The Royal City Masters 2025 is taking place August 01- August 06 in Guelph, ON, Canada. It is a 9 round Swiss system tournament with time control 90 mins + 30 secs / move. For more events from Canada, check out The North American Chess Calendar, which is part of The Chess Calendar.
The top seeded players are GM Toms Kantans (2514), IM Nikolay Noritsyn (2462), GM Razvan Preotu (2463), IM Jason Liang (2397), IM Raja Panjwani (2423), IM Johnathan Han (2402), IM Anthony Atanasov (2417), IM Joshua Posthuma (2392), IM Mark Plotkin (2357), GM Petro Golubka (2316), IM Sai Krishna Gottipati (2379), IM Nicholas Vettese (2361), GM John Fedorowicz (2335), FM Koosha Jaferian (2285), GM Luís Manuel Pérez Rodriguez (2318), GM Joshua Sheng (2480), CM Neil Moses (2202), FM Victor Plotkin (2282), IM Edward Song (2395), IM David H. Cummings (2258). Scroll down for the full participants list.
More : 125th US Chess Open 2025 / Leça Chess Open 2025
Royal City Masters 2025 Participants
| No. | Name | FED | RtgI | |
| 1 | GM | Kantans, Toms | LAT | 2514 |
| 2 | IM | Noritsyn, Nikolay | CAN | 2462 |
| 3 | GM | Preotu, Razvan | CAN | 2463 |
| 4 | IM | Liang, Jason | USA | 2397 |
| 5 | IM | Panjwani, Raja | CAN | 2423 |
| 6 | IM | Han, Johnathan | CAN | 2402 |
| 7 | IM | Atanasov, Anthony | CAN | 2417 |
| 8 | IM | Posthuma, Joshua | USA | 2392 |
| 9 | IM | Plotkin, Mark | CAN | 2357 |
| 10 | GM | Golubka, Petro | UKR | 2316 |
| 11 | IM | Gottipati, Sai Krishna | CAN | 2379 |
| 12 | IM | Vettese, Nicholas | CAN | 2361 |
| 13 | GM | Fedorowicz, John | USA | 2335 |
| 14 | FM | Jaferian, Koosha | CAN | 2285 |
| 15 | GM | Pérez Rodriguez, Luís Manuel | CUB | 2318 |
| 16 | GM | Sheng, Joshua | USA | 2480 |
| 17 | CM | Moses, Neil | CAN | 2202 |
| 18 | FM | Plotkin, Victor | CAN | 2282 |
| 19 | IM | Song, Edward | USA | 2395 |
| 20 | IM | Cummings, David H. | CAN | 2258 |
| 21 | Marchand, Calix | CAN | 2112 | |
| 22 | Khaledi, Omid | CAN | 2262 | |
| 23 | IM | Kaufman, Raymond | CAN | 2272 |
| 24 | Polacek, Jozef | CAN | 2240 | |
| 25 | CM | Kot, Emanuel | CAN | 2166 |
| 26 | Chen, Yidong | CHN | 2074 | |
| 27 | Terry, Joshua | CAN | 2155 | |
| 28 | Gao, Heye | CAN | 1955 | |
| 29 | Yang, Larry | CAN | 2017 | |
| 30 | Wang, Bingfei | CHN | 1905 | |
| 31 | Wang, Nathan Zian | CAN | 1916 | |
| 32 | Xu, Leon | CAN | 2045 | |
| 33 | Saine, Zachary | CAN | 2017 | |
| 34 | Woltery, Nicolai | ENG | 2084 | |
| 35 | Ren, Jesse | USA | 2198 | |
| 36 | Windram, James | CAN | 1984 | |
| 37 | Nguyen, Minh Thong | VIE | 1761 | |
| 38 | Kola, Venkat Karthikeya Reddy | CAN | 1942 | |
| 39 | Blair, Michael | CAN | 1843 | |
| 40 | WFM | Deepak, Laksshana | CAN | 1901 |
| 41 | Lin, Austin | CAN | 1908 | |
| 42 | WFM | Qian, Ashley | CAN | 2147 |
| 43 | Qian, Eric | CAN | 1916 | |
| 44 | Oancea, Nicolae | CAN | 1889 | |
| 45 | Heran-Boily, Samuel | NOR | 1950 | |
| 46 | Bluvshtein, Ilia | CAN | 1956 | |
| 47 | Loadman, Ian | CAN | 1918 | |
| 48 | Maulucci, Anthony | CAN | 1859 | |
| 49 | FM | Jung, Hans Rudolf | CAN | 1933 |
| 50 | Varakunan, Cadiron | CAN | 1756 | |
| 51 | Jiang, Hanxi (Hancy) | CAN | 1910 | |
| 52 | Colvin, Andrew | CAN | 1860 | |
| 53 | Klarner, William R. | GER | 2041 | |
| 54 | Filipovich, David | CAN | 1909 | |
| 55 | Ramesan, Raunak Amit | CAN | 1915 | |
| 56 | Desforges, Jean | CAN | 1898 | |
| 57 | Dembla, Shabd | CAN | 1745 | |
| 58 | Iordanescu, Victor Nicolae | CAN | 1855 | |
| 59 | Both, Aaron | CAN | 1937 | |
| 60 | Yin, Zeming | CAN | 1857 | |
| 61 | Fillmore, Louis | CAN | 1706 | |
| 62 | Lukinykh, Slava | CAN | 1810 | |
| 63 | Chen, Larry Zhou | CAN | 1822 | |
| 64 | Huang, Justin | CAN | 1788 | |
| 65 | Achyuth, Akshaj | CAN | 1751 | |
| 66 | Leliveld, Andrew | CAN | 1743 | |
| 67 | Fu, Odyssey | CAN | 1659 | |
| 68 | Nassif, Aba | USA | 1857 | |
| 69 | Sethi, Aaron | CAN | 1723 | |
| 70 | Adebayo, Oladayo | ENG | 1906 | |
| 71 | CM | Ling, Chenxuan | USA | 2070 |
| 72 | Winfield, Jordan | FRA | 1443 | |
| 73 | Husic, Elvis | CAN | 0 | |
| 74 | Lazarev, Shon | CAN | 1806 | |
| 75 | Chertkow, Matthew | CAN | 1756 | |
| 76 | Fu, Ashley | CAN | 1651 | |
| 77 | Md Arifuzzaman, Arif | BAN | 1836 | |
| 78 | Cheung, Oscar | CAN | 1643 | |
| 79 | Syed, Farhaan | USA | 1629 | |
| 80 | Fischer, Jacob | CAN | 1698 | |
| 81 | Tian, Dylan | CAN | 1591 | |
| 82 | Satish Alwar, Dharsan | CAN | 1638 | |
| 83 | Ali, Shafkat | CAN | 1659 | |
| 84 | Jia, Jasper Yunjie | CAN | 1510 | |
| 85 | Garel, Richard | CAN | 1624 | |
| 86 | Howe, Gordon | CAN | 1691 | |
| 87 | Khaledy Alidoosti, Parham | CAN | 1652 | |
| 88 | Pottinger, Carl | CAN | 1766 | |
| 89 | Momic, Jovan | CAN | 1597 | |
| 90 | Patel, Neevan | CAN | 1673 | |
| 91 | Uyanik, Mehmet | TUR | 1597 | |
| 92 | Su, Jayden Chenxuan | CAN | 1661 | |
| 93 | Supsup, Ferdinand | CAN | 1676 | |
| 94 | Gillanders, Robert | CAN | 1684 | |
| 95 | Clarke, Brian | CAN | 1624 | |
| 96 | Kovuru, Aaryan | CAN | 1679 | |
| 97 | Kola, Venkata Saket Reddy | CAN | 1572 | |
| 98 | Wang, Angela | CAN | 1562 | |
| 99 | Verde, Pino | CAN | 1572 | |
| 100 | Benggawan, Undriadi | CAN | 1649 | |
| 101 | Brauer, Mark | CAN | 1673 | |
| 102 | McDonald-Johnston, Ari | CAN | 0 | |
| 103 | Shroff, Dhairya Amit | CAN | 1485 | |
| 104 | Armstrong, Robert J | CAN | 1475 | |
| 105 | Cecchini, Sam | CAN | 0 | |
| 106 | Moses, Niam | CAN | 1432 | |
| 107 | Langridge, Caleb | CAN | 0 | |
| 108 | Negi, Hriday | CAN | 1496 | |
| 109 | Winfield, Tris | CAN | 0 | |
| 110 | Pillai, Pranav | CAN | 0 | |
| 111 | Temple, Richard | CAN | 0 | |
| 112 | Ostroff, Michael | CAN | 0 | |
| 113 | Wood, Monika | CAN | 1628 | |
| 114 | Mishra, Aarit | CAN | 0 | |
| 115 | Zhang, Kevin | CAN | 0 | |
| 116 | Patel, Hari Amitkumar | IND | 0 | |
| 117 | Collrin, Jack | CAN | 0 | |
| 118 | Liang, Kevin | USA | 0 | |
| 119 | Renganathan, Navika | CAN | 0 | |
| 120 | Jeevan, Shibu | IND | 0 | |
| 121 | Budd, Nathan | CAN | 0 | |
| 122 | Gilaka, Mohul Achyut | CAN | 0 | |
| 123 | Poloniato, Christopher Joseph | CAN | 0 | |
| 124 | Cecchini, Walter | CAN | 0 | |
| 125 | Groothuizen, Rawle | CAN | 0 | |
| 126 | Sayewich, Logan | CAN | 0 | |
| 127 | Sayewich, Robin | CAN | 0 | |
| 128 | Aghajani, Oscar | CAN | 0 | |
| 129 | Dolstra, Preston | CAN | 0 | |
| 130 | Ghotra, Rupinder | CAN | 0 | |
| 131 | Marsili, Adrian | CAN | 0 | |
| 132 | Nimisica Narvaez, Cristopher | COL | 0 | |
| 133 | Nind, Sawyer | CAN | 0 | |
| 134 | Pletsch, Matthew | CAN | 0 | |
| 135 | Sharif, Imran | CAN | 0 | |
| 136 | Tremblay, William | CAN | 0 | |
| 137 | Wall, Christina | CAN | 0 |
