Tuesday, November 18, 2008

DECEMBER CHESS – MATH TOURNAMENT



Sunday, November 16, 2008

2008 MANITOBA JUNIOR CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP

On November 16, 2008 sixteen juniors competed for the right to be the 2008 Manitoba Junior Champion. All the games were hard fought and at the end a tie for first and second occurred between Weixi Lui and Igal Raihman and also a tie for third and fourth occured between Ryne Swift and Leah Green. A five minute sudden death game was played to determine first and second and also third and fourth places. Weixi Lui was victorious over Igal Raihman to claim the 2008 Manitoba Junior Championship and Ryne Swift defeated Leah Green to claim third place. Below is the crosstable for the event.


2008 MANITOBA JUNIOR CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP

Last Name

First Name

Rating

ROUNDS

1

2

3

4

Total

1

Lui

Weixi

1832

W4

W7

W6

D2

3.5

2

Raihman

Igal

1150

W10

W8

W5

D1

3.5

3

Swift

Ryne

1143

W15

D5

W12

D6

3.0

4

Green

Leah

931

L1

W16

W14

W9

3.0

5

Kong

Dezhong

1546

W13

D3

L2

W12

2.5

6

Green

Aaron

1264

W14

W12

L1

D3

2.5

7

Pang

Michael

1250

W16

L1

W8

Bye

2.5

8

Oberton

Daniel

1804

W9

L2

L7

W14

2.0

9

Kumaragamage

Sashika

799

L8

W10

W13

L4

2.0

10

Vijayan

Sachin

772

L2

L9

W15

W16

2.0

11

Ma

Derek

776

L12

L14

W16

W13

2.0

12

Wasserman

Leor

1191

W11

L6

L3

L5

1.0

13

Stranc

Colin

895

L5

W15

L9

L11

1.0

14

Yung

Dustin

803

L6

W11

L4

L8

1.0

15

Einarsson

Wayne

459

L3

L13

L10

Bye

0.5

16

Villeneuve

Justin

690

L7

L4

L11

L10

0.0

Saturday, November 15, 2008

JUNIOR BUGHOUSE TOURNAMENT

As part of the 2008 Manitoba Junior Chess Championships, a bughouse tournament was held in conjunction with the event during the lunch break. A total of 5 teams competed for the bragging rights of the "Manitoba Junior Bughouse Champions". At the end of the bughouse tournament, when the dust settled, the team comprized of Leah Green and Weixi Lui were victorious. Congratulations to all the teams that took part in the tournament.

Monday, November 10, 2008

MANITOBA JUNIOR CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP goes this Saturday 15 NOV at the U of W

The Premiere Junior Chess Tournament goes this Saturday with the winner getting a paid trip to the nationals in 2009 ! Last year's Winner was top junior Trevor Vincent who had to fight through the highest rated field ever (average rating approx 1750 cfc) to claim first place.This year could be even stronger if many of our best juniors can make it on Saturday . Room 2c14 UofW 09:00 sign up see details www.chessmanitoba.com

Sunday, November 9, 2008

November 2008 Scholastic Tournament

A total of 36 players played in the November Scholastic Tournament. Tournament results can be found on the following website: Manitoba Scholastic Chess Website. Below are several pictures of the players taken during the November tournament.