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

[Glenn Giffen]

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

Yeah, our team is definitely doing very well indeed these days. It's exciting to watch.

Good idea about the thread, Bob. I'll start a new one next time I post.

[Bob Armstrong]

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

Hi Glenn:

Your project definitely has WINGS!

Might I suggest you now start a new thread?: Toronto Dragons! (This thread title would be a bit more definitive?)

Bob A

[Glenn Giffen]

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

I've posted a recap of the Toronto Dragons' win over the strong New Jersey Knockouts, along with annotations of four of our wins. IM Nikolay Noritsyn and GM Gergely Szabo were kind enough to provide notes on their games.

https://www.chess.com/blog/TorontoDr...kouts-13-5-2-5

[Glenn Giffen]

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

As I mentioned in the other thread, the Toronto Dragons beat the New Jersey Knockouts 13.5-2.5, and are now leading our division in terms of games points.

Here is a PGN file with all of Toronto's games from weeks 1-4:

https://mega.nz/#!WUIiiIQD!VQgtSWtCk...xhGIcVGClFefBQ

Toronto's next match is against the London Towers on Saturday February 11 at 11:55 a.m. EST 8:55 a.m. Pacific.

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

[Glenn Giffen]

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

Week 4 Toronto Dragons vs. New Jersey Knockouts
Wednesday February 1st, 6:45 p.m. EST 3:45 p.m. Pacific time
The first named player has White.

Round 1
IM Bindi Cheng (Bobbylow)-GM Alex Stripunsky (Alex_Stripunsky)
IM Nikolay Noritsyn (Revnov)-GM Alex Fishbein (afishbein)
IM Alexander Katz (Cryptochess)-GM Gergely Szabo (Anaconda1983)
FM Aravind Kumar (taxticsw2)-GM Bator Sambuev (likemachine)

Round 2
GM Alex Stripunsky (Alex_Stripunsky)-IM Nikolay Noritsyn (Revnov)
GM Alex Fishbein (afishbein)-IM Bindi Cheng (Bobbylow)
GM Bator Sambuev (likemachine)-IM Alexander Katz (Cryptochess)
GM Gergely Szabo (Anaconda1983)-FM Aravind Kumar (taxticsw2)

Round 3
GM Gergely Szabo (Anaconda1983)-GM Alex Stripunsky (Alex_Stripunsky)
GM Bator Sambuev (likemachine)-GM Alex Fishbein (afishbein)
IM Alexander Katz (Cryptochess)-IM Bindi Cheng (Bobbylow)
FM Aravind Kumar (taxticsw2)-IM Nikolay Noritsyn (Revnov)

Round 4
GM Alex Stripunsky (Alex_Stripunsky)-GM Bator Sambuev (likemachine)
GM Alex Fishbein (afishbein)-GM Gergely Szabo (Anaconda1983)
IM Nikolay Noritsyn (Revnov)-IM Alexander Katz (Cryptochess)
IM Bindi Cheng (Bobbylow)-FM Aravind Kumar (taxticsw2)

[Glenn Giffen]

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

I've posted a recap of our match vs. the Montreal Chessbrahs with four annotated games. Two Razvan Preotu wins, one Bator Sambuev win, and GM Gergely Szabo himself annotates his win over IM Aman Hambleton.

https://www.chess.com/blog/TorontoDr...eal-chessbrahs

[Glenn Giffen]

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

Here is a PGN file with all of our games from weeks 1-3.

https://mega.nz/#!zZQBgQ6a!hfgG_qP00...ULte0pcP4UdXEk

No Razvan this week, but a lot of nice mating attacks by all four of our players: Bator Sambuev, Nikolay Noritsyn, Bindi Cheng and Kaiqi Yang.

[Glenn Giffen]

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

Toronto checkmated their way to a 14-2 win over the Columbus Cardinals.

We are now tied for third in our division for game points behind the Philadelphia Inventors (Sergei Erenburg) and Patagonia Penguins (Fernando Peralta).

A lot of upsets tonight. In our division, the Miami Champions, Montreal Chessbrahs, New York Knights and New Jersey Knockouts all lost. We play against New Jersey next week.

In match points, the underdogs Philadelphia Inventors and Montclair Sopranos(Pascal Charbonneau) continue to lead the Atlantic Division with three wins a piece.

[Glenn Giffen]

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

NM John Upper has posted annotations of Dragon GM Razvan Preotu's four games against the Montreal Chessbrahs:

http://chess.ca/newsfeed/node/929

Thanks, John.

[Glenn Giffen]

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

Toronto's schedule for our week 3 match vs. the Columbus Cardinals
Games start at 6:40 p.m. EST 3:40 p.m. Pacific time
The first named player has White
The players' chess.com handles are in brackets for those who'd like to follow the games live

R1
CM Christopher Yu-Shuo Shen (cys9772) vs. GM Bator Sambuev (likemachine)
WCM Maggie Feng (ChampionForever3000) vs. IM Nikolay Noritsyn (Revnov)
IM Bindi Cheng (Bobbylow) vs. Jason Wang (moderJason)
IM Kaiqi Yang (yobdc) vs. Vincent Jingwei Baker (vjbaker)

R2
Bator Sambuev vs. Maggie Feng
Nikolay Noritsyn vs. Christopher Yu-Shuo Shen
Vincent Jingwei Baker vs. Bindi Cheng
Jason Wang vs. Kaiqi Yang

R3
Bator Sambuev vs. Jason Wang
Nikolay Noritsyn vs. Vincent Jingwei Baker
Christopher Yu-Shuo Shen vs. Bindi Cheng
Maggie Feng vs. Kaiqi Yang

R4
Vincent Jingwei Baker vs. Bator Sambuev
Jason Wang vs. Nikolay Noritsyn
Bindi Cheng vs. Maggie Feng
Kaiqi Yang vs. Christopher Shen

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

[Glenn Giffen]

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

Dynamic Toronto IM Nikolay Noritsyn annotates his win over GM Marc Arnold of the Montclair Sopranos from week 1:

https://www.chess.com/blog/TorontoDr...tsyn-annotates

Annotations of Dragon GM Razvan Preotu's wins over Canadian GM Pascal Charbonneau and GM Marc Arnold of the Sopranos:

https://www.chess.com/blog/TorontoDr...--preotus-wins

[Glenn Giffen]

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

Thanks, Hugh, for checking it out. We ran some tests in Pub Chess, but it was too noisy to do commentary. We will likely try again from a quieter venue.

[Hugh Brodie]

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

I tried accessing the steaming site but only got a screen with "Offline" in the upper right corner.

[Glenn Giffen]

Re: Round 1: Charbonneau 3 - Toronto 1

Dragons assistant manager IM Arthur Calugar will stream our match against the Montreal Chessbrahs tonight live from Pub Chess. As mentioned, WCM/WNM Liza Orlova has arranged to show the games live at the Madison Pub in downtown Toronto.

Check out the stream tonight starting at 6:45 p.m.

https://www.twitch.tv/blitzpawn94

[Glenn Giffen]

Re: Round 1: Charbonneau 3 - Toronto 1

The nicknames of our players for Week 2 for those who want to follow their games live:

Toronto Dragons nicknames
likemachine = GM Bator Sambuev
Anaconda1983 = GM Gergely Szabo
attack2mateU = GM Razvan Preotu
NeverW84M8 = IM Michael Song

and our opponents:
Montreal Chessbrahs
chessawp = GM Li Chao
Caefellion = GM Alexandre Lesiege
KNVB = IM Aman Hambleton
michaelk123 = FM Michael Kleinman