Maili-Jade Ouellet

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.[1][2]

In 2014, Ouellet won the Canadian Youth Chess Championship in the girls U12 age group.[3] In 2018, she won the girls U16&U18 category.[4]

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.[5][6]

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

In 2016, at reserve board in the 42nd Chess Olympiad (women) in Baku (+5, =0, -2),[7]
In 2018, at third board in the 43rd Chess Olympiad (women) in Batumi (+5 =2 -3).[8]

In 2016, she was awarded the Woman International Master (WIM) title.[9] Since 2020 she is a Woman Grandmaster (WGM).

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