Canadian Youth Chess Championship (CYCC) 2018 - Quebec City, July 02-05

Bonjour,

L’organisateur, la Fédération québécoise des échecs (FQE), est fier d’annoncer que le site Web dédié au CYCC 2018 a été rendu opérationnel.

Tout le monde est bienvenu de consulter l’horaire et rechercher l’hébergement. Les parents dont les enfants ont déjà qualifié pour le CYCC (les droits personnels, les tournois qualificatifs, …) peuvent les inscrire en ligne en profitant d’un prix bas en vigueur avant le 1er avril.

https://www.cycc2018.com/

The organiser, the Fédération québécoise des échecs (FQE), is proud to announce that a dedicated Web site for the 2018 CYCC has gone live.

Everyone is welcome to study the schedule and to examine accommodation options. The parents whose children have already qualified for the CYCC (personal rights, regional qualifiers,…) can register the participants online starting from now and to benefit from a low introductory rate available until April 1st.

Quebec City is ready to welcome families from all parts of the country!

Good post Vadim!

In the Ottawa area, CMA-famous CM David Gordon and I will be running a CYCC Qualifier on Family Day in a few weeks. The details will be posted here within a few days.

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Originally Posted by Aris Marghetis

Good post Vadim!

In the Ottawa area, CMA-famous CM David Gordon and I will be running a CYCC Qualifier on Family Day in a few weeks. The details will be posted here within a few days.

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That's great Aris. Good luck to you and David!

When you post here, please provide some sort of a static link to your flyer. I shall be ready then to place an announcement about your qualifier in the "Actualités" section of the FQE site, so that more families from l'Outaouais learn about it and register.

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Originally Posted by Vadim Tsypin

That's great Aris. Good luck to you and David!

When you post here, please provide some sort of a static link to your flyer. I shall be ready then to place an announcement about your qualifier in the "Actualités" section of the FQE site, so that more families from l'Outaouais learn about it and register.

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Will do, thank you!

Bonjour,

Veuillez noter que la cadence pour toutes les sections du CYCC sera "90 min/mat + 30 sec. incrémentation depuis le début".

Please note that the following time control will be used in all sections of the 2018 CYCC: "90'/end + 30" incr. starting from Move 1".

Site officiel / Official site:
https://www.cycc2018.com/

Félicitations! Au nom de l’organisateur, la Fédération québécoise des échecs (FQE), cela me fait un grand plaisir de vous inviter toutes et tous à participer au CYCC 2018 qui aura lieu à Québec le 01-05 juillet. Le CYCC est la compétition échiquéenne la plus prestigieuse pour les jeunes au Canada. Il est également une voie à toutes les compétitions internationales d'échecs pour les jeunes car c’est le CYCC qui détermine les représentants officiels pour le Championnat du monde d'échecs de la jeunesse (WYCC), le Championnat nord-américain (NYACC) et panaméricain.

Voici quelques informations utiles qui vous aideront de planifier votre séjour. La liste maître pancanadienne de joueurs qualifiés se trouve ici :
http://bit.ly/2FqIYbN
Vous pouvez la trier par nom, par province, par groupe d’âge, par le tournoi qualificatif etc. S.v.p., trouvez-vous dans cette liste, vérifiez que toutes vos informations sont correctes – et contactez-nous pour ajouter ou corriger vos données. La chose absolument cruciale pour nous est de savoir votre année de naissance, car elle déterminé la section dans laquelle vous jouerez.

Ensuite, allez, s.v.p., au site principal :
https://www.cycc2018.com/
Vous y trouverez l’horaire détaillé et un lien pour vous inscrire en ligne. Inscrivez-vous tôt pour profiter le tarif spécial qui est valable jusqu’au 1er avril! Regardez des options pour l’hébergement et réservez votre chambre d’hôtel à même temps si vous voulez.

Une expérience unique échiquéenne et culturelle attend toute la famille à Québec. Venez en grand nombre! Inscrivez-vous maintenant!

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Congratulations! On behalf of the organizer, the Fédération québécoise des échecs (FQE), it is a great privilege for me to invite all of you to take part in the 2018 CYCC that will take place in Quebec City on July 01-05. The CYCC is the most prestigious youth chess competition in Canada. It is also a pathway to all international youth chess competitions that determines official representatives for the World Youth Chess Championship (WYCC), the Pan American Youth Chess Championship and the North American Youth Chess Championship.

We would like to share some useful information that would help you to plan and organize your trip. The Canadian master list of all qualified and registered players is located here:
http://bit.ly/2FqIYbN
You can sort it by last name, by province, by age group, by qualification tournament etc. Please find yourself in this list, verify all your information – and contact us to add or correct anything in your data. An absolutely crucial thing for us to know is your actual year of birth, since it determines the section where you would play.

Then, please proceed to the main site:
https://www.cycc2018.com/
You will find there a detailed schedule of the tournament and a link to register online. Register early to take advantage of an early bird rate that is in force until April 01! Study the accommodation options and book your hotel room at the same time if you wish.

A unique chess and cultural experience awaits your whole family in Quebec City. Come one, come all! Register now!

We strive to update the list of registered players for the CYCC every Friday. Registered players are sorted on top of the master list of qualified players. The information can be accessed via the following page at the main CYCC site or via a direct link.

We have entered the next phase in the event preparation. The actual tournament files for all 11 sections were created according to their various rating rules, populated with preregistered players and have been put live today. From now on, these files become the official point of reference. What does it mean in practical terms?

1) I will continue to maintain the national master list of qualified players and to add new players’ names once they are approved by the CFC. However, all information about registrations has been removed from this spreadsheet. Instead, links to the actual tournament files are featured prominently.

2) On week-ends, I will be updating the actual tournament files for the CYCC and CO with the new registrations received from the organizer, the FQE.

3) The following static link provides an alphabetical list of registered players across all CYCC sections.
https://bit.ly/2JBXScU
Please communicate this link to the players and parents.

4) The individual section links are accessible from a main link above). Please urge the parents to verify all details for their children. I encountered about eight cases of CFC database having several players with the (Last, First, Province) identical to what was supplied to the FQE at the registration. It is crucial that parents verify the CFC IDs and advise us of any mixups.

Thank you.

Dear players and parents,

The Fédération québécoise des échecs, the organizer of the 2018 CYCC, is pleased to welcome you all to Quebec City. We are looking forward to connecting with each and every one of you personally and to provide useful information that would ameliorate your tournament experience. Let’s start by reviewing competition rules and format in detail.

I. The Canadian Youth Chess Championships (CYCC) 2018

Web sites
Official site: information, registration, accommodations:
https://www.cycc2018.com/

Chess-Results server: tournament files, pairings, results:
https://bit.ly/2JqEQK6

Sections
There are twelve (12) sections in this tournament, by FIDE age category and gender. The age cutoff date is January 01, 2018. Thus, this is how different birth years determine the section placement (please check that your child is registered in the proper one!)
Girls U-18, Open U-18: born 2000, 2001
Girls U-16, Open U-16: born 2002, 2003
Girls U-14, Open U-14: born 2004, 2005
Girls U-12, Open U-12: born 2006, 2007
Girls U-10, Open U-10: born 2008, 2009
Girls U-08, Open U-08: born 2010 and later

As per the CFC Handbook Art. 702, “When there are less than eight players for any category, then one or more categories shall be combined so that there are no less than 8 players in the combined category. […] Where the shortfall occurs in the girls U18, it is recommended that this section be combined with the girls U16.”

Player ratings
Section composition is determined by age and gender. Ratings are used for pairings purposes only, in the following manner:
- for a player residing in Quebec - FQE rating will be used;
- for a player residing elsewhere in Canada- CFC rating will be used.
The rating freeze date is June 22, 2018. No changes in player ratings after that date will be taken into account for the CYCC.

Rating the results
The following sections will be rated with FIDE, the CFC and the FQE:
Girls U-18, Open U-18, Girls U-16, Open U-16, Girls U-14, Open U-14, Girls U-12, Open U-12.

The following sections will be rated with the CFC and the FQE:
Girls U-10, Open U-10, Girls U-08, Open U-08.

Registration cut-off
As per the CYCC Web site, June 25 is the last day to register online for a price of $300. For any registration requests coming after this date, a surcharge will be levied and a half-point bye in Round 1 may be given at the sole discretion of the organizer.

Memberships
Players need to have valid CFC or FQE membership or to purchase it on-site with a surcharge before the start of the tournament.

Format
Regular Swiss, seven (7) rounds.

Time Control
(90 min / end + 30 sec. increment starting with Move 1) in all sections.

Playoffs
Playoff games will be used only to determine the first place in a section, if needed. All other places will be determined by tiebreak criteria (see further below).
Playoff format: two games of (15’/end + 10” incr.) followed by, if needed, two/four/six games of (5’/end + 3” incr.).

Schedule
Sun, July 01 19:00 – Opening ceremony.
Mon, July 02 10:00 – Round 1. 15:00 – Round 2.
Mon, July 03 10:00 – Round 3. 15:00 – Round 4.
Mon, July 04 10:00 – Round 5. 15:00 – Round 6.
Mon, July 05 10:00 – Round 7. 15:00 – Playoffs (if needed) / Prize ceremony.

Forfeit time
If a player doesn’t arrive at his/her chessboard 60 minutes (i.e., one hour) after the start of a round, their game will be forfeited, the result “0F” will be entered, and they will not be paired for subsequent rounds.

Recording the moves
As per FIDE Laws of Chess, Art. 8.1.1:
“In the course of play each player is required to record his own moves and those of his opponent in the correct manner, move after move, as clearly and legibly as possible, in the algebraic notation (Appendix C), on the ‘scoresheet’ prescribed for the competition.”

Dear parents, please have your children practice recording the moves well before the tournament.

If a player in a non-FIDE-rated section (Girls U-10, Open U-10, Girls U-08, Open U-08) is unable to record the moves due to disability or young age, his parents or legal guardians need to advise the organizer in writing by June 25. In such cases, a player might be granted an exemption from the move recording requirement but will forfeit his right to any claim that is normally made based on scoresheet data (e.g., triple repetition).

Marking the results
When the game is finished, each player shall clearly mark its result on his or her scoresheet as “1-0”, “½-½”, or “0-1” and to sign this scoresheet. Then, the player shall cross-sign his opponent’s scoresheet and ask his opponent to cross-sign his. Once both scoresheets have results and two signatures, players shall remain seated and raise their hands without talking in order to attract the attention of a section arbiter. The section arbiter will come to the table, check the result, indicate it on the official pairings sheet, and will collect both scoresheets. The players can only leave when a section arbiter tells them so. If one or both players do not follow this procedure and leave before a section arbiter allowed them to do so, the result of the game can be entered in any way including “0-0” in the sole discretion of the Chief Arbiter.

Dear parents, please explain this requirement to your children and “role-play” with them the end-of-game situation, taking upon yourself first the character of your child’s opponent, then that of a section arbiter.

Electronic devices
As per FIDE Laws of Chess, Art. 11.3.2.1, any electronic device has to be stored in a player’s bag and to be switched off completely. Game forfeit is an automatic penalty if player is found to be near any kind of a non-stored electronic device during the round anywhere in the playing venue, including toilets.

Playing Venue
As per FIDE Laws of Chess, Art. 11:
- The ‘playing venue’ is defined as the ‘playing area’, rest rooms, toilets, refreshment area, area set aside for smoking and other places as designated by the arbiter.
- The playing area is defined as the place where the games of a competition are played.
- Only with the permission of the arbiter can:
o a player leave the playing venue,
o the player having the move be allowed to leave the playing area.
o a person who is neither a player nor arbiter be allowed access to the playing area.
- During play the players are forbidden to use any notes, sources of information or advice, or analyze any game on another chessboard.

Spectators (including parents) are not allowed to be present in the playing area when games are underway. Spectators are not allowed to communicate with players anywhere in the playing venue (e.g., in the toilets or in the hallway).

Photographs
We will warmly welcome you to take photos before the start of every round. All spectators, including parents, will be asked to leave the playing area five minutes before the scheduled round start. An official CFC photographer will attempt to take photos during the rounds and to make them available to parents and players.

Tiebreak criteria
As per FIDE recommendations and the FQE rules, the following tiebreak criteria will be used.
For all regular sections that are played as individual Swiss tournaments.
1) Direct encounter
2) The greater number of wins
3) The greater number of games with Black (unplayed games shall be counted as played with White)
4) Buchholz Cut 1
5) Younger age (i.e., a later date of birth confirmed by a government-issued ID).

In case a section has eight players only and is played like a round-robin:
1) Direct encounter
2) The greater number of wins
3) Sonneborn-Berger
4) Buchholz Cut 1
5) Younger age (i.e.. a later date of birth confirmed by a government-issued ID).

Thank you.

Please note that the FQE has published two very informative Info-Lettres that cover a wide array of tournament-related issues. Both are accessible through the front page of the CYCC Web site.

Less than a week left before the start of the CYCC.

A direct link to rules and regulations in both languages on the FQE site.

Three days before the tournament starts.

Girls - 77, Open - 279 || Total - 356

The opening ceremony is tomorrow.

Girls - 78, Open - 285 || Total - 363

Tournament files for CYCC playoffs in two sections are online and linked to the main files.

The 2018 Canadian Youth champions and medalists
(Final version; includes playoff results in two sections.)

Girls U-08
1. Rae Chen - ON (Mississauga)
2. Eveleen Kaur - ON (Windsor)
3. Alina Chen - ON (Mississauga)

Girls U-10
1. Greta Qu - ON (Mississauga)
2. Jin Rong (Winnie) Zhuang - ON (Toronto)
3. Annie Le Yi Li - QC (Montreal)

Girls U-12
1. Jessica Qian - BC (Richmond)
2. Julia Tsukerman - QC (Montreal)
3. Mysha Gilani - ON (Toronto)

Girls U-14
1. Emma He - ON (Toronto)
2. Haotong Hazel Guo - ON (Markham)
3. Isabelle Wang - QC (Montreal)

Girls U-16
1. Maili-Jade Ouellet - QC (St. Lambert)
2. Svitlana Demchenko - ON (Ottawa)
3. Cynthia Cui - NB (Fredericton)

Girls U-18
1. Yi Lin Li - QC (Lasalle)
2. Pepi Eirew - BC (Vancouver)
3. Xin Yi (Cindy) Yu - QC (Lavaltrie)

Open U-08
1. Zichen (Roger) Zuo - ON (Toronto)
2. Arnav Mane - ON (Richmond Hill)
3. Yunqi (Lucas) Liu - QC (Montreal)

Open U-10
1. Kevin Zhong - QC (Pierrefonds)
2. Daniel Xu - ON (Kanata)
3. Noah Nathaniel Yuen - ON (Richmond Hill)

Open U-12
1. Max Chen - ON (Toronto)
2. Jeffrey R. Zhao - ON (Toronto)
3. Richard Zheng - QC (Montreal)

Open U-14
1. Nicholas Vettese - ON (Toronto)
2. Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux - QC (Montreal)
3. Ian Zhao - AB (Calgary)

Open U-16
1. Rohan Talukdar - ON (Windsor)
2. Joshua Doknjas - BC (Surrey)
3. Benito Surya - ON (Mississauga)

Open U-18
1. Brandon Zhu - BC (Burnaby)
2. William Bremner - BC (North Vancouver)
3. Andrew Colvin - ON (Cookstown)

On behalf of the organizers and officials, please allow me to express our sincere gratitude to the wonderful CYCC volunteers from all across the county. Your dedication, reliability, love for children and professionalism made this record-breaking event so memorable and successful.

Jean-Pierre Roy (Quebec City, QC)

John Zuo
Eric Guan
Arthur Guo
Hongyuan Chen
James Zeng
Christy Zhai
led by
Rachel Huang (all from Canada Chess Youth Club, Markham, ON)

Toto Surya
Maria Ferdianti (Mississauga, ON)

George Craciun (Montreal, QC)

Andrei Botez, FA (B.C.)

Anne Ouellet (St.Lambert, QC)

Mayuri Talukdar (Windsor, ON)

Vinny Puri (Brampton, ON)

A tournament photo gallery courtesy of the official CYCC photographer Victoria Doknjas on the official FQE site. Appreciate a lot Victoria your posting everything so quickly despite a very intense day!

The 2018 CYCC has been rated by the CFC. Thanks a lot to Bob Gillanders for his invaluable skills and tremendous patience when processing difficult tournament reports.