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Oakville Rapid Challenge Swiss - Blog Rds. 1 - 5 - 18/11/24 (Saturday)
Bob's Chess Blog # 1 [ Part I of 3 Parts]
(See Knight Logo below)
Note:
1. This Blog on my personal Facebook page is re-posted a few other places - so references refer to this platform.
2. The first number of sections are a template. I repeat them in each Blog....I cannot simply refer new readers to my prior Blog for general material. It is too much to expect new readers to scroll down my Facebook timeline to find my most recent Blog, which by now is far down the scroll.
At the same time, the template must be here for any new readers of my Blog.
So I ask my regular readers to be tolerant, and you can skip the template parts, and go down to “End of Template ” (I will alert you immediately after that if there are any revisions of the template).
Template Begins
Bob's Blog
For a number of years now, I have been posting my chess blog:
i) on my personal Facebook Account for my over 850 Fb friends from around the world (in English): https://www.facebook.com/bob.armstrong.9235;
ii) sometimes on the national Canadian English chess discussion board, Chess Talk [CT] (https://forum.chesstalk.com/…/chesstalk-canada-s-chess-disc…);
iii) occasionally on other chess websites, such as that of FQE (Province of Quebec's Chess Association). That time the blog was posted in both French and English.
More recently I also have been "re-posting" my Fb blog on:
i) my Fb chess discussion group, Chess Chat - A Project of Chess Companions of Caissa (https://www.facebook.com/groups/340524269771672/);
ii) my Scarborough CC tournaments Fb Blog to SCC's Fb Page (URL above)
iii) my Annex CC tournaments Fb blog to ACC's Fb Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/172335039452033/);
Henry Lam (Aka Dark Knight), the recently new owner of CT, and I have an agreement (From the summer of 2018) that I will re-post my Fb Blogs on CT for both my chess club official tournaments, and my non-club weekend (Sometimes longer; sometimes shorter) tournaments, in which I play between Summer 2018 and Summer 2019. After that, Henry and I can then renew our agreement for another year if we both so wish.
So, under this agreement, most recently I have been re-posting my current Scarborough CC and Annex CC tournaments. My future non-club weekend blogs to and including Summer 2019 will be (Given my current schedule - from time to time, though, my life schedule may change so that I fit in a tournament not on my schedule):
1. The 2018 Hart House Holidays Open (Prior to Christmas - Dec. 14-16);
2. The 2019 Hart House Reading Week Open (Usually on the Family Day Holiday Weekend in February).
3. The 2019 Quebec Open (July) - if in Montreal.
4. The 2019 Toronto Open (Sept.)
The National Canadian French Chess Discussion Board
Henri Hughes, a member of both Canadian national chess discussion boards owned by Henry Lam (English: Chess Talk; French: Parlons Echecs), volunteers, subject to demands of his school studies, to translate my blogs into French, and post them to Parlons Echecs. Thanks from all to Henri for his volunteer effort.
The Blog Focus
I mainly focus on the section I am playing in (Has been U 2000, U 1900 or U 1800). I feel that these class sections are often not covered by chess media, and yet, the bulk of chess tournament players are in the classes under 1900. And many of my class viewers have actually played players about whom I am blogging (Ones I play and ones with whom I may socialize during the tournament, who then are mentioned in the Blog). So this adds a bit more interest for them.
I do also generally cover (Bare Bones) the top section standings; but I have to have been able to get the results before the Blog goes to press. I sometime will cover also the lower sections, if I have the results. For both, of course, it can be a matter of the time available (I am often doing my Blog in the wee hours of the morning).
I do hope my blogs will continue to provide a window onto class tournament chess, and what THIS chess player does in the day of club tournaments, and before and between rounds for weekend tournaments (A bit of a reality show - bits of my personal life).
I know many other chess players approach tournaments quite differently than I do (E.g. - study!), and so one cannot generalize from what I do.
Blog Feedback
Over the years, and in these more recent blogs, I have had generally positive feedback on my blogging, on both of my own Fb Accounts, the SCC & ACC Fb sites, and on CT.
It has been said that my writing style is easy to read, factual, and often entertaining. It is a find for all us "nosy" chess players!
Thanks to all those who have supported my Blogging on various sites, and kept encouraging me to continue.
End of Template
Tournament – Oakville Rapid Swiss (One-day tournament)
Type: It is a 5-round swiss that is run on one day, Saturday, Nov. 24/18. There are 3 sections: Open; U 1600; U 1000. All sections are CFC-rated. The top section is also FIDE rated.
Time control is G/25 + 5 sec. (From move 1). There is no “Playing Up”. CFC “Quick” (Includes Rapid/Active) ratings are used.
Schedule: Rd. 1 @ 10:00 AM; Rd. 5 @ 3:00 PM
Organizers: Oakville Chess Club; Elevate My Chess
Arbiter: Egis Zeromskis
Location: Sandman Hotel, 3451 Service Rd. West, Oakville, Ont.
Registrations: Rapid – 73 players (Blitz – 46 players). Note: Floaters included.
Note: The rapid tournament is immediately followed by a 5-round Blitz Tournament (Entirely separate), with the same organizers, etc.
The Day of the Tournament - The Early Morning
My main principal residence is in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and that is where I am at the moment.
I woke up at 3:30 AM, before the alarm. I got 5 1/2 hrs. sleep which is not that unusual for me now, though it is usually 6 hrs. (With respect to tournaments I often sleep much less). I had gone to bed at 10:00 PM on Friday, quite early for me, but Friday had been a long and exhausting day, and I had had to skip my daily siesta hour.
I felt quite refreshed, so I got up, went and got my morning coffee, and went to my home office (I am retired) and fired up my old laptop.
The Daily Routine
As those who have read my blogs before know, I have a kind of routine I usually follow, whether I am playing chess tournaments or not (Again this is a normal template, and regular readers can skip down to the "End of Template" heading):
Start of Template
1. Check for e-mails and Fb messages;
2. Check new posts/comments on CT;
3. Check my Twitter feed to see what had been happening in the world (I follow numerous mainstream media from countries around the world, such as CBC, NBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, France 24, China Daily, Al Jezeera (English), Japan Times, Sputnik News, The Guardian, etc.)
4. Update my company's Fb page, Canadian Life Consulting (CLC) - https://www.facebook.com/Canadian-Li...lting-16406543…/. I do this by checking my newsfeed and some of my Fb friends timelines for posts to "share" and my Twitter inbox for articles to re-post onto CLC.
5. Update the discussion group formed under my company page, called Canadian Life Consulting Cooperative Supporters' Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/2042495809374373/. I update it by sharing some more discussable of the posts now on the CFC page.
6. Update this Fb world events/life discussion group that I have created here on my own personal Fb account, called PEERS (A Discussion Club of Equals) - Fb URL above. I do this by also sharing some of the CLC page posts. But I also share some of my sources posts directly to this discussion club.
7. I have another retiree project besides my Facebook one. Chess is a passionate hobby of mine, as you know. But I have never really studied seriously.
But what I do do, is I enter all my games, and annotate them, to try to learn something - Grandmasters do recommend this often. In addition, I integrate the opening (the first 10 moves) into an opening/defence tree I have for the opening/defence played. The value of this is pretty uncertain, given my inability to remember lines - but I do develop general impressions of how the opening can go.
8. I share at least one chess post per day to my Fb Chess Chat group, formed under my personal Fb account - see Fb URL above.
9. When I find them, I share discussable religious posts to my religious Fb Group, Theist Community - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1052227598173591/.
Sometimes these also appear in PEERS.
So on my own time, I go back and forth between my Facebook project and my chess hobby project.
Sometime during this process, I usually get my breakfast and eat it at the computer, if my wife is not yet up. So today, I had breakfast at the computer, since my wife was able to sleep in today, since her pottery workshop was not 'til the afternoon today.
[See Pts. II & III below]
Bob A
Bob's Chess Blog # 1 [ Part I of 3 Parts]
(See Knight Logo below)
Note:
1. This Blog on my personal Facebook page is re-posted a few other places - so references refer to this platform.
2. The first number of sections are a template. I repeat them in each Blog....I cannot simply refer new readers to my prior Blog for general material. It is too much to expect new readers to scroll down my Facebook timeline to find my most recent Blog, which by now is far down the scroll.
At the same time, the template must be here for any new readers of my Blog.
So I ask my regular readers to be tolerant, and you can skip the template parts, and go down to “End of Template ” (I will alert you immediately after that if there are any revisions of the template).
Template Begins
Bob's Blog
For a number of years now, I have been posting my chess blog:
i) on my personal Facebook Account for my over 850 Fb friends from around the world (in English): https://www.facebook.com/bob.armstrong.9235;
ii) sometimes on the national Canadian English chess discussion board, Chess Talk [CT] (https://forum.chesstalk.com/…/chesstalk-canada-s-chess-disc…);
iii) occasionally on other chess websites, such as that of FQE (Province of Quebec's Chess Association). That time the blog was posted in both French and English.
More recently I also have been "re-posting" my Fb blog on:
i) my Fb chess discussion group, Chess Chat - A Project of Chess Companions of Caissa (https://www.facebook.com/groups/340524269771672/);
ii) my Scarborough CC tournaments Fb Blog to SCC's Fb Page (URL above)
iii) my Annex CC tournaments Fb blog to ACC's Fb Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/172335039452033/);
Henry Lam (Aka Dark Knight), the recently new owner of CT, and I have an agreement (From the summer of 2018) that I will re-post my Fb Blogs on CT for both my chess club official tournaments, and my non-club weekend (Sometimes longer; sometimes shorter) tournaments, in which I play between Summer 2018 and Summer 2019. After that, Henry and I can then renew our agreement for another year if we both so wish.
So, under this agreement, most recently I have been re-posting my current Scarborough CC and Annex CC tournaments. My future non-club weekend blogs to and including Summer 2019 will be (Given my current schedule - from time to time, though, my life schedule may change so that I fit in a tournament not on my schedule):
1. The 2018 Hart House Holidays Open (Prior to Christmas - Dec. 14-16);
2. The 2019 Hart House Reading Week Open (Usually on the Family Day Holiday Weekend in February).
3. The 2019 Quebec Open (July) - if in Montreal.
4. The 2019 Toronto Open (Sept.)
The National Canadian French Chess Discussion Board
Henri Hughes, a member of both Canadian national chess discussion boards owned by Henry Lam (English: Chess Talk; French: Parlons Echecs), volunteers, subject to demands of his school studies, to translate my blogs into French, and post them to Parlons Echecs. Thanks from all to Henri for his volunteer effort.
The Blog Focus
I mainly focus on the section I am playing in (Has been U 2000, U 1900 or U 1800). I feel that these class sections are often not covered by chess media, and yet, the bulk of chess tournament players are in the classes under 1900. And many of my class viewers have actually played players about whom I am blogging (Ones I play and ones with whom I may socialize during the tournament, who then are mentioned in the Blog). So this adds a bit more interest for them.
I do also generally cover (Bare Bones) the top section standings; but I have to have been able to get the results before the Blog goes to press. I sometime will cover also the lower sections, if I have the results. For both, of course, it can be a matter of the time available (I am often doing my Blog in the wee hours of the morning).
I do hope my blogs will continue to provide a window onto class tournament chess, and what THIS chess player does in the day of club tournaments, and before and between rounds for weekend tournaments (A bit of a reality show - bits of my personal life).
I know many other chess players approach tournaments quite differently than I do (E.g. - study!), and so one cannot generalize from what I do.
Blog Feedback
Over the years, and in these more recent blogs, I have had generally positive feedback on my blogging, on both of my own Fb Accounts, the SCC & ACC Fb sites, and on CT.
It has been said that my writing style is easy to read, factual, and often entertaining. It is a find for all us "nosy" chess players!
Thanks to all those who have supported my Blogging on various sites, and kept encouraging me to continue.
End of Template
Tournament – Oakville Rapid Swiss (One-day tournament)
Type: It is a 5-round swiss that is run on one day, Saturday, Nov. 24/18. There are 3 sections: Open; U 1600; U 1000. All sections are CFC-rated. The top section is also FIDE rated.
Time control is G/25 + 5 sec. (From move 1). There is no “Playing Up”. CFC “Quick” (Includes Rapid/Active) ratings are used.
Schedule: Rd. 1 @ 10:00 AM; Rd. 5 @ 3:00 PM
Organizers: Oakville Chess Club; Elevate My Chess
Arbiter: Egis Zeromskis
Location: Sandman Hotel, 3451 Service Rd. West, Oakville, Ont.
Registrations: Rapid – 73 players (Blitz – 46 players). Note: Floaters included.
Note: The rapid tournament is immediately followed by a 5-round Blitz Tournament (Entirely separate), with the same organizers, etc.
The Day of the Tournament - The Early Morning
My main principal residence is in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and that is where I am at the moment.
I woke up at 3:30 AM, before the alarm. I got 5 1/2 hrs. sleep which is not that unusual for me now, though it is usually 6 hrs. (With respect to tournaments I often sleep much less). I had gone to bed at 10:00 PM on Friday, quite early for me, but Friday had been a long and exhausting day, and I had had to skip my daily siesta hour.
I felt quite refreshed, so I got up, went and got my morning coffee, and went to my home office (I am retired) and fired up my old laptop.
The Daily Routine
As those who have read my blogs before know, I have a kind of routine I usually follow, whether I am playing chess tournaments or not (Again this is a normal template, and regular readers can skip down to the "End of Template" heading):
Start of Template
1. Check for e-mails and Fb messages;
2. Check new posts/comments on CT;
3. Check my Twitter feed to see what had been happening in the world (I follow numerous mainstream media from countries around the world, such as CBC, NBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, France 24, China Daily, Al Jezeera (English), Japan Times, Sputnik News, The Guardian, etc.)
4. Update my company's Fb page, Canadian Life Consulting (CLC) - https://www.facebook.com/Canadian-Li...lting-16406543…/. I do this by checking my newsfeed and some of my Fb friends timelines for posts to "share" and my Twitter inbox for articles to re-post onto CLC.
5. Update the discussion group formed under my company page, called Canadian Life Consulting Cooperative Supporters' Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/2042495809374373/. I update it by sharing some more discussable of the posts now on the CFC page.
6. Update this Fb world events/life discussion group that I have created here on my own personal Fb account, called PEERS (A Discussion Club of Equals) - Fb URL above. I do this by also sharing some of the CLC page posts. But I also share some of my sources posts directly to this discussion club.
7. I have another retiree project besides my Facebook one. Chess is a passionate hobby of mine, as you know. But I have never really studied seriously.
But what I do do, is I enter all my games, and annotate them, to try to learn something - Grandmasters do recommend this often. In addition, I integrate the opening (the first 10 moves) into an opening/defence tree I have for the opening/defence played. The value of this is pretty uncertain, given my inability to remember lines - but I do develop general impressions of how the opening can go.
8. I share at least one chess post per day to my Fb Chess Chat group, formed under my personal Fb account - see Fb URL above.
9. When I find them, I share discussable religious posts to my religious Fb Group, Theist Community - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1052227598173591/.
Sometimes these also appear in PEERS.
So on my own time, I go back and forth between my Facebook project and my chess hobby project.
Sometime during this process, I usually get my breakfast and eat it at the computer, if my wife is not yet up. So today, I had breakfast at the computer, since my wife was able to sleep in today, since her pottery workshop was not 'til the afternoon today.
[See Pts. II & III below]
Bob A
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