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Botez-Demchenko, 2020

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Submitted by John Upper on Thu, 05/21/2020 - 23:14

The Covid lockdown has (temporariliy?) ended OTB chess events, but there has been a big boom in online chess events. In fact, there has been such an explosion that it has been possible to watch World Champion Magnus Carlsen playing almost every day in tournaments between April 18 to June 3, 2020!

BOTW: 2020.05

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Submitted by John Upper on Mon, 05/04/2020 - 16:52

Despite over-the-board chess events cancelled world-wide, there is still plenty of interesting chess to watch and play...

QGM Qiyu Zhou: Chessbase DVDs

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Submitted by John Upper on Fri, 04/24/2020 - 16:20

Chessbase has just released two DVDs recorded by Canadian WGM Qiyu Zhou.
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Chess Canada: Embiggened

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Submitted by John Upper on Sat, 04/18/2020 - 21:38

A new issue of Chess Canada, the CFC online magazine, is now available for free download from the CFC homepage...

BOTW: 2020.02.07

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Submitted by John Upper on Sat, 02/08/2020 - 01:17

The latest and greatest free chess engines, Magnus aces an endgame test, and an online bullet match between two Canadian women's Olympiad teammates are this week's Best of the Web...

BOTW: 2019 FIDE World Cup

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Submitted by John Upper on Mon, 09/09/2019 - 15:18

The 128-player knock-out FIDE World Cup is the BIG chess event of 2019, and it runs for over three weeks...

BOTW: Fast, Faster, Fastest...?

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Submitted by John Upper on Thu, 05/09/2019 - 15:16

This week's Best of the Web features three of the fastest versions of 21st century chess: a Rapid and Blitz round-robin featuring several of the world's best, and the online competition to be the world's fastest Puzzle Rusher...

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2019 Canadian Chess Hall of Fame

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Submitted by John Upper on Wed, 05/08/2019 - 01:07

The Canadian Chess Hall of Fame has inducted Charles Frederick Stubbs. Report, photos, and 14 problems from his 1890 book "Canadian Chess Problems"...

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2019 Zonal: Round 1

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Submitted by John Upper on Fri, 04/19/2019 - 02:43

The 2019 Canadian Championship (Zonal 2.2) kicked off in Kingston with 3 GMs, 3 IMs, 12 FMs, and one big upset....

BOTW: 2019.04.03

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Submitted by John Upper on Wed, 04/03/2019 - 17:11

A classical Round Robin featuring five of the world's top 6, an online bullet championship, and a classical Open Swiss with dozens of GMs are this week's Best of the Web....

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