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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 »

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.

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.

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

Congrats to Daniel Liu and Jonathan Zhao winning the Ontario Youth Chess Championship in Under 10 and Under 8 sections respectively.

Champion of OYCC Under 10 - Daniel Liu

Champion of OYCC Under 10 – Daniel Liu

Champion of OYCC Under 8 - Jonathan Zhao

Champion of OYCC Under 8 – Jonathan Zhao

Congrats to the Seneca Hill Public School Team (Harry, Daniel, Kyle, Ray and Bill) which participated in the Toronto Secondary School Chess League team finals on April 19.  They played in the junior section, that is for grade 10 and under.  The team came third after UTS and Glennforest. They won 5 medals and $160 Ontario High School Chess Championship entry fee.

TSSCL 2013

TSSCL 2013 bronze medal winners

Ontario Chess Challenge – Seneca Hill Regional Qualifier – results

March 23, 2013

Qualified players OCC sponsorship winners
G.6 Alisher Kishkimbayev
G.5 David Weng
G.4 Yikang Wang
G.3 Adrian D’Souza
G.2 Jason Wu
G.1 Blair Xing
G.6 Patrick Xie $4
G.5 David Weng $8
G.4 Yikang Wang $6
G.3 Adrian D’Zouza $10
G.2 Aidan Mo $4
G.1 Blair Xing $6
Total $38

Ontario Chess Challenge – Provincial Finals April 21
Qualified Seneca Hill chess students as of April 1

G.1
Isamel Shen
Blair Xing
G.2
Aidan Mo
Jonathan Zhao
Nicholas Wu
Hao Chen
Griffin Carrigan
Jason Wu
G.3
Alan Li
Benjamin Lin
Michael Chen
Maxwell He
Adrian D’Souza
G.4
Daniel Liu
Ray Liu
Yikang Wang
G.5
Kyle Truong
David Weng
Bill Hu
G.6
Harry Zhao
Patrick Xie
Alisher Kishkimbayev
G.7
Kayton Yan

Seneca Hill Chess Club is running a Canadian Youth Chess Championship qualifier on two days:
March 31 (U18, U16, U14 . U12, U10, U8- Boys and Girls combined)
April 7
(U12, U10, U8 – Boys and girls combined).
Please click here for details.
There is a further $5 discount for current Seneca Hill Chess Club students. This discount applies to pre-pay option only.
That means SH students (Monday at TM, Thursday at SH and all the students at Hillcrest) pay $20 if the fee is paid before March 24.

Wish you all happy holidays!

Lessons and tournaments resume on
Oriole – December 30 (January 6 – double Chess and pizza)
Hillcrest Saturday – January 5
Trinity Montessori – January 14
Hillcrest Tuesday – January 15
Seneca Hill Thursday – January 17