Blitz tournament in Montreal with GMs Bareev, Lesiège, Kovalyov and Sambuev

Montreal VIP Blitz Chess - Saturday June 27 at 7 pm

BOTW: 2015.06.15

Best of the Web includes Norway Chess 2015, which features seven of the world's top 10, including World Champ Magnus Carlsen.
That's Garry Kasparov on the left kibitzing on the opening blitz tournament.

Game of the Week : Richard Chen vs Sammy Yao (Aurora Spring op)

This week's GOTW shows very interesting openings ideas by Black in a modern defense that quickly lead him to a good position. However, finding a plan was not easy and Black unfortunately failed to find the necessary counterplay.

Peter Yee Memorial (June 13-14, 2015, in Langley, BC)

On June 13 - 14, 2015, the Langley Chess Club held a special tournament, the Peter Yee Memorial, to commemorate and recognize our friend and long time club member Peter Yee who passed away in March 2015.

Tactics: Attacking Development

This week's Canadian Tactic comes from the 2015 Alberta Closed.
IM Richard Wang won and has annotated this game between the second and third place finishers: Alex Yam and Rafael Arruebarrena.

2015 Eastern Ontario Open (June 19-21)

2015 Eastern Ontario Open

Game of the Week: Hansen, E - Lujan, C

This week, I present to you Eric Hansen's round 8 game played at the Continental Chess Championships. This game shows a clean transformation of a positional advantage to a win. 

TORO (Gatineau) Results

Four players tied for first at the TORO (Tournoi ouvert régional de l'Outaouais) : GM Sambuev, IM Hambleton, NM Qin and NM Vettese. Each of them will bring home $500.

Alex Danilov won section B ($750), while Lucas Bernatchez won section C ($550).

Canada's newest FM and WIM!

Shawn Rodrigue Lemieux won the U12 section at the North American Youth Championship and obtained the FM title.
Meanwhile, Qiyu Zhou won the U18G section and obtained the WIM title. 
Congratulation to all Canadian players!

Tactics: Rapid Finish

Black has just played 23...Be2, what should White do?
NB: The CFC website switched servers this week (!!). The following is a repost which was lost during the transition.

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