Dear chess friends,

This week in Turkey started World Youth Under-16 Chess Olympiad:
http://wyco2009.tsf.org.tr/index.php?lang=en

There are 22 teams from 15 countries: Russia, India, Armenia, Hungary, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Turkey, England, Greece, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Turkmenistan, New Zealand, Libya.

Unfortunately, Canada is not one of them...

Next year this event will take place in July:
http://www.fide.com/index.php?option...lendar&ny=2010

Canada could field a good team, for example:
Sapozhnikov, Roman 2215
Yuan, Yuanling 2202
Kraiouchkine, Nikita 2114
Calugar, Arthur 2108

Even this year with average rating 2160, such team could be ranked 7th - after Azerbaijan (2210) and before Uzbekistan (2153), and could compete for the place in the top 5.
Next year it would do even better.
Of course, other young players with proper training and dedication could make the Olimpic team as well.

Is this idea worth trying?