OCC winners

April 25, 2018 //

Congrats to all the participants and winners who participated in this prestigious Ontario Chess Challenge.

NM Joey Zhong won again in his last year (Grade 12) He will join the other 11 Ontario winners to play in the National Canadian Chess Challenge in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador on May 19-21.

Joey was our students from G.2 to G.6 and is now one of our teachers.

There are many more Seneca Hill Chess players came top three and top ten. Please visit our Facebook page for some of them, who we managed to take a photo.

OCC 2018 Joey

Categories Ontario Chess Challenge Regionals, Saturdays at Hillcrest, Thursdays at Seneca Hill

Ontario Chess Challenge 2018

By corinnawan

April 15, 2018 //

This prestigious tournament is organized by CMA every year. OCC qualifies Ontario top players to Canadian Chess Challenge. OCC is being held on April 22 this year. Read the rest of this entry »

Categories Ontario Chess Challenge Regionals

GM Aman Hambleton is coming to Seneca Hill Chess again!

By corinnawan

April 14, 2018 //

GM Aman Hambleton is representing Canada at Chess Olympiad again!

The first thing I pulled out the old flyer, I had to change a letter proudly:
FM >> IM >> GM!

Back in 2012, the then FM (Fide Master) Aman Hambleton was representing Canada at the World Junior Chess Championship in Athens, Greece. We hosted the first fundraising simul for him at Oriole, one of the Seneca Hill location at that time. (Simul is a player playing multiple boards at the same time.) Read the rest of this entry »

Categories Friends, Saturdays at St. Timothy, Sundays tournaments

Ontario-Quebec Challenge

By corinnawan

April 2, 2018 //

When: June 2, 2018
Where: Kingston
Who: Ontario Girls team – Through March 17 OCC qualifier
G.1 Marie Guan
G.2 Alina Chen
G.3 Playoff between Winnie Zhuang and Greta Qu (forfeited)
G.4 Valerie Ruchinskaya
G.5 Playoff between Angela Lin (won) and Dania Surya
G.6 Playoff between Isamel Shen (won) and Yilin Liao

Categories Ontario Chess Challenge Regionals, Ontario Girls' Chess Championship

2018 NYYCC and GP3 – results

By corinnawan

March 28, 2018 //

Complete rsults with prizes, bursaries and CYCC Qualifications. Read the rest of this entry »

Categories Canadian Youth Chess Championships (CYCC)

Free OCC Entry Winners – 2

By corinnawan

March 18, 2018 //

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Free OCC Entry winners from our OCC qualifier 2:

Open section: Benjamin Lin, Daniel Tang, Sarah Peng, Greta Qu, John Hansler

From Grade sections: Alan Zheng, Valerie Ruchinskaya, Harry Xiao, Marcus Siu

Winners will be reimbursed $65 after participating in the OCC 2018.

OCC Qualifier 1 winners: click here.

Categories Ontario Chess Challenge Regionals

Best Teams in NYYCC and GP 2018

By corinnawan

March 15, 2018 //

Special EXTRA prizes for upcoming NYYCC and GP 2018.

NYYCC and GP3

Best Sibling Teams – Teams are composed of two siblings. The total scores (and tie-breakers*) of the two team members will be used to determine the best teams. These two players can be from any section(s). There will be three sets of trophies for (1) Best Brother and Sister Team, (2) Best Brothers Team (3) Best Sisters Team. Sign up onsite before round 3.

Tie-breakers: (1) Head-to-head (2) Cumulative Score

NYYCC and GP4

Best Mini School Teams – Teams are composed of two students from the same school. The total scores (and tie-breakers*) of the two team members will be used to determine the top three best teams. These two players can be from any section(s). Trophies will be given to each of the team members. Sign up onsite before round 3.

Tie-breakers: (1) Head-to-head (2) Cumulative Score

Tournament details

Categories Canadian Youth Chess Championships (CYCC)

2018 OCC SH Qualifier 2 – results

By Karen W

March 12, 2018 //

1 out of 10 qualifier participants qualify to OCC. Top ten Ontario players of each grade qualified to OCC automatically and spared a spot for the one down the list in this tournament. Tied players all qualified! Read the rest of this entry »

Categories Ontario Chess Challenge Regionals

Ontario Girls U19 – Sarah, Isamel and Milana

By corinnawan

February 24, 2018 //

Seneca Hill Chess is sponsoring our two talented chess girls Sarah and Isamel to the Ontario Girl U19 Championship. Together with the Seneca Hill PS team, Isamel won the CMA and TDSB Team Championship every year. Sarah is our icon, always there!

U19 girls 2