Bator Sambuev and Nikolay Noritsyn to play for Toronto Dragons in Pro Chess League

[Glenn Giffen]

Re: Round 1: Charbonneau 3 - Toronto 1

Toronto's schedule for Week 2
Games start at 6:45 p.m. Eastern Standard Time Wednesday January 18th
The first named player plays White
R1
GM Bator Sambuev vs. GM Li Chao
GM Gergely Szabo vs. GM Alexandre Lesiege
IM Aman Hambleton vs. GM Razvan Preotu
FM Michael Kleinman vs. IM Michael Song

R2
GM Alexandre Lesiege vs. GM Bator Sambuev
GM Li Chao vs. GM Gergely Szabo
GM Razvan Preotu vs. FM Michael Kleinman
IM Michael Song vs. IM Aman Hambleton

R3
Bator Sambuev vs. Aman Hambleton
Gergely Szabo vs. Michael Kleinman
Li Chao vs. Razvan Preotu
Alexandre Lesiege vs. Michael Song

R4
Michael Kleinman vs. Bator Sambuev
Aman Hambleton vs. Gergely Szabo
Razvan Preotu vs. Alexandre Lesiege
Michael Song vs. Li Chao

https://www.chess.com/club/toronto-dragons-fan-club
https://www.facebook.com/todragonschess/
https://twitter.com/TODragonsChess

[Glenn Giffen]

Re: Round 1: Charbonneau 3 - Toronto 1

Mark Crowther's The Week in Chess website has put up a page covering the Pro Chess League with PGN files using the player's real names. The Toronto Dragons are playing in the Atlantic division.

http://theweekinchess.com/chessnews/...ss-league-2017

[Glenn Giffen]

Re: Round 1: Charbonneau 3 - Toronto 1

Re. watching games live, League director Greg Shahade has just pointed out that on chess.com's Live Chess if you type
/follow attack2mateU
into the Game Chat, it will automatically take you to each of Razvan Preotu's game as they start. You can follow as many players as you like, and you will see a tab for each game below the board on the left of your screen. Just click on each tab to go to that game.

likemachine = Bator Sambuev
Revnov = Nikolay Noritsyn
NNepenthes = Thomas Roussel-Roozmon

[John Upper]

Round 1: Charbonneau 3 - Toronto 1

You can find Pascal Charbonneau's games against the Toronto Dragons annotated on the CFC Newsfeed:

http://chess.ca/newsfeed/node/924

[Hans Jung]

Re: Bator Sambuev and Nikolay Noritsyn to play for Toronto Dragons in Pro Chess Leagu

Congrats to Nikolay and Razvan for dominating GMs.

[Hugh Brodie]

Re: Bator Sambuev and Nikolay Noritsyn to play for Toronto Dragons in Pro Chess Leagu

The 16 Montreal PGN games (with correct names) are posted on the French "Chesstalk".

[Glenn Giffen]

Re: Bator Sambuev and Nikolay Noritsyn to play for Toronto Dragons in Pro Chess Leagu

Greg Shahade has posted a PGN file with all of the week one games. It uses the player's nicknames though.

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/jepzrvr17vmnpij/week1.pgn

[Glenn Giffen]

Re: Bator Sambuev and Nikolay Noritsyn to play for Toronto Dragons in Pro Chess Leagu

I've posted detailed results with links to each of Toronto's games to a thread in the Toronto Dragons Fan Club on chess.com:

https://www.chess.com/clubs/forum/vi...s-to-each-game

To get to the PGN of a game, click on the Download symbol just to the right of the board:



To see a list of a player's recent games, click on the little chessboard just beneath that player's profile text:



Links to each player's profile can be found on the Pro Chess League Teams page:

https://www.chess.com/article/view/2...s-league-teams

All of the games in the League are unrated. I think they have done this, so that everyone can see each player's FIDE Standard rating when they play.

[Hugh Brodie]

Re: Bator Sambuev and Nikolay Noritsyn to play for Toronto Dragons in Pro Chess Leagu

Questions:

1) I have found very brief results of the round 1 matches - just a 1-0 or 0-1 (match points) and total game points - at https://www.chess.com/article/view/2...ague-standings . How do I find detailed results by board? Will that be under "Weekly reports - coming soon"?
2) How do I replay the games and/or get PGN files? I tried to access Lesiege by clicking on his name (in the "Teams" section of the "PRO Chess League Guide". He shows up with a nickname of "caefellion". I go to "Stats" and "Rapid", and can't display any games. It says there are 4 games, but no rating, and I can't get the 4 games (which I assume are the 4 he played in the round 1 match). Same with Sambuev ("likemachine"). Likewise with Aman Hambleton ("KNVB" - assuming he played) - no "rapid" games appear from Jan. 11.

[Glenn Giffen]

Re: Bator Sambuev and Nikolay Noritsyn to play for Toronto Dragons in Pro Chess Leagu

[Event "Pro Chess League"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2017.01.11"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Noritsyn, Nikolay"]
[Black "Arnold, Marc Tyler"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D29"]
[WhiteElo "2479"]
[BlackElo "2524"]
[PlyCount "99"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[Eventtype "team-schev (rapid)"]
[Whiteteam "Toronto Dragons"]
[Blackteam "Montclair Sopranos"]
[TimeControl "900+2"]

1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 e6 3.c4 d5 4.Nc3 dxc4 5.e3 c5 6.Bxc4 a6 7.O-O b5 8.Bb3 Bb7 9.Qe2 Nbd7 10.Rd1 Qc7 11.e4 cxd4 12.Nxd4 b4 13.Nd5 exd5 14.exd5+ Qe5 15.Qxe5+ Nxe5 16.Re1 Nfg4 17.Bf4 f6 18.h3 Bc5 19.Rad1 Nh6 20.Ne6 Bb6 21.Nxg7+ Kf7 22.Bxh6 Kg6 23.Nf5 Rac8 24.Be3 Bxe3 25.Nxe3 Rhd8 26.f4 Nf7 27.Bc2+ Kg7 28.Bf5 Rc7 29.Be6 Nd6 30.Rc1 Re7 31.Re2 Rde8 32.f5 h5 33.Rec2 Kh6 34.h4 Rg7 35.Rc7 Ree7 36.Rxe7 Rxe7 37.Nc4 Nxf5 38.Bxf5 Bxd5 39.Bd3 Rg7 40.Bf1 f5 41.Ne3 Be4 42.Rc5 Kg6 43.Be2 Rd7 44.Bf3 Bxf3 45.gxf3 Rd2 46.Rc6+ Kf7 47.Nxf5 a5 48.Ra6 Rxb2 49.Rxa5 Kf6 50.Ng3
1-0

[Event "Pro Chess League"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2017.01.11"]
[Round "4"]
[White "Charbonneau, Pascal"]
[Black "Preotu, Razvan"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "E46"]
[WhiteElo "2505"]
[BlackElo "2495"]
[PlyCount "62"]
[EventDate "2017.??.??"]
[Eventtype "team-schev (rapid)"]
[Whiteteam "Montclair Sopranos"]
[Blackteam "Toronto Dragons"]

{ 15'+2" } 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 O-O 5.Nge2 d5 6.a3 Be7 7.cxd5 exd5 8.Nf4 c6 9.Bd3 a5 10.O-O Na6 11.f3 Nc7 12.Bd2 Ne6 13.Nfe2 b5 14.Be1 Ba6 15.Bf2 b4 16.Na4 bxa3 17.bxa3 c5 18.Bxa6 Rxa6 19.dxc5 Nxc5 20.Nac3 a4 21.Nd4 Qd7 22.Qc2 Rc8 23.Rfc1 Raa8 24.Rab1 Ne6 25.Ndb5 d4 26.exd4 Nd5 27.Qe4 Nef4 28.Bg3 f5 29.Qc2 Nxc3 30.Nxc3 Rxc3 31.Qa2+ Qd5
0-1

[Glenn Giffen]

Re: Bator Sambuev and Nikolay Noritsyn to play for Toronto Dragons in Pro Chess Leagu

Sorry to be so dense, but I can't see how to get to post 8. Is a membership required and, thus, a login?

Post #8 is a few posts above this one. If you are viewing Chesstalk in Linear Mode, you just have to scroll upwards a bit to see it.

To view the games on chess.com, I believe you need to sign up for a free account by giving them a unique username, your email address, and a password that you should write down somewhere. Once you are a member of chess.com, you can watch the commentary by Dejan Bojkov and Irina Krush on Chess.com TV. Or if you want to follow the individual games, click on Play, and then Live Chess. On Wednesday evenings, if you click on the little binoculars on the right side of Live Chess, you will see a list of games with a time control of 15'+2" and the Dragons playing. I've posted a thread to the forum of the Toronto Dragons Fan Club on chess.com on how to watch the games live.

Next Wednesday January 18th sees the two Canadian juggernauts facing off: the Toronto Dragons versus the Montreal Chessbrahs. Alexandre Lesiege, Aman Hambleton and Lefong Hua were playing for the Chessbrahs last night. Come check it out.

https://www.facebook.com/todragonschess/
https://www.chess.com/club/toronto-dragons-fan-club

[Ken MacDonald]

Re: Bator Sambuev and Nikolay Noritsyn to play for Toronto Dragons in Pro Chess Leagu

Fans will be able to watch all of the games I listed in post #8 in the Live Chess area of the chess.com website. This week the players will just be playing from their homes. If we organize a public event at game time in a future week, I will post about it here, and on Facebook and chess.com.

The U.S. Chess League used to have the players gather in bricks and mortar clubs, and the Pro Chess League may do that for some players or teams this season as well.

https://www.facebook.com/todragonschess/
https://www.chess.com/club/toronto-dragons-fan-club/

Sorry to be so dense, but I can't see how to get to post 8. Is a membership required and, thus, a login?

[Glenn Giffen]

Re: Bator Sambuev and Nikolay Noritsyn to play for Toronto Dragons in Pro Chess Leagu

Fans will be able to watch all of the games I listed in post #8 in the Live Chess area of the chess.com website. This week the players will just be playing from their homes. If we organize a public event at game time in a future week, I will post about it here, and on Facebook and chess.com.

The U.S. Chess League used to have the players gather in bricks and mortar clubs, and the Pro Chess League may do that for some players or teams this season as well.

https://www.facebook.com/todragonschess/
https://www.chess.com/club/toronto-dragons-fan-club/

[Ken MacDonald]

Re: Bator Sambuev and Nikolay Noritsyn to play for Toronto Dragons in Pro Chess Leagu

Will there be any live games and, if so, where and schedule?

Thanks.

[Glenn Giffen]

Re: Bator Sambuev and Nikolay Noritsyn to play for Toronto Dragons in Pro Chess Leagu

Bator Sambuev used to live in Toronto, so the League voted to accept him as a 'local' player.

The pundits are starting to predict Wednesday's results. IM Robert Ris is predicting that the Toronto Dragons will beat the Montclair Sopranos 10-6 with GM Thomas Roussel-Roozmon scoring 3.5/4!

https://www.chess.com/blog/RobertRis...k-1-prediction

Similarly, U.S. NM Pete Karagianis is also predicting a Toronto win 9.5-6.5.

https://www.chess.com/blog/nmpdk/what-s-in-a-name

The excitement is mounting!

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https://www.chess.com/club/toronto-dragons-fan-club