Seneca Hill Chess Club is running a series of fundraising activities to sponsor Natalia Khoudgarian WIM, Jackie Peng WCM and Yelizaveta Orlova WCM to 40th World Chess Olympiad in Istanbul, Turkey; and Aman Hambleton FM to World Junior Chess Championship in Athens, Greece.
One of the activities is the Siblings and Friends Tournament at the OGCC 2012.
Open to all Kindergarten to G.12 students.
Date: Saturday, May 19, 2012
Location: Marshall McLuhan CSS, 1107 Avenue Road, Toronto
Games rated by CMA www.chess-math.org
Entry fee: $12 per player pay on site.
Refreshment: Snacks and drinks are provided.
Games start at 12:00
Registration: 10:30 – 11:30, limited to 30 players.
Pre-registration by email recommended, email full name and grade to ogcc2003@rogers.com or use web form here.
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!
OHSCC Sponsorship to OGCC girls
We are pleased to announce our OHSCC sponsorship recipients.
Please refer to http://www.ogcc2003.ca/OHSCC1.html for the sponsoring criteria.
| # | Name | Rtng | |
| 1 | Yelizaveta Orlova | 1951 | Paid by school |
| 2 | Jiaxin [Dora] Liu | 1498 | Accepted |
| 3 | Rebecca Giblon | 1479 | Accepted |
| 4 | Melissa Giblon | 1462 | Accepted |
| 5 | Luxiga Thanabalachandran | 1354 | Not participating |
| 6 | Aleksandra Milicevic | 1263 | Not participating |
| 7 | Kristen Li | 1258 | Accepted |
| 8 | Ljudmila Milicevic | 1163 | Not participating |
| 9 | Kadie Jin | 1155 | Accepted |
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.
Ontario Girls’ Chess Championship 2012
Ontario – Quebec Team Championship
Girls Division
By invitation only
Champion of each section from G.1 to G.6 in OGCC 2012 will be invited to represent Ontario to play the top girls from Quebec on June 9 in Kingston.
Free tournament, free transportation and free lunch!
Details at http://ogcc2003.ca
The school offers Master level professional chess instructors including, Yuri Lebedev, who has top qualifications, a lifelong experience teaching chess, and proven results.
Seneca Hill Chess Club will be hosting a regional qualifier for the Ontario Chess Challenge in Etobicoke, for students from grades 1 to 12.
Date: Sunday, April 8, 2012
Location: Etobicoke Olympium 590 Rathburn Road, Toronto, Ontario M9C 3T3, 2nd Floor, Committee Room
Entry fee: $15
Check in: 1:30 to 2:00, games start at 2:15.
Prizes: A medal out of 3 players up to third place, ribbons for all participants.
Note: any changes will be posted to the CMA website, or on this site. Sections will be divided by grade. The games are rated by the Chess’N Math Association.
Spaces are limited. Pre-registration via the form below, or by email, is strongly recommended. You will get a confirmation from us.
We are offering sponsorships for entering OHSCC and Oriole Tournaments.
To be eligible, the participant has to register OGCC on or before April 19, 2012.
Please see details at http://ogcc2003.ca
All the girls entered OGCC 2012 with payment on or before April 19, 2012
will receive a free Oriole tournament and a treat.
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