![]() Just a year later, in 2007, he moved to Toronto, Canada, to join the Canadian federation. In 2006 he obtained the title of Grandmaster. He was born in Ulan-Ude, Russia, in 1980, and in 1999, he obtained the title of International Master. He won the Canadian championship three times. (Source: ) 4) Bator Sambuevīator Sambuev is a Russian-Canadian chess. He has been able to represent Canada four times in the chess Olympics: 2008, 2010, 20. He won the Canadian Closed Championship in 2007 and with this victory earned his International Master title. Born in 1991 in Kaliningrad, Russia, he moved to Canada when he was only 10 years old. He is the only one on this list that does not yet have the title of Grandmaster. Nikolay Noritsyn is a Canadian chess player of Russian descent. It obtained its maximum rating in 2007, with 2633 points. To all these awards are added multiple outstanding publications in specialized magazines, and their titles of International Master (in 1975) and their title of Grandmaster (in 1985). He has won the Canadian Open Chess Championships eight times and the Closed Canadian Chess Championships seven times and represented Canada in the chess Olympics on eight other occasions. He is also the only Canadian to qualify for the Candidates’ level. He is considered by many to be the best Canadian chess player in history. Kevin Spragget is a Canadian Grandmaster, specifically the fourth to achieve this title. Its maximum rating was in 2019 with 2,527. Just two years later, after defeating several Grandmasters, he obtained a rating of 2500 to get his own Grandmaster title at only 17 years old. It was in 2014 when after achieving the rating of 2400, he obtained his International Master degree. Later he won the Canadian Chess Challenge three times in a row, in 2013, 2014, and 2015. He won his first tournament at the age of 7, in the Grade 2 Chess’n Math Association event in Toronto, 2007. He is currently the youngest Grandmaster in Canada and the second youngest to do so, after Mark Bluvshtein. Razvan Preotu is a Canadian chess player of Romanian descent. In March 2019, after winning the GM Round Robin Paracin in Serbia, he obtained the title of Grandmaster, in that tournament he also obtained his maximum rating, 2505. In 2017, despite having played his entire life for China, he transferred to the Canadian federation. In 2015 he shared first place in the 46th National Chess Congress in Philadelphia. A year later, he achieved the title of International Master. He won the first Korea Open Chess tournament, held in Seoul in 2008. Born in Heilongjiang, China, in 1988, he began playing chess with his native country. Yang Kaiki is a Canadian Chinese chess player. ![]() This year he reached his highest rating, 2500, placing himself as the 5th best Canadian chess player at that time. He has represented Canada 3 times in the Chess Olympics, all between 20. Six years later, after great tournaments, he obtained his title of Grandmaster, during the Olympic Games in Khanty-Mansiysk. After some good positions in different tournaments, he obtained his title of International Master in 2004. He won the Canadian U12 Youth Championship in 2000, thus representing Canada in the U12 World Youth Championship held in Oropesa del Mar, where he finished 9th. Thomas Roussel-Roozmon is a Canadian chess player. He is part of the Chessbrahs group of chess players, with whom he shares a Twitch channel, with great success, partly thanks to his great sense of humor. It was only a few months later, during the Canadian Open Chess Championship, that he earned his third GM norm and a well-deserved shave after winning first place alongside GM Razvan Preotu. His second GM Norm came at the Reykjavík Open, where he set out not to shave his beard until he got his third GM Norm and claimed the title. He obtained the title of International Master in 2013 obtaining his first GM norm that same year. ![]() He started playing chess when he was only 5 years old. He moved to Toronto when he was just 6 years old. Aman Hambleton is a Canadian Grandmaster. ![]()
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