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 Provincial Chess Challenge Championship on April 6-7, plus results of the March 17 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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PEI Provincial Chess Challenge Championship
This year's competition is 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 grades 1-9.
Trophy for the winner in grades 10-12 with trophies or medals for runners-up based on the number of entries.
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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MARCH TOURNAMENT
There were 36 players at the tournament on March 17 at Colonel Gray High School. See our facebook page for photos. Congratulations to the winners in each section:
Joe Li
Steve Shi / Philip Dang / Daniel Nguyen
Goldy Vu
Zachary Wang
Tuna Arici
Harjan Virdee
Felix Li
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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.