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Thanks Corinna for inviting Robin and me back to the chess club. I hope everyone had fun because I did!

Posted by Eric Hansen on Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Happy Mother's Day! Thank you for bringing me to such a great chess event!

Happy Mother’s Day!
Mom, thank you for bringing me to such a great chess event!

Today GM Eric Hansen and GM Robin van Kampen hosted two Blindfold Simuls at Seneca Hill Chess Club. 

Today GM Eric Hansen and GM Robin van Kampen hosted two Blindfold Simuls at Seneca Hill Chess Club.

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The gross income of May 3 Sunday tournament will be donated to Unicef Canada. Please participate.

Tournament information and registration

Update May 9, 2015

26 players came to the tournament today. Cullen, Tiffany, Levon and Hovenes could not make it but donate one day tournament fee. We have a total of $300 to donate to UNICEF for the support of Nepal Earthquake Emergency.

Participants of the games today were Parsa, Sina, Griffin, Oliver, Sean, Wing, Angela, Harry L, Ray L, Petru, Ronith, Anuj, Eric N, Chen, Sarah, Charlie, Daniel T, Terra, Ethan, Kyle T, Ray W, William, Brent, Kyle C, Ryan and Shan. Thank you all for your support.

Photo from UNICEF Canada

Photo from UNICEF Canada

GM Eric Hansen and GM Robin van Kampen
are coming to Seneca Hill Chess Club again.

This time they are presenting **BLINDFOLD**SIMULS**!

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And players work in teams!
The winners get prizes!
Everyone gets a souvenir!
Cookies and drinks are provided. Read the rest of this entry »

Grades 1 – 12  Challenge

Chess Tournament

Run by Chris Field

Saturday, February 28, 2015

SATEC @ W A Porter CI

A lot of prizes for OHSCC

Details here.

More friends’ news are posted on FaceBook.

Quiy Zhou viisivuotiaana vuonna 2005. Heikki Sarviaho

Quiy Zhou viisivuotiaana vuonna 2005.
Heikki Sarviaho

Today Finnish Kaleva published an on-line story of Qiyu: “Qiyu Zhou finally became World Champion” Read the rest of this entry »

Canada has a World Champion in 2014!

WFM Qiyu Zhou in WYCC U14 girl

We are selling scorebooks at Seneca Hill Chess Club to fund-raise for Qiyu’s next international tournament in December. Donation are welcome.

Please support this promising Canadian Chess player.

WFM Qiyu Zhou on podium, WYCC 2014

WFM Qiyu Zhou on podium, WYCC 2014

World U14 Girl Champion, WYCC 2014
Second highest FIDE rated female player in Canada
Canadian Women Olympiad Chess Team member 2014 Read the rest of this entry »

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.

Photo: from Qiyu’s Facebook Page.

 

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

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.