Sunday Active at RA Chess Club

[Neil Frarey]

Re: Thanksgiving 2017

Ramesh / Ritchie game must of been a thing of pure beauty ...600+ point differential 'n' all.

[Garland Best]

RA Sunday Chess - Some Statistics

Here are some statistics about Sunday chess at the RA Chess Club. Since July 16 (11 Sunday Events Total):

1) 56 different players have played Sunday Chess.
2) Of those, 23 players are unrated.
3) 25 players have played in only one event.
4) Of those 25, 17 are unrated.
5) The top 4 repeating players are as follows:

Kamal Balazadeh - 11
John Upper - 10
Chika Nnagbo - 8
Abdelaziz Mahdjoubi - 8

6) The top 2 repeating unrated players are as follows:

Jeremie Kimble - 5

Cayden Grant - 4

[Neil Frarey]

Re: RA Sunday Chess - Some Statistics

Great data, thx!

How many Juniors? Unr/rated. How many Adults? Unr/rated.

This activity is would be just perfect trial ground for the CFC's new TTP (Trial Tournament Pass) . Give one to both Kimble & Grant!

Move forward.

[Gordon Ritchie]

Re: Thanksgiving 2017

Ramesh / Ritchie game must of been a thing of pure beauty ...600+ point differential 'n' all.

Ramesh played very well to crush an opponent who obviously took him and the game too lightly. Good experience for the youngster and an object lesson for the oldtimer.

[Garland Best]

Re: RA Sunday Chess - Some Statistics

I can't fully answer the adult/junior question, simply because I compiled the stats from the Chesstalk postings, which gives the ratings but not the ages. I could work out the adult/junior ratios for those with ratings from the CFC database, but for unrateds I have nothing to go on.

[Neil Frarey]

Re: RA Sunday Chess - Some Statistics

Good stuff, regardless!

So just a thought ...would it serve the RACC to have their own in-club rating system to accommodate the repeating unrated players? Or is that just more work?

[Garland Best]

Re: RA Sunday Chess - Some Statistics

I believe John uses Swiss-sys, which reads the CFC database to track ratings for pairing rules. To have our own in-club rating system would be very difficult to manage in Swiss-Sys or similar software. You would have to generate and maintain a database that the software could read. Lot of work, given the conditions.

[Gordon Ritchie]

Re: Sunday Active at RA Chess Club

Let's not forget that the Sunday Active, which is great fun and very popular, is a freebie, i.e. one does not have to be an RA member to play. It has replaced the old blitz tournaments that Roger Patterson used to run and serves as a path into the club for newcomers. It would not make a lot of sense to build a separate rating system for it.

[John Upper]

2017-10-15

14ish players showed up, intermittently, to the RACC Sunday Rapid. Tie-breaks were not necessary because Armando Valdizon won all his games.

The Sunday Rapid returns Oct 22, but not Oct 29, when there will be a tournament in Almonte.

#	Place	        Name	Rtng	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Tot
									
1	1	Armando Valdizon 2243	+10 (w)	+4 (b)	+5 (w)	+2 (b)	+3 (b)	5.0
									
2	2	John Upper	2141	+9 (w)	+3 (b)	BYE	-1 (w)	+7 (b)	4.0
									
3	3-6	Dusan Simic	2181	+8 (b)	-2 (w)	+10 (b)	+5 (b)	-1 (w)	3.0
										
4		Christian Collins 2047 +6 (b)    -1(w)	-8 (b)    +11 (w)	+9 (b)	3.0
										
5		Bill Doubleday	2007	+14 (w)	+13 (b)	-1(b)	 -3 (w)   +8 (w)	3.0
										
6		Vincent Qin	1434	-4 (w)	-9(b)	+14 (w)	+12 (b)	+11 (b)	3.0
										
7	7	David Fei	2051	bye	---	+9 (w)	+8 (b)	-2(w)	2.5
												
8	8-10	Gordon Ritchie	1810	-3(w)	+14 (b)	+4 (w)	-7(w)	-5(b)	2.0
												
9		Kamal Balazadeh	1752	-2(b)	+6 (w)	-7(b)	 +10 (w)   -4(w)	2.0
												
10		Abdelaziz Mahdjoubi 1901	-1(b)	+11 (w)	-3(w)  -9(b)   +12 (w)	2.0
											
11	11	Cayden Grant	unr.	Bye	-10 (b)	+13 (w)	-4(b) 	-6(w)	1.5
										
12	12-13	Chika Nnagbo	1400	Bye	---	---	-6(w)	-10 (b)	0.5
										
13		Peter Arseneau	1777	Bye	-5(w)	-11 (b)	---	---	0.5
												
14	14	Rabi Aoun	unr.	-5(b)	     -8(w)	-6(b)	---	---	0.0

[Gordon Ritchie]

Re: Sunday Active at RA Chess Club

An interesting afternoon. Six of the top seven players were over 2000 rating. Thanks again to John Upper for organizing the show.

[Francis Rodriguez]

Re: Sunday Active at RA Chess Club

Re: Sunday Active at RA Chess Club

[John Upper]

Re: Sunday Active at RA Chess Club

Bill Doubleday played an accelerated Swiss Gambit (losing in the first round) to win his last RACC Sunday Rapid before heading to Europe for the World Senior Championship. The TD made his case that, like nuclear war, the only way not to lose at chess is not to play.

Reminder: no Rapid Sunday Oct 28 as there is a tournament in Almonte. Sunday Rapid returns Nov 5

X table below, but formatting buttons aren't appearing for me, so this won't be pretty...

#	Place	Name	Rtng	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Tot
1	1-2	John Upper	2141	+5(b)	+10(w)	Bye	bye	---	3.5
2		Bill Doubleday	2007	-10(w)	+5(b)	+11(w)	+3(b)	=6(w)	3.5
3	3-5	Christian Collins 2047	+13(b)	+11(w)	+6(b)	-2(w)	-4(b)	3.0
4		Daniel Xu	1896	-7(b)	-6(w)	+10(b)	+8(w)	+3(w)	3.0
5		Gordon Ritchie	1810	-1(w)	-2(w)	+13(b)	+12(b)	+10(w)	3.0
6	6	Paul Beckwith	2113	-8(w)	+4(b)	-3(w)	+11(b)	=2(b)	2.5
7	7-11	Armando Valdizon 2243	+4(w)	+8(b)	---	---	---	2.0
8		Peter Arseneau	1777	+6(b)	-7(w)	+12(w)	-4(b)	---	2.0
9		Chika Nnagbo	1400	bye	bye	---	---	+12(w)	2.0
10		Taras Matkovsky	877	+2(b)	-1(b)	-4(w)	+13(w)	-5(b)	2.0
11		Cayden Grant	unr.	+12(w)	-3(b)	-2(b)	-6(w)	+13(b)	2.0
12	12	Abdelaziz Mahdjoubi 1901 -11(b)	+13(w)	-8(b)	-5(w)	-9(b)	1.0
13	13	Jay Revoy	1195	-3(w)	-12(b)	-5(w)	-10(b)	-11(w)	0.0

[Vadim Tsypin]

Re: Sunday Active at RA Chess Club

Congratulations to Bill Doubleday and good luck at the World Senior Ch. in Italy!

... formatting buttons aren't appearing for me, so this won't be pretty...

Same here, John. Since last Wednesday, whenever I access ChessTalk in Firefox, no formatting buttons appear. I had to copy-and-paste tags by hand from my own old posts to do the simplest things like inserting a link.

When I tried to access CT in Microsoft Edge (no extensions installed) all hell broke loose, one of those annoying malware pages got activated immediately and wouldn't go away until I killed the whole Edge process via Task Manager.

Anyone has similar experience? I'm interested to learn what happens in Chrome or under Linux, but don't have time to try.

[John Upper]

Re: Sunday Active at RA Chess Club

Since last Wednesday, whenever I access ChessTalk in Firefox, no formatting buttons appear....

Anyone has similar experience? I'm interested to learn what happens in Chrome or under Linux, but don't have time to try.

I'm using Chrome, and it's still happening.

[Garland Best]

Re: Sunday Active at RA Chess Club

I use chrome and I have no problems. I can change fonts and colors, as well as add links: http://en.chessbase.com/post/judit-p...chess-festival