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 1800:

Pairings for Round 9. CCA_WO25: Under 1800 Merged (CORRECTED VERSION)
Bd # Res White # Res Black
501 54 Yujeong Yeo (1717 7.0) 8 Anthony Asseviro Jr (1787 7.0)
502 90 Michael Ethan Jurist (1672 6.5) 3 Timothy Han (1798 6.5)
503 60 Mr. Jake Elwell (1708 6.5) 63 Jordan Zamor (1704 6.5)
504 91 Noni Hardaway (1671 6.0) 12 Gowtham* Karaka (1786 6.0)
505 41 Ghanishth Prabhakar Awasthi (1744 6.0) 65 Alex Paiva (1701 6.0)
506 6 Logan White (1797 5.5) 58 Yian Lin (1711 5.5)
507 10 Jordan Alexander Go (1786 5.5) 62 William Kaiyuan Wang (1704 5.5)
508 83 Narayana Gaddam (1686 5.5) 17 Kirby Lin (1778 5.5)
509 100 Don Asanti Burrus (1662 5.5) 22 Raymond Liu (1770 5.5)
510 33 Iqraa Manuel (1755 5.5) 99 Jonina Hou (1663 5.5)
511 43 Robert D Beckford (1740 5.5) 107 Siddharth Keshav Tripathy (1653 5.5)
512 48 Bat Uya Molomjamts (1725 5.5) 119 Aileen Lou (1630 5.5)
513 103 Kanav Shah (1659 5.5) 49 Jarl Reyhan Lee Bitoon (1724 5.5)
514 55 Mehdi Amouei Torkmahalleh (1716 5.5) 114 Brandon J* Carter (1640 5.5)
515 127 Laron Mcbryde (1617 5.5) 4 Alisher Ulugbekovich Khasanov (1798 5.0)
516 86 Abhinav Das (1673 5.0) 20 Sasa Jovanovic (1771 5.0)
517 28 Andrew Tsen (1764 5.0) 95 William Kipersztok (1667 5.0)
518 38 Babacar Sonko (1750 5.0) 135 Patrick Edward Mcdonnell (1606 5.0)
519 148 Tyler Wang (1589 5.0) 45 Vanita* Young (1739 5.0)
520 57 Yunhui Ma (1714 5.0) 121 Craig Hinkley (1629 5.0)
521 96 Dallin Bates (1666 5.0) 64 Dr. Faisal Kaleem (1702 5.0)
522 40 William E Parberry (1745 4.5) 79 Hector Amadeo Ginete (1695 4.5)
523 97 Edward Qixin Lin (1665 4.5) 46 Aryan Vuyyuru (1736 4.5)
524 98 Calvin Jiarui Wang (1664 4.5) 50 Aarav Ghosh (1720 4.5)
525 115 Kirk Jobe (1639 4.5) 53 Christopher Sims (1717 4.5)
526 116 Logan Marzahn (1639 4.5) 59 Charles F Frey (1710 4.5)
527 67 Eric Yeung (1701 4.5) 93 Saadhanaa Ashok (1670 4.5)
528 71 John B Howard (1700 4.5) 106 Deepak* Patil (1654 4.5)
529 132 Fiona Tushman (1609 4.5) 73 Anatoliy V Popov (1700 4.5)
530 74 Gennadiy Reznikov (1700 4.5) 117 Olivia Panciu (1638 4.5)
531 2 Prajwal Reddy* Chintamani (1798 4.0) 134 Adam Samuel Darack (1606 4.5)
532 120 Sophia Panciu (1630 4.0) 19 Elijah Ali Chirico (1776 4.0)
533 42 Oscar Naoki Finkin (1742 4.0) 118 Manvith Thavutam (1631 4.0)
534 47 Robin Tu (1730 4.0) 123 Yipei Wan (1626 4.0)
535 78 Carlos D* Galinato (1698 4.0) 124 Owen J Pang (1624 4.0)
536 80 John Hanna (1695 4.0) 171 David Li (1428 4.0)
537 152 Artem Valyaev-kunisky (1553 4.0) 84 WFM Maha Bennani (1685 4.0)
538 159 Aarika Sharma (1528 4.0) 89 Theodore Han (1673 4.0)
539 104 Saahas Swaroop (1655 4.0) 147 Prescott Yu (1592 4.0)
540 24 Akshay* Rajagopal (1770 3.5) 130 Manuel Najera (1611 3.5)
541 138 Stephen J Buck (1600 3.5) 32 Olivio Luis De La Torre (1756 3.5)
542 140 Vladyslav Leshchynskyi (1600 3.5) 34 Kelvin Mcalister (1753 3.5)
543 153 Vihaan Jambudi (1544 3.5) 51 Froilan A Daigan (1717 3.5)
544 52 Travis Shafer (1717 3.5) 145 Austin Burnette Mitchell (1596 3.5)
545 155 Theodore* Miller (1541 3.5) 56 Calvin Hori (1716 3.5)
546 157 Kenzo Phillips (1532 3.5) 94 Sanchit Haripradeep (1668 3.5)
547 166 Mofei Qu (1476 3.5) 102 Juan Solano (1662 3.5)
548 108 Stephen Harris Weinstein (1652 3.0) 169 Jack Chen-Kurmann (1463 3.5)
549 88 Reynald E* Dikit (1673 3.0) 161 Sripad Polasa (1520 3.0)
550 178 Anny Chen (1327 3.0) 128 Spencer Singleton (1614 3.0)
551 179 Yulan Wang (1322 3.0) 129 Steve Raymond Courtemanche (1611 3.0)
552 181 Sutirth Hazra (1172 3.0) 151 Ari Zhang (1559 3.0)
553 125 Aayush Majmudar (1623 4.0) 82 Giorgi Temurovich Shinjiashvili (1692 4.0)
554 156 Koushya Yellemraju (1535 3.0) 174 Xiaoman Lin (1388 3.0)
555 160 Chase Yichen Liu (1521 3.0) 172 Tejas Shivakumar (1425 3.0)
556 69 Severo* Caluza (1700 2.5) 109 Matthew Liao (1651 2.5)
557 81 Carlos Laquindanum Antaran (1694 2.5) 162 Mira Karell (1500 2.5)
558 61 Michael Mendez (1705 2.0) 163 Anthony J Benenati (1496 2.5)
559 76 Anay* Bhargava (1698 2.0) 165 Felix Y. Chen (1476 2.0)
560 126 Marvin Sparrow (1618 2.0) 168 Hanwen Lu (1466 2.0)
561 92 Richard S Jones (1671 0.5) 122 Richard Neal (1629 2.0)
15 Saanvi* Acharya (1782 4.5) BYE
137 Myra* Nigam (1604 5.0) BYE
101 Seojin Park (1662 3.5) BYE
146 Thomas Schiwek (1595 5.0) BYE
133 Pamil Jain (1608 3.5) BYE
176 Henry Mingzhe Li (1367 4.0) BYE
143 Palash Gupta (1598 4.5) BYE
112 Venkatagiri* Acharya (1649 4.0) BYE
173 Emily Tai (1417 2.5) BYE
158 Charlotte Tai-En Chang (1528 3.5) BYE
18 Charles D Musselman (1778 3.0) BYE
167 Bo-yuan Nathan Wang (1476 2.5) BYE
144 Matvey Ivanov (1598 4.5) BYE
175 Sathvik Birudavolu (1368 3.5) BYE
164 Olivia Lin (1483 2.5) BYE
180 Ellen Jia-ning Peng (1296 3.0) BYE


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