Challenge from CXR Chess

We have a challenge issued by the CXR Chess to help them improve their rating system:

"The first player currently on the Kingston Chess Club roster who plays a minimum of 8 games (not including bye's or forfeits) in one or more large chess tournaments with at least 30 players in his or her section (i.e. NO QUADS), outside of Kingston  (e.g. Ottawa, Toronto, Kenora, Chicago, etc.), and whose game results have been properly and promptly reported to CXR, will earn an uncirculated, one ounce, silver, Kookaburra coin from Australia."

So anyone interested in accepting the offer, just send my your games from any tournament (from an EOCA tournament). We will need the following:

• Color you played
• Rating of opponent
• Results (Win, Loss or Draw)

You would need to report all your games for a particular tournament (not just your wins), and I would report them to CXR on your behalf.

Do let me know if you're interested!

2013 Jim Cairns Final Round Results

Here are the results for the final round of the 2013 Jim Cairns Memorial Swiss:

White	Rating	Results	Black	Rating
Sid Anjilvel	1708	1/2 - 1/2	Peter Sibbald	2055
Harry Jordan	1544	0 - 1	Dave Gordon	1713
Lorenz Paulsen	1456	0 - 1	Azroy Kandan	1886
S. Laughren	1091	0 - 1	John Lukezich	1344
Brennan Bibic	1342	1 - 0	Francois Chan	NR
Alex Chan	1308	1 - 0	Arman Azroy	1282
Alexis Thomson	NR	1 - 0	Ian Birch	952
N. Kotsovolos	928	0 - 1	Chris Hargreaves	1393
Steve Hughes	1101	1/2 - 1/2	R. Polywkan	1158
Devin Graham-Ancsin	NR	0 - 1	Huxley Anjilvel	1133

Congratulations to Peter Sibbald for winning the tournament clear first with 4.5/5 points!

Here are the final standings. Tie breaker is based on average rating of opponents:

#	Name	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Tot	TBrk[A]
1	Peter Sibbald	W20	W7	W5	W2	D3	4.5	1526.5
2	Dave Gordon	W21	W9	W6	L1	W5	4	1460.5
3	Sid Anjilvel	W17	H---	D4	W7	D1	3.5	1633
4	Azroy Kandan	H---	H---	D3	W11	W6	3.5	1488
5	Harry Jordon	W16	W18	L1	W8	L2	3	1502.5
6	Lorenz Paulsen	W13	W8	L2	W12	L4	3	1463.5
7	John Lukezich	W19	L1	W10	L3	W15	3	1428
8	Alex Chan	W15	L6	W18	L5	W12	3	1317.5
9	Brennan Bibic	W10	L2	L12	W17	W14	3	1311
10	Alexis Thomson	L9	W11	L7	W16	W13	3	1289
11	Chris Hargreaves	D14	L10	W15	L4	W19	2.5	1285.5
12	Arman Azroy	H---	H---	W9	L6	L8	2	1360.5
13	Ian Birch	L6	W16	H---	H---	L10	2	1311
14	Francois Chan	D11	L15	D17	W18	L9	2	1227
15	Stephen Laughren	L8	W14	L11	W21	L7	2	1218
16	Huxley Anjilvel	L5	L13	W19	L10	W21	2	1189
17	Steve Hughes	L3	D19	D14	L9	D18	1.5	1281
18	Roman Polywkan	B---	L5	L8	L14	D17	1.5	1278.5
19	Nikolas Kostovolos	L7	D17	L16	B---	L11	1.5	1251
20	Alex Beamish	L1	W21	U---	U---	U---	1	1461
21	Devin Ancsin	L2	L20	B---	L15	L16	1	1267

Next week, we start the President's Challenge, with 4 players per section (Double Round-Robin format). Please let us know if you'd like to enter but can't make it. Latest rating of players can be found here:

http://www.cxrchess.com/PublicAffRoster.php?AffiliateID=739.

See you next week!