Canadian Youth Chess Team at WYCC 2010: October 2010

Canadian Team Awards (Tournament Ending Party)

Thank you Andrew and Andrei for making this tournament ending party a wonderful and memorable time for the Canadian Team Members. GO Canada GO!

-- Victoria Jung-Doknjas

2010 WYCC Canadian Team

Andrea Botez (U8 Girls) – Most Wins by Canadian Girl in WYCC – 6 wins

Nicole Birarov (U8 Girls) - Most Wins as Black by a Canadian Girl in WYCC - 4 wins

Joshua Doknjas (U8 Boys) - Best Performance by a Canadian Boy Against the Russian Players (2.5/ 3 games)

Kelly Wang (U10 Girls) - Outstanding Performance in the second third of WYCC (undefeated with 3 pts/3 games)

Minya Bai (U10 Girls) - Best Performance Ever by a Canadian Player from Windsor at WYCC

Janet Peng (U10 Girls) - Best Results by a Sibling Team at WYCC (Janet to accept prize for the Sibling Team)

Yuan Chen Zhang (U10 Boys) – Best start at the WYCC by a Canadian Boy (2 wins/2 games)

Jason Cao (U10 Boys) – Most Wins by a Canadian Boy in WYCC – 7 wins

Joseph Bellissimo (U10 Boys) – Most Draws by a Canadian Boy in WYCC – 6 draws (tie)

Melissa Giblon (U12 Girls) - Best “upset draw” – she drew a girl rated 800 points above her (2124), and also had a WYCC performance rating 250 points above her CFC rating

Jackie Peng (U12 Girls) – Best Rating Performance by a Canadian Girl in WYCC – 1901

Guannan Terry Song (U12 Boys) – Most Draws by a Canadian Boy in WYCC – 6 draws (tie)

Edward Song (U12 Boys) – Outstanding Performance in the first third of WYCC (undefeated with 3 pts/4 games)

Mark Plotkin (U12 Boys) – Winner Takes All Prize – 5 wins, 0 draws

John Doknjas (U12 Boys) – Best Performance by a Canadian Boy in his “junior year” of his age section (rating performance 1806)

Rebecca Giblon (U14 Girls) - Great comeback win – from down 2 pawns in an end game

Regina-Veronicka Kalaydina (U14 Girls) - best resistance against an Olympic team member - Dinara Sauakassova from Kazakhstan (now Girls U14 World Champion too).

Tanraj S. Sohal (U14 Boys) - Great Performance as White - 4 points

David Itkin (U14 Boys) – Best Performance by a Canadian Boy over current FIDE rating (current rating: 1819, rating performance 1940)

Alexandra Botez (U14 Girs) – Best Performance by a Canadian Girl in her “junior year” of her age section (rating performance 1605)

Boys u-16 Roman Sapozhnikov – Best Rating Performance by a Canadian Boy in WYCC - 2262

Jerry Xiong (U16 Boys) - Most “upset draws” over an FM – 2 in round 1 & 2

Marguerite Fan Yang (U18 Girl) - Best Performance by a Canadian Girl over current FIDE rating (current rating: 1574, rating performance 1703)

Vlad and Andrei were presented with a WYCC poster signed by all the Canadian Team

Thanks to Canadian parents

I would like to recognize and thank all of the Canadian parents (and other adults accompanying our team) who helped out to make this a true team effort:

Andrei Botez did everything necessary to get us organized and motivate the team, ran the daily team meetings, and even drove to the next town during the power outage to get to a web site for children playing against Romanian players.
Vlad Birarov was tireless in his work for the team, from compiling our opponents' games prior to the CYCC, to running the puzzle contest, to making himself available for pre-game pre and post-game analysis.
Victoria Jung-Doknjas took photos, posted information on the blog, created the team awards categories, and was a general all around helper.
Leo Song took daily photos in the main playing hall - please post them when possible!
Teresa Bellissimo and Maureen Yao did "hall / bathroom monitor" duty for the U10 section. Teresa was also generally an all around helper.
Victor Itkin compiled our daily team +/- scores.
Dr. Parmjit Sohal, Alex Kalaydina, and Aris Marghetis who served as arbiters.