{"id":34493,"date":"2025-04-29T12:56:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T12:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/?p=34493"},"modified":"2025-04-29T13:01:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T13:01:12","slug":"nikolay-noritsyn-and-li-yunshan-win-2025-canadian-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/nikolay-noritsyn-and-li-yunshan-win-2025-canadian-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Nikolay Noritsyn and Li Yunshan win 2025 Canadian Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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From left to right: WFM Morgen Mills, WIM Svitlana Demchenko, WIM Li Yunshan, IM Nikolay Noritsyn, GM Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux, GM Razvan Preotu<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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IM Nikolay Noritsyn and WIM Li Yunshan have been crowned the 2025 Canadian Chess Champions, claiming their third and maiden national titles, respectively.<\/p>

The 89th Canadian Chess Championship and the 22nd Canadian Women\u2019s Chess Championship\u2014both 9-round Swiss tournaments with classical time control\u2014were held simultaneously from April 17\u201322 in Toronto, Ontario.<\/p>

The competition featured 90 of Canada\u2019s strongest players, hailing from nine provinces. The lineup included three Grandmasters, 13 International Masters, and three Woman International Masters.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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FM Tymur Keleberda (pictured above, left) led the tournament with a perfect 4\/4 after four rounds. He then drew with GM Bator Sambuev in round 5, setting up a key round-6 clash with IM Nikolay Noritsyn (pictured above, right). Noritsyn won this pivotal game to emerge as the sole leader after round 6. He maintained his half-point advantage through the final rounds, finishing in clear first with 7.5\/9 to secure the national title. The champion remained unbeaten, scoring six wins and three draws.<\/p>

GM Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux, the other undefeated competitor, finished half a point behind in second place. GM Razvan Preotu and IM Raymond Kaufman tied for third with 6.5\/9, with Preotu taking bronze thanks to a superior Buchholz tiebreak score.<\/p>

89th Canadian Chess Championship final standings<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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In the women\u2019s event, WCM Ashley Qian started strong with a perfect 5\/5. She then drew with top seed WIM Li Yunshan (pictured above, left) in round 6, maintaining a half-point lead. Alongside these two, WIM Svitlana Demchenko (pictured above, right) and WFM Morgen Mills consistently ranked in the top four from round 4 through the final round. Demchenko entered the last round with a half-point lead, but lost to Li, while Mills defeated WFM Oksana Golubeva resulting in a three-way tie for Li, Demchenko, and Mills, all on 7\/9.<\/p>

Li clinched gold based on her superior Buchholz Cut 1 tiebreak score while Demchenko edged out Mills on the second Buchholz tiebreak to claim silver.<\/p>

22nd Canadian Women\u2019s Chess Championship final standings<\/a><\/strong><\/p>

Written by FA Heidi Gay \/ Annex Chess Club<\/p>

Photos: Derek Ma \/ Annex Chess Club and John Upper \/ Chess Federation of Canada<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From left to right: WFM Morgen Mills, WIM Svitlana Demchenko, WIM Li Yunshan, IM Nikolay Noritsyn, GM Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux, GM Razvan Preotu IM Nikolay Noritsyn and WIM Li Yunshan have been crowned the 2025 Canadian Chess Champions, claiming their third and maiden national titles, respectively. The 89th Canadian Chess Championship and the 22nd Canadian Women\u2019s Chess Championship\u2014both 9-round Swiss tournaments with classical time control\u2014were held simultaneously from April 17\u201322 in Toronto, Ontario. The competition featured 90 of Canada\u2019s strongest players, hailing from nine provinces. The lineup included three Grandmasters, 13 International Masters, and three Woman International Masters. FM Tymur Keleberda (pictured above, left) led the tournament with a perfect 4\/4 after four rounds. He then drew with GM Bator Sambuev in round 5, setting up a key round-6 clash with IM Nikolay Noritsyn (pictured above, right). Noritsyn won this pivotal game to emerge as the sole leader after round 6. He maintained his half-point advantage through the final rounds, finishing in clear first with 7.5\/9 to secure the national title. The champion remained unbeaten, scoring six wins and three draws. GM Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux, the other undefeated competitor, finished half a point behind in second place. GM Razvan Preotu and IM Raymond Kaufman tied for third with 6.5\/9, with Preotu taking bronze thanks to a superior Buchholz tiebreak score. 89th Canadian Chess Championship final standings In the women\u2019s event, WCM Ashley Qian started strong with a perfect 5\/5. She then drew with top seed WIM Li Yunshan (pictured above, left) in round 6, maintaining a half-point lead. Alongside these two, WIM Svitlana Demchenko (pictured above, right) and WFM Morgen Mills consistently ranked in the top four from round 4 through the final round. Demchenko entered the last round with a half-point lead, but lost to Li, while Mills defeated WFM Oksana Golubeva resulting in a three-way tie for Li, Demchenko, and Mills, all on 7\/9. Li clinched gold based on her superior Buchholz Cut 1 tiebreak score while Demchenko edged out Mills on the second Buchholz tiebreak to claim silver. 22nd Canadian Women\u2019s Chess Championship final standings Written by FA Heidi Gay \/ Annex Chess Club Photos: Derek Ma \/ Annex Chess Club and John Upper \/ Chess Federation of Canada<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":34496,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[229,298],"regular":[],"sticky-post":[],"class_list":["post-34493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chess-news","tag-canada","tag-national-championships-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34493"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34502,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34493\/revisions\/34502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34493"},{"taxonomy":"regular","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/regular?post=34493"},{"taxonomy":"sticky-post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fide.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sticky-post?post=34493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}