The Toronto Estonian Chess Club held their 5 round Spring Active Swiss system tournament (30 minutes per player)on April 28th, at the Estonian Baptist Church . Thirteen players entered the tournament with the hope of winning at the “Game of Kings”. The players ranged in age from seventeen to eighty-three. Before the start of the tournament , the players took a moment of silence for one of our long time chess players who passed away earlier this year, Alfred Veltmann. Richard Vale won first place with a perfect score of 5 points. Richard originally is from New Zealand, and showed the entire Toronto Estonian Chess Club, what caliber of chess players reside in New Zealand. Second place went to Farhad Bokaee with 4 points and third place went to Jaak Järve with 3 points( after winning a tie-break decision between himself and Jaak Triefeldt).
The rest of the field results are as follows:
Jaak Triefeldt 3 points. Alar Petersoo 2.5 points. Erik Kreem 2.5 points. Don Mosley 2.5 points. Xian Wei Järve 2.5 points. Brendan Munro 2 points. Mikk Mölder 2 points. Ernest Sinko 1.5 points. Mart Tiido 1.5 points. Mai Vomm Järve 1 point.
The tournament proved to be one of the strongest in many years, since most of the games all went to the full 60 minutes of play. A big thanks goes to Mai Kipper from the Estonian Baptist Church who put on a large coffee urn to keep our chessplayers well lubricated during the 5 rounds of chess.
The next active tournament will be in November of this year. If you are interested in playing chess and participating in our tournaments please contact Jaak Jarve at 416-222-9445 or email
Jaak Jarve
Picture one: Players. From left to right front row: Alar Petersoo, Xian Wei Järve, Mai Vomm Järve, Farhad Bokaee. Back row from left to right: Jaak Järve, Richard Vale, Ernest Sinko, Don Mosley, Jaak Triefeldt , Mikk Mölder, Brendan Munro, Erik Kreem, Märt Tiido.
Picture two: The champions: Farhad Bokaee – 2nd place, Richard Vale- 1st place, Jaak Järve- 3rd place.
Picture three: Richard Vale being awarded first place at the Toronto Estonian Chess Club Spring Tournament by President Jaak Järve.
