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Table of Contents Page Articles, etc. TCN’s First Birthday! 4 FIDE Sept. 1, 2013 Regular Rating List ( Open/Women ) 33 Malmsten on Chess – Chess at the CNE Part 4: Levy–Computer Match 1978 42 Canadian Olympiad Team Selection Ratings – National 53 Canadian Olympiad Team Selection Ratings – Women’s 54 FIDE Sept. 1, 2013 Regular Rating List – Canadian Rankings ( Open/Women ) 54 The “Games of the Century” Series: The Botvinnik Immortal Game 84 Teaching Classic Games of Chess – Calculating a Forcing Line 85 Ken’s Chess Trivia 91 TCN Readers’ Chess “Sightings” 94 TCN Readers Have Questions 94 TCN Readers’ Feedback 94 TCN’s “Readers’ Opinion” Column 94 Tournament Reports FIDE World Chess Cup 5 Barcelona Sants Tournament – Grp. A 17 North American Youth Chess Championships 19 U.S. Masters 31 Toronto Labour Day Open 62 Kitchener-Waterloo Labour Day Open 81 Organizations with News Reports Chess Federation of Canada ( CFC ) 42 Greater Toronto Chess League ( GTCL ) 64 Scarborough Chess Club ( SCC ) 65 Aurora Chess Club 78 Hamilton City Chess Club 82 Kitchener-Waterloo Chess Club 83 Tournament Notices Campbellville Summer Active 95 Aurora Fall Open 95 Battle of Toronto II 96

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Community Bulletin Board 97 NOTE re PUBLICATION TCN would normally publish this Issue on Sept. 1. But on Sept. 2 was the final regular game of the final 4-game match of the 2013 World Chess Cup (if necessary). The game became necessary, and to cover completed regular play, we delay this Issue to Sept. 2. This is something we do not like to do, but in this case seemed warranted. NOTE re GAME ANALYSIS I use Fritz 13 in my game analysis. My research, using Fritz for many years, establishes that Fritz 13 evaluates 1.e4, 1.d4, and 1.Nf3 as a “ slight “ advantage to White, whereas historically, these positions were generally considered equal. Many still dispute this evaluation. Though W has "initiative", some/many ( ? ) feel Bl., with best play, equalizes. But in my research on the three W openings where Fritz gives +/= after W's first move, Bl never should equalize, as long as W does not make a mistake (a general operational principle). And true enough, even into the middlegame of my " perfect " games, Bl. remains +/=!!. So the computer has now convinced me to switch camps, where I used to believe in " Black equality ". However, it may be that the "horizon effect" will yet establish equality for Black when the "perfect game" is taken far enough. But, since I am using Fritz 13, I therefore follow its lead, and so have felt it necessary to make some note re these first moves. In the past, I gave this explanation above in annotations to these three first moves. But, for regular readers of my analyzed games, I know this annotation became irksome; but people who are new, come to my analyzed games on the TCN Website, or where a TCN newsletter has been forwarded to them, and, for them, an explanation of this unusual Fritz 13 feature is required, to understand what I am doing. However, I agree with some readers who suggested a general explanation would be preferable to the annotation in every game starting with these three moves ( which is most of them ). I appreciate my repeat readers' patience ‘til this change. I therefore began using this other format of a general explanation after the table of contents, to explain this interesting computer phenomenon ( and not insert it into the actual annotated game ). In the game score, I will just note the symbolic and numerical evaluation by Fritz on these first moves. I hope this small change improved the quality of TCN for all subscribers.

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TCN’s FIRST Birthday!! Toronto Chess News (TCN) published its first Issue on September 1, 2012. So, with this Issue # 2-1 of Sept. 2, 2013, we start our second volume, and celebrate our first birthday!

When we started, the first page showed the name of the newsletter, and then articles started on this page 1. Volunteer part-time columnist, Erik Malmsten, who has himself been editor of a couple of chess publications in the past, on his own, played around with a couple of possible colour mast-heads for the newsletter. He showed me a couple of samples, and presto, the new masthead appeared on the next Issue, greatly enhancing the appearance of the newsletter. Then, as a bit of time passed, and the newsletter got longer and longer, Erik suggested that it was time for TCN to have an index page, to help viewers find quickly the articles they wanted to read. So again he spent time setting up a sample index page and showed it to me. I like his ideas, but it seemed too “busy”, so I then simplified it quite a bit, and we came out with the index page now being used. Next I enhanced the now new cover page by adding a cover page picture, relevant to one of the newsletter items. The index was the second page. Erik also presented me with a long list of possible format changes to the content of the newsletter for me to consider, to improve its appearance, and make it more professional looking (not so easy given your editor’s limited computer skills). I adopted or adapted a number of them, and the overall appearance of the newsletter came up a notch. TCN then expanded its picture gallery – we inherited a Scarborough Chess Club newsletter gallery, but now we needed pictures of all top players in the GTA, and nationally. So we set about collecting pictures off websites, and also increased our gallery on international GM’s. We invite people to send us pictures of their own to add to our gallery for possible future use. TCN, through the volunteer help of techie Steve Karpik, established a simple but effective TCN website, where all Issues are now archived. Steve took the newsletter masthead, and played with it a bit, and came out with a nice variant masthead for the website. Then another techie volunteer, who prefers to remain anonymous, offered to set up and maintain a TCN Game Viewer, where all games from the databases accompanying each newsletter, could be played over. So then a link was added into the website to make this additional attractive feature available to viewer’s of the TCN website. The chess trivia column of TCN, followed in the successful footsteps of the Scarborough CC newsletter trivia column, and the SCC columnist, Rick Garel, took on the same role as volunteer columnist for TCN. When he had to resign it for personal reasons, new volunteer Ken Kurkowski agreed to take it on. It has been a most enjoyed aspect of the newsletter by a number of regular players! We had been running a first-in after publication winner approach, but one of our players from out east, New Brunswick CFC Governor, Ken Craft, suggested that this was unfair to those already in bed at the time of publication, or who had regular conflicts with the publishing time (usually around midnight EST). We didn’t exactly know what to do, and dragged our feet on resolving it. Then Ken came up with a solution, as well as a constructive criticism. He proposed a 24-hour after publication, window of opportunity for all to submit the right answers. All

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those within the 24-hour period would be granted 1 point. So there would be like a Grand Prix over the year, with points being cumulative. TCN implemented this change, to wide-spread approval – all thought it a fairer system to all. Next Erik made another contribution. He had worked with FM Hans Jung of Kitchener on his possible book on chess teaching. But the book had not made it yet to publication. So Erik asked Hans if he’d like to have it serialized into a regular TCN column. Hans thought this was a great idea, and so now Erik regularly works the material into an acceptable TCN format, with Hans overseeing the column to assure it is meeting with his approval. This has been a quality addition to the TCN. TCN is a non-profit sole proprietorship (not incorporated; and really at this point, non-revenue!). It is volunteer run – everyone, helping put it all together, and submitting materials, graciously volunteers their time and effort, as a furtherance of Canadian chess promotion. Subscriptions are free. And numerous people in this first year have contributed lead articles for the newsletter, free. Another sustaining volunteer effort is by the club/organization TCN “Liaisons” – people who faithfully, two times a month, submit news reports on the activities of their clubs/organizations. Readers are kept up to date on local happenings. Our volunteers are listed at the end of the newsletter, and we thank each and every one of them. Lastly, TCN introduced two interesting article series, one for each monthly issue: interesting Canadian chess personalities (those doing an autobiography have submitted their articles free); the Chess Games of the Centuries. These have greatly added to the content of the newsletter. So………in our view, a very successful first year!! We look forward on our first birthday, to another successful year in 2013-4! Invitation: TCN encourages freelancers to submit topical chess articles for our lead article. Send on your article and we’ll review it with you, with a view to using it ( we may suggest some editing, but generally very minor ). You will get full credit in the publication. We will also post a bit of personal information on the freelancer, if they are agreeable. INTERNATIONAL Tournaments 2013 World Chess Cup

(adapted from TWIC) The FIDE World Cup is taking place in Tromso, Norway, from the 11th of August to the 3rd of September 2013. Initially, there are 128 of the world’s best players. There are 7 rounds of knock-out chess with the finalists qualifying for the 2014 Candidates. Aronian, Caruana, Kramnik, Grischuk, Karjakin, Nakamura, Gelfand, Kamsky as well as defending champion Svidler all play. Aronian (who declined to play in 2009 and 2011) and Kramnik (who has never played in a Chess World Cup)

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chose to participate because FIDE made participation in either the Chess World Cup or the Grand Prix series mandatory for qualification to the 2014 Candidates Tournament through rating.[5]Here is the Wikipedia page with info and draw (completed match table). There doesn't seem to be an easy draw for any of the players as almost every eligible player is competing.

(from Wikipedia) Matches consist of two games (except for the final, which consists of four). Players have 90 minutes for the first 40 moves followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game with an addition of 30 seconds per move from move one. If the match is tied after the regular games, tie breaks are played on the next day. The format for the tie breaks is as follows:

• Two rapid games (25 minutes plus 10 seconds increment) will be played. • If the score is still tied, two rapid games (10 minutes plus 10 seconds increment)

will be played. • If the score is still tied, the opponents will play two blitz games (5 minutes plus 3

seconds increment). • If the score is still tied after a pair of blitz games, a single Armageddon game

(White must win, Black only needs to draw) will be played. White will have five minutes and Black will have four minutes, and both players will have a three seconds per move increment beginning with move 61.

In the final the regulation is the same, except that instead of two games with slow time control the finalists are to play four.

This event will provide two players for the FIDE Candidates of 2014 (+ loser of Carlsen/Anand, top two FIDE Grand Prix, top 2 FIDE rated players likely Aronian and Kramnik now they agreed to play this event), organizer’s wild card.

Magnus Carlsen, Viswanathan Anand, and Veselin Topalov qualified for the event, but they declined to participate. The only other player from the world's top 30 who will not participate is Ding Liren.[4]

Rd. 1 - took place Sunday, Aug. 11 & Mon. Aug. 12. Our two Canadian representatives, Can. Champion, GM Bator Sambuev, and 2012 Canadian Open winner, GM Eric Hansen (runner up in 2013), were eliminated. We reported last issue on upsets in the first round.

Rd. 2 - The main upset in regular play was 14 year old Chinese GM Wei Yi knocking out Alexei Shirov (Spain). Wang Hao (China), Michael Adams (England), Francisco Vallejo Pons (Spain), Laurent Fressinet (France) and Etienne Bacrot (France) were top players to be knocked out in the tie-breaks. Teimour Radjabov and Ruslan Ponomariov were the last tie-break games – Teimour won; Ruslan lost.

Here is Daniil Dubov’s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_World_Cup_2013#cite_note-5#cite_note-5https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_World_Cup_2013https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_chesshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_chess#Incrementhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_chesshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armageddon_(chess)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Carlsenhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viswanathan_Anandhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veselin_Topalovhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDE_World_Rankingshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ding_Lirenhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_World_Cup_2013#cite_note-4#cite_note-4

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win against Ruslan Ponomariov (Annotations by Bob Armstrong, using Fritz):

Dubov, Daniil (2638) − Ponomariov, Ruslan (2756) [A01] World Chess Cup Tromso, Norway (2), 16.08.2013 1.b3= e5 2.Bb2 Nc6 3.e3 Nf6 4.c4 [4.Nf3 d6 5.Be2 (5.Nc3?! e4³) 5...Be7=] 4...g6 5.Nf3 d6 6.d3 Bg7 7.Nbd2 [7.Be2 0-0 8.0-0 Re8=] 7...0-0 8.Be2 Re8 [8...Qe7 9.0-0 d5=; 8...Bf5 9.0-0 a5=] 9.a3 [9.0-0 d5 10.cxd5 Nxd5=] 9...Ne7 [9...Bf5 10.Rb1 a5 11.0-0 Qe7=; 9...e4 10.dxe4 Nxe4=] 10.b4 b6 11.0-0 Bb7 12.Rc1 c5 13.Qc2 Qc7 14.Ng5 h6?!² [14...Nc6 15.Qb3 cxb4 16.axb4 a5=] 15.Nge4 Nxe4 16.Nxe4?!= [16.dxe4 cxb4 17.axb4 Nc6²] 16...Bxe4?± Daniil gets a "clear" advantage [16...Rac8 17.Nc3 Qd7=] 17.dxe4 Nc6 18.Bc3?!² [18.b5 Nd8 19.Rb1 Ne6±] 18...cxb4 19.axb4 a5 20.b5 Nd8 21.Rfd1 Ne6 22.Rd5 Nc5 23.Rcd1 Bf8 24.Bb2 h5 25.f4?!= [25.Ba3 Red8 26.f4 Bg7²] 25...exf4 Ruslan goes up a P 26.Qc3 f6?+− Daniil gets a "winning" advantage [26...Re5 27.exf4 Na4 28.Qd4 Nxb2 29.fxe5 Nxd1 30.exd6 Nc3=] 27.Qxf6 material equality 27...Qg7 28.Rxd6 Daniil goes up a P 28...Qxf6 29.Rxf6 Re6 30.e5?!± [30.exf4 a4 31.Rxe6 Nxe6+−] 30...Rxf6 31.exf6 fxe3 material equality 32.Bf3 Re8 33.Kf1 Kf7?!+− [33...Re6?! 34.Ke2 Ne4+−; 33...e2+ 34.Bxe2 Re6±] 34.Ke2 a4 35.Bc6 Rc8 36.Bd5+? 1.77 [36.Kxe3 a3 37.Bxa3 Kxf6+− 2.58] 36...Ke8?+− 3.61 [36...Ne6 37.Bd4 Bb4+− 2.82] Daniil goes up a P (passed) 37.Kxe3 Bh6+ 38.Kf3 Kf8 39.Be5 Rd8 40.Bc7 Rd7 41.Bxb6 Daniil goes up 2 P's 41...Nb3 42.Rd3?+− 3.46 [42.Ke4 Bg5 43.c5 Bxf6 44.c6 Re7+ 45.Kd3 Re8+− 7.33] 42...Bg5?+− 7.23 [42...Rd6 43.c5 Rxf6++− 3.57] 43.f7?+− 5.13 [43.c5 Bxf6 44.c6 Re7+− 7.97] 43...Be7?+− 5.83 [43...Rd6 44.Bg1 Rd8+− 5.08] 44.Re3?+− 4.17 [44.Be3 g5 45.h4 g4+ 46.Kf4 Kg7+− 6.16] 44...Rd6 45.Bc7?+− 4.01 [45.Ba7 Rd7 46.Re6 Kxf7+− 4.71] 45...Rd7?+− 7.08 [45...Rxd5 46.cxd5 Nd4+ 47.Kf4 Nxb5+− 4.31] 46.Bf4?+− 4.15 [46.b6 Nc5 47.Bf4 Rxd5 48.cxd5 Kxf7+− 7.70] 46...Kg7??+− leads to mate [46...Rxd5 47.cxd5 Nd4+ 48.Ke4 Nxb5+− 4.55]

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Position after 46….Kg7?? XABCDEFGHY 8-+-+-+-+( 7+-+rvlPmk-' 6-+-+-+p+& 5+P+L+-+p% 4p+P+-vL-+$ 3+n+-tRK+-# 2-+-+-+PzP" 1+-+-+-+-! xabcdefghy 47.Rxe7! an exchange sac to win the ending and mate 47...Nd4+ [47...Rxe7 48.Bh6+ Kxh6 49.f8Q+ Rg7+− mate in 20 moves] 48.Kf2+− mate in 23 moves 1-0 Rd. 3 –

a. Pairings: Matchups for Round Three 1. Aronian-Tomashevsky 2. Malakhov-Caruana 3. Kramnik-Areshchenko 4. Le-Grischuk 5. Karjakin-Eljanov 6. Adhiban-Nakamura 7. Gelfand-Moiseenko 8. Hammer-Kamsky 9. Mamedyarov-Wei Yi 10.Lagrave-Dominguez 11.Dubov-Korobov 12.Andreikin-Dreev 13.Svidler-Radjabov 14.Ivanchuk-Kryvoruchko 15.Granda Zuniga-Giri 16.Vitiugov-Morozevich b. Upsets: :1. Levon Aronian (Armenia), the top seed, knocked out by ? Tomashevsky

(Russia)!!

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2. Anish Giri (Netherlands) was taken to tie-breaks, and lost his first rapid game against Julio Granda Zuniga (Cuba), and then couldn't get more than a draw as White.

3. Alexander Grischuk, who won a heroic fight against Le Quang Liem (Vietnam) on Sunday, Aug. 18, to go to tie-breaks. But he also lost the first game and then drew the second as the Vietnamese GM successfully defended a R vs. RN ending.

Rd. 4 – started Tuesday at 15:00 CET – Game 1 The pairings:

Tomashevsky - Morozevich, Kamsky - Mamedyarov, Le Quang Liem - Svidler, Karjakin - Andreikin, Caruana – Granda Zuniga, Gelfand - Vachier-Lagrave, Kramnik - Ivanchuk Nakamura - Korobov

Here were the TCN predictions – Morozevich; Mamedyarov; Svidler; Karjakin; Caruana; Gelfand; Kramnik; Nakamura. What do you think of our guesses – who did you have going through to rd. 5?? Let’s see how we did??

We were wrong on Mamedyarov. Here is Gata Kamsky’s (USA)

brilliant win over Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan) in Game 1 (game 2 was drawn, so Kamsky went through to round 5) – Annotations by Bob Armstrong, using Fritz: Kamsky, Gata (2741) − Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar (2775) [B82] FIDE World Cup 2013 Tromso NOR (4.1), 20.08.2013 1.e4² 0.35 1...c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 Qc7?!± Gata gets an early "clear" advantage [5...Nf6 6.Ndb5 d6²] 6.f4?!² [6.Be3 a6 7.Be2 (7.Nxc6?! bxc6²) 7...Nf6±] 6...d6?!±

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[6...Qb6 7.Ndb5 Nf6²] 7.Be3 Nf6 8.Qf3 a6 9.Bd3?!² [9.0-0-0 Bd7 10.Be2 Rc8±] 9...Be7 10.0-0 [10.Nxc6 bxc6 11.0-0-0 0-0²] 10...0-0 11.Kh1?!= Gata has lost his advantage [11.a3 Na5 12.Rad1 Bd7²] 11...Bd7 12.Rae1 b5 13.a3 Rab8 14.Nxc6 Bxc6 15.Qh3 Rfd8?!² [15...Rbd8 16.Re2 Rfe8=] 16.Bd2?!= [16.e5 dxe5 17.fxe5 Qxe5 18.Bf4 Qh5 19.Qxh5 Nxh5 20.Bxb8 Rxb8²] 16...d5 [16...e5? 17.Nd5 Qd7 (17...Bxd5 18.exd5 e4 19.Rxe4! (19.Bxe4?! Nxe4 20.Rxe4 Qxc2 21.Re2 Bf6²) 19...Nxe4 20.Bxe4 h6±) 18.fxe5 dxe5±] 17.e5 Ne4 18.f5 Nxd2 Shakhriyar is up a B 19.fxe6! opening up a mate in two on h8; Shakhriyar is up B vs P 19...Ne4 20.exf7+ Shakhriyar is up B vs 2 P's 20...Kh8 21.Nxd5! nice sac; Gata has 3 P's vs B 21...Bxd5 22.Rxe4 g6 23.Ref4 Kg7??+− Gata gets a "winning" advantage [23...Qb6 24.Qh6 Rf8=] 24.e6 Rf8 25.Qe3 Bc5 26.Qe1 Bd6?+− 5.98 [26...Be7 27.c4 bxc4 28.Qc3+ Kh6 29.Qd2 Kg7 30.Bxc4 Bxc4 31.Qc3+ Kh6 32.Rxc4 Qd6+− 1.44] 27.Rh4 Be7??+− leads to mate [27...h5? 28.Qf2 Bf3! 29.Qxf3 Qe7+− 15.89; 27...Rh8 28.Qe3 h5+− 5.85] 28.Qe3! offering the R 28...h5?+− leads to mate in 7 moves [28...Bxh4 29.Qd4+ Kh6 30.Qxh4+ Kg7 31.Qf6+ Kh6 32.Rf4 Qxf4 33.Qxf4+ Kg7 34.Qd4+ Kh6 35.Qxd5 b4+− mate in 13 moves; 28...Bxg2+ 29.Kxg2 Bxh4 30.Qd4+ Bf6 31.Qxf6+ Kh6+− mate in 11 moves] 29.Qd4+ Kh6 30.Rxh5+ 1-0

We were also wrong on Nakamura – in the main two game match, Anton Korobov (Ukraine) went through to round 5. Our choices Kramnik and Caruana went through in the first phase. In the tie-break, the winners of the 4 play-off matches were: Dmitry Andreikin (Russia) 2-0; Maxime (France) 1.5 - .5; Peter Svidler (Russia) 1.5 - .5. EvgenyTomashevsky (Russia) went through to Rd. 5 after drawing by repetition vs Morozevich in the 2nd blitz game, instead of giving mate. So TCN did not do so well as a seer! We scored only 38%! Rd. 5 – Game 1 on Friday, Aug. 23 The pairings/results: Evgeny Tomashevsky (Russia) – Gata Kamsky (USA) – Evgeny won in normal play. Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) - Anton Korobov (Ukraine) – Kramnik won in normal play. Fabiano Caruana (Italy) – Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France) – Maxime in the first tie-break (drew first game; won second) Dmitry Andreikin (Russia) - Peter Svidler (Russia) – Dmitry in the first tie-break (won first game; drew second) Here is Dmitry’s win in the first tie-break over Peter (Annotations by Bob Armstrong, using Fritz): Andreikin, Dmitry − Svidler, Peter [A46] World Chess Cup Toronto (5), 25.08.2013 1.d4² 0.34 1...Nf6 2.Bg5?!= [2.Nf3²] 2...e6 3.Nd2 h6 4.Bh4 c5 5.e3 Be7 6.c3 b6 7.Ngf3 Ba6?!² [7...0-0 8.Bb5 d6=] 8.Bxf6 [8.Bxa6 Nxa6 9.Ne5 cxd4 10.cxd4 Nb4²] 8...Bxf6 9.Bxa6 Nxa6 10.Ne4 cxd4 11.Nxf6+ Qxf6 12.cxd4 Qe7 13.0-0 0-0 14.Qa4 Nc7 15.Rac1 Nd5 16.Ne5 d6 17.Nd3 Rfc8 18.h3?!= [18.e4 Nf6 19.f3 Qb7²] 18...Qb7 19.Qa3 Qd7 20.Qa6 f5 21.Rfe1 Kf7 22.Nf4 Nb4 23.Qe2 Nxa2 Peter goes up a P 24.Rxc8 Rxc8 25.e4 Nb4 26.exf5 exf5 27.Qf3 a5?!² [27...d5 28.Re5 Kg8=] 28.Re6 Kg8?+− Dmitry gets a "winning" advantage [28...d5 29.Rxb6 Rc6²] 29.Qg3 Nd5?+− 4.84 [29...Nc6 30.Nh5 Kh8 31.Rxd6 Qf7+− 1.50; 29...Qc7 30.Rxh6 Qc1+ 31.Kh2 Nd3+− 1.54; 29...Nc2? 30.Nh5 Kf8+− 4.10]

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Position After 29…Nd5? XABCDEFGHY 8-+r+-+k+( 7+-+q+-zp-' 6-zp-zpR+-zp& 5zp-+n+p+-% 4-+-zP-sN-+$ 3+-+-+-wQP# 2-zP-+-zPP+" 1+-+-+-mK-! xabcdefghy 30.Qb3!+− 5.20 Leaving the N hanging. Peter resigned. He must lose material 30...Qc6 [30...Nxf4?? 31.Re7+ Qe6 32.Rxe6 Kh7+− 12.48] 31.Nxd5 Kh7+− 5.76 1-0 Rd. 6 – Semi-finals Game One (Aug. 26) Andreikin - Tomashevsky 0.5-0.5 14 moves Vachier-Lagrave - Kramnik 0.5-0.5 16 moves Game Two (Aug. 27) Tomashevsky-Andreikin 0.5-0.5 Kramnik-Vachier-Lagrave 0.5-0.5 Game Three – First Rapid (First Game) (note: all tie-breaks played Aug. 28) Tomashevsky – Andreikin 0.5 – 0.5 Kramnik – Vachier-Lagrave 1 - 0 Game four – First Rapid (Second Game) Tomashevsky – Andreikin 0 – 1 – Dmitry is through to the finals Kramnik – Vachier-Lagrave 0.5 - 0.5 – Vladimir is through to the finals Here is Vlad’s win in Game 1 (Annotations by Bob Armstrong, using Fritz):

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Vachier−Lagrave, Maxime (2719) − Kramnik, Vladimir (2784) [C45] FIDE World Cup 2013 Tromso NOR (6.3), 28.08.2013 1.e4² 0.35 1...e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.d4?!= [3.Bb5²] 3...exd4 4.Nxd4 Bb4+?!² [4...Bc5 5.Be3 Qf6=] 5.c3 Bc5 [5...Be7 6.Nxc6 bxc6² (6...dxc6²) ] 6.Be3 Bb6 7.Bd3?!= [7.Bc4 Nge7 8.0-0 0-0²] 7...Nf6 8.0-0 0-0 9.Nxc6 bxc6 10.e5 Nd5 11.Bd2 d6 12.c4 Ne7 13.Qc2 Ng6 14.exd6 cxd6 [14...Qxd6 15.Bc3 Bg4=] 15.Nc3 Qh4?!² [15...Ne5?! 16.Bxh7+ Kh8²; 15...Be6 16.Na4 Bd4=] 16.Rae1?!= [16.Ne4 d5 17.Nd6 Qf6²] 16...Ne5 17.Re4?!³ for the first time in the game, Vlad gets the advantage [17.Ne4 Bf5 18.Nf6+! Qxf6 19.Bxf5 g6=] 17...Qh5?!= [17...Ng4 18.Bf4 f5³] 18.Be2?∓ Vlad gets a "clear" advantage [18.Rf4 f6 19.Ne4 Nxd3 20.Qxd3 d5=] 18...Qg6 19.Qd1 Bh3 20.Bf3 Bf5 21.Rh4?!-+ Vlad gets a "winning" advantage [21.Rf4 Bc2 22.Qc1 Bd3∓]

XABCDEFGHY 8r+-+-trk+( 7zp-+-+pzpp' 6-vlpzp-+q+& 5+-+-snl+-% 4-+P+-+-tR$ 3+-sN-+L+-# 2PzP-vL-zPPzP" 1+-+Q+RmK-! xabcdefghy 21...Bc2! 22.Qxc2??-+ − 16.72 Maxime goes up a B temporarily [22.Qe2 Bd3 23.Qd1 Bxf1 24.Kxf1 Rae8-+ − 3.21] 22...Nxf3+-+ − 17.33; material equality, but Vlad is about to win the R 0-1

Here is Dmitry’s win in Game 2 (Annotations by Bob Armstrong, using Fritz): Andreikin, Dmitry (2716) − Tomashevsky, Evgeny (2706) [D15] FIDE World Cup 2013 Tromso NOR (6.4), 28.08.2013 1.d4² 0.34 1...d5 2.Nf3 [2.c4²] 2...Nf6 3.c4 (verified depth 22 ) 3...c6 4.Nc3 a6 (verified depth 20) 5.c5 Bf5?!± Dmitry gets an early "clear" advantage [5...b6 6.cxb6 Qxb6²] 6.Bf4 Nbd7 7.e3 g6 8.Qb3 Qc8 9.h3 Bg7 10.Be2 0-0 11.0-0 Ne4 12.Rac1?!² [12.Rfd1?! Re8 13.Nxe4 (13.g4 Be6²) 13...Bxe4²; 12.Nxe4 dxe4 13.Nd2 e5±] 12...Re8 13.Nxe4 Bxe4 14.Ng5 Nf6 15.Be5 h6 16.Bxf6 exf6 17.Nxe4 Rxe4 18.Bf3 Re7 19.h4?!= [19.Kh2 h5 20.g3 Qd7²] 19...f5 20.g3 Qe6 (but verified depth 26 gives +/= − horizon effect limitation on computers?) [20...f4 21.exf4 Bxd4=] 21.Kg2 (but verified depth 24 gives +/= − due to horizon effect limitation on computers?) [21.h5 g5 22.Rcd1 f4=] 21...g5 (verified depth 24) 22.hxg5 hxg5 (verified depth 22) 23.Qd3 [23.Rce1 g4 24.Bd1 Qe4+ 25.f3 gxf3+ 26.Bxf3 Qe6=] 23...f4 24.exf4 gxf4 25.g4 Qg6 26.Rcd1 a5 27.Rh1 Rae8 28.Rh5 Re1?± [28...Qxd3 29.Rxd3 Re6=] 29.Rxe1 Rxe1 30.Qd2 Re8 31.Qxf4 Dmitry goes up a P 31...Qf6 32.Rf5 Qxd4?!+− material equality, but Dmitry gets a "winning" advantage [32...Qh6 33.Qc7 Qe6±] 33.Qc7 Rf8 34.Qxb7 Qxc5 35.Qd7?² Dmitry is losing his advantage [35.Qc7 Qc4 36.Rg5 d4+−] 35...Qc2?+− Dmitry gets back a "winning" advantage [35...Bxb2 36.Qc7 Qc4²] 36.g5?² again, Dmitry is losing his advantage [36.Qc7 Qxb2 37.Qxc6 Qxa2 38.Bxd5 Qe2+−] 36...Bd4?+− again Dmitry gets back a "winning" advantage [36...Bxb2?! 37.Bh5 Qe4+ 38.Rf3 f5 39.a4 Bg7±; 36...a4 37.b4 axb3 38.axb3 Kh8²] 37.Bh5 Qe4+ 38.Rf3 Kg7 39.Qxc6 Dmitry goes

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up a P 39...Qh7?+− 8.04 [39...Rh8 40.Qd7 Rf8+− 2.00] 40.Qxd5 Dmitry goes up 2 P's 40...Qxh5 41.Qxd4+ Kg8 42.Rh3+− 9.13 Evgeny resigned. He must lose material 42...Qxg5+ [42...Qg6?? 43.Rh8#] 43.Rg3 Qxg3+ 44.Kxg3 Ra8+− 9.73 1-0

Note: 2014 FIDE Candidates Tournament – 8 players; double round robin: Viswanathan Anand (India)/Magnus Carlsen (Norway) (loser of 2013 World Championship Match), Vladimir Kramnik (Russia) and Dmitry Andreikin (Russia) (finalists from 2013 World Chess Cup), Veselin Topalov (Bulgaria) and maybe Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan) - can be caught for second place by Fabiano Caruana (Italy) or Alexander Grischuk (Russia) – last # 6 GP still to be played (2 top finishers in FIDE 2012-3 Grand Prix), Aronian and Karjakin (2 otherwise top-rated), and wild card of the organizers. Rd. 7 – Finals (4 game match, with tie-break matches at increasing time controls) Vladimir Kramnik (Russia), 14th World Champion,

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Dmitry Andreikin (Russia), current Russian Champion

Background – So far Andreikin has won 2 games, drawn 1 and lost none against Kramnik. Here is Dmitry’s win over Vlad at the 2013 Tal Memorial (Annotations by Bob Armstrong, using Fritz): Kramnik, Vladimir − Andreikin, Dmitry [E11] Tal Memorial Russia (7), 21.06.2013 1.d4² 0.34 1...Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.g3?!= [3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 Nc6²] 3...Bb4+ 4.Bd2 Bxd2+ 5.Qxd2 d5 6.Bg2 0-0 7.Nf3 c6?!² [7...Nc6 8.0-0 Qd6= (8...dxc4?!²) ] 8.0-0 Nbd7 9.Rc1 Qe7 10.Qe3 dxc4 11.Rxc4 Nd5 12.Qa3 Re8 13.Qxe7 Rxe7?!± Vlad gets a "clear" advantage [13...Nxe7 14.Nbd2 b6²] 14.e4 N5b6 15.Rc2 e5 16.Nbd2?!² [16.Nc3 Re8 17.Rd1 f6±] 16...a5 17.a3 [17.Nxe5 Nxe5 18.dxe5 Rxe5²] 17...g6 18.Rac1 exd4 19.Nxd4 Ne5 20.f4 Rd7 21.Ne2?!= [21.N4f3 Nxf3+ 22.Nxf3 Rd8²] 21...Ng4?!² [21...Nd3 22.Rd1 Na4=] 22.Nf1 Rd8 23.h3 Nf6 24.Rd2 Be6 25.Kf2?!= [25.Nd4 Nc4 26.Nxe6 Nxd2 27.Nxd8 Nxf1 28.Kxf1 Rxd8²] 25...Na4 26.Rcc2 Nd7 27.Ke3??-+ for the first time in the game, Dmitry gets the advantage, and it is a "winning" one [27.Nd4 Ndc5 28.Ke3 (28.e5 Nb3=) 28...Nb3=] 27...Bb3 28.Rc1 Ndb6 29.Rd4 c5 30.Rxd8+ Rxd8 31.e5 Nc4+ 32.Kf3 Naxb2 Dmitry goes up a P 33.Nc3 Nxa3 Dmitry goes up 2 P's 34.Ne3 b5 35.Ne4 Nd3 36.Rh1 Nc2 37.Nxc2 Bxc2 38.h4?-+ − 5.44 [38.Ke3 b4 39.Nd6 b3-+ − 3.19] 38...b4 39.h5 gxh5 Dmitry is up 3 P's 40.Nf6+ Kf8 41.Ke3 b3 42.Nd5?-+ − 8.70[42.Nxh7+ Ke7 43.Be4 b2-+ − 8.01] 0-1

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Game One – Friday, Aug. 30. An exciting game that sees Vlad sac his Q for R + B + P, and go on to win! Dmitry could never get the advantage all game. Here is the game (Annotations by Bob Armstrong, using Fritz): Kramnik, Vladimir (2784) − Andreikin, Dmitry (2716) [D58] FIDE World Cup 2013 Tromso NOR (7.1), 30.08.2013 1.d4² 0.34 1...e6 2.c4 Nf6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Bg5 Be7 5.Nc3 h6 6.Bh4 0-0 7.e3 b6 8.Bd3 dxc4 9.Bxc4 Bb7 10.0-0 Nbd7 11.Qe2?!= [11.Rc1 a6 12.a4 Nd5²] 11...a6 [11...Nd5 12.Bg3 N7f6=] 12.Rfd1 Nd5 13.Bg3 Nxc3 14.bxc3 Bd6?!² [14...Nf6 15.Be5 Ne4=] 15.e4 Bxg3 16.hxg3 b5 17.Bd3 Nb6 18.Qe3?!= [18.Bc2 Qe8 19.Rab1 Rb8²] 18...Na4 19.Bc2 Nb2 20.Rdb1 [20.Rdc1 Nc4 21.Qe2 Na3=] 20...Nc4 21.Qc1 c5 22.a4 cxd4 23.cxd4 Rc8 24.axb5 axb5 25.Qe1 Bc6 26.Rb4 Ra8 27.Rd1 Ra3 28.d5 exd5 29.exd5 Vlad goes up a P 29...Re8

XABCDEFGHY 8-+-wqr+k+( 7+-+-+pzp-' 6-+l+-+-zp& 5+p+P+-+-% 4-tRn+-+-+$ 3tr-+-+NzP-# 2-+L+-zPP+" 1+-+RwQ-mK-! xabcdefghy 30.dxc6! offering his Q for R + B 30...Rxe1+ 31.Nxe1 Dmitry is up Q vs R + B [31.Rxe1 g6 32.Rxb5 Rc3=] 31...Qc7 32.Rxb5 Vlad has R + B + P (passed and on the 6th rank) vs Q 32...g6 [32...g5 33.Rc5 Ne5=] 33.Rc5 Ne5 34.Be4 Ng4 [34...Ra4 35.Bd5 Kg7=] 35.Nd3 Kg7 36.Bf3 Nf6 37.Nb4 h5 38.Rdc1 Ra7 39.Nd5 Nxd5 40.Bxd5 Qd8??² losing the exchange [40...f5 41.Rb5 Kf6=] 41.c7 Rxc7 42.Rxc7 Qxd5 Vlad is up 2 R's vs Q 43.Re1 Kh6 44.Ree7 f6 45.Red7 Qa5 46.f4 g5 47.Kh2 Kg6 48.fxg5 Kxg5?!± Vlad gets a "clear" advantage [48...fxg5 49.Rd6+ Kf5²] 49.Rh7 f5 50.Rcg7+ Kf6 51.Ra7 Qb4?!+− Vlad gets a "winning" advantage [51...Qe5 52.Rxh5 (52.Rh8 Qe2±) 52...Kg6±] 52.Ra6+ Ke5 53.Rxh5 Vlad is up 2 R's + P vs Q 53...Qb1 54.Ra5+ Kf6??+− 14.19 Definitely the wrong square [54...Ke4 55.Rhxf5 Kd3+− 2.40] 55.Raxf5+ Vlad is up 2 R's + 2 P's (doubled) vs Q 55...Kg6 56.Rfg5+ Kf6 57.Rb5 Qc2 14.42 [57...Qe4 58.Rb6+ Kg7+− 14.48] 58.Rh6+ Kg7 59.Rbb6 Qc5 14.24 [59...Qe2? 60.Ra6 Qe4+− 14.48] 60.Rbg6+ Kf8 61.Rh7 Qf5 62.Rgg7 Qe6 63.Re7+− 15.11 1-0 Game Two – Saturday, Aug. 31 This was a draw, which saw Dmitry miss a quite difficult to find advantage (he did have a winning advantage at one point). Here is the game (Annotations by Bob Armstrong, using Fritz):

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Andreikin, Dmitry (2716) − Kramnik, Vladimir (2784) [D37] FIDE World Cup 2013 Tromso NOR (7.2), 31.08.2013 1.d4² 0.34 1...Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 d5 4.Nc3 Be7 5.Bf4 [5.Bg5 h6 6.Bxf6 Bxf6²] 5...0-0 6.a3 b6 [6...Nc6 7.e3 Nh5²] 7.e3 c5 8.Qc2?!= [8.dxc5 bxc5 9.Be2 Bb7²] 8...cxd4 9.Nxd4 Bb7 10.Rd1 Nbd7?!² [10...Qc8 11.Ndb5 Nbd7=] 11.cxd5 Dmitry goes up a P 11...e5?!± Dmitry gets a "clear" advantage [11...Nxd5 12.Nxd5 Bxd5²] 12.Nc6 Bxc6 13.dxc6 exf4 14.exf4 Vlad is temporarily up N vs 2 P's 14...Bxa3?!+− an unsound sac; Dmitry gets a "wining" advantage [14...Bd6 15.cxd7 Qxd7± Dmitry would be up a P (doubled); 14...Qc7 15.cxd7 Rfd8± In another move, Dmitry would be up a P (doubled)] 15.bxa3??² Dmitry is up a P, but losing his advantage [15.cxd7 Bb4 16.Bb5 Qc7+−] 15...Qe8+ 16.Be2 Nc5 17.0-0 Qxc6 material equality 18.Bf3 Nce4 19.Rc1?!= [19.Rd3 Qc7 20.Re3 Rae8²] 19...Qxc3 20.Qxc3 Nxc3 21.Rxc3 Rac8 22.Rfc1 Rxc3 23.Rxc3 Re8 24.g4 Kf8 25.g5 Ng8 26.Kg2 g6 27.h4 [27.Rc4 Re1 28.Rd4 (28.a4 Ne7=) 28...Kg7=; 27.a4 h6 28.h4 Kg7=] 27...Ne7 28.Rc7 Nf5 29.h5 Re7 30.Rc8+ Re8 31.Rc7 Re7 32.Rc8+ Re8 33.Rc7= ½-½ Game Three – Sunday, Sept. 1 This was a draw. Kramnik played White and got nothing out of the opening. Here is the rather pedestrian game (Annotations by Bob Armstrong, using Fritz): Kramnik, Vladimir (2784) − Andreikin, Dmitry (2716) [D45] FIDE World Cup 2013 Tromso NOR (7.3), 01.09.2013 1.d4² 0.34 1...d5 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.c4 [3.Nc3?!= (verified depth 22)] 3...c6 4.Nc3 a6 [4...dxc4 5.e3 b5 6.a4 b4 7.Na2 a5 8.Bxc4 Ba6²] 5.e3 [5.Qb3 b5 6.c5 a5²] 5...e6 6.b3 [6.Bd2 dxc4 7.Bxc4 c5²] 6...c5 7.Bb2 [7.cxd5 cxd4 8.Nxd4 exd5²] 7...cxd4 8.Nxd4 Bb4 9.Nc2 Ba5 10.Be2?!= [10.cxd5 Nxd5 11.Qg4 Nxc3 12.b4 0-0 13.Bxc3 e5 14.Qg3 Bc7²] 10...0-0 11.0-0 dxc4 12.Qxd8 Rxd8 13.Bxc4 Nc6 14.Rfd1 Bd7 15.Na4 b5 16.Nc5 bxc4 17.Bxf6 gxf6 18.Nxd7 Bc3 19.Rab1 Ra7 20.Nc5 Rxd1+ 21.Rxd1 Nb4 22.Nxb4 Bxb4 23.Rd8+ Kg7 24.Rc8 Bxc5 25.Rxc5 cxb3 26.axb3 Rb7 27.Rc3= ½-½ Game 4 – Monday, Sept. 2 Andreikin had white, but Vlad built up an advantage. Then he offered Dmitry a draw in a better position, and Dmitry accepted, giving Vlad the World Chess Cup Championship. Here is the game (Annotations by Bob Armstrong, using Fritz): Andreikin, Dmitry (2716) − Kramnik, Vladimir (2784) [A36] FIDE World Cup 2013 Tromso NOR (7.4), 02.09.2013 1.c4= c5 2.g3 g6 3.Bg2 Bg7 4.Nc3 Nc6 5.a3 b6 6.d3 Bb7 7.Bd2 Nf6 8.Nh3 0-0 9.0-0 e6 10.b4 d6 11.b5 Na5 12.e4 d5?!² [12...h5 13.Nf4 a6=] 13.cxd5 exd5 14.e5 Ne8 15.f4?!= [15.Na4 Bxe5 16.Rc1 Bd6²] 15...Nc7 16.Rb1 f6 17.exf6 [17.Na4 fxe5 18.Bxa5 bxa5 19.Nxc5 Bc8=] 17...Qxf6 [17...Bxf6 18.f5 Bd4+ 19.Kh1 Rxf5=] 18.Ne2?!³ [18.Na4 Qd6 19.Ng5 Bd4+ 20.Kh1 Ne6=] 18...Rae8 19.g4?!∓ Vlad gets a "clear" advantage [19.Ng5 Qd6 20.Rf2 (20.Bh3?! h6∓) 20...Bc8³] 19...d4?= [19...Qe7 20.Ng3 Qd7∓] 20.Ng3?!³ [20.Bxb7 Nxb7 21.Ng3 Nd6=] 20...Bxg2 21.Kxg2 Nd5 22.f5 Qe5 23.Nf4 c4 24.Qf3?!∓ [24.Ne6 Rxe6 25.fxe6 c3³] 24...Ne3+ 25.Bxe3 dxe3 26.d4?!-+ Vlad gets a "winning" advantage [26.Rfd1 Bh6 27.Nfe2 Nb3∓] 26...Qd6?³ Vlad is losing his advantage [26...Qxd4 27.Nge2 Qe5-+] 27.Ne4?-+ dropping a P; Vlad gets back a "winning" advantage [27.d5 Nb3 28.Ne6 Nd4³] 27...Qxd4 Vlad goes up a P 28.Ng5 e2?∓ giving up the P (?) [28...Qd2+ 29.Ne2 Qd8-+] 29.Nxe2 material equality 29...Qd2 30.Ne4 Qc2 31.N4g3

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Nb3 32.Rbd1?!-+ [32.Rbe1 Nd2 33.Qd5+ Kh8∓] 32...Kh8 33.Qf2 gxf5?!∓ [33...c3 34.Nf4 Nd2 35.Rfe1 gxf5 36.gxf5 Qb3-+] 34.gxf5∓ Vlad offered a draw, and Dmitry accepted ½-½

Barcelona Sants Tournament – Grp. A

The Sants Open started August 23 in Barcelona, a massive tournament of more than 600 participants and over 300 in the top section. It ran to Sept. 1. Three of our top Canadians were playing: GM Eric Hansen (2584);

GM Kevin Spraggett (2568)

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and IM Aman Hambleton (2500).

The winner, winning the final 10th round on Bd. 1, with 8.5/10, was GM B. Adhiban (India - 2567 ). There was a 4-way tie for second, ½ pt. back. After 5 rounds, Eric and Aman were sitting on 4/5, one point behind the sole leader, Anton Filippov, undefeated, and Spraggett was 3/5. Here are the Rd. 6 pairings/results:

6 7 GM Hansen Eric 4 1-0 4 IM Lorenzo De La Riva Lazaro

15 21 IM Hambleton Aman 4 .5-.5 4 FM Vittorino Carlo Giovanni

32 108 Rudakov Aleksandr 3½ .5-.5 3 GM Spraggett Kevin After 6 rounds, Eric was in a 13-way tie for 3rd, ½ pt. out of first. Here are the Rd. 7 Pairings/Results:

6 22 GM Cruz Cristhian 5 .5-.5 5 GM Hansen Eric

14 48 IM Perpinya Rofes Lluis Maria 4½ 0-1 4½ IM Hambleton Am

40 10 GM Spraggett Kevin 3½ 1-0 3½ Juan Bartroli Pau After 7 rounds, Eric and Aman are in a 16-way tie for 4th, ½ pt. out of first. Here are the Rd. 8 pairings/results:

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3 21 IM Hambleton Aman 5½ 0-1 5½ GM Filippov Anton 4

6 7 GM Hansen Eric 5½ 0-1 5½ GM Hillarp Persson Tiger 18

25 70 FM Gomez Jurado Luis Alberto 4½ .5-.5 4½ GM Spraggett Kevin 10

After this round, there was an 8-way tie for first, each having 6.5/8 pts. Here are the Rd. 9 pairings/results:

14 35 WGM Cori T. Deysi 5½ .5-.5 5½ GM Hansen Eric

18 40 IM Kalegin Evgenij 5½ 1-0 5½ IM Hambleton Aman 2

23 10 GM Spraggett Kevin 5 1-0 5 FM Chalmeta Ugas Ramon 7 There was now a 2-way tie for first, each with 7.5/9 pts. Canadian Scores now: Eric and Kevin: 6/9 pts.; Aman: 5.5/9 pts. Here are the Rd. 10 Canadian pairings/results:

15 7 GM Hansen Eric 6 .5-.5 6 IM D`costa Lorin A R 4

16 48 IM Perpinya Rofes Lluis Maria 6 0-1 6 GM Spraggett Kevin 1

26 21 IM Hambleton Aman 5½ .5-.5 6 Aryan Chopra 13 So the Canadian scores were: Kevin – 7/10; Eric – 6.5/10; Aman – 6/10. Official Site: http://www.cotxeres.org/open/ North American Youth Chess Championships It was played in Toronto from Wed., Aug. 14 - Sun., Aug. 18. It was 9 rounds (originally was to be 7 rounds, but the astute organizer, Chess ‘n Math Association, got FIDE permission to go to 9 rounds!), thus allowing for FIDE titles to be won. SECTIONS (age as of Jan 1, 2013): Under 8 years old, under 10, under 12, under 14, under 16, under 18. Open and Girls sections. From the NAYCC FB page (https://www.facebook.com/naycc2013) - "Record turnout" of over 350 players from Canada, USA, Haiti, Costa Rica, and Mexico to the 2013 NAYCC all vying for the coveted IM/WIM, FM/WFM, and CM/WCM titles.

https://www.facebook.com/naycc2013

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See some pictures there by “official” NAYCC photographer, Victoria Jung-Doknjas (also some pictures posted by CFC Canada Chess News editor, John Upper, on CMA Chesstalk, under NAYCC thread). Photo by John Upper Official Website: http://chess-math.org/toronto/naycc/standings.php Canada got 3 North American YCC Champions: Three Canadian juniors captured NAYCC Championships: U 14 Open – Yuanchen Zhang (unsure if title won)

U 10 Open – Sergey Noritsyn

http://chess-math.org/toronto/naycc/standings.php

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U 8 Girls – Harmony Zhu – won the FIDE Women’s Candidate Master title.

Congratulations to all of you from TCN – great Canadian representatives!

The top seed in the U 18 Open, was Canadian Razvan Preotu. Here is a wild game of his from Rd. 2 against another Canadian junior, Nikita Kraiouchkine, that kept him tied for first (Annotations by Bob Armstrong, using Fritz): Preotu, Razvan (2497) − Kraiouchkine, Nikita (2311) [B45] 2013 North American Youth Chess Championships Toronto (2), 15.08.2013 1.e4² 0.35 1...c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nc6 5.Nc3 Nf6 6.Ndb5 Bb4 7.a3 Bxc3+ 8.Nxc3 d5 9.exd5 exd5 10.Qe2+ Be6 11.Bg5 d4 12.Ne4?!= seeking to mess up Nikita's K−side [12.0-0-0 h6 13.Bh4 Qa5²] 12...Qa5+ 13.b4 [13.Bd2 Qd5 14.Nxf6+ gxf6=] 13...Nxb4! 14.Nxf6+! [14.axb4?? Qxa1+-+; 14.Bd2?? Nxc2+ 15.Kd1 Qe5 (15...Ne3+? 16.Ke1 Qd8 17.Qb5+ Kf8 18.Nxf6 Qxf6 19.Rc1 (19.fxe3? dxe3 20.Bxe3 Qxa1+-+ − 4.14) 19...Nd5-+ − 1.79) 16.Nxf6+ (16.Qb5+? Qxb5 17.Bxb5+ Ke7 18.Kxc2 Nxe4-+ − 3.10) 16...Qxf6 17.Rc1 (17.Kxc2?? Rc8+ 18.Kd1 d3 19.Qxe6+ (19.Qf3?? Qxa1+ 20.Bc1 Qxc1#) 19...fxe6 20.Ra2 0-0-+ − 14.29) 17...Nxa3-+ − 1.50] 14...Kf8! [14...gxf6 15.Qb5+ Qxb5 16.Bxb5+ Ke7 17.Bxf6+ Kxf6 18.axb4 Bf5=] 15.Qd2 Nxc2+ [15...Qe5+?? 16.Kd1 Nc6 17.f4 Qd6 18.Ne4 Qd5+−] 16.Kd1 [16.Ke2?? Qa4 17.Rc1 d3+ 18.Kd1 Rd8-+]

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Position after 16.Kd1 XABCDEFGHY 8r+-+-mk-tr( 7zpp+-+pzpp' 6-+-+lsN-+& 5wq-+-+-vL-% 4-+-zp-+-+$ 3zP-+-+-+-# 2-+nwQ-zPPzP" 1tR-+K+L+R! xabcdefghy 16...Qxd2+??+− Razvan gets a "winning" advantage [16...Qa4 17.Nd7+ Qxd7 18.Qxc2 Rc8=] 17.Bxd2 [17.Kxd2?? Nxa1-+] 17...Rc8 [17...Nxa1?? 18.Bb4#] 18.Bd3 Bb3?+− 3.17 [18...Ke7 19.Ng8+ Rhxg8 20.Bxc2 Kf6+− 1.88] 19.Rb1 Ba4 20.Bf5?!± [20.Rxb7! gxf6 21.Bh6+ Ke8 22.Kd2 Rg8+−] 20...gxf6?!+− [20...Nxa3+ 21.Ke2 Ke7 (21...gxf6? 22.Bxc8 d3+! 23.Kf3! Nxb1 24.Rxb1 Bc6++−) 22.Bxc8 Rxc8 23.Nh5 Nxb1 24.Rxb1 Bc6±] 21.Bxc8 Nxa3+ 22.Ke2 Nxb1 Nikita is temporarily up 3 P's, but about to go down a minor piece 23.Rxb1 Razvan is up B vs 3 P's 23...b6 24.Rb4 Bc6 25.Rxd4 Razvan is up B vs 2 P's 25...Rg8 26.Rd8+ Kg7 27.Bh6+ Kh8 28.Rxg8+ Kxg8 29.Bf5 a5 30.g3 a4 31.Be3 b5 32.Bc5 Kg7 33.h4 Bd5 34.Kd2 Be6 35.Bd3 f5 4.69 36.Bxb5 Razvan is up B vs P 36...Bb3 37.Ke3 Kf6 38.Kf4 Ke6 39.Bd3 Kd5 6.52 40.Bf8 Bd1 41.Bxf5 8.46 Razvan is up a B 41...Kc4 42.Bxh7 Razvan is up B + P 42...Kb3 43.Bg8 a3?-+ 13.41 44.Bxf7+ Razvan is up B + 2 P's 44...Kb2 45.Bxa3+?+− 19.35 nice sac; practical, deflating any hope for Bl. [the best theoretical play is 45.h5 a2 46.Bg7+ Ka3 47.h6 Bc2 48.g4 Kb4 49.Bxa2 Bd3+− 25.46] 45...Kxa3+− 21.81 Razvan is up 3 connected, passed P's 1-0

Razvan lost however in Rd. 4, when an exchange sac turned sour (Annotations by Bob Armstrong, using Fritz): Preotu, Razvan (2497) − Colas, Joshua (2405) [B43] North American YCC Toronto (4), 16.08.2013 1.e4² 0.35 1...c5 2.Nf3 e6 3.Nc3 a6 4.d4 cxd4 5.Nxd4 b5 6.Bd3 Qb6?!± Razvan gets a "clear" advantage [6...Bb7 7.0-0 Nc6²] 7.Nb3 Qc7 8.0-0 Nc6 9.Bd2?!² [9.f4 Be7 10.Be3 b4±] 9...Nf6 10.f4 d6 11.Qe1 Be7 12.a4 b4 13.Na2?³ for the first time in the game, Joshua gets the advantage [13.Nd1 0-0 14.Ne3 Qa7=] 13...a5 14.Kh1 0-0 15.c3 bxc3?!= [15...Ba6 16.Bxa6 Rxa6³] 16.Nxc3 Qb6 17.Nb5 e5 18.f5?!³ [18.Rc1 Bd7 19.Be3 (19.Bc4?! exf4 20.Rxf4 Rfc8³) 19...Qb8=] 18...Bb7 19.Rc1 d5?!= [19...Rfc8 20.Qe2 h6³] 20.exd5 Nxd5 21.Be4 Rfd8

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Position after 21…Rfd8 XABCDEFGHY 8r+-tr-+k+( 7+l+-vlpzpp' 6-wqn+-+-+& 5zpN+nzpP+-% 4P+-+L+-+$ 3+N+-+-+-# 2-zP-vL-+PzP" 1+-tR-wQR+K! xabcdefghy 22.Rxc6??-+ an unsound exchange sac; Joshua gets a "winning" advantage [22.Qg3 Ncb4 23.h3 h5=] 22...Bxc6 Joshua is up the exchange 23.Bxa5 Joshua is up the exchange, but Razvan has a P compensation 23...Rxa5! a necessary return exchange sac 24.Qxa5?-+ − 2.66 [24.Nxa5 Bxb5 25.axb5 Qxb5-+ − 1.68] 24...Qe3 25.Nc3 Nxc3 26.Bxc6 Nd1 Razvan is going to lose the exchange 27.Qxd8+! a Q−sac is the best try to stay alive 27...Bxd8 28.Rxd1 Joshua is up Q vs R + N + P 28...Bb6 29.Nd2 Qd4 30.Bf3 Qxa4 Joshua is up Q vs R + N 31.Ne4 h6 32.h4 Bd4 33.Kh2 Qd7 34.f6 Qe6 35.Rf1 Qa6 − 3.04 36.Rc1 gxf6 Joshua is up Q + P vs R + N 37.Ng3? − 4.46 [37.Bg4 h5 38.Bf5 Be3-+ − 3.60] 37...Bf2 38.Nf5 Qd3 39.Bg4?-+ − 6.37 [39.Nxh6+ Kg7 40.Ng4 Bxh4-+ − 5.47] 39...h5 40.Bh3 − 6.87 [40.Rd1 Qc4 41.Bh3 e4-+ − 6.84] 40...e4 41.Rc6??-+ mate in 6 moves [41.Ne7+ Kg7 42.Kh1 e3-+ − 8.51] 41...e3??-+ − 13.13 missing the mate [41...Qd1 42.Ne7+ Kg7 43.Nf5+ Kh7 44.Rc1 Qxc1 45.Bg4 Qg1+ 46.Kh3 Qh1#] 42.Ne7+?-+ − 20.06 [42.Rc1 e2 43.g3 e1Q 44.Rxe1 Bxe1-+ − 15.84] 42...Kg7 43.Nf5+ Kh7 44.Ne7??-+ mate in 5 moves [44.Rc1 e2 45.g3 Qd2-+ − 20.36] 44...e2-+ Razvan resigned. It is mate 45.Bf5+ Qxf5 46.Nxf5 e1Q 47.Rc1 Qxc1 48.Ng3 Qf4 49.Kh3 Qxg3# 0-1 Here was Bd. 1 in the 5th round: American Jarod Pamatmat (4/4) vs. American Justus Williams (4/4)

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Here was Razvan’s position after 5 rounds:

After Round 5

# Name Rtng. Rd. 1

Rd. 2

Rd. 3

Rd. 4

Rd. 5

Tot. TBrk[H] TBrk[M] TBrk[R]

1 Justus Williams 2366 W17 W24 W2 D3 W9 4.5 100 13 13

2 FM Awonder Liang

2268 W27 W5 L1 W8 W15 4 100 13.5 10

3 Jarod Pamatmat 2341 W26 W20 W14 D1 D4 4 100 13 10.25

4 FM Joshua Colas 2405 D18 W25 W6 W7 D3 4 100 12.5 11.5

5 FM Ziyi [Joey] Qin

2460 W19 L2 W21 W13 D7 3.5 100 11.5 8

6 Christopher Knox 2319 D25 W18 L4 W19 W13 3.5 100 10.5 7.5

7 Razvan Preotu 2497 W16 W12 D13 L4 D5 3 100 13 8.5

8 Michael Song 2368 L21 W23 W17 L2 W19 3 100 10 6

9 FM Jason Cao 2297 L20 W26 W27 W14 L1 3 100 10 5

10 FM Akshat Chandra

2395 L13 W22 L19 W20 W18 3 100 8.5 6

11 Konstantin Semianiuk

2315 L24 L17 W26 W21 W22 3 100 8 5.5

12 Nikita Kraiouchkine

2311 W28 L7 W24 D15 D14 3 99 10

Razvan ended up coming tied 3rd/5th. Here were the top finishers:

U-18 Final Standings

# Name Rtng. Rd. 1

Rd. 2

Rd. 3

Rd. 4

Rd. 5

Rd. 6

Rd. 7

Rd. 8

Rd. 9

Tot. TBrk[H] TBrk[M] TBrk[R]

1 FM 2395 L20 W16 L7 W23 W15 W10 W9 W8 W2 7 100 36.5 34.5

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Akshat Chandra

2 Justus Williams

2366 W22 W25 W3 D8 W5 W9 W13 D4 L1 7 99 40 34

3 FM Awonder Liang

2268 W27 W13 L2 W11 W26 L8 W6 D5 D4 6 100 39.5 26.5

4 Razvan Preotu

2497 W12 W10 D20 L9 D13 W17 W8 D2 D3 6 100 38 30

5 FM Jason Cao

2297 L23 W21 W27 W6 L2 D11 W17 D3 W8 6

Canadians Razvan and FM Jason Cao finished 3rd/5th. (29 participants)

U-18 Girls Final Standings

# Name Rtng. Rd. 1

Rd. 2

Rd. 3

Rd. 4

Rd. 5

Rd. 6

Rd. 7

Rd. 8

Rd. 9

Tot. TBrk[H] TBrk[M] TBrk[R]

1 WFM Megan Lee

2127 D2 W8 W9 W3 W6 W5 D7U---

W4 7 100 31.5 24

2 WCM Alexandra Botez

2202 D1 W7 U---

W4 W5 W8 W9 D3 W6 7 100 31.5 22.75

3 Akshita Gorti 1988 W9 W5 W6 L1 D7U---

D4 D2 W7 5.5 100 32.5 17

4 WCM Rachel Gologorsky

2028 L7 U---

W5 L2 W8 W9 D3 D6 L1 4 100 21 10.75

5 Regina-Veronicka Kalaydina

1958 U---

L3 L4 W6 L2 L1 L8 W7 W9 3 100 22 7

6 Margaret Hua 1941 D8 W9 L3 L5 L1 W7U---

D4 L2 3 99 22 7.25

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7 Rachel Ulrich 2002 W4 L2 L8 W9 D3 L6 D1 L5 L3 3 98 28.5 11.25

8 Jessica Regam

2125 D6 L1 W7U---

L4 L2 W5 L9 U---

2.5 100 16 7.5

9 Sobiga Vyravanathan

1632 L3 L6 L1 L7 U---

L4 L2 W8 L5 1 100 24 2.5

Canadian WCM Alexandra Botez came second on tie-break. (all 9 participants shown – there was a 10th who dropped out – Can. WFM Jackie Peng withdrew due to medical reason. Because she withdrew before playing one-half her games, games already played with Jackie are rated, but not counted towards standings.)

U-16 Final Standings

# Name Rtng. Rd. 1

Rd. 2

Rd. 3

Rd. 4

Rd. 5

Rd. 6

Rd. 7

Rd. 8

Rd. 9

Tot. TBrk[H] TBrk[M] TBrk[R]

1 Alexander Velikanov

2332 W11 D12 D5 W6 W7 W2 W4 D3 W13 7.5 100 40.5 41

2 Grant Xu 2284 W14 W6 D4 D3 W9 L1 W5 W8 W11 7 100 41.5 36

3 Edward Song

2311 W15 W8 W7 D2 D4 D5 W9 D1 D6 6.5 100 42 35

4 James Fu 2233 W19 W20 D2 W5 D3 W7 L1 D6 W10 6.5 100 41.5 26.75 Canadian James Fu tied 3rd/4th. (20 participants)

U-16 Girls Final Standings

# Name Rtng. Rd. 1

Rd. 2

Rd. 3

Rd. 4

Rd. 5

Rd. 6

Rd. 7

Rd. 8

Rd. 9

Tot. TBrk[H] TBrk[M] TBrk[R]

1 Gisela Roque Sola

1794 L2 W9 W3 W5 D4 W6 D8 W7 W11 7 100 39 32.5

2 Apurva Virkud

2078 W1 W4 D5 W6 D3 D8 L7 W12 W9 6.5 100 39.5 29.25

3 Ellen 2072 W7 L6 L1 W11 D2 W12 W5 W9 W10 6.5 100 34 21.25

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Xiang (12 participants)

U-14 Final Standings

# Name Rtng. Rd. 1

Rd. 2

Rd. 3

Rd. 4

Rd. 5

Rd. 6

Rd. 7

Rd. 8

Rd. 9

Tot. TBrk[H] TBrk[M] TBrk[R]

1 Alex Bian 2059 W8 W15 W5 W4 L9 D2 D3 D6 W11 6.5 100 42 38

2 Joseph Bellissimo

1999 W20 W19 D4 D9 W15 D1 D11 W13 D5 6.5 100 39 33.75

3 Kadhir Pillai

2134 W23 D14 W25 D13 D10 D9 D1 W21 W12 6.5 100 37.5 32.75

4 John Doknjas

2086 W18 W7 D2 L1 W20 D10 W9 D11 D6 6 100 41.5 32.25

5 Zachary Chen Tanenbaum

2143 X--- W21 L1 D12 D7 W19 D14 W9 D2 6 100 39.5 26

6 Jose Luis Roque Sola

1747 D26 D29 W40 D7 D17 W16 W19 D1 D4 6 100 37.5 26.5

7 Eric [Zechen] Wang

1870 W39 L4 W8 D6 D5 D18 W17 D10 W16 6 99 39 29

8 Lukas Cheung

1604 L1 W31 L7 W36 L16 W28 W33 W18 W13 6 99 34.5 23.5

Canadian finishers were: Joe Bellissimo – second on tie-break; John Doknjas and Eric [Zechen] Wang – tied 4th/8th. (40 participants)

U-14 Girls Final Standings

# Name Rtng. Rd. 1

Rd. 2

Rd. 3

Rd. 4

Rd. 5

Rd. 6

Rd. 7

Rd. 8

Rd. 9

Tot. TBrk[H] TBrk[M] TBrk[R]

1 Kimberly Ding

2012 W4 W14 W6 W9 L2 W3 D8 W5 W12 7.5 100 37.5 35.5

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2 Qiyu Zhou 2119 L10 W18 W5 W14 W1 D9 D3 W8 W4 7 100 37 33

3 Evan Xiang 1944 W7 D5 D9 W6 W4 L1 D2 D12 D8 5.5 100 40 27.75

4 Janet Peng 1479 L1 W10 W11 W8 L3 D7 W9 D13 L2 5 100 39 23

5 Olga Cherepakhin

1669 W13 D3 L2 W12 L9 W15 W6 L1 D10 5 100 38.5 21

6 Kristen Li 1626 W15 W8 L1 L3 W14 U--- L5 W17 W18 5 99 33 16.5

7 Christine Gao

1472 L3 W13 L8 D15 W16 D4 D12 D9 W17 5 99 31 18.25

8 Soumya Kulkarni

1769 W16 L6 W7 L4 W12 W13 D1 L2 D3 5 98 39.5 22.5

Canadian finishers: Qiyu Zhou came second, ½ pt. out of first. Janet Peng and Kristen Li tied for 4th/8th. (18 participants)

U-12 Final Standings

# Name Rtng. Rd. 1

Rd. 2

Rd. 3

Rd. 4

Rd. 5

Rd. 6

Rd. 7

Rd. 8

Rd. 9

Tot. TBrk[H] TBrk[M] TBrk[R]

1 Yuanchen Zhang

2203 W22 W17 W10 W5 W3 W16 D4 W8 W6 8.5 100 41.5 48.25

2 FM Carlos Sandoval Mercado

1782 W41 W15 L5 W25 W6 L9 W7 W16 W3 7 100 41 37

3 Jeffrey Xu 1976 W33 W18 W25 D7 L1 W17 W5 W4 L2 6.5 100 44 34

4 Joey Kelly 1936 W36 W11 D16 D12 W5 W7 D1 L3 W8 6.5 99 44 37

5 CM Christopher Shen

2018 W31 W26 W2 L1 L4 W24 L3 W22 W23 6 100 43.5 30.5

6 Daniel Zotkin

1974 L15 W43 W11 W26 L2 W19 W28 W9 L1 6 100 42 29

7 Ben Li 2037 W32 W27 W9 D3 D16 L4 L2 W24 W13 6 100 41.5 30.75

8 Joshua 1856 W29 L25 W28 W38 W12 W18 W9 L1 L4 6 100 40.5 29

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Doknjas

9 Chase Frutos

1942 W35 W28 L7 W19 W14 W2 L8 L6 W16 6 97 40.5

Canadian Yuanchen Zhang won the NAYCC Championship; Jeffrey Xu tied 3rd/4th. Daniel Zotkin and Joshua Doknjas tied 5th/9th. (52 participants)

U-12 Girls Final Standings

# Name Rtng. Rd. 1

Rd. 2

Rd. 3

Rd. 4

Rd. 5

Rd. 6

Rd. 7

Rd. 8

Rd. 9

Tot. TBrk[H] TBrk[M] TBrk[R]

1 Jennifer Yu

1993 W18 W16 D9 D4 W11 D2 D12 W7 W3 7 100 40.5 37.75

2 Maili-Jade Ouellet

1669 W20 W29 W10 W8 D3 D1 L4 W12 W11 7 100 39.5 34.75

3 Samritha Palakollu

1761 W19 W28 D5 D11 D2 W6 W16 W4 L1 6.5 100 41.5

Canadian (from Quebec), Maili-Jade Ouellet came second on tie-break. (31 participants) U-10 Open

Final Standings

# Name Rtng. Rd. 1

Rd. 2

Rd. 3

Rd. 4

Rd. 5

Rd. 6

Rd. 7

Rd. 8

Rd. 9

Tot. TBrk[H] TBrk[M] TBrk[R]

1 Sergey Noritsyn

2006 W14 W24 W5 W20 W19 W3 W11 W4 W7 9 100 41.5 51.5

2 Rohan Talukdar

1651 W41 W23 L19 W31 W36 D4 D3 W6 W8 7 100 39.5 36

3 Eugene Hua

1775 W54 D15 W12 W22 D11 D2 W5 L1 W13 6.5 100 44.5 34.5

4 Wenyang Ming

1815 W51 D29 W21 W13 W6 L1 D2 D5 W12 6.5 100 44.5 34.5

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5 Thomas Guo

1629 W47 W30 L1 W18 W9 W28 L4 D3 W11 6.5 99 44 33.25

Canadian Sergey Noritsyn became the NAYCC Champion. Rohan Talukdar came second. Eugene Hua, Wenyang Ming and Thomas Guo tied 3rd/5th. (62 participants)

U-10 Girls Final Standings

# Name Rtng. Rd. 1

Rd. 2

Rd. 3

Rd. 4

Rd. 5

Rd. 6

Rd. 7

Rd. 8

Rd. 9

Tot. TBrk[H] TBrk[M] TBrk[R]

1 Martha Samadashvili

1651 W4 W9 D2 W8 D5 W3 W13 W6 D12 7.5 100 39.5 39.75

2 Sanjana Vittal

1511 W7 W6 D1 W12 W8 W4 W5 L3 W9 7.5 100 39.5 39.25

3 Jeannie Zhang

1468 W11 L4 W15 D9 W6 L1 W12 W2 D5 6 100 40.5 29.25

Canadian Jeannie Zhang came third. (17 participants)

U-8 Final Standings

# Name Rtng. Rd. 1

Rd. 2

Rd. 3

Rd. 4

Rd. 5

Rd. 6

Rd. 7

Rd. 8

Rd. 9

Tot. TBrk[H] TBrk[M] TBrk[R]

1 Maximillian Lu

1655 W28 W8 D12 W27 D3 W6 W14 W7 D2 7.5 100 42 40.5

2 Chinguun Bayaraa

1729 W16 W17 W9 L6 D19 W8 W3 W15 D1 7 100 42 39.75

3 Kevin Low 1451 W20 D27 W11 W12 D1 W7 L2 D4 W15 6.5 100 43 36

4 Kevin Chor 1781 W23 L10 W16 L19 W21 W18 W6 D3 W11 6.5 100 39 34.75

5 Jonathan Zhao

1196 W34 W15 L6 L9 W39 W12 W26 W14 D7 6.5 100 37.5 29.5

Canadians Kevin Low and Jonathan Zhao came 3rd/5th. (47 participants)

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U-8 Girls Final Standings

# Name Rtng. Rd. 1

Rd. 2

Rd. 3

Rd. 4

Rd. 5

Rd. 6

Rd. 7

Rd. 8

Rd. 9

Tot. TBrk[H] TBrk[M] TBrk[R]

1 Harmony Zhu

1631 W9 W3 W4 W5 W7 L2 W6 W10 W8 8 100 40 43

2 Nastassja Matus

1352 W12 L5 L6 W8 W10 W1 W3 W4 L7 6 99 42 33

3 Mysha Gilani

1004 W11 L1 W8 W9 W4 W5 L2 L6 W10 6 99 41.5 30

4 Skylar Hsu

1210 W10 W8 L1 W6 L3 W9 W5 L2 W12 6 98 41.5 29.5

5 Claire Radin

864 W16 W2 W7 L1 W6 L3 L4 W15 W14 6 98 39.5 21

Canadian Harmony Zhu won the NAYCC Championship. Mysha Gilani and Claire Radin tied 2nd/5th. (16 participants) Mainstream Media Coverage: National Post: http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/08/16/many-parents-see-competitive-activities-as-not-just-important-but-essential-for-their-chlidrens-success/ US Masters Played on the Labour Day Weekend in North Carolina, Canadian IM Raja Panjwani (2413)

participated.

The winner was Rauf Mamedov with 7/9 pts.

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After 5 rounds, Raja was in a 4-way tie for first:

Standings (after round 5)

No.

Name Local

Pts

Rnd1

Rnd2

Rnd3

Rnd4

Rnd5

Rnd6

Rnd7

Rnd8

Rnd9

1 Lenderman, Aleksandr

2527 4.0 W54 W28 W26 D7 D2 A3 -U- -U- -U-

2 Zapata, Alonso

2496 4.0 W45 D30 W42 W21 D1 A4 -U- -U- -U-

3 Sarkar, Justin

2437 4.0 W71 L7 W47 W33 W22 A1 -U- -U- -U-

4 Panjwani, Raja

2413 4.0 W61 D22 W49 W23 D5 A2 -U- -U- -U-

After 8/9 rounds, Raja had 5/8 pts., 1 ½ pts. behind the then sole leader:

1 Macieja, Bartlomiej 2595 6.5 After the final 9th round, Raja ended up in a 6-way tie for 6th, with 6/9 pts., one point out of first. Here are the top finishers:

Final Standings - US Masters

No.

Name Local

Pts

Rnd1

Rnd2

Rnd3

Rnd4

Rnd5

Rnd6

Rnd7

Rnd8

Rnd9

1 Mamedov, Rauf

2641 7.0 D19 D31 W32 D29 D46 W25 W38 W8 W3

2 Meier, Georg

2610 6.5 D31 D20 W19 W63 D11 W37 D8 D5 W21

3 Macieja, Bartlomiej

2595 6.5 D49 D69 W58 W27 D38 W24 W14 W7 L1

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4 Ramirez, Alejandro

2588 6.5 W72 W5 D37 D8 D24 D23 W11 W14 D6

5 Sarkar, Justin

2437 6.5 W75 L4 W52 W50 W45 D8 D6 D2 W16

Articles FIDE September 1, 2013 Regular Rating List – Open/Women’s Open

Magnus Carlsen (Norway), # 1 for most of 2010 & 2011, all of 2012 , and all of 2013 so far (now the player with the most # 1’s), the youngest player ever to hold this position, and the highest rated human ever, sits with a rating of 2862 (had a peak rating of 2872 – is it really possible he may one day be the first human to break the 2900 barrier?). The second player over 2800 is Armenian Levon Aronian, at 2813.

[ Note: Garry Kasparov ( Russia ), 13th World Champion, retired March, 2005, was the first player to break 2800 ( peak rating - July 1999 – 2851 – 2nd highest rated player ever ); Kramnik was the second player; Veselin Topalov, 2005 FIDE World Champion, was the third; Viswanathan Anand, 15th and current World Champion was the fourth; Magnus Carlsen was the fifth; and Levon Aronian is the sixth.] . Besides these 2 in the 2800’s, there are 46 players in the 2700’s ( 2 more than last list ).

The top players are ( birth date of younger players [Under 22 yrs. as of Jan. 1 = born in or after 1991] in brackets, after country ) :

# 1 : Magnus Carlsen (Norway), rated 2862;

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# 2 : Levon Aronian ( Armenia ) – rated 2813;

# 3 : Vladimir Kramnik ( Russia ), 14th World Champion, rated 2794. (Up from # 5 – gained 10 rating points!).

# 4: Alexander Grischuk (Russia), rated 2785.

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# 5: Fabiano Caruana (Italy – 1992), rated 2779. (down from # 3; down 17 points!!)

# 6/7: Viswanathan Anand ( India ), 15th and current World Champion, rated 2775.

# 6/7: Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (Azerbaijan), rated 2775 (up 14 points);

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# 8/9: Sergey Karjakin (Russia), rated 2772;

# 8/9: Hikaru Nakamura ( USA ), rated 2772..

# 10: Veselin Topalov ( Bulgaria ), rated 2769;

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# 54 : Judit Polgar ( Hungary ), the strongest women’s player in the world, with 2696 ( over 2700 from October – December, 2012 lists – last time before that was on the July/12 list ) – ( in 2005, she was in the top 10 with a rating of 2735. She has taken periods off to have children and had dropped below 2700 for a while, before going back over 2700 again for a while). .

Some other past World Champions/FIDE World Champions still in the top 100, and their current ratings are : # 14: 2002 FIDE World Champion, Ruslan Ponomariov ( Ukraine ) at 2756; # 50 : 2004 FIDE World Champion, Rustam Kasimdzhanov ( Uzbekistan ) at 2699.

Here are the younger ( Under 22 as of Jan. 1 ) players we’re watching - not in the

top ten, but in the top 30, ( birth date in brackets after country )[ note: “ juniors “ = U 20 yrs. as of Jan. 1 ]:

# 19 : Anish Giri ( Netherlands – 1994 ) – 2737. # 25 : Ding Liren (China – 1992 – Chinese surname first) – 2722. Women [ Note: Four women have broken the 2600 barrier: first: GM Judit Polgar ( Hungary ) – also only woman to break 2700; second: Humpy Koneru ( India ); third: Hou Yifan ( Chinese surname first ) – former Women’s World Champion and 2013 Women’s Championship Challenger, against Women’s Champion Anna Ushenina ( Ukraine ) ); fourth: Anna Muzychuk ( Slovenia ).]

The top 11 women in the world are : # 1 : GM Judit Polgar ( Hungary ), rated 2696 ( first woman player in history to break 2700; peaked at 2735 in the July 1, 2005 rating list; was back in the 2700 club briefly on the July/12 list, after a number of years in the 2600’s; dropped down again, and was briefly back again from Oct. – Dec./12 );

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# 2 : GM Hou Yifan ( China – 1994 ), rated 2609 (up 9 pts.);

# 3: GM Humpy Koneru ( India ) – 2607;

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# 4 : GM Anna Muzychuk ( Slovenia ) -2585 (down 9 pts. - has been over 2600).

# 5: GM Zhao Xue ( China ) – 2562 (up 9 points);

# 6: GM Nana Dzagnidze ( Georgia ) – 2556 (down 23 pts.!);

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# 7: WGM Ju Wenjun (China), rated 2535.

# 8: GM Kateryna Lagno ( Ukraine ) – 2532 (down 10 pts.);

# 9: GM Nadezhda Kosintseva (Russia), rated 2531;

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# 10/11: Pia Cramling (Sweden) – rated 2515

# 10/11: Tatiana Kosintseva, rated 2515.

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NATIONAL Organizations Chess Federation of Canada ( CFC )

Website: http://www.chess.ca/ Chess Discussion Forum: http://www.chesscanada.info/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=2 (by TCN Liaison for CFC, Bob Armstrong, CFC Public Relations Coordinator) Canada’s Newest GM! - Kovalyov

Hal Bond CFC Executive (FIDE Rep) – 13/8/22 post on the members’ CFC Chess Chat Forum:

Kovalyov transferred to Canada It's official at last! GM Anton Kovalyov now plays under the Canadian flag. Welcome Anton!! Anton Kovalyov is a Ukraine citizen, who is a Canadian Permanent Resident, and who has lived in Quebec for a few years now. He had been playing for the Argentine Chess Federation for many years pervious, and finally the FIDE waiting period for the federation transfer expired. He is now Canada’s # 1 FIDE-rated player, at 2606. Welcome, too, from TCN!! Tournament Reports (Note: if you play in a tournament, and have a good game, send it on for us to consider publishing with our tournament report) Articles Malmsten on Chess ( by part-time columnist, Erik Malmsten )

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Chess at the CNE Part 4: Levy–Computer Match 1978

In 1977 the Blue Jays played their first games at the CNE and I remember seeing concerts at the grandstand like Heart and Supertramp. There were also Foreigner, the Scottish World Festival Tattoo, and a lumberjack show. In chess news Spassky now lived in France and was playing a Candidates match with Lajos Portisch.

In this era the Canadian Closed was limited to 16 players including regional reps. Most of the top players from Ontario cities couldn't play. The Ontario Open had grown into a big weekend tournament – 269 players in 1977 – often with IM’s from Quebec and not the best way to select an Ontario Champion so the Ontario Closed was created.

The first Ontario Closed was at the CNE in August, 1977. It was upstairs in the Coliseum, East Annex (now the Ricoh Arena), so didn't get passerby attention. More people probably saw the chess pieces on the Grandstand stage for the opening of the Bay City Rollers (OK mostly preteen girls). It was noisy, being close to the midway rides but well ventilated. A $1,100 prize fund from the OCA and TCC. The average rating of 2213 made it one of the rare FIDE-rated events in Canada. Organized by U of T student David Sherman and directed by Ken Field of the Toronto CC, open 7-days a week on Vaughan Road and St. Clair. Also, the public could play casual games with Toronto CC members.

1977 Ontario Closed

1. IM Lawrence Day Toronto 2369 7.5-1.5 2. Frank Pushkedra Hamilton 2121 6 Bryan Nickoloff Toronto 2324 6 4. Dr. Robert Wachtel Toronto 2249 5.5 5. Denis Allan Hamilton 2270 4.5 6. Jonathan Berry Ottawa 2224 4 7. Paul Janicki Toronto 2140 3.5 8. Joe Horton Sudbury 2102 3.5 9. Jan Green-Krotki Ottawa 2276 3 10. Dave MacLeod Toronto 2062 1.5

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Lawrence Day was one of only a couple of Canadian chess professionals, relying on tournament prizes and, since Dec. 1976, his syndicated Star chess column. Earlier in the year he won the Winter Open, Toronto Closed, 72-player Toronto Speed Championship, and the 301-player Toronto Open ahead of Spraggett and Nickoloff (although Spraggett won the Ontario Open ahead of Day and Nickoloff). He spent about eight hours a day preparing for this tournament and drew three games with Nickoloff, Allen, and Wachtel, winning $400.

A surprise second place for Frank Pushkedra, 26, of Hamilton, OCA President, who declined a last-round draw with Day and lost, winning $200. He had early on defeated Wachtel and Nickoloff. Nickoloff arrived too late for an adjournment with Green-Krotki and forfeited. Green-Krotki's score was a disappointment, having won the Canadian Open in Fredericton, defeating Spraggett and Berry. Wachtel arrived at the tournament from the US Open in Ohio where he won money, 9-3. Janicki was a tournament organizer and tried publishing a magazine, Canadian Chess Scene, in 1972. I note that MacLeod was rated 2336, Day 2101 in Hart House Double Chess [Bughouse], myself 2002.

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Not in the field was Peter Nurmi who at the World Open in Philadelphia tied for third with Kevin Spraggett after defeating GM Arthur Bisguier in the last round. Nurmi, Ray Stone, and Martin Buchholz were in Mexico for the World Student Olympiad.

Despite the historic significance, there were only a couple of games published. Berry was the editor of the CFC Bulletin and published his games with Janicki and Day. I was the editor of rank and file, the Toronto Chess Club Newsletter, and published Day's win over Green-Krotki. Day in his Toronto Star column published his win over Pushkedra. Day has added most of his games to www.chessgames.com.

Day, Lawrence –Berry, Jonathan 30. Rxg5 ... XIIIIIIIIY 9-+-tr-+-vl0 9+-mk-+p+-0 9-+-+p+-+0 9+-+-+-tR-0 9P+L+p+-+0 9+P+-+-+-0 9-+-+KzPP+0 9+-+-+-+-0 xiiiiiiiiy A difficult position to win.

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Day, Lawrence –Pushkedra, Frank

25. Bb5 ... XIIIIIIIIY 9-tr-+rvlk+0 9+-+l+-+-0 9-zp-zp-wq-zp0 9+LsnPzp-zp-0 9PtR-+Pzp-+0 9+-sN-+QzPP0 9-+-sN-zP-+0 9+-+-tR-mK-0 xiiiiiiiiy White's pieces are better lined up and soon win.

Horton, Joe– Day, Lawrence

26. Nxg4 hxg4 XIIIIIIIIY 9-tRltr-+k+0 9+-+-wq-+-0 9r+pzpn+-vl0 9zp-+-+p+-0 9P+PzPp+pzp0 9vL-+-zP-zP-0 9-+Q+NzPL+0 9+-+-+RmK-0 xiiiiiiiiy Joe has chances here.

At the same time there was an Ontario Junior Closed swiss held at the University of Waterloo, part of the Ontario Summer Games, won by Phil Morenz (2009), 4-1. For the first half of the year Morenz won more Toronto CC Speed tournaments than anyone else and he won the Toronto Closed Reserves. The next weekend saw the Labour Day

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Open, 217 players at Harbourfront, won by Day (ahead of Spraggett and Nickoloff). The Intermediate Section was won by Vlado Drkulec, who last month became CFC President.

In 1977 the World Computer Chess Championship was held in Hotel Toronto, Richmond and University. I wrote about it in the rank and file. The winner, Northwestern University's CHESS 4.6, played some speed games with humans. It split 1-1 with Day (the win published in Levy's Computer Chess Compendium, 1988), overall was 6-8, a performance rating of 2020, but the human won if the game went to 60 moves. These programs ran on million-dollar mainframe computers. I played a consumer program and mated it in 10 moves.

The next year Scottish IM David Levy, 33, was invited back to Toronto to settle his 10-year bet that a computer couldn't beat him in 10 years (by August 1978). In 1968 MACHACK was demonstrated at a Machine Intelligence Workshop in Edinburgh. Scottish Champion Levy defeated a chess patzer, a leading programmer, who said that a computer would be able to defeat Levy within 10 years. The bet was on and added to with other computer professors. Levy later wrote in New Scientist, “Once we get to the stage where these damned things beat chess masters there's no stopping them.”

Levy played a six-game match, TC 40 in 2, with the full-width, brute-force. tree-searching program, now CHESS 4.7, in the upper West Annex of the CNE. They tried but couldn't get to play in the new Sports Hall of Fame and unfortunately the second floor site was away from the crowds. Since Levy was in a sound-proof, air-conditioned booth he could have been out on the Midway. The board had switches under each square which could transmit the moves to the computer, and lights on the squares to indicate the computer's moves. The computer, Cyber 176, was the world's most powerful commercial computer and Control Data Corp. donated the computer time. GM-elect Peter Biyiasas, 27, was brought in for live commentary and was quoted in the Toronto Sun, “The real key is human intuitiveness, no machine can be programmed to do that.”

During the same time period the newspapers gave great coverage of the acrimonious Karpov–Korchnoi match, often with the moves. Korchnoi called Karpov a robot. Levy promised not to bring blueberry yoghurt.

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The computer found a combo to go up two pawns in the first game, but Levy held on to draw. In the second game the computer played a fishy opening and lost. In game 3 Levy exchanged Queens and created a passer which won. In the fourth game the computer defeated Levy's Latvian Gambit, the first time a computer ever defeated an IM. In the last game the computer (in Minnesota) froze in a losing position and Levy won 3.5-1.5 and the bet, $2,600. Levy analyzed the games in his column in Chess Life & Review. In 1979 Levy played CHESS 4.8 on German TV, a long draw. Levy is still involved in computer chess, recently disqualifying the Rybka program from computer tournaments.

Levy, David – CHESS 4.7 Game 1

38... g5 XIIIIIIIIY 9R+-+-snk+0 9zpp+-+-+-0 9-+-+-+-zp0 9+-+-+-zp-0 9-vL-zPp+-+0 9zP-+-+r+-0 9-+-+-+-+0 9+-+-+-mK-0 xiiiiiiiiy The computer is 3 pawns up, yet Levy comes back.

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CHESS 4.7 –Levy, David Game 4

23. f3 Rah8 XIIIIIIIIY 9-+-+-+-tr0 9zp-+l+kzp-0 9-zppvl-+-+0 9+-+p+P+-0 9-+-zP-+Ptr0 9+-sN-vLP+-0 9PzP-+-+-+0 9tR-+-tR-mK-0 xiiiiiiiiy Black is winning, but it's complicated and the computer comes back.

It was the Ex's 100th anniversary and their slogan was “The CNE makes me feel like a kid again.” The OCA was listed as a sponsor for the Uncommon Chess match, obtaining $42,500 from that new thing the Wintario lottery. Several top juniors were hired to run things. Visitors could play Yonge Street hustler Joe Smolij, the Micro-chess program on the Pet Microcomputer, in a simul with Canadian masters like Kevin Spraggett, or solve mate in one problems for a free drink from sponsor Burger King!

Joel Benjamin, 14 years old, started playing chess after watching the Fischer – Spassky match and went on to break Fischer's record of being the youngest American master. He was brought in to play simults. The Star reported that he earned $1,000 and was undefeated the first day, “I like destroying my opponents.” He was excited when he returned to Toronto for the 2011 Canadian Open and tied for first, winning $4,200. He was also the official GM consultant to IBM for Deep Blue.

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The Canadian Closed in August (won by Jean Hébert, 21 years old) and the Labour Day in Sept. (240 players, won by Kevin Spraggett and Brian Hartman) were played in Hart House. Nava Starr won the Canadian Women's Closed in Victoria.

In 1997 the new National Trade Center built over the south side of the Coliseum had a big chess show. Over 300 performed the town of Marostica's

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famous human chess match, only the fifth time it has been presented outside of Italy. The colorful Renaissance pageant is based on a legend from 1454 about two knights, forbidden to fight for the hand of the beautiful Lionara, who play a game of chess instead, using human chess pieces and real horses on a gigantic chess board.

Canadian Olympiad Team Selection Ratings - National

Selection Ratings - National

Olympiad starts August 1, 2014 Highest ratings starting February 2, 2013 Ratings for September 1, 2013 Players Title FIDE CAN AVE Games Elig Place WNE 1. Kovalyov A GM 2612 2650 2631 9 No 1 NEG 2. Sambuev B GM 2530 2696 2613 =20 Yes 2 3. Bluvshtein M GM 2590 2632 2611 0 No 3 NEG 4. Hansen E GM 2584 2634 2609 =20 Yes 4 5. Spraggett K GM 2577 2571 2574 10 Yes 5 6. Hambleton A IM 2509 2616 2563 =20 Yes 6 7. Lesiege A GM 2528 2577 2553 0 No 7 NEG 8. Charbonneau P GM 2505 2585 2545 0 No 8 NEG 9. Noritsyn N IM 2467 2616 2542 =20 Yes 9 10. Tyomkin D GM 2489 2570 2530 9 No 10 NEG 11. Gerzhoy L IM 2478 2571 2525 =20 Yes 11 12. Krnan T IM 2439 2568 2504 14 Yes 12 13. Samsonkin A IM 2415 2564 2490 19 Yes 13 14. Zugic I IM 2462 2516 2489 0 No 14 NEG 15. Cheng B IM 2442 2531 2487 =20 Yes 15 16. Porper E IM 2454 2508 2481 =20 Yes 16 17. Panjwani R IM 2413 2549 2481 =20 Yes 17 18. Roussel-R. T GM 2476 2478 2477 9 No 18 NEG 19. Wang R IM 2430 2496 2463 =20 Yes 19 20. Teplitsky Y IM 2448 2473 2461 0 No 20 NEG 21. Quan Z IM 2431 2462 2447 0 No 21 NEG 22. Thavandiran S FM 2371 2514 2443 =20 Yes 22 23. Hergott D IM 2385 2474 2430 0 No 23 NEG 24. Hebert J IM 2387 2451 2419 12 Yes 24 25. Preotu R 2322 2506 2414 =20 Yes 25 26. Doroshenko M FM 2336 2482 2409 9 No 26 NEG 27. Tayar J IM 2344 2462 2403 0 No 27 NEG 28. Qin J 2286 2466 2376 17 Yes 28 29. Sapozhnikov R FM 2298 2422 2360 =20 Yes 29

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Canadian Olympiad Team Selection Ratings – Women’s

Olympiad starts August 1, 2014 Highest ratings starting February 2, 2013 Ratings for September 1, 2013 Players Title FIDE CAN AVE Games Elig Place WNE 1. Yuan Y WM 2220 2336 2278 17 Yes 1 2. Khoudgarian N WM 2136 2284 2210 0 No 2 NEG 3. Botez A WCM 2086 2247 2167 =20 Yes 3 4. Starr N WM 2175 2138 2157 0 No 4 NEG 5. Peng J WF 2035 2227 2131 =20 Yes 5 6. Khaziyeva D WM 2115 2110 2113 0 No 6 NEG 7. Charest J WM 2088 2111 2100 0 No 7 NEG 8. Kazakevich A 2033 2113 2073 5 No 8 NEG 9. Kagramanov Di WM 2067 2076 2072 0 No 9 NEG 10. Benggawan A WFM 2062 2064 2063 0 No 10 NEG 11. Zhoy Q 1935 2177 2056 =20 Yes 11 12. Barron I WF 2043 2063 2053 0 No 12 NEG 13. Belc D WF 2044 2054 2049 0 No 13 NEG 14. Smith H WF 2037 2051 2044 0 No 14 NEG 15. Agbabishvili L 1958 2111 2035 =20 Yes 15 16. Orlova Y WCM 1942 2119 2031 19 Yes 16 17. Lacau-Rodean I 1989 2014 2002 0 No 17 NEG 18. Charbonneau A 2006 1973 1990 0 No 18 NEG 19. Du J 1885 2084 1985 0 No 19 NEG 20. Roy M 1985 1971 1978 0 No 20 NEG 21. Kalaydina R 1958 1974 1966 =20 Yes 21 22. Yun C 1897 2004 1951 0 No 22 NEG 23. Xiao A 1874 2007 1941 18 Yes 23 24. Kagramanov Da 1868 1935 1902 0 No 24 NEG

FIDE September 1, 2013 Regular Rating List – Canadian Rankings - Open/Women’s

The 10 highest FIDE rated Canadians ( active in the last 24 months, internationally or in Canada ) are :

# 1: GM Anton Kovalyov at 2612 (1992 - just transferred federations from Argentina to Canada; Ukraine citizen; Canadian permanent resident).

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# 2 : GM Eric Hansen at 2584;

# 3 : GM Kevin Spraggett, 4 times Canadian Champion ( last in 1996 ), at 2568 ( has been over 2600 ) – now playing out of Portugal – excellent staying power, given he was 58 years old on Nov. 10, 2012;

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# 4 – IM Aman Hambleton, rated 2509 (up from # 6; up 9 pts.);

# 5 : GM Pascal Charbonneau, 2002 & 2004 Canadian Champion, at 2505 – now working in USA;

# 6. GM Bator Sambuev at 2500 – Current (2012) & 2011 Canadian Champion (down from # 4; down 24 pts.)

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# 7: IM Leonid Gerzhoy, rated 2478 (up from # 8; up 12 pts.; has been over 2500);

#8 : GM Thomas Roussel-Roozmon at 2466 (down 10 pts.).

# 9: IM Nikolay Noritsyn at 2459.

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# 10 – IM Edward Porper, rated 2445 (down 9 pts.).

There is one Canadian GM with another federation : 18 year old GM Wesley So ( Philippines citizen; plays for that federation; Canadian permanent resident ) at 2710 ( # 34 in the world) – the top-rated Canadian!.

There is one previously inactive GM, Dimitri Tyomkin ( his last rated game in Canada was August 2005 ; and after playing only 2 FIDE rated games in Europe between Jan. 1, 2006 and the end of 2010, in 2011/2/3 Dimitri has played a few games for teams in the Spanish Team Championships; he is rated 2473 ). Canada has 3 inactive GM’s : Mark Bluvshtein (had been over 2600), Alexander Le Siege; and Duncan Suttles.

The top 10 FIDE rated Canadian women players are ( active in the last 24 months, internationally or in Canada ) :

# 1 : WIM Yuanling Yuan ( 1994 ) at 2201 (up 9 pts.; currently at university in USA ) ;.

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# 2 : WIM Natalia Khoudgarian, current (2012) and 2006, 2007 & 2011 Canadian Women’s Champion, at 2136.

# 3 : WCM Alexandra Botez, at 2086 (up 10 pts.).

# 4 : WFM Daniela Belc, at 2044; ( no file picture ) # 5 : Anastasia Kazakevich, rated 2019;

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# 6: WFM Jackie Peng at 2006 ( down 6 pts.);.

# 7 : Iulia Lacau-Rodean, rated 1989;

# 8: Myriam Roy, rated 1985;

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# 9: Regina Veronika Kalaydina, rated 1948 (down 10 pts.).

# 10: Yelizaveta Orlova, rated 1942.

There are 6 inactive Canadian WIM’s : Nava Starr; Vesma Baltgailis; Johanne

Charest; Dinara Khaziyeva; Diane Mongeau, Smilja Vujosevic. The highest FIDE-rated Canadian woman is WFM Valeriya Gansvind, at 2246, who plays for another federation - Estonia. Another highly rated Canadian woman in Hong Kong, who plays under the Canadian flag, is WFM Yamei Wang, rated 2045 ( but since 2004 she’s only played infrequently in Hong Kong, against one opponent 1866, and a few others in the 1700’s ). Provincial Tournaments & Chess Clubs/Organizations

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responsibility for submitting their news to TCN on a regular basis for this section. For clubs, this will include club games from club tournaments when possible. We have 3 chess organizations and 9 clubs now with news sections of the newsletter opened for them. We hope to slowly increase this number as time passes. We also intend to extend coverage outside of Ontario, our starting province.

If you are in a club, or know someone in another club, and think the club might like to take out a news section, please have them contact us to discuss it – we are trying to present a format where chess organizations can promote themselves, and chess.

We also hope to develop ongoing relationships with GTA (and beyond) tournament organizers, so they will consider sending in reports and some of the more interesting games from their tournaments. Depending on time available, TCN will try to annotate some of the unannotated games submitted by organizers and clubs. Depending on time available, TCN will try to annotate some of the unannotated games submitted by organizers and clubs.

ONTARIO

GREATER TORONTO AREA Tournament Reports (Note: if you play in a tournament, and have a good game, send it on for us to consider publishing with our tournament report) Toronto Labour Day Open This 6 round swiss tournament in 5 sections was played Aug. 31 – Sept. 2 in the basement of the Macedonian church on Overlea Blvd., and attracted 133 players. It was organized by the Macedonian CC (lead organizer, Randy Moysoski) and the arbiter was Bryan Lamb.

Bryan on left; Randy on right

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This tournament has the reputation of providing one of the old style time controls: 40/120; S/D/60. It is long, and no increments. Seems that players like this, given the year after year, high turnout. Many thanks for your efforts guys!! The prize winners for the five sections were: Prize Winners Total Prizes $6,100.00 (70%) Open 1st-2nd Nikolay Noritsyn & Bindi Cheng, 4.5/6 $800.00 each 3rd Leonid Gerzhoy & Yuri Aronov, 4/6 $200.00 each U2300 4 way tie Tony Lin & Dale McTavish & Jura Ochkoos & Michael Humphreys 3.5/6 $75.00 each U2200 1st Mike Ivanov 5.5/6 $400.00 2nd Zehn Nasir 5/6 $300.00 3rd Bill Evans 4/6 $200.00 U2000 1st Pi Nasir 5/6 $400.00 2nd-3rd Kajan Thanabalachandran & Alexandre Michelashvili 4.5/6 $250.00 each U1800 1st Lanting Qian 5.5/6 $400.00 2nd Jaime Solis 5/6 $300.00 3rd Jacob Stein & Harmony Zhu 4.5/6 $100.00 each U1600 1st William Li 5.5/6 $400.00 2nd Justin Quinn D'Souza 5/6 $300.00 3rd-4th Daniel Muntaner & Jessica Danti & Sophie Wang 4.5/6 $100.00 each Unrated Ali Akbar Manifar 5/6 $100.00

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Chess Organization News From the GTCL Perspective

- The Greater Toronto Chess League ( GTCL ) has a 6 person executive and currently a 9 person board of directors (can be larger)

- Coordinating chess in the Greater Toronto Area (Toronto, Halton, Peel, York & Durham)

- Website: http://www.torontochess.org/drupal/

(by Ed., for TCN Liaison for GTCL, Egis Zeromskis) Marcus Wilker (GTCL Secretary) and Bob Armstrong (GTCL Director-at-large) presented the trophies at the Toronto Labour Day Open, before the 6th round, to the team members of the winners of the GTCL League Competition, and to the winning team members of each of the two sections of the GTCL Cup rapid tournament. Bob Armstrong received a book award for being chosen 2012-3 GTA Volunteer of the Year. Chess Institute of Canada

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Photo Credit: Jordynn Colosi At the Chess Institute of Canada, we bring chess to life! ( a new person needs to be appointed TCN Liaison for CIC ) CIC will not be submitting news reports ‘til this occurs. Chess Club News TORONTO Scarborough Chess Club News

Meets Thursdays – 7:00 – 10:45 PM Location: Birkdale Community Ctre, 1299 Ellesmere Road (between Midland Ave. and Brimley Road)

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SCC e – mail : info@ScarboroughChessClub.ca SCC Website : http://www.ScarboroughChessClub.ca

(by Ken Kurkowski, TCN Liaison for SCC)

SCC New Season Starts Sept. 5

Our 2013-14 season starts on Thursday Sept. 5 with the Annual General Meeting – all members are invited! The following Thursday (Sept. 12) the Howard Ridout Swiss tournament commences. When SCC had its own newsletter, every Sept. it would publish the biography we had of Howard Ridout, for whom our first tournament is named. We want to keep alive in memory his strong commitment to chess and to SCC. So here in TCN, in our Sept. news report, we will continue the tradition and re-present Erik Malmsten’s article (which has been reproduced once last year in TCN): Historic Player and Promoter Howard Ridout (by freelancer, Erik Malmsten – 2012 update of original 2007 article) Scarborough Chess Club names their annual fall tournament after one-time regular Howard Frank Ridout (Sept. 30, 1914-2003), who was active in chess for more than 60 years. Howard played in several Canadian Championships, but also was an organizer and enjoyed giving simuls. He would confound us with openings like, against the Pirc, a4, Ra3, h4 and Rah3 for a kingside attack. His father, a decorated WW1 veteran, died when he was young. His Grade 7 teacher introduced him to the game. On April 30, 1932 the Toronto Daily Star mentioned that 17-year-old H. F. Ridout of the Beaches Chess Club (St. John's Church) won a silver medal in the Intermediate City Tournament at the Toronto C. C. (Adelaide and Church). In the inter-club league Beaches, with Howard on last board, finished second to Todmorden (Chestnut Hall, Broadview Ave.). In the next season Howard moved up to second board. Howard gave an eight-board simul in the club's new location, Veteran's Hall at Kingston Road and Woodbine, which was also briefly the home of the Scarborough C. C. 10 years ago.

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On November 20, 1933 in a simul at the Jordan C. C. (College and Spadina) Howard punished Marshall for not castling. The game published in Malcolm Sims Evening Telegram’s Chess and Checkers column:

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Frank J. Marshall — Howard Ridout 12. Be2-d3? XABCDEFGHY 8r+l+-trk+( 7zppzp-+pzpp' 6-+n+-+-+& 5+-+-+q+-% 4-+PzPn+-+$ 3+-+L+N+-# 2P+-vL-zPPzP" 1tR-+QmK-+R! xabcdefghy 12. .. Nxd4 13. 0-0?? (13. Be3 Nxf3+ 14. Qxf3 (14. gxf3?? Qa5+ 15. Bd2 (15. Kf1 Bh3+ 16. Kg1 Qh5 17. Bxe4 (17. Bf4 Ng5 mates) 17... Rad8 -+) 15... Nxd2 16. Qxd2 Qe5+ -+) 14... Qa5+ -+) Nxf3+ 14. Kh1 (gxf3?? Qg6+ 15. Kh1 Bh3 16. Rg1 Nxf2#) 14... Nfxd2 15. f3 Nxf1 16. Bxe4 Ne3 17. Qd4 Qf6 18. Qxf6 gxf6 0-1 In 1934 Howard finished in the middle of the Toronto Championship, 7-6, as was reported in Chess Review. His losses to the two leaders, Belson and Martin, were published. In August at the CNE, before the Dominion Championship, he won the reserves section of the 10-seconds-a-move Rapid Transit ahead of 47 others. His game with the Canadian Champion:

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Howard Ridout — Robert Martin XABCDEFGHY 8-+-wq-tr-mk( 7trp+n+-zp-' 6p+-zP-+nzp& 5+-zpQ+p+-% 4L+P+p+-+$ 3+-+-+N+P# 2PzP-+-zPP+" 1tR-+-tR-mK-! xabcdefghy 22. Bxd7 (22. Nd2?? Nf4 Queen opps) 22... exf3? (22... Qxd7 23. Ne5+/=) 23. Bxf5 (23. Be6 fxg2 24. Qxc5+/-) 23... Nf4 24. Qe5 Ne2+ 25. Kf1? (25. Rxe2 fxe2 26. Re1+/-) 25... fxg2+? (25... Nd4 26. Bg4 (26. g4 Qh4 27. Qg3 Nxf5 28. gxf5 Qxc4+ =) 26... fxg2+ 27. Kxg2 Nc2 28. d7 (28. Qxc5 b6 29. Qe5 Raf7=) 28... Ra8 +/= (28... b6 29. Qd6 Nxa1 Would White see this wild attack: 30. Re7! (30. Rxa1=) 30... Nc2 31. Bf5 Rxd7 32. Qg6 Ne3+ 33. Rxe3 Rxf5 34. Re8+ Rf8 35. Rxd8 Rdxd8 36. Qxb6 Rd2 37. Qxc5+/-)) 26. Kxe2 Qg5 27. d7 Raa8 28. Kd3? (28. f4! White can afford to give up the bishop Qxf5 29. Qxf5 Rxf5 30. Kf2 Rxf4+ 31. Kxg2+-) 28... Rxf5 (28... Qxf5+? 29. Qxf5 Rxf5 30. Re7 Rxf2 31. Rg1=) 29. Qe8+ Rf8 30. Qxa8 Rxa8 31. Re8+ Kh7 32. Rxa8 Qf5+ 33. Ke2 Qxd7 34. f4 Qd4 0-1 In the 1937 Toronto Championship Howard was third, 6.5-2.5, losing in the last round to the winner Peter Avery but defeating second place finisher Charles Crompton, the Canadian Chess Federation President. In 1944 Howard played in the strong championship of the Ulster C. C. (on Church St., future home of the City C. C.), 2.5-4.5. In October the Toronto Chess League organized a Chess Festival at the Central YMCA attended by 300. Howard took on all comers at rapid transit, five seconds a move. In October 1945 Howard gave a chess simul at the West End YMCA, +17-3-2. He lost to nine-year-old Ross Siemms, future Canadian junior champion. Howard played in the Toronto C. C. Championship and was fifth in the Canadian Correspondence Championship. The September 6, 1946 Globe and Mail had a photo of Howard with his wife Hilda illegally giving a helping hand in the game with Captain J. Rauch in the Dominion Championship [Canadian Closed] at the Central Y (College and Yonge).

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In his Toronto Daily Star chess column Crompton published his win over Howard. Howard finished seventh, 8-5. Also in 1946, Howard was the organizer for the East Toronto versus West Toronto match, entries sent to him at Bain Ave., off of Broadview. In 1948 Howard was the Vice-President of the Gambit C. C., now on Huron, and in 1950 the Tournament Director. Toronto Champion Frank Anderson chose Howard to play two training matches in 1948 and '51 with Ho