The second part of the 2016 World Chess Tour goes from June 17-20 in in Leuven, Belgium; and Boris Spassky recalls "a very embarrassing devil on the doorstep" in this week's Best of the Web.
Eight events from BC to Alberta to Ontario and Quebec. Plan your June tournaments before they're all booked up!
Submitted by Keith MacKinnon on Mon, 06/13/2016 - 10:24
IM Aman Hambleton is currently finishing off a GM norm tournament in the chess mecca of the United States (St. Louis of course!). Though we typically focus on wins by Canadian players, this week, we're looking at a game he lost in the third round.
Victor Korchnoi obituaries, the Paris stop on the Grand Chess Tour and more are this week's Best of the Web.
It's White to play in our Game of the Week: Jason Manley vs Adam Dorrance, from the 2016 Nova Scotia Open in Halifax.
Annotations by Elias Oussedik.
For the second year in a row, Canadian GM Anton Kovalyov has advanced through the Continental Championship to qualify for the next stage of the FIDE World Cup.
88 players entered the 2016 TORO chess event in Gatineau, June 3-5.
GM Bator Sambuev won with 5/5. IM Jean Hébert was clear 2nd with 4/5. Results and photos.
Seven tournament results from: Niagara Falls, Toronto Closed, Nova Scotia Open, Ontario Open, Keres Memorial, Trumpeter Classic, and the Charlottetown Open.
Both GM Bator Sambuev and IM Jean Hébert return June 3-5, 2016 to play in the TORO event in Gatineau.
Will you be there?
This week's Canadian Game of the Week comes from the game Sergey Noritsyn vs Tom Bark at the May 7 Mississauga Standard. A Petroff has turned into opposite-side pawn storms, and White has to decide which way to capture: axb3 or cxb3.
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