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Thanksgiving Open 2025
BC Closed & BC Women’s Championship 2025

Hosted at Fraser Valley Chess Academy, Langley
Event dates: October 10th – 13th, 2025

Fraser Valley Chess Academy is excited to host the 2025 BC Closed and BC Women’s Championship at our home base here in Langley, over the Thanksgiving long weekend! Alongside these prestigious tournaments, we will be organizing Thanksgiving Open, a 6 rounds 90 + 30 classical tournament open to everyone.

Player cannot participate in more than one tournament, as all tournament are scheduled to happen at the same time.

2025 BC Closed Championship is an 8 player invitation only tournament, where the top 8 chess players from BC would compete for the title of the BC Champion in 2025. IA Steven Wright shall shortlist the candidate and invite them. The list of players will be updated on this page once we receive their confirmation. The final qualifier of the year is Langley Open 2025, whose winner can reserve a seat at the BC Closed, if they’re not already qualified. It features 7 rounds of round-robin, 1 round on Friday, followed by 2 rounds per day to follow. There is no entry fee, with $2000 in prize money. You can watch the competition on Lichess with a 15 minute delay: https://lichess.org/broadcast/bc-closed-2025/5nDyH40r

2025 BC Women’s Championship is a FIDE + CFC-rated tournament, where women players in BC compete for the title of BC Women’s Champion. It features 6 rounds of 90 + 30 Swiss classical. To begin on Saturday, October 11th, 2 rounds per day. All female players above a CFC rating of 1800 qualifies for a free entry, and players under 1800 can register with an entry fee. The prize pool for this tournament is $1000 based on 20 entries.

Thanksgiving Open 2025 is a FIDE + CFC-rated Swiss classical tournament, featuring 6 rounds of 90 + 30 classical played over 3 days, beginning Saturday, October 11th, 2 rounds per day. Early bird entry fee is $90 + GST until August 15th, 2025. There are some changes that players should be aware of. We have adjusted the sections based on overall rating composition. As such, the sections for the Thanksgiving OPEN are now OPEN and U1600. The OPEN Section is FIDE + CFC rated, while the U1600 section is just CFC rated.

We accept refund requests until October 8th, midnight. A $20 processing fee applies to all refunds.

Please see the full detail of each tournament at the bottom of the page.

Location: Fraser Valley Chess Academy
Unit 108 20486 64th Ave. Langley, BC
Orange room: BC Closed Championship
Yellow Room: BC Women’s Championship
Blue Room: Thanksgiving Open
FREE Onsite parking, walking distance to Costco, sushi place and multiple cafes.

Thanksgiving OPEN and BC Women’s Championship Schedule:
Round1: Saturday 10am
Round 2: Saturday 4pm
Round
3: Sunday 10am
Round
4: Sunday 4pm
Round
5: Monday 9am
Round
6: Monday 3pm

BC Closed Schedule:
Round 1: Friday 6pm
Round 2: Saturday 10am
Round
3: Saturday 4pm
Round
4: Sunday 10am
Round
5: Sunday 4pm
Round
6: Monday 9am
Round
7: Monday 3pm

Register here:

1Step 1 (CFC Info)
2Step 2 (Player Info)
3Step 3 (Payment Info)
If you have a valid CFC ID, this name should match with the CFC database.
The International Chess Federation (FIDE) is the governing body of the sport of chess, and it regulates all international chess competitions. Constituted as a non-governmental institution, it was recognized by the International Olympic Committee as a Global Sporting Organization in 1999.

If you do not have a FIDE ID - please select "No" - we will submit the request for a new FIDE ID after the tournament completion on your behalf to CFC.
The CFC (Canadian Chess Federation) represents Canada to the world as a member of FIDE, the international chess body. As a CFC member, you have access to all CFC rated events across Canada, and will obtain national CFC chess ratings. There are two types of CFC ratings: Regular, and Quick. Long story short, all tournaments with long games (60+ min per player) use your CFC regular rating. Tournaments with shorter games (< 60 min per player) use your CFC quick rating. They are different ratings and do NOT overlap. This tournament uses CFC Quick ratings**
If you do not have CFC ID, you have to get your ID here

Registered players:

Sr. No.
Player Name
Tournament
FIDE ID
CFC ID
City
Rating
1
Lucas Yao
Thanksgiving Open
2643243
175246
Pitt Meadows
CFC: 2128. FIDE: 1913
2
Atharv Moorthy
Thanksgiving Open
2672049
189296
Surrey
3
Ashton Taylor
Thanksgiving Open
2637120
147575
Vancouver
4
T G M Peiris
Thanksgiving Open
9901310
176948
Surrey
5
Yonglong Chen
Thanksgiving Open
2658844
176151
Burnaby
6
Ryan Golchin
Thanksgiving Open
2657724
166537
North Vancouver
7
Daniel Zhu
Thanksgiving Open
2654296
175185
Burnaby
8
Karen Chen
2025 BC Women’s Championship
2654300
176067
Burnaby
9
Lucas Chen
Thanksgiving Open
2655179
176053
Burnaby
10
Danny Dai
Thanksgiving Open
190869
Vancourver
11
Azlaan Saad
Thanksgiving Open
2672065
189800
Langley
12
Saad Alam
Thanksgiving Open
2672057
189986
Langley
13
Kanish Raj Sathish Raj
Thanksgiving Open
2672073
184167
Langley
14
Dahlia Quinn
2025 BC Women’s Championship
39952045
197556
Vancouver
15
Nader haririparsa
Thanksgiving Open
197017
North Vancouver
16
Tianyou Huang
Thanksgiving Open
193369
Surrey
17
Mehrdad Yousefzadeh
Thanksgiving Open
130361
130361
North Vancouver
18
Amaira Soni
2025 BC Women’s Championship
190634
Burnaby
19
Anika Soni
2025 BC Women’s Championship
558028870
190633
Burnaby
20
Alex Zou
Thanksgiving Open
2655454
166019
Coquitlam
21
Siyona Singh
2025 BC Women’s Championship
2677970
173341
Burnaby
22
Rishab Ganesh
Thanksgiving Open
174592
Langley
23
Marko Radic
Thanksgiving Open
2654563
175736
Maple Ridge
24
Dejan Radic
Thanksgiving Open
2612631
109957
Maple Ridge
25
Clement Cheng
Thanksgiving Open
121485
Richmond
26
Anh C N Nguyen
2025 BC Women’s Championship
12454940
195317
Vancouver
27
Sparsh Gandhi
Thanksgiving Open
2668955
173920
Burnaby
28
Dulansa Omindi Hewa Liyanage
2025 BC Women’s Championship
195413
Surrey
29
Aiden Zhu
Thanksgiving Open
2654288
178350
Vancouver
30
Hector Abad
Thanksgiving Open
184817
Surrey
31
David Armstrong
Thanksgiving Open
2663694
186526
Victoria
32
Robin Hayer
Thanksgiving Open
2676168
182776
Abbotsford
33
Aathitja Ahilan
Thanksgiving Open
2671930
188730
Langley
34
Austin Beech
Thanksgiving Open
2670291
186105
Saanichton
35
Fred Cui
Thanksgiving Open
192894
Langley Township
36
Ryan Li
Thanksgiving Open
2671999
174767
surrey
37
Henry Fan
Thanksgiving Open
2659832
171593
Vancouver
38
Peter Mingrone
Thanksgiving Open
2647079
172324
Victoria
39
Kaiser Nguyen
Thanksgiving Open
2659697
177635
CALGARY
40
Anny Peng
2025 BC Women’s Championship
2654350
West Vancouver
41
zitian chen
Thanksgiving Open
2676141
181327
Vancouver
42
Elliot McCallum
Thanksgiving Open
2645718
175710
Vancouver
43
Ron Novosselsky
Thanksgiving Open
194465
Pitt Meadows
44
Arnav Shetty
Thanksgiving Open
2672081
173840
Surrey
45
Martina Szeto
Thanksgiving Open
2665328
185221
Richmond
46
Joanne Wangluo
2025 BC Women’s Championship
2654725
178342
Vancouver
1842
47
Sofia Vigurs
2025 BC Women’s Championship
2654369
177076
Langley
1463
48
Panshul Mishra Jaiman
Thanksgiving Open
2640945
171596
Vancouver
49
MINGYANG ZHENG
Thanksgiving Open
188142
Richmond
50
Marko Radic
Thanksgiving Open
2654563
175736
Maple Ridge
51
Dejan Radic
Thanksgiving Open
2612631
109957
Maple Ridge
52
Xuan-Che Lee
Thanksgiving Open
193447
Maple Ridge
53
Yaswitha suresh
2025 BC Women’s Championship
190751
Coquitlam
54
Barath Subramanian Suresh
Thanksgiving Open
2670488
176909
Coquitlam
55
Jordan Szeto
Thanksgiving Open
2666812
183567
RICHMOND
56
Zhengyu Chen
Thanksgiving Open
2641070
166532
Coquitlam