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GM Eric Hansen and GM Robin van Kampen are presenting a tandem simul in Toronto!

GM Eric Hansen, a Canadian champion, and GM Robin van Kampen, a chess prodigy from The Netherlands, will be playing 30-40 adults and juniors simultaneously on Sunday, April 13, 2014.

This event is open to any adult and junior chess players.

Date: Sunday, April 13, 2014
Time: 3:00 to 7:00 (Players can arrive any time between 3:00 to 5:30)
Place: Oriole Community Centre, 2975 Don Mills Road W, 2nd floor, Toronto, M2J 3B7
Fee: $10
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FM Roman Sapozhnikov at Oriole

By corinnawan

December 30, 2013 //

December 30, 2013

Congrats to Roman who will receive an IM norm for his performance in the North American Open 2013 in Las Vegas that ends today.

October 12, 2013

Many of our players are excited about playing FM Roman Sapozhnikov at Oriole. Read the rest of this entry »

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WYCC 2013 sponsorship

By corinnawan

December 1, 2013 //

We are pleased to announce that we will be supporting two 2013 WYCC members, Rebecca Giblon and Cindy Qiao who are participating in 2013 World Youth Chess Championship from December 17 to 29 in Al Ain, UAE.

Rebecca is a volunteer on Sundays at Oriole. Cindy is a Seneca Hill PS student.

Each will be presented $100 at one of our January meetings to help with their travel expenses.

Good luck to Rebecca and Cindy!

Good luck to Oriole players: Nicholas, Nameer, Aahil and Mysha too!

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CFC Junior tournaments

By corinnawan

October 5, 2013 //

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Oriole players at NAYCC

By corinnawan

August 19, 2013 //

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

Jonathan Zhao

Sean Lei

: 3rd from right – Corinna

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Oriole players at CYCC 2013

By corinnawan

July 30, 2013 //

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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Our instructors

By corinnawan

June 29, 2013 //

Follow our instructors at the international tournaments.

***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 »

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Canadian Chess Challenge 2013

By corinnawan

May 10, 2013 //

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.

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Fundraising Simul at Oriole – April 2013

By corinnawan

April 7, 2013 //

IM Aman Hambleton is coming to Oriole again. Here is a link to the Simul given by Aman at Oriole last June.

Aman’s performance then became the focus of the whole Canadian chess community. Within the past few months, he has a dramatic improvement. He was awarded the IM (International Master) title and he has won 5 IM and 1 GM (Grand Master) norms. He has a rocketing jump FIDE rating from 2226 to 2472.

We are proud to present another simul exhibition given by IM Aman Hambleton on April 28, 2013. Read the rest of this entry »

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