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IM Nikolay Noritsyn and IM Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux are Canadian Open co-champions

18 Jul, 2022by gprevenasΣκακιστικά νέα

The 2022 Canadian Open Chess Championship took place 11 – 17 July at the Hillfield Strathallan College, Hamilton, Ontario. Nearly 250 players fought for the total prize fund of 26.000$ over 9 swiss rounds, including the top seeded: GM Victor Mikhalevski, GM Mark Paragua, GM Razvan Preotu, and GM Aman Hambleton. 

IM Nikolay Noritsyn and IM Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux tied for the first place scoring 7.5 points and got crowned as the 2022 Canadian Open co-champions. Noritsyn and Rodrigue-Lemieux also shared the money prize of 12.000$ on equal halfs.

The co-winners were followed by a group of five players who tied for third place with 7 points each: GM Victor Mikhalevski, IM Jason Liang, IM Olivier-Kenta Chiku-Ratte, FM Zachary Dukic and CM Max Rusonik. A famous streamer and the CEO of Chessbrah GM Aman Hambleton finished the event in shared 8th place with 6.5 points. Scroll down for final rankings.

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The co-champions of the Canadian Open Chess Championship – IM Nikolay Noritsyn and IM Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux; Photo by: Victoria Doknjas/Chess Federation of Canada

Playing venue of the event; Photo by: Victoria Doknjas

Final rankings – Canadian Open Chess Championship 2022:


# Name Rating Fed Total
1 IM Nikolay Noritsyn 2557   7.5
2 IM Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux 2493   7.5
3 GM Victor Mikhalevski 2629 ISR 7
4 IM Jason Liang 2515 USA 7
5 IM Olivier-Kenta Chiku-Ratte 2458   7
6 FM Zachary Dukic 2353   7
7 CM Max Rusonik 2312   7
8 GM Mark Paragua 2610 PHI 6.5
9 GM Bator Sambuev 2568   6.5
10 GM Aman Hambleton 2549   6.5
11 IM Artiom Samsonkin 2539   6.5
12 GM John Fedorowicz 2495 USA 6.5
13 FM Rohan Talukdar 2457   6.5
14 FM Eugene Hua 2392   6.5
15 CM Koosha Jaferian 2336 IRI 6.5
16 Viatcheslav Rek 2331   6.5
17 GM Luis Manuel Perez Rodriguez 2328 CUB 6.5
18 Neil Doknjas 2262   6.5
19 Youhe Huang 2237   6.5
20 FM Doug Bailey 2165   6.5
21 Aaron Mendes 2106   6.5
22 Richard [miss] Chen 1955   6.5
23 GM Razvan Preotu 2608   6
24 GM Joshua Sheng 2558 USA 6
25 GM Isan Ortiz 2526 CUB 6
26 IM Bitan Banerjee 2502 IND 6
27 GM Reynaldo Vera 2445 CUB 6
28 FM Anthony Atanasov 2340   6
29 CM Max Chen 2299   6
30 FM Eilia Zomorrodian 2263 IRI 6
31 Johnathan Han 2232   6
32 Eduardo Moura 2194 BRA 6
33 Paris Dorn 2175   6
34 Eric Li 2165   6
35 Daniel Xu 2128   6
36 Alan Bui 2097   6
37 Eddie Xu 2088   6
38 Henry Liu 2041   6
39 Nicolae Oancea 2005 ROM 6
40 Joshua Terry 1958   6
41 Ryan Leong 1853   6
42 IM Edward Song 2474 USA 5.5
43 IM Yuanchen Zhang 2464   5.5
44 WGM Maili-Jade Ouellet 2361   5.5
45 Kevin Zhong 2276   5.5
46 Roman Gavrilin 2235 RUS 5.5
47 FM Terry Song 2218   5.5
48 Evan Rosenberg 2205 USA 5.5
49 Sergey Malakhovets 2204   5.5
50 Jingyun (ryan) Yang 2141   5.5
51 Anthony Leonard 2097   5.5
52 Ian Loadman 2086   5.5
53 Mikhail Egorov 2055   5.5
54 Noah Kim 2000   5.5
55 Rachel Chen 1988 USA 5.5
56 Dashnor Hasku 1963 KOS 5.5
57 Adam Li 1942   5.5
58 Braden Laughlin 1896   5.5
59 Larry Yang 1807   5.5
60 Michael Streegan unr.   5.5
61 Ananda Saha 2240   5
62 Michael Buscar 2223   5
63 Savio Joseph Benher 2213   5
64 Jason Manley 2210   5
65 Leo Lin 2189   5
66 James Windram 2124   5
67 Kyrylo Demchenko 2109   5
68 Vishruth Sharma 2106   5
69 Geoffrey Ruelland 2086   5
70 Max England 2084   5
71 Benjamin Fradkin 2076   5
72 Isaac Berengolts 2042   5
73 Vladimir Drkulec 2020   5
74 Jeffrey Renfei Zhao 2020   5
75 Ethan Su 1987   5
76 Yu Han Guo 1984   5
77 Kate Jiang 1982   5
78 Noah Nathaniel Yuen 1954   5
79 Matthew He 1945   5
80 Derek Wang 1934   5
81 Michelle Hua 1930   5
82 Ian Finlay 1914   5
83 Emma He 1903   5
84 Glenda Baylon 1899   5
85 Zachary Liu 1891   5
86 Etienne Latreille 1888   5
87 Samuel Heran-Boily 1871   5
88 Hancy Jiang 1855   5
89 Rachel Zihan Wang 1850   5
90 Ferdinand Supsup 1810   5
91 Barron Jiyu Jiang 1791   5
92 Tony Lu 1773   5
93 Eric Qian 1753   5
94 Eddie Lu 1739   5
95 Colton Belanger 1725   5
96 Ricky Chen 1709   5
97 Mitchell Schneider 1684   5
98 Bohdan Chychkevych 1580 UKR 5
99 Neil Moses 1578   5
100 Ryan Xu 1565   5
101 Nevin Deshpande 1322   5
102 Ryan Campbell unr.   5
103 Ethan Engel unr.   5
104 Ilia Bluvshtein 2220   4.5
105 Brett Campbell 2189   4.5
106 Aayush Ajith 2122   4.5
107 Andrew Colvin 1937   4.5
108 Gilbert Perez 1928   4.5
109 Jonathan Wu 1891   4.5
110 Henry Yang 1863   4.5
111 Brian Zhang 1842   4.5
112 Andy Wang 1806   4.5
113 Michelle Zhang 1756   4.5
114 Mario Moran-Venegas 1754   4.5
115 Divjot Locham 1751   4.5
116 Alex Young 1713   4.5
117 Pierre Maheux 1624   4.5
118 Shafkat Ali 1619   4.5
119 Ashkan Parchizadeh 1608   4.5
120 Sarthak Deshpande 1595   4.5
121 Evan Frangakis 1589   4.5
122 Devin Nicholson 1545   4.5
123 Mohammed Faizy 1503   4.5
124 Josh Zabor 1467   4.5
125 Azher Hossain 1424   4.5
126 William Zihao Jiang 1380   4.5
127 Jordan Katrib 1344   4.5
128 Wesley Russell 1287   4.5
129 Sean Liu 1208   4.5
130 Isabelle Zhu 1179   4.5
131 Morgen Mills 2136   4
132 Andrew Xu 1939   4
133 Gernot Klein 1925 GER 4
134 Benjamin Wu 1870   4
135 Brendan Cater 1860   4
136 Olya Kaye 1854   4
137 Daniel Kearnan 1769   4
138 Mohid Zaka 1749   4
139 Arya Sen 1745   4
140 Gillian Mok 1735   4
141 Lucian Wu 1726   4
142 Valentyn Trofimov-Malyshkin 1717 UKR 4
143 Thusitha Hettigama 1711   4
144 Masoud Jizan 1694   4
145 Bhavik Chhatralia 1683   4
146 Charis Zhu 1640   4
147 Jacob Gaisinsky 1568   4
148 Frank Helwig 1559   4
149 Jessica Qian 1532   4
150 Erwin Mok 1468   4
151 Jacques Bolduc 1460   4
152 Neerav Mullur 1459   4
153 Yu-Liang Lin 1425   4
154 Justin Li 1424   4
155 Pavan Suresh 1413   4
156 John Brown 1409   4
157 James Zhang 1362   4
158 Gilles Bruneau 1290   4
159 Ty Eadie unr.   4
160 Leroy Gibson unr. LBR 4
161 Raymond Wong unr.   4
162 Léo Richard 2014   3.5
163 Ryan Pickard 1920   3.5
164 Rick Garel 1688   3.5
165 Modith Aaroh Mutyalapati 1688   3.5
166 Raymond Tangning Zhang 1682   3.5
167 Clément Eiserloh 1678   3.5
168 David Jiang 1678   3.5
169 Justin Gao 1587   3.5
170 Undriadi Benggawan 1584   3.5
171 Jack Cloete 1525   3.5
172 Michael Sharpe 1519   3.5
173 Raymond Dickson 1511   3.5
174 Joel Dick 1499   3.5
175 Irene Xie 1455   3.5
176 April Zhong 1452   3.5
177 Vincent Chen 1445   3.5
178 Doug Gillis 1417   3.5
179 Ivan Chepelev 1377   3.5
180 Sam Chen 1299   3.5
181 Michael Dennahower 1281   3.5
182 Karandeep Basi 1280   3.5
183 Emilian Holmgren 1226   3.5
184 Nathan Yi-Hsin Yang 1169   3.5
185 William Dolmer 1165   3.5
186 Michal Wiraszka 957 POL 3.5
187 Merrill Monteiro unr.   3.5
188 Elyas Samano unr.   3.5
189 Steven Soroka unr.   3.5
190 Halldor Palsson 1962   3
191 Bernard Buscar 1789   3
192 Kirk Dickson 1780   3
193 Israel Crooks 1611   3
194 Ryan Zhong 1480   3
195 Matias Gutierrez 1477   3
196 James Mourgelas 1346   3
197 Japveer Narula 1326   3
198 Yedishtra Naidoo 1313   3
199 Hannah Xu 1295   3
200 Aiden Lu 1291   3
201 Liam Hartman 1268   3
202 Joseph Buchatsky 1256   3
203 Eric Huang 1155   3
204 Winston Huang 1131   3
205 Monika Wood 1062   3
206 Michael Sun 1043   3
207 Payam Fakoorziba 1003   3
208 Brian Higgins 933   3
209 Zachary Chua 861   3
210 Russell Hsiung unr.   3
211 Andrew Leliveld unr.   3
212 Myron Monteiro unr.   3
213 Jonath Joseph 1782   2.5
214 Ashley Qian 1413   2.5
215 Jatinder Dhaliwal 1377   2.5
216 Edgar Zapata 1151   2.5
217 Jessica Buchanan 896   2.5
218 Jonathan Sun 873   2.5
219 Erik Sun 853   2.5
220 Dimitar Mancevski unr.   2.5
221 Peter Bokhout 1852   2
222 Branislav Rajsic 1738   2
223 George Stajov 1345   2
224 Michael Pickard 1324   2
225 Victor Zhong 1141   2
226 Ken Callaghan 1081   2
227 Nobuko Takeuchi 927   2
228 Brittany Di Tommaso 925   2
229 Darryl Joseph-Dennie unr.   2
230 Samuel Townsend unr.   2
231 Shon Lazarev 1924   1
232 Connor Gherasim 1493   1
233 Jae Hyun Byun 1184   1
234 Jerry McKitrick 1050   1
235 Mark Coull unr.   1
236 IM Jesus Cuenca Gomez 2200 CUB 0
237 Levi Lim 1923   0
238 Barcon Harmon 1902 LBR 0
239 Thomas Saah 1879 LBR 0
240 Charles Haji Kiadii 1853 LBR 0
241 Raj Verma 1737   0
242 Melvin A Weah 1621 LBR 0
243 Akash Shetty 1252   0
244 Colin Fecik 1051   0
245 Adam Azbel 765   0
246 Elena Jacob unr.   0
247 Jean-Sebastien Paul unr.   0
248 Jean Bosco Rwamavubi unr.   0
249 Grace W Sanyu unr. THA 0
250 Stephen Sarweh unr. LBR 0
251 Neil Sharma unr.   0