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Below is an interesting link on the apparent recent monarch butterfly population increase: ...

Below is the wiki re: Gerald Butts, formerly Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's senior advisor, until Butts' resignation today, related to the...

With 11 losers and one winner, our odds are better than the Republican primaries! --- and so was our winner: Daniel Xu # Place Name Rtng Rd...

I received a nice International entrant today, Lawrence Cohen from Illinois. Lawrence seems to play in one Canadian event per year, visiting a...

I will be at the RA Chess club taking entries the next two Thursdays. The non-RA crowd can E-mail an enty to me at fs889@ncf.ca 2019 RA...

And IM Michael Song just confirmed!

And IM Nikolay Noritsyn has also registered! For more information, please go to eoca.ca, and scroll down to the entry for: 2019 Canada Zonal &...

2019 RA Chess Club Ch Bd # Res White # Res Black 1 4 Mate Marinkovic (2250 3.0) 10 Stijn De Kerpel (2129 3.5) 2 13 Ben Kellar (2067...

Unfortunately, only 7 families have replied, making it just too expensive per player. In addition, there's the regulation that only the top 50% would...

From what I understand, he'll be GM by the end of March, so in time for the Zonal.

FIDE still has him listed as an IM. AFAIK, he has the norms but needs to get over 2500 -- that's "only" 23 points, and he got 14.8 in Serbia, so...

And new GM Kaiqi Yang has also registered! For more information, please go to eoca.ca, and scroll down to the entry for: 2019 Canada Zonal &...

Here's the wiki on Saudi Arabia; why we keep taking oil from this country, while allowing the hardly federally contested obstruction of our pipelines...

Here's the wiki on Jody Wilson-Raybould, former Minister of Justice and Attorney General, and a key person in regard to the unfolding of the latest...

A fairly recent link re: the detention of Canadians by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's favourite communist nation: ...

I had seen this line recently in Reti's Masters of the Chessboard, where it appears as a note. It's a really good book, and -- despite the terrible...

I did not remember this game from Tartakower's book though I suspect it was the original example. Looking through "How to Open a Chess Game" that it...

An encouraging turnout of 14 -- who all braved a cavernous, ill-lit, and uninviting banquet hall -- was topped by Christian Collins. ...

On my local machine, I run Stockfish-10 ($0 and #1 or close to it) with 2.4GB of memory dedicated to its hash tables (space for working notes so it...

One possibility is that the chess.com engine is either too weak or too slow to provide accurate evals. For instance, in the game you posted, 13.Nc3...

After Round 5 only 0 point BYEs. The first prize in this tournament is $500 from sponsorship by Gordon Ritchie. The RA Chess Club Champion...

Here is an example of the chess.com engine evaluations throwing shade on a reasonably well-played game. I can't take credit though, I saw the line...

Remember last minute BYES are not cool. Any BYES after Wednesday night should count as 0 points.

2019 RA Chess Club Ch Bd # Res White # Res Black 1 7 ½ Adam Adriaanse (2202 3.0) 1 ½ Zachary Dukic (2370 3.0) 2 11 ½ Daniel Xu (2111 2.5) 8 ½...