Canadian Youth Chess Team in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia: September 2016

Friday 30 September 2016

Round 8 ends with mixed results.

Caleb P first came out with a win but then followed by losses by Michael S and James Li.

Rachel T then came out with a win which sheers up the situation before Eugene came out in tears.

According to Christina Tao ( HOD ) , both Michael and Eugene were winning but somehow lost due to time trouble. It was a very emotional for her to see the kids in tears.

Maili-Jade drew her game which overall summed up the day with 2 wins, 1 draw and 3 losses.

Round 9 next....

Good luck to the participants

http://chess-results.com/tnr239747.aspx?lan=1&art=25&fedb=CAN&flag=30&wi=821

Thursday 29 September 2016

Round 6 and 7

Time flies. It seems like still in the free day mode, however 2 rounds have done since then. Let's talk about today's Round 7 first. Since I was in some shift help, not available to access to internet until lunch time, I got all these results around noon time. James got first win for the team in 3 and half hours, and then Eugene got a draw afterword. After consecutive heart broken lose news for Caleb, Maili-Jade and Rachel, finally Michael brought the win (by Christina's word: Michael is making a miracle today. I don't know the detail why it was called miracle) after almost 5 hours battle against Alex TimerKhanov from Russia.

Actually in Round 6, we got pretty good result - 3 wins (James, Michael and Maili-Jade), 1 lost(Caleb), 1 draw(Eugene) and Rachel got 1 point bye.

I have to mention that two players in the team got 3 wins in a row - James and Michael from R5 and R7. We'll see how the winning steak is going, maybe continue to count, maybe stop right away. It is really competitive tournament. It even becomes harder and harder when last 4 rounds coming.

Eugene got 2 consecutive draws after R5 lost, which is still tolerated results from my point of view. Eugene has played 4 times with player rated higher than him. His rating +/- is best along the team (+30.40). For the details, follow http://www.chess-results.com/tnr239747.aspx?lan=0&art=25&fedb=CAN&flag=30&wi=821

Tuesday 27 September 2016

Round 5 and Free day

Round 5 was held on Sep 26, and the next day is the only free day of the event. Players and accompany persons will take full day relaxing before the second half of the tournament.

We got relative good result in Rd 5, with 4 wins(Michael, James, Caleb, and Maili-Jade) and 2 loses(Eugene and Rachel). After 5 rounds, the score and standing of our team members:

Name	Score	Standing in group	Group
Michael	3/5	26/65	U18 O
James	2/5	58/88	U16 O
Caleb	2/5	69/88	U16 O
Eugene	3/5	21/75	U14 O
Rachel	.5/5	51/52	U18 G
Maili-Jade	3/5	27/71	U14 G

for the full results, follow http://www.chess-results.com/tnr239747.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=5&flag=30&wi=821

Free day city tour of Khanty-Mansiysk (Capture and pictures from Christina)


Bronze mammoth sculptures in Archeopark

After a long uphill walk, we finally came close to these amazing bronze mammoth sculptures

Rachel Tao from U18 Girl

From left: Alex, Maili-Jade, Rachel, Celeb

Maili-Jade with her mom

Coach with all the players

James Li from U16 Open

Caleb Peterson from U16 Open

Eugene Hua from U14 Open

Michael Song from U18 Open

Michael with team coach Alex

Our HOD, Photographer and team care giver Christina Tao

Sunday 25 September 2016

Round 4

Today's result for Canada team is moderate. We got one win (Eugene), two draws(Michael and Caleb) and three lost (Maili-Jade, James and Rachel).
Eugene scored 3 of 4 so far, and stands at #11 in U14 Open standing. Tomorrow he is going to play at board 6 vs Artur Davtyan (2280) from ARM. Go Eugene go!
Maili-Jade's game finished in 2 and half hours, with a blunder. What a pity that she lost two games in a row after 2 of 2 at the beginning. But it is still 7 games to go, who knows what is going to happen.
For the full result:
http://www.chess-results.com/tnr239747.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=4&flag=30&wi=821

Other than games, lucky thing is the tournament photographer captured lots of pictures of our team members when they got off from morning bus, however Michael and Maili was not on the same bus. See these pictures (there are all in the official website of Round 4)

James Li getting off bus before Round 4

Rachel Tao shows off Maple leaf

Rachel Tao before Round 4

Eugene Hua holding Canada flag

Eugene Hua making funny face before Round 4

Rachel with her lovely mom Christina(HOD)before Round 4

Team is boarding morning bus for Round 4

Finally here is some individual pictures right before the round:

Rachel Tao at Round 4

Michael Song at Round 4

Eugene and the group before Round 4

Saturday 24 September 2016

Round 2 and 3

Have some fun after Round 3 with coach Alexander Cherniaev

can't be happier than these 3 boys

Group picture before Round 2

Eugene Hua in Round 2

Michael Song in Round 3

Rachel Tao in Round 3

Caleb Petersen in Round 3

James Li in Round 3

Eugene Hua in Round 3


Maili-Jade Ouellet in Round 3

Round 2 is great for Canada team. We got 2 wins(James, Maili-Jade) , 3 draws(Michael, Caleb and Eugene) and 1 lose(Rachel). It is so great that Eugene drew with a 2400+ player from UZB(#4 ranked player in the U14O), and James Li go first win against 2039 rated player from DEN. Here is full results:

Round 2 on 2016/09/23 at 1500
Board	No		Name	Rating	Pts		Pts		Name	Rating	No
12	51		Sukovic Andrej	2114	1	½ - ½	1	FM	Song Michael	2413	13
43	65		Kristensen Bjarke Hautop	2039	0	0 - 1	0		Li James	0	86
31	73		Petersen Caleb	1884	0	½ - ½	0	FM	Shkurkin Andrey	2190	50
3	4		Yakubboev Nodirbek	2431	1	½ - ½	1	CM	Hua Eugene	2142	27
23	46	WCM	Tao Rachel Long-Xin	1649	0	0 - 1	0		Parhomenko Margarita	1940	35
12	18	WCM	Ouellet Maili-Jade	1992	1	1 - 0	1		Bellahcene Meriem	1729	43

Day 3 is not lucky for us. We only got two draws (Engene and Rachel). But Maili-Jade played on Board 1 vs Adel Rahman (2320 rated from RUS, top rated in U14 G). Engene is only undefeated player in team Canada.

Round 3 on 2016/09/24 at 1500
Board	No		Name	Rating	Pts		Pts		Name	Rating	No
12	13	FM	Song Michael	2413	1½	0 - 1	1½	FM	Rahman Adel	2324	30
30	86		Li James	0	1	0 - 1	1		Trubchaninov Timur	2233	44
34	52		Kalinouski Siarhei	2169	½	1 - 0	½		Petersen Caleb	1884	73
10	27	CM	Hua Eugene	2142	1½	½ - ½	1½	FM	Miyasaka Marcus M	2269	12
25	41		Toshali V	1766	0	½ - ½	0	WCM	Tao Rachel Long-Xin	1649	46
1	1	WFM	Solozhenkina Elizaveta	2320	2	1 - 0	2	WCM	Ouellet Maili-Jade	1992	18

Thursday 22 September 2016

Round 1

In Round 1, Canadian players got 3 wins and 3 loses. Below pictures and captions from Christina Tao.

Round 1 on 2016/09/22 at 1500
Bo.	No.		Name	Rtg	Pts.	Result	Pts.		Name	Rtg	No
13	13	FM	Song Michael	2413	0	1 – 0	0		Holtman Teodor	2201	45
42	86		Li James	0	0	0 – 1	0	FM	Mustafin Andrey	2242	42
29	29	FM	Hilby Craig	2319	0	1 – 0	0		Petersen Caleb	1884	73
27	27	CM	Hua Eugene	2142	0	1 – 0	0	FM	Essa Naseem Ahmed	1771	64
21	22		Shivacheva Donika	2063	0	1 – 0	0	WCM	Tao Rachel Long-Xin	1649	46
18	53		Yapa Bandara Chamodya	1582	0	0 – 1	0	WCM	Ouellet Maili-Jade	1992	18