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The World Youth U16 Chess Olympiad starts Thursday
It looks like Canada sent a team. The website doesn't show the team members http://wyco2015.mongolchess.mn/copage.php?cid=en_ca
I couldn't find any information on CFC's website about this event. I know about this tournament because somebody asked me if Razvan is interested to play. We declined because of his busy schedule and the remote location in Mongolia (over 24 hours flight). I'm just wondering how were the players selected if no official announcement was made? Is CFC "sponsoring" the team like last year?
http://wyco2015.mongolchess.mn/entrants.php
It looks like Canada sent a team. The website doesn't show the team members http://wyco2015.mongolchess.mn/copage.php?cid=en_ca
I couldn't find any information on CFC's website about this event. I know about this tournament because somebody asked me if Razvan is interested to play. We declined because of his busy schedule and the remote location in Mongolia (over 24 hours flight). I'm just wondering how were the players selected if no official announcement was made? Is CFC "sponsoring" the team like last year?
We listed them in the online meeting. There was a call for players as soon as the Mongolian Federation made an announcement of the details of the tournament. We did not have enough players until the Canadian Closed when several of the players came together. The level of support will be approximately the same as what was done last year although only for one team.
Post 4 in 10. Other business of the incoming meeting is copied and pasted here:
In the case of this year's U16 Olympiad team in Mongolia the team will be
Zongyang Yu 2323 Montreal
Diwen Shi 2241 Calgary
Yinshi Li 2213 North York
Joey Zhong 2212 Toronto
Rachel Tao 1788 Windsor
We picked the highest rated applicants for girls and I believe the boys we took everyone who applied. The team was formed quite late as we didn't have enough players to form a team until after CYCC when some of the parents took to talking among themselves and were able to fill out the team roster.
Re: The World Youth U16 Chess Olympiad starts Thursday
Canada defeated the U.S. by a score of 4-0 in the first round of the U16 Olympiad. In the second round we get the much tougher Belarus ranked 5th overall.
Do they have a team captain? If not who's deciding the boards number?
Christina Tao is deciding the boards with a little help from me. There was a bit of a glitch in the first round because they couldn't believe that the U.S. team was as weak as they seemed to be. I wanted Zongyang Yu to sit the first round but instead it was Joey Zhong who sat. Apparently they had only a few minutes to submit the pairing.
Iran managed to win after coming 3th (2 years ago) and 2nd (last year). They lost last round vs. China1 but had 1/2 game point more then India (TB2).
Canada came 8th after losing 3-1 to Hungary in the last round.
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