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South for the Winter - Wednesday, November 22nd 2006 3:17 PM
[Photo: Flickr - andhub]Canadian GM Mark Bluvshtein is heading south for the winter, well for part of it anyway. There's no mention yet on the official site, however news comes...
Chess On Ice - Sunday, November 5th 2006 1:33 PM
Spent some TV time over the weekend watching the Skate Canada International from Victoria. American skater Johnny Weir's short program costume caught my eye. He skates to a...
Chess Today - Saturday, November 4th 2006 12:39 PM
Seems like Grandmaster Alex Baburin is in a generous mood this weekend. I logged-on this morning to find not one, not two, but three -- count 'em -- three recent issues of Chess...
New Ratings - Sunday, October 29th 2006 7:58 AM
The new ICCF ratings for players in the Canadian Correspondence Chess Association [CCCA] have been posted. I'm on the list for the first time at something other than a...
Slugfest Fan Voting - Saturday, October 21st 2006 11:56 AM
A note in the email this morning from Slugfest organizer Clint Ballard. Fan voting is still on for the best game of last weekend's GM Slugfest.Canada's Jonathan Berry looks like...
10 Best Blogs for a Smarter You - Wednesday, October 18th 2006 6:21 PM
The folks over at brainwashcafe certainly know a good thing when they see it! The OnlineChess.ca Weblog is the recipient of the brainwashcafe editor's choice award. You can find...
From the Mailbag: The Caro-Kann - Sunday, October 1st 2006 10:15 AM
Mark Weeks at About.com Chess is featuring an opening tutorial on the Caro-Kann Defence, 1.e4 c6...The Caro-Kann is "considered one of Black's most solid responses to 1.e4." and...
Correspondence Update II - Saturday, September 30th 2006 10:41 AM
Stephen Wright published BC Chess Federation Bulletin Number 104 last week with an update on the 2006 BC Correspondence Chess Championship which is nearing...
Correspondence Update I - Saturday, September 30th 2006 9:19 AM
In today's edition of the Globe and Mail, Jonathan Berry annotates a game between Wayne Hynes and Vaclav Sladek. The game is from the first round of the 2005 Canadian...
Chessblocks - Tuesday, September 5th 2006 6:39 PM
Are they chess pieces or are they building blocks? How about both! Chessblocks are described as "a futuristic functional and updated chess set design". The design of each of the...
Pascal is a Potzer! - Saturday, September 2nd 2006 10:40 AM
"Pascal is a potzer, he should stick to Anand"Apparently that was what Philadelphia Masterminds Manager FM Michael Shahade [pictured above] had to say after the former Canadian...
New Canadian Champion! - Tuesday, August 29th 2006 7:06 PM
[Photo: MonRoi]Congratulations to IM Igor Zugic the new Canadian Chess Champion! Igor carried his early tournament lead through to Sunday's final round game against defending...
The 2006 Canadian Blitz Champion! - Monday, August 21st 2006 7:08 PM
Congratulations to Raja Panjwani! The Ontario junior beat the field in the first ever Canadian Blitz Championship. The blitz tournament was the feature event yesterday at...
What's in a name? - Sunday, August 13th 2006 9:05 AM
Via BCC Chess Pimp at brainwashcafe has given my humble little blogging effort an "overall good" rating in his list of Chess Pimp Links. Howver, CP feels that ...
Heroes - Saturday, August 12th 2006 9:14 AM
Over the past couple of weeks it seems like some of my heroes have fallen from grace like Floyd Landis or just faded away like Jaques Villenuve. There is some good news though,...
Back With a Win! - Tuesday, July 25th 2006 7:19 PM
Back from summer holidays and picked up a win [yes, there were a couple of losses too] in a King's Gambit Accepted - Bishop's Gambit Tourney being hosted at ChessWorld.net by...
A Fight to the Finish - Sunday, July 2nd 2006 12:13 PM
Canadian IM Thomas Roussel-Roozmon came achingly close to gaining a GM Norm last month at the Las Vegas Masters Tournament.This week in the Globe and Mail, Jonathan Berry has...
Reviewed: Win with the London System - Monday, June 26th 2006 6:37 PM
With this week's edition of What's New at Chessville comes a favourable review by Rick Kennedy of Johnsen and Kovacevic's Win with the London System. I've been enjoying some...
GM Simul - Sunday, June 11th 2006 9:14 AM
[GM Charbonneau shakes hands with a young opponent - Photo Junior Chess]Junior Chess has posted a nice set of photos from yesterday's first stop on the Charbonneau - Krush...
The Buzz - Saturday, June 10th 2006 9:01 AM
The current big story in Canadian chess is GM Charbonneau's win over the number 2 player in the world, India's Viswanathan Anand in round 12 at the Olympiad in Turin.  The...
Lying Low - Wednesday, June 7th 2006 6:42 PM
Maybe it's the time of year? It's been well over a month since my last post. No excuses really, just life in general, work, home, family. Still quietly playing chess.I'm...
50 Best Books Made Into Movies - Tuesday, April 18th 2006 6:40 PM
Via the robot wisdom weblog comes this list of the 50 best film adaptations of books. Near the top [number 3 in fact, although I'm not sure if they are listed in any particular...
Out of my League - Monday, April 10th 2006 8:47 PM
I'm way out of my league in the 2006 British Columbia CC Championship.Play on the ICCF Web server got under way back on New Years Day and the games have just gone live with the...
ROW Match Update - Sunday, April 9th 2006 11:04 AM
The Rest-of-the-World [ROW] match vs. MrThayer on Chessworld.net has ended in a win for the ROW team."Congratulations ROW team. Very good. I hope you learned from this game. The...
Pascal in the News - Saturday, April 8th 2006 11:07 AM
[Photo: UMBC Chess Club]A couple of Pascal items to report on this week. Pascal and UMBC team-mates, Pawel Blehm, Bruci Lopez, Katerina Rohonyan and Beenish Bhatia picked...