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2026 Canadian Olympiad Teams

1. GM Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux
2. IM Anthony Atanasov
3. GM Razvan Preotu
4. IM Nikolay Noritsyn
5. IM Sai Krishna
Captain: GM Evgeny Bareev

1. WGM Maili-Jade Ouellet
2. WIM Yunshan Li
3. WIM Svitlana Demchenko
4. WFM Oksana Golubeva
5. WFM Hancy Jiang
Captain: IM Raja Panjwani

[THNX to MJO for fixing an error in the original post]

2026 Olympiad
September 16–27, 2026
Samarkand, Uzbekistan.

11-round 4-player Team Swiss.
https://chessolympiad2026.fide.com/

Canadian Team Selection

Rules, rating & age bonus etc. discussed on the CFC Forum:

https://forums.chess.ca/forum/home/forum/public-forums/english-chat/77072-olympiad-2026-in-tashkent/page3

2026 World Senior Teams
April 19-28, 2026. Durres, Albania

9 round, 4-player Team Swiss, 50+ & 65+, @40/90 + g/30 + 30

90 teams entered, including 21 GMs in the 65+
(Artur Jussupow, John Nunn, Lubomir Ftacnik), and 25 GMs in the 50+, incl. Michael Adams, Simen Agdestein, Jaan Ehlvest...

Two Canadian Teams entered the 50+:

Quebec (ranked 9th):
FM Marc Ghannoum, Simon Gravel, Benoit St.Pierre, IM David Ross, FM Paul Ross

Toronto (27th):
IM Michael Barron, Nicolae Oancea, Ilia Bluvshtein, Merlin Nazareno

Team ranking resulted in the the Canadian teams playing each other in the first round, where Quebec wiped out Toronto 4-0.

In round 2, Quebec was paired up against #2 ranked England -- the only all-GM team of Adams, Gormally, Hebden, Emms, & Davies -- losing +0 =3 -1. The highlight game being Mark Ghannoum's draw as Black vs the 2629-rated GM Michael Adams in a crazily complex game that started with a delayed Schliemann!?
(link to game below)

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Final Standings:
50+:
1-2. USA1 (+6 = 3 -0; TB over)
1-2. Italy
3. Kazakhstan

11. Canada - Quebec
27. Canada - Toronto

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Links

Adams - Ghannoum
https://s2.chess-results.com/PartieSuche.aspx?art=36&id=6404093

livegames:
https://www.chess.com/events/fide-world-senior-team-championships-2026-senior-50/games

homepage:
https://wstcc.com/

FINAL STANDINGS:
https://s1.chess-results.com/tnr1396652.aspx?lan=1&art=63&turdet=YES&flag=30&SNode=S0

photo:
zettagrapsa24/Georgia Grapsa
(edit: John Upper)

Rd.2: England 1 v Quebec
R2L: Marc Ghannoum, Simon Gravel, Benoit St.Pierre, David Ross