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Evgeny Bareev turns 50 today: November 21, 2016.
To mark the occasion, we have a sort of "reverse present": a gift from the birthday boy to you. Evgeny Bareev annotates one of his wins from the 2016 Baku Olympiad.

Our Canadian Game of the Week is Alexandre Le Siège's annotations to his win over Hugues Massé at October's Varennes Open, which Alexandre won with 4.5/5.

The diagrammed position arose at move 17. Neither King can be attacked and there are no tricky tactics, but this is a critical position: White has a slight development advantage but has to find a plan which turns that into a long-term positional/endgame advantage. Alex's notes show how both sides should play.

The Canadian Game of the Week comes from the North Carolina Open, where Elias Oussedik is working, and playing, and annotating.
It's opposite-coloured Bishops and opposite-side castling, so you know it's going to be all about the attack. Black to play...

The Canadian Women's Championship (Zonal 2.2) ran September 22-25, 2016 at the RA Centre in Ottawa.

FINAL STANDINGS:
WIM Qiyu Zhou wins with 5.5/6, including wins over next three finishers: WIM Agnieszka Matras-Clement (4.5), Constance Wang (3.5) and WIM Natalia Khoudgarian (3.5).