Vladimir Drkulec, president of the CFC, presented the first details of the 2015 Zonal (to be confirmed by Hal Bond).
Location : Guelph
Dates: July 10 – 16
11 round swiss
Time control : 90 minutes plus 30 second per move increment
A message from Bob Gillanders, the CFC executive director :
Hello CFC members,
Something very strange happened during the website update today.
It seems that everyone's rating history for 2013 has been deleted.
It is rare to see a player win an open tournament in Quebec without having a FIDE title. The first place is usually disputed among GMs Kovalyov and Sambuev, as well as IM Hebert.
The Mississauga Chess Club is changing day and location for 2015, opening on Wednesday January 7th, at Erindale United Church.
This week's GOTW was played two days ago at the Père-Noël (Santa Claus) tournament in Montreal, organized by the Montreal chess club (associated with CMA).
WILLOWDALE CHESS CLUB presents (a GTCL event):
The GREATER TORONTO CHESS LEAGUE 2015
Starting on January 20
This will be round-robin team tournament.
Submitted by Keith MacKinnon on Mon, 12/22/2014 - 18:28
The World Youth U-16 Chess Olympiad has just concluded in Hungary with the top Canadian team placing 5th. In the 8th round, the seventh seeded Canada faced the Hungarian team (ranked 5th).
David Cummings crushed all opposition at the Panamerican Senior Championship and finished clear first with a score of 7/7 and a FIDE performance of 3015! He should now represent Canada at the World Senior Championship.
Canada's first team finished fifth in the World U16 Olympiads. Their only loss was against India (the highest rated team) and they tied their matches against Croatia, Uzbekistan, Moldova, Hungary and Romania.
Michael Song should also be a FM thanks to his 2375 performance in this tournament.
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