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The Round-9 games and the late-scheduled Round-8 should be up soon. Not sure that there are going to be any Reserve games posted, though.
Some young juniors prefer not to have their games published - their parents claim it puts Canada at a disadvantage in international events. Not sure how many of the Reserve juniors fall into that category, but we thought most of the interest would be in the Championship games anyway.
Some young juniors prefer not to have their games published - their parents claim it puts Canada at a disadvantage in international events.
If that was the way all people felt - there would be no games published anywhere in the world! Why are we at a disadvantage? We can look at their games too - for instance, all the games from the recent German and French youth championships are available to the world.
I don't think I've met anyone who cared whether their games were published or not.
Scarborough Chess Club collects its tournament games, gives the tournament database back to all members, and forwards it to Hugh, to add to Canbase.
But I did have one parent who refused their child's handing in of their tournament games, for the reason that they did not want to present games for public knowledge, that opponents could use to prepare against them. But that was only one out of many, many top junior SCC players who do faithfully hand them in each week.
I agree with you. Games should be published and people shouldn't hide their own games.
Having said that, I actually know MANY people who do not want their games published anywhere, at all. I don't get it. What does a person learn from winning multiple games the exact same way? If these games are served for others to prepare, use it to one's advantage being better prepped in that line, or side-stepping it if it doesn't match what the new opponents normally play. Games available to others are also available to one-self (naturally). I've known several players who search their own games with regularity to verify what their opponents must be looking at. I would think that the more games one has published, the more work has to be done to remain on top of one self's game, thus improving as opposed to re-using something cheaply.
Then again, I am an amateur who plays hundreds of games and change my openings all the time, not taking my chess play all that seriously.
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