Cecil's Saturday Puzzle - Saturday, February 18, 2023

 from the Winnipeg Free Press

White to move and mate in two (Albert)

John Sheridan 1941- 2022

 

Some old-timers may remember John from the late 70s, early 80s at the Winnipeg  Chess Centre (Cornish Library).

Cecil's Saturday Puzzle - Saturday, February 4, 2023

 from the Winnipeg Free Press

White to move and mate in 2 (Larsen)
1. Nc4

Cecil's Saturday Puzzle - Saturday, January 21, 2023

 from the Winnipeg Free Press

White to move and mate in 2 (Dobbs)

1. Qf5

Cecil's Saturday Puzzle - Saturday, January 7, 2023

 from the Winnipeg Free Press

White to move and mate in 2 (Wainwright)

1. e3

Cecil's Saturday Puzzle - December 24, 2022

 from the Winnipeg Free Press

White to move and mate in 2 (Rinaldini)
1. Ne4

Cecil's Saturday Puzzle - December 10, 2022

 from the Winnipeg Free Press

White to move and mate in 2 (Westbury)
1. Qg3

Cecil's Saturday Puzzle - November 26, 2022

 from the Winnipeg Free Press

White to move and mate in 2 (Thomson)
1. c4

CFC has rated the November Rapid and Jay Khedkar Memorial

 

2022 November 26 Rapid

https://www.chess.ca/en/ratings/t/?id=202211124

 

2022 Jay Khedkar Memorial

https://www.chess.ca/en/ratings/t/?id=202211108

FIDE updates ratings once per month – this tournament will be rated by FIDE at the end of December.

 

FIDE has rated the 2022 November 26 Rapid

https://ratings.fide.com/report.phtml?event=309367&t=1

Only a few players had rating changes – those players had existing FIDE standard ratings and played other FIDE rated players in the tournament.  If an unrated player scores zero (against FIDE rated players) in their first event this score is
disregarded. It appears that 10 unrated FIDE players scored at least a point against FIDE rated players, so they are on their way to getting in the 5 games against FIDE rared opponents;

Per FIDE rule 7.14:
A rating for a player new to the list shall be published when it is based on 5 games against (FIDE) rated opponents. This need not be met in one tournament.
Results from other tournaments played within consecutive rating periods of not more than 26 months are pooled to obtain the initial rating.