The North American Junior Chess 2024 is taking place 14 – 18 August in Best Western Premier Calgary Plaza Hotel & Conference Centre, Alberta, Canada. A total of 124 players participate in the open section and 36 in the girls section. Top seeded players are Liran Zhou, Jason Liang, Laurie Qiu, Samrug Sarayanan, Sahana Aravindakshan, Jonathan Han, Chloe Gaw, etc. The event is 9 Rounds Swiss System, Game in 90 minutes plus 30 second increment per move starting from Move 1.
North American Junior Chess 2024 Schedule
Wednesday August 14: Opening ceremony- 9:45 AM, Round 1 – 10 AM, Round 2 – 4 PM
Thursday August 15: Round 3 – 10 AM, Round 4 – 4 PM
Friday August 16: Round 5 – 10 AM, Round 6 – 4 PM
Saturday August 17: Round 7 – 10 AM, Round 8 – 4 PM
Sunday August 18: Round 9 – 10 AM, Closing Ceremony 3 PM
Participants North American Junior Chess 2024
| 1 | IM | Zhou, Liran | USA | 2401 |
| 2 | IM | Liang, Jason | USA | 2398 |
| 3 | FM | Narayanan, Samrug | USA | 2389 |
| 4 | IM | Han, Johnathan | CAN | 2340 |
| 5 | FM | Xie, Bryan | USA | 2339 |
| 6 | IM | Vettese, Nicholas | CAN | 2333 |
| 7 | FM | Mendes, Aaron Reeve | CAN | 2314 |
| 8 | FM | Keleberda, Tymur | CAN | 2283 |
| 9 | CM | Doknjas, Neil | CAN | 2261 |
| 10 | IM | Lu, Ming | USA | 2248 |
| 11 | FM | Amburgy, Ryan | USA | 2230 |
| 12 | FM | Tang, Zoey | USA | 2212 |
| 13 | CM | Guo, Ethan | USA | 2211 |
| 14 | CM | Espinosa, Pedro | USA | 2210 |
| 15 | FM | Johnson, Donald | USA | 2209 |
| 16 | FM | Singh, Hersh | USA | 2195 |
| 17 | FM | Tao, Sihan | USA | 2186 |
| 18 | CM | Yang, Jingyun (Ryan) | CAN | 2179 |
| 19 | CM | Chen, Max | CAN | 2177 |
| 20 | Chandra, Anand Rishi | CAN | 2175 | |
| 21 | De La Colina, Nicolas | USA | 2170 | |
| 22 | FM | Xu, Daniel | CAN | 2168 |
| 23 | Zhang, Roger | USA | 2165 | |
| 24 | CM | Ho, Carter | USA | 2157 |
| 25 | CM | Soberov, Emil | CAN | 2147 |
| 26 | Feng, Andrew | USA | 2132 | |
| 27 | CM | Vemparala, Nikash | CAN | 2122 |
| 28 | CM | Harish, Neeraj | USA | 2118 |
| 29 | Prabhu, Naveen | USA | 2116 | |
| 30 | Srinivasan, Hemant | CAN | 2098 | |
| 31 | FM | Tang, Dylan | USA | 2092 |
| 32 | FM | Colville, Julian | USA | 2067 |
| 33 | Vijayakumar, Advaith | USA | 2065 | |
| 34 | Chiang, Jacob | USA | 2059 | |
| 35 | Widjaja, Luke | USA | 2056 | |
| 36 | Gui, Suyuan | USA | 2033 | |
| 37 | Vasic, Maxim | CAN | 2032 | |
| 38 | Tang, Austin | USA | 2030 | |
| 39 | CM | Zhong, Ryan Yunhui | CAN | 2024 |
| 40 | Wu, Jonathan | CAN | 2012 | |
| 41 | Aljo, Johan | CAN | 2006 | |
| 42 | Liu, Zachary | CAN | 2004 | |
| 43 | Saxena, Vihaan | USA | 1977 | |
| 44 | CM | Jiang, Brandon | USA | 1971 |
| 45 | Min, Ryan | USA | 1939 | |
| 46 | Wu, Nathan Ping-Ying | CAN | 1931 | |
| 47 | Stordeur, Jackson | CAN | 1919 | |
| 48 | Bai, Jinghui | CAN | 1913 | |
| 49 | Yang, Henry | CAN | 1909 | |
| 50 | Fehr, Brody | CAN | 0 | |
| 51 | ACM | Darvekar, Yash | CAN | 1892 |
| 52 | Tran, Tri | CAN | 1879 | |
| 53 | Jin, Eric | CAN | 1878 | |
| 54 | Alpuri, Aaqil | CAN | 1873 | |
| 55 | Offengenden, Ron | CAN | 1832 | |
| 56 | Poncelet, Niklas | CAN | 1802 | |
| 57 | Ilyasov, Ahmed | USA | 1780 | |
| 58 | Yu, Zongyan | CAN | 1777 | |
| 59 | Prasanna, Advik | USA | 1761 | |
| 60 | Dossa, Andre | CAN | 1737 | |
| 61 | Zhang, Jasper | CAN | 1733 | |
| 62 | Zhang, Sean | USA | 1731 | |
| 63 | Spiian, Rostyslav | CAN | 1725 | |
| 64 | Sherwood, Forest J | USA | 1724 | |
| 65 | Hong, Zihan | CAN | 1721 | |
| 66 | Goulko, Aleksey | CAN | 0 | |
| 67 | Xiao, Michael | USA | 1712 | |
| 68 | Murali, Dhruv | CAN | 1709 | |
| 69 | Wu, Nicholas Pei-Chang | CAN | 1707 | |
| 70 | Prianichnikov, Michael | CAN | 1702 | |
| 71 | Chan, Bryan | CAN | 1693 | |
| 72 | Sheng, Jack | CAN | 1689 | |
| 73 | Punay, Rhailey | CAN | 1676 | |
| 74 | Dembla, Shabd | CAN | 1675 | |
| 75 | Zhu, Daniel | CAN | 1675 | |
| 76 | Nguyen, Leo | CAN | 1668 | |
| 77 | Yuan, Jaydon | CAN | 1660 | |
| 78 | Blomer, John | USA | 1641 | |
| 79 | Mu, Shaunavon | CAN | 1640 | |
| 80 | Wang, Chase | USA | 1637 | |
| 81 | Mu, Vincent | CAN | 1627 | |
| 82 | Lai, Zhihui | CAN | 1615 | |
| 83 | Villamar, Eros | CAN | 1611 | |
| 84 | Kovalivskyi, Danylo | CAN | 1608 | |
| 85 | Bhaumik, Rishi | CAN | 1603 | |
| 86 | Lu, Aiden Hao-Ting | CAN | 1595 | |
| 87 | Wang, Lucas Yuebo | CAN | 1595 | |
| 88 | AFM | Wright, Joshua | CAN | 1590 |
| 89 | Gan, Steven | CAN | 0 | |
| 90 | Ratte, Daniel | CAN | 1563 | |
| 91 | Li, Alan | CAN | 0 | |
| 92 | Mintz, Nathan | USA | 1547 | |
| 93 | Christopher, Jack | CAN | 1546 | |
| 94 | Li, Ryan | CAN | 1544 | |
| 95 | Li, Jake Chi Hang | CAN | 1531 | |
| 96 | Villamar, Flyn | CAN | 1528 | |
| 97 | Lee, Michael | CAN | 1520 | |
| 98 | Tu, Liam | CAN | 0 | |
| 99 | Ratte, James | CAN | 1487 | |
| 100 | Ma, Nicholas | CAN | 1479 | |
| 101 | Nguyen, Kaiser | CAN | 1425 | |
| 102 | Liu, Shuheng | CAN | 0 | |
| 103 | Huang, Luke | CAN | 0 | |
| 104 | Chruszcz, Zachary | CAN | 0 | |
| 105 | Li, Moses | CAN | 0 | |
| 106 | Leger, Shiloh | CAN | 0 | |
| 107 | Suo, Langhoupu | CAN | 0 | |
| 108 | Gandhi, Sparsh | CAN | 0 | |
| 109 | Lee, Raphael | CAN | 0 | |
| 110 | Ranjan Kumar, Aryan | CAN | 0 | |
| 111 | Hussain, Muneer | CAN | 0 | |
| 112 | Curran, Dylan | CAN | 0 | |
| 113 | Sharma, Aarush | CAN | 0 | |
| 114 | Vong, Nathan | CAN | 0 | |
| 115 | Martin, Dominic | CAN | 0 | |
| 116 | Baiton, Noah | CAN | 0 | |
| 117 | Fu, Logan | CAN | 0 | |
| 118 | Chen, Neill | CAN | 0 | |
| 119 | Chen, Kyle | CAN | 0 | |
| 120 | Dahlke, Zeth Matthew | CAN | 0 | |
| 121 | Sun, Reid | CAN | 0 | |
| 122 | Song, Kevin | CAN | 0 | |
| 123 | Daiyan, Kian | CAN | 0 | |
| 124 | Kondaveeti, Virat | CAN | 0 | |
| 125 | Meng, Barry | CAN | 0 | |
| 126 | Sy, Adrian | CAN | 0 |
Girls section North American Junior Chess 2024
| 1 | WFM | Qiu, Laurie | USA | 2036 |
| 2 | WFM | Aravindakshan, Sahana | USA | 2003 |
| 3 | WFM | Gaw, Chloe | USA | 1981 |
| 4 | Jiang, Hanxi (Hancy) | CAN | 1957 | |
| 5 | WFM | Matus, Nastassja | USA | 1941 |
| 6 | WCM | Zhong, April Yunwei | CAN | 1914 |
| 7 | WCM | Yuan, Serena | USA | 1899 |
| 8 | WCM | Yu, Avery | USA | 1898 |
| 9 | WFM | Liu, Angela | USA | 1890 |
| 10 | Kaur, Aradh | USA | 1862 | |
| 11 | WCM | Porat, Tori | USA | 1854 |
| 12 | Danduprolu, Ridhi Varma | USA | 1850 | |
| 13 | WCM | Wang, Lilian | USA | 1816 |
| 14 | WCM | Hernandez Ortega, Carolina | MEX | 1810 |
| 15 | Xie, Irene | CAN | 1804 | |
| 16 | Ananth, Ananya | USA | 1800 | |
| 17 | Butenko, Zlata | CAN | 1797 | |
| 18 | Fausto, Aliana | USA | 1787 | |
| 19 | Zhuge, Katherine | USA | 1749 | |
| 20 | Zhao, Erin | CAN | 1728 | |
| 21 | Yang, Leah | USA | 1706 | |
| 22 | Xiao, Marina | USA | 1637 | |
| 23 | Ham Corona, Ana Paola | MEX | 1618 | |
| 24 | Cheng, Selina | USA | 1617 | |
| 25 | Wang, April | CAN | 1577 | |
| 26 | Shtepa, Liubov | CAN | 1570 | |
| 27 | Chan, Allison Yutong | CAN | 1554 | |
| 28 | Fang, Chelsea | CAN | 1546 | |
| 29 | Doan, Emilyn Chiu | USA | 1543 | |
| 30 | Matus, Ksenija | USA | 1469 | |
| 31 | Zhao, Lucy | CAN | 1422 | |
| 32 | Duran, Violet Maria Carol | USA | 0 | |
| 33 | Doan, Thia | USA | 0 | |
| 34 | Li, Meijia | CAN | 0 | |
| 35 | Wang, Elsa | CAN | 0 | |
| 36 | Tolentino, Kaisa | CAN | 0 |
