Maili-Jade Ouellet Explained

Maili-Jade Ouellet
Country:	Canada
Birth Place:	Saint-Lambert, Quebec, Canada^[1]
Woman Grandmaster (2020)
Peakrating:	2297 (December 2019)
Fideid:	2620472

Maili-Jade Ouellet (born 2002) is a Canadian chess player, who holds the title Woman Grandmaster.

Biography

Ouellet learned to play chess as a child and began competing in tournaments at 7 years of age.^{[2] [3]}

In 2014, Ouellet won the Canadian Youth Chess Championship in the girls U12 age group.^[4] In 2018, she won the girls U16&U18 category.^[5]

In 2017, she won the Women's Canadian Chess Championship, which also acted as the women's Zonal 2.1 tournament that year, thus qualifying for the Women's World Chess Championship 2018.^{[6] [7]}

Ouellet has played for Canada three times in the Women's Chess Olympiad:

• In 2016, at reserve board in the 42nd Chess Olympiad in Baku (+5, =0, -2),^[8]
• In 2018, at third board in the 43rd Chess Olympiad in Batumi (+5 =2 -3).^[9]
• In 2022, at first board in the 44th Chess Olympiad in Chennai (+6 =1 -4).^[10]

In 2016, she was awarded the Woman International Master (WIM) title.^[11] She received the Woman Grandmaster (WGM) title in 2020 for winning the 2019 American Continental Women's Championship in Aguascalientes, Mexico .^{[3] [12]}

In April 2022, Ouellet won the 2022 Canadian Women's Chess Championship in Kingston, Ontario, with a perfect score of 9/9.

External links

• • • Maili-Jade Ouellet chess games at 365Chess.com

Notes and References

1. Web site: Texas university offers full scholarship to teenage Canadian chess star. December 10, 2021. Cecil. Rosner.
2. News: MacKenzie . Angela . Rowe . Daniel J. . Quebec's teen chess grandmaster ready to play best in the world . 17 December 2020 . Montreal . 12 January 2020.
3. News: Quebec teen beat her mom at chess at age 5 and hasn't looked back . 17 December 2020 . CBC . 28 December 2019.
4. Web site: CHAMPIONNAT JEUNESSE DU CANADA (CYCC) 2014 - U12 FILLES/GIRLS. chess-results.com.
5. Web site: 2018 Canadian Youth Chess Championships / Championnats jeunesse d'échecs. chess-results.com.
6. Web site: Women's Zonal Féminin 2017-18. chess-results.com.
7. Web site: 2017-18 Canadian Women's Champion: Maili-Jade Ouellet - Canadian Chess Newsfeed. chess.ca.
8. Web site: 42nd Olympiad Baku 2016 Women. chess-results.com.
9. Web site: 43rd Olympiad Batumi 2018 Women. chess-results.com.
10. Web site: 44th Chess Olympiad 2022 Women. chess-results.com.
11. Web site: 2016 NAYCC U18 Girls September 2016 Canada FIDE Chess Tournament details. ratings.fide.com.
12. Continental Women's Championship of America . Scholar's Mate . 17 . . December 2019 . 5 December 2022.