May TNT Round 4

Lipnowski - Nikouline DRAW
A fighting draw. The computer finds a winning try for Black around move 41 involving pushing the pawn to c2 which keeps the knight at home, then winning the f5 pawn, and finally marching the king over to the queenside.

Vincent - Kaptsan 1-0
This game is identical to Vadasz - Czina, Hungary 1991. Black misses a tactic.

Aaron Green - Waldemar Schulz 0-1
17...Rfe8 is the first new move ! White gets overloaded defending various threats and drops a piece.

Mundwiler - Czypinski DRAW
Tissir (2394) preferred 10.Qg4 in 1996. A hard fought draw.

Kernetsky - Leor Wasserman 1-0
White's large lead in development bears fruit early.

Boron-Dawa 0-1
Of course I intended 23. d5, but at the last moment I thought I had time to play 23. Rab1, not realizing that my c4 pawn was hanging until it was too late. I also had planned 30. Rxd5 but noticed that 30...Rxf2 is a good retort.

Catching up

I am near flagging on commenting on recent games;
last round of May TNT, all of June TNT, the Boxer, not to mention some other "articles" I have planned. I hope to put a big dent in the backlog by the end of the weekend.

Blitz Chess in Air Canada Park

Friday, July 3

Noon to approx 2:00 pm

Air Canada Park

Prizes from Sponsor

Aluminum Sound

Cecil's Saturday Puzzle - June 20, 2009

From the Saturday Winnipeg Free Press

White to Mate in 3 (Wurzburg)

I accidentally noticed the solution on my computer before completing my analysis, but I was heading in the right direction.
1. Qa3 - keeps the K off the third and sets up mates with Bd3
1...Kb1 2.Nc4 Nxc4 3. Bd3#
1...Na4 2.Nc4
1...Kd2 2. Qxb2+ Ke1 3. Nd3#

June TNT has been rated

See the crosstable here

Congratulations on new high ratings achieved by:

Trevor Vincent
Myron Kernetsky
Jim Hemphill
Gary Campbell
Ryne Swift
Michael Pang

New high provisional:
Isaac Wiebe

Blitz Chess in Air Canada Park

Friday, Jun 26

Noon to approx 2:00 pm

Air Canada Park

Prizes from Sponsor

Team Active Results

Jim Lauritson, Shashika Kumaragamage, Aron Kaptsan (missing: Harley Greenberg)

Fifth Element lost to the out- of -contention Slowpokes in the last round, which allowed
Kaptsan Kourageous to pass them, and also allowed Deep Junior to catch them.

Special thanks to Stephen Lipic who worked many hours to form as many teams as possible.

#	Name	ID	Rtng	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Tot
1	Kaptsan Kourageous		6997	W6	W4	L2	W7	W5	4.0
2	The Fifth Element		7032	W3	W8	W1	D5	L4	3.5
3	Deep Junior		6831	L2	W10	W6	D4	W9	3.5
4	The Slowpokes		7100	W9	L1	D7	D3	W2	3.0
5	Notre Dame		6966	D7	W6	W8	D2	L1	3.0
6	Misfits		7094	L1	L5	L3	W10	W8	2.0
7	MARS invaders		7084	D5	W9	D4	L1	L10	2.0
8	Dark Knights		6950	W10	L2	L5	W9	L6	2.0
9	Team Letain		7026	L4	L7	W10	L8	L3	1.0
10	High Brow Chess		7082	L8	L3	L9	L6	W7	1.0