Terry Song, who won an impressive 177.60 FIDE rating points in the August update just earned his FM title and an IM norm at the North American Junior Championship, held in Kitchener. He finished in 3rd place, after defeating three FMs in the last three rounds.
"I am not disappointed to lose this match. I don't know exactly why, but I think the life for me will be better after this match." - Boris Spassky, 1972 interview.
AP/British Movietone archive and the 2015 British Championship are on this week's Best of the Web.
List of winners :
Main event (Regular games) : GM Romain Edouard (section A), WGM Mona Khaled (Best Woman, section A) and Guennadi Kozlov (section B)
Blitz tournament : GM Maxim Dlugy (section A) and Franck Renaud (section B)
By drawing his round 8 game against GM Samy Shoker, Olivier Kenta Chiku-Ratté managed to score an IM norm (regardless of the result of round 9)!
Several videos were released this week by the Associated press, some of them being related to chess.
One video even features GM Spassky against IM Hébert at the Chess Olympiads (1978).
The Concordia Chess Group is pleased to announce a chess lecture by GM Bator Sambuev.
This week's Canadian tactic comes from the game L.Gerzhoy - N.Noritsyn, 2015 Canadian Closed. White has just played 30.R1f5, what should Black play?
This week's game is from the first round of the Canadian Closed. While I usually choose games showing a good fight from both sides, this week's game is rather one-sided. Still, it shows how a grandmaster can exploit the slightest inaccuracy in the opening to secure a quick win.
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