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Just when Im thinking I know most of the tournament regulars in the area I meet 3 interesting new guys from Windsor! It seems youve got someting good going on down there.
We have some good interest among the high rated group of players in the 1900 to 2250 range and there seems to be a lot of interest among the kids at grade school level and even into high school. John Coleman, Fazle Baki and Denton Cockburn are doing a good job of giving the kids and adults opportunities to play.
I think we lose a lot of the interest once the kids get to high school because there is no high school chess league as there was when I was growing up. Every high school had a team back then (early to mid 1970s).
1. e4 {This was the last game of the tournament to finish, & there was an unsuccessful draw claim (black thought that there were sufficiently many repetitions or was about to write but not play a 3rd repetition, but might not have written the claimed (perceived sufficent repetition of) move before he wrote (and made some) move later, & white sought (but did not receive) a previous penalty that he saw awarded in a similar case of "having half the time taken away") in time trouble in this game with Fischer increments} b6 2. d4 {89} Bb7 3. Bd3 Nf6 {91} 4. Nd2 Nc6 {90} 5. c3 e5 6. Ngf3 {88} Qe7 7. O-O {86} d6 {89} 8. Qa4 {84} Nd7 {86} 9. Bb5 {79} Ncb8 10. dxe5 dxe5 {85} 11. Rd1 a6 {79} 12. Be2 {78} g6 {77} 13. Nf1 {75} b5 {69} 14. Qc2 Nc5 15. Ng3 {76} Bg7 {67} 16. b4 {67} Ne6 17. a4 {67} c6 {65} 18. Be3 {63} O-O {64} 19. h4 {64} Nd7 {63} 20. Ng5 {59} Nxg5 {56} 21. hxg5 {59} Rfd8 {51} 22. Nf1 {49} Nf8 {50} 23. Bg4 {44} Rxd1 {38} 24. Rxd1 {44} a5 25. bxa5 {40} Rxa5 26. axb5 {41} cxb5 {38} 27. Nd2 {40} Ra8 {35} 28. Nb3 {39} Rd8 {32} 29. Nc5 {37} Bc6 {30} 30. Ra1 {27} Ra8 {25} 31. Rxa8 {26} Bxa8 {26} 32. Qa2 Bc6 {23} 33. Qa6 {25} Qe8 {22} 34. Bc8 {19} Ne6 {18} 35. Bxe6 {14} fxe6 {18} 36. f3 Bf8 {17} 37. Nd3 {14} Bd6 {16} 38. Bc5 {12} Bc7 {14} 39. Nb4 {12} Bd7 40. Bd6 {7} Bd8 41. Bxe5 {6} Bxg5 {14} 42. Nd3 {5} Bc6 {11} 43. Bd4 Be7 {8} 44. Qa7 {5} Qd8 {7} 45. Ne5 {2} Be8 46. Qa6 {3} Qd6 47. Qc8 Kf8 48. Nd3 Qd7 49. Qb8 {3} Bd6 {7} 50. Qb6 {2} Qc6 {5} 51. Qa7 Qd7 52. Qa1 {2} Qc7 53. e5 Be7 54. Qc1 {1} Kg8 {4} 55. Qf4 {2} Bf8 {3} 56. Nf2 Bc6 57. Ng4 {2} Bg7 {3} 58. Qg5 {1} Qd7 {2 (minutes) recorded for the 1st repetition; no records of the time for either player occur after the white or black 60th moves} 59. Qe3 ({prior to 59 Qe3, white tried} 59. Qf4 {2} Qf7 {1} 60. Qg5 Qd7 {transposes back to the game}) 59... Qe8 60. Qd2 {(it's really move 62, so add 2 to move numbers until the next repetition)} Qd7 61. Kh2 Qe8 62. Kg3 Qd7 63. Kf2 Qc7 64. Qg5 Qd7 65. Be3 Qe8 66. Qh4 Qd7 67. Bh6 Bh8 68. Bg5 Bg7 69. Bf6 ({prior to 69 Bh6 (scoresheets indicate that this is really move 71, but the pgn format allows no easy way to modify the move number), white tried} 69. Bh6 {transposes back to the game}) 69... Bf8 70. Qg5 {(it's really move 74, so add 4 to move numbers until the next repetition)} Qa7+ 71. Kg3 Qd7 72. Kh2 Qe8 73. Nf2 Qd7 74. Nh3 Qe8 75. Nf4 Qf7 76. Ne2 Bd5 77. Qh4 Bc5 78. Nf4 Bc4 79. Nh3 Qd7 80. Ng5 Bd5 81. Qf4 Bf8 82. Nh3 Qe8 83. Qh4 Qd7 84. Nf2 ({prior to 84 Nf2 (scoresheets indicate that this is really move 88, but the pgn format allows no easy way to modify the move number), white tried} 84. Nf4 Bc4 85. Nh3 Bd5 {transposes back to the game}) 84... Qe8 {(it's really move 90, so add 8 to move numbers onwards)} 85. Ng4 Qd7 86. Bg5 Bg7 87. Bh6 Bh8 88. Nf6+ Bxf6 89. Qxf6 {it turned out that this result determined the division of a team prize fund} 1-0
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nf3 Bg7 4. g3 O-O 5. Bg2 c5 6. O-O cxd4 7. Nxd4 Nc6 8. Nc3 Nxd4 9. Qxd4 d6 10. b3 Be6 11. Qd2 Qd7 12. Bb2 Bh3 13. Nd5 Bxg2 14. Bxf6 Bxd5 15. Bxg7 Kxg7 16. Qxd5 {the black scoresheet has "= ?", but the white one does not indicate an offer; the game is recorded as drawn by both players here} 1/2-1/2
Many recent games from the SWOCL area (in pgn, then zipped by chessbase, and then again in xp's zip format (as requested by Mr Brodie), not checked for consistently of Russian <--> English character name conventions or hyphens in names, etc - unlike the cbv format, pgn is a bit more raw to work with, Mr Bond, Mr von Keitz, Mr Jung & Mr McDonald (organizers) as well as players are those to thank for allowing the scoresheets to be released for interested parties seeking the majority of the top games) in the 2010-1 season. The file is large, & some of the secondary section games had to be removed for space reasons. Many will have been seen at chesstalk by now, or at least have been seen by spectators wanting to publicly see games with free admission to fairly publicly populated places like universites or town halls.
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