The Victoria Chess Challenge was held Feb 20.  50 players took part in this qualifier for the BC Chess Challenge being held in Richmond April 9th 2011. List of Qualifiers   Results and ratings for all players will be available at http://www.chesstalk.com/elo/pub/ March 1st

December 13 2010  Just announced - Jason Cao wins the 2010 Canadian Chess Player of the Year Award   More info on Junior Chess in Victoria   www.victoriajuniorchess.com
Jason is expected to play in the 2011 Grand Pacific Open in Victoria BC Canada  www.grandpacificopen.com  Your chance to play the U10 World Chess Champion.

Link to press release  http://www.chesscanada.info/forum/showthread.php?t=1314 

The Victoria City Junior Chess Championships were held Dec 5 2010 at UVIC 

Results for top players   Congratulations to all players  Next tournament is IJO #3 at UVIC   Jan 16 2011

October 31 Copied from Chess Base News http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=6781

Boy's Under-10 winners: Jason Cao (Canada, gold), Jeffrey Xiong (US, silver),
Abhimanyu Puranik (India, bronze), and Bhaskar Gupta (India, 4th).

Another surprise was the Boys Under-10, which included top-seed American Samuel Sevian, rated 2105, yet which was won by unrated Canadian Jason Cao, who had a remarkable campaign throughout.

October 31st 2010   More great news for the World Champion!  This News from Montreal.  Forwarding message......
The Chess'n Math Association, Canada's National Scholastic Chess Organization, is proud to announce that we are awarding Jason with a $1,000 gift certificate for his INCREDIBLE PERFORMANCE! He will be able to purchase $1,000 worth of chess books & equipment at our Strategy Game store FOR FREE! www.strategygames.ca Congratulations again Jason! We are all very proud of you! Larry Bevand Executive Director  Chess'n Math Association

October 30th 2010  Jason Cao is World Champion!   Jason Cao from Canada pulled an all-important victory in the last round (Round 11), against the direct rival for top places Cameron Wheeler, and thanks to the draw on the top board, he earned the gold medal on better additional criteria. Jeffrey Xiong (USA) takes home the silver, and Puranik Abhimanyu edged his fellow Indian Gupta Bhaskar to claim the bronze.

October 27 2010  Report from Round 8 Jason Cao (CAN) is unstoppable in the Open U10 section. After yet another victory and a draw by direct competitors Puranik Abhimanyu (IND) and FM Tin Jingyao (SIN), now Jason Cao is a full point ahead of the group. http://wycc2010.chessdom.com/ 

Jason on CBC All Points West October 26 after Jason's win against Sam Sevian USA download the podcast here http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/bcallpointswest_20101027_40276.mp3    Jason is interviewed during the last 10 minutes of the show.

Jason in the News  http://www.bclocalnews.com/vancouver_island_south/victorianews/news/105056009.html

Jason Cao has checked his way to Greece.

The nine-year-old Saanich resident is in Halkidiki, Greece for a two-week stay where he will represent his country and his age group at the World Youth Chess Championships.

Jason Cao placed 2nd in the Canadian Youth Chess Championships

 Elliot Raymer in the News

Elliot Raymer, 16, fresh off a fourth-place performance in the Grade 12 category of the Canadian Chess Challenge in Montreal, is urging parents to get their children involved in the game. “The kids who do it, love it,” he says.

Click here for the full article

Chess Camp at Sea  Join GM Emil Anka on the Chess Camp at Sea.  With stops in Alaska and Victoria. A special event is being planned to welcome the chess camp participants on their stop in Victoria on August 27

The next tournament is Island Junior Open #4 on Sunday February 8th at UVIC

See the Tournament Schedule for details

Jan 24th 2009

Full page coverage of the Victoria City Junior Chess Championships will be published next week

in the Victoria News and Victoria News Daily  See the full page now. Click the following link

Newspaper full page

A fundraiser for the Canadian Youth Chess Championships will be held Feb 21st 2009. Thank you to the Roger Patterson, Paul Leblanc, Lynn Stringer and the Victoria Chess Club for organizing this event. Details Click Here

Chess at the Beach is over until next summer.  Another year of sunshine and warm air!

All summer long. Saturdays at Willows beach near the tearoom. From 10-12 noon map 

Olympic Team Fundraiser Active

Aug. 16, 2008

Details on the Victoria Chess Club Website: www.victoriachessclub.pbwiki.com

Summer Chess Camps

Greg Churchill will be offering a number of summer camps this year. Details Camps, Chess Clubs and Coaches

Visit all the Chess camps across Canada this summer. Montreal to Victoria. Details at http://chess-math.org/camps/

6th Annual Victoria Junior Chess Beach Party and Awards

Saturday June 28th 2008.  A good turnout this year and great weather on a cloud free day.  22 players in the blitz tournament. Josh Renaud was 1st place. Malcolm Bowles 2nd.  Link to photos.

This year the Sportmanship trophy was awarded to TianTian Geng.

Events included a Blitz tournament. Awards for Outstanding player, Most improved, Etc. Pizza Lunch. All chess players all ages and family invited. Out of town guests welcome. RSVP victoriajuniorchess@gmail.com with the number of guests. 

Regional Chess Championship Sunday February 24, 2008 - regional qualifier for BC Chess Challenge

Attendance was up this year for the lower Vancouver Island Regional Qualifier for the Provincial Grade Championship to be held Satruday March 8th at BCIT. You are qualified to play if you scored 50% or greater in your grade or if you placed 1st, 2nd or 3rd in your grade. You are also qualified if your brother or sister qualified. In order to play in the provincial you must be qualified and pre registered. Pre registration information is posted at http://www.bjdy.com/juniorchess/index.html  Results will be posted soon on this site.

March 16th Book Launch, The Ultimate GM Duncan Suttles Games Collection, Vols.1-3 (details)

At 1:00 pm, Grandmasters Duncan Suttles and Yasser Seirawan will give a tandem (alternating move) simultaneous against juniors rated under 1800.

At 3:30 pm, Grandmasters Duncan Suttles and Yasser Seirawan will give a tandem (alternating move) simultaneous against adults, selected juniors and juniors who won or drew in the first simultaneous.

A hot dog and pop/juice lunch will be provided for juniors.

At 7:00 pm, a social gathering (business attire) will convene, for both chess players and non-chess players. Food will be provided. Chess players may continue to play in the front area of the Bridge Centre. The event ticket $10. Pre-ordered books will be available for pickup and signing. Pe-order the book here.

The Results are in from the Victoria City Chess Championship.

Grade K-3 1st Matthias So 2nd CJ Rainsberry 3rd Ethan Li

Grade 4-7 1st Farley Cannon 2nd Erika Ruiter 3rd Tom Goodall-Halliwell

Grade 8-12 1st Joshua Renaud 2nd Elliot Raymer 3rd Kristijan Gjorgjevik

Complete Results Results from recent Tournaments

Mark your calendars for the Victoria Chess Festival - Easter Weekend 2008 (March 21 - 24). The Victoria Chess Festival will be held at the Hotel Grand Pacific and will include the Grand Pacific Open, the Grand Pacific Scholastic Open (March 21) and the Grand Pacific Bughouse (Mar 24). Information FrontPage. Schedules will allow junior competitors to participate in all three events.

Write up on IJO#3 by Jay Zhao (Donovan Zhao's father). It was great to have Donovan play in our event in Victoria. Donovan ended up tied for 3rd. Pretty good considering he had to leave after 4 rounds to catch the ferry. http://www.bjdy.com/juniorchess/news.html

Bindi Cheng is the BC Junior Champion

Results on the BC junior chess website http://www.bjdy.com/juniorchess/index.html

Oct 8, 2007

The movie Arctic Tale will be showing this weekend at the Cinecenta Theatre at UVIC. Arctic Tale was co-directed by Sarah Robertson and Adam Ravetch (parents of Cooper Ravetch - a Victoria junior chess player). It looks like a great family movie. www.Arcticbearproductions.com

September 1st 2007

Malcolm Bowles has been awarded a $250 scholarship from the Victoria Junior Chess Society. Malcolm has been playing chess competitively since 1998 and was a consistent top player at Junior Chess events over that time period. Malcolm is starting his undergraduate studies at UVIC this September. Congratulations Malcolm!

August 26, 2007

September 1st will be the last day (until next year) for outdoor chess at Willows Beach Upcoming Events

2008 Victoria Chess Festival Mar 21 - 24

Once again, this coming Easter, we will be holding the Victoria Chess Festival.

There are three events:

The Grand Pacific Scholastic Chess Tournament; A 5 round Active Swiss in 3 sections for Juniors. Mar 21

The Grand Pacific Open; The main event. A 6 round FIDE & CFC rated Swiss with a $2000 guaranteed prize fund.

Open Bughouse Tournament; aka Siamese chess. Something a little more light hearted. Mar 24

And once again, a special rate has been arranged for accommodation at the Grand Pacific Hotel.

And yes, you can play in more than one event.

Congratulations Jason!  Results, games and more.  www.monroi.com