1

Toronto Chess News

THE ldquoIndependentrdquo Voice for Canadian Chess

Covering Toronto Chess News and Beyond

wwwTorontoChessNewscom

ldquoChess IS Liferdquo ndash GM Bobby Fischer

Issue 2-5 ndash Nov 15 2013

2013 World Chess Championship

Anand Carlsen

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Toronto Chess News

Toronto Chess News

Table of Contents Page

Articles etc

Tournament Chess Playing Up 5

Interesting Canadian Chess Personalities ndash Vlad Drkulec 17

Teaching Classic Games of Chess - In and Out of the Outpost 42

Kenrsquos Chess Trivia 47

Malmstenrsquos Chess Pictures 51

TCN Readersrsquo Chess ldquoSightingsrdquo 51

TCN Readers Have Questions 51

TCN Readersrsquo Feedback 51

TCNrsquos ldquoReadersrsquo Opinionrdquo Column 52

Tournament Reports

2013 World Chess Championship India 6

50 Years of Toronto Rapid Chess Tournament 22

Guelph Fall Pro-Am 32

University of Waterloo Simul 37

Prince Edward Island Chess Championship 41

Organizations with News Reports

Chess Federation of Canada (CFC) 17

Greater Toronto Chess League (GTCL) 26

Annex Chess Club (ACC) 28

Willowdale Chess Club (WCC) 30

Aurora Chess Club 31

Hamilton City Chess Club 39

Kitchener-Waterloo Chess Club 40

Tournament Notices

Campbellville Open 52

CYCC Qualifier ndash Toronto 53

Hart House Holidays Open 54

Greater Toronto Chess League 2014 55

Community Bulletin Board 57

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NOTES re GAME ANALYSIS

1 I now use Fritz 132 in my game analysis a new version of my old engine It

asserts that on the opening moves 1e4 and 1d4 White immediately gets a

ldquoslightrdquo advantage It quantifies this advantage as

1 1e4 += ndash 058

2 1d4 += ndash 032

(= - 030 to 030 += 031 to 070)

My prior engine Fritz 131 also held this ndash a ldquoslightrdquo advantage

But the new engine asserts however for 1Nf3 that the position is equal

Fritz131 evaluated 1Nf3 as a ldquoslightrdquo advantage to White In this conflict I will

go with my current engine and treat it as equal

Historically these positions 1e4 and 1d4 were generally considered equal by

humans Many still dispute this ldquoslight advantagerdquo evaluation I am at this point

unsure how many chess engines also object Though W has initiative

somemany () feel Bl with the best move 1 for it equalizes However as I

understand the underlying philosophy of chess if W has a ldquoslightrdquo advantage

then Bl never can equalize as long as W does not make a mistake (a general

operational principle) So if W starts with a ldquoslightrdquo advantage and both play

perfect moves then the status quo should logically prevail to the end

However there is one factor that may challenge the computerrsquos initial assertion of

W advantage at move 1 in these two cases That is the horizon effect limitation

on computers Computers only ldquoseerdquo so far As they go deeper into a position and

game they may then see future positions that require them to change their initial

analysis It MAY be that when the perfect game is taken far enough by the

strongest chess computer in the world the engine will yet establish equality for

Black But lsquotil then I am accepting ldquoslightrdquo advantage for these two of the 20

possible opening moves

This general explanation is preferable to the annotation being in move 1 in every

game starting with these two moves (which is most of them) I am using this

format of a general explanation after the table of contents to explain this

interesting computer phenomenon (and not insert it into the actual annotated

game) In the game score I will just note the symbolic and numerical evaluation

by Fritz on these first moves I hope this small change improves the quality of

TCN for all subscribers

2 Here are the valuation signs I use in doing annotations

Slight Advantage to White +=

Slight Advantage to Black =+

Clear Advantage to White +-

Clear Advantage to Black -+

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Winning Advantage to White +-

Winning Advantage to Black -+

A dubious move - not terrible but does shift the advantage somewhat toward the

opponent ndash eg where the position is = and Ws move changes it to =+ (slight advantage

to Black)

A mistake - this shifts the valuation 2 degrees ndash eg the position is = and Ws move

shifts it to -+ (clear advantage to Bl) The move is bad because it not only shifts the

advantage to white a bit as in where it might give Bl only a slight advantage but shifts

it all the way to clear advantage to Black Similarly if the position was =+ (slight

advantage to Black) and Blacks move shifted the valuation all the way to =+ (slight

advantage to White) Again the move didnt just shift the position 1 degree to = but

actually ended up giving W a slight advantage (a movement of what I call 2 degrees of

valuation)

- a blunder - a really bad obvious mistake like hanging a piece or moving into mate

- a good move in the sense that it is somewhat surprising not immediately obvious that

it is good For example when someone sacks a lesser piece in order a move or two later

to win a more valuable piece

- a really good move that is not at all obvious and that you cant immediately see why

it is good Often an amazing sacrifice of some kind

ndash an interesting move but perhaps not quite sound

Hope this helps you to get through my Fritz analysis These are terms that Fritz

and textbooks do use but I have sort of created my own unique way of using them with

the computer I have called my new system The Comprehensive Annotation System

(CAS) Generally people have found it a very user-friendly system easy to follow the

shifts in the play as the game unfolds It is much more detailed in some ways than chess

book writers usually annotate but the feedback I have gotten is that it is not off-putting

Once people are used to it they dont find it a lot of work to follow the annotations

5

Toronto Chess News

Tournament Chess Playing Up

1st Principle Playing Stronger Players

It is commonly said that one improves most from experience if one plays stronger

players Generally we work harder and concentrate more where we feel the challenge to

us is substantial And one often hears players giving the opinion that they actually play

better chess against a stronger player even though they may eventually lose

2nd Principle Playing Weaker Players

Conversely it is felt that playing weaker players can actually hurt your game to

some extent The reason is that when you play weak moves the opponent may not be

skilled enough to punish for it So you in a sense are lulled into a sense of security that

the line of play is good when in fact it is inferior So you may have bad habits reinforced

As well a stronger player because of the rating differential may consciously or

unconsciously work less hard being somewhat over-confident of an easy win

The ldquoPlaying Uprdquo Option

Many tournaments therefore allow for these principles to operate In swiss

weekend tournaments and in most club tournaments ldquoplaying uprdquo is allowed Usually

the limitation is that the player must have a rating within 100 points of the floor of the

next section up In clubs this is generally a free option But in more and more weekend

tournaments a ldquoplaying uprdquo fee is charged And in some tournaments now the organizers

have no rating limitation but you pay for each section you are wanting to play up

Sometimes the fee is on a sliding scale ndash it gets higher for every subsequent section you

want to jump up

Many lower-rated players are satisfied to only play opponents within a 200 point

range up or down and just stay in their section But a significant minority will be found

playing up and paying the fee in many tournaments They want to play stronger

opponents

What About the Stronger Players

I have found that the response to playing up among stronger players is quite

varied

One group seems quite fine with the system as long as the weaker player is

contributing more to the prize fund of the section by paying the ldquoplaying up feerdquo Many

of these feel that a player only 100 points below the floor of the section will be good

enough to provide a decent game But even these players tend to object where there is no

rating limitation to playing up and opponents appear who may be 700 or more points

below them Though the stronger player will get a win and a point they feel a fee does

not compensate them sufficiently for the time spent on a game that is not challenging and

that often finishes early

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A second group does not really want organizers to allow ldquoplaying uprdquo even with

the 100 point limit They are concerned about the second principle elaborated above ndash the

detriment of playing weaker players Many of them find the normal sections already

allow quite a rating spread ndash for example an U 2000 section will often go down to 1600

ndash a 400 point rating spread This group thinks this spread is wide enough Players a

further 100 points down just dilute the playing strength of the section and having them

pay a ldquoplaying up feerdquo is not sufficient compensation for this detriment

What Do You Think

Do you think playing up should be allowed at all

If you do what limitations do you think should be imposed to exert some control

over the option

Send us your opinions and wersquoll publish them under our ldquoReadersrsquo Opinionrdquo

section Let us know if you are an elite player or a ldquoclassrdquo player If you favour playing

up let us know if you do avail yourself of the option when available

Invitation

TCN encourages freelancers to submit topical chess articles for our lead article

Send on your article and wersquoll review it with you with a view to using it (we may

suggest some editing but generally very minor) You will get full credit in the

publication We will also post a bit of personal information on the freelancer if they are

agreeable

INTERNATIONAL

Tournaments

World Chess Championship ndash Anand vs Carlsen

Defending champion Challenger

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Toronto Chess News

NOTES re GAME ANALYSIS

1 I now use Fritz 132 in my game analysis a new version of my old engine It

asserts that on the opening moves 1e4 and 1d4 White immediately gets a

ldquoslightrdquo advantage It quantifies this advantage as

1 1e4 += ndash 058

2 1d4 += ndash 032

(= - 030 to 030 += 031 to 070)

My prior engine Fritz 131 also held this ndash a ldquoslightrdquo advantage

But the new engine asserts however for 1Nf3 that the position is equal

Fritz131 evaluated 1Nf3 as a ldquoslightrdquo advantage to White In this conflict I will

go with my current engine and treat it as equal

Historically these positions 1e4 and 1d4 were generally considered equal by

humans Many still dispute this ldquoslight advantagerdquo evaluation I am at this point

unsure how many chess engines also object Though W has initiative

somemany () feel Bl with the best move 1 for it equalizes However as I

understand the underlying philosophy of chess if W has a ldquoslightrdquo advantage

then Bl never can equalize as long as W does not make a mistake (a general

operational principle) So if W starts with a ldquoslightrdquo advantage and both play

perfect moves then the status quo should logically prevail to the end

However there is one factor that may challenge the computerrsquos initial assertion of

W advantage at move 1 in these two cases That is the horizon effect limitation

on computers Computers only ldquoseerdquo so far As they go deeper into a position and

game they may then see future positions that require them to change their initial

analysis It MAY be that when the perfect game is taken far enough by the

strongest chess computer in the world the engine will yet establish equality for

Black But lsquotil then I am accepting ldquoslightrdquo advantage for these two of the 20

possible opening moves

This general explanation is preferable to the annotation being in move 1 in every

game starting with these two moves (which is most of them) I am using this

format of a general explanation after the table of contents to explain this

interesting computer phenomenon (and not insert it into the actual annotated

game) In the game score I will just note the symbolic and numerical evaluation

by Fritz on these first moves I hope this small change improves the quality of

TCN for all subscribers

2 Here are the valuation signs I use in doing annotations

Slight Advantage to White +=

Slight Advantage to Black =+

Clear Advantage to White +-

Clear Advantage to Black -+

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Winning Advantage to White +-

Winning Advantage to Black -+

A dubious move - not terrible but does shift the advantage somewhat toward the

opponent ndash eg where the position is = and Ws move changes it to =+ (slight advantage

to Black)

A mistake - this shifts the valuation 2 degrees ndash eg the position is = and Ws move

shifts it to -+ (clear advantage to Bl) The move is bad because it not only shifts the

advantage to white a bit as in where it might give Bl only a slight advantage but shifts

it all the way to clear advantage to Black Similarly if the position was =+ (slight

advantage to Black) and Blacks move shifted the valuation all the way to =+ (slight

advantage to White) Again the move didnt just shift the position 1 degree to = but

actually ended up giving W a slight advantage (a movement of what I call 2 degrees of

valuation)

- a blunder - a really bad obvious mistake like hanging a piece or moving into mate

- a good move in the sense that it is somewhat surprising not immediately obvious that

it is good For example when someone sacks a lesser piece in order a move or two later

to win a more valuable piece

- a really good move that is not at all obvious and that you cant immediately see why

it is good Often an amazing sacrifice of some kind

ndash an interesting move but perhaps not quite sound

Hope this helps you to get through my Fritz analysis These are terms that Fritz

and textbooks do use but I have sort of created my own unique way of using them with

the computer I have called my new system The Comprehensive Annotation System

(CAS) Generally people have found it a very user-friendly system easy to follow the

shifts in the play as the game unfolds It is much more detailed in some ways than chess

book writers usually annotate but the feedback I have gotten is that it is not off-putting

Once people are used to it they dont find it a lot of work to follow the annotations

5

Toronto Chess News

Tournament Chess Playing Up

1st Principle Playing Stronger Players

It is commonly said that one improves most from experience if one plays stronger

players Generally we work harder and concentrate more where we feel the challenge to

us is substantial And one often hears players giving the opinion that they actually play

better chess against a stronger player even though they may eventually lose

2nd Principle Playing Weaker Players

Conversely it is felt that playing weaker players can actually hurt your game to

some extent The reason is that when you play weak moves the opponent may not be

skilled enough to punish for it So you in a sense are lulled into a sense of security that

the line of play is good when in fact it is inferior So you may have bad habits reinforced

As well a stronger player because of the rating differential may consciously or

unconsciously work less hard being somewhat over-confident of an easy win

The ldquoPlaying Uprdquo Option

Many tournaments therefore allow for these principles to operate In swiss

weekend tournaments and in most club tournaments ldquoplaying uprdquo is allowed Usually

the limitation is that the player must have a rating within 100 points of the floor of the

next section up In clubs this is generally a free option But in more and more weekend

tournaments a ldquoplaying uprdquo fee is charged And in some tournaments now the organizers

have no rating limitation but you pay for each section you are wanting to play up

Sometimes the fee is on a sliding scale ndash it gets higher for every subsequent section you

want to jump up

Many lower-rated players are satisfied to only play opponents within a 200 point

range up or down and just stay in their section But a significant minority will be found

playing up and paying the fee in many tournaments They want to play stronger

opponents

What About the Stronger Players

I have found that the response to playing up among stronger players is quite

varied

One group seems quite fine with the system as long as the weaker player is

contributing more to the prize fund of the section by paying the ldquoplaying up feerdquo Many

of these feel that a player only 100 points below the floor of the section will be good

enough to provide a decent game But even these players tend to object where there is no

rating limitation to playing up and opponents appear who may be 700 or more points

below them Though the stronger player will get a win and a point they feel a fee does

not compensate them sufficiently for the time spent on a game that is not challenging and

that often finishes early

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Toronto Chess News

A second group does not really want organizers to allow ldquoplaying uprdquo even with

the 100 point limit They are concerned about the second principle elaborated above ndash the

detriment of playing weaker players Many of them find the normal sections already

allow quite a rating spread ndash for example an U 2000 section will often go down to 1600

ndash a 400 point rating spread This group thinks this spread is wide enough Players a

further 100 points down just dilute the playing strength of the section and having them

pay a ldquoplaying up feerdquo is not sufficient compensation for this detriment

What Do You Think

Do you think playing up should be allowed at all

If you do what limitations do you think should be imposed to exert some control

over the option

Send us your opinions and wersquoll publish them under our ldquoReadersrsquo Opinionrdquo

section Let us know if you are an elite player or a ldquoclassrdquo player If you favour playing

up let us know if you do avail yourself of the option when available

Invitation

TCN encourages freelancers to submit topical chess articles for our lead article

Send on your article and wersquoll review it with you with a view to using it (we may

suggest some editing but generally very minor) You will get full credit in the

publication We will also post a bit of personal information on the freelancer if they are

agreeable

INTERNATIONAL

Tournaments

World Chess Championship ndash Anand vs Carlsen

Defending champion Challenger

4

Toronto Chess News

Winning Advantage to White +-

Winning Advantage to Black -+

A dubious move - not terrible but does shift the advantage somewhat toward the

opponent ndash eg where the position is = and Ws move changes it to =+ (slight advantage

to Black)

A mistake - this shifts the valuation 2 degrees ndash eg the position is = and Ws move

shifts it to -+ (clear advantage to Bl) The move is bad because it not only shifts the

advantage to white a bit as in where it might give Bl only a slight advantage but shifts

it all the way to clear advantage to Black Similarly if the position was =+ (slight

advantage to Black) and Blacks move shifted the valuation all the way to =+ (slight

advantage to White) Again the move didnt just shift the position 1 degree to = but

actually ended up giving W a slight advantage (a movement of what I call 2 degrees of

valuation)

- a blunder - a really bad obvious mistake like hanging a piece or moving into mate

- a good move in the sense that it is somewhat surprising not immediately obvious that

it is good For example when someone sacks a lesser piece in order a move or two later

to win a more valuable piece

- a really good move that is not at all obvious and that you cant immediately see why

it is good Often an amazing sacrifice of some kind

ndash an interesting move but perhaps not quite sound

Hope this helps you to get through my Fritz analysis These are terms that Fritz

and textbooks do use but I have sort of created my own unique way of using them with

the computer I have called my new system The Comprehensive Annotation System

(CAS) Generally people have found it a very user-friendly system easy to follow the

shifts in the play as the game unfolds It is much more detailed in some ways than chess

book writers usually annotate but the feedback I have gotten is that it is not off-putting

Once people are used to it they dont find it a lot of work to follow the annotations

5

Toronto Chess News

Tournament Chess Playing Up

1st Principle Playing Stronger Players

It is commonly said that one improves most from experience if one plays stronger

players Generally we work harder and concentrate more where we feel the challenge to

us is substantial And one often hears players giving the opinion that they actually play

better chess against a stronger player even though they may eventually lose

2nd Principle Playing Weaker Players

Conversely it is felt that playing weaker players can actually hurt your game to

some extent The reason is that when you play weak moves the opponent may not be

skilled enough to punish for it So you in a sense are lulled into a sense of security that

the line of play is good when in fact it is inferior So you may have bad habits reinforced

As well a stronger player because of the rating differential may consciously or

unconsciously work less hard being somewhat over-confident of an easy win

The ldquoPlaying Uprdquo Option

Many tournaments therefore allow for these principles to operate In swiss

weekend tournaments and in most club tournaments ldquoplaying uprdquo is allowed Usually

the limitation is that the player must have a rating within 100 points of the floor of the

next section up In clubs this is generally a free option But in more and more weekend

tournaments a ldquoplaying uprdquo fee is charged And in some tournaments now the organizers

have no rating limitation but you pay for each section you are wanting to play up

Sometimes the fee is on a sliding scale ndash it gets higher for every subsequent section you

want to jump up

Many lower-rated players are satisfied to only play opponents within a 200 point

range up or down and just stay in their section But a significant minority will be found

playing up and paying the fee in many tournaments They want to play stronger

opponents

What About the Stronger Players

I have found that the response to playing up among stronger players is quite

varied

One group seems quite fine with the system as long as the weaker player is

contributing more to the prize fund of the section by paying the ldquoplaying up feerdquo Many

of these feel that a player only 100 points below the floor of the section will be good

enough to provide a decent game But even these players tend to object where there is no

rating limitation to playing up and opponents appear who may be 700 or more points

below them Though the stronger player will get a win and a point they feel a fee does

not compensate them sufficiently for the time spent on a game that is not challenging and

that often finishes early

6

Toronto Chess News

A second group does not really want organizers to allow ldquoplaying uprdquo even with

the 100 point limit They are concerned about the second principle elaborated above ndash the

detriment of playing weaker players Many of them find the normal sections already

allow quite a rating spread ndash for example an U 2000 section will often go down to 1600

ndash a 400 point rating spread This group thinks this spread is wide enough Players a

further 100 points down just dilute the playing strength of the section and having them

pay a ldquoplaying up feerdquo is not sufficient compensation for this detriment

What Do You Think

Do you think playing up should be allowed at all

If you do what limitations do you think should be imposed to exert some control

over the option

Send us your opinions and wersquoll publish them under our ldquoReadersrsquo Opinionrdquo

section Let us know if you are an elite player or a ldquoclassrdquo player If you favour playing

up let us know if you do avail yourself of the option when available

Invitation

TCN encourages freelancers to submit topical chess articles for our lead article

Send on your article and wersquoll review it with you with a view to using it (we may

suggest some editing but generally very minor) You will get full credit in the

publication We will also post a bit of personal information on the freelancer if they are

agreeable

INTERNATIONAL

Tournaments

World Chess Championship ndash Anand vs Carlsen

Defending champion Challenger

5

Toronto Chess News

Tournament Chess Playing Up

1st Principle Playing Stronger Players

It is commonly said that one improves most from experience if one plays stronger

players Generally we work harder and concentrate more where we feel the challenge to

us is substantial And one often hears players giving the opinion that they actually play

better chess against a stronger player even though they may eventually lose

2nd Principle Playing Weaker Players

Conversely it is felt that playing weaker players can actually hurt your game to

some extent The reason is that when you play weak moves the opponent may not be

skilled enough to punish for it So you in a sense are lulled into a sense of security that

the line of play is good when in fact it is inferior So you may have bad habits reinforced

As well a stronger player because of the rating differential may consciously or

unconsciously work less hard being somewhat over-confident of an easy win

The ldquoPlaying Uprdquo Option

Many tournaments therefore allow for these principles to operate In swiss

weekend tournaments and in most club tournaments ldquoplaying uprdquo is allowed Usually

the limitation is that the player must have a rating within 100 points of the floor of the

next section up In clubs this is generally a free option But in more and more weekend

tournaments a ldquoplaying uprdquo fee is charged And in some tournaments now the organizers

have no rating limitation but you pay for each section you are wanting to play up

Sometimes the fee is on a sliding scale ndash it gets higher for every subsequent section you

want to jump up

Many lower-rated players are satisfied to only play opponents within a 200 point

range up or down and just stay in their section But a significant minority will be found

playing up and paying the fee in many tournaments They want to play stronger

opponents

What About the Stronger Players

I have found that the response to playing up among stronger players is quite

varied

One group seems quite fine with the system as long as the weaker player is

contributing more to the prize fund of the section by paying the ldquoplaying up feerdquo Many

of these feel that a player only 100 points below the floor of the section will be good

enough to provide a decent game But even these players tend to object where there is no

rating limitation to playing up and opponents appear who may be 700 or more points

below them Though the stronger player will get a win and a point they feel a fee does

not compensate them sufficiently for the time spent on a game that is not challenging and

that often finishes early

6

Toronto Chess News

A second group does not really want organizers to allow ldquoplaying uprdquo even with

the 100 point limit They are concerned about the second principle elaborated above ndash the

detriment of playing weaker players Many of them find the normal sections already

allow quite a rating spread ndash for example an U 2000 section will often go down to 1600

ndash a 400 point rating spread This group thinks this spread is wide enough Players a

further 100 points down just dilute the playing strength of the section and having them

pay a ldquoplaying up feerdquo is not sufficient compensation for this detriment

What Do You Think

Do you think playing up should be allowed at all

If you do what limitations do you think should be imposed to exert some control

over the option

Send us your opinions and wersquoll publish them under our ldquoReadersrsquo Opinionrdquo

section Let us know if you are an elite player or a ldquoclassrdquo player If you favour playing

up let us know if you do avail yourself of the option when available

Invitation

TCN encourages freelancers to submit topical chess articles for our lead article

Send on your article and wersquoll review it with you with a view to using it (we may

suggest some editing but generally very minor) You will get full credit in the

publication We will also post a bit of personal information on the freelancer if they are

agreeable

INTERNATIONAL

Tournaments

World Chess Championship ndash Anand vs Carlsen

Defending champion Challenger

6

Toronto Chess News

A second group does not really want organizers to allow ldquoplaying uprdquo even with

the 100 point limit They are concerned about the second principle elaborated above ndash the

detriment of playing weaker players Many of them find the normal sections already

allow quite a rating spread ndash for example an U 2000 section will often go down to 1600

ndash a 400 point rating spread This group thinks this spread is wide enough Players a

further 100 points down just dilute the playing strength of the section and having them

pay a ldquoplaying up feerdquo is not sufficient compensation for this detriment

What Do You Think

Do you think playing up should be allowed at all

If you do what limitations do you think should be imposed to exert some control

over the option

Send us your opinions and wersquoll publish them under our ldquoReadersrsquo Opinionrdquo

section Let us know if you are an elite player or a ldquoclassrdquo player If you favour playing

up let us know if you do avail yourself of the option when available

Invitation

TCN encourages freelancers to submit topical chess articles for our lead article

Send on your article and wersquoll review it with you with a view to using it (we may

suggest some editing but generally very minor) You will get full credit in the

publication We will also post a bit of personal information on the freelancer if they are

agreeable

INTERNATIONAL

Tournaments

World Chess Championship ndash Anand vs Carlsen

Defending champion Challenger

7

Toronto Chess News

Viswanathan Anand (IND) Magnus Carlsen (NOR)

Born 11 December 1969

44 years old

Born 30 November 1990

22 years old

Winner of the 2012 World Chess

Championship

Winner of the 2013 Candidates Tournament

Rating 2775 (World No 8)[1] Rating 2870 (World No 1)[1]

The World Chess Championship 2013 is a match between the World Chess

Champion Viswanathan Anand (winner of the World Chess Championship 2012) and

Magnus Carlsen (winner of the 2013 Candidates Tournament) to determine the 2013

World Chess Champion It is being held under the auspices of FIDE the World Chess

Federation from Nov 6 (Rd 1 was on Nov 9) to November 26 2013 in Chennai India

(from Wikipedia)

The official website is httpchennai2013fidecom

Here are the results of previous encounters

Head-to-head record[14]

Anand wins Draw Carlsen wins Total

Classical

Anand (white) 2 11 0 13

Carlsen (white) 4 9 3 16

Total 6 20 3 29

Blitzrapidexhibition 9 16 8 33

Total 15 36 11 62

The colourful opening ceremony took place in the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor

Stadium on Thursday Nov 7 and had presentations of both Norwegian and Indian

culture

8

Toronto Chess News

It was in front of a capacity 8000 audience of chess fans

At the drawing of colours Anand got Black for Game 1 on Saturday Nov 9 At

the WCC Opening Press Conference World Champion Viswanathan Anand introduced

9

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his seconds Grandmasters Leko Wojtaszek Sasikiran and Sandipan The challenger

Magnus Carlsen thanked Vishy for revealing that but refused to follow the suit and did

not name his seconds

The players are fighting for a purse of $3 million with the winner standing to earn

$145m and the loser just under $1m Carlsen has already pocketed $137000 of the prize

fund for agreeing to play on his opponentrsquos home turf The time control for the 12 games

will be 40 moves in two hours for each player the next 20 moves in one hour and 15

minutes for the rest of the game with an increment of 30 seconds per move starting after

move 61

At the time of going to press 4 games have been played The score is

Anand 2 ndash 2 Carlsen

Game 1

- a rather tame draw Here it is (Annotations by Bob Armstrong using Fritz)

Carlsen Magnus (2870) - Anand Viswanathan (2775) [D78] World Chess Championship 2013 Chennai (1) 09112013

1Nf3= [028 (by reverse projection) The engines Ive used are divided on whether this position is

a slight advantage to W (029 from one engine Fritz 131 - this engine uses 0ndash025 as = 026ndash

070 as +=) or equal Other engines and humans seem divided So I am going with the engine I

am currently using (Fritz 132 - it uses 0ndash030 as = 031ndash70 as +=) It treats 1Nf3 as = or 028 I

am repeating this note found at the start of the newsletter under annotation notes since this is a

change in my annotation and I know most will not have read the annotation notes assuming that

there was nothing new there I will repeat this note again now in the individual games following to

help familiarize readers with the change After this Issue however I will just use the symbols and

numerics as the annotation of move 1 as I had been til now]

1d5= [028 (verified depth 28)]

[1Nf6= 029 (verified depth 20) 1Nc6sup2 044 (verified depth 20)]

2g3 [Reti Opening]

2g6 3Bg2 Bg7 4d4 c6 [developing a pawn chain on the diagonal to blunt the effect of the g2B]

50ndash0 Nf6 6b3 0ndash0 7Bb2 Bf5 8c4 [Apparently according to ChessBase the opening has

transposed into a Grunfeld Defence (D78) starting the contest to control the centre]

8Nbd7 9Nc3sup3 [Fritz is unhappy It indicates that the pawn exchange needs to happen now

Then bring out the b1N]

[9cxd5 cxd5 10Nc3 Rc8= (verified depth 23)]

9dxc4 10bxc4 Nb6 11c5 Nc4 12Bc1 [12Qb3 Be6 13Qc2 Qa5sup3]

12Nd5= [12Qa5 13Qb3 Be6sup3]

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13Qb3 [Carlsen was aware of the potential of this move to attract a 3ndashfold repetition draw He

was likely also aware that this was his best move at this point and if it drew so be it This is the

first instance of the position]

[13Nxd5 cxd5 14Bf4 Rc8sup3]

13Na5 [13b5 14cxb6 Na5=]

14Qa3sup3 [14Qb2 b6 15cxb6 axb6=]

14Nc4= [(verified depth 25) ]

[14b6 15Bg5 h6sup3]

15Qb3 [the second appearance of the possible 3ndashfold draw position]

[15Qa4 loses a P 15Nxc3 16Qxc4 Bxd4micro]

15Na5 [ ]

[15b5= 16cxb6 (16Rd1 e6sup3 16a4 Na5sup3) 16Na5=]

16Qa3sup3 [(verified depth 25) Carlsen offers a 3ndashfold draw the alternative move is quite playable

and creates an = valuation and the game would go on]

[16Qb2 b5 17Nxd5 Qxd5=]

16Nc4= [3ndashfold repetition draw offer accepted by Vishy though he too could have played on

in a slightly superior position The draw was agreed on move 16 A moral victory for Anand with

the Black pieces Vishy called the result satisfactory Magnus said no damage done it is a long

match]

[16b6 17Bg5 h6sup3]

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Game 2

- also a quick draw since both played the opening with lightning speed ndash both were

apparently very booked on this opening Here is the game (Annotations by Bob

Armstrong using Fritz)

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1e4sup2 [046 (by reverse projection)]

1c6 [064 (by reverse projection) Caro-Kann Defence]

[1e5sup2 046 (verified depth 25) 1d5sup2 059 (verified depth 25) 1g6sup2]

2d4 [064 (by reverse projection)]

[2Nf3 055 (by reverse projection) 2d5 3Nc3 (3e5 c5sup2 046 (verified depth 25)) 3Nf6sup2 055

(verified depth 25)]

2d5 [064 (verified depth 25)]

3Nc3 [3e5 c5 (3g6 4Nc3 Bg7plusmn) 4dxc5 (4Nf3 e6sup2) 4e6sup2]

3dxe4 4Nxe4 Bf5 [4Nf6 5Nxf6+ 5exf6sup2]

5Ng3 Bg6 6h4 h6 7Nf3 [7Bc4 Nd7 8Nh3 (8h5 Bh7= 8Qe2 Ngf6= 8N1e2 e6=) 8Bh7=]

7e6 8Ne5 Bh7 9Bd3 Bxd3 10Qxd3 Nd7 11f4 Bb4+ 12c3= [12Bd2 Bxd2+ 13Qxd2 Ngf6sup2

(verified depth 24) (13Qe7sup2) ]

12Be7 13Bd2 [13Nh5 Bxh4+ 14Kd1 Bf6=]

13Ngf6 140ndash0ndash0 0ndash0 15Ne4 Nxe4 16Qxe4 Nxe5 17fxe5 Qd5 18Qxd5 cxd5 19h5 b5

20Rh3 a5 21Rf1 Rac8 22Rg3 Kh7 23Rgf3 Kg8 24Rg3 Kh7 25Rgf3 Kg8=

frac12ndashfrac12

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Game 3 (Nov12)

- a fighting draw that saw Vishy with the upper hand throughout the game and at

one point being up temporarily 2 Prsquos Here is the game (Annotations by Bob

Armstrong using Fritz)

Carlsen Magnus (2870) - Anand Viswanathan (2775) [A09] 2013 World Chess Championship Chennai (3) 12112013

1Nf3= 028 [ ]

1d5 2g3 g6 3c4 dxc4 [Vishy at least temporarily goes up a P]

4Qa4+ Nc6 5Bg2 Bg7 6Nc3 e5 7Qxc4 [material equality time to capture or Vishy will protect

withBe6]

7Nge7 80ndash0 0ndash0 9d3 h6 [prophylactic - keeping Magnus N and B off g5]

[9Be6 10Qc5 (10Qh4 Nf5 11Qxd8 Raxd8 12Ng5 Bd7=) 10Nf5=]

10Bd2 Nd4sup2 [(verified depth 20)]

[10Be6 11Qa4 Nf5 12Rac1 a5=]

11Nxd4 exd4 12Ne4 c6 13Bb4= [13Qc1 Nf5 14a4 Be6sup2]

13Be6 14Qc1 Bd5 15a4sup3 [15Bd2 Nf5 16Qc2 Re8=]

15b6 [15a5 16Ba3 b6sup3]

16Bxe7 Qxe7 17a5 Rab8= [17Rfd8 (depth 23) 18Re1sup3 Qb4sup3 (18Qe5= 19b4 (verified

depth 22) 19Qe7= (19Bf8=) ) ]

18Re1 Rfc8 19axb6 axb6 20Qf4 Rd8 21h4sup3 [(verified depth 23) Magnus is known for

playing inferior moves to create dynamics he feels gives him chances to recover and then win It

is not yet clear if this is always conscious or rather instinct (without maybe realizing the exact

valuation of the move)]

[21Nd2 g5 22Qg4 Be6 23Qh5 Qb4=]

21Kh7 22Nd2 [22h5 g5 23Qc1 f5sup3]

22Be5 23Qg4 h5sup3 [23Be6sup3 the first instance of a possible 3ndashfold repetition 24Qe4 Bd5

25Qg4sup3 (verified depth 23) 25Be6= the second instance and it would be drawn Vishy

rejected going for a draw feeling likely that he had the advantage which Fritz confirms (25h5sup3)

]

24Qh3 Be6 25Qh1 c5 26Ne4micro [Vishy gets a clear advantage]

[26Bc6 b5 27Qe4 (27b3 Rb6micro (27Kg8sup3 27Bg7sup3) ) 27Qc7micro 26b3 b5 27Ra6 Bg7sup3]

26Kg7 27Ng5 [ ]

[27Rec1 c4 28f4 Bf6micro]

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27b5 28e3 [28Nxe6+ Qxe6 29Be4 (29f4 Bf6micro) 29c4micro]

28dxe3 29Rxe3 Bd4sup3 [29Bxb2 30Rae1 Rb6micro]

30Re2micro [30Re4 Qd6 31Nxe6+ fxe6sup3]

30c4 31Nxe6+ [31Bf1 cxd3 (31Rb6 32dxc4 bxc4sup3) 32Nxe6+ fxe6 33Rd2 Qb4micro]

31fxe6 32Be4 cxd3 [Vishy goes up a P]

33Rd2 Qb4 34Rad1 Bxb2sup3 [Vishy goes up 2 Ps]

[34Rf8 35Kh2 Bxf2 36Rxd3 Rf7micro]

35Qf3 Bf6= [35Bd4 36Bxd3 Qf8sup3]

36Rxd3 [Vishy is up a P]

36Rxd3 37Rxd3micro [37Bxd3 Qg4 38Qxg4 hxg4=]

XABCDEFGHY 8-tr-+-+-+( 7+-+-+-mk- 6-+-+pvlp+amp 5+p+-+-+p 4-wq-+L+-zP$ 3+-+R+QzP- 2-+-+-zP-+ 1+-+-+-mK- xabcdefghy

37Rd8= [37Bd4 38Qe2 Rf8micro]

38Rxd8 Bxd8 39Bd3 Qd4 40Bxb5 [material equality]

40Qf6sup2 [40Bb6 41Bc6 Bc5=]

41Qb7+ Be7 42Kg2= [42Be2 Kh6 43Qc6 e5sup2]

42g5 43hxg5 Qxg5 44Bc4 h4 45Qc7 hxg3 46Qxg3 e5 47Kf3 Qxg3+ 48fxg3 Bc5 49Ke4

Bd4 50Kf5 Bf2 51Kxe5 Bxg3+=

frac12ndashfrac12

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Game 4 An exciting draw that saw the advantage swing back and forth It was the

longest game at that point at 6 hours Here is the game (Annotations by Bob Armstrong

using Fritz)

Anand Viswanathan (2775) - Carlsen Magnus (2870) [C67] 2013 World Chess Championship (4) 13112013

1e4sup2 [058 (by reverse projection) Both engines and humans are somewhat divided on whether

the evaluation of this position is = or += The engine I am using opts for += as did the engine I

used before this So I will follow my engines lead and agree to += It is numerically calculated as

058 in this opening Although logical consistency would demand that 1e4 be the same valuation

regardless of the defence used this is not yet totally confirmed by me It is dependent on time

available for further research]

[1d4sup2 032 (by reverse projection) 1d5sup2 032 (verified depth 25) 2Nf3sup2 032 (depth 25) (2c4=

029 (depth 25)) ]

1e5 [058 (verified depth 25)]

2Nf3 [2d4 exd4 3Nf3 Nc6 4Nxd4 Nf6=]

2Nc6 [2Nf6 3Nxe5 d6 4Nf3 Nxe4sup2]

3Bb5 Nf6 40ndash0 [033 (verified depth 23)]

4Nxe4 [(depth 23)]

[4Bc5sup2 5Nxe5 Nxe4 (5Nxe5 6d4 a6 7Be2 Bxd4 8Qxd4sup2) 6Qe2 (6Qe1 f5 7Bxc6 dxc6 8d3

Qe7 9Nf3 (9dxe4 Qxe5 10exf5 Qxe1 11Rxe1+ Kf7sup2) 9Nf6sup2) 6Nxe5 7Qxe4 Qe7sup2 4Bd6

5d4 Qe7sup2]

5d4 [5Re1 Nd6 6Nxe5 (6Bf1 Be7=) 6Be7=]

5Nd6 [5exd4 6Re1 d5sup2 (6f5plusmn) ]

6Bxc6 dxc6 7dxe5 Nf5 8Qxd8+ [8Qe2 Nd4 9Nxd4 Qxd4sup2]

8Kxd8 9h3 Bd7 10Rd1 Be7 11Nc3 Kc8plusmn [Vishy gets a clear advantage]

[11Ke8 12g3 h5sup2]

12Bg5 h6 13Bxe7 Nxe7 14Rd2sup2 [14a4 c5 15a5 Bc6plusmn]

14c5 15Rad1 Be6 16Ne1= [Vishy has lost his advantage]

[16Kh2 b6 17Ne4 Kb7sup2]

16Ng6 17Nd3 [17Ne4 b6 18Nf3 Kb7=]

17b6 18Ne2sup3 [it appears that this was a deliberate P-sac by Vishy to gain the initiative but

for the first time in the game Magnus gets the advantage because of it It may be an unsound

sac]

[18b3 Kb7 19f4 c4=]

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18Bxa2 [Magnus goes up a P]

19b3 c4 20Ndc1 cxb3 21cxb3 Bb1 22f4 Kb7 23Nc3 Bf5 24g4 Bc8 25Nd3 h5 [25Ne7

26Rc1 Be6sup3]

26f5 Ne7 [26Nh4sup3 27Rf2 (27Rf1 g6sup3 (27hxg4 28hxg4 g6sup3) ) 27hxg4 28hxg4 g6sup3]

27Nb5 [27Re2 Nc6 (27Rh7 28Ne4 hxg4 29hxg4 Rh4=) 28Re4 hxg4 29hxg4 Rh6sup3

27Re1 hxg4 28hxg4 Nc6sup3]

27hxg4 28hxg4 Rh4 [28a6 29Nd4 a5sup3]

29Nf2 Nc6 30Rc2micro [30Re2sup3]

30a5sup3 [30g6 31e6 fxe6 32fxg6 (32Rdc1 Bd7 33fxe6 Be8micro) 32Rh6micro]

31Rc4micro [Magnus gets a clear advantage]

[31e6micro fxe6 32fxe6 Bxe6 33Rxc6 Kxc6 34Nd4+ Kd7 35Nf3+ Kc8 36Nxh4 Bxb3micro Magnus

would have 3 Ps (connected and passed) vs N 31Kg2 Rh6 32Kg3 g6sup3]

31g6 32Rdc1 Bd7 33e6 [33fxg6 fxg6 34e6 Be8 (34Bxe6 35Rxc6 Bxb3 36Rxc7+ Ka6+ndash

) 35Ne4 Rxg4+ 36Kf2 Rd8micro]

33fxe6 34fxe6 Be8 [34Bxe6 35Rxc6 Bxb3 36Rxc7+ Ka6+ndash]

35Ne4 [a sound P-sac by Vishy to get play against the K]

35Rxg4+ [Magnus goes up 2 Ps]

36Kf2 Rf4+sup3 [36Rd8 37Ke3 Rd5micro]

37Ke3 Rf8= [Magnus has lost his advantage despite being up a P]

[37g5 38Rg1 (38Nd4 Nb4 39Rxc7+ Ka6micro) 38Rh4 39Rxg5 Rh7sup3]

XABCDEFGHY 8r+-+ltr-+( 7+kzp-+-+- 6-zpn+P+p+amp 5zpN+-+-+- 4-+R+N+-+$ 3+P+-mK-+- 2-+-+-+-+ 1+-tR-+-+- xabcdefghy

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38Nd4 Nxd4 39Rxc7+ [Magnus is up a P but can Anand now draw]

39Ka6 40Kxd4 Rd8+= [both players have made the first time control]

41Kc3micro [Magnus gets back a clear advantage]

[41Ke3 Rd5 42Rg7 Rb5=]

41Rf3+ 42Kb2 Re3 43Rc8 [43e7 Rdd3micro]

43Rdd3sup3 [ ]

[43Rxc8 44Rxc8 Bc6micro]

44Ra8+micro [44R1c4 Re2+ (44Rxb3+ 45Kc2 Rb4 46Rxb4 axb4 47Nd6 Bc6 48Rxc6 Rxe6

49Kb3 g5 50Kxb4 g4= will be drawn) 45Kc1 Rh3sup3]

44Kb7 45Rxe8 Rxe4 46e7 Rg3sup3 [46g5 47Kc2 Rde3micro]

47Rc3 Re2+ 48Rc2 Ree3= [48Re5 49Rf2 Rge3sup3]

49Ka2micro [49Rh2 b5 50Kc2 Kc6=]

49g5 50Rd2 Re5 51Rd7+ Kc6 52Red8 Rge3 53Rd6+ Kb7 [(1) 53Kc5micro 54e8Q Rxe8

55Rd5+ Kb4 56Rd4+ Kb5 57R4d5+ Ka6 58Rxe8 Rxe8 59Rxg5 Re2+ (59Re7micro) 60Ka3

Rd2micro (2) 53Kb5= 54Rb8 Kc5 55Rbxb6 Rxe7 56Rbc6+ Kb4 57Rb6+ Kc5 58Rbc6+=]

54R8d7+ Ka6 55Rd5 Re2+ 56Ka3 Re6 57Rd8 g4 58Rg5 Rxe7 [Magnus goes up 2 Ps]

59Ra8+ Kb7 60Rag8 a4= [60Rd2 61R8g7 (61Rxg4 Re5micro) 61Rxg7 62Rxg7+ Ka6micro]

61Rxg4 [61R8g7= Ka6 62Rxe7 Rxe7 63Rxg4 Kb7=]

61axb3 62R8g7 Ka6 63Rxe7 Rxe7 64Kxb3= [Magnus is up a P but the game is a

theoretical draw]

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So the match is now tied Vishy 2 2 Magnus

Remember that Game 5 is today Friday Nov 15 For those in the EST zone the games

start at 4

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Profiles

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This is a series TCN started in Issue 1-4 where from time to time (in the 15th of

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13Qb3 [Carlsen was aware of the potential of this move to attract a 3ndashfold repetition draw He

was likely also aware that this was his best move at this point and if it drew so be it This is the

first instance of the position]

[13Nxd5 cxd5 14Bf4 Rc8sup3]

13Na5 [13b5 14cxb6 Na5=]

14Qa3sup3 [14Qb2 b6 15cxb6 axb6=]

14Nc4= [(verified depth 25) ]

[14b6 15Bg5 h6sup3]

15Qb3 [the second appearance of the possible 3ndashfold draw position]

[15Qa4 loses a P 15Nxc3 16Qxc4 Bxd4micro]

15Na5 [ ]

[15b5= 16cxb6 (16Rd1 e6sup3 16a4 Na5sup3) 16Na5=]

16Qa3sup3 [(verified depth 25) Carlsen offers a 3ndashfold draw the alternative move is quite playable

and creates an = valuation and the game would go on]

[16Qb2 b5 17Nxd5 Qxd5=]

16Nc4= [3ndashfold repetition draw offer accepted by Vishy though he too could have played on

in a slightly superior position The draw was agreed on move 16 A moral victory for Anand with

the Black pieces Vishy called the result satisfactory Magnus said no damage done it is a long

match]

[16b6 17Bg5 h6sup3]

frac12ndashfrac12

Game 2

- also a quick draw since both played the opening with lightning speed ndash both were

apparently very booked on this opening Here is the game (Annotations by Bob

Armstrong using Fritz)

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Anand Viswanathan (2775) - Carlsen Magnus (2870) [B19] WCC 2013 Chennai (2) 10112013

1e4sup2 [046 (by reverse projection)]

1c6 [064 (by reverse projection) Caro-Kann Defence]

[1e5sup2 046 (verified depth 25) 1d5sup2 059 (verified depth 25) 1g6sup2]

2d4 [064 (by reverse projection)]

[2Nf3 055 (by reverse projection) 2d5 3Nc3 (3e5 c5sup2 046 (verified depth 25)) 3Nf6sup2 055

(verified depth 25)]

2d5 [064 (verified depth 25)]

3Nc3 [3e5 c5 (3g6 4Nc3 Bg7plusmn) 4dxc5 (4Nf3 e6sup2) 4e6sup2]

3dxe4 4Nxe4 Bf5 [4Nf6 5Nxf6+ 5exf6sup2]

5Ng3 Bg6 6h4 h6 7Nf3 [7Bc4 Nd7 8Nh3 (8h5 Bh7= 8Qe2 Ngf6= 8N1e2 e6=) 8Bh7=]

7e6 8Ne5 Bh7 9Bd3 Bxd3 10Qxd3 Nd7 11f4 Bb4+ 12c3= [12Bd2 Bxd2+ 13Qxd2 Ngf6sup2

(verified depth 24) (13Qe7sup2) ]

12Be7 13Bd2 [13Nh5 Bxh4+ 14Kd1 Bf6=]

13Ngf6 140ndash0ndash0 0ndash0 15Ne4 Nxe4 16Qxe4 Nxe5 17fxe5 Qd5 18Qxd5 cxd5 19h5 b5

20Rh3 a5 21Rf1 Rac8 22Rg3 Kh7 23Rgf3 Kg8 24Rg3 Kh7 25Rgf3 Kg8=

frac12ndashfrac12

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Game 3 (Nov12)

- a fighting draw that saw Vishy with the upper hand throughout the game and at

one point being up temporarily 2 Prsquos Here is the game (Annotations by Bob

Armstrong using Fritz)

Carlsen Magnus (2870) - Anand Viswanathan (2775) [A09] 2013 World Chess Championship Chennai (3) 12112013

1Nf3= 028 [ ]

1d5 2g3 g6 3c4 dxc4 [Vishy at least temporarily goes up a P]

4Qa4+ Nc6 5Bg2 Bg7 6Nc3 e5 7Qxc4 [material equality time to capture or Vishy will protect

withBe6]

7Nge7 80ndash0 0ndash0 9d3 h6 [prophylactic - keeping Magnus N and B off g5]

[9Be6 10Qc5 (10Qh4 Nf5 11Qxd8 Raxd8 12Ng5 Bd7=) 10Nf5=]

10Bd2 Nd4sup2 [(verified depth 20)]

[10Be6 11Qa4 Nf5 12Rac1 a5=]

11Nxd4 exd4 12Ne4 c6 13Bb4= [13Qc1 Nf5 14a4 Be6sup2]

13Be6 14Qc1 Bd5 15a4sup3 [15Bd2 Nf5 16Qc2 Re8=]

15b6 [15a5 16Ba3 b6sup3]

16Bxe7 Qxe7 17a5 Rab8= [17Rfd8 (depth 23) 18Re1sup3 Qb4sup3 (18Qe5= 19b4 (verified

depth 22) 19Qe7= (19Bf8=) ) ]

18Re1 Rfc8 19axb6 axb6 20Qf4 Rd8 21h4sup3 [(verified depth 23) Magnus is known for

playing inferior moves to create dynamics he feels gives him chances to recover and then win It

is not yet clear if this is always conscious or rather instinct (without maybe realizing the exact

valuation of the move)]

[21Nd2 g5 22Qg4 Be6 23Qh5 Qb4=]

21Kh7 22Nd2 [22h5 g5 23Qc1 f5sup3]

22Be5 23Qg4 h5sup3 [23Be6sup3 the first instance of a possible 3ndashfold repetition 24Qe4 Bd5

25Qg4sup3 (verified depth 23) 25Be6= the second instance and it would be drawn Vishy

rejected going for a draw feeling likely that he had the advantage which Fritz confirms (25h5sup3)

]

24Qh3 Be6 25Qh1 c5 26Ne4micro [Vishy gets a clear advantage]

[26Bc6 b5 27Qe4 (27b3 Rb6micro (27Kg8sup3 27Bg7sup3) ) 27Qc7micro 26b3 b5 27Ra6 Bg7sup3]

26Kg7 27Ng5 [ ]

[27Rec1 c4 28f4 Bf6micro]

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27b5 28e3 [28Nxe6+ Qxe6 29Be4 (29f4 Bf6micro) 29c4micro]

28dxe3 29Rxe3 Bd4sup3 [29Bxb2 30Rae1 Rb6micro]

30Re2micro [30Re4 Qd6 31Nxe6+ fxe6sup3]

30c4 31Nxe6+ [31Bf1 cxd3 (31Rb6 32dxc4 bxc4sup3) 32Nxe6+ fxe6 33Rd2 Qb4micro]

31fxe6 32Be4 cxd3 [Vishy goes up a P]

33Rd2 Qb4 34Rad1 Bxb2sup3 [Vishy goes up 2 Ps]

[34Rf8 35Kh2 Bxf2 36Rxd3 Rf7micro]

35Qf3 Bf6= [35Bd4 36Bxd3 Qf8sup3]

36Rxd3 [Vishy is up a P]

36Rxd3 37Rxd3micro [37Bxd3 Qg4 38Qxg4 hxg4=]

XABCDEFGHY 8-tr-+-+-+( 7+-+-+-mk- 6-+-+pvlp+amp 5+p+-+-+p 4-wq-+L+-zP$ 3+-+R+QzP- 2-+-+-zP-+ 1+-+-+-mK- xabcdefghy

37Rd8= [37Bd4 38Qe2 Rf8micro]

38Rxd8 Bxd8 39Bd3 Qd4 40Bxb5 [material equality]

40Qf6sup2 [40Bb6 41Bc6 Bc5=]

41Qb7+ Be7 42Kg2= [42Be2 Kh6 43Qc6 e5sup2]

42g5 43hxg5 Qxg5 44Bc4 h4 45Qc7 hxg3 46Qxg3 e5 47Kf3 Qxg3+ 48fxg3 Bc5 49Ke4

Bd4 50Kf5 Bf2 51Kxe5 Bxg3+=

frac12ndashfrac12

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Game 4 An exciting draw that saw the advantage swing back and forth It was the

longest game at that point at 6 hours Here is the game (Annotations by Bob Armstrong

using Fritz)

Anand Viswanathan (2775) - Carlsen Magnus (2870) [C67] 2013 World Chess Championship (4) 13112013

1e4sup2 [058 (by reverse projection) Both engines and humans are somewhat divided on whether

the evaluation of this position is = or += The engine I am using opts for += as did the engine I

used before this So I will follow my engines lead and agree to += It is numerically calculated as

058 in this opening Although logical consistency would demand that 1e4 be the same valuation

regardless of the defence used this is not yet totally confirmed by me It is dependent on time

available for further research]

[1d4sup2 032 (by reverse projection) 1d5sup2 032 (verified depth 25) 2Nf3sup2 032 (depth 25) (2c4=

029 (depth 25)) ]

1e5 [058 (verified depth 25)]

2Nf3 [2d4 exd4 3Nf3 Nc6 4Nxd4 Nf6=]

2Nc6 [2Nf6 3Nxe5 d6 4Nf3 Nxe4sup2]

3Bb5 Nf6 40ndash0 [033 (verified depth 23)]

4Nxe4 [(depth 23)]

[4Bc5sup2 5Nxe5 Nxe4 (5Nxe5 6d4 a6 7Be2 Bxd4 8Qxd4sup2) 6Qe2 (6Qe1 f5 7Bxc6 dxc6 8d3

Qe7 9Nf3 (9dxe4 Qxe5 10exf5 Qxe1 11Rxe1+ Kf7sup2) 9Nf6sup2) 6Nxe5 7Qxe4 Qe7sup2 4Bd6

5d4 Qe7sup2]

5d4 [5Re1 Nd6 6Nxe5 (6Bf1 Be7=) 6Be7=]

5Nd6 [5exd4 6Re1 d5sup2 (6f5plusmn) ]

6Bxc6 dxc6 7dxe5 Nf5 8Qxd8+ [8Qe2 Nd4 9Nxd4 Qxd4sup2]

8Kxd8 9h3 Bd7 10Rd1 Be7 11Nc3 Kc8plusmn [Vishy gets a clear advantage]

[11Ke8 12g3 h5sup2]

12Bg5 h6 13Bxe7 Nxe7 14Rd2sup2 [14a4 c5 15a5 Bc6plusmn]

14c5 15Rad1 Be6 16Ne1= [Vishy has lost his advantage]

[16Kh2 b6 17Ne4 Kb7sup2]

16Ng6 17Nd3 [17Ne4 b6 18Nf3 Kb7=]

17b6 18Ne2sup3 [it appears that this was a deliberate P-sac by Vishy to gain the initiative but

for the first time in the game Magnus gets the advantage because of it It may be an unsound

sac]

[18b3 Kb7 19f4 c4=]

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18Bxa2 [Magnus goes up a P]

19b3 c4 20Ndc1 cxb3 21cxb3 Bb1 22f4 Kb7 23Nc3 Bf5 24g4 Bc8 25Nd3 h5 [25Ne7

26Rc1 Be6sup3]

26f5 Ne7 [26Nh4sup3 27Rf2 (27Rf1 g6sup3 (27hxg4 28hxg4 g6sup3) ) 27hxg4 28hxg4 g6sup3]

27Nb5 [27Re2 Nc6 (27Rh7 28Ne4 hxg4 29hxg4 Rh4=) 28Re4 hxg4 29hxg4 Rh6sup3

27Re1 hxg4 28hxg4 Nc6sup3]

27hxg4 28hxg4 Rh4 [28a6 29Nd4 a5sup3]

29Nf2 Nc6 30Rc2micro [30Re2sup3]

30a5sup3 [30g6 31e6 fxe6 32fxg6 (32Rdc1 Bd7 33fxe6 Be8micro) 32Rh6micro]

31Rc4micro [Magnus gets a clear advantage]

[31e6micro fxe6 32fxe6 Bxe6 33Rxc6 Kxc6 34Nd4+ Kd7 35Nf3+ Kc8 36Nxh4 Bxb3micro Magnus

would have 3 Ps (connected and passed) vs N 31Kg2 Rh6 32Kg3 g6sup3]

31g6 32Rdc1 Bd7 33e6 [33fxg6 fxg6 34e6 Be8 (34Bxe6 35Rxc6 Bxb3 36Rxc7+ Ka6+ndash

) 35Ne4 Rxg4+ 36Kf2 Rd8micro]

33fxe6 34fxe6 Be8 [34Bxe6 35Rxc6 Bxb3 36Rxc7+ Ka6+ndash]

35Ne4 [a sound P-sac by Vishy to get play against the K]

35Rxg4+ [Magnus goes up 2 Ps]

36Kf2 Rf4+sup3 [36Rd8 37Ke3 Rd5micro]

37Ke3 Rf8= [Magnus has lost his advantage despite being up a P]

[37g5 38Rg1 (38Nd4 Nb4 39Rxc7+ Ka6micro) 38Rh4 39Rxg5 Rh7sup3]

XABCDEFGHY 8r+-+ltr-+( 7+kzp-+-+- 6-zpn+P+p+amp 5zpN+-+-+- 4-+R+N+-+$ 3+P+-mK-+- 2-+-+-+-+ 1+-tR-+-+- xabcdefghy

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38Nd4 Nxd4 39Rxc7+ [Magnus is up a P but can Anand now draw]

39Ka6 40Kxd4 Rd8+= [both players have made the first time control]

41Kc3micro [Magnus gets back a clear advantage]

[41Ke3 Rd5 42Rg7 Rb5=]

41Rf3+ 42Kb2 Re3 43Rc8 [43e7 Rdd3micro]

43Rdd3sup3 [ ]

[43Rxc8 44Rxc8 Bc6micro]

44Ra8+micro [44R1c4 Re2+ (44Rxb3+ 45Kc2 Rb4 46Rxb4 axb4 47Nd6 Bc6 48Rxc6 Rxe6

49Kb3 g5 50Kxb4 g4= will be drawn) 45Kc1 Rh3sup3]

44Kb7 45Rxe8 Rxe4 46e7 Rg3sup3 [46g5 47Kc2 Rde3micro]

47Rc3 Re2+ 48Rc2 Ree3= [48Re5 49Rf2 Rge3sup3]

49Ka2micro [49Rh2 b5 50Kc2 Kc6=]

49g5 50Rd2 Re5 51Rd7+ Kc6 52Red8 Rge3 53Rd6+ Kb7 [(1) 53Kc5micro 54e8Q Rxe8

55Rd5+ Kb4 56Rd4+ Kb5 57R4d5+ Ka6 58Rxe8 Rxe8 59Rxg5 Re2+ (59Re7micro) 60Ka3

Rd2micro (2) 53Kb5= 54Rb8 Kc5 55Rbxb6 Rxe7 56Rbc6+ Kb4 57Rb6+ Kc5 58Rbc6+=]

54R8d7+ Ka6 55Rd5 Re2+ 56Ka3 Re6 57Rd8 g4 58Rg5 Rxe7 [Magnus goes up 2 Ps]

59Ra8+ Kb7 60Rag8 a4= [60Rd2 61R8g7 (61Rxg4 Re5micro) 61Rxg7 62Rxg7+ Ka6micro]

61Rxg4 [61R8g7= Ka6 62Rxe7 Rxe7 63Rxg4 Kb7=]

61axb3 62R8g7 Ka6 63Rxe7 Rxe7 64Kxb3= [Magnus is up a P but the game is a

theoretical draw]

frac12ndashfrac12

So the match is now tied Vishy 2 2 Magnus

Remember that Game 5 is today Friday Nov 15 For those in the EST zone the games

start at 4

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Organizations

Chess Federation of Canada (CFC)

Website httpwwwchessca

Chess Discussion Forum httpwwwchesscanadainfoforumforumdisplayphpf=2

(by TCN Liaison for CFC Bob Armstrong CFC Public Relations Coordinator)

Canada will be sending a junior team and 4 coaches to the World Youth Chess

Championships in the United Arab Emirates It runs from Dec 18 ndash 24 It will be 8

rounds Andrew Giblon will again be head of delegation

Here is the Team Canada blog page for up to date info

http2013wyccblogspotca

Profiles

Interesting Canadian Chess Personalities

This is a series TCN started in Issue 1-4 where from time to time (in the 15th of

the month Issue) we will introduce Canadian chess personalities past and present in

some detail and if possible have them present to our readers their chess profile in their

own words Alternatively we may have biographies of them from available public and

private sources

Prior Personalities presented are Howard Ridout Zoltan Sarosy Harmony Zhu

Phil Haley Maurice Smith and Yuanling Yuan

We are pleased to continue our series with the introduction of

Vlad Drkulec CFC President

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Anand Viswanathan (2775) - Carlsen Magnus (2870) [B19] WCC 2013 Chennai (2) 10112013

1e4sup2 [046 (by reverse projection)]

1c6 [064 (by reverse projection) Caro-Kann Defence]

[1e5sup2 046 (verified depth 25) 1d5sup2 059 (verified depth 25) 1g6sup2]

2d4 [064 (by reverse projection)]

[2Nf3 055 (by reverse projection) 2d5 3Nc3 (3e5 c5sup2 046 (verified depth 25)) 3Nf6sup2 055

(verified depth 25)]

2d5 [064 (verified depth 25)]

3Nc3 [3e5 c5 (3g6 4Nc3 Bg7plusmn) 4dxc5 (4Nf3 e6sup2) 4e6sup2]

3dxe4 4Nxe4 Bf5 [4Nf6 5Nxf6+ 5exf6sup2]

5Ng3 Bg6 6h4 h6 7Nf3 [7Bc4 Nd7 8Nh3 (8h5 Bh7= 8Qe2 Ngf6= 8N1e2 e6=) 8Bh7=]

7e6 8Ne5 Bh7 9Bd3 Bxd3 10Qxd3 Nd7 11f4 Bb4+ 12c3= [12Bd2 Bxd2+ 13Qxd2 Ngf6sup2

(verified depth 24) (13Qe7sup2) ]

12Be7 13Bd2 [13Nh5 Bxh4+ 14Kd1 Bf6=]

13Ngf6 140ndash0ndash0 0ndash0 15Ne4 Nxe4 16Qxe4 Nxe5 17fxe5 Qd5 18Qxd5 cxd5 19h5 b5

20Rh3 a5 21Rf1 Rac8 22Rg3 Kh7 23Rgf3 Kg8 24Rg3 Kh7 25Rgf3 Kg8=

frac12ndashfrac12

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Game 3 (Nov12)

- a fighting draw that saw Vishy with the upper hand throughout the game and at

one point being up temporarily 2 Prsquos Here is the game (Annotations by Bob

Armstrong using Fritz)

Carlsen Magnus (2870) - Anand Viswanathan (2775) [A09] 2013 World Chess Championship Chennai (3) 12112013

1Nf3= 028 [ ]

1d5 2g3 g6 3c4 dxc4 [Vishy at least temporarily goes up a P]

4Qa4+ Nc6 5Bg2 Bg7 6Nc3 e5 7Qxc4 [material equality time to capture or Vishy will protect

withBe6]

7Nge7 80ndash0 0ndash0 9d3 h6 [prophylactic - keeping Magnus N and B off g5]

[9Be6 10Qc5 (10Qh4 Nf5 11Qxd8 Raxd8 12Ng5 Bd7=) 10Nf5=]

10Bd2 Nd4sup2 [(verified depth 20)]

[10Be6 11Qa4 Nf5 12Rac1 a5=]

11Nxd4 exd4 12Ne4 c6 13Bb4= [13Qc1 Nf5 14a4 Be6sup2]

13Be6 14Qc1 Bd5 15a4sup3 [15Bd2 Nf5 16Qc2 Re8=]

15b6 [15a5 16Ba3 b6sup3]

16Bxe7 Qxe7 17a5 Rab8= [17Rfd8 (depth 23) 18Re1sup3 Qb4sup3 (18Qe5= 19b4 (verified

depth 22) 19Qe7= (19Bf8=) ) ]

18Re1 Rfc8 19axb6 axb6 20Qf4 Rd8 21h4sup3 [(verified depth 23) Magnus is known for

playing inferior moves to create dynamics he feels gives him chances to recover and then win It

is not yet clear if this is always conscious or rather instinct (without maybe realizing the exact

valuation of the move)]

[21Nd2 g5 22Qg4 Be6 23Qh5 Qb4=]

21Kh7 22Nd2 [22h5 g5 23Qc1 f5sup3]

22Be5 23Qg4 h5sup3 [23Be6sup3 the first instance of a possible 3ndashfold repetition 24Qe4 Bd5

25Qg4sup3 (verified depth 23) 25Be6= the second instance and it would be drawn Vishy

rejected going for a draw feeling likely that he had the advantage which Fritz confirms (25h5sup3)

]

24Qh3 Be6 25Qh1 c5 26Ne4micro [Vishy gets a clear advantage]

[26Bc6 b5 27Qe4 (27b3 Rb6micro (27Kg8sup3 27Bg7sup3) ) 27Qc7micro 26b3 b5 27Ra6 Bg7sup3]

26Kg7 27Ng5 [ ]

[27Rec1 c4 28f4 Bf6micro]

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27b5 28e3 [28Nxe6+ Qxe6 29Be4 (29f4 Bf6micro) 29c4micro]

28dxe3 29Rxe3 Bd4sup3 [29Bxb2 30Rae1 Rb6micro]

30Re2micro [30Re4 Qd6 31Nxe6+ fxe6sup3]

30c4 31Nxe6+ [31Bf1 cxd3 (31Rb6 32dxc4 bxc4sup3) 32Nxe6+ fxe6 33Rd2 Qb4micro]

31fxe6 32Be4 cxd3 [Vishy goes up a P]

33Rd2 Qb4 34Rad1 Bxb2sup3 [Vishy goes up 2 Ps]

[34Rf8 35Kh2 Bxf2 36Rxd3 Rf7micro]

35Qf3 Bf6= [35Bd4 36Bxd3 Qf8sup3]

36Rxd3 [Vishy is up a P]

36Rxd3 37Rxd3micro [37Bxd3 Qg4 38Qxg4 hxg4=]

XABCDEFGHY 8-tr-+-+-+( 7+-+-+-mk- 6-+-+pvlp+amp 5+p+-+-+p 4-wq-+L+-zP$ 3+-+R+QzP- 2-+-+-zP-+ 1+-+-+-mK- xabcdefghy

37Rd8= [37Bd4 38Qe2 Rf8micro]

38Rxd8 Bxd8 39Bd3 Qd4 40Bxb5 [material equality]

40Qf6sup2 [40Bb6 41Bc6 Bc5=]

41Qb7+ Be7 42Kg2= [42Be2 Kh6 43Qc6 e5sup2]

42g5 43hxg5 Qxg5 44Bc4 h4 45Qc7 hxg3 46Qxg3 e5 47Kf3 Qxg3+ 48fxg3 Bc5 49Ke4

Bd4 50Kf5 Bf2 51Kxe5 Bxg3+=

frac12ndashfrac12

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Game 4 An exciting draw that saw the advantage swing back and forth It was the

longest game at that point at 6 hours Here is the game (Annotations by Bob Armstrong

using Fritz)

Anand Viswanathan (2775) - Carlsen Magnus (2870) [C67] 2013 World Chess Championship (4) 13112013

1e4sup2 [058 (by reverse projection) Both engines and humans are somewhat divided on whether

the evaluation of this position is = or += The engine I am using opts for += as did the engine I

used before this So I will follow my engines lead and agree to += It is numerically calculated as

058 in this opening Although logical consistency would demand that 1e4 be the same valuation

regardless of the defence used this is not yet totally confirmed by me It is dependent on time

available for further research]

[1d4sup2 032 (by reverse projection) 1d5sup2 032 (verified depth 25) 2Nf3sup2 032 (depth 25) (2c4=

029 (depth 25)) ]

1e5 [058 (verified depth 25)]

2Nf3 [2d4 exd4 3Nf3 Nc6 4Nxd4 Nf6=]

2Nc6 [2Nf6 3Nxe5 d6 4Nf3 Nxe4sup2]

3Bb5 Nf6 40ndash0 [033 (verified depth 23)]

4Nxe4 [(depth 23)]

[4Bc5sup2 5Nxe5 Nxe4 (5Nxe5 6d4 a6 7Be2 Bxd4 8Qxd4sup2) 6Qe2 (6Qe1 f5 7Bxc6 dxc6 8d3

Qe7 9Nf3 (9dxe4 Qxe5 10exf5 Qxe1 11Rxe1+ Kf7sup2) 9Nf6sup2) 6Nxe5 7Qxe4 Qe7sup2 4Bd6

5d4 Qe7sup2]

5d4 [5Re1 Nd6 6Nxe5 (6Bf1 Be7=) 6Be7=]

5Nd6 [5exd4 6Re1 d5sup2 (6f5plusmn) ]

6Bxc6 dxc6 7dxe5 Nf5 8Qxd8+ [8Qe2 Nd4 9Nxd4 Qxd4sup2]

8Kxd8 9h3 Bd7 10Rd1 Be7 11Nc3 Kc8plusmn [Vishy gets a clear advantage]

[11Ke8 12g3 h5sup2]

12Bg5 h6 13Bxe7 Nxe7 14Rd2sup2 [14a4 c5 15a5 Bc6plusmn]

14c5 15Rad1 Be6 16Ne1= [Vishy has lost his advantage]

[16Kh2 b6 17Ne4 Kb7sup2]

16Ng6 17Nd3 [17Ne4 b6 18Nf3 Kb7=]

17b6 18Ne2sup3 [it appears that this was a deliberate P-sac by Vishy to gain the initiative but

for the first time in the game Magnus gets the advantage because of it It may be an unsound

sac]

[18b3 Kb7 19f4 c4=]

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18Bxa2 [Magnus goes up a P]

19b3 c4 20Ndc1 cxb3 21cxb3 Bb1 22f4 Kb7 23Nc3 Bf5 24g4 Bc8 25Nd3 h5 [25Ne7

26Rc1 Be6sup3]

26f5 Ne7 [26Nh4sup3 27Rf2 (27Rf1 g6sup3 (27hxg4 28hxg4 g6sup3) ) 27hxg4 28hxg4 g6sup3]

27Nb5 [27Re2 Nc6 (27Rh7 28Ne4 hxg4 29hxg4 Rh4=) 28Re4 hxg4 29hxg4 Rh6sup3

27Re1 hxg4 28hxg4 Nc6sup3]

27hxg4 28hxg4 Rh4 [28a6 29Nd4 a5sup3]

29Nf2 Nc6 30Rc2micro [30Re2sup3]

30a5sup3 [30g6 31e6 fxe6 32fxg6 (32Rdc1 Bd7 33fxe6 Be8micro) 32Rh6micro]

31Rc4micro [Magnus gets a clear advantage]

[31e6micro fxe6 32fxe6 Bxe6 33Rxc6 Kxc6 34Nd4+ Kd7 35Nf3+ Kc8 36Nxh4 Bxb3micro Magnus

would have 3 Ps (connected and passed) vs N 31Kg2 Rh6 32Kg3 g6sup3]

31g6 32Rdc1 Bd7 33e6 [33fxg6 fxg6 34e6 Be8 (34Bxe6 35Rxc6 Bxb3 36Rxc7+ Ka6+ndash

) 35Ne4 Rxg4+ 36Kf2 Rd8micro]

33fxe6 34fxe6 Be8 [34Bxe6 35Rxc6 Bxb3 36Rxc7+ Ka6+ndash]

35Ne4 [a sound P-sac by Vishy to get play against the K]

35Rxg4+ [Magnus goes up 2 Ps]

36Kf2 Rf4+sup3 [36Rd8 37Ke3 Rd5micro]

37Ke3 Rf8= [Magnus has lost his advantage despite being up a P]

[37g5 38Rg1 (38Nd4 Nb4 39Rxc7+ Ka6micro) 38Rh4 39Rxg5 Rh7sup3]

XABCDEFGHY 8r+-+ltr-+( 7+kzp-+-+- 6-zpn+P+p+amp 5zpN+-+-+- 4-+R+N+-+$ 3+P+-mK-+- 2-+-+-+-+ 1+-tR-+-+- xabcdefghy

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38Nd4 Nxd4 39Rxc7+ [Magnus is up a P but can Anand now draw]

39Ka6 40Kxd4 Rd8+= [both players have made the first time control]

41Kc3micro [Magnus gets back a clear advantage]

[41Ke3 Rd5 42Rg7 Rb5=]

41Rf3+ 42Kb2 Re3 43Rc8 [43e7 Rdd3micro]

43Rdd3sup3 [ ]

[43Rxc8 44Rxc8 Bc6micro]

44Ra8+micro [44R1c4 Re2+ (44Rxb3+ 45Kc2 Rb4 46Rxb4 axb4 47Nd6 Bc6 48Rxc6 Rxe6

49Kb3 g5 50Kxb4 g4= will be drawn) 45Kc1 Rh3sup3]

44Kb7 45Rxe8 Rxe4 46e7 Rg3sup3 [46g5 47Kc2 Rde3micro]

47Rc3 Re2+ 48Rc2 Ree3= [48Re5 49Rf2 Rge3sup3]

49Ka2micro [49Rh2 b5 50Kc2 Kc6=]

49g5 50Rd2 Re5 51Rd7+ Kc6 52Red8 Rge3 53Rd6+ Kb7 [(1) 53Kc5micro 54e8Q Rxe8

55Rd5+ Kb4 56Rd4+ Kb5 57R4d5+ Ka6 58Rxe8 Rxe8 59Rxg5 Re2+ (59Re7micro) 60Ka3

Rd2micro (2) 53Kb5= 54Rb8 Kc5 55Rbxb6 Rxe7 56Rbc6+ Kb4 57Rb6+ Kc5 58Rbc6+=]

54R8d7+ Ka6 55Rd5 Re2+ 56Ka3 Re6 57Rd8 g4 58Rg5 Rxe7 [Magnus goes up 2 Ps]

59Ra8+ Kb7 60Rag8 a4= [60Rd2 61R8g7 (61Rxg4 Re5micro) 61Rxg7 62Rxg7+ Ka6micro]

61Rxg4 [61R8g7= Ka6 62Rxe7 Rxe7 63Rxg4 Kb7=]

61axb3 62R8g7 Ka6 63Rxe7 Rxe7 64Kxb3= [Magnus is up a P but the game is a

theoretical draw]

frac12ndashfrac12

So the match is now tied Vishy 2 2 Magnus

Remember that Game 5 is today Friday Nov 15 For those in the EST zone the games

start at 4

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NATIONAL

Organizations

Chess Federation of Canada (CFC)

Website httpwwwchessca

Chess Discussion Forum httpwwwchesscanadainfoforumforumdisplayphpf=2

(by TCN Liaison for CFC Bob Armstrong CFC Public Relations Coordinator)

Canada will be sending a junior team and 4 coaches to the World Youth Chess

Championships in the United Arab Emirates It runs from Dec 18 ndash 24 It will be 8

rounds Andrew Giblon will again be head of delegation

Here is the Team Canada blog page for up to date info

http2013wyccblogspotca

Profiles

Interesting Canadian Chess Personalities

This is a series TCN started in Issue 1-4 where from time to time (in the 15th of

the month Issue) we will introduce Canadian chess personalities past and present in

some detail and if possible have them present to our readers their chess profile in their

own words Alternatively we may have biographies of them from available public and

private sources

Prior Personalities presented are Howard Ridout Zoltan Sarosy Harmony Zhu

Phil Haley Maurice Smith and Yuanling Yuan

We are pleased to continue our series with the introduction of

Vlad Drkulec CFC President

12

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Game 3 (Nov12)

- a fighting draw that saw Vishy with the upper hand throughout the game and at

one point being up temporarily 2 Prsquos Here is the game (Annotations by Bob

Armstrong using Fritz)

Carlsen Magnus (2870) - Anand Viswanathan (2775) [A09] 2013 World Chess Championship Chennai (3) 12112013

1Nf3= 028 [ ]

1d5 2g3 g6 3c4 dxc4 [Vishy at least temporarily goes up a P]

4Qa4+ Nc6 5Bg2 Bg7 6Nc3 e5 7Qxc4 [material equality time to capture or Vishy will protect

withBe6]

7Nge7 80ndash0 0ndash0 9d3 h6 [prophylactic - keeping Magnus N and B off g5]

[9Be6 10Qc5 (10Qh4 Nf5 11Qxd8 Raxd8 12Ng5 Bd7=) 10Nf5=]

10Bd2 Nd4sup2 [(verified depth 20)]

[10Be6 11Qa4 Nf5 12Rac1 a5=]

11Nxd4 exd4 12Ne4 c6 13Bb4= [13Qc1 Nf5 14a4 Be6sup2]

13Be6 14Qc1 Bd5 15a4sup3 [15Bd2 Nf5 16Qc2 Re8=]

15b6 [15a5 16Ba3 b6sup3]

16Bxe7 Qxe7 17a5 Rab8= [17Rfd8 (depth 23) 18Re1sup3 Qb4sup3 (18Qe5= 19b4 (verified

depth 22) 19Qe7= (19Bf8=) ) ]

18Re1 Rfc8 19axb6 axb6 20Qf4 Rd8 21h4sup3 [(verified depth 23) Magnus is known for

playing inferior moves to create dynamics he feels gives him chances to recover and then win It

is not yet clear if this is always conscious or rather instinct (without maybe realizing the exact

valuation of the move)]

[21Nd2 g5 22Qg4 Be6 23Qh5 Qb4=]

21Kh7 22Nd2 [22h5 g5 23Qc1 f5sup3]

22Be5 23Qg4 h5sup3 [23Be6sup3 the first instance of a possible 3ndashfold repetition 24Qe4 Bd5

25Qg4sup3 (verified depth 23) 25Be6= the second instance and it would be drawn Vishy

rejected going for a draw feeling likely that he had the advantage which Fritz confirms (25h5sup3)

]

24Qh3 Be6 25Qh1 c5 26Ne4micro [Vishy gets a clear advantage]

[26Bc6 b5 27Qe4 (27b3 Rb6micro (27Kg8sup3 27Bg7sup3) ) 27Qc7micro 26b3 b5 27Ra6 Bg7sup3]

26Kg7 27Ng5 [ ]

[27Rec1 c4 28f4 Bf6micro]

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27b5 28e3 [28Nxe6+ Qxe6 29Be4 (29f4 Bf6micro) 29c4micro]

28dxe3 29Rxe3 Bd4sup3 [29Bxb2 30Rae1 Rb6micro]

30Re2micro [30Re4 Qd6 31Nxe6+ fxe6sup3]

30c4 31Nxe6+ [31Bf1 cxd3 (31Rb6 32dxc4 bxc4sup3) 32Nxe6+ fxe6 33Rd2 Qb4micro]

31fxe6 32Be4 cxd3 [Vishy goes up a P]

33Rd2 Qb4 34Rad1 Bxb2sup3 [Vishy goes up 2 Ps]

[34Rf8 35Kh2 Bxf2 36Rxd3 Rf7micro]

35Qf3 Bf6= [35Bd4 36Bxd3 Qf8sup3]

36Rxd3 [Vishy is up a P]

36Rxd3 37Rxd3micro [37Bxd3 Qg4 38Qxg4 hxg4=]

XABCDEFGHY 8-tr-+-+-+( 7+-+-+-mk- 6-+-+pvlp+amp 5+p+-+-+p 4-wq-+L+-zP$ 3+-+R+QzP- 2-+-+-zP-+ 1+-+-+-mK- xabcdefghy

37Rd8= [37Bd4 38Qe2 Rf8micro]

38Rxd8 Bxd8 39Bd3 Qd4 40Bxb5 [material equality]

40Qf6sup2 [40Bb6 41Bc6 Bc5=]

41Qb7+ Be7 42Kg2= [42Be2 Kh6 43Qc6 e5sup2]

42g5 43hxg5 Qxg5 44Bc4 h4 45Qc7 hxg3 46Qxg3 e5 47Kf3 Qxg3+ 48fxg3 Bc5 49Ke4

Bd4 50Kf5 Bf2 51Kxe5 Bxg3+=

frac12ndashfrac12

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Game 4 An exciting draw that saw the advantage swing back and forth It was the

longest game at that point at 6 hours Here is the game (Annotations by Bob Armstrong

using Fritz)

Anand Viswanathan (2775) - Carlsen Magnus (2870) [C67] 2013 World Chess Championship (4) 13112013

1e4sup2 [058 (by reverse projection) Both engines and humans are somewhat divided on whether

the evaluation of this position is = or += The engine I am using opts for += as did the engine I

used before this So I will follow my engines lead and agree to += It is numerically calculated as

058 in this opening Although logical consistency would demand that 1e4 be the same valuation

regardless of the defence used this is not yet totally confirmed by me It is dependent on time

available for further research]

[1d4sup2 032 (by reverse projection) 1d5sup2 032 (verified depth 25) 2Nf3sup2 032 (depth 25) (2c4=

029 (depth 25)) ]

1e5 [058 (verified depth 25)]

2Nf3 [2d4 exd4 3Nf3 Nc6 4Nxd4 Nf6=]

2Nc6 [2Nf6 3Nxe5 d6 4Nf3 Nxe4sup2]

3Bb5 Nf6 40ndash0 [033 (verified depth 23)]

4Nxe4 [(depth 23)]

[4Bc5sup2 5Nxe5 Nxe4 (5Nxe5 6d4 a6 7Be2 Bxd4 8Qxd4sup2) 6Qe2 (6Qe1 f5 7Bxc6 dxc6 8d3

Qe7 9Nf3 (9dxe4 Qxe5 10exf5 Qxe1 11Rxe1+ Kf7sup2) 9Nf6sup2) 6Nxe5 7Qxe4 Qe7sup2 4Bd6

5d4 Qe7sup2]

5d4 [5Re1 Nd6 6Nxe5 (6Bf1 Be7=) 6Be7=]

5Nd6 [5exd4 6Re1 d5sup2 (6f5plusmn) ]

6Bxc6 dxc6 7dxe5 Nf5 8Qxd8+ [8Qe2 Nd4 9Nxd4 Qxd4sup2]

8Kxd8 9h3 Bd7 10Rd1 Be7 11Nc3 Kc8plusmn [Vishy gets a clear advantage]

[11Ke8 12g3 h5sup2]

12Bg5 h6 13Bxe7 Nxe7 14Rd2sup2 [14a4 c5 15a5 Bc6plusmn]

14c5 15Rad1 Be6 16Ne1= [Vishy has lost his advantage]

[16Kh2 b6 17Ne4 Kb7sup2]

16Ng6 17Nd3 [17Ne4 b6 18Nf3 Kb7=]

17b6 18Ne2sup3 [it appears that this was a deliberate P-sac by Vishy to gain the initiative but

for the first time in the game Magnus gets the advantage because of it It may be an unsound

sac]

[18b3 Kb7 19f4 c4=]

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18Bxa2 [Magnus goes up a P]

19b3 c4 20Ndc1 cxb3 21cxb3 Bb1 22f4 Kb7 23Nc3 Bf5 24g4 Bc8 25Nd3 h5 [25Ne7

26Rc1 Be6sup3]

26f5 Ne7 [26Nh4sup3 27Rf2 (27Rf1 g6sup3 (27hxg4 28hxg4 g6sup3) ) 27hxg4 28hxg4 g6sup3]

27Nb5 [27Re2 Nc6 (27Rh7 28Ne4 hxg4 29hxg4 Rh4=) 28Re4 hxg4 29hxg4 Rh6sup3

27Re1 hxg4 28hxg4 Nc6sup3]

27hxg4 28hxg4 Rh4 [28a6 29Nd4 a5sup3]

29Nf2 Nc6 30Rc2micro [30Re2sup3]

30a5sup3 [30g6 31e6 fxe6 32fxg6 (32Rdc1 Bd7 33fxe6 Be8micro) 32Rh6micro]

31Rc4micro [Magnus gets a clear advantage]

[31e6micro fxe6 32fxe6 Bxe6 33Rxc6 Kxc6 34Nd4+ Kd7 35Nf3+ Kc8 36Nxh4 Bxb3micro Magnus

would have 3 Ps (connected and passed) vs N 31Kg2 Rh6 32Kg3 g6sup3]

31g6 32Rdc1 Bd7 33e6 [33fxg6 fxg6 34e6 Be8 (34Bxe6 35Rxc6 Bxb3 36Rxc7+ Ka6+ndash

) 35Ne4 Rxg4+ 36Kf2 Rd8micro]

33fxe6 34fxe6 Be8 [34Bxe6 35Rxc6 Bxb3 36Rxc7+ Ka6+ndash]

35Ne4 [a sound P-sac by Vishy to get play against the K]

35Rxg4+ [Magnus goes up 2 Ps]

36Kf2 Rf4+sup3 [36Rd8 37Ke3 Rd5micro]

37Ke3 Rf8= [Magnus has lost his advantage despite being up a P]

[37g5 38Rg1 (38Nd4 Nb4 39Rxc7+ Ka6micro) 38Rh4 39Rxg5 Rh7sup3]

XABCDEFGHY 8r+-+ltr-+( 7+kzp-+-+- 6-zpn+P+p+amp 5zpN+-+-+- 4-+R+N+-+$ 3+P+-mK-+- 2-+-+-+-+ 1+-tR-+-+- xabcdefghy

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38Nd4 Nxd4 39Rxc7+ [Magnus is up a P but can Anand now draw]

39Ka6 40Kxd4 Rd8+= [both players have made the first time control]

41Kc3micro [Magnus gets back a clear advantage]

[41Ke3 Rd5 42Rg7 Rb5=]

41Rf3+ 42Kb2 Re3 43Rc8 [43e7 Rdd3micro]

43Rdd3sup3 [ ]

[43Rxc8 44Rxc8 Bc6micro]

44Ra8+micro [44R1c4 Re2+ (44Rxb3+ 45Kc2 Rb4 46Rxb4 axb4 47Nd6 Bc6 48Rxc6 Rxe6

49Kb3 g5 50Kxb4 g4= will be drawn) 45Kc1 Rh3sup3]

44Kb7 45Rxe8 Rxe4 46e7 Rg3sup3 [46g5 47Kc2 Rde3micro]

47Rc3 Re2+ 48Rc2 Ree3= [48Re5 49Rf2 Rge3sup3]

49Ka2micro [49Rh2 b5 50Kc2 Kc6=]

49g5 50Rd2 Re5 51Rd7+ Kc6 52Red8 Rge3 53Rd6+ Kb7 [(1) 53Kc5micro 54e8Q Rxe8

55Rd5+ Kb4 56Rd4+ Kb5 57R4d5+ Ka6 58Rxe8 Rxe8 59Rxg5 Re2+ (59Re7micro) 60Ka3

Rd2micro (2) 53Kb5= 54Rb8 Kc5 55Rbxb6 Rxe7 56Rbc6+ Kb4 57Rb6+ Kc5 58Rbc6+=]

54R8d7+ Ka6 55Rd5 Re2+ 56Ka3 Re6 57Rd8 g4 58Rg5 Rxe7 [Magnus goes up 2 Ps]

59Ra8+ Kb7 60Rag8 a4= [60Rd2 61R8g7 (61Rxg4 Re5micro) 61Rxg7 62Rxg7+ Ka6micro]

61Rxg4 [61R8g7= Ka6 62Rxe7 Rxe7 63Rxg4 Kb7=]

61axb3 62R8g7 Ka6 63Rxe7 Rxe7 64Kxb3= [Magnus is up a P but the game is a

theoretical draw]

frac12ndashfrac12

So the match is now tied Vishy 2 2 Magnus

Remember that Game 5 is today Friday Nov 15 For those in the EST zone the games

start at 4

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Canada will be sending a junior team and 4 coaches to the World Youth Chess

Championships in the United Arab Emirates It runs from Dec 18 ndash 24 It will be 8

rounds Andrew Giblon will again be head of delegation

Here is the Team Canada blog page for up to date info

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Profiles

Interesting Canadian Chess Personalities

This is a series TCN started in Issue 1-4 where from time to time (in the 15th of

the month Issue) we will introduce Canadian chess personalities past and present in

some detail and if possible have them present to our readers their chess profile in their

own words Alternatively we may have biographies of them from available public and

private sources

Prior Personalities presented are Howard Ridout Zoltan Sarosy Harmony Zhu

Phil Haley Maurice Smith and Yuanling Yuan

We are pleased to continue our series with the introduction of

Vlad Drkulec CFC President

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27b5 28e3 [28Nxe6+ Qxe6 29Be4 (29f4 Bf6micro) 29c4micro]

28dxe3 29Rxe3 Bd4sup3 [29Bxb2 30Rae1 Rb6micro]

30Re2micro [30Re4 Qd6 31Nxe6+ fxe6sup3]

30c4 31Nxe6+ [31Bf1 cxd3 (31Rb6 32dxc4 bxc4sup3) 32Nxe6+ fxe6 33Rd2 Qb4micro]

31fxe6 32Be4 cxd3 [Vishy goes up a P]

33Rd2 Qb4 34Rad1 Bxb2sup3 [Vishy goes up 2 Ps]

[34Rf8 35Kh2 Bxf2 36Rxd3 Rf7micro]

35Qf3 Bf6= [35Bd4 36Bxd3 Qf8sup3]

36Rxd3 [Vishy is up a P]

36Rxd3 37Rxd3micro [37Bxd3 Qg4 38Qxg4 hxg4=]

XABCDEFGHY 8-tr-+-+-+( 7+-+-+-mk- 6-+-+pvlp+amp 5+p+-+-+p 4-wq-+L+-zP$ 3+-+R+QzP- 2-+-+-zP-+ 1+-+-+-mK- xabcdefghy

37Rd8= [37Bd4 38Qe2 Rf8micro]

38Rxd8 Bxd8 39Bd3 Qd4 40Bxb5 [material equality]

40Qf6sup2 [40Bb6 41Bc6 Bc5=]

41Qb7+ Be7 42Kg2= [42Be2 Kh6 43Qc6 e5sup2]

42g5 43hxg5 Qxg5 44Bc4 h4 45Qc7 hxg3 46Qxg3 e5 47Kf3 Qxg3+ 48fxg3 Bc5 49Ke4

Bd4 50Kf5 Bf2 51Kxe5 Bxg3+=

frac12ndashfrac12

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Game 4 An exciting draw that saw the advantage swing back and forth It was the

longest game at that point at 6 hours Here is the game (Annotations by Bob Armstrong

using Fritz)

Anand Viswanathan (2775) - Carlsen Magnus (2870) [C67] 2013 World Chess Championship (4) 13112013

1e4sup2 [058 (by reverse projection) Both engines and humans are somewhat divided on whether

the evaluation of this position is = or += The engine I am using opts for += as did the engine I

used before this So I will follow my engines lead and agree to += It is numerically calculated as

058 in this opening Although logical consistency would demand that 1e4 be the same valuation

regardless of the defence used this is not yet totally confirmed by me It is dependent on time

available for further research]

[1d4sup2 032 (by reverse projection) 1d5sup2 032 (verified depth 25) 2Nf3sup2 032 (depth 25) (2c4=

029 (depth 25)) ]

1e5 [058 (verified depth 25)]

2Nf3 [2d4 exd4 3Nf3 Nc6 4Nxd4 Nf6=]

2Nc6 [2Nf6 3Nxe5 d6 4Nf3 Nxe4sup2]

3Bb5 Nf6 40ndash0 [033 (verified depth 23)]

4Nxe4 [(depth 23)]

[4Bc5sup2 5Nxe5 Nxe4 (5Nxe5 6d4 a6 7Be2 Bxd4 8Qxd4sup2) 6Qe2 (6Qe1 f5 7Bxc6 dxc6 8d3

Qe7 9Nf3 (9dxe4 Qxe5 10exf5 Qxe1 11Rxe1+ Kf7sup2) 9Nf6sup2) 6Nxe5 7Qxe4 Qe7sup2 4Bd6

5d4 Qe7sup2]

5d4 [5Re1 Nd6 6Nxe5 (6Bf1 Be7=) 6Be7=]

5Nd6 [5exd4 6Re1 d5sup2 (6f5plusmn) ]

6Bxc6 dxc6 7dxe5 Nf5 8Qxd8+ [8Qe2 Nd4 9Nxd4 Qxd4sup2]

8Kxd8 9h3 Bd7 10Rd1 Be7 11Nc3 Kc8plusmn [Vishy gets a clear advantage]

[11Ke8 12g3 h5sup2]

12Bg5 h6 13Bxe7 Nxe7 14Rd2sup2 [14a4 c5 15a5 Bc6plusmn]

14c5 15Rad1 Be6 16Ne1= [Vishy has lost his advantage]

[16Kh2 b6 17Ne4 Kb7sup2]

16Ng6 17Nd3 [17Ne4 b6 18Nf3 Kb7=]

17b6 18Ne2sup3 [it appears that this was a deliberate P-sac by Vishy to gain the initiative but

for the first time in the game Magnus gets the advantage because of it It may be an unsound

sac]

[18b3 Kb7 19f4 c4=]

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18Bxa2 [Magnus goes up a P]

19b3 c4 20Ndc1 cxb3 21cxb3 Bb1 22f4 Kb7 23Nc3 Bf5 24g4 Bc8 25Nd3 h5 [25Ne7

26Rc1 Be6sup3]

26f5 Ne7 [26Nh4sup3 27Rf2 (27Rf1 g6sup3 (27hxg4 28hxg4 g6sup3) ) 27hxg4 28hxg4 g6sup3]

27Nb5 [27Re2 Nc6 (27Rh7 28Ne4 hxg4 29hxg4 Rh4=) 28Re4 hxg4 29hxg4 Rh6sup3

27Re1 hxg4 28hxg4 Nc6sup3]

27hxg4 28hxg4 Rh4 [28a6 29Nd4 a5sup3]

29Nf2 Nc6 30Rc2micro [30Re2sup3]

30a5sup3 [30g6 31e6 fxe6 32fxg6 (32Rdc1 Bd7 33fxe6 Be8micro) 32Rh6micro]

31Rc4micro [Magnus gets a clear advantage]

[31e6micro fxe6 32fxe6 Bxe6 33Rxc6 Kxc6 34Nd4+ Kd7 35Nf3+ Kc8 36Nxh4 Bxb3micro Magnus

would have 3 Ps (connected and passed) vs N 31Kg2 Rh6 32Kg3 g6sup3]

31g6 32Rdc1 Bd7 33e6 [33fxg6 fxg6 34e6 Be8 (34Bxe6 35Rxc6 Bxb3 36Rxc7+ Ka6+ndash

) 35Ne4 Rxg4+ 36Kf2 Rd8micro]

33fxe6 34fxe6 Be8 [34Bxe6 35Rxc6 Bxb3 36Rxc7+ Ka6+ndash]

35Ne4 [a sound P-sac by Vishy to get play against the K]

35Rxg4+ [Magnus goes up 2 Ps]

36Kf2 Rf4+sup3 [36Rd8 37Ke3 Rd5micro]

37Ke3 Rf8= [Magnus has lost his advantage despite being up a P]

[37g5 38Rg1 (38Nd4 Nb4 39Rxc7+ Ka6micro) 38Rh4 39Rxg5 Rh7sup3]

XABCDEFGHY 8r+-+ltr-+( 7+kzp-+-+- 6-zpn+P+p+amp 5zpN+-+-+- 4-+R+N+-+$ 3+P+-mK-+- 2-+-+-+-+ 1+-tR-+-+- xabcdefghy

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38Nd4 Nxd4 39Rxc7+ [Magnus is up a P but can Anand now draw]

39Ka6 40Kxd4 Rd8+= [both players have made the first time control]

41Kc3micro [Magnus gets back a clear advantage]

[41Ke3 Rd5 42Rg7 Rb5=]

41Rf3+ 42Kb2 Re3 43Rc8 [43e7 Rdd3micro]

43Rdd3sup3 [ ]

[43Rxc8 44Rxc8 Bc6micro]

44Ra8+micro [44R1c4 Re2+ (44Rxb3+ 45Kc2 Rb4 46Rxb4 axb4 47Nd6 Bc6 48Rxc6 Rxe6

49Kb3 g5 50Kxb4 g4= will be drawn) 45Kc1 Rh3sup3]

44Kb7 45Rxe8 Rxe4 46e7 Rg3sup3 [46g5 47Kc2 Rde3micro]

47Rc3 Re2+ 48Rc2 Ree3= [48Re5 49Rf2 Rge3sup3]

49Ka2micro [49Rh2 b5 50Kc2 Kc6=]

49g5 50Rd2 Re5 51Rd7+ Kc6 52Red8 Rge3 53Rd6+ Kb7 [(1) 53Kc5micro 54e8Q Rxe8

55Rd5+ Kb4 56Rd4+ Kb5 57R4d5+ Ka6 58Rxe8 Rxe8 59Rxg5 Re2+ (59Re7micro) 60Ka3

Rd2micro (2) 53Kb5= 54Rb8 Kc5 55Rbxb6 Rxe7 56Rbc6+ Kb4 57Rb6+ Kc5 58Rbc6+=]

54R8d7+ Ka6 55Rd5 Re2+ 56Ka3 Re6 57Rd8 g4 58Rg5 Rxe7 [Magnus goes up 2 Ps]

59Ra8+ Kb7 60Rag8 a4= [60Rd2 61R8g7 (61Rxg4 Re5micro) 61Rxg7 62Rxg7+ Ka6micro]

61Rxg4 [61R8g7= Ka6 62Rxe7 Rxe7 63Rxg4 Kb7=]

61axb3 62R8g7 Ka6 63Rxe7 Rxe7 64Kxb3= [Magnus is up a P but the game is a

theoretical draw]

frac12ndashfrac12

So the match is now tied Vishy 2 2 Magnus

Remember that Game 5 is today Friday Nov 15 For those in the EST zone the games

start at 4

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Organizations

Chess Federation of Canada (CFC)

Website httpwwwchessca

Chess Discussion Forum httpwwwchesscanadainfoforumforumdisplayphpf=2

(by TCN Liaison for CFC Bob Armstrong CFC Public Relations Coordinator)

Canada will be sending a junior team and 4 coaches to the World Youth Chess

Championships in the United Arab Emirates It runs from Dec 18 ndash 24 It will be 8

rounds Andrew Giblon will again be head of delegation

Here is the Team Canada blog page for up to date info

http2013wyccblogspotca

Profiles

Interesting Canadian Chess Personalities

This is a series TCN started in Issue 1-4 where from time to time (in the 15th of

the month Issue) we will introduce Canadian chess personalities past and present in

some detail and if possible have them present to our readers their chess profile in their

own words Alternatively we may have biographies of them from available public and

private sources

Prior Personalities presented are Howard Ridout Zoltan Sarosy Harmony Zhu

Phil Haley Maurice Smith and Yuanling Yuan

We are pleased to continue our series with the introduction of

Vlad Drkulec CFC President

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Game 4 An exciting draw that saw the advantage swing back and forth It was the

longest game at that point at 6 hours Here is the game (Annotations by Bob Armstrong

using Fritz)

Anand Viswanathan (2775) - Carlsen Magnus (2870) [C67] 2013 World Chess Championship (4) 13112013

1e4sup2 [058 (by reverse projection) Both engines and humans are somewhat divided on whether

the evaluation of this position is = or += The engine I am using opts for += as did the engine I

used before this So I will follow my engines lead and agree to += It is numerically calculated as

058 in this opening Although logical consistency would demand that 1e4 be the same valuation

regardless of the defence used this is not yet totally confirmed by me It is dependent on time

available for further research]

[1d4sup2 032 (by reverse projection) 1d5sup2 032 (verified depth 25) 2Nf3sup2 032 (depth 25) (2c4=

029 (depth 25)) ]

1e5 [058 (verified depth 25)]

2Nf3 [2d4 exd4 3Nf3 Nc6 4Nxd4 Nf6=]

2Nc6 [2Nf6 3Nxe5 d6 4Nf3 Nxe4sup2]

3Bb5 Nf6 40ndash0 [033 (verified depth 23)]

4Nxe4 [(depth 23)]

[4Bc5sup2 5Nxe5 Nxe4 (5Nxe5 6d4 a6 7Be2 Bxd4 8Qxd4sup2) 6Qe2 (6Qe1 f5 7Bxc6 dxc6 8d3

Qe7 9Nf3 (9dxe4 Qxe5 10exf5 Qxe1 11Rxe1+ Kf7sup2) 9Nf6sup2) 6Nxe5 7Qxe4 Qe7sup2 4Bd6

5d4 Qe7sup2]

5d4 [5Re1 Nd6 6Nxe5 (6Bf1 Be7=) 6Be7=]

5Nd6 [5exd4 6Re1 d5sup2 (6f5plusmn) ]

6Bxc6 dxc6 7dxe5 Nf5 8Qxd8+ [8Qe2 Nd4 9Nxd4 Qxd4sup2]

8Kxd8 9h3 Bd7 10Rd1 Be7 11Nc3 Kc8plusmn [Vishy gets a clear advantage]

[11Ke8 12g3 h5sup2]

12Bg5 h6 13Bxe7 Nxe7 14Rd2sup2 [14a4 c5 15a5 Bc6plusmn]

14c5 15Rad1 Be6 16Ne1= [Vishy has lost his advantage]

[16Kh2 b6 17Ne4 Kb7sup2]

16Ng6 17Nd3 [17Ne4 b6 18Nf3 Kb7=]

17b6 18Ne2sup3 [it appears that this was a deliberate P-sac by Vishy to gain the initiative but

for the first time in the game Magnus gets the advantage because of it It may be an unsound

sac]

[18b3 Kb7 19f4 c4=]

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18Bxa2 [Magnus goes up a P]

19b3 c4 20Ndc1 cxb3 21cxb3 Bb1 22f4 Kb7 23Nc3 Bf5 24g4 Bc8 25Nd3 h5 [25Ne7

26Rc1 Be6sup3]

26f5 Ne7 [26Nh4sup3 27Rf2 (27Rf1 g6sup3 (27hxg4 28hxg4 g6sup3) ) 27hxg4 28hxg4 g6sup3]

27Nb5 [27Re2 Nc6 (27Rh7 28Ne4 hxg4 29hxg4 Rh4=) 28Re4 hxg4 29hxg4 Rh6sup3

27Re1 hxg4 28hxg4 Nc6sup3]

27hxg4 28hxg4 Rh4 [28a6 29Nd4 a5sup3]

29Nf2 Nc6 30Rc2micro [30Re2sup3]

30a5sup3 [30g6 31e6 fxe6 32fxg6 (32Rdc1 Bd7 33fxe6 Be8micro) 32Rh6micro]

31Rc4micro [Magnus gets a clear advantage]

[31e6micro fxe6 32fxe6 Bxe6 33Rxc6 Kxc6 34Nd4+ Kd7 35Nf3+ Kc8 36Nxh4 Bxb3micro Magnus

would have 3 Ps (connected and passed) vs N 31Kg2 Rh6 32Kg3 g6sup3]

31g6 32Rdc1 Bd7 33e6 [33fxg6 fxg6 34e6 Be8 (34Bxe6 35Rxc6 Bxb3 36Rxc7+ Ka6+ndash

) 35Ne4 Rxg4+ 36Kf2 Rd8micro]

33fxe6 34fxe6 Be8 [34Bxe6 35Rxc6 Bxb3 36Rxc7+ Ka6+ndash]

35Ne4 [a sound P-sac by Vishy to get play against the K]

35Rxg4+ [Magnus goes up 2 Ps]

36Kf2 Rf4+sup3 [36Rd8 37Ke3 Rd5micro]

37Ke3 Rf8= [Magnus has lost his advantage despite being up a P]

[37g5 38Rg1 (38Nd4 Nb4 39Rxc7+ Ka6micro) 38Rh4 39Rxg5 Rh7sup3]

XABCDEFGHY 8r+-+ltr-+( 7+kzp-+-+- 6-zpn+P+p+amp 5zpN+-+-+- 4-+R+N+-+$ 3+P+-mK-+- 2-+-+-+-+ 1+-tR-+-+- xabcdefghy

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38Nd4 Nxd4 39Rxc7+ [Magnus is up a P but can Anand now draw]

39Ka6 40Kxd4 Rd8+= [both players have made the first time control]

41Kc3micro [Magnus gets back a clear advantage]

[41Ke3 Rd5 42Rg7 Rb5=]

41Rf3+ 42Kb2 Re3 43Rc8 [43e7 Rdd3micro]

43Rdd3sup3 [ ]

[43Rxc8 44Rxc8 Bc6micro]

44Ra8+micro [44R1c4 Re2+ (44Rxb3+ 45Kc2 Rb4 46Rxb4 axb4 47Nd6 Bc6 48Rxc6 Rxe6

49Kb3 g5 50Kxb4 g4= will be drawn) 45Kc1 Rh3sup3]

44Kb7 45Rxe8 Rxe4 46e7 Rg3sup3 [46g5 47Kc2 Rde3micro]

47Rc3 Re2+ 48Rc2 Ree3= [48Re5 49Rf2 Rge3sup3]

49Ka2micro [49Rh2 b5 50Kc2 Kc6=]

49g5 50Rd2 Re5 51Rd7+ Kc6 52Red8 Rge3 53Rd6+ Kb7 [(1) 53Kc5micro 54e8Q Rxe8

55Rd5+ Kb4 56Rd4+ Kb5 57R4d5+ Ka6 58Rxe8 Rxe8 59Rxg5 Re2+ (59Re7micro) 60Ka3

Rd2micro (2) 53Kb5= 54Rb8 Kc5 55Rbxb6 Rxe7 56Rbc6+ Kb4 57Rb6+ Kc5 58Rbc6+=]

54R8d7+ Ka6 55Rd5 Re2+ 56Ka3 Re6 57Rd8 g4 58Rg5 Rxe7 [Magnus goes up 2 Ps]

59Ra8+ Kb7 60Rag8 a4= [60Rd2 61R8g7 (61Rxg4 Re5micro) 61Rxg7 62Rxg7+ Ka6micro]

61Rxg4 [61R8g7= Ka6 62Rxe7 Rxe7 63Rxg4 Kb7=]

61axb3 62R8g7 Ka6 63Rxe7 Rxe7 64Kxb3= [Magnus is up a P but the game is a

theoretical draw]

frac12ndashfrac12

So the match is now tied Vishy 2 2 Magnus

Remember that Game 5 is today Friday Nov 15 For those in the EST zone the games

start at 4

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Organizations

Chess Federation of Canada (CFC)

Website httpwwwchessca

Chess Discussion Forum httpwwwchesscanadainfoforumforumdisplayphpf=2

(by TCN Liaison for CFC Bob Armstrong CFC Public Relations Coordinator)

Canada will be sending a junior team and 4 coaches to the World Youth Chess

Championships in the United Arab Emirates It runs from Dec 18 ndash 24 It will be 8

rounds Andrew Giblon will again be head of delegation

Here is the Team Canada blog page for up to date info

http2013wyccblogspotca

Profiles

Interesting Canadian Chess Personalities

This is a series TCN started in Issue 1-4 where from time to time (in the 15th of

the month Issue) we will introduce Canadian chess personalities past and present in

some detail and if possible have them present to our readers their chess profile in their

own words Alternatively we may have biographies of them from available public and

private sources

Prior Personalities presented are Howard Ridout Zoltan Sarosy Harmony Zhu

Phil Haley Maurice Smith and Yuanling Yuan

We are pleased to continue our series with the introduction of

Vlad Drkulec CFC President

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18Bxa2 [Magnus goes up a P]

19b3 c4 20Ndc1 cxb3 21cxb3 Bb1 22f4 Kb7 23Nc3 Bf5 24g4 Bc8 25Nd3 h5 [25Ne7

26Rc1 Be6sup3]

26f5 Ne7 [26Nh4sup3 27Rf2 (27Rf1 g6sup3 (27hxg4 28hxg4 g6sup3) ) 27hxg4 28hxg4 g6sup3]

27Nb5 [27Re2 Nc6 (27Rh7 28Ne4 hxg4 29hxg4 Rh4=) 28Re4 hxg4 29hxg4 Rh6sup3

27Re1 hxg4 28hxg4 Nc6sup3]

27hxg4 28hxg4 Rh4 [28a6 29Nd4 a5sup3]

29Nf2 Nc6 30Rc2micro [30Re2sup3]

30a5sup3 [30g6 31e6 fxe6 32fxg6 (32Rdc1 Bd7 33fxe6 Be8micro) 32Rh6micro]

31Rc4micro [Magnus gets a clear advantage]

[31e6micro fxe6 32fxe6 Bxe6 33Rxc6 Kxc6 34Nd4+ Kd7 35Nf3+ Kc8 36Nxh4 Bxb3micro Magnus

would have 3 Ps (connected and passed) vs N 31Kg2 Rh6 32Kg3 g6sup3]

31g6 32Rdc1 Bd7 33e6 [33fxg6 fxg6 34e6 Be8 (34Bxe6 35Rxc6 Bxb3 36Rxc7+ Ka6+ndash

) 35Ne4 Rxg4+ 36Kf2 Rd8micro]

33fxe6 34fxe6 Be8 [34Bxe6 35Rxc6 Bxb3 36Rxc7+ Ka6+ndash]

35Ne4 [a sound P-sac by Vishy to get play against the K]

35Rxg4+ [Magnus goes up 2 Ps]

36Kf2 Rf4+sup3 [36Rd8 37Ke3 Rd5micro]

37Ke3 Rf8= [Magnus has lost his advantage despite being up a P]

[37g5 38Rg1 (38Nd4 Nb4 39Rxc7+ Ka6micro) 38Rh4 39Rxg5 Rh7sup3]

XABCDEFGHY 8r+-+ltr-+( 7+kzp-+-+- 6-zpn+P+p+amp 5zpN+-+-+- 4-+R+N+-+$ 3+P+-mK-+- 2-+-+-+-+ 1+-tR-+-+- xabcdefghy

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38Nd4 Nxd4 39Rxc7+ [Magnus is up a P but can Anand now draw]

39Ka6 40Kxd4 Rd8+= [both players have made the first time control]

41Kc3micro [Magnus gets back a clear advantage]

[41Ke3 Rd5 42Rg7 Rb5=]

41Rf3+ 42Kb2 Re3 43Rc8 [43e7 Rdd3micro]

43Rdd3sup3 [ ]

[43Rxc8 44Rxc8 Bc6micro]

44Ra8+micro [44R1c4 Re2+ (44Rxb3+ 45Kc2 Rb4 46Rxb4 axb4 47Nd6 Bc6 48Rxc6 Rxe6

49Kb3 g5 50Kxb4 g4= will be drawn) 45Kc1 Rh3sup3]

44Kb7 45Rxe8 Rxe4 46e7 Rg3sup3 [46g5 47Kc2 Rde3micro]

47Rc3 Re2+ 48Rc2 Ree3= [48Re5 49Rf2 Rge3sup3]

49Ka2micro [49Rh2 b5 50Kc2 Kc6=]

49g5 50Rd2 Re5 51Rd7+ Kc6 52Red8 Rge3 53Rd6+ Kb7 [(1) 53Kc5micro 54e8Q Rxe8

55Rd5+ Kb4 56Rd4+ Kb5 57R4d5+ Ka6 58Rxe8 Rxe8 59Rxg5 Re2+ (59Re7micro) 60Ka3

Rd2micro (2) 53Kb5= 54Rb8 Kc5 55Rbxb6 Rxe7 56Rbc6+ Kb4 57Rb6+ Kc5 58Rbc6+=]

54R8d7+ Ka6 55Rd5 Re2+ 56Ka3 Re6 57Rd8 g4 58Rg5 Rxe7 [Magnus goes up 2 Ps]

59Ra8+ Kb7 60Rag8 a4= [60Rd2 61R8g7 (61Rxg4 Re5micro) 61Rxg7 62Rxg7+ Ka6micro]

61Rxg4 [61R8g7= Ka6 62Rxe7 Rxe7 63Rxg4 Kb7=]

61axb3 62R8g7 Ka6 63Rxe7 Rxe7 64Kxb3= [Magnus is up a P but the game is a

theoretical draw]

frac12ndashfrac12

So the match is now tied Vishy 2 2 Magnus

Remember that Game 5 is today Friday Nov 15 For those in the EST zone the games

start at 4

17

Toronto Chess News

NATIONAL

Organizations

Chess Federation of Canada (CFC)

Website httpwwwchessca

Chess Discussion Forum httpwwwchesscanadainfoforumforumdisplayphpf=2

(by TCN Liaison for CFC Bob Armstrong CFC Public Relations Coordinator)

Canada will be sending a junior team and 4 coaches to the World Youth Chess

Championships in the United Arab Emirates It runs from Dec 18 ndash 24 It will be 8

rounds Andrew Giblon will again be head of delegation

Here is the Team Canada blog page for up to date info

http2013wyccblogspotca

Profiles

Interesting Canadian Chess Personalities

This is a series TCN started in Issue 1-4 where from time to time (in the 15th of

the month Issue) we will introduce Canadian chess personalities past and present in

some detail and if possible have them present to our readers their chess profile in their

own words Alternatively we may have biographies of them from available public and

private sources

Prior Personalities presented are Howard Ridout Zoltan Sarosy Harmony Zhu

Phil Haley Maurice Smith and Yuanling Yuan

We are pleased to continue our series with the introduction of

Vlad Drkulec CFC President

16

Toronto Chess News

38Nd4 Nxd4 39Rxc7+ [Magnus is up a P but can Anand now draw]

39Ka6 40Kxd4 Rd8+= [both players have made the first time control]

41Kc3micro [Magnus gets back a clear advantage]

[41Ke3 Rd5 42Rg7 Rb5=]

41Rf3+ 42Kb2 Re3 43Rc8 [43e7 Rdd3micro]

43Rdd3sup3 [ ]

[43Rxc8 44Rxc8 Bc6micro]

44Ra8+micro [44R1c4 Re2+ (44Rxb3+ 45Kc2 Rb4 46Rxb4 axb4 47Nd6 Bc6 48Rxc6 Rxe6

49Kb3 g5 50Kxb4 g4= will be drawn) 45Kc1 Rh3sup3]

44Kb7 45Rxe8 Rxe4 46e7 Rg3sup3 [46g5 47Kc2 Rde3micro]

47Rc3 Re2+ 48Rc2 Ree3= [48Re5 49Rf2 Rge3sup3]

49Ka2micro [49Rh2 b5 50Kc2 Kc6=]

49g5 50Rd2 Re5 51Rd7+ Kc6 52Red8 Rge3 53Rd6+ Kb7 [(1) 53Kc5micro 54e8Q Rxe8

55Rd5+ Kb4 56Rd4+ Kb5 57R4d5+ Ka6 58Rxe8 Rxe8 59Rxg5 Re2+ (59Re7micro) 60Ka3

Rd2micro (2) 53Kb5= 54Rb8 Kc5 55Rbxb6 Rxe7 56Rbc6+ Kb4 57Rb6+ Kc5 58Rbc6+=]

54R8d7+ Ka6 55Rd5 Re2+ 56Ka3 Re6 57Rd8 g4 58Rg5 Rxe7 [Magnus goes up 2 Ps]

59Ra8+ Kb7 60Rag8 a4= [60Rd2 61R8g7 (61Rxg4 Re5micro) 61Rxg7 62Rxg7+ Ka6micro]

61Rxg4 [61R8g7= Ka6 62Rxe7 Rxe7 63Rxg4 Kb7=]

61axb3 62R8g7 Ka6 63Rxe7 Rxe7 64Kxb3= [Magnus is up a P but the game is a

theoretical draw]

frac12ndashfrac12

So the match is now tied Vishy 2 2 Magnus

Remember that Game 5 is today Friday Nov 15 For those in the EST zone the games

start at 4

17

Toronto Chess News

NATIONAL

Organizations

Chess Federation of Canada (CFC)

Website httpwwwchessca

Chess Discussion Forum httpwwwchesscanadainfoforumforumdisplayphpf=2

(by TCN Liaison for CFC Bob Armstrong CFC Public Relations Coordinator)

Canada will be sending a junior team and 4 coaches to the World Youth Chess

Championships in the United Arab Emirates It runs from Dec 18 ndash 24 It will be 8

rounds Andrew Giblon will again be head of delegation

Here is the Team Canada blog page for up to date info

http2013wyccblogspotca

Profiles

Interesting Canadian Chess Personalities

This is a series TCN started in Issue 1-4 where from time to time (in the 15th of

the month Issue) we will introduce Canadian chess personalities past and present in

some detail and if possible have them present to our readers their chess profile in their

own words Alternatively we may have biographies of them from available public and

private sources

Prior Personalities presented are Howard Ridout Zoltan Sarosy Harmony Zhu

Phil Haley Maurice Smith and Yuanling Yuan

We are pleased to continue our series with the introduction of

Vlad Drkulec CFC President

17

Toronto Chess News

NATIONAL

Organizations

Chess Federation of Canada (CFC)

Website httpwwwchessca

Chess Discussion Forum httpwwwchesscanadainfoforumforumdisplayphpf=2

(by TCN Liaison for CFC Bob Armstrong CFC Public Relations Coordinator)

Canada will be sending a junior team and 4 coaches to the World Youth Chess

Championships in the United Arab Emirates It runs from Dec 18 ndash 24 It will be 8

rounds Andrew Giblon will again be head of delegation

Here is the Team Canada blog page for up to date info

http2013wyccblogspotca

Profiles

Interesting Canadian Chess Personalities

This is a series TCN started in Issue 1-4 where from time to time (in the 15th of

the month Issue) we will introduce Canadian chess personalities past and present in

some detail and if possible have them present to our readers their chess profile in their

own words Alternatively we may have biographies of them from available public and

private sources

Prior Personalities presented are Howard Ridout Zoltan Sarosy Harmony Zhu

Phil Haley Maurice Smith and Yuanling Yuan

We are pleased to continue our series with the introduction of

Vlad Drkulec CFC President

18

Toronto Chess News

I was probably about seven or eight (yes we started late in those days) when my grade

school teacher introduced me to the final element that had eluded me that checkmate was

the object of the game of chess My father taught me chess as a very young child but I

didnrsquot become really interested (obsessed) until I went to high school at the grand old age

of 12 My first experience was not very promising when in grade 9 I tried out for the

chess team and lost to a girl in the playoff to decide who would make the team She

successfully played the four move checkmate on me This experience certainly gave me

an appreciation right at the beginning of my chess journeys that women could also be

formidable competitors and unfortunately in this case she served as a gatekeeper who

barred my way into the world of organized chess for a year

My uncles visited from Croatia that year and my dad brought out the chess board and I

became more interested in the idea of improving The first steps was I took in my chess

evolution were to take down the Encyclopedia Brittanica and read the articles that they

had on chess which traced the historical development of chess and talked about the need

for quick development and the dogmas of various schools of chess A whole new world

was opened to me I managed to beat my dad for the first time after my brief study of

chess history At the same time the Fischer mania was starting to sweep the world and I

followed the match with great interest going over the games and buying a hastily

assembled book that came out after the match and studying the games in greater depth

The next year as a veteran of the summer with Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky and

marathon chess sessions with my uncles and father when I tried out for the chess team

the sailing was quite a bit smoother The four move checkmate would no longer succeed

against me I played on the fourth board and won most of my games I became close

friends with Mike Petras who was the best player on the team and became immersed in

the very competitive local high school chess scene Mike got me to go to the Windsor

YMCA chess club where I eventually joined the teams that played in the Detroit Metro

Chess League and perhaps more importantly met Milan Vukadinov who was a very

19

Toronto Chess News

strong local player and tireless friend and mentor to a generation of Windsor players

Milan was and continues to be an inspiration to me

In the 1970s Milan would hold court along with Ray Stone at the Volcano Pizzeria after

we played in the Detroit Metro Chess League and we would all show our games one by

one while Milan and Ray offered suggestions for improvements in our play over the

pizzas soft drinks and coffee Windsor had as many as five teams as I recall spread over

the different leagues which were organized to give good games to all involved whether

grandmaster or lowly D player Les Mohacsy who was the president of the YMCA chess

club used to drive all the kids over to Detroit in his station wagon Hundreds of people

would play chess one Friday a month in a church hall I played on the third team which

was the group Milan dubbed the young lions We started playing in Detroit area

tournaments and winning chess books as prizes and buying and reading chess books

which turned into a bit of an obsession to the point where I now own at least 1300 of

them the last time I counted Early favourites were Vladimir Vukovichrsquos book on The

Chess Sacrifice and Caffertyrsquos book on Talrsquos 100 best games I also pored over library

books like Euwersquos ldquoRoad to Chess Masteryrdquo and Nimzovitchrsquos ldquoChess Praxisrdquo and ldquoMy

Systemrdquo ldquoThink Like A Grandmasterrdquo by Kotov and Talrsquos ldquoThe Life and Games of

Mikhail Talrdquo would later become two of my favourite books

Ray Stone and Milan helped me to become a stronger player in the 1990s when they

recruited me to play on the fourth board of the first Windsor Team in the Detroit Metro

League as a very rusty A player Being exposed to strong players and their thinking and

analysis was very useful and I still use some of the things that I learned there when I

teach chess now I quickly became a master in the US and later Canada though I would

be hampered by health problems related to an old back injury which caused my standard

of play to drop considerably in the middle 1990s It is hard to play chess well when you

are in great deal of physical discomfort and pain After much physical therapy I was able

to put those back problems largely behind me They do recur after exercise occasionally

as bouts of arthritic pain but still seem much more manageable than they were then This

along with some burnout as a chess organizer led me to leave organized chess behind for

about a decade or more I met John Coleman at a local bookstore in the early 2000s and

told him that I thought that I would never return to chess I returned in 2007

I started my chess comeback in 2007 by reading or rereading several chess books in a

period of about two months I made my way to the Riverside Chess Club one Saturday in

2007 for the first time and learned that my friend Jim Daniluk (an alumni of the Windsor

high school league) who lived in Calgary was visiting friends in Windsor had picked that

day to visit the chess club and ask about me The club members had told him that they

hadnrsquot seen me in a dozen years and he left After some searching through online sources

I managed to find him and we did get together for some blitz but it was a rather funny

coincidence

I have always been good with kids I have 15 nieces and nephews and so I am somewhat

familiar with their thought process In the 1980s I helped coach a girlsrsquo team to a league

softball championship despite not knowing much about baseball beyond the basics It

20

Toronto Chess News

was a real ldquoBad News Bearsrdquo turnaround situation and the psychology of convincing girls

(or boys) that they can win at baseball is not all that different from convincing them that

they can win at chess

John Coleman who had started a chess class at Sobeys for the best Windsor chess kids

approached me to teach the class for him and I did John runs the Windsor Chess

Challenge tournament where as many as 1600 Windsor grade school kids compete

There is a playoff tournament for the winners of gold and silver medals at the main

tournament The winners of that tournament are invited to attend the OYCC The

winners of the Windsor playoff tournament would go on to play in OYCC and lose

miserably to kids from the rest of the province The Friday Sobeys class was Johnrsquos

vehicle to try to change that

A new instructor with a masterrsquos rating rejuvenated a few of the kids who were on the

verge of quitting chess and they started to make great progress including current CFC

youth coordinator Frank Leersquos children Brendon and Melissa John Coleman was still in

charge of the class at that time though I was the chief instructor and we occasionally had

some disagreements about the ideal approach to promoting chess improvement for kids

John in particular would get frustrated when the kids blundered I did not get as upset as

I saw it as part of the learning process and felt that if you focused too much on blunders

you would just induce the kids to make more of them based on the writings of various

NLP (neurolinguistic programming) authors that I had been studying (including Tony

Robbins Richard Bandler and Robert Grinder and others) To me blunders are often

clues as to what you need to explain help the kids understand chess more clearly and

certainly not something to get upset about

The frustrations boiled over and John decided to take a less active role in the Friday class

and turned over the reins to me in December of 2010 or so The kids continued to make

progress until we had a breakthrough year in 2011 and four of the kids that were in the

class qualified for WYCC by finishing in the top three at CYCC We also had two

Ontario champions at OYCC This led to local publicity and more interest from other

children and we repeated the same results in the next two years of qualifying four

children to WYCC each year More interesting was the effect on participation in CYCC

by the locals as the numbers continued to grow

Denton Cockburn (since moved to Montreal) Zoltan Kiraly and Istvan Kiraly played

important roles in the Windsor chess scene as organizers and coaches who helped with

the Friday Sobeys class John Coleman still pops in to help with analysis at times and

continues to be involved in Windsor chess in a very positive way through his

Windsorchesscom website and organizing the Chess Challenge and practice tournaments

leading up to it

In the last two and a half years I have been taking weekly chess lessons from grandmaster

Viktor Gavrikov who is a former Soviet champion His influence on my chess teaching

has been profound and he deserves a good share of credit for the results that the Windsor

kids have achieved recently

21

Toronto Chess News

Outside of chess I am an avid reader as well with much of my recent interest revolving

around books on sports and business performance Recent reads along this line include

ldquoRasmus Ankersenrsquos ldquoThe Gold Mine Effectrdquo which explores the phenomenon of centres

of excellence especially related to sports Mike Babcockrsquos ldquoLeave No Doubtrdquo and Sam

Sheridanrsquos ldquoThe Fighterrsquos Mindrdquo I enjoy reading books on poetry and philosophy as

well as classic works of fiction by great authors I have been influenced greatly by Tony

Robbins and his books and audio offerings and also the books of Vernon Howard I

occasionally indulge in reading fiction by authors like Stephen King or Jeff Lindsay (of

Dexter fame)

I was involved in martial arts for much of my early life including judo karate and later

aikido A back injury curtailed that part of my life though it continued to influence me

An interest in Chinese and Japanese martial arts led me to books like Sun Tzursquos ldquoArt of

Warrdquo Miyamoto Mushashirsquos ldquoBook of Five Ringsrdquo along with Machiavellirsquos ldquoThe Art of

Warrdquo and ldquoThe Princerdquo

My education includes a Masters degree in business with undergraduate degrees in

business and psychology and a diploma in electrical -electronic engineering technology

I spent just over five years teaching undergraduate business finance at the University of

Windsor in the early 1990s At the same time I was running a computer consulting

business and playing a fair bit of chess often in team play in Detroit with Milan

Vukadinov Ray Stone and Brian Profit and later Meng Lou as team mates Team play

has been a big factor in my enjoyment of chess both in high school and later Watching

how the kids enjoyed playing in Detroit last weekend in the Michigan Team

Championship I see some potential for increasing chess interest by using this in our own

efforts to market chess The Windsor kids just won two first place trophies out of the

three team sections that they entered in the Michigan Scholastic Team Championship last

weekend Many of the kids won trophies The youngest K-3 children all six years of age

and mostly beginners finished in sixth place despite only having four kids on the team

which counted the top four scores I predict that next year they will challenge for first If

we could stop losing the older kids we might be able to sweep the categories which go up

to grade 12 I received a lot of enquiries about my online chess coaching availability

Most of my life outside of chess has been spent in the IT field where I have been doing

everything from networking setting up servers to computer and network diagnostics and

sometimes repair One of my most enjoyable jobs was when I worked as a software

specialist at a local distributor of factory automation hardware and software (Electrozad)

That job was a mix of sales and troubleshooting problems with automation software and

helping customers get software and hardware working properly

I still do IT work but havenrsquot been actively seeking it out though it has occasionally been

actively seeking me out It does pay better than chess but money is not everything I am

having lots of fun as a chess coach and organizer

22

Toronto Chess News

Ed Thanks Vlad for taking the time to share with us your very interesting

autobiography It is a pleasant read and it is nice to now know more about our CFC

President

Provincial Tournaments amp Chess ClubsOrganizations

TCN offers chess clubs and chess organizations a ldquonews sectionrdquo As a

cluborganization accepts TCN is developing ldquoTCN Liaisonsrdquo in these groups in

Toronto the GTA and beyond whereby one member at each cluborganization will take

responsibility for submitting their news to TCN on a regular basis for this section For

clubs this will include club games from club tournaments when possible We have 3

chess organizations and 7 clubs now with news sections of the newsletter opened for

them We hope to slowly increase this number as time passes We also intend to extend

coverage outside of Ontario our starting province

If you are in a club or know someone in another club and think the club might

like to take out a news section please have them contact us to discuss it ndash we are trying to

present a format where chess organizations can promote themselves and chess

We also hope to develop ongoing relationships with GTA (and beyond)

tournament organizers so they will consider sending in reports and some of the more

interesting games from their tournaments Depending on time available TCN will try to

annotate some of the unannotated games submitted by organizers and clubs

Depending on time available TCN will try to annotate some of the unannotated games

submitted by organizers and clubs

ONTARIO

GREATER TORONTO AREA

Tournament Reports (Note if you play in a tournament and have a good game send it on for us to consider

publishing with our tournament report)

50 Years of Toronto Rapid Chess Tournament

This was played in a local Toronto Bar Legends on Saturday Nov 9 organized

by Vlad (formerly Walter) Dobrich

23

Toronto Chess News

Photo by Egis Zeromskis

once one of Canadarsquos top players

The tournament was very strong and attracted 28 players It was a remembrance

of rapid tournaments in Toronto from 1963 I believe they started at the time of the old

Toronto Chess Club Vlad had arranged for some sponsorship and so a nice buffet was

available

The winner was Canadian GM Eric Hansen of Alberta

Photo by Egis Zeromskis

24

Toronto Chess News

currently playing in Europe out of Spain (with Canadian IM Aman Hambleton) The key

game was the encounter Gerzhoy-Hansen in round four A sharp tactical mid-game

resulted in a winning endgame for Eric

A good time was had by all

Photo by Egis Zeromskis

Here are the final standings

25

Toronto Chess News

26

Toronto Chess News

Chess Organization News

From the GTCL Perspective

- The Greater Toronto Chess League (GTCL) has a 6 person executive and

currently a 9 person board of directors (can be larger)

- Coordinating chess in the Greater Toronto Area (Toronto Halton Peel York amp

Durham)

- Website httpwwwtorontochessorgdrupal6

(by TCN Liaison for GTCL Egis Zeromskis)

Michael Barron GTCL President has now confirmed the approval of the GTCL team

competition bid by Willowdale CC For details see Tournament Notice section below

Chess Institute of Canada

Photo Credit Jordynn Colosi

At the Chess Institute of Canada we bring chess to life

19

Toronto Chess News

strong local player and tireless friend and mentor to a generation of Windsor players

Milan was and continues to be an inspiration to me

In the 1970s Milan would hold court along with Ray Stone at the Volcano Pizzeria after

we played in the Detroit Metro Chess League and we would all show our games one by

one while Milan and Ray offered suggestions for improvements in our play over the

pizzas soft drinks and coffee Windsor had as many as five teams as I recall spread over

the different leagues which were organized to give good games to all involved whether

grandmaster or lowly D player Les Mohacsy who was the president of the YMCA chess

club used to drive all the kids over to Detroit in his station wagon Hundreds of people

would play chess one Friday a month in a church hall I played on the third team which

was the group Milan dubbed the young lions We started playing in Detroit area

tournaments and winning chess books as prizes and buying and reading chess books

which turned into a bit of an obsession to the point where I now own at least 1300 of

them the last time I counted Early favourites were Vladimir Vukovichrsquos book on The

Chess Sacrifice and Caffertyrsquos book on Talrsquos 100 best games I also pored over library

books like Euwersquos ldquoRoad to Chess Masteryrdquo and Nimzovitchrsquos ldquoChess Praxisrdquo and ldquoMy

Systemrdquo ldquoThink Like A Grandmasterrdquo by Kotov and Talrsquos ldquoThe Life and Games of

Mikhail Talrdquo would later become two of my favourite books

Ray Stone and Milan helped me to become a stronger player in the 1990s when they

recruited me to play on the fourth board of the first Windsor Team in the Detroit Metro

League as a very rusty A player Being exposed to strong players and their thinking and

analysis was very useful and I still use some of the things that I learned there when I

teach chess now I quickly became a master in the US and later Canada though I would

be hampered by health problems related to an old back injury which caused my standard

of play to drop considerably in the middle 1990s It is hard to play chess well when you

are in great deal of physical discomfort and pain After much physical therapy I was able

to put those back problems largely behind me They do recur after exercise occasionally

as bouts of arthritic pain but still seem much more manageable than they were then This

along with some burnout as a chess organizer led me to leave organized chess behind for

about a decade or more I met John Coleman at a local bookstore in the early 2000s and

told him that I thought that I would never return to chess I returned in 2007

I started my chess comeback in 2007 by reading or rereading several chess books in a

period of about two months I made my way to the Riverside Chess Club one Saturday in

2007 for the first time and learned that my friend Jim Daniluk (an alumni of the Windsor

high school league) who lived in Calgary was visiting friends in Windsor had picked that

day to visit the chess club and ask about me The club members had told him that they

hadnrsquot seen me in a dozen years and he left After some searching through online sources

I managed to find him and we did get together for some blitz but it was a rather funny

coincidence

I have always been good with kids I have 15 nieces and nephews and so I am somewhat

familiar with their thought process In the 1980s I helped coach a girlsrsquo team to a league

softball championship despite not knowing much about baseball beyond the basics It

20

Toronto Chess News

was a real ldquoBad News Bearsrdquo turnaround situation and the psychology of convincing girls

(or boys) that they can win at baseball is not all that different from convincing them that

they can win at chess

John Coleman who had started a chess class at Sobeys for the best Windsor chess kids

approached me to teach the class for him and I did John runs the Windsor Chess

Challenge tournament where as many as 1600 Windsor grade school kids compete

There is a playoff tournament for the winners of gold and silver medals at the main

tournament The winners of that tournament are invited to attend the OYCC The

winners of the Windsor playoff tournament would go on to play in OYCC and lose

miserably to kids from the rest of the province The Friday Sobeys class was Johnrsquos

vehicle to try to change that

A new instructor with a masterrsquos rating rejuvenated a few of the kids who were on the

verge of quitting chess and they started to make great progress including current CFC

youth coordinator Frank Leersquos children Brendon and Melissa John Coleman was still in

charge of the class at that time though I was the chief instructor and we occasionally had

some disagreements about the ideal approach to promoting chess improvement for kids

John in particular would get frustrated when the kids blundered I did not get as upset as

I saw it as part of the learning process and felt that if you focused too much on blunders

you would just induce the kids to make more of them based on the writings of various

NLP (neurolinguistic programming) authors that I had been studying (including Tony

Robbins Richard Bandler and Robert Grinder and others) To me blunders are often

clues as to what you need to explain help the kids understand chess more clearly and

certainly not something to get upset about

The frustrations boiled over and John decided to take a less active role in the Friday class

and turned over the reins to me in December of 2010 or so The kids continued to make

progress until we had a breakthrough year in 2011 and four of the kids that were in the

class qualified for WYCC by finishing in the top three at CYCC We also had two

Ontario champions at OYCC This led to local publicity and more interest from other

children and we repeated the same results in the next two years of qualifying four

children to WYCC each year More interesting was the effect on participation in CYCC

by the locals as the numbers continued to grow

Denton Cockburn (since moved to Montreal) Zoltan Kiraly and Istvan Kiraly played

important roles in the Windsor chess scene as organizers and coaches who helped with

the Friday Sobeys class John Coleman still pops in to help with analysis at times and

continues to be involved in Windsor chess in a very positive way through his

Windsorchesscom website and organizing the Chess Challenge and practice tournaments

leading up to it

In the last two and a half years I have been taking weekly chess lessons from grandmaster

Viktor Gavrikov who is a former Soviet champion His influence on my chess teaching

has been profound and he deserves a good share of credit for the results that the Windsor

kids have achieved recently

21

Toronto Chess News

Outside of chess I am an avid reader as well with much of my recent interest revolving

around books on sports and business performance Recent reads along this line include

ldquoRasmus Ankersenrsquos ldquoThe Gold Mine Effectrdquo which explores the phenomenon of centres

of excellence especially related to sports Mike Babcockrsquos ldquoLeave No Doubtrdquo and Sam

Sheridanrsquos ldquoThe Fighterrsquos Mindrdquo I enjoy reading books on poetry and philosophy as

well as classic works of fiction by great authors I have been influenced greatly by Tony

Robbins and his books and audio offerings and also the books of Vernon Howard I

occasionally indulge in reading fiction by authors like Stephen King or Jeff Lindsay (of

Dexter fame)

I was involved in martial arts for much of my early life including judo karate and later

aikido A back injury curtailed that part of my life though it continued to influence me

An interest in Chinese and Japanese martial arts led me to books like Sun Tzursquos ldquoArt of

Warrdquo Miyamoto Mushashirsquos ldquoBook of Five Ringsrdquo along with Machiavellirsquos ldquoThe Art of

Warrdquo and ldquoThe Princerdquo

My education includes a Masters degree in business with undergraduate degrees in

business and psychology and a diploma in electrical -electronic engineering technology

I spent just over five years teaching undergraduate business finance at the University of

Windsor in the early 1990s At the same time I was running a computer consulting

business and playing a fair bit of chess often in team play in Detroit with Milan

Vukadinov Ray Stone and Brian Profit and later Meng Lou as team mates Team play

has been a big factor in my enjoyment of chess both in high school and later Watching

how the kids enjoyed playing in Detroit last weekend in the Michigan Team

Championship I see some potential for increasing chess interest by using this in our own

efforts to market chess The Windsor kids just won two first place trophies out of the

three team sections that they entered in the Michigan Scholastic Team Championship last

weekend Many of the kids won trophies The youngest K-3 children all six years of age

and mostly beginners finished in sixth place despite only having four kids on the team

which counted the top four scores I predict that next year they will challenge for first If

we could stop losing the older kids we might be able to sweep the categories which go up

to grade 12 I received a lot of enquiries about my online chess coaching availability

Most of my life outside of chess has been spent in the IT field where I have been doing

everything from networking setting up servers to computer and network diagnostics and

sometimes repair One of my most enjoyable jobs was when I worked as a software

specialist at a local distributor of factory automation hardware and software (Electrozad)

That job was a mix of sales and troubleshooting problems with automation software and

helping customers get software and hardware working properly

I still do IT work but havenrsquot been actively seeking it out though it has occasionally been

actively seeking me out It does pay better than chess but money is not everything I am

having lots of fun as a chess coach and organizer

22

Toronto Chess News

Ed Thanks Vlad for taking the time to share with us your very interesting

autobiography It is a pleasant read and it is nice to now know more about our CFC

President

Provincial Tournaments amp Chess ClubsOrganizations

TCN offers chess clubs and chess organizations a ldquonews sectionrdquo As a

cluborganization accepts TCN is developing ldquoTCN Liaisonsrdquo in these groups in

Toronto the GTA and beyond whereby one member at each cluborganization will take

responsibility for submitting their news to TCN on a regular basis for this section For

clubs this will include club games from club tournaments when possible We have 3

chess organizations and 7 clubs now with news sections of the newsletter opened for

them We hope to slowly increase this number as time passes We also intend to extend

coverage outside of Ontario our starting province

If you are in a club or know someone in another club and think the club might

like to take out a news section please have them contact us to discuss it ndash we are trying to

present a format where chess organizations can promote themselves and chess

We also hope to develop ongoing relationships with GTA (and beyond)

tournament organizers so they will consider sending in reports and some of the more

interesting games from their tournaments Depending on time available TCN will try to

annotate some of the unannotated games submitted by organizers and clubs

Depending on time available TCN will try to annotate some of the unannotated games

submitted by organizers and clubs

ONTARIO

GREATER TORONTO AREA

Tournament Reports (Note if you play in a tournament and have a good game send it on for us to consider

publishing with our tournament report)

50 Years of Toronto Rapid Chess Tournament

This was played in a local Toronto Bar Legends on Saturday Nov 9 organized

by Vlad (formerly Walter) Dobrich

23

Toronto Chess News

Photo by Egis Zeromskis

once one of Canadarsquos top players

The tournament was very strong and attracted 28 players It was a remembrance

of rapid tournaments in Toronto from 1963 I believe they started at the time of the old

Toronto Chess Club Vlad had arranged for some sponsorship and so a nice buffet was

available

The winner was Canadian GM Eric Hansen of Alberta

Photo by Egis Zeromskis

24

Toronto Chess News

currently playing in Europe out of Spain (with Canadian IM Aman Hambleton) The key

game was the encounter Gerzhoy-Hansen in round four A sharp tactical mid-game

resulted in a winning endgame for Eric

A good time was had by all

Photo by Egis Zeromskis

Here are the final standings

25

Toronto Chess News

26

Toronto Chess News

Chess Organization News

From the GTCL Perspective

- The Greater Toronto Chess League (GTCL) has a 6 person executive and

currently a 9 person board of directors (can be larger)

- Coordinating chess in the Greater Toronto Area (Toronto Halton Peel York amp

Durham)

- Website httpwwwtorontochessorgdrupal6

(by TCN Liaison for GTCL Egis Zeromskis)

Michael Barron GTCL President has now confirmed the approval of the GTCL team

competition bid by Willowdale CC For details see Tournament Notice section below

Chess Institute of Canada

Photo Credit Jordynn Colosi

At the Chess Institute of Canada we bring chess to life

20

Toronto Chess News

was a real ldquoBad News Bearsrdquo turnaround situation and the psychology of convincing girls

(or boys) that they can win at baseball is not all that different from convincing them that

they can win at chess

John Coleman who had started a chess class at Sobeys for the best Windsor chess kids

approached me to teach the class for him and I did John runs the Windsor Chess

Challenge tournament where as many as 1600 Windsor grade school kids compete

There is a playoff tournament for the winners of gold and silver medals at the main

tournament The winners of that tournament are invited to attend the OYCC The

winners of the Windsor playoff tournament would go on to play in OYCC and lose

miserably to kids from the rest of the province The Friday Sobeys class was Johnrsquos

vehicle to try to change that

A new instructor with a masterrsquos rating rejuvenated a few of the kids who were on the

verge of quitting chess and they started to make great progress including current CFC

youth coordinator Frank Leersquos children Brendon and Melissa John Coleman was still in

charge of the class at that time though I was the chief instructor and we occasionally had

some disagreements about the ideal approach to promoting chess improvement for kids

John in particular would get frustrated when the kids blundered I did not get as upset as

I saw it as part of the learning process and felt that if you focused too much on blunders

you would just induce the kids to make more of them based on the writings of various

NLP (neurolinguistic programming) authors that I had been studying (including Tony

Robbins Richard Bandler and Robert Grinder and others) To me blunders are often

clues as to what you need to explain help the kids understand chess more clearly and

certainly not something to get upset about

The frustrations boiled over and John decided to take a less active role in the Friday class

and turned over the reins to me in December of 2010 or so The kids continued to make

progress until we had a breakthrough year in 2011 and four of the kids that were in the

class qualified for WYCC by finishing in the top three at CYCC We also had two

Ontario champions at OYCC This led to local publicity and more interest from other

children and we repeated the same results in the next two years of qualifying four

children to WYCC each year More interesting was the effect on participation in CYCC

by the locals as the numbers continued to grow

Denton Cockburn (since moved to Montreal) Zoltan Kiraly and Istvan Kiraly played

important roles in the Windsor chess scene as organizers and coaches who helped with

the Friday Sobeys class John Coleman still pops in to help with analysis at times and

continues to be involved in Windsor chess in a very positive way through his

Windsorchesscom website and organizing the Chess Challenge and practice tournaments

leading up to it

In the last two and a half years I have been taking weekly chess lessons from grandmaster

Viktor Gavrikov who is a former Soviet champion His influence on my chess teaching

has been profound and he deserves a good share of credit for the results that the Windsor

kids have achieved recently

21

Toronto Chess News

Outside of chess I am an avid reader as well with much of my recent interest revolving

around books on sports and business performance Recent reads along this line include

ldquoRasmus Ankersenrsquos ldquoThe Gold Mine Effectrdquo which explores the phenomenon of centres

of excellence especially related to sports Mike Babcockrsquos ldquoLeave No Doubtrdquo and Sam

Sheridanrsquos ldquoThe Fighterrsquos Mindrdquo I enjoy reading books on poetry and philosophy as

well as classic works of fiction by great authors I have been influenced greatly by Tony

Robbins and his books and audio offerings and also the books of Vernon Howard I

occasionally indulge in reading fiction by authors like Stephen King or Jeff Lindsay (of

Dexter fame)

I was involved in martial arts for much of my early life including judo karate and later

aikido A back injury curtailed that part of my life though it continued to influence me

An interest in Chinese and Japanese martial arts led me to books like Sun Tzursquos ldquoArt of

Warrdquo Miyamoto Mushashirsquos ldquoBook of Five Ringsrdquo along with Machiavellirsquos ldquoThe Art of

Warrdquo and ldquoThe Princerdquo

My education includes a Masters degree in business with undergraduate degrees in

business and psychology and a diploma in electrical -electronic engineering technology

I spent just over five years teaching undergraduate business finance at the University of

Windsor in the early 1990s At the same time I was running a computer consulting

business and playing a fair bit of chess often in team play in Detroit with Milan

Vukadinov Ray Stone and Brian Profit and later Meng Lou as team mates Team play

has been a big factor in my enjoyment of chess both in high school and later Watching

how the kids enjoyed playing in Detroit last weekend in the Michigan Team

Championship I see some potential for increasing chess interest by using this in our own

efforts to market chess The Windsor kids just won two first place trophies out of the

three team sections that they entered in the Michigan Scholastic Team Championship last

weekend Many of the kids won trophies The youngest K-3 children all six years of age

and mostly beginners finished in sixth place despite only having four kids on the team

which counted the top four scores I predict that next year they will challenge for first If

we could stop losing the older kids we might be able to sweep the categories which go up

to grade 12 I received a lot of enquiries about my online chess coaching availability

Most of my life outside of chess has been spent in the IT field where I have been doing

everything from networking setting up servers to computer and network diagnostics and

sometimes repair One of my most enjoyable jobs was when I worked as a software

specialist at a local distributor of factory automation hardware and software (Electrozad)

That job was a mix of sales and troubleshooting problems with automation software and

helping customers get software and hardware working properly

I still do IT work but havenrsquot been actively seeking it out though it has occasionally been

actively seeking me out It does pay better than chess but money is not everything I am

having lots of fun as a chess coach and organizer

22

Toronto Chess News

Ed Thanks Vlad for taking the time to share with us your very interesting

autobiography It is a pleasant read and it is nice to now know more about our CFC

President

Provincial Tournaments amp Chess ClubsOrganizations

TCN offers chess clubs and chess organizations a ldquonews sectionrdquo As a

cluborganization accepts TCN is developing ldquoTCN Liaisonsrdquo in these groups in

Toronto the GTA and beyond whereby one member at each cluborganization will take

responsibility for submitting their news to TCN on a regular basis for this section For

clubs this will include club games from club tournaments when possible We have 3

chess organizations and 7 clubs now with news sections of the newsletter opened for

them We hope to slowly increase this number as time passes We also intend to extend

coverage outside of Ontario our starting province

If you are in a club or know someone in another club and think the club might

like to take out a news section please have them contact us to discuss it ndash we are trying to

present a format where chess organizations can promote themselves and chess

We also hope to develop ongoing relationships with GTA (and beyond)

tournament organizers so they will consider sending in reports and some of the more

interesting games from their tournaments Depending on time available TCN will try to

annotate some of the unannotated games submitted by organizers and clubs

Depending on time available TCN will try to annotate some of the unannotated games

submitted by organizers and clubs

ONTARIO

GREATER TORONTO AREA

Tournament Reports (Note if you play in a tournament and have a good game send it on for us to consider

publishing with our tournament report)

50 Years of Toronto Rapid Chess Tournament

This was played in a local Toronto Bar Legends on Saturday Nov 9 organized

by Vlad (formerly Walter) Dobrich

23

Toronto Chess News

Photo by Egis Zeromskis

once one of Canadarsquos top players

The tournament was very strong and attracted 28 players It was a remembrance

of rapid tournaments in Toronto from 1963 I believe they started at the time of the old

Toronto Chess Club Vlad had arranged for some sponsorship and so a nice buffet was

available

The winner was Canadian GM Eric Hansen of Alberta

Photo by Egis Zeromskis

24

Toronto Chess News

currently playing in Europe out of Spain (with Canadian IM Aman Hambleton) The key

game was the encounter Gerzhoy-Hansen in round four A sharp tactical mid-game

resulted in a winning endgame for Eric

A good time was had by all

Photo by Egis Zeromskis

Here are the final standings

25

Toronto Chess News

26

Toronto Chess News

Chess Organization News

From the GTCL Perspective

- The Greater Toronto Chess League (GTCL) has a 6 person executive and

currently a 9 person board of directors (can be larger)

- Coordinating chess in the Greater Toronto Area (Toronto Halton Peel York amp

Durham)

- Website httpwwwtorontochessorgdrupal6

(by TCN Liaison for GTCL Egis Zeromskis)

Michael Barron GTCL President has now confirmed the approval of the GTCL team

competition bid by Willowdale CC For details see Tournament Notice section below

Chess Institute of Canada

Photo Credit Jordynn Colosi

At the Chess Institute of Canada we bring chess to life

21

Toronto Chess News

Outside of chess I am an avid reader as well with much of my recent interest revolving

around books on sports and business performance Recent reads along this line include

ldquoRasmus Ankersenrsquos ldquoThe Gold Mine Effectrdquo which explores the phenomenon of centres

of excellence especially related to sports Mike Babcockrsquos ldquoLeave No Doubtrdquo and Sam

Sheridanrsquos ldquoThe Fighterrsquos Mindrdquo I enjoy reading books on poetry and philosophy as

well as classic works of fiction by great authors I have been influenced greatly by Tony

Robbins and his books and audio offerings and also the books of Vernon Howard I

occasionally indulge in reading fiction by authors like Stephen King or Jeff Lindsay (of

Dexter fame)

I was involved in martial arts for much of my early life including judo karate and later

aikido A back injury curtailed that part of my life though it continued to influence me

An interest in Chinese and Japanese martial arts led me to books like Sun Tzursquos ldquoArt of

Warrdquo Miyamoto Mushashirsquos ldquoBook of Five Ringsrdquo along with Machiavellirsquos ldquoThe Art of

Warrdquo and ldquoThe Princerdquo

My education includes a Masters degree in business with undergraduate degrees in

business and psychology and a diploma in electrical -electronic engineering technology

I spent just over five years teaching undergraduate business finance at the University of

Windsor in the early 1990s At the same time I was running a computer consulting

business and playing a fair bit of chess often in team play in Detroit with Milan

Vukadinov Ray Stone and Brian Profit and later Meng Lou as team mates Team play

has been a big factor in my enjoyment of chess both in high school and later Watching

how the kids enjoyed playing in Detroit last weekend in the Michigan Team

Championship I see some potential for increasing chess interest by using this in our own

efforts to market chess The Windsor kids just won two first place trophies out of the

three team sections that they entered in the Michigan Scholastic Team Championship last

weekend Many of the kids won trophies The youngest K-3 children all six years of age

and mostly beginners finished in sixth place despite only having four kids on the team

which counted the top four scores I predict that next year they will challenge for first If

we could stop losing the older kids we might be able to sweep the categories which go up

to grade 12 I received a lot of enquiries about my online chess coaching availability

Most of my life outside of chess has been spent in the IT field where I have been doing

everything from networking setting up servers to computer and network diagnostics and

sometimes repair One of my most enjoyable jobs was when I worked as a software

specialist at a local distributor of factory automation hardware and software (Electrozad)

That job was a mix of sales and troubleshooting problems with automation software and

helping customers get software and hardware working properly

I still do IT work but havenrsquot been actively seeking it out though it has occasionally been

actively seeking me out It does pay better than chess but money is not everything I am

having lots of fun as a chess coach and organizer

22

Toronto Chess News

Ed Thanks Vlad for taking the time to share with us your very interesting

autobiography It is a pleasant read and it is nice to now know more about our CFC

President

Provincial Tournaments amp Chess ClubsOrganizations

TCN offers chess clubs and chess organizations a ldquonews sectionrdquo As a

cluborganization accepts TCN is developing ldquoTCN Liaisonsrdquo in these groups in

Toronto the GTA and beyond whereby one member at each cluborganization will take

responsibility for submitting their news to TCN on a regular basis for this section For

clubs this will include club games from club tournaments when possible We have 3

chess organizations and 7 clubs now with news sections of the newsletter opened for

them We hope to slowly increase this number as time passes We also intend to extend

coverage outside of Ontario our starting province

If you are in a club or know someone in another club and think the club might

like to take out a news section please have them contact us to discuss it ndash we are trying to

present a format where chess organizations can promote themselves and chess

We also hope to develop ongoing relationships with GTA (and beyond)

tournament organizers so they will consider sending in reports and some of the more

interesting games from their tournaments Depending on time available TCN will try to

annotate some of the unannotated games submitted by organizers and clubs

Depending on time available TCN will try to annotate some of the unannotated games

submitted by organizers and clubs

ONTARIO

GREATER TORONTO AREA

Tournament Reports (Note if you play in a tournament and have a good game send it on for us to consider

publishing with our tournament report)

50 Years of Toronto Rapid Chess Tournament

This was played in a local Toronto Bar Legends on Saturday Nov 9 organized

by Vlad (formerly Walter) Dobrich

23

Toronto Chess News

Photo by Egis Zeromskis

once one of Canadarsquos top players

The tournament was very strong and attracted 28 players It was a remembrance

of rapid tournaments in Toronto from 1963 I believe they started at the time of the old

Toronto Chess Club Vlad had arranged for some sponsorship and so a nice buffet was

available

The winner was Canadian GM Eric Hansen of Alberta

Photo by Egis Zeromskis

24

Toronto Chess News

currently playing in Europe out of Spain (with Canadian IM Aman Hambleton) The key

game was the encounter Gerzhoy-Hansen in round four A sharp tactical mid-game

resulted in a winning endgame for Eric

A good time was had by all

Photo by Egis Zeromskis

Here are the final standings

25

Toronto Chess News

26

Toronto Chess News

Chess Organization News

From the GTCL Perspective

- The Greater Toronto Chess League (GTCL) has a 6 person executive and

currently a 9 person board of directors (can be larger)

- Coordinating chess in the Greater Toronto Area (Toronto Halton Peel York amp

Durham)

- Website httpwwwtorontochessorgdrupal6

(by TCN Liaison for GTCL Egis Zeromskis)

Michael Barron GTCL President has now confirmed the approval of the GTCL team

competition bid by Willowdale CC For details see Tournament Notice section below

Chess Institute of Canada

Photo Credit Jordynn Colosi

At the Chess Institute of Canada we bring chess to life

22

Toronto Chess News

Ed Thanks Vlad for taking the time to share with us your very interesting

autobiography It is a pleasant read and it is nice to now know more about our CFC

President

Provincial Tournaments amp Chess ClubsOrganizations

TCN offers chess clubs and chess organizations a ldquonews sectionrdquo As a

cluborganization accepts TCN is developing ldquoTCN Liaisonsrdquo in these groups in

Toronto the GTA and beyond whereby one member at each cluborganization will take

responsibility for submitting their news to TCN on a regular basis for this section For

clubs this will include club games from club tournaments when possible We have 3

chess organizations and 7 clubs now with news sections of the newsletter opened for

them We hope to slowly increase this number as time passes We also intend to extend

coverage outside of Ontario our starting province

If you are in a club or know someone in another club and think the club might

like to take out a news section please have them contact us to discuss it ndash we are trying to

present a format where chess organizations can promote themselves and chess

We also hope to develop ongoing relationships with GTA (and beyond)

tournament organizers so they will consider sending in reports and some of the more

interesting games from their tournaments Depending on time available TCN will try to

annotate some of the unannotated games submitted by organizers and clubs

Depending on time available TCN will try to annotate some of the unannotated games

submitted by organizers and clubs

ONTARIO

GREATER TORONTO AREA

Tournament Reports (Note if you play in a tournament and have a good game send it on for us to consider

publishing with our tournament report)

50 Years of Toronto Rapid Chess Tournament

This was played in a local Toronto Bar Legends on Saturday Nov 9 organized

by Vlad (formerly Walter) Dobrich

23

Toronto Chess News

Photo by Egis Zeromskis

once one of Canadarsquos top players

The tournament was very strong and attracted 28 players It was a remembrance

of rapid tournaments in Toronto from 1963 I believe they started at the time of the old

Toronto Chess Club Vlad had arranged for some sponsorship and so a nice buffet was

available

The winner was Canadian GM Eric Hansen of Alberta

Photo by Egis Zeromskis

24

Toronto Chess News

currently playing in Europe out of Spain (with Canadian IM Aman Hambleton) The key

game was the encounter Gerzhoy-Hansen in round four A sharp tactical mid-game

resulted in a winning endgame for Eric

A good time was had by all

Photo by Egis Zeromskis

Here are the final standings

25

Toronto Chess News

26

Toronto Chess News

Chess Organization News

From the GTCL Perspective

- The Greater Toronto Chess League (GTCL) has a 6 person executive and

currently a 9 person board of directors (can be larger)

- Coordinating chess in the Greater Toronto Area (Toronto Halton Peel York amp

Durham)

- Website httpwwwtorontochessorgdrupal6

(by TCN Liaison for GTCL Egis Zeromskis)

Michael Barron GTCL President has now confirmed the approval of the GTCL team

competition bid by Willowdale CC For details see Tournament Notice section below

Chess Institute of Canada

Photo Credit Jordynn Colosi

At the Chess Institute of Canada we bring chess to life

23

Toronto Chess News

Photo by Egis Zeromskis

once one of Canadarsquos top players

The tournament was very strong and attracted 28 players It was a remembrance

of rapid tournaments in Toronto from 1963 I believe they started at the time of the old

Toronto Chess Club Vlad had arranged for some sponsorship and so a nice buffet was

available

The winner was Canadian GM Eric Hansen of Alberta

Photo by Egis Zeromskis

24

Toronto Chess News

currently playing in Europe out of Spain (with Canadian IM Aman Hambleton) The key

game was the encounter Gerzhoy-Hansen in round four A sharp tactical mid-game

resulted in a winning endgame for Eric

A good time was had by all

Photo by Egis Zeromskis

Here are the final standings

25

Toronto Chess News

26

Toronto Chess News

Chess Organization News

From the GTCL Perspective

- The Greater Toronto Chess League (GTCL) has a 6 person executive and

currently a 9 person board of directors (can be larger)

- Coordinating chess in the Greater Toronto Area (Toronto Halton Peel York amp

Durham)

- Website httpwwwtorontochessorgdrupal6

(by TCN Liaison for GTCL Egis Zeromskis)

Michael Barron GTCL President has now confirmed the approval of the GTCL team

competition bid by Willowdale CC For details see Tournament Notice section below

Chess Institute of Canada

Photo Credit Jordynn Colosi

At the Chess Institute of Canada we bring chess to life

24

Toronto Chess News

currently playing in Europe out of Spain (with Canadian IM Aman Hambleton) The key

game was the encounter Gerzhoy-Hansen in round four A sharp tactical mid-game

resulted in a winning endgame for Eric

A good time was had by all

Photo by Egis Zeromskis

Here are the final standings

25

Toronto Chess News

26

Toronto Chess News

Chess Organization News

From the GTCL Perspective

- The Greater Toronto Chess League (GTCL) has a 6 person executive and

currently a 9 person board of directors (can be larger)

- Coordinating chess in the Greater Toronto Area (Toronto Halton Peel York amp

Durham)

- Website httpwwwtorontochessorgdrupal6

(by TCN Liaison for GTCL Egis Zeromskis)

Michael Barron GTCL President has now confirmed the approval of the GTCL team

competition bid by Willowdale CC For details see Tournament Notice section below

Chess Institute of Canada

Photo Credit Jordynn Colosi

At the Chess Institute of Canada we bring chess to life

25

Toronto Chess News

26

Toronto Chess News

Chess Organization News

From the GTCL Perspective

- The Greater Toronto Chess League (GTCL) has a 6 person executive and

currently a 9 person board of directors (can be larger)

- Coordinating chess in the Greater Toronto Area (Toronto Halton Peel York amp

Durham)

- Website httpwwwtorontochessorgdrupal6

(by TCN Liaison for GTCL Egis Zeromskis)

Michael Barron GTCL President has now confirmed the approval of the GTCL team

competition bid by Willowdale CC For details see Tournament Notice section below

Chess Institute of Canada

Photo Credit Jordynn Colosi

At the Chess Institute of Canada we bring chess to life

26

Toronto Chess News

Chess Organization News

From the GTCL Perspective

- The Greater Toronto Chess League (GTCL) has a 6 person executive and

currently a 9 person board of directors (can be larger)

- Coordinating chess in the Greater Toronto Area (Toronto Halton Peel York amp

Durham)

- Website httpwwwtorontochessorgdrupal6

(by TCN Liaison for GTCL Egis Zeromskis)

Michael Barron GTCL President has now confirmed the approval of the GTCL team

competition bid by Willowdale CC For details see Tournament Notice section below

Chess Institute of Canada

Photo Credit Jordynn Colosi

At the Chess Institute of Canada we bring chess to life

27

Toronto Chess News

(by Cindy Conroy TCN Liaison for CIC )

- Now news report filed

Chess Club News

TORONTO

Scarborough Chess Club News

Meets Thursdays ndash 700 ndash 1045 PM

Location Birkdale Community Ctre 1299 Ellesmere Road (between Midland Ave and

Brimley Road)

SCC e ndash mail infoScarboroughChessClubca

SCC Website httpwwwScarboroughChessClubca

(by Ken Kurkowski TCN Liaison for SCC)

28

Toronto Chess News

Ken is currently on holidays and so there is no report He will be reporting again for the

Dec 1 Issue

Annex Chess Club News

Meets Monday evenings

Location 918 Bathurst St Toronto (north of the Bathurst Subway Station)

Annex CC website httpannexchessclubcom

(by TCN Liaison for Annex CC Marcus Wilker)

Last Monday we wrapped up our October-November Ghosts and Gobbling club

tournament Heres the final round report

The final round takes place on the evening of Remembrance Day In the Crown

section Michael Humphreys beats Rodrigo Oliveira to win the tournament with a

29

Toronto Chess News

perfect 505 Our 2013 Club Champion is in fine form Alexandre Michelashvili and

Allan Munro with a draw tie for second at 355

In the U1900 section Arkadiy Ugodnikov does it again Taking out another youngster

Nicholas Vettese in the final round Arkadiy finishes with 455 (Chalk one up for us old

guys) All the other games in the section (perhaps inspired by the World Championship)

end in draws ndash Harmony and Nicholas finish tied for second with 355

In the U1500 section Mark Gelowitz beats Jean-Marc David in the final round to finish

first with 455 Bradley Yee and Richard Morrison both win their final-round games to

finish tied for second with 405

A new club tournament starts next week Round One of the ACC ldquoScarf Weatherrdquo Swiss

is Monday November 18 at 730 pm New players are welcome register on site

before 700 pm

Congratulations Michael

(Heres a photo of Michael from the 2012 Canadian Closed)

httpannexchessclubcomwp-contentuploads201309humphreys-canadian-closed-

2012jpg

28

Toronto Chess News

Ken is currently on holidays and so there is no report He will be reporting again for the

Dec 1 Issue

Annex Chess Club News

Meets Monday evenings

Location 918 Bathurst St Toronto (north of the Bathurst Subway Station)

Annex CC website httpannexchessclubcom

(by TCN Liaison for Annex CC Marcus Wilker)

Last Monday we wrapped up our October-November Ghosts and Gobbling club

tournament Heres the final round report

The final round takes place on the evening of Remembrance Day In the Crown

section Michael Humphreys beats Rodrigo Oliveira to win the tournament with a

29

Toronto Chess News

perfect 505 Our 2013 Club Champion is in fine form Alexandre Michelashvili and

Allan Munro with a draw tie for second at 355

In the U1900 section Arkadiy Ugodnikov does it again Taking out another youngster

Nicholas Vettese in the final round Arkadiy finishes with 455 (Chalk one up for us old

guys) All the other games in the section (perhaps inspired by the World Championship)

end in draws ndash Harmony and Nicholas finish tied for second with 355

In the U1500 section Mark Gelowitz beats Jean-Marc David in the final round to finish

first with 455 Bradley Yee and Richard Morrison both win their final-round games to

finish tied for second with 405

A new club tournament starts next week Round One of the ACC ldquoScarf Weatherrdquo Swiss

is Monday November 18 at 730 pm New players are welcome register on site

before 700 pm

Congratulations Michael

(Heres a photo of Michael from the 2012 Canadian Closed)

httpannexchessclubcomwp-contentuploads201309humphreys-canadian-closed-

2012jpg

29

Toronto Chess News

perfect 505 Our 2013 Club Champion is in fine form Alexandre Michelashvili and

Allan Munro with a draw tie for second at 355

In the U1900 section Arkadiy Ugodnikov does it again Taking out another youngster

Nicholas Vettese in the final round Arkadiy finishes with 455 (Chalk one up for us old

guys) All the other games in the section (perhaps inspired by the World Championship)

end in draws ndash Harmony and Nicholas finish tied for second with 355

In the U1500 section Mark Gelowitz beats Jean-Marc David in the final round to finish

first with 455 Bradley Yee and Richard Morrison both win their final-round games to

finish tied for second with 405

A new club tournament starts next week Round One of the ACC ldquoScarf Weatherrdquo Swiss

is Monday November 18 at 730 pm New players are welcome register on site

before 700 pm

Congratulations Michael

(Heres a photo of Michael from the 2012 Canadian Closed)

httpannexchessclubcomwp-contentuploads201309humphreys-canadian-closed-

2012jpg

30

Toronto Chess News

Willowdale Chess Club News

Meetings Tuesday 700 ndash 1000 PM (generally casual play) Location Earl Bales Community Centre (Bathurst StSheppard Ave)

(by TCN Liaison Peter Reothy)

Nothing that the President would like me to report you until the Toronto Senior

Tournamentrsquos final results are in (Ed it is being played at Willowdale CC since GTCL

earlier accepted their bid for the tournament)

YORK

Aurora Chess Club News

Meetings Mondays in the Cafeteria of Aurora High School from 6pm until 1030pm

Website wwwaurorachessclubca

For info contact founder Graeme Knight infoaurorachessclubca

(by TCN Liaison for Aurora CC Graeme Knight)

31

Toronto Chess News

Aurora Chess Club continues to run its 6-week Winter Swiss Tournament with

thirty four eager players and a seventy minute time control with a fifteen second time

increment The time control (somewhat of an experiment) was well received by the

players however we will be mixing it up from tournament to tournament and the next is

likely to have a longer playing time Newcomer Michael Hancock (1361) heads up the

leaderboard followed by Mickey Stein (1868) Colin Ruan (1322) is biting at their heels

in third place A player to watch is definitely Dave Robinson who is a newcomer to

competitive chess and the Aurora Chess Club ndash but certainly a player with a sting in his

tail

Wersquove seen an upsurge in the playing skill of many juniors in the club over the

last few months Players to note who are on the up are Dorian Kang (912) Nicholas Wu

(1256) and Aidan Mo (1138) Itrsquos inspiring to see these young folk join the CFC rated

competitions both in club time as well as at weekends and they regularly strike fear into

the hearts of the adult members of the chess club during pairing

Itrsquos interesting to note however that there has certainly been improvement in the

playing strength of some of the adult members ndash while ratings have been slow to catch

up there is a definite trend of lower rated players winning games against higher rated

players We can only hope that the clubrsquos strength will go up over this year for both

young and old

DURHAM

Ajax Chess Club News

- meet every 1st 3rd and 5th Fridays of the month

- 700-830 pm for juniors and adults play up to 1100 pm

- location 115 Ritchie Ave Ajax

- currently tournaments are not CFC-rated no club members have CFC

membership

- For further information contact David Ho at ajaxchessclubgmailcom

(by TCN Liaison for Ajax CC David Ho)

- No news report filed

32

Toronto Chess News

SOUTH-WESTERN ONTARIO

Tournaments

Guelph Fall Pro-Am

November 2-3 2013

Room 442 Guelph University Centre

5 Round Swiss in 3 Sections

FIDE Rated Pro FIDE Rated U2000 U1600

Players may play up if current rating is within 100 points of rating floor

Extra cost is $20 proceeds to the Olympic Fund

Round Times Saturday 1000am 200pm 600pm Sunday 1000am 230pm

Time Control Round 1 G60 +30 sec Rounds 2-5 G90 + 30 sec

The top finishers were

Open

Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot TBrk[H] TBrk[P]

1 GM Bator Sambuev 2672 W13 W10 W2 W4 W6 50

2 IM Bindi Cheng 2535 W14 W12 L1 D3 W8 35

3 FM Razvan Preotu 2490 W9 D6 W11 D2 D5 35

33

Toronto Chess News

Grandmaster Sambuev (away from IM Nikolay Noritsyns (left) top board in the 5th

round) had succeeded in giving a number of players some headaches that weekend

Meanwhile 14 year old FIDE Master Razvan Preotu (foreground right on 2nd board in

the 5th round) could well be another Canadian player who could eventually upgrade his

title by improving his score in these weekend events 4 FM Shiyam Thavandiran 2495 W8 D7 W17 L1 W11 35

Shiyam Thavandiran (21 left - in the Canada shirt) analyses with veteran and fellow

FIDE master titled player Jura Ochkoos (right in the sweater)

34

Toronto Chess News

5 Digeng Du 2268 W16 L11 W9 W7 D3 35

U 2000

Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot TBrk[H] TBrk[P]

1 Mahmud Hassain 1977 D6 D7 W19 W4 W3 40

Guelph resident Mahmud Hassain (left) beat the winner of the recent 2013 Michigan open (sectional) from last month Mario Piccinin (on top board in their Guelph sectional) Both players are Kitchener city chess club members and Mario on the right is also their club president 2 Eugene Hua 1845 H--- W6 D5 D9 W10 35

3 Mario Piccinin 1775 W16 W5 D9 W10 L1 35 4 Jacob Krolczyk 1836 W8 W19 D10 L1 W9 35

5 Rebecca Giblon 1816 W12 L3 D2 W15 W11 35

U 1600

Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot TBrk[H] TBrk[P]

1 Andrew Giblon 1317 W17 W8 W5 W9 D2 45 2 James Mourgelas 1415 W18 W25 D6 W8 D1 40

3 Nicholas Wu 1256 H--- W7 W23 W6 D5 40 4 Nameer Issani 1367 H--- D10 W19 W14 W11 40

Some neat random photos of the tournament

35

Toronto Chess News

Mahmud Hassain introduces players to the experts room since the next sections top

board was luckily enough to play there

Sergey Noritsyn (left) lost to Wenlu Yu

36

Toronto Chess News

Victor Plotkin (left) won against David Filipovich

Manojh (left) drew Nicholas

37

Toronto Chess News

Ralph (background left in play) TD Hal Bond (background right) and others watch

Harmony Zhu (foreground left) claim victory against a past CFC president Bob

Gillanders

All photos above (except Sambuev) by Kai Gauer TCN roving photographer

University of Waterloo Tandem Simul

This was held at the University of Waterloo Waterloo Ontario on Sun Nov 10

The reason the simul was not generally publicized was given by organizer Neal Pan

ldquoThe reason we did not intend to broadcast this event to the general

Waterloo community or even CFC is because the location where we are holding

this Simul is only allowed to be used by students from UW and patrons of UW

student societies and I even had to ask for permissions to invite KWCC

players to join since you guys are our co-sponsors The permission to use

SLC-Great Hall for general public event is almost impossible to getrdquo

The UWCC had a great flyer (but your techno-incompetent editor couldnrsquot figure out

how to get it here)

Here are some random photos by Kai Gauer

38

Toronto Chess News

Karoly Szalay (left) Avinaash Sundar (centre) and Neal Pan (right) took on eight players

in a tandem simul at U of W on November 10th at 300pm

Karoly plays a couple of rounds of moves

39

Toronto Chess News

Kevin Chung plays a few rounds of moves usually 3 of his own moves per player at a

time and then Avinaash cycles back into the tandem simul again

Here is one of the games with Kai Gaurrsquos intro

He only plays online mostly but Daniel Ghotrani (1400) managed to snag a Bishop in a

trap here as the players had switched The white side would play 8-10 games (a couple

started late) and Karoly starts play (generally) of moves 1-3 then Kevin (his moves 4-6)

and Avinaash (7-9) and back to Kevin [Event Tandem-simul 3 moves - then rotate white side] [Site U of Waterloo] [Date Nov 10 2013] [Round ] [White Avinaash Sundar Karoly Szalay Kevin Chung] [Black Daniel Ghotrani] [Result 12-12] 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bb5 a6 4 Ba4 b5 5 Bb3 Nf6 6 d3 h6 7 Be3 Ng4 8 O-O d6 9 Nbd2 Be7 10 Re1 O-O 11 Nf1 Be6 12 Ng3 Qd7 13 d4 Nxe3 14 fxe3 Bg4 15 d5 Na5 16 h3 Bxf3 17 Qxf3 Bh4 18 Nf5 Bxe1 19 Qg4 Qxf5 20 exf5 Bd2 21 Kf2 Nb7 22 f6 g6 12-12

Chess Club News

Hamilton City Chess Club News

Meetings Friday Nights

Website httpchesshamiltonmygamesonlineorgnewsphp

33

Toronto Chess News

Grandmaster Sambuev (away from IM Nikolay Noritsyns (left) top board in the 5th

round) had succeeded in giving a number of players some headaches that weekend

Meanwhile 14 year old FIDE Master Razvan Preotu (foreground right on 2nd board in

the 5th round) could well be another Canadian player who could eventually upgrade his

title by improving his score in these weekend events 4 FM Shiyam Thavandiran 2495 W8 D7 W17 L1 W11 35

Shiyam Thavandiran (21 left - in the Canada shirt) analyses with veteran and fellow

FIDE master titled player Jura Ochkoos (right in the sweater)

34

Toronto Chess News

5 Digeng Du 2268 W16 L11 W9 W7 D3 35

U 2000

Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot TBrk[H] TBrk[P]

1 Mahmud Hassain 1977 D6 D7 W19 W4 W3 40

Guelph resident Mahmud Hassain (left) beat the winner of the recent 2013 Michigan open (sectional) from last month Mario Piccinin (on top board in their Guelph sectional) Both players are Kitchener city chess club members and Mario on the right is also their club president 2 Eugene Hua 1845 H--- W6 D5 D9 W10 35

3 Mario Piccinin 1775 W16 W5 D9 W10 L1 35 4 Jacob Krolczyk 1836 W8 W19 D10 L1 W9 35

5 Rebecca Giblon 1816 W12 L3 D2 W15 W11 35

U 1600

Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot TBrk[H] TBrk[P]

1 Andrew Giblon 1317 W17 W8 W5 W9 D2 45 2 James Mourgelas 1415 W18 W25 D6 W8 D1 40

3 Nicholas Wu 1256 H--- W7 W23 W6 D5 40 4 Nameer Issani 1367 H--- D10 W19 W14 W11 40

Some neat random photos of the tournament

35

Toronto Chess News

Mahmud Hassain introduces players to the experts room since the next sections top

board was luckily enough to play there

Sergey Noritsyn (left) lost to Wenlu Yu

36

Toronto Chess News

Victor Plotkin (left) won against David Filipovich

Manojh (left) drew Nicholas

37

Toronto Chess News

Ralph (background left in play) TD Hal Bond (background right) and others watch

Harmony Zhu (foreground left) claim victory against a past CFC president Bob

Gillanders

All photos above (except Sambuev) by Kai Gauer TCN roving photographer

University of Waterloo Tandem Simul

This was held at the University of Waterloo Waterloo Ontario on Sun Nov 10

The reason the simul was not generally publicized was given by organizer Neal Pan

ldquoThe reason we did not intend to broadcast this event to the general

Waterloo community or even CFC is because the location where we are holding

this Simul is only allowed to be used by students from UW and patrons of UW

student societies and I even had to ask for permissions to invite KWCC

players to join since you guys are our co-sponsors The permission to use

SLC-Great Hall for general public event is almost impossible to getrdquo

The UWCC had a great flyer (but your techno-incompetent editor couldnrsquot figure out

how to get it here)

Here are some random photos by Kai Gauer

38

Toronto Chess News

Karoly Szalay (left) Avinaash Sundar (centre) and Neal Pan (right) took on eight players

in a tandem simul at U of W on November 10th at 300pm

Karoly plays a couple of rounds of moves

39

Toronto Chess News

Kevin Chung plays a few rounds of moves usually 3 of his own moves per player at a

time and then Avinaash cycles back into the tandem simul again

Here is one of the games with Kai Gaurrsquos intro

He only plays online mostly but Daniel Ghotrani (1400) managed to snag a Bishop in a

trap here as the players had switched The white side would play 8-10 games (a couple

started late) and Karoly starts play (generally) of moves 1-3 then Kevin (his moves 4-6)

and Avinaash (7-9) and back to Kevin [Event Tandem-simul 3 moves - then rotate white side] [Site U of Waterloo] [Date Nov 10 2013] [Round ] [White Avinaash Sundar Karoly Szalay Kevin Chung] [Black Daniel Ghotrani] [Result 12-12] 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bb5 a6 4 Ba4 b5 5 Bb3 Nf6 6 d3 h6 7 Be3 Ng4 8 O-O d6 9 Nbd2 Be7 10 Re1 O-O 11 Nf1 Be6 12 Ng3 Qd7 13 d4 Nxe3 14 fxe3 Bg4 15 d5 Na5 16 h3 Bxf3 17 Qxf3 Bh4 18 Nf5 Bxe1 19 Qg4 Qxf5 20 exf5 Bd2 21 Kf2 Nb7 22 f6 g6 12-12

Chess Club News

Hamilton City Chess Club News

Meetings Friday Nights

Website httpchesshamiltonmygamesonlineorgnewsphp

34

Toronto Chess News

5 Digeng Du 2268 W16 L11 W9 W7 D3 35

U 2000

Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot TBrk[H] TBrk[P]

1 Mahmud Hassain 1977 D6 D7 W19 W4 W3 40

Guelph resident Mahmud Hassain (left) beat the winner of the recent 2013 Michigan open (sectional) from last month Mario Piccinin (on top board in their Guelph sectional) Both players are Kitchener city chess club members and Mario on the right is also their club president 2 Eugene Hua 1845 H--- W6 D5 D9 W10 35

3 Mario Piccinin 1775 W16 W5 D9 W10 L1 35 4 Jacob Krolczyk 1836 W8 W19 D10 L1 W9 35

5 Rebecca Giblon 1816 W12 L3 D2 W15 W11 35

U 1600

Name Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot TBrk[H] TBrk[P]

1 Andrew Giblon 1317 W17 W8 W5 W9 D2 45 2 James Mourgelas 1415 W18 W25 D6 W8 D1 40

3 Nicholas Wu 1256 H--- W7 W23 W6 D5 40 4 Nameer Issani 1367 H--- D10 W19 W14 W11 40

Some neat random photos of the tournament

35

Toronto Chess News

Mahmud Hassain introduces players to the experts room since the next sections top

board was luckily enough to play there

Sergey Noritsyn (left) lost to Wenlu Yu

36

Toronto Chess News

Victor Plotkin (left) won against David Filipovich

Manojh (left) drew Nicholas

37

Toronto Chess News

Ralph (background left in play) TD Hal Bond (background right) and others watch

Harmony Zhu (foreground left) claim victory against a past CFC president Bob

Gillanders

All photos above (except Sambuev) by Kai Gauer TCN roving photographer

University of Waterloo Tandem Simul

This was held at the University of Waterloo Waterloo Ontario on Sun Nov 10

The reason the simul was not generally publicized was given by organizer Neal Pan

ldquoThe reason we did not intend to broadcast this event to the general

Waterloo community or even CFC is because the location where we are holding

this Simul is only allowed to be used by students from UW and patrons of UW

student societies and I even had to ask for permissions to invite KWCC

players to join since you guys are our co-sponsors The permission to use

SLC-Great Hall for general public event is almost impossible to getrdquo

The UWCC had a great flyer (but your techno-incompetent editor couldnrsquot figure out

how to get it here)

Here are some random photos by Kai Gauer

38

Toronto Chess News

Karoly Szalay (left) Avinaash Sundar (centre) and Neal Pan (right) took on eight players

in a tandem simul at U of W on November 10th at 300pm

Karoly plays a couple of rounds of moves

39

Toronto Chess News

Kevin Chung plays a few rounds of moves usually 3 of his own moves per player at a

time and then Avinaash cycles back into the tandem simul again

Here is one of the games with Kai Gaurrsquos intro

He only plays online mostly but Daniel Ghotrani (1400) managed to snag a Bishop in a

trap here as the players had switched The white side would play 8-10 games (a couple

started late) and Karoly starts play (generally) of moves 1-3 then Kevin (his moves 4-6)

and Avinaash (7-9) and back to Kevin [Event Tandem-simul 3 moves - then rotate white side] [Site U of Waterloo] [Date Nov 10 2013] [Round ] [White Avinaash Sundar Karoly Szalay Kevin Chung] [Black Daniel Ghotrani] [Result 12-12] 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bb5 a6 4 Ba4 b5 5 Bb3 Nf6 6 d3 h6 7 Be3 Ng4 8 O-O d6 9 Nbd2 Be7 10 Re1 O-O 11 Nf1 Be6 12 Ng3 Qd7 13 d4 Nxe3 14 fxe3 Bg4 15 d5 Na5 16 h3 Bxf3 17 Qxf3 Bh4 18 Nf5 Bxe1 19 Qg4 Qxf5 20 exf5 Bd2 21 Kf2 Nb7 22 f6 g6 12-12

Chess Club News

Hamilton City Chess Club News

Meetings Friday Nights

Website httpchesshamiltonmygamesonlineorgnewsphp

35

Toronto Chess News

Mahmud Hassain introduces players to the experts room since the next sections top

board was luckily enough to play there

Sergey Noritsyn (left) lost to Wenlu Yu

36

Toronto Chess News

Victor Plotkin (left) won against David Filipovich

Manojh (left) drew Nicholas

37

Toronto Chess News

Ralph (background left in play) TD Hal Bond (background right) and others watch

Harmony Zhu (foreground left) claim victory against a past CFC president Bob

Gillanders

All photos above (except Sambuev) by Kai Gauer TCN roving photographer

University of Waterloo Tandem Simul

This was held at the University of Waterloo Waterloo Ontario on Sun Nov 10

The reason the simul was not generally publicized was given by organizer Neal Pan

ldquoThe reason we did not intend to broadcast this event to the general

Waterloo community or even CFC is because the location where we are holding

this Simul is only allowed to be used by students from UW and patrons of UW

student societies and I even had to ask for permissions to invite KWCC

players to join since you guys are our co-sponsors The permission to use

SLC-Great Hall for general public event is almost impossible to getrdquo

The UWCC had a great flyer (but your techno-incompetent editor couldnrsquot figure out

how to get it here)

Here are some random photos by Kai Gauer

38

Toronto Chess News

Karoly Szalay (left) Avinaash Sundar (centre) and Neal Pan (right) took on eight players

in a tandem simul at U of W on November 10th at 300pm

Karoly plays a couple of rounds of moves

39

Toronto Chess News

Kevin Chung plays a few rounds of moves usually 3 of his own moves per player at a

time and then Avinaash cycles back into the tandem simul again

Here is one of the games with Kai Gaurrsquos intro

He only plays online mostly but Daniel Ghotrani (1400) managed to snag a Bishop in a

trap here as the players had switched The white side would play 8-10 games (a couple

started late) and Karoly starts play (generally) of moves 1-3 then Kevin (his moves 4-6)

and Avinaash (7-9) and back to Kevin [Event Tandem-simul 3 moves - then rotate white side] [Site U of Waterloo] [Date Nov 10 2013] [Round ] [White Avinaash Sundar Karoly Szalay Kevin Chung] [Black Daniel Ghotrani] [Result 12-12] 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bb5 a6 4 Ba4 b5 5 Bb3 Nf6 6 d3 h6 7 Be3 Ng4 8 O-O d6 9 Nbd2 Be7 10 Re1 O-O 11 Nf1 Be6 12 Ng3 Qd7 13 d4 Nxe3 14 fxe3 Bg4 15 d5 Na5 16 h3 Bxf3 17 Qxf3 Bh4 18 Nf5 Bxe1 19 Qg4 Qxf5 20 exf5 Bd2 21 Kf2 Nb7 22 f6 g6 12-12

Chess Club News

Hamilton City Chess Club News

Meetings Friday Nights

Website httpchesshamiltonmygamesonlineorgnewsphp

36

Toronto Chess News

Victor Plotkin (left) won against David Filipovich

Manojh (left) drew Nicholas

37

Toronto Chess News

Ralph (background left in play) TD Hal Bond (background right) and others watch

Harmony Zhu (foreground left) claim victory against a past CFC president Bob

Gillanders

All photos above (except Sambuev) by Kai Gauer TCN roving photographer

University of Waterloo Tandem Simul

This was held at the University of Waterloo Waterloo Ontario on Sun Nov 10

The reason the simul was not generally publicized was given by organizer Neal Pan

ldquoThe reason we did not intend to broadcast this event to the general

Waterloo community or even CFC is because the location where we are holding

this Simul is only allowed to be used by students from UW and patrons of UW

student societies and I even had to ask for permissions to invite KWCC

players to join since you guys are our co-sponsors The permission to use

SLC-Great Hall for general public event is almost impossible to getrdquo

The UWCC had a great flyer (but your techno-incompetent editor couldnrsquot figure out

how to get it here)

Here are some random photos by Kai Gauer

38

Toronto Chess News

Karoly Szalay (left) Avinaash Sundar (centre) and Neal Pan (right) took on eight players

in a tandem simul at U of W on November 10th at 300pm

Karoly plays a couple of rounds of moves

39

Toronto Chess News

Kevin Chung plays a few rounds of moves usually 3 of his own moves per player at a

time and then Avinaash cycles back into the tandem simul again

Here is one of the games with Kai Gaurrsquos intro

He only plays online mostly but Daniel Ghotrani (1400) managed to snag a Bishop in a

trap here as the players had switched The white side would play 8-10 games (a couple

started late) and Karoly starts play (generally) of moves 1-3 then Kevin (his moves 4-6)

and Avinaash (7-9) and back to Kevin [Event Tandem-simul 3 moves - then rotate white side] [Site U of Waterloo] [Date Nov 10 2013] [Round ] [White Avinaash Sundar Karoly Szalay Kevin Chung] [Black Daniel Ghotrani] [Result 12-12] 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bb5 a6 4 Ba4 b5 5 Bb3 Nf6 6 d3 h6 7 Be3 Ng4 8 O-O d6 9 Nbd2 Be7 10 Re1 O-O 11 Nf1 Be6 12 Ng3 Qd7 13 d4 Nxe3 14 fxe3 Bg4 15 d5 Na5 16 h3 Bxf3 17 Qxf3 Bh4 18 Nf5 Bxe1 19 Qg4 Qxf5 20 exf5 Bd2 21 Kf2 Nb7 22 f6 g6 12-12

Chess Club News

Hamilton City Chess Club News

Meetings Friday Nights

Website httpchesshamiltonmygamesonlineorgnewsphp

37

Toronto Chess News

Ralph (background left in play) TD Hal Bond (background right) and others watch

Harmony Zhu (foreground left) claim victory against a past CFC president Bob

Gillanders

All photos above (except Sambuev) by Kai Gauer TCN roving photographer

University of Waterloo Tandem Simul

This was held at the University of Waterloo Waterloo Ontario on Sun Nov 10

The reason the simul was not generally publicized was given by organizer Neal Pan

ldquoThe reason we did not intend to broadcast this event to the general

Waterloo community or even CFC is because the location where we are holding

this Simul is only allowed to be used by students from UW and patrons of UW

student societies and I even had to ask for permissions to invite KWCC

players to join since you guys are our co-sponsors The permission to use

SLC-Great Hall for general public event is almost impossible to getrdquo

The UWCC had a great flyer (but your techno-incompetent editor couldnrsquot figure out

how to get it here)

Here are some random photos by Kai Gauer

38

Toronto Chess News

Karoly Szalay (left) Avinaash Sundar (centre) and Neal Pan (right) took on eight players

in a tandem simul at U of W on November 10th at 300pm

Karoly plays a couple of rounds of moves

39

Toronto Chess News

Kevin Chung plays a few rounds of moves usually 3 of his own moves per player at a

time and then Avinaash cycles back into the tandem simul again

Here is one of the games with Kai Gaurrsquos intro

He only plays online mostly but Daniel Ghotrani (1400) managed to snag a Bishop in a

trap here as the players had switched The white side would play 8-10 games (a couple

started late) and Karoly starts play (generally) of moves 1-3 then Kevin (his moves 4-6)

and Avinaash (7-9) and back to Kevin [Event Tandem-simul 3 moves - then rotate white side] [Site U of Waterloo] [Date Nov 10 2013] [Round ] [White Avinaash Sundar Karoly Szalay Kevin Chung] [Black Daniel Ghotrani] [Result 12-12] 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bb5 a6 4 Ba4 b5 5 Bb3 Nf6 6 d3 h6 7 Be3 Ng4 8 O-O d6 9 Nbd2 Be7 10 Re1 O-O 11 Nf1 Be6 12 Ng3 Qd7 13 d4 Nxe3 14 fxe3 Bg4 15 d5 Na5 16 h3 Bxf3 17 Qxf3 Bh4 18 Nf5 Bxe1 19 Qg4 Qxf5 20 exf5 Bd2 21 Kf2 Nb7 22 f6 g6 12-12

Chess Club News

Hamilton City Chess Club News

Meetings Friday Nights

Website httpchesshamiltonmygamesonlineorgnewsphp

38

Toronto Chess News

Karoly Szalay (left) Avinaash Sundar (centre) and Neal Pan (right) took on eight players

in a tandem simul at U of W on November 10th at 300pm

Karoly plays a couple of rounds of moves

39

Toronto Chess News

Kevin Chung plays a few rounds of moves usually 3 of his own moves per player at a

time and then Avinaash cycles back into the tandem simul again

Here is one of the games with Kai Gaurrsquos intro

He only plays online mostly but Daniel Ghotrani (1400) managed to snag a Bishop in a

trap here as the players had switched The white side would play 8-10 games (a couple

started late) and Karoly starts play (generally) of moves 1-3 then Kevin (his moves 4-6)

and Avinaash (7-9) and back to Kevin [Event Tandem-simul 3 moves - then rotate white side] [Site U of Waterloo] [Date Nov 10 2013] [Round ] [White Avinaash Sundar Karoly Szalay Kevin Chung] [Black Daniel Ghotrani] [Result 12-12] 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bb5 a6 4 Ba4 b5 5 Bb3 Nf6 6 d3 h6 7 Be3 Ng4 8 O-O d6 9 Nbd2 Be7 10 Re1 O-O 11 Nf1 Be6 12 Ng3 Qd7 13 d4 Nxe3 14 fxe3 Bg4 15 d5 Na5 16 h3 Bxf3 17 Qxf3 Bh4 18 Nf5 Bxe1 19 Qg4 Qxf5 20 exf5 Bd2 21 Kf2 Nb7 22 f6 g6 12-12

Chess Club News

Hamilton City Chess Club News

Meetings Friday Nights

Website httpchesshamiltonmygamesonlineorgnewsphp

39

Toronto Chess News

Kevin Chung plays a few rounds of moves usually 3 of his own moves per player at a

time and then Avinaash cycles back into the tandem simul again

Here is one of the games with Kai Gaurrsquos intro

He only plays online mostly but Daniel Ghotrani (1400) managed to snag a Bishop in a

trap here as the players had switched The white side would play 8-10 games (a couple

started late) and Karoly starts play (generally) of moves 1-3 then Kevin (his moves 4-6)

and Avinaash (7-9) and back to Kevin [Event Tandem-simul 3 moves - then rotate white side] [Site U of Waterloo] [Date Nov 10 2013] [Round ] [White Avinaash Sundar Karoly Szalay Kevin Chung] [Black Daniel Ghotrani] [Result 12-12] 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bb5 a6 4 Ba4 b5 5 Bb3 Nf6 6 d3 h6 7 Be3 Ng4 8 O-O d6 9 Nbd2 Be7 10 Re1 O-O 11 Nf1 Be6 12 Ng3 Qd7 13 d4 Nxe3 14 fxe3 Bg4 15 d5 Na5 16 h3 Bxf3 17 Qxf3 Bh4 18 Nf5 Bxe1 19 Qg4 Qxf5 20 exf5 Bd2 21 Kf2 Nb7 22 f6 g6 12-12

Chess Club News

Hamilton City Chess Club News

Meetings Friday Nights

Website httpchesshamiltonmygamesonlineorgnewsphp

40

Toronto Chess News

Email chesshamiltongmailcom

Location 871 Upper Ottawa Street (nearest cross-street is Ottawa and Mohawk) Parking

off the asphalt please

(by Garvin Nunes for TCN Liaison for Hamilton City CC Michel Vasquez)

After 8 exciting games the circle of winners has been determined

The Club Champions for 2013 are Doug Bailey and Adam Cormier with 7 points

The Best U1750 prize goes to Robert Gillanders and Damir Baizhiyenov with 45

The top junior prize goes to Eugene Hua with 40

Kitchener-Waterloo Chess Club News

Meetings Tuesdays ndash regular meeting

Tuesday night 600 ndash 730 PM ndash Youth Club

Location Kitchener City Hall (located in the heart of downtown Kitchener at 200 King

Street West) the Conestoga Room behind the rotunda on the main floor and in the

Learning Room on the 2nd Floor

Website wwwkwchessclubcom

41

Toronto Chess News

(by TCN Liaison for K-W CC Kai Gauer)

- Kai was busy getting reports in on Southwestern Ont Tournaments (see above)

nothing specific re K-WCC

Prince Edward Island

Tournaments

PEI Open Chess Championship

(report adapted from Organizer Fred McKimrsquos report)

Eleven players registered at the UPEI on Nov 2-3 for the PEI Open Chess

Championship It all came down to the last round and organizer Fred McKim

managed to convert a horrible opening position to take 1st place Anthony Banks came

second

42

Toronto Chess News

TCN Readersrsquo Section

Teaching Classic Games of Chess by Columnist FM Hans Jung chess

coordinator City of Kitchener Ontario

Introduction

This series of columns is for the lover of great exciting games of chess It is constructed

as a guide for chess teachers and students at all levels of chess (beyond beginner) to

provide short enjoyable ldquoteachingrdquo games The mostly tournament games are models of

perfect play and highlight the abilities of one piece coordinating with other pieces These

models illuminate the mind and provide guiding examples at critical points of a chess

players play

What I understood a long time ago in my own learning path in chess is that playing

through the best games of the great masters stirs a feeling inside which I now identify as

a passion for the beauty and excitement of exceptional chess ideas This is the path to the

love of chess The true chess lover seeks those ideas and absorbs them Everything else is

a quick fix or poor simulation The mind becomes bored with repetition of technical ideas

and poor imitation However these great games never fail to awaken the passion for the

beauty of chess

This collection of quality games was a long process of collecting teaching chess games

and initially just committing them to memory After years of frustration in constantly

looking up most of the games in obscure old-fashioned chess books and often dealing

with old stilted annotations (if indeed there were any annotations at all at critical points

of these games) I decided the only way to relieve these frustrations was to write my own

annotations

A major feature of this column is that the important ideas and turning points as well as

major tactical and strategic themes are pointed out and identified both for the teacher and

the student This enables clear identification for further research Nowhere else in chess

literature have I found this clear listed identification of strategic and tactical themes

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Toronto Chess News

Every game shows the excitement and beauty of a unique conception mdash a marvellous

idea of coordination of pieces brought to fruition in an exciting finish of perfection by the

hand of a master Chess players at their most enthusiastic speak of brilliant games they

recall and sparkling ideas forever lodged in their subconscious I hope you will find the

game presentations illuminating and enjoyable

Game 18 mdash In and Out of the Outpost

Tarrasch Siegbert ndash Vogel

Nuremburg Germany 1910

Siegbert Tarrasch

This game is dedicated to the memory of Richard May (1929-1985) the president

of my first chess club the old London YMCA Although living through the trauma of a

World War as a young teenager and immigrating as a very young man Richard brought

his love of chess and work habits to Canada with him and built a very successful business

(he owned his own elevator company) but always found time for chess and other chess

players Richard was a father figure for me in chess when I needed it most

My fondest memory of him was his entrance every week at the club Coming

from work (instead of going home to the family) once a week he would enter dressed

immaculately in an expensive suit with quality tie and cuff links and after a chuckled

ldquoGood evening gentlemenrdquo he would in a long drawn out ceremony bring out a

Havana cigar unwrap sniff lick and light it and then exhale a long sigh of relief (It

only occurred to me much later that suits were a required dress code in chess clubs of

old) Richard I hope you are still playing chess wherever you are

1 e4 e5

2 Nf3 Nc6

3 Bb5 d6

43

Toronto Chess News

Every game shows the excitement and beauty of a unique conception mdash a marvellous

idea of coordination of pieces brought to fruition in an exciting finish of perfection by the

hand of a master Chess players at their most enthusiastic speak of brilliant games they

recall and sparkling ideas forever lodged in their subconscious I hope you will find the

game presentations illuminating and enjoyable

Game 18 mdash In and Out of the Outpost

Tarrasch Siegbert ndash Vogel

Nuremburg Germany 1910

Siegbert Tarrasch

This game is dedicated to the memory of Richard May (1929-1985) the president

of my first chess club the old London YMCA Although living through the trauma of a

World War as a young teenager and immigrating as a very young man Richard brought

his love of chess and work habits to Canada with him and built a very successful business

(he owned his own elevator company) but always found time for chess and other chess

players Richard was a father figure for me in chess when I needed it most

My fondest memory of him was his entrance every week at the club Coming

from work (instead of going home to the family) once a week he would enter dressed

immaculately in an expensive suit with quality tie and cuff links and after a chuckled

ldquoGood evening gentlemenrdquo he would in a long drawn out ceremony bring out a

Havana cigar unwrap sniff lick and light it and then exhale a long sigh of relief (It

only occurred to me much later that suits were a required dress code in chess clubs of

old) Richard I hope you are still playing chess wherever you are

1 e4 e5

2 Nf3 Nc6

3 Bb5 d6

44

Toronto Chess News

4 d4 Bd7

5 Nc3 Nf6

6 O-O Be7

7 Re1 exd4

8 Nxd4 Nxd4

9 Qxd4 Bxb5

10 Nxb5 O-O

11 Bg5 Ng4

12 Bxe7 Qxe7

13 c4 a6

14 Nc3 Qe5

Black has used the strategy of exchanging minor pieces and queens to keep Whites advantage from the

opening to a minimum

15 Qxe5 dxe5

15 Nxe5 16 b3 Rfe8 17 Nd5 Rac8 is better leading to a more active defence for Black although White

has more space

16 Nd5

XIIIIIIIIY 9r+-+-trk+0 9+pzp-+pzpp0 9p+-+-+-+0 9+-+Nzp-+-0 9-+P+P+n+0 9+-+-+-+-0 9PzP-+-zPPzP0 9tR-+-tR-mK-0 xiiiiiiiiy Diagram 181

In the position after the exchange of queens Tarrasch (showing the excellent teaching traits of his chess

playing style) demonstrates the tactical abilities and control of squares of his central knight

16 c6

This weakening pawn move leaves behind a backward pawn target on b7 and a hole at b6 Note that the c7-

pawn could not be guarded by either rook to c8 due to Ne7+ forking rook and king

17 Ne7+ Kh8

45

Toronto Chess News

18 Nf5

XIIIIIIIIY 9r+-+-tr-mk0 9+p+-+pzpp0 9p+p+-+-+0 9+-+-zpN+-0 9-+P+P+n+0 9+-+-+-+-0 9PzP-+-zPPzP0 9tR-+-tR-mK-0 xiiiiiiiiy Diagram 182

The knight plans to go to d6 targeting pawns on b7 and f7 tying down Blacks rooks to their defence

18 Rad8

19 Rad1 g6

This just helps the knight complete his plan Better was Kg8 to bring the king slowly back to the center

20 Nd6 Rd7

If 20 b6 21 Nxf7+

21 c5 Kg8

22 Nc4

XIIIIIIIIY 9-+-+-trk+0 9+p+r+p+p0 9p+p+-+p+0 9+-zP-zp-+-0 9-+N+P+n+0 9+-+-+-+-0 9PzP-+-zPPzP0 9+-+RtR-mK-0 xiiiiiiiiy Diagram 183

Targeting another pawn on e5 which Black is helpless to prevent because he cannot give up the d-file If 22Nf6 23 f3 Rfd8 24 Rxd7 Nxd7 and the knight on d7 gets into trouble with the pin 25 Rd1 f6 26

Nb6

22 Rfd8

23 Rxd7 Rxd7

24 f3 Nh6

25 Nxe5 Rd2

26 Nc4 Rc2

27 b3 Rxa2

28 Rd1

46

Toronto Chess News

XIIIIIIIIY 9-+-+-+k+0 9+p+-+p+p0 9p+p+-+psn0 9+-zP-+-+-0 9-+N+P+-+0 9+P+-+P+-0 9r+-+-+PzP0 9+-+R+-mK-0 xiiiiiiiiy Diagram 184

Takes over the d-file to allow the rook to target the queenside pawns Note Blackrsquos knight on h6 and the

king on g8 are out of play allowing all the queenside pawns to fall

28 a5

29 Rd8+ Kg7

30 Ra8 a4

31 Rxa4 Rxa4

32 bxa4 Ng8

33 Nd6 Kf6

34 Nxb7 Ke5

35 a5 Ne7

36 Nd6

XIIIIIIIIY 9-+-+-+-+0 9+-+-snp+p0 9-+psN-+p+0 9zP-zP-mk-+-0 9-+-+P+-+0 9+-+-+P+-0 9-+-+-+PzP0 9+-+-+-mK-0 xiiiiiiiiy Diagram 185

Whitersquos knight uses the d6 outpost square three times each for a different reason The first time to

determine Blacks defence and setup the outpost The second time to capture the b7-pawn and allow the a-

pawn to become passed This last time to accuracy prevent Blackrsquos knight from going to c8 and stopping

the passed a-pawn The pawn will queen in three moves

36 Kd4

37 a6

Black resigns

1-0

47

Toronto Chess News

Review of Game 18

Strategic Themes Tactical Themes

Plan for Black - Exchanging pieces in hopes of

keeping the balance in the position - Moves 7 to

15

Whitersquos knight using central squares and pawn

targets - Move 16 onwards

Play along the open d-file - Notes after 22 Nc4

and 28 Rd1

Using the d6 outpost for advantage - Note after

36 Nd6

Knight fork on e7 - Note after 16 c6

Discovered knight fork on f7 - Note after 20 Rd7

Discovered double attack (threat on e5-pawn and

threat on d-file) - Note after 22 Nc4

Kenrsquos Chess Trivia

(questionspresentations researched by columnist Ken Kurkowski

Scarborough CC Treasurer and TCN Liaison for SCC)

Rules for the TCN Trivia Quiz

In order to be fair to ALL subscribers anyone who answers correctly within 24 hours of

the release of the Issue (whenever that might be) will be considered a winner (there can

be co-winners) and each will be awarded one point The problem we are meeting with

this is the regular unavailability of some subscribers when there was a regular newsletter

release time ndash some simply could not get to the Issue immediately ndash problems were

geographical - on the east coast subscribers are in bed sleeping at the usual release time

of the Issue (usually between 10 ndash 1159 PM on the night before the publication date) ndash

and the problem of conflicting fixed schedules - regular bed-times work school etc

See below for the cumulative TCN Chess Trivia Grand Prix

48

Toronto Chess News

Last Issuersquos Chess Trivia was the Question

Q Which famous GM said ldquoYou want to play the Kings Gambit Well Black can draw

after 3 Nf3 Play 3 Bc4 if you want to win

The Answer is

David Bronstein

Pino gave this additional information ldquoHe also said that one should play the Kings

Gambit because it is fun not like many openings that modern Grandmasters play which

are very boringrdquo

TCN Bragging Rights

SCC member Pino Verde our current Grand Prix leader got the right answer So did new

player Craig Sadler They both get the very valuable TCN Bragging Rights - plus Pino

gets his 7th point in the 2013 Grand Prix keeping his lead and Craig gets his first point

(of many we presume)

The TCN Chess Trivia Grand Prix

TCN will keep track of the points of the winnersco-winners each Issue from June 113 to

and including Dec 1513 The player with the most points at the end of the year wins In

the case of a tie TCN will declare co-winners (no tie-break by bingo machine roulette

wheel coin toss names in a hat or Armageddon game)The Winner(s) will get TCN

Bragging Rights (very valuable) + Picture published + a few autobiographical chess facts

if the winner is willing ndash the winner will be announced in the Jan 114 Issue

Here are the ongoing standings

Pino Verde Scarborough CC member ndash 7 ndash June 1 June15 July 1 Sept 1 Sept 15

Oct 1 Nov 1

49

Toronto Chess News

Ken Craft New Brunswick CFC Governor ndash 5 ndash June 1 June 15 July 1 Sept 15 Oct

1

Craig Sadler ndash 1 ndash Nov 1

(picture coming)

Hugh Brodie Quebec CFC Governor ndash 1 ndash July 1

Michael von Keitz CFC Executive Director and past CFC President ndash 1 ndash June 1

50

Toronto Chess News

No Winner ndash 2 ndash July 15 Aug 15

Todayrsquos Trivia Question is

Q ldquo_____s real genius is in the preparation and construction of a position long before

combinations or mating attacks come into consideration at allrdquo

Who made this comment and to whom was he referring

You can use any resource available to answer the question Just find and submit it within

24 hours

For this particular Issue the procedure for submitting answers is a bit different since Ken

is still on holidays Please do the following

(i) send the answer in before the 24 hour deadline by e-mail to me Bob Armstrong

at canadianchessconsultingservicegmailcom

(ii) send a copy of your e-mail to Ken kkurkowskirogerscom

The WinnerrsquosCo-winners names will be posted in the next Issue along with any personal

chess autobiographical details (one or two) they might wish to provide

Thanks for playing

Chess History is fun

Also write Ken if you have any chess trivia questions or presentations yoursquod like him to

consider for his column We will give credit to the author if we use your suggestion

45

Toronto Chess News

18 Nf5

XIIIIIIIIY 9r+-+-tr-mk0 9+p+-+pzpp0 9p+p+-+-+0 9+-+-zpN+-0 9-+P+P+n+0 9+-+-+-+-0 9PzP-+-zPPzP0 9tR-+-tR-mK-0 xiiiiiiiiy Diagram 182

The knight plans to go to d6 targeting pawns on b7 and f7 tying down Blacks rooks to their defence

18 Rad8

19 Rad1 g6

This just helps the knight complete his plan Better was Kg8 to bring the king slowly back to the center

20 Nd6 Rd7

If 20 b6 21 Nxf7+

21 c5 Kg8

22 Nc4

XIIIIIIIIY 9-+-+-trk+0 9+p+r+p+p0 9p+p+-+p+0 9+-zP-zp-+-0 9-+N+P+n+0 9+-+-+-+-0 9PzP-+-zPPzP0 9+-+RtR-mK-0 xiiiiiiiiy Diagram 183

Targeting another pawn on e5 which Black is helpless to prevent because he cannot give up the d-file If 22Nf6 23 f3 Rfd8 24 Rxd7 Nxd7 and the knight on d7 gets into trouble with the pin 25 Rd1 f6 26

Nb6

22 Rfd8

23 Rxd7 Rxd7

24 f3 Nh6

25 Nxe5 Rd2

26 Nc4 Rc2

27 b3 Rxa2

28 Rd1

46

Toronto Chess News

XIIIIIIIIY 9-+-+-+k+0 9+p+-+p+p0 9p+p+-+psn0 9+-zP-+-+-0 9-+N+P+-+0 9+P+-+P+-0 9r+-+-+PzP0 9+-+R+-mK-0 xiiiiiiiiy Diagram 184

Takes over the d-file to allow the rook to target the queenside pawns Note Blackrsquos knight on h6 and the

king on g8 are out of play allowing all the queenside pawns to fall

28 a5

29 Rd8+ Kg7

30 Ra8 a4

31 Rxa4 Rxa4

32 bxa4 Ng8

33 Nd6 Kf6

34 Nxb7 Ke5

35 a5 Ne7

36 Nd6

XIIIIIIIIY 9-+-+-+-+0 9+-+-snp+p0 9-+psN-+p+0 9zP-zP-mk-+-0 9-+-+P+-+0 9+-+-+P+-0 9-+-+-+PzP0 9+-+-+-mK-0 xiiiiiiiiy Diagram 185

Whitersquos knight uses the d6 outpost square three times each for a different reason The first time to

determine Blacks defence and setup the outpost The second time to capture the b7-pawn and allow the a-

pawn to become passed This last time to accuracy prevent Blackrsquos knight from going to c8 and stopping

the passed a-pawn The pawn will queen in three moves

36 Kd4

37 a6

Black resigns

1-0

47

Toronto Chess News

Review of Game 18

Strategic Themes Tactical Themes

Plan for Black - Exchanging pieces in hopes of

keeping the balance in the position - Moves 7 to

15

Whitersquos knight using central squares and pawn

targets - Move 16 onwards

Play along the open d-file - Notes after 22 Nc4

and 28 Rd1

Using the d6 outpost for advantage - Note after

36 Nd6

Knight fork on e7 - Note after 16 c6

Discovered knight fork on f7 - Note after 20 Rd7

Discovered double attack (threat on e5-pawn and

threat on d-file) - Note after 22 Nc4

Kenrsquos Chess Trivia

(questionspresentations researched by columnist Ken Kurkowski

Scarborough CC Treasurer and TCN Liaison for SCC)

Rules for the TCN Trivia Quiz

In order to be fair to ALL subscribers anyone who answers correctly within 24 hours of

the release of the Issue (whenever that might be) will be considered a winner (there can

be co-winners) and each will be awarded one point The problem we are meeting with

this is the regular unavailability of some subscribers when there was a regular newsletter

release time ndash some simply could not get to the Issue immediately ndash problems were

geographical - on the east coast subscribers are in bed sleeping at the usual release time

of the Issue (usually between 10 ndash 1159 PM on the night before the publication date) ndash

and the problem of conflicting fixed schedules - regular bed-times work school etc

See below for the cumulative TCN Chess Trivia Grand Prix

48

Toronto Chess News

Last Issuersquos Chess Trivia was the Question

Q Which famous GM said ldquoYou want to play the Kings Gambit Well Black can draw

after 3 Nf3 Play 3 Bc4 if you want to win

The Answer is

David Bronstein

Pino gave this additional information ldquoHe also said that one should play the Kings

Gambit because it is fun not like many openings that modern Grandmasters play which

are very boringrdquo

TCN Bragging Rights

SCC member Pino Verde our current Grand Prix leader got the right answer So did new

player Craig Sadler They both get the very valuable TCN Bragging Rights - plus Pino

gets his 7th point in the 2013 Grand Prix keeping his lead and Craig gets his first point

(of many we presume)

The TCN Chess Trivia Grand Prix

TCN will keep track of the points of the winnersco-winners each Issue from June 113 to

and including Dec 1513 The player with the most points at the end of the year wins In

the case of a tie TCN will declare co-winners (no tie-break by bingo machine roulette

wheel coin toss names in a hat or Armageddon game)The Winner(s) will get TCN

Bragging Rights (very valuable) + Picture published + a few autobiographical chess facts

if the winner is willing ndash the winner will be announced in the Jan 114 Issue

Here are the ongoing standings

Pino Verde Scarborough CC member ndash 7 ndash June 1 June15 July 1 Sept 1 Sept 15

Oct 1 Nov 1

49

Toronto Chess News

Ken Craft New Brunswick CFC Governor ndash 5 ndash June 1 June 15 July 1 Sept 15 Oct

1

Craig Sadler ndash 1 ndash Nov 1

(picture coming)

Hugh Brodie Quebec CFC Governor ndash 1 ndash July 1

Michael von Keitz CFC Executive Director and past CFC President ndash 1 ndash June 1

50

Toronto Chess News

No Winner ndash 2 ndash July 15 Aug 15

Todayrsquos Trivia Question is

Q ldquo_____s real genius is in the preparation and construction of a position long before

combinations or mating attacks come into consideration at allrdquo

Who made this comment and to whom was he referring

You can use any resource available to answer the question Just find and submit it within

24 hours

For this particular Issue the procedure for submitting answers is a bit different since Ken

is still on holidays Please do the following

(i) send the answer in before the 24 hour deadline by e-mail to me Bob Armstrong

at canadianchessconsultingservicegmailcom

(ii) send a copy of your e-mail to Ken kkurkowskirogerscom

The WinnerrsquosCo-winners names will be posted in the next Issue along with any personal

chess autobiographical details (one or two) they might wish to provide

Thanks for playing

Chess History is fun

Also write Ken if you have any chess trivia questions or presentations yoursquod like him to

consider for his column We will give credit to the author if we use your suggestion

46

Toronto Chess News

XIIIIIIIIY 9-+-+-+k+0 9+p+-+p+p0 9p+p+-+psn0 9+-zP-+-+-0 9-+N+P+-+0 9+P+-+P+-0 9r+-+-+PzP0 9+-+R+-mK-0 xiiiiiiiiy Diagram 184

Takes over the d-file to allow the rook to target the queenside pawns Note Blackrsquos knight on h6 and the

king on g8 are out of play allowing all the queenside pawns to fall

28 a5

29 Rd8+ Kg7

30 Ra8 a4

31 Rxa4 Rxa4

32 bxa4 Ng8

33 Nd6 Kf6

34 Nxb7 Ke5

35 a5 Ne7

36 Nd6

XIIIIIIIIY 9-+-+-+-+0 9+-+-snp+p0 9-+psN-+p+0 9zP-zP-mk-+-0 9-+-+P+-+0 9+-+-+P+-0 9-+-+-+PzP0 9+-+-+-mK-0 xiiiiiiiiy Diagram 185

Whitersquos knight uses the d6 outpost square three times each for a different reason The first time to

determine Blacks defence and setup the outpost The second time to capture the b7-pawn and allow the a-

pawn to become passed This last time to accuracy prevent Blackrsquos knight from going to c8 and stopping

the passed a-pawn The pawn will queen in three moves

36 Kd4

37 a6

Black resigns

1-0

47

Toronto Chess News

Review of Game 18

Strategic Themes Tactical Themes

Plan for Black - Exchanging pieces in hopes of

keeping the balance in the position - Moves 7 to

15

Whitersquos knight using central squares and pawn

targets - Move 16 onwards

Play along the open d-file - Notes after 22 Nc4

and 28 Rd1

Using the d6 outpost for advantage - Note after

36 Nd6

Knight fork on e7 - Note after 16 c6

Discovered knight fork on f7 - Note after 20 Rd7

Discovered double attack (threat on e5-pawn and

threat on d-file) - Note after 22 Nc4

Kenrsquos Chess Trivia

(questionspresentations researched by columnist Ken Kurkowski

Scarborough CC Treasurer and TCN Liaison for SCC)

Rules for the TCN Trivia Quiz

In order to be fair to ALL subscribers anyone who answers correctly within 24 hours of

the release of the Issue (whenever that might be) will be considered a winner (there can

be co-winners) and each will be awarded one point The problem we are meeting with

this is the regular unavailability of some subscribers when there was a regular newsletter

release time ndash some simply could not get to the Issue immediately ndash problems were

geographical - on the east coast subscribers are in bed sleeping at the usual release time

of the Issue (usually between 10 ndash 1159 PM on the night before the publication date) ndash

and the problem of conflicting fixed schedules - regular bed-times work school etc

See below for the cumulative TCN Chess Trivia Grand Prix

48

Toronto Chess News

Last Issuersquos Chess Trivia was the Question

Q Which famous GM said ldquoYou want to play the Kings Gambit Well Black can draw

after 3 Nf3 Play 3 Bc4 if you want to win

The Answer is

David Bronstein

Pino gave this additional information ldquoHe also said that one should play the Kings

Gambit because it is fun not like many openings that modern Grandmasters play which

are very boringrdquo

TCN Bragging Rights

SCC member Pino Verde our current Grand Prix leader got the right answer So did new

player Craig Sadler They both get the very valuable TCN Bragging Rights - plus Pino

gets his 7th point in the 2013 Grand Prix keeping his lead and Craig gets his first point

(of many we presume)

The TCN Chess Trivia Grand Prix

TCN will keep track of the points of the winnersco-winners each Issue from June 113 to

and including Dec 1513 The player with the most points at the end of the year wins In

the case of a tie TCN will declare co-winners (no tie-break by bingo machine roulette

wheel coin toss names in a hat or Armageddon game)The Winner(s) will get TCN

Bragging Rights (very valuable) + Picture published + a few autobiographical chess facts

if the winner is willing ndash the winner will be announced in the Jan 114 Issue

Here are the ongoing standings

Pino Verde Scarborough CC member ndash 7 ndash June 1 June15 July 1 Sept 1 Sept 15

Oct 1 Nov 1

49

Toronto Chess News

Ken Craft New Brunswick CFC Governor ndash 5 ndash June 1 June 15 July 1 Sept 15 Oct

1

Craig Sadler ndash 1 ndash Nov 1

(picture coming)

Hugh Brodie Quebec CFC Governor ndash 1 ndash July 1

Michael von Keitz CFC Executive Director and past CFC President ndash 1 ndash June 1

50

Toronto Chess News

No Winner ndash 2 ndash July 15 Aug 15

Todayrsquos Trivia Question is

Q ldquo_____s real genius is in the preparation and construction of a position long before

combinations or mating attacks come into consideration at allrdquo

Who made this comment and to whom was he referring

You can use any resource available to answer the question Just find and submit it within

24 hours

For this particular Issue the procedure for submitting answers is a bit different since Ken

is still on holidays Please do the following

(i) send the answer in before the 24 hour deadline by e-mail to me Bob Armstrong

at canadianchessconsultingservicegmailcom

(ii) send a copy of your e-mail to Ken kkurkowskirogerscom

The WinnerrsquosCo-winners names will be posted in the next Issue along with any personal

chess autobiographical details (one or two) they might wish to provide

Thanks for playing

Chess History is fun

Also write Ken if you have any chess trivia questions or presentations yoursquod like him to

consider for his column We will give credit to the author if we use your suggestion

47

Toronto Chess News

Review of Game 18

Strategic Themes Tactical Themes

Plan for Black - Exchanging pieces in hopes of

keeping the balance in the position - Moves 7 to

15

Whitersquos knight using central squares and pawn

targets - Move 16 onwards

Play along the open d-file - Notes after 22 Nc4

and 28 Rd1

Using the d6 outpost for advantage - Note after

36 Nd6

Knight fork on e7 - Note after 16 c6

Discovered knight fork on f7 - Note after 20 Rd7

Discovered double attack (threat on e5-pawn and

threat on d-file) - Note after 22 Nc4

Kenrsquos Chess Trivia

(questionspresentations researched by columnist Ken Kurkowski

Scarborough CC Treasurer and TCN Liaison for SCC)

Rules for the TCN Trivia Quiz

In order to be fair to ALL subscribers anyone who answers correctly within 24 hours of

the release of the Issue (whenever that might be) will be considered a winner (there can

be co-winners) and each will be awarded one point The problem we are meeting with

this is the regular unavailability of some subscribers when there was a regular newsletter

release time ndash some simply could not get to the Issue immediately ndash problems were

geographical - on the east coast subscribers are in bed sleeping at the usual release time

of the Issue (usually between 10 ndash 1159 PM on the night before the publication date) ndash

and the problem of conflicting fixed schedules - regular bed-times work school etc

See below for the cumulative TCN Chess Trivia Grand Prix

48

Toronto Chess News

Last Issuersquos Chess Trivia was the Question

Q Which famous GM said ldquoYou want to play the Kings Gambit Well Black can draw

after 3 Nf3 Play 3 Bc4 if you want to win

The Answer is

David Bronstein

Pino gave this additional information ldquoHe also said that one should play the Kings

Gambit because it is fun not like many openings that modern Grandmasters play which

are very boringrdquo

TCN Bragging Rights

SCC member Pino Verde our current Grand Prix leader got the right answer So did new

player Craig Sadler They both get the very valuable TCN Bragging Rights - plus Pino

gets his 7th point in the 2013 Grand Prix keeping his lead and Craig gets his first point

(of many we presume)

The TCN Chess Trivia Grand Prix

TCN will keep track of the points of the winnersco-winners each Issue from June 113 to

and including Dec 1513 The player with the most points at the end of the year wins In

the case of a tie TCN will declare co-winners (no tie-break by bingo machine roulette

wheel coin toss names in a hat or Armageddon game)The Winner(s) will get TCN

Bragging Rights (very valuable) + Picture published + a few autobiographical chess facts

if the winner is willing ndash the winner will be announced in the Jan 114 Issue

Here are the ongoing standings

Pino Verde Scarborough CC member ndash 7 ndash June 1 June15 July 1 Sept 1 Sept 15

Oct 1 Nov 1

49

Toronto Chess News

Ken Craft New Brunswick CFC Governor ndash 5 ndash June 1 June 15 July 1 Sept 15 Oct

1

Craig Sadler ndash 1 ndash Nov 1

(picture coming)

Hugh Brodie Quebec CFC Governor ndash 1 ndash July 1

Michael von Keitz CFC Executive Director and past CFC President ndash 1 ndash June 1

50

Toronto Chess News

No Winner ndash 2 ndash July 15 Aug 15

Todayrsquos Trivia Question is

Q ldquo_____s real genius is in the preparation and construction of a position long before

combinations or mating attacks come into consideration at allrdquo

Who made this comment and to whom was he referring

You can use any resource available to answer the question Just find and submit it within

24 hours

For this particular Issue the procedure for submitting answers is a bit different since Ken

is still on holidays Please do the following

(i) send the answer in before the 24 hour deadline by e-mail to me Bob Armstrong

at canadianchessconsultingservicegmailcom

(ii) send a copy of your e-mail to Ken kkurkowskirogerscom

The WinnerrsquosCo-winners names will be posted in the next Issue along with any personal

chess autobiographical details (one or two) they might wish to provide

Thanks for playing

Chess History is fun

Also write Ken if you have any chess trivia questions or presentations yoursquod like him to

consider for his column We will give credit to the author if we use your suggestion

48

Toronto Chess News

Last Issuersquos Chess Trivia was the Question

Q Which famous GM said ldquoYou want to play the Kings Gambit Well Black can draw

after 3 Nf3 Play 3 Bc4 if you want to win

The Answer is

David Bronstein

Pino gave this additional information ldquoHe also said that one should play the Kings

Gambit because it is fun not like many openings that modern Grandmasters play which

are very boringrdquo

TCN Bragging Rights

SCC member Pino Verde our current Grand Prix leader got the right answer So did new

player Craig Sadler They both get the very valuable TCN Bragging Rights - plus Pino

gets his 7th point in the 2013 Grand Prix keeping his lead and Craig gets his first point

(of many we presume)

The TCN Chess Trivia Grand Prix

TCN will keep track of the points of the winnersco-winners each Issue from June 113 to

and including Dec 1513 The player with the most points at the end of the year wins In

the case of a tie TCN will declare co-winners (no tie-break by bingo machine roulette

wheel coin toss names in a hat or Armageddon game)The Winner(s) will get TCN

Bragging Rights (very valuable) + Picture published + a few autobiographical chess facts

if the winner is willing ndash the winner will be announced in the Jan 114 Issue

Here are the ongoing standings

Pino Verde Scarborough CC member ndash 7 ndash June 1 June15 July 1 Sept 1 Sept 15

Oct 1 Nov 1

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Ken Craft New Brunswick CFC Governor ndash 5 ndash June 1 June 15 July 1 Sept 15 Oct

1

Craig Sadler ndash 1 ndash Nov 1

(picture coming)

Hugh Brodie Quebec CFC Governor ndash 1 ndash July 1

Michael von Keitz CFC Executive Director and past CFC President ndash 1 ndash June 1

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No Winner ndash 2 ndash July 15 Aug 15

Todayrsquos Trivia Question is

Q ldquo_____s real genius is in the preparation and construction of a position long before

combinations or mating attacks come into consideration at allrdquo

Who made this comment and to whom was he referring

You can use any resource available to answer the question Just find and submit it within

24 hours

For this particular Issue the procedure for submitting answers is a bit different since Ken

is still on holidays Please do the following

(i) send the answer in before the 24 hour deadline by e-mail to me Bob Armstrong

at canadianchessconsultingservicegmailcom

(ii) send a copy of your e-mail to Ken kkurkowskirogerscom

The WinnerrsquosCo-winners names will be posted in the next Issue along with any personal

chess autobiographical details (one or two) they might wish to provide

Thanks for playing

Chess History is fun

Also write Ken if you have any chess trivia questions or presentations yoursquod like him to

consider for his column We will give credit to the author if we use your suggestion

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Toronto Chess News

Ken Craft New Brunswick CFC Governor ndash 5 ndash June 1 June 15 July 1 Sept 15 Oct

1

Craig Sadler ndash 1 ndash Nov 1

(picture coming)

Hugh Brodie Quebec CFC Governor ndash 1 ndash July 1

Michael von Keitz CFC Executive Director and past CFC President ndash 1 ndash June 1

50

Toronto Chess News

No Winner ndash 2 ndash July 15 Aug 15

Todayrsquos Trivia Question is

Q ldquo_____s real genius is in the preparation and construction of a position long before

combinations or mating attacks come into consideration at allrdquo

Who made this comment and to whom was he referring

You can use any resource available to answer the question Just find and submit it within

24 hours

For this particular Issue the procedure for submitting answers is a bit different since Ken

is still on holidays Please do the following

(i) send the answer in before the 24 hour deadline by e-mail to me Bob Armstrong

at canadianchessconsultingservicegmailcom

(ii) send a copy of your e-mail to Ken kkurkowskirogerscom

The WinnerrsquosCo-winners names will be posted in the next Issue along with any personal

chess autobiographical details (one or two) they might wish to provide

Thanks for playing

Chess History is fun

Also write Ken if you have any chess trivia questions or presentations yoursquod like him to

consider for his column We will give credit to the author if we use your suggestion

50

Toronto Chess News

No Winner ndash 2 ndash July 15 Aug 15

Todayrsquos Trivia Question is

Q ldquo_____s real genius is in the preparation and construction of a position long before

combinations or mating attacks come into consideration at allrdquo

Who made this comment and to whom was he referring

You can use any resource available to answer the question Just find and submit it within

24 hours

For this particular Issue the procedure for submitting answers is a bit different since Ken

is still on holidays Please do the following

(i) send the answer in before the 24 hour deadline by e-mail to me Bob Armstrong

at canadianchessconsultingservicegmailcom

(ii) send a copy of your e-mail to Ken kkurkowskirogerscom

The WinnerrsquosCo-winners names will be posted in the next Issue along with any personal

chess autobiographical details (one or two) they might wish to provide

Thanks for playing

Chess History is fun

Also write Ken if you have any chess trivia questions or presentations yoursquod like him to

consider for his column We will give credit to the author if we use your suggestion

51

Toronto Chess News

Malmstenrsquos Chess Pictures

Here are two photos of the Hart House CC Banner One is on the east side of Avenue

Road the other is on Wellesley east of Yonge

TCN Readersrsquo Chess ldquoSightingsrdquo

This column invites readers to submit situations where they unexpectedly have come

upon a ldquochess themerdquo (eg in advertising big outside chess sets etc)

TCN Readers Have Questions

This column invites readers to submit to TCN any type of chess question they wish (eg -

What does FIDE stand for) and TCN will try to find the answer

TCN Readersrsquo Feedback

TCN welcomes your feedback ndash we love to hear from our readers on how wersquore doing

good bad or indifferent Drop a line to the editor and give us your suggestions

compliments or constructive criticisms

52

Toronto Chess News

TCNrsquos ldquoReadersrsquo Opinionrdquo Column

Got a chess issue that has been bothering you for a while Got a favourite chess

topic that yoursquove always wanted to share with other chess players Read something in

TCN that you profoundly agreed with or maybe (surely not) disagreed with

We are very open to publishing comments from our readers Drop us a line and

wersquoll read it over and let you know if wersquod like to use it

If you would like to make just make a shorter commentarticle we can publish it

here If you want to do a longer more in-depth article we can consider it for our lead

article at the start of the newsletter In either case you will get full credit for the

contribution

Also if you would like us to cover some topic send us your idea and wersquoll see if

we can write something up on it

Tournament Notices

Campbellville Open

WHEN November 16th and 17th 2013

5 round Swiss Registration Sat 900 ndash 945am

Rounds Sat 10am 130pm 6pm Sun 11am 4pm

Time Control Round 1 60 minutes plus 30 sec increment

Rds 2-5 90 minutes plus 30 sec increment

WHERE Mohawk Inn and Conference Centre

9230 Guelph Line Campbellville ON (Just North of the 401)

SECTIONS ELITE UNDER 1900 UNDER 1400 amp UNRATED

PRIZES CASH amp TROPHIES

ENTRY FEE $55 $40 $40

THE DETAILS

1) You may play up a section if yoursquore within 100 rating points for $5

2) Elite section prize fund $40 per entry ($45 for those registered by Nov 11th)

3) CFC membership required or $20 ($10 Jr) tournament fee

4) Preregister by email by Nov 15th else add $5 for on site registration

5) Time control Rd 1 - 60 min plus 30 sec Rd 2-5 ndash 90 min plus 30 sec

Please Preregister by email

Robert Gillanders at rgillanderscogecoca or

Gordon Gooding at miltonchesshotmailcom

Please visit our website at wwwmiltonchessca for updates

PLEASE BRING YOUR SETS AND CLOCKS

53

Toronto Chess News

CYCC Qualifier Toronto

By Organizer Chris Field

Sat Nov 30 2013 ndash Toronto (Scarborough)

We are running a qualifying tournament for the

CANADIAN YOUTH CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP on Sat Nov 30 2013 at Woburn CI 2222 Ellesmere Rd just east of Markham Rd

The attached file (2 pages) has all the details To enter by email you do not need to complete

the form - just type your info in your email

httpwwwchesstalkinfoforumimagxclamationpng

if the attachment is not available please email chrisfieldbellnet and I shall send it to you

This tournament is open to all students who will be under 18 years old on Jan 1 2014 There are separate sections for those Under 8 Under 10 Under 12 Under 14 Under 16 and Under

18

NEW THIS YEAR We have reduced the tournament to 5 rounds As long as we can get at least

12 players in each age group well run 6 separate tournaments Entries will be posted by Nov 17 on the OHSCC Website wwwohscconca

Well update by Nov 24 showing the final set-up

Parents and teachers are welcome but itrsquos also ok for students to attend on their own with their

parentsrsquo permission

We will have several adults and a lot of senior students supervising the event

Students need to bring a packed lunch Wersquoll also have pizza and juice water on sale ($5 for 2

slices amp1 drink $3 single slice amp 1 drink) All chess equipment (sets boards and clocks) will be provided by the Ontario Chess Association

Scoresheets and pencils for recording moves will also be provided

From this event one in every 6 students will qualify to attend the

Ontario Youth Chess Championship We will pay the entry fee for the winner of each section (approximately $75)

For all age groups with at least 4 girls we shall ensure that the top girl qualifies

Chris Field

chrisfieldbellnet

52

Toronto Chess News

TCNrsquos ldquoReadersrsquo Opinionrdquo Column

Got a chess issue that has been bothering you for a while Got a favourite chess

topic that yoursquove always wanted to share with other chess players Read something in

TCN that you profoundly agreed with or maybe (surely not) disagreed with

We are very open to publishing comments from our readers Drop us a line and

wersquoll read it over and let you know if wersquod like to use it

If you would like to make just make a shorter commentarticle we can publish it

here If you want to do a longer more in-depth article we can consider it for our lead

article at the start of the newsletter In either case you will get full credit for the

contribution

Also if you would like us to cover some topic send us your idea and wersquoll see if

we can write something up on it

Tournament Notices

Campbellville Open

WHEN November 16th and 17th 2013

5 round Swiss Registration Sat 900 ndash 945am

Rounds Sat 10am 130pm 6pm Sun 11am 4pm

Time Control Round 1 60 minutes plus 30 sec increment

Rds 2-5 90 minutes plus 30 sec increment

WHERE Mohawk Inn and Conference Centre

9230 Guelph Line Campbellville ON (Just North of the 401)

SECTIONS ELITE UNDER 1900 UNDER 1400 amp UNRATED

PRIZES CASH amp TROPHIES

ENTRY FEE $55 $40 $40

THE DETAILS

1) You may play up a section if yoursquore within 100 rating points for $5

2) Elite section prize fund $40 per entry ($45 for those registered by Nov 11th)

3) CFC membership required or $20 ($10 Jr) tournament fee

4) Preregister by email by Nov 15th else add $5 for on site registration

5) Time control Rd 1 - 60 min plus 30 sec Rd 2-5 ndash 90 min plus 30 sec

Please Preregister by email

Robert Gillanders at rgillanderscogecoca or

Gordon Gooding at miltonchesshotmailcom

Please visit our website at wwwmiltonchessca for updates

PLEASE BRING YOUR SETS AND CLOCKS

53

Toronto Chess News

CYCC Qualifier Toronto

By Organizer Chris Field

Sat Nov 30 2013 ndash Toronto (Scarborough)

We are running a qualifying tournament for the

CANADIAN YOUTH CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP on Sat Nov 30 2013 at Woburn CI 2222 Ellesmere Rd just east of Markham Rd

The attached file (2 pages) has all the details To enter by email you do not need to complete

the form - just type your info in your email

httpwwwchesstalkinfoforumimagxclamationpng

if the attachment is not available please email chrisfieldbellnet and I shall send it to you

This tournament is open to all students who will be under 18 years old on Jan 1 2014 There are separate sections for those Under 8 Under 10 Under 12 Under 14 Under 16 and Under

18

NEW THIS YEAR We have reduced the tournament to 5 rounds As long as we can get at least

12 players in each age group well run 6 separate tournaments Entries will be posted by Nov 17 on the OHSCC Website wwwohscconca

Well update by Nov 24 showing the final set-up

Parents and teachers are welcome but itrsquos also ok for students to attend on their own with their

parentsrsquo permission

We will have several adults and a lot of senior students supervising the event

Students need to bring a packed lunch Wersquoll also have pizza and juice water on sale ($5 for 2

slices amp1 drink $3 single slice amp 1 drink) All chess equipment (sets boards and clocks) will be provided by the Ontario Chess Association

Scoresheets and pencils for recording moves will also be provided

From this event one in every 6 students will qualify to attend the

Ontario Youth Chess Championship We will pay the entry fee for the winner of each section (approximately $75)

For all age groups with at least 4 girls we shall ensure that the top girl qualifies

Chris Field

chrisfieldbellnet

53

Toronto Chess News

CYCC Qualifier Toronto

By Organizer Chris Field

Sat Nov 30 2013 ndash Toronto (Scarborough)

We are running a qualifying tournament for the

CANADIAN YOUTH CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP on Sat Nov 30 2013 at Woburn CI 2222 Ellesmere Rd just east of Markham Rd

The attached file (2 pages) has all the details To enter by email you do not need to complete

the form - just type your info in your email

httpwwwchesstalkinfoforumimagxclamationpng

if the attachment is not available please email chrisfieldbellnet and I shall send it to you

This tournament is open to all students who will be under 18 years old on Jan 1 2014 There are separate sections for those Under 8 Under 10 Under 12 Under 14 Under 16 and Under

18

NEW THIS YEAR We have reduced the tournament to 5 rounds As long as we can get at least

12 players in each age group well run 6 separate tournaments Entries will be posted by Nov 17 on the OHSCC Website wwwohscconca

Well update by Nov 24 showing the final set-up

Parents and teachers are welcome but itrsquos also ok for students to attend on their own with their

parentsrsquo permission

We will have several adults and a lot of senior students supervising the event

Students need to bring a packed lunch Wersquoll also have pizza and juice water on sale ($5 for 2

slices amp1 drink $3 single slice amp 1 drink) All chess equipment (sets boards and clocks) will be provided by the Ontario Chess Association

Scoresheets and pencils for recording moves will also be provided

From this event one in every 6 students will qualify to attend the

Ontario Youth Chess Championship We will pay the entry fee for the winner of each section (approximately $75)

For all age groups with at least 4 girls we shall ensure that the top girl qualifies

Chris Field

chrisfieldbellnet

54

Toronto Chess News

Hart House Holidays Open 2013

When Rounds on Friday December 20th at 600pm Saturday December 21st 1000am amp 400pm Sunday

December 22nd 1000am amp 400pm

Where The Great Hall Main Floor Hart House University of Toronto 7 Hart House Circle

Prize fund $5000 based on 120 entries

Style Five rounds in 4 sections ndash Open and Under 2200 sections 120 minutes total per player plus 30

second increment from the start Under 1900 amp Under 1600 Sections 90 minutes for the first 30 moves

then 60 minutes sudden death

Byes Maximum 2 half-point byes in rounds 1-4 if requested in advance

Registration

Email registration by December 18th 2013 to hhchessutorontoca

In advance by cheque or email by December 18th 2013 make cheque payable to Hart House

Chess Club no postdated cheques please

In advance by mail (arrival by December 18th 2013) to Hart House Chess Club 7 Hart House

Circle Toronto ON M5S 3H3

Registrants after December 18th 2013 are not guaranteed to be paired in Round 1

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Toronto Chess News

Email registrants must arrive onsite by 530pm on December 20th 2013 or will be charged onsite

fee

Entry Fee $70 in advance $90 cash only on site Extra $20 to play up in each section (playing up is

allowed only for players within 100 rating points of the section minimum) No cheques on site

Discounts $20 less for juniors seniors (60+) women and University of Toronto students Only one

discount per player Free entry for IMs if registered by December 13th

Special Discount Free entry for first-time tournament players Chess Federation of Canada (CFC)

membership purchase still required for $48 and entrants will not be eligible for prize money

Other Info

Registrants must be current CFC members or bring payment prior to playing ndash

httpchesscamembership-rates

Accessibility information httpharthousecaaccessibility

Arbiter Bryan Lamb

Organizer Adrienne Todd and Hart House Chess Club Email

hhchess(at)utoronto(dot)ca

Please bring sets and clocks

Check out all the info how to register fees pre-registered list at our website

httpvurcaharthousechessportfolen-tournament

The GREATER TORONTO CHESS LEAGUE 2014 ndash Advance Notice

Dear chess friends

Im happy to inform you that GTCL Board unanimously approved 2014 GTCL Team

Tournament bid from Willowdale Chess Club

Please find the bid and GTCL Team Tournament Rules attached

I would like to invite all of you to join the competition with your Team

We expect to see teams from the last season

Chess Academy Hart House Chess Club Knights of Chess Willowdale Chess Club

Annex Chess Club Aurora Chess Club GGY

and would like to welcome new Teams such as

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Toronto Chess News

Scarborough Chess Club Mississauga Chess Club Brampton Chess Club Oriole Chess

Club Chessn Math Association and different chess schools

In addition if we have sufficient interest for low rated Teams we could organize a

separate section for Under 2000 players

Please register your Team by sending email to our Tournament Organizer Evgeny

Tobolovsky at ltevgenytobgmailcomgt and to me at ltbarron045yahoocomgt

Thanks and Regards

Michael Barron President GTCL

WILLOWDALE CHESS CLUB presents this GTCL event

Starting on January 14

This will be round-robin team tournament Each team shall consist of 4 players with unlimited number of reserve players The deadline for team entries will be December 31 2013 by email to Tournament Coordinator Evgeny Tobolovsky ltetobolovskybellnetgt An additional section Under 2000 will be formed if 6 or more teams with average rating under 2000 enter the competition The event will be CFC rated and the rating fees will be paid by the GTCL CFC membership is required Schedule

All games will be played on consecutive Tuesdays at 630 pm at the Willowdale Chess Club (Earl Bales Community Centre at the Earl Bales Park near Bathurst and Sheppard intersection)

Time control 60 minutes for the game with 30 seconds per move increment Any games not yet completed by 1000 pm will be adjudicated by the appeal committee Entry fee FREE PRIZES Trophy for all players of the winning team Chess sets and boards are provided by the Willowdale Chess Club Please bring your chess clock (2 per team)

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Toronto Chess News

Community Bulletin Board

Queens amp Kings Juniors Chess School - group classes and private coaching - contact

Mike McArthur - leahcim8rogerscom

Seneca Hill Chess Club - Small group lessons and weekly tournaments - North York and

MarkhamRichmond Hill -httpsenecahillchesscom

[if you would like to add your chess school club or private coaching to our free bulletin

board just contact us]

________________________________________________________________________

NOTES A - Contact Bob Armstrong editor at Canadian Chess Consulting Service

(canadianchessconsultingservicegmailcom) to

1 Be added to the free e-mail list

2 Submit content (fact opinion criticism recommendations)

B ndash The opinions expressed here are those of the editor and not necessarily those of Canadian Chess

Consulting Service

C - To review this newsletter after it has been deleted or some of the archived newsletters visit our own

TCN official website at wwwTorontoChessNewscom D ndash Please notify us if you wish to be removed from the free subscription list

Editor Bob Armstrong

Publisher Canadian Chess Consulting Service

Canadian

Chess Coordinator Bob Armstrong

Consulting

Service

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Toronto Chess News

CanadianChessConsultingServicegmailcom

Bobrsquos LinkedIn httpwwwlinkedincomprofileedittrk=hb_tab_pro_top

CCCS Facebook httpwwwfacebookcompagesCanadian-Chess-Consulting-Service164065437044857

Volunteers TCN is a chess community-based volunteer-run e-newsletter No one is

paid TCN is both non-profit and non-revenue TCN wants to thank all its volunteers who

donate their time to chess promotion Ken Kurkowski full-time columnist (and also

Scarborough CC TCN Liaison) Hans Jung full-time columnist Erik Malmsten part-

time columnist Marcus Wilker Annex CC TCN Liaison Mike Ivanov Willowdale CC

TCN Liaison Graeme Knight Aurora CC TCN Liaison David Ho Ajax CC TCN

Liaison Kai Gauer Kitchener-Waterloo CC TCN Liaison Egis Zeromskis GTCL TCN

Liaison Cindy Conroy Chess Institute of Canada TCN Liaison Michel Vasquez

Hamilton City Chess Club TCN Liaison former TCN Liaisons Bob Gillanders Jessica

Yared various freelancers who have provided articles free Phil Haley Maurice Smith

Harmony Zhu Yuanling Yuan Zoltan Sarosy Erwin Casareno Andre Zybura Hedi

Stroempl Vlad Drkulec and others Steve Karpik technical support another helpful

technical maintainer who asks to remain anonymous and your editor Bob Armstrong

(also Chess Federation of Canada TCN Liaison) Thanks to all for helping to promote

chess and contributing to making TCN such a successful e-newsletter