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If I will look just for the FIDE rating points standing, we will have all the team with 2551 average rating:
1 GM.Bluvshtein, Mark/2590
2 GM.Spraggett, Kevin/2584
3 GM.Sambuev, Bator/2536
4 GM.Lesiege, Alexandre/2528
5 GM.Charbonneau, Pascal/2517
Of course this is not going to be this year team, Mark post on his blog that he is retired, Alexandre and Pascal are not eligible by the CFC rules. I hope Mr. Spraggett will accept the invitation, I just mention that he declined to play in the last 2 editions.
Base on the rules, the invited players will be:
Sambuev Bator GM Champion
Bluvshtein Mark GM
Spraggett Kevin GM
Gerzhoy Leonid IM
The last spot will be decided by Selection Committee members: IM Yan Teplitsky (ON), FM Vlad Pechenkin (AB) and WIM Natalia Khoudgarian (ON).
Personally I like CFC choice of this commitee, is almost equally spread between eastern provinces and western provinces, based on the years Yan spent in BC, he is a BCCF honorific member. They will propose 3 names from the list below as the candidates for Canadian team.
I would like to see the chess players choices for those 3 spots (in case any of the invited players will decline), I mentioned that those choices are not forced to be in the rating order (no committee needed in that case).
Will be nice if everyone sharing his/hers selection will list some arguments for their pick.
Here is the list from CFC forum:
Players Tit FIDE CFC Avrg #G Elg Pl WNE
Sambuev Bator GM 2531 2753 2642 ≥20 Champion
Bluvshtein Mark GM 2611 2634 2623 ≥20 Yes 1
Spraggett Kevin GM 2588 2618 2603 ≥20 Yes 2
Gerzhoy Leonid IM 2503 2647 2575 ≥20 Yes 3
Noritsyn Nikolay IM 2475 2661 2568 ≥20 Yes 4
Hansen Eric IM 2454 2612 2533 ≥20 Yes 8
Porper Edward IM 2449 2533 2491 ≥20 Yes 10
Samsonkin Artem IM 2398 2579 2489 ≥20 Yes 12
Krnan Tomas IM 2417 2545 2481 ≥20 Yes 13
Cheng Bindi IM 2426 2533 2480 ≥20 Yes 14
Panjwani Raja IM 2420 2493 2457 ≥20 Yes 16
Sapozhnikov Roman FM 2377 2535 2456 ≥20 Yes 17
Hebert Jean IM 2416 2490 2453 ≥20 Yes 18
Quan Zhe IM 2427 2462 2445
1 GM.Bluvshtein, Mark/2590
2 GM.Spraggett, Kevin/2584
3 GM.Sambuev, Bator/2536
4 GM.Lesiege, Alexandre/2528
5 GM.Charbonneau, Pascal/2517
Of course this is not going to be this year team, Mark post on his blog that he is retired, Alexandre and Pascal are not eligible by the CFC rules. I hope Mr. Spraggett will accept the invitation, I just mention that he declined to play in the last 2 editions.
Base on the rules, the invited players will be:
Sambuev Bator GM Champion
Bluvshtein Mark GM
Spraggett Kevin GM
Gerzhoy Leonid IM
The last spot will be decided by Selection Committee members: IM Yan Teplitsky (ON), FM Vlad Pechenkin (AB) and WIM Natalia Khoudgarian (ON).
Personally I like CFC choice of this commitee, is almost equally spread between eastern provinces and western provinces, based on the years Yan spent in BC, he is a BCCF honorific member. They will propose 3 names from the list below as the candidates for Canadian team.
I would like to see the chess players choices for those 3 spots (in case any of the invited players will decline), I mentioned that those choices are not forced to be in the rating order (no committee needed in that case).
Will be nice if everyone sharing his/hers selection will list some arguments for their pick.
Here is the list from CFC forum:
Players Tit FIDE CFC Avrg #G Elg Pl WNE
Sambuev Bator GM 2531 2753 2642 ≥20 Champion
Bluvshtein Mark GM 2611 2634 2623 ≥20 Yes 1
Spraggett Kevin GM 2588 2618 2603 ≥20 Yes 2
Gerzhoy Leonid IM 2503 2647 2575 ≥20 Yes 3
Noritsyn Nikolay IM 2475 2661 2568 ≥20 Yes 4
Hansen Eric IM 2454 2612 2533 ≥20 Yes 8
Porper Edward IM 2449 2533 2491 ≥20 Yes 10
Samsonkin Artem IM 2398 2579 2489 ≥20 Yes 12
Krnan Tomas IM 2417 2545 2481 ≥20 Yes 13
Cheng Bindi IM 2426 2533 2480 ≥20 Yes 14
Panjwani Raja IM 2420 2493 2457 ≥20 Yes 16
Sapozhnikov Roman FM 2377 2535 2456 ≥20 Yes 17
Hebert Jean IM 2416 2490 2453 ≥20 Yes 18
Quan Zhe IM 2427 2462 2445
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