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: 225 players

Tournament news

Feb 23: The event report is now done! Thank you for attending!

Feb 21: Thank you for attending this year’s tournament! We’re currently processing photos and will release them all this week alongside the event report.

Feb 16: Two days to go! Please see our pre-tournament announcements here.

Feb 9: The tournament is now sold-out. Titled players, please email us if you want to play.

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

TOURNAMENT IS SOLD-OUT

REGISTRATIONS ARE CLOSED

NO IN-PERSON REGISTRATION

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

• Chess sets and clocks supplied. HHCC will provide DGT boards for the Crown section.
• Notation is mandatory for all moves starting from move 1.
• 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

Pairings and Standings

Hart House Reading Week 2023 – Crown

Hart House Reading Week 2023 – U2200

Hart House Reading Week 2023 – U1900

Hart House Reading Week 2023 – U1600

Hart House Reading Week 2023 – U1300

Hart House Reading Week 2023 – U1000

DGT Broadcast

https://view.livechesscloud.com/#daeddf97-292a-4792-9c80-3d748352b88e

Photos

Day 1 by Sahan Karunaratne and Victoria Lee (Round 1 & 2)

Day 2 by Michael Hsu and Bowen Zhang (Round 3 & 4)

Day 3 by Alayna Jang (Round 6)

Chess Federation of Canada’s John Upper (Rounds 5 & 6)

Hart House photographer Jiduo An (Round 2)

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 16.

Number	Player Name	CFC ID	CFC Rating	CFC Membership	FIDE ID	Section	Byes
1	IM Nikolay Noritsyn	132534	2564	Valid	2604922	Crown
2	GM Razvan Preotu	146124	2562	Valid	2613280	Crown
3	IM Mark Plotkin	141086	2517	Valid	2611651	Crown	Round 1, 2
4	IM David Cummings	123161	2407	Valid	2603578	Crown	Round 4
5	FM Zachary Dukic	149507	2401	Valid	2617188	Crown
6	IM Nicholas Vettese	154199	2399	Valid	2620090	Crown
7	IM Alexander Reprintsev	146467	2398	Valid	14100541	Crown
8	WIM Yunshan Li	175249	2392	Valid	8607664	Crown
9	IM Eric Lawson	123478	2389	Valid	2604116	Crown
10	FM Mike Ivanov	140557	2378	Valid	2613158	Crown	Round 3 and 6
11	CM Max Chen	155238	2363	Valid	2622440	Crown
12	CM Koosha Jaferian	174318	2358	Valid	12507440	Crown
13	Sergey Noritsyn	146893	2332	Expired	2616408	Crown
14	CM Max Rusonik	155671	2328	Valid	2619253	Crown
15	FM Richard Chen	148271	2324	Valid	2617099	Crown
16	Youhe Huang	159428	2295	Valid	2629445	Crown
17	CM William Li	154677	2261	Valid	2619750	Crown
18	CM Dorian Kang	155339	2234	Valid	2619156	Crown
19	Henry Liu	157720	2214	Valid	2628597	Crown
20	Ian Loadman	101686	2212	Valid	2613743	Crown
21	Derek Ma	149822	2204	Valid	2619792	Crown	Round 1
22	Leon Perelman	146258	2190	Valid	2609495	U2200
23	Ryan Campbell	175910	2186	Valid	2645157	Crown
24	Michael Dougherty	100294	2179	Valid	2601559	Crown	Round 2, 4
25	Vitaliy Reshetniak	178653	2168	Valid	14125250	U2200
26	Matthew Shih	175673	2161	Valid	2054060	Crown
27	Wenzhi Dai	170722	2156	Valid	8608369	U2200
28	Vaibhav Bhat	175783	2150	Valid	5060931	Crown
29	Raymond Gao	156480	2111	Valid	2629429	U2200
30	Tony Lu	166742	2090	Valid	2640643	U2200
31	Fred Gandolfi	108999	2081	Valid	0	U2200
32	Cindy Qiao	155864	2066	Valid	2620243	U2200
33	Noah Kim	172794	2061	Valid	2642298	U2200
34	Eddie Xu	166274	2057	Valid	2632160	Crown
35	Tony Bohan Bao	149351	2033	Valid	2613042	U2200
36	Matthew Zhu	160019	2029	Valid	2633434	U2200
37	Jeffrey Renfei Zhao	158702	2026	Valid	2628651	U2200
38	Sanjay Ramesh	162979	2025	Valid	2631270	U2200
39	Andrei Moffat	108272	2022	Valid	2602954	U2200
40	Merlin Nazareno	165079	2002	Valid	2632470	U2200
41	Carina D’Souza	167600	1994	Valid	2635550	u2200
42	Hongyi Li	139599	1988	Valid	2617447	U2200
43	Nitin Mahtani	176091	1986	Valid	11102870	U2200
44	Adam Li	160391	1981	Valid	2632144	U2200
45	Christian Collins	111166	1937	Valid	2603055	U2200
46	Ryan Yunhui Zhong	166737	1935	Valid	2635860	u1900
47	Andy Wang	168247	1935	Valid	2637804	U2200
48	Tyler D’Amore	152753	1932	Expired	2619547	U2200
49	Lefan Yang	163151	1930	Valid	2637626	U2200
50	Eric Qian	167975	1926	Valid	2637774	U2200
51	Neil Moses	170949	1923	Valid	2640627	U2200
52	Mike Magnan	102449	1907	Valid	0	U2200
53	Nabil Shahad	173020	1896	Valid	2646773	U1900
54	Mohammed Faizy	166490	1850	Valid	2640309	U2200
55	Larry Yang	164823	1848	Valid	2637618	U2200
56	Charis Zhu	168132	1842	Valid	2638320	U2200
57	Yixiao Wang	178954	1833	Valid	8640181	U1900
58	Jaipreet Singh Dhaliwal	172163	1832	Valid	0	U2200
59	Lucy Gao	161206	1823	Valid	2629640	U2200	Round 1, 2
60	Halldor P Palsson	106856	1814	Valid	2603136	U1900
61	Ferdinand Supsup	142366	1810	Valid	2614030	U1900
62	Triston Li	166944	1778	Valid	2638282	U1900
63	Heye Gao	166066	1771	Valid	2638223	U1900
64	Omaray M. Shah	121329	1770	Expired	2605732	U1900	Round 1, 2
65	Denys Melnychuk	178133	1762	Valid	14182807	U1900
66	April Yunwei Zhong	167271	1742	Valid	2635658	u1900
67	Ashley Qian	168050	1737	Valid	2636280	U1900
68	Alex Lambruschini	127519	1734	Valid	2.60E+06	U1900
69	Daniel Sirkovich	145096	1730	Valid	2618125	U2200
70	Ryan Zhuoyuan Xu	174722	1729	Valid	329105250	U1900
71	Nolan Wu	160709	1720	Valid	2644681	U1900
72	Sean Liu	174972	1719	Valid	2643170	U1900
73	Zhao Ji Fan	173823	1713	Valid	2640406	U1900
74	Jovan Momic	123043	1710	Valid	2635666	U2200
75	Saarthak Malakar	173204	1704	Valid	30974291	U1900
76	Luc Chamberland	107346	1701	Valid	2646757	U1900
77	Eric Wan	175276	1700	Valid	0	U1900
78	Irene Xie	175644	1692	Valid	2643537	U1900
79	Daniel Zhang	163312	1689	Valid	2637820	U1900	Round 1
80	Shafkat Ali	149142	1680	Valid	2613441	U1900
81	Mario Moran-Venegas	143315	1680	Valid	2605279	U1900
82	Kamila Kolpashnikova	160572	1679	Valid	488100	U1900
83	Arkadiy Ugodnikov	146626	1665	Valid	2615940	U1900	Round 1
84	Tsz Yeung (Daniel) Guan	170186	1652	Valid	0	U1900
85	Nathan Zian Wang	161735	1648	Valid	2638681	U1900
86	Evan Andersen	175925	1607	Valid	2642948	U1900
87	Gauri Sreekumar	165299	1592	Valid	2631458	U1900
88	Simon Perkins	107582	1581	Valid	2618737	U1900	Round 4
89	Henry Vu	159501	1576	Valid	0	U1900
90	Glib Dunikov	172705	1565	Valid	150267727	U1600
91	Isaac Duanmu	163584	1559	Valid	2640589	U1900
92	Toy Chack Kwan	162706	1544	Valid	2635097	U1900
93	Ethan (Yichen) Li	164372	1544	Valid	2648970	U1900
94	Bradley Tseng	164369	1543	Valid	2638673	U1900
95	Daniel Odoemelam	160707	1525	Valid	0	U1900
96	Brendan Chan	165022	1522	Valid	2646846	U1900
97	Adie Todd	125156	1522	Valid	2609908	U1900	Round 2
98	Jim Sadden	175974	1521	Valid	0	U1900
99	Thuan Nguyen	107663	1515	Valid	2639807	U1900
100	Justin Li	154417	1510	Valid	2620871	U1900
101	Arya Sen	166304	1500	Valid	6327516	Crown
102	Anthony Pham	176506	1494	Valid	2645599	U1900
103	Frank Helwig	105788	1490	Valid	2642344	U1600
104	Michael Ashcroft	139323	1487	Expired	0	U1600
105	Austin Lu	169738	1478	Valid	2644614	U1600
106	Matthew Chertkow	152227	1470	Valid	2619687	U1600	Round 6
107	Karandeep Basi	175108	1452	Valid	0	U1600	Round 1, 2
108	Robert J. Armstong	100034	1427	Valid	2605791	U1600
109	Daniel Wang	178191	1422	Valid	0	U1600	Round 1, 2
110	Eli Schyngera	164976	1417	Valid	2635763	U1600
111	Joshua Gibson	176748	1413	Valid	0	U1600
112	Isabelle Zhu	149553	1400	Valid	0	U1600
113	David Dunikov	172706	1400	Valid	329218432	U1600
114	Michael Wodzinski	178002	1391	Valid	0	U1600
115	Eric Huang	174612	1389	Valid	2644550	U1600
116	Undriadi Benggawan	107301	1383	Valid	2627973	U1600
117	John R. Brown	102882	1379	Valid	2613492	U1600
118	Ken Kurkowski	104537	1377	Valid	2613719	U1600
119	Oswald Barmasch	132784	1376	Valid	0	U1600
120	Slava Lukinykh	174578	1364	Valid	2648130	U1600
121	Sasha Chertkow	152233	1353	Valid	2620200	U1600	Round 6
122	Lucas haoxuan Sun	171660	1350	Valid	2644630	U1600
123	Dante Mazza	163770	1350	Expired	0	U1900
124	Kailey Liu	168091	1350	Valid	2640392	U1600
125	Anna Gavrileva	156634	1345	Valid	2641305	U1900
126	Matthew Jung	177644	1344	Valid	0	U1600
127	Minh Bui	172955	1339	Valid	0	U1600
128	Balakrishnan Sreekumar Maliekal	170478	1334	Valid	2642689	U1600
129	Joseph Nguyen	143214	1314	Valid	2648458	U1600
130	Jeremiah Cashore	179148	1304	Valid	0	U1600
131	Andrew Leliveld	176119	1302	Valid	176119	U1300
132	Aiden Li	167620	1301	Valid	2642557	U1600
133	Liam McNally	178152	1299	Valid	0	U1300
134	James Mourgelas	108540	1294	Valid	2613816	U1600
135	Victor Samuel	112306	1285	Valid	2629062	U1600
136	Richard Kang	175618	1279	Valid	0	U1600
137	Jeffrey Qiu	160946	1268	Expired	0	U1300
138	Lucy Yang	164595	1266	Valid	2639084	U1600
139	Doug Gillis	111022	1265	Valid	2604361	U1300
140	Allen Li	175534	1250	Valid	2648962	U1300
141	William Bi	169382	1249	Valid	2640600	U1600
142	Payam Fakoorziba	175604	1222	Valid	0	U1600
143	Albert Yang	176016	1195	Valid	0	U1600
144	Andrew Situ	163042	1184	Expired	2630362	U1300
145	Stephen Kuzin	167624	1183	Valid	0	U1300
146	Austin Lin	173895	1180	Valid	2640783	U1600
147	Jerry Gerber	160103	1167	Valid	2638894	U1300
148	Jacob Fischer	174508	1161	Valid	0	U1300
149	Bradley Northcote	178833	1159	Valid	0	U1600	Round 1
150	Quentin Ma	177463	1148	Valid	0	U1300
151	Caleb Langridge	172918	1144	Valid	0	U1300
152	Narek Hambardzumyan	170968	1143	Valid	2643189	U1300
153	Isabelle Guan	166081	1135	Valid	2637642	U1300
154	Paco Li	164368	1132	Valid	0	U1300
155	Kush Kheni	160823	1132	Valid	0	U1300
156	Oscar Liu	175417	1130	Valid	169995	U1900
157	Rose Tuong	158024	1130	Valid	0	U1300	Round 6
158	Jayden Zihan Zhan	172099	1124	Valid	2640732	U1300	Rounds 1,2
159	Joshua Bakradze	177444	1113	Valid	2648415	U1300
160	William Wang	167336	1105	Valid	2638312	U1600
161	Mahanth Sivakumar	169643	1100	Valid	0	U1300
162	Boomba Nishikawa	178151	1093	Valid	0	U1300
163	Adam Comer	176776	1091	Valid	0	U1300
164	Noah Pedersen	166045	1083	Valid	0	U1300	Round 3
165	Zeyu Liu	174540	1078	Valid	2647443	U1600
166	Allan Kurdu	178950	1074	NA	0	U1000
167	Lily Liu	168024	1061	Valid	0	U1300
168	Oleh Sych	178066	1049	Valid	148108948	U1300
169	Marie Guan	164627	1042	Valid	2635909	U1300
170	Jasper Jia	176373	1039	Valid	0	U1300
171	David Huang	177718	1012	Valid	0	U1000
172	Gayathri Sreekumar	172806	999	Valid	2640929	U1300
173	Shi Duanmu	171680	988	Valid	0	U1300
174	Nobuko Takeuchi	166003	985	Valid	0	U1300	Round 3
175	Henry Prickett-Morgan	175668	980	Valid	0	U1300
176	Evan Xi	156505	976	Expired	0	U1000
177	Gabriel Saimovici	175468	966	Valid	2649055	U1000
178	Boris Sapojnikov	175141	940	Valid	0	U1000
179	Stephanie Xiao	167303	939	Valid	0	U1300
180	Edmund Smyk	146332	931	Valid	2646986	U1000
181	Glen Newbury	177785	920	Valid	2649039	U1000
182	Tina Hui	176179	917	Valid	0	U1300
183	Catherine Semianiuk	160930	909	Valid	2644746	U1300
184	Peter Grucza	173478	896	Valid	0	U1000	Round 3
185	Yuntian (Denis) Shen	172778	861	Valid	0	U1000
186	Joshua Knott	176630	830	Valid	0	U1300
187	Benjamin Yulo	174024	784	Valid	0	U1000	Round 1, 2
188	Adrian Milanoski	175018	766	Valid	0	U1000	Round 1, 2
189	Caleb Mann	178781	689	Valid	0	U1000
190	Ethan Jia	178148	548	Valid	0	U1000
191	Mohankumar Janakiraman	175419	217	Valid	0	U1000	Round 1, Round 2
192	Maia Chertkow	164299	200	Valid	0	U1000	Round 6
193	Elkin Chen	NA	0			U1000
194	Enoch Yu	NA	0			U1000
195	Valdeep Saini	179146	0			U1000
196	Ahmed Hatem	179006	0			U1000
197	Jacob Bourdeau-Marche	NA	0			U1300
198	Ademar Gonzalez	179276	0			U1600
199	Ethan Guo	178177	0			U1000
200	Lyam Katz	179302	0			U1300
201	Ramakrishna Padmanabuni	NA	0			U1900
202	Jiwoong Lee	178071	0			U1600
203	Yahya Elgabra	179520	0			U1300
204	Jeff LaRochelle	179372	0			U1600	Round 2
205	Ekrem Tamkan	178982	0		6307779	U2200
206	Cameron Mills	179501	0			U1000
207	Chol Elijah Akol	NA	0			U2200
208	Nap Hei Joshua Cheung	178146	0			U1300
209	Maksym Woychyshyn	178931	0			U1300
210	Liam Fullard	179541	0			U1000
211	Huy Dang	179534	0			U1300
212	Vitor Zhen Yan	175199	0			U1000
213	Haram	179740	0			U1000
214	Eunkyo	179741	0			U1000
215	David Barsamyan	179742	0			U1300
216	Rizwan Samji	NA	0			U1600
217	Austin Sinclair	NA	0			U1000	Round 6
218	Artem Bakurov	179789	0			U1900
219	Curtis Jones	179835	0			U1000
220	Ambrose Ling	NA	0			U1300
221	Hannah (Hanhui) Shen	NA	0			U1300
222	Catalin Ilie	NA	0			U1300
223	Ansh Gupta	179497	0			U1000
224	Arya Shah	175286	0		35028855	U2200
225	Saheer Arefin	NA	0			U1600
226	Lawson Russell-Kirkton	179632	0			U1300

Past Reading week opens

• 2020 Reading Week Open
• 2019 Reading Week Open
• 2018 Reading Week Open