Join us for the return of our annual chess tournament in the Great Hall! Open to all, this tournament offers fun and competitive play for all levels! There are various skill level groups to accommodate all interested players. Official flyer

• WHERE: Great Hall, Hart House, University of Toronto.
• WHEN: February 18th, 19th, 20th (Family Day Weekend)
• SCHEDULE: 6 Round Swiss split in sections. Round times: Saturday, Sunday, and Monday at 10:00 am & 4:00 pm.
• TIME CONTROL: 90 minutes + 30 seconds increment from move 1, for all sections.
• STYLE: 6 Round Swiss split in 6 rating sections – Crown (2200+), Under 2200, Under 1900, Under 1600, Under 1300 & Under 1000 Sections
• RATING: All sections will be CFC rated. Crown, Under 2200, Under 1900, & Under 1600 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.
• PRIZE FUND: $8000 based on 200 entries
• ORGANIZER: Hart House Chess Club with Alex Ferreira as arbiter.
• EMAIL: hhtournaments@gmail.com
• MAX CAPACITY: 220 players

Tournament news

Feb 1: We have secured the East Common Room for DGT broadcasting and game analysis for rounds 3-6. Reading Room will also be available.

Jan 19: One month left until the event and one week until early-bird registrations close.

Dec 16: Registrations are now open

REGISTRATION

• Online registration is available until February 15th at 11:59 PM. In-person (via cash or card) and telephone registration is available through the Hart House Information Desk during Hart House Hours.
• Onsite, cash only registration is only available before 9:30am on February 18th and players will not get paired for Round 1.
• Cheque registration (arrival by Feb. 15th, 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

Early: $70 by January 26th at 11:59pm
Regular: $80 by February 15th at 11:59 pm
Late: $100 cash only on-site.

PLAYING UP

Extra $20 to play up a section. A player must have a minimum 2200 CFC or 2000 FIDE rating to play in the Crown. In all other sections, requests to play up must be emailed to the tournament email by Feb. 15 at 11:59 pm and then paid by cash before 9:30 am. Play-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.

DISCOUNTS

$35 discount for University of Toronto students (automatic discount) and unrated players (using code: OpenUnrated35) . Max one discount per player. Unrated players are not eligible for prizes. Free entry for IMs/WIMs/GMs/WGMs if registered by February 4th. 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 in select locations. Due to ongoing Landmark Project construction, parking is very limited and may be higher than expected.
• Any question regarding the tournament, including registrations, must be sent to hhtournaments@gmail.com, not the Hart House Hub.
• Free Wi-Fi will be made available.
• TEAM PRIZE: $400 ($100 per player), teams of 4 players, representing at least 3 different sections. All individual scores will be added up to find the winning team

Pre-registered

Players will be placed in sections according to eligibility, based on Feb 15 ratings’ update. Not necessarily how people registered themselves. Pre-registration lists will be updated every week. Pre-registered as of Feb 7.

Number	Player Name	CFC ID	CFC Rating	CFC Membership	FIDE ID	Section	Byes
1	IM Nikolay Noritsyn	132534	2576	Valid	2604922	Crown
2	IM Alexander Reprintsev	146467	2407	Valid	14100541	Crown
3	IM David Cummings	123161	2407	Valid	2603578	Crown	Round 4
4	FM Zachary Dukic	149507	2401	Valid	2617188	Crown
5	IM Nicholas Vettese	154199	2399	Valid	2620090	Crown
6	WIM Yunshan Li	175249	2392	Valid	8607664	Crown
7	CM Max Chen	155238	2378	Valid	2622440	Crown
8	CM Koosha Jaferian	174318	2359	Valid	12507440	Crown
9	Sergey Noritsyn	146893	2332	Expired	2616408	Crown
10	FM Richard Chen	148271	2324	Valid	2617099	Crown
11	CM Max Rusonik	155671	2312	Valid	2619253	Crown
12	Youhe Huang	159428	2295	Valid	2629445	Crown
13	CM William Li	154677	2261	Valid	2619750	Crown
14	CM Dorian Kang	155339	2234	Valid	2619156	Crown
15	FM Eilia Zomorrodian	169238	2230	Expired	12551805	Crown
16	Fengxi Mao	166033	2222	Valid	2632586	Crown
17	Henry Liu	157720	2214	Valid	2628597	Crown
18	Ian Loadman	101686	2212	Valid	2613743	Crown
19	Derek Ma	149822	2204	Valid	2619792	Crown	Round 1
20	Leon Perelman	146258	2190	Valid	2609495	U2200
21	Richard Chen	162781	2182	Valid	2633159	Crown
22	Michael Dougherty	100294	2179	Valid	2601559	Crown	Round 2, 4
23	Vitaliy	178653	2168	Valid	14125250	U2200
24	Matthew Shih	175673	2161	Valid	2054060	Crown
25	Wenzhi Dai	170722	2156	Valid	8608369	U2200
26	Vaibhav Bhat	175783	2150	Valid	5060931	Crown
27	Raymond Gao	156480	2111	Valid	2629429	U2200
28	Noah Kim	172794	2090	Valid	2642298	U2200
29	Fred Gandolfi	108999	2081	Valid	0	U2200
30	Cindy Qiao	155864	2066	Valid	2620243	U2200
31	Eddie Xu	166274	2057	Valid	2632160	Crown
32	Tony Lu	166742	2043	Valid	2640643	U2200
33	Tony Bohan Bao	149351	2033	Valid	2613042	U2200
34	Ryan Yunhui Zhong	166737	2032	Valid	2635860	u1900
35	Matthew Zhu	160019	2029	Valid	2633434	U2200
36	Sanjay Ramesh	162979	2025	Valid	2631270	U2200
37	Andrei Moffat	108272	2022	Valid	2602954	U2200
38	Nitin Mahtani	176091	1986	Valid	11102870	U2200
39	Neil Moses	170949	1983	Valid	2640627	U2200
40	Adam Li	160391	1981	Valid	2632144	U2200
41	Eric Qian	167975	1949	Valid	2637774	U2200
42	Christian Collins	111166	1937	Valid	2603055	U2200
43	Andy Wang	168247	1935	Valid	2637804	U2200
44	Tyler D’Amore	152753	1932	Expired	2619547	U2200
45	Carina D’Souza	167600	1915	Valid	2635550	u2200
46	Mike Magnan	102449	1907	Expired	0	U2200
47	Nabil Shahad	173020	1896	Valid	2646773	U1900
48	Charis Zhu	168132	1842	Valid	2638320	U2200
49	Larry Yang	164823	1837	Valid	2637618	U2200
50	Yixiao Wang	178954	1833	Valid	0	U1900
51	Lucy Gao	161206	1823	Valid	2629640	U2200
52	Ashley Qian	168050	1817	Valid	2636280	U1900
53	Halldor P Palsson	106856	1814	Valid	2603136	U1900
54	Lefan Yang	163151	1812	Valid	2637626	U2200
55	Ferdinand Supsup	142366	1794	Valid	2614030	U1900
56	Omaray M. Shah	121329	1778	Expired	2605732	U1900
57	Triston Li	166944	1778	Valid	2638282	U1900
58	Heye Gao	166066	1771	Valid	2638223	U1900
59	Denys Melnychuk	178133	1762	Valid	14182807	U1900
60	Jovan Momic	123043	1741	Valid	2635666	U2200
61	Alex Lambruschini	127519	1734	Valid	2604868	U1900
62	Ryan Zhuoyuan Xu	174722	1729	Valid	329105250	U1900
63	Sean Liu	174972	1719	Valid	2643170	U1900
64	Daniel Sirkovich	145096	1711	Valid	2618125	U2200
65	Saarthak Malakar	173204	1704	Valid	30974291	U1900
66	Arkadiy Ugodnikov	146626	1701	Valid	2615940	U1900	Round 1
67	Eric Wan	175276	1700	Valid	0	U1900
68	Irene Xie	175644	1692	Valid	2643537	U1900
69	Daniel Zhang	163312	1689	Valid	2637820	U1900	Round 1
70	Shafkat Ali	149142	1680	Valid	2613441	U1900
71	Mario Moran-Venegas	143315	1680	Valid	2605279	U1900
72	Kamila Kolpashnikova	160572	1679	Valid	488100	U1900
73	Nolan Wu	160709	1673	Valid	2644681	U1900
74	Luc Chamberland	107346	1670	Valid	2646757	U1900
75	April Yunwei Zhong	167271	1666	Valid	2635658	u1900
76	Jaipreet Singh Dhaliwal	172163	1629	Valid	0	U1900
77	Nathan Zian Wang	161735	1626	Valid	2638681	U1900
78	Tsz Yeung (Daniel) Guan	170186	1618	Valid	0	U1900
79	Evan Andersen	175925	1607	Valid	2642948	U1900
80	Vincent Angel Adulfo	168241	1597	Valid	2635720	U1600
81	Toy Chack Kwan	162706	1583	Valid	2635097	U1900
82	Simon Perkins	107582	1581	Valid	2618737	U1900	Round 4
83	Henry Vu	159501	1576	Valid	0	U1900
84	Glib Dunikov	172705	1565	Valid	150267727	U1600
85	Ethan (Yichen) Li	164372	1544	Valid	0	U1900
86	Bradley Tseng	164369	1543	Valid	2638673	U1900
87	Justin Li	154417	1534	Valid	2620871	U1900
88	Daniel Odoemelam	160707	1525	Valid	0	U1900
89	Brendan Chan	165022	1523	Valid	2646846	U1600
90	Adie Todd	125156	1522	Valid	2609908	U1900
91	Jim Sadden	175974	1521	Valid	0	U1900
92	Thuan Nguyen	107663	1515	Valid	2639807	U1900
93	Arya Sen	166304	1500	Valid	6327516	Crown
94	Anthony Pham	176506	1494	Valid	2645599	U1900
95	Frank Helwig	105788	1490	Valid	2642344	U1600
96	Michael Ashcroft	139323	1487	Expired	0	U1600
97	Robert J. Armstong	100034	1443	Valid	2605791	U1600
98	Karandeep Basi	175108	1426	Valid	0	U1600
99	Daniel Wang	178191	1417	Valid	0	U1600
100	Eli Schyngera	164976	1417	Valid	2635763	U1600
101	Jerimiah Cashore	179148	1416	Valid	0	U1600
102	Joshua Gibson	176748	1413	Valid	0	U1600
103	Alex Moiseev	160217	1409	Valid	2625539	U1600
104	Isabelle Zhu	149553	1404	Valid	0	U1600
105	David Dunikov	172706	1400	Valid	329218432	U1600
106	Michael Wodzinski	178002	1391	Valid	0	U1600
107	Eric Huang	174612	1389	Valid	2644550	U1600
108	Undriadi Benggawan	107301	1383	Valid	2627973	U1600
109	John R. Brown	102882	1379	Valid	2613492	U1600
110	Oswald Barmasch	132784	1376	Valid	0	U1600
111	Ken Kurkowski	104537	1375	Valid	2613719	U1600
112	Austin Lu	169738	1368	Valid	2644614	U1600
113	Lucas haoxuan Sun	171660	1358	Valid	2644630	U1600
114	Dante Mazza	163770	1350	Expired	0	U1900
115	Minh Bui	172955	1339	Valid	0	U1600
116	Kailey Liu	168091	1322	Valid	2640392	U1600
117	Joseph Nguyen	143214	1314	Valid	2648458	U1600
118	Slava Lukinykh	174578	1314	Valid	2648130	U1600
119	Andrew Leliveld	176119	1302	Valid	176119	U1300
120	Anna Gavrileva	156634	1301	Valid	2641305	U1900
121	Boomba Nishikawa	178151	1300	Valid	0	U1300
122	Victor Samuel	112306	1285	Valid	2629062	U1600
123	James Mourgelas	108540	1283	Valid	2613816	U1600
124	Jeffrey Qiu	160946	1268	Expired	0	U1300
125	Lucy Yang	164595	1266	Valid	2639084	U1600
126	Doug Gillis	111022	1265	Valid	2604361	U1300
127	Liam McNally	178152	1251	Valid	0	U1300
128	Allen Li	175534	1250	Valid	0	U1300
129	William Bi	169382	1249	Valid	2640600	U1600
130	Payam Fakoorziba	175604	1222	Valid	0	U1600
131	Albert Yang	176016	1221	Valid	0	U1600
132	Sithu Aravindanathan	132950	1213	Valid	0	U1300
133	Andrew Situ	163042	1184	Expired	2630362	U1300
134	Stephen Kuzin	167624	1183	Valid	0	U1300
135	Austin Lin	173895	1180	Valid	2640783	U1600
136	Richard Kang	175618	1172	Valid	0	U1300
137	Jerry Gerber	160103	1167	Valid	2638894	U1300
138	Jacob Fischer	174508	1161	Valid	0	U1300
139	Bradley Northcote	178833	1159	Valid	0	U1600	Round 1
140	Caleb Langridge	172918	1144	Valid	0	U1300
141	Narek Hambardzumyan	170968	1143	Valid	2643189	U1300
142	Paco Li	164368	1132	Valid	0	U1300
143	Oscar Liu	175417	1130	Valid	169995	U1900
144	Rose Tuong	158024	1130	Valid	0	U1300	Round 6
145	Joshua Bakradze	177444	1118	Valid	2648415	U1300
146	William kaiyuan Wang	167336	1105	Valid	2638312	U1600
147	Mahanth Sivakumar	169643	1100	Valid	0	U1300
148	Quentin Ma	177463	1093	Valid	0	U1300
149	Isabelle Guan	166081	1089	Valid	2637642	U1300
150	Zeyu Liu	174540	1078	Valid	2647443	U1600
151	Allan Kurdu	178950	1074	NA	0	U1000
152	Lily Liu	168024	1061	Valid	0	U1300
153	Oleh Sych	178066	1049	Valid	148108948	U1300
154	Marie Guan	164627	1042	Valid	2635909	U1300
155	Jasper Jia	176373	1036	Valid	0	U1300
156	Kush Kheni	160823	1016	Valid	0	U1300
157	David Huang	177718	1012	Valid	0	U1000
158	Nobuko Takeuchi	166003	985	Valid	0	U1000	Round 3
159	Henry Prickett-Morgan	175668	980	Valid	0	u1300
160	Evan Xi	156505	976	Expired	0	U1000
161	Gabriel Saimovici	175468	966	Valid	0	U1000
162	Boris Sapojnikov	175141	940	Valid	0	U1000
163	Edmund Smyk	146332	931	Valid	2646986	U1000
164	Glen Newbury	177785	920	Valid	0	U1000
165	Tina Hui	176179	917	Valid	0	U1300
166	Catherine Semianiuk	160930	909	Valid	2644746	U1300
167	Yuntian (Denis) Shen	172778	861	Valid	0	U1000
168	Joshua Knott	176630	809	Valid	0	U1300
169	Benjamin Yulo	174024	784	Valid	0	U1000	Round 1, 2
170	Adrian Milanoski	175018	766	Valid	0	U1000	Round 1, 2
171	Caleb Mann	178781	689	Valid	0	U1000
172	Ethan Jia	178148	548	Valid	0	U1000
173	Mohankumar Janakiraman	175419	217	Valid	0	U1600
174	Elkin Chen	NA	0			U1000
175	Enoch Yu	NA	0			U1000
176	Valdeep Saini	179146	0			U1000
177	Ahmed Hatem	179006	0			U1000
178	Jacob Bourdeau-Marche	NA	0			U1300
179	Ademar Gonzalez	179276	0			U1600
180	Ethan Guo	178177	0			U1000
181	Lyam Katz	179302	0			U1300
182	Ramakrishna Padmanabuni	NA	0			U1900
183	Jiwoong Lee	178071	0			U1600
184	Yahya Elgabra	179520	0			U1300
185	Jeff LaRochelle	179372	0			U1600	Round 2
186	Ekrem Tamkan	178982	0			U2200
187	Cameron Mills	179501	0			U1000
188	Chol Elijah Akol	NA	0			U2200
189	Nap Hei Joshua Cheung	178146	0			U1300
190	Maksym Woychyshyn	178931	0			U1300
191	Liam Fullard	179541	0			U1000
192	Huy Dang	179534	0			U1300
193	Vitor Zhen Yan	175199	0			U1000
194	Haram	179740	0			U1000
195	Eunkyo	179741	0			U1000
196	David Barsamyan	179742	0			U1000
197	Rizwan Samji	NA	0			U1600
198	Austin Sinclair	NA	0			U1000	Round 6
199	Artem Bakurov	179789	0		14155397	U1900

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