Annex Chess Club End of Summer Swiss - Blog
Rd. 3 – Monday, 19/9/9
Bob's Chess Blog # 1 [Part I of 3 parts]
(See Knight Logo below)
Club
Annex Chess Club, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
See logo below
ACC Website: http://annexchessclub.com/
ACC Fb Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/172335039452033/
Tournament # 6/19
Name: ACC End of Summer Swiss (6th regular swiss tournament in 2019).
Dates: August 19 – Sept. 23 (Closed Labour Day Holiday, September 2)
Rounds: 5
Sections: 3: Crown; U 1800; U 1400.
Section Notes:
1. The summer format is often (Depending on Registrations): Crown (1700 +); U 1700 - where there are usually fewer players; right to play up.
2. The Club Championship has only 2 sections (so lower two sections' players get to play some different opponents): Championship (1800+); Reserves (U 1800); 1700’s have option to play up and usually do.
3. For a short time in 2017, Swisses had 4 sections: Master (2200 +); U 2200; U 1800; U 1400. Players within 100 pts. had the option to play up, and most did. It was temporarily shelved because the top two sections each had too few players; it will be reconsidered if the membership grows, and gets stronger.
Registrations: 39 registrants (So far): Crown: 9; U 1800: 17; U 1400: 13 [Substantially below the 2019 average (So far) of 49; happens during the summer]. ACC tournaments do often accrue players as the tournament progresses.
Rating: All sections are CFC-rated.
Playing Up Option: Players within 100 pts. of the floor of the section above may choose to play up, and most do. No playing up fee.
Time Control: G/90 + 30 sec. (From move 1)
Joining Annex CC: Lots of room and so ACC WELCOMES all new members. You can inquire about joining at the general ACC e-mail address: info@annexchessclub.com. You can join a tournament in progress….you will get ½ pt. byes for the missed rounds (Only two).
Blog Note:
This Blog, here on my personal Facebook page, is directly re-posted to a few other places - so references here refer to this Fb platform.
The Day of Rd. 3 (19/9/9)
Early Monday Morning
Today I am currently living in Toronto. My better half is living for the next while at our hobby farm in the Southern Georgian Bay region, while I am living in Toronto for a few days....bachloring it!!
I awoke at 6:00 AM before the alarm (Went to bed Sun. night at 11:30 PM; often during tournaments I get much less than my normal night 6 hrs.). Some have asked why a sleep detail is necessary for this blog. The reason is that for my Bi-polar Disorder, a sleep deficit is somewhat dangerous; so I try to not let it happen – very difficult for me during weekend tournaments, with the Adrenalin rush.. It can put me into a Depression Phase. Worse, it can put me into a Hypo-Manic phase, which can lead to a Psychotic Manic stage. This last is difficult for me, often, to manage on my own, and I need to increase my medication to keep control.
I got my morning coffee downstairs today as usual and my cold cereal breakfast, and had both in my comfortable home office. Then I just started into my normal daily routine.
Template Note:
There are sections of this blog that are a standard “template” which I repeat in each Blog.
The template must be here for any new readers of my Blog.
So I ask my regular readers to be tolerant. If you have read the template part previously, you can skip from “Template Begins” to “Template Ends” (I will alert you immediately after the template if there are any revisions you missed).
TEMPLATE BEGINS
Victim of Routine
As usual, I then went to my home office ((I am retired + unemployed – life is fine except for my slave-driver company, Canadian Life Consulting Cooperative [Quite a mouthful, but simply put: CLCC], where I must volunteer my work time for free all day long, 24/7!); and fired up my old laptop.
My Daily Personal Project Tasks
1. Check for my e-mails and Fb messages.
2. Check new posts/comments on ChessTalk (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, Toronto Star, National Post, NBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, France 24, China Daily, Al Jezeera (English), Japan Times, Sputnik News, The Guardian, etc.). I post the most relevant...see below.
4. Fb Project # 1 (My Company's) - My little company (Not legally registered yet) is called, as said above, Canadian Life Consulting Cooperative (CLCC). So I update my company's Fb page, Canadian Life Consulting (CLC) - https://www.facebook.com/Canadian-Li...ing-16406543…/. I do this by checking my Twitter inbox for articles to re-post onto CLC. I then also check my Fb newsfeed and some of my Fb friends timelines for posts to "share".
5. Update one of the discussion groups formed under my company page, called Canadian Life Consulting Cooperative Supporters' Group (Or CLCC Supporters) - https://www.facebook.com/groups/2042495809374373/. I update it by sharing some more discussable of the posts now on the CLC page.
6. Fb Project # 2 (My Own): Update this Fb world events/politics discussion group that I have created here on my own personal Fb account, called PEERS (A Discussion Club of Equals) – https://www.facebook.com/bob.armstrong.9235. 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 share at least one chess post per day to my Fb chess discussion club, Chess Chat, formed under my personal Fb account - https://www.facebook.com/groups/340524269771672/.
8. When I find them, I share discussable religious posts to my World Religions discussion club Fb Group, Theist Community - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1052227598173591/.
Sometimes these also appear in PEERS.
9. I have another retiree project besides my 2 Facebook Projects.
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.
So on my own time, I go back and forth between the 2 Facebook projects and my chess hobby project.
My 35/25 System
As well, I go back and forth between my routine items above and my own personal life tasks to be done that day. But I have a somewhat unique system for doing this.
Recently I found that I was spending a lot more time on my three retiree projects than my normal life tasks - don't we all spend more time on what we enjoy!
But I was falling behind in "life" while keeping up in the "Fb/chess" projects. So I did have to deal with this issue.
So I came up with the "35/25 System". What this is: When I am at home, I bite the bullet and I spend 35 min. on my life tasks, which I think of as “working for myself”; I even set the alarm! Then I reward myself with 25 min. on my 3 retiree projects (Facebook [2] & Chess). I try very hard to religiously stop when I am to change phases.
This has actually worked out well....I am still abysmally behind in "Life", but not nearly as much as I used to be! LOL
TEMPLATE ENDS
[See Parts II & III below]
Bob A
Rd. 3 – Monday, 19/9/9
Bob's Chess Blog # 1 [Part I of 3 parts]
(See Knight Logo below)
Club
Annex Chess Club, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
See logo below
ACC Website: http://annexchessclub.com/
ACC Fb Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/172335039452033/
Tournament # 6/19
Name: ACC End of Summer Swiss (6th regular swiss tournament in 2019).
Dates: August 19 – Sept. 23 (Closed Labour Day Holiday, September 2)
Rounds: 5
Sections: 3: Crown; U 1800; U 1400.
Section Notes:
1. The summer format is often (Depending on Registrations): Crown (1700 +); U 1700 - where there are usually fewer players; right to play up.
2. The Club Championship has only 2 sections (so lower two sections' players get to play some different opponents): Championship (1800+); Reserves (U 1800); 1700’s have option to play up and usually do.
3. For a short time in 2017, Swisses had 4 sections: Master (2200 +); U 2200; U 1800; U 1400. Players within 100 pts. had the option to play up, and most did. It was temporarily shelved because the top two sections each had too few players; it will be reconsidered if the membership grows, and gets stronger.
Registrations: 39 registrants (So far): Crown: 9; U 1800: 17; U 1400: 13 [Substantially below the 2019 average (So far) of 49; happens during the summer]. ACC tournaments do often accrue players as the tournament progresses.
Rating: All sections are CFC-rated.
Playing Up Option: Players within 100 pts. of the floor of the section above may choose to play up, and most do. No playing up fee.
Time Control: G/90 + 30 sec. (From move 1)
Joining Annex CC: Lots of room and so ACC WELCOMES all new members. You can inquire about joining at the general ACC e-mail address: info@annexchessclub.com. You can join a tournament in progress….you will get ½ pt. byes for the missed rounds (Only two).
Blog Note:
This Blog, here on my personal Facebook page, is directly re-posted to a few other places - so references here refer to this Fb platform.
The Day of Rd. 3 (19/9/9)
Early Monday Morning
Today I am currently living in Toronto. My better half is living for the next while at our hobby farm in the Southern Georgian Bay region, while I am living in Toronto for a few days....bachloring it!!
I awoke at 6:00 AM before the alarm (Went to bed Sun. night at 11:30 PM; often during tournaments I get much less than my normal night 6 hrs.). Some have asked why a sleep detail is necessary for this blog. The reason is that for my Bi-polar Disorder, a sleep deficit is somewhat dangerous; so I try to not let it happen – very difficult for me during weekend tournaments, with the Adrenalin rush.. It can put me into a Depression Phase. Worse, it can put me into a Hypo-Manic phase, which can lead to a Psychotic Manic stage. This last is difficult for me, often, to manage on my own, and I need to increase my medication to keep control.
I got my morning coffee downstairs today as usual and my cold cereal breakfast, and had both in my comfortable home office. Then I just started into my normal daily routine.
Template Note:
There are sections of this blog that are a standard “template” which I repeat in each Blog.
The template must be here for any new readers of my Blog.
So I ask my regular readers to be tolerant. If you have read the template part previously, you can skip from “Template Begins” to “Template Ends” (I will alert you immediately after the template if there are any revisions you missed).
TEMPLATE BEGINS
Victim of Routine
As usual, I then went to my home office ((I am retired + unemployed – life is fine except for my slave-driver company, Canadian Life Consulting Cooperative [Quite a mouthful, but simply put: CLCC], where I must volunteer my work time for free all day long, 24/7!); and fired up my old laptop.
My Daily Personal Project Tasks
1. Check for my e-mails and Fb messages.
2. Check new posts/comments on ChessTalk (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, Toronto Star, National Post, NBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, France 24, China Daily, Al Jezeera (English), Japan Times, Sputnik News, The Guardian, etc.). I post the most relevant...see below.
4. Fb Project # 1 (My Company's) - My little company (Not legally registered yet) is called, as said above, Canadian Life Consulting Cooperative (CLCC). So I update my company's Fb page, Canadian Life Consulting (CLC) - https://www.facebook.com/Canadian-Li...ing-16406543…/. I do this by checking my Twitter inbox for articles to re-post onto CLC. I then also check my Fb newsfeed and some of my Fb friends timelines for posts to "share".
5. Update one of the discussion groups formed under my company page, called Canadian Life Consulting Cooperative Supporters' Group (Or CLCC Supporters) - https://www.facebook.com/groups/2042495809374373/. I update it by sharing some more discussable of the posts now on the CLC page.
6. Fb Project # 2 (My Own): Update this Fb world events/politics discussion group that I have created here on my own personal Fb account, called PEERS (A Discussion Club of Equals) – https://www.facebook.com/bob.armstrong.9235. 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 share at least one chess post per day to my Fb chess discussion club, Chess Chat, formed under my personal Fb account - https://www.facebook.com/groups/340524269771672/.
8. When I find them, I share discussable religious posts to my World Religions discussion club Fb Group, Theist Community - https://www.facebook.com/groups/1052227598173591/.
Sometimes these also appear in PEERS.
9. I have another retiree project besides my 2 Facebook Projects.
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.
So on my own time, I go back and forth between the 2 Facebook projects and my chess hobby project.
My 35/25 System
As well, I go back and forth between my routine items above and my own personal life tasks to be done that day. But I have a somewhat unique system for doing this.
Recently I found that I was spending a lot more time on my three retiree projects than my normal life tasks - don't we all spend more time on what we enjoy!
But I was falling behind in "life" while keeping up in the "Fb/chess" projects. So I did have to deal with this issue.
So I came up with the "35/25 System". What this is: When I am at home, I bite the bullet and I spend 35 min. on my life tasks, which I think of as “working for myself”; I even set the alarm! Then I reward myself with 25 min. on my 3 retiree projects (Facebook [2] & Chess). I try very hard to religiously stop when I am to change phases.
This has actually worked out well....I am still abysmally behind in "Life", but not nearly as much as I used to be! LOL
TEMPLATE ENDS
[See Parts II & III below]
Bob A
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