With 11 tournaments across Canada this month, October is a good time to cash in those air-miles...
The Canadian Game of the Week comes from the North Carolina Open, where Elias Oussedik is working, and playing, and annotating.
It's opposite-coloured Bishops and opposite-side castling, so you know it's going to be all about the attack. Black to play...
Congratulations to Razvan Preotu, now the youngest Grandmaster in Canada!
He was awarded the Grandmaster title at the FIDE Congress in Baku after scoring his final norm this summer.
The Canadian Women's Championship (Zonal 2.2) ran September 22-25, 2016 at the RA Centre in Ottawa.
FINAL STANDINGS:
WIM Qiyu Zhou wins with 5.5/6, including wins over next three finishers: WIM Agnieszka Matras-Clement (4.5), Constance Wang (3.5) and WIM Natalia Khoudgarian (3.5).
Canadian Isaac Wiebe plays Magnus Carlsen in a clock simul in New Jersey, the 2016 WYCC kicks off in Khanty-Mansiysk, a book about a mid-life crisis that turns into a three-year attempt to become a chess expert... and more, are this week's Best of the Web.
Submitted by Keith MacKinnon on Mon, 09/19/2016 - 17:51
The top performer at this year's Battle of Alberta, held annually in Red Deer, was the South's board 4 player, NM Diwen Shi, with a score of 2-0 against his higher-rated opponent from the North of the province, Jeff Reeve.
Today's Canadian Game of the Week comes from the last round of the 42nd Olympiad.
GM Alexandre Le Siège annotates his topsy-turvy game against GM Wesley So.
Results of the 42nd Chess Olympiad. Canadian men with best finish ever...!
24 annotated games from the Canadian players during rounds 1-5 of the 2016 Olympiad in Baku.
The Canadian Game of the Week comes from the 2016 Maritime Open, and is a good example of how a Master plays to beat a lower-rated opponent.
It is Black to move in the diagram: find plans for both players.
Pages
