First Youth Chess Tournament for Peace

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9/21/2011 – This event, organised and sponsored by the Canadian Centre for Ecumenism, a St. Laurent-based company which sells an electronic score keeping device to record, store, view and webcast chess games. Twenty-one young chess players participated during the Global Conference on World’s Religions in Montréal, Canada. On this occasion the players had the pleasure to meet His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.

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First Youth Chess Tournament for Peace

Twenty-one youth chess players played the 2011 Youth Chess Tournament for Peace at the 2nd Global Conference on World’s Religions at the Palais des congrès de Montréal, Québec, Canada. On this occasion the players had the pleasure to meet His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.


The Dalai Lama holding a chess set and posing with the players for a photo op


Chess players Matthieu Johnson-Constantin, Xavier St-Cyr and Zachary Saine holding
Khatas (white silk scarves offered to the Dalai Lama as a gesture of goodwill and respect)

"His Holiness' serenity and humbleness is captivating," say the organisers. Above he blesses Isaac Tomatuk (Wabannutao Eeyou School) and Maïli Jade Ouellet (École Préville) on the stage of the 2nd Global Conference on World’s Religions After 9/11.

The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso (shortened from Jetsun Jamphel Ngawang Lobsang Yeshe Tenzin Gyatso), was born Lhamo Dondrub on 6 July 1935. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989, and is also well known for his lifelong advocacy for Tibetans inside and outside Tibet. Tibetans traditionally believe him to be the reincarnation of his predecessors and a manifestation of the Bodhisattva of Compassion. More in Wikipedia.


Celebrating the ethnic diversity at the Chess for Peace Tournament


2011 Youth Chess Tournament For Peace video

MonRoi Inc. is a St. Laurent-based company, which developed the world’s only patented electronic score keeping device to record, store, view and webcast chess games. MonRoi’s technology enables people worldwide to view live chess tournaments on their computers.


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