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.
Hart House Reading Week Chess Open 2024 – Starting list of players (as of 30 January, 2024):
Starting Rankย | Player Name | CFC Regular Rating | CFC Active Rating | Section |
1 | Nikolay Noritsyn | 2572 | 2506 | Crown |
2 | Mark Plotkin | 2488 | 2547 | Crown |
3 | Advait Patel | 2482 | 2469 | Crown |
4 | Olivier-Kenta Chiku-Ratte | 2454 | 2357 | Crown |
5 | Victor Plotkin | 2370 | 2245 | Crown |
6 | Vadim Razin | 2365 | Crown | |
7 | Fengxi Mao | 2315 | 2248 | Crown |
8 | Mahip Singh | 2286 | 2218 | Crown |
9 | Dorian Kang | 2280 | 1997 | Crown |
10 | Youhe Huang | 2262 | 2168 | Crown |
11 | Matthew Zhu | 2251 | 1817 | Crown |
12 | Ian Thomas Findlay | 2259 | 2357 | Crown |
13 | Jerjis Kapra | 2256 | 1875 | Crown |
14 | Eilia Zomorrodian | 2242 | 2335 | Crown |
15 | Emanuel Kot | 2232 | 1996 | Crown |
16 | Matthew Shih | 2231 | 2135 | Crown |
17 | Isaac Wiebe | 2225 | 2137 | Crown |
18 | Ray Wu | 2215 | 2150 | Crown |
19 | Jonathan Yu | 2210 | 2075 | Crown |
20 | Richard Douglas | 2171 | 2066 | U2200 |
21 | Felix Barrios | 2162 | 2190 | U2200 |
22 | Saarthak Malakar | 2132 | 2008 | Crown* |
23 | Syed Ibrahim Ahmed | 2115 | 1883 | Crown* |
24 | Tony Bao | 2108 | 2176 | U2200 |
25 | Jeffrey R. Zhao | 2101 | 2345 | U2200 |
26 | Ryan Zhong | 2098 | 1926 | U2200 |
27 | Jifan Zhao | 2095 | 1983 | U2200 |
28 | Benjamin Lin | 2095 | 2047 | U2200 |
29 | Savio Joseph Benher | 2090 | 2032 | Crown |
30 | Jaipreet Singh Dhaliwal | 2074 | 1875 | U2200 |
31 | Cindy Qiao | 2070 | 2022 | U2200 |
32 | Marife Dela Torre | 2067 | 1967 | U2200 |
33 | Ian Loadman | 2061 | 2090 | U2200 |
34 | Larry Yang | 2060 | 1647 | U2200 |
35 | Anthony Maulucci | 2057 | 1874 | U2200 |
36 | Merlin Nazareno | 2041 | 1816 | U2200 |
37 | Francisco Wong | 2034 | 0 | U2200 |
38 | Tony Lu | 2032 | 1941 | U2200 |
39 | Adam Li | 2020 | 1746 | U2200 |
40 | Carina DโSouza | 2020 | 1795 | U2200 |
41 | Jake Van Rooy | 2020 | 2038 | U2200 |
42 | Dylan Doolabi | 2015 | 1842 | U2200 |
43 | Riyaan Lakhani | 1997 | 1811 | U2200 |
44 | Nolan Wu | 1984 | 1670 | U2200 |
45 | Andy Wang | 1972 | 1936 | U2200 |
46 | Siddarth Narasimhan | 1956 | 1624 | U2200 |
47 | Joseph Wah Sing Leung | 1955 | 1461 | U2200 |
48 | Hongyi Li | 1949 | 1780 | U2200 |
49 | Eric Qian | 1932 | 1726 | U2200 |
50 | Irene Xie | 1896 | 1474 | U2200 |
51 | Karthi Kola | 1896 | 1600 | U1900 |
52 | Bingfei Wang | 1889 | 1930 | U2200 |
53 | Daniel Botello | 1889 | 1504 | U2200 |
54 | Hazel Guo | 1888 | 1721 | U2200 |
55 | april zhong | 1883 | 1872 | U2200 |
56 | Denys Melnychuk | 1872 | 1830 | U2200 |
57 | Bhavatharshan Jeyakumar | 1865 | 1727 | U1900 |
58 | Arkadii Tenkov | 1859 | 1709 | U2200 |
59 | ChenJi Zheng | 1843 | 1948 | U1900 |
60 | Hanxi (Hancy) Jiang | 1828 | 1689 | U2200 |
61 | Taorong Wang | 1825 | 1745 | U2200 |
62 | Nathan Zian Wang | 1824 | 1670 | U2200 |
63 | Ryan Xu | 1822 | 1674 | U2200 |
64 | Bobby Benoit | 1820 | 1715 | U1900 |
65 | Modith Aaroh Mutyalapati | 1819 | 1692 | U2200 |
66 | Adrien Cheng | 1818 | 1891 | U2200 |
67 | Aarush Ajith | 1810 | 1609 | U2200 |
68 | Brendan Tan | 1802 | 1600 | U2200 |
69 | Michael blair | 1799 | 1690 | U2200* |
70 | Omid Nemati | 1785 | 1889 | U1900 |
71 | Sarthak Deshpande | 1761 | 1819 | U2200* |
72 | Omar Shah | 1744 | 1973 | U1900 |
73 | Sean Liu | 1743 | 1877 | U1900 |
74 | Isaac Duanmu | 1739 | 1327 | U1900 |
75 | Tanishq Kumar Dhingra | 1728 | 1306 | U1900 |
76 | Luc Chamberland | 1724 | 1833 | U1900 |
77 | Zhihua Zhang | 1723 | 0 | U1900 |
78 | Bradley Tseng | 1722 | 1856 | U1900 |
79 | Daniel Lee | 1696 | 1222 | U1900 |
80 | Daniel Zhang | 1685 | 1974 | U1900 |
81 | Eric Wan | 1678 | 1436 | U1900 |
82 | Larry Zhou Chen | 1677 | 1557 | U1900 |
83 | Henry Pollitt | 1673 | 1369 | U1900 |
84 | Austin Lin | 1669 | 1508 | U1900 |
85 | Mate Milinkovic | 1668 | 1560 | U1900 |
86 | Daniel Truong | 1649 | 1264 | U1900 |
87 | Andrew Leliveld | 1646 | 1613 | U1900 |
88 | Boris Iriarte | 1646 | 1770 | U1900 |
89 | Frank Wu | 1644 | 1564 | U1900 |
90 | Will Scott | 1639 | 1670 | U1900 |
91 | Henry Vu | 1634 | 1335 | U1900 |
92 | Jovan Momic | 1632 | 1703 | U1900 |
93 | Rudra Sheth | 1626 | 1258 | U1900 |
94 | Michael Ashcroft | 1621 | 1487 | U1900 |
95 | Gauri Sreekumar | 1604 | 1472 | U1900 |
96 | Trifelino Miaco | 1577 | 1593 | U1600 |
97 | Jason Sunardi | 1574 | 1128 | U1900 |
98 | Slava Lukinykh | 1573 | 1787 | U1900 |
99 | Tom Gribilas | 1563 | 0 | U1900 |
100 | Max Manga | 1551 | 1395 | U1600 |
101 | Mario Moran-Venegas | 1550 | 1597 | U1900 |
102 | William Bi | 1546 | 1475 | U1900 |
103 | Michael Saltat | 1539 | 1735 | U1600 |
104 | Toy Chack KWAN | 1537 | 1452 | U1900 |
105 | Michael Sharpe | 1528 | 1493 | U1900 |
106 | Timmy Chen | 1520 | 1127 | U1900 |
107 | Aiden Li | 1511 | 1758 | U1600 |
108 | Jared Byers | 1505 | 1518 | U1600 |
109 | Ferdinand Supsup | 1503 | 1446 | U1600 |
110 | Diganth Anish | 1503 | 1423 | U1900 |
111 | Jayden Zihan Zhan | 1503 | 1446 | U1900 |
112 | Zachary Shepherd | 1491 | 1844 | U1600 |
113 | Simon Perkins | 1489 | 1716 | U1600 |
114 | Lucas Haoxuan Sun | 1479 | 1052 | U1900* |
115 | Lucy Yang | 1475 | 1104 | U1600 |
116 | Joshua Wright | 1467 | 1154 | U1900* |
117 | Zihan Hong | 1466 | 1442 | U1900* |
118 | Oscar Cheung | 1459 | 1258 | U1600 |
119 | Vincent Angel Adulfo | 1459 | 1717 | U1600 |
120 | Adithya Sekaran | 1429 | 1228 | U1600 |
121 | Shabd Dembla | 1424 | 1626 | U1600 |
122 | Roger Guo | 1417 | 1185 | U1600 |
123 | Payam Fakoorziba | 1413 | 0 | U1600 |
124 | Ziqi Zhou | 1413 | 1443 | U1600 |
125 | Toma Yuen | 1406 | 1531 | U1600 |
126 | Ademar Gonzalez | 1394 | 1524 | U1600 |
127 | William Kaiyuan Wang | 1393 | 1240 | U1600 |
128 | Arnav Mane | 1391 | 1423 | U1600 |
129 | Richard Wing | 1382 | 1651 | U1600 |
130 | Param Agarwal | 1377 | 0 | U1600 |
131 | Alex Moisseev | 1368 | 1463 | U1600 |
132 | Jeremy Sztuka | 1361 | 1366 | U1600 |
133 | Jerry Gerber | 1358 | 970 | U1600 |
134 | Robert J. Armstrong | 1358 | 1506 | U1600 |
135 | Marie Guan | 1352 | 1253 | U1600 |
136 | Undriadi Benggawan | 1345 | 1497 | U1600 |
137 | John R. Brown | 1343 | 1742 | U1600 |
138 | Eric Huang | 1342 | 1287 | U1600 |
139 | Dharsan Satish Alwar | 1338 | 1473 | U1600 |
140 | Charlie Trudeau | 1337 | 725 | U1600 |
141 | Brandon Kim | 1335 | 1763 | U1600 |
142 | Katherine Leung | 1333 | 906 | U1600 |
143 | Ken Kurkowski | 1328 | 1545 | U1600 |
144 | Gunin Khanna | 1328 | 0 | U1600 |
145 | Mehar Bala | 1306 | 1333 | U1600 |
146 | Chintansingh Chhabda | 1305 | 0 | U1600 |
147 | Yiguo Gao | 1297 | 1135 | U1600 |
148 | Balakrishnan Sreekumar Maliekal | 1295 | 1122 | U1600 |
149 | Alexa Roque | 1290 | 1125 | U1600 |
150 | Nathaniel Yong | 1281 | 1319 | U1600 |
151 | Lyam Katz | 1246 | 1141 | U1300 |
152 | Nicholas Barnsdale | 1241 | 1032 | U1300 |
153 | Jashank Dave | 1233 | 1463 | U1600 |
154 | Magesh Sethupathy | 1233 | 0 | U1300 |
155 | Boomba Nishikawa | 1224 | 1248 | U1600 |
156 | Jacob Fischer | 1216 | 1154 | U1600 |
157 | Tristan Li | 1216 | 1202 | U1600 |
158 | Bek Khamidov | 1214 | 1215 | U1300 |
159 | Dylan Tian | 1191 | 1148 | U1300 |
160 | Ahmed Khalf | 1188 | 1164 | U1300 |
161 | Allen Li | 1182 | 1239 | U1300 |
162 | John Pierman | 1182 | 1016 | U1300 |
163 | Jeffrey Qiu | 1180 | 1168 | U1300 |
164 | Jayden Henry Tan | 1178 | 1294 | U1300 |
165 | Stephen Kuzin | 1168 | 991 | U1200-Juniors |
166 | Andy Rui Wang | 1159 | 1338 | U1300 |
167 | James Mourgelas | 1147 | 1549 | U1300 |
168 | Shannon Zhao | 1137 | 1281 | U1300 |
169 | Saket Kola | 1127 | 1247 | U1300 |
170 | Stephanie Xiao | 1127 | 892 | U1300 |
171 | Gabriel Saimovici | 1125 | 1373 | U1300 |
172 | Angela Wang | 1112 | 1253 | U1300 |
173 | Tina Hui | 1107 | 1214 | U1300 |
174 | Gayathri Sreekumar | 1105 | 1016 | U1300 |
175 | Kingsley Zheng | 1093 | 1193 | U1300 |
176 | Gurnoor Singh | 1084 | 0 | U1300 |
177 | Bryan Liang | 1080 | 819 | U1200-Juniors |
178 | Joseph McGowan | 1069 | 0 | U1300 |
179 | Iaroslav Kit | 1067 | 0 | U1300 |
180 | Devin Hurley | 1060 | 0 | U1300 |
181 | Samuel Zheng | 1046 | 1024 | U1300 |
182 | Tiffany Chen | 1044 | 934 | U1300 |
183 | Riley McCarron | 1028 | 0 | U1300 |
184 | Farhaan Syed | 1022 | 1258 | U1300 |
185 | Nobuko Takeuchi | 1020 | 938 | U1300 |
186 | Phoenix Cheung | 1010 | 1056 | U1300 |
187 | Rucha Deshpande | 1007 | 1227 | U1300 |
188 | Nick Mills | 1007 | 1487 | U1300 |
189 | BenJohn Libardo | 992 | 1012 | U1300 |
190 | Sam Moore | 985 | 0 | U1300 |
191 | Oscar Yasunaga | 982 | 1154 | U1300 |
192 | Peter Grucza | 982 | 937 | U1300 |
193 | Mathusha Jeyakumar | 944 | 988 | U-1200 Junior |
194 | Victor Delgashev | 943 | 897 | U1300 |
195 | Brent Goff | 941 | 1026 | U1300 |
196 | Ethan Guo | 935 | 979 | U1300 |
197 | Bradley Northcote | 933 | 0 | U1300 |
198 | Nap Hei Joshua Cheung | 922 | 1208 | U1300 |
199 | Joshua Knott | 920 | 0 | U1300 |
200 | Max Huang | 909 | 799 | U1200 Juniors |
201 | Kavira Manikandan Reddia Gowder | 882 | 1033 | U1300 |
202 | Jeffrey Liu | 875 | 821 | U1200-Juniors |
203 | Ian Gao | 846 | 1079 | U1200-Juniors |
204 | Edward Chan | 843 | 964 | U1200-Juniors |
205 | Oscar Lai | 809 | 944 | U1200-Juniors |
206 | Rex Tan | 808 | 961 | U1200 |
207 | Evan Gao | 799 | 799 | U1200-Juniors |
208 | Edmund Smyk | 799 | 1068 | U1300 |
209 | Benjamin Ha | 779 | 958 | U1200-Juniors |
210 | Luc Leclair | 771 | 767 | U1300 |
211 | Syed Mustafa Ahmed | 771 | 692 | U1300 |
212 | Benjamin Yulo | 748 | 1153 | U1300 |
213 | William Io | 731 | 905 | U1200-Juniors |
214 | Nathan Wang | 658 | 1325 | U1200-Juniors |
215 | Adrian Milanoski | 638 | 877 | U1300 |
216 | Archer Feng | 631 | 886 | U1200-Juniors |
217 | Jingchen Wu | 624 | 1003 | U1200-Juniors |
218 | John Nguyen | 548 | 993 | U1200-Juniors |
219 | Maria Polyanska | 525 | 750 | U1200-Juniors |
220 | Daniel Delgashev | 500 | 646 | U1300 |
221 | Benjamin Wang | 500 | 951 | U1200-Juniors |
222 | Nikita Kamath | 500 | 825 | U1200-Juniors |
223 | Kayal Manikandan | 484 | 601 | U1200-Juniors |
224 | Evan Clark | 474 | 830 | U1300 |
225 | Leah Tian | 325 | 500 | U1200-Juniors |
226 | Zachary Ryder | 0 | U1200-Juniors | |
227 | Calvin Li | 0 | 500 | U1300 |
228 | Quinn Paton | 0 | U1300 | |
229 | Yangqi Zhu | 0 | 994 | U1600 |
230 | SEAN ROSENBERG | 0 | U1300 | |
231 | Antonio Garofalo | 0 | U1300 | |
232 | Andrew Bucci | 0 | U1300 | |
233 | James McCabe | 0 | 1150 | U1300 |
234 | Iris Ip | 0 | U1300 | |
235 | Nicholas Harris | 0 | U1300 | |
236 | Mamraj Mahboob | 0 | U1600 | |
237 | Yukuan Zou | 0 | 1505 | U1600 |
238 | Eli Eizenman | 0 | 776 | U1200-Juniors |
239 | Hugo Suk | 0 | U1300 | |
240 | Elizabeth Ko | 0 | U1300 | |
241 | Daniel Clark | 0 | U1300 | |
242 | Raymond Tang | 0 | U1900 | |
243 | Emilio Ramirez | 0 | U2200 | |
244 | Sui John Liu | 0 | U1200-Juniors | |
245 | Bosen Li | 0 | 752 | U1200-Juniors |
246 | Pranav Arun Prasad | 0 | 1017 | U1200-Juniors |