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WHEN: Friday, November 12th 2010 at 8pm sharp! Registration starts @ 7p.m.
WHERE: 100 Main Street West, Hamilton, ON.
Board of Education Building, free parking at the back of the building. Entrance through the service ramp doors in the back and at end of hall turn right.
ENTRY FEE: Two dollars for Hamilton City Chess Club members. Additional day membership for non HCCC members
PRIZES: Based on Entries
TIME CONTROL: 5min, double round (two games per opponent, one game white, one game black)
I agree with you Garvin. This will be a very strong blitz tourney! :)
Just look at the line-up:
FM Doug Bailey (who finishes at top or in top 3 of Vlad's blitz tournaments,
and they are very strong)
Dave Begory (very strong expert and strong blitz player)
Gordong Gooding (current Hamilton City Club Champion and extremely
strong blitz player)
Razven Preotu (one of top U12 juniors in Canada! :D)
Bob Gillanders (our Current CFC President)
Good luck to participants. This event is open to everyone. Players out of town welcome to join us!
Thanks to all who participated in the Hamilton Blitz tourney on Nov 12. It was in my opinion a success. Thanks for the help from Mikhail Egorov,Garvin Nunes and Rene Preotu. There were twenty two participants, some coming from as far as Niagara Falls to shoot it out on the board. At the end of the fury, first place was jointly taken by Mikhail Egorov and Dave Begorday and third place was taken by yours truly :D. There was strong competition in a light hearted atmosphere. A very pleasant tourney indeed. We might do this in Feb next year. See you then ;)
Talented Juniro Razve Proetu proved proved himself big on the chess board. First he received a top junior in Hamilton City Club Championship for his outstanding performance. He also tied for 2nd and was ahead FM Doug Bailey by half a point. His only loss in the whole tournament was to 2010 Hamilton City Club Champion – Gordon Gooding.
In Hamilton City Blitz Championship he proved himself once again. He started with 2 out of 2 and stayed on top board for 3 rounds. Against co-winners of the tournament he scored 1.5 out of 2 (draw against myslelf and win against Expert Dave Begoray). His win against Expert Alex Friedman was very impressive. hey arrived to the following position (please see diagram below), where Alex was white and Razven was black. Alex had 1 min. 40 sec. left on his clock and Razven 45 seconds. Razven just played Nb3. With only 45 seconds left, talented junior manages to convert it into winning king and pawn endgame and take full point home.
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