If you did not know it already, there is a hidden app on Facebook Messenger that allows you to play chess! Finally, there is a productive reason to use Facebook!
Submitted by Keith MacKinnon on Sun, 02/07/2016 - 13:21
Time for some excitement... This week's game from the 2nd round of the ongoing BC Open features 1.g4 (leading to a losing position out of the opening), but the White player fights back and makes it to a rook endgame. The old adage about "all rook endgames are drawn" holds true once more. Check it out!
Last weekend, representatives of Canadian and US Forces met in Kingston, Ontario for a great tournament, the largest to date of this kind. 44 players participated in this even mainly organized by Regis Bellemare, the well-known military chess organizer from Quebec.
Surprisingly, it is not held on the 14th.
Read what FM Lefong Hua, captain of team Quebec, has to say about chess and life in his interview with Victoria Jung-Doknjas
Tomorrow (the 28th), the top player of McGill University Michael Kleinman will do a free 45-min special lecture on intermediate chess. 6-6:45 in the Trottier Cafeteria.
Gibraltar and TATA are this week's Best of the Web
The 14th edition of the Chess Festival in Gibraltar has begun today and will conclude on Feb. 4th. It has 5 sections: Masters (Open; 10 round FIDE Swiss), Challengers A & B (U2250; 5 round FIDE Swiss each), and Amateurs A & B (U1900; 5 round FIDE Swiss Each).
Six round, CFC/FIDE rated tournament. Three Sections $2000 guaranteed prize fund. Feb. 6-8, 2016. Titled players pre-registered include FM Cao, NM Oussedik, WFM Gansvind, NM John Doknjas, NM Moore and NM Patterson.
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