School Chess Club Registration has moved online!
The Chess Institute is working hard to make registering a child for his or her school's chess club as easy as possible. This term we have moved our registration process online so that parents can take advantage of the ease of online registration and payment.
For more information on registering your child for his or her school's chess club run by the Chess Institute, please visit our registration page.
15th Canadian Women's Chess Championship 2011
CIC and Annex Chess Club (ACC) will host the 15th Canadian Women's Chess Championship, Oct. 8-10, 2011! ACC is also hosting these events this fall:
- 2011 Toronto Labour Day Open Tournament (Sept. 3-5);
- GM Nigel Short (September 19);
- 2011 Toronto Thanksgiving Day Open Tournament (Oct. 8-10); and
- the Toronto Junior and Women's Championships (Oct. 17 - Nov. 28).
See the ACC web site for details and payment.
2011 Canadian Open Championship
CIC hosted the 48th Canadian Open Chess Championship at the Westin Harbour Castle hotel, Toronto, Ontario July 9-17, 2011. Our event featured 13 Grandmasters, including winners Walter Arencibia (Cuba), Joel Benjamin (USA) and Dejan Bojkov (Bulgaria); master exhibitions and lectures; and our 2nd annual Children's Day Camp. Stay tuned for our announcement about our Summer 2012 Children's Day Camp and Open Chess Tournament!
CIC co-founder on Global-TV
'Checkmate', report by Allison Vuchnich, produced by Krysia Collyer, Generation: Inspiration, Global-TV evening news, 2011.06.24 - profile of Mark Bluvshtein; interviews with Ilia Bluvshtein and CIC co-founder, Annex Chess Club member and regular lecturer David Cohen (in a segment filmed at the home of the Annex CC, 918 Bathurst St.)
http://www.globaltoronto.com/video/index.html?releasePID=z_AsVcApR0_6DCrhRU3WUipbzc1OoCAb
CIC President Ted Winick quoted in the National Post
Armenia's gambit to become superpower by Michael Fraiman, National Post, April 19, 2011, page A2.
2011 Canadian Youth Championships Qualifier
CIC sponsored, and Annex Chess Club hosted, a qualifier for the Canadian Youth Chess Championships at 918 Bathurst St., Toronto, Ontario, on Sunday, April 3, 2011.
Annex Chess Club
Grand Opening Event at 918 Bathurst Street
Monday, October 18, 2010
A gala reception for Canada's Olympiad National and Women's teams, followed by a chess lecture by Grandmaster Mark Bluvshtein, who played board one.
Mark returned for another lecture at 7:30pm on Monday, February 28, 2011!
Join the club!!
Annex Chess Club
Chess at Nuit Blanche
Members of the Chess Institute participated in Nuit Blanche, playing chess on the stage of the Ryerson Theatre and bringing up members of the audience to play blitz chess on a board that activated switches to the music.
Reunion
Fun video of WGM Jennifer Shahade's visit to Toronto
nuitblanche
Kids Chess Camp at the Canadian Open
The CIC ran a chess camp at this year's Canadian Open Chess tournament, July 12-16. The camp was half the day indoors playing chess and math games, with improv theatre, followed by half the day outdoors on Centre Island.
The students played Grandmasters Merab Gagunashvili and Luke McShane, the latter who went on to win the Canadian Open!
McShane
Please see the brochure
here and the registration form
here
If you are interested in a counselor position, see the
invite
If you have any questions at all, please email ted@chessinstitute.ca
Ontario Open at 918 Bathurst:
2010 National Chess Camp Aug 22-28
details: pdf flyer, website
Register online
Congratulations to Rebecca and Melissa Giblon who went to Turkey to compete in the World
Youth Chess Championships. Great article in the cjnews .
Palmerston Ave. P. S. wins Ontario Team Championship
It is with the greatest of pleasure and pride that I forward pictures taken at the
Ontario Scholastic Chess Championships-JUNIOR division. Pictured here is the new 2008/2009
ONTARIO CHAMPION JUNIOR TEAM:
PALMERSTON AVE. P. S.
Owner, Central Toronto Campus
Spirit of Math Schools
"To promote cooperation, inspire confidence and release the genius in every child."
Ph (647) 348-5800
twinick@spiritofmath.com
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