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Hello everyone,
I would like to congratulate everyone who participated this year in OYCC last weekend. There was a lot of competitive chess played.Also I would like to thank all volunteers who helped organizing this year event. Congratulation to Leslie Armstrong and IA Patrick McDonald, who managed to make it a very smooth and enjoyable event. This was my first year volunteering and I had a pleasure TDing grade 12. Very well behaved group of guys lead by juniors Shyam Thavandiran and Aman Hambleton, who had to play a very fantastic
playoff match to decide a winner.
The only thing that needs to be improved is checking make sure each clock is working correctly before tournament starts. I would suggest labeling clocks that do not work correctly. This incident happened during a first playoff game between Aman and Shyam with delay time control. By move 12 where Shyam had 53 seconds left and started to play quickly and realized that delay did not work. I had to pause a clock and with confirmationof IA Patrick add 2 minutes to each side. I think this destructed Aman and after game resumed he made a mistake which lost him an exchange.
[Event "Ontario Chess Challange Grade 12 Playoffs"]
[Site "Toronto"]
[Date "2010.05.16"]
[Round "Playoff game 1"]
[White "Aman Hambleton" 2308]
[Black "Shyam Thavandiran " 2460]
[Result "*"]
[EventDate "2010.05.16"]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 O-O 5.Bg5 (14:00) Nc6 (9:39) 6.e3 (12:37) Re8 (9:09) 7.Bd3 (7:00) h6 (9:01) 8.Bxf6 (6:51) Qxf6 (9:00) 9.Ne2 (Nge2) Bf8 (6:59) 10.a3 (6:42) d6 (a6) 11.O-O (6:13) e5 (6:44) 12.Rad1 (4:06) Kh8 (5:16) 13.Nd5 (2:50) Qd8 (5:13) 14.Rfe1 (2:44) g6 (4:55) 15.Qc3 (1:40) Bg7 (4:50) 16.b4 (1:40) Bg4 (4:19) 17.f3 (:55) Bd7 (4:19) 18.Bb1 (:55) Rc8 19.b5 (:53) Ne7 20.Nxe7 Qxe7 21.a4 Qg5 22.Qd2 exd4 23.exd4 Qxd2 24.Rxd2 c5 25.dxc5 Bc3 26.Nxc3 Rxe1+ 27.Kf2 Rc1 28.Rc2 Rxc2+ 29.Bxc2 Rxc5 30.Bd3 f5 31.Ke3 Be6 32.Kd4 b6 33.f4 Kg7 34.Nb1 d5 35.Nd2 Kf6 36.Nb3 dxc4 37.Nxc5 bxc5+ * White Resigned 1-0
[Event "Ontario Chess Challange Grade 12 Playoffs"]
[Site "Toronto"]
[Date "2010.05.16"]
[Round "Playoff game2"]
[White "Shyam Thavandiran " 2460]
[Black "Aman Hambleton" 2308]
[Result "*"]
[EventDate "2010.05.16"]
1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 c5 3.d5 b5 4.a4?! Qa5+?! 5.Bd2 b4 6.c4 d6 7.Qc2 Nbd7 8.e4 g6 9.h3 Bg7 10.Bd3 Bb7 11.Ra2 O-O 12.O-O e5 13.b3 Nh5 14.g3 Rae8 15.Bc1 Bc8 16.Kg2 Nb6 17.Re1 Bd7 18.Qd1 Nc8 19.Rae2 Qc7 20.Ng1 f5 21.f3 Qd8 22.Nd2 Bh6 23.Nf1 Bxc1 24.Qxc1 f4 25.g4 Ng7 26.Qd1 h5 27.Nh2 Kf7 28.Kf1 Rh8 29.Rg2 hxg4 30.fxg4 Ne7 31.Nhf3 Ng8 32.Ke2 Kf8 33.Kd2 Qf6 34.Kc2 Ne7 *
1-0
White on went on to win on move 70, after a lot of adventures. Aman took Shyam to the limit and almost pulled off a sudden death playoff. Game ended up the endgame where Aman down a piece managed to 4 pawns for it. Both players had 9 seconds left with delay time control. Aman got mated at the end with rock and knight. I liked Aman choice of Presudo-Benoni to play for a win against an opponent who desired a draw in this game. This was definitely best playoff game I saw in a while. I checked the theory on this line and move 4.a4 is given ?! and Qa5 ?! is considered dubious. Recommended line with advantage for black goes:
4.a4?! Bb7! 5.e4 Nxe4 6. axb5 a6! 7. Ra4?! Nf6 8. Nc3? axb5 9. Rxa8 Bxa8 10.Bxb5 Nxd5 11. Nxd5 Bxd5 12. Qxd5 Qa5+ 13. Bd2 Qxb5
14. Ne5 e6 15. Qf3 f6 16. Qh5+ Ke7 17. Nd3 Na6 18. 0-0 g6 19. Qh4 c4! 20. Nf4 Bg7 21. Bc3 Nx5 22. Re1 Kf7 23. Qh3 Qc6 24. Bd4 Ne4
25. Qe3 Ra8! -+
I would like to apologize to Liam Henry for not posting these games earlier.
I would like to congratulate everyone who participated this year in OYCC last weekend. There was a lot of competitive chess played.Also I would like to thank all volunteers who helped organizing this year event. Congratulation to Leslie Armstrong and IA Patrick McDonald, who managed to make it a very smooth and enjoyable event. This was my first year volunteering and I had a pleasure TDing grade 12. Very well behaved group of guys lead by juniors Shyam Thavandiran and Aman Hambleton, who had to play a very fantastic
playoff match to decide a winner.
The only thing that needs to be improved is checking make sure each clock is working correctly before tournament starts. I would suggest labeling clocks that do not work correctly. This incident happened during a first playoff game between Aman and Shyam with delay time control. By move 12 where Shyam had 53 seconds left and started to play quickly and realized that delay did not work. I had to pause a clock and with confirmationof IA Patrick add 2 minutes to each side. I think this destructed Aman and after game resumed he made a mistake which lost him an exchange.
[Event "Ontario Chess Challange Grade 12 Playoffs"]
[Site "Toronto"]
[Date "2010.05.16"]
[Round "Playoff game 1"]
[White "Aman Hambleton" 2308]
[Black "Shyam Thavandiran " 2460]
[Result "*"]
[EventDate "2010.05.16"]
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.Qc2 O-O 5.Bg5 (14:00) Nc6 (9:39) 6.e3 (12:37) Re8 (9:09) 7.Bd3 (7:00) h6 (9:01) 8.Bxf6 (6:51) Qxf6 (9:00) 9.Ne2 (Nge2) Bf8 (6:59) 10.a3 (6:42) d6 (a6) 11.O-O (6:13) e5 (6:44) 12.Rad1 (4:06) Kh8 (5:16) 13.Nd5 (2:50) Qd8 (5:13) 14.Rfe1 (2:44) g6 (4:55) 15.Qc3 (1:40) Bg7 (4:50) 16.b4 (1:40) Bg4 (4:19) 17.f3 (:55) Bd7 (4:19) 18.Bb1 (:55) Rc8 19.b5 (:53) Ne7 20.Nxe7 Qxe7 21.a4 Qg5 22.Qd2 exd4 23.exd4 Qxd2 24.Rxd2 c5 25.dxc5 Bc3 26.Nxc3 Rxe1+ 27.Kf2 Rc1 28.Rc2 Rxc2+ 29.Bxc2 Rxc5 30.Bd3 f5 31.Ke3 Be6 32.Kd4 b6 33.f4 Kg7 34.Nb1 d5 35.Nd2 Kf6 36.Nb3 dxc4 37.Nxc5 bxc5+ * White Resigned 1-0
[Event "Ontario Chess Challange Grade 12 Playoffs"]
[Site "Toronto"]
[Date "2010.05.16"]
[Round "Playoff game2"]
[White "Shyam Thavandiran " 2460]
[Black "Aman Hambleton" 2308]
[Result "*"]
[EventDate "2010.05.16"]
1.d4 Nf6 2.Nf3 c5 3.d5 b5 4.a4?! Qa5+?! 5.Bd2 b4 6.c4 d6 7.Qc2 Nbd7 8.e4 g6 9.h3 Bg7 10.Bd3 Bb7 11.Ra2 O-O 12.O-O e5 13.b3 Nh5 14.g3 Rae8 15.Bc1 Bc8 16.Kg2 Nb6 17.Re1 Bd7 18.Qd1 Nc8 19.Rae2 Qc7 20.Ng1 f5 21.f3 Qd8 22.Nd2 Bh6 23.Nf1 Bxc1 24.Qxc1 f4 25.g4 Ng7 26.Qd1 h5 27.Nh2 Kf7 28.Kf1 Rh8 29.Rg2 hxg4 30.fxg4 Ne7 31.Nhf3 Ng8 32.Ke2 Kf8 33.Kd2 Qf6 34.Kc2 Ne7 *
1-0
White on went on to win on move 70, after a lot of adventures. Aman took Shyam to the limit and almost pulled off a sudden death playoff. Game ended up the endgame where Aman down a piece managed to 4 pawns for it. Both players had 9 seconds left with delay time control. Aman got mated at the end with rock and knight. I liked Aman choice of Presudo-Benoni to play for a win against an opponent who desired a draw in this game. This was definitely best playoff game I saw in a while. I checked the theory on this line and move 4.a4 is given ?! and Qa5 ?! is considered dubious. Recommended line with advantage for black goes:
4.a4?! Bb7! 5.e4 Nxe4 6. axb5 a6! 7. Ra4?! Nf6 8. Nc3? axb5 9. Rxa8 Bxa8 10.Bxb5 Nxd5 11. Nxd5 Bxd5 12. Qxd5 Qa5+ 13. Bd2 Qxb5
14. Ne5 e6 15. Qf3 f6 16. Qh5+ Ke7 17. Nd3 Na6 18. 0-0 g6 19. Qh4 c4! 20. Nf4 Bg7 21. Bc3 Nx5 22. Re1 Kf7 23. Qh3 Qc6 24. Bd4 Ne4
25. Qe3 Ra8! -+
I would like to apologize to Liam Henry for not posting these games earlier.
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