World Open 2025
June 26, 2025 - July 06, 2025
Congratulations to 17-year-old GM Bharath Sbramaniyam H for finishing Clear First in the Open Section, winning the $20,500 prize-- one of the youngest players ever to win this event!
The World Open was also a FIDE "Super Swiss" International tournament. Four players apparently earned FIDE title norms in this event (norms are subject to confirmation by US Chess and FIDE).
1. Tanitoluwa Adewumi IM Norm
2. Rose Atwell WIM Norm
3. Sharvesh Deviprasath IM Norm
4. Gabriel Petesch IM Norm
Congratulations to the above players for their excellent results!
Explanation of how colors due for next round are shown on the Open Section pairing sheet, and of Float Symbols In FIDE Dutch Pairing System: https://www.chesstour.com/DutchSystemFloatSymbols.htm
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Tournament Information: Sections, schedules, entry fees, prize funds, hotel info, etc.
Pairings for Blitz Under 2000:
| Bd | Res | White | Res | Black |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 628 | 1 | Sophia Zada Rosenholtz (7.0) | 1 | Phu Si Vo (7.0) |
| 629 | 1 | Carlos Laquindanum Antaran (6.5) | 1 | Leo Ni (6.5) |
| 630 | 0 | Emerson Aurelius Johnson (6.5) | 2 | Leandro Nicholas Ulloa Centeno (6.0) |
| 631 | 1½ | Yudong Jiang (6.0) | ½ | Michael Lin (6.0) |
| 632 | 2 | Neevan Reddy Saddi (6.0) | 0 | Anushka Ayyappan (6.0) |
| 633 | 2 | Davit Simanovski (5.5) | 0 | Azin Vakilpour (5.5) |
| 634 | 1½ | Kristian Jacome (5.5) | ½ | Ethan Y Wang (5.5) |
| 635 | 1½ | Arjun Sankar (5.5) | ½ | Kai Zhou Lan (5.5) |
| 636 | 1 | Ilias Bennani (5.5) | 1 | Eric Alexander Dumitru (5.5) |
| 637 | 1 | Hemanth Samayamantri (5.5) | 1 | Prajwal Reddy Chintamani (5.5) |
| 638 | 1 | Oliver Dusk Rubenstein (5.5) | 1 | Elijah Ali Chirico (5.5) |
| 639 | 2 | Ralph Ghnatios (5.0) | 0 | Adam Samuel Darack (5.5) |
| 640 | 1 | Mathew Jiang (5.0) | 1 | Harry Li (5.0) |
| 641 | 1 | Robin Tu (5.0) | 1 | Peter W Pritchett (5.0) |
| 642 | 2 | Jack Letian Qian (5.0) | 0 | Logan Marzahn (5.0) |
| 643 | 1 | Arnav Karthikeyan (4.5) | 1 | Nate Oertell (4.5) |
| 644 | 1 | Lucas Xiong (4.5) | 1 | Matthew Herbert Freeman (4.5) |
| 645 | 0 | Yuxing Xia (4.5) | 2 | Soham Sharad (4.5) |
| 646 | 0 | Agastya Sapru (4.0) | 2 | Hari Shankar S (4.0) |
| 647 | 1 | Charles F Frey (4.0) | 1 | Sonsea Agonoy (4.0) |
| 648 | 2 | Santiago Arellano (4.0) | 0 | Alexander Dshalalow (4.0) |
| 649 | 0 | Rohan Kasiviswanathan (4.0) | 2 | Hector Amadeo Ginete (4.0) |
| 650 | 2 | Maitreya Ganguly (3.5) | 0 | Noni Hardaway (4.0) |
| 651 | 1 | Yvette Fannell (3.5) | 1 | Robert C Holler (3.5) |
| 652 | 1 | Aryan Vuyyuru (3.5) | 1 | Anika Shambhavi Kaul (3.5) |
| 653 | 1 | Manvith Thavutam (3.5) | 1 | Sebastian Van Dooijeweert (3.5) |
| 654 | 2 | Bryan James Loayza Rivera (3.0) | 0 | Rivan Ramdas (3.5) |
| 655 | 1 | Abhinav Das (3.0) | 1 | Julian Warren (3.0) |
| 656 | 2 | Vigna Shree Telukunta (3.0) | 0 | Tao Ni (3.0) |
| 657 | 1 | Shao-yen Hung (3.0) | 1 | Aum Menon (3.0) |
| 658 | 0 | Deven Somaya (3.0) | 2 | Abdul-mubdi Muhammad (3.0) |
| 659 | 1 | Elmer R Haban (3.0) | 1 | Logan White (2.5) |
| 660 | ½ | Sanchit Haripradeep (2.5) | 1½ | Austin Burnette Mitchell (2.5) |
| 661 | 0 | Ronav Ramdas (2.0) | 2 | Arnold Joseph (2.5) |
| 662 | 0 | Tyler Ross (2.0) | 2 | Mukhil Arunkumar (2.0) |
| 663 | 0 | Praneetha Kuppili (2.0) | 2 | Aashritha Vidhya Shankar (1.5) |
| 664 | 0 | Yulan Wang (1.5) | 2 | Ari Kaplan (1.5) |
| 665 | 1 | Sidharth Somaya (1.0) | 1 | Kevin Liang (1.0) |
| 666 | 1 | Robin Hao (1.0) | 1 | Swaminathan Sankar (0.0) |
| 1 | Varun Iyengar (4.5) | BYE |