Upcoming Events: Late July 2016

Summer may be 1/2 over, but there's plenty of chess from coast-to-coast in late July.
Find one near you and be there:

2nd Annual KW Chess Marathon
July 23-24, 2016.

Kitchener City Hall, ON.
7 rounds Quick Rated (25min+10sec): 3 games Saturday, 4 games Sunday; plus
  Saturday: Time odds Blitz Tournament;
  Sunday: Armageddon Survivors Blitz.

http://miltonchess.ca/images/cfc/marathon2.pdf

2016 Canadian Rockies Chess Challenge
July 23-24, 2016.

Banff, Alberta (101 Bear Street), 5 round Swiss

http://banff.ca/Calendar.aspx?EID=5569&month=7&year=2016&day=23&calType=0

Championnat Ouvert du Québec
23-29 juillet 2016.

College Ahuntsic, Montreal.

8 round Swiss, $15,000 garanatis.

Featuring top Quebec players:

• GM Bator Sambuev, 
• GM Alex Le Siege,
• GM Thomas Roussel-Roozmon  

http://www.fqechecs.qc.ca/activite/championnat-ouvert-du-quebec 

live games
http://lavariante.ca/fqe/elitecoq.htm

pairings and results
http://chess-results.com/tnr231169.aspx?lan=1&art=4&flag=30&wi=821 

 
Calgary International

July 27 - August 1, 2016.

9-round Swiss, Calgary Chess Club.

Featuring:

• GM Gata Kamsky (USA), 
• GM Lazaro Bruzon (CUB), 
• GM Kayden Troff (USA), 
• GM Victor Mikhalevski (ISR)
• GM Gil Popilski (ISR)
• IM Razvan Preotu (CAN)
• IM Michael Bodek (USA)
• IM Raja Panjwani (CAN)

This lineup -- 5 GMs, 3 IMs, + several FMs - make this Canada's strongest Open Swiss of the year.
You can still enter, but there is a maximum of 40 players! 

homepage
http://www.calgary-international.com/

live games
http://www.calgary-international.com/Live_Games.html

11th Kitchener Chess Festival
July 29 - August 1, 2016

Kitchener City Hall, ON.
Canadian Amateur Chess Championships: 7 rd Swiss.

http://www.chessfest.ca/index.html

2016 Surrey Open
July 30-31, 2016.

Surrey, BC;  5 round Swiss

http://eacchess.com/eac-tournaments/

2016 Maritime Open
July 30 - August 1, 2016.

6 round Swiss, UPEI MacDougall Hall, PEI

http://mcc.cdevastation.com/marop16.html