[3] Since 2009, Toms Kantans has regularly participated in the Latvian Chess Championships.

In August 2022, Kantāns finished second in the Riga Technical University Open "A" tournament.

[5] In June 2023, in Montreal, he won the international chess tournament Canadian Transnational 2023 - Classic Crown.

[6] Kantāns played for Latvia team: In 2014, he was awarded the FIDE International Master (IM) title[12] and received the FIDE International Grandmaster (GM) title three years later.

[13] In 2015, Kantāns married Polish chess master Anna Iwanow (born 1995).