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To find out the 2012 Team Canada Members who will be competing at the World Youth Chess Championships in Maribor, Slovenia during November, check out Team Canada's website: http://www.canada2wycc.ca/
Along with the list of Team Canada Members, you can find out who are the two official Team Coaches and the Head of Delegation.
You will also find a PayPal donation button on the site for those who want to help support our Team Canada.
Not to sound a negative note, but the CYCC selection process is broke and needs to be fixed. When the event is held in the west, you get few of the top eastern players making the expensive trip west. And vice versa when the event is held in the east. Perhaps the CYCC might consider holding both an eastern and western championship and having the two respective winners represent our country.
If one needs a more salient example of just how broke the system is, take note of our one U18 Open representative, Benjamin Blium. Not to pick on Benjamin, who's a great kid whom I know both over the board and off, but Benjamin is only Canada's 28th best U18 according to the CFC website. More to the point, there are 16 players rated more than 250 points higher than Benjamin. Sending an 1853 player as our one and only U18 Open representative makes Canadian chess a very bad joke.
Originally posted by Victoria Jung-DoknjasView Post
To find out the 2012 Team Canada Members who will be competing at the World Youth Chess Championships in Maribor, Slovenia during November, check out Team Canada's website: http://www.canada2wycc.ca/
Along with the list of Team Canada Members, you can find out who are the two official Team Coaches and the Head of Delegation.
You will also find a PayPal donation button on the site for those who want to help support our Team Canada.
WYCC is a very expensive trip even if you are the official representative. One thousand dollars doesn't even come close to covering the cost of the trip. One of the girls from Windsor, Rachel Tao, who could have gone elected to sit this one out after attending last year. Three out of the 27 players attending are from Windsor.
The YCC system is broken but the CYCC is quite viable. The rest of Canada just has to get as excited about it as the kids in Windsor are.
Returning to the positive side of the ledger, a good deal shy of Panglossian I might add, the team does boast perhaps 3 bona fide medal contenders. Jason Cao, of course, was the U10 WYCC champion in 2010. And Richard Wang is, well, Richard Wang. The 3rd name may be a bit of a stretch but I wouldn't discount the chances of six-year-old Harmony Zhu. It may come as a shock to many, but she's actually the 2nd highest rated member of our U8/U10/U12/U14 8 girl contingent.
WYCC is a very expensive trip even if you are the official representative. One thousand dollars doesn't even come close to covering the cost of the trip. One of the girls from Windsor, Rachel Tao, who could have gone elected to sit this one out after attending last year. Three out of the 27 players attending are from Windsor.
The YCC system is broken but the CYCC is quite viable. The rest of Canada just has to get as excited about it as the kids in Windsor are.
Perhaps the kids in the other parts of the country have already been and realize that there are much better opportunities closer to home.
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