News Item: Congratulations to Eric Hansen!

FIDE has approved Eric's IM title at their Presidential Board meeting in Tromso, Norway.

Well done Eric!

News Item: Canadian Chess Volunteer of the Year

It was my distinct pleasure to present this years' award for Canadian Chess Volunteer of the Year at the Canadian Open awards ceremony yesterday to Maurice Smith.

We are blessed with many dedicated volunteers across the country. Organized chess in Canada would simply not exist without their tireless efforts. Maurice serves as a wonderful example for others to emulate.

Over the past 22 years, Maurice has served as CFC President, FIDE Rep, OCA President, and more recently as CFC Treasurer. On the local chess scene, he has a long distinguished history as President of the very successful Scarborough Chess Club.

Maurice, thank you!

[Comments: 0] Posted By: Bob Gillanders

News Item: Olympic Waive Tournaments

As some of you know I have agreed to take a leadership role in the fundraising our Olympic teams. One of the components in the campaign is a special type of tournament - The Olympic Waive Tournament

To qualify as an Olympic Waive Tournament, it must be advertised as such, and remit $20 per player to the Olympic Fund, and submit the tournament electronically. In return, the CFC will rate the tournament for free and WAIVE CFC membership.

I hope you will consider running an Olympic Waive Tournament.

[Comments: 1] Posted By: Hal Bond

News Item: Canada's Olympic Teams

The Chess Federation of Canada is pleased to announce that we will be sending both our National Team and our Women's Team to the Olympiad in Khanty Mansiysk. I would like to thank Ilia Bluvshtein for his tireless efforts to date as our Olympic Co-Ordinator. Our team compositions are as follows:

National team:

Board 1: Mark Bluvshtein,

Board 2: Thomas Roussel-Roozmon,

Board 3: Leonid Gerzhoy,

Board 4: Artiom Samsonkin,

Reserve: Nikolay Noritsyn.

Captain: Yura Ochkoos. In accordance with CFC Handbook, Yura as a Captain has determined the board order.

Women’s team:

Board 1: Yuanling Yuan,

Board 2: Dina Kagramanov,

Board 3: Iulia Lacau-Rodean,

Board 4: Yelizaveta Orlova,

Reserve: Dalia Kagramanov.

Captain: William Yuan. William will be responsible for logistics for the Women’s team. The team composition for each round will be selected by Yura. Yura has also determined the board order for the Women’s team.

[Comments: 1] Posted By: Hal Bond

News Item: Google Warning Removed

We requested a review from Google last night and as of this morning, the Infected Site warning has been removed.

[Comments: 1] Posted By: Christopher Mallon

News Item: Site infection fixed

For those of you who have been experiencing a reported attack site warning from Google or Firefox, we have managed to completely remove the infection as of December 29th and so the site is now safe to visit. We anticipate that the warning will be removed shortly once they have time to scan our site again.

I am still in the process of updating all of the pages to account for some of the changes, so some links are broken - the very first thing I did was totally delete the pages causing the vulnerabilities, which in fact were not even being officially used anymore.

[Comments: 7] Posted By: Christopher Mallon