The 27th edition of the annual Pacific Coast Chess Open will take place from 15-17 July at the Los Angeles Airport Hilton. The event will feature six rating sections: Premier (2000+), U2100, U1900, U1700, U1500 and U1200, with a guaranteed prize fund of 25.000$.
The Premier tournament will be played in 6 rounds, swiss system, with time control: 80 minutes for 40 moves, plus 30 minutes till the end of the game, plus 30 seconds increment starting from move one. More than 300 players already registered for the event, and the top seeds are: GM Fidel Corrales Jimenez, GM Arman Mikaelyan and GM Batchuluun Tsegmed. (Scroll down for the starting list of participants).
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27th annual Pacific Coast Chess Open – Starting rank list of players:
| Player’s Name | FIDE Rating | Section | Schedule |
| Fidel Corrales Jimenez (GM) | 2543 | Premier (2000 & up) | 2 Day |
| Arman Mikaelyan (GM) | 2507 | Premier (2000 & up) | 3 Day |
| Batchuluun Tsegmed (GM) | 2510 | Premier (2000 & up) | 3 Day |
| John Daniel Bryant (IM) | 2403 | Premier (2000 & up) | 3 Day |
| Melikset Khachiyan (GM) | 2446 | Premier (2000 & up) | 2 Day |
| Richard Balansag Bitoon (GM) | 2437 | Premier (2000 & up) | 2 Day |
| Robert M Perez | 2322 | Premier (2000 & up) | 2 Day |
| Andy Lin | 2259 | Premier (2000 & up) | 3 Day |
| Alexander John Costello (IM) | 2232 | Premier (2000 & up) | 3 Day |
| Teddie Wen | 2234 | Premier (2000 & up) | 3 Day |
| Michael Casella (FM) | 2166 | Premier (2000 & up) | 3 Day |
| Gabriel Eidelman | 2122 | Premier (2000 & up) | 3 Day |
| Rushaan Mahajan (CM) | 2089 | Premier (2000 & up) | 2 Day |
| Luke Calhoun | 2066 | Premier (2000 & up) | 2 Day |
| Henry Deng | 2118 | Premier (2000 & up) | 3 Day |
| Nathaniel Albion Zhang | 2068 | Premier (2000 & up) | 3 Day |
| Tommy Wen | 2040 | Premier (2000 & up) | 3 Day |
| Alex Yuxuan Wang | 2029 | Premier (2000 & up) | 3 Day |
| Isaac Wang | 1894 | Premier (2000 & up) | 3 Day |
| Krishna Nathan | 1966 | Premier (2000 & up) | 3 Day |
| Yu-cheng Liang | 2124 | Premier (2000 & up) | 3 Day |
| Elbert Zeng | 1817 | Premier (2000 & up) | 2 Day |
| Lucas Jiang | 2082 | Premier (2000 & up) | 3 Day |
| Benjamin Benchen Tang | 1707 | Premier (2000 & up) | 2 Day |
| Orry M Marciano | 1840 | Premier (2000 & up) | 3 Day |
| David Gasparyan | 1765 | Premier (2000 & up) | 3 Day |
| Andrew Wang | 1937 | Premier (2000 & up) | 3 Day |
| Kevin Fong | 2016 | Premier (2000 & up) | 3 Day |
| Alan Lacombe | 2235 | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Advaith Vijayakumar | 1959 | Premier (2000 & up) | 3 Day |
| Sepehr Golsefidy | 1802 | Premier (2000 & up) | 3 Day |
| Patrick Peijun Liu | 1863 | Premier (2000 & up) | 3 Day |
| Eric Sakurai | 2024 | Under 2100 | 2 Day |
| Nicholas Ruogu Weng | 1839 | Premier (2000 & up) | 3 Day |
| Noah Ward | 1735 | Premier (2000 & up) | 2 Day |
| Jeremy Bader | 1761 | Premier (2000 & up) | 3 Day |
| Hursh K Mehta | 1752 | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Bryan B Leano | 1874 | Premier (2000 & up) | 3 Day |
| Leah Bernardo Taguinin | Unr | Under 2100 | 2 Day |
| Willis A Kim | 1897 | Under 2100 | 2 Day |
| Armen Andranigian | 1775 | Premier (2000 & up) | 3 Day |
| Leonard Vu | 1759 | Premier (2000 & up) | 2 Day |
| Anthony Faulks | 1684 | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Jeffery Wang | 1769 | Premier (2000 & up) | 3 Day |
| Avinaya Subedi | 1834 | Premier (2000 & up) | 3 Day |
| Rose Atwell | 1728 | Premier (2000 & up) | 3 Day |
| Faraz Saleem | 1751 | Under 2100 | 2 Day |
| Stewart Bradley Taylor | 1840 | Premier (2000 & up) | 3 Day |
| Jaisuraj Kaleeswaran | 1893 | Premier (2000 & up) | 3 Day |
| Vincent Qin | 1887 | Premier (2000 & up) | 3 Day |
| Thanh Tien Nguyen | 1885 | Premier (2000 & up) | 3 Day |
| Vishva Nanugonda | 1770 | Premier (2000 & up) | 3 Day |
| Ed Cohen | 1906 | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Pearson Hong | 1822 | Premier (2000 & up) | 3 Day |
| Ryan Min | 1797 | Premier (2000 & up) | 3 Day |
| Aksithi Eswaran (WCM) | 1724 | Premier (2000 & up) | 3 Day |
| Julian Colville | Unr | Under 2100 | 2 Day |
| Erin Bian | 1824 | Premier (2000 & up) | 3 Day |
| Roger V V Shi | 1624 | Premier (2000 & up) | 3 Day |
| Bret A Bryan | Unr | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Ethan Hsiao | 1418 | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Sihan Tao | 1697 | Premier (2000 & up) | 3 Day |
| Christopher Gar Wai Sheu | Unr | Under 2100 | 2 Day |
| Rudy Goce Tia | 1718 | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Yuqi Wang | Unr | Under 2100 | 2 Day |
| Dylan Tang | 1531 | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Gordon Zhenyu Xu | 1549 | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Vibhuv Papaihgari Reddy (Withdrawn) | 1603 | Premier (2000 & up) | 3 Day |
| Seryozha Gasparyan | 1580 | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Kapilan Karunakaran | 1706 | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Omar Leonardo Beltran | 1592 | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Vishal Anil | 1686 | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Thomas Harbin | Unr | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Erik J Nickels | 1769 | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Garret Liao | N/A | Under 1900 | 2 Day |
| Arjun Sankar (Withdrawn) | 1479 | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Brent Bennett | N/A | Under 1900 | 2 Day |
| David Liu | 1544 | Under 2100 | 2 Day |
| Miles Zhao (Withdrawn) | N/A | Under 1900 | 3 Day |
| Kally Wen (WCM) | 1603 | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Avery Yu | 1531 | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Leo Q Wang | Unr | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Tori Porat | 1836 | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Urjinbadam Battsetseg | N/A | Under 1900 | 3 Day |
| Neil S Bhaduri | 1578 | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Ellie Zhang | 1505 | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Drew Martin | 1667 | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Felix Guo | Unr | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Shreyas Rajendra Sakharkar | N/A | Under 1900 | 3 Day |
| Esther Jou | N/A | Under 1900 | 3 Day |
| Suren Mikoyan | 1395 | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Yanfeng Guo | N/A | Under 1900 | 3 Day |
| Michael Goliszek | Unr | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Angela Liu | 1458 | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Yashas Patil | 1616 | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Byron She | 1540 | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Buddy Thompson | 1740 | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Scott G Song | Unr | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| H G Pitre | N/A | Under 1900 | 3 Day |
| Brian C Glover | N/A | Under 1900 | 3 Day |
| Han Naing | N/A | Under 1900 | 3 Day |
| Vikrant Ganesan | 1472 | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Abhinav Naveen Mysore | 1524 | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Nicholas A Garcia | N/A | Under 1900 | 3 Day |
| Young Cheung Cui | 1524 | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Brent Lee Baxter | N/A | Under 1900 | 3 Day |
| Owen Overton | N/A | Under 1900 | 3 Day |
| Dwight B Shaulis | N/A | Under 1900 | 3 Day |
| Vikrant Rana Dhekial | N/A | Under 1900 | 3 Day |
| Hanchi Yao | 1571 | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Owen Tang | 1746 | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Adelynne Yang | 1528 | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Greg Zhou | N/A | Under 1900 | 2 Day |
| Micah Ean Margolin | N/A | Under 1900 | 2 Day |
| Andersen Yang | 1467 | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Jerry Chang | Unr | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Ethan Sun | 1528 | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Alan Peng | Unr | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Luis Andrade | N/A | Under 1900 | 2 Day |
| Yiyang Zheng | N/A | Under 1900 | 3 Day |
| Taja Delijani | N/A | Under 1900 | 2 Day |
| Adamson Steiner | 1532 | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| David Nacharian | N/A | Under 1900 | 3 Day |
| Aditya Singh | N/A | Under 1900 | 3 Day |
| Jesse Joe Lopez | N/A | Under 1900 | 3 Day |
| Blaine Steele | N/A | Under 1900 | 3 Day |
| Ivan Zhou | 1454 | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Rico Adkins | 1669 | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Raul G Bugnosen | N/A | Under 1900 | 3 Day |
| Charles H Ensey | N/A | Under 1900 | 3 Day |
| Elena Zhang | N/A | Under 1900 | 3 Day |
| Davit Gevorgyan | N/A | Under 1700 | 3 Day |
| Reynald E Dikit | N/A | Under 1900 | 3 Day |
| Kevin Wei | N/A | Under 1900 | 3 Day |
| Joshua William Woods | N/A | Under 1900 | 2 Day |
| Rafi Andranigian | N/A | Under 1900 | 3 Day |
| Timothy W Sowers | N/A | Under 1700 | 2 Day |
| Alexander Kong | N/A | Under 1900 | 2 Day |
| Gaurav D Datta | Unr | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Terry Tianyi Huang | Unr | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Shengjie Fan | N/A | Under 1900 | 3 Day |
| Gabriel Lin | N/A | Under 1900 | 2 Day |
| Zachary Gold | N/A | Under 1700 | 2 Day |
| Cesar Bercilla Tamondong (Withdrawn) | N/A | Under 1700 | 3 Day |
| Sean E Russell | N/A | Under 1700 | 2 Day |
| Yixuan Xiao | N/A | Under 1900 | 3 Day |
| Anirudh Govada | N/A | Under 1900 | 3 Day |
| Darsh Maheshwari | N/A | Under 1900 | 3 Day |
| Oren Porat | N/A | Under 1900 | 2 Day |
| Vincent Sacharske | N/A | Under 1700 | 2 Day |
| Warren Xiao Zhang | N/A | Under 1900 | 3 Day |
| Edmond C Page | N/A | Under 1700 | 2 Day |
| Colin Yi | N/A | Under 1900 | 3 Day |
| Saul Priever | N/A | Under 1700 | 3 Day |
| Pudur Ramaswamy | 1317 | Under 2100 | 2 Day |
| Sean Ting | N/A | Under 1700 | 2 Day |
| Kylie Zhang | N/A | Under 1900 | 3 Day |
| Jaidev Kaleeswaran | N/A | Under 1900 | 3 Day |
| James Andrew Clark (Withdrawn) | N/A | Under 1700 | 2 Day |
| Eric R Pangilinan | N/A | Under 1700 | 3 Day |
| Gary Hirschkron | N/A | Under 1900 | 3 Day |
| Richard Chang | N/A | Under 1700 | 2 Day |
| Hansika Kolli | N/A | Under 1900 | 3 Day |
| Seshasri Ananya Janapareddy | Unr | Under 2100 | 2 Day |
| Vahe Abgaryan | N/A | Under 1900 | 3 Day |
| John B. Sangco | N/A | Under 1700 | 3 Day |
| Ashley Lin | N/A | Under 1700 | 3 Day |
| Ethan T Wang | N/A | Under 1700 | 3 Day |
| Varvara Okuneva | N/A | Under 1700 | 2 Day |
| Michelle Zhang | Unr | Under 2100 | 3 Day |
| Bruce Young | N/A | Under 1700 | 2 Day |
| Zachary Wang | N/A | Under 1900 | 2 Day |
| Inay Vellore | N/A | Under 1900 | 3 Day |
| Gerardo Gonzalez | N/A | Under 1900 | 3 Day |
| James H Mulberry | N/A | Under 1700 | 3 Day |
| Ryan Erik George Sweezey | N/A | Under 1500 | 3 Day |
| Joel A Gross | N/A | Under 1700 | 2 Day |
| Rachel Burak | N/A | Under 1700 | 3 Day |
| Kai Kettering | N/A | Under 1500 | 3 Day |
| Miguel Angel Andrade Vazquez | N/A | Under 1500 | 2 Day |
| Hovhannes Mikoyan | N/A | Under 1500 | 3 Day |
| Arjun Nathan | N/A | Under 1700 | 3 Day |
| Ruyi Hu | 1562 | Under 2100 | 2 Day |
| Kevin Canedo | N/A | Under 1500 | 2 Day |
| Jason Lu | N/A | Under 1500 | 3 Day |
| Michael John Quist | N/A | Under 1500 | 2 Day |
| Glenn Zhang | N/A | Under 1700 | 3 Day |
| Jacob Gilshteyn | N/A | Under 1500 | 2 Day |
| Marina Xiao | N/A | Under 1900 | 2 Day |
| James R Holder | N/A | Under 1500 | 3 Day |
| Jeffrey Wei | N/A | Under 1500 | 2 Day |
| Sreshtha Janapareddy | N/A | Under 1700 | 2 Day |
| Frank (derek) Kronewitter | N/A | Under 1500 | 3 Day |
| Sarthak Gattani | N/A | Under 1700 | 2 Day |
| Ridhi Varma Danduprolu | N/A | Under 1700 | 3 Day |
| Stephan John Thomas | N/A | Under 1500 | 2 Day |
| Carson A Dishno | N/A | Under 1900 | 3 Day |
| Evan Y Zhong | N/A | Under 1500 | 2 Day |
| Jonathan Berg | N/A | Under 1500 | 3 Day |
| Yaliang Chen | N/A | Under 1700 | 2 Day |
| Daniel Ryan Murphy | N/A | Under 1500 | 2 Day |
| Peter Michael Martinez | N/A | Under 1500 | 3 Day |
| Snegapraneeth Sudhakar | N/A | Under 1700 | 3 Day |
| Christopher Manlove | Unr | Under 2100 | 2 Day |
| Allen Shenghan Fan | N/A | Under 1700 | 3 Day |
| Nathanael La Breche | N/A | Under 1500 | 3 Day |
| Hrishikesh Prabhu | N/A | Under 1500 | 3 Day |
| Benjamin Bertch | N/A | Under 1500 | 2 Day |
| Alexander P Chen | N/A | Under 1500 | 3 Day |
| Archer Declan Berenson | N/A | Under 1500 | 3 Day |
| Brandon Zhuocheng You | N/A | Under 1500 | 2 Day |
| Sean Jura | N/A | Under 1500 | 2 Day |
| Joshua Wang | N/A | Under 1500 | 2 Day |
| Gor Sargsyan | N/A | Under 1500 | 2 Day |
| Matthew Ni | N/A | Under 1500 | 2 Day |
| Darren Wang | N/A | Under 1500 | 2 Day |
| Adam Godina | N/A | Under 1500 | 2 Day |
| Melissa Xu | N/A | Under 1900 | 2 Day |
| Caleb Zeng | N/A | Under 1900 | 2 Day |
| Leya Joseph | N/A | Under 1500 | 2 Day |
| Ryuta Watanabe Nunez | N/A | Under 1500 | 2 Day |
| Swaminathan Sankar (Withdrawn) | N/A | Under 1700 | 2 Day |
| Paul Kennedy | N/A | Under 1500 | 3 Day |
| Luc Dhauthuille | N/A | Under 1500 | 2 Day |
| Matthew Johnson | N/A | Under 1500 | 3 Day |
| Jim Yibei Xiao | N/A | Under 1500 | 3 Day |
| Michael Xiao | N/A | Under 1700 | 2 Day |
| Chris Bunch | N/A | Under 1500 | 3 Day |
| Afaf Bouardi | N/A | Under 1500 | 3 Day |
| Randal Johnson | N/A | Under 1200 | 3 Day |
| Jarl Reyhan Lee Bitoon | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Josiah Chen | N/A | Under 1500 | 2 Day |
| Brandon M Walker | N/A | Under 1500 | 2 Day |
| Douglas S. Chung | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Krrish Singh Singh Sardar | N/A | Under 1200 | 3 Day |
| Lucas Brown | N/A | Under 1200 | 3 Day |
| Gagik Gary Grigoryan | N/A | Under 1200 | 3 Day |
| Matthew Talukdar | N/A | Under 1700 | 3 Day |
| Joseph Macgregor Langley | N/A | Under 1500 | 3 Day |
| Robert Colton Simpson | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Lucas Park | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Srikar Gummadi | N/A | Under 1200 | 3 Day |
| Mikey Knight | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Joshua Joseph | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Luke Bugbee | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Vian H Parikh | N/A | Under 1200 | 3 Day |
| Ram Stewart | N/A | Under 1500 | 2 Day |
| Ryan D Kong | N/A | Under 1500 | 2 Day |
| Kenneth Yin | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Christopher Jonah Call | N/A | Under 1200 | 3 Day |
| Andrew Zhuoyuan You | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Neel Deshpande | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Nikola Jayden Qiu | N/A | Under 1200 | 3 Day |
| Spencer Ho | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Brendan R Matlock | N/A | Under 1200 | 3 Day |
| Whit D Bertch | N/A | Under 1200 | 3 Day |
| Luke Vinson | N/A | Under 1200 | 3 Day |
| April Mara Cristal | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Robert Clinton Younger | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Colby Scott Jobinger | N/A | Under 1200 | 3 Day |
| Yinuo Hu | N/A | Under 1700 | 2 Day |
| Ian Kim | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Kubraa Adoni | N/A | Under 1500 | 2 Day |
| Jason Nunez | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Jonah Chen | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Claire Sun | N/A | Under 1500 | 3 Day |
| Nick Bugbee | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Sinjini Chakraborty | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Ararat Bagdasarian | N/A | Under 1200 | 3 Day |
| Kaden Sun | N/A | Under 1500 | 3 Day |
| Darren Lei | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Joaquin Wada | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Sean Dane | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Lindsey Newhall | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Jayden Fung | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Krishna Dhaneep | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Joel Corral | N/A | Under 1200 | 3 Day |
| Austin Huang | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Howard Li | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Zidaan Hussain | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Maxton S Janis | N/A | Under 1200 | 3 Day |
| Jayson Chen | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Gabriel Skevin | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Royce Ke | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Gus R Piangerelli (Withdrawn) | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Kyrene Zhang | N/A | Under 1200 | 3 Day |
| Akshar Gummadi | N/A | Under 1200 | 3 Day |
| Akshita Sudhakar | N/A | Under 1200 | 3 Day |
| Matthew V Wang | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Farid Bayramli | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Justin Muller | N/A | Under 1200 | 3 Day |
| Daksh Sathish (Withdrawn) | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Aurora Stewart | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Serah Zhao | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Pengpeng Tom Zhang | N/A | Under 1200 | 3 Day |
| Kaamil Adoni Mohammed | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Reece Ke | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Tyler Gwynne Calimag Maurer | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Ara Aramyan | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Argin Aslanian | N/A | Under 1700 | 2 Day |
| Aram Avetisian | N/A | Under 1200 | 3 Day |
| Jessee Espinosa | N/A | Under 1500 | 3 Day |
| Joshua T Fox | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Jacob Thomas Good | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Wade Greiten | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Tommy L Hudson | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Sheng Chen Hsieh Hung | N/A | Under 1200 | 3 Day |
| Puzant Kiwanian | N/A | Under 1200 | 3 Day |
| Steven A Merrit | N/A | Under 1500 | 3 Day |
| Nick Mork | N/A | Under 1500 | 3 Day |
| Marcus W. Suzuki (Withdrawn) | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
| Jared A Washington | N/A | Under 1200 | 3 Day |
| Yusuf Yazici | N/A | Under 1200 | 2 Day |
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