The Ontario Open Chess Tournament will take place from May 21 through May 23, at the beautiful West Toronto Masonic Temple.
The event features 4 tournaments: Crown, U2200, U1800 and U1400. Each tournament will be played in six rounds with a time control of 90 minutes + 30 seconds per move. The total prize fund of the event will be 8.500$.
The 2022 Ontario Open combined players list of 165 entries across 4 sections (Crown, U2200, U1800, U1400), include 28 titled players, 60 junior players, and 41 unrated players. GM Bator Sambuev, IM Nikolay Noritsyn and IM Artiom Samsonkin are the top seeds of the Crown section. (find the starting rank list of each section below)
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Starting rank list of players – 2022 Ontario Open (Crown):
| No. | Name | FED | Rtg | |
| 1 | GM | Preotu Razvan | CAN | 2629 |
| 2 | GM | Sambuev Bator | CAN | 2568 |
| 3 | IM | Noritsyn Nikolay | CAN | 2566 |
| 4 | IM | Plotkin Mark | CAN | 2528 |
| 5 | IM | Ghasi Ameet K | ENG | 2515 |
| 6 | IM | Rodrigue-Lemieux Shawn | CAN | 2512 |
| 7 | IM | Thavandiran Shiyam | CAN | 2474 |
| 8 | IM | Chiku-Ratte Olivier Kenta | CAN | 2468 |
| 9 | FM | Talukdar Rohan | CAN | 2454 |
| 10 | FM | Plotkin Victor | CAN | 2392 |
| 11 | FM | Teodoro IV Eduardo D. | CAN | 2334 |
| 12 | CM | Jaferian Koosha | IRI | 2333 |
| 13 | FM | Humphreys Michael | CAN | 2331 |
| 14 | NM | Derraugh Geordie | CAN | 2330 |
| 15 | WGM | Ouellet Maili-Jade | CAN | 2300 |
| 16 | CM | Li William | CAN | 2275 |
| 17 | WGM | Burtasova Anna | CAN | 2274 |
| 18 | NM | Malek Omid | CAN | 2266 |
| 19 | WIM | Li Yunshan | CHN | 2262 |
| 20 | WIM | Demchenko Svitlana | CAN | 2244 |
| 21 | IM | Barron Michael | CAN | 2234 |
| 22 | NM | Han Johnathan | CAN | 2234 |
| 23 | NM | Abrahams Daniel | CAN | 2226 |
| 24 | Malakhovets Sergey | CAN | 2198 | |
| 25 | Huang Youhe | CAN | 2184 | |
| 26 | Lin Leo | CAN | 2160 | |
| 27 | NM | Filipovich David | CAN | 2150 |
| 28 | WIM | Kasturi M | IND | 2106 |
| 29 | Pramanik Projjwal | IND | 2071 | |
| 30 | Gavrilin Roman | RUS | 2066 | |
| 31 | Gao Raymond | CAN | 2058 | |
| 32 | Siegel Adam | CAN | 1858 |
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Starting rank list of players: 2022 Ontario Open (U2200):
| No. | Name | FED | Rtg | |
| 1 | Dai Wenzhi | CHN | 2177 | |
| 2 | Ishow Younan | SYR | 2146 | |
| 3 | NM | Southam David | CAN | 2117 |
| 4 | Bui Alan | CAN | 2117 | |
| 5 | Loadman Ian | CAN | 2091 | |
| 6 | Xu Eddie | CAN | 2091 | |
| 7 | Nazareno Merlin | CAN | 2083 | |
| 8 | Pimentel Sheldon | CAN | 2026 | |
| 9 | Shih Matthew | USA | 1985 | |
| 10 | Mohan Abhinandan | CAN | 1984 | |
| 11 | WFM | He Emma | CAN | 1981 |
| 12 | Ganea Mihai | CAN | 1954 | |
| 13 | Yuen Noah Nathaniel | CAN | 1948 | |
| 14 | Douglas Richard | CAN | 1947 | |
| 15 | Faraji Jafar | CAN | 1941 | |
| 16 | Lim Levi | CAN | 1934 | |
| 17 | Zheng Victor | CAN | 1918 | |
| 18 | Boross-Harmer Peter | CAN | 1916 | |
| 19 | Cater Brendan | CAN | 1916 | |
| 20 | Laughlin Braden | CAN | 1908 | |
| 21 | Courson Wade | CAN | 1902 | |
| 22 | Flores Marc | CAN | 1894 | |
| 23 | Kim Noah | CAN | 1884 | |
| 24 | Marghetis Aris | CAN | 1869 | |
| 25 | Oancea Nicolae | ROU | 1861 | |
| 26 | Wu Benjamin | CAN | 1849 | |
| 27 | Mendes Aaron Reeve | CAN | 1817 | |
| 28 | Jeyakumar Bhavatharshan | CAN | 1808 | |
| 29 | Rajsic Branislav | CAN | 1784 | |
| 30 | Lu Tony | CAN | 1765 | |
| 31 | Lefort Victor | CAN | 1755 | |
| 32 | Orlovskii Konstantin | RUS | 1734 | |
| 33 | Li Ande | CHN | 1675 | |
| 34 | Sneeggen Espen | NOR | 1646 |
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Starting rank list of players: 2022 Ontario Open (U1800):
| No. | Name | FED | Rtg | |
| 1 | Milinkovic Mate | CAN | 1794 | |
| 2 | Moon Ethan | CAN | 1739 | |
| 3 | AIM | Adulfo Vincent Angel | CAN | 1717 |
| 4 | Yao Henry | CAN | 1662 | |
| 5 | Guo Steven | CAN | 1626 | |
| 6 | Helwig Frank | CAN | 1626 | |
| 7 | Saltat Michael | CAN | 1620 | |
| 8 | Perkins Simon | CAN | 1597 | |
| 9 | Belcadi Salim | CAN | 1592 | |
| 10 | Chepelev Ivan | CAN | 1561 | |
| 11 | Greenblat Leeor | CAN | 1507 | |
| 12 | Correa Braga Camara De Almeida Neve | CAN | 1494 | |
| 13 | Gaisinsky Jacob | CAN | 1458 | |
| 14 | Morin Sato | CAN | 1412 | |
| 15 | Nicholson Devin | CAN | 1376 | |
| 16 | Mourgelas James | CAN | 1293 | |
| 17 | Gutierrez Matias | CAN | 1280 | |
| 18 | Katrib Jordan | CAN | 1196 | |
| 19 | Basi Karandeep | CAN | 1177 | |
| 20 | Shetty Akash | CAN | 1164 | |
| 21 | Avakian Anoush | CAN | 0 | |
| 22 | Bui Minh | CAN | 0 | |
| 23 | Caughey Matt | CAN | 0 | |
| 24 | Dennahower Michael | CAN | 0 | |
| 25 | Gara Emil | CAN | 0 | |
| 26 | Granger Alec | CAN | 0 | |
| 27 | Little Brian | CAN | 0 | |
| 28 | Mancevski Dimitar | CAN | 0 | |
| 29 | Mccutcheon Julian | CAN | 0 | |
| 30 | Patel Aadi | CAN | 0 |
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Starting rank list of players: 2022 Ontario Open (U1400):
| No. | Name | FED | Rtg |
| 1 | Parakin Don | CAN | 1344 |
| 2 | Wen Justin | CAN | 1290 |
| 3 | Su Jayden Chenxuan | CAN | 1289 |
| 4 | Bulatovic Marko | CAN | 1279 |
| 5 | Charles Christopher | CAN | 1260 |
| 6 | Allahverdi Umid | AZE | 1250 |
| 7 | Bala Mehar | CAN | 1213 |
| 8 | Huang Eric | CAN | 1199 |
| 9 | Byun Jae Hyun | CAN | 1184 |
| 10 | Yang Lucy | CAN | 1176 |
| 11 | Shepherd Zachary | CAN | 1163 |
| 12 | Lesperance Charles | CAN | 1145 |
| 13 | Hilker Nathan | CAN | 1143 |
| 14 | Tsenter Ester | CAN | 1143 |
| 15 | Lim Justin | CAN | 1141 |
| 16 | Hambardzumyan Narek | CAN | 1074 |
| 17 | Pan Nicholas | CAN | 1072 |
| 18 | Gerber Jerry | CAN | 1070 |
| 19 | Gay Heidi | CAN | 1018 |
| 20 | Hu Ethan | CAN | 1004 |
| 21 | Wang Mengxuan | CAN | 966 |
| 22 | Zhan Jayden Zihan | CAN | 923 |
| 23 | Lukinykh Slava | CAN | 915 |
| 24 | Wang William Kaiyuan | CAN | 915 |
| 25 | Li Yuming (Jerry) | CAN | 914 |
| 26 | Takeuchi Nobuko | CAN | 912 |
| 27 | Mickelson Jonah | CAN | 907 |
| 28 | Cawse James | CAN | 898 |
| 29 | Trudeau Charlie | CAN | 855 |
| 30 | Kuzin Stephen | CAN | 837 |
| 31 | Banerjee Evan | CAN | 790 |
| 32 | Shen Yining | CAN | 770 |
| 33 | Li Sophia Jiawei | CAN | 764 |
| 34 | Fiorucci Mario | CAN | 756 |
| 35 | Semianiuk Catherine | CAN | 726 |
| 36 | Fiorucci Marcus | CAN | 694 |
| 37 | Sekaran Adithya | CAN | 657 |
| 38 | Lesperance Milan | CAN | 609 |
| 39 | Tkachenko Kristine | CAN | 565 |
| 40 | Al Qadi Sad | CAN | 0 |
| 41 | Al Rashdi Loay | CAN | 0 |
| 42 | Al Thubian Andre | CAN | 0 |
| 43 | Azbel Adam | CAN | 0 |
| 44 | Bolik-Coulon Nicolas | CAN | 0 |
| 45 | Bruce Ian | CAN | 0 |
| 46 | Chen Aaron | CAN | 0 |
| 47 | Chen Timmy | CAN | 0 |
| 48 | Fakoorziba Payam | CAN | 0 |
| 49 | Fihrer Gidon | CAN | 0 |
| 50 | Fortner Emily | CAN | 0 |
| 51 | Goel Dev | CAN | 0 |
| 52 | Gomes Gaspar Yago | CAN | 0 |
| 53 | Green Mike | CAN | 0 |
| 54 | Guo Laura | CAN | 0 |
| 55 | Ishow Youssef | CAN | 0 |
| 56 | Kang Richard | CAN | 0 |
| 57 | Liu Oscar | CAN | 0 |
| 58 | Liu Sean | CAN | 0 |
| 59 | Mcgowan Joseph | CAN | 0 |
| 60 | Mclean Robert | CAN | 0 |
| 61 | Penthor Stacey | CAN | 0 |
| 62 | Prickett-Morgan Henry | CAN | 0 |
| 63 | Ragalie Michael | CAN | 0 |
| 64 | Rasul Samaira | CAN | 0 |
| 65 | Shah Mustafa | CAN | 0 |
| 66 | Tian Raymond | CAN | 0 |
| 67 | Varol Cansin | CAN | 0 |
| 68 | Voleti Sreekar | CAN | 0 |
| 69 | Xie Irene | CAN | 0 |
