Hart House Holidays Open Chess Tournament – Blog
Rd. 1 - 19/12/13 (Friday)
Bob's Chess Blog # 1 [Part I of 3 parts]
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Tournament
Name: Hart House Holidays Open Chess Tournament
When: Dec. 13-15.
Format: 5- round swiss
Sections: 6: Crown (2200+); U 2200; U 1900; U 1600; U 1300; U 1000.
Registration: About 140 (Exact Number next Blog)
Time Control: G/90 + 30 sec. (From move 1)
Rating: a. All sections are CFC-rated.
b. The top 3 sections are also FIDE rated.
Playing Up: Players within 100 pts. of the floor of the section above have the option to play in the next section up – $ 20 fee.
Blog Note:
This Blog on my personal Facebook page is re-posted a few other places - so references here refer to this original Fb platform.
The Day of Rd. 1(Dec. 13)
Friday Morning
Today I am currently living in Toronto, Ontario, and so am able to play. I love to play in the Great Hall of Hart House (I am a U of T Alumni), and schedule in to be here this weekend. My first time playing there was the Canadian Open of 1968!
I awoke at 3:30 AM (!), and found my wife had not yet come to bed – on a movie tear since I came home from Scarborough Chess Club on Thursday night at 11:00 PM. I had gone to bed at 11:30 PM on Thursday – a fairly short length of sleep for me (But often during weekend tournaments I sleep much shorter, and get substantially less than my usual 6 hrs. sleep). I must monitor my sleep, not to develop a sleep deficit – with my Bi-Polar Disorder, a sleep deficit raises the odds of my entering a hypo-manic, or even a psychotic-manic, phase....not that healthy for me, and stressful for some of those around me.
My wife then showed, and I tried to sleep, but to no avail.
So I went and got my morning coffee downstairs today, as usual, to take upstairs to my home office. I do limit my caffeine intake in a day, by using 1/2 decaf & 1/2 dark roast!
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 before the template if there are any revisions you won't have read previously).
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Victim of Routine
I am retired + unemployed – life is quite fine overall - 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! I have created a monster!
My mornings tend to be pretty scripted – who isn't a victim of routine?
So I settled, this morning somewhat early, in to my comfy home office and fired up my old laptop to follow my general daily routine tasks.
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 re-post the most relevant...see below.
4. Fb Project # 1 (My Company's) - My little company (In the process of being legally incorporated, after some years of operation as an unregistered sole proprietorship) 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-Life-Consulting-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".
7. I share at least one chess post per day to my second Fb discussion club, Chess Chat (also formed under my personal Fb account) - https://www.facebook.com/groups/340524269771672/.
Bob A
Rd. 1 - 19/12/13 (Friday)
Bob's Chess Blog # 1 [Part I of 3 parts]
(See Knight Logo below)
Tournament
Name: Hart House Holidays Open Chess Tournament
When: Dec. 13-15.
Format: 5- round swiss
Sections: 6: Crown (2200+); U 2200; U 1900; U 1600; U 1300; U 1000.
Registration: About 140 (Exact Number next Blog)
Time Control: G/90 + 30 sec. (From move 1)
Rating: a. All sections are CFC-rated.
b. The top 3 sections are also FIDE rated.
Playing Up: Players within 100 pts. of the floor of the section above have the option to play in the next section up – $ 20 fee.
Blog Note:
This Blog on my personal Facebook page is re-posted a few other places - so references here refer to this original Fb platform.
The Day of Rd. 1(Dec. 13)
Friday Morning
Today I am currently living in Toronto, Ontario, and so am able to play. I love to play in the Great Hall of Hart House (I am a U of T Alumni), and schedule in to be here this weekend. My first time playing there was the Canadian Open of 1968!
I awoke at 3:30 AM (!), and found my wife had not yet come to bed – on a movie tear since I came home from Scarborough Chess Club on Thursday night at 11:00 PM. I had gone to bed at 11:30 PM on Thursday – a fairly short length of sleep for me (But often during weekend tournaments I sleep much shorter, and get substantially less than my usual 6 hrs. sleep). I must monitor my sleep, not to develop a sleep deficit – with my Bi-Polar Disorder, a sleep deficit raises the odds of my entering a hypo-manic, or even a psychotic-manic, phase....not that healthy for me, and stressful for some of those around me.
My wife then showed, and I tried to sleep, but to no avail.
So I went and got my morning coffee downstairs today, as usual, to take upstairs to my home office. I do limit my caffeine intake in a day, by using 1/2 decaf & 1/2 dark roast!
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 before the template if there are any revisions you won't have read previously).
TEMPLATE BEGINS
Victim of Routine
I am retired + unemployed – life is quite fine overall - 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! I have created a monster!
My mornings tend to be pretty scripted – who isn't a victim of routine?
So I settled, this morning somewhat early, in to my comfy home office and fired up my old laptop to follow my general daily routine tasks.
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 re-post the most relevant...see below.
4. Fb Project # 1 (My Company's) - My little company (In the process of being legally incorporated, after some years of operation as an unregistered sole proprietorship) 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-Life-Consulting-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".
- 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.
- 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 second Fb discussion club, Chess Chat (also formed under my personal Fb account) - https://www.facebook.com/groups/340524269771672/.
- Fb Project # 3 (On behalf of a religious community I am forming) - When I find them, I share religious (All Religions) posts to my religious community's Fb Page, Theist Community (https://www.facebook.com/Theist-Comm...dmin_todo_tour). Sometimes these re-posts also appear in PEERS.
- Update the discussion group formed under my community's page. It is called Spiritual/Religions Discussion Club (Or SRDC) - https://www.facebook.com/groups/2042495809374373/. I update it by sharing some more discussable of the posts now on the Theist Community page.
- Fb Project # 4 (On behalf of a political party I would like formed) – Democratic Marxist – Global – https://www.facebook.com/Democratic-...dmin_todo_tour.
- Update the discussion group formed under the political party page. It is called Democratic Marxist Global Forum – https://www.facebook.com/groups/2045...=nf&__tn__=C-R.
- I have another retiree project besides my 3 Facebook Projects.
Chess is a passionate hobby of mine, as you know. It is part of what I call my “Interlude Living”. 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 3 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
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Bob A
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