The Ontario Open Chess Tournament will take place from May 21 through May 23, at the beautiful West Toronto Masonic Temple.
The event features 4 tournaments: Crown, U2200, U1800 and U1400. Each tournament will be played in six rounds with a time control of 90 minutes + 30 seconds per move. The total prize fund of the event will be 8.500$.
The 2022 Ontario Open combined players list of 165 entries across 4 sections (Crown, U2200, U1800, U1400), include 28 titled players, 60 junior players, and 41 unrated players. GM Bator Sambuev, IM Nikolay Noritsyn and IM Artiom Samsonkin are the top seeds of the Crown section. (find the starting rank list of each section below)
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Starting rank list of players – 2022 Ontario Open (Crown):
No.
Name
FED
Rtg
1
GM
Sambuev Bator
CAN
2568
2
IM
Noritsyn Nikolay
CAN
2566
3
IM
Samsonkin Artiom
CAN
2534
4
IM
Plotkin Mark
CAN
2528
5
IM
Rodrigue-Lemieux Shawn
CAN
2512
6
IM
Thavandiran Shiyam
CAN
2474
7
IM
Chiku-Ratte Olivier Kenta
CAN
2468
8
FM
Talukdar Rohan
CAN
2454
9
FM
Plotkin Victor
CAN
2392
10
CM
Jaferian Koosha
IRI
2349
11
FM
Teodoro IV Eduardo D.
CAN
2334
12
FM
Humphreys Michael
CAN
2331
13
NM
Derraugh Geordie
CAN
2330
14
WGM
Ouellet Maili-Jade
CAN
2300
15
CM
Li William
CAN
2275
16
WGM
Burtasova Anna
CAN
2274
17
NM
Malek Omid
CAN
2266
18
WIM
Li Yunshan
CHN
2262
19
WIM
Demchenko Svitlana
CAN
2244
20
IM
Barron Michael
CAN
2234
21
NM
Han Johnathan
CAN
2234
22
NM
Abrahams Daniel
CAN
2226
23
NM
Yu Jonathan
CAN
2211
24
Huang Youhe
CAN
2203
25
Malakhovets Sergey
CAN
2198
26
Lin Leo
CAN
2160
27
NM
Filipovich David
CAN
2150
28
WIM
Kasturi M
IND
2106
29
Pramanik Projjwal
IND
2071
30
Gavrilin Roman
RUS
2066
31
Gao Raymond
CAN
2048
32
Siegel Adam
CAN
1858
.
Starting rank list of players: 2022 Ontario Open (U2200):
No.
Name
FED
Rtg
1
Dai Wenzhi
CHN
2177
2
Ishow Younan
SYR
2146
3
NM
Southam David
CAN
2117
4
Bui Alan
CAN
2117
5
Loadman Ian
CAN
2091
6
Xu Eddie
CAN
2091
7
Nazareno Merlin
CAN
2083
8
Pimentel Sheldon
CAN
2026
9
Shih Matthew
USA
1985
10
Mohan Abhinandan
CAN
1984
11
WFM
He Emma
CAN
1981
12
Ganea Mihai
CAN
1954
13
Yuen Noah Nathaniel
CAN
1948
14
Douglas Richard
CAN
1947
15
Faraji Jafar
CAN
1941
16
Lim Levi
CAN
1934
17
Zheng Victor
CAN
1918
18
Boross-Harmer Peter
CAN
1916
19
Cater Brendan
CAN
1916
20
Laughlin Braden
CAN
1908
21
Courson Wade
CAN
1902
22
Flores Marc
CAN
1894
23
Kim Noah
CAN
1884
24
Marghetis Aris
CAN
1869
25
Oancea Nicolae
ROU
1861
26
Wu Benjamin
CAN
1849
27
Mendes Aaron Reeve
CAN
1817
28
Jeyakumar Bhavatharshan
CAN
1808
29
Rajsic Branislav
CAN
1784
30
Lu Tony
CAN
1765
31
Lefort Victor
CAN
1755
32
Orlovskii Konstantin
RUS
1734
33
Li Ande
CHN
1675
34
Sneeggen Espen
NOR
1646
.
Starting rank list of players: 2022 Ontario Open (U1800):
No.
Name
FED
Rtg
1
Milinkovic Mate
CAN
1794
2
Moon Ethan
CAN
1739
3
AIM
Adulfo Vincent Angel
CAN
1717
4
Yao Henry
CAN
1662
5
Guo Steven
CAN
1626
6
Helwig Frank
CAN
1626
7
Saltat Michael
CAN
1620
8
Perkins Simon
CAN
1597
9
Belcadi Salim
CAN
1592
10
Chepelev Ivan
CAN
1561
11
Greenblat Leeor
CAN
1507
12
Correa Braga Camara De Almeida Neve
CAN
1494
13
Gaisinsky Jacob
CAN
1458
14
Morin Sato
CAN
1412
15
Nicholson Devin
CAN
1376
16
Mourgelas James
CAN
1293
17
Gutierrez Matias
CAN
1280
18
Katrib Jordan
CAN
1196
19
Basi Karandeep
CAN
1177
20
Shetty Akash
CAN
1164
21
Avakian Anoush
CAN
0
22
Bui Minh
CAN
0
23
Caughey Matt
CAN
0
24
Dennahower Michael
CAN
0
25
Gara Emil
CAN
0
26
Granger Alec
CAN
0
27
Little Brian
CAN
0
28
Mancevski Dimitar
CAN
0
29
Mccutcheon Julian
CAN
0
30
Patel Aadi
CAN
0
.
Starting rank list of players: 2022 Ontario Open (U1400):
No.
Name
FED
Rtg
1
Parakin Don
CAN
1344
2
Wen Justin
CAN
1290
3
Su Jayden Chenxuan
CAN
1289
4
Bulatovic Marko
CAN
1279
5
Charles Christopher
CAN
1260
6
Allahverdi Umid
AZE
1250
7
Bala Mehar
CAN
1213
8
Huang Eric
CAN
1199
9
Byun Jae Hyun
CAN
1184
10
Yang Lucy
CAN
1176
11
Shepherd Zachary
CAN
1163
12
Lesperance Charles
CAN
1145
13
Hilker Nathan
CAN
1143
14
Tsenter Ester
CAN
1143
15
Lim Justin
CAN
1141
16
Hambardzumyan Narek
CAN
1074
17
Pan Nicholas
CAN
1072
18
Gerber Jerry
CAN
1070
19
Gay Heidi
CAN
1018
20
Hu Ethan
CAN
1004
21
Wang Mengxuan
CAN
966
22
Zhan Jayden Zihan
CAN
923
23
Lukinykh Slava
CAN
915
24
Wang William Kaiyuan
CAN
915
25
Li Yuming (Jerry)
CAN
914
26
Takeuchi Nobuko
CAN
912
27
Mickelson Jonah
CAN
907
28
Cawse James
CAN
898
29
Trudeau Charlie
CAN
855
30
Kuzin Stephen
CAN
837
31
Banerjee Evan
CAN
790
32
Shen Yining
CAN
770
33
Li Sophia Jiawei
CAN
764
34
Fiorucci Mario
CAN
756
35
Semianiuk Catherine
CAN
726
36
Fiorucci Marcus
CAN
694
37
Sekaran Adithya
CAN
657
38
Lesperance Milan
CAN
609
39
Tkachenko Kristine
CAN
565
40
Al Qadi Sad
CAN
0
41
Al Rashdi Loay
CAN
0
42
Al Thubian Andre
CAN
0
43
Azbel Adam
CAN
0
44
Bolik-Coulon Nicolas
CAN
0
45
Bruce Ian
CAN
0
46
Chen Aaron
CAN
0
47
Chen Timmy
CAN
0
48
Fakoorziba Payam
CAN
0
49
Fihrer Gidon
CAN
0
50
Fortner Emily
CAN
0
51
Goel Dev
CAN
0
52
Gomes Gaspar Yago
CAN
0
53
Green Mike
CAN
0
54
Guo Laura
CAN
0
55
Ishow Youssef
CAN
0
56
Kang Richard
CAN
0
57
Liu Oscar
CAN
0
58
Liu Sean
CAN
0
59
Mcgowan Joseph
CAN
0
60
Mclean Robert
CAN
0
61
Penthor Stacey
CAN
0
62
Prickett-Morgan Henry
CAN
0
63
Ragalie Michael
CAN
0
64
Rasul Samaira
CAN
0
65
Shah Mustafa
CAN
0
66
Tian Raymond
CAN
0
67
Varol Cansin
CAN
0
68
Voleti Sreekar
CAN
0
69
Xie Irene
CAN
0
