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I am taking this opportunity to talk about a charity event that I am organizing (the poster should appear shortly on the FQE site if it's not already there).

Eric hansen finished with 7/9 in the London FIDE open (held at the same time as the London Chess Classic) and tied for the second place. The tournament winner was GM Benjamin Bok, who defeated Eric in round 8 and GM Lenderman in round 9.

Aman just finished playing in the "GM Gigant Chess Panevezys 2015", in Panevėžys, Lithuania. He scored 4.5/9, which is unfortunately not enough for a GM norm.

Full results are available here. 

Guelph Winter Pro-Am 

January 9-10, 2016

Room 442, Guelph University Centre

5 Round Swiss

3 SECTIONS: FIDE Rated Pro, FIDE Rated U2000, U1600 

GM Eric Hansen is the 9th highest rated player (out of 245). He is not the only Canadian player, since Daniel Abrahams and McGill Alumni David Zhou (who could surprise some players, since he has no FIDE rating) also participate.

"I think I would beat Tal pretty easily. Fischer would be more difficult, but I think I could beat him too."
- Magnus Carlsen

'I like to play chess with old men in the park, although it's hard to find 32 of them.'
- Emo Phillips

It's Black to move in the game Bark - M.Plotkin from the 2015 Ontario Open.

It was not my intention to use two of Olivier's games for the GOTW, but this one could not be overlooked. It's not every day a strong national master loses in 18 moves!

There will be 5 Grand Prix tournaments this year. Each single tournament will be a CYCC qualifier.

Dates:

#1   Saturday, January 2

#2   Saturday, February 13

#3   Saturday, March 19

#4   Saturday, March 26

#5   Saturday, May 21