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

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

Read more: IM Sam Schmakel dominates at the 15th annual Chicago Class 2022 / The top seeds live up to expectations at the 27th annual Bradley Chess Open

GM Arman Mikaelyan wins Pacific Coast Premier Chess Open 2022; Photo from Facebook

Final rankings – Pacific Coast Chess Open Premier 2022:

#NameRatingTotalPrize
1GM Arman Mikaelyan258563100
2GM Batchuluun Tsegmed25764.5500
3IM John Daniel Bryant25144.5500
4GM Melikset Khachiyan24934.5500
5GM Richard Balansag Bitoon24664.5500
6Robert M Perez24474.5500
7IM Alexander John Costello23794.5500
8Lucas Jiang21464.51200
9GM Fidel Corrales Jimenez26224 
10Andy Lin23864 
11Gabriel Eidelman22494600
12Gunnar James Andersen23523.5 
13Teddie Wen23253.5 
14FM Michael Casella23013.5 
15Tommy Wen21943.5 
16Alex Yuxuan Wang21923.5 
17Alan J Finkelstein21693.5 
18Elbert Zeng21483.5 
19David Gasparyan21273.5 
20Andrew Wang21163.5 
21Kevin Fong21123.5 
22Advaith Vijayakumar20973.5 
23Solomon Ruddell20643.5 
24Noah Ward20623.5 
25Jeffery Wang20403.5 
26Vincent Qin20273.5 
27Paul Yuu Iinuma22203 
28Isaac Wang21833 
29Krishna Nathan21663 
30Pranav Sathish20993 
31Patrick Peijun Liu20733 
32Bryan B Leano20543 
33Rose Atwell20353 
34Sihan Tao19773 
35Christopher Tyau19313 
36FM Eugene Yanayt22132.5 
37Nathaniel Albion Zhang21952.5 
38Benjamin Benchen Tang21402.5 
39Joshua A Harrison21292.5 
40CM Nitish Sg Nathan20892.5 
41WCM Aksithi Eswaran20022.5 
42FM Alexandre Kretchetov23292 
43CM Rushaan Mahajan22492 
44Henry Deng22012 
45Leo Creger V21922 
46Orry M Marciano21292 
47Sepehr Golsefidy20812 
48Jeremy Bader20602 
49Leonard Vu20492 
50Vishva Nanugonda20272 
51Roger V V Shi19812 
52Jaisuraj Kaleeswaran20291.5 
53Pearson Hong20171.5 
54Ryan Min20061.5 
55Erin Bian19931.5 
56Avinaya Subedi20381 
57Stewart Bradley Taylor20321 
58Thanh Tien Nguyen20271 
59Luke Calhoun22200.5 
60Yu-cheng Liang21640 
61William Waddell18910 
62Michelle Zhang15170

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Final rankings – Pacific Coast Chess Open 2022 – U2100:

#NameRatingTotalPrize
1Hanchi Yao17955.52000
2Drew Martin187351000
3Alan Lacombe20994.5114.29
4Noah Montgomery Daniels20034.5114.29
5Bret A Bryan19814.5114.29
6Seryozha Gasparyan19274.5114.29
7Neil S Bhaduri18794.5114.29
8Angela Liu18484.5114.29
9Scott G Song18374.5114.29
10Julian Colville19974 
11Leo Q Wang18884 
12Rishabh Chinni18794 
13James Gartland18744 
14Eric Sakurai20693.5 
15Armen Andranigian20503.5 
16Anthony Faulks20433.5 
17Ethan Hsiao19793.5 
18Yuqi Wang19653.5 
19Dylan* Tang r/e19473.5 
20Gordon Zhenyu Xu19463.5 
21Kapilan Karunakaran19253.5 
22Vishal Anil19153.5 
23David Liu18923.5 
24Suren Mikoyan18623.5 
25Vikrant Ganesan18173.5 
26Mason Jeffe Welch18043.5 
27Adelynne Yang17763.5 
28Terry Tianyi Huang16583.5 
29Vardan Balyan15403.5 
30Hursh K Mehta r/e20593 
31Leah Bernardo Taguinin20543 
32Faraz Saleem20343 
33Christopher Gar Wai Sheu19773 
34Rudy Goce Tia19723 
35Ujan Ray19593 
36Omar Leonardo Beltran19223 
37Erik J Nickels18973 
38Yashas Patil18463 
39Abhinav Naveen Mysore18153 
40Jerry Chang17403 
41Kai Tabor20362.5 
42Ed* Cohen r/e20252.5 
43Lennart K Mathe19592.5 
44WCM Kally Wen18892.5 
45Avery Yu18892.5 
46Felix Guo18682.5 
47Byron She18432.5 
48Andersen Yang17542.5 
49Alan Peng17322.5 
50Adamson Steiner17192.5 
51Hursh K* Mehta20592 
52Willis A Kim20502 
53Tori Porat18862 
54Young Cheung Cui18052 
55Owen Tang17762 
56Ethan Sun17352 
57Ivan Zhou17022 
58Ruyi Hu14582 
59Yash Rathin Vora18691.5 
60Buddy Thompson18391.5 
61Rico Adkins17011.5 
62Seshasri Ananya Janapareddy15481.5 
63Michelle Zhang15171.5 
64Christopher Manlove13311.5 
65Dylan Tang19471 
66Joshua William Woods16880.5 
67Gaurav D Datta16640.5 
68Pudur Ramaswamy15730.5 
69Ed Cohen20250 
70Christopher Tyau19310 
71Thomas Harbin19050 
72Michael Goliszek18570 
73William Waddell18910

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Final rankings – Pacific Coast Chess Open 2022 – U1900:

#NameRatingTotalPrize
1Ellie Zhang187562000
2Urjinbadam Battsetseg18814.5300
3Esther Jou18634.5300
4H G Pitre18344.5300
5Vikrant Rana* Dhekial17994.5300
6Joshua William Woods16884.5300
7Vahe Abgaryan15374.5300
8Garret Liao18964 
9Yanfeng Guo18604 
10Shreyas Rajendra Sakharkar18683.5 
11Brent Lee Baxter18003.5 
12Dwight B Shaulis18003.5 
13Vachajan Harutyunyan17673.5 
14Greg Zhou17633.5 
15Micah Ean Margolin17573.5 
16David Nacharian17163.5 
17Aditya Singh17113.5 
18Gabriel Lin16413.5 
19Yixuan Xiao16313.5 
20Darsh Maheshwari16173.5 
21Warren Xiao Zhang16063.5 
22Carson A Dishno13753.5 
23Brian C Glover18293 
24Nicholas A Garcia18123 
25Luis Andrade17313 
26Yiyang Zheng17273 
27Blaine Steele17103 
28Rafi Andranigian16803 
29Shengjie Fan16513 
30Oren Porat16073 
31Marina Xiao14213 
32Brent Bennett18952.5 
33Raul G Bugnosen17002.5 
34Kevin Wei16882.5 
35Alexander Kong16712.5 
36Hansika Kolli15512.5 
37Zachary Wang15082.5 
38Nathan Haojia Sun14142.5 
39Caleb Zeng12552.5 
40Han Naing18282 
41Owen Overton18002 
42Jahan Raymond17442 
43Taja Delijani17222 
44Anirudh Govada16252 
45Jaidev Kaleeswaran15672 
46Tai Toribio15652 
47Gary Hirschkron15542 
48Charles H Ensey17001.5 
49Colin Yi15891.5 
50Kylie Zhang15711.5 
51William Waddell18911 
52Adam M Burgener17681 
53Eric R Pangilinan15551 
54Inay Vellore15061 
55Yaliang Chen13681 
56Melissa Xu12581 
57Reid B Savid16870.5 
58Vikrant Rana Dhekial17990 
59Kele D Perkins16010 
60Gerardo Gonzalez15000 
61Afaf Bouardi12000 
62Yinuo Hu8770 
63Claire Sun8460

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Final rankings – Pacific Coast Chess Open 2022 – U1700:

#NameRatingTotalPrize
1Davit Gevorgyan169351200
2Joel A Gross148551200
3Zachary Gold16394.5300
4Joseph Mcentee16334.5300
5Timothy W Sowers16784 
6Ronnie Arbis16124 
7Lorenzo Antonio15964 
8Bruce Young15164 
9Arjun Nathan14624 
10Snegapraneeth Sudhakar13484 
11Matthew Talukdar11104 
12Richard Chang15513.5 
13Ashley Lin15283.5 
14Glenn Zhang14423.5 
15Elena Zhang16963 
16Vincent Sacharske16063 
17Varvara Okuneva15173 
18James H* Mulberry r/e15003 
19Sreshtha Janapareddy14073 
20Sarthak Gattani13993 
21Ridhi Varma Danduprolu13813 
22Allen Shenghan Fan13303 
23Brad Liao13632.5 
24Michael Xiao12072.5 
25Kele D Perkins16012 
26Saul Priever15822 
27Ethan T Wang15242 
28Rachel Burak14832 
29Yaliang Chen13682 
30Argin Aslanianunr.2 
31Eric R Pangilinan15551.5 
32John B. Sangco15311.5 
33Yinuo Hu8771 
34Sean E Russell16320 
35Bernab Sangco Jr16150 
36James H Mulberry15000

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Final rankings – Pacific Coast Chess Open 2022 – U1500:

#NameRatingTotalPrize
1Jason Lu144661600
2Ryan Erik George Sweezey14935600
3Matthew Ni12695600
4Jeffrey Wei14154.5200
5Kai Kettering14824 
6Kevin Canedo14544 
7Varuzha Khalatyan14424 
8Frank (derek) Kronewitter14004 
9Evan Y Zhong13754 
10Brandon Zhuocheng You12974 
11Sean Jura12854 
12Darren Wang12684 
13Ryan D Kong10214 
14Steven A Merritunr.4 
15Nick Morkunr.4 
16Daniel Ryan Murphy13563.5 
17Peter Michael Martinez13503.5 
18Nathanael La Breche13273.5 
19Alexander P Chen13063.5 
20Archer Declan Berenson13043.5 
21Michael John Quist14453 
22James R Holder14173 
23Stephan John Thomas13773 
24Jonathan Berg13723 
25Benjamin Bertch13173 
26Ryuta Watanabe Nunez12483 
27Luc Dhauthuille12223 
28Miguel Angel Andrade Vazquez14762.5 
29Hovhannes Mikoyan14762.5 
30Adam Godina12642.5 
31Leya Joseph12522.5 
32Paul Kennedy12262.5 
33Jim Yibei Xiao12152.5 
34Chris Bunch12012.5 
35Josiah Chen11422.5 
36Kubraa Adoni8592.5 
37Arturo Caip Baula14002 
38Nver Par Sargsyan13732 
39Matthew Johnson12152 
40Brandon M Walker11322 
41Joseph Macgregor Langley11082 
42Ram Stewart10392 
43Afaf Bouardi12001.5 
44Claire Sun8461.5 
45Kaden Sun8221.5 
46Jessee Espinosaunr.1.5 
47Hrishikesh Prabhu13191 
48Gor Sargsyan12711 
49Jacob Gilshteyn14410 
50Krrish Singh Singh Sardar11180

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Final rankings – Pacific Coast Chess Open 2022 – U1200:

#NameRatingTotalPrize
1Luke Bugbee10545.5600
2Nick Bugbee8355.5600
3Luke Vinson940575
4Jacob Thomas Goodunr.575
5Edward Kimunr.575
6Puzant Kiwanianunr.575
7Douglas S. Chung11314.5 
8Jayden Fung7614.5 
9Randal Johnson11624 
10Robert Colton Simpson10894 
11George Huang10814 
12Srikar Gummadi10714 
13Ian Erickson10664 
14Joshua Joseph10634 
15Vian H Parikh10474 
16Kenneth Yin10174 
17Christopher Jonah Call10144 
18Andrew Zhuoyuan You10064 
19Nikola Jayden Qiu9574 
20Brendan R Matlock9514 
21Whit D Bertch9474 
22Drake Dejute-Ericksonunr.4 
23Jarl Reyhan Lee Bitoon11573.5 
24Lucas Brown11173.5 
25Lucas Park10843.5 
26Jonah Chen8503.5 
27Howard Li7493.5 
28Akshita Sudhakar5803.5 
29Yusuf Yaziciunr.3.5 
30Arthur Zarellas10143 
31April Mara Cristal9093 
32Tim Friesen8813 
33Ian Kim8683 
34Sinjini Chakraborty8273 
35Ararat Bagdasarian8253 
36Joaquin Wada7903 
37Zidaan Hussain7363 
38Kyrene Zhang6363 
39Justin Muller5213 
40Serah Zhao4063 
41Tyler Gwynne Calimag Maurer1033 
42Ara Aramyanunr.3 
43Robert Clinton Younger9092.5 
44Jason Nunez8582.5 
45Darren Lei8072.5 
46Krishna Dhaneep7602.5 
47Maxton S Janis6972.5 
48Matthew V Wang5702.5 
49Farid Bayramli5222.5 
50Kaamil Adoni Mohammed2972.5 
51Kumasi Sadikiunr.2.5 
52Jared A Washingtonunr.2.5 
53Krrish Singh Singh Sardar11182 
54Spencer Ho9552 
55Colby Scott Jobinger8902 
56Joel Corral7552 
57Austin Huang7502 
58Royce Ke6462 
59Akshar Gummadi5812 
60David Galstyan5722 
61Sean Dane7771.5 
62Gabriel Skevin6491.5 
63Aurora Stewart4441.5 
64Pengpeng Tom Zhang3891.5 
65Joshua T Foxunr.1.5 
66Tommy L Hudsonunr.1.5 
67Lindsey Newhall7621 
68Jayson Chen6521 
69Ryder Sebastian Margalit2211 
70Reece Ke1451 
71Mathew Foresta5340.5 
72Sheng Chen Hsieh Hungunr.0.5 
73Mikey Knight10670 
74Aram Avetisianunr.0 
75Wade Greitenunr.0

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