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Hart House Reading Week Chess Open 2024

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The 2024 Reading Week Open is scheduled to take place during the Family Day long weekend, from Saturday, February 17th, to Monday, February 19th, at the Great Hall, East Common Room, Hart House, University of Toronto, Canada.

The tournament format is a 6-round Swiss split into 7 rating sections โ€“ Crown (2200+), Under 2200, Under 1900, Under 1600, Under 1300 Sections, U1200-Juniors. All sections will be CFC rated. Crown, Under 2200, Under 1900 section, and Under 1600 sections will also be FIDE rated. The Crown Section will be paired using FIDE ratings. Time control is 90 minutes + 30 seconds increment from move 1, for all tournaments.

Online registration is open until February 15th at 11:59 PM. In-person and telephone registration is available through the Hart House Information Desk during Hart House Hours until February 15th.

The event is organized by Hart House Chess Club. The total prize fund is $8000 based on 200 entries. Last year’s winner of the Crown group was Nikolay Noritsyn who is the top-seeded player in the field this year. The starting list of players can be seen below.

Official website

Hart House Reading Week Chess Open 2024 – Starting list of players (as of 30 January, 2024):

Starting Rankย 

Player NameCFC Regular RatingCFC Active RatingSection
1Nikolay Noritsyn25722506Crown
2Mark Plotkin24882547Crown
3Advait Patel24822469Crown
4Olivier-Kenta Chiku-Ratte24542357Crown
5Victor Plotkin23702245Crown
6Vadim Razin2365 Crown
7Fengxi Mao23152248Crown
8Mahip Singh22862218Crown
9Dorian Kang22801997Crown
10Youhe Huang22622168Crown
11Matthew Zhu22511817Crown
12Ian Thomas Findlay22592357Crown
13Jerjis Kapra22561875Crown
14Eilia Zomorrodian22422335Crown
15Emanuel Kot22321996Crown
16Matthew Shih22312135Crown
17Isaac Wiebe22252137Crown
18Ray Wu22152150Crown
19Jonathan Yu22102075Crown
20Richard Douglas21712066U2200
21Felix Barrios21622190U2200
22Saarthak Malakar21322008Crown*
23Syed Ibrahim Ahmed21151883Crown*
24Tony Bao21082176U2200
25Jeffrey R. Zhao21012345U2200
26Ryan Zhong20981926U2200
27Jifan Zhao20951983U2200
28Benjamin Lin20952047U2200
29Savio Joseph Benher20902032Crown
30Jaipreet Singh Dhaliwal20741875U2200
31Cindy Qiao20702022U2200
32Marife Dela Torre20671967U2200
33Ian Loadman20612090U2200
34Larry Yang20601647U2200
35Anthony Maulucci20571874U2200
36Merlin Nazareno20411816U2200
37Francisco Wong20340U2200
38Tony Lu20321941U2200
39Adam Li20201746U2200
40Carina Dโ€™Souza20201795U2200
41Jake Van Rooy20202038U2200
42Dylan Doolabi20151842U2200
43Riyaan Lakhani19971811U2200
44Nolan Wu19841670U2200
45Andy Wang19721936U2200
46Siddarth Narasimhan19561624U2200
47Joseph Wah Sing Leung19551461U2200
48Hongyi Li19491780U2200
49Eric Qian19321726U2200
50Irene Xie18961474U2200
51Karthi Kola18961600U1900
52Bingfei Wang18891930U2200
53Daniel Botello18891504U2200
54Hazel Guo18881721U2200
55april zhong18831872U2200
56Denys Melnychuk18721830U2200
57Bhavatharshan Jeyakumar18651727U1900
58Arkadii Tenkov18591709U2200
59ChenJi Zheng18431948U1900
60Hanxi (Hancy) Jiang18281689U2200
61Taorong Wang18251745U2200
62Nathan Zian Wang18241670U2200
63Ryan Xu18221674U2200
64Bobby Benoit18201715U1900
65Modith Aaroh Mutyalapati18191692U2200
66Adrien Cheng18181891U2200
67Aarush Ajith18101609U2200
68Brendan Tan18021600U2200
69Michael blair17991690U2200*
70Omid Nemati17851889U1900
71Sarthak Deshpande17611819U2200*
72Omar Shah17441973U1900
73Sean Liu17431877U1900
74Isaac Duanmu17391327U1900
75Tanishq Kumar Dhingra17281306U1900
76Luc Chamberland17241833U1900
77Zhihua Zhang17230U1900
78Bradley Tseng17221856U1900
79Daniel Lee16961222U1900
80Daniel Zhang16851974U1900
81Eric Wan16781436U1900
82Larry Zhou Chen16771557U1900
83Henry Pollitt16731369U1900
84Austin Lin16691508U1900
85Mate Milinkovic16681560U1900
86Daniel Truong16491264U1900
87Andrew Leliveld16461613U1900
88Boris Iriarte16461770U1900
89Frank Wu16441564U1900
90Will Scott16391670U1900
91Henry Vu16341335U1900
92Jovan Momic16321703U1900
93Rudra Sheth16261258U1900
94Michael Ashcroft16211487U1900
95Gauri Sreekumar16041472U1900
96Trifelino Miaco15771593U1600
97Jason Sunardi15741128U1900
98Slava Lukinykh15731787U1900
99Tom Gribilas15630U1900
100Max Manga15511395U1600
101Mario Moran-Venegas15501597U1900
102William Bi15461475U1900
103Michael Saltat15391735U1600
104Toy Chack KWAN15371452U1900
105Michael Sharpe15281493U1900
106Timmy Chen15201127U1900
107Aiden Li15111758U1600
108Jared Byers15051518U1600
109Ferdinand Supsup15031446U1600
110Diganth Anish15031423U1900
111Jayden Zihan Zhan15031446U1900
112Zachary Shepherd14911844U1600
113Simon Perkins14891716U1600
114Lucas Haoxuan Sun14791052U1900*
115Lucy Yang14751104U1600
116Joshua Wright14671154U1900*
117Zihan Hong14661442U1900*
118Oscar Cheung14591258U1600
119Vincent Angel Adulfo14591717U1600
120Adithya Sekaran14291228U1600
121Shabd Dembla14241626U1600
122Roger Guo14171185U1600
123Payam Fakoorziba14130U1600
124Ziqi Zhou14131443U1600
125Toma Yuen14061531U1600
126Ademar Gonzalez13941524U1600
127William Kaiyuan Wang13931240U1600
128Arnav Mane13911423U1600
129Richard Wing13821651U1600
130Param Agarwal13770U1600
131Alex Moisseev13681463U1600
132Jeremy Sztuka13611366U1600
133Jerry Gerber1358970U1600
134Robert J. Armstrong13581506U1600
135Marie Guan13521253U1600
136Undriadi Benggawan13451497U1600
137John R. Brown13431742U1600
138Eric Huang13421287U1600
139Dharsan Satish Alwar13381473U1600
140Charlie Trudeau1337725U1600
141Brandon Kim13351763U1600
142Katherine Leung1333906U1600
143Ken Kurkowski13281545U1600
144Gunin Khanna13280U1600
145Mehar Bala13061333U1600
146Chintansingh Chhabda13050U1600
147Yiguo Gao12971135U1600
148Balakrishnan Sreekumar Maliekal12951122U1600
149Alexa Roque12901125U1600
150Nathaniel Yong12811319U1600
151Lyam Katz12461141U1300
152Nicholas Barnsdale12411032U1300
153Jashank Dave12331463U1600
154Magesh Sethupathy12330U1300
155Boomba Nishikawa12241248U1600
156Jacob Fischer12161154U1600
157Tristan Li12161202U1600
158Bek Khamidov12141215U1300
159Dylan Tian11911148U1300
160Ahmed Khalf11881164U1300
161Allen Li11821239U1300
162John Pierman11821016U1300
163Jeffrey Qiu11801168U1300
164Jayden Henry Tan11781294U1300
165Stephen Kuzin1168991U1200-Juniors
166Andy Rui Wang11591338U1300
167James Mourgelas11471549U1300
168Shannon Zhao11371281U1300
169Saket Kola11271247U1300
170Stephanie Xiao1127892U1300
171Gabriel Saimovici11251373U1300
172Angela Wang11121253U1300
173Tina Hui11071214U1300
174Gayathri Sreekumar11051016U1300
175Kingsley Zheng10931193U1300
176Gurnoor Singh10840U1300
177Bryan Liang1080819U1200-Juniors
178Joseph McGowan10690U1300
179Iaroslav Kit10670U1300
180Devin Hurley10600U1300
181Samuel Zheng10461024U1300
182Tiffany Chen1044934U1300
183Riley McCarron10280U1300
184Farhaan Syed10221258U1300
185Nobuko Takeuchi1020938U1300
186Phoenix Cheung10101056U1300
187Rucha Deshpande10071227U1300
188Nick Mills10071487U1300
189BenJohn Libardo9921012U1300
190Sam Moore9850U1300
191Oscar Yasunaga9821154U1300
192Peter Grucza982937U1300
193Mathusha Jeyakumar944988U-1200 Junior
194Victor Delgashev943897U1300
195Brent Goff9411026U1300
196Ethan Guo935979U1300
197Bradley Northcote9330U1300
198Nap Hei Joshua Cheung9221208U1300
199Joshua Knott9200U1300
200Max Huang909799U1200 Juniors
201Kavira Manikandan Reddia Gowder8821033U1300
202Jeffrey Liu875821U1200-Juniors
203Ian Gao8461079U1200-Juniors
204Edward Chan843964U1200-Juniors
205Oscar Lai809944U1200-Juniors
206Rex Tan808961U1200
207Evan Gao799799U1200-Juniors
208Edmund Smyk7991068U1300
209Benjamin Ha779958U1200-Juniors
210Luc Leclair771767U1300
211Syed Mustafa Ahmed771692U1300
212Benjamin Yulo7481153U1300
213William Io731905U1200-Juniors
214Nathan Wang6581325U1200-Juniors
215Adrian Milanoski638877U1300
216Archer Feng631886U1200-Juniors
217Jingchen Wu6241003U1200-Juniors
218John Nguyen548993U1200-Juniors
219Maria Polyanska525750U1200-Juniors
220Daniel Delgashev500646U1300
221Benjamin Wang500951U1200-Juniors
222Nikita Kamath500825U1200-Juniors
223Kayal Manikandan484601U1200-Juniors
224Evan Clark474830U1300
225Leah Tian325500U1200-Juniors
226Zachary Ryder0 U1200-Juniors
227Calvin Li0500U1300
228Quinn Paton0 U1300
229Yangqi Zhu0994U1600
230SEAN ROSENBERG0 U1300
231Antonio Garofalo0 U1300
232Andrew Bucci0 U1300
233James McCabe01150U1300
234Iris Ip0 U1300
235Nicholas Harris0 U1300
236Mamraj Mahboob0 U1600
237Yukuan Zou01505U1600
238Eli Eizenman0776U1200-Juniors
239Hugo Suk0 U1300
240Elizabeth Ko0 U1300
241Daniel Clark0 U1300
242Raymond Tang0 U1900
243Emilio Ramirez0 U2200
244Sui John Liu0 U1200-Juniors
245Bosen Li0752U1200-Juniors
246Pranav Arun Prasad01017U1200-Juniors

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