The Quebec Chess Federation and the Just For Laughs festival have very often cooperated in the past. This year, thanks to this cooperation, Maïli-Jade Ouellet was invited to give a simul at the Complexe Desjardins (a huge shopping mall in Montreal).
Submitted by Keith MacKinnon on Mon, 07/15/2013 - 22:20
As I was browsing my Facebook newsfeed the other day, I recalled that I still needed to find a game to annotate for this week's Game of the Week.
The Canadian Open is taking place in Ottawa, on July 13-20. It is a one-section 9 rounds swiss tournament, featuring 181 players, including 12 GMs and 18 IM/FM. They will be playing one game a day, fighting for the $5000 first prize (based on 200 entries).
IM Tomas Krnan surprised everyone by winning the International Championship of Slovakia 2013, earning at the same time a GM norm.
More details here :
M. Dougherty (2312) – M. Humphreys (2273), Canadian Closed Championship 2011
The Canadian Youth Chess Championship has started! This is a record-breaking event with 278 players.
IM Nikolay Noritsyn dominated the Open section, beating 5 masters on his way to a perfect 5/5 score, one full point point ahead of WIM Yuanling Yuan, clear second at 4/5
To tide you over until the full July CCN is released, here is the illustrated and annotated report on the 2013 Edmonton Chess Festival.
A few Canadians played in the World Open (thanks to Hugh Brodie for finding the results).
IM Bindi Cheng and IM Leonid Gerzhoy both ended up with 5.5/9 - winning $462.50 each. 6.5 was enough to win the Open section.
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