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How to win the Grand Prix cash?

There are 4 tournaments in the Seneca Hill Grand Prix series, and a player can play in any number of them.

A player’s total score will be the sum of their 3 best scores. Players who play in fewer than three tournaments will still have the sum of their scores counted towards the consideration of the prizes, so for example, a player who scores 4 in 2 tournaments (4+4=8) will still finish ahead of a player that scores 2 in 3 tournaments (2+2+2=6). For players who change age groups, their score will be computed separately for each age group, and then the highest of the 2 will be their total score. Read the rest of this entry »

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U8 Name Rtng Cls Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot TBrk[H] TBrk[D] Rank Class CYCC Bursary
1 Anthony Atanasov 1048 J W16 W7 W10 W5 W4 5 100 987.5 1st Q $10
2 Henry XianRui Zhang 935 W19 W9 D4 W6 W5 4.5 100 964 2nd Q $10
3 Petru Lungu 749 W13 L4 W21 W15 W7 4 100 880.5 3rd Q $10
4 Eric Ning 1064 J W11 W3 D2 W8 L1 3.5 100 939 2nd Junior Q $10
5 Zack Dinatolo 1133 W23 W12 W8 L1 L2 3 100 962 Q $5
6 Hovanes Ettibaryan 921 J L15 W19 W11 L2 W16 3 100 814 3rd Junior Q $5
7 Kousihan Balachandran 825 W21 L1 W13 W16 L3 3 100 813.5 Q $5
8 Jeffrey Zhao 1025 W24 W15 L5 L4 W9 3 99 954.5 Q $5
9 Richard Wang 738 J W20 L2 W14 W10 L8 3 99 941.5 Q $5
10 Dennis Fedotov unr. J W17 W14 L1 L9 W23 3 99 878 Q $5
11 Atharva Srinivas 729 L4 W22 L6 W17 D14 2.5 100 927.5 Q $5
12 Kevin Yang 841 J W22 L5 L15 W21 D13 2.5 100 800.5 Q $5
13 Ryan Deng unr. L3 W24 L7 W23 D12 2.5 100 787 Q $5
14 Angus Zhang 878 J W18 L10 L9 W22 D11 2.5 100 736 Q $5
15 Jason Yew unr. W6 L8 W12 L3 U— 2 100 929
16 Asil Gilani 708 J L1 W20 W17 L7 L6 2 100 910.5
17 Jodie Liao 848 F L10 W18 L16 L11 W24 2 99 741.5 1st girl
18 Martin Jiale Liu unr. J L14 L17 L23 W20 W22 2 99 719.5
19 Charlotte Yu 558 F L2 L6 D20 L24 B— 1.5 100 818.5 2nd girl
20 Aryan Puri unr. J L9 L16 D19 L18 W21 1.5 100 638
21 Kenneth Wang unr. J L7 W23 L3 L12 L20 1 100 787
22 Andi Song unr. J L12 L11 W24 L14 L18 1 100 762
23 Andrew Lin 733 L5 L21 W18 L13 L10 1 99 840
24 Aayan Baweja 600 J L8 L13 L22 W19 L17 1 99 795
U10 Name Rtng Cls Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot TBrk[H] TBrk[D] Rank Class CYCC Bursary
1 Hao Chen 970 W16 W9 W11 W4 W3 5 100 842.5 1st Q $10
2 Mateo Adrian Bivol 805 D8 W12 W7 W11 W6 4.5 100 842 2nd Q $10
3 Kyle Hu 854 W5 W6 D4 W8 L1 3.5 100 893 3rd Q $10
4 Isamel Shen 1038 F W10 W7 D3 L1 W8 3.5 100 864.5 1st Girl Q $10
5 David Ye 472 L3 W16 D9 W14 W11 3.5 99 764.5 Q $10
6 Mark Surov unr. W12 L3 W10 W13 L2 3 100 727 Q $5
7 Ronith Milhoutra 834 W15 L4 L2 W9 W13 3 100 711.5 Q $5
8 Sourena Tajalli Yazdi unr. D2 W10 W14 L3 L4 2.5 100 855.5 Q $5
9 Dawson Xiong 283 B— L1 D5 L7 W12 2.5 100 823 Q $5
10 Nicholas Henein 583 L4 L8 L6 W15 B— 2 100 867
11 Levon Ettibaryan 970 W17 W14 L1 L2 L5 2 100 755
12 Ray Wang 666 L6 L2 W17 W16 L9 2 100 649.5
13 Cullen Ye unr. L14 W17 W15 L6 L7 2 99 710.5
14 Owen Liu 725 W13 L11 L8 L5 W16 2 99 706
15 Tisya Pramanik 460 F L7 B— L13 L10 W17 2 98 653.5 2nd Girl
16 Leo Jia 509 L1 L5 B— L12 L14 1 100 787
17 Blair Xing 521 L11 L13 L12 B— L15 1 100 726.5
U12 Name Rtng Cls Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot TBrk[H] TBrk[D] Rank Class CYCC Bursary
1 Daniel Hao Tang 994 U— W12 W14 W7 W2 4 100 1014 1st Q $10
2 Nathaniel Yong 1139 W9 W6 W3 W11 L1 4 99 981 2nd Q $10
3 Ettihad Hoq 1068 W10 W14 L2 D4 W6 3.5 100 956 3rd Q $10
4 Kai Wen Yang 876 W17 D5 D8 D3 W11 3.5 100 926 Q $10
5 Ryan Yu 988 W18 D4 D11 D10 W13 3.5 100 905.5 Q $10
6 Denis Ceastov 932 W16 L2 W15 W8 L3 3 100 872 Q $5
7 Yathushan Jeyakumar 819 L13 W19 W16 L1 W14 3 100 871 Q $5
8 Joseph Liao 718 D12 W9 D4 L6 W17 3 99 917 Q $5
9 Vicken Pogosyan 835 L2 L8 B— W15 W10 3 99 866 Q $5
10 Myron Krishantha 742 L3 B— W13 D5 L9 2.5 100 1044 Q $5
11 David Atanasov 930 W19 W13 D5 L2 L4 2.5 100 1020 Q $5
12 Sasha Chertkow 1025 F D8 L1 L17 W16 W18 2.5 100 726.5 Q $5
13 Max Allard 1075 W7 L11 L10 W17 L5 2 100 869.5
14 Ethan Truong 878 W15 L3 L1 W18 L7 2 100 861
15 Andrei Botescu unr. L14 W18 L6 L9 W19 2 99 772
16 Aahaan Rawal unr. L6 D17 L7 L12 B— 1.5 100 925
17 Jerry Nie unr. L4 D16 W12 L13 L8 1.5 100 923.5
18 Alexey Popov unr. L5 L15 W19 L14 L12 1 100 863.5
19 Marwa Khafagy unr. F L11 L7 L18 B— L15 1 99 771
U18
# Name Rtng Cls Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot TBrk[H] TBrk[D] Rank Class CYCC Bursary
1 Sean Lei 1530 14 W6 W8 D2 W3 W5 4.5 100 1118 1st Q $10
2 William Li 1179 14 W9 W10 D1 D5 D4 3.5 100 1260 2nd Q $10
3 Matthew Chertkow 1003 14 D5 W6 W10 L1 D7 3 100 1221 3rd Q $5
4 Jonathan Hay 1180 16 L8 D5 W7 W10 D2 3 100 1116 Q $5
5 Daniel Muntaner 1263 18 D3 D4 W8 D2 L1 2.5 100 1223 Q $5
6 Kyle Truong 1026 14 L1 L3 D9 D7 W8 2 100 1110
7 Andrew Leber unr. 16 L10 W9 L4 D6 D3 2 100 1069
8 Patrick Xie 956 14 W4 L1 L5 W9 L6 2 99 1250
9 Sarah Peng 880 14F L2 L7 D6 L8 W10 1.5 100 1057 1st girl
10 Milos Todorovic 1065 16 W7 L2 L3 L4 L9 1 100 1078
2015 NYYCC and GP II U14-16-18 winners

2015 NYYCC and GP II U14-16-18 winners

2015 NYYCC and GP II U12 winners

2015 NYYCC and GP II U12 winners

2015 NYYCC and GP II U10 winners

2015 NYYCC and GP II U10 winners

2015 NYYCC and GP II U8 winners

2015 NYYCC and GP II U8 winners

  NYYCC & GP1 2015 – complete results

U8 Name Rtng Cls Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot TBrk[H] TBrk[D] Rank Class CYCC Bursary
1 Zack Dinatolo 1083 W12 W9 D6 W8 W2 4.5 100 822 1st Q $10
2 Anthony Atanasov 950 J W26 W5 W16 W3 L1 4 100 845 2nd 1st junior Q $10
3 Henry XianRui Zhang 918 W13 W22 W4 L2 W6 4 99 732.5 3rd Q $10
4 Tianjiu Zhao 771 W18 W7 L3 W17 W10 4 99 654 3rd Q $10
5 Jeffrey Zhao 548 W15 L2 W18 W7 W14 4 99 595 3rd Q $10
6 Noah Nathaniel Yuen 825 J W17 W14 D1 W16 L3 3.5 100 816.5 2nd junior Q $10
7 Kousihan Balachandran unr. W8 L4 W9 L5 W16 3 100 779 Q $5
8 Anuj Nayak 871 L7 W10 W13 L1 W17 3 99 695 Q $5
9 Atharva Srinivas 643 W11 L1 L7 W15 W18 3 99 622.5 Q $5
10 Angus Zhang unr. J W23 L8 W19 W12 L4 3 99 526 3rd junior Q $5
11 Kevin Yang unr. J L9 L12 W23 W22 W21 3 99 250 3rd junior Q $5
12 Jodie Liao unr. F L1 W11 W24 L10 D13 2.5 100 548 1st Girl Q $5
13 Martin Liu unr. J L3 W20 L8 W24 D12 2.5 100 530 Q $5
14 Logan Mak unr. J W24 L6 D15 W19 L5 2.5 100 454.5 Q $5
15 Michael Dong unr. L5 W26 D14 L9 W25 2.5 100 374.5 Q $5
16 Bella Kagan 831 F W21 W19 L2 L6 L7 2 100 687.5
17 Petru Lungu unr. L6 W23 W22 L4 L8 2 100 622
18 Asil Gilani unr. J L4 W25 L5 W20 L9 2 100 498.5
19 Richard Wang unr. J W25 L16 L10 L14 W22 2 99 402.5
20 Andrew Lin unr. L22 L13 W26 L18 W24 2 99 179.5
21 Patrcik Wei unr. L16 L24 D25 W26 L11 1.5 100 276
22 Andy Zhang unr. J W20 L3 L17 L11 L19 1 100 447
23 Aayan Baweja unr. J L10 L17 L11 D25 D26 1 100 289.5
24 Kyle Chen unr. L14 W21 L12 L13 L20 1 100 257
25 Lauren Liu unr. L19 L18 D21 D23 L15 1 100 198.5
26 Charlotte Yu unr. F L2 L15 L20 L21 D23 0.5 100 325.5
U10 Name Rtng Cls Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot TBrk[H] TBrk[D] Rank Class CYCC Bursary
1 Alexander [Sasha] Fedyushchenko 688 B— W3 L4 W9 W8 4 100 798.5 1st Q $10
2 Jordan Osten 973 W15 L5 W8 W6 W4 4 100 664.5 2nd Q $10
3 Ronith Milhoutra 852 W14 L1 W11 W7 W5 4 99 602 3rd Q $10
4 Justin Greco 697 W10 D8 W1 W5 L2 3.5 100 724.5 Q $10
5 Sivan Xu 694 W16 W2 W6 L4 L3 3 100 811.5 Q $5
6 Owen Liu 725 W12 W13 L5 L2 W11 3 99 619.5 Q $5
7 Ray Wang 644 U— W12 W13 L3 D9 2.5 100 709.5 Q $5
8 Mritik Dodla unr. W11 D4 L2 W15 L1 2.5 100 685 Q $5
9 Nicholas Henein 847 L13 W14 W15 L1 D7 2.5 100 509 Q $5
10 Andrew Gordienko unr. L4 L11 W12 D14 W16 2.5 100 403 Q $5
11 Leo Jia unr. L8 W10 L3 W13 L6 2 100 637.5
12 Harry Li unr. L6 L7 L10 W16 W15 2 100 457
13 David Ye unr. W9 L6 L7 L11 W14 2 99 649.5
14 Dawson Xiong unr. L3 L9 W16 D10 L13 1.5 100 592
15 Helen Lin unr. F L2 W16 L9 L8 L12 1 100 655 1st Girl
16 Tisya Pramanik unr. F L5 L15 L14 L12 L10 0 100 366.5
U12 Name Rtng Cls Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot TBrk[H] TBrk[D] Rank Class CYCC Bursary
1 Nathaniel Yong 1061 W14 W6 W2 W4 W5 5 100 924.5 1st Q $10
2 Ettihad Hoq 1036 W13 W3 L1 W7 W4 4 100 922 2nd Q $10
3 David Atanasov 812 B— L2 W11 W8 W9 4 99 1002.5 3rd Q $10
4 Ryan Yu 936 W10 W7 W8 L1 L2 3 100 1013.5 Q $5
5 Vicken Pogosyan 829 L8 B— W12 W6 L1 3 100 1012 Q $5
6 Yu Xin Xia 898 W15 L1 W9 L5 W10 3 99 861 Q $5
7 Arun Atchuthananthan 880 W12 L4 W13 L2 W16 3 99 844 Q $5
8 Daniel Hao Tang 1077 W5 D9 L4 L3 W14 2.5 100 868 Q $5
9 Kai Wen Yang 895 W17 D8 L6 W13 L3 2.5 100 839.5 Q $5
10 Eric Pei unr. L4 D16 W15 W14 L6 2.5 100 799.5 Q $5
11 Myron Krishantha unr. W16 L13 L3 W17 D12 2.5 100 668 Q $5
12 Maanav Khurana unr. L7 W17 L5 W15 D11 2.5 100 588.5 Q $5
13 Zhejiong [Bowser] Liu unr. L2 W11 L7 L9 W17 2 100 816
14 Yehor [Scott] Morozov unr. L1 D15 W16 L10 L8 1.5 100 907.5
15 Alec Wilkin unr. L6 D14 L10 L12 B— 1.5 100 697
16 Tiffany Yan 832 F L11 D10 L14 B— L7 1.5 99 691 1st Girl
17 Otilia Iancu unr. F L9 L12 B— L11 L13 1 100 641
U14-16 Name Rtng Cls Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Tot TBrk[H] TBrk[D] Rank Class CYCC Bursary
1 Sihao Ban unr. U16 W2 W3 W4 W5 W6 5 100 806.5 1st Q $10
2 Sarah Peng 854 F L1 B— W5 W7 W3 4 100 843 2nd 1st U14&G Q $10
3 Terra Tang 838 F W7 L1 W6 W4 L2 3 100 858.5 3rd 2nd U14&G Q $5
4 Richard Zhu 936 W6 W5 L1 L3 B— 3 99 843 3rd U14 Q $5
5 Vicknan Harichandrabose 598 B— L4 L2 L1 W7 2 100 961
6 Baxter Wallace unr. L4 W7 L3 B— L1 2 100 955.5
7 Joey Chen unr. L3 L6 B— L2 L5 1 100 763

May 20th NYYCC and the 5th Grand Prix

Registered players as of May 18, 2017

Girls and Open sections combined, with medals to top girls.

U8
Greta Qu 1281
Nathan Zian Wang 991
Lucy Gao 978
Helena Jin 967
Vincent Chen 910
Rut Jurry De Leon 889
Gabriel Li 827
Arnav Mane 820
Matin Hadavi 693
Albert Luo 650
Max Li 632
Benjamin Feng 619
Lefan Yang 606
Zi Liu 533
Milana Inozemtseva 521
Simon Fu 492
Matthew Jiang 341
Mariam Ettibaryan 340
Octavius Situ Zhang 202
David Huang unr.
Jeffrey Wu unr.
Bradley Tseng unr.
Justin Fong unr.
Alex Xu unr.

Standings. nyycc: May U10
# Place Name Rtng Grd Sex Tot TBrk[H] TBrk[W] TBrk[D] Prize
Anthony Atanasov 1576
Jeffrey R Zhao 1380
Austin Xie 1309
Youhe Huang 1285
Henry Xianrui Zhang 1251
Noah Nathaniel Yuen 1244
Atharva Srinivas 1207
William [zhimao] Gao 1119
Andrii Borysenko 1089
Andrew Chen 984
Ethan Zhang 954
James Qiu 933
Aaron K Liu 918
Eric Zhao 887
Hovanes Ettibaryan 878
Angus Zhang 870
Richard Yuze Fu 859
Xinge Xu 853
Dylan Puri 850
Ivan Milardovic 826
Raymond Mi 816
Andi Guo 815
Kevin Yang 809
Brenton Lin 768
Audrey Siahou 751
Maxim Alekseev 722
Trent Hodgson 705
Justin Cen 677
Leon Gagarin 674
Hanning Fang 654
Vanessa Li 621
Surya Suthakar 619
Martin Jiale Liu 600
Jerry Tao 595
Julia Li 590
Daniel Guo 567
Sarah Chi 525
Olivia Dong 465
Armen Tekazaryan 445
Nathan Ye 431
Ada Wu 423
Simiao Su 410
Flora Yin unr.
Paco Li unr.
Jeremy Zhang unr.
Yi Nan Wang unr.
James Zhi unr.
Kaiqi Zhu unr.
Ethan Yichen Li unr.

Standings. nyycc: May U12
# Place Name Rtng Grd Sex Tot TBrk[H] TBrk[W] TBrk[D] Prize
Kevin Yunhong Li 1454
Hao Chen 1344
Jeffrey Renfei Zhao 1294
Raymond Gao 1208
Naga Sindhuja Vellanki 1195
Wing Li 1158
Victor Xu 1158
Alexander [sasha] Fedyushchenko 1111
Alex Zhao 1066
Levon Ettibaryan 1019
Noah Li 1011
Pranoy Mukherjee 990
Ethan Zhang 954
Sourena Tajalli Yazdi 813
Ray Wang 799
Anna Minzak 789
Raf Adrik De Leon 764
Dawson Xiong 751
Alexander Sotnikov 751
Andy Chen 723
Bek Khamidov 708
Jerry Li 687
Xuwang Zhang 663
Konner Yi 650
Matthew Park 623
Jonathan Wu 621
Harry Li 581
William Dai 567
Gavin Xiong 275
Lauren Hewang unr.
Annahad Kaur unr.
Ryan Yin unr.
Bashar Hanoudi unr.

U14-U16-U18
Julian Zapata 1863
Sarah Peng 1470
Khrystyna Borysenko 1374
David Atanasov 1368
Michael Minzak 1185
Shawn [haofeng] Chen 1058
Ethan Truong 991
Weyman Li unr.
Hannah Hewang unr.
Calvin Devries unr.
Kiyan Iadhani unr.

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NYYCC 2015

2015 Canadian Youth Chess Championship– Qualifiers

There are 4 tournaments. Each single tournament is a CYCC qualifier. Players achieving a score of 2.5 or better in any one tournament will qualify to participate in the CYCC 2015 in Windsor (subject to approval of the junior coordinator). The 12 Champions will be on Team Canada as the official Canadian representatives to the 2015 World Youth Chess Championship, Porto Carras, Greece.

2015

Results:

February (GP1)

March (GP2)

April (GP3)

May (GP4)

GP standings

Winners of U8 and U10

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

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.

Nathaniel Yong

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

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

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