Ottawa's R.A. Chess Club

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    The Club held its annual general meeting on Thursday 5 May. The main items of business was the report on the year`s events.
    Two special events were held this year: simuls and lectures by SuperGMs Nigel Short (last September) and Alexei Shirov (last February). The simuls were sold out and the lectures well attended. Full reports, including video, can be found on the RA Chess Club website.
    Trophies were presented for the Club`s four major championships. The blitz championship, named in honour of the late Jerome Chyurlia, was won by Halldor Palsson who, in a fit of excess, also walked away with the active championship, named in honour of the late George Raletich. The Rodgers Memorial, named in honour of one of the founding members and six-times champion of the club, was won by John Upper. The Club Championship, which is believed to be the oldest continuous club championship in Canada, was jointly won by Joey Qin (the defending champ from last year) and Saeid Sadeghi.
    Following the business meeting, the co-chapions conducted a highly successful tandem simultaneous exhibition, losing only one game to young Ryan Yang.

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    Thanks for the update Gordon. Interesting idea to have a tandem simul. I assume that you mean multiple simuls were occurring simultaneously. What would be interesting would be to have a tandem simul in which a GM and a 1400 player alternated moves in one simul. Would their effective rating be the mean, or something higher?

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      I recall playing in another tandem simul at the RA Club back in the early 1960s when club co-champions Rodgers and Oldemeyer took the rest of us on. The way it works is simple: the givers of the simul position themselves at opposite sides of the horseshoe to begin and start in unison, rotating counter-clockwise around the room. This means, of course, that the simul-givers each play alternate moves as they move around, which is great fun when, as was the case the other night, they have very different styles. We imposed the rule that the participants had to move immediately the champion arrived at their board which made for a very brisk evening. The whole thing was over in a bit over two hours with the champions giving up one loss and three draws. It was great fun.:)

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        Re: Ottawa's R.A. Chess Club

        do you guys still have the tournaments during the summer where you can just show up on a thursday and have a rated game? I may be in ottawa the first week of July and if i can get a rated game in all the better :)

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          Re: Ottawa's R.A. Chess Club

          Originally posted by Craig Sadler View Post
          tournaments during the summer where you can just show up on a thursday and have a rated game?
          Yup. You have to be a CFC member and pay a visitor's fee ($4?).
          See the schedule here:

          http://ottawarachessclub.pbworks.com...le%202010-2011

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