Monday, December 17, 2012

See you in 2013

Hello,

Thanks to everyone who came out to the club today. We managed to play a 3-round mini-tournament, with Peter Sibbald winning with 3/3 points. I hope everybody had fun playing. We'll be off for the next 2 weeks, into 2013. Our next meeting, which is the 1st round of the Kingston Chess Club Championship, will be on Monday January 7. Hope to see everyone there.

Please let me know if you need a BYE for this first round.

Happy New Year!

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Last Meeting for 2012

Thanks to all who came out to the Holiday Party yesterday. I hope people had an enjoyable evening of food and chess.

There is only ONE more chess club meeting this year, which is next week Dec 17. Please come out if you can. Our next meeting with be on Monday January 7, 2013.

For those who are coming next week, I'm hoping we can have a 3-round rapid tournament. We can start pairing at 7:30 pm. Each round is approximately 1 hour (25-30 minutes per player). We can either do a single-section swiss tournament, or break it up into 4-player round robin sections. We can decide on Monday.

Hope to see you guys there!

Wednesday, December 5, 2012

Presidents Challenge - 2012

Hello all,

Here are the final cross tables for the 2012 Presidents Challenge. Winner is Azroy Kandan with 4.5 points, having drawn one game with David Chan. In second place is Peter Sibbald with 4 points, who also drew one game, but with Dave Gordon.

#
Name
Start
End
Rd. 1
Nov 5
Rd. 2
Nov 12
Rd. 3
Nov 19
Rd. 4
Nov 26
Rd. 5
Dec 3
Total
1
Peter Sibbald
2077
2073
=BYE
B+7F
W+8
W=4
W+5
4.0
2
Azroy Kandan
1871
1894
W+12
B=8
W+11
B+3
W+4
4.5
3
Jay Serdula
1812
1802
B+13
W+16
=BYE
W-2
B+9
3.5
4
Dave Gordon
1755
1773
W+14
B+18
W+5
B=1
B-2
3.5
5
Sid Anjilvel
1718
1698
B+15
W+19
B-4
W+16
B-1
3.0
6
John Lukezich
1544
1483
W-16
B-13
W+14
B=11
W+15
2.5
7
Lorenz Paulsen
1481
1494
=BYE
W-1F
B-16F
B+12
-BYE
1.5
8
David Chan
1427
1473
B+17
W=2
B-1
W+18
B+11
3.5
9
Sean George
1351
1391
W-18
B+14
W+17
B+13
W-3
3.0
10
Roman Polywkan
1330
1292
B-19
W+15
B-18
W-17
W+12
2.0
11
Chris Hargreaves
1323
1311
+BYE
=BYE
B-2
W=6
W-8
2.0
12
David Greenland
1291
1255
B-2
W-17F
B-15F
W-7
B-10
0.0
13
Alex Chan
1253
1284
W-3
W+6
B+19
W-9
B+17
3.0
14
Arman Azroy
1183
1167
B-4
W-9
B-6
+BYE
W+19F
2.0
15
Steve Hughes
1126
1105
W-5
B-10
W+12
W=19
B-6
1.5
16
Huxley Anjilvel
1097
1109
B+6
B-3
W+7
B-8
W-18
2.0
17
Stephen Laughren
1093
1091
W-8
B+12F
B-9
B+10
W-13
2.0
18
Kevin Macdonald
1013
1096
B+9
W-4
W+10
B-8
B+16
3.0
19
Alex Beamish
900
1096
W+10
B-5
W-13
B=15
B-14F
1.5

Also worth mentioning are the 5 most improved players for this tournament:
Alex Beamish (P)
196
Kevin MacDonald
83
David Chan
46
Sean George
40
Alex Chan
31

Cross tables on CXR Chess:
http://www.cxrchess.com/WC872.html