Archives for the month of: April, 2018

OCC winners

By corinnawan
April 25, 2018 //

Congrats to all the participants and winners who participated in this prestigious Ontario Chess Challenge.

NM Joey Zhong won again in his last year (Grade 12) He will join the other 11 Ontario winners to play in the National Canadian Chess Challenge in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador on May 19-21.

Joey was our students from G.2 to G.6 and is now one of our teachers.

There are many more Seneca Hill Chess players came top three and top ten. Please visit our Facebook page for some of them, who we managed to take a photo.

OCC 2018 Joey

Categories Ontario Chess Challenge Regionals, Saturdays at Hillcrest, Thursdays at Seneca Hill

Ontario Chess Challenge 2018

By corinnawan
April 15, 2018 //

This prestigious tournament is organized by CMA every year. OCC qualifies Ontario top players to Canadian Chess Challenge. OCC is being held on April 22 this year. Read the rest of this entry »

Categories Ontario Chess Challenge Regionals

GM Aman Hambleton is coming to Seneca Hill Chess again!

By corinnawan
April 14, 2018 //

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GM Aman Hambleton is representing Canada at Chess Olympiad again!

The first thing I pulled out the old flyer, I had to change a letter proudly:
FM >> IM >> GM!

Back in 2012, the then FM (Fide Master) Aman Hambleton was representing Canada at the World Junior Chess Championship in Athens, Greece. We hosted the first fundraising simul for him at Oriole, one of the Seneca Hill location at that time. (Simul is a player playing multiple boards at the same time.) Read the rest of this entry »

Categories Friends, Saturdays at St. Timothy, Sundays tournaments

Ontario-Quebec Challenge

By corinnawan
April 2, 2018 //

When: June 2, 2018
Where: Kingston
Who: Ontario Girls team – Through March 17 OCC qualifier
G.1 Marie Guan
G.2 Alina Chen
G.3 Winnie Zhuang
G.4 Valerie Ruchinskaya
G.5 Playoff between Angela Lin (won) and Dania Surya
G.6 Playoff between Isamel Shen (won) and Yilin Liao

Categories Ontario Chess Challenge Regionals, Ontario Girls' Chess Championship