Mental Health Awareness
Christine Andreopoulos lost her son Kye during the pandemic due to a mental health challenge. In memory of her son, she worked with the City of Toronto in raising money for new Chess tables...
Category: CIC News
Sony teams up with US GM and helps CIC
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...
Return To National Chess Camp!
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...
Chess superstar to visit CIC Chess Camp
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...
Sponsorship supports key feasibility study for Chess Institute of Canada
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...
Remembering Ted Winick
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...
Children Need an Outlet to Thrive: Why not Chess?
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™
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...
Happy Birthday Mark Bluvshtein!
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...
CIC Turns Challenge to Opportunity in BC
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...
