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

[Andy Shaw]

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

I thought only one foreign player was allowed? Bator Sambuev and Thomas Roussel-Roozmon are not from Toronto... at least not to my knowledge, and I am based out of Markham.

[Glenn Giffen]

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

Toronto Dragons pairings for our Week 1 match vs. the Montclair Sopranos
This Wednesday January 11th
Games start at 6:45 p.m. Eastern Standard Time
You will be able to watch the games in the Live Chess area of chess.com, or follow the GM commentary on Chess.com TV
The first named player plays White
R1
GM Bator Sambuev vs. GM Aleksandr Lenderman
GM Razvan Preotu vs. GM Marc Arnold
GM Pascal Charbonneau vs. IM Nikolay Noritsyn
Dan Smith vs. GM Thomas Roussel-Roozmon

R2
GM Marc Arnold vs. GM Bator Sambuev
GM Aleksandr Lenderman vs. GM Razvan Preotu
IM Nikolay Noritsyn vs. Dan Smith
GM Thomas Roussel-Roozmon vs. GM Pascal Charbonneau

R3
GM Bator Sambuev vs. GM Pascal Charbonneau
GM Razvan Preotu vs. Dan Smith
GM Aleksandr Lenderman vs. IM Nikolay Noritsyn
GM Marc Arnold vs. GM Thomas Roussel-Roozmon

R4
Dan Smith vs. GM Bator Sambuev
GM Pascal Charbonneau vs. GM Razvan Preotu
IM Nikolay Noritsyn vs. GM Marc Arnold
GM Thomas Roussel-Roozmon vs. GM Aleksandr Lenderman

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

[Glenn Giffen]

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

Dragons GM Bator Sambuev and GM Thomas Roussel-Roozmon are playing in the Pere Noel tournament in Montreal this week. They both won their first round games! We wish them all the best!

http://chess-results.com/tnr255395.a...1&art=4&wi=821

http://www.fqechecs.qc.ca/activite/t...du-pere-noel-2

[Glenn Giffen]

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

Yeah, I meet up with them a fair bit. I'll try to post more pictures as we go along here.

[Bob Armstrong]

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

I've posted photos of our players to the fan clubs on Facebook and Chess.com:

https://www.facebook.com/todragonschess/

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

Thanks Glenn - nice bit of promotion - lots of us have met, or seen many of the players......but some of them, many of us may not have seen for years, since they were younger juniors.....nice to see an update photo.

Bob A

[Glenn Giffen]

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

I've posted photos of our players to the fan clubs on Facebook and Chess.com:

https://www.facebook.com/todragonschess/

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

[Glenn Giffen]

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

Since it's online games, anyone know what the organizer does to prevent cheaters?

Chess.com has an cheating detection team which will be monitoring all the games. If they are sure a player is cheating, that player will be ejected from the tournament, and their opponents will be awarded the points for the games that player played. If someone's play seems suspicious or they are playing at a much higher level than you would expect, an arbiter will be called in to watch them play, or they will have to set up a camera to show themselves playing. In chess.com's Titled Tuesdays tournaments, a couple of titled players were disqualified for cheating. This rule with the arbiter might be new though.

[James Tan]

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

Since it's online games, anyone know what the organizer does to prevent cheaters?

[Glenn Giffen]

I have received a request to set up a separate thread for the Toronto Dragons. As mentioned in the Montreal thread, American IM Greg Shahade has moved the U.S. Chess League to chess.com, renamed it the Pro Chess League, and opened it up to teams from cities around the world. The prize fund is $50 000, and the games are played online on chess.com.

IM Arthur Calugar and I drafted masters for a Toronto team, the Dragons. Canadians GM Bator Sambuev, IM Nikolay Noritsyn, GM Thomas Roussel-Roozmon, GM Razvan Preotu, IM Raja Panjwani, FM Shiyam Thavandiran, IM Kaiqi Yang, IM Michael Song and IM Arthur Calugar will be joined by Romanian GM Gergely-Andras-Gyula Szabo, who coaches many of Canada's juniors.

Toronto Dragons schedule for 2017:
R1 Wednesday January 11 6:45 p.m. EST Montclair Sopranos (with Canadian GM Pascal Charbonneau)
R2 Wed. Jan. 18 6:45 p.m. Montreal Chessbrahs (Fabiano Caruana)
R3 Wed. Jan. 25 6:40 p.m. Columbus Cardinals (IM Atanas Kizov)
R4 Wed. February 1 6:45 p.m. New Jersey Knockouts (GM Alexander Stripunsky)
R5 Sat. Feb. 11 2:55 p.m. London Towers (GM Gawain Jones)
R6 Wed. Feb. 15 6:35 p.m. Patagonia Penguins (GM Fernando Peralto)
R7 Wed. Feb. 22 TBA
Playoffs Wed. March 1, 8, 15, 25/26

The games can be watched live on chess.com's Live Chess server, and there will be colour commentary by GM Dejan Bojkov and Irina Krush on chess.com TV.

You can read more about Toronto and the other teams in our division on our Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/todragonschess/