Seneca Hill Grand Prix 1 – December 10, 2022
Seneca Hill Grand Prix 2 – January 7, 2022
Ontario Chess Challenge Qualifier 1 and 2
Registered players, previous results, and Live results during the tournaments.
Grand Prix funds and standings.
Archives For author
Saturday at St. Timothy’s Catholic School. It will be on Saturday afternoons. It is a program open to the public. For information and registration, please click here.
Afterschool program at Trinity Montessori School, Woodbine and 16th, Markham – Mondays – open to the public. For information and registration, please click here.
Afterschool program at Zion Heights Public School – Tuesdays – Zion Heights students only. For information and registration, please click here.
Afterschool program at Seneca Hill Public School – Thursdays – Seneca Hill students only. For information and registration, please click here.
Returning students, don’t miss the early bird registration date – August 25.
(Returning students are students who were in any of the Seneca Hill Chess programs, online or in person, from February 2020 to present.)
To contact us, please use the form here.
Seneca Hill Chess Grand Prix
Chess Tournaments are back!
| GP1 | December 10 | 12:00 to 5:00 | OCC qualifier 1 | CMA rated |
| GP2 | January 7 | 12:00 to 5:00 | OCC qualifier 2 | CMA rated |
| GP3 | February 18 | 12:00 to 5:00 | CYCC qualifier 1 | CFC quick rated |
| GP4 | May 13 | 12:00 to 5:00 | CYCC qualifier 2 | CFC quick rated |
In 2022-2023, there are 4 tournaments in our Grand Prix series, and a player can play and win in any number of these 4 tournaments..
The best 3 tournament scores will be used for the computation of the Grand Prix results.
Prizes and scholarships!
~$3000 for the Grand Prix winners estimated! ($3585 in 2019)
~ Free OCC entries! (GP2)
~Best Sibling Teams (GP3)
~Best Mini School Teams (GP4)
~$5 or $10 GP money for players who score over 2.5 out of 5 in GP1-3
To email us, please click here.
We will run the following in person programs in 2022-2023
Saturday afternoons at St. Timothy’s Catholic School – This program is open to any students.
Monday afterschool at Trinity Montessori School at Woodbine and 16th. This program is open to any students.
Tuesday afterschool at Zion Heights Middle School. This program is open to Zion Heights student only.
Thursday afterschool at Seneca Hill Public School. This program is open to Seneca Hill PS students only.
Information will be mailed to our current students and students before the pandemic by mid August.
If you are not on our mailing list, please use this form to contact us. Thank you.
To receive the information, please send us your email address using the form here.
Sundays
January 30
March 13
April 3
May 1
For the details and registration, please use this link.
Extra tournament – last chance qualifier: Any students, qualified or not, can participate – May 15, 2022 Registration. Tournament details are the same as the above qualifiers.
We are taking registration for the second session that starts in February.
Please the details here.
We are now taking registration of the 2021 summer online chess programs.
Please click on this link for the form and details.
- For the online classes, we will keep our small instructional group format, with a teacher students ratio of 1:6. (Sometimes one or two more or less.)
All programs are two consecutive hours per week.
There are one hour instruction and one hour tournament game and guided puzzle solving in each class.
Summer Session:
Dates
Tuesday July 6 to August 24 (8 classes)
Thursday July 8 to August 26 ( 8 classes)
Saturday July 10 to August 28 (8 classes)
Time
Tuesday – 4:00-6:00 (All levels, in different groups)
Thursday – 4:00-6:00 (All levels, in different groups)
Saturday – 3:00-5:00 (All levels, in different groups)
Online tournaments
Players are not allowed to have any assistance from including but not limited to other people, software and/or computers. Parents, please make sure the player has no access to cell phones or other devices during the game.
Online tournament.
The tournament director has the right to request participants to sign in our Google Meet with their camera on and share their screen.
We will review suspicious games. Participants can also report suspicious games to lichess.org directly as soon as possible.
The tournament director reserves the right of final explanation.
Seneca Hill Chess Sunday tournaments
Schedule for 2021: January 24, February 21, March 14, April 4 (OCC qualifier), May 9 (OCC qualifier), June 6, July 11, August 8.
Start time: 1:00. (to approximately 5:00) Q and A room opens at 12:00.
Sections: By CMA rating (April 4 and May 9 – OCC qualifier, K-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-12)
Rounds: 5
Time control: 15 minutes plus 5 seconds.
Where: on lichess.org Please sign up (sign in – register) for a free lichess.org account and try a couple games before the tournament.
Fee: $10 for returning players, $15 if this is your first online Sunday tournament you sign up with SHC.
Prize: Free entry for the next tournament for top three and a trophy for the champion of each section. (August 8 – last tournament, second place and third place will get medals instead.)
Registration <<< please click here.
For more information, please email us.
Registered players, standings and pairings <<< please click here (coming up)
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Fairplay
Players are not allowed to have any assistance from including but not limited to other people, software and/or computers. Parents, please make sure the player has no access to cell phones or other devices during the game.
Lichess.org can detect this. Not only Lichess.org may abort your game and close your account, we may notify the major chess organizations like CFC and you may be banned from playing in any tournaments.
We will review suspicious games. Participants can also report suspicious games to lichess as soon as possible.
The tournament director has the right to request participants to sign in our Google Meet with their camera on and share their screen.
The tournament director reserves the right of final explanation.
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