Cecil's Saturday Puzzle - October 21, 2017

from the Winnipeg Free Press

White to mate in 2 (Bilfinger)
1. Ke3

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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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

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)

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