Canadian Game of the Week

This week, it is my pleasure to show you a spectacular win by GM-elect Razvan Preotu en-route to his final GM norm at the World Open.

IM Aman Hambleton is currently finishing off a GM norm tournament in the chess mecca of the United States (St. Louis of course!). Though we typically focus on wins by Canadian players, this week, we're looking at a game he lost in the third round.

This week's Canadian Game of the Week comes from the game Sergey Noritsyn vs Tom Bark at the May 7 Mississauga Standard. A Petroff has turned into opposite-side pawn storms, and White has to decide which way to capture: axb3 or cxb3.

The 2016 Toronto Closed is a round-robin event played over two months, with one game per week. After five rounds, the leader is Mike Ivanov, with 4.5/5. Here is his first round win (featuring the Schliemann Attack) with the Black pieces against newly-minted IM Michael Barron.