Monthly Archives: February 2013

Toronto Chess News: Issue 1-11, Feb 1-2013

Toronto Chess News Torontochessnews
The latest Edition is now out(74 pages). To obtain the pdf/Chess files see Issue # 1-11, February 1, 2013 

TCN Editor Bob Armstrong


Articles

Engagement: A Pre-requisite for Chess Reform 
FIDE January 1, 2013 Regular Rating List ( Open/Women )
FIDE Jan. 1, 2013 Regular Rating List – Canadian Rankings ( Open/Women )
Teaching Classic Games of Chess: 
The Power of the Pin 
Ken’s Chess Trivia
TCN Readers Have Questions
TCN Readers’ Feedback
TCN’s “Readers’ Opinion” Column

Tournaments
Tata Steel GM A 
Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival
Candidates’ Double Round-Robin Tournament – Upcoming
GTCL Premier League

Organizations with News Reports
Chess Federation of Canada ( CFC ) 
Greater Toronto Chess League ( GTCL )
Chess Institute of Canada ( CIC )
Scarborough Chess Club ( SCC )
Annex Chess Club ( ACC )
Willowdale Chess Club ( WCC )
Burlington Chess Club
Mississauga Chess Club
Aurora Chess Club
Hamilton City Chess Club
Kitchener-Waterloo Chess Club

Tournament Notices
Guelph Winter Pro-Am 
East Toronto Family Day YCC
Hart House Winter Open


BCCF Bulletin Chess.bc.ca BCCF bulletin
Is also useful for keeping up with Canadian Chess(pdf and chessbase format)

Jeff Tomy(ENG) New Young Talent

Jeff Tomy nominated for British Malayali Young Talent award – Watfordobserver

Watford chess prodigy Jeff Tomy has been nominated for the prestigious British Malayali Young Talent Award. The six-year-old Laurance Haines pupil will be part of the England Team for the World School Chess Championship in Greece in May.

Jeff represented England last year in the World School Chess Championship in Romania at the age of five.
Jeff Tomy
He is competing against other talents in the award who have excelled in activities such as mountaineering and karate. Jeff learned chess at the age of three and is now one of the leading young players of England.
Phil Ehr, director of the Junior Chess English Chess Federation, said: “Jeff Tomy is one of England’s most promising young chess players. His technical skills and tournament endurance are improving rapidly. Jeff’s opponents, young and old, know that when paired to play Jeff they are in for a challenge.”
Jeff is now undergoing intensive coaching from Narayanan Jyothilal, the wellknown chess trainer from the South Indian state of Kerala. Jyothilal uses modern software, DVDs and classic chess books to help the young champion.

Tata Steel 2013 Group B Rd11-GM Rapport(HUN)

Here is Rapport’s rd11 with Naiditsch who won a fantastic minor piece ending BN-BN with opposite color bishops. 

The game started off with a harmless looking Winawer with 4.ed ed. Then the maneuvering action started with Rapport having his share of the chances.

Rapport,R(l) playing Naiditsch,A(r)

Naiditsch,A (2708) – Rapport,R (2621)
French Winawer 4.ed ed[C15]
75th Tata Steel GpB Wijk aan Zee NED (11.4), 25.01.2013

Position 1
The kingside is closed off. What is the plan for white now?

White to Play

40…Be8


Position 2
White is pushing hard on the queenside. What is the next step?

White to Play

56…Be8


Tata Steel 2013 Group B Rd10-Rapport(HUN)

Here Rapport’s rd10 game. The main feature is the R-R P+ conversion with all the play on the kingside.

Ipatov(l)-Rapport(r)

Rapport,R (2621) – Ipatov,Alexander (2587)
QGD Exchange Variation[D35]
75th Tata Steel GpB Wijk aan Zee NED (10.3), 23.01.2013

Position 1
Black is causing problems with the active rook and it is not so clear how white can or should make progress. What do you suggest for white?

White to Play

56…Ke6


Gibraltar Tradewise 2013 Rd10 Standings by Country

From Gibraltarchesscongress 2013

Canada
Piasetski and Fairbairn drew their last games making Piasetski the top Canadian with 5/10.
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SNo Name Rtg FED 6 7 8 9 10 Pts.
93 IM Piasetski Leon 2310 CAN ½ ½ 1 0 ½ 5
185 Fairbairn Stephen 2021 CAN 0 ½ 0 1 ½ 4.5
209 Agbabishvili Lali 1954 CAN 1 1 ½ 0 0 3.5

Fairbairn had a strong tournament with a Rating Performance of 2193 while playing 7 players 2200+ including a GM and 2 IMs. Here is a breakdown by round of his results. Well done!

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Rd Title Name FIDE FED Pts Result Rating+/-
1 IM Docx Stefan 2426 BEL 6.5 s 0 -1.65
2 GM Cramling Pia 2518 SWE 6.5 w 0 -1.65
3 Sevillano Leal Julio 1807 ESP 3 s 1 3.45
4 Marttala Thomas 2217 SWE 4.5 w 1 11.25
5 Olhovik Andrei 2246 BLR 5 s ½ 4.2
6 FM Vyparina Matej 2305 SVK 5 w 0 -2.4
7 CM Osuna Vega Enrique 2157 ESP 5 s ½ 2.7
8 Bird Andrew 2223 AUS 5 w 0 -3.6
9 Jaunooby Ali R 2178 ENG 4 s 1 10.65
10 IM Sanchez Castillo Sarai 2212 VEN 4.5 s ½ 3.75

Hungary
GM Hoang made her first and only draw in the last round to finish with 6.5/10.
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SNo Name Rtg FED 6 7 8 9 10 Pts.
52 GM Hoang Thanh Trang 2469 HUN 1 0 1 1 ½ 6.5
91 WGM Rudolf Anna 2312 HUN ½ ½ ½ 1 1 5.5
214 Lochte Szilvia 1923 HUN 1 0 0 ½ 0 3

USA
Kamsky won his last game to finish with 7.5/10.
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SNo Name Rtg FED 6 7 8 9 10 Pts.
2 GM Kamsky Gata 2740 USA 1 1 ½ 0 1 7.5
22 GM Ehlvest Jaan 2603 USA ½ 1 1 0 0 6
46 IM Zatonskih Anna 2491 USA 0 ½ 0 1 0 5.5
189 Hutton Jack 2017 USA 0 1 1 1 0 4.5
226 Kang Leo J 1814 USA 1 1 0 ½ 0 3.5

England
GM Short finished with 8/10 while Adams was right behind with 7.5/10. FM Lyell lost his last game to finish at 5/10.

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SNo Name Rtg FED 6 7 8 9 10 Pts.
10 GM Short Nigel D 2690 ENG 1 1 1 ½ ½ 8
3 GM Adams Michael 2725 ENG 1 ½ ½ 1 ½ 7.5
17 GM Jones Gawain C B 2632 ENG ½ ½ 0 1 ½ 7
34 GM Gordon Stephen J 2533 ENG ½ ½ 1 1 0 6.5
63 IM Houska Jovanka 2416 ENG ½ 1 0 1 1 6.5
57 IM Zhou Yang-Fan 2439 ENG ½ 0 ½ 1 0 5.5
60 IM Trent Lawrence 2429 ENG 1 0 1 0 ½ 5.5
113 FM Storey Charles H 2245 ENG 1 1 0 0 1 5.5
121 Spence David J 2226 ENG ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ 5.5
73 IM Quillan Gary 2398 ENG ½ ½ 1 0 ½ 5
118 FM Lyell Mark 2235 ENG 1 1 1 1 0 5
130 O`toole George E 2204 ENG 1 1 1 ½ ½ 5
165 Mckenna Jason P 2110 ENG 1 0 1 ½ 1 5

Gibraltar Tradewise 2013 Rd 10

Overall Gibraltarchesscongress
Vitiugov Nikita was the overall winner after 4 players finised with 8/10.

From tournament website

GM Nikita Vitiugov


‘Congratulations to Nikita Vitiugov, winner of the Tradewise Masters after a thrilling play-off final against Nigel Short. He collects the first prize of £20,000 (€23,320). Congratulations also to Chinese GM Zhao Xue has won the top female prize of £12,000. She drew her game after nearly five hours of play against Vassily Ivanchuk and achieved a score of 7½/10.  For the top Masters prize of £20,000 there was a four-way play-off involving Nikita Vitiugov, Nigel Short, Maxine Vachier-Lagrave and Chanda Sandipan.’

Bio
Vitiugov is 2006 World Junior Chess Vice-Champion[1] and participant of the Russian Chess Championship (2006[2] and 2007[3]). He was a member of the gold-medal-winning Russian team at the World Team Chess Championship 2009 in Bursa.[4] In 2011, he tied for 1st-3rd with Evgeny Tomashevsky and Le Quang Liem in the Aeroflot Open.’-Wikipedia Nikita_Vitiugov

Vitiugov is also an accomplished author and wrote The French Defence Reloaded(Chess Stars 2012).

A completely updated edition which presents a Black repertoire based on the French. 

Here are Vitiugov’s own words: “I received, quite unexpectedly, many comments and opinions following the publication of my first book on the French Defence. These were quite varied, both in form and content.

There were renowned experts, who pointed out that some of the variations were not analyzed to perfection. Some meticulous readers looked for, and found (!), possibilities for both sides, which I had omitted in several important, and even not so important, lines. 

There were people who criticized my rather ambitious concept, according to which I tried to present the opening the way I saw it, instead of just following the branches of the database. However, there were also some appreciative comments.(more) NIC The_French_Defence_Reloaded


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Rk. Name FED Rtg Pts.
1 GM Vitiugov Nikita RUS 2694 8
2 GM Vachier-Lagrave Maxime FRA 2711 8
3 GM Sandipan Chanda IND 2590 8
4 GM Short Nigel D ENG 2690 8
5 GM Georgiev Kiril BUL 2643 7.5
6 GM Adams Michael ENG 2725 7.5
7 GM Navara David CZE 2710 7.5
8 GM Kamsky Gata USA 2740 7.5
9 GM Ivanchuk Vassily UKR 2758 7.5
GM Yu Yangyi CHN 2688 7.5
11 GM Salgado Lopez Ivan ESP 2606 7.5
12 GM Fridman Daniel GER 2667 7.5
13 GM Zhao Xue CHN 2554 7.5
14 GM Le Quang Liem VIE 2705 7
15 GM Jones Gawain C B ENG 2632 7
16 GM Felgaer Ruben ARG 2557 7
17 GM Wojtaszek Radoslaw POL 2723 7
18 GM Shirov Alexei LAT 2708 7
19 GM Stefanova Antoaneta BUL 2516 7
20 IM Gunina Valentina RUS 2490 7
21 GM Muzychuk Anna SLO 2582 7
22 GM Sutovsky Emil ISR 2684 7
23 GM Gallagher Joseph G. SUI 2499 7
24 GM Bartel Mateusz POL 2629 7
25 IM Kuipers Stefan NED 2431 7