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15. Yu, Rhinna (1301) – (not sure of Prov.) - Dark Horse – 1 /2.
fyi, Rinna Yu, a 11 years old girl from British Columbia
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Day 2/Rds. 2 & 3 – July 14, 2013
(Rd. 1 @ 10:30 AM; Rd. 2 @6:30 PM)
Starting the Day Off Right – The Wee Hours of the Morning
Well, I can’t say the day started off OK. You may wonder what I’m dong back! Early this morning, shortly after midnight, I posted my Day 1 blog, and then “quit”. My problem was using Mario’s laptop – I have almost never used one, and I found my adaptation quite slow, and there were a few little glitches happening because I kept dragging the palm of my hand over the pointer pad when typing. And we weren't sure how to disable it. I also may have been a bit tired this morning, since I had only 3 hours sleep that morning, and I just got too frustrated to continue. Anyway, I got the blog posted just before midnight, and went to bed about 1:00 AM. Mario stayed up using his laptop after I left ‘til about 1:30 AM.
So why am I back?? Read on.
The Morning
I had made plans with Mario to call me at 8:00 AM to wake me since I hadn’t brought an alarm clock. But since I am into tournament sleeping/non-sleeping mode, I found myself awake at 5:30 AM ( 4 ½ hrs. sleep). So I got dressed, etc. and at 6:30 AM headed out to the Second Cup in the neighbourhood. They didn’t open ‘til 7:00 AM. But I got my coffee, and then came back to the air-conditioned residence reception area to wait ‘til 8:00 AM to go to my room. In the meantime saw an elderly Japanese group head out on a bus tour, and talked to a guy organizing about 50 kids to go white-water rafting. Told him I was doing something MORE exciting….a chess tournament!! LOL He got a charge out of that one – asked that I not tell his group, so he didn’t lose too many of them. Then went to my room and Mario called and we agreed to meet in the lobby @ 8:30 AM.
Breakfast
We then headed west on Laurier toward the playing hall, and found a Timmy’s on the way for breakfast. When we were finished, another club member, also staying at the residence, came by, saw us, and joined us – Doug Gillis. Just so happens that Mario and Doug were playing in the 2nd round. Then on the way to the hall, another Torontonian, Mike Dougherty, joined us.
The Favourites and the Dark Horses
I am going to refer to the 1500’s as the Favourites, and the 1400’s as the Dark Horses (if lower-rated’s float up, I will add them to the Dark Horses).
Favourites (1500’s):
1.Macneil, Conrad (1598) – NS
2.Armstrong, Robert J. (1590) – ON
3.Ding, Jill (1585) - BC
4.Selling, Edward (1579) – (not sure)
5.Nguyen Quoc, Phap (1577) – VIE
6.Nguyen Quoc, Ky (1571) - VIE
7.Eyre, Keven (1536) – ON
8.Lee, Melissa (1534) – ON
9.Thomson, Bruce (1528) - ON
10.Zhang, Jeff (1500) – ON
“Dark Horses” (1400’s):
11.Maurice Smith (1494) – ON
12.Kevin Low (1484) – BC
13.Ashley Tapp (1481) – BC
14.Lee, Frank (1471) – ON
15.Dhaliwal, Jatinder (1461) – ON
16.Murray, Brian (1459) – ON
The U 1600 Leaders & Rd. 2
After Rd. 1, the U 1600’s had two players with a point. Ashley Tapp (1481) of BC, one of my dark horses and Rinna Yu (1301), who I’ll now add to the Dark Horses. One Dark Horse get a draw, Kevin. Two favourites, Phap and Ky, and one Dark Horse, Maurice got ½ pt. byes. All the rest lost.
Rd. 2 Punishment
For being the upstarts they were, our leaders faced some tough opposition:
Ashley (1) – James Fu (2257)
Rinna (1) – Jason Cao (2239)
Kevin (1/2) – Mike Sun (2080)
Phap, Ky and Maurice (1/2) – all took another bye.
My Rd. 2 Game
I played a line of the Benko Opening as White, that I have been experimenting with, against Brendon Lee (1870). But I made an intemperate early f4 and ended up with holes all over and a messy position. I pretty much got killed.
Standings after 2 Rounds
Ashley – 1
Rinna – 1
Phap – 1
Ky – 1
Maurice - 1
Kevin – ½
Edward – ½
Jatinder – ½
Zhang, Clark (994) – ½
With 0 Points
Favourites:
10. Macneil, Conrad (1598) – ON
11.Armstrong, Robert J. (1590) – ON
12.Ding, Jill (1585) – BC
13.Eyre, Keven (1536) – ON
14.Lee, Melissa (1534) – ON
15.Thomson, Bruce (1528) – ON
16.Zhang, Jeff (1500) – ON
“Dark Horses”
17.Lee, Frank (1471) – ON
18.Murray, Brian (1459) – ON
Lunch
Mario and I finished about 12:30 PM. For a while, I analyzed our game with my opponent, Brendon Lee – very pleasant young guy, attending university – and somewhat ahead of me on his calculations! Then Mario and I went to a local Shwarma place for lunch. It was here that Mario tried to encourage me to keep doing my blog. Though he said he did like to use his computer after the round late at night, and get his games analyzed over night, he said it would be no problem to give it to me in the morning, and I could do the day-before blog then and post it. He also suggested that I try to see if the residence reception had an extra normal keyboard I could use with the laptop, to cut down the frustration. And I could go back to the residence for the afternoon and do the first half of today’s blog, to get part done today. He would just go back and watch the remaining Rd. 2 games.
So for those of you who thought you were rid of me, you can blame Mario. I returned to the residence, but no extra keyboard at reception. So, I decided to try the laptop again, and see if I could handle it better, when a bit less tired. It wasn’t quite as bad, though still very slow. But I persisted and did get this first half done.
Rd. 3 Pairings for the Leaders
Dydak Mateusz (1975) vs Ashley
Amos Kuttner (1946) vs Rinna
Edward vs Jacob Krolczyk (1909)
Jeffrey Xu (1862) vs Jatinder
Kevin vs Guy Piche (1745)
Clark vs Konstantin Vlasenko (1660)
Phap, Ky and Maurice took their third byes.
Back to the Hall
When I finished the first part of this blog in the afternoon, I then went for a little walk in a near-by park, and then headed for the hall for Rd. 3. I was playing up for the third time (which is fine with me!) – Saeid Sadeghi (1978).
Leaders After 3 Rounds
1 ½ /3
Nguyen Quoc, Phat (1577) – 3 byes - Favourite
Nguyen Quoc, Ky (1571) - 3 byes - Favourite
Smith, Maurice (1494) – 3 byes – Dark Horse
Here are the other Favourites (1500's):
1. Macneil, Conrad (1598) – NS – 0/2
2. Armstrong, Robert J. (1590) – ON -0/2
3. Ding, Jill (1585) – BC - 0/2
4. Selling, Edward (1579) – (not sure of Prov.) - ½ /2
5. Eyre, Keven (1536) – ON - 0/2
6. Lee, Melissa (1534) – ON - 0/2
7. Thomson, Bruce (1528) – ON – 0/2
8. Zhang, Jeff (1500) – ON – 0/2
Here are the other Dark Horses (1400's):
9. . Low, Kevin – 1484 – BC - ½ /2
10. Tapp, Ashley – 1481 – BC - 1/2
11. Lee, Frank – 1471 – ON - 0/2
13. Dhaliwal, Jatinder – 1461 – ON - ½ /2
14. Murray, Brian – 1459 – ON – May have withdrawn – not sure yet.- 0/1
15. Yu, Rhinna (1301) – (not sure of Prov.) - Dark Horse – 1 /2.
16. Zhang, Clark (1105) – (not sure of Prov.) – Dark Horse - ½ /2
Miscalculation
Mario and I had both finished Rd. 2 around 11:00 PM or a bit earlier, and were chatting in the foyer to the second playing hall (the top boards were in another room). I said I needed to go check something on the wall chart outside. When I came back, Mario was not there! I looked in the playing hall – one game going still, but no Mario. Checked the hotel lobby – not there. Even checked the bathroom – nope. I had seen someone go into the top board's playing hall, and then come out, so I assumed no games still going on there. And since I couldn't find him, I decided he had maybe gone out with someone, or had headed back to the residence thinking I had left.
Nope – wrong about the top boards playing hall – one game left – and in it was NM Geordie Derraugh, who had driven up to Ottawa from Toronto with us. He was playing a GM, and down K + R vs K + N. Mario was watching it! Geordie drew – congrads! Mario, after, looked for me, and decided I had gone home, which I had. So he returned to the residence about midnight.
Rd. 3 Pairings for 3 Leaders
All 3 were taking a third bye.
Conclusion
A very efficient and enjoyable second day of the 2013 Canadian Open. Though using the laptop is still slow, if Mario can put up with me, I'll try it again tomorrow.
Invitation
I hope you enjoy my musings and fact reporting over the course of this Canadian Open. It will help to make this blog even more interesting if viewers post their responses, facts they may know, their own stories, in response to my daily material. I hope to hear from many of you as the week passes! I will try to respond whenever it seems appropriate.
(Rd. 1 @ 10:30 AM; Rd. 2 @6:30 PM)
Starting the Day Off Right – The Wee Hours of the Morning
Well, I can’t say the day started off OK. You may wonder what I’m dong back! Early this morning, shortly after midnight, I posted my Day 1 blog, and then “quit”. My problem was using Mario’s laptop – I have almost never used one, and I found my adaptation quite slow, and there were a few little glitches happening because I kept dragging the palm of my hand over the pointer pad when typing. And we weren't sure how to disable it. I also may have been a bit tired this morning, since I had only 3 hours sleep that morning, and I just got too frustrated to continue. Anyway, I got the blog posted just before midnight, and went to bed about 1:00 AM. Mario stayed up using his laptop after I left ‘til about 1:30 AM.
So why am I back?? Read on.
The Morning
I had made plans with Mario to call me at 8:00 AM to wake me since I hadn’t brought an alarm clock. But since I am into tournament sleeping/non-sleeping mode, I found myself awake at 5:30 AM ( 4 ½ hrs. sleep). So I got dressed, etc. and at 6:30 AM headed out to the Second Cup in the neighbourhood. They didn’t open ‘til 7:00 AM. But I got my coffee, and then came back to the air-conditioned residence reception area to wait ‘til 8:00 AM to go to my room. In the meantime saw an elderly Japanese group head out on a bus tour, and talked to a guy organizing about 50 kids to go white-water rafting. Told him I was doing something MORE exciting….a chess tournament!! LOL He got a charge out of that one – asked that I not tell his group, so he didn’t lose too many of them. Then went to my room and Mario called and we agreed to meet in the lobby @ 8:30 AM.
Breakfast
We then headed west on Laurier toward the playing hall, and found a Timmy’s on the way for breakfast. When we were finished, another club member, also staying at the residence, came by, saw us, and joined us – Doug Gillis. Just so happens that Mario and Doug were playing in the 2nd round. Then on the way to the hall, another Torontonian, Mike Dougherty, joined us.
The Favourites and the Dark Horses
I am going to refer to the 1500’s as the Favourites, and the 1400’s as the Dark Horses (if lower-rated’s float up, I will add them to the Dark Horses).
Favourites (1500’s):
1.Macneil, Conrad (1598) – NS
2.Armstrong, Robert J. (1590) – ON
3.Ding, Jill (1585) - BC
4.Selling, Edward (1579) – (not sure)
5.Nguyen Quoc, Phap (1577) – VIE
6.Nguyen Quoc, Ky (1571) - VIE
7.Eyre, Keven (1536) – ON
8.Lee, Melissa (1534) – ON
9.Thomson, Bruce (1528) - ON
10.Zhang, Jeff (1500) – ON
“Dark Horses” (1400’s):
11.Maurice Smith (1494) – ON
12.Kevin Low (1484) – BC
13.Ashley Tapp (1481) – BC
14.Lee, Frank (1471) – ON
15.Dhaliwal, Jatinder (1461) – ON
16.Murray, Brian (1459) – ON
The U 1600 Leaders & Rd. 2
After Rd. 1, the U 1600’s had two players with a point. Ashley Tapp (1481) of BC, one of my dark horses and Rinna Yu (1301), who I’ll now add to the Dark Horses. One Dark Horse get a draw, Kevin. Two favourites, Phap and Ky, and one Dark Horse, Maurice got ½ pt. byes. All the rest lost.
Rd. 2 Punishment
For being the upstarts they were, our leaders faced some tough opposition:
Ashley (1) – James Fu (2257)
Rinna (1) – Jason Cao (2239)
Kevin (1/2) – Mike Sun (2080)
Phap, Ky and Maurice (1/2) – all took another bye.
My Rd. 2 Game
I played a line of the Benko Opening as White, that I have been experimenting with, against Brendon Lee (1870). But I made an intemperate early f4 and ended up with holes all over and a messy position. I pretty much got killed.
Standings after 2 Rounds
Ashley – 1
Rinna – 1
Phap – 1
Ky – 1
Maurice - 1
Kevin – ½
Edward – ½
Jatinder – ½
Zhang, Clark (994) – ½
With 0 Points
Favourites:
10. Macneil, Conrad (1598) – ON
11.Armstrong, Robert J. (1590) – ON
12.Ding, Jill (1585) – BC
13.Eyre, Keven (1536) – ON
14.Lee, Melissa (1534) – ON
15.Thomson, Bruce (1528) – ON
16.Zhang, Jeff (1500) – ON
“Dark Horses”
17.Lee, Frank (1471) – ON
18.Murray, Brian (1459) – ON
Lunch
Mario and I finished about 12:30 PM. For a while, I analyzed our game with my opponent, Brendon Lee – very pleasant young guy, attending university – and somewhat ahead of me on his calculations! Then Mario and I went to a local Shwarma place for lunch. It was here that Mario tried to encourage me to keep doing my blog. Though he said he did like to use his computer after the round late at night, and get his games analyzed over night, he said it would be no problem to give it to me in the morning, and I could do the day-before blog then and post it. He also suggested that I try to see if the residence reception had an extra normal keyboard I could use with the laptop, to cut down the frustration. And I could go back to the residence for the afternoon and do the first half of today’s blog, to get part done today. He would just go back and watch the remaining Rd. 2 games.
So for those of you who thought you were rid of me, you can blame Mario. I returned to the residence, but no extra keyboard at reception. So, I decided to try the laptop again, and see if I could handle it better, when a bit less tired. It wasn’t quite as bad, though still very slow. But I persisted and did get this first half done.
Rd. 3 Pairings for the Leaders
Dydak Mateusz (1975) vs Ashley
Amos Kuttner (1946) vs Rinna
Edward vs Jacob Krolczyk (1909)
Jeffrey Xu (1862) vs Jatinder
Kevin vs Guy Piche (1745)
Clark vs Konstantin Vlasenko (1660)
Phap, Ky and Maurice took their third byes.
Back to the Hall
When I finished the first part of this blog in the afternoon, I then went for a little walk in a near-by park, and then headed for the hall for Rd. 3. I was playing up for the third time (which is fine with me!) – Saeid Sadeghi (1978).
Leaders After 3 Rounds
1 ½ /3
Nguyen Quoc, Phat (1577) – 3 byes - Favourite
Nguyen Quoc, Ky (1571) - 3 byes - Favourite
Smith, Maurice (1494) – 3 byes – Dark Horse
Here are the other Favourites (1500's):
1. Macneil, Conrad (1598) – NS – 0/2
2. Armstrong, Robert J. (1590) – ON -0/2
3. Ding, Jill (1585) – BC - 0/2
4. Selling, Edward (1579) – (not sure of Prov.) - ½ /2
5. Eyre, Keven (1536) – ON - 0/2
6. Lee, Melissa (1534) – ON - 0/2
7. Thomson, Bruce (1528) – ON – 0/2
8. Zhang, Jeff (1500) – ON – 0/2
Here are the other Dark Horses (1400's):
9. . Low, Kevin – 1484 – BC - ½ /2
10. Tapp, Ashley – 1481 – BC - 1/2
11. Lee, Frank – 1471 – ON - 0/2
13. Dhaliwal, Jatinder – 1461 – ON - ½ /2
14. Murray, Brian – 1459 – ON – May have withdrawn – not sure yet.- 0/1
15. Yu, Rhinna (1301) – (not sure of Prov.) - Dark Horse – 1 /2.
16. Zhang, Clark (1105) – (not sure of Prov.) – Dark Horse - ½ /2
Miscalculation
Mario and I had both finished Rd. 2 around 11:00 PM or a bit earlier, and were chatting in the foyer to the second playing hall (the top boards were in another room). I said I needed to go check something on the wall chart outside. When I came back, Mario was not there! I looked in the playing hall – one game going still, but no Mario. Checked the hotel lobby – not there. Even checked the bathroom – nope. I had seen someone go into the top board's playing hall, and then come out, so I assumed no games still going on there. And since I couldn't find him, I decided he had maybe gone out with someone, or had headed back to the residence thinking I had left.
Nope – wrong about the top boards playing hall – one game left – and in it was NM Geordie Derraugh, who had driven up to Ottawa from Toronto with us. He was playing a GM, and down K + R vs K + N. Mario was watching it! Geordie drew – congrads! Mario, after, looked for me, and decided I had gone home, which I had. So he returned to the residence about midnight.
Rd. 3 Pairings for 3 Leaders
All 3 were taking a third bye.
Conclusion
A very efficient and enjoyable second day of the 2013 Canadian Open. Though using the laptop is still slow, if Mario can put up with me, I'll try it again tomorrow.
Invitation
I hope you enjoy my musings and fact reporting over the course of this Canadian Open. It will help to make this blog even more interesting if viewers post their responses, facts they may know, their own stories, in response to my daily material. I hope to hear from many of you as the week passes! I will try to respond whenever it seems appropriate.
fyi, Rinna Yu, a 11 years old girl from British Columbia
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