Well hello folks been busy with lots of stuff at home and been busy playing here, did not have time to post anything about the chess club.

Just trying to collect for trophies in 1 minutes chess tourneys whenever I can lol.

I did play some skittles games with Henry T at Starbucks yesterday and did well again.

Cecil 21 wins / 7 losses/ 4 draws  total of 32 games, 4 games in a set.

I am ahead 6.5 set wins to Henry's 2.5 set wins

I am still winning 65% against Henry T.

Henry got 21% win on this session, still keeping him under 25%.

but he keeps telling everyone that he is winning 30% or more against me just want to keep records straight, just in case.

 

Later folks

Today's Chess Club meeting went great with some people really playing some nice some serious game variations.

Attendance: Henry T., Hai T., David J., James O., James B., Cecil Rosal, Danny F., Jesse W., Leonard L., Lavante L., a couple of Jesse's friends and Alex showed up for a few games with James O.

Everyone played everyone just ot make the chess club going.

Henry decided to play a slower Time Control in G/3.

Henry and Cecil started a few games, and Danny decided to jump in the fun, I got up after I loss to Henry on this one.

Cecil ==== 0.5 - 0 - = .5

Henry T = 0.5 - 1 - = 1.5

I moved my Queen in square where Henry's knight forked my King and Queen.

I got up so Danny can play Henry.

Henry defeated Danny so he got up.

Henry 1 - Danny 0

G/3 Danny out and I took over.

Cecil -1 Henry 0

While Henry T took a little RnR Danny and I played a couple of series and I got him 2-0.

Next few games Henry and I played again still game in 3 minutes.

Cecil 4 wins - 1 loss and 2 draws. I got 57% win percentage

Henry T. 1 win- 4 losses and 2 draws.  He's got a 14% win percentage on this series.

And David wanted to play Henry T. some games and Henry gave David 1 minute to David's 5 minutes.

Result below.

Henry T. = 6 wins 12 losses, no draws      

(18 games) Henry's win percentage 33%

David J. = 12 wins 6 losses, no draws

(18 games) David's win percentage 67%

I played James B. 5 games in 3 minutes

Cecil 7-0

James B. 0-7

James B. played Leonard and they split.

James B. 1-1-0

Leonard  1-1-0

Before the night for games was over James O. challenge me for few game in 3 minutes.

Cecil - 6 wins - 0 losses

James O - 0 wins - 6 losses

 

Although Alex and James O played a few games don't know the results between the 2?

I played against Danny F., for a couple of G1/2 minutes handicap and I mamaged to win both games, to an improved Danny speedster.

The surprise is that David J. has manged his games well against Henry by winning a bigger margin in G/1 to his 5 minutes.

By the way, McAlister will be closed for Easter that's April 8th Sunday. But, the club might meet on Easter at BurgerKing across the street Mc Alister.

And if anyone is interested to follow a game I'm playing against Darkpawdingo  on chess.com please do, he is one of the chess player who played at the KAFB Chess Tourney last Saturday.

Cya all later guys!

Cecil Rosal Club Director.

BILOXI CHESS CLUB 1990

Tournament announcement club rated.

Site: McAlister Pass Rd.

"Under 1800 Club Rated Tourney"

Entry Fee: $ 6.00 , Scholastic half price $3

Time Control: TBD

I was invited to direct a chess tournament in Keesler Air Force Base by the Recreation Director, on Saturday March 24, 2012.  The event has about a total of at least 8 chess players.

A very nice setting for  a chess tournament a huge room for at least a big tourney.

Anyway, to make it short here's the final results and standing on that tourney.

Since, it is not USCF rated games I made everyone played a 15 minutes time control, which is pretty good amount of time for tons of chess games.

Final Scores for "KAFB Chess Tournament" at the Bay Breeze Golf Course, I think correct if I am wrong for the chess site.

1. Brian                  First Place Awarded a nice trophy

2. David                 Second place Awarded a chess Red Ribbon *nice

                             From our Biloxi Chess Club 1990

3. Anthony              Third Place Awarded a chess Yellow Ribbon *nice

4. Raymond            From our Biloxi Chess Club 1990

5. Agnes                A very good player, by the way she is 80 years old and plays

                            very well.

6. Caleb                He could have won more but he was a late entrant.

7. Kurt                  The youngest chess player who had a draw from Brian

                            on one of the rounds, great job Kurt.

8. Oslely                He only played one game but had fun playing.

 

To everyone congratulations and I hoped everyone enjoyed the chess matches you all played.

Well the second chess club rated event in 2012 is now finished.

Event: "Chess Points Battleground I"

It's a under 1500 rating tourney.

Final Standing for the tourney.

1. Leonard                           First Place

2. Lavante                           Second Place

3. Hai T                               Third Place

Congratulations to the three club players, names are on the chess club forever trophy plate.

 

Next event should be around April 2012, U1800 club rated.

If anyone missed our interview from the news wlox go to www.wlox.com and check for chess in biloxi, hopefully it is still there. Also, check www.sunherald.com for the newspaper coverage.

Just for the record here are some of my games results against Henry T in February 2012.

So far, it is not disappointing results for me.

Cecil Rosal games against Henry T.

Where      Date   Day W - L - D    total games  My Win Percentage

Starbucks 2/3/12 Sat {26 - 6 - 4}      36          72%

McAlister 2/5/12 Sun { 8 - 5 - 5}       18          44%

Starbucks 2/11/12 Sat { 31 - 5 - 0 }   36         86%

McAlister 2/12/12 Sun { 7 - 0 - 2 }    9           77%

Starbucks 2/17/12 Fri { 27 - 9 - 8}   44          61%

Starbucks 2/18/12 Sat { 21 - 9 - 6}   35          57%

McAlister 2/19/12  Sun { 10 - 4 - 2}  16          62%

Starbucks 2/25/12 Sat { 27 - 8 - 4}  40          67%

So, far these are the games I personally played against Henry T. in February 2012 just keeping tracks of scores.

I know, no one seems to be interested about that but, just for the record, I don't need to be one of Henry's  statistics that he wins most of his games. More scores later.

Play chess and have fun!

Cecil

Well, it's been a few weeks since I log on to this server.

Just want to thank everyone who participated on the first 2012 rated chess

tournament at the chess club.

Event: "BILOXI CHESS KNIGHTS I"

1st. Cecilio Rosal  

2nd David Jenkins

3rd Danny F

4th James

5th Hai

6th Jessie

Congratulations to all for being supportive in playing in our chess club, only way we can promote

chess in Biloxi, Ms.

I need to edit trophy picture pixel too big.

By the way a free under 1500 rated club chess games is underway.

Round I

Jessie lost to Lavante   = 0-1

Chad lost to Leonard = 0-1

Hai - bye 1/2

James - bye 1/2

Raymond - bye 1/2

Wayne - bye 1/2

Nora -  bye 1/2

If I missed anyone under 1500 please let me know.

 

 

Club meeting on January 15th, 2012

I was watching a game between David and Danny, almost at the end game position.

First of all HAPPY NEW YEAR to all after a few day from January 1st 2012!

I have been so busy doing some stuff at home that I almost forgot to write some

club notes.

Well, anyway just to get started with the New Year, we have been sporadic about our chess club meetings due to the holidays.

Althoughm we have not been meeting every Sunday's lately, Henry Thensted and Cecil Rosal has played some intense speed chess at the Starbucks coffee shop by Pass Road, ( we buy our coffee, ok) and then play tons of speed chess.

Just for a good example Henry T and I played a total of 246 games. That is

Cecil Rosal       161 wins    45 loses  40 draws from 12/3/11 to 12/30/11, wow thats tons of speed chess.

My winning percentage against Henry is 65% to his 18% winning percentage.

I managed to keep the percentage above 60 for my perfomance on the chess board, whom ever I am playing, which is not a bad result personally.

Also, when Henry Charry and Cecil Rosal played on 12/11/11, he was out of speed chess form  but managed to play better than Henry Thensted that meeting.

I managed to win 8, loss 3 and drew 2 games with Henry Charry.

That is 61% win percentage for me, a fair result against a very strong G/5 player.

Just as reminder we will soon start getting some club tournaments with fee and club rated games, with in this year, so it will be more interesting for our club to get some competition going.

I formulated a format in G/5 3 rounds, everyone will play 4 games per opponent in rounds 1-2-3 who ever gets the most win gets first place. In lieu of a tie it will be a split prize decision.  So. let's go and play chess!

Later ppl,

Cecil Rosal

9/4/2011 Sunday  
G/2   
Cecil 4 0 2
Henry T 0 4 2
G/2   
Cecil 3 1 0
Henry T 1 3 0
G/2   
Cecil 4 1 1
Henry T 1 4 1
G/2   
Cecil 8 1 3
Henry T 1 8 3
Handicapped G/2/3   
Cecil (2)mins 6 2 1
Henry T (3) 2 6 1
Handicapped ( I don't understand why he wants to give a handicapped? )  
G/2/3   
Cecil (3mins) 5 0 2
Henry T (2mins) 0 5 2

9/11/2011     
Games between David J and Cecil   G/2/10  
Cecil 3 3 0  
David J 3 3 0  
     
Henry and Hai played.     
     
Games between Cecil and Henry in G/2     
Cecil 23 7 5 Win %  0.66
Henry T 7 23 5 Win% 0.20
     
Attendance= Cecil, Henry T, David J and Hai T.     

Hello Everyone!

Okay I have been too busy doing small projects at home, so I haven't had the time to post any club meeting game results.

Also, I want to say good luck to Gordon, who briefly played at our chess club, a very good strong player, indeed.

Last Sunday's meeting was pretty good, a new chess player Anson came and played a few 5 minutes skittles with us, hope we see him as a regular chess club member.

Chris was there, we played and I have the advantage on him.

Hai, David and Henry were also present.

Henry and I played some lightning chess G/1 , I took 2.5 ahead of the games we played.

If anyone wants to see my chess.com games and ratings look up for sirrook.

I play bullet, Blitz, Standard and online correspondence chess.

David is higher rated than me, but I am trying to be good at it, somehow.

We actually are playing one at the present time.

Okay let me see if he made a better move than me.

Later

Cecil

The Mobile Classic Open chess tournament was held in Mobile Alabama, last Saturday June 25th 2011. Henry Charry and Cecil Rosal went to play on that tourney.

First round started around 9:24 am, the tournament started kinda behind schedule. I was paired with Don Halimunada, at the start of the tournament the ratings was not posted yet, so I thought I was playing someone who is around 1600+? But I did not under estimated his strength, cause in chess you can get over confidence and get beat. I managed to win the first round and so did our fellow club member Henry Charry, we were both 1-0, a nice start for me, too.

Second round, I was paired against a higher rated player. by the name of Bryan Tillis who I heard moved from Alabama to Mississippi, his rating was around 2151. I played real well not to lose, and I thought I had a good edge and I got him to a time scamble, and he started panicking, cause his got a minute and a few seconds while I have about 8 minutes to my clock. He started asking for the TD, cause I stopped recording my moves, but I saw the endgame was going to be a draw for at the time he started trying to make a dispute, he tried to stop the clock, but the TD told me to continue since my opponent kept on going as to taking my pawns. All that was left on the board was my pawn a light squared Bishop and my King against his King that stayed on h8 and g7. So, the game ended in a draw, anyway. After all if I beat him, It would make it like a beat the second best player in MS, but I'll take a draw from a very strong player for now. Henry Charry won his second round against Prashant Sharma (1553). Henry Charry got 2 points I got 1.5 still good at the mean time.

Third round I moved up the ranks by playing on board 3, against an 1835 just 5 points above my rating. His name is Francis Greiner. He tried to make a disputed drawing the game, but unfortunately he only have 2 seconds to my 12 minutes to play the whole game. He was trying to imply to the TD that the game is a drawn game, just becasue he has 2 seconds left on his time, but his flag fell anyway, while the TD was trying to stop the clock, although there were lots of pieces on the board and I have and end game advantage even if he has the time to play. Cecil 1 - Francis 0

So far before the last round, I have managed to set a score at 2.5, if I win I have a good shot at playing Goldsby on board one unfortunately, Henry Charry lost his game aginst Goldsby, which on analysis Henry Charry had a winning endgame. that was the third round. So, that left Henry Charry 2 points before the 4th round. Fourth round came, it was funny becasue Henry Charry while we were heading to Mobile, mentioned that we rather play at teh fourth round better than the first 3 rounds, well he got his wish we played the last round and we wind up playing for a draw. All in all, we had fun but it was really tiring playing conitnous chess all day.  End result, Cecil Rosal tied for second place with Bryan Tillis with 3 points, actually a 3 way tie but the other one won his section under 1800.

Henry Charry had 2.5 points over all.

Let 's play CHESS!

June 26th, 2011

Also, Sundays meeting Henry Charry, Henry Thensted, Hai Trinh, Cecil Rosal and a late attendance of David Jenkins.

While Henry Charry and Hai was playing some slow games, Henry Thensted and I played a few more of those G/2 total result between Henry Thensted and Cecil Rosal -- Cecil win 21-L 7 - D 5 vs Henry Thensted W7 - L 21 - D 5 total of 33 games.  Cecil have 63% winning percentage to Henry's 21%.  Henry always tells me personally that "It is always a close game whenever he plays me, and that he is the only one who gives me trouble in speed." Just for the record this is said each time at the club around other chess club member, for the past 20 years, but he is still a good freind.  Also, when David arrived He played Henry Charry some slow games too.  When Henry Thensted and I got a small break from playing 2 minutes, I played Hai in G/2/10 handicap and he won on time, good job Hai! Be ready next time Hai, I hope I am ready for your strong playing strength!

If anyone wants to see the crosstable for the Mobile Classic Open got to www.uschess.org and go to players and rating search for Cecilio Rosal and you can go from there, you will see my tournament history.

So, see you all next chess meeting at McAlister!

 

Club meeting 6-19-2011 Sunday

Attendance Henry Charry, Henry Thensted, Hai ,Cecil and David J.

Hai Henry C and Henry T was already playing some games but I don't know the results from each one of them?

I have no clue to what game results they have since they don't jot it down, and I can't remember just keeping score in mind cause it will always be a guessing game for the result.

By the way just to clarify the game results I write it down, I don't put results as sets it's just because I run out of spaces so I have to list the results on the next line, as Henry was trying to say that we play by set, and we are not, it's the total games I played that I write down on a small note pad that is why it looks like a set.

Games between Henry Charry and Cecil Rosal game in 5. Total games played 22

Cecil =W 12- L 7-D 3 vs Henry Charry W7 - L 12 - 3

Games between Henry Thensted and Cecil Rosal Game in 2 minutes. Total games played 34 games in 2 minutes.

Cecil W 18 - L 7 D 9 vs Henry Thensted W 7 - L 18 - D 9 (not a set of games).

Also Henry played Hai and David while I was playing 5 minutes with Henry Charry, Don't have their results. David and Henry Charry was playing some 15 minutes while Henry Thensted and I was going at it in 2 minutes games.

By the way Cecil and henry Charry will be in a tournament in Mobile Alabama on June 25th Saturday a USCF rated tournament. Hope we do good.

See you all next Sunday!

Also at one point cecil was down several games to henry c but made a stong finish to only come up one game short.

Just to add to results as  we start at 4:30pm an cecil gets in around 6 to 6:30pm every sunday.The last few weeks heny t was up a game or two in 5min over henry c however a few weeks back henry c was one night up 5 games of 5min over henry t so as we were even 3-3-3 tonight the last few weeks added up we are dead even score.I henry T played hai 5 games of 1o min verus 3min for me.I won 4 an lost one.however hai miss a draw by perpectual check an he miss in another game a mate combo.Hai played alex two or three games an hai won all but alex played well an made a almost game saving sacrifice which we all post mortem looked at. Myself an cecil played two sets of 2min bullet well in the first wo he cecil won all but a few i was wining but lost by  3to 4 sec.I pulled myself together an in the last set won 4 to cecils 3 with a few draws.Henry c played hai i know two might have been 3 games of 5min for henryc an 10 min for hai in a wild time scramble hai won the first an henry c the other two.However henry c  claim some clock use by hai in the last few sec was inproper of which i cannot say as iwas playing two min against cecil so we could not observe the game to check on claim.In any case when one considers HAI ONLY LEARNED chess less than 5 years ago he has made vast strides an is now a fairly strong player.Hai is around age50 so he  proves you can learn chess at a late age in life an get good at it.

Another weekend for the chess club.

Hai, Alex, Henry C, Henry T and Cecil

According to Henry T games between him and Henry C are even.

Hai and Alex had a very good middle game analysis, where Hai sacrificing a Bishop and Alex playing the white pieces can not refute it.

Total result betwee Henry C and Cecil

G/2 Cecil 10-4-3 vs Henry T 4-10-3

Total result between Cecil and Henry C.

G/5 Henry C 7-62 vs Cecil 6-72

See you all next meeting.

My apologies for getting club news letter behind due to playing Oblivion: Elder Scrolls IV been away from playing online chess for almost a month and a half.

Club meeting attendance for 6/5/2011

Henry Thensted, Henry Charry, Hai , Mr Morrow (from Jackson MS, welcome to the chess club) and yours turly Cecil Rosal.  I don't know if Alex showed up today?

G/5 Cecil 6- 3-2 vs Henry Charry 3-6-2

G/2 Cecil 14-2-5 vs Henry Thensted 2-14-5

Don't have any results for Mr Morrow and Hai, they did not record their results?

Current USCF members who are currently playing at our chess club ranking in USCF.

USCF rated ranking in MS

Henry Charry (R) 1965 (1700) (Q) 1663 (MS ranking 5 out of 123 as  of 7/1/2011)

Chris George (R) 1898 (1700) (Q)1892P (MS ranking 9 out of 123 as of 7/1/2011)

Cecilio Rosal(R) 1830 (1800) (Q) 1991 (MS ranking 12 out of 123 as of 7/1/2011)

At least we have 3 USCF currently rated regular chess club players in the top 20 MS rated chess players.

 

Hopefully we can get more USCF players so we can get active for some weekend tournaents USCF rated.

See you next Sunday thats 6/12/2011

Club meeting May 5, 2011

Games played between Cecil and Hai.

G/2/10 Cecil 1-1-0 vs Hai T 1-1-0

Games played between Henry Thensted and Hai T.

G/2/10 Henry 1 vs Hai 0

Games played between Cecil and Henry Thensted

G/2 Cecil Rosal 7-2-4 vs Henry Thensted 2-7-4

G/2/10 handicap

Cecil 2-0-1 vs Hai 0-2-1

G/2 between Cecil and Henry

Cecil 2-1-3 vs Henry Thensted 1-2-3

Game between Cecil and Hai

G/2/10 Cecil 1 - Hai 0

Games played between Cecil and Henry 2 minutes

G/2 Cecil Rosal 6-4-0 vs Henry Thensted 4-6-0 (No draws)

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Meeting on 5/8/11

Games in 5 minutes between Henry Thensted and Henry Charry

G/5 Henry Thensted 4-6-3 vs Henry Charry 6-4-0

Games between Hai Trinh and David Jenkins 15 minutes

G/15 David Jenkins 5-2-0 vs Hai Trinh 2-5-0

Games between Henry Charry and Cecil Rosal

G/5 Cecil Rosal 7-2-1 vs Henry Charry 2-7-1

G/5 Cecil Rosal 2-4-2 vs Henry Charry 4-2-2

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Club meeting 5/15/11

Games between Cecil Rosal and David Jenkins

G/2/10 handicap Cecil 0-3-0 vs David Jenkins 3-0-0

Games in 5 between Cecil and Henry Charry

G/5 Cecil Rosal 7-4-2 vs Henry Charry 4-7-2

Games between Henry Thensted and Cecil Rosal

G/5 Cecil Rosal 6-2-1 vs Henry Thensted 2-6-1

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Club meeting 5/22/2011

Chess players who are present at the chess club, a nice attendance

at least today. David and his daughter ( who plays chess, great to see youngsters

playing chess), Chris George (surprise appearance) , Ales , Hai, Henry Charry,

Henry Thensted and Cecil Rosal.

G/2/10 Cecil 2-0 vs Alex 0-2

G/5 Cecil 3-0 vs henry Charry 0-3

G/2 Cecil 13-3-5 vs Henry Thensted 3-13-5

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Club meeting 5/29/2011

Games played between Cecil and David

G/2/10 Cecil 1-1-1 vs David 1-1-1

G/2 Cecil 2-1-1 vs Henry Charry 1-2-1

G/2 Cecil 4-0-1 vs henry Thensted 0-4-1

G/2 Cecil 5-0-0 vs Henry Thensted 0-5-0

Games between Hai and David ---- G/15 David 2-1 vs Hai 1-2

G/2 Cecil 1-2-0 vs Henry Charry 2-1-0 (Finally henry Charry jumped in

to play games in 2 minutes)

Then we did loser gets up games. henry Thensted jumped in.

G/2 Cecil 1 - Henry T 0

G/2 Cecil 1 - Henry C 0

G/2 Cecil 1 - Henry T 0

G/2 Cecil 0 - henry C 1

G/2 Henry C draw Henry T

G/2 Henry C 1 - Henry T 0

G/2 Cecil 1 - henry C 0

G/2 Cecil 0 - henry T 1

G/2 Henry C draw Henry T

G/2 Henry C 1 - Henry T 0

G/2 Cecil 1 - Henry T 0

G/2 Cecil 1 - Henry C 0

G/2 Cecil 1 - Henry T 0

G/2 Cecil 0 - henry C 1

G/2 Henry T draw Henry C

G/2 Henry T 1 - Henry C 0

End of meeting till next Sunday.

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Hope everyone had a nice Easter! We welcome ourquest from Louisiana who are 2 young strong players Dex and Don. Both played very well on a 5 minutes blitz with Henry Thensted. Henry managed to get some draws and had 2 loses from the two youngsters, but he's got some wins I'm sure. While Henry was preoocupied playing Dex or Don, I was playing David a few games in 2 minutes to his ten. Cecil and Dex played 2 five minutes games, result is 1-1 even so far. Glad that they came with thier dad and mom to join us playing chess.

Note Easter Sunday's meeting will be at either Books A Million or Wendy's due to McAlister Deli being closed that Eastrer Sunday April 24, 2011. Please plan to attend if you do come contact Cecil at 228-918-0301 so I can tell Henry where to meet you all at around 4:30 PM. at the Mall.

I'll post the last nights meeting and game results later for Sunday's 4/17/2011

Have a great day.

Cecil