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I received 2 (separate) white copies of scoresheet games. Both had no pgn header info in it, except for one of the two games: John Erickson (black). So I asked him if it was his scoresheet or who he played, identifying one scoresheet as the opponent of Aaron Both vs him. Patrick said to return white copies to players who may have wished to pick them up, & Aaron claimed his scoresheet later when he was tracked down. As for the other sheet (a separate game), we weren't sure which it was processed at - apparently until now. Patrick would have a/the white copy of that scoresheet. Bob Gillanders was showing off one of his Mississauga or Burlington games on Saturday from his Kitchener bye during the previous night, & we were not sure if it was his or many others.
Thanks for the help in identifying/correcting the games.
A couple more games are added tonight to complete the player listing, & to make sure that each player had more than a loss game on their game listing. More to come tomorrow, since tonight is a club night in KW.
Richard glew rounded out the 10-player field of the Canadian Senior Championship. The other 9 players should be featured in the games of this section. Ralph Deline of the Waterloo regional area took 1st overall with 6/7, & has the opportunity to represent Canada at the next stage of the World 2010 Senior (age 60+) championship.
Due to non-chess related employment, & receipt of merely a free hotdog (okay, a GOOD hotdog...) for scoresheet input contribution services, not all scoresheets (there's some 200+ mixed white & yellow, some unnamed scoresheet copies) have yet been uploaded. In receipt of a hotdog, I have conceded that I would not require submission of an invoice to the Organizers or CFC for a potential grant-money tendered. ;)
In another thread, Mr. Hebert recently inquired about the remaining games of the Ontario 2010 Closed. 6 out of the remaining 12 of the 13 submitted games follow below. With any luck, the other 6 may arrive by Friday. Yesterday at club night, we traded USB stick games, & Patrick MacDonald had offered to (eventually) provide a games viewer on the chessfest site.
Cheers & patience, as the Organizers would hope that you enjoy viewing the games.
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{Egorov decides to withdrawl after his 4th round; Drkulec, Kleinman, Kagramanov & Guo took 1st round byes; Wang & Guo withdrawl after round 6, assigning Kho the forced byes in rounds 5 & 7; Kagramanov had a 6th round forced bye; Liam, 1-0, vs Vladimir didn't appear in the pile from the club night, either - perhaps one of them may submit it}
The final 6 submitted of 7 games appear below for this section of this year's Chessfest. FIDE, Patrick's site at http://www.chessfest.ca/chessfest10/...dstandings.htm & http://www.chess.ca each have the cross-table up today, & was giving reference to IA MacDonald's table - but perhaps misread his meaning of the last round score entries. Perhaps IO Bond or your IA von Keitz could better answer that question.
The 3rd game has an ambiguous Knight move.
In the 1st game, a full header is submitted below, so that all of the games can be set to it in chessbase 9 (the full header takes up a bit of extra posting space to include each time). Possibly Hugh Brodie or Hal Bond or Michael von Keitz know how/who to contact at the FIDE (a pgn can be attached at the tournament cross-table for the listing), TWIC, chessbase or chess5 or other database upload sites for sharing. The Organizers would not have any problems with this issue.
Pierre Maheux went 0-1 vs Istvan Kiss in the final round, & Richard Glew drew Joe Damsic. In addition to an unsubmitted round 4 game which currently might still be evaluated in an appeal session, the reader will notice that 4 players took byes on Friday night. To wrap up the game submissions, twenty other games follow:
Last week, submissions for the 2 top sections (Ontario Closed, Canadian Senior's Championships) arrived, so see player pages such as http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=55197 to navigate (or just search for another player name sought at the main page of chessgames). At the game viewer page, one can click the opponent name (but it doesn't as of yet have a tournament [tid] page like some of their tournaments do) to navigate other similar games. Chessgames has a general policy that games in the other groups should've demonstrated that one or more players is playing > ~Expert rating - or that the game should be a real sparkling/important game.
With Organizer permission of Hal Bond, Michael von Keitz & Patrick McDonald, a total of 188 scoresheets were submitted for the drawing of lots in the 2010 Chessfest Kongress in Kitchener & have been passed along to Hugh Brodie & a couple of other local databases.
Thanks for the generally fairly readable game submissions, & generally interesting games overall.
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