International

A new (or not) World Champion will be crowned this week !

Submitted by Roman Sarrazin-... on Mon, 11/17/2014 - 00:23

The World Championship Match is currently being played in Sochi, Russia. After a rest day yesterday, the second half of the 12-games match is starting today.

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FIDE Commissions' Members

Submitted by Felix Dumont on Wed, 11/12/2014 - 19:31

FIDE (World Chess Federation), published the list of its new Commissions' Members. Among them are three well-known Canadians :

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Funding for new Canadian norm tournaments

Submitted by Roman Sarrazin-... on Mon, 11/03/2014 - 23:42

The CFC has announced it is going to receive funding from the FIDE (following Ilyumzhinov's election) for a series of eight norm tournaments in the next four years. The purpose of these tournaments is to provide norm opportunities to Canadian players. The CFC is currently looking for potentially interested organizers.

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Alexandra Botez becomes Stanford’s Chess Club president

Submitted by Felix Dumont on Fri, 10/31/2014 - 16:44

Alexandra Botez (YELIZAVETA ORLOVA/The Stanford Daily)

Alexandra Botez, one of Canada's strongest female players, is now the first female president of the Stanford University Chess Club (in California).

While Alexandra earned a chess scholarship for the University of Texas, Dallas, she decided to attend Stanford to "grow a lot more as a person".

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GM Norm for Razvan Preotu at the Spice Cup

Submitted by Roman Sarrazin-... on Sun, 10/26/2014 - 21:00

The SPICE Cup took place in St-Louis, October 21-26. FM Razvan Preotu tied for ninth with two GMs and two IMs, earning a GM norm by scoring 5.5/9, including 3/6 against GMs. GM Illya Nyzhnik, from Webster U, won the tournament.

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Guernsey International Chess Festival

Submitted by Felix Dumont on Fri, 10/24/2014 - 20:55

GM Eric Hansen is having a great tournament in Guernsey.

With 6/6, he will play against IM Aman Hambleton (4.5/6) in the seventh round.

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Canadians at the Millionaire Chess

Submitted by Felix Dumont on Thu, 10/09/2014 - 20:47

A few Canadians participate in the Millionaire Chess tournament, with $1 000 000 in guaranteed prizes. The highest rated player of the first section is GM Wesley So, but GMs Xiangzhi Bu and Quang Liem Le, as well as a few others, will also be fighting for the $100 000 first prize.