The 27th edition of the annual Pacific Coast Chess Open was played 15-17 July at the Los Angeles Airport Hilton and featured six rating sections: Premier (2000+), U2100, U1900, U1700, U1500 and U1200, with a guaranteed prize fund of 25.000$.
GM Arman Mikaelyan who recently clinched silver at the 50th World Open lifted the trophy of the Premier tournament with a perfect score of 6/6 points. He had a 1.5 points advantage over the group of seven players who tied for second with 4.5 points and pocketed a money prize of 3.100$. GM Batchuluun Tsegmed, IM John Daniel Bryant, GM Melikset Khachiyan, GM Richard Balansag Bitoon, Robert M Perez, IM Alexander John Castello and Lucas Jiang shared second place.
The Winners of other sections are Hanchi Yao (U2100), Ellie Zhang (U1900), Davit Gevorgyan and Joel A Gross (U1700), Jason Lu (U1500) and Luke Bugbee and Nick Bugbee (U1200). Scroll down for final rankings of all sections
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Final rankings – Pacific Coast Chess Open Premier 2022:
# | Name | Rating | Total | Prize |
1 | GM Arman Mikaelyan | 2585 | 6 | 3100 |
2 | GM Batchuluun Tsegmed | 2576 | 4.5 | 500 |
3 | IM John Daniel Bryant | 2514 | 4.5 | 500 |
4 | GM Melikset Khachiyan | 2493 | 4.5 | 500 |
5 | GM Richard Balansag Bitoon | 2466 | 4.5 | 500 |
6 | Robert M Perez | 2447 | 4.5 | 500 |
7 | IM Alexander John Costello | 2379 | 4.5 | 500 |
8 | Lucas Jiang | 2146 | 4.5 | 1200 |
9 | GM Fidel Corrales Jimenez | 2622 | 4 | |
10 | Andy Lin | 2386 | 4 | |
11 | Gabriel Eidelman | 2249 | 4 | 600 |
12 | Gunnar James Andersen | 2352 | 3.5 | |
13 | Teddie Wen | 2325 | 3.5 | |
14 | FM Michael Casella | 2301 | 3.5 | |
15 | Tommy Wen | 2194 | 3.5 | |
16 | Alex Yuxuan Wang | 2192 | 3.5 | |
17 | Alan J Finkelstein | 2169 | 3.5 | |
18 | Elbert Zeng | 2148 | 3.5 | |
19 | David Gasparyan | 2127 | 3.5 | |
20 | Andrew Wang | 2116 | 3.5 | |
21 | Kevin Fong | 2112 | 3.5 | |
22 | Advaith Vijayakumar | 2097 | 3.5 | |
23 | Solomon Ruddell | 2064 | 3.5 | |
24 | Noah Ward | 2062 | 3.5 | |
25 | Jeffery Wang | 2040 | 3.5 | |
26 | Vincent Qin | 2027 | 3.5 | |
27 | Paul Yuu Iinuma | 2220 | 3 | |
28 | Isaac Wang | 2183 | 3 | |
29 | Krishna Nathan | 2166 | 3 | |
30 | Pranav Sathish | 2099 | 3 | |
31 | Patrick Peijun Liu | 2073 | 3 | |
32 | Bryan B Leano | 2054 | 3 | |
33 | Rose Atwell | 2035 | 3 | |
34 | Sihan Tao | 1977 | 3 | |
35 | Christopher Tyau | 1931 | 3 | |
36 | FM Eugene Yanayt | 2213 | 2.5 | |
37 | Nathaniel Albion Zhang | 2195 | 2.5 | |
38 | Benjamin Benchen Tang | 2140 | 2.5 | |
39 | Joshua A Harrison | 2129 | 2.5 | |
40 | CM Nitish Sg Nathan | 2089 | 2.5 | |
41 | WCM Aksithi Eswaran | 2002 | 2.5 | |
42 | FM Alexandre Kretchetov | 2329 | 2 | |
43 | CM Rushaan Mahajan | 2249 | 2 | |
44 | Henry Deng | 2201 | 2 | |
45 | Leo Creger V | 2192 | 2 | |
46 | Orry M Marciano | 2129 | 2 | |
47 | Sepehr Golsefidy | 2081 | 2 | |
48 | Jeremy Bader | 2060 | 2 | |
49 | Leonard Vu | 2049 | 2 | |
50 | Vishva Nanugonda | 2027 | 2 | |
51 | Roger V V Shi | 1981 | 2 | |
52 | Jaisuraj Kaleeswaran | 2029 | 1.5 | |
53 | Pearson Hong | 2017 | 1.5 | |
54 | Ryan Min | 2006 | 1.5 | |
55 | Erin Bian | 1993 | 1.5 | |
56 | Avinaya Subedi | 2038 | 1 | |
57 | Stewart Bradley Taylor | 2032 | 1 | |
58 | Thanh Tien Nguyen | 2027 | 1 | |
59 | Luke Calhoun | 2220 | 0.5 | |
60 | Yu-cheng Liang | 2164 | 0 | |
61 | William Waddell | 1891 | 0 | |
62 | Michelle Zhang | 1517 | 0 |
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Final rankings – Pacific Coast Chess Open 2022 – U2100:
# | Name | Rating | Total | Prize |
1 | Hanchi Yao | 1795 | 5.5 | 2000 |
2 | Drew Martin | 1873 | 5 | 1000 |
3 | Alan Lacombe | 2099 | 4.5 | 114.29 |
4 | Noah Montgomery Daniels | 2003 | 4.5 | 114.29 |
5 | Bret A Bryan | 1981 | 4.5 | 114.29 |
6 | Seryozha Gasparyan | 1927 | 4.5 | 114.29 |
7 | Neil S Bhaduri | 1879 | 4.5 | 114.29 |
8 | Angela Liu | 1848 | 4.5 | 114.29 |
9 | Scott G Song | 1837 | 4.5 | 114.29 |
10 | Julian Colville | 1997 | 4 | |
11 | Leo Q Wang | 1888 | 4 | |
12 | Rishabh Chinni | 1879 | 4 | |
13 | James Gartland | 1874 | 4 | |
14 | Eric Sakurai | 2069 | 3.5 | |
15 | Armen Andranigian | 2050 | 3.5 | |
16 | Anthony Faulks | 2043 | 3.5 | |
17 | Ethan Hsiao | 1979 | 3.5 | |
18 | Yuqi Wang | 1965 | 3.5 | |
19 | Dylan* Tang r/e | 1947 | 3.5 | |
20 | Gordon Zhenyu Xu | 1946 | 3.5 | |
21 | Kapilan Karunakaran | 1925 | 3.5 | |
22 | Vishal Anil | 1915 | 3.5 | |
23 | David Liu | 1892 | 3.5 | |
24 | Suren Mikoyan | 1862 | 3.5 | |
25 | Vikrant Ganesan | 1817 | 3.5 | |
26 | Mason Jeffe Welch | 1804 | 3.5 | |
27 | Adelynne Yang | 1776 | 3.5 | |
28 | Terry Tianyi Huang | 1658 | 3.5 | |
29 | Vardan Balyan | 1540 | 3.5 | |
30 | Hursh K Mehta r/e | 2059 | 3 | |
31 | Leah Bernardo Taguinin | 2054 | 3 | |
32 | Faraz Saleem | 2034 | 3 | |
33 | Christopher Gar Wai Sheu | 1977 | 3 | |
34 | Rudy Goce Tia | 1972 | 3 | |
35 | Ujan Ray | 1959 | 3 | |
36 | Omar Leonardo Beltran | 1922 | 3 | |
37 | Erik J Nickels | 1897 | 3 | |
38 | Yashas Patil | 1846 | 3 | |
39 | Abhinav Naveen Mysore | 1815 | 3 | |
40 | Jerry Chang | 1740 | 3 | |
41 | Kai Tabor | 2036 | 2.5 | |
42 | Ed* Cohen r/e | 2025 | 2.5 | |
43 | Lennart K Mathe | 1959 | 2.5 | |
44 | WCM Kally Wen | 1889 | 2.5 | |
45 | Avery Yu | 1889 | 2.5 | |
46 | Felix Guo | 1868 | 2.5 | |
47 | Byron She | 1843 | 2.5 | |
48 | Andersen Yang | 1754 | 2.5 | |
49 | Alan Peng | 1732 | 2.5 | |
50 | Adamson Steiner | 1719 | 2.5 | |
51 | Hursh K* Mehta | 2059 | 2 | |
52 | Willis A Kim | 2050 | 2 | |
53 | Tori Porat | 1886 | 2 | |
54 | Young Cheung Cui | 1805 | 2 | |
55 | Owen Tang | 1776 | 2 | |
56 | Ethan Sun | 1735 | 2 | |
57 | Ivan Zhou | 1702 | 2 | |
58 | Ruyi Hu | 1458 | 2 | |
59 | Yash Rathin Vora | 1869 | 1.5 | |
60 | Buddy Thompson | 1839 | 1.5 | |
61 | Rico Adkins | 1701 | 1.5 | |
62 | Seshasri Ananya Janapareddy | 1548 | 1.5 | |
63 | Michelle Zhang | 1517 | 1.5 | |
64 | Christopher Manlove | 1331 | 1.5 | |
65 | Dylan Tang | 1947 | 1 | |
66 | Joshua William Woods | 1688 | 0.5 | |
67 | Gaurav D Datta | 1664 | 0.5 | |
68 | Pudur Ramaswamy | 1573 | 0.5 | |
69 | Ed Cohen | 2025 | 0 | |
70 | Christopher Tyau | 1931 | 0 | |
71 | Thomas Harbin | 1905 | 0 | |
72 | Michael Goliszek | 1857 | 0 | |
73 | William Waddell | 1891 | 0 |
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Final rankings – Pacific Coast Chess Open 2022 – U1900:
# | Name | Rating | Total | Prize |
1 | Ellie Zhang | 1875 | 6 | 2000 |
2 | Urjinbadam Battsetseg | 1881 | 4.5 | 300 |
3 | Esther Jou | 1863 | 4.5 | 300 |
4 | H G Pitre | 1834 | 4.5 | 300 |
5 | Vikrant Rana* Dhekial | 1799 | 4.5 | 300 |
6 | Joshua William Woods | 1688 | 4.5 | 300 |
7 | Vahe Abgaryan | 1537 | 4.5 | 300 |
8 | Garret Liao | 1896 | 4 | |
9 | Yanfeng Guo | 1860 | 4 | |
10 | Shreyas Rajendra Sakharkar | 1868 | 3.5 | |
11 | Brent Lee Baxter | 1800 | 3.5 | |
12 | Dwight B Shaulis | 1800 | 3.5 | |
13 | Vachajan Harutyunyan | 1767 | 3.5 | |
14 | Greg Zhou | 1763 | 3.5 | |
15 | Micah Ean Margolin | 1757 | 3.5 | |
16 | David Nacharian | 1716 | 3.5 | |
17 | Aditya Singh | 1711 | 3.5 | |
18 | Gabriel Lin | 1641 | 3.5 | |
19 | Yixuan Xiao | 1631 | 3.5 | |
20 | Darsh Maheshwari | 1617 | 3.5 | |
21 | Warren Xiao Zhang | 1606 | 3.5 | |
22 | Carson A Dishno | 1375 | 3.5 | |
23 | Brian C Glover | 1829 | 3 | |
24 | Nicholas A Garcia | 1812 | 3 | |
25 | Luis Andrade | 1731 | 3 | |
26 | Yiyang Zheng | 1727 | 3 | |
27 | Blaine Steele | 1710 | 3 | |
28 | Rafi Andranigian | 1680 | 3 | |
29 | Shengjie Fan | 1651 | 3 | |
30 | Oren Porat | 1607 | 3 | |
31 | Marina Xiao | 1421 | 3 | |
32 | Brent Bennett | 1895 | 2.5 | |
33 | Raul G Bugnosen | 1700 | 2.5 | |
34 | Kevin Wei | 1688 | 2.5 | |
35 | Alexander Kong | 1671 | 2.5 | |
36 | Hansika Kolli | 1551 | 2.5 | |
37 | Zachary Wang | 1508 | 2.5 | |
38 | Nathan Haojia Sun | 1414 | 2.5 | |
39 | Caleb Zeng | 1255 | 2.5 | |
40 | Han Naing | 1828 | 2 | |
41 | Owen Overton | 1800 | 2 | |
42 | Jahan Raymond | 1744 | 2 | |
43 | Taja Delijani | 1722 | 2 | |
44 | Anirudh Govada | 1625 | 2 | |
45 | Jaidev Kaleeswaran | 1567 | 2 | |
46 | Tai Toribio | 1565 | 2 | |
47 | Gary Hirschkron | 1554 | 2 | |
48 | Charles H Ensey | 1700 | 1.5 | |
49 | Colin Yi | 1589 | 1.5 | |
50 | Kylie Zhang | 1571 | 1.5 | |
51 | William Waddell | 1891 | 1 | |
52 | Adam M Burgener | 1768 | 1 | |
53 | Eric R Pangilinan | 1555 | 1 | |
54 | Inay Vellore | 1506 | 1 | |
55 | Yaliang Chen | 1368 | 1 | |
56 | Melissa Xu | 1258 | 1 | |
57 | Reid B Savid | 1687 | 0.5 | |
58 | Vikrant Rana Dhekial | 1799 | 0 | |
59 | Kele D Perkins | 1601 | 0 | |
60 | Gerardo Gonzalez | 1500 | 0 | |
61 | Afaf Bouardi | 1200 | 0 | |
62 | Yinuo Hu | 877 | 0 | |
63 | Claire Sun | 846 | 0 |
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Final rankings – Pacific Coast Chess Open 2022 – U1700:
# | Name | Rating | Total | Prize |
1 | Davit Gevorgyan | 1693 | 5 | 1200 |
2 | Joel A Gross | 1485 | 5 | 1200 |
3 | Zachary Gold | 1639 | 4.5 | 300 |
4 | Joseph Mcentee | 1633 | 4.5 | 300 |
5 | Timothy W Sowers | 1678 | 4 | |
6 | Ronnie Arbis | 1612 | 4 | |
7 | Lorenzo Antonio | 1596 | 4 | |
8 | Bruce Young | 1516 | 4 | |
9 | Arjun Nathan | 1462 | 4 | |
10 | Snegapraneeth Sudhakar | 1348 | 4 | |
11 | Matthew Talukdar | 1110 | 4 | |
12 | Richard Chang | 1551 | 3.5 | |
13 | Ashley Lin | 1528 | 3.5 | |
14 | Glenn Zhang | 1442 | 3.5 | |
15 | Elena Zhang | 1696 | 3 | |
16 | Vincent Sacharske | 1606 | 3 | |
17 | Varvara Okuneva | 1517 | 3 | |
18 | James H* Mulberry r/e | 1500 | 3 | |
19 | Sreshtha Janapareddy | 1407 | 3 | |
20 | Sarthak Gattani | 1399 | 3 | |
21 | Ridhi Varma Danduprolu | 1381 | 3 | |
22 | Allen Shenghan Fan | 1330 | 3 | |
23 | Brad Liao | 1363 | 2.5 | |
24 | Michael Xiao | 1207 | 2.5 | |
25 | Kele D Perkins | 1601 | 2 | |
26 | Saul Priever | 1582 | 2 | |
27 | Ethan T Wang | 1524 | 2 | |
28 | Rachel Burak | 1483 | 2 | |
29 | Yaliang Chen | 1368 | 2 | |
30 | Argin Aslanian | unr. | 2 | |
31 | Eric R Pangilinan | 1555 | 1.5 | |
32 | John B. Sangco | 1531 | 1.5 | |
33 | Yinuo Hu | 877 | 1 | |
34 | Sean E Russell | 1632 | 0 | |
35 | Bernab Sangco Jr | 1615 | 0 | |
36 | James H Mulberry | 1500 | 0 |
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Final rankings – Pacific Coast Chess Open 2022 – U1500:
# | Name | Rating | Total | Prize |
1 | Jason Lu | 1446 | 6 | 1600 |
2 | Ryan Erik George Sweezey | 1493 | 5 | 600 |
3 | Matthew Ni | 1269 | 5 | 600 |
4 | Jeffrey Wei | 1415 | 4.5 | 200 |
5 | Kai Kettering | 1482 | 4 | |
6 | Kevin Canedo | 1454 | 4 | |
7 | Varuzha Khalatyan | 1442 | 4 | |
8 | Frank (derek) Kronewitter | 1400 | 4 | |
9 | Evan Y Zhong | 1375 | 4 | |
10 | Brandon Zhuocheng You | 1297 | 4 | |
11 | Sean Jura | 1285 | 4 | |
12 | Darren Wang | 1268 | 4 | |
13 | Ryan D Kong | 1021 | 4 | |
14 | Steven A Merrit | unr. | 4 | |
15 | Nick Mork | unr. | 4 | |
16 | Daniel Ryan Murphy | 1356 | 3.5 | |
17 | Peter Michael Martinez | 1350 | 3.5 | |
18 | Nathanael La Breche | 1327 | 3.5 | |
19 | Alexander P Chen | 1306 | 3.5 | |
20 | Archer Declan Berenson | 1304 | 3.5 | |
21 | Michael John Quist | 1445 | 3 | |
22 | James R Holder | 1417 | 3 | |
23 | Stephan John Thomas | 1377 | 3 | |
24 | Jonathan Berg | 1372 | 3 | |
25 | Benjamin Bertch | 1317 | 3 | |
26 | Ryuta Watanabe Nunez | 1248 | 3 | |
27 | Luc Dhauthuille | 1222 | 3 | |
28 | Miguel Angel Andrade Vazquez | 1476 | 2.5 | |
29 | Hovhannes Mikoyan | 1476 | 2.5 | |
30 | Adam Godina | 1264 | 2.5 | |
31 | Leya Joseph | 1252 | 2.5 | |
32 | Paul Kennedy | 1226 | 2.5 | |
33 | Jim Yibei Xiao | 1215 | 2.5 | |
34 | Chris Bunch | 1201 | 2.5 | |
35 | Josiah Chen | 1142 | 2.5 | |
36 | Kubraa Adoni | 859 | 2.5 | |
37 | Arturo Caip Baula | 1400 | 2 | |
38 | Nver Par Sargsyan | 1373 | 2 | |
39 | Matthew Johnson | 1215 | 2 | |
40 | Brandon M Walker | 1132 | 2 | |
41 | Joseph Macgregor Langley | 1108 | 2 | |
42 | Ram Stewart | 1039 | 2 | |
43 | Afaf Bouardi | 1200 | 1.5 | |
44 | Claire Sun | 846 | 1.5 | |
45 | Kaden Sun | 822 | 1.5 | |
46 | Jessee Espinosa | unr. | 1.5 | |
47 | Hrishikesh Prabhu | 1319 | 1 | |
48 | Gor Sargsyan | 1271 | 1 | |
49 | Jacob Gilshteyn | 1441 | 0 | |
50 | Krrish Singh Singh Sardar | 1118 | 0 |
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Final rankings – Pacific Coast Chess Open 2022 – U1200:
# | Name | Rating | Total | Prize |
1 | Luke Bugbee | 1054 | 5.5 | 600 |
2 | Nick Bugbee | 835 | 5.5 | 600 |
3 | Luke Vinson | 940 | 5 | 75 |
4 | Jacob Thomas Good | unr. | 5 | 75 |
5 | Edward Kim | unr. | 5 | 75 |
6 | Puzant Kiwanian | unr. | 5 | 75 |
7 | Douglas S. Chung | 1131 | 4.5 | |
8 | Jayden Fung | 761 | 4.5 | |
9 | Randal Johnson | 1162 | 4 | |
10 | Robert Colton Simpson | 1089 | 4 | |
11 | George Huang | 1081 | 4 | |
12 | Srikar Gummadi | 1071 | 4 | |
13 | Ian Erickson | 1066 | 4 | |
14 | Joshua Joseph | 1063 | 4 | |
15 | Vian H Parikh | 1047 | 4 | |
16 | Kenneth Yin | 1017 | 4 | |
17 | Christopher Jonah Call | 1014 | 4 | |
18 | Andrew Zhuoyuan You | 1006 | 4 | |
19 | Nikola Jayden Qiu | 957 | 4 | |
20 | Brendan R Matlock | 951 | 4 | |
21 | Whit D Bertch | 947 | 4 | |
22 | Drake Dejute-Erickson | unr. | 4 | |
23 | Jarl Reyhan Lee Bitoon | 1157 | 3.5 | |
24 | Lucas Brown | 1117 | 3.5 | |
25 | Lucas Park | 1084 | 3.5 | |
26 | Jonah Chen | 850 | 3.5 | |
27 | Howard Li | 749 | 3.5 | |
28 | Akshita Sudhakar | 580 | 3.5 | |
29 | Yusuf Yazici | unr. | 3.5 | |
30 | Arthur Zarellas | 1014 | 3 | |
31 | April Mara Cristal | 909 | 3 | |
32 | Tim Friesen | 881 | 3 | |
33 | Ian Kim | 868 | 3 | |
34 | Sinjini Chakraborty | 827 | 3 | |
35 | Ararat Bagdasarian | 825 | 3 | |
36 | Joaquin Wada | 790 | 3 | |
37 | Zidaan Hussain | 736 | 3 | |
38 | Kyrene Zhang | 636 | 3 | |
39 | Justin Muller | 521 | 3 | |
40 | Serah Zhao | 406 | 3 | |
41 | Tyler Gwynne Calimag Maurer | 103 | 3 | |
42 | Ara Aramyan | unr. | 3 | |
43 | Robert Clinton Younger | 909 | 2.5 | |
44 | Jason Nunez | 858 | 2.5 | |
45 | Darren Lei | 807 | 2.5 | |
46 | Krishna Dhaneep | 760 | 2.5 | |
47 | Maxton S Janis | 697 | 2.5 | |
48 | Matthew V Wang | 570 | 2.5 | |
49 | Farid Bayramli | 522 | 2.5 | |
50 | Kaamil Adoni Mohammed | 297 | 2.5 | |
51 | Kumasi Sadiki | unr. | 2.5 | |
52 | Jared A Washington | unr. | 2.5 | |
53 | Krrish Singh Singh Sardar | 1118 | 2 | |
54 | Spencer Ho | 955 | 2 | |
55 | Colby Scott Jobinger | 890 | 2 | |
56 | Joel Corral | 755 | 2 | |
57 | Austin Huang | 750 | 2 | |
58 | Royce Ke | 646 | 2 | |
59 | Akshar Gummadi | 581 | 2 | |
60 | David Galstyan | 572 | 2 | |
61 | Sean Dane | 777 | 1.5 | |
62 | Gabriel Skevin | 649 | 1.5 | |
63 | Aurora Stewart | 444 | 1.5 | |
64 | Pengpeng Tom Zhang | 389 | 1.5 | |
65 | Joshua T Fox | unr. | 1.5 | |
66 | Tommy L Hudson | unr. | 1.5 | |
67 | Lindsey Newhall | 762 | 1 | |
68 | Jayson Chen | 652 | 1 | |
69 | Ryder Sebastian Margalit | 221 | 1 | |
70 | Reece Ke | 145 | 1 | |
71 | Mathew Foresta | 534 | 0.5 | |
72 | Sheng Chen Hsieh Hung | unr. | 0.5 | |
73 | Mikey Knight | 1067 | 0 | |
74 | Aram Avetisian | unr. | 0 | |
75 | Wade Greiten | unr. | 0 |
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