OGCC 2009 Reports
Posted by Corinna Wan on May 21, 2009, 9:57 pm
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The 7th annual Ontario Girls' Chess Championships, held on this past Saturday of the Victoria Day weekend, was another resounding success. The tournament this year featured a record of 120 players. As always, the participants received medals and participation awards, pizza lunch and snacks, and souvenir T-shirts.
It was our honour to have three members of the Canadian Olympiad Chess Team at our event. Hazel Smith's Puzzle Contest and Yuanling Yuan's Simuls were our players' favourites. We are grateful to Natalia Khoudarian for presenting the awards.
We have some unplanned costs this year, such as the registration submission through the website, PayPal fee, and a raise in the venue maintenance fee. In addition to our usual cost, such as T-shirts, quality custom made medals, other prizes, printings, pizzas, snacks and drinks, few hundred dollars to CMA to cover the cost in chess pieces, sending flyers and rating fee. As a result, we cannot afford the luxury of donating money to charitable organizations this year.
However, we are very fortunate to have so many Seneca Hill alumni (Jason, Michael, Martin, Hazel, Sashi, Karen, Chalini, Eric and Reena) and parents helping out in the tournament as volunteers.
In the end, it is the continuing support and dedication of all the coaches, teachers, and parents that keeps chess, and especially girls' chess, alive and strong in Ontario. Please keep up the great work!
Please see results below. Complete crosstables are posted at
http://www.chesstalk.com/elo/pub/scr/tournois.php?no=5246
http://www.chesstalk.com/elo/pub/scr/tournois.php?no=5247
Photos will be posted at our website soon. www.freewebs.com/ogcc
（Webmaster say: The photographer, Shaomin Shi who puts the pictures on the Photo Galley of the Canadian Women and Girls Chess website.）
Corinna
Winners
Posted by Corinna Wan on May 21, 2009, 10:00 pm, in reply to "OGCC Reports"
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2009 Results
Kindergarten
1st Sai Sivadas Shuruthi
2nd Diya Rajiv Mohan
3rd Nikolina Bajai, Courtney Wenzel and Fiona Lawless
G.1
1st Michelle Feldman
2nd Varshini Paraparan
3rd Trinita Jude Hamilton
G.2
1st Jiarong Zhu
2nd Minoosh Fathi
3rd Dora Liu
G.3
1st Janet Peng
2nd Georgia Drummond
3rd Kelly Reid
G.4
1st Aleksandra Milicevic
2nd Melissa Giblon
3rd Ktisten Li
G.5
1st Jackie Peng
2nd Zhanna Sarmetova and Puneet Sidhu
3rd Brittany Runeckles
G.6
1st Rebecca Giblon
2nd Tiffany Wong
3rd Thanusha Kengeswaran
G.7
1st Reena Zhan and Sobiga Byravanathan
3rd Amanda Wong
G.8
1st Isabelle Zhu
2nd Yasamin Moghtader
3rd Shannon Lee
G.9
1st Melissa Lee
2nd Chalini Lankage
3rd Rachel Ann Padillo
G.10
1st Karen Wan
2nd Fern Ramoutar
3rd Mae Arceo
G.12
1st Sashi Lankage
2nd Bianca Firth
3rd Saloni Sharma
Siblings 1
1st Simon Tang
2nd Mark Padillo
3rd Nicholas Caterina
4th Tyler W. Smith
Siblings 2
1st Calvin Rapin and Kajan Thanabalachandran
3rd Jonalton
Parents
1st Frank Lee
2nd Duffy O¡¯Craven
3rd David lawless
T-shirts Design
Winner: Hazel Smith
Consolation Prizes: Rachel Ann Padillo, Tiffany Wong, Amanda Wong and Allison Wong
OGCC 2008 - Report
Posted on CMA by Corinna Wan on May 19, 2008, 3:16 pm
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The 6th annual Ontario Girls' Chess Championships, held on this past Saturday of the Victoria Day weekend, was another resounding success. The tournament this year featured a record of over 100 players from kindergarten to grade 11, up from 74 participants last year. As always, the participants received medals and participation awards, a pizza lunch, and souvenir T-shirts.
The event also featured a competitive puzzle contest for the girls, a simultaneous fundraiser tournament by Yuanling Yuan (who will be representing Canada at the Women's Chess Olympiad), as well as separate tournaments for siblings and adults.
We would like to thank the large number of volunteers who helped with set-up, transportation, registration, organization, and clean up. Their assistance was absolutely critical, and without it, it would be impossible to have the tournament accessible to all players. We are also grateful to Yuanling Yuan, Ontario High School Chess Champion Hazel Smith, and Canadian Women's Champion Natalia Khoudgarian for presenting the awards.
Finally, as announced during the awards presentation, we have decided to donate the profits from this year's tournament to UNICEF to support relief for children affected by the recent disasters in Myanmar and China. Because we try to assign fees close to projected costs, these amounts are not particularly substantial; nevertheless, we are pleased to announce that we will be contributing $100 to support the cyclone relief in Myanmar, Burma and $100 for earthquake relief in Sichuan, China.
As always, we have also donated a small amount per player to the Chess’N Math Association in appreciation for their continued support of this tournament and scholastic chess in Canada.
Thank you all for another successful year,
Corinna
OGCC 2008 - Top thee players
Kindergarten
1st Michelle Feldman
2nd Mathanhe Kaneshalingam
3rd Maggie Lin
G.1
1st Minoosh Fathi
2nd You Jin Kim
3rd Ljudmila Milicevic and Constance Wang
G.2
1st Matisse Blundell, Dorsa Moayyed and Janet Peng
G.3
1st Aleksandra Milicevic
2nd Megan Cheng
3rd Aviva Ripstein
G.4
1st Brittany Runeckles and Jackie Peng
3rd Mina Ivosev
G.5
1st Rebecca Giblon
2nd Linda Xia
3rd Katherine Bancroft
G.6
1st Reena Zhan
2nd Jennifer Ugodnikov
3rd Sobiga Byravanathan and Kimia Moayyed
G.7
1st Sadaf Mohseni
2nd Masha Khodadadi
3rd Anahita Dehmoobad
G.8
1st Melissa Lee
2nd Chalini Lankage
3rd Katerina Kalenterdis
G.9
1st Karen WAn
2nd Fern Ramoutar
3rd Kate Kaixuan Liu
G.10
1st Persia Judge
G.11
1st Sashi Lankage
2nd Maeghan Kennedy
3rd Ashley Lo Russo
Siblings
1st Jake Runeclke
2nd David Tsenter
3rd Aljon Eroles
Parents
1st Frank Lee
2nd Duffy O'Craven
3rd Arkadiy Ugodnikov
Ontario Girls’ Chess Championship 2007
Below is a list of winners of the Ontario Girls’ Chess Championship 2007. Details results and crosstables will be found here and the album is here.
I would like to say a few words regarding the tournament. This year, we had more than 70 participants in the main tournament—a record for the OGCC since its inception in 2003. We have learnt a lot over the past five events, but there is still great opportunity for a better tournament next year!
I would like to thank all of the parents and teachers for passing on their compliments--your comments and suggestions are always very helpful. I would also like to emphasize that the event would not have been possible without the hard work of our crew of volunteers: Mr. and Mrs. O’Craven, Matthew, Lai, Mr. And Mrs. Lai, Jason Chan, Michael and Karen Wan, Chalini and Sashi Lankage, Eric Zhan, Mrs. Zhan, Mr. And Mrs. Cheng, Mr. and Mrs. Yuan. Their efforts are greatly appreciated.
My gratitude extends as well to Fieldstone Day School, whom generously offered the use of their facilities. Much thanks goes to our special guests: Natalia Khoudgarian, the current Canadian Women Champion, for presenting the medals; and Yuanling Yuan, for keeping our rest area exciting with a simultaneous exhibition (in which she did not lose a single game!). Thanks to Danielle Jedral for her T-shirt design. Thanks also to anyone who helped out, that may not have been mentioned here.
In the end, however, it is the continuing support and dedication of all the coaches, teachers, and parents that keeps chess, and especially girls' chess, alive and strong in Ontario. Please keep up the great work.
Corinna
Results
Kindergarten
1st Minoosh Fathi
2nd Michelle Feldman
3rd Ljudmila Milicevic
Grade 1
1st Lindsay McLean
2nd Vicky Ye
3rd Crystal Valdez
3rd Julia Lee
Grade 2
1st Megan Cheng
2nd Melissa Giblon
3rd Aleksandra Milicevic
3rd Rachel Tao
Grade 3
1st Brittany Runeckles
2nd Allison Wong
3rd Claudia Northey
Grade 4
1st Rebecca Giblon
2nd Masha Mehdiyeva
3rd Alice Donaldson
Grade 5
1st Reena Zhan
2nd Amanda Haemaayer
3rd Jennifer Ugodnikov
3rd Hannah Taylor
Grade 6
1st Rina Plotkin
2nd Delia Soucie
3rd Sahana Radhaharan
Grade 7
1st Melissa Lee
2nd Yolanda Zhang
3rd Katerina Kalenteridas
Grade 8
1st Karen Wan
2nd Venise Cusi
3rd Rochelin Dalangin
Grade 10
1st Sashi Lankage
2nd Sonia Zhang
Grade 11
1st Gabriela Rachkova
Results of the Siblings tournaments:
Section 1
1st Mike Ivanov
1st Elliot Kaufman
3rd Brandon Lee
Section 2
1st Stanley Su
2nd Benji McLean
3rd Joshua Taylor
Section 3
1st Josiah Taylor
2nd Richard Guo
3rd Jack Xiao
Section 4
1st Jim Zhao
2nd Stefan Pirvu
3rd Joshua Perez
Results of the Adults’ tournament:
1st Frank
2nd Duffy
3rd Arkadiy
OGCC Archives
2008 OGCC Crosstable and Results Album 2008 OGCC Report
2007 OGCC Crosstable and Results Album 2007 T-Shirt Contest Winner(pdf)
2006 OGCC Crosstable and Results Album 2006 OGCC Report & Results(pdf)
2005 OGCC Crosstable and Results 2005 OGCC Reports & Results(pdf)
2004 OGCC Crosstable and Results 2004 OGCC Results(pdf)
2003 OGCC Results (1st Start) 2003 OGCC Results(pdf)