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