PEI Youth Chess Association
The Prince Edward Island Youth Chess Association (PEIYCA) is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting scholastic chess on PEI. We hold various events throughout the year for students grade K-12.
See our Calendar of Events for details.
This page includes information for the PEI School Chess Team Championship on May 5
and results from the PEI Provincial Chess Challenge Championship on April 6-7.
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PEI SCHOOL CHESS TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP
SUNDAY May 5, 2024
Colonel Gray High School
175 Spring Park Rd. Charlottetown
(entry from north parking lot)
1 pm to 4 pm (Check-in by 12:45.)
FOUR SECTIONS BY GRADE
Primary K-4 Junior High 7-9
Elementary K-6 High School 10-12
Teams must consist of four players from the same school.
TROPHY for winning school in each section.
MEDALS for team members of top schools.
ENTRY FEE $60 per team
Pre-registration by e-mail is required.
DEADLINE: Thursday May 2. Registration on the day of event is not allowed.
Include names and grades of team members. If players do not have a
scholastic chess rating, list them in the order of their estimated playing strength.
The entry fee can be paid in cash at the event or by e-transfer
at least 24 hours in advance to peiyouthchess@gmail.com.
WE HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!!
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PEI Provincial Chess Challenge Championship
RESULTS
The PEI provincial championship for students in grades 1-12 was held on April 6-7 at Colonel Gray High School.
See our facebook page for photos. Congratulations to the winners:
grade 1
1. Daniel Dang
2. Chance Veenhuis
grade 2
1. Goldy Vu
2. Vassil Yonchev
3. Felix Li
grade 3
1. Justin Nguyen
2. George Ren
3. Spencer Tan
grade 4
1. Allan Li
2. Marcus Lai
3. Harjan Virdee
grade 5
1. Brian Gu
2. Krishna Patidar
3. Owen Hennigar
grade 6
1. Daniel Nguyen
2. Philip Dang
3. Liam Skimming-Reid
grade 7
1. Ian Li
2. Niko He
3. Steve Shi
grade 8
1. Kenneth Yohannan
2. Easton Chen
3. Barma Shuvomoy
grade 9
1. Aiden Arsenault
2. Cal Baglole
3. Dinelle Fernando
grade 10
1. Joe Li
2. Vincent Chan
grade 11
1. Luke Dickie
2. Cindy Wang
grade 12
1. Kristopher Zember
The first place winners qualify for the national finals of the Canadian Chess Challenge in Moncton NB on May 18-20 as part of Team PEI.
GO TEAM!!
complete results 1-4: https://chess-math.org/ratings/pairings/16250
complete results 5-12: https://chess-math.org/ratings/pairings/16251
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Maritime Scholastic Chess Team Championship
The PEIYCA hosted this annual tournament on November 18 at Colonel Gray High School. Though this was the first time the event was held since before the pandemic in 2019. Each province was represented by 24 players, divided into 4 sections by grade. Our team was selected based on October ratings. The competition could not have been any closer. First place came down to the very last game. Congratulations to Team Nova Scotia on their victory. They scored 64 points in the four round tournament, one half point ahead of Team New Brunswick's 63.5 points. Team PEI was further back in third place. Everyone at the event received a gold, silver, or bronze medal. There were also trophies for the top individual player in each section: K-3 Colin Wang (NS), 4-6 Calix Marchand (NS), 7-9 Gabriel Gingras (NB), 10-12 Titan Dunahee (NB). Thanks to Eric Robitaille (NB), Chris Felix (NS), and other organisers from our neighbour provinces for their help in running the event.
Team PEI
K-3: Spencer Tan, Goldy Vu, Vassil Yonchev, Felix Li, Jason Ha, Henry McGuirk
4-6: Channing Guo, Lucas Lei, Brian Gu, Isaac Birch, Shu Liu, Morgan Saunders, Owen Hennigar, Tai Zhou
7-9: Jack Nguyen, Steve Shi, Easton Chen, Shuvomoy Barma, William Handrahan, Setu Venkat Kooloju
10-12: Joe Li, Nathan Costain, Tomas Wang, David Courtney
Our top scorers were Goldy Vu, Channing Guo, and Joe Li. Thanks to everyone for taking part. See facebook for photos.
"Chess Club In A Box" is an initiative organized by the PEI Youth Chess Association
to promote chess in public schools throughout the province.
The goal is to provide teachers or interested parents with everything they need to start and maintain a successful school chess program, including 5 chess sets.
