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If you'd like to know about events that have concluded, check out the BCCF Bulletin.
News
2025-2026 Event Proposal Deadlines
For organizers: The 2025-2026 Event Proposal Deadlines have been posted here:
2025-2026 Event Proposal Deadlines
[Posted: July 1, 2025]
Bulletin #466
BC Bulletin #466 has been posted!
[Posted: July 1, 2025]
2025 Annual General Meeting Minutes
The minutes of the 2025 Annual General Meeting (AGM) minutes have been posted
here.
[Posted: June 27, 2025]
2025 BC Seniors Chess Championship
Congratulations to
FM Paul Ross of Victoria, our new BC Senior Champion. In second place was
Scott Morgan. Top U1800 was
Richard Ingram and Top U1500 was
Reynando Potutan. A record 47 players participated.
Results
[Posted: June 24, 2025]
Online National Arbiter (NA) Seminar 18-19 October
An online National Arbiter (NA) seminar will be conducted on 18-19 October by International Arbiter Aris Marghetis. There will be two half-days, 10am to 3pm. Information and registration:
tinyurl.com/2025NASeminar
[Posted: June 24, 2025]
Elliot McCallum at 2025 FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Team Championship
Congratulations to 9-year-old
Elliot McCallum of BC for his remarkable performance at the
2025 FIDE World Rapid & Blitz Team Championship in London.
See Elliot's results:
Rapid
Blitz
[Posted: June 24, 2025]
2025 WA vs BC Intermat
Congratulations to
Team BC, who won the
2025 WA vs BC Intermat by a score of 33-19.
Detailed results can be found here:
chess2inspire.org/2025-intermat-bc-vs-wa
Some of the games have been posted here:
view.chessbase.com/cbreader/2025/6/9/Game44860390.html.
[Posted: June 10, 2025]
Bulletin #465
BC Bulletin #465 has been posted!
[Posted: June 2, 2025]
Keres Memorial Results
Congratulations to
Neil Doknjas and
Yidong Cheni, co-winners of the 2025 Paul Keres Memorial with scores of 5-1.
T.G.M. Peiris won the U2000 Section with a perfect 6-0.
Nico Xiao Huang won the U1500 Section, scoring 5.5 out of 6.
Dmytro Makogonsky and
Jashandeep Singh tied for top U1100 at 5-1.
205 players competed at Trinity Western University in Langley.
Results
[Posted: May 21, 2025]
Bulletin #464
BC Bulletin #464 has been posted!
[Posted: May 15, 2025]
Bulletin #463
BC Bulletin #463 has been posted!
[Posted: May 6, 2025]
Lapu Lapu Condolences
To our beloved members of the Filipino Chess Community we extend our most sincere condolences concerning the senseless violence at yesterday’s Vancouver Street Festival. We hope and pray that your families are safe.
[Posted: April 27, 2025]
BCCF Annual General Meeting
The BCCF Annual General Meeting will be held during the 2025 Paul Keres Memorial at Trinity Western University in Langley. Start time will be 3pm on Sunday, May 18th .
All members are welcome to attend. Voting age is 14, age for holding a position on the executive is 18.
[Posted: April 27, 2025]
2025 Canadian Closed
Congratulations to
IM Ray Kaufman who finished tied for 3rd in the 2025 Canadian Closed, held in Toronto on Easter weekend. Also excellent results for
FMs Ryan Yang and
Ethan Song tied for 5th place.
Joanne Wangluo, BC’s representative in the 2025 Canadian Women’s Championship finished with a very respectable 4 out of 9.
www.chess.ca/en/ratings/t/?id=202504170
[Posted: April 24, 2025]
Bulletin #462
BC Bulletin #462 has been posted!
[Posted: March 30, 2025]
BCCF Executive Meeting
The BCCF Executive will meet on Sunday March 16th. BCCF members are welcome to suggest agenda items. Let the executive know what you think should be our priorities. Contact BCCF President Paul Leblanc (
pc-leblanc@shaw.ca).
[Posted March 3, 2025]
BC - Alberta Match - Call for Participants
The fourth annual BC v Alberta match will take place in Salmon Arm 2-4 May. Details are on the BCCF Events Calendar. If your rating is 2200+ and you wish to join Team BC, please contact BCCF President Paul Leblanc (pc-leblanc@shaw.ca).
[Posted February 24, 2025]
Beware of Phishing Attempts!
Lately there have been some clumsy attempts by hackers who imitate members of the BCCF executive in phishing emails asking for money.
Do not respond to such messages.
- Paul Leblanc, BCCF President
[Posted February 19, 2025]
National Master Title for Yidong (Jason) Chen
Congratulations to
Yidong (Jason) Chen for being awarded the
National Master title today.
[Posted February 15, 2025]
Canadian and Canadian Women's Championship
For those interested, the
2025 Canadian Championship and Canadian Women’s Championship will be held in Toronto 17-22 April. The highest finishing player from each of the 2024 BC Championship and BC Women’s Championship to attend the tournament in Toronto will receive a $1,000 travel grant from the BCCF.
https://2025canclosed.square.site
[Posted February 10, 2025]
BCCF Membership
The BCCF has
1,711 members (players who have played at least one CFC rated game in the past year). Source: CFC rating database. At this time last year we had an all-time high of 1,947 members.
[Posted February 10, 2025]
BC Bulletin #460
BC Bulletin #460 has been posted!
[Posted: January 31, 2025]
Jingyun (Ryan) Yang awarded FM Title
Congratulations to
Jingyun (Ryan) Yang for being awarded the FIDE Master title today.
[Posted January 20, 2025]
CFC Ratings Boost
Today the CFC did a system-wide boost of ratings to compensate for rating deflation post-COVID. Players who played the most games gained the most points, the theory being that those were the players that lost the most points. For those interested there is a more detailed explanation on the CFC website under "
CFC Forums”
[Posted January 2, 2025]
Stephen Wright Named 2024 BC Chess Person of the Year
I am pleased to announce that your executive has chosen
Stephen Wright as 2024 BC Chess Person of the Year. He is our bulletin editor, a chess coach, chess historian and international arbiter. He was cited for efficient work and professional support to the chess community. I would like to add that as Past President he has been an invaluable resource for me to call on throughout the year.
- Paul Leblanc, BCCF President
[Posted January 1, 2024]
On-line FIDE Arbiter Seminar
Aris Marghetis is considering running an online FA seminar in late February. This is a major step towards achieving the title. Participants must already have the NA title.
If you are interested, contact Aris.
arismarghetis@rogers.com
[Posted December 19, 2024]
Andrew Xu: National Arbiter
Congratulations to
Andrew Xu for achieving the National Arbiter title today.
[Posted December 17, 2024]
2024 BC Junior Championship
Congratulations to the 2024 BC Junior Champion,
Ryan Jingyun Yang.
Ryan won the title last weekend on tie-break with
Justin Xu. Both finished with 4.5-0.5 after drawing in their individual encounter in round 4.
In addition to the travel grants awarded by the event, the BCCF will provide $1,000 for travel expenses to the top finisher who attends the 2025 Canadian Junior Championship.
The Reserve Section was won by
Jesse Law with a perfect 5-0 score.
The Booster Section was won on tie-break by
Josiah Lo (5-0) over
Rockwell Chan (also 5-0).
Thank you to all the organizers, arbiters and parents who made this event possible.
Results:
http://chess2inspire.org/bcjcc-2024
[Posted November 19, 2024]
