Tuesday, August 29th 2006

7:06 PM

New Canadian Champion!


[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 champ GM Pascal Charbonneau who finished 3rd behind GM Mark Bluvshtein. Zugic will represent Canada at the FIDE World Championship. Bluvshtein and Charbonneau will travel to the FIDE Americas Championship.

The official Sites are here and here. Be sure to check out the great photo section at the MonRoi Site.
TWIC also has the games in this week's edition.

Goran points out in this post that a crucial game was Zugic's win in the 7th round against and IM Thomas Roussel Roozmon. Here's the replay. 
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