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Congratulations to the trophy winners in the North American Youth Chess Championships in Toronto from August 13 to 18.

Mysha Gilani (U8G – 3rd)  
Woman Candidate Master (WCM) will be awarded!

Claire Radin (U8G – 5th)

Jonathan Zhao (U8 – 5th)

Sean Lei (Blitz – Amateur)

In order to recognize their achievement at the NAYCC 2013, Oriole Chess Club is pleased to announce that it would sponsor the trophy winners 5  Oriole weekly tournaments from now to June 15, 2014.
We are so proud of you.

Left - Claire and right - Mysha

Left – Claire and right – Mysha

Jonathan Zhao

Jonathan Zhao

Sean Lei

Sean Lei

3rd from right - Corinna
3rd from right – Corinna

 

Congratulations to
Rebecca Giblon and Nameer Issani who came 1st (U16 Girls and U8 Open respectively)
Mysha Gilani and Claire Radin who came tied 2nd (U8 Girls)
Cindy Qiao and Jeffrey Xu who came 3rd (U10 Girls and U12 Open respectively)
in the Canadian Youth Chess Championship in Ottawa from July 10 to 13.
In order to recognize their achievement at the CYCC 2013, Oriole Chess Club is pleased to announce that it would sponsor the Champions 15, 2nd placed winners 10 and 3rd place winners 5 free Oriole weekly tournaments from now to March 30 2014.
Good luck to all of you at the WYCC in UAE.

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***updates on July 20. Both Aman and Roman had an awesome tournament. Aman tied for third (7/9) and Roman came first under 2400 (6.5/9). They are playing in Quebec Open that starts tomorrow (July 21). See link below. Read the rest of this entry »

June 8 – Kingston
Results of the K-3 teams.
1st- Quebec
2nd- Ontario – Seneca Hill A team – Benjamin, Oliver, Hao and Griffin
3rd- Ontario – Crestview – Leaded by Jonathan Z

Results of the K-6 teams.
1st- Quebec
2nd- Ontario – Seneca Hill B team – Harry Z, Kyle T, Bill and Ray
3rd- Ontario – Seneca Hill C team – Aaron, David W, Yikang and Cindy

Congratulations to all the above Seneca Hill Chess Club and Seneca Hill PS  players!
All won a trophy!

Complete results will be posted here when it is available.

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For the present lessons and training, please click here.

Seneca Hill have sent two K-6 and one K-3 teams to the Ontario Team Championship organized by Chess’n Math Association today (June 2).

Our players had an excellent performance. The two junior teams came first and second and the primary team came first!

All three teams are invited to play the top Quebec teams in Kingston on June 8.

Griffin, Hao, Benjamin and Oliver - First K-3 team

Champion – K-6
Griffin, Hao, Benjamin and Oliver

Second place – K-6
Cindy, Aaron, Yikang and David

Champion K-6 Harry, Bill, Kyle and Ray

Champion K-6
Harry, Bill, Kyle and Ray

Under the sun - There is nothing new!  We won again and again!

Under the sun – There is nothing new!
We won again and again!

For the rankings,  please click here.

For the individual results and rating updates, please click here.

6 of our Saturday students participated in the Ontario School Team Championship today (June 2).

Harry, Kyle, Bill, Ray, David and Jonathan represented three teams (2 Seneca Hill and 1 Crestview). They all came either first or second in their section.

Crestview Team leaded by Jonathan Second place

Crestview Team leaded by Jonathan
Second place – K-3

For more results about the Seneca Hill teams, please click here.

Congrats to all the girls who participated in the Ontario Girls’ Chess Championship 2013.

We have two trophy winners: Isamel S (U8-Third) and Cindy Q (U10-Third).

Isamel S at the award presentation

Isamel S at the award presentation

Cindy Q at the award presentation

Cindy Q at the award presentation

All the best to the Ontario Team, especially to Oriole players: Nameer, Nicholas, Wenyang and even James and Mike (they played at Oriole when they were small.)

Info of the tournament, click here.

Congratulations to Jonathan Zhao who won the third CMA Grand Prix U8 on May 5. He is also the overall U8 winner of the 3 Grand Prix in 2012-2013.

Jonathan Zhao at the Award Presentation

Jonathan Zhao at the Award Presentation