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The Blitx chess tournament (speed chess) will be a 7 double round swiss (you play each opponent twice - once White and once Black) with each player having 5 minutes on the clock to finish the game. I believe the entry fee will be $20 for anyone in the CO and $25 for others. The play will start at 8 pm on July 17 and should be done within 3 hours.
The Arbiter’s Course was interesting. Stephen Boyd has had decades of experience and its interesting hearing how things are different in France. For example, if a player doesn’t show up to a game they get suspended for 3 months -- a good idea. Hal Bond was also a great assistant, contributing examples and interpretations of the FIDE rules. We learned when and when not the arbiter can intervene. With time increments there are less time scramble issues. Apparently in FIDE blitz chess chopping the king is an illegal move and loses. And there was the player whose phone rang while waiting for his opponent who arrived late to win by forfeit. With a forfeit there can also be a 0-1/2 result.
We hand-paired a small tournament and I struggled with colour alteration being more important than top half versus bottom half. We also looked at calculating ratings and norms and tie-breaks, the latter used for prizes in Europe. Zeljka also demonstrated the MonRoi program.
The class of 14 took the 4-hour open-book exam and I don’t know how many passed. But it was an excellent way of learning the rules; Having a specific problem and looking up the rules.
Hans Jung played a 5-board blindfold simult and had a few blind spots, scoring 2.5-2.5.
Before the round Brian Fiedler read out his 24 question quiz. 89 players tried it. The winners were Hans Jung and Dave Lawless with 20. Hans was one of the winners at last year’s Toronto Open trivia quiz.
With 19 were Ralph Gregory, Mike Dougherty, and Brad Willis.
With 18 was Ralph McCleary.
With 17 were David Southam, Pino Verde, and Michael Barron.
The Arbiter?s Course was interesting. Stephen Boyd has had decades of experience and its interesting hearing how things are different in France. For example, if a player doesn?t show up to a game they get suspended for 3 months -- a good idea. Hal Bond was also a great assistant, contributing examples and interpretations of the FIDE rules. We learned when and when not the arbiter can intervene. With time increments there are less time scramble issues. Apparently in FIDE blitz chess chopping the king is an illegal move and loses. And there was the player whose phone rang while waiting for his opponent who arrived late to win by forfeit. With a forfeit there can also be a 0-1/2 result.
We hand-paired a small tournament and I struggled with colour alteration being more important than top half versus bottom half. We also looked at calculating ratings and norms and tie-breaks, the latter used for prizes in Europe. Zeljka also demonstrated the MonRoi program.
The class of 14 took the 4-hour open-book exam and I don?t know how many passed. But it was an excellent way of learning the rules; Having a specific problem and looking up the rules.
Hans Jung played a 5-board blindfold simult and had a few blind spots, scoring 2.5-2.5.
Before the round Brian Fiedler read out his 24 question quiz. 89 players tried it. The winners were Hans Jung and Dave Lawless with 20. Hans was one of the winners at last year?s Toronto Open trivia quiz.
With 19 were Ralph Gregory, Mike Dougherty, and Brad Willis.
With 18 was Ralph McCleary.
With 17 were David Southam, Pino Verde, and Michael Barron.
The average was 11.
What questions in the exam you find more difficult?
Thanks
Andrei
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Last edited by Andrei Botez; Monday, 9th May, 2011, 08:18 AM.
Re: 2010 Canadian Open Chess Championship SIDE EVENTS
The day started off with a lecture by GM Gagunashvili on rook and pawn endings with alot of time analysizing a passed b pawn with 3 pawns each on the kingside.
The school ended yesterday with a tournament, and a couple of the Island counsellors played in it. The camp exceeded the expectations of the students. Great work by Ted and Aris.
There was a double answer to the trivia quiz so revised top list:
21 Hans Jung
20 David Lawless, Brad Willis, Mike Dougherty, Ralph Gregorz
18 Rick McCleary, Michael Barron, Pino Verde
17 Dave Southam
The hardest questions were which expert chessplayer won the Order of Canada (only 22 of 89 correct), and timecontrol from the first Canadian Open (24), who was the Patriarch (32), and who won the 1978 Olympiad (32). Easiest question was which organization is celebrating its 25th anniversary (75), which world leader did not play chess (70) and Anand’s wife’s name (68).
GM McShane would like to play in the blitz, but has a big game tomorrow.
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