Canadian Chess Newsfeed

Eight of the world's top-eleven are are in action this week in Dortmund and Bilbao.

A quick list of the top finishers at the 2016 CYCC in Windsor.

With three big tournaments back-to-back-to-back, July is chess month in Windsor!

Congratulations to two big Canadian winners at the 2016 World Open:
IM Razvan Preotu comes home with his third GM Norm, and James Li comes home with $12,000 US!

The Canadian Game of the Week is FM Lefong Hua vs IM Michael Brooks, from the 2016 St. Louis IM Invitational, with annotations by Elias Oussedik.

Canadians at the 44th World Open, at the World Senior Teams, and in the New in Chess Yearbook!

Thirty-five players participated in the New Brunswick Open Chess Championship, including 20 juniors !!
Top seed Sam Song won with 5/5. Results and summary...

GM Sam Shankland won the 2016 Edmonton International with 8/9. GM Surya Ganguly equaled his score, but lost their individual game to finish second on tie-break.
Results and summary...

The last weekend of June is once again the most chess-packed of the year, with seven tournaments across the country!

Today's Canadian Tactic of the Week is from the round 1 game between FM Dale Haessel and FM Ian Findlay at the 11th Edmonton International. Black is up two pawns, but his Bg2 is offside and both Kings are under pressure. What should Black play?