Submitted by John Upper on Sat, 03/04/2017 - 21:11
This week's Canadian Tactic comes from the first round of the PRO Chess League playoffs. GM Aryam Abreu Delgado of the Miami Champions has just played e4 against GM Razvan Preotu of the Toronto Dragons.
Submitted by Hou Ji Yao on Wed, 03/01/2017 - 10:27
The McGill Chess Club is pleased to announce the $1000 McGill Open Rapid Championship to be held Saturday, April 29, 2017. It will be a 5-round Swiss, 25 min+5 second increment; FQE semi-rapid rated. Sets provided, please bring your clock!
Submitted by John Upper on Mon, 02/27/2017 - 12:10
Our Canadian Game of the Week is GM Eric Hansen's last round win over GM Ilya Smirin at the 2017 TATA Steel Challengers event, with annotations by GM Eric Hansen.
Submitted by John Upper on Sat, 02/25/2017 - 21:43
Our Canadian Tactic comes from the game between Raven Sturt (Montreal ChessBrahs) and GM Andrey Vovk (Buenos Aires Krakens) from the last round of the PRO Chess League. It's White to play in the diagram.
Submitted by John Upper on Thu, 02/23/2017 - 11:14
IM Kaiqi Yang won the 2017 Hart House Reading Week Open with 5.5/6. Our Game of the Week is his round 3 win over FM Victor Plotkin. The diagram only hints at White's accelerated approach to the anti-Meran... see the rest of the game for the details.
Submitted by John Upper on Mon, 02/20/2017 - 14:12
The first stage of the 2017 FIDE World Chess Grand Prix in UAE, the Women's World Championship in Tehran, the 15th Aeroflot Open in Moscow, and the Winter Invitational in Saint Louis are in this week's underwhelming Best of the Web.
Submitted by John Upper on Thu, 02/16/2017 - 15:47
This week's Canadian Tactic comes from the round 6 PRO Chess League game between Toronto Dragons' FM Shiyam Thavandiran and the Patgoniai Penguins' GM Fernando Peralta. Black has just played ...Nd4. What should White do? (very complex)
