This week's articles:
Montreal Team Tournament
PEI Chess Challenge
British Columbia Chess Challenge
Alberta Youth Championship
Montreal: Team Tournament
Thirty-five teams, with 131 players, took part in the Montreal School Team Tournament at College Jean-de-Brebeuf on February 28.
This popular event, organized by the Chess'n Math Association, is held three times each year. The next tournament (April 2-3) is the Quebec School Team Championship. Will anyone defeat the powerful team from Fernand-Seguin for first place?
Here are the results:
K-3 (Section A)
1. Fernand-Seguin - L'équipe imbattable
1) Annie Le Yi Li
2) Toma Suda Lafontaine
3) Sacha Ramamonjisoa
4) Océan Li
2. La Vérendrye - Magnus Carlsen
1) Émile Poulin
2) Jérémie Cyr St-Martin
3) Victor Leclerc
4) Mayra Elisa Fernandez
3. Fernand-Seguin - Les Supers Champions
1) Félix Chang
2) Jason Wang
3) Nikita Ramamonjisoa
K-6 (Section A)
1. Fernand-Seguin - Shredders
1) Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux
2) Le Cong Li
3) Yihan Xu
2. La Vérendrye - Garry Kasparov
1) David Craciun
2) Stavro Toli Zguri
3) Marc-André Robert
4) Mathias Assane Amari
3. Willingdon E.S. - The Lords of Willingdon
1) Richard Q. Zheng
2) Noah Preuss
3) Edouard Slive
4) Benjamin Cere
K-3 (Section B)
1. St-Léon-de-Westmount - St-Léon 2
1) Samuel King
2) Sae Joon Shin
3) Thomas Bolton
2. Notre-Dame-du-Foyer - Les Kids Quatre
1) Victor Montpetit
2) Émile Fortin
3) James Lanthier
4) Grace Mbarga-Basemeg
3. Willingdon E.S. - The Quadruple Pawns
1) Kyle Taylor
2) Ryan Drolet-Décarie
3) Griffin Patterson
4) Solmin Kim
K-6 (Section B)
1. École au Trésor-du-Boisé - Les As de l'Ouest
1) Benjamin Yu
2) Hunter Wei
3) William Zhang
4) Mohammed Taha Tnani
2. Académie Solomon Schechter - Solomon 1
1) Ben Krivonot
2) Etan Krivonot
3) Shalev Cooperstock
4) Sam Levkosky
S) Alex Bergman
3. Selwyn House - Fearsome Foursome
1) Dylan Lee
2) Gabriel Cabelli
3) Ethan Curtis
4) Luca Ferri
3. Général Vanier - Greco
1) Luca Abruzzese
2) Elisabetta Tillona
3) Stefano Cofini
4) Anita Barbiero
For the complete results, see Montreal Team Tournament 28 February 2016
PEI Chess Challenge
Grade 1
1. Chase Corbett
2. Raja Alkhouri
3. Owen Arseneau
Grade 2
1. Phu Vo
2. Théo Plourde
3. Nathan Evison
Grade 3
1. Luke Dickie
2. Steven Yang
3. Nick Yang
Grade 4
1. Seamus MacEachern
2. Samel Sunil
3. Joshbir Roy
Grade 5
1. Ronnie Wei
2. Ethan Hall
3. Ronan Lantz
Grade 6
1. Arnab Kundu
2. Luc Doucette
3. Ryan Green
Grade 7
1. Cameron MacDonald
2. Mathew Wang
3. Caden Bryant
Grade 8
1. Noah Mannholland
2. Sohrab Saegh
3. Amirmohsen Sayafi
Grade 9
1. SoumyaDeep Chowdhury
2. Ethan Borden
Grade 10
1. Jack Ronahan-Wood
2. Bradley Norman
Grade 11
1. Joseph Kassouf
2. Alan Huang
Grade 12
1. John Smith
2. Kyle MacIsaac
3. James Tweel
2016 P.E.I. Provincial Champions
This handsome crew will represent PEI at the Canadian Chess Challenge nationals on Victoria Day weekend in Regina, Saskatchewan.
Grade 3 champion Luke Dickie. A classical opening.
Luc Doucette, second place grade 6. The face of patience.
For complete results, see PEI provincial championship
BRITISH COLUMBIA Chess Challenge
The B.C Provincial Chess Challenge took place at Columbia College in Vancouver on February 21. The five round event attracted 115 players from across the province. The top three in each grade received trophies. The first place finishers also earned a spot on the BC team which will travel to Regina in May for the nationals finals.
The tournament was impressively organized by Maxim Doroshenko and the Vancouver Chess School.
Kindergarten
1. Codrin Pompas
2. BiaoBiao Boyong Guo
3. Etahn Zheng
Grade 1
1. Ryan Yang
2. Ethan Song
3. Hovey Ma
Grade 2
1. Daniel Wang
2. Ethan Su
3. Eric Jiang
Grade 3
1. Andrew Xu
2. Veronica Guo
3. Stanley Wu
Grade 4
1. Lucian Wu
2. Aiden Zhou
3. Elvin Sun
Grade 5
1. Neil Doknjas
2. Patrick Huang
3. Andy Zhang
Grade 6
1. Leo Qu
2. Andrew Hemstapat, Andrew
3. Victor Zheng
Grade 7
1. Ethan Low
2. Alec Chung
3. Connor Chai
Grade 8
1. Joshua Doknjas
2. Brian Butchart
3. Ryan Leong
Grade 9
1. Matthew Geng
2. Kevin Li
3. Maven Zheng
Grade 10
1. Jason Cao
2. Nathan Shao
3. James Li
Grade 11
1. Janak Awatramani
2. John Doknjas
3. Uranchimeg Nyamdorj
Grade 12
1. Jeremy Hui
2. James Zhang
2016 British Columbia Kindergarten Champions. The future looks bright.
Opening theory in action. The French Advance Variation.
A perfect room for championship play.
For many more great photos from this event, visit :
https://www.flickr.com/photos/chessinbc
Complete results are given at 2016 B.C. Chess Challenge
ALBERTA Youth Championship
The Delta Calgary Downtown Hotel was the site of the 2016 Alberta Youth Chess Championships. Eighty-two keen young minds battled each other for five rounds to see who would become provincial champion in their age group. Besides taking home trophies, winners also qualify for the Canadian Youth Chess Championships in Windsor, Ontario on July 5-8.
Under 8
1. Ron Offengenden Edmonton
2. Anand Rishi Chandra Calgary
3. Bastian Benner Calgary
Under 10
1. Mark Ivanescu Edmonton
2. Manish Shetagar Edmonton
3. Paul Wang Calgary
Under 12
1. Ian Zhao Calgary
2. Sean Mah Edmonton
3. Ryan Zang Calgary
Under 14
1. Kaixin Wang Edmonton
2. Nimai Koneru Calgary
3. Jeff Wang Calgary
3. David Yao Edmonton
Under 16
1. Mohamed Fellah Calgary
2. Andre Tolentino Calgary
3. Chenxi Wu Calgary
Under 18
1. Diwen Shi Calgary
2. Brian Timmerman Calgary
3. Elvin Limpin Calgary
First place in the under 8, 10, 12, and 16 sections was decided by a playoff game.