World Youth U-16 Chess Olympiad 2017 Ahmedabad, India

[Gary Hua]

World Youth U-16 Chess Olympiad 2017 Ahmedabad, India

Next year U-16 Chess Olympiad will be held in India.

Date has not been determined yet.

If anyone of you who would like to represent Canada, please indicate your interest by sending to the following email address below :

CFC would like to send the strongest team as far as possible. Preparation will be done as early as possible and that's why we want to select the team.

The team comprises 4 boys and 1 girl. We can send as many teams as possible but CFC normally provides financial support for the first team.

The player must be of certain level of play. If you think you are good enough and would like to play in this tournament, then write to us. Think about it carefully before writing to us as we also do not want cancellations at the last minute citing various reasons.

Please send you emails to ghua71ATyahoo.ca

I will be posting another thread for 2017 international events like WYCC/NAYCC/Pan-Am and other events in the near future to know who may want to play in these tournaments.

Gary Hua

CFC Youth Co-ordinator

[Gary Hua]

The following REQUIREMENTS has been approved by the CFC executives for the selection of players to represent Canada for the Team Canada - 1

The requirements are as follows :

1. The parents/players MUST write to me to indicate their willingness to participate. Dateline by Mar 1, 2017. There are more than 80 days from now to Mar 1, 2017 for the players and parents to think about it.
2. CFC rating - We will select the players based on the highest rated who also write to us.
3. Cut-off date by April 1, 2017. This will give the players more than 100 days from now to April 1, 2017 to improve their ratings.

The first team official players ( 4 boys and 1 girl ) will be provided full lodging and food by the organizers at the tournament venue normally.

CFC will provide reimbursement of at least $ 1k for the air ticket ( PARTIAL AIRFARE ) to Ahmedabad, India.

This will have meant that the expenses of the official players will be covered considerably.

As mentioned before, CFC would like to send the strongest team as far as possible. CFC may also send Team 2 if there are sufficient interest and may cover part of the expenses.

We invite you to write to us at ghua71ATyahoo.ca if you think you are qualified and good for the Canada Team.

Dateline to write to us is Mar 1, 2017

Gary Hua

CFC Youth Co-ordinator

[Gary Hua]

Reminder :

Dateline to write in to indicate your interest to be the Official Player of Team Canada is March 1, 2017

So far 7 players have wrote in. More details will be provided soon.

Gary Hua

[Gary Hua]

Parents who wish to be the head of delegation - please write in so that we can appoint you as early as possible.

Thanks

Gary Hua

[Gary Hua]

The date of the U-16 Olympiad is December.

We will extend the registration process to May 1st, 2017 and the selection of the players will be on June 1st CFC rating.

World Youth U-16 Chess Olympiad 2017 Ahmedabad, India 10-Dec-2017 20-Dec-201

Gary Hua

[Michael Barron]

The date of the U-16 Olympiad is December.

We will extend the registration process to May 1st, 2017 and the selection of the players will be on June 1st CFC rating.

World Youth U-16 Chess Olympiad 2017 Ahmedabad, India 10-Dec-2017 20-Dec-201

Gary Hua

Thank you, Gary, for informing chess community!
Maybe it's better to finalize the selection of the players later, after CYCC?

[Gary Hua]

Thank you, Gary, for informing chess community!
Maybe it's better to finalize the selection of the players later, after CYCC?

Thanks Michael for your input. I think it makes sense.

We shall extend the registration dateline to Aug 1, 2017 and the selection of the players will be based on CFC rating on Aug 23, 2017 ( after the Canadian Junior Chess Championship which will be held from Aug 9-13, 2017 ) Parents and players MUST write in to me at ghua71@yahoo.ca to indicate your interest to represent Canada.

7 players has so far wrote in.

Cheers

Gary Hua

[Gary Hua]

https://www.fide.com/images/stories/FIDE_Calendar_2017/World_Youth_U16_Chess_Olympiad_2017.pdf

9 players have wrote in so far.

[Gary Hua]

Dateline for registration is Aug 1, 2017.

[Gary Hua]

Thee are the players registered for the U-16 Olympiad ( In no particular order ). Ranking and selection will be based on CFC rating as at Aug 23, 2017. After tomorrow, there will be two more updates in the CFC rating to be finalized. Registration closed for U-16 Olympiad.

We have 10 players and could have 2 teams going ( 5+5 )

1. Eugene Hua ( 2334 )
2. Harry Zhao ( 2159 )
3. Rohan Talukdar ( withdraw )
4. Cindy Qiao (1877 )
5. Henry Zhang ( 2182 )
6. Shawn Rodriguis Lemiuex ( 2253 )
7. Michael Su ( 2032 )
8. Svitlana Demchenko ( 2228 )
9. William Li (2153 )
10. Hairan Liang ( 2249 )

[Gary Hua]

Please find the selection for Team Canada 1 by rating as at Aug 23, 2017

1. Eugene Hua ( 2340 )
2. Shawn Rodrigue Lemieux ( 2245 )
3. Hairan Liang ( 2249 )
4. Svitlana Demchenkp ( 2228 )
5. Henry Zhang ( 2182 )

This 5 players are the currently the top juniors in Canada.

We may send a second team. Details coming up

Gary Hua