Category Archives: News

Brandon’s Gilbert Perez featured on FIDE website

World Championship for People with Disabilities: Last call to register (fide.com) Saturday, 30 Oct 2021 04:44 Word Championship for People with Disabilities The 4th FIDE World Chess Championship for People with Disabilities will take place online from November 4-14, 2021. Organized by Dresdner Schachfestival E.V. under the auspices of FIDE, it is an individual 9-round Swiss… Read More »

MB Scholastic Chess — Manitoba Qualification for Canadian Chess Challenge

http://www.scholasticchess.mb.ca/ MB Scholastic Chess — Manitoba Qualification for Canadian Chess Challenge Qualification for the national chess tournament happens at the Manitoba Provincial Chess Championships. This year, the Provincial tournament for grades 1 to 12 is being held online on May 1, 2021. At these Provincial championships, students will play to determine who will represent Manitoba at… Read More »

Zoltan Bodnar – 1951-2020

Zoltan Bodnar – local player in the 1970s and well-known amongst problemists, passed away earlier this year. (source: Nigel Hanrahan) Nigel indicates that Zoltan was published in ‘The Problemist’ 8 times between 1976 and 1991. See http://theproblemist.org/mags.pl?type=tp Cecil Rosner most recently published one of his problems in 2014. Chess Manitoba: Cecil’s Saturday Puzzle – October… Read More »

2020 March TNT

The 2020 March TNT results for two rounds have been submitted to the CFC and FIDE for rating, and the tournament has ended. There will be no prizes awarded. CFC crosstable here: https://chess.ca/crosstable?tournament_check_number=202003045 The tournament entry fee of $20 will be refunded for the 2020 March TNT- we can do this most quickly and socially… Read More »