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Good morning everyone! Hope you all had a great Xmas and that Santa had you in his good books :).
So we are set to start at 10 am today.
I picked up Richard Wang and his dad at the airport last night (Anyone who has been to the Canadian Chess Challenge knows that I love being the chauffeur at these events LOL). The tidbit from our chat that I will share with you is that Richard was born in...Sudbury Ontario, although he has spent most of his life in Edmonton.
Francis Rodrigues, Gary Rodrigues, Yuri Mamshev and I set up the playing hall yesterday. Francis was directing the troops...when I leave the Chess<n Math Association I hope some one like him takes over...he is awesome!
This is our first time using the Monroi system so we ask you for your patience. Our office is across the street from the playing site so we will keep you up to speed here at Chesstalk.
Good morning everyone! Hope you all had a great Xmas and that Santa had you in his good books :).
So we are set to start at 10 am today.
I picked up Richard Wang and his dad at the airport last night (Anyone who has been to the Canadian Chess Challenge knows that I love being the chauffeur at these events LOL). The tidbit from our chat that I will share with you is that Richard was born in...Sudbury Ontario, although he has spent most of his life in Edmonton.
Francis Rodrigues, Gary Rodrigues, Yuri Mamshev and I set up the playing hall yesterday. Francis was directing the troops...when I leave the Chess<n Math Association I hope some one like him takes over...he is awesome!
This is our first time using the Monroi system so we ask you for your patience. Our office is across the street from the playing site so we will keep you up to speed here at Chesstalk.
Thanks for dropping by :)
Larry
The round started at 10 am sharp. We hope to have games available on the Monroi site by 11 am.
Am I the only one who cannot access the games at Monroi?
Hi John,
I am being told that it doesn't work consistantly with Explorer but if you use a different browser it should be fine. It is working fine for us with Chrome.
I am being told that it doesn't work consistantly with Explorer but if you use a different browser it should be fine. It is working fine for us with Chrome.
Larry
I'm using Google Chrome. I just tried IE and no work.
Razvan Preotu played 5. Qe2, Wormald Attack in the Ruy Lopez. Monroi incorrectly shows an American flag next to his name.
The round started at 10 am sharp. We hope to have games available on the Monroi site by 11 am.
Andrei Botez was the only brave soul to predict results for the first round. Here is what he predicted:
My prevision for round 1:
Qin Zi Yi (joey) 0-1 Wang Richard
Song Michael .5-.5 Kleinman Michael
Preotu Razvan 1-0 Szalay Karoly
Sapozhnikov Roman .5-.5 Kraiouchkine Nikita
Jiang Louie 1-0 Chiku-Ratte Olivier Kenta
and the results were:
Qin Zi Yi (joey) .5-.5 Wang Richard ....Andrei 0
Song Michael 0-1 Kleinman Michael ....Andrei 0
Preotu Razvan .5-.5 Szalay Karoly ....Andrei 0
Sapozhnikov Roman Still playing Kraiouchkine Nikita ....Andrei 1
Jiang Louie .5-.5 Chiku-Ratte Olivier Kenta.... Andrei 0
Andrei Botez was the only brave soul to predict results for the first round. Here is what he predicted:
My prevision for round 1:
Qin Zi Yi (joey) 0-1 Wang Richard
Song Michael .5-.5 Kleinman Michael
Preotu Razvan 1-0 Szalay Karoly
Sapozhnikov Roman .5-.5 Kraiouchkine Nikita
Jiang Louie 1-0 Chiku-Ratte Olivier Kenta
and the results were:
Qin Zi Yi (joey) .5-.5 Wang Richard ....Andrei 0
Song Michael Still playing Kleinman Michael ....Andrei ?
Preotu Razvan Still playing Szalay Karoly ....Andrei ?
Sapozhnikov Roman Still playing Kraiouchkine Nikita ....Andrei ?
Jiang Louie .5-.5 Chiku-Ratte Olivier Kenta.... Andrei 0
Hard to predict when you don't have all the data. Important info like: "Richard was born in ON" or that Larry will drive them from the airport... what can I say...I will try to do better next round!
Your son seemed to have a clear advantage after 17.Ne4. Black seemed much worst.
He then moved his pieces around for the next 10-15 moves without a clear plan. On move 32 he made a blunder with Rc1; simplifying to a drawn endgame where Black missed 41...Rb8 with the better side of a fairly equal endgame.
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