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Thread: Panamerican Youth Chess Festival - Santiago, Chile - July 21-29, 2018

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    Quote Originally Posted by Vadim Tsypin View Post
    Following the great tradition of World and Continental youth events, the Honourable Patricia Peña, Ambassador of Canada in Chile, has kindly granted the CFC's request for a meet-and-greet with the team. This exciting event is preliminarily scheduled for 16:00 on July 25 - before the beginning of Round 6.
    It happened!
    Quote Originally Posted by Christina Tao
    Today is an incredible day. The visit of Ambassador and her daughter make a huge attention in the playing hall.

    I have created achievement certificates and signed by Vlad for each player. Ambassador greatly accept my request and give out the certificates to each player. It is such a blessing to players. Every parents are super happy and greatly appreciated by CFC. We have a team pictures with Ambassador and the mascot.
    Bravo Vlad, Undriadi and Christina for arranging this!

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    Half-way through the tournament, here's the Team Canada update.

    Quote Originally Posted by Christina Tao
    So far we have a really great results for most of the players out of 6 games

    U08G Alina Chan - 3 points
    U10G Winne Zhuang - 3.5 points
    U12G Dina Surya - 2.5 points
    U12G Kate Jiang - 3 points
    U16G Ellen Tao - 3.5 points

    U08O - Daniel Pugach - 4 points
    U10O - Alex Yan - 4 points
    U12O - Max Chen - 4 points
    U12O - Aiden Zhou - 4 points
    U12O - Derek Chan - 2 points
    U14O - Callum Yoker - 3 points
    U16O - Adam Gaisinsky - 4 points
    U16O - Benito Surya - 3.5 points
    U18O - James Li - 3.5 points


    Tomorrow, it is a free day and we will have city tour.

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    A team photo with the Ambassador.
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    ( The mascot is clearly visible, too. )

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    Don't forget that Chile is close to Antarctica, and it is mid-winter there. ;-)

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    All photos above are courtesy of Toto Surya.

    Here's Toto's gallery on the Ambassador's visit.

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    Toto, thanks a lot for selflessy taking all those wonderful pictures at World and continental events over the years! It is so rare that you get into the frame yourself - let us celebrate this occasion with you.

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    Team Canada's final standings. Max Chen (ON) tied for 2nd-3rd in the Under-12 Absolute category.

    Bravo to players, parents, coaches and officials!

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