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Chess Federation of Canada

Chess governing body in Canada

Summary

Chess governing body in Canada

Field	Value
name	Chess Federation of Canada
formation	1872
native name	Fédération canadienne des échecs
abbreviation	CFC (English)
FCE (French)
formerly	Canadian Chess Association (1872–1932)
headquarters	Burlington, Ontario
region	Canada
membership	5,405
membership_year	2025
leader_title	President
leader_name	Vlad Drkulec
leader_title2	Vice President
leader_name2	Olga Mushtaler
leader_title3	Executive Director
leader_name3	Robert Gillanders
affiliations	FIDE, Confederation of Chess for America
website	https://www.chess.ca/en/

FCE (French)

The Chess Federation of Canada or CFC (French name: Fédération canadienne des échecs) is Canada's national chess organization. The Canadian Chess Association, founded in 1872, was replaced in 1932 by the Canadian Chess Federation (CCF), which for the first time included representation from all major cities in Canada. In 1945, the name was changed to avoid confusion with the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.{{citation

Activities

From 1974 to 2008 the CFC published a bi-monthly magazine called Chess Canada. Its former titles were En Passant and CFC Bulletin. The magazine reported on the latest important tournaments in Canada, especially those with Grandmaster-strength players, including many game scores. The magazine also printed the top ratings of several age groups and top overall in Canada. Chess Canada also posted notices of upcoming tournaments across Canada. It has since been replaced with an online magazine, which contains many of the same functions. The editor is John Upper.

The CFC organizes the Canadian Open every July. The first Canadian Open was held in Montreal in 1956 and saw the participation of Bobby Fischer. In recent years, the tournament has increased in prestige, becoming a part of the ACP Tour in 2007.https://canchess.blogspot.com/2007/07/association-of-chess-professionals.html Previous editions attracted Boris Spassky, Paul Keres, Bent Larsen, Ljubomir Ljubojević, Alexei Shirov, Vasily Ivanchuk and Nigel Short. The Canadian Youth Chess Championships are usually held just prior to the Canadian Open at the same location.

The CFC organizes a national championship every one or two years. As Canada is a FIDE Zone, many players earn their International Master or FIDE Master title in the Canadian Chess Championship. In addition, the CFC runs the Canadian Women's and Canadian Junior Championship. It also sends men's and women's teams to Chess Olympiads held every other year.

Ratings system

The CFC uses the Elo rating system. CFC ratings for a player tend to be around fifty points higher than United States Chess Federation ratings and ninety points higher than FIDE ratings.

CFC Titles

The CFC awards National Master titles to players who perform at a high level. They are awarded to players with a published, non-provisional CFC rating of 2200, and (at any point) three "norms", which are performances of 2300, comprising at least five games each. The other option is getting a non-provisional CFC rating of 2300 at any point.

List of CFC titled players

Current Champions

as of 2026

Canadian Open Champion: Nikolay Noritsyn
Canadian Champion: Nikolay Noritsyn
Women's Champion: Li Yunshan
Junior Champion: Johnathan Han
Youth Champion U18: Tymur Keleberda

References

https://www.chess.ca/en/cfc/membership-statistics/. ''Chess Federation of Canada''. Retrieved December 28, 2022.
"Chess Ranking and World Top lists - International Chess Federation".
"CFC Ratings vs FIDE Ratings".
"CFC Titles".
(2025-05-04). "Nikolay Noritsyn and Li Yunshan are 2025 Canadian chess champions".
(2025-05-04). "Nikolay Noritsyn and Li Yunshan are 2025 Canadian chess champions".
(2025-05-04). "Nikolay Noritsyn and Li Yunshan are 2025 Canadian chess champions".

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