2024 Canadian Closed

[Hans Jung]

Shiyam Thavandiran is the hero of round eight with an unbelievable checkmate as Black pulled off under time pressure!! He's now in clear first with 7 out of 8.

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Its a miracle! It really is a miracle! Shiyam Thavandiran looked under a lot of pressure, had seconds on the clock. Looked like he walked into a pin with 31. Bg6 and then a desperate rook sacrifice on f3 but actually the white king was in a box. After 32. Be8 Rf1+ 33.Ke2 Rf8f2+ 34.Kd3 Rd1+ Its checkmate next move!! Unbelievable!!! WoW! Shiyam!!!
Whats that song? There'll be dancing in the street! Im getting ready to dance in the street!

and Im posting the final position on my study wall! This is Canadian chess history being made!

White just played 31. Bg6

[Hans Jung]

Rd 8 Nicholas Vettese lost a long tough fight to Raja Panjwani

[Hans Jung]

Sergei Noritsyn hung tough against Shawn RL but succumbed when staring at too many passed pawns.

[Hans Jung]

Anthony Atanasov played a well planned kingside breakthrough against Eric Lawson.

[Hans Jung]

IM Shiyam Thavandiran is 7 out of 8 and has a full point lead on GM elect Shawn RL, IM Raja Panjwani, IM Sai Krishna all tied for second with 6.

[Hans Jung]

Rd 9 Pairings Board One IM Shiyam Thavandiran vs IM Sai Krishna

2. GM elect Shawn RL vs FM Anthony Atanasov

3. IM Raja Panjwani vs GM Bator Sambuev

4. IM Nicholas Vettese vs FM Adam Dorrance

5 GM Razvan Preotu vs IM Nikolay Noritsyn

[Hans Jung]

Canadian Womens Round 7 Maili Jade Ouellet beat Morgen Mills and Yunshan Li beat Svitlana Demchenko.

[Hans Jung]

Canadian Womens after 7 Maili Jade Ouellet is leading with 6 out of 7.

[Sam Sharpe]

Panjwani-Sambuev 13...Rf8 Was this a "touch rook before king" castling mistake?

[Hugh Brodie]

Panjwani-Sambuev 13...Rf8 Was this a "touch rook before king" castling mistake?

Maybe a DGT glitch, or maybe Black didn't place his K centered properly on g8, and DGT didn't record a K move.

[Walter De Jong]

Congratulations to Shiyam, who wins it all with a round to spare. I watched most of his games (on Lichess) the past few days - and they have been entertaining. Especially the rabbit he pulled from his hat in round 8...

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Congratulations to Shiyam, who wins it all with a round to spare..

Congrats indeed!

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Performance rating

2708

[Hans Jung]

Shiyam Thavandiran won a long strategical game in round 9 against IM Sai Krishna to become Canadian Champion!! WoW!! Yes there is one round left to play but apparently his result has it all sewn up already.

[Hans Jung]

Thanks to Shiyam for endulging us, his fans, with a wonderful round 9 game that had just about everything chessic in it. 117 moves!! - hard work, a good fight. Four Knights opening, a classic large center, interesting knight play, the center pawn fork "trick", many times the transformation of advantages, the two bishops, a "mad" queen chase by the rooks and finally a queen exchange, two rooks on the seventh, giving up one of the bishops to cripple the pawn structure, rook sparring, and finally a 62 move delicious endgame of rook and king vs knight before the final knight trap