IM Nikolay Noritsyn and WIM Li Yunshan are Canadian Chess Champions

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	2