To all players, coaches, parents, and teachers:
To Members of the Greater Toronto Chess League:
Below are the final standings for the
Toronto Secondary School Chess League Individual Championship 2008
held on Fri Apr 18 2008 at Stephen Leacock CI.

This has been sent to the Chess Federation of Canada.
Ratings for all players will be available at the website www.chess.ca on Wed Apr 23.

Many thanks to the Toronto District School Board and to the Principal of Stephen Leacock CI which provided the tournament site.
Many thanks to the Ontario Chess Association which provided the sets and clocks.
Many thanks to the Greater Toronto Chess League which has sponsored the rebuilding of the permanent trophy for this event.
Many thanks to Andrew Kim, Coach of the Dublin Heights EMS Chess Team and Club, who has provided the attached photograph of the new trophy.

Attached are the following files in html versions:
1. Standings (also shown below) including tiebreaks and prizes
2. Standings by School Grade
3. Results alphabetical by Team (for information – includes full school names and colour played each round)

Congratulations to our winners:

Champion: Pavel Rakov (Michael Power – St Joseph’s CSS – West Region) Pavel is in Grade 9 !
2nd : Nhan Nguyen (Weston CI – South Region)
3rd – 4th : Ahilan Palarajah (Lester B Pearson CI – East Region)
3rd – 4th : Akshay Sutar (Weston CI – South Region)

Top Grade 12: Pravin Vadarajan (Lester B Pearson CI – East Region)
2nd Grade 12: Khanjan Desai (SATEC @ W A Porter CI – East Region)
3rd Grade 12: Maximilian Liu (Stephen Leacock CI – East Region)

Top Grade 11: Davanshu Verma (Weston CI – South Region)
2nd Grade 11: Fred Yu (Weston CI – South Region)
3rd Grade 11: David Castro (Archbishop Romero – West Region)

Top Grade 10: Richard Liu (Stephen Leacock CI – East Region)
2nd Grade 10: Masy Fana (Stephen Leacock CI – East Region)
3rd Grade 10: Kevin Lim (Archbishop Romero CSS – West Region)

Top Grade 9: Anojan Palarajah (Lester B Pearson CI – East Region)
2nd Grade 9: Ervin Thiagalingam (Lester B Pearson CI – East Region)
3rd Grade 9: Yutong Luo (Pleasant View JHS – East Region)

Top Grade 8: Kevin Zhou (Churchill Heights PS – East Region)
2nd Grade 8: Daniel Oxman (Dublin Heights EMS – North Region)
3rd Grade 8: Mohib Abdali (John Buchan Sr PS – East Region)

Top Grade 7 to 1: Richard Zhang (Forest Manor PS – North Region) Richard is in Grade 2 !
2nd Grade 7 to 1: Bob Du (Hillmount PS – North Region) Bob is in Grade 5 !
3rd Grade 7 to 1: Peter Liu (Blythwood PS – South Region) Peter is in Grade 3 !

Prizes:
As announced, the prizes are as follows:

Champion: Permanent trophy to be displayed in the winner’s school trophy case throughout 2008-2009
and brought back to the 2009 Championship;
Trophy for the winner’s personal trophy shelf;
Entry Fee ($40) for the Ontario High School Chess Championship May 9-11 2008

2nd : Trophy and Entry Fee for the OHSCC

3rd – 4th : Trophy and Entry Fee for the OHSCC

Grades: Medallions

All trophies and medallions will be engraved with the winners’ names and delivered to the winners’ schools in the next 2 weeks.

OHSCC:
Winners – Please register your school and yourself as soon as possible at http://ohsca.on.ca
Select the option that you will send your cheque for the entry fee.
I shall send a cheque next week to cover all 4 players.
You may pay on-line or send your personal cheque to cover meals and accommodation.
If any wish to make use of the TSSCL bus, please let me know within 1 week.

Other players:
I would encourage all players, coaches, and parents to register players for this event.
You can find all details at the website.
Like our tournament, it is an Individual swiss system tournament.
Unlike ours, it is in 3 sections: Championship, Intermediate, Beginner – you play at your level.
Unlike ours, there are also Team Prizes.
A team consists of 3 players from one school in the same section.
A Combined Team consists of 1 player in each section from the same school.
For schools with more than 3 players, the top 3 form the team.

You’ll meet lots of players (usually 150+) from around Ontario.
You’ll get a glimpse of student life on a university campus (especially for senior students).
You’ll play some good chess at your level.

Please consider carefully.
The deadline is coming soon near the end of April.
If you wish to join our bus there and back, I really need to know by next Fri Apr 25.

Annual Meeting for Conveners, Coaches, Senior Students, and Parents
Wed Apr 30 @ 4 pm at the Catholic Education Centre, 80 Sheppard Ave E.

Please plan to attend!
We hope to see 1 or 2 representatives from each League school at the Annual Meeting.

We’ll discuss: -- reports of the past season
-- dates for 2008-2009
-- possible changes to the rules / the Team Championships
-- sites for 2008-2009 (Would you like to host the TC or the IC ?)

Conveners:
Are you in the West Region (Etobicoke / Western North York) ?
Our Convener, Mr Tony Dodds, has retired from teaching.
We thank him for many years as Convener and as Coach of his teams at Don Bosco CSS and Fr Henry Carr CHS.
We really need a new Convener or Co-Conveners for the West Region!

Chris Field,
Tournament Director;
President, TSSCL.

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