Canada has been very busy on the world stage of chess lately. From mid-August to mid-September, Team Canada participated in the FIDE Online Olympiad. Not known as a global chess powerhouse, the Canadian team
GM Elshan Moradi Abadi was the second Iranian-born chess grandmaster to join the highest echelons of competitive chess by hitting a rating of 2600 FIDE. He now lives in North Carolina, USA, with his
When COVID-19 struck many of our favourite activities came to a stop. CIC’s founder Ted Winick, has created many chess events and initiatives over the years, including National Chess Camp, founded fourteen years ago
Maili-Jade Ouellet is a chess player from Saint-Lambert, Québec, just across the St Lawrence from Montréal. She won the Canadian Women’s Chess Championship in 2017, when she was just 15. She won the Continental
Chess Institute of Canada is pleased to announce that it has received a $6,000 marketing/research sponsorship from Spirit of Math Central Toronto Campus. These funds will be used to support a technology integration feasibility
Talking Chess to Life™ is a video series with Michael Sutton and George Supol. It’s a behind-the-scenes look at some of the thinking we put into our own game here at CIC. As we
Part One of a series of articles about chess and children’s wellbeing Peter Boross-Harmer School Principal, Toronto District School Board Former Board Chair, Chess Institute of Canada The COVID-19 pandemic has created
Talking Chess to Life™ is a video series with Michael Sutton and George Supol. It’s a behind-the-scenes look at some of the thinking we put into our own game here at CIC. The first
We are thrilled to wish Canadian Grandmaster Mark Bluvshtein a happy birthday! Mr. Bluvshtein distinguished himself in the chess world as a young man, winning numerous tournaments in Israel. After moving to Toronto, he
In a classic case of turning lemons to lemonade, CIC has taken the opportunity afforded by the current need to use a virtual teaching approach, to extend its geographic reach. CIC is building its
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