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Woman FIDE Master Qiyu Zhou

September 11, 2014 //

WFM Qiyu Zhou is a 14 years old girl living in Ottawa. She was the youngest Canadian team member at the Chess Olympiad 2014. At the age of five, Qiyu won U-10 Open Finnish Youth Chess Championships! To find out more about her, please visit her website.

We are pleased to announce that we will be supporting and recognizing WFM Qiyu Zhou, in her efforts and performance at the international tournaments.

This year, Qiyu had already participated in two major international tournaments, NAYCC and the Chess Olympiad. She is going to participate in the World Youth Chess Championship, which is held in Durban, South Africa in September.

We will have a fundraising for Qiyu in our club in October.

Photo: from Qiyu’s Facebook Page.

Categories Friends

Sunday CFC tournaments – current standings

By corinnawan

September 1, 2014 //

March A
#	Place	Name	ID	Rtng	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Tot
1	1	Henry Yao	166273	1457	W10	D8	D3	W2	3
2	2-4	Nathan Zian Wang	161735	1317	D3	W7	W8	L1	2.5
3		Valerie Ruchinskaya	161874	1548	D2	W5	D1	D4	2.5
4		Neal Nian Li	161576	1540	H—	H—	W5	D3	2.5
5	5-7	Adrien Cheng	158231	1411	W7	L3	L4	W9	2
6		Rae Chen	166644	1290	L8	W10	H—	H—	2
7		Alex Xu	163378	1634	L5	L2	W9	W8	2
8	8	Daniel Zhang	163312	1512	W6	D1	L2	L7	1.5
9	9-10	Jeffrey Zhuang	166908	1224	H—	H—	L7	L5	1
10		Nadir Guliyev	166538	1061	L1	L6	H—	H—	1
March B
#	Place	Name	ID	Rtng	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Tot
1	1	Mingrui Deng	171920	989	W10	W6	W2	W5	4
2	2-4	Zihan Hong	166217	764	W12	W4	L1	W11	3
3		William kaiyuan Wang	167336	823	W15	W16	L5	W7	3
4		Hancy Jiang	166648	922	W9	L2	W11	W8	3
5	5	Gabriel Li	163161	924	D8	W17	W3	L1	2.5
6	6-9	Justin Tso	166325	906	W11	L1	H—	H—	2
7		Albert Luo	163581	964	H—	H—	W16	L3	2
8		Andy Rui Wang	167302	562	D5	D10	W15	L4	2
9		Ryan Zhuang	167720	537	L4	W12	H—	H—	2
10	10	Larry Zhou Chen	172054	580	L1	D8	H—	H—	1.5
11	11-17	Ronald Dong	161577	513	L6	W15	L4	L2	1
12		Kevin Lian	172409	340	L2	L9	H—	H—	1
13		Mike Yao	171267	667	U—	U—	H—	H—	1
14		Bryce Zhu	171337	200	U—	—	H—	H—	1
15		Flora Yin	164373	486	L3	L11	L8	W16	1
16		Rajan Roberts	166332	817	W17	L3	L7	L15	1
17		Lauren Hewang	164377	580	L16	L5	H—	H—	1

Categories General, Sundays tournaments

Sunday tournaments are moving to a new home.

By corinnawan

August 26, 2014 //

After running tournaments at Oriole for 12 year, we are moving to a new home – Our Lady of Guadalupe CS. It is 2 minute drive north of Oriole Community Centre. Map and direction, click here.

CMA tournaments <– click here.

CFC tournaments <– click here.

Farewell to Oriole.

Panorama of Oriole Park

Categories General, Sundays tournaments

Oriole – August 17 and 24

By corinnawan

August 17, 2014 //

Winners of U8 and U10 GPVI

August 17

Michael Minzak and Isamel Shen (first left) showed up for the CYCC bursaries they won in the CFC Grand Prix 2013-2014. Each of them won $125 cash.

August 24

The CYCC bursaries winner came today was Max Chen. Max (first right) was only 7, played Under 10 and was able to win the bursaries 3 times!

September 7, 2014

The CYCC bursaries winner came today was Vashini Paraparan

Categories Canadian Youth Chess Championships (CYCC), Friends

Mississauga Standard tournaments

By corinnawan

August 16, 2014 //

Mississauga Chess Club is running a tournament at the University of Toronto, Mississauga on

March 2. Please click here >>Mississauga March Standard to see the details.

May 11. Please click here >> Mississauga May Standard to see the details.

October 19. Please click here >> Mississauga October Standard to see details.

Categories Friends

Oriole – August 10

By corinnawan

August 10, 2014 //

Two champions came to Oriole today to collect their CFC Grand Prix prizes and CYCC bursaries.

Nathaniel Yong was the Champion of the U12 and Kajan Thanabalachandran was the Champion of U16.

CFC Grand Prix U12 Champion, 2013-2014 – Nathaniel Yong

CFC Grand Prix U14 Champion, 2013-2014 – Kajan Thanabalachandran

Categories Canadian Youth Chess Championships (CYCC), Friends

Oriole – August 3

By corinnawan

August 3, 2014 //

Today Arman Sydykhanov, David Atanasov and Anthony Atanasov appeared at Oriole for the CFC Grand Prix prizes and CYCC bursaries.

Anthony Atanasov was the Champion of the U8. Besides the two champion trophies and $100 Grand Prix money, he picked up his $200 CYCC bursaries, Champion plaque, high point prize and the 100% attendance souvenir today.

CFC Grand Prix U8 Champion, 2013-2014 – Anthony Atanasov

Categories Canadian Youth Chess Championships (CYCC), Friends

Featured player – August 2014

By corinnawan

August 3, 2014 //

Tianwen Gao

Tianwen started to learn chess in April 2014. In less than 4 months, she is listed as the top Kindergarten girl in CMA raing!

Sadly, we have to say farewell to Tianwen, as she is moving to US. We will sure miss this adorable and talented student.

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Categories Friends, General, Saturdays at Hillcrest

Featured players – July 2014

By corinnawan

July 28, 2014 //

Sean Lei

Jonathan Zhao

Jonathan Zhao and Sean Lei are big winners of the CFC Grand Prix 2013-2014. All together they won $900 CYCC bursaries, $200 GP money, 8 trophies, 4 medals, 2 plaques and 4 T-shirts!

Jonathan started to play chess when he was in Kindergarten. Within a year, while he was still in Kindergarten, his CMA rating had reached 1000. He has been one of the top players of his age since then.

Sean came to Oriole 2 years ago with both CFC and CMA rating around 800. His CFC rating is now over 2000! His enthusiasm, sportsmanship, willingness to help….. made him our good role model at the chess club.

Categories Canadian Youth Chess Championships (CYCC), Friends

Oriole – July 27

By corinnawan

July 27, 2014 //

We have given out more CFC Grand Prix prizes and CYCC bursaries today:

Jonathan Zhao was our super winner. Besides the four champion trophies and $100 Grand Prix money, he picked up his $500 CYCC bursaries, Champion plaque, high point prize and the 100% attendance souvenir today.

Other recipients today were Levon Ettibaryan, An Nguyen and Roger Guo.

CFC Grand Prix U10 Champion, 2013-2014 – Jonathan Zhao