St. John's Spring Chess Festival

Published in News on Mar 27, 2025

Friday, April 18 – Sunday, April 20

MUN University Engineering Building - Lounge and Conference Rooms
240 Prince Phillip Drive, St. John’s, NL A1B 3X5, Rooms EN4000 and EN4003

Next month’s chess festival will consist of three CFC-rated events and registration is now open! This is the first time we have had multiple format tournaments in a single weekend. 

Register on or before March 28 to receive a discount on your entry fee, or register for all three tournaments and receive a discount also.

Please click on the links below for full details and registration instructions.

1) Open Championship: Apr 18 - 20 -- 5-round 90min + 30 classical
2) Rapid Championship: Friday, Apr 18, 1pm-6pm -- 5-round 20min + 5 rapid
3) Blitz Championship: Saturday, Apr is 19, 7pm -- 5 double-round 3min + 2 blitz.

The tournament organizer and arbiter is Daniel Rokhvarger. You can email him at daniel.rokhvarger@yahoo.ca

Please come out and enjoy some or all of these great tournaments!
We look forward to seeing you there. :)