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

    To contact Continental Chess, please email: director@chess.us.

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Pairings for Under 1000:

Pairings for Round 9. CCA_WO25lower: Under 1000-3
Bd Res White Res Black
801 ½ Adhvik Ramasubramanian ( 854 6.0) ½ Gal Reichfeld ( 960 7.5)
802 1 Rohin Tiwari ( 987 7.0) 0 Rajasekar Thangaraj ( 922 6.0)
803 1 Josaph Vaikasas ( 974 6.5) 0 Alan Vladimiroff ( 616 6.0)
804 1 Michael Alexander Lerner ( 873 5.5) 0 Aanya Ritesh Tichkule ( 819 5.5)
805 0 Yashitha Ashwin ( 777 5.5) 1 Akhil Kapalavayi ( 955 5.0)
806 1 Bryan Martinez-hernandez ( 874 5.0) 0 Harshith Kaparthi ( 999 5.0)
807 0 Ivan Tveritin ( 829 5.0) 1 Avyukt Varma Thalluri ( 985 5.0)
808 1 Santosh Rajasekar ( 915 5.0) 0 Ridhan Venkatesan ( 873 5.0)
809 1 Khelankumar Tellamekala ( 887 5.0) 0 Marcus Shpigel ( 912 5.0)
810 1 Eric Yao ( 718 5.0) 0 Neha Reddy Pichipati ( 892 5.0)
811 1 Krishanya Kamalakannan ( 779 5.0) 0 Michael Suprun ( 999 4.5)
812 1 Riaan Gandhi ( 893 4.5) 0 Xin Huang ( 994 4.5)
813 0 Ethan Ozan Ozdek Vandivier ( 983 4.0) 1 Daniel Merkh ( 807 4.0)
814 0 Daniel Abarshalin ( 835 4.0) 1 Dakodah Mrkvicka ( 977 4.0)
815 1 Xavie Palathingal ( 828 4.0) 0 Ryan F Medizad ( 977 4.0)
816 1 Pratiti Kaarthick ( 967 4.0) 0 Ektoras Rankenburg ( 695 4.0)
817 0 Devesh Narasimhan Murugan ( 538 4.0) 1 Lohith Sri Krishna Enagalla ( 921 4.0)
818 1 Pavan Gupta Sivakoti ( 902 4.0) 0 Shervin N Medizad ( 684 4.0)
819 1 Jargalkhuu Erdembayar (unr. 4.0) 0 Ananya Acharya ( 882 4.0)
820 1 Jai Shah ( 869 4.0) 0 Lakshya Jha ( 658 4.0)
821 ½ Sathvik Reddy Gaddam ( 824 3.5) ½ Satya Vunnam ( 946 3.5)
822 0 Sudiksha Kottha ( 896 3.5) 1 Vijwal Reddy Chintamani ( 708 3.5)
823 ½ Ishaan Kannan ( 814 3.5) ½ Saule Vaikasaite ( 893 3.5)
824 ½ Taras Drenkalo ( 962 3.0) ½ Darsen Namrov ( 639 3.0)
825 1 Nathan Huang ( 908 3.0) 0 Nila Saravanakumar ( 629 3.0)
826 1 Willie Hubbard ( 555 3.0) 0 Sanjith Selvakumar ( 871 3.0)
827 1 Diya Reddy Pichipati ( 684 3.0) 0 Kaavya Jha ( 619 3.0)
828 0 Ishaan Sai Naga ( 629 2.5) 1 John David Vaikasas ( 540 3.0)
829 1 Michael Allen ( 672 2.5) 0 Imaya Vikraman ( 428 2.5)
830 ½ Theodore Vogan ( 536 2.5) ½ Amgalanbaatar Ariun-erdene (unr. 2.5)
831 0 David Cartagena ( 666 2.0) 1 Roman Kornat (unr. 2.0)
832 0 Ella Qi (unr. 1.0) 1 Michael Huang ( 660 2.0)
999 1 Thomas Nordeman ( 941 3.0) 0 Arinan Vikraman ( 340 3.5)


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