Registration
Date Saturday, April 5, 2025
Time 02:00 PM-06:00 PM
Location Online
Rounds 5
Time control 15|10
Format Grade K-12
Players 90 players maximum
Entry Fee $40. Sibling discount: $10 off for 2nd member or higher in the family
Сancellation time 24 hours
Registration No registration after 8pm night before tournament
Organizer Maxim Doroshenko
Notes

   

2024-2025 Regional Qualifier to B.C. Chess Challenge

All B.C. students from Kindergarten to Grade 12 are invited to participate in this annual marquee event, marking the beginning of the annual Chess Challenge series which culminates in the Canadian Chess Challenge. Players can qualify to the B.C. Chess Challenge, itself a qualifier to the national event, by scoring 2.5 points or higher in a regional event.  

Players of all skill levels are highly encouraged to participate in this event. Not only is it a chance to compete against the top players in their grade, it is a chance for all players to continue to improve their general tournament skills. Players are encouraged to enter more than one qualifier to accumulate even more tournament experience but can only claim one trophy or medal in all their participated qualifier events.

 

For a full report, please see the article in our 2016 Team B.C. at the Canadian Chess Challenge Regina

Click here to find out more about all the Regional, Provincial, National or the World Chess Tournament. 

 

Provincial Organizers  

Vancouver Chess School (VCS) will be organizing the Regional qualifiers and the Provincial Chess Challenge. Victoria Junior Chess Society will be hosting the Victoria Regional. 

 

Regional Qualifier - Vancouver

Qualification  参赛条件

B.C. students only Grade P - 12

Time Control  赛时限制

G20

Format  赛制

5-round Swiss format

Ratings  等级分

CMA rated

Schedule  时间表

1st round – 2:00pm

2nd round – 2:45pm

3rd round –3:30pm

4th round – 4:15pm

5th round – 5:00pm

Awards – estimated at 5:45pm

Prizes  奖品

Grade K-12: Medals to top 3 players in each section

Award certificates to all participants 所有参赛者均获得奖证书

 

 

Tips  

In order to perform well and stay focus for the entire tournament, please reframe your child from using the computer for other games except chess. Playing or running around will result in burning their energy faster especially for the last 2 rounds.

Notice to players 

参赛者须知

o   Playing up is not allowed  不容跳组

o   May combine if sections are small   如人数太少,有些组别可能合并

o   No food or drinks inside tournament room

   

 

 

 

 

 

Individual Tie Breaker  个人决胜局

Swiss format

1)      Direct Encounter (Head to Head)

2)      Cumulative score

3)      Opposition cumulative score

Round Robin format

1)      Direct Encounter (Head to Head)

2)      SonneBorne-Berger

 

 

 

 

Location:  Online

 

Mandatory prerequisites 

Regular login. No guest registration

Webcam (mandatory) needs to be on during the entire tournament

Computers only (no iPads, or tablets)

Chrome browser is highly preferable 

Registration Rules

No registration 24 hours before the event

Waiting lounge on zoom will be open 30 minutes prior to the start of the tournament.

Zoom meeting and the online tournament arena will be locked once the tournament starts. No late arrivals.

Online Tournament Rules

Please do not "X" out your game. Checkmate, Resign or Draw only.

No draw offers prior to move #30

Anti cheating software in place. No computer support. Any foul play will result in a permanent ban from VCS tournaments.

The player should be alone in the room. Please be mindful of the background noise

No talking during the game.

Please make sure you take washroom breaks in between rounds. Washroom breaks or any reason to leave, during the tournament will result in a forfeit. 

Arbiters decision final

Ratings   

Chess n' Math (CMA)

Vancouver Chess School Photo album 影集

Contact: info@vanchess.ca Voice mail: (604)568-3283

 

Registration fees:  $40      

Sibling discount $10 off for 2nd member or higher in the family   

No registration after 8:00pm night before tournament.

 

Refund policy  退款条件 

No refund within 24hours. If you have 24 hours or more: Log into student's account and click cancel under "My tournament"

24退款24办理退款: 前往学生我的比取消即可

 

Ratings   

Chess Federation Canada (CFC)

Chess n' Math (CMA) 

 

Vancouver Chess School Photo album 影集

Email: info@vanchess.ca Phone: (604)568-3283

# Player Grade School Section Rating CMA
1 Patrick Steel Grade 10 University Hill Secondary Grade 10 1183
2 Jiayin Guo Grade 6 Pacific Way Grade 6 1155
3 Leon Gong Grade 6 Irwin Park E.S. Grade 6 1120
4 Jesse Law Grade 6 Tomekichi Homma Grade 6 1091
5 Ashiana Varma-Vitug Grade 5 York House School Grade 5 972
6 Armaan Varma-Vitug Grade 7 St. George’s Junior School Grade 7 909
7 Zichun Xiao Grade 8 LORD BYNG SECONDARY SCHOOL Grade 8 865
8 Kevin Chiu Grade 7 Citadel Middle School Grade 7 837
9 Nathaniel Roessler Grade 10 St. John's School Grade 10 827
10 Tristan Patterson Grade 9 Windsor Secondary Grade 9 820
11 Daniel Kwan Grade 5 OLPH Grade 5 806
12 Austin Xu Grade 9 elgin park Grade 9 799
13 Alex Lung Grade 10 St. John's Grade 10 779
14 Spencer Sang Grade 9 st johns school Grade 9 769
15 William Buttar Grade 4 Ecole Entre-Lacs Grade 4 738
16 Katelyn Kwan Grade 7 OLPH Grade 7 737
17 Raphael Cuenca Grade 9 Kitsilano High School Grade 9 729
18 Lucas Xing Grade 7 Southridge Grade 7 708
19 Junzhe Liu Grade 6 Marlborough E.S. Grade 6 682
20 Arjun Thakare Grade 3 Lion’s gate Montessori Grade 3 679
21 Ryan Li Grade 4 Kerrisdale Elemantary Grade K 670
22 Charles Zhang Grade 3 Collingwood Grade 3 654
23 Neo Chan Grade 7 St. John's Grade 7 648
24 Adam Wong Grade 6 St. John's Grade 6 613
25 Lewis Park Grade 6 St. John's Grade 6 611
26 Elara Bissonnette Grade 5 WPGA Grade 5 607
27 Zac Ju Grade 4 École Jules Quesnel Grade 4 602
28 Yori Rozali Grade 6 Norma Rose Point E.S. Grade 6 597
29 Abigail Lui Grade 5 Elsie Roy Elementary Grade 5 531
30 Ardeshir Shahriary Grade 7 St. John's Grade 7 522
31 James Klingler Grade 5 Audubon Charter School New Orleans Grade 5 510
32 Ronald Zhang Grade 5 St. John's Grade 5 507
33 Luffy Xing Grade 3 Southridge Grade 3 485
34 Benedict Li Grade 2 St. George’s Grade 2 482
35 Darren Zhou Grade 5 Heritage mountain elementary Grade 5 470
36 Aiden Chen Grade 2 Maple Grove Grade 3 435
37 Christopher Zhang Grade 5 Richmond Christian School Grade 5 416
38 Jayden Li Grade 6 Thompson E.S. Grade 6 385
39 Nathan Chen Grade 1 Kerrisdale Grade 1 377
40 Catherine Zhang Grade 1 Collingwood Grade 1 349
41 Marcus Nguyen Grade 6 St Pauls School Grade 6 230
42 Rafael Yen Grade 10 A. R. MacNeill S. S. Grade 10 0
43 Pengyu Chen Grade K Henry Anderson E.S. Grade K 0
44 Noah Grado Grade 8 St. John's Grade 8 0
45 Junchen LIU Grade 6 Marlborough E.S. Grade 6 0
46 Ishant Vedak Grade 11 Alpha S.S. Grade 11 0