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  • Jack Maguire
    • 2012-08-11
    • 2466
    #1

    Yuanling Yuan

    Yuanling Yuan played the #2 board for our 2008 Women's Olympiad team in Dresden and the #1 board for our 2010 Women's Olympiad team in Khanty-Mansisyk. She may be even better known for starting the 'Chess in the Library' programme here in Toronto. The Boylston Chess Club Weblog had a nice piece on her Saturday:

    http://boylston-chess-club.blogspot.ca/
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    • Jack Maguire
      • 2012-08-11
      • 2466
      #2
      Re : Yuanling Yuan

      Perhaps Yuanling is fortunate that William "Billy" "The Magician" Collins wasn't frequenting Harvard Square that day. I think my money might have been on Billy.

      http://boylston-chess-club.blogspot.ca/2010/06/billy-magician-shocks-boylston-chess.html

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        • Jack Maguire
          • 2012-08-11
          • 2466
          #3
          Re : Yuanling Yuan

          The 2012 season of the US Chess League got underway tonight and I couldn't help but notice that the Connecticut Dreadnaughts had Canadain WIM Yuanling Yuan on their 3rd board. She lost but Connecticut edged the Boston Blitz 2.5 to 1.5.

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            • Ken Kurkowski
              • 2008-06-01
              • 331
              #4
              Re: Yuanling Yuan

              Good to see Yuanling hasn't shaken the chess bug! I checked out the US Chess League website (http://uschessleague.com/), they have some very strong players, including GMs and IMs. I believe games are played over the internet- something that we might try in Canada.

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                • Jack Maguire
                  • 2012-08-11
                  • 2466
                  #5
                  Re : Re: Yuanling Yuan

                  Originally posted by Ken Kurkowski View Post
                  Good to see Yuanling hasn't shaken the chess bug! I checked out the US Chess League website (http://uschessleague.com/), they have some very strong players, including GMs and IMs. I believe games are played over the internet- something that we might try in Canada.
                  The N.Y. Times has a feature on the U.S. Chess League today, Ken. I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for a Canadian Chess League to get started but I would love to be proved wrong (:

                  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/23/crosswords/chess/us-chess-league-is-loaded-with-talent.html


                  I'm not quite the fan this year as is years past because my favourite participant, IM Marc Esserman, of 'Mayhem In The Morra' fame, no longer plays. If you want to check out a lovely example of his dynamic Morra play, take a gander at his win against Van Wely in the 2011 U.S. Open which made it to chessgames.com as their game of the day under the title, "Marc of Excellence".

                  http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1630005
                  Last edited by Jack Maguire; Sunday, 23 September, 2012, 11:45 AM.

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                    • Peter McKillop
                      • 2008-05-30
                      • 1999
                      #6
                      Re: Yuanling Yuan

                      Originally posted by Ken Kurkowski View Post
                      ... I believe games are played over the internet- something that we might try in Canada.
                      If I recall correctly, this idea was suggested to the CFC ten or twelve years ago. Ever since then, the CFC has been leading the way on this initiative.

                      : l
                      "We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office." - Aesop
                      "Only the dead have seen the end of war." - Plato
                      "If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination." - Thomas De Quincey

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                        • Hugh Brodie
                          • 2008-05-30
                          • 5581
                          #7
                          Re: Yuanling Yuan

                          Whatever happened to the "Canadian Chess League" - the discussion of which comes up from time to time? I think it was last discussed by Neil Frarey on the Ottawa board in June. He offered three free t-shirts to those who could come up with the best slogans. Since then...silence. His Web page (dating from 2011 or earlier) still reads "Coming Soon".

                          http://www.canadianchessleague.ca/

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                            • Kerry Liles
                              • 2008-05-30
                              • 3071
                              #8
                              Re: Yuanling Yuan

                              Originally posted by Hugh Brodie View Post
                              Whatever happened to the "Canadian Chess League" - the discussion of which comes up from time to time? I think it was last discussed by Neil Frarey on the Ottawa board in June. He offered three free t-shirts to those who could come up with the best slogans. Since then...silence. His Web page (dating from 2011 or earlier) still reads "Coming Soon".

                              http://www.canadianchessleague.ca/
                              Hmmm... "Coming soon" - isn't that copyright Kevin Spraggett?
                              ...Mike Pence: the Lord of the fly.

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