So Alberta when are you having a celebration for GM Eric Hansen?

[Tony Ficzere]

Re: So Alberta when are you having a celebration for GM Eric Hansen?

Eric Hansen will be doing a four minute radio interview tomorrow morning Sept 25, 2012 at 6:15 (Alberta time) on QR77 The Morning News with Bruce Kenyon�.

Here is the website where you can listen to it online:

http://player.qr77.com/

To be followed by another interview on CBC radio, date TBD.

[Vlad Rekhson]

Re: So Alberta when are you having a celebration for GM Eric Hansen?

Eric Hansen will be doing a four minute radio interview tomorrow morning Sept 25, 2012 at 6:15 (Alberta time) on QR77 The Morning News with Bruce Kenyon�.

Here is the website where you can listen to it online:

http://player.qr77.com/

[Garvin Nunes]

Re: So Alberta when are you having a celebration for GM Eric Hansen?

Congratulations Eric!

[Jack Maguire]

Re : So Alberta when are you having a celebration for GM Eric Hansen?

It took a while, but Eric is finally in the news.

http://metronews.ca/news/calgary/378...s-grandmaster/

[Andy Shaw]

Re: So Alberta when are you having a celebration for GM Eric Hansen?

Hahahahahaha

The old saying: "It's funny cuz it's true" holds here

[Aman Hambleton]

Re: So Alberta when are you having a celebration for GM Eric Hansen?

I doubt either title will ever be a concern for you.

Hahahahahaha

[Gary Ruben]

Re: So Alberta when are you having a celebration for GM Eric Hansen?

Oh!?

I don't think I would lump correspondence GMs together with OTB GM's-but that may a philosophical discussion......

Thanks for the info.

I doubt either title will ever be a concern for you.

The group of dual, FIDE and ICCF, Grandmasters is relatively small. The sole Canadian to hold both GM titles is Duncan Suttles.

The most recent FIDE GM to earn his ICCF GM title, Rafael Leitao, of Brazil played board 1 for Brazil in the recently concluded FIDE Olympiad and scored 60%.

Possibly part of the reason other nations are leaving Canada in the dust, longing for the days when Fairy Chess variants will be their saviour, is because their players are willing to put in the time studying chess theory and succeeding at correspondence chess as a way of improving their over the board chess results.

Leitao finished 3rd in World Championship final 26.

[Andy Shaw]

Re: So Alberta when are you having a celebration for GM Eric Hansen?

haha.... i wish there was even a tiny bit of recognition!

The ladies will come my friend. Or at least they did for me once I got my nice Investment position at ScotiaBank :)

[Eric Hansen]

Re: So Alberta when are you having a celebration for GM Eric Hansen?

But what about the parade? Standing ovation in the legislature? Press tour? Giving simuls in all the communities?

haha.... i wish there was even a tiny bit of recognition!

[Erik Malmsten]

Re: So Alberta when are you having a celebration for GM Eric Hansen?

I think he's scheduled to give a couple of lectures at the Alberta Open over Thanksgiving long weekend. I'm sure he'll receive plenty of congratulations there.

But what about the parade? Standing ovation in the legislature? Press tour? Giving simuls in all the communities?

[David Ottosen]

Re: So Alberta when are you having a celebration for GM Eric Hansen?

I think he's scheduled to give a couple of lectures at the Alberta Open over Thanksgiving long weekend. I'm sure he'll receive plenty of congratulations there.

[Evan Frangakis]

Re: So Alberta when are you having a celebration for GM Eric Hansen?

correspondence.

Oh!?

I don't think I would lump correspondence GMs together with OTB GM's-but that may a philosophical discussion......

Thanks for the info.

[Egidijus Zeromskis]

Re: So Alberta when are you having a celebration for GM Eric Hansen?

Did Jean Hebert make the Grandmaster title?

correspondence.

[Evan Frangakis]

Re: So Alberta when are you having a celebration for GM Eric Hansen?

Abe Yanofsky was the first GM for Manitoba (and for Canada and the British Commonwealth!) in 1964 (and only one it turns out). BC has the legendary Duncan Suttles and Peter Biyiasis. Quebec had the luxury of a dynasty with Jean Hebert, Kevin Spraggett, Alexandre Lesiege, Pascal Charbonneau, and Thomas Roussel-Roozman. Ontario finally had a GM in Mark Bluvshtein. The road to Grandmaster is a long and torturous one and GM Eric Hansen is the first grandmaster for Alberta. Worthy of a celebration, no?

Did Jean Hebert make the Grandmaster title?

[Vlad Rekhson]

Re: So Alberta when are you having a celebration for GM Eric Hansen?

We have been celebrating for two weeks now:-)