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 – 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.

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

Starting Rank	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 D’Souza	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