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So here are the options for following the progress of the Canadian youth team in Turkey:
1. The Turkish home site with comments in Turkish for the live games but you need a Java viewer (which I don't have as yet).
2. The Canadian team Blog. According to Larry Bevand, the tournament starts next week. But there is an impressive Canadian flag - makes me want to jump up and sing O Canada!
3. Larry gives the site for following the progress of the USA contingent - they did have some nice pix of the USA team's arrival in Turkey.
4. Chess Bomb is showing live games of top rateds. You can switch back and forth between these and the Tal Memorial Super GMs in Moscow. Go to the bar at the top of the chat window to switch games and tournaments. The site is here >>> http://livechess.chessdom.com/site/
5. Wait for the team to get back and get first hand reports.
The second Canadian player in the U8 boys is Yuanchen Zhang, not Shi Yuan ZHAO. He played in Guelph on the weekend and acquitted himself quite well. We discussed his upcoming trip and he was nervous about some of the higher rated competition. I tried to convince him that he would do just fine and that confidence was the key.
Karoly Szalay is live at Chessdom. Looks like he's in a little difficulty...
I'm still getting the error message at Chessdom, but the Java viewer at the Turkish site works for me. The top games are divided into five stadia. Karoly played on board 2 at the Cumhuriyet Stadium (perhaps these stadia are metaphorical). Cumhuriyet means Republic. Huriyet means Liberty. So no need to rush; if you're in Turkey, you'll see those words a lot. Karoly lost to Illya Nyzhnyk (you might remember him from open events in Moscow...), #2 ranked in the u-16 group. Karoly gave up a B for a N (presumably to avoid something worse). I thought he might try Nf6-h5-f4 or Nf6-d7-f8 with -e6 looming in both cases, but he played Qc8-b7-c6. Nyzhnyk played the completely logical but somehow still surprising Qb3-b4-c5! offering a Q trade, and, as often happens in endgames, the B turned out better than the N.
I'm posting the results on the CFC forum, and I'm starting to update the Canadian team blog. Until now I haven't been able to access internet, so I bought a wireless internet USB jack.
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