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Posted by Corinna Wan
on May 21, 2009, 9:57 pm
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OGCC 2009
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
Corinna
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