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Mississauga CYCC Qualifier 2012 is offering a discount of $10 to OGCC 2012 girls. The qualifier is held on Sunday May 20 at University of Toronto, Mississauga.
10 more days to go!
We have over 100 girls registered as of May 8.
Calling for Grade 9, 10 and 11 girls. There are only two girls in each of this three grades. There are at least three medals in each grade. Of course we need three players to give out 3 medals.
It's not too late to register. Registration closes on May 17. http://ogcc2003.ca
Corinna
--Tournaments for parents, coaches and teachers.
Register on-site. Your daughter(s) will be proud of you!
--Side Activities
A simul hosted by WIM Natalia Khoudgarian and many other side activities designed by WFM Hazel Smith, run by WCM Jackie Peng and Emilie U.
--Special Guests
Guests for the award presentation: WIM Natalia Khoudgarian, WIM Yuanling Yuan and WCM Yelizaveta Orlova
It seems that, other than Hazel, I am the only one interested in OGCC. Anyway, I had one player telling me that she heard about OGCC 2012 from chesstalk.
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The Chess'N Math Assocation 10th annual Ontario Girls' Chess Championship held this past Saturday, May 19th 2012 was great and exciting!
Thanks to many teachers, coaches and club organizers who helped promoting OGCC 2012 and made it a new record of 146 GIRLS. 21 players in Siblings and Friends tournament, 8 players in parents and Teachers tournament were all new records!
As always, the participants received medals, pizza lunch, snacks, and beautiful souvenir T-shirts.
Past and present Women's Olympiad members took an active role in organizing and helping with various activities throughout the day.
• Current Canadian Women's Champion, WIM Natalia Khoudgarian, took part in the award giving ceremony and played our girls and parents in a 12 board Simultaneous Exhibition.
• WIM Yuanling Yuan, Canada’s highest rated female player, took part in the award giving ceremony.
• WCM Yelizaveta Orlova participated in the tournament and presented the awards.
• WFM Hazel Smith, designed and prepared many of the side activities and prizes.
• WCM Jackie Peng, with Emile U (a player in OGCC 2003) ran the side activities.
Thanks to all the volunteers and referees, who were such a tremendous help in setting up and running the tournament.
Thanks to many of those on-site volunteers: parents and players.
Lunch and snack tables were continually prepared and run by Stephen and Anne year after year. Added to the crew this year were Megan and Michelle. All proceeds go to our (OGCC) 40th Canadian Chess Olympiad Team members.
Thanks to Larry Bevand who made the OGCC become a qualifier of the Ontario girls’ team. Champion of each grade from Grade 1 to 6 will represent Ontario to play Quebec’s top girls in Kingston on June 9.
We were impressed to see so many players and parents at the Awards Presentation. Your support, good sportsmanship and cheers were very much appreciated.
We hope that with our effort in one decade, the girls’ involvement in chess, not only at OGCC, will continue to grow.
Website: Karen Wan
T-shirt and art work: Karen Wan
Packaging: Megan Cheng, Michelle Lam, Reena Zhan, Emilie U, Karen Wan
Computer pairings and results: Karen Wan
Referees: Bill Peng (Chief), Gallen Qin, Kyle Truong, Derek Jedral, Guangyu Song, Jerry Yang and Kayton Yan, Robert Li and Muralie Vignarajah
Siblings and adults tournaments: Kevin Zhang and Vladimir Birarov
Concession and pizza lunch: Stephen Cheng, Anne Cheng, Megan Cheng and Michelle Lam
Side Activities: WFM Hazel Smith, WCM Jackie Peng, Emilie U
Simul: WIM Natalia Khoudgarian
Awards: WIM Natalia Khoudgarian, WIM Yuanling Yuan, WCM Yelizaveta Orlova
Clean up: Augustine Wan, Eric Peng and many volunteers.
Half of them were from Toronto. About 20 came from nearby cities and towns, such as Mississauga, Markham, Richmond Hill, Vaughan and Maple. Many came from the north of Toronto: Stouffville, New Market, Alliston, Barrie, Collingwood and Blue Mountain. The farthest one from the east was from Ottawa. Many came from the west: some closer like Oakville and Guelph, a bit farther like London and the farthest was Windsor.
From this, I can tell that many chess club organizers and teachers were working on it. :)
Last edited by Corinna Wan; Monday, 21st May, 2012, 06:29 PM.
Congratulations on your great success. Wow. It would be so fantastic if your success at the OGCC translated into more girls at adult tournaments in the future. :D
Two of our Mississauga girls, Janani and Vaanie were beaming with pride when they told me about their 3rd place finishes.
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It seems that, other than Hazel, I am the only one interested in OGCC. Anyway, I had one player telling me that she heard about OGCC 2012 from chesstalk.
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