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 Under 1600:
| Bd | # | Res | White | # | Res | Black |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 579 | 74 | Vipunan* Vikraman (1466 7.0) | 60 | Frederick Zhao (1491 7.5) | ||
| 580 | 14 | Sonsea Agonoy (1559 7.0) | 19 | Aum Menon (1539 6.5) | ||
| 581 | 4 | Shashetha Ruwanpura (1585 6.5) | 13 | Ralph Ray (1560 6.0) | ||
| 582 | 66 | Stephen Fanning (1472 6.0) | 34 | Noam Brodetzki (1526 6.0) | ||
| 583 | 36 | Charan S Perumalla (1525 6.0) | 99 | Jeffrey Jacobus (1417 6.0) | ||
| 584 | 47 | Aadya Kakarla (1503 6.0) | 78 | Marajabov Abduvoxid (1451 6.0) | ||
| 585 | 94 | Conner Malcolm Rice (1422 6.0) | 58 | Kirtan Chintam (1494 6.0) | ||
| 586 | 63 | Nathaniel B Taylor (1485 5.5) | 3 | Owen Emerson Christ (1589 5.5) | ||
| 587 | 123 | Aadarsh Sundarapandian (1360 5.5) | 12 | Malik Brewley (1563 5.5) | ||
| 588 | 117 | Sergei Zanozin (1385 5.5) | 40 | Adriel Nicolas Macaspac (1518 5.5) | ||
| 589 | 105 | Haowei Liu (1411 5.5) | 41 | Alexis Rodrigo Perez Perez (1514 5.5) | ||
| 590 | 42 | Jayvin Zoleta (1513 5.5) | 87 | Aditya Joshi (1437 5.5) | ||
| 591 | 2 | Andrew Mcintyre (1590 5.0) | 80 | Julian Warren (1447 5.0) | ||
| 592 | 51 | Theodore Dean Covey (1500 5.0) | 7 | Varun Ramanathan (1581 5.0) | ||
| 593 | 17 | Zainulabideen Jafri (1547 5.0) | 83 | Adrian E* Acosta (1445 5.0) | ||
| 594 | 57 | Mukhil Arunkumar (1497 5.0) | 18 | Gary Mishuris (1541 5.0) | ||
| 595 | 69 | Allen Everett Wang (1471 5.0) | 23 | Jordan* Ashton (1536 5.0) | ||
| 596 | 150 | Jeffrey Wu (1257 5.0) | 35 | Samuel Reznikov (1526 5.0) | ||
| 597 | 43 | Edwin Walker (1510 5.0) | 103 | Lucian Kiraz (1412 5.0) | ||
| 598 | 44 | Roshan Gopi (1509 5.0) | 116 | Orhan Niyazi Kurt (1388 5.0) | ||
| 599 | 46 | Tyler* Luo (1509 5.0) | 160 | Eric Wullschleger (1172 5.0) | ||
| 600 | 151 | John A Soleiman (1243 5.0) | 5 | Harold Emanuel E Gonzalez (1584 4.5) | ||
| 601 | 67 | Jacob Mishuris (1472 4.5) | 16 | Jack Holder (1557 4.5) | ||
| 602 | 21 | Andrew Christian-ale James (1537 4.5) | 48 | Justin Cao (1502 4.5) | ||
| 603 | 37 | Yidong Dennis Chen (1520 4.5) | 79 | Rithvik Chauhan (1447 4.5) | ||
| 604 | 39 | Alan Axelrod (1518 4.5) | 91 | Ekansh Gupta (1432 4.5) | ||
| 605 | 132 | Rishi Kannan (1326 4.5) | 27 | Jeremy Seth* Rosenholtz (1535 4.0) | ||
| 606 | 11 | Joshua Montgomery (1565 4.0) | 93 | Ridhaan Dande (1425 4.0) | ||
| 607 | 15 | Deven Somaya (1559 4.0) | 101 | Adriana Gallardo Avalo (1415 4.0) | ||
| 608 | 25 | Thanveen Tej* Katta (1536 4.0) | 119 | Alvin Kirin (1376 4.0) | ||
| 609 | 137 | David Caseiro (1318 4.0) | 28 | Angelo V Fleming (1534 4.0) | ||
| 610 | 29 | Mateo Cordova (1532 4.0) | 121 | Zen Jiang (1364 4.0) | ||
| 611 | 97 | Vikraman* Boobalan (1420 4.0) | 32 | Yuxing Xia (1530 4.0) | ||
| 612 | 54 | Shivan Haran (1500 4.0) | 129 | Satyarjit Jandhyala (1333 4.0) | ||
| 613 | 118 | Quinn Leduc (1382 4.0) | 55 | John A Lebon (1500 4.0) | ||
| 614 | 144 | Pranav Srinivasula (1287 4.0) | 64 | Dan Deneen (1480 4.0) | ||
| 615 | 65 | Vihaan Pai (1474 4.0) | 145 | Swaminathan Sankar (1273 4.0) | ||
| 616 | 139 | Trevor Chow (1301 4.0) | 76 | Manpreet Parihar (1459 4.0) | ||
| 617 | 149 | Nicole Xu (1263 4.0) | 84 | Abeer Sethi (1443 4.0) | ||
| 618 | 81 | Anay Vaddadi (1446 3.5) | 153 | Kellan Adam Colby (1227 4.0) | ||
| 619 | 107 | Sohail Aji (1400 3.5) | 88 | Athena Zuckerberg (1436 3.5) | ||
| 620 | 90 | Caroline Chu (1434 3.5) | 106 | Geovanny Melendez (1405 3.5) | ||
| 621 | 92 | Hector Guifarro (1428 3.5) | 134 | Atharv Upadrasta (1323 3.5) | ||
| 622 | 95 | Ted M Rust (1421 3.5) | 159 | Rivan Ramdas (1185 3.5) | ||
| 623 | 30 | Nathaniel Williams (1531 3.0) | 122 | Karel Charles Janac (1360 3.0) | ||
| 624 | 115 | April Ni (1396 3.0) | 49 | Anika Shambhavi Kaul (1502 3.0) | ||
| 625 | 53 | Cesar Gonell (1500 3.0) | 152 | Jiyan Singh (1231 3.0) | ||
| 626 | 135 | Max Liu (1322 3.0) | 59 | Hashem Zahedipour (1493 3.0) | ||
| 627 | 100 | Ryan Daniel Vorgity (1417 3.0) | 158 | James T Wall (1187 3.0) | ||
| 628 | 156 | Gordon Sun (1212 3.0) | 102 | Jerome W Tichacek (1415 3.0) | ||
| 629 | 157 | Jonathan Dai (1195 3.0) | 109 | Sathiesh* Arunagiri (1400 3.0) | ||
| 630 | 6 | Dennis Moore (1584 2.5) | 124 | Evan F Gincel (1352 2.5) | ||
| 631 | 141 | Shyam Dasari (1300 2.5) | 52 | Steven Finette (1500 2.5) | ||
| 632 | 62 | Robert L Anderson (1486 2.5) | 138 | Samika Nettem (1302 2.5) | ||
| 633 | 98 | Eleanor Ja Han (1420 2.5) | 131 | Srinivas Rao (1327 2.5) | ||
| 634 | 104 | Raphael X Martinez-villar (1412 2.0) | 142 | Laurence L Harding (1300 2.5) | ||
| 635 | 56 | Seyhmus Yuksekkaya (1500 1.0) | 125 | David J Yoo (1352 2.0) | ||
| 9 | ½ | Myles Sussman (1570 4.5) | BYE | |||
| 20 | ½ | Zander Venutolo (1538 5.0) | BYE | |||
| 77 | ½ | Kavin Vairavan (1459 4.5) | BYE | |||
| 126 | ½ | Irene Lin (1342 2.5) | BYE | |||
| 130 | ½ | Maximus Augustus Phillips (1327 2.0) | BYE | |||
| 133 | ½ | Noah Chen (1323 1.5) | BYE | |||
| 143 | ½ | Olivia Raczko (1292 4.0) | BYE | |||
| 147 | 0 | Yicheng Zhang (1265 3.5) | BYE | |||
| 162 | ½ | Meher Walia ( 877 3.0) | BYE |