Goddesschess: Dina Kagramanov

From the website of Annex Chess Club

15th Canadian Women’s Chess Championship 2011:
October 8-10

Current Canadian Women's Champion Dina Kagramanov

(voir la page Championnat féminin d’échecs du Canada 2011 en français)
Annex Chess Club is pleased to host the 2011 Canadian Women’s Chess Championship.
This event is sanctioned by the Chess Federation of Canada (CFC). The winner will become the Canadian Women’s Champion, and will earn a place on the 2012 Olympiad Women’s Team. The event will also raise funds for the 2012 Olympiad Women’s Team.

15th Canadian Women’s Chess Championship 2011

Saturday October 8 to Monday October 10

Organized by:

Chess Institute of Canada (CIC)
c/o Ted Winick, 41 Nina Street, Toronto, ON M5R 1Z5

Tournament Director:

Bryan Lamb

Location:

Annex Chess Club, 918 Bathurst Street, Toronto, ON

Format:

6-round Swiss

Schedule:

registration – Saturday @ 9 am
Round 1 – Saturday @ 10 am
Round 2 – Saturday @ 4 pm
Round 3 – Sunday @ 10 am
Round 4 – Sunday @ 4 pm
Round 5 – Monday @ 10 am
Round 6 – Monday @ 4 pm
Playoffs – immediately following, or at a mutually convenient time
Those who cannot play Saturday because of Yom Kippur can play the first two rounds in advance

Time Control:

40 moves/90 minutes; remaining moves/30 minutes; 30-s increment from move 1

CFC/FIDE:

All players must be up-to-date CFC members. The tournament will also be FIDE rated.

Equipment:

Chess sets, chess boards, and digital chess clocks will be provided

Prizes:

Projected Prize Fund: $1000
We are pleased to announce an additional prize, as follows: $250 to be shared among all players with a perfect score of 6/6. There has never been a perfect score in the Canadian Women’s Championship!
The 2011 champion will also receive free accommodation in Montreal for the 2012 Canadian Women’s Championship (courtesy of the 2012 organizers)

Entry Fee:

$150

Advance Registration:

pay by credit card to CFC,
mail cheque to CIC (see address above),
or pay by credit card to CIC (see PayPal registration below)

On-site Registration:

cash only

Filming Notice:

A Chess Institute of Canada camera crew will be on site, Monday October 10, filming for a video on chess in Toronto. By registering for the tournament, you are giving permission to appear in this film unless you indicate otherwise on your registration. If you do not wish to take part in the film, please inform the organizers on your registration form, and you will be seated so your game is not on camera.

Pay Pal/registration page.

Players registered thus far:

#	Name	CFC/	Expiry	CFC Rating	FIDE/	FIDE Rating	FIDE Title	Notes	Rds 1 and 2 in advance
5	Liza Orlova	138247	OK	2073	2601826	1931	WCM	women’s Olympiad team 2010	poss.
4	Iulia Lacau-Rodean	144348	OK	2049	1211285	2008		women’s Olympiad team 2010	poss.
1	Olya Chichkina	120564	CFC expired	1885	–	0			no
3	Natasa Serbanescu	111320	OK	1869	2605724	1824			no
2	Jiaxin Liu	149747	OK	1502	2611872	0	WCM		no
6	Jessica Danti	151192	OK	1367	2613573	0			no

WIM Yuan Yuanling (western style: WIM Yuanling Yuan) leads the Canadian's Women's Team to the 2010 Chess Olympiad. Goddesschess was pleased to host her presence at the 90th City of Montreal Open Chess Championships held last week (September 10-12, 2010) in Montreal. Here is an article on the Women's and Open Teams Canada sent to the 2010 Chess Olympiad:

From insidetoronto.com
TIM FORAN|
Sep 21, 2010 - 8:28 AM
North Yorkers head Canada's national chess teams

Erase the image of two crafty old men sitting across a chess board and slowly strategizing their moves. The reality of Canada's competitive game is drastically different.

Two North Yorkers, Yuanling Yuan and Mark Bluvshtein, both of whom shot to the top of Canada's rankings at age 14, will lead the country's youngest ever women's and national chess teams respectively over the next two weeks at the 39th annual Chess Olympiad, the first round of which began play Tuesday, September 21.

Yuanling Yuan, a 16-year-old high school student at Victoria Park C.I. and Canada's top rated female player at year end in both 2008 and 2009, will play "first board", or leader, for Canada's five-person women's team.

"She's the youngest first board on the women's team that Canada has ever sent," said Bob Armstrong, governor for the Chess Federation of Canada, which is one of approximately 150 federations sending their nation's top players to the Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk, a small city in western Siberia. The Olympiad is a biannual affair attracting the world's top talent and organized by the international chess federation FIDE. Canada's two teams are both ranked in the fifties.

Despite Yuan's age, this will actually be her second Olympiad, as she also played in the last one in 2008 in Dresden, Germany.

Leading Canada's national team this year is Mark Bluvshtein, 22, a recent York University graduate and Newtonbrook Secondary School alumnus. This will be the fifth Olympiad for Bluvshtein, who became Canada's youngest ever grandmaster at the age of 16.

International masters Thomas Roussel-Roozman, 22, Leonid Gershoy, 22, and Artiom Samsonkin, 21, round out the starting squad for the national team, while Nikolay Noritsyn, 19, is the team's reserve, a position that generally sees quite a bit of playing time, said Armstrong.

The women's team is even younger. Both starter Yelizaveta Orlova and reserve Dalia Kagramanov are only 16, while Kagramanov's older sister, Dina, another York University grad, is the "elder" on Canada's teams at the age of 24. The other starter Iulia Lacau-Rodean is 22. ...

Rest of article.

With all due respect to the chess dudes, this is Goddesschess and we concentrate on the femmes! How did the Canadian women do?

Round 1 on 2010/09/21 at 15:00
Bo. 58 Canada (CAN) Rtg - 113 Uganda (UGA) Rtg 3½: ½
56.1 WIM Yuan Yuanling 2189 - Amoko Ivy Claire 0 1 - 0
56.2 WIM Kagramanov Dina 2086 - Mutesi Phiona 0 1 - 0
56.3 Lacau-Rodean Iulia 2024 - Kigeni Grace 0 ½ - ½
56.4 Orlova Yelizaveta 1917 - Butindo Joanitah Justine 0 1 - 0

Canada Women moved up from start rank 58th to 50th as a result of their R1 performance.

Note: Phiona Mutesi (see Goddesschess post) was not able to prevail against WIM Dina Kagramanov.