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.
Archives for category: Thursdays at Seneca Hill
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
March 23, 2017
Group A: 1st Cullen Y, tied 2nd Charlie S, 3rd Alexander S and Angus Z
Group B: 1st Lael C and Max Z, tied 3rd Vanessa L, Jordan A, Isaiah M, Ada W and David H
Group C: 1st Katy H, 2nd Dhruv Z, 3rd Emily S and Justin S.
February 9, 2017
Group A: 1st Angus Z, 2nd Cullen Y, 3rd Alexanders S
Group B: 1st Vanessa L, 2nd Golden L, 3rd Chase
Group C: Tied 1st Miya G and Katy H, 3rd Russell L, Andre T, Octavius Z, Emily Song
December 1, 2016
Group A: 1st Charlie S, tied 2nd Andrew Z, Charlie S, Zixuan Z
Group B: 1st Cristian I, tied 2nd Kyle C, Chase L
Group C: 1st Zoe W, tied 2nd Brian S and Justin S.
October 27, 2016
Group A: 1st Angus Z, 2nd Cullen Y, 3rd Zixuan Z
Group B: 1st Vanessa L, 2nd Lael C, tied 3rd Justin F, Yolanda Z, Flora Y
Group C: 1st Miya G, 2nd Shoon P, tied 3rd Leila N, Zoe W, Sunny Z, Russell L, Ellen L
Section 1, 4 and 7
2016-2017
Top winners (in order)
First term – Mid term
Group A: Zixuan Z, Andrew X, Cullen Y, Charlie S
Group B: Lael C, Vanessa L, Sean P, Emily S, Lucia L, Brian S
Group C: Miya G, Sunny Z, Mandi Z, Zoe W
First term – End of term
Group A: Cullen Y, Charlie S, Zixuan Z, Andrew X, Alexander S, Golden L
Group B: Flora Y, Venessa L, Kyle C, Emily S, Yolanda Z
2 Seneca Hill teams: K-G.3 and G.4 -G.6 and other Ontario top teams went to Kingston to meet the top teams from Quebec on June 9.
Our 2 Seneca Hill teams became the CHAMPION in each section of the Ontario and Quebec inter-province tournament!
Please see post at CMA News.
Congrats to Benjamin and Jonathan!
In the CCC which was held in Halifix on May 20 and 21, Benjamin came first in Grade 2 and Jonathan came 3rd in Grade 1. We are so proud of you!
http://www.chess-math.org/ccc/national/results/2012/English/index.xml
Champions
The finals were held on May 4 at Lawrence Park.
Both of our teams: Junior and Primary came first in the TDSB finals. We brought back to school the two big trophies and two pennants. Each player received a medals. Seneca Hill, congratulations for another successful and amazing year!
Many of our students and club members did very well in the Ontario Chess Challenge on April 22.
As we announced before, we will sponsor $100 to our student, Benjamin Lin who made it to the Canadian Chess Challenge 2012 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. We will also continue to sponsor him to play at Hillcrest weekly.
We are pleased to add the following scholarship to the top ten winners.
| Name | Grade | Ranking | Seneca Hill | Hillcrest | Oriole | Total |
| Jonathan Zhao | 1 | 1st | $100 | $20 | $120 | |
| Aiden Mo | 1 | 2nd | $20 | $20 | ||
| Griffin Carrigan | 1 | 3rd | $20 | $20 | $40 | |
| Nicholas Wu | 1 | 7th | $20 | $20 | ||
| Benjamin Lin | 2 | 1st | $100* | * | $20 | $120 |
| Arhant Washimkar | 2 | 2nd | $20 | $20 | ||
| Thomas Wang | 2 | 4th | $20 | $20 | ||
| Michael Chen | 2 | 10th | $10 | $10 | ||
| Wenyang Ming | 3 | 1st | $20 | $20 | ||
| Daniel Liu | 3 | 3rd | $20 | $30 | $20 | $70 |
| Colin Ruan | 3 | 10th | $10 | $10 | ||
| Kyle Truong | 4 | 8th | $10 | $20 | $30 | |
| Bill Hu | 4 | 9th | $10 | $10 | $20 | |
| Harry Zhao | 5 | 9th | $10 | $20 | $10 | $40 |
| Benedict Cheung | 6 | 2nd | $30 | $30 | ||
| Joey Zhong | 6 | 10th | $10 | $10 |
Congrats to the Seneca Hill Public School Team which participated in the Toronto Secondary School Chess League team finals on April 20. They played in the junior section, that is for grade 10 and under. The team came second after UTS. They won 5 medals, a chess clock and $160 Ontario High School Chess Championship entry fee.
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