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 | Condo for sale in Lloydminster, AB |
 My fiancee and I are selling our condo. If you, or anyone you know, is interested in a 2-bedroom main floor condo in Lloydminster, please check out our website.
If, by chance, you are asking yourself, "Isn't this a chess site? Why am I seeing real estate advertisements on scc.saskchess.com?", then you clearly haven't seen the big picture. Lloydminster is home to the Battle at the Border - one of the biggest and most successful annual chess tournaments in Western Canada. By purchasing this condo and allowing chess players to stay there, you would be contributing both to the Battle and the Lloydminster chess scene as a whole.
Or, if your motives are less philanthropic, you could purchase this condo and turn it into a chess haven, complete with several DGT boards, clocks, and cameras to broadcast the condo happenings over the internet. This could also be the first step to making a chess reality tv show where several players are forced to co-exist in a condo for many weeks. Think of the revenue this would generate!
Whatever your reasons are, please pass this information on to anyone who might be interested in our place. Thanks.
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Posted by Jamin on Tuesday, August 05, 2008
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| Monday Night Chess |
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Despite the fact that it's a holiday, there will be chess tonight at 7pm in Lower Place Riel like usual. I know I will be there, but I cannot vouche for anyone else. See you there.
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Posted by Dissident on Monday, August 04, 2008
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| Good Morning Edmonton! |
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I am spending a few days in Edmonton prior to the sectional event held in conjunction with the Edmonton International, and have already attended a truly wonderful lecture by GM Jesse Kraai from New Mexico and played in the Bluvstein simul, in which I clung on bitterly until checkmate. Vlad Rekhson has already served as guardian angel by transporting me close to my cousin's house rather than leaving me to the devices of late night transit service.
Of course it rained all day yesterday.
If time permits, I will be posting updates, but I have a lot of preparation to do, like relearning how the horsie moves.
UPDATE: I won my game against Zeggelaar, and Keith drew Yearwood (again), but of course was sure he missed a win. There have been quite a few upsets in the International section, but that will have to wait. Gotta get up early for round 2.
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Posted by rogerb on Thursday, July 31, 2008
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| UPEI Open |
TerryC writes "While on vacation in PEI, I decided to play a few rounds in the UPEI Open. I knew that IM Tom O'Donnell was playing and with only a dozen or so players registered I figured my chance to play him was good. There was a good mix of masters, experts and A players plus a few young kids.
Round 1 was Friday night and my oppenent was none other then IM Tom O'Donnell. Here is the game (note this is from my scoresheet which has been known to contain mistakes but I think I corrected the obvious ones)
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 (I have been playing the petroff against all my higher rated opponets mainly because it anoys many players and I know it as good as any other openings - but my results have been horrible 0-7) 3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.Nc3 Nxc3 6.dxc3 Be7 7.Bf4 Be6 (my opening knowledge in this line is now over as my last move shows) 8.Nd4 O-O 9.Bd3 g6 10.Nxe6 fxe6 11.Bh6 Rf6 12.Qg4 Nd7 13.f4 Nc5 14.O-O-O NxBd3 15.Rxd3 Qd7 16.Re1 Bf8 17.Bg5 Rf5 18.Qh3 Re8 19.g4 Rf7 20.R3e3 Bg7 21.Bh6 R8e7 22.Qh4 BxB 23.QxB Rf6 (for the next few moves I was thinking of Qa4 but I was to scared for the safty of my king to take my queen away from the kingside) 24.h4 Ref7 25.h5 gxh5 26.Qxh5 Rxf4 27.Qg5+ Kh8 28. Rxe6 Rf1 29. Re2 Rxe1 30.Rxe1 Rg7 31.Qf6 Qf7 32.Qd4 b6 33.b3 Kg8 34.Kb2 Qd7 35.Qd5+ Kh8 36.g5 Qf7 37.Qd2 Qg6 38.Rf1 Rf7 39.Qd4+ Kg8 40.Re1 Rg7 (first time control of two hours made with 3 min remaining - next time control SD/1hr) 41.Qd5 Kh8 42.Qa8 Rg8 43.Qxa7 (for a long time I was planning on playing a5 but I always had something more pressing to do on the kingside) 43...Qf7 44.Rg1 h6 45.Rh1 h5 46.g6 Rxg6 47. Rxh5+ Kg7 48.Qa8 Rh6 49.Qg2+ Kh7 50.Qe4+ Kg7 51.Qg4+ Kh7 52.Qf5+ QxQ 53.RxQ Kg6 54.Rf2 Rh5 55.a4 Rf5 (with a sudden death time control I made a quick decision tat the only way to save the ending was to get my king over to the queenside even though it gave him a chance to exchange rooks. In the two minute review I had with Tom after the game I think he agreed with me) 56.RxR KxR 57.b5 Ke5 58.c4 Ke6 59.c3 Kd7 60.Ke2 Kc6 61.Kd3 d5 62.Kd4 dxc4 63.Kxc4 Kb7 64.Kd5 Kc1 65.Kc6 Kb8 66.c4 Kc8 67.a5 bxa5 68.bxa5 Kb8 69.a6 Ka7 70.Kxc7 Kxa6 71.c5 resigns.
I think I played reasonably well but what do you guys think? The game didn't finish til after 12:30 and I didn't have a chance to go over it with Tom unfortunately.
Round two I was paired against one of the young kids and took him way too lightly. I knew he was rated 1615 and beat a master in round one but the master said he hung a piece. I played foolishly in the opening and was down two pawns for nothing before I settled down and couldn't recover. I found out later that he had only just completed grade 4!!! but he has won the Canadian scholastic championhip every year. I guess I should say "I am not smarter than a Fifth Grader"
Round 3 was a planned bye as I had some partying to do.
Round 4. I only has 0.5 points and was expecting a very low rated opponent but was paired against a 1785 player. I played well and was up two pawns and winning in a closed position when he flagged at move 31. He said he thought the time control was 30 moves.
Round 5. I could see that I would be playing someone lower rated and it was a beautiful sunny day. I decided that I would rather spend the afternoon on the beach and I know that's what my wife wanted, so I withdrew.
overall 1/3 with 2 good games and one bad/humiliating game. I will post more info on my blog (http://terry-chaisson.blogspot.com) when I get home and have a chance to analys the games."
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Posted by rogerb on Monday, July 28, 2008
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| Chess Tonight? |
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So, who's coming out tonight? After looking at the calendar only to discover (in horror) that I'm playing in the Edmonton sectional this weekend, I thought that maybe it would be a good idea to prepare a little.
In case any of the keeners are available, I'll be showing up in Lower Place Riel as soon after 6 pm as possible. Which means probably around 6:30, but definitely not as late as 7 pm.
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Posted by rogerb on Monday, July 28, 2008
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| A Boa-Like Crush |
 Playing white against Bryan Tsz Hou Lee, an U16 kid originally from Hong Kong, the following transpired.
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.f3 Bg7 4.e4 d6 5.Nc3 0-0 6.Bg5 Nbd7 7.Nh3 c5 8.d5 a6 9.a4 Rb8
The first sign that my opponent is treading on unfamiliar ground. While the b5 break is desirable, other preparatory moves, such as e6 + Ne5, should be played first to retain flexibility.
10.Nf2 Ne5 11.Be2 Qb6?
This is the worst place for the queen as b5 is now impossible. If black were to ask his b8 rook how he felt about her majesty's sortie, I don't imagine he'd be too impressed.
12.Ra3!
The most economical method of defending the b-pawn. The point is that Qb4 can always be met with Rb3. The other way to defend b2 is 12.Qd2, but this move would justify black's play after 12...Qb4, when c4 is awkward to defend. When thinking about this position I came to the realization that although Qd2 is a move that is made automatically a lot of times, there are many benefits of keeping the queen at home for a while.
12...Re8?
Black is losing too much time. There is no need to prepare the e6 break - it should be played immediately.
13.0-0 h6?
Since white is gearing up for f4, the g5 bishop wants to come back to e3 to cover key dark squares in white's camp. 13...h6 just helps white do this, plus it does nothing to address black's lack of development. Lastly, h6 weakens the light squares around black's king; a problem that will be accentuated in the middlegame.
14.Be3 Qc7 15.f4 Ned7 16.Qd2 Kh7 17.Raa1!
Now that the c4 and b2 pawns do not need protection this rook does not belong on a3. Furthermore, this is a useful waiting move because it's not clear how black is going to proceed. Other minor piece deployments, such as Bf3 or Nd3, do not address black's main plan of playing e6, exd5, and b5. With the rook on a1, white always has the useful queenside blockading strategy of playing Rab1 and meeting b5 with b4!
17...Nf8?
This is tempting fate. Black had to play e6 here.
18.e5! Ng8 19.Nfe4 f5!
Black's best defensive try. Before playing Nfe4 I needed to calculate the following sequence.
20.exf6 exf6 21.f5! Bxf5??
The losing move as the light squares around the black king will be terminally weak. 21...gxf5 wasn't much better, although black might have more chances of surviving if he kept his light squared bishop. As ugly as it looks, 21...g5 was probably black's best attempt at holding everything together. It is not clear how white is going to break through, although white still holds all the chances.
22.Rxf5! gxf5 23.Ng3 Nd7
Trying to get active is black's best bet, although I wonder if playing Re5 and intending to give the exchange back after Bf4 wasn't a better try. If white captures on e5 then black gets a mobile pawn centre.
24.Bd3 Kh8 25.Bxf5 Ne5 26.b3 Qe7 27.Re1 Qf8 28.Bb1 Rad8
Not seeing the threat, but my opponent was in serious time trouble at this point. In fact, I think he played the past 5 moves with only 30 seconds on his clock.
29.Qc2 f5 30.Nxf5 Nf6 31.Rf1 Rd7 32.h3!
With black unable to improve his position it's time to deprive him of all counterplay. 32.h3 takes away the g4 square and white intends to follow up with g4, claiming space on the kingside and controlling the h5 square.
32...Rb8 33.g4 Re8 34.Bf4 Re7 35.Bg3
Making way for the knight to come to f4.
35...Rd7 36.Ne2 Qf7 37.Nf4 Qg8 38.Nh4
Hopping into e6 too early would allow black to give back the exchange and free his position.
38...Qf7 39.Qf5 Kg8 40.Ne6 Rf8 41.Bxe5
The g6 defender must be removed to facilitate decisive penetration.
41...dxe5 42.Ng6 Re8 43.Nxe5 Qe7 44.Nxd7 Qxd7 45.Nxg7 Qxg7 46.Qxf6 Qxf6 47.Rxf6 Re1+ 48.Rf1
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Posted by Jamin on Saturday, July 26, 2008
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