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2020 Oakville IM Norm Invitational
Oakville IM Norm InvitationalFebruary 19-23, 2020 in Oakville, ON.A 10-player RR with the chance for IM Norms. Organized by Elevate My Chess.Players:Tomas Krnan, IM, CAN, 2420Mark Plotkin, FM CAN...
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Canada's Next IM: Mark Plotkin!
FM Mark Plotkin earns third IM Norm in Oakville!The 2020 Oakville IM Invitational took place February 19-23, 2020 in Oakville, Ontario. It was a 10-player round robin organized by Ken Green's Elevate...
View ArticleUpcoming Events: 2020.03-04
35 chess events in March and April, including the Canadian Women's Zonal and National Championship... March 2020EventlocationinfolinkMarch 1OCC Qualifier G3North York, ON...
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GOTW: Atanasov online
With chess players locked down, apart but just like everyone else, over-the-board events are on pause, but we have another reminder that our game -- unlike hockey and soccer -- lives online. Canada has...
View ArticleUpcoming Events: 2020.04-05
As much a list of cancelled events as events that are not yet cancelled.... but there is at least one online tournament which meets the recommended 6-foot safety distance!As always, check the links for...
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Chess Canada: Embiggened
A new issue of Chess Canada, the CFC online magazine, is now available for free download from the CFC homepage.The two features are an interview with IM David Cummings, and a report on his final IM...
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QGM Qiyu Zhou: Chessbase DVDs
Chessbase has just released two DVDs recorded by Canadian WGM Qiyu Zhou:Fundamentals of Chess Openings (5 hrs 50 min; 57 chapters, including opening principles, then 1.e4 and 1.d4 openings),...
View ArticleBOTW: 2020.05
Despite over-the-board chess events cancelled world-wide, there are still interesting chess to watch and play...The "Magnus Carlsen Invitational" was an 8-player RR and knock-out rapid event hosted on...
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Botez-Demchenko, 2020
The Covid lockdown has (temporariliy?) ended OTB chess events, but there has been a big boom in online chess events. In fact, there has been such an explosion that it has been possible to watch World...
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GOTW: a maneuver against the London System
Our Canadian Game of the Week comes from the online rapid match between Canadian and Romanian U18s, which Romania won by a narrow margin.In the diagram we see a London System that has transposed into a...
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