Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Cecil's Saturday Puzzle - October 21, 2017

from the Winnipeg Free Press
White to mate in 2 (Bilfinger)
1. Ke3


Wednesday, October 25, 2017

2017 October TNT has been rated by the CFC


See the crosstable here:
http://chess.ca/crosstable?tournament_check_number=201710051

Congratulations to the following who achieved new peak establish ratings:

Ryne Swift 2092   (+87 !)




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Monday, October 23, 2017

2018 Manitoba Closed Championship Qualifying Update

2018 Manitoba Closed Championship Qualifying Update 
Manitoba Closed 2018 format : 8 player knockout 

(Note: on February 23, 2014 the MCA board approved the adding up to two spots to the the Manitoba Championship at discretion of the Board; if the Board add the two spots, qualifiers 7 and 8  (ordered by CFC rating, along with the new 2 additions will play in a preliminary knockout round, producing two winners who then play with the top six qualifiers by CFC rating. On February 26, 2017, the Board approved a regulation that bidders for the wild-card spots must have a standard rating greater than 1800.) 

Qualifiers -
*Players must be Manitoba Permanent residents.
(Persons  who are not citizens or permanent residents, but who have been a resident of Manitoba for a twelve-month period immediately preceding the tournament, may be admitted to the Tournament provided they can clearly demonstrate to the MCA Board of Directors that they have a settled intention to continue to reside in Manitoba. The admittance to the Tournament of such exceptions shall be entirely at the discretion of the MCA Board of Directors.)
 

Qualifiers must play 10 standard rated games (somewhere in the world) during calendar 2017 in order to qualify. In order of preference - if the qualifying player does not want to participate or the qualifier is redundant, we continue down the list until there are 8 willing participants.

     1. Previous Year's Champion (GUSTAV BARON)
     2. Winner of the Reserve (not held)
     3. MB Junior Champion (if rated above 1900)  - to be held in November)
     4. Top Manitoban in AY Memorial (JOJO NONES -  subject to *)
     5,6. Top 2 finishers in the Tournament of Champions (Earl Rosenbloom Memorial - to be held in Nov - Dec) 
     7. Player with the best MTPPS ( 
     8. Player with the 2nd best MTPPS ( 
     9. 2nd Manitoban in the AY Memorial (ISAAC WIEBE)
    10. Player with the 3rd best MTPPS  (  )
    11. Player with the 4th best MTPPS  (  )
    12.  Player with the 5th best MTPPS (  )
13.  Player with the 6th best MTPPS ( )
13.  Player with the 7th best MTPPS ( )


The above players (in bold) will be contacted in early 2018 to determine their willingness to participate in the knockout.  If any of the players decline, invitations will be provided to next players on the list below.  Then there will be a short period when wild-card bids (as described above) will be entertained.

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MTPSS -  Modified Tournament Performance Point Score
MTPPS is calculated as follows:
A Loss = 0 points
A Draw = the rating of the opponent
A Win = the greater of [your opponent's rating + 200] or [your rating]

The top ten performance scores for each player are counted

The 2018 top MTPPS scores at this point are as follows (to end of September):
(Tournaments scored included all Manitoba CFC Standard rated tournaments, US standard rated tournaments, International FIDE standard rated tournaments etc.) If you believe a result has been missed or is incorrect, please contact me.

 
Wiebe 23396
Baron 22862
Nones 22638
Babb 22626
Boron 22300
Wolchock 22026
Valentino 21808
Bince 21435
Swift 21399

Sunday, October 15, 2017

Cecil's Saturday Puzzle - October 7, 2017

from the Winnipeg Free Press
White to mate in 2 (Loyd)
1. Qa1

Cecil's Saturday Puzzle - September 23, 2017

from the Winnipeg Free Press
White to mate in 2 (Loyd)

Sunday, October 1, 2017

2017 Abe Yanofsky Open Tournament has been rated by FIDE

Below are those that had changesto their FIDE rating , or now have played the minimum of games to obtain a FIDE rating.


Name Previous  New change
  Nones, Teodulfo Ii 2254 2272  17.6
  Baron, Gustav L 1969 1986  16.8
  Gonzales, Joel
1964  0
  Swift, Ryne 1855 1897  42.4
  Wiebe, Isaac 2039 2056  17
  Valentino, Marcos 2005 2015  9.6
  Wolchock, Theo 1818 1852  34.4
  Moncal, Nilo 2115 2095  -20.4
  Baumgartner, Christopher 1830 1839  8.6
  Ma, Derek 1895 1908  13.2
  Lipnowski, Samuel 2134 2129  -5
  Klokow, John
1708  0
  Boshoff, Thomas 1927 1939  11.6
  Wei, Daniel 1762 1776  13.6
  Bince, Rolando 1974 1970  -4
  Cohen, Lawrence 1879 1878  -1.2
  Bonness, Will 1825 1810  -14.8
  Boron, Anthony 1857 1848  -9.2
  Prince, Colin 1836 1818  -17.6
  Atem, James 1825 1777  -47.6
  Beach, Brock 1961 1923  -38
  Magnusson, Saul 1946 1896  -50