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GOTW: Piasetski - Pashayan, 2017 World Senior 65+
Our Canadian Game of the Week is Piasetski - Pashayan, from the 27th World Senior Championship, which just finished in Acqui Terme, Italy.
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Canada's Next GM: Aman Hambleton!
With one round to go IM Aman Hambleton has guaranteed his final GM Norm at the Sunway Sitges International in Spain!
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2017-18 Canadian Women's Champion: Maili-Jade Ouellet
Maili-Jade Ouellet won the 2017-18 Canadian Women's Chanpionship (Zonal 2.2) with 7/9 (+6 = 2 -1). Report and annotated games...
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Anti-Grunfelds at the 2018 Ontario Junior Championship
The 2018 Ontario Junior was held January 27-29, 2018. FM Nicholas Vettese won with 5/5. Details, links, and two annotated games, both featuring anti-Grunfelds...
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GOTW: Dukic - Qin, CUCC 2018
Our Canadian Game of the Week comes from the final round of the Canadian University Chess Championship, between Ottawa U's Zach Dukic and Waterloo's Joey Qin.
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Tactics: Wreckjavik
Our Canadian Tactic comes from IM Shiyam Thavandiran's round 4 game at the 2018 Reykjavik Open. In the diagram, Shiyam is threatening Qxg7#; what happens after 18...g6 19.Rae1 ...?
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GOTW: Vogt - Piasetski, HD Bank Cup, 2018.
IM Leon Piasetski annotates his topsy-turvy round 5 game against German GM Lothar Vogt from the 2018 HD Bank Cup Open in Vietnam...
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GOTW: Hansen - MacKinnon, Nanaimo 2018.
Our Canadian Game of the Week is GM Eric Hansen's round 4 win over NM Keith MacKinnon at the 2018 Nanaimo Spring Open.
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GOTW: Dorrance - Hansen, Halifax 2018.
Our Canadian Game of the Week is Adam Dorrance vs Eric Hansen, from the 2018 Bluenose Open in Halifax, annotated by Adam Dorrance. Tags: Hansen
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GOTW; 2018.06.02
Our Canadian Game of the Week is between Eric Ning and IM Tomas Krnan, from round 2 of the Golden Horseshoe Championship in Mississauga (still in progress!). From the diagram, White played an early g4...
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2018 CYCC Results
Complete cross-tables from the 2018 Canadian Youth Chess Championships, which finished July 5, 2018 and featured a record 363 players!
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2018 Canadian Open Results
The 2018 Canadian Open was won by Bitan Banerjee (CAN) and IM Raymond Kaufman (USA), with Banerjee taking the title on first tie-break, having beaten Kaufman in round 5. Results and links...
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2018 Quebec Open
The 2018 Québec Open was held July 21-28, 2018, at the Sandman Hotel in Longueuil, Québec, just across the river from Montréal. GM Razvan Preotu (CAN) -- smiling in post-mortem photo with GM Cherniaev...
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BOTW: 2018.08.09
Our Best of the Web includes the 2018 Canadian Junior, the preliminary rounds of the world's top computer chess engine tournament, and a rapid and blitz tournament featuring 9 of the world's top 14...
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2018 Canadian Junior: Results
The Canadian Junior Chess Championship ran August 8-12, 2018 at Humber College, Toronto. Results, links, and a few photos...
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2018 Calgary International: GOTW
The 11th Calgary International Chess Classic was held August 14-19, 2018 at the Calgary Chess Club. It was won by GMs Victor Mikhalevski and Steven Zierk... but not without some very anxious moments...
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GOTW: Vettese - Samsonkin, Toronto 2018
Our Canadian Game of the Week comes from the 2018 Toronto Open, and features cowinner Nicholas Vettese beating IM Artiom Samsonkin in an endgame stemming from a rare line in the French...
View Article2018 Olympiad: Rd1 Canadian Games
All Canadian games from round 1 of the 2018 Olympiad, annotated; plus links to live coverage, results, and photos...Tags: 2018 Olympiad
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2018 Olympiad: Rd2 Canadian Games
All Canadian games from round 2 of the 2018 Olympiad, annotated...Tags: 2018 Olympiad
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2018 Olympiad: Rd3 Canadian Games
In Round 3 the Canadian teams played India and the USA:
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