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Round 1 of the World Youth Chess Championships (WYCC) in Halkidiki, Greece, started half an hour ago.
Follow this Chess-Results link to view Team Canada members, their progress, and individual pairings all on one page.
A number of Canadian games are currently broadcast live. The 2014 Girls U-14 World Champion Qiyu Zhou advanced to Girls U-16, and starts on Board 1. In Girls U-14, Constance Wang is up against a strong U.S. player. Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux and Luke Pulfer are in Open U-12. Jason Cai is in Open U-14. Razvan Preotu has the third highest rating in Open U-16, his game is here. Adam Dorrance's - in Open-U18.
Good luck to all Canadian players, parents and coaches, led by HOD Victoria Jung-Doknjas!
Last edited by Vadim Tsypin; Sunday, 25th October, 2015, 10:13 AM.
Reason: Desperate attempt to fix a year in the title. Mods, pls help!
Three Canadian girls (Qiyu Zhou, Maili-Jade Ouellet, Jezzel Farkas) and two boys (Aiden Zhou, Nameer Issani) maintain a perfect score of 2/2 after two rounds of the 2015 WYCC. Congratulations. Everyone else is still pretty much in the mix. Go Team Canada!
Reminder: past results, standings and current pairings for all our players can be accessed here.
Last edited by Vadim Tsypin; Monday, 26th October, 2015, 06:26 PM.
Reason: Added the URL.
The USCF site features this article and a photo. Sasha Konovalenko, a dual U.S.-Canadian citizen who played in all CYCCs through 2014, chose to represent the USA on the world stage.
There are 64 players on the Canadian team. I suspect you missed the "show all results" button at the bottom of the list.
Yes, I missed the "show all results" but even after clicking that I got again 56 players:
Code:
1 71 Dorrance Adam Open U18
2 85 Song Ziyuan (sam) Open U18
3 116 Sabaratnam Thiruvaran Alex Open U18
4 3 Preotu Razvan Open U16
5 58 Doknjas John Open U16
6 119 Graif William Open U16
7 147 Lee Stefano Open U16
8 57 Chen Richard Open U14
9 64 Doknjas Joshua Open U14
10 97 Cai Jason Open U14
11 99 Xu Jeffrey Open U14
12 121 Zhu Jeffrey Xin-Yu Open U14
13 127 Liang Hairan Open U14
14 133 Zhao Harry Open U14
15 181 Fox Dylan Open U14
16 39 Vettese Nicholas Open U12
17 52 Hua Eugene Open U12
18 111 Rodrigue-Lemieux Shawn Open U12
19 113 Pulfer Luke Open U12
20 116 Zhang Henry Open U12
21 119 Surya Benito Open U12
22 136 Gaisinsky Adam Open U12
23 154 Lin Benjamin Open U12
24 162 Low Ethan Open U12
25 195 Makarczyk David Open U12
26 28 Zhou Aiden Open U10
27 38 Low Kevin Open U10
28 41 Issani Nameer Open U10
29 84 Noorali Aahil Open U10
30 92 Wu Nicholas Open U10
31 156 Bui Alan Open U10
32 160 Doknjas Neil Open U10
33 161 England Max Open U10
34 163 Gaisinsky Jacob Open U10
35 185 Zhao Jonathan Open U10
36 19 Chen Max Open U08
37 71 Atanasov Anthony Open U08
38 119 Srinivas Atharva Open U08
39 126 Xie Austin Open U08
40 127 Xu Andrew Open U08
41 65 Foote Joanne Girls U18
42 1 Zhou Qiyu Girls U16
43 47 Li Yilin Girls U16
44 23 Ouellet Maili-Jade Girls U14
45 73 Wang Constance Girls U14
46 76 Kaneshalingam Mathanhe Girls U14
47 100 Zhou Lily Girls U14
48 110 Cui Cynthia Girls U12
49 112 Demchenko Svitlana Girls U12
50 73 Gilani Mysha Girls U10
51 74 Kuleshova Julia Girls U10
52 84 Farkas Jezzel Girls U10
53 105 Tian Shi Yuan Girls U10
54 106 Van Thuy Thanh An Girls U10
55 54 Guo Yu Han Girls U08
56 64 Lin Angela Girls U08
FED Federation Count
USA USA 129
GRE Greece 78
RUS Russia 70
CAN Canada 56
IND India 50
KAZ Kazakhstan 47
CHN China 46
GER Germany 38
NOR Norway 35
ESP Spain 30
ENG England 29
RSA South Africa 28
TUR Turkey 28
ARM Armenia 27
POL Poland 27
MGL Mongolia 26
SRI Sri Lanka 25
SRB Serbia 23
AUT Austria 22
BEL Belgium 22
BUL Bulgaria 21
EST Estonia 20
FRA France 20
GEO Georgia 20
ROU Romania 20
WLS Wales 20
Nah, I ain't that dumb. There were 58 players originally, + 6 coaches, and I remember thinking, that's a promising total. Janet Peng and (I think) Joey Zhong couldn't make it, and even if we add Victoria as HOD that's only 63 total. Maybe we could recruit the janitor, or something.
Thank you Egis! You inspired me to make a per capita table (population in mln).
Code:
FED Country Players Pop. Players per 1 mln
USA USA 129 323 0.40
GRE Greece 78 11 7.09
RUS Russia 70 142 0.49
CAN Canada 56 36 1.56
IND India 50 1267 0.04
KAZ Kazakh. 47 17 2.76
CHN China 46 1394 0.03
GER Germany 38 83 0.46
NOR Norway 35 5 7.00
ESP Spain 30 47 0.64
ENG England 29 54 0.54
RSA S.Afr. 28 53 0.53
TUR Turkey 28 76 0.37
ARM Armenia 27 3 9.00
POL Poland 27 38 0.71
MGL Mongol. 26 3 8.67
SRI Sri Lka.25 21 1.19
SRB Serbia 23 9 2.56
AUT Austria 22 9 2.44
BEL Belgium 22 11 2.00
BUL Bulgar. 21 7 3.00
EST Estonia 20 1 20.00
FRA France 20 65 0.31
GEO Georgia 20 4 5.00
ROU Romania 20 22 0.91
WLS Wales 20 3 6.67
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