We are delighted to share with the Hart House community that the annual Hart House Holidays Open Chess Tournament is back! We hope you will join us from December 9th – 11th at Hart House for the return of our annual flagship event. With five rounds in 6-sections for all skill levels, this is the perfect opportunity to play a competitive chess tournament. Official flyer.

Tournament News

New as of Nov. 29: Tournament standings, pairings, detailed pre-registered lists, policies, venue information, food options, and more can be found on the Tournament Website.

Dec. 8: See the latest announcement on the event

Dec 12: Congrats to all winners and thank you for participating at our event! We’ll be contacting winners this week on prize distribution and ratings should be updated by Wednesday. The event report will go up this week. Photos taken during the event by former HHCC Exec Panagiotis Tsialas can be found here. Photos taken by the CFC can be found here.

Dec 13: The event report can be found here. Thank you for coming out!

Standings and Pairings

Cross-tables and previous rounds’ pairings can be viewable below.

Hart House Holidays Open – Crown

Hart House Holidays Open – U2200

Hart House Holidays Open – U1900

Hart House Holidays Open – U1600

Hart House Holidays Open – U1300

Hart House Holidays Open – U1000

information

• WHERE: Great Hall, Hart House, University of Toronto.
• WHEN: December 9th, 10th, 11th.
• SCHEDULE: Friday 9th at 6:30pm, Saturday 10th at 10:00am & 4:00pm, Sunday 11th at 10:00am & 4:00pm
• TIME CONTROL: 90 minutes + 30 seconds increment from move 1, for all sections.
• STYLE: 5 Round Swiss split in 6 rating sections – Crown (2200+), Under 2200, Under 1900, Under 1600, Under 1300 & Under 1000 Sections
• PRIZE FUND: $8000 based on 200 entries
• RATING: All sections will be CFC rated. Crown, Under 2200 & Under 1900 sections will also be FIDE rated. Crown Section will be paired using FIDE ratings.
• FORFEIT TIME: Players who do not arrive within 30 minutes of the round start time will be forfeited.
• BYES: Maximum 2 half-point byes in rounds 1-4 if requested in advance before the start of Round 1.
• ORGANIZER: Hart House Chess Club with Alex Ferreira as arbiter.
• EMAIL: hhtournaments@gmail.com
• CAPACITY: 200 players in Great Hall, plus possible side rooms

Registration

• Online registration is available until December 7th at 11:59 PM. In-person and telephone registration is available through the Hart House Information Desk during Hart House Hours.
• Cash registration is only available onsite before 5:30pm on December 9th
• Cheque registration (arrival by December 7th, 2022) can be made payable to The Governing Council of the University of Toronto, state Hart House Chess Club in description, at 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto ON, M5S 3H3. No post-dated cheques.

Entry Fees

$70 by November 16th at 11:59pm, $80 by December 7th at 11:59pm and $100 cash only on-site.

Playing up

Extra $20 to play up a section (pay onsite before 5:30pm). Playing up is allowed only for players within 100 rating points of the section’s minimum rating. For example, a player in the Under 1600 section wanting to play up in the Under 1900 section must have a rating no lower than 1500. Unless the fee is paid, players will automatically be placed in their appropriate section prior to the start of the tournament.

Discounts

$35 discount for University of Toronto students and unrated players (max one discount per player). Unrated players are not eligible for prizes. Free entry for IMs/WIMs/GMs/WGMs if registered by November 25th. Please email us for all discount information.

OTHER info

• Please bring chess sets and clocks if possible. HHCC will provide DGT boards for the Crown section.
• Registrants must be current CFC members or bring payment prior to playing – https://chess.ca/membership-fees.
• Withdrawals: see our Policies.
• Unrated players should review our New To Tournament Guide
• Parking is available at a daily rate of $10.
• Free Wi-Fi will be made available.

Pre-Registered

Players will be placed in sections according to eligibility, based on Dec 7 ratings’ update.  Not necessarily how people registered themselves.

Pre-registered as of December 8th. CFC expiries are based on December 11th, 2022.

Number	First Name	Last Name	CFC ID	CFC Rating	CFC Membership	FIDE ID	Section	Byes
1	Nikolay	Noritsyn	132534	2570	Valid	2604922	Crown
2	Max	Chen	155238	2328	Valid	2622440	Crown
3	Jura	Ochkoos	102669	2316	Valid	2601214	Crown
4	Youhe	Huang	159428	2300	Valid	2629445	Crown
5	Max	Rusonik	155671	2299	Valid	2619253	Crown
6	William	Li	154677	2283	Expired	2619750	Crown
7	Fengxi	Mao	166033	2234	Valid	2632586	Crown
8	Dorian	Kang	155339	2228	Expired	2619156	Crown
9	Leon	Perelman	146258	2223	Valid	2609495	Crown
10	Daniel	Abrahams	134333	2209	Valid	2606879	Crown
11	Vishruth	Sharma	156776	2208	Valid	2621215	Crown
12	Eric	Ning	158233	2204	Valid	2625407	Crown	Rd 1
13	Michael	Dougherty	100294	2198	Valid	2601559	Crown	Rd 2, 4
14	Aaron Reeve	Mendes	167084	2196	Valid	25954938	Crown
15	Aquino	Inigo	136995	2190	Expired	2607131	U2200	Rd 1
16	Henry	Liu	157720	2159	Valid	2628597	Crown
17	Fred	Gandolfi	108999	2147	Valid	0	Crown
18	Ian	Loadman	101686	2135	Valid	2613743	Crown
19	Allan	Munro	140841	2130	Valid	7700245	Crown
20	Inigo	Assaripallam	135189	2119	Expired	2060329	U2200	Rd 1
21	Ilia	Bluvshtein	125934	2112	Valid	2605317	Crown
22	Vaibhav	Bhat	175783	2096	Valid	5060931	Crown
23	Raymond	Gao	156480	2092	Valid	2629429	Crown
24	Eddie	Xu	166274	2053	Valid	2632160	U2200	Rd 1
25	Adam	Li	160391	2039	Valid	2632144	U2200
26	Jeffrey R.	Zhao	157007	2029	Valid	2627450	U2200	Rd 1
27	Tony Bohan	Bao	149351	2006	Expired	2613042	U2200
28	Andrei	Moffat	108272	2004	Expired	2602954	U2200
29	Richard	Douglas	131191	2000	Valid	0	U2200
30	Tony	Lu	166742	1991	Valid	2640643	U2200
31	Merlin	Nazareno	165079	1974	Valid	2632470	U2200
32	Eric	Qian	167975	1969	Valid	2637774	U2200
33	Noah Nathaniel	Yuen	158470	1969	Valid	2627353	U2200
34	Levi	Lim	168079	1923	Valid	2634325	U2200	Rd 1
35	Carina	D’Souza	167600	1913	Valid	2635550	U2200	Rd 1
36	Mohammed	Hadid	167255	1885	Expired	2638592	U2200
37	Charlie	Grisar	166101	1883	Valid	2639440	U2200
38	Jonath	Joseph	171981	1879	Valid	329105368	U2200
39	Andy	Wang	168247	1844	Valid	2637804	U2200
40	David	Gauthier	164946	1843	Valid	2634066	U1900
41	Ferdinand	Supsup	142366	1831	Valid	2614030	U1900
42	Olya	Kaye	120564	1822	Valid	2616475	U2200
43	Ryan Zhuoyuan	Xu	174722	1816	Valid	329105250	U1900
44	Larry	Yang	164823	1802	Valid	2637618	U1900
45	Ande	Li	172084	1786	Valid	8620997	U2200
46	Bhavatharshan	Jeyakumar	155309	1781	Valid	2619148	U1900
47	Ryan Yunhui	Zhong	166737	1773	Valid	2635860	U1900
48	Ashley	Qian	168050	1752	Valid	2636280	U1900
49	Daniel	Sirkovich	145096	1746	Valid	2618125	U2200
50	Luc	Chamberland	107346	1742	Valid	2646757	U1900
51	Kamila	Kolpashnikova	160572	1728	Valid	488100	U1900
52	Harrison (Hangchen)	Liu	162133	1726	Valid	2628570	U1900
53	Raj	Verma	112840	1720	Valid	2643138	U2200
54	Heye	Gao	166066	1711	Valid	2638223	U1900	Rd 1
55	Trifelino	Miaco	121781	1696	Valid	121781	U1900	Rd 1
56	Sean	Liu	174972	1686	Valid	2643170	U1600
57	Arkadiy	Ugodnikov	146626	1685	Valid	2615940	U1900
58	Vincent	Chen	163183	1685	Valid	2637553	U1900	Rd 1
59	Wah Sing (Joseph)	Leung	167606	1682	Valid	2636654	U1900	Rd 1
60	April Yunwei	Zhong	167271	1671	Valid	2635658	U1900
61	Modith Aaroh	Mutyalapati	171210	1662	Valid	25147870	U1600
62	Charis	Zhu	168132	1657	Valid	2638320	U1900
63	Mario	Moran-Venegas	143315	1656	Valid	2605279	U1900
64	Ethan	Lin	161997	1632	Valid	2635755	U1900
65	Siddarth	Narasimhan	161746	1624	Expired	2639645	U1900
66	Evan	Andersen	175925	1620	Expired	2642948	U1900
67	Gauri	Sreekumar	165299	1611	Valid	2631458	U1900
68	Saarthak	Malakar	173204	1608	Valid	30974291	U1900
69	Irene	Xie	175644	1600	Valid	2643537	U1900
70	Daniel	Zhang	163312	1598	Valid	2637820	U1900	Rd 1
71	Triston	Li	166944	1586	Valid	2638282	U1900
72	Nathan Zian	Wang	161735	1586	Valid	2638681	U1900
73	Toy Chack	Kwan	162706	1579	Valid	2635097	U1900
74	Glib	Dunikov	172705	1572	Valid	150267727	U1900
75	Adrien	Cheng	158231	1568	Valid	2633167	U1600	Rd 1
76	Laksshana	Deepak	175714	1550	Valid	25980548	U1600
77	Sudhir	Pokhrel	150104	1550	Valid	0	U1600	Rd 1
78	Dania	Surya	161403	1531	Valid	2627280	U1900	Rd 1
79	Nolan	Wu	160709	1523	Valid	2644681	U1900
80	Adie	Todd	125156	1517	Valid	2609908	U1900	Rd 4
81	Frank	Helwig	105788	1517	Valid	2642344	U1600
82	Robert J.	Armstrong	100034	1513	Valid	2605791	U1900
83	Richard	Wing	103265	1506	Required	0	U1900
84	Shafkat	Ali	149142	1503	Valid	2613441	U1900
85	Umid	Allahverdi	175557	1502	Valid	13432834	U1600
86	George	Supol	152286	1497	Valid	0	U1600
87	Benjamin	de Costa	156465	1494	Expired	0	U1600
88	Undriadi	Benggawan	107301	1493	Valid	2627973	U1600
89	DeParse	Cottrell	155942	1492	Expired	0	U1600
90	Ken	Kurkowski	104537	1487	Valid	2613719	U1600
91	Kailey	Liu	168091	1461	Valid	2640392	U1600
92	Ting En Ryan	Wu	172850	1459	Valid	0	U1600
93	Don	Parakin	106488	1447	Valid	2634759	U1600
94	William	McCarthy	104319	1445	Valid	0	U1600
95	Brendan	Chan	165022	1444	Valid	2646846	U1600
96	Anthony	Pham	176506	1442	Valid	2645599	U1600
97	Minh	Bui	172955	1439	Valid	0	U1600
98	Jaipreet	Singh Dhaliwal	172163	1438	Valid	0	U1600
99	Isabelle	Zhu	149553	1437	Valid	0	U1600
100	Michael	Dennahower	175696	1427	Valid	0	U1600
101	Mengxuan	Wang	171404	1426	Valid	2640775	U1600
102	Justin	Li	154417	1424	Valid	2620871	U1600
103	Eli	Schyngera	164976	1414	Expired	2635763	U1600
104	David	Dunikov	172706	1403	Valid	329218432	U1600	Rd 5
105	Isaac	Duanmu	163584	1397	Valid	2640589	U1600
106	Noah	Velasquez	168145	1379	Valid	2637057	U1600
107	Henry	Vu	159501	1376	Valid	0	U1600
108	Mark	Rozin	157844	1373	Valid	0	U1600
109	Arnav	Mane	160927	1362	Valid	2632705	U1600	Rd 1
110	Oswald	Barmasch	132784	1360	Expired	0	U1600
111	Nikolai	Lomov	176820	1359	Valid	0	U1600
112	Anna	Gavrileva	156634	1352	Valid	2641305	U1900	Rd 1
113	Max	Qian	175330	1334	Valid	2647486	U1900
114	Justin	Huang	166068	1325	Valid	2638240	U1600
115	Nathan	Hilker	171186	1316	Valid	0	U1600
116	Felix	Zhou	167758	1312	Valid	2638851	U1600	Rd 4
117	Andrew	Effat	155007	1300	Expired	0	U1300	Rd 3
118	Zachary	Shepherd	170831	1295	Valid	0	U1300
119	Sithu	Aravindanathan	132950	1284	Expired	0	U1300
120	Austin	Lu	169738	1281	Valid	2644614	U1300
121	Balakrishnan	Sreekumar Maliekal	170478	1279	Valid	2642689	U1600
122	Ivan	Huang	164614	1271	Valid	2637715	U1600
123	Evgeny	Kalmanson	161966	1262	Valid	0	U1300
124	James	Mourgelas	108540	1255	Valid	2613816	U1600	Rd 3
125	William	Bi	169382	1233	Valid	2640600	U1600
126	Neil	Goel	177022	1231	Valid	0	U1600	Rd 2
127	Lucas haoxuan	Sun	171660	1220	Valid	2644630	U1300
128	Onur	Naiboglu	170778	1213	Valid	0	U1300
129	Eric	Huang	174612	1211	Valid	2644550	U1600
130	Lucy	Yang	164595	1206	Valid	2639084	U1300
131	Slava	Lukinykh	174578	1193	Valid	2648130	U1600
132	Richard	Chen	133926	1192	Expired	0	U1300	Rd 1
133	Austin	Lin	173895	1188	Valid	2640783	U1300	Rd 3
134	Allen	Li	175534	1184	Valid	0	U1300
135	Jerry	Gerber	160103	1176	Valid	2638894	U1300
136	Richard	Kang	175618	1138	Valid	0	U1300
137	Jayden Zihan	Zhan	172099	1131	Valid	2640732	U1300
138	William kaiyuan	Wang	167336	1126	Valid	2638312	U1300	Rd 3
139	Rose	Tuong	158024	1117	Valid	0	U1300	Rd 3
140	Lily	Liu	168024	1113	Expired	0	U1300
141	Paco	Li	164368	1076	Expired	0	U1300
142	Ricky	Chen	166353	1061	Valid	2638380	U1300	Rd 1
143	Zeyu	Liu	174540	1047	Valid	2647443	U1600	Rd 4
144	Donald	McCarthy	175494	1039	Valid	0	U1300
145	Cameron	Kwan	173215	1033	Valid	0	U1000
146	Sreekar	Voleti	175978	1021	Expired	0	U1300
147	Kush	Kheni	160823	996	Valid	0	U1300
148	Isabelle	Guan	166081	996	Valid	2637642	U1300
149	Quentin	Ma	177463	989	Valid	0	U1000
150	Ed	Smyk	146332	984	Valid	2646986	U1300
151	Shi	Duanmu	171680	966	Valid	0	U1300
152	Gayathri	Sreekumar	172806	964	Valid	2640929	U1300
153	Marie	Guan	164627	953	Valid	2635909	U1300
154	Peter	Grucza	173478	950	Valid	0	U1000
155	Joseph	McGowan	175626	933	Expired	0	U1300
156	Stephanie	Xiao	167303	932	Valid	0	U1300
157	Heidi	Gay	175381	911	Valid	0	U1300
158	Joshua	Bakradze	177444	883	Valid	0	U1000
159	Tsing Yee (Tina)	Hui	176179	874	Valid	0	U1000	Rd 5
160	Oscar	Cheung	171229	871	Valid	0	U1000
161	Christian	Kapsales	161062	871	Valid	0	U1000
162	Jasper	Jia	176373	867	Valid	0	U1000
163	Peter	Lomov	176819	866	Valid	0	U1000
164	Gabriel	Saimovici	175468	863	Valid	0	U1000	Rd 3
165	Sibi	Selvanathan	175353	860	Expired	175353	U1000
166	Joshua	Knott	176630	855	Valid	0	U1000
167	Jacob	Fischer	174508	848	Valid	0	U1000
168	Lynette	Guo	175283	847	Valid	0	U1300
169	Ian	Gao	177611	820	Valid	0	U1000	Rd 4
170	Alexa	Roque	172868	809	Valid	2640490	U1000
171	Siddharth	Surendran	174502	799	Valid	0	U1000
172	Glen	Newbury	177785	762	Valid	0	U1000
173	Yiguo	Gao	169414	658	Valid	0	U1300
174	Evan	Gao	177612	639	Valid	0	U1000	Rd 4
175	Hao En Colin	Wu	175981	625	Valid	0	U1000
176	Kristopher	Jiang	168235	566	Expired	0	U1000
177	Narek	Hovhannisyan	177585	0	Valid	13318233	U1600
178	Michael	Wodzinski	178002	0	Valid	0	U1600
179	George	Eilender	174317	0	Valid	0	U1900
180	Daniel	Wang	178191	0	Valid	0	U1600	Rd 2
181	Riyaan	Lakhani	177989	0	Valid	0	U2200
182	Denys	Melnychuk	178133	0	Valid	14182807	U1900
183	Nicholas	Ossine	173090	0	Valid	0	U1900
184	Alex	Roozmon	NA	0	Required	0	U1600
185	Ivan Hin Ip	Liu	NA	0	Required	0	U1600
186	Daniel	Stueckmann	178199	0	Required	0	U1300
187	Jaime	Xiang	NA	0	Required	0	U1300
188	Eric	Blay	NA	0	Required	0	U1300	Rd 2
189	He	Liu	178194	0	Valid	0	U1000
190	Artham	Bhoutika	178192	0	Valid	0	U1000
191	David	Huang	177718	0	Valid	0	U1000
192	Bradley	Northcote	NA	0	Required	0	U1600
193	Adam	Wong	178231	0	Valid	0	U1000
194	Michael	Ackworth	178292	0	Valid	0	U1600
195	Stefano	Picone	NA	0	Required	0	U1300
196	Mohankumar	Janakiraman	175419	0	Valid	0	U1000
197	Leo	Zhang	178549	0	Valid	0	U1000
198	Alexander	Teegarden	178657	0	Valid	0	U1300
199	Ethan	Jia	178148	0	Valid	0	U1000
200	Geoffrey	McCollam	177710	0	Valid	177710	U1600
201	Caleb	Mann	NA	0	Required	0	U1000
202	Turhan	Yalin	NA	0	Required	0	U1600
203	Inderjit	Singh	178676	0	Valid	0	Crown
204	Lior	Korochov	NA	0	Required	0	U1000
205	Oleh	Sych	178066	0	Valid	148108948	U1300
206	Leon	Kossoras	178699	0	Valid	0	U1000
207	Yantao	Yang	178114	0	Valid	0	U1000
208	Ethan Yichen	Li	164372	0	Expired	0	U1000
209	Reshetniak	Vitaliy	178653	0	Valid	14125250	U2200
210	Mannan	Attlee	178741	0	Required	0	U1300	Rd 3, Rd 4
211	Joshua	Gui	NA	0	Required	0	U1300	Rd 1
212	Matthew	Jung	177644	0	Valid	0	U1300
213	Daniel	Botello	176457	0	Valid	0	Crown

Past Holidays Opens

• 2019 Holidays Open
• 2018 Holidays Open
• 2017 Holidays Open