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The 2018 edition of the Edmonton International will take place on June 19-24 at the Edmonton Chess Club. The main event this year is a 10 player RR which offers GM norm opportunities. There is also an Open event with up to 20 participants (13 currently registered). Visit edmonton-international.com for more details.
“Grandmaster Anton Kovalyov, the highest-ranked player in Canada, travelled from Richardson, Texas, where he’s completing graduate studies in computer science.
On Monday night, Kovalyov performed a two-hour “simul,” a display of stamina and skill that saw the 26-year-old play 16 simultaneous games against opponents of all ages and stripes.
After finishing off his last opponent, a nine-year-old boy, in a series of flawless victories, the Montreal-based master took a breather to tell StarMetro about the makings of a grandmaster.
What’s it like to play 16 people at the same time?
You play worse for sure. At least I play worse, even though your opponents are somewhat weaker than you. Sometimes you do lose games. I was very close to losing. It can happen. Even the best players in the world, they cannot calculate everything. There’s a lot of intuition involved. You get it by playing a lot of games and studying. It’s not something that you just guess. There was one kid, I think he was a little better. I had a lot of tricks and eventually I tricked him.
How did you train to reach the grandmaster level?
I started when I was 10 years old and I became grandmaster at the age of 16. When I was a kid, I was studying a lot by myself and I progressed pretty quickly. But then with time, when you reach higher and higher levels, progressing is much, much harder. It requires more and more work. Also it requires luck, it requires contacts also, because you need to get invited to strong tournaments. So it’s not that easy.
Did you stop trying as hard after achieving grandmaster status?
I think there is a little bit of truth in that. Eventually, to make progress, you have to study a lot with a computer, you need coaches, and it’s not that easy. For some reason, I did not feel like it was that interesting for me anymore, because of all of that preparation. At higher and higher levels that becomes very essential. And that takes some of the fun for it, at least for me.”
The 13th Edmonton International chess tournament runs June 19 to 24 at the Edmonton Chess Club. Spectators are welcome and can find the schedule at
The Organizer, Rafael Arruebarrena, was going to broadcast the games live and TD as a volunteer. But he had to step in and join the tournament as a player when another player had to drop out one day before the tournament due to a death in the family.
Last edited by Micah Hughey; Friday, 22nd June, 2018, 06:57 AM.
According to the X-table, her win was against Arruebarrena not agianst Sambuev to whom she lost.
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