T53 Concludes; Looking forward to T54!

T53 concluded with a near miss for TheRejoicingTeam_KingsHighway.

Thanks to Tharderer's (of TheRejoicingTeam_HoldtheFort) 7th round win against a competitor for the playoffs and a nearly miraculous comeback in CNoble's game, King'sHighway made it to the playoffs to face Mysterious_Pawn_Moves.

Tharderer's game is below

The playoffs started well for us with timisrejoicing upsetting his opponent:

My game against PankracyRozumek was next.  I lost very painfully (so painfully that I hope the reader will forgive me for not posting the game here), and the result of the match was left to RoyRogersC and CactusJr.

 After a 120 move struggle, Roy won.

Cactus' game was a very nerve-wrecking game for all observers.  CactusJr fought well, but on the 110th move, mysticeye (the opponent) managed to conclude a bishop+knight checkmate which epically ended our chances of a championship this Team League.  Congratulations to Mysterious Moves.

Accolades are due to the following Rejoicing team members as most valuable players this season:

• Tharderer   with 6 points out of 7 or 86%.  Congratulations Tim!  
• Misteraw  with 6.5 points out of 8 or 81%.  Misteraw lost no games (He drew 3).  He was also in the top 2 most valuable players last season with a 71% average.  Congratulations Misteraw!
• Capris with 3.5 points out of 5 or 70%
• RoyRogersC with 5.5 points out of 8 or 69%

Tribute also is due to Deputy Captain CharityJoy who as an alternate player finished with 100%-- 1 win out of 1 game.  

One of Misteraw's fine games is below:


Keep up the great work, Rejoicers!

Welcome to our new teammates of T53: Dstrout, Hapero, Knoecken, and SeppK!  You all proved yourselves assets to the team, and we hope you will consider staying with the Rejoicing Team for upcoming tournaments.

One of my favorites of Knoecken's games:


A very nice victory by HaPeRo:

T54's tentative start date is April 23rd, and we are hoping to increase from our total of 4 teams this season (Rejoicing_to_Victory, TheRejoicingCheckmateTeam, TheRejoicingTeam_HoldtheFort, and TheRejoicingTeam_KingsHighway) to 5 or 6 teams, including a team in the lowest section to give our lower-rated teammates more chances to play (hopefully all or most rounds).  (In T53 the 1400ers of the team helped as alternates on the higher-rated teams and only played at most 3 games each.)  We are also looking to have a Spassky level team (rating average about 2000) in additional to our usual rating-level teams.  

I'd appreciate if players would message me with suggestions for team names (incorporating "Rejoicing") for the upcoming season.

Thanks to all for playing with TheRejoicingTeam!  

T52 Concludes

In T52, The Rejoicing Team was represented by 5 teams: Rejoicing_Ballet_of_Two_Colors, TheRejoicingChessmenReturn, TheRejoicingSaints (TheRejoicingSaints finished 3rd in the Capablanca section), TheRejoicingChessDetectives, and TheRejoicingRooks.  

Congratulations to our individual best scoring players:

• Gorgonian 75% or 4.5 out of 6
• Misteraw 71% or 5 out of 7
• Bowserjrzhu 70% or 3.5 out of 5
• Kasperyan 66.7% or 4 out of 6
• Introspection 64.3% or 4.5 out of 7

And welcome to our new players who are now being voted in to full membership upon completing T52: Albertaszi, KiranY, Kasperyan, Misteraw, and Soidog.

I'm looking forward to T53, and hope we have the best teams ever, giving each player a chance to play to his/her full potential, in this coming season.

Have a Rejoicing New Year filled with great chess games!

God bless!

TheRejoicingChessmen Take Gold

Congratulations to TheRejoicingChessmen, CNoble, Kballoloco,CactusJr, Krimi, and LordTyraad on a job well done!

 TheRejoicingChessmen are champions of the Steinitz section with 5 Match points and 16 game points! Great job, guys!

 Now for overall player performances:
 100% or 3/3 Professorzz
 83% or 5/6 Breloczek, Capris, and Timisrejoicing
 75% or 4.5/6 Gorgonian and Introspection
 71% or 5/7 Kballoloco
 70% or 3.5/5 Krimi
 64% or 4.5/7 CNoble
 58% or 3.5/6 Tharderer and BethanyGrace
 50% or 3/6 CharityJoy
 33% or 2/6 RoyRogersC and Silencehunter
 29% or 2/7 CactusJr
 20% or 1/5 LordTyraad
 17% or 1/6 Bowserjrzhu

 Congrats to our top performing players, and I hope everyone will stay with TheRejoicingTeam for T52. TheRejoicingChessmen have showed us the way to gold; in T52 I hope to see more of our teams follow suite and all of our players increase their performance ratings.

 Best wishes and Good chess!

T51 Concludes: TheRejoicingChessmen go on to the playoffs

T51 concludes with TheRejoicingBishops in 3rd in the Capablanca section, TheRejoicingMightyPawns in 3rd and TheRejoicingVaqueros in 4th in the Lasker section.  TheRejoicingChessmen are in 2nd going on to the playoffs in the Steinitz section.

Top scoring players for T51 will be announced after the playoffs.

Some of the best of our games this season our posted below.  Great job guys (and gals)!  Keep up the good work!

 TheRejoicingMightyPawns
Tharderer-Gorgonian-Introspection-CharityJoy- (littlesparrows)
Team Average: 1538.25
4 match points, 15.5 game points

A warm welcome to Introspection!  We were delighted to have him join the Rejoicing Team for T51!

Two of Introspection's great games:

 Both Gorgonian and Introspection finished with 4.5 out of 6.  Here are two of Gorgonian's wins

A nicely done game by CharityJoy:





An awesome checkmate by Tharderer with over half the pieces still on the board:



Tharderer really had his team-mates worried here, but he came through with a nice victory:

TheMightyPawns just barely missed the playoffs which was a bit disappointing, but came in a close 3rd (with actually more game points than the 2nd place team).  Performance Rating: Awesome!  You guys had  no forfeits and great team-work.

TheRejoicingVaqueros
professorzz-BethanyGrace-silencehunter-timisrejoicing-LordTyraad
Team Average: 1582.25
Match Points: 3.5  Game points: 13.5

We were very glad to have professorzz join us!  Welcome to TheRejoicingTeam, professor!













TheRejoicingBishops
Breloczek-Capris-bowserjrzhu-RoyRogersC
Team Average:
Match Points: 2.5 Game points: 13

Welcome to Breloczek, Capris, and bowserjrzhu!  TheRejoicingBishops was made up of 75% new Rejoicing players, and of course our old speedy reliable, RoyRogersC.  They were are highest rated team and finished 3rd in their section--a very good result for new players which portends destruction for their future opponents and great things for them in Team League!

This game by Capris is a beauty:



Breloczek did an amazing job, not losing a single game.  Here's a nice endgame against pchesso:



A nice (and quick) endgame by Roy:





Finally... *drum-roll*

TheRejoicingChessmen

CNoble-kballoloco-CactusJr-Krimi-LordTyraad

Match points: 4 Game points: 13

Team Average: 1636

TheRejoicingChessmen (obviously) had some great play.

Here's a game by CactusJr, who last season was 3rd in top-player honors (I can't wait till after the playoffs to calculate the honors for this season!)


Below is kballoloco's victory against twotowers (both his and my captain @ AllGoodPeople).  Congratulations also to kballoloco for going on to the playoffs with not just one, but both of his teams, TheRejoicingChessmen and AllGoodPeople_B!  You're certainly an asset for any team.



This game by CNoble was a pleasure to watch:

And...LordTyraad filled board 4 for two rounds and scored a nice win.

last but not least... an effecient victory by Krimi:



Keep up the great work!!  I believe our teams have improved very much over the past 2 or 3 seasons, and we can only believe T52 will be even better.  But for now, let's cheer for TheRejoicingChessmen as they go on to the playoffs.  Go team!

Testing

This post is to test the new format for The Rejoicing Team blog.  You can expect new updates soon.  Stay tuned!