The Hart House Chess Club (University of Toronto) and University of Waterloo Chess Club have agreed to an inter-university match between the clubs from March 2nd – March 3rd, 2024. As two leading university hubs for chess in Ontario, this match will see two schools battle it out for school pride and glory.
The tournament is a Team Match with Scheveningen pairings, and players will play only against players from opposing schools. There will be 12 players per team, and two pools per team.
Toronto team is led by IM Advait Patel, IM Nicholas Vettese and Christopher Knox, while IM Yuanchen Zhang, FM Richard Chen and CM William Li lead the Waterloo team. The compositions of both teams can be seen below:
| Pool | Toronto | Rating | Waterloo | Rating |
| A | Advait Patel | 2482 | Yuanchen Zhang | 2404 |
| Nicholas Vettese | 2459 | Richard Chen | 2344 | |
| Christopher Knox | 2333 | William Li | 2285 | |
| Fengxi Mao | 2315 | Patrick Huang | 2205 | |
| Eilia Zomorrodian | 2242 | Momin Fayzan | 2192 | |
| Ray Wu | 2215 | Sanjay Ramesh | 2065 | |
| B | Cindy Qiao | 2070 | Sriram Kumar | 1945 |
| Bingfei Wang | 1930 | William Ratelband | 1829 | |
| Christopher Yu | 1639 | Dinny Wang | 1672 | |
| Yukuan Zou | 1505 | Josh Zabor | 1543 | |
| Daniel Stueckmann | 1475 | Matthew Sekirin | 1507 | |
| Eric Wan | 1436 | Omkar Baraskar | 1361 |
The tournament is a Team Rapid and Blitz, with each point counting towards the overall team score. Blitz will be a Double-Round-Robin tournament with the time control 3 minutes + 2 seconds. Rapid will be a 6 Single-Round tournament with the time control 15 minutes + 10 seconds.
The match will take place at the East Common Room, Hart House, University of Toronto. Each school will have a Team A and Team B, each with 6 players.
The match is organized by Victor Zheng (Toronto) and Richard Chen (Waterloo). Official website.
