IM Bindi Cheng tops BC Chess Open Premier section

The BC Chess Open Tournament 2024 was held on 17-19th February at the Grand Villa Ballroom, Delta Hotel in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. The tournament format was 6-round Swiss across four sections – Premier, U1800, U1400 and U1000.

The main Premier section had 41 participants. IM Bindi Cheng emerged clear winner with 5,5/6 points, leaving the Ukrainian FM Dmitriy Danilenko half a point behind. Cheng was awarded $1,200 for the effort.

The U1800 section had 53 participants. Jason Chen and Bhell Ortiz shared the first place with 5,5/6 points each. The U1400 section had 79 participants. Malcolm Mckean was the sole winner with 5,5/6 points. The U1000 section gathered 99 participants. Mara Lu, Xavier Zhang and John Carpenter finished a top with 5,5/6 point each. Final rankings of all sections can be seen below

The event was organized by Greater Vancouver Chess Society and Penny Chess Club and the tournament director was Quang-Long Le. The Major of Burnaby Mr. Mike Hurley opened the tournament. Official website.

I had the pleasure of welcoming players to Burnaby as they get set to compete at the 2024 BC Chess Open. I was happy that I got to meet with the youngest contestant, Ron He (5), and the eldest, Mau Seng Lee (92). Best of luck to all the players — have a fantastic tournament!🏆 pic.twitter.com/bXyO0vCqrQ
— Burnaby Mayor's Office (@MayorofBurnaby) February 17, 2024

Final rankings:

Final Rankings – BC Chess Open Premier 2024
Rk.		Name	sex	FED	Rtg	Pts.
1	IM	Bindi Cheng		CAN	2470	5.5
2	FM	Dmitriy Danilenko		UKR	2401	5
3	NM	Keith Mackinnon		CAN	2325	4.5
4		Maximilian Mueller		GER	1964	4.5
5	CM	Arpak Worya Mohammed Qanee		CAN	2048	4
6		Henry Yang		CAN	1990	4
7		Brandon Zhu		CAN	2140	4
8		Dongkai (Harry) Wang		CHN	1919	4
9		Kate Jiang	w	CAN	2093	4
10		Nathan Ping-Ying Wu		CAN	2039	4
11		Matthew He		CAN	2078	3.5
12		Joyce Zhang	w	CAN	1849	3.5
13		Alex Zou		CAN	1832	3.5
14		Brian Ziyi Yang		CAN	2009	3.5
15		Reece Harms		CAN	1952	3.5
16		Justin Xu		CAN	1631	3.5
17		Euan Reid		CAN	1943	3
18	IM	Raymond Kaufman		CAN	2302	3
19		Erwin Mok		CAN	1966	3
20		Joey Xu		CAN	1775	3
21		Jason Williamson		CAN	1962	3
22		Jose Kagaoan		CAN	1908	2.5
23		Justin Gao		CAN	1891	2.5
24		Nicholas Pei-Chang Wu		CAN	1678	2.5
25		Peter Mingrone		CAN	1792	2.5
26		Luis Eduardo Azmitia Pardo		FID	1651	2.5
27		Timur Zaruev		CAN	1865	2.5
28		Edward Tang		CAN	1852	2.5
29		Ryan Leong		CAN	1883	2.5
30		Owen Murphy		CAN	1758	2.5
31		William Jiang		CAN	1731	2.5
32		Mark Linnick		CAN	1974	2
33		Peter Cheng		CAN	1687	2
34		Daniel Salcedo		CAN	1879	1.5
35		Johan Aljo		CAN	2102	1.5
36		Sujan Saravanan		USA	1781	1.5
37		Aiden Hao-Ting Lu		CAN	1636	1.5
38		Min Jun Koo		CAN	1818	1
39		Salvatore La Barbera		CAN	1780	1
40		Dejan Radic		CAN	1721	0.5
41		Tristan Taylor		CAN	2174	0.5

Final rankings – BC Chess Open 2024 -U1800 section
Rk.	Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.
1	Jason (Yidong) Chen	CAN	1772	5.5
2	Bhell Ortiz	CAN	1715	5.5
3	Sutong Wang	CAN	1569	4.5
4	Oliver Dalton	CAN	1375	4.5
5	Huy Minh Vu	CAN	1594	4.5
6	Garth Anderson	CAN	1645	4.5
7	Nathan Yi-Hsin Yang	CAN	1547	4
8	David Armstrong	CAN	1574	4
9	Joydeep Laha	CAN	1527	4
10	Paul Leblanc	CAN	1674	4
11	Ilan Keshet	CAN	1512	4
12	Bowen Wu	CAN	1399	4
13	Oliver Melgrove	CAN	1239	3.5
14	Daniel Sutherland	CAN	1747	3.5
15	Jeffrey Liu	CAN	1668	3.5
16	Kai Zhang	CAN	1479	3.5
17	Aiden Yin	CAN	1450	3.5
18	Justin Tian	CAN	1252	3.5
19	Andrew Yin	CAN	1552	3.5
20	Bicheng Zhang	CAN	1290	3.5
21	Richard Ingram	CAN	1543	3.5
22	Marionito Jose	CAN	1422	3
23	Tyler Cruz	CAN	1622	3
24	Eli Grant	CAN	1651	3
25	Zhengyu Chen	CAN	1657	3
26	Daryan Arpak Worya	CAN	1554	3
27	Oliver Bontkes	CAN	1469	3
28	Paula Brewster	CAN	1475	3
29	Andre Dossa	CAN	1575	3
30	Enayat Ganjian	CAN	1577	3
	Jofrel Landingin	CAN	1475	3
32	Dennis Wang	CAN	1377	3
33	Larry Yang	CAN	1275	3
34	Geraldo Barbosa Landre	CAN	1754	2.5
35	Shaunavon Mu	CAN	1481	2.5
	Dasha Doroshenko	CAN	1299	2.5
37	Samuel Lu	CAN	1321	2.5
38	Moses Li	CAN	1281	2.5
39	Sophia Doroshenko	CAN	1195	2.5
40	Chase Roskos	CAN	0	2.5
41	Abigail Wang	CAN	1431	2
42	Werner Harmse	CAN	1441	2
43	Liam Tu	CAN	1388	2
	Rex Yu	CAN	1295	2
45	Orven Ortiz	CAN	1782	2
46	Ryan Golchin	CAN	1314	2
47	Lucas Yao	CAN	1495	2
48	Joanne Wangluo	CAN	1205	2
49	Frank Jutten	CAN	1510	1.5
50	Jasper Zhang	CAN	1313	1.5
51	Don Hack	CAN	1289	1.5
52	Iain Ireland	CAN	1306	1
53	Brian Sullivan	CAN	1442	0

Final Rankings – BC Chess Open 2024 – U1400 section
Rk.	Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.
1	Malcolm Mckean	CAN	1387	5.5
2	Raghav Nohria	CAN	0	5
3	Nico Xiao Huang	CAN	1291	5
4	Christian Grecu	CAN	1336	5
5	Harry (Qiming) Yu	CAN	0	5
6	Billy(Minhao) Wu	CAN	1164	5
7	Vladan Petrovic	CAN	0	4.5
8	Jordan Zhu	CAN	1307	4.5
9	Pierre Maheux	CAN	1378	4.5
10	Pengsen Fang	CAN	1331	4.5
11	Vicente Costa	CAN	1318	4
12	Glyn Zhu	CAN	1245	4
13	Catalin Bonci	CAN	0	4
14	Nuo Yi	CAN	1006	4
15	Xuzhao (Kevin) Chen	CAN	1067	4
16	Henry Fan	CAN	1055	4
17	Steve Harms	CAN	1246	4
18	Leo Zhou	CAN	1299	4
19	Jaydon Yuan	CAN	1078	4
20	May Wangluo	CAN	936	4
21	Edward Geng	CAN	1147	3.5
22	Mau-Seng Lee	CAN	1267	3.5
	Aaron Li	CAN	1162	3.5
24	Ryder Hsu	CAN	1183	3.5
25	David Song	CAN	942	3.5
26	Alexandru Bonci	CAN	0	3.5
27	Ethan Low	CAN	1326	3.5
28	Serhiy Opushnyev	CAN	0	3.5
29	Arnav Shetty	CAN	1062	3.5
30	Sky Cui	CAN	922	3.5
	Brandon Yu	CAN	905	3.5
32	Sofia Vigurs	CAN	1037	3.5
33	Jack Bullen	CAN	1031	3.5
34	Denis Mikhailov	CAN	995	3
35	Morgan Li	CAN	1188	3
36	Khai Le	CAN	922	3
37	Brady Li	CAN	1024	3
38	Eric Liu	CAN	1040	3
39	Kyle Van Dijk	CAN	1049	3
40	Evan Geng	CAN	1094	3
41	Barath Subramanian Suresh	CAN	1184	3
42	Edric Gong	CAN	977	3
43	Austin Beech	CAN	1307	3
44	Zoe Francis	CAN	1281	3
45	Gilles Bruneau	CAN	1367	3
46	Markus Li	CAN	1085	2.5
47	Zhejin Chen	CAN	1124	2.5
48	Aiden Zhu	CAN	975	2.5
49	Aleksandr Skorniakov	CAN	938	2.5
	Sherlynn Fung	CAN	934	2.5
51	Rio Vilches	CAN	1209	2.5
52	Sion Park	CAN	0	2.5
53	Jordan Wang	CAN	951	2.5
54	Micah Chow	CAN	1135	2.5
55	Tessa Holloway	CAN	0	2.5
56	Lucas Li	CAN	1253	2.5
57	Max Liao	CAN	834	2.5
58	Chelsea Tang	CAN	0	2
59	James Hong	CAN	1030	2
60	Julian Tang	CAN	1015	2
61	Caitlin Wang	CAN	1149	2
62	Varun Godbole	CAN	0	2
63	Emmanuel Pangilinan	CAN	1393	2
64	Ansun Zhou	CAN	1119	2
65	Neelesh Jain	CAN	835	2
66	Jordan Evans	CAN	0	2
67	David Chen	CAN	1002	1.5
68	Jeffrey Deng	CAN	1061	1.5
69	Peter Gordon	CAN	1144	1.5
70	Jeff Lee	CAN	1092	1
71	Alexander Mullan	CAN	968	1
72	Marko Radic	CAN	1033	1
73	Kevin Taikai Liu	CAN	848	1
74	Tristan Campbell	CAN	0	1
75	Kendrick Rojas	CAN	1136	0.5
76	Swayam Ghanghas	CAN	1023	0.5
77	Max Opushnyev	CAN	0	0
78	Patrick Steel	CAN	1134	0
79	Vincent Mu	CAN	1150	0

Final Rankings – BC Chess Open 2024 – U1000 section
Rk.	Name	FED	Rtg	Pts.
1	Mara Lu	CAN	0	5.5
2	Xavier Zhang	CAN	790	5.5
3	John Carpenter	CAN	964	5.5
4	Timothy Zhang	CAN	0	5
5	Stephan Schwarz	CAN	0	4.5
6	Goran Saraginoski	CAN	0	4.5
7	Rastko Salvarica	CAN	876	4.5
8	Alejandro Mercado Tejerina	CAN	951	4.5
9	Lahan Thathmira Wickramasinghe	CAN	961	4.5
10	Tamas Burik	CAN	737	4.5
11	Jake Cao	CAN	726	4.5
12	Aryav Aloke	CAN	697	4.5
13	Raphael Morris Ng	CAN	893	4.5
14	Dimias Sutherland	CAN	663	4.5
	Sining Lou	CAN	625	4.5
16	Jiayin Guo	CAN	820	4.5
17	Haobo Zhang	CAN	0	4.5
18	Khanh Lam Chu	CAN	0	4
19	Jordan Szeto	CAN	794	4
20	Tom Dai	CAN	760	4
21	Burt Jiang	CAN	767	4
22	Yunhao Tan	CAN	740	4
23	Lucas Wong	CAN	803	4
24	Vladimir Belousov	CAN	897	3.5
25	Ethan Shao	CAN	981	3.5
26	Alex Wang	CAN	689	3.5
27	Tom Aloni	CAN	676	3.5
28	Aarush Sharma	CAN	758	3.5
29	Joanne Xu	CAN	779	3.5
30	Adam Dai	CAN	788	3.5
	Gia Minh Nguyen	CAN	757	3.5
32	Aiden Lu	CAN	799	3.5
	Vicky Yin	CAN	782	3.5
	Ian Carter	CAN	0	3.5
35	Siyona Singh	CAN	743	3.5
36	Yang Xu	CAN	0	3.5
37	Ayansh Tandon	CAN	750	3.5
38	Sparsh Gandhi	CAN	748	3.5
39	Jensen Lee	CAN	608	3.5
40	Simon Chan	CAN	876	3.5
41	Anny Peng	CAN	762	3.5
42	Eli Goodman	CAN	687	3.5
43	Aram Mohammed	CAN	769	3
44	Eric Jin	CAN	717	3
45	Jeremy Liu	CAN	894	3
	Alren Buhay	CAN	813	3
47	Bhawandeep Singh	CAN	0	3
48	Evan Deng	CAN	701	3
	Anirudh Srikanth	CAN	683	3
50	Aiden Li	CAN	483	3
51	Hoang Duy Tran	CAN	534	3
52	Karson Lu	CAN	743	3
53	Vladimir Pelekh	CAN	660	3
54	Benjamin Wenbin Yuan	CAN	787	3
55	Brian Zhong	CAN	603	3
56	Adam Coady	CAN	718	3
57	Anthony Wang	CAN	783	3
58	Ekagr Arjun	CAN	533	3
59	Gabriel Wang	CAN	750	3
60	Samuel Wang	CAN	653	3
61	Ryan Huang	CAN	500	3
62	Ryan Zhou	CAN	792	2.5
63	George Ning	CAN	896	2.5
64	Jasaira Kaur	CAN	484	2.5
65	Ava Chen	CAN	638	2.5
66	Zitian Chen	CAN	649	2.5
67	Alvin Wang	CAN	600	2.5
68	Jaden Zeng	CAN	404	2.5
69	Michael Nguyen	CAN	0	2.5
70	Albert Wang	CAN	0	2.5
71	Megan Wright	CAN	500	2
72	Benedict Han	CAN	500	2
73	Hannah Li	CAN	500	2
	Adam He	CAN	0	2
75	Jonathan Zhang	CAN	453	2
76	Linden Camley	CAN	0	2
77	Ziyang Gu	CAN	408	2
78	Oscar Huang	CAN	490	2
79	Zoya Singh	CAN	0	2
80	Vincent Tian	CAN	561	2
81	Martina Szeto	CAN	529	2
82	Soren Farjam	CAN	922	2
	Hanjin Yang	CAN	0	2
84	Crowley(Kehan) Xing	CAN	500	2
85	Abraham Chan	CAN	0	2
86	Ron He	CAN	629	1.5
87	Bowen Wang	CAN	0	1.5
88	Oliver Chen	CAN	542	1.5
89	Genevieve Tang	CAN	452	1.5
90	Kara Ching-Yee Chan	CAN	500	1.5
91	Eden Ho	CAN	0	1.5
92	Matthew Zhao	CAN	504	1
93	Albert Tian	CAN	597	1
94	Jeffrey Chen	CAN	0	1
95	Edith Subroto	CAN	500	1
96	Duncan Chen	CAN	0	1
97	Teo Gao	CAN	0	1
98	Wei-Hsiang Chiu	CAN	811	0
99	Taisen Huang	CAN	0	0

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