Maili-Jade Ouellet

Maili-Jade Ouellet (born 2002) is a Canadian chess player who holds the Woman Grandmaster title and is the current Canadian Women's Chess Champion.

Biography Ouellet learned to play chess as a child and began competing in tournaments at 7 years of age.

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

In 2017, she won the Women's Canadian Chess Championship, which also acted as the women's Zonal 2.1 tournament that year, which qualified her for the Women's World Chess Championship 2018 (November).

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), In 2018, at third board in the 43rd Chess Olympiad in Batumi (+5 =2 -3). In 2022, at first board in the 44th Chess Olympiad in Chennai (+6 =1 -4).

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

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

On April 4th, 2024, Ouellet won the 2024 Canadian Women's Chess Championship. She won with a score of 7.5/9 beating Svitlana Demchenko on tiebreaks.

On April 7th, 2026, Ouellet won the 2026 Canadian Women's Chess Championship in Montreal, Quebec, with a score of 8.5/9. This marked her fourth national championship.