The 2022 Canadian Open Chess Championship will take place from 11 – 17 July at the Hillfield Strathallan College, Hamilton, Ontario. The event will be played in 9 rounds, swiss system, with nearly 250 players fighting for the total prize fund of 26.000$.
The Winner of the Championship will pocket a money-prize of 8.000$. The time control of the event is: 40 moves in 90 minutes + 30 minutes for remainder of game with 30 second Fischer increment from move one
The top seeds are GM Victor Mikhalevski, GM Mark Paragua, GM Razvan Preotu, IM Nikolay Noritsyn and GM Aman Hambleton. Chessbrah TV will have a live stream following the action of the Chessbrah manager Aman Hambleton. (scroll down for starting rank list of players)
Starting rank list of players – 2022 Canadian Open Chess Championship:
#
Name
Rating
St
1
GM Victor Mikhalevski
2629
ISR
2
GM Mark Paragua
2610
USA
3
GM Razvan Preotu
2608
ON
4
IM Nikolay Noritsyn
2557
ON
5
GM Aman Hambleton
2549
ON
6
IM Artiom Samsonkin
2539
ON
7
GM Bator Sambuev
2534
QC
8
GM Isan Ortiz
2522
CUB
9
IM Jason Liang
2515
ON
10
IM Bitan Banerjee
2502
AB
11
GM John Fedorowicz
2495
USA
12
IM Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux
2493
QC
13
IM Yuanchen Zhang
2464
ON
14
IM Olivier Kenta Chiku-Ratte
2458
QC
15
FM Rohan Talukdar
2457
ON
16
GM Reynaldo Vera
2445
CUB
17
FM Eugene Hua
2392
ON
18
WGM Maili-Jade Ouellet
2361
QC
19
GM Joshua Sheng
2358
USA
20
FM Zachary Dukic
2353
QC
21
FM Anthony Atanasov
2340
ON
22
CM Koosha Jaferian
2336
ON
23
IM Edward Song
2331
USA
24
Viatcheslav Rek
2331
ON
25
CM Max Rusonik
2312
ON
26
CM Max Chen
2299
ON
27
FM Eilia Zomorrodian
2263
IRI
28
Neil Doknjas
2262
BC
29
Ananda Saha
2240
QC
30
Youhe Huang
2237
ON
31
Kevin Zhong
2237
QC
32
Roman Gavrilin
2235
ON
33
Johnathan Han
2232
ON
34
Michael Buscar
2223
ON
35
Ilia Bluvshtein
2220
ON
36
FM Terry Song
2218
ON
37
Savio Joseph Benher
2213
ON
38
Jason Manley
2210
NB
39
Sergey Malakhovets
2204
ON
40
IM Jesus Cuenca Gomez
2200
CUB
41
Eduardo Moura
2194
BC
42
Brett Campbell
2189
ON
43
Leo Lin
2189
SK
44
Paris Dorn
2175
AB
45
FM Doug Bailey
2165
ON
46
Jingyun (ryan) Yang
2141
BC
47
Morgen Mills
2136
NL
48
Daniel Xu
2128
ON
49
James Windram
2124
AB
50
Kyrylo Demchenko
2109
ON
51
Aaron Mendes
2106
ON
52
Vishruth Sharma
2106
ON
53
Alan Bui
2097
ON
54
Anthony Leonard
2097
NL
55
Eddie Xu
2088
ON
56
Ian Loadman
2086
ON
57
Geoffrey Ruelland
2086
ON
58
Max England
2084
ON
59
Benjamin Fradkin
2076
ON
60
Mikhail Egorov
2055
ON
61
Isaac Berengolts
2042
ON
62
Henry Liu
2041
ON
63
Evan Rosenberg
2022
USA
64
Vladimir Drkulec
2020
ON
65
Jeffrey Renfei Zhao
2020
ON
66
Leo Richard
2012
QC
67
Nicolae Oancea
2005
ON
68
Noah Kim
2000
ON
69
Ethan Su
1987
BC
70
Yu Han Guo
1984
BC
71
Kate Jiang
1982
BC
72
Halldor Palsson
1962
ON
73
Douglas Nechio
1961
AB
74
Joshua Terry
1958
ON
75
Richard [miss] Chen
1955
ON
76
Noah Nathaniel Yuen
1954
ON
77
Rachel Chen
1945
USA
78
Matthew He
1945
BC
79
Adam Li
1942
ON
80
Andrew Xu
1939
BC
81
Andrew Colvin
1937
ON
82
Derek Wang
1934
ON
83
Michelle Hua
1930
ON
84
Gilbert Perez
1928
MB
85
Gernot Klein
1925
GER
86
Shon Lazarev
1924
ON
87
Levi Lim
1923
ON
88
Ryan Pickard
1920
NL
89
Ian Finlay
1914
ON
90
Emma He
1903
ON
91
Glenda Baylon
1899
ON
92
Braden Laughlin
1896
ON
93
Zachary Liu
1891
BC
94
Jonathan Wu
1891
AB
95
Etienne Latreille
1885
QC
96
Benjamin Wu
1870
ON
97
Samuel Heran-Boily
1864
NS
98
Brendan Cater
1860
ON
99
Hancy Jiang
1855
ON
100
Olya Kaye
1854
ON
101
Ryan Leong
1853
BC
102
Peter Bokhout
1852
ON
103
Rachel Zihan Wang
1850
QC
104
Brian Zhang
1842
NS
105
Dashnor Hasku
1833
ON
106
Fred Henderson
1827
ON
107
Ferdinand Supsup
1810
ON
108
Larry Yang
1807
ON
109
Andy Wang
1806
NS
110
Bernard Buscar
1789
ON
111
Jonath Joseph
1782
ON
112
Kirk Dickson
1780
ON
113
Tony Lu
1773
ON
114
Daniel Kearnan
1769
ON
115
Michelle Zhang
1756
NS
116
Mario Moran-Venegas
1754
ON
117
Eric Qian
1753
ON
118
Divjot Locham
1751
ON
119
Barron Jiyu Jiang
1740
QC
120
Eddie Lu
1739
ON
121
Branislav Rajsic
1738
ON
122
Raj Verma
1737
ON
123
Gillian Mok
1735
BC
124
Lucian Wu
1726
BC
125
Colton Belanger
1725
ON
126
Valentyn Trofimov-Malyshkin
1717
ON
127
Thusitha Hettigama
1711
ON
128
Ricky Chen
1709
AB
129
Masoud Jizan
1694
ON
130
Rick Garel
1688
ON
131
Modith Aaroh Mutyalapati
1688
ON
132
Mitchell Schneider
1684
ON
133
Raymond Tangning Zhang
1682
BC
134
Bhavik Chhatralia
1679
ON
135
Clément Eiserloh
1678
QC
136
David Jiang
1678
BC
137
Charis Zhu
1640
ON
138
Shafkat Ali
1619
ON
139
Israel Crooks
1611
ON
140
Ashkan Parchizadeh
1608
ON
141
Pierre Maheux
1601
QC
142
Sarthak Deshpande
1595
ON
143
Evan Frangakis
1589
QC
144
Justin Gao
1587
BC
145
Neil Moses
1578
ON
146
Jacob Gaisinsky
1568
ON
147
Ryan Xu
1565
ON
148
Frank Helwig
1559
ON
149
Devin Nicholson
1545
ON
150
Jessica Qian
1526
BC
151
Jack Cloete
1525
ON
152
Michael Sharpe
1519
ON
153
Raymond Dickson
1511
ON
154
Joel Dick
1499
ON
155
Connor Gherasim
1493
SK
156
Matias Gutierrez
1477
ON
157
Erwin Mok
1468
BC
158
Josh Zabor
1467
ON
159
Neerav Mullur
1459
ON
160
Undriadi Benggawan
1456
ON
161
Irene Xie
1455
ON
162
Brian Clarke
1452
ON
163
Vincent Chen
1445
ON
164
Azher Hossain
1424
BC
165
Justin Li
1424
ON
166
Ashley Qian
1413
ON
167
Pavan Suresh
1413
ON
168
John Brown
1409
ON
169
Jacques Bolduc
1384
QC
170
William Zihao Jiang
1380
BC
171
Ivan Chepelev
1377
ON
172
Jatinder Dhaliwal
1377
ON
173
Ryan Yu
1368
Brit
174
James Zhang
1362
AB
175
Doug Gillis
1355
ON
176
Samuel Grabski
1352
ON
177
James Mourgelas
1346
ON
178
George Stajov
1345
ON
179
Jordan Katrib
1344
ON
180
Japveer Narula
1326
ON
181
Michael Pickard
1324
NL
182
Nevin Deshpande
1322
ON
183
Yedishtra Naidoo
1313
ON
184
Sam Chen
1299
ON
185
Hannah Xu
1295
BC
186
Aiden Lu
1291
BC
187
Gilles Bruneau
1290
BC
188
Michael Dennahower
1281
ON
189
Karandeep Basi
1280
ON
190
Liam Hartman
1268
ON
191
Joseph Buchatsky
1256
ON
192
Akash Shetty
1252
ON
193
Emilian Holmgren
1226
BC
194
Yu-Liang Lin
1210
Onta
195
Sean Liu
1208
ON
196
Jae Hyun Byun
1184
ON
197
Isabelle Zhu
1179
ON
198
Nathan Yi-Hsin Yang
1169
BC
199
William Dolmer
1165
ON
200
Edgar Zapata
1151
ON
201
Victor Zhong
1141
ON
202
Winston Huang
1131
BC
203
Ken Callaghan
1081
ON
204
Monika Wood
1062
ON
205
Colin Fecik
1051
ON
206
Jerry McKitrick
1050
ON
207
Michael Sun
1043
ON
208
Yago Gaspar
1004
ON
209
Payam Fakoorziba
1003
ON
210
Michal Wiraszka
957
ON
211
Brian Higgins
933
ON
212
Nobuko Takeuchi
927
ON
213
Brittany Di Tommaso
925
ON
214
Jessica Buchanan
896
ON
215
William Kaiyuan Wang
895
ON
216
Jonathan Sun
873
ON
217
Zachary Chua
861
BC
218
Erik Sun
853
ON
219
Adam Azbel
765
ON
220
GM Elier Miranda
unr.
CUB
221
GM Luis Manuel Perez Rodriguez
unr.
CUB
222
Ryan Campbell
unr.
ON
223
Bohdan Chychkevych
unr.
UKR
224
Mark Coull
unr.
ON
225
Ty Eadie
unr.
ON
226
Ethan Engel
unr.
ON
227
Leroy Gibson
unr.
LBR
228
Charles Haji Kiadii
unr.
LBR
229
Barcon Harmon
unr.
LBR
230
Russell Hsiung
unr.
ON
231
Elena Jacob
unr.
ON
232
Darryl Joseph-Dennie
unr.
ON
233
Andrew Leliveld
unr.
ON
234
Dimitar Mancevski
unr.
ON
235
Merrill Monteiro
unr.
ON
236
Myron Monteiro
unr.
ON
237
Jean-Sebastien Paul
unr.
ON
238
Thomas Saah
unr.
LBR
239
Elyas Samano
unr.
ON
240
Grace W Sanyu
unr.
THA
241
Stephen Sarweh
unr.
LBR
242
Neil Sharma
unr.
ON
243
Steven Soroka
unr.
ON
244
Michael Streegan
unr.
ON
245
Samuel Townsend
unr.
ON
246
Melvin A Weah
unr.
LBR