CPSCC 2010

The CUCC (aka CPSCC) is approaching once again. Last year (2009), if I remember correctly Waterloo came tied in 2nd in the A division. We sent 2 teams of 4 people. Only eight people because it was in Kingston, in -20 degree celcius weather. Anyways, enough nostalgia...let's talk about 2010!

The information for the tourney can be found here below. If you are interested in playing, Alfonso will be forming teams during the month of November (in hopes of meeting the early bird deadline). Please e-mail your information to him...-Full name, Rating (State system if not CFC, eg. FIDE), School year (eg. 2B)

Preliminary teams will be built in about 2 weeks, and any conflicts will be resolved before final exams hopefully.

Canadian Post-Secondary Chess Championships 2010

LOCATION: Hart House. University of Toronto. Toronto, Ontario.

DATES: Jan. 15-17, 2010

FORMAT: 5 round team swiss. CFC rated. (CFC Membership Required)

ROUNDS: Friday 6:30pm, Saturday 10am & 3pm, Sunday 10am & 3pm

SECTIONS: 2 sections, Over 1750 and Under 1750 (average of top 4 players on team)

TIME CONTROL: 90 minutes + 30sec increment from start

Check-In: Friday 5:30-6pm. Closing ceremonies upon conclusion of last round.

Captains meeting: Saturday 2pm

ELIGIBILITY: Part/full time students registered for Fall or Winter 2009, faculty, staff.

REGISTRATION: Send Cheque to:

Hart House Chess Club - 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3H3

Make Cheque payable to: Hart House Chess Club

**No postdated cheques**

COSTS: $120 per team

Free for schools outside of Ontario

Note: $20 discount if registration is received by December 15, 2009.

HOTEL INFORMATION: We have secured accommodation with Holiday Inn

BLOOR YORKVILLE

280 BLOOR ST. WEST

TORONTO, ON M5S 1V8 CANADA

Hotel Front Desk: 1-416-9680010 | Hotel Fax: 1-416-9687765

http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/hi/1/en/hotel/yyzbs/transportation?start=1

Rate: $139.99 + 13% Tax for Quad Rooms (Breakfast included)

$129.99 + 13% Tax for Doubles (Breakfast included)

Book before December 15, 2009 to receive discounted rate. Inquire under the header: “Canadian Post-Secondary Chess Championships”

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Organizer, Main Contact: Alexander Safir: alexsafir88@gmail.com

Tournament Director: Bryan Lamb

Website: http://hhchess.sa.utoronto.ca/cpscc

MAP:

http://maps.google.com/maps?client=safari&rls=en&q=7%20hart%20house%20circle%20toronto&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wl

***We plan to provide catered meals on site, Saturday and Sunday lunch, included in the registration costs.***

***All equipment is provided***

Chess tournament

Hello,

Midterms have come and gone for most people, so hopefully everyone will be less busy. If you haven't played your tournament games yet, please do so ASAP and report the scores to me. I have update the bracket with the most recent games I have recorded.

Please take a look and make sure I haven't made any mistakes.

Thanks,
Alfonso Cheng

Interesting Chess Game

So one of my friends posted on facebook about this flashy checkmate and I found it worth watching.

http://www.chessvibes.com/reports/unive-friedels-flashing-finale/

It comes in a video form with discussion from the GM who played it or just the game played out without any analysis. It is quite advanced but move 16. Ra7 is just genius and something to learn from.

The next club meeting will be on Wednesday 2:30-4 =)

Cheers,
Alfonso

Fall 2009 Tournament Details

Signups for the Tournament are now closed. The Tournament will be double elimination, meaning everyone will be guaranteed a minimum of 2 matches. Once you lose two matches you are out, unless you make it to the finals. If you are in the finals, then losing the match means you're second, and winning will mean you win!
Here's the Draw. The #s refer to the order you signed up.



"Round 1" Pairings
Justin vs Lawson
David vs Rahat
Derrick vs Karthik
Andreas vs Charles
Eric vs Jamie
Jeff has a bye
Truc vs Alex
Rajasekhar vs Evan
Philip vs Yoon Ki
James has a bye
Julian has a bye

Please have your games finished by Saturday midnight. Play your opponent twice. Once as black, once as white, each game is max 20 minutes (1o minute per player). If there is a tie, play blitz (max 10 min/5min per player) until a winner is decided.

Report Scores to me. Good luck to all players, and please bring me your $2 ASAP, you will not be able to advance to Round 2, unless you pay me.

Cheers,
Alfonso

Chess Tournament Signups Closing Soon

This is a reminder that the tournament signups will be closing at the end of the week. We have quite a few contenders already and there will be CASH prizes! We talked with Dave and he said that we are allowed to award cash prizes.

So, if you haven't already, sign up! Even if you don't win, you can play for fun and get some tournament experience. I have created a google document with people who have already signed up. Please check out the link located under the poll!

Tournament Sign Ups

Hope to see everyone tomorrow at 2:30!

Alfonso

Chess Club Times

So, it was a horrible idea to procrastinate that lab report...definitely took longer than expected. Hopefully I won't repeat the same mistake this week!!

There has been lots of input from avid chess players and a lot are saying that Monday+Wednesdays are not a good time. It's understandable that class is more important than chess, so we are going to try and accommodate more players by changing the times up. We can't appease all the chess players on campus this term, but hopefully we can fit the majority of schedules. On the right, there is a poll; please pick from the options, 1 or 2 times when you would like chess club to be held. This will hopefully give us a better sense of what time is better for everyone.

Unfortunately, we have only booked the SLC 2134 for Mondays and Wednesdays 2:30-4pm. However we can see if we can book a different SLC room for the other time slots. If this is not possible, then the club will have to be held elsewhere or just in the cafeteria/lounge area of SLC. So go ahead and vote!

Cheers,
Alfonso

New Blog

So, despite being extremely busy in my 2b term as an engineer undergrad at UW, I have decided to procrastinate my lab report further and start a chess club blog.
I figured it would be a good place to document any of the things that are happening and also post some links of chess interest or to just provide me with another source of distraction.

Thanks to all members new and old who have showed up so far this term. It has been a hectic fall and there has been much debate over good meeting times. Of course it will be difficult to find a good time for everyone but we're trying to work something out.

This term Maylin and I are both at school and we have agreed to run the club together. Not much going on right now but I'd like to turn everyone's heads towards:

http://www.kwchessclub.com/schedule.html
Once again, KW chess club is hosting the oktoberfest chess tournament in kitchener. If anyone is interested, then feel free to sign up!

As for our own tournament, there is one coming up and I am working the details out on that. One reason I started this blog is so that I can hopefully post the pairings and results up somewhere for everyone to see.

I guess it's about time I get back to work. Hope to see more chess players come out this term.

Thanks,
Alfonso