This week's Canadian Tactic comes from the 2014 World U16 Olympiad.
Black sacrificed her queenside pawns to bring her King up the board to win White's isolated h2-pawn and create her own passer. White to play and show whether Black's bold play was brilliant or bad.
A 60 minute talk from Vishy Anand, and two national championships are this week's Best of the Web.
City: Kitchener, Ontario
Dates: Saturday, Sept 19 - Sunday, Sept 20, 2015
Place: Kitchener City Hall, 200 King St.
Rds: 5, Swiss
Round Times: SAT 10:00am, 1:00pm, 6:00pm SUN 10:00am, 3:00pm
Chess Federation of Canada - Annual General Meeting - 9 - 16 August 2015
Submitted by Keith MacKinnon on Sun, 08/09/2015 - 16:12
A rising player on the Canadian chess scene is Elias Oussedik from New Brunswick. Even as a medical student, his chess is improving, and he's been showing chess at a strong FM level all summer. However, in the following game, he took a hard knock against IM Aman Hambleton.
Congrats to Slava Rek for winning our latest event with 9.5/10! The previous event was won by IM Peter Vavrak also with 9.5/10. Both so close to perfect, but not quite, and so the Perfect Score Bonus has grown to $50 for our special event on Wednesday!
This week's Canadian Tactic comes from the final round of the 2015 Alberta Closed Championships and features IM Richard Wang vs IM Edward Porper.
Black has just played 26...Rd5, what should White play?
Thanks to Hugh Brodie and Luc Gauthier, we now have over 900 games from the Quebec Open on Canbase. I chose one of these games for the GOTW, and I believe you will enjoy it as much as I did.
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