The 2022 Canadian Open Chess Championship took place 11 – 17 July at the Hillfield Strathallan College, Hamilton, Ontario. Nearly 250 players fought for the total prize fund of 26.000$ over 9 swiss rounds, including the top seeded: GM Victor Mikhalevski, GM Mark Paragua, GM Razvan Preotu, and GM Aman Hambleton.
IM Nikolay Noritsyn and IM Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux tied for the first place scoring 7.5 points and got crowned as the 2022 Canadian Open co-champions. Noritsyn and Rodrigue-Lemieux also shared the money prize of 12.000$ on equal halfs.
The co-winners were followed by a group of five players who tied for third place with 7 points each: GM Victor Mikhalevski, IM Jason Liang, IM Olivier-Kenta Chiku-Ratte, FM Zachary Dukic and CM Max Rusonik. A famous streamer and the CEO of Chessbrah GM Aman Hambleton finished the event in shared 8th place with 6.5 points. Scroll down for final rankings.
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Final rankings – Canadian Open Chess Championship 2022:
# | Name | Rating | Fed | Total |
1 | IM Nikolay Noritsyn | 2557 | 7.5 | |
2 | IM Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux | 2493 | 7.5 | |
3 | GM Victor Mikhalevski | 2629 | ISR | 7 |
4 | IM Jason Liang | 2515 | USA | 7 |
5 | IM Olivier-Kenta Chiku-Ratte | 2458 | 7 | |
6 | FM Zachary Dukic | 2353 | 7 | |
7 | CM Max Rusonik | 2312 | 7 | |
8 | GM Mark Paragua | 2610 | PHI | 6.5 |
9 | GM Bator Sambuev | 2568 | 6.5 | |
10 | GM Aman Hambleton | 2549 | 6.5 | |
11 | IM Artiom Samsonkin | 2539 | 6.5 | |
12 | GM John Fedorowicz | 2495 | USA | 6.5 |
13 | FM Rohan Talukdar | 2457 | 6.5 | |
14 | FM Eugene Hua | 2392 | 6.5 | |
15 | CM Koosha Jaferian | 2336 | IRI | 6.5 |
16 | Viatcheslav Rek | 2331 | 6.5 | |
17 | GM Luis Manuel Perez Rodriguez | 2328 | CUB | 6.5 |
18 | Neil Doknjas | 2262 | 6.5 | |
19 | Youhe Huang | 2237 | 6.5 | |
20 | FM Doug Bailey | 2165 | 6.5 | |
21 | Aaron Mendes | 2106 | 6.5 | |
22 | Richard [miss] Chen | 1955 | 6.5 | |
23 | GM Razvan Preotu | 2608 | 6 | |
24 | GM Joshua Sheng | 2558 | USA | 6 |
25 | GM Isan Ortiz | 2526 | CUB | 6 |
26 | IM Bitan Banerjee | 2502 | IND | 6 |
27 | GM Reynaldo Vera | 2445 | CUB | 6 |
28 | FM Anthony Atanasov | 2340 | 6 | |
29 | CM Max Chen | 2299 | 6 | |
30 | FM Eilia Zomorrodian | 2263 | IRI | 6 |
31 | Johnathan Han | 2232 | 6 | |
32 | Eduardo Moura | 2194 | BRA | 6 |
33 | Paris Dorn | 2175 | 6 | |
34 | Eric Li | 2165 | 6 | |
35 | Daniel Xu | 2128 | 6 | |
36 | Alan Bui | 2097 | 6 | |
37 | Eddie Xu | 2088 | 6 | |
38 | Henry Liu | 2041 | 6 | |
39 | Nicolae Oancea | 2005 | ROM | 6 |
40 | Joshua Terry | 1958 | 6 | |
41 | Ryan Leong | 1853 | 6 | |
42 | IM Edward Song | 2474 | USA | 5.5 |
43 | IM Yuanchen Zhang | 2464 | 5.5 | |
44 | WGM Maili-Jade Ouellet | 2361 | 5.5 | |
45 | Kevin Zhong | 2276 | 5.5 | |
46 | Roman Gavrilin | 2235 | RUS | 5.5 |
47 | FM Terry Song | 2218 | 5.5 | |
48 | Evan Rosenberg | 2205 | USA | 5.5 |
49 | Sergey Malakhovets | 2204 | 5.5 | |
50 | Jingyun (ryan) Yang | 2141 | 5.5 | |
51 | Anthony Leonard | 2097 | 5.5 | |
52 | Ian Loadman | 2086 | 5.5 | |
53 | Mikhail Egorov | 2055 | 5.5 | |
54 | Noah Kim | 2000 | 5.5 | |
55 | Rachel Chen | 1988 | USA | 5.5 |
56 | Dashnor Hasku | 1963 | KOS | 5.5 |
57 | Adam Li | 1942 | 5.5 | |
58 | Braden Laughlin | 1896 | 5.5 | |
59 | Larry Yang | 1807 | 5.5 | |
60 | Michael Streegan | unr. | 5.5 | |
61 | Ananda Saha | 2240 | 5 | |
62 | Michael Buscar | 2223 | 5 | |
63 | Savio Joseph Benher | 2213 | 5 | |
64 | Jason Manley | 2210 | 5 | |
65 | Leo Lin | 2189 | 5 | |
66 | James Windram | 2124 | 5 | |
67 | Kyrylo Demchenko | 2109 | 5 | |
68 | Vishruth Sharma | 2106 | 5 | |
69 | Geoffrey Ruelland | 2086 | 5 | |
70 | Max England | 2084 | 5 | |
71 | Benjamin Fradkin | 2076 | 5 | |
72 | Isaac Berengolts | 2042 | 5 | |
73 | Vladimir Drkulec | 2020 | 5 | |
74 | Jeffrey Renfei Zhao | 2020 | 5 | |
75 | Ethan Su | 1987 | 5 | |
76 | Yu Han Guo | 1984 | 5 | |
77 | Kate Jiang | 1982 | 5 | |
78 | Noah Nathaniel Yuen | 1954 | 5 | |
79 | Matthew He | 1945 | 5 | |
80 | Derek Wang | 1934 | 5 | |
81 | Michelle Hua | 1930 | 5 | |
82 | Ian Finlay | 1914 | 5 | |
83 | Emma He | 1903 | 5 | |
84 | Glenda Baylon | 1899 | 5 | |
85 | Zachary Liu | 1891 | 5 | |
86 | Etienne Latreille | 1888 | 5 | |
87 | Samuel Heran-Boily | 1871 | 5 | |
88 | Hancy Jiang | 1855 | 5 | |
89 | Rachel Zihan Wang | 1850 | 5 | |
90 | Ferdinand Supsup | 1810 | 5 | |
91 | Barron Jiyu Jiang | 1791 | 5 | |
92 | Tony Lu | 1773 | 5 | |
93 | Eric Qian | 1753 | 5 | |
94 | Eddie Lu | 1739 | 5 | |
95 | Colton Belanger | 1725 | 5 | |
96 | Ricky Chen | 1709 | 5 | |
97 | Mitchell Schneider | 1684 | 5 | |
98 | Bohdan Chychkevych | 1580 | UKR | 5 |
99 | Neil Moses | 1578 | 5 | |
100 | Ryan Xu | 1565 | 5 | |
101 | Nevin Deshpande | 1322 | 5 | |
102 | Ryan Campbell | unr. | 5 | |
103 | Ethan Engel | unr. | 5 | |
104 | Ilia Bluvshtein | 2220 | 4.5 | |
105 | Brett Campbell | 2189 | 4.5 | |
106 | Aayush Ajith | 2122 | 4.5 | |
107 | Andrew Colvin | 1937 | 4.5 | |
108 | Gilbert Perez | 1928 | 4.5 | |
109 | Jonathan Wu | 1891 | 4.5 | |
110 | Henry Yang | 1863 | 4.5 | |
111 | Brian Zhang | 1842 | 4.5 | |
112 | Andy Wang | 1806 | 4.5 | |
113 | Michelle Zhang | 1756 | 4.5 | |
114 | Mario Moran-Venegas | 1754 | 4.5 | |
115 | Divjot Locham | 1751 | 4.5 | |
116 | Alex Young | 1713 | 4.5 | |
117 | Pierre Maheux | 1624 | 4.5 | |
118 | Shafkat Ali | 1619 | 4.5 | |
119 | Ashkan Parchizadeh | 1608 | 4.5 | |
120 | Sarthak Deshpande | 1595 | 4.5 | |
121 | Evan Frangakis | 1589 | 4.5 | |
122 | Devin Nicholson | 1545 | 4.5 | |
123 | Mohammed Faizy | 1503 | 4.5 | |
124 | Josh Zabor | 1467 | 4.5 | |
125 | Azher Hossain | 1424 | 4.5 | |
126 | William Zihao Jiang | 1380 | 4.5 | |
127 | Jordan Katrib | 1344 | 4.5 | |
128 | Wesley Russell | 1287 | 4.5 | |
129 | Sean Liu | 1208 | 4.5 | |
130 | Isabelle Zhu | 1179 | 4.5 | |
131 | Morgen Mills | 2136 | 4 | |
132 | Andrew Xu | 1939 | 4 | |
133 | Gernot Klein | 1925 | GER | 4 |
134 | Benjamin Wu | 1870 | 4 | |
135 | Brendan Cater | 1860 | 4 | |
136 | Olya Kaye | 1854 | 4 | |
137 | Daniel Kearnan | 1769 | 4 | |
138 | Mohid Zaka | 1749 | 4 | |
139 | Arya Sen | 1745 | 4 | |
140 | Gillian Mok | 1735 | 4 | |
141 | Lucian Wu | 1726 | 4 | |
142 | Valentyn Trofimov-Malyshkin | 1717 | UKR | 4 |
143 | Thusitha Hettigama | 1711 | 4 | |
144 | Masoud Jizan | 1694 | 4 | |
145 | Bhavik Chhatralia | 1683 | 4 | |
146 | Charis Zhu | 1640 | 4 | |
147 | Jacob Gaisinsky | 1568 | 4 | |
148 | Frank Helwig | 1559 | 4 | |
149 | Jessica Qian | 1532 | 4 | |
150 | Erwin Mok | 1468 | 4 | |
151 | Jacques Bolduc | 1460 | 4 | |
152 | Neerav Mullur | 1459 | 4 | |
153 | Yu-Liang Lin | 1425 | 4 | |
154 | Justin Li | 1424 | 4 | |
155 | Pavan Suresh | 1413 | 4 | |
156 | John Brown | 1409 | 4 | |
157 | James Zhang | 1362 | 4 | |
158 | Gilles Bruneau | 1290 | 4 | |
159 | Ty Eadie | unr. | 4 | |
160 | Leroy Gibson | unr. | LBR | 4 |
161 | Raymond Wong | unr. | 4 | |
162 | Léo Richard | 2014 | 3.5 | |
163 | Ryan Pickard | 1920 | 3.5 | |
164 | Rick Garel | 1688 | 3.5 | |
165 | Modith Aaroh Mutyalapati | 1688 | 3.5 | |
166 | Raymond Tangning Zhang | 1682 | 3.5 | |
167 | Clément Eiserloh | 1678 | 3.5 | |
168 | David Jiang | 1678 | 3.5 | |
169 | Justin Gao | 1587 | 3.5 | |
170 | Undriadi Benggawan | 1584 | 3.5 | |
171 | Jack Cloete | 1525 | 3.5 | |
172 | Michael Sharpe | 1519 | 3.5 | |
173 | Raymond Dickson | 1511 | 3.5 | |
174 | Joel Dick | 1499 | 3.5 | |
175 | Irene Xie | 1455 | 3.5 | |
176 | April Zhong | 1452 | 3.5 | |
177 | Vincent Chen | 1445 | 3.5 | |
178 | Doug Gillis | 1417 | 3.5 | |
179 | Ivan Chepelev | 1377 | 3.5 | |
180 | Sam Chen | 1299 | 3.5 | |
181 | Michael Dennahower | 1281 | 3.5 | |
182 | Karandeep Basi | 1280 | 3.5 | |
183 | Emilian Holmgren | 1226 | 3.5 | |
184 | Nathan Yi-Hsin Yang | 1169 | 3.5 | |
185 | William Dolmer | 1165 | 3.5 | |
186 | Michal Wiraszka | 957 | POL | 3.5 |
187 | Merrill Monteiro | unr. | 3.5 | |
188 | Elyas Samano | unr. | 3.5 | |
189 | Steven Soroka | unr. | 3.5 | |
190 | Halldor Palsson | 1962 | 3 | |
191 | Bernard Buscar | 1789 | 3 | |
192 | Kirk Dickson | 1780 | 3 | |
193 | Israel Crooks | 1611 | 3 | |
194 | Ryan Zhong | 1480 | 3 | |
195 | Matias Gutierrez | 1477 | 3 | |
196 | James Mourgelas | 1346 | 3 | |
197 | Japveer Narula | 1326 | 3 | |
198 | Yedishtra Naidoo | 1313 | 3 | |
199 | Hannah Xu | 1295 | 3 | |
200 | Aiden Lu | 1291 | 3 | |
201 | Liam Hartman | 1268 | 3 | |
202 | Joseph Buchatsky | 1256 | 3 | |
203 | Eric Huang | 1155 | 3 | |
204 | Winston Huang | 1131 | 3 | |
205 | Monika Wood | 1062 | 3 | |
206 | Michael Sun | 1043 | 3 | |
207 | Payam Fakoorziba | 1003 | 3 | |
208 | Brian Higgins | 933 | 3 | |
209 | Zachary Chua | 861 | 3 | |
210 | Russell Hsiung | unr. | 3 | |
211 | Andrew Leliveld | unr. | 3 | |
212 | Myron Monteiro | unr. | 3 | |
213 | Jonath Joseph | 1782 | 2.5 | |
214 | Ashley Qian | 1413 | 2.5 | |
215 | Jatinder Dhaliwal | 1377 | 2.5 | |
216 | Edgar Zapata | 1151 | 2.5 | |
217 | Jessica Buchanan | 896 | 2.5 | |
218 | Jonathan Sun | 873 | 2.5 | |
219 | Erik Sun | 853 | 2.5 | |
220 | Dimitar Mancevski | unr. | 2.5 | |
221 | Peter Bokhout | 1852 | 2 | |
222 | Branislav Rajsic | 1738 | 2 | |
223 | George Stajov | 1345 | 2 | |
224 | Michael Pickard | 1324 | 2 | |
225 | Victor Zhong | 1141 | 2 | |
226 | Ken Callaghan | 1081 | 2 | |
227 | Nobuko Takeuchi | 927 | 2 | |
228 | Brittany Di Tommaso | 925 | 2 | |
229 | Darryl Joseph-Dennie | unr. | 2 | |
230 | Samuel Townsend | unr. | 2 | |
231 | Shon Lazarev | 1924 | 1 | |
232 | Connor Gherasim | 1493 | 1 | |
233 | Jae Hyun Byun | 1184 | 1 | |
234 | Jerry McKitrick | 1050 | 1 | |
235 | Mark Coull | unr. | 1 | |
236 | IM Jesus Cuenca Gomez | 2200 | CUB | 0 |
237 | Levi Lim | 1923 | 0 | |
238 | Barcon Harmon | 1902 | LBR | 0 |
239 | Thomas Saah | 1879 | LBR | 0 |
240 | Charles Haji Kiadii | 1853 | LBR | 0 |
241 | Raj Verma | 1737 | 0 | |
242 | Melvin A Weah | 1621 | LBR | 0 |
243 | Akash Shetty | 1252 | 0 | |
244 | Colin Fecik | 1051 | 0 | |
245 | Adam Azbel | 765 | 0 | |
246 | Elena Jacob | unr. | 0 | |
247 | Jean-Sebastien Paul | unr. | 0 | |
248 | Jean Bosco Rwamavubi | unr. | 0 | |
249 | Grace W Sanyu | unr. | THA | 0 |
250 | Stephen Sarweh | unr. | LBR | 0 |
251 | Neil Sharma | unr. | 0 |
