The CFC has announced it is going to receive funding from the FIDE (following Ilyumzhinov's election) for a series of eight norm tournaments in the next four years. The purpose of these tournaments is to provide norm opportunities to Canadian players. The CFC is currently looking for potentially interested organizers.
Alexandra Botez, one of Canada's strongest female players, is now the first female president of the Stanford University Chess Club (in California).
While Alexandra earned a chess scholarship for the University of Texas, Dallas, she decided to attend Stanford to "grow a lot more as a person".
20 critical positions from the 2014 CYCC and 2014 Canadian Open to test your calculation and imagination.
This great game was played at the 2014 Quebec Amateur Championships. For once, Qiyu Zhou was on the losing side, although she still managed to put up a solid fight. Sicilian fans will definitely love the game and might get some new attacking ideas :)
The SPICE Cup took place in St-Louis, October 21-26. FM Razvan Preotu tied for ninth with two GMs and two IMs, earning a GM norm by scoring 5.5/9, including 3/6 against GMs. GM Illya Nyzhnik, from Webster U, won the tournament.
GM Eric Hansen is having a great tournament in Guernsey.
With 6/6, he will play against IM Aman Hambleton (4.5/6) in the seventh round.
Submitted by Keith MacKinnon on Tue, 10/21/2014 - 19:42
There is a new strong player on the Montreal chess scene; FM Valerian Hirschberg has been playing in a number of local tournaments, and it's nice to see a new face in the crowd.
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