The Canadian Chess Championship 2025 and the Canadian Women’s Chess Championship 2025 were held simultaneously from April 17–22 in Toronto, Ontario. IM Nikolay Noritsyn and WIM Li Yunshan have been crowned the 2025 Canadian Chess Champions. This is the third title for Nikolay Noritsyn and the first national title for Li Yunshan.
Next event for Li Yushan: American Continental Women Chess Championship 2025
Here are the full standings of the Canadian Championships. The winner and runner up receive additional points for qualification to the Canadian team for the 2026 Chess Olympiad.
Canada Chess Championship final standings
1
IM
Noritsyn, Nikolay
CAN
2450
7.5
2
GM
Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn
CAN
2505
7
3
GM
Preotu, Razvan
CAN
2470
6.5
4
IM
Kaufman, Raymond
CAN
2216
6.5
5
FM
Yang, Jingyun (Ryan)
CAN
2350
6
6
IM
Mendes, Aaron Reeve
CAN
2335
6
7
FM
Song, Ethan
CAN
2291
6
8
GM
Sambuev, Bator
CAN
2429
5.5
9
IM
Plotkin, Mark
CAN
2349
5.5
10
CM
Kalinin, Dzmitry
CAN
2119
5.5
11
CM
Kot, Emanuel
CAN
2103
5.5
12
FM
Ng, Gary
CAN
2210
5.5
13
CM
Jaferian, Koosha
CAN
2293
5.5
14
IM
Cummings, David H.
CAN
2257
5
15
IM
Atanasov, Anthony
CAN
2413
5
16
Joseph Benher, Savio
CAN
2108
5
17
IM
Ivanov, Mike
CAN
2402
5
18
NM
Singh Dhaliwal, Jaipreet
CAN
2109
5
19
IM
Duong, Thanh Nha
CAN
2182
5
20
Xu, Leon
CAN
1969
5
21
NM
Gavrilin, Roman
CAN
2170
5
22
CM
Moses, Neil
CAN
2148
4.5
23
FM
Keleberda, Tymur
CAN
2325
4.5
24
CM
Lin, Leo
CAN
2119
4.5
25
IM
Barron, Michael
CAN
2062
4.5
26
NM
Marchand, Calix
CAN
2104
4.5
27
Lu, Eddie
CAN
1889
4.5
28
Zhang, Daniel
CAN
1909
4.5
29
Wang, Dongkai Harry
CAN
2181
4
30
Liu, Sean Fangxiao
CAN
1937
4
31
FM
Zhong, Ryan Yunhui
CAN
2078
4
32
Tan, Brendan
CAN
1960
4
33
Trofimov-Malyshkin, Valent
UKR
1982
4
34
CM
Lu, Tony
CAN
1999
4
35
Wu, Nathan Ping-Ying
CAN
2083
4
36
Zhang, Brian
CAN
1951
3.5
37
Windram, James
CAN
1953
3.5
38
Bao, Tony Bohan
CAN
1979
3.5
39
Yang, Larry
CAN
1937
3.5
40
Darvekar, Yash
CAN
2024
3.5
41
FM
Teodoro, Eduardo
CAN
2350
3.5
42
Gao, Heye
CAN
2003
3.5
43
Blair, Michael
CAN
1840
3.5
44
Joseph, Jonath
CAN
2034
3.5
45
Mutyalapati, Modith Aaroh
CAN
1985
3
46
Mok, Yuen Tak
CAN
1948
3
47
Wang, Nathan Zian
CAN
1977
3
48
Cheng, Adrien
CAN
1801
3
49
Malakhovets, Sergey
CAN
1969
3
50
NM
Siddeley, Hugh
CAN
1923
2.5
51
Kola, Venkat Karthikeya Reddy
CAN
1940
2.5
52
Li, Adam
CAN
1960
2.5
53
Zhao, Jifan
CAN
1890
2.5
54
Hoekman, Samuel
CAN
1994
2.5
55
Malakar, Saarthak
CAN
1930
2
Canada Women Chess Championship final standings
1
WIM
Li, Yunshan
CAN
2233
7
2
WIM
Demchenko, Svitlana
CAN
2130
7
3
WFM
Mills, Morgen
CAN
2013
7
4
WCM
Qian, Ashley
CAN
1943
6.5
5
WCM
Ruchinskaya, Valerie
CAN
1880
6.5
6
WFM
Deepak, Laksshana
CAN
1854
6.5
7
Dela Torre, Marife
CAN
1789
6
8
WFM
Golubeva, Oksana
CAN
2132
6
9
WFM
Qiao, Cindy
CAN
1896
6
10
WCM
Zhang, Michelle
CAN
1793
5.5
11
WCM
Kucherenko, Olena
UKR
2049
5.5
12
Fu, Ashley
CAN
1535
5.5
13
WCM
Xie, Irene
CAN
1949
5
14
WCM
Fiset, Anais Chloe
CAN
1808
5
15
Roque, Alexa
CAN
1610
5
16
Koop, Alison Emily
CAN
1633
4.5
17
Wang, Angela
CAN
1551
4.5
18
Jiang, Hanxi (Hancy)
CAN
1971
4.5
19
WIM
Starr, Nava
CAN
2048
4.5
20
Butenko, Zlata
CAN
1764
4.5
21
Yancey, Alice
CAN
1690
4.5
22
Poorna Prakash, Roshini
CAN
1748
4.5
23
Chen, Shuang
CAN
1723
4.5
24
WCM
Zhou, Lily
CAN
1765
4.5
25
Li, Alyssa Zhuojing
CAN
0
4.5
26
Xiao, Stephanie
CAN
1405
4.5
27
Kamath, Nikita
CAN
1607
4.5
28
Guan, Marie Zijun
CAN
1549
4
29
Wangluo, Joanne
CAN
1541
4
30
Cloutier, Annabelle
CAN
0
3.5
31
Sreekumar, Gauri
CAN
1674
3.5
32
Guan, Isabelle
CAN
1454
3.5
33
Yuan, Arianna
CAN
0
3.5
34
Malaviya, Bhakti
CAN
0
3.5
35
Dolderman, Clara
CAN
1474
3
36
Sreekumar, Gayathri
CAN
1485
3
37
Auger, Anastasia
CAN
0
3
38
Abbarin, Shabnam
CAN
1579
3
39
Hitchlock, Veronica
CAN
1644
3
40
Geillon-Barral, Roween
CAN
1448
3
41
Cabrera, Jennie
CAN
1885
3
42
Divadalage, Sanya
CAN
0
3
43
Yeung, Marissa
CAN
0
2.5
44
Manikandan Reddia Gowder, Kavira
CAN
0
2
45
Sherwood, Noelle
CAN
0
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