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The Canadian Zonal Tournaments — Open Zonal Tournament and Women’s Zonal Tournament — were played from 27 March to 4 April at Hart House Chess Club, the official chess club of the University of Toronto. At stake in the zonal tournaments were the title of Canadian Champion, a place on the national team for the 2024 Chess Olympiad in Budapest and qualification for the 2025 World Cup.
The programme was tight: 10 rounds were played according to the Swiss system in the open tournament and 9 rounds in the women’s tournament.
The open tournament was dominated by IM Shiyam Thavandiran, who won with 9 points from 10 games (8 wins, 2 draws) and a Tournament Performance Rating of 2715 to secure the title of Canadian Champion.
| Rk. | SNo | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 | IM | Thavandiran, Shiyam | CAN | 2347 | 9 | 58 | 62 | 55,75 |
| 2 | 6 | FM | Atanasov, Anthony | CAN | 2407 | 7 | 58,5 | 62 | 41,25 |
| 3 | 1 | IM | Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn | CAN | 2506 | 7 | 58 | 63 | 41,50 |
| 4 | 2 | IM | Panjwani, Raja | CAN | 2468 | 7 | 57 | 61 | 36,75 |
| 5 | 3 | GM | Preotu, Razvan | CAN | 2467 | 7 | 50,5 | 55,5 | 38,50 |
| 6 | 7 | IM | Sai, Krishna G V | CAN | 2404 | 6,5 | 57 | 60 | 32,25 |
| 7 | 29 | Noritsyn, Sergey | CAN | 2191 | 6,5 | 55,5 | 59,5 | 32,00 | |
| 8 | 14 | Dorrance, Adam | CAN | 2276 | 6,5 | 53 | 56 | 28,25 | |
| 9 | 9 | FM | Ivanov, Mike | CAN | 2374 | 6,5 | 45 | 47,5 | 26,00 |
| 10 | 4 | GM | Sambuev, Bator | CAN | 2462 | 6 | 57 | 59,5 | 30,50 |
| 11 | 5 | IM | Noritsyn, Nikolay | CAN | 2451 | 6 | 55 | 59 | 29,25 |
| 12 | 17 | FM | Dukic, Zachary | CAN | 2266 | 6 | 55 | 58,5 | 30,75 |
| 13 | 11 | IM | Plotkin, Mark | CAN | 2344 | 6 | 53 | 57 | 30,00 |
| 14 | 30 | FM | Doknjas, John | CAN | 2190 | 6 | 48,5 | 52 | 25,00 |
| 15 | 50 | CM | Saha, Ananda | CAN | 2022 | 6 | 46 | 49,5 | 23,75 |
| 16 | 45 | Zhang, Samuel | CAN | 2085 | 6 | 39 | 42 | 21,50 | |
| 17 | 26 | IM | Vettese, Nicholas | CAN | 2206 | 5,5 | 59,5 | 63 | 29,50 |
...64 players (Source: Chess-Results)
Concentrated: IM Shiyam Thavandiran | Photo: ChessCanada Facebook page
The women’s tournament was much more competitive, and after nine rounds three players were finished sharing first place with 7½ out of 9 points: Maili-Jade Ouellet, ChessBase author Svitlana Demchenko and Li Yunshan. Ouellet was declared the winner on tiebreak criteria and thus became the new Canadian Women’s Champion.
| Rk. | SNo | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | TB1 | TB2 | TB3 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | WGM | Ouellet, Maili-Jade | CAN | 2267 | 7,5 | 49,5 | 53,5 | 42,75 |
| 2 | 5 | WIM | Demchenko, Svitlana | CAN | 2141 | 7,5 | 48,5 | 52,5 | 41,25 |
| 3 | 2 | WIM | Li, Yunshan | CAN | 2262 | 7,5 | 47,5 | 52 | 42,50 |
| 4 | 3 | WIM | Pham, Bich Ngoc | CAN | 2206 | 6,5 | 48 | 52,5 | 35,00 |
| 5 | 7 | Li, Yilin | CAN | 1897 | 6 | 46 | 50 | 30,25 | |
| 6 | 6 | WFM | Mills, Morgen | CAN | 2018 | 6 | 44 | 47 | 26,75 |
| 7 | 10 | Jiang, Kate Yuhua | CAN | 1884 | 5,5 | 45 | 47,5 | 25,00 | |
| 8 | 13 | D`souza, Carina | CAN | 1825 | 5,5 | 44 | 48 | 27,75 | |
| 9 | 4 | WFM | Golubeva, Oksana | CAN | 2158 | 5,5 | 43,5 | 48 | 27,00 |
| 10 | 28 | Sreekumar, Gauri | CAN | 1635 | 5,5 | 41 | 44 | 22,75 | |
| 11 | 12 | WCM | Zhong, April Yunwei | CAN | 1841 | 5,5 | 39,5 | 43 | 24,25 |
| 12 | 31 | Mok, Gillian Xi-Lin | CAN | 1623 | 5,5 | 37 | 39,5 | 21,75 | |
| 13 | 9 | Zhang, Michelle | CAN | 1885 | 5,5 | 36,5 | 40 | 22,75 | |
| 14 | 11 | WCM | Laksshana, Deepak | CAN | 1871 | 5 | 46,5 | 49,5 | 23,00 |
...49 players (Source: Chess-Results)
Svitlana Demchenko | Photo: ChessCanada Facebook page
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