GM Arman Mikaelyan wins 27th Pacific Coast Premier Open scoring perfect 6/6

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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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