Scarborough Chess Club

Scarborough Chess Club Winter Swiss Blog Rd. 3 20/3/5 (Thursday) Bob's Chess Blog # 2... (See Knight Logo below) Club Scarborough Chess Club, Toronto, Ontario, Canada See logo below SCC Website: http://www.scarboroughchessclub.ca/ SCC Fb Page: https://www.facebook.com/ScarboroughChessClub/ Tournament Name: Winter Swiss (# 4 tournament of the 2019-20 Season) When: Feb. 20 March 26. Format: 6 - round swiss Sections: 4: The regular SCC Swisses have 4 sections 1800+; U 1800; U 1400 Jrs. Only; U 1000 Juniors Only [playing up within 100 pts. allowed small fee]. Notes re sections: 1. The Club Championship has only 2 sections: Championship; Reserves. 2. The regular SCC Swisses, in the past, used to have three sections 1800+; U 1800; U 1400, with playing up within 100 pts. allowed (No fee); no Juniors Only sections. Registration: 116 (1800+ - 19; U 1800 50; U 1400 (Jrs. Only) 16; U 1000 (Jrs. Only) - 31) slightly below this season's average per tournament (So far): 118. But SCC usually picks up new registrants as the tournament progresses. Time Control: Top Section: G/60 + 30 sec. (From move 1) - Bottom 3 sections: G/70 + 15 sec. (From move 1). Rating: a. All sections are CFC-rated. b. The top section is also FIDE rated. Playing Up: Players within 100 pts. of the floor of the section above have the option to play in their section, or, in the next section up small fee. Joining: Lots of room and so SCC WELCOMES all new members. You can inquire about joining at the general SCC e-mail address: [email protected]. You can join a tournament in progress; you will get pt. byes for all the missed rounds. Blog Note: This Blog on my personal Facebook page, called The REAL News, is re-posted a few other places - so references here refer to this Fb platform. The Day of Rd. 3 (March 5) Thursday Morning Today I am currently living in Toronto, Ontario, and so am able to play. When I am living in my two other locations (Ontario hobby farm; Montreal, Quebec), I take byes/withdraw. I awoke at 7:30 AM, going back to sleep after the alarm (very unusual). I had gone to bed at 11:30 PM Wednesday 8 hrs. is a very long sleep for me. The main factor in this is likely that I had my third (Of 5) assessment/teaching sessions with my Physiotherapist/Trainer at my new gym I and my wife are now going to she is unrelenting and brutal!! (Often during weekend tournaments I sleep much shorter, and get substantially less than my usual 6 hrs. sleep). I then went downstairs to the kitchen. I first put away the dried dishes in the dish drainer and generally straightened the kitchen from the way it was left Wednesday night. Then I grabbed a coffee and went upstairs to my home office to start on my normal daily routine in front of the old laptop. Before launching into my normal daily routine, I started drafting this Blog # 2. I usually begin to draft my SCC Blog the day before (on Wednesday) - I sort of add to it as I go through the day (Thursday - today), and then try to finalize it late tonight and post it in the wee hours of Friday morning. We often go to our hobby farm or Montreal early on Friday morning, so I usually like to get the blog finished before I go to sleep if possible (Our farm is an almost internet/computer-free zone, so I cannot finish and post it there). If I have to leave for the farm or Montreal Friday morning, I get up early enough to get it posted before we have to go. But I didn't get it started on Wednesday, and so I had to start it this morning. I then finally went into my regular routine (See below). Template Note: There are sections of this blog that are a standard template which I repeat in each Blog. The template must be here for any new readers of my Blog. So I ask my regular readers to be tolerant. If you have read the template part previously, you can skip from Template Begins to Template Ends (I will alert you immediately before the template if there are any revisions you won't have read previously). TEMPLATE BEGINS Victim of Routine I am retired + unemployed life is quite fine overall - except for my slave-driver company, The REAL News.ca Cooperative [Quite a mouthful, but simply put: TRN], where I must volunteer my work time for free all day long, 24/7! I have created a monster! My mornings tend to be pretty scripted who isn't a victim of routine? So I settled in to my comfy home office and got working. My Daily Personal Project Tasks 1. Check for my e-mails and Fb messages. 2. Check new posts/comments on ChessTalk (CT). 3. Check my Twitter feed to see what had been happening in the world (I follow numerous mainstream media from countries around the world, such as CBC, Toronto Star, National Post, NBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, France 24, China Daily, Al Jezeera (English), Japan Times, Sputnik News, The Guardian, etc.). I re-post the most relevant...see below. 4. Check my Fb Notifications of my friends posts on their timelines, sometimes their timelines directly, and my own newsfeed of friends' posts to see the most relevant that I can share to my projects or re-post...see below. 5. Fb Project # 1 (My Company/Personal Fb Account) - My little company (In the process of being legally incorporated, after only being formed in Dec., 2019, as a federal unregistered sole proprietorship) is called, as said above, The REAL News.ca Cooperative (TRN). This Fb account is a news of the universe (world events/politics, human health & diet, Science & Technology, Entertainment, etc.) discussion group that I have created here on my own personal Fb account. Those posting/reacting, such that their names appear on the site, are a group we call PEERS (A Discussion Club of Equals) the PEERS' members, along with TRN, do the news re-broadcasting. So I update my Fb personal account, managed by my company, re-broadcasting news found elsewhere, and from time to time, other PEERS' members post as well. 6. I share at least one chess post per day to my second Fb discussion club, Chess Chat (formed under my personal Fb account) - https://www.facebook.com/groups/340524269771672/. 7. Fb Project # 2 (2nd company page - Canadian Life Consulting (CLC) - https://www.facebook.com/Canadian-Life-Consulting-16406543/. , adminstered by my federal unregistered sole proprietorship company, Canadian Life Consulting Cooperative (CLCC). I do news re-posts from the sites mentioned above that are specifically relevant to this page. 8. Update one of the discussion groups formed under my company page, called Canadian Life Consulting Cooperative Supporters' Group (Or CLCC Supporters) - https://www.facebook.com/groups/2042495809374373/. I update it by sharing some more discussable of the posts now on the CLC page. 9. Fb Project # 3 (On behalf of a religious community I am forming) - When I find them, I share religious (All Religions) posts to my religious community's Fb Page, Theist Community (https://www.facebook.com/Theist-Community-2435481406681425/?modal=admin_todo_tour). Sometimes these re-posts also appear in TRN. 10. Update the discussion group formed under my community's page. It is called Spiritual/Religions Discussion Club (Or SRDC) - https://www.facebook.com/groups/2042495809374373/. I update it by sharing some more discussable of the posts now on the Theist Community page. 11. Fb Project # 4 (On behalf of a political party I would like formed) Democratic Marxist Global https://www.facebook.com/Democratic-Marxism-Global-748579292265552/?modal=admin_todo_tour. 12. Update the discussion group formed under the political party page. It is called Democratic Marxist Global Forum https://www.facebook.com/groups/2045711862207056/?fref=nf&__tn__=C-R. I update it by sharing some more discussable of the posts now on the DMG page. Some of these posts are shared to TRN. 13. I have another retiree project besides my 4 Facebook Projects. Chess is a passionate hobby of mine, as you know. It is part of what I call my Interlude Living. But I have never really studied seriously. But what I do do, is I enter all my games, and annotate them, to try to learn something - GrandMasters do recommend this often. In addition, I integrate the opening (the first 10 moves) into an opening/defence tree I have for the opening/defence played. The value of this is pretty uncertain, given my inability to remember lines - but I do develop general impressions of how the opening can go. So on my own time, I go back and forth between the 3 Facebook projects and my chess hobby project. My 35/25 System As well, I go back and forth between my routine items above and my own personal life tasks to be done that day. But I have a somewhat unique system for doing this. Recently I found that I was spending a lot more time on my three retiree projects than my normal life tasks - don't we all spend more time on what we enjoy! But I was falling behind in "life" while keeping up in the "Fb/chess" projects. So I did have to deal with this issue. So I came up with the "35/25 System". What this is: When I am at home, I bite the bullet and I spend 35 min. on my life tasks, which I think of as working for myself; I even set the alarm! Then I reward myself with 25 min. on my 3 retiree projects (Facebook [2] & Chess). I try very hard to religiously stop when I am to change phases. This has actually worked out well....I am still abysmally behind in "Life", but not nearly as much as I used to be! LOL TEMPLATE ENDS Back to Thursday Morning My wife got up at 7:00 AM with the alarm and let me sleep. We then had breakfast. Then we allowed a bit of time for breakfast to settle before we went to take on the gym. I came back to do my daily routine stuff and continue filling in this Blog # 2. As part of my family work time, I gathered up the garbage from around the house, and put out the waste containers for the Friday AM pick-up. After breakfast, at 9:30 AM (Very late for us; our regular schedule is to leave the house at 7:00 AM), we headed out to walk to our gym. It takes us about 25 - 30 min., depending on walking conditions much of the snow here has now melted this week the highs are above zero degrees Celsius and the sidewalks are bare and dry. But it is a typical Toronto end of winter for the nights to still hover below zero. We wrapped up our workout after one hour on the floor and cardio machines we just moved from 45 min. to one hr., because we were not able to get our full routines into the shorter time. We got home at 12:00 PM. Lunch My wife started lunch while I took a shower and then spent some time continuing my routine projects and further updating this draft Blog # 2. Then I went and filled my sous-chef role to finish getting the lunch on the table. Siesta Given that I usually sleep short compared to many in the early morning (night), and that I am working on year number 75 this year, I have found that the European/Latin American practice of a siesta time in mid-afternoon works really well (I usually set the alarm and do not sleep more than 1 hour). My wife, because of her health, also is usually tired by then. We take the landline phone off the hook and shut off cell phones drives the family and friends nuts, but they've adjusted. But today we were tired somewhat earlier. And my wife wanted to go to her Potter's Studio this afternoon (She is an amateur potter), and that meant an early siesta was necessary. We got up at 2:15 PM. I didn't sleep, but I often find just resting for the period substantially revives me. Our daughter (Lives in Quebec, but currently is studying in Ontario) texted my wife had invited her for dinner with her tonight when I had gone to SCC she said she was too busy at the moment to come for dinner and to visit. Our two children are 46 and 43 y.o. this year are my wife and I aging?? LOL! So off my wife went to the pottery studio, promising on a stack of bibles she would not forget about my chess tonight, and that she was going to get the car back to me so I could use it to go to chess. Later Thursday Afternoon After the siesta, I printed out the 4 cross-tables for the current Winter Swiss, to put out on the display table (I maintain the display table each week as a member-volunteer job for SCC). I also got my SCC bag of display materials updated put in the 2 new books for our SCC Bellomo Little Library project, and used the new chess magazines I'd gotten in. Then I had a family legal matter I had to deal with (I am a long-retired poverty litigation lawyer). Additionally, under family work time, I did the dishes in the kitchen and straightened it up a bit. Finally I got back to my daily routine stuff. DELETE The Milverton Coffee Club (MCC) For a number of years now, we, a neighbour couple a few doors west, and an elderly widow who lived across the street, met for coffee, rotating between houses. We just chatted and solved all the world's problems (With no one of importance listening, of course). Thursday afternoon has been our irregular meeting time. Unfortunately, a few weeks ago, our widowed 92 y.o. member died; so we are down to 4. We ended around 4:30 PM. TO HERE Heading Out for Rd. 3 My wife returned from her Potter's Studio (She is an amateur potter) at 5:15 PM. I then finished getting ready to go. I finally headed out by car for SCC. I went to my Timmies at Ellesmere and Brimley Ave. I got the needed caffeine to go into battle and had a quick donut. David Lawless, from the top SCC section (Recently returned to active play) had come in to get a quick bite before the round, and so he joined me. We talked about family, our hobby farm, his job, etc., and spent a nice couple of minutes together. At 7:00 PM I drove back to the club (about 5 min. drive away). Pre-Round 2 I got in and chatted briefly with Dave Southam and veteran Jim Paterson. Dave had read my prior week's blog, when I had been having a bit of a time with my Depression Phase of my Bi-polar Disorder. He kindly asked if it had passed and I was feeling better again. I was able to confirm that it was mild, and lifted fairly soon the next day. I then set up the whole display table, and put out the cross-tables. I chatted briefly with Thuan Nguyen, from our section, about our game in the last round of the recent Hart House Reading Week open. He has not played since highschool, when, as a junior, he had a very decent rating. He said that coming back is showing the rust, and that the play of 1300's & 1400's is nothing like it used to be when he last played they are so much better now. Then I chatted briefly with Toy Kwan of my U 1800 Section and then the pairings were up. Round 2 The round started close to on time. The game is below.....it is unusual and interesting, IMHO. Post Rd. 2 After the game I watched the rest of the games, until I had the leaders for all sections on my print-out cross-tables. Thuan and I then went out in the hall and chatted again, about coming back to chess after a long absence, and the effect of aging on my chess. We also agreed that the social aspect of tournament chess can be as satisfying as the competitive aspect. After the last game in the hall (Bd. 1 of the top section), my point score tables were complete. So I packed up my display table stuff and headed for home at 10:45 PM. Going home I can use the Don Valley Parkway with little traffic at this time of night, I make it home in about 20 min.! My best time getting to SCC/Tim's at rush hour, when I can't use the Don Valley, is 40 min.. The Later Evening I got home somewhat after 11:00 PM, and I started cleaning and straightening the kitchen my wife had gone to bed. I was hungry and had a small midnight snack. Then I went up to the home office, entered my Rd. 3 win, did a bit of updating of this Blog # 2, and then did a few routine things on my retiree projects. By then I was then too tired to continue this Blog # 2. I left it to Friday. I went to bed about 1:00 AM Friday. My U 1800 Section Report - Rd. 3 - Thursday, March 5/20. I am rated 1604. I am in the 2nd of the 4 sections (The bottom two are juniors only). My section rating spread is effectively, from the high1600's to about 1000 (All adults under 1400 must play in the U 1800 section). I am ranked # 8 out of the 50 players (in the top third of the section). Post-Rd. 3 U 1800 Leaders There are 50 players in our section; but there were only 19 boards (The actual number of boards may have playing fewer than the total no. of players, due to byes, withdrawals, suspensions, etc.). Here are the leaders: 1st 3/3 pts. (Won all games) - Junior Boy Kousihan Balachandran (1454). 2nd/9th - 2.5/3 pts. (Undefeated) Me (1604); Junior Boy Boyuan Kong (1602); Wissam Muhajer (1580); Junior Boy Wing Li (1536); Amir Banihashemi ((1486); Carl Lim (1441); Junior Boy Richard Zhang (1431); Junior Boy Luka Granic (1421). My Round 3 Game I have provided some of my own light annotations (No engine analysis yet) to explain a bit of what I was thinking as the game went on. Zhong, Ryan (1352) Armstrong, Robert (Bob) J. (1604) [A80] Scarborough Winter Swiss (U 1800) (3), 05.03.2020 [Armstrong, Robert (Bob) J.] 1.d4 f5 Dutch Defence 2.Nf3 Nf6 3.e3 e6 Classical Variation 4.Bd3 Ne4 this move is often played somewhat later 5.b3 Bb4+ 6.Nbd2 A terrible opening blunder; Ryan got "chess blindness". 6...Nc3 Ryan's Q is lost. 7.Bb2 Nxd1 8.Kxd1 I am up Q vs N; but, amazingly, the game is not yet won. Ryan is not going to roll over and play dead - watch his K-side counter-attack (Absent a Q!) 8...Bxd2 When ahead material, exchange. 9.Kxd2 00 10.Ke2 d5 to lock the b2B in 11.Rag1 Ryan knows his only chance is an all-out K-side attack, and hope I defend badly (Which I do do for him - sigh) 11...f4 12.h4 Qf6 13.Ba3 Rd8 14.g4 14...fxe3 I do not really like the idea of half-opening the g-file for Ryan's R's. 15.fxe3 g6 When the h-file is opened by Ryan, h1R and the d3B will be a dangerous pair. 16.g5 Qg7 17.h5 Bd7 18.Ne5 Ryan is coordinating a number of attacking pieces. And two of my back-rank pieces are still updeveloped, and unable to get to the defence, at least at the moment. 18...Be8 Trying to defend my vulnerable g6. 19.h6 Qh8 20.Rf1 Suddenly, there is a one-move mate threat by Ryan! 20...Nd7 21.Nxd7 Bxd7 I've managed to defend agains the mate. But look at my Q - it has not one move! 22.Be7 threatening to go to f6 and win back the Q. 22...Rf8 I'll have to sac the exchange to save my Q 23.Bf6 Rxf6 24.Rxf6 I am now up Q (Totally dead) vs R. 24...Rf8 25.Rhf1 Rxf6 26.Rxf6 Qxf6 Since the Q is dead, I felt it was the right time to go into an ending up a P; so I sac the Q for the f6R. 27.gxf6 material equality, but not for long 27...Kf7 28.Kf3 Kxf6 I go up a P (Passed) 29.Kf4 Be8 The major tactical threat is, at the right move, sac the B for the g6P....when....taking Hxg6 will allow W to queen his hP! 30.Kg4 Bf7 31.c3 e5 32.dxe5+ Kxe5 I am hoping that centralizing my K is the way to grind out a win with my passed extra P. 33.Kg5 c5 I cannot give up the f6 square and let Ryan's K get in behind my P's. 34.Bb1 b5 35.a3 a5 36.b4 axb4 37.axb4 cxb4 38.cxb4 Be8 39.Bd3 It now seemed that the ending was going to be more difficult to win than I thought. 39...d4 I went for the win. 40.exd4+ Kxd4 41.Kf6 Ryan believes he can Q if he sacs his B - but it will not happen. 41...Kxd3 I am up B + P 42.Kg7 Bc6 43.Kxh7 I am up a B 43...Be4 44.Kg7 g5 Now I can sac my B if Ryan plays h7! 45.Kf6 g4 01 My Score 2.5/3 pts. - Wins: 2 (Rds. 2 & 3); Bye (1/2 pt.): 1 (Rd. 1). My Opponents' & My Scores 2.5/3 pts. - Me (1597) 1.5/3 pts. - Junior Boy Ryan Zhong (1352) I won in Rd. 3. ?/3 pts. - Junior Boy Joey Lin (1369) I won in Rd. 2.; not sure of Rd. 3 result. Other Sections' Leaders (i) 1800 + 1st/2nd - 3/3 pts. (Won all games) - Junior Boy Fengxi Mao (2227); David Southam (2108 current and former club champion). 3rd/7th 2/3 pts. - Junior Boy Raymond Gao (2134); David Lawless (2038); Junior Boy Jonathan Hay (2027 - undefeated); Junior Boy Austin Xie (1914 - undefeated); Junior Boy Larry Yang (1701); (ii) U 1400 Juniors 1st 3/3 pts. (Won all games) - Jack Lee (1058). 2nd 2.5/3 pts. (Undefeated) - Weyman Li (991). 3rd/7th 2/2 pts. (Undefeated) Siddhi Dahale (1143); Andrew Li (1135); Ethan Wu (1011); Namir Issani (866); Steven Ji (Unr.). (iii) U 1000 Juniors 1st/3rd 3/3 pts. (Won all games) Eric Zhou (831); Girl Jessica Ding (812); Zheyi (Joey) Zhang (799). Top Section Games The games of the top section can be played over by going to the SCC Website (URL above), and the tab for "Results". Then after the link to the 1800+ section standings, is "Round x Games". Click on that and you get a game board/score, and you can play over the game right there and then! Some History How My Blog Works (Some history and details) + an SCC Tournament History. These next 2 sections are another template. TEMPLATE BEGINS SCC Tournament Registration History 2013-4 Season Jack Frost Swiss (3rd tournament) - 131 - peak registration for the season. 2014-5 Season Club Championship Swiss (5th tournament of the season) - 126 - peak registration for the season Season average registration (for the 6 tournaments) - 117 2015-6 Season Club Championship (5th tournament of the season) - 141! (1800+: 35; U 1800 - 106) - Peak for the season & the current RECORD for recent times! Season average registration (for the 6 tournaments) - 131 2016-7 Season Jack Frost Swiss (3rd Tournament of the season) - 139 - 1800+: 32; U 1800: 35; U 1400: 72. - Peak Registration for the season Season Average Registration (for 6 tournaments): 133! (Highest Seasonal Average since keeping records here). 2017-8 Season Howard Ridout Memorial Swiss (1st tournament of the season) - 130 (1800+: 27; U 1800: 46; U 1400: 57) - Peak Registration for the season. Season Average Registration (for 6 tournaments): 122. Below the 2016-7 Season Average of 133. 2018-9 Season Club Championship (5th tournament of the season) 137 (Championship - 31; Reserves - 106) Peak registration of the season. Season Average Registration (For 6 tournaments): 120 (Almost at the prior 2017-8 Season Average of 121; our historical high from a few years ago (2016-7) is 133). 2019-20 Season (Current) # 1 Howard Ridout Memorial: 122 ( 1800+ - 20; U 1800 52; U 1400 (Jrs. Only) 19; U 1000 (Jrs. Only) - 31) # 2 Falling Leaves: 120 (1800+ - 18; U 1800 51; U 1400 (Jrs. Only) 20; U 1000 (Jrs. Only) - 31) # 3 Jack Frost: 113 (1800+ - 18; U 1800 49; U 1400 (Jrs. Only) 14; U 1000 (Jrs. Only) - 32) Season Average Registration (For 3 tournaments so far): 118 dead on last season's average per tournament: 118. Bob's Blog For a number of years now, I have been posting my chess blog: i) on my personal Facebook Account for my over 900 Fb friends from around the world (in English): https://www.facebook.com/bob.armstrong.9235; ii) sometimes on the national Canadian English chess discussion board, Chess Talk [CT] (https://forum.chesstalk.com//chesstalk-canada-s-chess-disc), now owned by Henry Lam; iii) occasionally on other chess websites, such as that of FQE (Province of Quebec's Chess Association). On the one occasion this was done, the blog was posted in both French and English. More recently I also have been "re-posting" my Fb blog: i) on my Fb chess discussion group, Chess Chat, under my own personal account - A Project of Chess Companions of Caissa (https://www.facebook.com/groups/340524269771672/); ii) my Scarborough CC tournaments Fb Blog to SCC's Fb Page (http://www.scarboroughchessclub.ca/). iii) my Annex CC tournaments Fb blog to ACC's Fb Group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/172335039452033/). Henry Lam (Aka Dark Knight on CT), the owner of CT, and I have now done a first renewal of our Henry/Bob Blog Agreement (Original agreement - summer of 2018). Under it I agreed to re-post my Fb Chess Blogs on CT for both my chess club official tournaments, subject to the condition that interest did not wane to such an extent that it was no longer worth making the effort to do the blog. This has now happened re the Annex CC blog, and I am therefore no longer blogging those club tournaments. I also agreed to blog my non-club weekend (Sometimes longer; sometimes shorter) tournaments, in which I play between Summer 2019 and Summer 2020. Henry and I have a clause for consideration of annual renewal. So, under this new agreement, I am now re-posting my blogs of my current Scarborough CC tournaments. My future non-club weekend blogs, to and including Summer 2020, will be (Given my current schedule - from time to time, though, my life schedule may change so that I fit in a tournament not on my schedule, or fail to play one that is intended): 1. The 2019 Hart House Holidays Open Toronto (Dec. 13-15). 2. The 2020 Hart House Reading Week Open Toronto (February 15-17). 3. The 2020 Canadian Open (July 16-22). 4. The 2020 Toronto Open (Sept. 5-7) This year so far, I have managed to insert one additional tournament into the Fall The Canadian International Open Longueuil, Quebec (Oct. 11-3, 2019). The Blog Focus I mainly focus on the section I am playing in (Has been U 2000, U 1900, U 1800 or U 1700). I feel that these class sections are often not covered by chess media, and yet, the bulk of chess tournament players are in the classes under 1900. And many of my class viewers have actually played players about whom I am blogging (Players I play and ones with whom I may socialize during the tournament, who then are mentioned in the Blog). So this adds a bit more interest for them. I do also sometimes cover (Bare Bones) the top section standings; but I have to have been able to get the results before the Blog goes to press. For this section, of course, including it can be a matter of the time available (I am often doing my Blog in the wee hours of the morning). I do hope my blogs will continue to provide a window onto class tournament chess, and what THIS chess player does during the day of club tournaments, and before and between rounds for weekend tournaments (A bit of a reality show - bits of my personal, though generally pretty ordinary, life). I know many other chess players approach tournaments quite differently than I do (E.g. - study, research opponents to prepare for them, etc.!). So one cannot generalize from what I do, to what other chess tournament players do. Blog Feedback I have had generally positive feedback on my blogging (I have done it for many, many years now, as some long-suffering viewers know), on both of my own Fb Accounts, the SCC & ACC Fb sites, and on CT. It has been said that my writing style is easy to read, factual, and often entertaining. It is a find for all us "nosy" chess players! Thanks to all those who have supported my Blogging on various sites, and kept encouraging me to continue all these years (I'm now working on year 75 (Not of blogging! LOL) I do hope, as long as there is interest, to keep doing my blogs for many years yet). Invitation I am most happy to interact with readers re anything about which I have posted.....so react, comment, reply, post, etc. - both favourable comments and constructive criticism....I will do my best to respond to everyone, so long as I am where I have access to the internet. And if some of the players, or non-players, wish to post something to supplement the blog, you are encouraged to do so. So jump in with both feet, and we'll all enjoy the blogging adventure! TEMPLATE ENDS Bob A

My Own "Unofficial" Report on the Jack Frost Swiss U 1800 - Post Rd. 3 (20/1/23)

My Own "Unofficial" Jack Frost Swiss Report U 1800 Section - Thurs., Jan. 9, 2020

My Own "Unofficial" Report on the Falling Leaves Swiss U 1800 - Rd. 7 (Final) - 19/12/12

My Own "Unofficial" Report on the Falling Leaves Swiss U 1800 Section - Rd. 6 (19/12/5)

My Own "Unofficial" Report on the SCC Falling Leaves Swiss U 1800 - Rd. 5 (19/11/28)

My Own "Unofficial" Report on the Falling Leaves Swiss U 1800 - Rd. 3 (19/11/14)