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

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XXIX Festival Panamericano de la Juventud 2018 (the 2018 Panamerican Youth Chess Festival) is this year's edition of the traditional event organized under the auspices of the Confederation of Chess for America (CCA). It features all traditional FIDE age-based categories from U-08 through U-18 in both Girls and Open.

The Chilean Chess Federation hosts the PanAm Youth in the capital Santiago from July 21 through July 29, 2018.

The official tournament site (http://www.panamericanoajedrez2018.cl).

Invitation, schedule and regulations (https://docs.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=http://www.panamericanoajedrez2018.cl/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/PanamericanoAjedrezJuventud-2018-BASES-ENGact.pdf&hl=en_US).

Tournament on Chess-Results (http://chess-results.com/tnr364277.aspx?lan=1&art=79&turdet=YES&flag=30&zeilen=99999). (Please note that the crucial feature "Overview for team: CAN" doesn't work yet as of 7/19; hope it will be fixed before the start.)

The CFC Youth Coordinator Undriadi Benggawan and the CFC President Vald Drkulec announced clear and transparent selection criteria well in advance in April 2018, then supervised and facilitated selection and registration of a great team led by our amazing HoD.

Team Canada
Head of Delegation: Christina Tao

Official players
Girls U-08: Alina Yuexi Chen
Open U-08:Daniel Pugach
Girls U-10: Jinrong Zhuang
Open U-10: Alex Jikai Yan
Girls U-12: Dania Surya
Open U-12: Max Chen
Girls U-14: -
Open U-14: Callum Yoker
Girls U-16: Ellen Tao
Open U-16: Adam Gaisinsky
Girls U-18: -
Open U-18: James Li

Additional players
Girls U-12: Kate Yuhua Jiang
Open U-12: Aiden Zhou
Open U-12: Derek Chen
Open U-16: Benito Surya

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.

All the best to our team! Safe travel, and good luck in the tournament!

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Tournament on Chess-Results (http://chess-results.com/tnr364277.aspx?lan=1&art=79&turdet=YES&flag=30&zeilen=99999). (Please note that the crucial feature "Overview for team: CAN" doesn't work yet as of 7/19; hope it will be fixed before the start.)

Here's a manual hack that seems to do the trick. I built up the following URL by hand: if you go here (http://chess-results.com/tnr364281.aspx?lan=1&art=79&fedb=CAN&turdet=YES&flag=30&zeilen=99999), you would see all registered Canadians highlighted as if the Team Overview functionality were enabled. Proceed by clicking on various tournament sections, like Open U-12 (http://chess-results.com/tnr364270.aspx?lan=1&art=0&fedb=CAN&turdet=YES&flag=30), _from the same browser tab_, and you'll see that the markup holds.

We'll see what happens when Rd 1 pairings are published. Obviously, it would be better for Team Overview to work natively.

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The character named "h7" is the official mascot of the PanAmerican Youth Festival.
https://www.ajefech.cl/imagenes/2018/h7.jpg

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The week-end schedule (machine translation from Spanish):

"The Pan-American Youth begins its process of reception of delegations and delivery of credentials and accreditations for both Chilean and foreign participants.

The following summary considers instructions for obtaining accreditation and confirmation at the event.

SATURDAY, JULY 21
HOTELS - ONLY FOREIGN DELEGATIONS

Reception of Foreign Delegations in London 35, London 77, Novapark and Founder Hotels according to defined distribution.

From 10:00 AM to 20:00 PM. Accreditation Hall - Calle Londres 46 piso 6 , Santiago Centro: Foreign Delegations: Making Outstanding Payments. Delivery of credentials and delivery of vouchers Check Restaurant.

SUNDAY, JULY 22
NATIONAL STADIUM POLIDEPORTIVE

11:30 AM - Technical Tournament delegates meeting. Meeting Room Sports Center - North Entrance.

11:30 AM to 15:30 PM: Delivery of Participating and Accompanying Credentials CHILE . Delivery is against identity card or passport. Payments and delivery Accreditations not delivered foreign participants.

16:00 PM. Opening ceremony

5:00 PM: Start Round 1 "

Please note that Santiago, Chile, is currently at (GMT-4), which coincides with the Eastern Daylight Time.

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Round 1 begins at 5 p.m. CLT (same as EDT) today, July 22. The pairings are posted (http://chess-results.com/tnr364270.aspx?lan=1&art=2&rd=1&turdet=YES&flag=30).

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The pre-opening dispatch by Team Canada HoD Christina Tao:

First round will start [July 22]. It is quite far from hotel to playing hall.
The organizer will arrange shuttle service to transport players and their families and to return back to hotel. The subway system is huge and quite modern.
The playing hall is very well organized and prepared. All the boards, sets and clocks are brand new. Many were still in boxes when we arrived. I spent some time talking to the organizer and took a few pictures.
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Rd 1, 2018-07-22

CHEN Alina Yuexi 0 0 1 - 0 0 TORRES PUENTES Camila 0
DE LIMA Theo Magalhaes 1293 0 1 - 0 0 PUGACH Daniel 0
ZHUANG Jinrong 0 0 1 bye
ARAVENA RODRIGUEZ Felipe 0 0 0 - 1 0 YAN Alex Jikai 1382
PARREIRA Teodora Ribeiro 1621 0 1 - 0 0 JIANG Kate Yuhua 1135
SURYA Dania 0 0 0 - 1 0 JUAREZ GARCIA Daniela 1253
ZHOU Aiden 2044 0 1 - 0 0 RAMIREZ MADRID Daniel Alberto 1377
LUCHO LA ROSA Sandro Alberto 1342 0 0 - 1 0 CM CHEN Max C 1767
MOU Arvin 1644 0 1 - 0 0 CHEN Derek 1263
YOKER Callum 0 0 1 bye
Vargas Letelier Catalina 1101 0 0 - 1 0 Tao Ellen 1561
CM GAISINSKY Adam C 1959 0 1 - 0 0 GALVEZ AGUIRRE Marcelo 1438
SURYA Benito 1892 0 1 - 0 0 LOPEZ PARRA Santiago 1352
GAYLE Malik S18 0 0 0 - 1 0 LI James S18 1949

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Photos of Team Canada: players, officials and parents - courtesy of HoD Christina Tao.
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(Please note that the crucial feature "Overview for team: CAN" doesn't work yet as of 7/19; hope it will be fixed before the start.)

The PanAm organizers fixed the missing functionality today, 7/24. Please follow[URL="http://chess-results.com/tnr364277.aspx?lan=1&art=25&fedb=CAN&turdet=YES&flag=30"] this link (http://chess-results.com/tnr364277.aspx?lan=1&art=79&turdet=YES&flag=30&zeilen=99999) to access an overview for Team Canada.

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After four rounds, CM Max Chen is tied for 1st (http://chess-results.com/tnr364270.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=4&fedb=CAN&fed=CAN&turdet=YES&flag=30) with a perfect score 4/4 (Absolute U-14).

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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!

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.


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 (https://www.facebook.com/Canadianwycc2014/photos/pb.724269347608328.-2207520000.1532587364./1726613717373881/?type=3).

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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 (http://chess-results.com/tnr364277.aspx?lan=1&art=25&fedb=CAN&turdet=YES&flag=30). Max Chen (ON) tied for 2nd-3rd in the Under-12 Absolute category.

Bravo to players, parents, coaches and officials!