2026 Toronto Open

[Heidi Gay]

Annex Chess Club is honored to organize the 2026 Toronto Open.

WHEN
Labour Day Weekend, Saturday September 5 to Monday September 7 2026

WHERE
St. Casimir's Parish Hall, 156 Roncesvalles Ave, Toronto, ON M6R 2L4

FORMAT
Six-round Swiss tournament, 90 min + 30 Second Increment from move 1. Default time is 30 minutes from the posted start time of each round.

SCHEDULE
Saturday, Sunday and Monday at 10:00am and 4pm

ELIGIBILITY
No rating restrictions, multiple sections
Crown (min 2000 FIDE or 2200 CFC), U2200, and U1900 will be FIDE & CFC Rated.
U1600 and U1300 will be CFC only.
Section eligibility is determined by highest of FIDE/CFC/FQE.
Players rated within 100 elo of a section may play up for a $20 fee.
CFC membership or tournament rating fee required, and can be purchased at the event.

ENTRY FEES
Early Bird until August 8: $115
Regular Pricing from August 8: $135
Late Pricing from August 26: $150
Free entry for GM / WGM / IM / WIM
No onsite registration.

PRIZE FUND
$7,500 based on 250 entrants. $1,500 guaranteed for first place in Crown.

REGISTRATION
Please visit https://tinyurl.com/2026TOopen

List of FIDE Titled Players currently registered
GM Avigdor Bykhovsky
IM Nicholas Vettese
IM Michael Barron
WFM Ashley Qian
WFM Anni Guo
CM Daniel Zhang

List available on chess-results and updated every few days: https://chess-results.com/tnr1465168.aspx?lan=1

[Heidi Gay]

Just over 72 hours to go before early bird ends!

REGISTRATION https://tinyurl.com/2026TOopen

List of FIDE and CFC Titled Players currently registered
GM Avigdor Bykhovsky
IM Nikolay Noritsyn
IM Nicholas Vettese
IM Michael Barron
FM Tony Lu
WFM Ashley Qian
WFM Irene Xie
WFM Anni Guo
CM Heye Gao
CM Daniel Zhang
CM Maxence Murara
NM Leon Xu
NM Shon Lazarev
NM David Filipovich

[Heidi Gay]

110 players and counting... come one, come all!

Also, sorry the above link isn't working, here's an updated link to the event registration: https://tinyurl.com/2026TorontoOpen

[Heidi Gay]

Gentle reminder that entry fees go up after Tuesday, August 25.

200+ players have registered.

Since my last posts, GMs Razvan Preotu and Petro Golubka will also feature.

[Heidi Gay]

Over 250 players have registered!

Registrations will close on Friday, September 4 at 8pm. There will be no onsite registrations.

[Uttam Dhungel]

Toronto Open 2026 -Prize list
Congratulations !!!!! To all the winner
Crown

Player Point Rank GM Preotu, Razvan 5.5 1st IM Vettese, Nicholas 5 2nd Razin, Vadim 4.5 3rd IM Plotkin, Mark 4.5 3rd

U-2200

Player	Point	Rank
Trofimov-Malyshkin, Valentyn	6	1st
Rudakov, Ivan	5	2nd
Pan, Julian	4.5	3rd
Zhan, Jayden Zihan	4.5	3rd
Patil, Tanishq	4.5	3rd

U-1900

Player	Point	Rank
Baeza, Patricio	6	1st
Haider, Armaan	5	2nd
Dunikov, Glib	5	2nd

U-1600

Name	Points	Rank
Mehta, Ayaan	5.5	1st
Lakatosh, James	5	2nd
Khudayarov, Kamron	5	2nd

U-1300

Player	Points	Rank
Borji, Saeid	6	1st
Heynen, Foster	5	2nd
Delgashev, Daniel	5	2nd
Lalwani, Om	5	2nd

Category Prizes

Category	Player	Section	Points
Top Woman	Nobuko Takeuchi	U-1300	4
Top Senior	Muthukumaran atanasundaram	U-1300	4
	David Filipovich	U-2200	4
Top Junior	Daniel Delgashev	U-1300	5
Top Junior Girl	Shannon Zhao	U-2200	4.5
Top ACC Member	Usman Afzal Minhas	U-1900	4.5

List of prizes

		Cash Prize
Section	First	Second	Third
Crown	$1,600	$1,000	$650
U-2200	$750	$550	$400
U-1900	$600	$450	$300
U-1600	$300	$250	$200
Top woman	$300
Top senior(65+)	$300
Top junior(U-18)	$150
Top JuniorGirl(U-18)	$150
Top ACC Member	$150

[Salim Belcadi]

For clarification, cash prices are split when there is a tie.