4.J Chess Foundation of Canada
After a rough start to 2020 the Foundation assets have climbed back above the value at this time last year.
As of this moment we have $370,000 invested and expect to generate around $12,500 of income for the CFC this fiscal year.
I had the pleasure of hearing from Kalev Pugi's son who expressed his gratitude that we have continued to honour his father's
legacy through the Kalev Pugi portion of the Foundation that generates grants to promising Canadian juniors.
Paul Leblanc
Treasurer, Chess Foundation of Canada
CFC Voting Member
4.K Kalev Pugi Fund
2020 Kalev Pugi Fund Winners are
- Ian Zhao from Calgary, AB
- Kevin Zhong from Pierrefonds, QC
- Matthew Ivanescu from Edmonton, AB
- kate Jiang from Vancouver, BC
Each of them received $230 and a congratulation Kalev Pugi certificate.
Christina
Kalev Pugi Fund committee
4.F Reports from Youth Coordinator.
FIDE Online World Cadets & Youth Chess Championships : American Selection Stage
The FIDE Council has approved Regulations for the FIDE Online World Cadets & Youth Rapid Chess Championships. This event will be held among ten out of twelve age/gender categories that are customary in over-the-board Cadets and Youth championships (U-08 Open and U-08 Girls are excluded).
Players who ranked top 10 in American Continental ranking and directly invited by FIDE
U18G Maili-Jade Ouellet, St. Lambert, QC
U12G Michelle Hua, Waterdown, ON
U12G Julia Li, Toronto, ON
U10G Alia Myrzaibraimova, Winnipeg, MB
U12O Anthony Atanasov, Oakville, ON
2020 National Youth Active Online Chess Championship, a qualifying tournament to FIDE Online World Cadets and Youths Championship
On Nov 8, 2020, the first National Youth tournament was organized by Juniors to Master Chess Academy Inc. There were a total of 147 Players. In other to prevent cheating, players were required to provide dual cameras and joined thru the zoom during the whole event. Cameras were set up to ensure the satisfaction of the Fair Play playing environment. One camera was for the front view that allowed the organizer and the Team to clearly see the face of the player. The other camera was for the side view, which would let the organizer saw the table, the side of the player, and partial of the screen.
During the event, there was a team of members who watched all players on Zoom looking for any suspicious behaviors. Also, the Fair Play Team was busy checking games. It was a very intense tournament for players and at the same time, it was also very intensive for all of us working at the background to ensure it was a fairness online tournament.
I could like to congratulate everyone who worked on the event, specially thanks to the Chief Organizer, Victoria Jung-Doknjas; the Chief Arbiter Jacob Mayer; Deputy Arbiter Brendan Woodroff; Arbiter IM Alexandru David; French Arbiter WGM Maïli-Jade Ouellet, who translated in French from the Opening Ceremony and throughout the 6 Rounds of announcements; JtM Fair Play Team Members and TDs: GM Gergely Szabo, FM John Doknjas, FM Joshua Doknjas, who worked real-time during and after the event to ensure fair play and the Appeals Team: Christina Tao and Vlad Drkulec.
JtM also made a contribution to the CFC Youth Fund which was used to sponsor players to play in FIDE Online event.
The Champion from National Youth who were qualified to play in FIDE Online World tournament
U10O Justin Jialin Gao, Vancouver BC
U10G Isabelle Guan, Markham, ON
U12O Vincent Latorre, Montreal, QC
U12G Anni Guo, Markham, ON
U14O Max Chen, Toronto, ON
U14G Carina D'Souza, Toronto, ON
U16O Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux, Montreal, QC
U16G Sandy-Rose Bilodeau-Savaria, Montreal, QC
U18O Sébastien Azar, Outaouais, QC
U18G Svitlana Demchenko, Ottawa, ON
19 Wild Cards spots for the FIDE Online World Cadets and Youths Chess Championship
After the National tournament and just before the deadline, Canada was handed 19 wild card spots. Therefore all the 2nd place winners from National and few highest CFC ranked players in each age category were invited to join the Selection Stage of the FIDE Online tournament.
U10G Ashley Qian (ON)
U10O Aaron Reeve Mendes (ON)
U10G Rae Chen (ON)
U10O Glib Dunikov (ON)
U10O Luca Georgescu-Nicolau (QC)
U10O Johnathan Wu (AB)
U12O Anand Rishi Chandra (AB)
U12O Johnathan Han (ON)
U12G Gillian Mok (BC)
U12G Lucy Gao (ON)
U14O Ilia Batorshyn (QC)
u14O Hemant Srinivasan (AB)
U14O Nameer Issani (ON)
U14G Julia Tsukerman (QC)
U14G Kate Yuhua Jiang (BC)
u16O Taira Tyler Tanaka (QC)
U16O Ian Zhao (AB)
U18O Rohan Talukdar (ON)
U18O Sergey Noritsyn (ON)
Dec 1-3 FIDE Online World Cadets and Youths Chess Championship American Stage
Report from the FIDE site : here
Huge congratulations to the following 6 players from CANADA who have won the right to participate in the final stage of the WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP.
Mendes Aaron Reeve (U10)
Chandra Anand Rishi (U12)
Issani Nameer (U14)
Rodrique-Lemieux Shawn (U16)
Talukdar Rohan (U18)
Demchenko Svitlana (G18)
Huge congratulations to Ouellet Maili-Jade who get a direct invitation to participate in the final stage of the WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP.
Dec 19-23 FIDE Online World Cadets and Youths Chess Championship Final Stage
Full report can be found here
Christina
Youth Coordinator
Congratulations again Christina, Victoria and Gergely! Good luck to all Canadian players in the final stage of the World Online C&Y Ch.!
I am pleased to share good news that many 2000-2003 cohort players and their parents were hoping for.
Since the 2020 over-the-board editions of these two popular competitions didn't take place due to the COViD-19 pandemic, the FIDE Council decided to extend the age limit, exceptionally, for the 2021 FIDE World Youth U-18 Ch. and the 2021 FIDE World Junior U-20 Ch.
All players who have not reached *age 19* and *age 21*, respectively, will have the right to participate - for the 2021 events only. Additional modifications are made regarding personal right players (for instance, "To add Continental U18 Champions if there was not any Continental Junior Championship").
Last edited by Vadim Tsypin; 12-16-2020 at 11:12 AM. Reason: Age limit extensions for the 2021 FIDE World Youth and Junior Chess Ch.
The FIDE Council approved the following important change in the Regulations for the FIDE World Youth U-16 Chess Olympiad.
"Each team shall comprise 4 players and *2 reserves* (one of whom must be a girl) and 1 captain (or Manager, Trainer). Minimum one girl *shall play in all the rounds*."
As a reminder, the next WYCO is scheduled to be held in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan in Q4 2021.
All World Calendar events for 2021 are scheduled as over-the-board, with the earliest one to start in March. Obviously, if time comes to send invitations / to open registrations but the epidemiological situation and/or national regulations in host countries remain not conducive to mass sports events, the organizers would ask FIDE for changes.