Manitoba Provincial Chess Championships

Sunday, March 15, 2026. University of Manitoba, University Center, Multi-Purpose Room #210

Full tournament results are available here.

Here are the provincial winners and runner-ups in each grade: (*indicates Provincial winner previous years)

Grade 1

1	Thomas Nguyen
2	Maghizhan Kavi
3	Maksym Kostenko

Grade 2

1	Isaac Goldschlager
2	Alima Smagulova
3	Yik Hin Lee

Grade 3

1	Asher Jo*
2	Chloe Zhang
3	Aarav Mehta

Grade 4

1	XiuWen (Elvis) Wang*
2	Zach Nathaniel Lee
3	Nikita Miladinoski

Grade 5

1	Aiden Ling****
2	Winston Jin
3	Artem Butenko

Grade 6

1	Bingqian (Matt) Feng
2	Chenghong (Ian) Zhang
3	Dineth Balamanage

Grade 7

1	Yuchen Li
2	Jacob Lam
3	Ron Taran

Grade 8

1	Zelus Hui**
2	Creston Warkentin
3	Aarav Suri

Grade 9

1	Zixuan (Joe) Zhou*
2	Yuhang Zhao
3	Tanishq Patel

Grade 10

1	Rhailey Dhiren Punay*
2	Nethum Jayasekara
3	Prabhav Repaka

Grade 11

1	Cole Simpson
2	Goyo Fernandez
3	Dennis Miles

Grade 12

1	Mason Bilugan
2	George Zhelev
3	Brody Fehr