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GM Arman Mikaelyan wins 27th Pacific Coast Premier Open scoring perfect 6/6

18 Jul, 2022by gprevenasΣκακιστικά νέα

The 27th edition of the annual Pacific Coast Chess Open was played 15-17 July at the Los Angeles Airport Hilton and featured six rating sections: Premier (2000+), U2100, U1900, U1700, U1500 and U1200, with a guaranteed prize fund of 25.000$.

GM Arman Mikaelyan who recently clinched silver at the 50th World Open lifted the trophy of the Premier tournament with a perfect score of 6/6 points. He had a 1.5 points advantage over the group of seven players who tied for second with 4.5 points and pocketed a money prize of 3.100$. GM Batchuluun Tsegmed, IM John Daniel Bryant, GM Melikset Khachiyan, GM Richard Balansag Bitoon, Robert M Perez, IM Alexander John Castello and Lucas Jiang shared second place.

The Winners of other sections are Hanchi Yao (U2100), Ellie Zhang (U1900), Davit Gevorgyan and Joel A Gross (U1700), Jason Lu (U1500) and Luke Bugbee and Nick Bugbee (U1200). Scroll down for final rankings of all sections

Read more: IM Sam Schmakel dominates at the 15th annual Chicago Class 2022 / The top seeds live up to expectations at the 27th annual Bradley Chess Open

GM Arman Mikaelyan wins Pacific Coast Premier Chess Open 2022; Photo from Facebook

Final rankings – Pacific Coast Chess Open Premier 2022:


# Name Rating Total Prize
1 GM Arman Mikaelyan 2585 6 3100
2 GM Batchuluun Tsegmed 2576 4.5 500
3 IM John Daniel Bryant 2514 4.5 500
4 GM Melikset Khachiyan 2493 4.5 500
5 GM Richard Balansag Bitoon 2466 4.5 500
6 Robert M Perez 2447 4.5 500
7 IM Alexander John Costello 2379 4.5 500
8 Lucas Jiang 2146 4.5 1200
9 GM Fidel Corrales Jimenez 2622 4  
10 Andy Lin 2386 4  
11 Gabriel Eidelman 2249 4 600
12 Gunnar James Andersen 2352 3.5  
13 Teddie Wen 2325 3.5  
14 FM Michael Casella 2301 3.5  
15 Tommy Wen 2194 3.5  
16 Alex Yuxuan Wang 2192 3.5  
17 Alan J Finkelstein 2169 3.5  
18 Elbert Zeng 2148 3.5  
19 David Gasparyan 2127 3.5  
20 Andrew Wang 2116 3.5  
21 Kevin Fong 2112 3.5  
22 Advaith Vijayakumar 2097 3.5  
23 Solomon Ruddell 2064 3.5  
24 Noah Ward 2062 3.5  
25 Jeffery Wang 2040 3.5  
26 Vincent Qin 2027 3.5  
27 Paul Yuu Iinuma 2220 3  
28 Isaac Wang 2183 3  
29 Krishna Nathan 2166 3  
30 Pranav Sathish 2099 3  
31 Patrick Peijun Liu 2073 3  
32 Bryan B Leano 2054 3  
33 Rose Atwell 2035 3  
34 Sihan Tao 1977 3  
35 Christopher Tyau 1931 3  
36 FM Eugene Yanayt 2213 2.5  
37 Nathaniel Albion Zhang 2195 2.5  
38 Benjamin Benchen Tang 2140 2.5  
39 Joshua A Harrison 2129 2.5  
40 CM Nitish Sg Nathan 2089 2.5  
41 WCM Aksithi Eswaran 2002 2.5  
42 FM Alexandre Kretchetov 2329 2  
43 CM Rushaan Mahajan 2249 2  
44 Henry Deng 2201 2  
45 Leo Creger V 2192 2  
46 Orry M Marciano 2129 2  
47 Sepehr Golsefidy 2081 2  
48 Jeremy Bader 2060 2  
49 Leonard Vu 2049 2  
50 Vishva Nanugonda 2027 2  
51 Roger V V Shi 1981 2  
52 Jaisuraj Kaleeswaran 2029 1.5  
53 Pearson Hong 2017 1.5  
54 Ryan Min 2006 1.5  
55 Erin Bian 1993 1.5  
56 Avinaya Subedi 2038 1  
57 Stewart Bradley Taylor 2032 1  
58 Thanh Tien Nguyen 2027 1  
59 Luke Calhoun 2220 0.5  
60 Yu-cheng Liang 2164 0  
61 William Waddell 1891 0  
62 Michelle Zhang 1517 0

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Final rankings – Pacific Coast Chess Open 2022 – U2100:


# Name Rating Total Prize
1 Hanchi Yao 1795 5.5 2000
2 Drew Martin 1873 5 1000
3 Alan Lacombe 2099 4.5 114.29
4 Noah Montgomery Daniels 2003 4.5 114.29
5 Bret A Bryan 1981 4.5 114.29
6 Seryozha Gasparyan 1927 4.5 114.29
7 Neil S Bhaduri 1879 4.5 114.29
8 Angela Liu 1848 4.5 114.29
9 Scott G Song 1837 4.5 114.29
10 Julian Colville 1997 4  
11 Leo Q Wang 1888 4  
12 Rishabh Chinni 1879 4  
13 James Gartland 1874 4  
14 Eric Sakurai 2069 3.5  
15 Armen Andranigian 2050 3.5  
16 Anthony Faulks 2043 3.5  
17 Ethan Hsiao 1979 3.5  
18 Yuqi Wang 1965 3.5  
19 Dylan* Tang r/e 1947 3.5  
20 Gordon Zhenyu Xu 1946 3.5  
21 Kapilan Karunakaran 1925 3.5  
22 Vishal Anil 1915 3.5  
23 David Liu 1892 3.5  
24 Suren Mikoyan 1862 3.5  
25 Vikrant Ganesan 1817 3.5  
26 Mason Jeffe Welch 1804 3.5  
27 Adelynne Yang 1776 3.5  
28 Terry Tianyi Huang 1658 3.5  
29 Vardan Balyan 1540 3.5  
30 Hursh K Mehta r/e 2059 3  
31 Leah Bernardo Taguinin 2054 3  
32 Faraz Saleem 2034 3  
33 Christopher Gar Wai Sheu 1977 3  
34 Rudy Goce Tia 1972 3  
35 Ujan Ray 1959 3  
36 Omar Leonardo Beltran 1922 3  
37 Erik J Nickels 1897 3  
38 Yashas Patil 1846 3  
39 Abhinav Naveen Mysore 1815 3  
40 Jerry Chang 1740 3  
41 Kai Tabor 2036 2.5  
42 Ed* Cohen r/e 2025 2.5  
43 Lennart K Mathe 1959 2.5  
44 WCM Kally Wen 1889 2.5  
45 Avery Yu 1889 2.5  
46 Felix Guo 1868 2.5  
47 Byron She 1843 2.5  
48 Andersen Yang 1754 2.5  
49 Alan Peng 1732 2.5  
50 Adamson Steiner 1719 2.5  
51 Hursh K* Mehta 2059 2  
52 Willis A Kim 2050 2  
53 Tori Porat 1886 2  
54 Young Cheung Cui 1805 2  
55 Owen Tang 1776 2  
56 Ethan Sun 1735 2  
57 Ivan Zhou 1702 2  
58 Ruyi Hu 1458 2  
59 Yash Rathin Vora 1869 1.5  
60 Buddy Thompson 1839 1.5  
61 Rico Adkins 1701 1.5  
62 Seshasri Ananya Janapareddy 1548 1.5  
63 Michelle Zhang 1517 1.5  
64 Christopher Manlove 1331 1.5  
65 Dylan Tang 1947 1  
66 Joshua William Woods 1688 0.5  
67 Gaurav D Datta 1664 0.5  
68 Pudur Ramaswamy 1573 0.5  
69 Ed Cohen 2025 0  
70 Christopher Tyau 1931 0  
71 Thomas Harbin 1905 0  
72 Michael Goliszek 1857 0  
73 William Waddell 1891 0

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Final rankings – Pacific Coast Chess Open 2022 – U1900:


# Name Rating Total Prize
1 Ellie Zhang 1875 6 2000
2 Urjinbadam Battsetseg 1881 4.5 300
3 Esther Jou 1863 4.5 300
4 H G Pitre 1834 4.5 300
5 Vikrant Rana* Dhekial 1799 4.5 300
6 Joshua William Woods 1688 4.5 300
7 Vahe Abgaryan 1537 4.5 300
8 Garret Liao 1896 4  
9 Yanfeng Guo 1860 4  
10 Shreyas Rajendra Sakharkar 1868 3.5  
11 Brent Lee Baxter 1800 3.5  
12 Dwight B Shaulis 1800 3.5  
13 Vachajan Harutyunyan 1767 3.5  
14 Greg Zhou 1763 3.5  
15 Micah Ean Margolin 1757 3.5  
16 David Nacharian 1716 3.5  
17 Aditya Singh 1711 3.5  
18 Gabriel Lin 1641 3.5  
19 Yixuan Xiao 1631 3.5  
20 Darsh Maheshwari 1617 3.5  
21 Warren Xiao Zhang 1606 3.5  
22 Carson A Dishno 1375 3.5  
23 Brian C Glover 1829 3  
24 Nicholas A Garcia 1812 3  
25 Luis Andrade 1731 3  
26 Yiyang Zheng 1727 3  
27 Blaine Steele 1710 3  
28 Rafi Andranigian 1680 3  
29 Shengjie Fan 1651 3  
30 Oren Porat 1607 3  
31 Marina Xiao 1421 3  
32 Brent Bennett 1895 2.5  
33 Raul G Bugnosen 1700 2.5  
34 Kevin Wei 1688 2.5  
35 Alexander Kong 1671 2.5  
36 Hansika Kolli 1551 2.5  
37 Zachary Wang 1508 2.5  
38 Nathan Haojia Sun 1414 2.5  
39 Caleb Zeng 1255 2.5  
40 Han Naing 1828 2  
41 Owen Overton 1800 2  
42 Jahan Raymond 1744 2  
43 Taja Delijani 1722 2  
44 Anirudh Govada 1625 2  
45 Jaidev Kaleeswaran 1567 2  
46 Tai Toribio 1565 2  
47 Gary Hirschkron 1554 2  
48 Charles H Ensey 1700 1.5  
49 Colin Yi 1589 1.5  
50 Kylie Zhang 1571 1.5  
51 William Waddell 1891 1  
52 Adam M Burgener 1768 1  
53 Eric R Pangilinan 1555 1  
54 Inay Vellore 1506 1  
55 Yaliang Chen 1368 1  
56 Melissa Xu 1258 1  
57 Reid B Savid 1687 0.5  
58 Vikrant Rana Dhekial 1799 0  
59 Kele D Perkins 1601 0  
60 Gerardo Gonzalez 1500 0  
61 Afaf Bouardi 1200 0  
62 Yinuo Hu 877 0  
63 Claire Sun 846 0

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Final rankings – Pacific Coast Chess Open 2022 – U1700:


# Name Rating Total Prize
1 Davit Gevorgyan 1693 5 1200
2 Joel A Gross 1485 5 1200
3 Zachary Gold 1639 4.5 300
4 Joseph Mcentee 1633 4.5 300
5 Timothy W Sowers 1678 4  
6 Ronnie Arbis 1612 4  
7 Lorenzo Antonio 1596 4  
8 Bruce Young 1516 4  
9 Arjun Nathan 1462 4  
10 Snegapraneeth Sudhakar 1348 4  
11 Matthew Talukdar 1110 4  
12 Richard Chang 1551 3.5  
13 Ashley Lin 1528 3.5  
14 Glenn Zhang 1442 3.5  
15 Elena Zhang 1696 3  
16 Vincent Sacharske 1606 3  
17 Varvara Okuneva 1517 3  
18 James H* Mulberry r/e 1500 3  
19 Sreshtha Janapareddy 1407 3  
20 Sarthak Gattani 1399 3  
21 Ridhi Varma Danduprolu 1381 3  
22 Allen Shenghan Fan 1330 3  
23 Brad Liao 1363 2.5  
24 Michael Xiao 1207 2.5  
25 Kele D Perkins 1601 2  
26 Saul Priever 1582 2  
27 Ethan T Wang 1524 2  
28 Rachel Burak 1483 2  
29 Yaliang Chen 1368 2  
30 Argin Aslanian unr. 2  
31 Eric R Pangilinan 1555 1.5  
32 John B. Sangco 1531 1.5  
33 Yinuo Hu 877 1  
34 Sean E Russell 1632 0  
35 Bernab Sangco Jr 1615 0  
36 James H Mulberry 1500 0

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Final rankings – Pacific Coast Chess Open 2022 – U1500:


# Name Rating Total Prize
1 Jason Lu 1446 6 1600
2 Ryan Erik George Sweezey 1493 5 600
3 Matthew Ni 1269 5 600
4 Jeffrey Wei 1415 4.5 200
5 Kai Kettering 1482 4  
6 Kevin Canedo 1454 4  
7 Varuzha Khalatyan 1442 4  
8 Frank (derek) Kronewitter 1400 4  
9 Evan Y Zhong 1375 4  
10 Brandon Zhuocheng You 1297 4  
11 Sean Jura 1285 4  
12 Darren Wang 1268 4  
13 Ryan D Kong 1021 4  
14 Steven A Merrit unr. 4  
15 Nick Mork unr. 4  
16 Daniel Ryan Murphy 1356 3.5  
17 Peter Michael Martinez 1350 3.5  
18 Nathanael La Breche 1327 3.5  
19 Alexander P Chen 1306 3.5  
20 Archer Declan Berenson 1304 3.5  
21 Michael John Quist 1445 3  
22 James R Holder 1417 3  
23 Stephan John Thomas 1377 3  
24 Jonathan Berg 1372 3  
25 Benjamin Bertch 1317 3  
26 Ryuta Watanabe Nunez 1248 3  
27 Luc Dhauthuille 1222 3  
28 Miguel Angel Andrade Vazquez 1476 2.5  
29 Hovhannes Mikoyan 1476 2.5  
30 Adam Godina 1264 2.5  
31 Leya Joseph 1252 2.5  
32 Paul Kennedy 1226 2.5  
33 Jim Yibei Xiao 1215 2.5  
34 Chris Bunch 1201 2.5  
35 Josiah Chen 1142 2.5  
36 Kubraa Adoni 859 2.5  
37 Arturo Caip Baula 1400 2  
38 Nver Par Sargsyan 1373 2  
39 Matthew Johnson 1215 2  
40 Brandon M Walker 1132 2  
41 Joseph Macgregor Langley 1108 2  
42 Ram Stewart 1039 2  
43 Afaf Bouardi 1200 1.5  
44 Claire Sun 846 1.5  
45 Kaden Sun 822 1.5  
46 Jessee Espinosa unr. 1.5  
47 Hrishikesh Prabhu 1319 1  
48 Gor Sargsyan 1271 1  
49 Jacob Gilshteyn 1441 0  
50 Krrish Singh Singh Sardar 1118 0

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Final rankings – Pacific Coast Chess Open 2022 – U1200:


# Name Rating Total Prize
1 Luke Bugbee 1054 5.5 600
2 Nick Bugbee 835 5.5 600
3 Luke Vinson 940 5 75
4 Jacob Thomas Good unr. 5 75
5 Edward Kim unr. 5 75
6 Puzant Kiwanian unr. 5 75
7 Douglas S. Chung 1131 4.5  
8 Jayden Fung 761 4.5  
9 Randal Johnson 1162 4  
10 Robert Colton Simpson 1089 4  
11 George Huang 1081 4  
12 Srikar Gummadi 1071 4  
13 Ian Erickson 1066 4  
14 Joshua Joseph 1063 4  
15 Vian H Parikh 1047 4  
16 Kenneth Yin 1017 4  
17 Christopher Jonah Call 1014 4  
18 Andrew Zhuoyuan You 1006 4  
19 Nikola Jayden Qiu 957 4  
20 Brendan R Matlock 951 4  
21 Whit D Bertch 947 4  
22 Drake Dejute-Erickson unr. 4  
23 Jarl Reyhan Lee Bitoon 1157 3.5  
24 Lucas Brown 1117 3.5  
25 Lucas Park 1084 3.5  
26 Jonah Chen 850 3.5  
27 Howard Li 749 3.5  
28 Akshita Sudhakar 580 3.5  
29 Yusuf Yazici unr. 3.5  
30 Arthur Zarellas 1014 3  
31 April Mara Cristal 909 3  
32 Tim Friesen 881 3  
33 Ian Kim 868 3  
34 Sinjini Chakraborty 827 3  
35 Ararat Bagdasarian 825 3  
36 Joaquin Wada 790 3  
37 Zidaan Hussain 736 3  
38 Kyrene Zhang 636 3  
39 Justin Muller 521 3  
40 Serah Zhao 406 3  
41 Tyler Gwynne Calimag Maurer 103 3  
42 Ara Aramyan unr. 3  
43 Robert Clinton Younger 909 2.5  
44 Jason Nunez 858 2.5  
45 Darren Lei 807 2.5  
46 Krishna Dhaneep 760 2.5  
47 Maxton S Janis 697 2.5  
48 Matthew V Wang 570 2.5  
49 Farid Bayramli 522 2.5  
50 Kaamil Adoni Mohammed 297 2.5  
51 Kumasi Sadiki unr. 2.5  
52 Jared A Washington unr. 2.5  
53 Krrish Singh Singh Sardar 1118 2  
54 Spencer Ho 955 2  
55 Colby Scott Jobinger 890 2  
56 Joel Corral 755 2  
57 Austin Huang 750 2  
58 Royce Ke 646 2  
59 Akshar Gummadi 581 2  
60 David Galstyan 572 2  
61 Sean Dane 777 1.5  
62 Gabriel Skevin 649 1.5  
63 Aurora Stewart 444 1.5  
64 Pengpeng Tom Zhang 389 1.5  
65 Joshua T Fox unr. 1.5  
66 Tommy L Hudson unr. 1.5  
67 Lindsey Newhall 762 1  
68 Jayson Chen 652 1  
69 Ryder Sebastian Margalit 221 1  
70 Reece Ke 145 1  
71 Mathew Foresta 534 0.5  
72 Sheng Chen Hsieh Hung unr. 0.5  
73 Mikey Knight 1067 0  
74 Aram Avetisian unr. 0  
75 Wade Greiten unr. 0

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