Canadian Game of the Week

Tactics: Wreckjavik

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Submitted by John Upper on Sat, 03/17/2018 - 15:41

Our Canadian Tactic comes from IM Shiyam Thavandiran's round 4 game at the 2018 Reykjavik Open.  In the diagram, Shiyam is threatening Qxg7#; what happens after  18...g6 19.Rae1 ...?

GOTW: Dukic - Qin, CUCC 2018

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Submitted by John Upper on Wed, 02/28/2018 - 02:08

Our Canadian Game of the Week comes from the final round of the Canadian University Chess Championship, between Ottawa U's Zach Dukic and Waterloo's Joey Qin.

Anti-Grunfelds at the 2018 Ontario Junior Championship

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Submitted by John Upper on Mon, 01/29/2018 - 21:47

The 2018 Ontario Junior was held January 27-29, 2018. FM Nicholas Vettese won with 5/5.
Details, links, and two annotated games, both featuring anti-Grunfelds...

GOTW: +2 and lost!

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Submitted by John Upper on Mon, 01/22/2018 - 23:58

Inspired by (and including) Magnus Carlsen's amazing hang-a-piece-and-still-beat-a-2630 on Sunday, our Game(s) of the Week are all Dragons which start from the position in the diagram and where one side had an advantage of at least +2, and yet failed to win. Games and notes include: Carlsen-Jones, Leko-Carlsen, Lugovoi-Sambuev, Ganguly-Richard Wang, as well as an opening survey on this line...

GM-Elect Hambleton Annotates

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Submitted by John Upper on Mon, 01/08/2018 - 14:40

GM-elect Aman Hambleton annotates three of his games from his 2017 European campaign to gain his final Grandmaster Norm...

2017-18 Canadian Women's Champion: Maili-Jade Ouellet

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Submitted by John Upper on Sun, 12/31/2017 - 15:54

Maili-Jade Ouellet won the 2017-18 Canadian Women's Chanpionship (Zonal 2.2) with 7/9 (+6 = 2 -1). Report and annotated games...

Tactics: (RB vs RB) X2

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Submitted by John Upper on Sun, 12/17/2017 - 02:19

Round 4 of last weekend's RA December Open saw two complex endings of Rook and B vs Rook and B on the top boards. The coloured circles in the lower left corner of the diagrams indicate the player to move. Take some time to at least come up with some ideas before looking at the games and analysis...

GOTW: Bohatirchuk - Botvinnik, Leningrad,1933

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Submitted by John Upper on Fri, 12/01/2017 - 01:52

This week -- November 27, 2017 to be precise -- marked the 125th anniversary of the birth of Fedor Bohatirchuk, the Ukrainian-born Canadian Champion.
Our Canadian Game of the Week is the second of Bohatirchuk's three wins over future World Champion Mikhail Botvinnik...

GOTW: Piasetski - Pashayan, 2017 World Senior 65+

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Submitted by John Upper on Wed, 11/22/2017 - 16:57

Our Canadian Game of the Week is Piasetski - Pashayan, from the 27th World Senior Championship, which just finished in Acqui Terme, Italy.

GOTW: Sambuev - Demchenko, National Capital Open, 2017

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Submitted by John Upper on Mon, 11/13/2017 - 18:44

Our Game of the Week is from the National Capital Open, where 2017 Canadian Champion GM Bator Sambuev was White against Svitlana Demchenko.
White is up a pawn, but Black's Rook is ready to counter-attack; what should White play?

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