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Not to wax panglossian, but we clearly have a chance at a couple of gold medals here. I, for one, wouldn't bet against either Richard Wang or Harmony Zhu.
Not to wax panglossian, but we clearly have a chance at a couple of gold medals here. I, for one, wouldn't bet against either Richard Wang or Harmony Zhu.
Some of us are cheering for Ashley Tapp, win, lose or draw.
Some of us are cheering for Ashley Tapp, win, lose or draw.
To interject a literary theme, all no doubt fans of Charles Bukowski, Henry Gordon Green, and Vladimir Nabokov (:
Oddly enough, just last night I was joking with my son (who is 16 months older than Ashley) that Ashley will likely be the most 'successful' Canadian performer in Maribor, at least from a financial perspective. It would seem to me that her superb fund raising endeavours may have turned a nice profit (:
To interject a literary theme, all no doubt fans of Charles Bukowski, Henry Gordon Green, and Vladimir Nabokov (:
Oddly enough, just last night I was joking with my son (who is 16 months older than Ashley) that Ashley will likely be the most 'successful' Canadian performer in Maribor, at least from a financial perspective. It would seem to me that her superb fund raising endeavours may have turned a nice profit (:
Thank you for your perspective. I wouldn't know how to reply.
Since Andrei hasn't posted R4 pairings as yet for our 5 perfect 3/3 players, I will.
U12 Girls, Board 1, Ruotong Chu (2008 & 2nd seed), China vs Qiyu Zhou (1857), Canada
U14 Open, Board 2, Richard Wang (2356), Canada vs Christopher Wu (2239), USA
U8 Open, Board 4, Arbati Pouya Mohammadi (1653 & 6th seed), Iran vs Arhant Washimkar (no FIDE rating), Canada
U8 Girls, Board 4, Zuzanna Adamczyk (no FIDE rating), Poland vs Harmony Zhu (no FIDE rating), Canada
U16 Girls, Board 5, Maria Tereshechkina (2189 & 7th seed), Ukraine vs Regina Veronicka Kalaydina (1934), Canada
Richard Wang and Harmony Zhu were the only to remain perfect at 4/4 in their respective sections. Harmony is paired against the top rated player in her section for the next round, and Richard is black on board 1.
1 18 Repka Christopher SVK 2258 4 4 IM Wang Richard CAN 2356 4
2 91 Zhu Harmony CAN 0 4 3½ Juhasz Judit HUN 1710 1
Great to see two Canadians at the very top of their sections - Harmony Zhu in the Girls U8 with a 4 - 0 score and Richard Wang with the same score in the Open U14.
One anomaly, the chess results page gives Richard's performance rating as just over 2900 !!! How is that possible? I don't care how many 12 and 13 year-olds Richard demolishes (and I hope he gets them all) there is no logic in giving a 2900 performance rating for the feat. And furthermore he is predicted to gain only 12.8 FIDE rating points for his work - and THAT seems low.
In closing let me repeat - I'm sure all of Canada is rooting for him and especially so the Calgary chess fans!
Great to see two Canadians at the very top of their sections - Harmony Zhu in the Girls U8 with a 4 - 0 score and Richard Wang with the same score in the Open U14.
One anomaly, the chess results page gives Richard's performance rating as just over 2900 !!! How is that possible? I don't care how many 12 and 13 year-olds Richard demolishes (and I hope he gets them all) there is no logic in giving a 2900 performance rating for the feat. And furthermore he is predicted to gain only 12.8 FIDE rating points for his work - and THAT seems low.
In closing let me repeat - I'm sure all of Canada is rooting for him and especially so the Calgary chess fans!
So go get 'em Richard Wang!
And keep it up Harmony Zhu!
I am sure all of Canada is very proud of the great job International Master Richard Wang (of Edmonton, Alberta) is doing!
Here is picture I took of Richard Wang at this year's 49th Canadian Open in Victoria from July of this year, when Richard whipped Eric Hansen that day.
Interesting that at the time I took this shot Richard Wang was not yet an IM and Eric Hansen had yet to win his GM title! These 2 Alberta stars are a big part of the future of Canadian chess!
Oops, I got Richard's city wrong. I should have checked first. Mea culpa! I hope the Edmonton fans are not too upset. Well at least I got the right province.:o
Some games from mostly the older (U14, U16, U18) sections are available on http://www.chess-results.com. (click on "SLO" (Slovenia) to get the list of events.
Oops, I got Richard's city wrong. I should have checked first. Mea culpa! I hope the Edmonton fans are not too upset. Well at least I got the right province.:o
I am sure Richard will improve his 2009 performance. Here is a video I did in 2009.
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