Canada fundraising for Chess Olympiad 2010
participation of Canada depends on chess fans
Presented by Chessdom
Canada is a frequent participant at the Chess Olympiad events. The participation of the team at the Chess Olympiad in Khanty Mansiysk depends on donations. A minimum of $10 000 is required for a men team to participate (IM Nikolay Noritsyn, GM Mark Bluvshtein, GM Pascal Charbonneau, IM Igor Zugic, and IM Thomas Roussel-Roozmon). For a women team to be included the fundrising should finish with at least $20 000.
Currently $3,120.07 are collected leaving the Canada team with no confirmed participation. The list of donors includes the Victoria Chess Club, players relatives, and even the famous with Spanish opens GM Kevin Spraggett. If you want to help the Canada team for the Chess Olympiad, head on to the Canada Chess Federation page.
More information about Chess Olympiad 2010
Canada at the Chess Olympiad
The Chess Olympiad is a team competition for nations, first held in 1927 at London, England and held every 2 years since 1950. The event is sanctioned by the World Chess Federation (FIDE). The 39th Chess Olympiad will be held at Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia from September 19th, 2010 to October 4th, 2010
Canada first participated in the Olympiads in 1939 at Buenos Aires, Argentina, where 14-year old Abe Yanofsky of Winnipeg, Manitoba attracted the world’s attention. In 1964 at Tel Aviv, Israel, Yanofsky secured the first Grandmaster title for a player raised in the Commonwealth. Canada has sent a team to every Olympiad since 1964. Canada’s best finish at the Olympiad was tied for 7th in 1978 at Buenos Aires, Argentina. Canada finished tied for 8th in 1976 at Haifa, Israel and in 1980 at Valetta, Malta.
Canadians have won individual medals 10 times – Gold: D. Abraham Yanofsky, Board 2, 1939; Frank Anderson, Board 2, 1954, 1958; Silver: Peter Biyiasas, Board 2, 1978; Kevin Spraggett, Board 2, 2000; Bronze: Peter Biyiasas, Board 4, 1972; Jean Hйbert, Board 3, 1982; Lawrence Day, Board 3, 1986; Deen Hergott, Alternate 1, 1990; Yan Teplitsky, Board 4, 2002. Lawrence Day has represented Canada at the Olympiads 13 times, followed by D. Abraham Yanofsky (11 times).
The Women’s Olympiad was first held in 1957 at Emmen, Netherlands. Canada first participated in the Women’s Olympiad in 1974 at Medellin, Columbia, and has sent a team every time since 2000. Canadians have won individual medals 4 times – Gold: Nava Starr, Board 2, 1976; Cйline Roos, Board 2, 1984; Bronze: Smilja Vujosevic, Board 1, 1976; Nava Starr, Board 1, 1982. Nava Starr has represented Canada at the Olympiads 12 times.
I will only donate if they include FM Hansen on the team.
Pretty pathetic that the CFC is trolling your site for funds…if they had any imagination…they’d find a way to do the job themselves..Canada is not a third world nation..as they seem to claim. Frankly..as a canadian..I’m embarrased by their apparent ineptitude.
Sad. why should we donate to a team that brings no benefits to the donor and has no potential? our players are full time professionals, most of the players on the Canadian list hardly play at all. at least put a team up of dedicated chess players. my two cents
For Canada’s chess sake I hope this is April’s fools joke.
I Agree with the two posts above. Canada has produced a lot of fine players. Their Chess Federation is the problem…even more corrupt and disorganized than the US one….If you can imagine that.
Its too bad too. One wonders if it might be a good idea to just shoot the federation down and start all over again…as from what I know…the corruption and incompetence runs too deep to actually fix.
What has Canada done to deserve funding? Are their players working hard to put in a good showing? It seems to me the players mentioned are chess tourists merely using people’s money to go to the event and have fun without training hard for it. In fact, many of our top players has played more games in the past year than ALL of team Canada’s team combined. If I see some evidence of ambition and results I may consider donating. So as of right now I believe Canada at the Olympiad is quite a joke and doesn’t deserve funding. When was the last time one of those players played in one of our high level events and tried to score a norm? Canada needs motivated and hard working players like Robson and Hess before they start to beg for money to support chess tourists.
First of all, I would like to thank Ms Susan Polgar for allowing us to express our views! IMO, the Canadian chess scene summary that she has presented is accurate and to some extent sympathetic.
Canada’s chess problems have been around for quite a while. I myself was a long time executive member and tournament director of the Toronto Chess Club in the 1980s (300+ members) but those days are long gone. The club, along with several others has disappeared and the question is, how do we set up a new one?
Without chess clubs to encourage juniors and keep masters in practice the outlook is bleak. Again IMO, the present Canadian chess executive must mount a major drive to restart chess at the grass roots level. Only in that way can we send our best masters out to do international battle.
maybe they should stop sending players to the olympiad,its a waste of money,
maybe they should stop sending players to the olympiad,its a waste of money,