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 Open:
Pairings for Round 9. CCA_WO25: Open
| Bd | # | Res | White | # | Res | Black |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | ½ | GM Jeffery Xiong (2646 WW 6.5 d) | 6 | ½ | GM Robby Kevlishvili (2549 b 6.5 u) |
| 2 | 15 | ½ | GM Razvan Preotu (2463 b 6.5 ) | 3 | ½ | GM Jianchao Zhou (2583 b 6.5 ) |
| 3 | 5 | 1 | GM Bharath Subramaniyam H (2561 b 6.5 ) | 21 | 0 | IM Samrug Narayanan (2418 BB 6.5 ) |
| 4 | 8 | ½ | GM Jose Gabriel Cardoso Cardoso (2532 w 6.0 ) | 7 | ½ | GM Viktor Matviishen (2540 b 6.0 ) |
| 5 | 24 | ½ | IM Jason Liang (2397 w 6.0 ) | 25 | ½ | FM Tanitoluwa Adewumi (2397 b 6.0 ) |
| 6 | 13 | 1 | GM Brewington Hardaway (2498 w 5.5 ) | 40 | 0 | IM Gus Huston (2316 b 6.0 ) |
| 7 | 2 | 1 | GM Semen Khanin (2595 W 5.5 u) | 35 | 0 | FM Ryan Yang (2333 w 5.5 ) |
| 8 | 16 | 1 | IM Nico Werner Chasin (2459 w 5.5 ) | 36 | 0 | IM Kevin George Micheal (2327 w 5.5 D) |
| 9 | 18 | ½ | IM Sebastian Kostolansky (2438 w 5.5 u) | 39 | ½ | FM Tommy Wen (2324 b 5.5 ) |
| 10 | 45 | 0 | FM Bryan Enming Lin (2302 w 5.5 ) | 19 | 1 | FM Sharvesh R Deviprasath (2434 b 5.5 ) |
| 11 | 20 | 1 | GM Ehsan Ghaemmaghami (2427 w 5.5 ) | 49 | 0 | FM Andrew Jiang (2292 B 5.5 ) |
| 12 | 22 | 0 | FM Tugstumur Yesuntumur (2416 w 5.5 ) | 50 | 1 | FM Gabriel Nicholas Petesch (2291 b 5.5 ) |
| 13 | 26 | ½ | IM Joshua Posthuma (2392 w 5.5 ) | 103 | ½ | WFM Rachael Li (2162 b 5.5 D) |
| 14 | 48 | 0 | FM Vishnu Surya Vanapalli (2292 w 5.5 ) | 31 | 1 | IM Eric Chang Liu (2353 b 5.5 ) |
| 15 | 63 | 0 | Ansh Milinkumar Shah (2244 w 5.5 ) | 17 | 1 | IM Oleksii Bilych (2446 b 5.0 ) |
| 16 | 58 | 0 | Nathaniel Philip Moor (2261 w 5.0 ) | 23 | 1 | IM Craig Hilby (2413 b 5.0 ) |
| 17 | 55 | 0 | FM Rose Atwell (2271 w 5.0 ) | 27 | 1 | IM Mykola Bortnyk (2381 BB 5.0 d) |
| 18 | 30 | 1 | IM Alexander Ross Katz (2355 w 5.0 ) | 60 | 0 | FM Dylan Tang (2249 w 5.0 ) |
| 19 | 32 | ½ | FM Danila Poliannikov (2342 w 5.0 ) | 66 | ½ | FM Ashritha Eswaran (2236 B 5.0 ) |
| 20 | 67 | ½ | CM Nitesh Cherukuri (2233 w 5.0 ) | 37 | ½ | FM Zachary Tanenbaum (2326 b 5.0 ) |
| 21 | 68 | ½ | Julian Proleiko (2229 w 5.0 ) | 41 | ½ | IM Luis Carlos Torres (2315 w 5.0 ) |
| 22 | 29 | 0 | IM Tianqi Wang (2356 b 4.5 ) | 79 | 1 | FM William Graif (2211 b 4.5 ) |
| 23 | 42 | ½ | FM Ted Wang (2313 w 5.0 ) | 70 | ½ | CM Logan C Shafer (2223 w 5.0 ) |
| 24 | 43 | 1 | FM Linxi Zhu (2307 w 5.0 ) | 97 | 0 | Kevin Wang (2171 b 5.0 ) |
| 25 | 76 | ½ | IM Eshaan Hebbar (2217 WW 5.0 ) | 47 | ½ | FM Henry Deng (2293 b 5.0 ) |
| 26 | 51 | 0 | FM Ethan Song (2288 w 5.0 ) | 71 | 1 | FM Lucius Melillo (2220 B 5.0 ) |
| 27 | 78 | ½ | WGM Rochelle Wu (2213 w 5.0 ) | 53 | ½ | FM Aryan Gutla (2286 b 5.0 ) |
| 28 | 85 | ½ | CM Rohan Rajaram (2204 w 4.5 ) | 33 | ½ | FM Derek Clasby (2339 b 4.5 ) |
| 29 | 87 | 0 | CM Marvin Gao (2202 w 4.5 ) | 44 | 1 | FM Avi Harrison Kaplan (2304 b 4.5 U) |
| 30 | 46 | 1 | Haari Muthukumar (2301 w 4.5 ) | 95 | 0 | FM Zachary Dukic (2183 b 4.5 ) |
| 31 | 93 | ½ | Jasmine Zhixin Su (2189 w 4.5 ) | 57 | ½ | Gabriel Sam (2269 b 4.5 ) |
| 32 | 59 | ½ | IM Facundo Pierrot (2256 w 4.5 ) | 101 | ½ | Lev Shangin (2169 b 4.5 ) |
| 33 | 94 | 1 | FM Narayan Venkatesh (2185 WW 4.5 ) | 61 | 0 | Andrew Lewis Titus (2246 B 4.5 ) |
| 34 | 62 | FM Andrew Jing (2244 w 4.5 ) | Please wait by pairing chart | |||
| 35 | 65 | 0 | Daniel Girsh (2237 w 4.5 ) | 145 | 1 | FM Arvind Jayaraman (2046 b 4.5 ) |
| 36 | 98 | ½ | CM Tyson Brady (2170 w 4.5 ) | 69 | ½ | FM Lucas Jiang (2228 b 4.5 ) |
| 37 | 106 | 1 | CM Joshua A Altman (2144 w 4.5 ) | 73 | 0 | Sullivan Mac Mcconnell (2220 b 4.5 ) |
| 38 | 108 | 1 | FM Patrick Peijun Liu (2134 w 4.5 ) | 77 | 0 | CM Sharath Radhakrishnan (2216 b 4.5 ) |
| 39 | 38 | 1 | FM Mikayel Rostomyan (2326 w 4.0 U) | 131 | 0 | Caleb Jude Klenoff (2089 w 4.0 D) |
| 40 | 56 | 1 | Aarush Vinod (2271 w 4.0 ) | 138 | 0 | Stephen Adams (2065 BB 4.0 ) |
| 41 | 72 | ½ | Thomas Kung (2220 w 4.0 ) | 149 | ½ | Kyle Yiwen Wang (2041 b 4.0 ) |
| 42 | 74 | 0 | CM Luc William Crim Hoffman (2219 w 4.0 ) | 141 | 1 | Vikram Rajmohan (2056 b 4.0 ) |
| 43 | 80 | 1 | FM Hersh Singh (2211 W 4.0 ) | 132 | 0 | Aiden Reiss (2087 b 4.0 ) |
| 44 | 83 | 1 | FM Leif A Pressman (2206 w 4.0 ) | 158 | 0 | Kiren Nasta (2031 b 4.0 ) |
| 45 | 88 | 1 | Jesse Ren (2198 w 4.0 ) | 159 | 0 | Thomas Fang (2031 b 4.0 ) |
| 46 | 152 | 0 | Armaan Singhvi (2038 w 4.0 ) | 90 | 1 | Eric Z Feng (2194 b 4.0 ) |
| 47 | 91 | ½ | CM Ethan Guo (2193 WW 4.0 ) | 163 | ½ | CM Kyle Qiyu Dong (2023 b 4.0 ) |
| 48 | 96 | ½ | WIM Chloe Gaw (2172 w 4.0 ) | 170 | ½ | Kaustubh Kodihalli (2008 b 4.0 ) |
| 49 | 165 | 1 | Brian Tay (2020 w 4.0 ) | 99 | 0 | Andrew Wu (2170 b 4.0 ) |
| 50 | 168 | 0 | WFM Aimee Yang (2011 W 4.0 ) | 107 | 1 | Evan Yin (2142 b 4.0 ) |
| 51 | 175 | ½ | WIM Sahana Aravindakshan (1993 w 4.0 ) | 109 | ½ | CM Tariq Yue (2131 b 4.0 ) |
| 52 | 177 | ½ | Elliott Goodrich (1990 w 4.0 ) | 110 | ½ | Hanchi Yao (2129 b 4.0 ) |
| 53 | 111 | 1 | Artemii Khanbutaev (2126 w 4.0 ) | 190 | 0 | Sergey Malakhovets (1953 B 4.0 ) |
| 54 | 116 | 1 | Jason Cigan (2117 w 4.0 ) | 205 | 0 | Ariv Debmisra (1903 b 4.0 ) |
| 55 | 179 | 1 | Alexander Jasinski (1989 w 4.0 ) | 120 | 0 | CM Luke Widjaja (2107 b 4.0 ) |
| 56 | 194 | ½ | Andrew Walden (1941 w 4.0 ) | 125 | ½ | Sham Raguraman (2102 b 4.0 ) |
| 57 | 192 | ½ | Nehanraj Ramesh (1949 w 4.0 ) | 126 | ½ | Priyansh Garg (2095 B 4.0 ) |
| 58 | 86 | 0 | Jason T Duncan (2203 WW 3.5 ) | 142 | 1 | Rishabh Chinni (2054 b 3.5 ) |
| 59 | 89 | ½ | Evan Sammons (2196 w 3.5 ) | 143 | ½ | Sameer Mujumdar (2054 b 3.5 ) |
| 60 | 114 | 0 | Neil S Bhaduri (2121 w 3.5 ) | 154 | 1 | Vidip Kumar Kona (2036 b 3.5 ) |
| 61 | 148 | 0 | Kagan Uz (2042 w 3.5 ) | 115 | 1 | Jordan Groff (2119 b 3.5 U) |
| 62 | 121 | 0 | Maahir M Patel (2106 w 3.5 ) | 198 | 1 | Nathaniel Mullodzhanov (1927 B 3.5 d) |
| 63 | 156 | 1 | Andrew T Feng (2034 w 3.5 ) | 124 | 0 | Paul Yuu Iinuma (2102 BB 3.5 ) |
| 64 | 162 | ½ | Raffi David Ghazaryan (2023 WW 3.5 ) | 127 | ½ | Varun Gadi (2095 b 3.5 ) |
| 65 | 166 | 0 | Kevin Bradley Stern (2019 w 3.5 ) | 130 | 1 | CM Kevin Zhao (2090 b 3.5 ) |
| 66 | 178 | ½ | Sunav Adhikari (1990 b 3.5 ) | 134 | ½ | Ananth S Gottumukkala (2075 b 3.5 ) |
| 67 | 185 | 0 | Alex Haoning Chu (1972 w 3.5 ) | 137 | 1 | Saharsh Santosh (2068 b 3.5 ) |
| 68 | 202 | 0 | Ernest P Colding (1917 w 3.5 ) | 139 | 1 | Bryan A Weisz (2059 b 3.5 d) |
| 69 | 102 | 1 | Brian Jeremiah Tineo (2164 w 3.0 ) | 211 | 0 | Aston Roberts (1882 BB 3.5 ) |
| 70 | 119 | 1 | Alex Zhang (2109 b 3.0 ) | 173 | 0 | Chris Ping Liu (2000 BB 3.0 ) |
| 71 | 216 | 0 | Zeming Yin (1857 w 3.0 ) | 133 | 1 | Sho Glashausser (2076 b 3.0 ) |
| 72 | 135 | 1 | Vishva Nanugonda (2075 w 3.0 ) | 187 | 0 | Benjamin Gu Lin (1962 b 3.0 ) |
| 73 | 146 | 0 | Vignesh Anand (2045 w 3.0 ) | 189 | 1 | Bela Lorand Kis (1955 b 3.0 ) |
| 74 | 153 | 1 | Kanwar Sethi (2036 w 3.0 ) | 195 | 0 | Luca Chang (1937 B 3.0 ) |
| 75 | 184 | 0 | Mr. Nivaan Shrivastava (1972 WW 3.0 ) | 155 | 1 | Erik Tkachenko (2036 b 3.0 ) |
| 76 | 160 | 0 | Kritin Rohan Gopalakrishnan (2027 w 3.0 ) | 200 | 1 | Alexander Fang Meng (1920 b 3.0 d) |
| 77 | 169 | Eamon Curchin Montgomery (2010 w 3.0 ) | Please wait by pairing chart | |||
| 78 | 197 | ½ | Kimani A Stancil (1930 w 2.5 d) | 151 | ½ | Charles Hua (2039 b 2.5 ) |
| 79 | 171 | ½ | Nathan Ping-ying Wu (2006 w 2.5 ) | 199 | ½ | Liam Liu (1926 w 2.5 ) |
| 80 | 172 | ½ | Leo Xiaohang Shen (2004 W 2.5 ) | 218 | ½ | Arthur Zhou (1843 b 2.5 ) |
| 81 | 181 | ½ | Joshua Xia (1979 w 2.5 ) | 207 | ½ | Y Luke Ji (1892 b 2.5 ) |
| 82 | 182 | 1 | Kevin Sun (1978 w 2.5 ) | 222 | 0 | Samanyu Alluri (1741 b 2.5 ) |
| 83 | 201 | 1 | Advait Nair (1920 w 2.5 ) | 209 | 0 | Vincent Zhiwen Yu (1885 b 2.0 ) |
| 84 | 186 | 1 | Matthew Tikhomirov (1966 WW 2.0 ) | 217 | 0 | Frank Zhongtian Cao (1845 b 2.0 ) |
| 85 | 210 | 1 | Rafael Palathingal (1884 w 2.0 ) | 206 | 0 | Akshaj Pulijala (1902 b 1.5 ) |
| 86 | 223 | 0 | John W Fanning (1732 WW 2.0 d) | 221 | 1 | Matthew Miller Coy (1805 b 2.0 ) |
| 208 | Aiden Linyuan Li (1890 w 1.5 ) | Please wait by pairing chart | ||||
| 34 | 0 | GM John P Fedorowicz (2335 B 3.0 ) | BYE | |||
| 52 | 0 | FM Nicholas F Matta (2287 b 2.0 ) | BYE | |||
| 64 | ½ | FM Davis Zong (2242 b 4.0 ) | BYE | |||
| 82 | ½ | Mitch Fishbein (2209 b 4.5 ) | BYE | |||
| 118 | 0 | Merric Hu (2109 W 3.0 ) | BYE | |||
| 147 | ½ | Aaron Thomas Decord (2043 b 2.5 ) | BYE | |||
| 167 | ½ | CM Bobby Qian (2012 BB 4.0 ) | BYE | |||
| 191 | 0 | Jack Levine (1951 b 3.0 ) | BYE | |||
| 214 | 0 | Riley Joseph Duda-thomson (1862 WW 1.0 ) | BYE | |||
| 219 | ½ | Krrish Kaul (1818 W 1.5 Du) | BYE |