Reading Week 2014: Crown Section
City: Gatineau, Quebec&nbs
Submitted by Keith MacKinnon on Mon, 02/17/2014 - 18:07
Today, Louie Jiang brings us the dynamic Semi-Slav played by IM Edward Porper as Black against GM Mekhitarian in the 9th round at Gibraltar. A small error on Black's thirteenth move led to an inferior position in which White was able to play a better position with very little risk.
The selection commitee has still not decided who will represent Canada next summer in Norway, but the CFC has already started collecting donations.
You can support the Canadian teams (male and female teams) on the CFC website :
White has an Isolated Queen's Pawn. What should Black do: blockade it with ...Nb5? or attack it with ...Rad8?
From the game:
Jeffrey Zhu (CAN) - Rowan Willathgamuwa (AUS)
WYCC U12, Al Ain, UAE
2013.12.20
Chessbase published a review of Life of a King, a movie on the life of Eugene Brown, who started playing chess during his 18-year incarceration and later founded a chess club in Washington DC.
The movie is now available on DVD.
2014 BC Open
Richmond, BC
Feb. 8-10
Submitted by Keith MacKinnon on Wed, 02/12/2014 - 15:50
This week's GOTW comes from the recently concluded Gibraltar Chess Festival in which a number of Canadians competed successfully. GM Eric Hansen was Canada's top scorer at 7.0/10 to tie for 10th place in what was one of his best tournaments to date.
Held in Toronto last year, the 2014 North American Youth Chess Championship will take place June 12-16, in Tarrytown, New York.
Hola chess aficionados!
As usual, John had something special up his sleeve for this week. He has enjoyed playing through Shipov's Review of 2013 on Crestbook, and so have I, for the last half-hour!
Top quote (according to John):
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