Ontario Junior Chess Championship ( OJCC ) - Jan 27-28, 2018

**Hugh Brodie** · Thursday, 12th October, 2017, 08:05 AM

Re: Ontario Junior Chess Championship ( OJCC ) - Jan 27-28, 2018

Gary wrote:

We are bringing the first Ontario Junior Chess Championship to Ontario, Canada.

The Ontario Junior has been held many times before. My database has games from Ontario Juniors held in 2011, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985, 1981, 1980, 1979, 1978, and 1975. I'm too lazy to look up the crosstables.

Is it open to any junior? Or just residents of Ontario? Aged under 20 as of what date?

**Gary Hua** · Thursday, 12th October, 2017, 08:21 AM

Re: Ontario Junior Chess Championship ( OJCC ) - Jan 27-28, 2018

Originally posted by Hugh Brodie View Post

Gary wrote:

The Ontario Junior has been held many times before. My database has games from Ontario Juniors held in 2011, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985, 1981, 1980, 1979, 1978, and 1975. I'm too lazy to look up the crosstables.

Is it open to any junior? Or just residents of Ontario? Aged under 20 as of what date?

Ok. Probably my fault that I did not checked properly. The tournament was last held in 2011 and was 6 years ago. In that case, we are reviving the tournament again after a lapse of 7 years same as us reviving the Canadian Junior last year.

Aged 20 and below as of Jan 2018.

Thanks for your correction, Hugh.

Gary

**Gary Hua** · Thursday, 19th October, 2017, 06:42 AM

Re: Ontario Junior Chess Championship ( OJCC ) - Jan 27-28, 2018

This is the second tournament under Elevate My Chess Canada. It is open for registration now. We will most probably hold this tournament on a yearly basis.

Check out the link below :

http://elevatemychess.com/ontario-junior/

2018 Ontario Junior Chess Championship

Location & Dates

When: Saturday, January 27th – Sunday, January 28th, 2018

Where: Erindale United Church, 1444 Dundas Crescent, Mississauga, Ontario

Format

Type: 5 Round Swiss. CFC rated & FIDE rated for Open and U-1800. CFC membership is required.

Type: 5 Round Swiss. CFC rated for U-1300. CFC membership is required.

Sections: OPEN, U-1800 and U-1300

Rd 1: Jan 27 – 9:30am; Rd 2: Jan 27 – 2:00pm; Rd 3: Jan 27 – 6:30pm; Rd 4: Jan 28 – 1:00pm; Rd 5: Jan 28 – 5:30pm

Play Offs: If needed, will start ASAP after obtaining clear results

Time Controls

1.5 hrs + 30 secs increment – All Sections

Byes

1/2 points for rounds 1 to 4 (All sections)

The byes MUST be requested in advance, at the latest prior to the end of the previous round.

Only 2 byes allowed

Tournament Organizer

Mikhail Egorov / Gary Hua

Arbiter: IA Danny Goldenberg

Registration Fees

EARLY Entry fees (Jan 1, 2018 deadline): OPEN $50 | U-1800 $40 | U-1300 $30

REGULAR Entry fees (Jan 14, 2017 deadline): OPEN $60 | U-1800 $50 | U-1300 $40

At the Door/Onsite: OPEN $80 | U-1800 $70 | U-1300 $60

REGISTER ONLINE USING THE LINKS BELOW: Note – Enter the name of the player in the Contact Details of the Registration page!
OPEN: Register Here
U-1800: Register Here
U-1300: Register Here

If you’re paying by check, Register Here and make your check payable to ELEVATE MY CHESS CANADA INC. and mail to: 1396 Liverpool Street, Oakville ON L6M 4P1. Include first and last name, rating, section and email when you mail your check.

TOURNAMENT PRIZES – Trophies and Cash Prizes

Open: Trophies + 1 entry boys (if CFC 2200+ by Jan 1, 2018 – then a place in the Invitation section of 2018 Canadian Junior CC)

Open: Trophies + 1 entry girls (if CFC 2000+ by Jan 1, 2018 – then a place in the Invitation section of 2018 Canadian Junior CC)

U-1800: Trophies + 1 entry boys (Open Section* of Canadian Junior CC) + 1 entry girls (Open Section* of Canadian Junior CC)

*The player must reach at least 1801 to play in the Open Section

U-1300: Trophies + 1 entry boys (U-1800 Section** of Canadian Junior CC) + 1 entry girls (U-1800 Section** of Canadian Junior CC)

**The player must reach at least 1301 to play in the U-1800 Section

Coffee and water provided.
Chess equipments and clocks provided.

**Gary Hua** · Sunday, 22nd October, 2017, 07:57 AM

Re: Ontario Junior Chess Championship ( OJCC ) - Jan 27-28, 2018

Pre-Registration will be made available within a week or so.

Registration starts to trickle in. We encourage early registration. Entry fee is very affordable and there is a discount of $ 10 before Jan 1, 2018.

FIDE rated for Open and U1800 section. Where can you get such a good deal ?

Space is limited to 100 players. We will close the registration after we hit 100 players.

First come first serve.

We hope to have your full support from parents and players from Ontario.

Canadian Junior will be held in Humber College, Toronto later in August 8-12, 2017 and WJCC will be held in Turkey in September.

Cheers

Gary Hua

**Gary Hua** · Wednesday, 25th October, 2017, 07:02 PM

Re: Ontario Junior Chess Championship ( OJCC ) - Jan 27-28, 2018

Pre-registration will be ready tonight.

We currently have about 10 players on board.

Thanks to all who have registered so far.

Cheers

Gary Hua

http://elevatemychess.com/wp-content...t-25-2017-.pdf

**Gary Hua** · Tuesday, 31st October, 2017, 06:33 AM

Re: Ontario Junior Chess Championship ( OJCC ) - Jan 27-28, 2018

We are almost 20% of our target of 100 players

Places are limited and dateline for early bird is Jan 1, 2018.

The early bird catches the worm....so it says....go get it.

The new list of players will be out on end of Thursday. Check our website www.elevatemychess.com for the update

We just received some entries from Ottawa and a pretty strong junior in the Open section. I think he got a perfect score in the recent Aurora fall tournament in the U2000 section.

Stay tuned

Gary Hua

**Vadim Tsypin** · Thursday, 2nd November, 2017, 07:54 AM

Re: Ontario Junior Chess Championship ( OJCC ) - Jan 27-28, 2018

Originally posted by Gary Hua View Post

Winner of the Open section will get a place ( free entry fee ) to the Invitational section at the 2018 Canadian Junior Chess Championship to be held from Aug 8-12, 2018 later at Toronto. Details of CJCC coming up later. There will be only 10 spots for the Invitational section at CJCC.

2018 World Junior Chess Championship will be held in Manavgat-Antalya, Turkey 15-Sep-2018 29-Sep-2018

This year winners - Richard Chen ( b ) and Cynthia Cui (g ) will be representing Canada at Italy next month. Winners at CJCC wins a bursary of $ 1,500 each to help in their air ticket cost from the tournament organizer.

[...]

Congratulations Gary on great work with CJCC and OJCC in 2017 and 2018!

Please note that FIDE has published the following announcement recently:

Change for 2018 World Junior & Girls U20 Championship dates & venue
Monday, 30 October 2017 11:12

The 2018 World Junior and Girls U20 Championship has changed its dates to 4 - 16 September 2018 and venue to Gebze city, Kocaeli, Turkey.

The dates have been changed because of the clash with the 43rd World Chess Olympiad.

**Gary Hua** · Friday, 3rd November, 2017, 05:04 AM

Re: Ontario Junior Chess Championship ( OJCC ) - Jan 27-28, 2018

Originally posted by Vadim Tsypin View Post

Congratulations Gary on great work with CJCC and OJCC in 2017 and 2018!

Please note that FIDE has published the following announcement recently:

Thanks Vadim for the information.

I have checked out with CFC and the suggestion is to let the organizer know as soon as possible that we will be sending official players there and upon our completion of CJCC, we will submit the names immediately.

On another note, the pre-registration is growing by the day and we are closing on 30 now. Don't miss out on the early bird pricing and a place in the tournament. We may have to close registration once we hit the magic number of 100. We have players as far as from Ottawa on the east and Windsor on the south western Ontario. FIDE rated for both Open and U1800 section.

Thanks to those who have registered.

Cheers

Gary

**Vlad Drkulec** · Friday, 3rd November, 2017, 10:41 AM

Re: Ontario Junior Chess Championship ( OJCC ) - Jan 27-28, 2018

Originally posted by Hugh Brodie View Post

Gary wrote:

The Ontario Junior has been held many times before. My database has games from Ontario Juniors held in 2011, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985, 1981, 1980, 1979, 1978, and 1975. I'm too lazy to look up the crosstables.

I vaguely recall playing in one of these in Guelph in the 1970s.

**Gary Hua** · Wednesday, 8th November, 2017, 08:28 AM

Re: Ontario Junior Chess Championship ( OJCC ) - Jan 27-28, 2018

The latest pre-registration will be out on our website tomorrow.

Another top junior just registered making the Open section very exciting.

Almost 10 players in each section at the moment.

Remember - the winner of the Open section gets invited to play in the CJCC invitational section and gets a chance to play among the top 10 juniors/invited players in Canada. How often do you get this opportunity ?

Many thanks to those who has registered so far.

Cheers

Gary Hua

**Gary Hua** · Thursday, 16th November, 2017, 07:21 AM

Re: Ontario Junior Chess Championship ( OJCC ) - Jan 27-28, 2018

We have more than 30 players on the board now. Latest list of pre-registered players will be out this evening or tomorrow morning on the website.

Early bird dateline is Jan 1, 2018. After this date, price goes up by $ 10 for all sections

For such a reasonable price ( early bird fee ), we really hope you will register earlier than later.

Once you register, we will keep you up to date with the latest development of the tournament with our newsletter and if see if you are in the correct sections( pre-registered list ). No worries if you will miss the early bird dateline if you register now.

We look forward to more entries sooner than later.

Cheers

Gary Hua

**Gary Hua** · Wednesday, 22nd November, 2017, 08:30 PM

Re: Ontario Junior Chess Championship ( OJCC ) - Jan 27-28, 2018

We are closing on to 40 players now.

Once we reach 100 players, we may close the registration.

Dateline for early bird is Jan 1st, 2018. About 40 days from now.

Latest list will be out on our website tomorrow evening or Friday morning. If you have registered and don't see your name, please email us.

Keep them coming.

Cheers

Gary Hua

**Gary Hua** · Thursday, 30th November, 2017, 07:36 AM

Re: Ontario Junior Chess Championship ( OJCC ) - Jan 27-28, 2018

Early bird dateline coming up soon. Another one month to go.

Jan 1st 2018

Latest list will be out on our website this evening or Friday morning. If you have registered and don't see your name, please email us.

We have ordered the trophies and it is process now. Should be able to get them before holidays. Nice big trophies for the winners

Cheers

Gary Hua

**Gary Hua** · Tuesday, 5th December, 2017, 06:51 PM

Re: Ontario Junior Chess Championship ( OJCC ) - Jan 27-28, 2018

We are almost 40 now. Thanks to those who have registered so far.

Considering what had unfortunately happened in Mississauga Open last weekend, we may limit our numbers to 80-100 players.

Once we reach 80 players registered, we may close the registration. Pairing will be done the day before and round one will start on time which I think is very important to players and parents.

This limitation of players firstly is to ensure comfort for the players so that it will not be too crowded and easier for the TD to control and monitor the players. We would not want a repeat of the incidents to happen again.

If you or your kids really want to play in this tournament, please do ensure registration earlier than later. Early bird discount ends on Jan 1st 2018

We are at 50% of our revised target number of players now.

We hear and listen to feedback from players and parents.

On another positive note, we are going to have two live boards for the first two boards. Two DGT boards with the associated DGT clocks as well.

With our IA Danny Goldenberg and assistant Mikhail Egorov as the TD we certainly hope to host a well organized tournament for all to enjoy.

Gary Hua

Ontario Junior Chess Championship ( OJCC ) - Jan 27-28, 2018

Ontario Junior Chess Championship ( OJCC ) - Jan 27-28, 2018

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