Saturday Blitz on Danforth

[Vlad Dobrich]

Despite verbal enthusiasm for holding regular 15 min active tournaments, NOBODY came! So we resume our regular weekly blitz every Saturday. Unfortunately, the management at the Seanachai Pub has seen fit to allocate the space we have been using to some other function so we are relocating a few doors to the West to Mom's Cafe on the corner. This small family business is run by a Chinese couple keen on various games. Most days there is a Euchre game in the window and occasionally a game of Tsieng chi (chinese chess). We will have games set up in the windows at street level with lots of good natural lighting. The entry fee will include coffee and a donut for all players!

Results from Saturday, June 6th:
6 player triple RR (5 min. blitz chess)

1st: Leonid Gerzhoy 13 1/2 - 1 1/2
2nd: Victor Plotkin 11 - 4

A Prize: Nikola Brajkovic 9 - 6

Updated ratings, June 8, 2009

Sambuev Bator 2662
Stevens Christian 2628
Zugic Igor 2591
Samsonkin Artem 2537
Teplitsky Yan 2568
Noritsyn Nikolay 2508
Milicevic Goran 2505
Gerzhoy Leonid 2504
Bluvshtein Mark 2484
Tyomkin Dimitri 2483
Thavandirn Shiyam 2441
Schleiffer Michael 2437
Ochkoos Yuri 2437
Panjwani Raja 2424
Rek Slava 2413
Livshits Ron 2411
Divljan Igor 2391
Drashko Dragan 2381
Hamilton Robert 2376
Gulko Andrei 2370
Plotkin Victor 2356
Krnan Thomas 2362
Gindi Shahar 2353
Teodoro Eduardo 2346
SapozhnkovRoman 2338
Buscar Michael 2342
Findlay Ian 2313
Bailey Doug 2303
Henry Liam 2287
Barron Michael 2284
Day Lawrence 2279
Aronov Yuri 2275
Raheb David 2270
Peng David 2247
Blakely Matt 2236
Molchanov Yevhen 2232
Puri Vinny 2227
Derraugh Geordie 2182
Harper Ryan 2201
Dougherty Michael 2199
Sellers Karl 2231
Kimelman Michael 2192
Barrios Felix 2185
Southam Dave 2184
Vaingorten Yakov 2179
Martchenko Alex 2164
Jung Hans 2162
Campbell Brett 2153
Evans Bill 2139
Inigo Aquino 2134
Guo Josh 2124
Calugar Arthur 2124
Sundar Avinash 2121
Bluvshtein Ilya 2120
Fiedler Brian 2115
Kleinman Michael 2112
Casareno Erwin 2106
Miletic Dusan 2104
Siddely Hugh 2103
Nahutin Yevgeny 2100
Erichsen Dan 2098
Pimentel Sheldon 2073
Ferreira Alex 2075
Malette Martin 2069
Kagramanov Dina 2067
Picana Andrew 2042
Hambleton Aman 2037
Lucki Arnie 2034
Visnjic Zoran 2028
Dobrich Vlad 2022
Jolliffe Kyle 2018
Brajkovic Nikola 2050
Haziprodromu Sam 2006
Malmsten Erik 2004
Bokhout Peter 1995
Hambleton Aman 1995
Chidley-Hill John 1910
Laughlin Steve 1981
Gusev Nikita 1974
Fan Brendan 1959
Abrahams Daniel 1956
Solis Jamie 1954
Mills Morgon 1949
Walker Trevor 1945
Takov Chris 1930
Longo Tyler 1966
Ho Conrad 1925
Trbic Milan 1924
Bell Ian 1895
Visnjic Momcilo 1882
Ferner Wilf 1875
Gomes Joe 1863
Zhou Haonan 1848
Kutuzov Yevgeni 1846
Steadman Richard 1832
Brammall Stuart 1815
Gunapalan David 1804
Mc Neil Hugh 1803
Danilova Luba 1803
Fan Yibing 1798
Mustafa Ozcan 1791
Rutherdale William 1777
Henderson Fred 1775
Moran Mario 1774
Stein Jacob 1763
Le Ken 1760
Knox Christopher 1757
Gross Gerald 1752
Kauffan Robert 1748
Power Alan 1740
Orlova Liza 1727
Verde Pino 1701
ThavandiranNimalan1681
Panjwani Dilip 1642
Munro Brendan 1600

This coming Saturday, June 13 at 2pm, we will be at Mom's Cafe, 3 doors west of the Seanachai.
Entry Fees: $27 ($22 to BGC members)
Note: If your name does not appear on the above list, then
you can enter for $25 ($20 BGC mem.)
Prizes: Cash = $20 X no. of entries

[Alex Ferreira]

Re: Saturday Blitz on Danforth

Despite verbal enthusiasm for holding regular 15 min active tournaments, NOBODY came!

If Toronto / Canada had as many chess players as it has verbal enthusiasts, this might just be the best city / country in the world to play chess at. I've been enjoying blitz chess since 2003 at the Bayview Games Club, and find it a shame that so few people seem keen on keeping up. Definitely tough to play every week, Saturday blitz is always an event to look forward to whenever possible. Internet chess is just not in the same league. Even though in small numbers, this has got to be one of the (if not 'the') strongest blitz tournaments that takes on a regular basis in Canada. It's even worth watching while having a soda for those who may be shy to try out their luck with the IMs at first.

Glad to hear the blitz will stay in the area. Danforth is booming with life on the weekends, and good weather made my half hour walk home a treat.

See you Saturday !


Alex F.

[Bob Armstrong]

Re: Saturday Blitz on Danforth

Good luck Vlad - you are providing a good format - maybe a full crosstable would show that U 2000 players come out and play - we only see the one name of the winner for the B prize - hang in there !

Bob

[Vlad Dobrich]

Re: Saturday Blitz on Danforth

Thanks Bob,

I would post X-tables if I had the formats. I noticed Hal Bond uses an atractive one and I emailed him for info a couple years ago when he was CFC Pres but got no reply.
If anyone knows a source for the swiss and rr tables let me know.
Thanks,
Vlad

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Re: Saturday Blitz on Danforth

If anyone knows a source for the swiss and rr tables let me know.

Try http://www.vegachess.com/download.htm "The current version can be freely used for any chess tournament with not more than 30 players."

From the help file: "Sorted Cross Table produces a cross table in which the ID of each player is regenerated and sorted by rank. In the case of the round-robin system, it is saved in the file crosrr.txt"

You would need to copy+paste the content of the file crosrr.txt here between CODE (# icon) tag and using a monospace font (aka fixed-width like Lucida Console).


Another way: start Notepad, change a font to Lucida Console, enter results and paste them here :)

[Vlad Dobrich]

Re: Saturday Blitz on Danforth

Our blitz tournament can be played outdoors, as there are tables on both sides of the windows. I see both Ottawa and Montreal have scheduled outdoor events - so why not here?:)