4. Executive and Officer reports

[Christina Tao]

4F. Report from CFC Youth Coordinator

After two year of pandemic shut down on chess world, finally we are heading into a amazing year and youth chess is never better than this year.

1. World Cadet & Youth Rapid and Blitz Chess Championships, April 30 - May 4, 2022 at Rhodes, Greece. We had two players travelled to Greece and coming home with great results.

• Modith Mutyalapati finished 2nd place with 8/9 points
• Sarthak Deshpande finished with 5th place with 6.5/9 points

2. Pan-American Youth Rapid&Blitz Online Chess Championship, May 21&22, June 4, 2022. We had 8 players attended this event, with great achievements from

• U10 Open : 2nd place Daniel Joshua Lee (CAN)
• U12 Open: 1st place Jifan Zhao (CAN)
• U14 Open: 2nd place Emanuel Kot (CAN) and 3rd place Jonath Joseph (CAN)
• U16 Open: 2nd place Adrien Cheng (CAN)

In overall, Team Canada finished the 2nd place in the country ranking

3. IRT Hybrid Americas League Sub-2400 Divisions U2400, U1800, and U1400, Jun 4 & 5, 2022 Markham ON. I successfully run the first Hybrid tournament link to American countries. We had 9 players joined in that event. This will open a new way of linking Canadian chess players to other countries in Hybrid format.

4. World School Chess championship Jun 10-19, 2022 in Panama city, Panama. We had three players(U11G Marie Guan, U11O Arun Mendes and U13O Johnathan Han) travelled to this event with two Champions coming home.

• U11O Champion Arun Mendes
• U13O Champion Johnathan Han

5. XXXII Pan-American Youth Chess championship, Jun 25-July2,2022 Montevideo, Uruguay. We had a team of 10 players from all provinces to attend this event in person. With an undefeated performance of 7.5/9 Rachel Chen coming home with 1st place winner. It was very blessed the team was greeting by ambassador Isabelle Valois.

6. North American Youth Chess Championship Aug 10-14, 2022 in Calgary Alberta. This is a recording year, with 407 players from Canada, USA and Mexico attended in this event. I had also travelled to NAYCC and gave out presentation to education parents. It is so important to bring CFC background and our work to the west coast players and their parents.

7. FIDE World Youth Chess Championship Sept 5-17, 2022 in Mamaia, City of Constanta, Romania. We had a team of 14 players travelled to this event. With the most exciting and intensive tournament, U18O Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux came home with World Champion title.

8. FIDE World Cadets Chess Championship Sept 15-28,2022 Batumi Georgia. We had a team of 12 players playing in this event. It is still on going as I report this event.

9. FIDE Youth U-16 Chess Olympiad, Oct 1- 11, 2022 Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. We just form a Team of 4 players, they will travel out soon.




Christina
CFC Youth Coordinator