The rise of Canadian Chess

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    On the occasion of Raja Panjwani achieving another GM norm I thought back to what John Upper the editor of our magazine wrote me in an email recently which discussed some of the highlights of the recent four and a half years of Canadian Chess. The following is an excerpt:

    I didn't pay close attention to Canadian chess before I became the CFC newsletter editor, but since then, off the top of my head, I can recall:
    WYCC gold - Harmony Zhu


    WYCC gold - Qiyu Zhou


    IM titles:


    Aman Hambleton,
    Razvan Preotu,
    Michael Barron,
    Michael Song,
    Michael Kleinman,
    Shiyam Thavandiran
    GM title: Razvan Preotu
    first ever WGM title for a Canadian: Qiyu Zhou


    FIDE IA titles: both Danny Goldenberg and Vadim Tsypin




    Results:


    Best ever Canadian Olympiad Result: 2016 Baku Men's team


    Anton Kovalyov qualifying for the World Cup twice, and winning three rounds in 2015 and two in 2017, defeating former FIDE Champions Kasimdzhanov and Anand along the way, and losing only to Caruana and the Testicle who Walks Like a Man.


    Several North American YCC champions


    Hal Bond working the Carlsen-Anand WC match and the Kamsky-Topalov Candidates Final


    Aris Marghettis working the top board at both the 2014 and 2016 Olympiads




    Other:


    multiple records set for attendance at the CYCC


    THREE chess books published by Canadian authors:


    David Cumming's The English (Everyman);
    Raja Panjwani's The Hyper-Accelerated Dragon (Thinker's Press);
    Razvan (Preotu+ Edit) and Michael Song's The Chess Attacker's Handbook (Gambit)


    Has there EVER been 4.5 year stretch where Canadian Chess has seen so many good things?




    John Upper

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    Re : The rise of Canadian Chess

    Originally posted by Vlad Drkulec View Post

    THREE chess books published by Canadian authors:


    David Cumming's The English (Everyman);
    Raja Panjwani's The Hyper-Accelerated Dragon (Thinker's Press);
    Razvan (Preotu+ Edit) and Michael Song's The Chess Attacker's Handbook (Gambit)
    Actually there have been others. One that comes to mind is Jean Hébert's "The Sicilian: Thematic Sacrifices and Attacks" (Le pion passé, 2017). The original book is in French, but there is this English version as well.

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      Re: Re : The rise of Canadian Chess

      Originally posted by Louis Morin View Post
      Actually there have been others. One that comes to mind is Jean Hébert's "The Sicilian: Thematic Sacrifices and Attacks" (Le pion passé, 2017). The original book is in French, but there is this English version as well.
      Excellent news that I was not aware of. Is the book available at Strategy and Games?

      I see the French language version available at Strategy and Games along with Raja's book on the following page:

      http://strategygames.ca/boutique/store/
      Last edited by Vlad Drkulec; Tuesday, 28th November, 2017, 12:45 PM.

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        Re: The rise of Canadian Chess

        and its going to continue. Lots of good news.

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          Re: The rise of Canadian Chess

          LOL to see how much popular is this thread compared to "Decline..."

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            Re: The rise of Canadian Chess

            If it bleeds it leads.

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              Re: The rise of Canadian Chess

              Or as Taylor Swift's song goes:
              "And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate Baby, I'm just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake it off"

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