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 1200:

Pairings for Round 9. CCA_WO25lower: Under 1200-3
Bd Res White Res Black
215 0 Alicia Marsboom (1125 6.0) 1 Xavier Chen (1161 7.5)
216 ½ Sahas Muthinti (1158 6.5) ½ Ethan Sena (1173 5.5)
217 0 Pradeep Naga (1165 6.0) 1 Anthony Owen Yang (1156 5.5)
218 1 Even Ni (1120 5.5) 0 Kent Alexander Ashby (1072 5.5)
219 1 Trishaan Dhamija ( 966 5.5) 0 Adarsh Lakshmanan (1170 5.0)
220 1 Muxuan Li (1012 5.0) 0 Atharv Upadrasta (1168 5.0)
221 1 Vamsi R Jandhyala (1149 5.0) 0 Nisarg Gupta (1027 5.0)
222 0 Reyansh Gupta ( 983 5.0) 1 Viaan Sharma (1156 4.5)
223 1 Sophie Liu (1120 4.5) 0 Ojas Sakthi Jagannathan (1080 4.5)
224 0 Rachitha Sai Chandar (1070 4.5) 1 Finnegan Crawford (1033 4.5)
225 ½ Anish Bhargava ( 933 4.5) ½ Mark Chertov (1121 4.0)
226 1 Ewdi Rosario (1127 4.0) 0 Negin Fathinejad (1019 4.0)
227 0 Edmund D Meyers (1004 4.0) 1 Shivani Sundar (1113 4.0)
228 0 Bhuvi Naga (1092 4.0) 1 Alec Walter ( 888 4.0)
229 0 Arman Kozhakhmetov (1084 4.0) 1 Manvit Sai Vunnam ( 946 4.0)
230 1 Aravind Acharya (1019 4.0) 0 Maximilian Vladimiroff (1071 4.0)
231 0 Vihaan Mummidi ( 750 4.0) 1 Siyuan Li (1151 3.5)
232 1 Anderson Antoine (1165 3.5) 0 Jayadev Acharya (1109 3.0)
233 1 Riyanshi Kukreja (1092 3.0) 0 Divyam Chudasama (1029 3.0)
835 1 John Low (1071 3.0) 0 Grace Chen ( 954 3.0)
836 0 Sunil Kumar Kottha (1036 3.0) 1 Daniel Liu (1055 3.0)
837 0 Bruce Hill (1115 2.5) 1 Samuel Deeney (1177 2.5)
838 0 Suraj Jani ( 966 1.5) 1 Rick Grashel (1067 2.0)
1 Reyansh Sharma ( 855 2.5) See T.D.


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