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Another school year comes to an end. I’m reallylooking forward to the summer break. What are yourplans? Relaxing on the beach with your friends? Ormaybe going to a chess camp!

There’s a lot of news in this issue. Championshipsof all kinds were held during the last three months.Congratulations to the winners everywhere! Specialmention goes to Team Saskatchewan. They had theirbest finish ever at the Canadian Chess Challengefinals. Being the home team in Regina must haveinspired them!

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CHESS CHALLENGE 6National Finals Report From Regina, Saskatchewan

RUSSIAN DEFENCE part 2 12Kiril’s Klass 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6!

FRIZOON BALLOONS TO SASKATOON 32Kiri l's KornerFun Times With Rooney Raccoon

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ooHHAALLLLEENNGGEEREPORT FROM REGINA, SASKATCHEWANThe 28th annual Canadian Chess Challenge finals were

held on Victoria Day weekend at the University of Reginain Saskatchewan. The “nationals” have now been held inevery province.

The weather on Saturday was perfect for sightseeing,but many players spent the afternoon playing in a blitztournament, won by Janak Awatramani (Vancouver). Inthe evening, there was an opening banquet, followed bya game of laser tag.

The competition began Sunday morning. As usual, abagpiper played as the teams marched into the hallcarrying their provincial flags. After the national anthem,sung by Don MacKinnon (Saskatoon), the players shookhands and started their clocks.

When the last king was toppled on Monday afternoon,Ontario had captured first place by the narrowest ofmargins. Just like last year, they won eleven medals,including six golds. As you can see in the photo onpage 9, the prizes at the nationals are trophies. But westill talk about them as if they were medals.

Ontario drew their last round match with Quebec, sothe teams each had 8½ points. The tiebreaker was mostindividual points, giving the title to Ontario 95½-90.

It was another great year for Team Quebec, with tenplayers taking home prizes. But they really missed theirchance against Ontario. They led 6-4 at one point, butcouldn’t manage another half point to get the victory.

2016 CCHAMPIONS2016 CCHAMPIONS1 AALEX YAN QQuebec2 AANTHONY AATANASOV ** OOntario3 MMAX CHEN OOntario4 NNAMEER ISSANI ** OOntario5 QQIUYU HHUANG *** Quebec6 NNICHOLAS VVETTESE **** OOntario7 EEUGENE HUA OOntario8 MMAÏLI-JJADE OOUELLET ** QQuebec9 RRICHARD CHEN *** OOntario

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British Columbia, led by Janak Awatramani and JeremyHui (Burnaby), came third, winning eleven medals, theirmost ever. They won impressively against lower teams,but lost to Ontario 10-2 and Quebec 8½-3½.

Alberta took fourth place with six team points. VishruthSharma (Calgary) won bronze in grade 3.

The Most Improved Team was Saskatchewan, with11½ more points than 2015. They also finished in fifthplace, a provincial high. Top scorers were Leo Lin (4th,grade 1) and Alexander Sasata (tied for 3rd, grade 6).

Newfoundland was the Top Atlantic Team, defeatingtheir main rival New Brunswick 7½-4½ in round 5.

Ten players went undefeated. Perfect 9-0’s were madeby Nicholas Vettese (Toronto), Eugene Hua (Hamilton),and Richard Chen (Hamilton).

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Eight 2015 champions returned to defend their title. Sixsucceeded: Anthony Atanasov (Oakville), Nameer Issani(Toronto), Qiuyu Huang (Montreal), Nicholas Vettese,Richard Chen, and Sam Song (Fredericton).

Playoff games decided first place in grades 2, 3, 4, and11. Grade 11 was a 3-way tie. Other grades with ties forprizes were 6, 8, 9, 12. Some playoffs were still going onduring the awards ceremony. There were five draws ingrade 3 before Max Chen (Toronto) finally won.

Five sets of siblings took part in the tournament. Thebest results were by the Doknjas brothers (Surrey) whoboth scored 7 points. Neil placed third in grade 5 andJoshua second in grade 8.

Five girls participated. Maïli-Jade Ouellet (Montreal)placed first in grade 8. She was also grade 5 nationalchampion three years ago. Cynthia Cui (Fredericton)came fourth in grade 7.

There was a three-way tie for Best Team Shirt betweenNewfoundland, Quebec, and Saskatchewan. They willsplit the $350 prize fund evenly. A second vote by theprovincial coordinators gave Newfoundland the title.

The Yves Casaubon Outstanding Contribution Awardwent to the Saskatchewan School Chess Association.

The Most Valuable Player, for the fifth time in six years,was Adam Dorrance of Nova Scotia. He also received aspecial plaque and a $1200 scholarship from the Chess’nMath Association for competing at the nationals twelveyears, winning his grade eight times. Well done, Adam!

A bughouse tournament was held after the awardsceremony on Monday. Janak Awatramani and Jeremy Huiplaced first in the very popular event.

The 2017 finals will be in Toronto. See you there!


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The Russian Defence is 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6. Part 1 ofthis lesson covered the capture 3.Nxe5. In this class, weexamine other third moves by White.

The move 3.d4 is the Steinitz Variation, named after thefirst world champion. See diagram 1. Black gets an okayposition by 3...exd4 4.e5 Ne4 5.Qxd4 d5 6.exd6 e.p. Nxd6,but it’s better to play 3...Nxe4. Then 4.dxe5 d5 is finefor Black and 4.Nxe5 d6 5.Nf3 d5 transposes to the line3.Nxe5 d6 4.Nf3 Nxe4 5.d4 d5.

After 3...Nxe4, the game usually continues 4.Bd3 d5.See diagram 2. The position is level following 5.dxe5 Be76.0-0 0-0 or 5.Bxe4 dxe4 6.Nxe5 Bd6, so White normallyplays 5.Nxe5. Then 5...Bd6 6.0-0 0-0 7.c4! gives White asmall edge, but Black gets an equal game with 5...Nd7.

Here are some sample lines after 5.Nxe5 Nd7:6.Nxd7 Bxd7 7.0-0 Qh4! 8.c4 0-0-06.Nc3 Nxe5 7.dxe5 Bb4 8.0-0 Bxc3 9.bxc3 Be66.0-0 Nxe5 7.dxe5 Nc5 8.Be2 Be7 9.Nc3 c66.Qe2 Nxe5 7.Bxe4 dxe4 8.Qxe4 Be6 9.Qxe5 Qd7

10.0-0 0-0-0 (with a lead in development for a pawn)6.Nxf7!? Kxf7 7.Qh5+ Ke7 8.Qe2 (8.Qxd5 Ndf6) 8...Kf7

The move 3.Bc4 looks aggressive, but it’s actually notvery good. See diagram 3. After 3...Nxe4! 4.Nxe5 d5,Black gains a tempo by attacking the bishop, with anexcellent position. (5.Be2 Bd6) (5.Bb5+? c6) (5.Qf3 Be6!)(5.Bb3 Qg5!?) (5.d3 Nc5 6.Bb3 Nxb3 7.axb3 Bd6)

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This lesson looks at theopening 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6.

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The last move to look at is 3.Nc3, guarding the pawnon e4. See diagram 5. Black can then transpose to theFour Knights Game with 3...Nc6 and equal chances.(4.d4 exd4 5.Nxd4 Bb4) (4.Bb5 Bb4 [or 4...Nd4] 5.0-0 0-0)(4.Nd5 Nxd5 5.exd5 0-0) (4.Bc4?! Nxe4! 5.Nxe4 d5)

But many players prefer to mix things up with 3...Bb4.Black is fine following 4.d3 d5 or 4.Bc4 0-0 5.0-0 Nc6.The main line is 4.Nxe5 0-0! Diagram 6. It is impossiblefor White to keep the pawn or get the advantage againstbest play by Black. Here are some examples. 5.d3 d5!

6.exd5? Nxd5 7.Bd2 Bxc3 8.Bxc3 Re8 9.d4 f6!6.a3 Bxc3+ 7.bxc3 Re8 (8.f4 dxe4)

5.Nf3 Re8 (or 5...Bxc3 6.dxc3 Nxe4) 6.d3 d5 (7.e5 d4)5.Be2 Re8 (or 5...Bxc3 6.dxc3 Nxe4)

6.Nf3 Bxc3 7.dxc3 Nxe46.Nd3 Bxc3 7.dxc3 Nxe4

8.Nf4 (or 8.0-0 d5) 8...d69.0-0 Nd7 10.c4 Ne5

That concludes our lessonon the Russian Defence.Good luck in your games!

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BLACK TO MOVEWin Materialsolutions page 55

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A pawn fork is a tactic where a pawn attacks twopieces at the same time. When one piece moves, thepawn captures the other.

Black can win material immediately with the pawnfork 1...f4. After 2.Re2 fxg3+, they are up a bishop.

White to play has the combination 1.Rxe6! Rxe62.d5, forking both rooks. White is ahead by a knightfollowing 2...Re5 3.dxc6. (If 2...f4, then 3.Nf1!)

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SPOTLIGHT ON PAWN FORKS

ALEXANDERALEXANDER PETROFFPETROFF(1794 - 1867)

This civil servant from St. Petersburg was the firstgreat Russian chess master. He learned to playwhen he was four years old and became the citychampion while still a teenager. Although he neverfaced the leading masters of western Europe, hedid win several matches against his countrymenin the mid-1800’s to gain worldwide recognition.

“Retreating does not mean that the game is lost, for a defensive position may later become offensive.”

PETROFF DEFENCE (Russian Defence)1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6

The defence that bears his name has been knownfor centuries, but was considered unsound untila French magazine published analysis by Petroff(and Carl Jaenisch) in 1842. His instructional bookThe Game of Chess was one of the first writtenin the Russian language. He also wrote storiesabout chess and even a book on checkers!


CANADA AND WORLD NEWSGRAND PRIX

The final events in the 2016 Grand Prix competition took placein May at Montreal, Toronto, and Ottawa. Anyone who scored7½ points out of 15 games in the three tournaments got a cashprize. (5 points out of 10 games in Ottawa.) A total of $7500 in giftcertificates were awarded by the Chess’n Math Association andsplit among 135 winners. The top scorers in each age group were:MONTREAL<8 Kevin Zhong

<10 Richard Zheng<12 Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux

Qiuyu Huang<14 Zi Yu Guan

TORONTO<8 Anthony Atanasov

<10 Max Chen<12 Nicholas Vettese<14 Eugene Hua

OTTAWA<8 Daniel Xu

<10 Matthew Zhu<12 Licheng Zhou<16 Svitlana Demchenko

ONTARIO SCHOOL TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPThe 2016 Ontario School Team Chess Championship was played

on May 29th in Toronto. 102 players took part in the event. The topteams in each section are shown below. Seneca Hill dominated thetwo lower sections, winning K-6 for the seventh year in a row!

Grades 7-91 Tyrrell

Daniel LiuCindy QiaoRay LiuYikang Wang

2 Crosby Heights3 Guardian Angels

Grades K-31 Seneca Hill

Angela LinAngus ZhangRyan DengCasey Chen

2 Seneca Hill B3 North Agincourt

Grades 10-121 Thornhill

Mark PlotkinStephen YeMelissa GiblonAlyssa Rusonik

2 Marc Garneau3 UTS


Benjamin LinHao ChenIsamel ShenJoey Qiao

2 Seneca Hill B3 Seneca Hill C

BORDER WARSThe 25th annual Washington

state vs. British Columbia teammatch was held in Vancouveron May 14. Each team has twostudents per grade (K-12) andeveryone plays two games. TheCanucks won 32½ -19½ .

The overall score in the seriesis now 13½ - 11½ in favour ofWashington.

Ten B.C. players won both oftheir games: Nathan Shao, LeoQu, Victor Zheng, Kevin Low,Matthew Geng, Daniel Wang,Max Gedajlovic, Luke Pulfer,Codrin Pompas, Jeremy Hui.

QUEBEC JUNIORThe 2016 Quebec Junior Chess

Championship took place onApril 22-24 in Montreal. Thenew champion is 11th graderOlivier Kenta Chiku-Ratté. Therunners-up were Zong Yang Yuand Houji Yao.

NEWFOUNDLANDThere were 59 players at the

Newfoundland and LabradorSchool Team Championship onApril 16 in St. John’s. The fourwinning schools by grade were: K-3 Rennies River4-6 Vanier7-9 MacDonald Drive 9-12 Holy Heart of Mary

PRINCE EDWARD ISLANDThe P.E.I. School Chess TeamChampionship was held onApril 17 in Charlottetown with56 players.

The winning schools were:GRADES K - 4 Spring ParkELEMENTARY West KentJUNIOR HIGH Queen CharlotteHIGH SCHOOL Colonel GrayThe Spring Park K-4 team, led

by Seamus MacEachern, wonall 16 of their games.

BRITISH COLUMBIAThe 2016 B.C. Youth Chess

Championships on April 23-24in Surrey attracted 39 players.This year’s champions are:

< 8 Daniel WangEthan SongRyan Wang (3-way tie)

<10 Chuyang Gu<12 Neil Doknjas<14 Joshua Doknjas<16 James Li<18 John Doknjas

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NOVA SCOTIA TEAM The 2016 Nova Scotia School

Championship took place onApril 24th in Halifax with 66players.

Oxford School won the K-4and K-6 sections. Park Westwas the junior high championand Halifax West was the tophigh school. Exactly the sameas the last two years! Déjà vu.

CALGARY SCHOOLSThe Calgary School Chess

Championship on April 30th atWestern Canada High Schoolhad 83 participants.

The winning teams were:PRIMARY RenertELEMENTARY Louis RielJUNIOR HIGH St. ElizabethHIGH SCHOOL Western Canada

Individual city champions werealso crowned.PRIMARY Bastian BennerELEMENTARY Ian ZhaoJUNIOR HIGH Jeff WangHIGH SCHOOL Kazi Ashfaq

QUEBEC SCHOOL TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPThe 2016 Quebec School Team Chess Championship was held in

Montreal at Jean de Brebeuf College on April 2-3. The four playerteams were divided into three groups. 268 players took part. Thetop three teams in the K-3 and K-6 sections, shown below, qualifyto play in the Quebec-Ontario match at Kingston on June 4. Thewinner of the grade 7-11 section was Collège Notre-Dame. All fourteam members were girls: Yilin Li, Linda Shi, Christine Gao, andSabina Tinica.Grades K-3

1 Fernand-Seguin Les ZugzwangsZe Yue LiToma Suda LafontaineAnnie Le Yi LiSacha Ramamonjisoa

2 La Verendrye Magnus Carlsen3 Laurier Les Diables de Montreal

Grades K-61 Fernand-Seguin Shredders

Shawn Rodrigue-LemieuxQiuyu HuangLe Cong LiYihan Xu

2 Internationale Alpha Blue3 La Verendrye Garry Kasparov

YOUNGEST INTERNATIONAL MASTERR. Praggnanandhaa, the current World Under 10Champion from Chennai, India, has become theyoungest International Master ever. At age 10years, 10 months, he broke the old record, heldby Sergey Karjakin, by over a year!

Three IM norms and a 2400 rating are neededfor the title. “Praggu”, as he is called, completedthe requirements at the International ChessFestival in Bhubaneswar, India last month. He was also the 2013 World Under 8 Champion.

What’s next?

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPThe next challenger for the title of

World Chess Champion is SergeyKarjakin. The 26 year old Russianwon the Candidates Tournamentheld March 11-28 in Moscow . Theevent was a double round robinbetween eight of the world’s bestplayers. First prize was $140,000.

Fifteen years ago Sergey was theWorld Under 12 Champion. Thisfall he will play a twelve gamematch versus Magnus Carlsen forthe ultimate title of undisputedWorld Chess Champion. The matchwill be held in New York City with aprize fund of over a million dollars.

Sergey Karjakin is the youngest person to ever become agrandmaster. He earned the title in 2002 when he was 12 years,7 months old. That is nine months sooner than anyone else.Previous record holders include Boris Spassky, Bobby Fischer, andJudit Polgar. Current champ Magnus Carlsen (Norway), now 25years old, achieved the title at 13 years, 4 months.

SERGEY KARJAKINChallenger


ONTARIO - QUEBEC SCHOOL TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPThe annual match between the top school teams from Quebec

and Ontario was played on June 4th at Queen’s University inKingston. Eighty-nine players took part. Seneca Hill School wonboth lower sections, repeating as K-6 champions.The top scorers in the ON-QC girls competition were Rachel Wang

(K-3 QC) and Hazel Guo (grade 4-6 ON).

NOVA SCOTIA YOUTH The Nova Scotia Youth ChessChampionships were played onApril 3rd in Halifax, with 30players. The winners were:

<10 Taim Farhat<12 Jerjis Kapra<14 Ridhi Mittal<18 Brandon MacDonald


Angela LinAngus ZhangRyan DengCasey Chen

2 Fernand-Seguin 3 La Verendrye


Benjamin LinIsamel ShenHao ChenJoey Qiao

2 La Verendrye3 Seneca Hill B

Grades 7-121 Jean de Brebeuf

Ananda Saha Gabriel Tinica Rubayat MunshiMymanat Mohamed

2 Thornhill 3 Notre-Dame

ONTARIO HIGH SCHOOLThe 49th Ontario High School

Chess Championship was heldat the University of Toronto onApril 22-23 with 128 players.The individual champion is 9thgrader Richard Chen (Hamilton)Tony Lin (Toronto) was secondand grade 2 student AnthonyAtanasov (Oakville) came third!

The school team champion isBayview Secondary (Toronto).Runners-up were Victoria Park(Toronto) and U of T Schools.

CANADA AND WORLD NEWSONTARIO YOUTH The 2016 Ontario Youth ChessChampionship was played onMay 14-15 at Kitchener City Hall.132 boys and 33 girls took part.Here are the top three finishersin each section.< 8 Anthony Atanasov

Eric NingNoah Yuen

<10 Dorian KangKousihan BalachandranZack Dinatolo

<12 Nicholas VetteseWilliam ShiBenjamin Lin

<14 Hairan LiangHenry ZhangRohan Talukdar

<16 Caleb PetersenHarry ZhaoDennis Shamroni

<18 Rachel TaoAtharva WashimkarAgniya Pobereshnikova

The winners of the separategirls sections were:< 8 Winnie Zhuang<10 Angela Lin<12 Emma He<14 Mathanhe KaneshalingamThe 2016 Canadian Youth ChessChampionship will take place inWindsor, Ontario on July 5-8.

VANCOUVER ISLANDThirty-nine players attended theVictoria Youth Championshipson March 26. The winners ineach age group were:

<8 Sophia Velea<10 Joshua Imoo<12 Anna Van<14 Ryan Leong<18 Pepi Eirew

QUEBEC GIRLSThere were 39 players at the

Quebec Girls Championship inMontreal on April 10. Here arethis year’s champions by grade.

1 Lily Ma2 Annie Li3 Rachel Wang4 Yihan Xu5 Isabelle Wang

6-9 Cindy Yu

CHESS OLYMPIADThe 42nd Chess Olympiad will

be held in Baku, Azerbaijan onSeptember 1-14. Each nation isrepresented by four players, orfive if there is a reserve.

Team CanadaIM Tomas Krnan ON

GM Evgeny Bareev ONGM Anton Kovalyov QCGM Eric Hansen ABGM Alexandre Lesiege QC

Canadian Women’s TeamQiyu Zhou ONYuanling Yuan ONAlexandra Botez BCMaili-Jade Ouellet QCLali Agbabishvili ON


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Force checkmate in three moves.

Place the black king so that:A. Black is in mate.B. Black is in stalemate.C. White has mate in 1

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FRIZOONBALLOONS TOSASKATOON

FRIZOONBALLOONS TTOSASKATOON

This is a story about a girl named Frizoon, and the tripshe took in her hot air balloon. It was a breezy afternoon,one lazy day in June, when she lifted off easy, like a gentletyphoon.

She passed the time with a happy tune, followed the windand steered by the moon, and before too long, and beforetoo soon, she had crossed the prairie to Saskatoon.

The landing was smooth for the trusty balloon. Withouta sound, it set down beside a blue lagoon, out near theboonies, by the new saloon.

There she was met by a crazy loon, and a goofy clowncalled Mr. Buffoon, who proudly saluted and said toFrizoon, “Welcome, friend, to Saskatoon!”

In a minute or two, or maybe a few, they were all chillingout inside the saloon. The music was loud, and strangewas the crowd, like a funny scene in a silly cartoon.

The name of the place was the Old Harpoon, and it wasowned by Mr. Buffoon. He was really a rich tycoon. Sodrinks were free, if you ordered juice or tea. And the snackswere tasty too, if you hankered for a prune, or a macaroon.

On the wall hung a picture, inshades of aqua and maroon, ofthe famous dish that ran awaywith the spoon.

And standing in the corner wasa handsome baboon, playing theblues on his bassoon. Someonesaid he grew up in Rangoon, andstudied jazz in Cameroon. Butnow he grooved in Saskatoon!


Frizoon took a look around the room, and noticed araccoon. Sitting by a chess board, getting rather bored,he was ready for a game real soon.

So over she walked and then they talked.“Hi, my name’s Frizoon. How ya doin’?” He smiled like a cow jumping over the moon. “Hello

Frizoon, I’m Rooney Raccoon!”

5. Ng3 5.Bd3? Qxd4 and a pawnis gone.

5. . . . Bg66. Nf3

The main book line in theClassical Variation goes6.h4 h6 7.Nf3 Nd7 8.h5Bh7 9.Bd3 Bxd3 10.Qxd3e6, with an equal game.

6. . . . Nd7!The obvious 6...Nf6 giveswhite the edge. 7.h4! h68.Ne5 Bh7 9.Bc4 e6 10.Qe2(10...Qxd4? 11.Nxf7!)

7. Bd3 Ngf6 Rooney is in no hurry todevelop the white queenwith 7...Bxd3?! 8.Qxd3. And he has no worry if

white doubles his pawnsby 8.Bxg6 hxg6, because itopens the h-file for him.

8. 0 -0 Qc7The black queen finds agood diagonal, stopping9.Bf4 before playing ...e6.

9. Re1 e6Rooney is no goonie. Hesees that 9...0-0-0? losesto 10.Bxg6 hxg6 11.Ng5!

10. Ng5!?Frizoon was happy with thistrappy move.

More normal would be10.c4, 10.Ne5, or 10.Bg5.

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1. e4 The fun begins.

1. . . . c6We’ll see who wins.

2. d4 d5It may not make sense,but someone called thisthe Caro-Koon defence!

3. Nc3Other lines are 3.e5 Bf5!and 3.exd5 cxd5.

CARO KANN DEFENCE

3. . . . dxe44. Nxe4 Bf5

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13. . . . Nd5?Rooney defends e7, andis still attacking two whitepieces with his pawns!

13...fxe6? 14.Nxg7+ Kd815.N5xe6+ Kc8 16.Nxc7 isanother nasty fork.

13...0-0? 14.Nxe7+ Kh815.Re3 (15...hxg5? 16.Rh3+)

Least bad is 13...hxg514.Rxe7+ Kf8, and Black isdown a pawn in an uglyposition. (15.h3 g6 16.Bxg5!)

Now Frizoon shows whyshe has a black belt inkung fu tactics.

14. Rxe7+!Giving up the exchange toclear the e6 square. Doyou see what’s in the air?

14. . . . Nxe715. Nxg7+ Kf8

15...Kd8 allows the samecombination.

16. N7e6+! One knight is sacked, sothe other knight can fork.

16. . . . fxe617. Nxe6+ Kf718. Nxc7 Rac8

White has queen and threepawns for a rook, but theraccoon plays on, trying towin the knight on c7.

19. Qb3+! Kg720. Ne6+ Kf7

10. . . . Bxd3The raccoon dodges thedanger this time. 10...h6?11.Nxe6! fxe6 12.Bxg6+

Best is 10...Bd6.11. Qxd3 h6?

But now he stumbles intothe snare. He should’vetaken better care. Black isfine after 11...Bd6.

12. Rxe6+! KABAM! Frizoon sacks apiece to blast open theblack king. Rooney washoping for 12.Nf3 0-0-0, or12.N5e4 0-0-0, with a goodgame.

Another way of blastingis 12.Nxe6!? fxe6 13.Qg6+Kd8 14.Rxe6, and Black hastrouble developing.

12. . . . Be7The only chance to holdon. Taking the rook losesthe queen after 12...fxe6?13.Qg6+! Kd8 14.Nxe6+ or13...Ke7 14.Qf7+.

And 12...Kd8? 13.Nxf7+forks the rook on h8.

13. Nf5! A sharp move by Frizoonthat attacks the g-pawn andthe bishop.


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What a great game by Frizoon! The baboon was somoved, he started to croon an old tune, called The BlueCocoon, sure to make a young heart swoon.

It wasn’t long before Frizoon had a whole platoonof friends. But when a gentle monsoon blew cross thelagoon, she knew, the time to leave was opportune.

The next stop on her trip was the beautiful dunes ofCancún. And there was just enough room in the trustyballoon for a little raccoon to come along too!

A crowd gathered in front of the saloon, and whenthe clock struck noon, there was one long toot from alonely bassoon, and a goofy salute from Mr. Buffoon.Then everybody shouted, “Bon voyage, Frizoon!”.

And as they drifted towards the moon, you could stillhear Rooney and Frizoon. “Farewell, Saskatoon!”

21. Ng5+! Double check, what the heck!

21. . . . Ke8Anything else is 22.Qf7#.

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ALBERTALBERTAA1 Colton Rostoker Calgary2 Anand Chandra Calgary3 Vishruth Sharma ** Calgary4 Paul Wang Calgary5 Andi Superceanu Edmonton6 Ian Zhao ***** Calgary7 Andrew Xu Calgary8 Jeff Wang * Calgary9 Chenxi Wu * Calgary

10 Raphael Libre Calgary11 Diwen Shi ** Calgary12 David McCullough Sherwood Park

NEWNEW BRUNSWICKBRUNSWICK1 Maxence Smith 2 Jeremy Green Fredericton3 Tristan Richard Fredericton4 Stephen Ranjbar Fredericton5 Jacob Tibbo Fredericton6 Austin LeBlanc * Fredericton7 Cynthia Cui ** Fredericton8 Leonardo Cui * Fredericton9 Ben Yeomans * Fredericton

10 Sam Song ***** Fredericton11 Jong Su Kim Fredericton12 Isaac Lee Moncton

ONTONTARIOARIO1 Andrew Ksenych Toronto2 Anthony Atanasov * Oakville3 Max Chen Toronto4 Nameer Issani *** Toronto5 Max England * Toronto6 Nicholas Vettese *** Toronto7 Eugene Hua Hamilton8 Jason Cai Toronto9 Richard Chen * Ancaster

10 Joseph Bellissimo Toronto11 Michael Song Thornhill12 Zehn Nasir Toronto

QUEBECQUEBEC1 Alex Yan Verdun2 Kevin Zhong * Pierrefonds3 Richard Zheng ** Montreal4 Haruaki Omichi * Montreal5 Qiuyu Huang **** Montreal6 Wenxuan Zhong Montreal7 Gabriel Tinica * Montreal8 Maili-Jade Ouellet Montreal9 Ananda Saha Montreal

10 Alan Luo Montreal11 Olivier Kenta Chiku-Ratte Montreal12 Nicholas Johnson **** Montreal

SASKASASKATCHEWTCHEWANAN1 Leo Lin Saskatoon2 Natasha Sasata * Saskatoon3 Brooks Jiang Saskatoon4 Leonard Carolino Saskatoon5 Alexander de Padua Prince Albert6 Alexander Sasata ** Saskatoon7 Daniel Wei *** Saskatoon8 Ray Dai Saskatoon9 Andrew Li *** Regina

10 Avram Tcherni ********* Regina1112 Jimmy Bartha ****** Saskatoon

* champion last year also

CANADIAN CHESS CHALLENGE2016 PROVINCIAL2016 PROVINCIAL CHAMPIONSCHAMPIONS

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Cheshire Cat. “J’adoube.”

Team Saskatchewan CCC Nationals, Regina 2016

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LILLILY'SY'S PUZZLERPUZZLER see pages 29 and 55.H = king. There must be a king of each colour. H is theonly letter with a capital and lower case.

E = knight. E cannot be a queen, rook, or bishop becausethere would be an impossible check. E cannot be a pawnbecause there is an ‘e’ on the 1st rank.

S = bishop. S cannot be a queen because there would bean impossible double check. S cannot be a rook becausethen C would be a queen, bishop, or pawn and the kingon g2 would be in an impossible double check. (The lastmove would be ...hxg1=R+, so a pawn on f3 would beblack, checking the white king.)

The last move was the promotion ...h2-h1=B+, and thecapital letters are the black pieces.

C = rook. C cannot be a queen or pawn becausethere would be an impossible double check. chess rebus by Andrey Frolkin & Jeff Coakley 2016

TTOPOP CANADACANADA grade K -6grade K -61 Nicholas Vettese 2302 ON2 Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux 2235 QC3 Nameer Issani 2199 ON4 Qiuyu Huang 2133 QC5 Kevin Low 1984 BC6 Aahil Noorali 1919 ON7 Wenxuan Zhong 1904 QC8 Francis Durette 1858 QC9 Patrick Huang 1818 BC

10 Andrew Hemstapat 1804 BC

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It's easy. The board has 8 filesand 8 ranks. Files are the rowsof squares that go up and down.Each one is named by a smallletter. Ranks are rows that gosideways. Each one is namedby a number.Every square also has a name.

The first part is its file and thesecond part is its rank. In thisdiagram, a white pawn movedto e4 and a black pawn to e5.

When moves are written down,the first capital letter shows thepiece which moves. Q is queen.B is bishop. R is rook. N is usedfor knight because the king is K.If there is no capital letter, thatmeans a pawn moves.

Next is the square that thepiece moves to. Bc4 says that abishop moves to the square c4.When a piece is captured, an xis put before the square. Qxf7means a queen takes on f7.

If a pawn captures, the letterof the file it starts on is givenfirst, then an x followed by thesquare it takes on. exd5 says apawn on the e-file captures onthe square d5.

When two pieces of the samekind can go to the same spot,another letter is put after thepiece to show what file it camefrom. Rae1 tells us that a rookon the a-file moves to e1.

If the pieces that can move tothe same spot are on the samefile, then their rank number isadded. N6e4 means the knighton the 6th rank moves to e4.

Here are some special symbols:+ check# checkmate

e. p. en passantO - O castles kingside

O - O - O castles queenside1 - 0 white wins0 - 1 black wins

½ - ½ draw! excellent move? mistake!? cool move?! weird (weak) move

The game below is written inalgebraic notation. Kiril wasnew to chess and fell into anold trap called Scholar’s Mate !

ROCKY KIRIL1. e4 e52. Qh5 d63. Bc4 Nf6?4. Qxf7 #

Oh no! Kiril got mated in justfour moves. That was no fun!

H O WH O W TT OO R E A DR E A D AA C H E S SC H E S S G A M EG A M E

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* SSOOLLUUTTIIOONNSS *MAMATESTES1 1.Qf5#2 1.Rxg7+ Rxg7 2.Rf8#

1...Kh8 2.Rf8#3 1.Qxh6+ gxh6 2.Be5#4 1.Qxc6+ bxc6 2.Rd8#

1...Bd7 2.Qxd7#5 1.Bh7+ Kh8

2.Bg8+ Kxg8 3.Qh7#

COMBOCOMBO MOMBOMOMBO1 1.f4 Bc7 2.f5

forking Be6 and Ng62 1...f6 2.Bf4 e5

forking Nd4 and Bf4 (or 2.Bh4 g5)


LILLILY'SY'S PUZZLERPUZZLER

C = rook White = lower caseH = king Black = capitalsE = knightS = bishop last move:...h2-h1=B+See page 50 for detailed explanation.

TRIPLETRIPLE LOYDLOYDA. Kc6#B. Ka1=C. Ke6 (Bg6#)

TTACTICSACTICS 1021021 1.Rxc4 Rxc4 2.Bd5+ 2 1.Nxg7 Kxg7 2.Re7+ 3 1.Qxc6 Qxc6 2.Ne7+

(better than 1.Ne7+)4 1.Rxf5 gxf5 2.Qe6+

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