A warm welcome from the McGill Chess Club

Dear chess players, It’s with great pleasure that the McGill Students’ Chess Club accepted to work on the CFC online Newsfeed with John Upper. We believe that this cooperation will greatly help promoting chess in Canada. Our chess club is one of the most active in Quebec, as we also organize major events like the annual McGill Open, and we hope to show you, with this newsfeed, how dynamic we can be. Thanks to this online newsfeed, we also hope to send our team, which won the 2013 Canadian Universities Championship, to the next Pan-American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championship. Here is an overview of our plan for the newsfeed : Keith MacKinnon will publish a weekly article entitled the “Canadian Game of the Week”. Every week, he will analyze a Canadian game, very often played between amateurs, and offer precious advices. We encourage you to send your most interesting games to Keith at nexulo(at)gmail.com and, who knows, one of your games might be featured as the Canadian Game of the Week! David Zhou will publish Canadian tactics every week, so if you see an interesting position or variation, don’t hesitate and send it to him at david.zhou@mail.mcgill.ca Some readers might also be interested to read Frederic Reynaud’s weekly article entitled the “Best of the Web”. If you want to suggest interesting chess-related websites or blogs, please send an email at frederic.reynaud(at)mail.mcgill.ca Roman Sarrazin-Gendron will take care of the tournaments section. We invite all organizers to send informations about their upcoming events (CFC rated or not) and reports of their events (ideally with plenty of pictures) at cfc.newsfeed@gmail.com . We believe the newsfeed will be a great opportunity for organizers, as we hope to attract lots of chess players that are not (yet) members of the CFC. Also, many players and sponsors would really enjoy to see reports of events. Finally, FM Michael Kleinman will analyze games from major tournaments (about once every 2 or 3 weeks), often with the help of other masters or strong players. We hope you'll enjoy reading our daily articles and don't hesitate to write to us if you have any questions or suggestions! Félix Dumont