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ANNEX CHESS CLUB

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Transnational Chess Championship (CTN)

Below are some details about this important event, including registered Crown Section players.

This event is being held during the week, Saturday, June 3 to Sunday, June 11. ACC is the co-organizer along with Maplewood Chess Club of Montreal.

You can register here.

There are three linked CTN tournaments:

1. BLITZ (June 3, in Toronto) - Crown Section presently consists of 42 of the 54 players already registered below

2. RAPID (June 3-4, in Toronto) - Crown Section presently consists of 39 players of the 54 players already registered below

3. CLASSIC (June 6-11 for Crown, June 9-11 for General Sections, in Montreal) - Crown Section presently consists of 47 of the 54 players already registered below


The two Toronto events are taking place at St. Casimir's Parish Hall, 156 Roncesvalles Ave., Toronto, ON M6R 2L4. This takes place on June 3-4.

The sole Montreal event is taking place at Maplewood Chess Club, c/o the offices of Fédération québecoise des échecs. This takes place on June 6-11.

Registrations for the General Sections for all three tournaments have also started.

You can view the latest combined list of confirmed CTN registrations for both the Crown and General sections (by player name) here.


The Titled Players listed below have already registered for this event and will be playing in the Crown Section of 1, 2 or all 3 CTN tournaments.

The registered GMs are each playing in all 3 tournaments. The names below are linked to their corresponding FIDE player webpage.

FIDE ratings for Standard, Rapid and Blitz are also presented as at March 19, 2023.

More information about each player can be found on Chess.com, including more current pictures of the players. 


 #NAMETITLEFLAGFEDSTDRAP BLTZ ~AGE
 1.Liang, Awonder (1)
GMUSA26432508250820
 2.Neiksans, Arturs GM  LAT 2611 2551 2497 40
 3.Bruzon Batista, Lazaro GM  USA 2610 2608 2709 41
 4.Bartel, Mateusz GM  POL 2609 2528 2521 38
 5.Meshkovs, Nikita GM  LAT 2586 2531 2537 29
 6.Bosiocic, Marin GM  CRO 2555 2523 2575 35
 7.Cordova, Emilio GM  PER 2544 2610 2607 32
 8.Matviishen, Viktor GM  UKR 2538 2424 2424 21
 9.Cruz, Cristhian GM  PER 2529 2506 2502 31
 10.Liang, Jason (1) IM  USA 2529 2378 2378 16
 11.Almeida Quintana, Omar GM  CUB 2527 2478 2530 42
 12.Ortiz Suarez, Isan Reynaldo GM  CUB 2512 2563 2539 38
 13.Moradiabadi, Elshan GM  USA 2507 2566 2550 38
 14.Szabo, Gergely-Andras-Gyula GM  ROU 2504 2421 2494 40
 15.Kantans, Toms GM  LAT 2490 2395 2425 29
 16.Roussel-Roozmon, Thomas GM  CAN 2462 35
 17.Noritsyn, Nikolay IM  CAN 2460 2514 2512 32
 18.Rodrigue-Lemieux, Shawn (2) IM  CAN 2456 2398 2405 19
 19.Woodward, Andy (1) IM  USA 2450 2353 13
 20.Posthuma, Joshua IM 
USA 2441 2333 23
 21.Sambuev, Bator GM  CAN 2434 2477 2492 43
 22.Vidyarthi, Vyom IM  USA 2432 2302 16
 23.Heimann, Mark FM  USA 2426 30
 24.Samsonkin, Artiom IM  CAN 2425 2448 2524 34
 25.Song, Edward IM  USA 2389 2262 24
 26.Sai Krishna G V IM  IND 2385 2344 2359 27
 27.Plotkin, Mark IM  CAN 2365 2258 2304 25
 28.Atanasov, Anthony FM  CAN 2361 2112 2206 15
 29.Talukdar, Rohan IM  CAN 2359 20
 30.Wang, Tianqi IM  USA 2359 2335 2338 26
 31.Krishnan, Varun FM  USA 2343 26
 32.Lawson, Eric IM  CAN 2313 2301 39
 33.Chiku-Ratte, Olivier-Kenta IM  CAN 2301 2266 2355 24
 34.Ivanov, Mike FM  CAN 2299 2287 2172 28
 35.Reprintsev, Alexander IM  UKR 2279 2320 2229 65
 36.Vettese, Nicholas IM  CAN 2278 2315 2270 19
 37.Hua, Eugene FM  CAN 2276 2331 2241 20
 38.Ouellet, Maili-Jade WGM CAN 2258 2145 2077 21
 39.Cervantes Landeiro, Thalia WGM USA 2253 2172 2172 21
 40.Kantane, Anna WIM POL 2252 2124 2152 28
 41.Andersen, Gunnar NM USA 2247 25
 42.Jaferian, Koosha CM  IRI 2242 2123 2107 25
 43.Burtasova, Anna WGM CAN 2241 2265 2212 36
 44.Johnson, Donald FM  USA 2240 2264 2132 17
 45.Dukic, Zachary FM  CAN 2238 2154 26
 46.Xu, Daniel CM  CAN 2228 1980 15
 47.Hernandez Moya, Yuleisy WGM CUB 2215 2156 31
 48.Puri, Vinny FM  CAN 2214 2227 2114 56
 49.Johnathan, Han FM  CAN 2191 2041 14
 50.Demchenko, Svitlana WIM CAN 2183 2083 2083 20
 51.Plotkin, Victor FM  CAN 2176 2202 2216 55
 52.Canty, James FM  USA 2155 2202 31
 53.Humphreys, Michael FM  CAN 2153 2236 2196 34
 54.Barron, Michael IM  CAN 2152 2249 2128 61

(1) = Identified in American Chess Magazine (ACM), Issue #31, as "one of the Next Generation of American Chess Prodigies."

(2) = World U1800 player in 2022.

~Age was estimated by deducting the year of birth (per FIDE) from 2023.

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