Calgary-Saskatchewan match on FICS

[Vlad Rekhson]

Here is a message from team Calgary director-Tony Ficzere:

4 players from the Calgary Chess Club will battle it out against 4 players
from Saskatchewan this Saturday live on FICS: www.freechess.org The rate of play will be game in
120 + 30 second increments. The match will be CFC rated. The losing team will
pay the rating fees.

Here is the line-up for this historic battle. The name after the rating is the
plays FICS handle. We should know all handles by tomorrow night:

Team Calgary
Board 1: Dale Haessel (2266) dhaessel
Board 2: Roy Yearwood (2188)
Board 3: Vlad Rekhson (2133) vrekhson
Board 4: Krishneel Singh (1604) ThePsycal
Team average: 2048

Team Saskatchewan
Board 1: Robert Sasata (2384)
Board 2: Keith MacKinnon (2338)
Board 3: Jamin Gluckie (2134)
Board 4: Jason Xiao (1483)
Team average: 2085

I will be the arbiter for Team Calgary. 3 of our boards will be playing at the
Calgary Chess Club. A last minute glitch has Vlad playing in Edmonton for us.
Jamin will act as arbiter for Team Saskatchewan.

Anybody can watch the games for free. All you need do is download a FICS
interface (Babaschess is the best one to use and set it to one of the blitzen
modes). You also need to sign up for an account. Its easy and most importantly,
its free (didn't I say that).

The games start at 9 am this Saturday. Just search for the handles to find the
games.

Go Calgary!

[Tony Ficzere]

Re: Calgary-Saskatchewan match on FICS

Here again are the teams with handles:

Team Calgary
Board 1: Dale Haessel (2266) dhaessel
Board 2: Roy Yearwood (2188) RYearwood
Board 3: Vlad Rekhson (2133) vrekhson
Board 4: Krishneel Singh (1604) ThePsycal
Team average: 2048

Team Saskatchewan
Board 1: Robert Sasata (2384) Penguindoo
Board 2: Keith MacKinnon (2338) Atomicfrost
Board 3: Jamin Gluckie (2134) Gluckie
Board 4: Jason Xiao (1483) Checkmatewiz
Team average: 2085

[Tony Ficzere]

Re: Calgary-Saskatchewan match on FICS

A couple of problems getting started but the games are underway. Note the different handles for Haessel and Krishneel. Also, the internet connection at the Calgary Chess Club isn't very reliable, have had a couple of disconnects so far.

Team Calgary
Board 1: Dale Haessel (2266) fritzer
Board 2: Roy Yearwood (2188) RYearwood
Board 3: Vlad Rekhson (2133) vrekhson
Board 4: Krishneel Singh (1604) krishsingh
Team average: 2048

Team Saskatchewan
Board 1: Robert Sasata (2384) Penguindoo
Board 2: Keith MacKinnon (2338) Atomicfrost
Board 3: Jamin Gluckie (2134) Gluckie
Board 4: Jason Xiao (1483) Checkmatewiz
Team average: 2085

[Tony Ficzere]

Re: Calgary-Saskatchewan match on FICS

Saskatchewan defeated Calgary in style yesterday by scoring 5.5-2.5 in the 8 games played.

In the first round things looked to be going well for Calgary. On board one,
Dale Haessel held a slight advantage with the black pieces over Robert Sasata but when it came down to the crunch and both players were playing on increment only, Robert scored the full point. I didn't see the game between Vlad and Jamin but I understand it was a strange draw. MacKinnon easily put the boots to Roy and our only bright spot was Krishneel who won over Jason.

I was pre-occupied with the junior classes that I run here at the club on
Saturdays and was unable to watch much of the match. The only game I did see was Krishneel's and he easily won over his opponent. The rest of our team all lost their second round games.

The Calgary team was plagued with connection problems throughout. I think perhaps we should look at purchasing a new wireless router to lessen this problem in future matches.

Congratulations to Saskatchewan on their excellent performance. There are rumblings about a re-match in the future.

[Dan Scoones]

Re: Calgary-Saskatchewan match on FICS

Thanks to both teams for putting on this match. It was very interesting to watch, and would have been closer if Sasata had not turned his first game around in dramatic fashion. Is it time start organizing BC vs AB?

[Tony Ficzere]

Re: Calgary-Saskatchewan match on FICS

Sure. We are a bit tight for time right now unless you would agree to play on a Thursday night. That works best for us. Drop us an email.

tficzere@telus.net