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The RA Chess Club meets Thursdays at 7:30 at the RA Center in Ottawa, 2451 Riverside Drive.
The RA Chess Club Championship will be held over seven rounds from January 19 through March 2, 2017. It is the longest continuous club championship in Canada, dating back to the early 1950s. The winner will earn the Ken Winterton Trophy, and $500 prize, courtesy of Gordon Ritchie. It is open to all members of the RA Chess Club.
Re: Round 1 of 2017 RA Club Championship January 19 to March 2
If you want to start playing in round 2 of the RA Club Ch please email me ahead of time at fs889@ncf.ca
2017 RA Club Ch (standings)
# Name/Rtng/ID Rd 1
1 Qiyu Zhou W 29
2326 151707 1.0
2 David Gordon B 30
2310 106629 1.0
3 Mate Marinkovic W 31
2269 141393 1.0
4 Ramon J. Cova B 32
2222 153227 1.0
5 Stijn De Kerpel B 33
2196 102011 1.0
6 Sam Marin W 34
2155 156145 1.0
7 Saeid Sadeghi B 35
2149 139655 1.0
8 William G. Doubleday W 36
2136 103754 1.0
9 Francesco Dunne B 37
2118 146453 1.0
10 Ben Kellar W 38
2115 148170 1.0
11 Dusan Simic B 39
2100 109808 1.0
12 Svitlana Demchenko W 40
2086 156853 1.0
13 Zachary Dukic B 41
2078 149507 1.0
14 David Fei W 42
2022 154794 1.0
15 Sasha Solunac B 43
2010 107038 1.0
16 Ray Kuryliw W 44
1993 105482 1.0
17 Jeff Groot-Lipman B 45
1928 102773 1.0
18 Abdelaziz Mahdjoubi W 46
1912 155558 1.0
19 Dan Kearnan B 47
1878 137473 1.0
20 Peter Arseneau W 48
1822 101203 1.0
21 Jan Huus B 49
1779 112601 1.0
22 Vikram Mallur B 28
1628 157854 1.0
23 Halldor P Palsson bye
2004 106856 0.5
24 Alex Danilov bye
1843 101895 0.5
25 Gordon Ritchie bye
1808 110972 0.5
26 Konstantin Vlasenko bye
1784 154795 0.5
27 Garland Best bye
1676 103050 0.5
28 John Upper W 22
2212 101925 0.0
29 Daniel Xu B 1
1753 160020 0.0
30 Paul St. Pierre W 2
1731 107439 0.0
31 Simon Perkins B 3
1728 107582 0.0
32 Michael Abt W 4
1668 107642 0.0
33 Gerard Felderhof W 5
1555 104191 0.0
34 Yves Arsenault B 6
1546 6064462 0.0
35 Drew Metcalfe W 7
1511 149314 0.0
36 Romy Peters B 8
1501 135706 0.0
37 Keven Eyre W 9
1418 135113 0.0
38 Xu Rong [Caroline] Chen B 10
1418 156753 0.0
39 Victor Samuel W 11
1377 112306 0.0
40 Yaorui Xu B 12
1377 155473 0.0
41 Alexander Stopic W 13
1353 160017 0.0
42 David Brock B 14
1280 108741 0.0
43 Jeremy Sztuka W 15
1264 162452 0.0
44 Daniel Wang B 16
1133 162438 0.0
45 Daniel Labib W 17
1117 162841 0.0
46 Rami Labib B 18
1080 162840 0.0
47 Dave Westbury W 19
1054 158216 0.0
48 Jonathan Levine B 20
1005 162911 0.0
49 Emil Wang W 21
982 162439 0.0
Last edited by Halldor P. Palsson; Saturday, 21st January, 2017, 12:26 PM.
Re: Pairings for Round 4 of 2017 RA Club Championship January 19 to March 2
I've had some difficulties against Garland before... in any case I don't think the CFC rates games with any sort of odds given (except if one shows up a little late and loses some time on the clock).
Fwiw, I think I am usually lucky when I play chess on St. Patrick's Day. Groundhog Day seems to be the opposite way for me lately.
Last edited by Kevin Pacey; Saturday, 4th February, 2017, 09:28 PM.
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong. Murphy's law, by Edward A. Murphy Jr., USAF, Aerospace Engineer
Re: 2017 RA Club Championship January 19 to March 2
It is curious that play at odds has fallen out of popularity---pawn and move, knight, etc. It used to be quite commonplace in the 19th and early 20th centuries. When Morphy came home to the USA he would only play at odds, for example. It was one---perhaps the only---way of permitting a weaker player to take on a strong player with a chance of winning. Even in the 60s, I seem to recall the occasional game or even tournament at odds.
Re: 2017 RA Club Championship January 19 to March 2
I've gotten the feeling that for a long time people have been too proud to take material odds, even against a much stronger player. Possibly they just hope to kick a supposedly stronger player's butt in a normal game without odds, rather than face the chance of losing even more ignominiously than they would otherwise, and/or serve as potential bragging fodder for the stronger player, who has a built-in excuse if he loses. It may also be thanks to brilliancy books that show odds games. The only way to encourage more odds games may be to play them for money.
Here's a link that includes discussion of the rating equivalent of pawn or knight odds for a game of chess (may be useful):
Re: 2017 RA Club Championship January 19 to March 2
It might be quite instructive to have an evening of chess where club members are paired with such a large difference in ratings equalized by the giving of odds.
Followed by the instruction of an IM, or whomever (perhaps me), as to why the player that received the odds lost, or rather how they could have conducted a stronger game.
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