On June 16th, Late Spring Blitz Festival was held by the Hart House Chess Club at the Hart House Reading Room. It took place in the middle of the summer break of UofT and intended to summarize the first half of 2023. 

The tournament was composed of 5 Swiss games with 5min+2s time control and was marked by 37 participants.

After 5 rounds of games, an extra game for the tiebreak was seen between IM Nicolas Vettese and FM Mike Ivanov, who both scored 4.5 with no losses. The third place was shared by Christopher Knox and Ruining (Ray) Wu.