Submitted by John Upper on Sat, 08/05/2017 - 13:28
Our Canadian Game of the Week is Linda Shi's brilliancy prize winner from the recently concluded Susan Polgar Foundation Girl's Invitational, from July in St.Louis. If you want to see how to play with pawns in the Ruy Lopez, this is the game for you...
Submitted by John Upper on Sat, 07/29/2017 - 12:24
August is the month when foreign GMs play in Canada. See where, at the 6 tournaments and 2 Chess Festivals that are on the calendar for August 2017....
Submitted by John Upper on Fri, 07/28/2017 - 17:08
Our Game of the Week is IM Aman Hambleton's Round 5 win over Serbian GM Ivan Ivanisevic (2623) at the 2017 Biel Masters.
From the diagram it is White to play.
Submitted by John Upper on Sat, 07/22/2017 - 15:52
Canadian IM Michael Song won the 2017 Pan-American Youth Championship U18 in Costa Rica this month. For our Canadian Game of the Week, IM Michael Song annotates his round 7 win with Black in a very theoretical Scotch.
Submitted by John Upper on Sun, 07/16/2017 - 23:52
The 2017 Canadian Open Chess Championship ended July 16 in Sault Ste. Marie with two Canadians atop the podium: GM Razvan Preotu and IM Aman Hambleton.
Details and crosstables...
Submitted by John Upper on Fri, 07/14/2017 - 01:29
Today's position comes from the tactical slug-fest between IM Aman Hambleton and top seed GM Andriy Vovk during their round 6 game at the 2017 Canadian Open. In the diagram it is Black to move. What happens after 31... Rb1?
Submitted by John Upper on Thu, 07/13/2017 - 15:38
The CFC's National Appeals Committee has rendered its decision on IM Nikolay Noritsyn's appeal concerning the end of the second blitz play-off game at the 2017 Canadian Championship. Their decision, along with links to photos and videos, here...
Submitted by John Upper on Mon, 07/10/2017 - 21:30
The 2017 PanAmerican Youth Chess Championship took place in Costa Rica, June 30- July 7, 2017.
19 Canadians played, coming away with 5 individual medals and a bronze for the 3rd best Team result...
