Cecil's Saturday Puzzle - December 15, 2018

from the Winnipeg Free Press

White to move and mate in 2 (Loyd)

1.Qa4

The CFC has rated the 2018 Jack Woodbury Memorial

The CFC has rated the 2018 Jack Woodbury Memorial.
Please see the crosstable here.

Congratulations to the following who achieve new peak established ratings:

Isaac Wiebe  2320
Roy Proulx 1878
Azamat Myrzaibraimov 1604
Aibike Myrzaibraimova  1474
Gary Crawford 1561

Cecil's Saturday Puzzle - December 1, 2018

from the Winnipeg Free Press

White to move and mate in 2 (Loyd)

1. Nh1

Ruth Haring 1955-2018

Ruth Haring, former US Chess President  passed away, November 29.
She was formerly married to one-time Winnipeg resident GM Peter Biyiasas.

https://www.chess.com/news/view/wim-ruth-haring-1955-2018

https://new.uschess.org/news/wim-ruth-haring-1955-2018/

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/03/obituaries/ruth-haring-dead.html?emc=edit_th_181204&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=672276331204

Jeff Babb played her at the Canadian Open in 1974, and I met her in Las Vegas in 2008.


https://chessmanitoba.blogspot.com/2008/06/national-open-las-vegas-june-6.html

(in strange coincidence, also on that blog  page is a picture of Eric Schiller, who passed away November 3, 2018.

https://new.uschess.org/news/eric-schiller-author-fide-master-dies-63-will-remembered-love-chess/