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The World Youth Chess Championship (WYCC) takes place in Montevideo, Uruguay, on September 16-25, 2017. Here is the organizer's site.
The Head of Delegation for Team Canada is the inimitable Christina Tao. We have 16 players in all six categories.
Code:
U14 Open
CM Talukdar Rohan 2132
Noritsyn Sergey 2038
Gaisinsky Adam 1965
Feng Richard 1648
Makarczyk David 1385
U14 Girls
WFM Demchenko Svitlana 1985
He Emma 1664
U16 Open
CM Chen Richard 2189
Liang Hairan 2131
Liu Zhanhe 1912
Li Eric M 1844
U16 Girls
Tao Ellen 1561
U18 Open
Zhu Brandon 2015
Li James 2013
Zhong Joey 1984
U18 Girls
Wang Jiaying 1822
The Chief Arbiter is Canada's very own IA/IO Hal Bond.
You can have a bird's eye view of the results for the whole Canadian delegation by constructing a link such as this.
All the best to players, coaches and officials! Good luck to all parents!
Last edited by Vadim Tsypin; Friday, 15th September, 2017, 07:58 PM.
The hotel is brand new, however, many facilities are not ready yet.
The most important thing is the Internet is not properly working and it is very hard for me to communicate. I have to go to Sheraton hotel lobby to use the Internet.
I placed the first pictures sent by Christina here. When things go back to normal, someone will post everything to the CFC FB page.
Information from the technical meeting, shared by the HOD with players, parents and the CFC. Some of those points are location-specific but, taken together, they give us back in Canada a useful view on the championship.
Originally posted by Christina Tao
Appeal: must submit within 30 minutes after the round of your section; the fee is 100 Euro.
Tolerance: 30 minutes from the start of the round.
Time control: 90 minutes for the first 40 moves followed by 30 minutes for the rest of the game. with the addition of 30 sec per each move from the beginning.
There are two water stations. No food on the table. Players can snack in the corner of the room.
No cell phone or electronic device inside the playing hall. Handheld metal detectors will be used.
First 6 boards of each category will be on the 25th floor, others will be in the main Ballroom. Players are not allowed to enter another playing hall.
Pairings for Rd 1 are published. Canadians are facing three "homeside" players from Uruguay, three from Argentina, two from India, and one player each from Germany, Slovakia, Romania, Latvia, Japan, Norway, England and Puerto Rico.
7.5 / 16 points for Team Canada in Rd 1. Ellen Tao, James Li and Jiaying Wang all drew against much higher-rated opponents, earning about 16 FIDE rating points each in a single game.
Thursday, September 18 - a difficult day with two rounds played at 9:30 and 17:00 local time.
A valiant effort by all Canadians. Three players: CM Rohan Talukdar, WFM Svitlana Demchenko and CM Richard Chen - remain undefeated, with 2.5/3 points each.
No. FED Federation Count
1 ARG Argentina 32
2 ARU Aruba 1
3 AUS Australia 6
4 AUT Austria 8
5 BEL Belgium 4
6 BOL Bolivia 6
7 BRA Brazil 7
8 BUL Bulgaria 4
9 CAN Canada 16
10 CHI Chile 13
11 CHN China 3
12 COL Colombia 9
13 CRC Costa Rica 2
14 CRO Croatia 3
15 CZE Czech Republic 7
16 ECU Ecuador 6
17 EGY Egypt 1
18 ENG England 4
19 EST Estonia 4
20 FRA France 1
21 GEO Georgia 5
22 GER Germany 7
23 GRE Greece 1
24 HUN Hungary 3
25 IND India 18
26 IRL Ireland 3
27 ISR Israel 4
28 ITA Italy 6
29 JPN Japan 3
30 KAZ Kazakhstan 8
31 LAT Latvia 9
32 LUX Luxembourg 3
33 MEX Mexico 6
34 MGL Mongolia 3
35 MKD Former YUG Rep of Macedonia 1
36 NOR Norway 7
37 PAR Paraguay 4
38 PER Peru 12
39 POL Poland 8
40 PUR Puerto Rico 1
41 ROU Romania 8
42 RSA South Africa 9
43 RUS Russia 14
44 SLO Slovenia 5
45 SRB Serbia 5
46 SUI Switzerland 4
47 SUR Suriname 2
48 SVK Slovakia 6
49 SWE Sweden 1
50 TUR Turkey 6
51 UKR Ukraine 4
52 URU Uruguay 44
53 USA United States of America 28
Total 385
Title statistics
Code:
Title Count
GM 1
IM 8
WIM 11
FM 49
WFM 42
CM 17
WCM 14
Total 142
Tuesday, September 19, Round 4: 8/16 for Team Canada. CM Rohan Talukdar (U-14 Open) and WFM Svitlana Demchenko (U14 Girls) - remain undefeated, with 3.5/4 points each. They will be playing on boards 3 and 4 in their sections tomorrow.
It is worth noting that Canadians were facing mostly higher-rated opponents so far, so there are significant FIDE rating gains for the team (+11, ~1, -4), up to 44 points so far. This is more or less typical at the WYCCs: our juniors are FIDE-underrated since the Canadian junior player pool mixes, at best, only with their U.S. counterparts, in the north-south direction, while there is only once-a-year chance to dip into European and South American pools. :)
Last edited by Vadim Tsypin; Tuesday, 19th September, 2017, 08:15 PM.
Reason: Added rating discussion.
Tuesday, September 19, Round 4: 8/16 for Team Canada. CM Rohan Talukdar (U-14 Open) and WFM Svitlana Demchenko (U14 Girls) - remain undefeated, with 3.5/4 points each. They will be playing on boards 3 and 4 in their sections tomorrow.
Go Rohan and Svitlana! Some of the others are having good tournaments as well.
Wednesday, September 20: a difficult day for Team Canada as our top players faced nine titled opponents, with rating gaps as high as 400 points. Round 5 result is 5.5/16 .
Tomorrow, September 21, is a rest day, followed by a double-round day on Friday.
The first half of the tournament has completed. A really good team effort from Canadians. Our best wishes go to all 16 players, the HOD, coaches and parents. Recharge your batteries tomorrow, do a lot of sightseeing, and come out swinging!
Some observations:
Svitlana and Rohan remain in top-10 in their respective categories. Four more players: Adam Gaisinsky, Emma He, Richard Chen, Hairan Liang - remain in top-20.
Out of 385 players, only two managed to maintain a perfect score of 5/5: FM Batsuren Dambasuren (Mongolia) in U-14 Open and WIM Annie Wang (USA) in U-16 Girls. According to Swiss-Manager tournament files, both of them have performance rating in 2800-s. :p
Five Canadian players have FIDE rating gains over 30 points. Emma He (U-14 Girls) picked up 50.40 points over five games. Bravo Emma!
Speaking of separate rating pools and the wonders of k=40 :), there is a participant familiar to many Canadian juniors, Sophie Morris-Suzuki (USA) in U-16 Girls. Sophie has been a good but not exceptional player over the years (for instance, Canada's own Ellen Tao and Shi Yuan Tian placed much higher in the 2017 NAYCC). Well, in this WYCC, Sophie, with 4/5 points so far, nevertheless shows an eye-popping rating gain of 136.80 points. For instance, a draw with a Russian player rated 501 (!) points higher brought Sophie a wholesome 16.80 points since we was equal to 0.08.
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