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2011 WYCC starts November 17

The tournament is under way! Check results.

Canada is sending a forty-player contingent (with five or six players participating in some of the age and gender categories) to the 2011 World Youth Chess Championships in Brazil.

See the complete list of Canadian team members, below.

This year’s Canadian team coaches are Nikolay Noritsyn, Andrew Peredun, and Mikhail Egorov; head of delegation is Andrew Giblon; assistant head of delegation is Gary Gladstone; and CFC youth co-ordinator is Patrick McDonald.

WYCC is an annual world chess championship for youth under 18, with boys’ and girls’ U8, U10, U12, U14, U16, and U18 categories. It takes place this year from November 17 to 27 in Caldas Novas, a hydrothermal resort town in Brazil. The event was last in Brazil sixteen years ago, in 1995, albeit under a different name. (The tournament was previously known as the World Children’s Cup, and still earlier, the Cadet Championships.)

The big news from last year’s WYCC was Jason Cao winning gold for Canada in U10 Open. Jason placed third at this year’s CYCC (he’s now playing in U12 Open) but he has decided not to join the Canadian WYCC team in Brazil.

Canada has several strong entrants in this year’s World Youth Championship, particularly in the U12 Open section, where Olivier Kenta Chiku-Ratte, Michael Song, and Razvan Preotu are initially ranked 8th, 12th, and 22nd.

The 2011 Canadian Youth Chess Championship – held in Richmond Hill this July, just before the Canadian Open – was a mandatory qualifying event for WYCC participants. Check MonRoi’s pictures from the 2011 CYCC.

Good luck to all our Canadian players in Brazil!

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In the Media…

October 29: 8-year-old Rohan Talukdar is featured in the Windsor Star
Read the story, “Windsor’s budding chess star…”

November 7: Jeannie Zhang, Rachel Tao, and Lily Zhou are featured in the Windsor Star
Read the story, “Chess mates headed for world tourney”

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Latest News

Check for the latest updates:

• Canada’s WYCC team blog
• the 2011 WYCC official site

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Canada’s WYCC players:

Check official CYCC standings and CAN WYCC team.

U-8 Girls					U-8 Open
1	Taylor Zhang	1164	Richmond Hill, ON		1	Sergey Noritsyn	1637	Richmond Hill, ON
2	Jeannie Yiying Zhang	1015	Windsor, ON		2	Luke Pulfer	1445	Surrey, BC
					3	Frank Wang	1344	Toronto, ON
						Rohan Shyam Talukdar	1208	Windsor, ON

U-10 Girls					U-10 Open
1	Constance Zhaoxing Wang	1369	Toronto, ON		1	Yuanchen Zhang	1978	Markham, ON
	Varshini Paraparan	919	Toronto, ON		2	Dinny Wang	1339	Mississauga, ON
	Lily Zhou	868	Windsor, ON

U-12 Girls					U-12 Open
1	Melissa Giblon	1528	Thornhill, ON		1	Olivier Kenta Chiku-Ratte	2046	Montreal, QC
2	Qiyu Zhou	1811	Ottawa, ON		3	Razvan Preotu	2155	Burlington, ON
3	Rachel Tao	1160	Windsor, ON			Michael Ji Yu Song	2102	North York, ON
	Dorsa Moayyed	1013	North York, ON

U-14 Girls					U-14 Open
1	Joanne Foote	1533	Richmond, BC		1	Richard Wang	2329	Edmonton, AB
2	Louisa Qian Qian Hou	1483	LaSalle, QC		2	James Fu	2119	Scarborough, ON
3	Rebecca Giblon	1620	Thornhill, ON			Agastya Kalra	1995	Ottawa, ON
						Yimang Yang	1758	Mississauga, ON
						Mark Plotkin	1912	Thornhill, ON
						Bryant Yang	1681	Thornhill, ON

U-16 Girls					U-16 Open
2	Myriam Roy	1987	Varennes, QC		1	David Zhang	2186	Calgary, AB
3	Regina-Veronicka Kalaydina	1946	Calgary, AB		2	Nikita Gusev	2272	Richmond Hill, ON
1	Chang Yun	1828	Brossard, QC			Mikhail Ivanov	2156	Toronto, ON
	Tina Fang	1736	London, ON			Konstantin Semianiuk	2207	Toronto, ON
	Kimia Moayyed	1155	North York, ON			Simon Gladstone	2076	Thornhill, ON

U-18 Girls					U-18 Open
1	Yelizaveta Orlova	2015	Toronto, ON		1	Loren Laceste	2238	North Vancouver, BC
3	Linda Fu	954	Toronto, ON