4F. Youth Coordinator reports


1. Championnat-d-echecs-en-ligne-par-equipes-de-la-francophonie-2024, Jun 22-23, 2024
AIDEF Online Tournament, hosted on Tornelo
We have two Canadian Teams and One Team Quebec
https://chess-results.com/tnr959745....et=YES&flag=30
Canada Team 1 player list:
1. IM Johnathan Han
2. FM Aaron Reeve Mendes
3. FM Richard Qinghe Zheng
4. WCM April Yunwei Zhong

Canada Team 2 player list:
1. Raymond Gao
2. Youhe Huang
3. Ryan Yunhui Zhong
4. Ankita Jain

Quebec Team player list:
1. GM Bator Sambuev
2. GM Thomas Roussel-Roozmon
3. WGM Maili-Jade Ouellet
4. Prince Eric Jr Guipi Bopala
5. Manon Leger

There are total of 39 teams in the tournament and I am very proud to announce Canada Team 1 ranked 4th place after 11 rounds.


2. World Cup U08, U10, U12 in Georgia, Jun 22-Jul 3, 2024
This is a brand new tournament and 48 talented players from around the world from each age category are invited to this prestigious tournament.
We have 12 youth players travelled there and round 1 started on Jun 23
This year all players will play on DGT boards, super fancy. Youtube introduces the playing hall :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...ChessBaseIndia

You can watch live games here
https://lichess.org/broadcast/fide-w...und-1/DRDjIQ45

Team player list:
U08O Elliot McCallum
U08O Zhihan (Samuel) Xu
U10O Raunak Amit Ramesan
U10O Aaroh Mutyalapati Modith
U12O Zeming Yin
U12O Daniel Joshua Lee
U08G Anne Gao
U08G Elizabeth Nagnibedovsky
U10G Florence Zixin Xu
U10G Ashley Fu
U12G April Wang
U12G Joanne Wangluo

This tournament is in action right now at Georgia.


3. PanAmerican Junior U20 @Chile, Jun 23- 30, 2024
We have 3 players attending this event. They all arrived at Chile and this tournament is in action right now at Chile
Open: https://chess-results.com/tnr954059.aspx?lan=1
Girls: https://chess-results.com/tnr954058....&art=0&flag=30
1. FM Richard Qinghe Zheng
2. WCM April Yunwei Zhong
3. Ryan Yunhui Zhong



4. Canadian Youth Chess Championship at Laval Quebec, July 9-12, 2024
CYCC official website : https://cycc2024.my.canva.site/
CFC Chess Forum post: https://www.chesscanada.info/forum/s...C-Laval-Quebec
I had been working diligently with CYCC organizer, clubs from across Canada, and players in question to ensure the players are all validated and eligible to play in CYCC.
This year we adopt a new rule. CFC allowed the players to register first and get qualified before Jul 1, 2024. This way, more players can benefit from early bird discount as many regional qualifiers are run very later in the year.

CFC has created a weekly updated Qualified List so parents can check if players are on the qualified list.
CFC has also created a one-time Pre-Qualified List. This list has top 10 players from each age category base on Mar 1, 2024 rating. These players are all pre-qualified into CYCC.


On Jun 25, we had 658 players registered into the CYCC and we have an new breaking breaking number for this year.


5. PanAmerican Youth Chess Championships, Orlando Florida, Jul 15- 20, 2024
This year, even PanAm Youth is in USA, but the registration has to go thru the Federation.
Official website: https://new.uschess.org/pan-american...ionships-xxxiv
CFC Chess Forum Post: https://www.chesscanada.info/forum/s...rlando-Florida

Official player list:
U08G Elizabeth Nagnibedovsky
U08O Zhihan Xu
U10G Rucha Deshpande
U10O Zhu Edison
U12G Ashley Qian
U12O Zhu Elber
U14G Anaïs Chloé Fiset
U14O Neil Moses
U16G Lucy Gao
U16O Lefan Yang
U18G April Yunwei Zhong
U18O Tymur Keleberda


6. North American Junior U20, Calgary AB, Aug 14-18, 2024
Official website: https://najcc.com/NAJCC/Home/Home
Registration is open for all Canadian players.


There are tremendous amount of works involved in setting up each team. Even I am overwhelmed with this workloads, I am still very happy to see Canadian youth are shining in all international stages.

Finally, congratulation to all players and thank you to all parents who support your children on all these chess journeys. CFC also thanks to all organizers who run tournaments to provide the best environment for our young players to grow.


Christina Tao
CFC Youth Coordinator