With GM Pavel Eljanov's continuing success in FIDE's Baku World Cup, I thought it might be nice to see one of his games against a Canadian. GM Eric Hansen annotates his round 9 game from the 2015 Reykjavik Open.
2015 National Capital Open
Picture : Bernard Labadie (FQE President), Garry Kasparov, Richard Bérubé (FQE Executive Director).
This week's game is definitely for tactics lovers. The game got very complicated very fast, and the outcome was very hard to predict!
It's White to play in this week's Canadian Tactic, which comes from the third round of the 2015 RA Fall Open --(still underway!)-- between GM Bator Sambuev and Kevin Wan, a co-winner of the 2014 RA Fall Open.
The premiere chess tournament of the year in the Maritimes.
Date: October 10th-12th, 2015
Location: Saint Mary’s University, 923 Robie Street, Halifax, N.S., Loyola Building, room 175. (See campus map.)
GM Anton Kovalyov drew his second match game against Fabiano Caruana, losing the match 0.5 - 1.5.
Canadian GM Anton Kovalyov won his second round match at the World Cup in Baku, defeating former Argentine teammate GM Sandro Mareco: 1.5 - 0.5.
Submitted by Keith MacKinnon on Tue, 09/15/2015 - 07:13
Olivier-Kenta has made big gains in his chess recently, and he tied for second at this year's Montreal Open this past weekend behind GM Sambuev. A key game on his way to 4/5 was his nice third round win again GM Roussel-Rouzmon.
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