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  • CYCC News (including interview by CBC)

    CBC was present on site today and interviewed Richard Bérubé (FQE Executive director and chief organizer) and Bernard Labadie (FQE President), as well as some of the CYCC participants. The pictures are on our Facebook page (thanks to Victoria Doknjas!) : https://www.facebook.com/fqechecs

    Also, we are glad to announce that FM Lefong Hua will be analyzing games (for free) between noon and 2 PM on the first three days of the CYCC. He will obviously only be able to analyze a handful of games every day, but spectators will be most welcome.

    CYCC schedule :
    Tuesday July 15, 2014:
    Arrival : 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM : Pick up your participation gifts
    The tournament hall is on the Convention floor (1st floor)
    - Round 1 : 10 AM - Parents are allowed in the room during the first 15 minutes
    - Round 2 : 3 PM
    July 16-18
    - Rounds 3 and 4 : 10 AM and 3 PM, Wednesday, July 16, 2014
    - Rounds 5 and 6 : 10 AM and 3 PM, Thursday, July 17, 2014
    - Round 7 : 9 AM, Friday, July 18, 2014

    Tiebreaks : July 18 at 2 PM
    Prize ceremony : July 18 at 4 PM (lots of trophies and prizes for players in their junior year!)

    Side events (for CYCC and CO players):
    Simultaneous exhibition (10 invited players) : July 18 at 2 PM
    Bughouse tournament : July 18 at 6 PM

    Other important information :
    - Results will be posted on Chess-results.
    - If you have any question on site, please see Roman Sarrazin-Gendron (the tallest one in the organizing team). The chief organizer will be Richard Bérubé and the chief arbiter Aris Marghetis, but both will probably be busy. Please note I won't be myself on site before Thursday.
    - You can contact us at info@fqechecs.qc.ca or at 514-252-3034, but please do not leave urgent voice messages in the middle of the night or during the weekend.
    - There is free wifi in the tournament and analysis rooms (password echecs2014).
    www.echecsmontreal.ca
    Last edited by Felix Dumont; Monday, 14th July, 2014, 08:53 PM.

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    1st round pairings (in progress)

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      Originally posted by Felix Dumont View Post
      Thnx. Will you update results live or after the round?

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        It will depend on the arbiters and how much time they have... Which probably means it will be after the round, but we never know :)

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          Thanks for posting everything so promptly. (I live vicariously.)

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            Will there be live games via Monroi? Likewise for the Canadian Open?

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              There should be 4 live games with DGT, but unfortunately we only receive the boards tonight... So hopefully everything should work well for the next 11 days. For the CO we usually have the time to enter the 2400 section games (or at least some of them) every day. We might have the time to enter a few CYCC games before it ends, but that's hard to tell.

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                Monroi too expensive I imagine?

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                  It can be, if you need to hire someone to take care of it. In the past we often did it ourselves, but this year everyone is too busy to do that. It has also been pretty hard to contact MonRoi lately (it took everything to reach them for last year's Quebec Open).

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                    CYCC participants are currently finishing their first game ! Some pictures from the opening ceremony :
                    The pairings and results are now on chess-results. You can find a link on the Follow page of the CYCC website.

                    4 boards (first of the four strongest sections) will be shown live, starting with round 3 tomorrow morning.

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                    You can find hundreds of pictures on our facebook page !
                    Last edited by Roman Sarrazin Gendron; Tuesday, 15th July, 2014, 12:58 PM.

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                      I hope you are keeping the score sheets. :-)

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                        One hour and thirteen minutes till the live games start!

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                          Originally posted by Andy Shaw View Post
                          One hour and thirteen minutes till the live games start!
                          And we have takeoff!

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                            The Live games should be here : http://lavariante.ca/dgt_direct/cycc/tfd.htm

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                              Originally posted by Felix Dumont View Post
                              The Live games should be here : http://lavariante.ca/dgt_direct/cycc/tfd.htm
                              :(
                              I was hoping to watch board 1 in the U16. Mark Plotkin plays very sharp lines and his games are always fun to watch.

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