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 March 17 tournament and the PEI Provincial Chess Challenge Championship on April 6-7, plus results of the February 11 tournament. Please note that in order to be eligible for the April 6 championship, grade 1-4 students must have played in at least one PEIYCA tournament since April 1, 2023.
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This year's Provincial Chess Challenge will be split into two tournaments on separate days.
Grade 1-4 Championships April 6 Saturday 1 pm - 4 pm
Grade 5-12 Championships April 7 Sunday 1 pm - 4:30 pm
Trophies for the top 3 in each grade.
Players compete only against others in the same grade.
The winner in each grade qualifies for the Canadian Chess Challenge national finals on May 19-20 in Moncton as part of Team PEI.
Pre-registration by e-mail is required for both events. Deadline: April 4. No new entries on day of event.
Eligibility: Participants must be PEI students. Grade 1-4 students must have played in at least one PEIYCA tournament since April 2023.
Entry fee $20
Payment can be paid in cash at the event or by e-transfer at least 24 hours in advance to peiyouthchess@gmail.com.
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CHESS TOURNAMENT
Open to all students grade K - 12
Sunday March 17, 2024
1 pm - 4 pm
Register BEFORE 12:45 pm
doors open at 12:30
Colonel Gray High School
175 Spring Park Rd. Charlottetown
(cafeteria : enter from north parking lot)
Players are divided into groups by age and rating.
Everyone plays at least 4 games.
Medals for top 3 players in each section.
Rated Chess’n Math Association Event
Entry fee $15 second member of same family $10
The entry fee can be paid in cash at the tournament before 12:45 pm
or by e-transfer before 6 pm on Saturday, February 10 at peiyouthchess@gmail.com
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Future Tournaments
April 6 Grade 1-4 Provincial Chess Challenge
April 7 Grade 5 - 12 Provincial Chess Challenge
May 5 School Team Championship
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FEBRUARY TOURNAMENT
There were 29 players at the tournament on February 11 at Colonel Gray High School. See our facebook page for photos. Congratulations to the winners in each section:
Joe Li
Malikhia Anderson
Daniel Nguyen
Allan Li / George Ren
Harjan Virdee
Daniel Dang
Our next tournament is Sunday, March 17. Hope to see you there.
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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.