The 27th edition of the annual Pacific Coast Chess Open will take place from 15-17 July at the Los Angeles Airport Hilton. The event will feature six rating sections: Premier (2000+), U2100, U1900, U1700, U1500 and U1200, with a guaranteed prize fund of 25.000$.
The Premier tournament will be played in 6 rounds, swiss system, with time control: 80 minutes for 40 moves, plus 30 minutes till the end of the game, plus 30 seconds increment starting from move one. More than 300 players already registered for the event, and the top seeds are: GM Fidel Corrales Jimenez, GM Arman Mikaelyan and GM Batchuluun Tsegmed. (Scroll down for the starting list of participants).
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27th annual Pacific Coast Chess Open – Starting rank list of players:
Player’s Name
FIDE Rating
Section
Schedule
Fidel Corrales Jimenez (GM)
2543
Premier (2000 & up)
2 Day
Arman Mikaelyan (GM)
2507
Premier (2000 & up)
3 Day
Batchuluun Tsegmed (GM)
2510
Premier (2000 & up)
3 Day
John Daniel Bryant (IM)
2403
Premier (2000 & up)
3 Day
Melikset Khachiyan (GM)
2446
Premier (2000 & up)
2 Day
Richard Balansag Bitoon (GM)
2437
Premier (2000 & up)
2 Day
Robert M Perez
2322
Premier (2000 & up)
2 Day
Andy Lin
2259
Premier (2000 & up)
3 Day
Alexander John Costello (IM)
2232
Premier (2000 & up)
3 Day
Teddie Wen
2234
Premier (2000 & up)
3 Day
Michael Casella (FM)
2166
Premier (2000 & up)
3 Day
Gabriel Eidelman
2122
Premier (2000 & up)
3 Day
Rushaan Mahajan (CM)
2089
Premier (2000 & up)
2 Day
Luke Calhoun
2066
Premier (2000 & up)
2 Day
Henry Deng
2118
Premier (2000 & up)
3 Day
Nathaniel Albion Zhang
2068
Premier (2000 & up)
3 Day
Tommy Wen
2040
Premier (2000 & up)
3 Day
Alex Yuxuan Wang
2029
Premier (2000 & up)
3 Day
Isaac Wang
1894
Premier (2000 & up)
3 Day
Krishna Nathan
1966
Premier (2000 & up)
3 Day
Yu-cheng Liang
2124
Premier (2000 & up)
3 Day
Elbert Zeng
1817
Premier (2000 & up)
2 Day
Lucas Jiang
2082
Premier (2000 & up)
3 Day
Benjamin Benchen Tang
1707
Premier (2000 & up)
2 Day
Orry M Marciano
1840
Premier (2000 & up)
3 Day
David Gasparyan
1765
Premier (2000 & up)
3 Day
Andrew Wang
1937
Premier (2000 & up)
3 Day
Kevin Fong
2016
Premier (2000 & up)
3 Day
Alan Lacombe
2235
Under 2100
3 Day
Advaith Vijayakumar
1959
Premier (2000 & up)
3 Day
Sepehr Golsefidy
1802
Premier (2000 & up)
3 Day
Patrick Peijun Liu
1863
Premier (2000 & up)
3 Day
Eric Sakurai
2024
Under 2100
2 Day
Nicholas Ruogu Weng
1839
Premier (2000 & up)
3 Day
Noah Ward
1735
Premier (2000 & up)
2 Day
Jeremy Bader
1761
Premier (2000 & up)
3 Day
Hursh K Mehta
1752
Under 2100
3 Day
Bryan B Leano
1874
Premier (2000 & up)
3 Day
Leah Bernardo Taguinin
Unr
Under 2100
2 Day
Willis A Kim
1897
Under 2100
2 Day
Armen Andranigian
1775
Premier (2000 & up)
3 Day
Leonard Vu
1759
Premier (2000 & up)
2 Day
Anthony Faulks
1684
Under 2100
3 Day
Jeffery Wang
1769
Premier (2000 & up)
3 Day
Avinaya Subedi
1834
Premier (2000 & up)
3 Day
Rose Atwell
1728
Premier (2000 & up)
3 Day
Faraz Saleem
1751
Under 2100
2 Day
Stewart Bradley Taylor
1840
Premier (2000 & up)
3 Day
Jaisuraj Kaleeswaran
1893
Premier (2000 & up)
3 Day
Vincent Qin
1887
Premier (2000 & up)
3 Day
Thanh Tien Nguyen
1885
Premier (2000 & up)
3 Day
Vishva Nanugonda
1770
Premier (2000 & up)
3 Day
Ed Cohen
1906
Under 2100
3 Day
Pearson Hong
1822
Premier (2000 & up)
3 Day
Ryan Min
1797
Premier (2000 & up)
3 Day
Aksithi Eswaran (WCM)
1724
Premier (2000 & up)
3 Day
Julian Colville
Unr
Under 2100
2 Day
Erin Bian
1824
Premier (2000 & up)
3 Day
Roger V V Shi
1624
Premier (2000 & up)
3 Day
Bret A Bryan
Unr
Under 2100
3 Day
Ethan Hsiao
1418
Under 2100
3 Day
Sihan Tao
1697
Premier (2000 & up)
3 Day
Christopher Gar Wai Sheu
Unr
Under 2100
2 Day
Rudy Goce Tia
1718
Under 2100
3 Day
Yuqi Wang
Unr
Under 2100
2 Day
Dylan Tang
1531
Under 2100
3 Day
Gordon Zhenyu Xu
1549
Under 2100
3 Day
Vibhuv Papaihgari Reddy (Withdrawn)
1603
Premier (2000 & up)
3 Day
Seryozha Gasparyan
1580
Under 2100
3 Day
Kapilan Karunakaran
1706
Under 2100
3 Day
Omar Leonardo Beltran
1592
Under 2100
3 Day
Vishal Anil
1686
Under 2100
3 Day
Thomas Harbin
Unr
Under 2100
3 Day
Erik J Nickels
1769
Under 2100
3 Day
Garret Liao
N/A
Under 1900
2 Day
Arjun Sankar (Withdrawn)
1479
Under 2100
3 Day
Brent Bennett
N/A
Under 1900
2 Day
David Liu
1544
Under 2100
2 Day
Miles Zhao (Withdrawn)
N/A
Under 1900
3 Day
Kally Wen (WCM)
1603
Under 2100
3 Day
Avery Yu
1531
Under 2100
3 Day
Leo Q Wang
Unr
Under 2100
3 Day
Tori Porat
1836
Under 2100
3 Day
Urjinbadam Battsetseg
N/A
Under 1900
3 Day
Neil S Bhaduri
1578
Under 2100
3 Day
Ellie Zhang
1505
Under 2100
3 Day
Drew Martin
1667
Under 2100
3 Day
Felix Guo
Unr
Under 2100
3 Day
Shreyas Rajendra Sakharkar
N/A
Under 1900
3 Day
Esther Jou
N/A
Under 1900
3 Day
Suren Mikoyan
1395
Under 2100
3 Day
Yanfeng Guo
N/A
Under 1900
3 Day
Michael Goliszek
Unr
Under 2100
3 Day
Angela Liu
1458
Under 2100
3 Day
Yashas Patil
1616
Under 2100
3 Day
Byron She
1540
Under 2100
3 Day
Buddy Thompson
1740
Under 2100
3 Day
Scott G Song
Unr
Under 2100
3 Day
H G Pitre
N/A
Under 1900
3 Day
Brian C Glover
N/A
Under 1900
3 Day
Han Naing
N/A
Under 1900
3 Day
Vikrant Ganesan
1472
Under 2100
3 Day
Abhinav Naveen Mysore
1524
Under 2100
3 Day
Nicholas A Garcia
N/A
Under 1900
3 Day
Young Cheung Cui
1524
Under 2100
3 Day
Brent Lee Baxter
N/A
Under 1900
3 Day
Owen Overton
N/A
Under 1900
3 Day
Dwight B Shaulis
N/A
Under 1900
3 Day
Vikrant Rana Dhekial
N/A
Under 1900
3 Day
Hanchi Yao
1571
Under 2100
3 Day
Owen Tang
1746
Under 2100
3 Day
Adelynne Yang
1528
Under 2100
3 Day
Greg Zhou
N/A
Under 1900
2 Day
Micah Ean Margolin
N/A
Under 1900
2 Day
Andersen Yang
1467
Under 2100
3 Day
Jerry Chang
Unr
Under 2100
3 Day
Ethan Sun
1528
Under 2100
3 Day
Alan Peng
Unr
Under 2100
3 Day
Luis Andrade
N/A
Under 1900
2 Day
Yiyang Zheng
N/A
Under 1900
3 Day
Taja Delijani
N/A
Under 1900
2 Day
Adamson Steiner
1532
Under 2100
3 Day
David Nacharian
N/A
Under 1900
3 Day
Aditya Singh
N/A
Under 1900
3 Day
Jesse Joe Lopez
N/A
Under 1900
3 Day
Blaine Steele
N/A
Under 1900
3 Day
Ivan Zhou
1454
Under 2100
3 Day
Rico Adkins
1669
Under 2100
3 Day
Raul G Bugnosen
N/A
Under 1900
3 Day
Charles H Ensey
N/A
Under 1900
3 Day
Elena Zhang
N/A
Under 1900
3 Day
Davit Gevorgyan
N/A
Under 1700
3 Day
Reynald E Dikit
N/A
Under 1900
3 Day
Kevin Wei
N/A
Under 1900
3 Day
Joshua William Woods
N/A
Under 1900
2 Day
Rafi Andranigian
N/A
Under 1900
3 Day
Timothy W Sowers
N/A
Under 1700
2 Day
Alexander Kong
N/A
Under 1900
2 Day
Gaurav D Datta
Unr
Under 2100
3 Day
Terry Tianyi Huang
Unr
Under 2100
3 Day
Shengjie Fan
N/A
Under 1900
3 Day
Gabriel Lin
N/A
Under 1900
2 Day
Zachary Gold
N/A
Under 1700
2 Day
Cesar Bercilla Tamondong (Withdrawn)
N/A
Under 1700
3 Day
Sean E Russell
N/A
Under 1700
2 Day
Yixuan Xiao
N/A
Under 1900
3 Day
Anirudh Govada
N/A
Under 1900
3 Day
Darsh Maheshwari
N/A
Under 1900
3 Day
Oren Porat
N/A
Under 1900
2 Day
Vincent Sacharske
N/A
Under 1700
2 Day
Warren Xiao Zhang
N/A
Under 1900
3 Day
Edmond C Page
N/A
Under 1700
2 Day
Colin Yi
N/A
Under 1900
3 Day
Saul Priever
N/A
Under 1700
3 Day
Pudur Ramaswamy
1317
Under 2100
2 Day
Sean Ting
N/A
Under 1700
2 Day
Kylie Zhang
N/A
Under 1900
3 Day
Jaidev Kaleeswaran
N/A
Under 1900
3 Day
James Andrew Clark (Withdrawn)
N/A
Under 1700
2 Day
Eric R Pangilinan
N/A
Under 1700
3 Day
Gary Hirschkron
N/A
Under 1900
3 Day
Richard Chang
N/A
Under 1700
2 Day
Hansika Kolli
N/A
Under 1900
3 Day
Seshasri Ananya Janapareddy
Unr
Under 2100
2 Day
Vahe Abgaryan
N/A
Under 1900
3 Day
John B. Sangco
N/A
Under 1700
3 Day
Ashley Lin
N/A
Under 1700
3 Day
Ethan T Wang
N/A
Under 1700
3 Day
Varvara Okuneva
N/A
Under 1700
2 Day
Michelle Zhang
Unr
Under 2100
3 Day
Bruce Young
N/A
Under 1700
2 Day
Zachary Wang
N/A
Under 1900
2 Day
Inay Vellore
N/A
Under 1900
3 Day
Gerardo Gonzalez
N/A
Under 1900
3 Day
James H Mulberry
N/A
Under 1700
3 Day
Ryan Erik George Sweezey
N/A
Under 1500
3 Day
Joel A Gross
N/A
Under 1700
2 Day
Rachel Burak
N/A
Under 1700
3 Day
Kai Kettering
N/A
Under 1500
3 Day
Miguel Angel Andrade Vazquez
N/A
Under 1500
2 Day
Hovhannes Mikoyan
N/A
Under 1500
3 Day
Arjun Nathan
N/A
Under 1700
3 Day
Ruyi Hu
1562
Under 2100
2 Day
Kevin Canedo
N/A
Under 1500
2 Day
Jason Lu
N/A
Under 1500
3 Day
Michael John Quist
N/A
Under 1500
2 Day
Glenn Zhang
N/A
Under 1700
3 Day
Jacob Gilshteyn
N/A
Under 1500
2 Day
Marina Xiao
N/A
Under 1900
2 Day
James R Holder
N/A
Under 1500
3 Day
Jeffrey Wei
N/A
Under 1500
2 Day
Sreshtha Janapareddy
N/A
Under 1700
2 Day
Frank (derek) Kronewitter
N/A
Under 1500
3 Day
Sarthak Gattani
N/A
Under 1700
2 Day
Ridhi Varma Danduprolu
N/A
Under 1700
3 Day
Stephan John Thomas
N/A
Under 1500
2 Day
Carson A Dishno
N/A
Under 1900
3 Day
Evan Y Zhong
N/A
Under 1500
2 Day
Jonathan Berg
N/A
Under 1500
3 Day
Yaliang Chen
N/A
Under 1700
2 Day
Daniel Ryan Murphy
N/A
Under 1500
2 Day
Peter Michael Martinez
N/A
Under 1500
3 Day
Snegapraneeth Sudhakar
N/A
Under 1700
3 Day
Christopher Manlove
Unr
Under 2100
2 Day
Allen Shenghan Fan
N/A
Under 1700
3 Day
Nathanael La Breche
N/A
Under 1500
3 Day
Hrishikesh Prabhu
N/A
Under 1500
3 Day
Benjamin Bertch
N/A
Under 1500
2 Day
Alexander P Chen
N/A
Under 1500
3 Day
Archer Declan Berenson
N/A
Under 1500
3 Day
Brandon Zhuocheng You
N/A
Under 1500
2 Day
Sean Jura
N/A
Under 1500
2 Day
Joshua Wang
N/A
Under 1500
2 Day
Gor Sargsyan
N/A
Under 1500
2 Day
Matthew Ni
N/A
Under 1500
2 Day
Darren Wang
N/A
Under 1500
2 Day
Adam Godina
N/A
Under 1500
2 Day
Melissa Xu
N/A
Under 1900
2 Day
Caleb Zeng
N/A
Under 1900
2 Day
Leya Joseph
N/A
Under 1500
2 Day
Ryuta Watanabe Nunez
N/A
Under 1500
2 Day
Swaminathan Sankar (Withdrawn)
N/A
Under 1700
2 Day
Paul Kennedy
N/A
Under 1500
3 Day
Luc Dhauthuille
N/A
Under 1500
2 Day
Matthew Johnson
N/A
Under 1500
3 Day
Jim Yibei Xiao
N/A
Under 1500
3 Day
Michael Xiao
N/A
Under 1700
2 Day
Chris Bunch
N/A
Under 1500
3 Day
Afaf Bouardi
N/A
Under 1500
3 Day
Randal Johnson
N/A
Under 1200
3 Day
Jarl Reyhan Lee Bitoon
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Josiah Chen
N/A
Under 1500
2 Day
Brandon M Walker
N/A
Under 1500
2 Day
Douglas S. Chung
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Krrish Singh Singh Sardar
N/A
Under 1200
3 Day
Lucas Brown
N/A
Under 1200
3 Day
Gagik Gary Grigoryan
N/A
Under 1200
3 Day
Matthew Talukdar
N/A
Under 1700
3 Day
Joseph Macgregor Langley
N/A
Under 1500
3 Day
Robert Colton Simpson
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Lucas Park
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Srikar Gummadi
N/A
Under 1200
3 Day
Mikey Knight
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Joshua Joseph
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Luke Bugbee
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Vian H Parikh
N/A
Under 1200
3 Day
Ram Stewart
N/A
Under 1500
2 Day
Ryan D Kong
N/A
Under 1500
2 Day
Kenneth Yin
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Christopher Jonah Call
N/A
Under 1200
3 Day
Andrew Zhuoyuan You
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Neel Deshpande
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Nikola Jayden Qiu
N/A
Under 1200
3 Day
Spencer Ho
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Brendan R Matlock
N/A
Under 1200
3 Day
Whit D Bertch
N/A
Under 1200
3 Day
Luke Vinson
N/A
Under 1200
3 Day
April Mara Cristal
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Robert Clinton Younger
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Colby Scott Jobinger
N/A
Under 1200
3 Day
Yinuo Hu
N/A
Under 1700
2 Day
Ian Kim
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Kubraa Adoni
N/A
Under 1500
2 Day
Jason Nunez
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Jonah Chen
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Claire Sun
N/A
Under 1500
3 Day
Nick Bugbee
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Sinjini Chakraborty
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Ararat Bagdasarian
N/A
Under 1200
3 Day
Kaden Sun
N/A
Under 1500
3 Day
Darren Lei
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Joaquin Wada
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Sean Dane
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Lindsey Newhall
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Jayden Fung
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Krishna Dhaneep
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Joel Corral
N/A
Under 1200
3 Day
Austin Huang
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Howard Li
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Zidaan Hussain
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Maxton S Janis
N/A
Under 1200
3 Day
Jayson Chen
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Gabriel Skevin
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Royce Ke
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Gus R Piangerelli (Withdrawn)
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Kyrene Zhang
N/A
Under 1200
3 Day
Akshar Gummadi
N/A
Under 1200
3 Day
Akshita Sudhakar
N/A
Under 1200
3 Day
Matthew V Wang
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Farid Bayramli
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Justin Muller
N/A
Under 1200
3 Day
Daksh Sathish (Withdrawn)
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Aurora Stewart
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Serah Zhao
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Pengpeng Tom Zhang
N/A
Under 1200
3 Day
Kaamil Adoni Mohammed
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Reece Ke
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Tyler Gwynne Calimag Maurer
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Ara Aramyan
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Argin Aslanian
N/A
Under 1700
2 Day
Aram Avetisian
N/A
Under 1200
3 Day
Jessee Espinosa
N/A
Under 1500
3 Day
Joshua T Fox
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Jacob Thomas Good
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Wade Greiten
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Tommy L Hudson
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Sheng Chen Hsieh Hung
N/A
Under 1200
3 Day
Puzant Kiwanian
N/A
Under 1200
3 Day
Steven A Merrit
N/A
Under 1500
3 Day
Nick Mork
N/A
Under 1500
3 Day
Marcus W. Suzuki (Withdrawn)
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
Jared A Washington
N/A
Under 1200
3 Day
Yusuf Yazici
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
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