Are any Canadians playing this week in Lima?

[John Coleman]

Round 5 results - the Canadians are at 50% (12½/25)

U10 girls, Lily Zhou won, now has 3/5
U14 boys, Diven Shi drew, now has 2½/5
U16 boys, Tanraj Sohal drew, now has 3/5
U16 boys, Alexandru Florea lost, now has 3/5
U18 girls, Melissa Lee lost, now has 1/5

[John Coleman]

Round 6 results

U10 girls, Lily Zhou won, now has 4/6
U14 boys, Diven Shi won, now has 3½/6
U16 boys, Tanraj Sohal won, now has 4/6
U16 boys, Alexandru Florea drew, now has 3½/6
U18 girls, Melissa Lee won, now has 2/6

[Christopher Mallon]

Well, Round 6 was worth getting out of bed

[John Coleman]

Round 7 results

U10 girls, Lily Zhou won, now has 5/7 (4-way tie for 4th)
U14 boys, Diven Shi drew, now has 4/7
U16 boys, Tanraj Sohal won, now has 5/7 (7-way tie for 5th)
U16 boys, Alexandru Florea won, now has 4½/7
U18 girls, Melissa Lee lost, now has 2/7

Two rounds to go...

[John Coleman]

Round 8 results

U10 girls, Lily Zhou drew, now has 5½/8 (6-way tie for 4th)
U14 boys, Diven Shi won, now has 5/8
U16 boys, Tanraj Sohal lost, now has 5/8
U16 boys, Alexandru Florea drew, now has 5/8
U18 girls, Melissa Lee drew, now has 2½/8

One round to go...

[Andrei Botez]

Final results:

U10G - Zhou Lily tie for 3rd - 6.5p
U14 - Shi Diwen tie for 15th place - 5.5p
U16 - Tanraj Sohal tie for 6th place - 6p; Alexandru Florea 13th place - 5.5p
U18G - Melissa Lee 25th place - 2.5p

Congratulation to all!

[Christopher Mallon]

Congrats to all of the team members!

[John Coleman]

On the final day, Lily and Tanraj won, Diven and Alexandru drew, and Melissa lost. I couldn't find Melissa's result online, for some reason the final round is not scored, but I'm taking Andrei at his word.

[John Coleman]

Lily is coached by Vlad Drkulec and Zoltan Kiraly, I'm not sure in what proportions, and uses Herb Alice and John Coleman as sparring partners (I haven't lost to her... yet )

Here is a recent training game against an expert - one hour per player. Both players were short of time towards the end, the expert was very short of time after 30 moves or so. The game lasted a few moves more than I have here, but neither player was recording.


[Event "CYCC preparation"]
[Site "Sobeys"]
[Date "2012.06.23"]
[Round "2"]
[White "Zhou, Lily"]
[Black "No Name"]
[Result "1-0"]
[ECO "D85"]
[WhiteElo "1076"]
[BlackElo "2041"]
[PlyCount "80"]
[SourceDate "2012.06.23"]

1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. cxd5 Nxd5 5. e4 Nxc3 6. bxc3 Bg7 7. Nf3 c5 8.
Ba3 Qa5 9. Qb3 Nd7 10. Bc4 O-O 11. O-O cxd4 12. cxd4 e6 13. Bxf8 Nxf8 14. Rab1
b6 15. Rbc1 Bb7 16. Bd3 b5 17. Rc5 a6 18. Rfc1 Rd8 19. Rc7 Bh6 20. R1c5 Rd7 21.
Qc3 Qb6 22. Rxd7 Nxd7 23. Rc7 Nf6 24. Ne5 Bf4 25. h3 Nxe4 26. Bxe4 Bxe4 27.
Rc8+ Kg7 28. Qb4 Qb7 29. Qf8+ Kf6 30. Ng4+ Kf5 31. Rc5+ Bd5
32. Qh8 Ke4

[Vladimir Drkulec]

Lily is a regular at our Friday night advanced chess class at Sobeys. Istvan Kiraly also had a number of extra sessions with Lily just before she left for Peru. We are all proud of Lily and the great improvement that she has shown recently. We look forward to great things from her in the future. She is a real fighter and is constantly striving to improve and increase her understanding of chess.