Sunday Chess Tournaments for Kindergarten to Grade 12 students.

The tournament is rated by the Chess’N Math Association. Sections will be divided by CMA ratings as well.

More experienced/Higher rated players are encouraged to join our CFC rated tournaments. Details here.

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CFC regular rated tournaments for Juniors.

St. Timothy Catholic School. 25 Rochelle Crescent, North York, ON M2J 1Y3. Just go in through the main entrance and you will see us, after 2:15.

Open every Sunday except the long weekends and some special occasions.

Crosstables of September tournament:   -A-     -B-
Crosstables of October tournament:   -A-      -B-
Crosstables of November tournament:    -A-    -B-
Crosstables of December tournament:   -A-     -B-
Crosstables of January tournament: -A-    -B-
Crosstables of February tournament:  -A and B –

Current standings

Next:
March 1, 8, 22
March 29, April 5, 19
May 3.10, 24, 31
June 7, 14, 21
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Sunday Chess Tournaments for Kindergarten to Grade 12 students.

OPEN every Sunday, including all holidays, unless otherwise announced on the website.

Location: Our Lady of Guadalupe CS, 3105 Don Mills Road, Toronto, M2J 3C2.   Our entrance is at the back of the building next to the parking lot. The parking lot entrance is on Seneca Hill Drive.

Please choose and click below:

Section A and B – CFC regular rated.

Longer games – more experienced players

Section C – CMA rated.

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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

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.

 

March A
# Place Name ID Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Tot
1 1 Henry Yao 166273 1457 W10 D8 D3 W2 3
2 2-4 Nathan Zian Wang 161735 1317 D3 W7 W8 L1 2.5
3 Valerie Ruchinskaya 161874 1548 D2 W5 D1 D4 2.5
4 Neal Nian Li 161576 1540 H— H— W5 D3 2.5
5 5-7 Adrien Cheng 158231 1411 W7 L3 L4 W9 2
6 Rae Chen 166644 1290 L8 W10 H— H— 2
7 Alex Xu 163378 1634 L5 L2 W9 W8 2
8 8 Daniel Zhang 163312 1512 W6 D1 L2 L7 1.5
9 9-10 Jeffrey Zhuang 166908 1224 H— H— L7 L5 1
10 Nadir Guliyev 166538 1061 L1 L6 H— H— 1
March B
# Place Name ID Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Tot
1 1 Mingrui Deng 171920 989 W10 W6 W2 W5 4
2 2-4 Zihan Hong 166217 764 W12 W4 L1 W11 3
3 William kaiyuan Wang 167336 823 W15 W16 L5 W7 3
4 Hancy Jiang 166648 922 W9 L2 W11 W8 3
5 5 Gabriel Li 163161 924 D8 W17 W3 L1 2.5
6 6-9 Justin Tso 166325 906 W11 L1 H— H— 2
7 Albert Luo 163581 964 H— H— W16 L3 2
8 Andy Rui Wang 167302 562 D5 D10 W15 L4 2
9 Ryan Zhuang 167720 537 L4 W12 H— H— 2
10 10 Larry Zhou Chen 172054 580 L1 D8 H— H— 1.5
11 11-17 Ronald Dong 161577 513 L6 W15 L4 L2 1
12 Kevin Lian 172409 340 L2 L9 H— H— 1
13 Mike Yao 171267 667 U— U— H— H— 1
14 Bryce Zhu 171337 200 U—  — H— H— 1
15 Flora Yin 164373 486 L3 L11 L8 W16 1
16 Rajan Roberts 166332 817 W17 L3 L7 L15 1
17 Lauren Hewang 164377 580 L16 L5 H— H— 1

After running tournaments at Oriole for 12 year, we are moving to a new home – Our Lady of Guadalupe CS. It is 2 minute drive north of  Oriole Community Centre. Map and direction, click here.

CMA tournaments <– click here.

CFC tournaments <– click here.

Farewell to Oriole.

Panorama of Oriole Park

Panorama of Oriole Park

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