186 players showed up at the Trois-Rivières Open, which is traditionnaly the biggest weekend tournament in Canada.
Yuanling Yuan, Canada's strongest female player, is representing us at the Women's World Championship in Sochi, Russia.
Watch out, the registration fees for the McGill open are going up on April 1st ! You can register online on the tournament website.
This week's GOTW features an interesting opening in which both players had both interesting and doubtful ideas. It resulted in a highly tactical middlegame in which Black showed superior attacking skills.
It's not everyday that you get to meet the World Champion, but IM Razvan Preotu, arguably Canada's most promising junior player, had this chance in Reykjavik.
FM Lefong Hua, in collaboration with the FQE (Quebec Chess Federation), is organizing three training camps this summer.
Today's Canadian Tactic comes from the 2015 Gatineau Open.
Black is up a pawn with a better structure, but it's a Rook ending and White has an outside passed pawn and his centralized King keeps the Black King passive.
What can Black do?
Picture : Qiyu Zhou and Razvan Preotu, along with coach GM Szabo. Patrick Van Hoolandt, president of the AIDEF (International Chess Association of French Speaking countries) is also behind them.
Andrea Botez placed first in the U14G section of Susan Polgar's National Open for Boys and Girls rencently with 5.5/6 at only 12 years old.
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