Svitlana Demchenko

Svitlana Demchenko (born October 4, 2003) is a Ukrainian-born Canadian chess player. Svitlana Demchenko achieved the title of Woman FIDE Master (WFM) in 2016 and now holds the title of Woman International Master (WIM) since achieved in 2019. Svitlana Demchenko is the 2023 Canadian Women's Closed Champion.

She was a five-time Canadian Girls Champion and a two-time North American Girls Champion in different age categories. Demchenko has been a member of the Canadian Women’s Olympiad Team since 2018, and has represented Canada at the Women’s  World Cup.

She played on the Canadian Women's Chess Olympiad team:
 * In 2018 Batumi Chess Olympiad on the fourth board, scoring 5½/9 (+2, =7, -0).
 * In 2022 Chennai Chess Olympiad on the second board, scoring 7½/11 (+6, =3, -2).

She competed in the 2021 Women's Chess World Cup, where she pushed 35th seed Karina Cyfka to tiebreaks in the first round despite being rated more than 300 points lower, losing in the second set of rapid tiebreaks.

She is an active chess streamer on Twitch.