WGM Maili-Jade Ouellet and IM Shiyam Thavandiran are qualified to compete in the next FIDE World Chess Cup 2025 after winning their respective section in the Canadian Zonal Chess Championships 2024. The two Canadian champions are also accordingly selected to represent Canada in the 2024 Chess Olympiad in Budapest.
The Canadian Zonal Chess Championship 2024 had 64 participants and was played over 10 rounds of Swiss system. There were 2 GMs and 14 IMs in the field. IM Shiyam Thavandiran crushed the opposition to emerge convincing winner with 9/10 points, leaving the nearest followers full two points behind.
The Canadian Women’s Zonal Chess Championship 2024 with 49 players was much more closely contested. WGM Maili-Jade Ouellet, WIM Svitlana Demchenko and WIM Li Yunshan shared the first place with 7,5/9 points each, far ahead the rest of the field. Maili-Jade Ouellet prevailed on tiebreak to claim the top place in the section. Final rankings of both events can be found at the bottom of the article
Among the parallel events, Canadian Championship Festival – Premier was played over 7 rounds with 53 participants. Ukrainian Vadim Razin took a clear first place with 6/7 points.
The Canadian Championship Festival – U1800 was a 7-round event with 66 players. Haneul Park (South Korea) and Sarthak Deshpande (Canada) shared the first place with 6/7 points each.
The Canadian Championship Festival – U1400 gathered 26 participants. Jayden Henry Tan was the convincing winner with 6,5/7 points.
The Festival was organized by the Hart House Chess Club from Toronto. Tournament director was Victor Zheng and Chief Arbiter was Omar Shah.
Final standings – Canadian Zonal Chess Championships 2024:
| Rk. | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | |
| 1 | IM | Thavandiran, Shiyam | CAN | 2347 | 9 |
| 2 | FM | Atanasov, Anthony | CAN | 2407 | 7 |
| 3 | IM | Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn | CAN | 2506 | 7 |
| 4 | IM | Panjwani, Raja | CAN | 2468 | 7 |
| 5 | GM | Preotu, Razvan | CAN | 2467 | 7 |
| 6 | IM | Sai, Krishna G V | CAN | 2404 | 6.5 |
| 7 | Noritsyn, Sergey | CAN | 2191 | 6.5 | |
| 8 | Dorrance, Adam | CAN | 2276 | 6.5 | |
| 9 | FM | Ivanov, Mike | CAN | 2374 | 6.5 |
| 10 | GM | Sambuev, Bator | CAN | 2462 | 6 |
| 11 | IM | Noritsyn, Nikolay | CAN | 2451 | 6 |
| 12 | FM | Dukic, Zachary | CAN | 2266 | 6 |
| 13 | IM | Plotkin, Mark | CAN | 2344 | 6 |
| 14 | FM | Doknjas, John | CAN | 2190 | 6 |
| 15 | CM | Saha, Ananda | CAN | 2022 | 6 |
| 16 | Zhang, Samuel | CAN | 2085 | 6 | |
| 17 | IM | Vettese, Nicholas | CAN | 2206 | 5.5 |
| 18 | FM | Rusonik, Max | CAN | 2196 | 5.5 |
| 19 | Song, Ethan | CAN | 2208 | 5.5 | |
| 20 | FM | Stevens, Christian | CAN | 2260 | 5.5 |
| 21 | IM | Le, Quang Long | CAN | 2403 | 5.5 |
| 22 | Latorre, Vincent | CAN | 2181 | 5.5 | |
| 23 | IM | Lawson, Eric | CAN | 2192 | 5.5 |
| 24 | IM | Kaufman, Raymond | CAN | 2153 | 5.5 |
| 25 | CM | Jaferian, Koosha | CAN | 2234 | 5 |
| 26 | FM | Keleberda, Tymur | CAN | 2235 | 5 |
| 27 | CM | Doknjas, Neil | CAN | 2273 | 5 |
| 28 | Kalinin, Dzmitry | CAN | 1997 | 5 | |
| 29 | FM | Xu, Daniel | CAN | 2212 | 5 |
| 30 | Terry, Joshua | CAN | 2213 | 5 | |
| 31 | FM | Plotkin, Victor | CAN | 2273 | 5 |
| 32 | Kot, Emanuel | CAN | 2035 | 5 | |
| 33 | Abrahams, Daniel | CAN | 2166 | 5 | |
| 34 | CM | Kang, Dorian | CAN | 2102 | 5 |
| 35 | England, Max | CAN | 2020 | 4.5 | |
| 36 | FM | Tanaka, Taira Tyler | CAN | 2256 | 4.5 |
| 37 | Huang, Youhe | CAN | 1992 | 4.5 | |
| 38 | CM | Yang, Jingyun (Ryan) | CAN | 2122 | 4 |
| 39 | IM | Cummings, David H. | CAN | 2333 | 4 |
| 40 | IM | Piasetski, Leon | CAN | 2159 | 4 |
| 41 | CM | Li, William | CAN | 2103 | 4 |
| 42 | Yuen, Noah Nathaniel | CAN | 1914 | 4 | |
| 43 | Marchand, Calix | CAN | 1942 | 4 | |
| 44 | Jodar Arias, Marlon | CAN | 2209 | 3.5 | |
| 45 | Taylor, Ashton | CAN | 1839 | 3.5 | |
| 46 | Mahip, Singh | CAN | 1969 | 3.5 | |
| 47 | CM | Lin, Leo | CAN | 2153 | 3.5 |
| 48 | Clyde, Jordan | CAN | 2085 | 3.5 | |
| 49 | Liu, Zachary Hankun | CAN | 1910 | 3.5 | |
| 50 | Campbell, Ryan | CAN | 2064 | 3.5 | |
| 51 | Wiebe, Isaac | CAN | 1981 | 3 | |
| 52 | Yang, Lefan | CAN | 1942 | 3 | |
| 53 | Malakar, Saarthak | CAN | 1964 | 3 | |
| 54 | CM | Derraugh, Geordie | CAN | 2189 | 2.5 |
| 55 | Ajith, Aayush | CAN | 1959 | 2.5 | |
| 56 | Marin, Sam | CAN | 2036 | 2.5 | |
| 57 | IM | Barron, Michael | CAN | 2143 | 2.5 |
| 58 | Liu, Henry | CAN | 1996 | 2 | |
| 59 | IM | Chiku-Ratte, Olivier-Kenta | CAN | 2335 | 2 |
| 60 | Mao, Fengxi | CAN | 2132 | 2 | |
| 61 | FM | Nicula, Marius | CAN | 2173 | 1.5 |
| 62 | Joseph, Jonath | CAN | 2151 | 1 | |
| 63 | Ma, Derek | CAN | 1986 | 1 | |
| 64 | Yu, Jonathan | CAN | 2045 | 0.5 |
| Rk. | Name | FED | Rtg | Pts. | |
| 1 | WGM | Ouellet, Maili-Jade | CAN | 2267 | 7.5 |
| 2 | WIM | Demchenko, Svitlana | CAN | 2141 | 7.5 |
| 3 | WIM | Li, Yunshan | CAN | 2262 | 7.5 |
| 4 | WIM | Pham, Bich Ngoc | CAN | 2206 | 6.5 |
| 5 | Li, Yilin | CAN | 1897 | 6 | |
| 6 | WFM | Mills, Morgen | CAN | 2018 | 6 |
| 7 | Jiang, Kate Yuhua | CAN | 1884 | 5.5 | |
| 8 | D`souza, Carina | CAN | 1825 | 5.5 | |
| 9 | WFM | Golubeva, Oksana | CAN | 2158 | 5.5 |
| 10 | Sreekumar, Gauri | CAN | 1635 | 5.5 | |
| 11 | WCM | Zhong, April Yunwei | CAN | 1841 | 5.5 |
| 12 | Mok, Gillian Xi-Lin | CAN | 1623 | 5.5 | |
| 13 | Zhang, Michelle | CAN | 1885 | 5.5 | |
| 14 | WCM | Laksshana, Deepak | CAN | 1871 | 5 |
| 15 | Ruchinskaya, Valerie | CAN | 1825 | 5 | |
| 16 | Glenda, Baylon | CAN | 1885 | 5 | |
| 17 | WCM | Gao, Lucy | CAN | 1822 | 5 |
| 18 | Fiset, Anais Chloe | CAN | 1754 | 5 | |
| 19 | Todd, Adie | CAN | 1689 | 5 | |
| 20 | Roque, Alexa | CAN | 1525 | 5 | |
| 21 | Xie, Irene | CAN | 1752 | 5 | |
| 22 | Koop, Alison Emily | CAN | 1640 | 4.5 | |
| 23 | Zhang, Joyce | CAN | 1721 | 4.5 | |
| 24 | Roshini.P, | CAN | 1761 | 4.5 | |
| 25 | Chen, Rae | CAN | 1728 | 4.5 | |
| 26 | Ambilwade, Ojal | CAN | 1672 | 4.5 | |
| 27 | Norovsambuu, Emma | CAN | 1626 | 4.5 | |
| 28 | WCM | Wang, Rachel Zihan | CAN | 1813 | 4.5 |
| 29 | Kaye, Olya | CAN | 1729 | 4.5 | |
| 30 | Guan, Isabelle | CAN | 1474 | 4.5 | |
| 31 | Hitchlock, Veronica | CAN | 1680 | 4 | |
| 32 | Jiang, Hanxi (Hancy) | CAN | 1719 | 4 | |
| 33 | Gavrileva, Anna | CAN | 1627 | 4 | |
| 34 | Fu, Ashley | CAN | 1528 | 4 | |
| 35 | Wang, Angela | CAN | 1546 | 3.5 | |
| 36 | Leung, Katherine | CAN | 1493 | 3.5 | |
| 37 | Zhao, Shannon | CAN | 0 | 3.5 | |
| 38 | Geillon-Barral, Roween | CAN | 1481 | 3.5 | |
| 39 | Manikandan Reddia Gowder, Kavira | CAN | 0 | 3.5 | |
| 40 | Li, Yeeshuen | CAN | 1587 | 3 | |
| 41 | Xiao, Stephanie | CAN | 1563 | 3 | |
| 42 | Yang, Lucy | CAN | 1611 | 3 | |
| 43 | Dolderman, Clara | CAN | 0 | 3 | |
| 44 | Sreekumar, Gayathri | CAN | 1455 | 3 | |
| 45 | Chen, Shuang | CAN | 1617 | 2.5 | |
| 46 | Yeung, Marissa | CAN | 0 | 2 | |
| 47 | Abbarin, Shabnam | CAN | 1564 | 1 | |
| 48 | Geillon, Christiane Nathalie | CAN | 0 | 1 | |
| 49 | Miao, Grace | CAN | 0 | 0 |
