Thursday, February 24, 2011

2011 February TNT has been rated by the CFC

2011 February TNT has been rated by the CFC

See the crosstable here

Congratulations to the following who achieved new high ratings:

Gary Campbell 1724
Jim Green 1822
Theo Wolchock 1635
Sashika Kumaragamage 1466
Alex Iomdina 1410

Theo clocks in as # 4 in Canada in the U10 group.

Also Jonathon Zaczek played in the Northern Alberta Open last weekend. Here is a link to the cross-table http://chess.ca/xtableSQL.asp?TNum=201102041
1Zhang, YuanchenMarkham, ON1916
2Wan, KevinOttawa, ON1745
3Zotkin, DanielEtobicoke, ON1681
4Wolchock, TheoWinnipeg, MB1635
5Zhao, Yue Tong (Davy)Scarborough, ON1575

Also Jonathon Zaczek played in the Northern Alberta Open last weekend. Here is a link to the cross-table http://chess.ca/xtableSQL.asp?TNum=201102041

Monday, February 21, 2011

Cecil's Saturday Puzzle - February 12, 2011

from the Winnipeg Free Press
White to Move and Mate in 2 (Janet)
1. Re8 (vacating the e7 square)

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Manitoba Active Chess Ratings - after the 2011 Kent Oliver Memorial


Name  
Bince, Rolando 2124
Boron, Anthony 1979
Burstow, John 2293
Campbell, Jamie 1646
Crawford, Gary 1466
Currie, James 1916
Czypinski, Jaroslaw 1927
Dawa, Arvin 2091
De Groot, Steven 1800
Evans, Brian 1599
Gannon, Keith 1590
Green, Aaron 2001
Green, Jim 1838
Greenberg, Harley 1771
Iomdina, Alex 1435
Iomdina, Bella 1890
Joven, Perfecto 1891
Kaptsan, Aron 2075
Klusa, Lawrence 1339
Klusa, Mark 1557
Kohalmi, Andy 1635
Lauritson, Jim 1878
Letain, Cory 1631
Li, Devon 1567
Li, Henry 1410
Lipic, Stephen 1874
Lipnowski, Samuel 2252
Magnusson, Saul 1793
Manicdao, Tomas 1773
Melamedoff, Gustavo 1950
Melven, John 1548
Milord, Frank 1646
Milward, Dave 1713
Mousseau, Chuck 1846
Nikouline, Alexandre 2075
Ochate, Edward 1521
Ott, Richard 1446
Pang, Charles 1800
Pang, Michael 1781
Pottinger, Carl 1771
Raihman, David 1498
Raihman, Igal 1988
Remillard, John 1548
Repa, Jason 2024
Rutter, Blair 1851
Samson, Larry 1761
Schulz, Manfred 1842
Schulz, Waldemar 1969
Schwartz, Leah 1141
Swift, Ryne 1778
Trueman, Francis 1550
Van Wyk, Joseph 2054
Villeneuve, Justin 1292
Vincent, Trevor 2318
Wasserman, Arie 1727
Wasserman, Jerry 1973
Wasserman, Leor 1789
Wolchock, Theo 1605
Yung, Dustin 1172
Zaczek, Jonathon 2188

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

2011 FIDE Futurity Rated by the CFC

Tournament DirectorAnthony BoronFinish Date2011/2/3
Tournament #201102002ProvinceMB

#Name
Old
Perf
New
High
ResultsTot
1
Melamedoff, Gustavo 
2084 
2264 
2130 
2130
X 0 1 1 1 1 
4.0
2
Zaczek, Jonathon 
2300 
2141 
2287 
2300
1 X = 0 1 1 
3.5
3
Lauritson, Jim 
1977 
2045 
1990 
2077
0 = X = 1 = 
2.5
4
Boron, Anthony 
1993 
1962 
1986 
2060
0 1 = X 0 = 
2.0
5
Kaptsan, Aron 
2010 
1959 
1998 
2300
0 0 0 1 X 1 
2.0
6
Lipic, Stephen 
1839 
1833 
1835 
1874
0 0 = = 0 X 
1.0

Congratulations to Gustavo for the win and a new peak rating of 2130 !

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Cecil's Saturday Puzzle - January 29, 2011

from the Winnipeg Free Press

White to move and mate in 2 (Jacobs)
1.Bg1