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Bob Armstrong
07-01-2011, 12:44 AM
PRESS RELEASE #2/2011

DATE: Friday, July 1, 2011
BY: The Chess Federation of Canada ( CFC )
TOURNAMENT WRITER/CONTACT: Ms. Anna Jin, Chair, Organizing Committee ( Tel: 905-2965035; jin.anna@yahoo.com )
CFC CONTACT: Bob Armstrong, CFC Public Relations Coordinator ( Tel: 416-469-5905; bobarm@sympatico.ca )
INTERVIEWS: can be arranged


TOPIC : 2011 Canadian Youth Chess Championships

The 2011 Canadian Youth Chess Championships Start Wed., July 6th

This 7 round chess tournament is the ultimate annual Canadian junior tournament for all Canadian youth under 18 years of age – Canadian Champions will be crowned for 12 different sections ( Open: U 8 yrs.; 10; 12; 14; 16; 18 & Girls: same age sections ). Some of the players have been seeded in; others have qualified in qualifier tournaments held across the country over the last year.

It will be played July 6 – 9 in Richmond Hill, Ontario, at the Sheraton Parkway Toronto North Hotel & Suites.

The competition will be fierce! Of the over 225 players registered, a number of them have achieved international distinction. BC’s FIDE Master Jason Cao is the 2010 U 10 World Champion!

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Jason

Ms. Qiyu Zhou of Ontario is the 2008 World Girls U 8 Runner-Up; and Albertan Richard Wang is the 2009 World U 12 Bronze medalist. Others are playing who are the top-rated in the age groups in their provinces. There will be no “ easy “ wins!

The winners will go on to represent Canada in the World YCC’s in Brazil later this year.

Background to CFC Press Releases :

In Aug., 2010, I volunteered for the CFC non-executive officer position created at the Toronto July 2010 CFC AGM, the " Public Relations Coordinator " position ( upgrading the prior position of Director of Publicity ), first in an " acting " capacity, and then permanently. I am the first one to take on this position.

Bylaw 3 of the CFC Handbook, under Duties of Officers in Section 8C, gives the mandate of this position as:

8C. The Public Relations Coordinator will be responsible for promoting the image of the CFC and for promoting chess generally to the public. As such the Public Relations Coordinator will, among other things:

- deal with mainstream media to promote significant chess news, such as Canadian Chess Champions, a new Canadian GM, major tournaments like the Can. Closed, Canadian Open, Can. Women’s Closed, CYCC, etc., the various benefits accruing from playing chess and other positive aspects of the chess culture.

I will write some press releases myself, and on some I will be collaborating with others, under who's name the press release will appear. I look forward to the cooperation of the many Canadian chess personalities who may find themselves the subject of CFC Press Releases. CFC cannot do it alone – chess promotion requires the cooperation of everyone, if we are to make chess a more mainstream activity in Canada.

Feel free to make use of the CFC Press Releases in any publicity efforts you might be undertaking. I would appreciate being advised of any efforts made and use of the material, so CFC can build a file on the efforts being made to promote chess in Canada.

Newspapers do not acknowledge press releases ( too many daily ) and to my knowledge do not notify you if they make use of one. So if you see an article on this in any of the papers, please advise me. I have been warned that it has not been easy to get chess material into the mainstream media, and so CFC should have very modest expectations of success on this front. But hopefully, over time, with developing contacts, this will change.

Because the CFC has never before had this position filled, it has never developed a bank of Canadian mainstream media contacts who might be willing to publish CFC Press Releases on chess items, or to write articles on chess. So, if anyone has any newspaper, television or radio contacts I might be able to use, or any advice on this effort, please e-mail me : bobarm@sympatico.ca

Bob Armstrong, CFC Public Relations Coordinator