Jung-Pitre, Excelsior March 50+ tournament

[Hugh Brodie]

I must admit I was using Fritz 5, so I assume more recent versions are capable of finding 1. Kd2.

[Hugh Brodie]

I tried using Fritz to solve the problem, but it still thinks Black is winning after White's first move - and even after White's and Black's second moves....

[Hugh Brodie]

That's quite a problem. It looked to me that White had a way out by sacing his pieces, but zugzwang wins out in the end.

[Hugh Brodie]

The game isn't included in "Rubinstein's Chess Masterpieces - 100 Selected Games", a 1960 Dover book - translated by Barnie F. Winkelman; annotated...

[Hugh Brodie]

Sambuev-Noritsyn draw? Sambuev is a clear piece up. Typo? DGT problems?

[edit] Result has been changed to 1-0.

[Hugh Brodie]

Isn't 34. Be2 winning - even allowing the discovered check? Or am I missing something?

[Hugh Brodie]

Hans - if you're reading this - could you clear up the final moves of this game? Either there were DGT problems, or the players were moving the pieces...

[Hugh Brodie]

My first major out-of-town tournament was the Canadian Open at Hart House in 1968. I took the train from Montreal with Howard Streit - staying at his...

[Hugh Brodie]

In the crosstable of the Ottawa RA March Open (top section), player 33 is labelled "zzzChacon, zzzJose". Do the z's mean something in particular?...

[Hugh Brodie]

It looks like there's a glitch in the Sambuev-Tanaka (round 3) game around move 30. Maybe a piece fell over or wasn't placed correctly on the DGT boa...

[Hugh Brodie]

When I look at the crosstable of the Canadian Open 1997, I can easily pick out the names of all the GMs that played. Ottawa 2007 I could recognize about...

[Hugh Brodie]

For Swiss tournaments, no Quebec or Canadian event has come close. The 1997 Canadian Open in Winnipeg had 10 or 11 GMs about 25 years ago. (the days when...

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Minimum is 2200 as noted here:

Canadian Transnational Chess Championship (guestlist.co)

[Hugh Brodie]

Round 9 (last round):
Bator lost to GM Diplayan Ghosh (India), finishing with 6/9 - 1 1/2 points out of first. He finished tied for 8th.
Shawn...

[Hugh Brodie]

Interesting strategy! Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux (2522) led his team to victory in the Reserve (!) section, with two unrateds and a 1062 player as team members....

[Hugh Brodie]

Round 8:
Bator won - he has 6 points - still 1/2 point out of first. One player has 6 1/2.
Shawn drew - he has 5 points.
MJO won - she...

[Hugh Brodie]

Virtually no info is given in the Chessbase report, except that the writer played in it. I would have expected something on the CFC site.

[Hugh Brodie]

I'm looking for a report on the recent Canadian Universities championship held recently in Ottawa with team standings.

Anyone?

[Hugh Brodie]

Round 7: Bator drew. He has 5 points - 1/2 out of the 7-way tie for first.
Shawn lost to GM Nikolov (2480). He has 4 1/2 points....

[Hugh Brodie]

My previous post continued...

I should also mention university chess clubs – McGill had an active club when I was there. They had a...