Ontario Provincial Youth Championships April 15-16

[Michael von Keitz]

Round 3 pairings for U8 Open and U12 Open just posted.

[Michael von Keitz]

All Round 3 pairings are now posted. The last three games of Round 2 ended at approximately 5:40pm.

[Michael von Keitz]

The top boards in the U16/U18 Open and the U14 Open remain active. The Round 4 pairings for all other sections have now been posted.

[Michael von Keitz]

Round 3 just ended. All pairings for Round 4 are now posted.

[Michael von Keitz]

Round 4 is progressing well. Round 5 pairings are up for 6 sections.

Valerie Ruchinskaya swept the U16 Girls section and, with a forced bye in Round 5, is on her way home.

[Michael von Keitz]

All Round 5 pairings have now been posted.

[Michael von Keitz]

3-way tie for first in U14 Open and U8 Open. Tiebreaks underway, as is IM Mark Plotkin's simul.

All other medals now awarded, except for Angela Li's bronze medal in U14 Girls.

[Michael von Keitz]

Congratulations to our Ontario champions and medalists!

U8

1st - Adithya Sekaran
2nd - Venkat Karthikeya Reddy Kola
3rd - Theo Chan

U8 Girls

1st - Luba Shtepa
2nd - Rucha Deshpande
3rd - Gayathri Sreekumar

U10

1st - Modith Aaroh Mutyalapati
2nd - Jayden Yang
3rd - Caleb Langridge

U10 Girls

1st - Ashley Qian
2nd - Alyssa (Zhuojing) Li
3rd - Arianna Yuan

U12

1st - Aaron Reeve Mendes
2nd - Jifan Zhao
3rd - Zhe (Zachary) Xue

U12 Girls

1st - Laksshana Deepak
2nd - Kailey Liu
3rd - Yeeshuen Li

U14

1st - Wah Sing (Joseph) Leung
2nd - Bradley Tseng
3rd - Richard Guo

U14 Girls

1st - Irene Xie
2nd - Ojal Ambilwade
3rd - Anqi (Angela) Li

U16

1st - NM Max Chen
2nd - Jeffrey R. Zhao
3rd - Ethan Yichen Li

U16 Girls

1st - Valerie Ruchinskaya
2nd - Gauri Sreekumar
3rd - Lily Liu

U18

1st - Yun Hong (Kevin) Li
2nd - Jacob Yan
3rd - Charlie Song

International Master Mark Plotkin was up against a tough crowd. Across approximately 35 games, he lost 3 and drew 3. We are grateful for his attendance, which was enthusiastically received by both players and parents alike.

[Bob Armstrong]

Mark is a great chess ambassador! Thanks for promoting chess to others.

Bob A

[Mike Ivanov]

Congratulations to all participants and medalists! Hope this inspires excellent representation of Ontario at CYCC and perhaps World Cadets later!