IM Nikolay Noritsyn and IM Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux are Canadian Open co-champions

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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