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When: February 28, 2011 @ 7:30 pm Where: Annex Chess Club, 918 Bathurst St (just N of Bloor, near Bathurst subway) Cost: $20 (free for ACC members) includes coffee and casual chess after the talk
GM Mark Bluvshtein is Canada’s top FIDE-rated grandmaster, but also a local hero: he grew up in North York, attending Newtonbrook Secondary School and York University.
Mark is currently playing in the Aeroflot Open in Moscow. This is the latest stop on his tour of top chess tournaments, which included the Tata Steel Chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee.
When he returns to Toronto, he will be delivering a lecture at the Annex Chess Club, featuring games from his recent tour.
Annex Chess Club members will be selecting two games from four possible options by vote on February 14, 2011. Note that the lecture entry cost can be put towards an Annex Chess Club membership.
When: February 28, 2011 @ 7:30 pm Where: Annex Chess Club, 918 Bathurst St (just N of Bloor, near Bathurst subway) Cost: $20 (free for ACC members) includes coffee and casual chess after the talk
GM Mark Bluvshtein is Canada’s top FIDE-rated grandmaster, but also a local hero: he grew up in North York, attending Newtonbrook Secondary School and York University.
Mark is currently playing in the Aeroflot Open in Moscow. This is the latest stop on his tour of top chess tournaments, which included the Tata Steel Chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee.
When he returns to Toronto, he will be delivering a lecture at the Annex Chess Club, featuring games from his recent tour.
Annex Chess Club members will be selecting two games from four possible options by vote on February 14, 2011. Note that the lecture entry cost can be put towards an Annex Chess Club membership.
Hi Marcus,
Thank you for posting this information on our site. Mark is an awesome guy and this will be a treat!
I see that this is your first post here. I hope you will provide us with a summary of the lecture and that you will participate on Chesstalk regularly as we do not appreciate advertising only posts from contributors :)
Re: GM Mark Bluvshtein lecture in Toronto - Feb 28
Thank you, Larry, for welcoming me to the forum and encouraging me to participate more broadly. I'll be sure to let everyone at ChessTalk know how the lecture goes.
Re: GM Mark Bluvshtein lecture in Toronto - Feb 28
UPDATE: The votes are in! The games to be presented, as selected by ACC members, are first (with 90% of the vote) M. Bluvshtein – I. Ivanisevic, 2011 Tata Steel (13) and second (with 80% of the vote) K. Nikolaidis – M. Bluvshtein, 2010 Corsica Masters (5).
On February 28, GM Mark Bluvshtein delivered a chess lecture at the Annex Chess Club in downtown Toronto. He analyzed two games – M. Bluvshtein-I. Ivanisevic, 2011 Tata Steel (13); and K. Nikolaidis-M. Bluvshtein, 2010 Corsica Masters (5) – and shared compelling insights into grandmaster chess play.
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