COQ/Quebec Open Chess Championship 2019 (Saturday, July 20 – Sat., July 27/19) - Blog

[Bob Armstrong]

COQ/Quebec Open Chess Championship (Saturday, July 20 – Sat., July 27/19) - Blog

Rd. 9 (Final) – Saturday, 19/7/27 (10:00 AM)

Bob's Chess Blog # 8 (Part II of 3 parts; see Part I above)

Back to Saturday Morning

I got the Friday Blog # 7 finished. Mario brought me the entered/lightly-analyzed game on a stick, and I put it as the last item into the blog. I then posted it.

Next I had to get all my bags down into Mario's car; so this made me 20 min. late for the start of Rd. 9.....but this is rather irrelevant to me because I play rather quickly compared to most players in my class.

Rd. 9 – Final

I played White against Kil Kay Sang (1682) – very tactical game (See below). I sprung a mate trap that worked.

Post Rd. 9

Kil and I, and some other players, did a post-mortem on the game for a while. I also went back into the Sandman business centre and deleted everything I'd temporarily stored on their desktop.

Heading back to Toronto

Mario and I checked out before noon during the game. So when we both had finished, off we went, quite satisfied with our week. I left the composing and posting of this Saturday Blog # 8 to Sunday.

U 1800 Section Chess Report on Rd. 9 (Saturday, July 27, 2019).

My U 1800 Section

I am rated 1633 (FQE). I am ranked # 17 out of 33 players (In the middle third).

Rating Spread

1700`s – 4 (Favourites)

1600’s – 15 (my rating is here)
1500’s – 12
1400’s – 1
1300’s – 0

1200`s - 1

Total - 33

U 1800 Standings After Rd. 9

Leaders: 6

1^st– 7/9 pts. - Guennadi Kozlov (1691).

2^nd/3^rd – 6.5/9 pts. - Haruaki Omichi (1674); Dominic Boileau (1603).

4^th/6^th – 6/9 pts. - Patrice Gerard (1715 - 4^th seed); Geffrard Morinvil (1667); Marcel Laurin (1619).

Favourites/Dark Horses (Non-leaders): 16

5.5/9 pts. - Abderaouf Sekki (1740 – 2^nd seed); Maximo Alcantra Jr. (1726 – 3^rd seed); Jeremie Cassista (1648); Alessio Di Matteo (1639); Junior Boy Hugo Guillemette (1503 – 8 y.o.!).

5/9 pts. - Ming Yu Xi (1647); Michael Sharpe (1645).

4.5/9 pts. - Zekai He (1647); Guy Brunet (1578); Junior Girl Rachel Zihan Wang (1556);

4/9 pts. – Benoit Villeneuve (1762 – top seed); Danyel Haines (1591); Eric Liu (1421).

4/8 pts. - withdrew after Rd. 8 - Roger Gendron (1566); Luc Gauthier (1656);

3.5/7 pts. - withdrew after Rd. 7 - Ion Nica (1681).

My Round 9 Game

A King`s Indian (Samish Line) – My own light annotations as to what I was thinking during the game (No engine analysis):

Armstrong,Robert (Bob) J. (1633) - Kay Sang,Kil (1682) [E87]

COQ 2019 (U 1800) (9), 27.07.2019

[Armstrong, Robert (Bob) J.]

1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 King's Indian Defence 3.Nc3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.f3 (Samish Line) 5...0–0 6.Be3 e5 7.d5 h6 8.Qd2 Kh7 9.h4 a6 10.g4 Ne8 11.Bd3 Nd7 12.Nge2 Nc5 13.Bc2 It is important to hold onto this eventual "attacking B". 13...Bd7 14.Ng3 b5 15.cxb5 axb5 16.b4 Na6 17.Nce2 Qf6 18.Rf1 Qe7 19.0–0–0 this will make many viewers somewhat nervous. 19...c5 20.bxc5 Nxc5 21.Kb1 Qd8 22.g5 h5 23.f4 Rxa2 Kil sacs his R 24.Kxa2 I am up R v P; but there is a lot to this sac 24...exf4 I am up R vs 2 P's 25.Bd4 Qa8+ 26.Kb1 fxg3 I am up the exchange, but Kil has 2 P's compensation. 27.Bxg7 For the coming attack, I need to get rid of the good defensive B. 27...Kxg7 28.Qd4+ Kg8 29.e5 Qa3 30.e6 Nxe6 31.dxe6 Bxe6 mate threat; I am up R vs 4 P's; I believe the engine evaluation must have us very close at this point......my material advantage is more apparent than real. 32.Qb2 Qe3 following the principle that when you are down material, you do not exchange if avoidable. 33.Nf4 Bc4 34.Rde1 Qd2 35.Rd1 Qa5 36.Nxg6 I was unclear whether this sac won, but I could not resist trying it. It also sets a simple mate trap. 36...Bxf1 fatal blunder; Kil, perhaps over-confident at a won ending, fails to do the necessary calculations of what W is up to. [36...fxg6 37.Rxf8+ Kxf8 38.Bxg6 and it is a good attack; I would be up the exchange, but Kil would have 2 P's compensation (But they are very vulnerable in the ending).] 37.Ne7#

1-–0

(See Part III below)

Bob A

[Bob Armstrong]

COQ/Quebec Open Chess Championship (Saturday, July 20 – Sat., July 27/19) - Blog

Rd. 9 (Final) – Saturday, 19/7/27 (10:00 AM)

Bob's Chess Blog # 8 (Part III of 3 parts; see Parts I & II above)

My Score

4/9 pts.: Wins: 2 (Rds. 7 & 9); Draws: 2 (Rds. 2 & 6); Losses: 4 (Rds. 1, 3, 4 & 8); Director`s 1 pt. Bye: 1 (Rd. 5)

My Opponents' & My Scores

5.5/9 pts. – Abderaouf Sekki (1740 – 2^nd seed) – I lost in Rd. 1.

5/9 pts. - Maximo Alcantra Jr. (1726 – 3^rd seed) – I drew in Rd. 2

4.5/9 pts. - Guy Brunet (1578) – I lost in Rd. 8.

4/9 pts. – Me (1633)

- Junior Boy Deren Mai (1523) – I lost in Rd. 3
3.5/9 pts. - Francis Malloy (1513) – I drew in Rd. 6.

3/9 pts. - Kil Kay Sang (1682) – I won in Rd. 9.

- Mario Belanger (1571) – I won in Rd. 7.

2.5/9 pts. - Aldo Lelievre (1523) – I lost in Rd. 4.

Other Less Important Sections – Open

If I have time, I also report very minimally on the Open Section (Though I know all class players in Quebec & the Rest of Canada really are most interested in the U 1800 section!)

Winners/Leaders:7

1^st/4^th– 6.5/9 pts. - GM Bator Sambuev (2503 – Quebec, Canada); GM Alexandre Le Siege (2500 – Quebec, Canada); GM Thomas Roussel-Roozmon (2463 – Quebec, Canada); GM Reynaldo Vera Gonzalez-Quevedo (2424 – Cuba).

5^th/7^th – 6/9 pts. - GM Luis Manuel Perez Rodriguez (2348 - Cuba); Hughes Masse ((2168); CM Taira Tyler Tanaka ((2109); WIM Junior Girl Maili-Jade Ouellet (2079).

Favourites/Dark Horses (Non-leaders): 6

5.5/9 pts. - FM Olivier-Kenta Chiku-Ratte (2364); IM David Cummings (2340); IM Raymond Kaufman (2301); Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux (2257); Vahan Voskanyan (2205); Nicolas Soudre (2086); Ananda Saha (2059) ; Woman Player WFM Alexandra Botez (2040).

5/9 pts. - Qiuyu Huang (2181); Kevin Zhong (2039); Louis Robichaud (2026).

4.5/7 pts. –Dario Leonel Martinez Mulet (2123);Valentin Prahov (2055); Jason Manley (2025).

Full Results

See Chess-Results website (Canada): http://chess-results.com/fed.aspx?lan=1&fed=CAN

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Bob's Blog – Some History

For a number of years now, I have been posting my chess blog:

i) on my personal Facebook Account for my almost 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:

i) on 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 – Toronto (Prior to Christmas - Dec. 14-16/18) - Blogged;
2. The 2019 Hart House Reading Week Open – Toronto (February 16-18 – Only one short blog – having manic phase).
3. The 2019 Quebec Open – Longueuil (Next to Montreal) (July 21-7).
4. The 2019 Toronto Open (Aug. 31 – Sept. 2)

The National Canadian French Chess Discussion Board

Henri Hughes, a member of both the national English and French chess discussion boards (Chess Talk; Parlons Échecs), volunteers, subject to demands of his school studies, to translate my blogs into French, and post them to Parlons Échecs, also owned by Henry Lam. 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 sometimes 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.

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Invitation

I am most happy to interact with readers re anything about which I have posted.....so react, comment, reply, post, etc. - both favourable comments and constructive criticism....I will do my best to respond to everyone, so long as I am where I have access to the internet.

And if some of the players, or non-players, wish to post something to supplement the blog, you are encouraged to do so.

So jump in with both feet, and we'll all enjoy the blogging adventure!

Bob A