Cecil's Saturday Puzzle -January 26, 2019

from the Winnipeg Free Press

White to mate in 2 (Funk)

1. Qh8

The 2019 January TNT has been rated by the CFC

CFC has rated the event -  see the Crosstable here

Congratulations to the following who achieved new peak established ratings:

Yemi Abioye 2032
Larry Samson 1737
Roy Proulx 1907

2019 Kent Oliver Memorial and MCA Annual General Meeting - February 3

Sunday, February 3, 2019 – University of Winnipeg Room 3L08

One day Rapid event  !

5 rounds of   Time Control – Game /  20 minutes  + 10 seconds free (Bronstein)

Registration starts at 9:30AM – First Round 10 a.m

We should be finished around 5 p.m.

Pizza Lunch (provided) and Annual General Meeting from approx 12 to 1:30between rounds 2 and 3.

Entry Fee: $ 15

C FC Membership not required, however Manitoba Chess Association(MCA) membership is required.

If you are not a CFC member  $ 5 (for one tournament)

First time players do not require MCA membership for this tournament.

The prize fund is enhanced through a generous donation from Mrs. Truus Oliver.

FIDE ratings of Manitobans having played at least one FIDE event in 2018

Please report any errors or omissions to chessmanitoba@gmail.com

	FIDE Ratings at January 1, 2019
Nones, Teodulfo Ii	PHI	2246
Wiebe, Isaac	CAN	2109
Baron, Gustav L	CAN	2048
Moncal, Nilo	CAN	2037
Swift, Ryne	CAN	2004
Babb, Jeff	CAN	1992
Valentino, Marcos	CAN	1991
Currie, James	CAN	1975
Wolchock, Theo	CAN	1974
Ma, Derek	CAN	1971
Pramanik, Projjwal	IND	1935
Bince, Rolando	CAN	1891
Cleto, Sam	CAN	1885
Boron, Anthony	CAN	1859
Gerona, Joshua	CAN	1844
Konara, Harshani	SRI	1837
Rutter, Blair	CAN	1836
Proulx, Roy	CAN	1835
Prince, Colin	CAN	1801
Orogun, Ibukun	CAN	1789
Green, Jim	CAN	1776
Skop, Mike	CAN	1771
Atem, James	CAN	1739
Einarsson, Ken	CAN	1682
Tarasoff, Shawn	CAN	1682
Le Dorze, Phil	CAN	1672
Letain, Cory	CAN	1644
Myrzaibraimov, Azamat	CAN	1638
Klokow, John	CAN	1633
Remillard, John	CAN	1587
Furda, Ievgeniia-Diana	UKR	1552
Myrzaibraimova, Aibike	CAN	1527
Trueman, Francis	CAN	1510
Leaden, Bruce	CAN	1496
Piche, Zachary	CAN	1463
Gregoryanz, Philipp	CAN	1460
Lei, Yanyu	CAN	1442
Marshall, Carter	CAN	1383
Magyar, Peter	CAN	1316

Cecil's Saturday Puzzle - January 12, 2019

from the Winnipeg Free Press

White to mate in 2 (Funk)

1. Nd5.

My applogies for the previous incorrect diagram that was missing the knight on h8.  In that version there are two solution, 1. Nd5 or 1. Qxf7.  Thanks to our anonymous commenter for pointing out the 'cook' in the previous diagram.

2019 Manitoba Closed Qualifying Update

2019 Manitoba Closed Championship Qualifying Update  Manitoba Closed 2019 format : 8 player Round Robin

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 2018 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 (ISAAC WIEBE)

     2. Winner of the Reserve (not held)

     3. MB Junior Champion (if rated above 1900)  -THEO WOLCHOCK)

     4. Top Manitoban in AY Memorial (JOJO NONES)

     5,6. Top 2 finishers in the Tournament of Champions (Jack Woodbury Memorial - to be held in Nov - Dec ) Isaac Wiebe -already qualified, GUSTAV BARON 

     7. Player with the best MTPPS (Isaac Wiebe -already qualified) 

     8. Player with the 2nd best MTPPS (Jojo Nones - already qualified ) 

     9. 2nd Manitoban in the AY Memorial (Wiebe -already qualified, Wolchock-already qualified, RYNE SWIFT)

    10. Player with the 3rd best MTPPS  (Gustav Baron - see above)

    11. Player with the 4th best MTPPS  (Theo Wolchock - see above)

    12.  Player with the 5th best MTPPS (JEFF BABB )

13.  Player with the 6th best MTPPS (DEREK MA )

14.  Player with the 7th best MTPPS (ANTHONY BORON)

15. Player with the 8th best MTPPS (Rolando Bince)

16.  Player with the 9th best MTPPS (Blair Rutter)

etc.

The above players (in bold) will be contacted in early 2019 to determine their willingness to participate in the Round-Robin.  If any of the players decline, invitations will be provided to next players on the list below. 

Update; Feb 28 -  All above in bold have confirmed their participation, except Ryne Swift who declined; Rolando Bince has accepted as next in line.

Accepted:

2018  MTPPS scores:

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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:

(Tournaments scored included all 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.

MTPPS

24803	10		Isaac Wiebe
23548	10		Teodulfo II Nones
23543	10		Gustav L Baron
22731	10		Theo Wolchock
22444	10		Jeff Babb
22219	10		Derek Ma
21438	10		Anthony Boron
20623	10		Rolando Bince
20565	10		Blair Rutter
20187	10		Oyeyemi A Abioye
20047	10		Colin Prince
19865	9		Ryne Swift

Cecil's Saturday Puzzle - December 29, 2018

from the Winnipeg Free Press

White to mate in 2 (Loyd)

1. Rg3