Canada also has a chess champ
Oct 20, 2014 – 10:12 AM EDT
Last Updated: Oct 20, 2014 – 10:18 AM EDT
Re: Virginia girl wins world chess crown, by Tom Jackman, Washington Post, Oct. 14.
It was with great interest that I read the Tom Jackman article reprinted from the Washington Post which dealt with Jennifer Yu, the first American girl to win a world youth chess championship in over 27 years.
She won in the girls under 12 division in the tournament held in South Africa.
What is not mentioned in the article is that for the second year in a row, a Canadian girl won the world youth chess championship in her division. Qiyu Zhou of Ottawa won in the girls under 14 division. She was also undefeated.
Last year, we had a similar story in Canada with Canadian Harmony Zhu of Toronto winning the WYCC girls under eight tournament in the United Arab Emirates.
VLADIMIR DRKULEC, President, Chess Federation of Canada, Tecumseh
Source: http://blogs.windsorstar.com
Well done by Canada.