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