Submitted by John Upper on Tue, 09/05/2017 - 22:02
The round 1 rapid tiebreaks were played today in Tibilisi. Most of the rating favourites advanced, including Wei Yi, who eliminated Canadian GM Bator Sambuev.
Games and links below...
Submitted by John Upper on Mon, 08/28/2017 - 22:35
FM Michael Kleinman will become Canada's next IM after earning his last Norm and pushing his rating over 2400 at the Barcelona Sants Open, Sunday August 27, 2017!
Still in transit, Michael annotates the game that pushed him over the line here...
Submitted by John Upper on Wed, 08/23/2017 - 12:56
A busy week in the Chess.com Speed Championship -- with three matches in eight days -- and a look back at the Sinquefield Cup and St.Louis Rapid and Blitz events through the player interviews are this week's Best of the Web...
Submitted by John Upper on Fri, 08/18/2017 - 01:08
Pictured are 2017 Canadian Junior Champions Richard Chen and Cynthia Cui. Our Game of the Week is Richard's third round game against tournament co-leader Zac Dukic: a long, theoretical and complicated Taimanov Sicilian...
Submitted by John Upper on Sun, 08/13/2017 - 12:18
The 2017 Canadian Junior Championship, August 9-13 at the Erindale United Church, Mississauga, ON. consists of two events: the 9-round Open section and the 6-round Reserves (U1600).
Submitted by John Upper on Mon, 08/07/2017 - 18:56
GM Victor Mikhalevski won the 2017 Calgary International. He scored 7.5/9 to finish clear first in a field of 34, including five GMs. Mikhalevski won the Calgary International in 2010 and 2014.
Submitted by John Upper on Sat, 08/05/2017 - 13:28
Our Canadian Game of the Week is Linda Shi's brilliancy prize winner from the recently concluded Susan Polgar Foundation Girl's Invitational, from July in St.Louis. If you want to see how to play with pawns in the Ruy Lopez, this is the game for you...
Submitted by John Upper on Sun, 07/16/2017 - 23:52
The 2017 Canadian Open Chess Championship ended July 16 in Sault Ste. Marie with two Canadians atop the podium: GM Razvan Preotu and IM Aman Hambleton.
Details and crosstables...
Submitted by John Upper on Thu, 07/13/2017 - 15:38
The CFC's National Appeals Committee has rendered its decision on IM Nikolay Noritsyn's appeal concerning the end of the second blitz play-off game at the 2017 Canadian Championship. Their decision, along with links to photos and videos, here...
