The Canadian Zonal Chess Championships 2024 are taking place from 27 March to 2 April in Toronto. The event is played in Open and Women’s sections separately and will crown the Canadian Champions and select players to compete for Canada in the 2024 Olympiad in Budapest and the 2025 World Cup.
Only three players remained perfect in the Open section after three played rounds: IM Shiyam Thavandiran (Canada, 2347), IM Nicholas Vettese (Canada, 2206) and FM Anthony Atanasov (Canada, 2407). Five players follow the leading trio trailing by half a point.
Two rounds have been played in the Women’s tournament and eight players score maximum 2/2 points to tie for the top, including the top-seeded WGM Maili-Jade Ouellet (Canada, 2267), WIM Yunshan Li (Canada, 2262) and WIM Bich Ngoc Pham (Canada, 2206). Current rankings of both sections can be found below
Detailed information and tournament regulations can be found here.
Link to official website / Chess-results / Photos from Juniors to Masters Chess Academy Inc. Facebook page – Credits to Victoria Doknjas
Canadian Zonal Chess Championship 2024 – Rankings after 3 rounds:
| Rk. | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | |
| 1 | IM | Thavandiran, Shiyam | CAN | 2347 | 3 |
| IM | Vettese, Nicholas | CAN | 2206 | 3 | |
| 3 | FM | Atanasov, Anthony | CAN | 2407 | 3 |
| 4 | IM | Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn | CAN | 2506 | 2.5 |
| 5 | CM | Jaferian, Koosha | CAN | 2234 | 2.5 |
| 6 | IM | Noritsyn, Nikolay | CAN | 2451 | 2.5 |
| 7 | IM | Sai, Krishna G V | CAN | 2404 | 2.5 |
| 8 | GM | Sambuev, Bator | CAN | 2462 | 2.5 |
| 9 | IM | Le, Quang Long | CAN | 2403 | 2 |
| 10 | FM | Rusonik, Max | CAN | 2196 | 2 |
| 11 | IM | Panjwani, Raja | CAN | 2468 | 2 |
| 12 | IM | Plotkin, Mark | CAN | 2344 | 2 |
| 13 | Dorrance, Adam | CAN | 2276 | 2 | |
| 14 | IM | Cummings, David H. | CAN | 2333 | 2 |
| 15 | Jodar Arias, Marlon | CAN | 2209 | 2 | |
| 16 | Noritsyn, Sergey | CAN | 2191 | 2 | |
| 17 | Kalinin, Dzmitry | CAN | 1997 | 2 | |
| 18 | FM | Stevens, Christian | CAN | 2260 | 2 |
| 19 | FM | Doknjas, John | CAN | 2190 | 2 |
| 20 | CM | Derraugh, Geordie | CAN | 2189 | 2 |
| 21 | FM | Dukic, Zachary | CAN | 2266 | 2 |
| 22 | Mahip, Singh | CAN | 1969 | 2 | |
| 23 | FM | Keleberda, Tymur | CAN | 2235 | 2 |
| 24 | GM | Preotu, Razvan | CAN | 2467 | 1.5 |
| 25 | IM | Kaufman, Raymond | CAN | 2153 | 1.5 |
| 26 | Ajith, Aayush | CAN | 1959 | 1.5 | |
| 27 | FM | Plotkin, Victor | CAN | 2273 | 1.5 |
| 28 | Liu, Henry | CAN | 1996 | 1.5 | |
| 29 | IM | Lawson, Eric | CAN | 2192 | 1.5 |
| 30 | Huang, Youhe | CAN | 1992 | 1.5 | |
| 31 | CM | Doknjas, Neil | CAN | 2273 | 1.5 |
| 32 | CM | Li, William | CAN | 2103 | 1.5 |
| 33 | CM | Yang, Jingyun (Ryan) | CAN | 2122 | 1.5 |
| 34 | Terry, Joshua | CAN | 2213 | 1.5 | |
| 35 | Abrahams, Daniel | CAN | 2166 | 1.5 | |
| 36 | FM | Tanaka, Taira Tyler | CAN | 2256 | 1.5 |
| 37 | Song, Ethan | CAN | 2208 | 1.5 | |
| 38 | FM | Xu, Daniel | CAN | 2212 | 1 |
| 39 | Ma, Derek | CAN | 1986 | 1 | |
| 40 | England, Max | CAN | 2020 | 1 | |
| 41 | Joseph, Jonath | CAN | 2151 | 1 | |
| 42 | Latorre, Vincent | CAN | 2181 | 1 | |
| 43 | IM | Chiku-Ratte, Olivier-Kenta | CAN | 2335 | 1 |
| 44 | Liu, Zachary Hankun | CAN | 1910 | 1 | |
| 45 | Taylor, Ashton | CAN | 1839 | 1 | |
| 46 | FM | Nicula, Marius | CAN | 2173 | 1 |
| 47 | FM | Ivanov, Mike | CAN | 2374 | 1 |
| 48 | Clyde, Jordan | CAN | 2085 | 1 | |
| Marchand, Calix | CAN | 1942 | 1 | ||
| 50 | CM | Kang, Dorian | CAN | 2102 | 1 |
| 51 | IM | Piasetski, Leon | CAN | 2159 | 0.5 |
| 52 | CM | Lin, Leo | CAN | 2153 | 0.5 |
| 53 | Malakar, Saarthak | CAN | 1964 | 0.5 | |
| 54 | IM | Barron, Michael | CAN | 2143 | 0.5 |
| 55 | Yang, Lefan | CAN | 1942 | 0.5 | |
| 56 | CM | Saha, Ananda | CAN | 2022 | 0.5 |
| Yuen, Noah Nathaniel | CAN | 1914 | 0.5 | ||
| 58 | Kot, Emanuel | CAN | 2035 | 0.5 | |
| 59 | Yu, Jonathan | CAN | 2045 | 0.5 | |
| 60 | Campbell, Ryan | CAN | 2064 | 0 | |
| 61 | Marin, Sam | CAN | 2036 | 0 | |
| 62 | Mao, Fengxi | CAN | 2132 | 0 | |
| Zhang, Samuel | CAN | 2085 | 0 | ||
| 64 | Wiebe, Isaac | CAN | 1981 | 0 |
Canadian Women’s Zonal Chess Championship 2024 – Rankings after 3 rounds:
| Rk. | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | |
| 1 | WGM | Ouellet, Maili-Jade | CAN | 2267 | 2 |
| WIM | Li, Yunshan | CAN | 2262 | 2 | |
| WIM | Pham, Bich Ngoc | CAN | 2206 | 2 | |
| WIM | Demchenko, Svitlana | CAN | 2141 | 2 | |
| Li, Yilin | CAN | 1897 | 2 | ||
| WCM | Zhong, April Yunwei | CAN | 1841 | 2 | |
| 7 | WFM | Golubeva, Oksana | CAN | 2158 | 2 |
| 8 | WCM | Laksshana, Deepak | CAN | 1871 | 2 |
| 9 | Zhang, Michelle | CAN | 1885 | 1.5 | |
| Jiang, Kate Yuhua | CAN | 1884 | 1.5 | ||
| Todd, Adie | CAN | 1689 | 1.5 | ||
| 12 | D`souza, Carina | CAN | 1825 | 1.5 | |
| Kaye, Olya | CAN | 1729 | 1.5 | ||
| Chen, Rae | CAN | 1728 | 1.5 | ||
| 15 | WFM | Mills, Morgen | CAN | 2018 | 1.5 |
| Glenda, Baylon | CAN | 1885 | 1.5 | ||
| 17 | Jiang, Hanxi (Hancy) | CAN | 1719 | 1 | |
| 18 | Roshini.P, | CAN | 1761 | 1 | |
| 19 | Zhang, Joyce | CAN | 1721 | 1 | |
| 20 | Xie, Irene | CAN | 1752 | 1 | |
| 21 | Ruchinskaya, Valerie | CAN | 1825 | 1 | |
| WCM | Gao, Lucy | CAN | 1822 | 1 | |
| WCM | Wang, Rachel Zihan | CAN | 1813 | 1 | |
| Fiset, Anais Chloe | CAN | 1754 | 1 | ||
| 25 | Hitchlock, Veronica | CAN | 1680 | 1 | |
| Ambilwade, Ojal | CAN | 1672 | 1 | ||
| Koop, Alison Emily | CAN | 1640 | 1 | ||
| Gavrileva, Anna | CAN | 1627 | 1 | ||
| Mok, Gillian Xi-Lin | CAN | 1623 | 1 | ||
| Wang, Angela | CAN | 1546 | 1 | ||
| 31 | Yang, Lucy | CAN | 1611 | 1 | |
| Li, Yeeshuen | CAN | 1587 | 1 | ||
| Zhao, Shannon | CAN | 0 | 1 | ||
| 34 | Yeung, Marissa | CAN | 0 | 1 | |
| 35 | Sreekumar, Gauri | CAN | 1635 | 0.5 | |
| 36 | Norovsambuu, Emma | CAN | 1626 | 0.5 | |
| Chen, Shuang | CAN | 1617 | 0.5 | ||
| 38 | Guan, Isabelle | CAN | 1474 | 0.5 | |
| 39 | Xiao, Stephanie | CAN | 1563 | 0 | |
| 40 | Geillon, Christiane Nathalie | CAN | 0 | 0 | |
| Manikandan Reddia Gowder, Kavira | CAN | 0 | 0 | ||
| 42 | Abbarin, Shabnam | CAN | 1564 | 0 | |
| Fu, Ashley | CAN | 1528 | 0 | ||
| Gay, Heidi | CAN | 0 | 0 | ||
| 45 | Roque, Alexa | CAN | 1525 | 0 | |
| Leung, Katherine | CAN | 1493 | 0 | ||
| Geillon-Barral, Roween | CAN | 1481 | 0 | ||
| Sreekumar, Gayathri | CAN | 1455 | 0 | ||
| Dolderman, Clara | CAN | 0 | 0 | ||
| Miao, Grace | CAN | 0 | 0 |
