Ontario Chess Challenge 2016

[Larry Bevand]

The event was held at the spacious International Centre in Mississauga, Ontario (just west of Toronto near the airport). The Chess`n Math Association (CMA) rented 17,000 square feet to accomodate both players and parents. A total of 443 players took part in the event (players had to qualify through regional events...over 26 regionals were held over the last few months). The event is divided by school grade from Kindergarten to grade 12. The winner of each grade (except Kindergarten) represents Ontario at the National event which will be held in Regina, Saskatchewan over the Victoria Day weekend. Leslie Armstrong and her team did a great job as usual! Here are the final results:

Kindergarten
1. Arnav Mane
2. Jacob Gefen
3. Kingsley Bai
4. Jordan Li
5. Niklas Low
6. Caydon Wang
7. Yannis Mok


Grade 1

1.Andrew Ksenych
2. Winnie Zhuang
3. Kush Kheni
4.George Raymond
5. Greta Qu
6. Johnathan Han
7. Nathan Wang
8. Richard Wang
9.Lawrence Wood
10. David Shamroni

Grade 2

1. Anthony Atanasov
2. Daniel Xu
3. Eric Ning
4. Hao Ran Fan
5.Daniel Wang
6. Vincent Qin
7.Eric Li
8. Sam Ripley
9. Andrew Chen
10. Divjot Locham

Grade 3

1. Max Chen
2. Zack Dinatolo
3. Kousihan Balachandran
4. Tigran Ghazarian
5.Jeffrey R Zhao
6. Austin Xie
7. Henry Liu
8. Matthew Zhu
9.Faina Pobereshnikova
10. Grant Chen

Grade 4

1. Nameer Issani
2. Dorian Kang
3. Aahil Noorali
4. Mysha Gilani
5. Max Rusonik
6. Benjamin DeCosta
7. Max Zhu
8. Yunkun Lu
9. Stephen Shi
10. Bhavatharshan Jeyakumar

Grade 5

1. Max England
2. Kevin Zheng
3. Jonathan Zhao
4. William Shi
5. Matthew Tang
6. Licheng Zhou
7. Jordan Osten
8. Alexandru Lungu
9.David Shi
10. Eric Wang

Grade 6

1. Nicholas Vettese
2. Alan Li
3. Nick Akophyan
4. Arhant Washimkar
5. Benjamin Yu
6. Emma He
7. Jack Li
8. Kylie Tan
9. Max Kuchlein
10. Adrian D'Souza

Grade 7

1. Eugene Hua
2. Richard Feng
3. Larry Ju
4. Daniel Liu
5. Benito Surya
6. Svitlana Demchenko
7. Hanry Zhang
8. David Liu
9. Justin Tang
10.Tianyi Shen

Grade 8

1. Ricky Luo
2. Jason Cai
3. Hairan Liang
4. Kevin Yi-Xiao Yie
5. James Iansavitchous
6. Daniel Caron
7. Andrew Xur
8. Jacky Jia
9. Yue Tong Zhao
10. Yi Deng

Grade 9

1. Richard Chen
2. Dennis Shamroni
3. Harry Zhao
4. Ruo Pan Feng
5.Caroline Chen
6. Jeffrey Xu
7. Jeffrey Xin-Yu Zhu
8. Denver Tang
9.Andy Sun
10. Patrick Xie

Grade 10

1. Joseph Bellissimo
2.Qiyu Zhou
3. Eric Wang
4. Derick Aghamalian
5. Joey Zhong
6. Sean Lei
7. Jeff Zhang
8. Neerav Mullur
9. Aidan Storey
10. Tyler D'Amore

Grade 11

1. Michael Song
2. Razvan Preotu
3. Atharva Washimkar
4. Ethan Moon
5. Daniel Muntaner
6. Yinshi Li
7. Michael Li
8. Adam Packer
9. Johnathan Hay
10. Selvin Leenus

Grade 12

1. Zehn Nasir
2. Kajan Thanabalachandran
3. Tony Lin
4. Mark Plotkin
5. Martin Li
6. Brendan Cater
7. Joseph Suthons
8. Andrew Pak
9. Huxley Anjilvel
10. Tristan Griffiths

Congratulations!

Larry Bevand
Executive Director
Chess'n Math Association

[Larry Bevand]

Complete standings: Ontario Chess Challenge 2016

The tournament has been rated. See the complete results at:

http://chess-math.org/ratings/pairings/11242

[Hal Bond]

Re: Complete standings: Ontario Chess Challenge 2016

Getting rave reviews on the new venue and the event itself Larry - good move!
Next year 500+kids.

[Larry Bevand]

Re: Complete standings: Ontario Chess Challenge 2016

Hi Hal,

Thanks for the positive feedback!

Leslie Armstrong was the decision maker on the new venue....crazy price of $10,000 for the day plus a minimum of $2,000 had to be purchased from the food stand. I wrote the cheque, closed my eyes and crossed my fingers. Everything turned out well :).

We have had 500 players at this event in the past, but we had to tighten qualification rules in order to reduce the numbers to fit the space we had...remember over 5,000 players from all over the province attempt to qualify for this prestigious event.

Leslie will be booking the same venue for next year. She will also be reviewing the qualification rules.

Larry

[Gary Hua]

Re: Complete standings: Ontario Chess Challenge 2016

Thanks to Chess and Math for organizing this wonderful tournament year after year. You really made an effort to make this event successful. No wonder, the participants are always there without fail.

If there are more adult/kids tournaments organized to be organized by CMA, that will definitely be wonderful news. I am pretty sure the attendance will be high as well even with higher entry fees as CMA really organizes tournament very well.

Maybe CMA may starts running bigger tournaments like norms tournaments in the future ?

Once again, thanks so much again

[Larry Bevand]

Re: Complete standings: Ontario Chess Challenge 2016

Thank you for your generous comments Gary...they are touching and much appreciated!

Many people worked very hard to make it happen!

Last year I dropped the ball on organising a CMA Futurity. I promise not to do the same this year. I hope to post something within two weeks about this.

Thank you for your continued support!

Larry