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The
BC Chess Championship takes place this coming weekend at Capilano University Lonsdale at CapU Lonsdale, 250-125 Victory Ship Way, North Vancouver. The public is invited to watch the action.
2024 BC Closed Championship Schedule:
Round 1 at 6pm on Friday, Oct 11
Round 2 at 10am on Saturday, Oct 12
Round 3 at 3pm on Saturday, Oct 12
Round 4 at 10am on Sunday, Oct 13
Round 5 at 3pm on Sunday, Oct 13
Round 6 at 10am on Monday, Oct 14
Round 7 at 3pm on Monday, Oct 14
Also this weekend at the same venue is the
BC Women's Open and the
Western Canadian Open.
See you this weekend!
[Posted October 9, 2024]
BC Arbiters and Organizers
BCCF Guidance on the Use of Ratings
1. The primary rating used for section assignment, play-up eligibility, pairings and prizes is the player’s CFC rating provided that rating is current.
2. If the player does not have a current CFC rating but does have a current FIDE, USCF or FQE rating then that rating may be used. The Arbiter will decide if a given rating is 'current'. In general, “current” means 10 games played in the 12 months preceding the event under consideration.
3. Conversion of other ratings to CFC equivalent will be done at par.
[Posted October 6, 2024]
Congratulations to
Johnny Dong who achieved the National Arbiter title on October 2.
[Posted October 6, 2024]
The participants for the 2024 BC Championship have been announced:
Aljo, Johan
FM Doknjas, John
FM Doknjas, Neil
IM Kaufman, Raymond
NM MacKinnon, Keith
IM Nguyen, Van Thanh
Qu, Leo
NM Yang, Jingyun (Ryan)
The venue will also host the BC Women’s Championship, open to all women resident in BC and the Western Canadian Open to which everyone is invited.
https://juniorstomasters.site123.me/2024-western-canadian-open
[Posted September 28, 2024]
The FIDE Chess Olympiad will take place in Budapest, Hungary starting next Tuesday, 10 September.
Penny Pham will be on the Canadian Women’s team. Here is a link to live games:
https://chessolympiad2024.fide.com/
[Posted September 7, 2024]
CFC Life Memberships. Tired of those pesky reminders to renew your CFC membership? Consider a life membership. Rates vary from $360 to $720 depending on your age.
https://www.chess.ca/en/players/membership-fees/
[Posted September 6, 2024]
Congratulations to
FM John Doknjas for winning the Langley Labour Day Open last weekend. His name will appear on the trophy for the 3rd time.
Congratulations also to
James Kerry, 1st U1700 and
Tamas Burik, 1st U1000.
[Posted September 3, 2024]
Some of us remember the golden days of BC Chess when we had two resident grandmasters. One of them was Duncan Suttles, Canadian Champion in 1969. The other was Peter Biyiasas, Canadian Champion in 1972 and 1975.
This weekend
IM Leon Piasetsk, playing in San Jose California faced off against
Theodore Biyiasas, son of Peter Biyiasas and the late Ruth Haring. Here is the game:
https://lichess.org/broadcast/1000gm-labor-day-super-swiss-2024/round-7/Wu22rppL/aKEpjNdd
[Posted September 3, 2024]
Congratulations to
Kyle Van Dijk for achieving the National Arbiter title today.
[Posted August 14, 2024]
The 2024 BC Women’s Championship will be open to all women players resident in BC. It will be held at the same time and location as the BC Closed and Western Canadian Open. To get the early bird rate for registration, enter by midnight 12 August.
https://juniorstomasters.site123.me/2024-bc-women-s-open
[Posted August 12, 2024]
2024 BC Championship. This eight player round-robin will be held at Capilano University Lonsdale in North Vancouver on Thanksgiving weekend 11-14 October. The Women’s Championship and Western Canada Open will share the playing site.
Six invitations will go to:
- The current BC Champion, NM Neil Doknjas
- The current BC Junior Champion, NM Jingyun (Ryan) Yang
- The highest placed BC resident at the Grand Pacific Open, Leo Qu
- The highest placed BC resident at the BC Open, IM Bindi Cheng
- The highest placed BC resident at the Paul Keres Memorial, IM Raymond Kaufman
- The highest placed BC resident at the Langley Open (to be held 31 Aug – 2 Sep)
The remaining invitations are chosen from the rating list among players resident in BC who have played at least 10 regular rated games in BC in the preceding year. The ranking may change by the invitation deadline but here are today’s top contenders with games played:
- IM Van Than Nguyen 2482 (5)
- FM Grigorii Morozov 2416 (5)
- IM Quang Long Le 2408 (10+)
- FM John Doknjas 2384 (10+)
- NM Jorge Nunez Asencio 2355 (10+)
- NM Ethan Song 2349 (10+)
[Posted August 9, 2024]
The BC Day Open is underway. Here is a link to live games:
https://lichess.org/broadcast/bc-day-open/round-1/4ONKPI6j#boards
[Posted August 2, 2024]
Welcome to
GM Shawn Rodrique-Lemieux of Montreal, former World U18 Champion and highest-rated player currently active in Canada. Shawn will be making his first appearance in BC at the BC Day Weekend Open August 1st to 5th at Roma Hall in New Westminster. https://www.luluislandchess.com/bc-day-open
[Posted July 30, 2024]
Congratulations to
Jorge Nunez Asencio and
Nick Beqo for sharing first place in the 1st World Chess Day Classical Open 20-21 July. The event, put on by Fraser Valley Chess at Trinity Western University in Langley Township was a success, attracting 106 players. A Blitz tournament was also held with
Christian Grecu emerging at the top of a field of 70 players with a score of 7 out of 8.
[Posted July 29, 2024]
Ryan Yang is on board 3 against
GM Shawn Rodrique-Lemieuxi in the last round of the Canadian Open today. Follow live at:
https://lichess.org/broadcast/2024-canadian-open/round-9/VHDJGwhS/RTsZnFr3
[Posted July 18, 2024]
The BCCF has 1,947 members (players who have played at least one CFC rated game in the past year). Source: CFC rating database.
[Posted July 17, 2024]
The Canadian Youth Chess Championships finished yesterday, July 12th in Laval, Quebec. BC had players in first or second place in six of the twelve age groups. Thank you to all our representatives. Special mention to
Lucas Yao, tied for first in the U10 Open section and
Daniel Zhu, clear first in the U8 Open section. Complete results here:
https:// cycc2024.my.canva.site/
[Posted July 14,2024]
For those interested, the Canadian Senior Championship (for players aged 50+) has just been announced. It will take place at the Calgary Chess Club on 3-5 August, 2024. The BCCF provides a travel grant of $1,000 to any provincial champion representing BC at a national championship. The winner of the BC Senior Championship,
NM Brian McLaren will be our representative.
https://calgarychess.com/CCC/event/event/7072
[Posted July 10, 2024]
Congratulations to
Harold Brown of Nanaimo for being awarded the National Master title by the CFC.
Harold actually earned the title in June, 1988 by achieving a rating of 2306.
[Posted July 8, 2024]
Ian Findlay, the CFC Ratings Auditor, is announcing a change to how CFC
events are rated:
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When rating events containing new players with FIDE ratings, the CFC will
assign an initial CFC rating of FIDE at par where FIDE < 1900, FIDE +75
where FIDE is 1900 to 1999, and FIDE +125 where FIDE > 1999.
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Arbiters and organizers of CFC rated events may use this conversion rate for
pairings and prize eligibility if in their judgment it is considered appropriate.
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USCF and FQE ratings will continue to be converted to CFC at par.
When submitting events for CFC rating, please mention the players concerned in your e-mail to
info@chess.ca
[Posted July 8, 2024, updated from a previous post]
