by Bob Armstrong, using Fritz ): Liu, Jiaxin (1544) − Armstrong, Robert J. (1683) [B27] Scarborough CC Champ ( Reserves 1400+ ) Toronto (6), 26.04.2012
1.e4² 0.34 Fritz evaluates the position as a " slight " advantage for W. This evaluation is not
generally accepted. 1...g6 2.d4 Bg7 3.Nc3 c5 4.Nf3 Nc6?!± Dora gets an early " clear "
Scott Huston gets a nice sac offer, winning a P, and then an attack that mates, against Sujeev Mahendran. Here is the game ( Annotations by Bob Armstrong, using Fritz ): Mahendran, Sujeev (1609) − Huston, Scott (1756) [E21] SCC Championship Reserves 1400+ Toronto (6), 26.04.2012
599MB, Fritz11.ctg, My Computer 1.d4² 0.29 Fritz 13 evaluates the position as a " slight "
advantage to W. This evaluation is not generally accepted. 1...Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 ( verified depth
moves [29.Kh1 exd4 30.Qc1 Rg8 31.Qf1 Re8-+ − 7.75] 29...Rg8-+ White resigned. It is mate
30.Rxh7+ Qxh7 31.fxe5 Qh1# 0-1 Here is a nice win by an up and coming junior, Joey Zhong, over his higher-rated opponent, veteran Dean Ward. Joey’s current rating is now 1803! Here is the game: Ward, Dean (1725) − Zhong, Joey (1566) [D31] SCC Championship Reserves 1400+ Toronto (6), 26.04.2012
Reserves U 1400 ( Introduction by Dinesh Dattani ) In round 6, in the U1400 section, junior girl Varshini Paraparan wins a fine 22-move “miniature” (typically a mate in less than 30 moves), game against junior Lawrence Roy. Lawrence had a good position, and also winning chances, but makes one bad move – when his queen is threatened, he tries to put it to safety, instead of attacking Varshini’s queen in return. This by the way, is another
mistake that lower-rated people make – when your piece is threatened, see if you can make a threat equal to or greater than your opponents’. Here is the game ( Annotations by Bob Armstrong, using Fritz ): Roy, Lawrence (1020) − Paraparan, Varshini (1141) [C48] Scarborough CC Champ ( Reserves U1400 ) Toronto (6), 26.04.2012
C48: Four Knights: 4 Bb5, replies other than 4...Bb4 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Bxc6 dxc6 5.Nc3 Bd6 6.0-0 Nf6 7.d3 0-0 last book move 8.Re1 Bg4 9.h3 Bh5 10.Bd2 Re8 11.Qe2 h6 Prevents intrusion on g5 12.Rad1 Re6 [12...Nd7 13.Be3³] 13.Qe3 Nd7 14.d4 [14.Ne2 Qf6
removing the defender, Nf3, of d4, and also, if White wants to avoid doubling the p's, then the
second defender, the Qe3, is also distracted. [¹14...Bxf3 15.Qxf3 exd4-+] 15.Nxd4= Rg6 16.g4 DDD: if g4 was played to capture the Bh5, then Lawrence has not realized that the g4 p is pinned!
[¹16.Nce2 Ne5 17.Kf1=] 16...Qh4?? Black has let it slip away [¹16...Ne5 17.Kf1 Nxg4 18.hxg4
and the result of the game is clear: White will win 18...Rxg4 19.hxg4 Bxg4 20.Ne2+− (20.Nxd6?! cxd6 21.Ra1 Qh4+−) ] 18...Bxg4= 19.hxg4 Rxg4 20.Nce2 Bc5
XABCDEFGHY 8r+-+-+k+( 7+pzpn+pzp-' 6p+p+-wq-zp& 5+-vl-+-+-% 4-+-+P+r+$ 3+-+-wQ-sN-# 2PzPPvLNzP-+" 1+-+RtR-mK-! xabcdefghy 21.Qd3?? DDD: Interesting to note, how this single move by Lawrence loses the game. As Fritz
points out, Bc3 had to be played, after which Lawrence would have an edge. [¹21.Bc3 had to be
tried to avoid defeat 21...Bxe3 22.Bxf6 Nxf6 23.fxe3 Nxe4 24.Kh2²] 21...Qxf2+ 22.Kh1 Rh4# DDD: Mate comes suddenly, seemingly out of nowhere. 0-1 Junior Wenyang Ming got a ferocious attack out of the early middle game against Michael Magee, and forced Michael to sac his Q. Wenyang went on to win. Here is the game ( Annotations by Bob Armstrong, using Fritz ): Ming, Wenyang (1269) − Magee, Michael (950) [B52] Scarborough CC Champ ( Reserves U1400 ) Toronto (6), 26.04.2012
1.e4² 0.34 Fritz 13 evaluates the position as a " slight " advantage to W. This evaluation is not
generally accepted − many feel W has only " initiative ", and Black can equalize.. 1...c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bb5+ Bd7 4.Bxd7+ Nxd7 5.d4 cxd4 6.Nxd4 g6 7.Nc3 Bg7 8.Be3?!= [8.0-0 Ngf6 9.a4 0-0²]
XABCDEFGHY 8r+-+k+-tr( 7zpp+n+pvlp' 6-+-+-snp+& 5wqN+N+-+-% 4-+-+-zP-+$ 3+-+-+-+-# 2PzPPvL-+PzP" 1tR-+QmK-+R! xabcdefghy Qd8?+− 11.69 losing the Q [13...Qa4 14.Ndc7+ Kd8 15.0-0 Rc8+− 1.77] 14.Nbc7+ Kf8 15.Bb4+ Kg8 16.Ne7+ Qxe7+ 17.Bxe7 Wenyang is up Q + P vs N 17...Rc8 18.Nb5?+− 6.25 losing the B
[18.Qd6 h6 19.f5 g5+− 12.31] 18...Re8 19.0-0 Rxe7 Wenyang is up Q + P vs B + N 20.Re1 Rxe1+ 21.Qxe1 a6 7.98 [21...Bf8 22.Rd1 Kg7+− 7.54] 22.Nd6 b5?+− 12.86 allows the Q to
penetrate and attack [22...Bf8 23.Nxb7 Nc5+− 8.29] 23.Qe7 h5 24.Qxf7+ Wenyang is up Q + 2
P's vs B + N 24...Kh7 25.f5 gxf5 26.Nxf5 Rg8 27.Re1 Kh8??+− leads to mate [27...Nf8 28.Re8
Kh8+− 25.52] 28.Re7+− mate in 12 moves 1-0
SCC Spring into Summer Swiss ( Last Tournament of the Season ) This 6-round swiss, ended off our 2011-2 season; it started Thursday, May 24. . It ran right through to Thursday, June 28, when the club closed for the July and August summer break. It is played in three sections: 1800+; U 1800 ( 1700’s have the right to play up ); and U 1400 ( 1300’s have the right to play up ). Registration for the tournament was: 1800+ - 22 U 1800 - 34 U 1400 - 29
This total of 85 is somewhat less than we have had all season so far – averaging in the high 90’s, with the first two tournaments breaking 100!
The winners after the full 6 rounds are: 1800+ 1st – 4.5 pts. - Expert Aaron Wu
2nd/4th – 4 pts. – Master Dave Southam; Junior Lin Song; Sam Sharpe U 1800 1st – 5.5 pts. ( undefeated ) - junior Michael Li 2nd – 4.5 pts. – junior Kevin Yie 3rd/9th – 4 pts. – Silvano Mesiti; junior girl Jiaxin ( Dora ) Liu; Martin Maister; Yanchun Zhao; junior Tan Guo; William Rutherdale; junior Benjamin Lin. U 1400 1st – 5.5 pts ( undefeated ) – junior Wenyang Ming 2nd – 5 pts. ( undefeated ) – junior Thomas Guo 3rd – 5 pts. – junior Daniel Liu
Games are collected each week (the white score sheet is handed in; the player gets the yellow carbon ) – this is mandatory on all members. But no games of this tournament are to be sent out to members in database format, nor published, until the full tournament has concluded ( this is the SCC policy concerning score sheets, the games database, and the newsletter. If anyone is interested in getting a copy of this policy, just e-mail me at [email protected] .)
The SCC games database is administered for the club by the SCC Games Database Committee, a volunteer member committee composed, currently, of Ken Kurkowski, Martin Maister, Dinesh Dattani and I ( Bob Armstrong ). Ken and I are “ enterer/annotator’s “. We enter the SCC games each week into the tournament database; also, I analyze or partly analyze a substantial number of the games, and, from time to time, Ken also analyzes a few games for the newsletter and/or the database. Martin and Dinesh are “ annotators “. They each annotate one game per week for the database/newsletter.
If you think you might like to apply to join the committee as an “ annotator “, there is a pre-condition that must be met - you enter and annotate your game on computer, with the assistance of a chess program, and have been submitting games to us for 2 months. This allows us to see the quality of the annotations, and the committee reviews them, and then votes whether to accept the applicant onto the committee. You can be a “ class “ player – you don’t have to be one of the top club players. The current members of the committee all consider themselves “ patzers “. But with the aid of our chess program ( we all use the ChessBase Fritz program ), our annotation quality is increased manyfold. But we do, at the same time, as best we can, add our own personal assessments of how the game is progressing, and what is going on, and we know that our own comments may be limited by our skill level. At the same time however, we understand that “ class “ commentary is easily understandable by “ class “ players, often more so than GM notes. And they are often quite interesting and entertaining. The committee has some fun operating together, and if you think it might be for you, drop us a line ( [email protected] ).
As was said, the tournament database will be sent out to members shortly ( vacations are interfering a bit in getting the last round entered ) now that the tournament
is concluded ( it does not contain the games we will be publishing in our coverage of the tournament in the newsletter – these are the best games, and they have been held back for the newsletter ). But there was also a short delay, as the Executive, at the request of an SCC junior playing in the CYCC ( July 3-6 ) in Vancouver, had directed the SCC Games Database Committee, not to publish the database ‘til the conclusion of the CYCC ( after July 6 ).
Here are some of the most interesting ( not necessarily the best ) games from Rd. 4: 1800+ Junior Joey Zhong had the advantage the first half of the game against Sam Sharpe, ‘til he tried an unsound sac. Sam then took over, including a nice R-sac attack against Joey’s K, which eventually ended winning his Q, and leading to mate. Here is the game ( Annotations by Bob Armstrong, using Fritz ): Sharpe, Sam (1957) − Zhong, Joey (1784) Scarborough CC Spring/Summer ( 1800+ ) Toronto (4), 14.06.2012
[Armstrong, Robert] 1.e4² 0.34 Fritz 13 evaluates the position as a " slight " advantage to W. This evaluation is not
25.Rxb7+! nice sac; blows the K wide−open 25...Kxb7 Joey is up the exchange 26.Qb6+ Ka8 27.Qxa6+ Joey is up the exchange, but Sam has a P compensation 27...Kb8 28.Qb6+ Ka8 29.Ra2 Bc8?+− 8.29 [29...Bc5+ 30.Qxc5 Rc8+− 6.32] 30.Rb2 Rxg2+??+− a desperate unsound
sac−attack; Bl gets mated in 15 moves [30...Bc5+ 31.Qxc5 Rh7+− 11.56] 31.Rxg2?+− 6.03 Sam
is up an N, but he misses the mate [31.Kxg2 Rg8+ 32.Kh1 Bb4 33.Bxb4 Qf2 34.Rxf2 Rd8 35.Bc5
Rd7 36.Rb2 Rb7 37.Qa5+ Kb8 38.Bd6#] 31...Qxf4 Sam is up N vs P 32.Bb4 Bd8??+− mate in
25 moves [32...Bxb4 33.axb4 Qc4+− 10.52] 33.Qc6+ Bb7 34.Qa4+ Kb8 35.Bd6+ Bc7 36.Bxc7+ Kxc7 37.Qxf4+− mate in 16 moves 1-0 ( Introduction by Martin Maister ) This was not an easy game with so much tactics. (It is easy for me to find the wins/opportunities etc using the computer! If I could do it over the board, that would be a different story!) Around move 24, Black gave White a key tempo which eventually triumphed for White. Well done Pino Verde
and Joe Bellomo! Here is the game ( Annotations by Martin Maister ): Verde, Pino (1766) - Bellomo, Joe (1710) [B22] Scarborough CC Spring/Summer ( 1800+ ) Toronto (4), 14.06.2012
B22: Sicilian: 2 c3 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.c3 g6 4.Be2 Bg7 5.0-0 e6 6.d3N The two main
databases moves, played virtually equally are 6.d3 and 6.d4 6...Nge7 7.Bg5 h6² [7...d5=] 8.Be3 b6 9.Na3= For the next few moves, Fritz kept wanting White to play d4 for an advantage or Black
to play ..d5 to secure equality. On move 14, is when White took that golden moment! [9.d4²]
(12...Nxd4 13.Bxd4±) 13.Nc4±] 11...Bb7 12.Rfe1= [12.d4²] 12...Qc7 13.Rac1 Rd8 14.d4= Na7 15.d5 exd5= 16.exd5 Nxd5 This is unusual but taking with the Bisop on d5 is better. I presume to
pressure f3 if White tries Bxa6. [16...Bxd5 17.Bxa6 (17.Bf4 Nac6=) 17...Bxf3 18.gxf3 b5 19.a4
(19.fxe3?! Qxb7 20.e4 Rfe8³; 19.Rxe3?! Qxb7 20.Rd3 Nc6²) 19...Qxb7 20.a4² The Fritz
suggestion to take advantage of Black's 16..Nxd5.] 17...Ne7³ 18.Bf4 b5 19.Bd5∓ Be2 is
preferred. Keep a good Bishop! [19.Be2 g5 20.Bg3 0-0 21.Rcd1³] 19...Bxd5∓ 20.Qxd5 0-0 21.Qd2 g5 22.Bxg5-+ The sac is not sound. [¹22.Bg3!? f5 23.h4∓] 22...hxg5-+ 23.Qxg5 Ng6 24.h4? [¹24.Qh5 Rfe8 (24...Ne5 25.Ng5²) 25.Ne3∓] 24...d5? Gives White back the tempo and
back into the game. [¹24...Ne5-+ (Black gains the advantage. White's h4 took an important
tempo, here White cannot respond ..Ne5 with Ng5.)] 25.h5² Qf4? Allows White to trade to a great
game. [¹25...Nf4 would keep Black in the game 26.h6 f6²] 26.hxg6+− fxg6 27.Qxg6 [even better
for White is ¹27.Qxf4!? Rxf4 28.Ng5+−] 27...Rd6± 28.Qh5 Nc6 29.Rcd1 Ne5?? I think Black
dominates this game against veteran Silvano Mesiti, ending up with Q + B vs 2 R’s. The win gave Kevin sole possession of first place. Here is the game ( Annotations by Bob Armstrong, using Fritz ):
Yie, Kevin (1657) − Mesiti, Silvano (1549) [D02] Scarborough CC Spring/Summer ( U 1800 ) Toronto (4), 14.06.2012
1.d4² 0.29 Fritz 13 evaluates the position as a " slight " advantage to W. This evaluation is not
in 4 moves − only have 1 carbon scoresheet − moves hard to read − illegible at this point − Kevin
mated on move 54. 1-0
After being up material, and having the advantage right through the whole game, Lui Morra allowed Yanchun Zhao a counter-attack on his K that ended in a mate. Here is the game ( Annotations by Bob Armstrong, using Fritz ); Morra, Lui (1694) − Zhao, Yanchun (1459) [B33] Scarborough CC Spring/Summer ( U 1800 ) Toronto (4), 14.06.2012
1.e4² 0.34 Fritz 13 evaluates the position as a " slight " advantage to W. This evaluation is not
XABCDEFGHY 8-+-+-+rmk( 7vlL+-+-+-' 6P+-zp-+-+& 5+-+-zp-+-% 4-sNP+-+-zp$ 3+-+-+p+P# 2-+-+-tr-+" 1tR-tR-+-+K! xabcdefghy 37.Rg1??-+ For the first time in the game, Yanchun gets the advantage, a " winning " advantage.
[37.Rf1 Rxf1+ 38.Rxf1 f2+−] 37...Rg3 38.Bc8 Re2 39.Rxg3??-+ leads to mate in 4 moves. It is
likely Lui was in time trouble at this point [39.Rge1 Rxe1+ 40.Rxe1 f2 41.Nd3 Rg1+ 42.Kh2 fxe1Q
U 1400 Daryl Marcelino was winning in the first half of the game against junior Edward Wang, ‘til he dropped an N. Then both had winning chances in the second half, but Edward got a mate. Here is the game ( Annotations by Bob Armstrong, using Fritz ):
Marcelino, Daryl (975) − Wang, Edward (1105) [B12] SCC Spring into Summer Swiss U1400 Toronto (4), 14.06.2012
599MB, Fritz11.ctg, My Computer 1.e4² 0.34 Fritz 13 evaluates the position as a " slight "
advantage to W. This evaluation is not generally accepted. 1...c6?!± Caro−Kann Defence; not
22...Qd2+ 23.Kg1 Qxe1+ Edward is up R + N vs P 24.Kg2 Qe2+ 25.Kg1 Bd4+-+ White
resigned. It is mate. 26.Qe3 Bxe3+ 27.Kh1 Qf1+ 28.Kh2 Qg1# 0-1
Junior girl Varshini Paraparan nicely outplays her stronger junior opponent, Harigaran Balendra. Here is the game ( Annotations by Bob Armstrong, using Fritz ): Balendra, Harigaran (1256) − Paraparan, Varshini (1170) [B07] Scarborough CC Spring/Summer ( U 1400 ) Toronto (4), 14.06.2012
1.e4² 0.34 Fritz 13 evaluates the position as a " slight " advantage to W. This evaluation is not
generally accepted. 1...d6?!± Hari gets an early " clear " advantage; Fritz is not enamoured of
Position after 24.Bxf4 XABCDEFGHY 8-+r+r+-+( 7+-wq-+pvlk' 6l+-sn-snpzp& 5zppzp-+-+-% 4-+-+PvLP+$ 3zP-wQ-+-sNP# 2NzPP+-+L+" 1+K+RtR-+-! xabcdefghy Nfxe4??± Varshini misses winning the Q; Varshini goes up a P; Hari gets a " clear " advantage
made up the following wild game ( lots of errors ), just to see what Fritz would do with it on full analysis. You may find it and the annotations interesting. Here is the game ( Annotated by Fritz ): MM1 − MM2 [A00] 60m/60+60m/60+30m Toronto, 06.08.2012
A00: Irregular Openings 1.f3 [¹1.d4!?² would keep White alive] 1...e5∓ 2.g4?? causes further
problems for ? [¹2.Nc3∓] 2...d5 [2...Qh4#] 3.a3?? leading to a quick end [3.Nh3 Qh4+ 4.Nf2-+]
3...Qg5 [3...Qh4#] 4.h4∓ Nc6?? throws away the game [4...Qd8 5.d4 exd4 6.Qxd4∓] 5.Nc3 [¹5.hxg5 and White takes home the point 5...Be6 6.e3+−] 5...Qd8∓ 6.Bh3? [6.d3 Be6-+] 6...Nf6 [¹6...Qxh4+!? makes it even easier for Black 7.Kf1 Be6 8.b4-+] 7.e3 [7.g5!? Nh5 8.d3∓] 7...d4-+ 8.Nge2?? the final mistake, not that it matters anymore [¹8.exd4 Nxd4 9.Bg2-+] 8...dxc3 9.0-0 [9.dxc3 a last effort to resist the inevitable 9...Qxd1+ 10.Kxd1-+] 9...h5 10.d4 [10.dxc3 does not
win a prize 10...Bd6-+] 10...hxg4 11.d5 [11.dxe5 doesn't change the outcome of the game
Qxf2+ 24.Kh1 Qh2#] 18.a4 [¹18.Bxd2 and White has reached his goal 18...Nf6 19.Nc3+−]
18...Qf2# 0-1
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7 Hart House Circle Style: 6 round Swiss in 4 sections: Open & U2200 (FIDE Rated),
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moves in 90 minutes, with 1 hr added after move 30 for U1900 & U1600 Sections
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on-site. Byes: Maximum of 2 in rounds 1-4 if requested in advance. Hart House: 10 minute walk Southeast from St. George subway station or 5 minute walk
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