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2023 March Tuesday Night Tournament starts Tuesday, March 7

2023 March Tuesday Night Tournament One Section – CFC and FIDE Standard Rated Event $ 25 entry fee – Prizes tbd. Location:   Canadian Mennonite University  (600 Shaftesbury Boulevard) Room D33  (map and direction and important information https://chess.chessmanitoba.org/?page_id=4538 Free Parking ! CFC Membership required. Pre-registration is strongly recommended as capacity will be limited. 4 rounds – 1 game… Read More »

Rudolf Rocker Chess Club updates

Mark Jenkins from the Rudolf Rocker Chess Club writes that: “The primary location for Rudolf Rocker Chess Club casual meetups is now the Forks Market, 2nd floor seating areas, Saturdays noon-4pm. These meetups have been extremely well attended and participants have expressed their appreciation for the location. Approximately once a month there will also be… Read More »

CFC has rated the November Rapid and Jay Khedkar Memorial

2022 November 26 Rapid https://www.chess.ca/en/ratings/t/?id=202211124   2022 Jay Khedkar Memorial https://www.chess.ca/en/ratings/t/?id=202211108 FIDE updates ratings once per month – this tournament will be rated by FIDE at the end of December.   FIDE has rated the 2022 November 26 Rapid https://ratings.fide.com/report.phtml?event=309367&t=1 Only a few players had rating changes – those players had existing FIDE standard ratings… Read More »

David Woodbury – 1955-2021

A player familiar to those that were active in the 1970’s has passed away. I met David at the old Winnipeg Chess Club on Selkirk Avenue around 1971.  As far as I can determine / remember he did not play rated CFC chess after 1977 (the 1977 CFC annual ratings show a very respectable 1840… Read More »