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Canadian WYCC Champion: Qiyu Zhou
Qiyu Zhou won the World Youth Chess Championship for girls U14 today in Durban, South Africa!
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Jackie Peng is Canada's Youngest WIM
FIDE confirmed Jackie Peng's WIM title today, making her Canada's youngest Women's International Master.
View ArticleKovalyov Annotates: Kovalyov - Sambuev, 2014 Canadian Open.
GM Anton Kovaylov annotates his win over Canadian Champion GM Bator Sambuev from the 2014 Canadian Open/Championnat du Québec.
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Critical Positions from 2014 CYCC & Canadian Open
20 critical positions from the 2014 CYCC and 2014 Canadian Open to test your calculation and imagination.
View ArticleCanadian Tactics: 50 Years Ago Today...
50 years ago today (11.11.1964) Canada played the Soviet Union in the A-group final at the Tel Aviv Olympiad. The Russians won, but in one of the games, master of attack Leonid Stein was put to the...
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Tactics: Pawn for Your Trouble?
White has built up an ominous attack. Is there anything wrong with 23.h5, or is it a mistake to let Black win a pawn for his trouble with ...Nxe4 then ...Qxg5?Tags: chessTacticscanada
View Article2014 Hart House Holiday Open
Ten games from the first two rounds of the 2014 Hart House Holiday Open.
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Tactics: Attacking with a4!?
White to play and win in this week's (very hard) Canadian tactic, which comes from the 2014 WYCC. The title is a real hint, not a Miss-deflection.
View ArticleTactics: White to play and... survive?
This week's Canadian Tactic comes from the 2014 PanAms, the North American University Championship, held on South Padre Island, Texas in December. In round 1, GM Anton Kovalyov had Black against an...
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Tactics: Trapped, Not Trapped
This week's Canadian Tactic comes from the 2014 BC Closed Championship. The Black Queen is short of safe squares. Can White take advantage of this?
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Tactics: who's QuaRRy now?
This week's Canadian Tactic comes from game Hensel - Cashin (2014 Maritime Open). Black has just played 36...Qc1. What should White play?
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Tactics: Busy B
This week's Canadian Tactic comes from the game Hambleton - Sambuev Montreal Open, 2014. White played very accurately to defend against a dangerous attack, but that's not enough to win without playing...
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Tactics: 2014 Year in Review
It's White to move in this position. It was selected and annotated by Canadian Champion GM Bator Sambuev as one of the "gotta see" games of 2014, and appears with his notes in the latest issue of Chess...
View ArticleTactics: Attacking Development
This week's Canadian Tactic comes from the 2015 Alberta Closed. IM Richard Wang won and has annotated this game between the second and third place finishers: Alex Yam and Rafael Arruebarrena.
View ArticleTactics: Visiting Cozens
This week's Canadian Tactic comes from the game Cummings - Leyell ( 2014-15 4NCL). How did White pay tribute to one of his earliest chess books...?
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Tactics: Stop that Pawn!
This week's Canadian Tactic comes from the game P.Vavrak-N.Noritsyn, (Hart House, 2014). White has sacrificed an exchange to create a dangerous passed pawn on d6. What should Black do?
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Tactics: Who's Attacking Who?
This week's Canadian tactic comes from the game L.Gerzhoy - N.Noritsyn, 2015 Canadian Closed. White has just played 30.R1f5, what should Black play?
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Tactics: I was SO confident...
This week's Canadian Tactic comes from the final round of the 2015 Alberta Closed Championships and features IM Richard Wang vs IM Edward Porper. Black has just played 26...Rd5, what should White play?
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Tactics: Bold, Brilliant or Bad?
This week's Canadian Tactic comes from the 2014 World U16 Olympiad. Black sacrificed her queenside pawns to bring her King up the board to win White's isolated h2-pawn and create her own passer. White...
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