The Hart House Chess Club (HHCC) is hosting a Summer Rapid and Blitz Festival at the Hart House Debates Room on Saturday, July 15th. Come join the Hart House Chess Club this summer for some fun! The event aims to provide a tournament experience for all levels all in one day! event flyer
RAPID DETAILS:
Format: 5-round CFC-Active, FIDE Rapid Rated (Premier and U1600 sections), Swiss Tournament
Location: Hart House Debates and Committees Rooms, 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto, ON M5S 3H3
Time Control: 15 mins + 10 secs/move increment
Capacity: 120
Rounds: 10 am, 11:15 am, 1:00 pm, 2:15 pm, 3:30 pm
Sections: Premier, U1600, U1000
Equipment: HHCC will supply all chess equipment
Prizes: $2000 based on 100 players
- Premier: $600-$300-$150, top-U2000: $100, top-U1800: $100. ($1250)
- U1600: $250-$150-$75, top-U1300: $50 ($525)
- U1000: $100-$75-$50 ($225)
- Top-unrated (any section): HHCC t-shirt
- Top-woman (any section): $50
BLITZ DETAILS:
Format: 7 double-round CFC-Active, FIDE Blitz Rated (Premier section), Swiss Tournament
Location: Hart House Debates and Committees Rooms, 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto, ON M5S 3H3
Time Control: 3 minutes + 2 seconds per move from move 1
Capacity: 120
Rounds: 6 pm and then ASAP (we will finish around 9 pm)
Sections: Premier, U1500
Equipment: HHCC will supply all chess equipment
Prizes: $1000 based on 100 players
- Premier: $500-$200-$100 ($800)
- U1500: $125-$50-$25 ($200)
- Top-unrated (any section): HHCC t-shirt
- Top-woman (any section): $30
ENTRY FEES & REGISTRATION
Rapid and Blitz: Register now – CLOSED
Blitz only: Register now – CLOSED
Rapid only: Register now – CLOSED
Entry Fees:
Rapid and Blitz: $40 by June 15th, $50 by July 14. $20 discount for UofT students.
Rapid only: $35 by June 15th, $40 by July 14. $20 discount for UofT students.
Blitz only: $15 by June 15th, $20 by July 14. $10 discount for UofT students.
Free entries for IM/WIM by June 30.
Note for incoming students: please email us to receive a discount. For UofT students, the discount is applied automatically.
Registration: via the Club website by Fri. July 14th at noon. No onsite registration for rapid, blitz onsite available in-person before 5:30 pm.
Organizers: Hart House Chess Club, hhchess@utoronto.ca
Byes: Up to one 1/2 point bye can be requested by emailing us by noon July 14th.
CFC Memberships: Registrants must be current CFC members or bring payment prior to playing – https://chess.ca/membership-fees ($12 for adults, $6 for juniors for single-tournament).
Section eligibility: No playing up allowed. We will take the highest of CFC Regular, CFC Active, and FIDE Rapid/Blitz for section eligibility. At arbiters’ discretion. CFC Quick Ratings will be used for pairing purposes.
Tournament Organizers: Chief TD: Victor Zheng, Deputy TD: Alex Ferreira, Organizer: Bowen Zhang
Standings and Pairings
Rapid Premier
Rapid U1600
Rapid U1000
Prizes – Please check your email or send us an email to hhchess@studentorg.utoronto.ca unless we already have your payment information.
Pre-Registered
Last update: July 15
| Starting Rank | Name of Participant | CFC ID | CFC Regular Rating | CFC Active | CFC Membership Validity | FIDE ID | Section | Byes |
| 1 | IM Mark Plotkin | 141086 | 2515 | 2556 | Valid | 2611651 | Rapid Only | |
| 2 | IM Nicholas Vettese | 154199 | 2414 | 2506 | Valid | 2620090 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 3 | IM Advait Patel | 171703 | 2442 | 2460 | Valid | 2075105 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 4 | CM Koosha Jaferian | 174318 | 2356 | 2432 | Valid | 12507440 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 5 | IM Alexander Reprintsev | 146467 | 2320 | 2409 | Valid | 14100541 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 6 | FM Mike Ivanov | 140557 | 2382 | 2403 | Valid | 2613158 | Blitz Only | |
| 7 | FM Tanraj Sohal | 135830 | 2342 | 2369 | Expired | 2608499 | Blitz Only | |
| 8 | Viatcheslav Rek | 137004 | 2290 | 2349 | Valid | 2605414 | Blitz Only | |
| 9 | FM Victor Plotkin | 142063 | 2351 | 2336 | Valid | 2606674 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 10 | NM Christopher Knox | 136503 | 2333 | 2300 | Expired | 2607549 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 11 | CM Aaron Reeve Mendes | 167084 | 2305 | 2284 | Valid | 25954938 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 12 | Jim Zhao | 146770 | 2330 | 2259 | Expired | 2617463 | Blitz Only | |
| 13 | FM Eilia Zomorrodian | 169238 | 2222 | 2244 | Expired | 12551805 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 14 | Daniel Abrahams | 134333 | 2213 | 2202 | Valid | 2606879 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 15 | Fengxi Mao | 166033 | 2302 | 2211 | Valid | 2632586 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 16 | Zehn Nasir | 148198 | 2306 | 2198 | Expired | 2613239 | Blitz Only | |
| 17 | CM Max Chen | 155238 | 2341 | 2197 | Valid | 2622440 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 18 | Ethan Moon | 150154 | 2239 | 2182 | Valid | 2637022 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 19 | Ruining Wu | 150768 | 2135 | 2135 | Expired | 2615592 | Rapid Only | |
| 20 | Tony Bao | 149351 | 2164 | 2129 | Valid | 2613042 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 21 | Richard Douglas | 131191 | 1950 | 2126 | Valid | 2642700 | Rapid Only | |
| 22 | Ian Loadman | 101686 | 2132 | 2118 | Valid | 2613743 | Rapid Only | |
| 23 | Aditya Himanshu Raninga | 164553 | 2174 | 2099 | Valid | 25632736 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 24 | CM Youhe Huang | 159428 | 2285 | 2054 | Valid | Blitz Only | ||
| 25 | Sergey Malakhovets | 158413 | 2119 | 2041 | Valid | 2622769 | Rapid Only | |
| 26 | Raymond Gao | 156480 | 2222 | 2034 | Valid | 2629429 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 27 | Isaak Huh | 179882 | 2264 | 2010 | Valid | 13209590 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 28 | CM Dorian Kang | 155339 | 2239 | 1996 | Expired | 2619156 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 29 | Jonath Joseph | 171981 | 2057 | 1987 | Valid | 329105368 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 30 | Daniel Zhang | 163312 | 1844 | 1986 | Valid | 2637820 | Rapid Only | |
| 31 | Mahip Singh | 157732 | 2112 | 1939 | Valid | 25015044 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 32 | Anthony Maulucci | 145845 | 2013 | 1913 | Expired | 2621835 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 33 | John Upper | 101925 | 2163 | 1910 | Valid | 2606437 | Blitz Only | |
| 34 | Aayush Ajith | 167780 | 2139 | 1879 | Valid | 30943515 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 35 | Ma, Yue Ran | 158013 | 1979 | 1879 | Expired | 2631040 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 36 | Jifan Zhao | 173823 | 2113 | 1863 | Valid | 2640406 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 37 | Saarthak Malakar | 173204 | 2004 | 1818 | Valid | 30974291 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 38 | Ryan Zhong | 166737 | 2017 | 1814 | Valid | 2635860 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 39 | David Gunapalan | 149225 | 1874 | 1773 | Valid | 2612232 | Blitz Only | |
| 40 | Ian Mahoney | 149124 | 1763 | 1766 | Valid | 2612674 | Blitz Only | |
| 41 | Heye Gao | 166066 | 1876 | 1750 | Valid | 2638223 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 42 | Aman Sharma | 182302 | 0 | 1747 | Expired | 45016917 | Blitz Only | |
| 43 | Datis Azarpazhooh | 156968 | 1714 | 1741 | Expired | 12546305 | Blitz Only | |
| 44 | Jonathan Zhang | 159881 | 1766 | 1715 | Valid | 2631288 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 45 | Daniel Sirkovich | 145096 | 1869 | 1704 | Valid | 2618125 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 46 | Mustafa Shah | 175628 | 1413 | 1687 | Valid | 2651793 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 47 | Aarush Ajith | 167781 | 1667 | 1667 | Valid | 30943329 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 48 | Jim Sadden | 175974 | 1462 | 1640 | Expired | 2649730 | Blitz Only | |
| 49 | Joshua Bakradze | 177444 | 1315 | 1638 | Valid | 2648415 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 50 | Denys Melnychuk | 178133 | 1866 | 1631 | Valid | 14182807 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 51 | April Zhong | 167271 | 1938 | 1617 | Valid | 2635658 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 52 | Ademar Gonzalez | 179276 | 1335 | 1607 | Valid | 329105321 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 53 | Sean Liu | 174972 | 1612 | 1563 | Valid | 2643170 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 54 | Shafkat Ali | 149142 | 1669 | 1551 | Expired | 2613441 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 55 | Mark Stevenson | 153309 | 911 | 1528 | Valid | 2653192 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 56 | Alex Moisseev | 160217 | 1368 | 1510 | Valid | 2625539 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 57 | Larry Zhou Chen | 172054 | 1271 | 1507 | Valid | 2648814 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 58 | Adithya Purushothaman Sivanandam | 176408 | 1272 | 1501 | Valid | 2650827 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 59 | Nabil Shahad | 173020 | 1651 | 1496 | Valid | 2646773 | Rapid Only | |
| 60 | Ruslan Makhanov | 181724 | 1489 | 1492 | NA | 13709330 | Rapid Only | |
| 61 | Vincent Chen | 163183 | 1527 | 1464 | Valid | 2637553 | Rapid Only | |
| 62 | Wing Li | 155459 | 1603 | 1460 | Valid | 2631679 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 63 | Rudra Sheth | 174407 | 1428 | 1458 | Valid | 2642662 | Blitz Only | |
| 64 | Slava Lukinykh | 174578 | 1360 | 1446 | Valid | 2648130 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 65 | Jayden Yang | 166945 | 1260 | 1389 | Valid | 0 | Rapid Only | |
| 66 | Ara Chanoian | 161991 | 1541 | 1384 | Expired | 0 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 67 | Balachandhr Sadhasivam | 182451 | 980 | 1368 | Valid | 2651947 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 68 | Gabriel Saimovici | 175468 | 1185 | 1345 | Valid | 2649055 | Rapid Only | |
| 69 | Ran Gong | 182646 | 0 | 1341 | Valid | 329110994 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 70 | Nathaneil Donaldson | 176213 | 1070 | 1339 | Valid | 0 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 71 | Oscar Cheung | 171229 | 1222 | 1336 | Valid | 2653079 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 72 | Etienne Ma | 179465 | 798 | 1330 | Valid | 0 | Rapid Only | |
| 73 | Arnav Mane | 160927 | 1368 | 1327 | Expired | 2632705 | Rapid Only | |
| 74 | Atilay Jafarli | 173910 | 905 | 1313 | Valid | 2640414 | Blitz Only | |
| 75 | Kevin Barker | 181956 | 1048 | 1312 | Valid | 2652706 | Blitz Only | |
| 76 | Antoni Frolov | 176409 | 1146 | 1311 | Expired | 2646900 | Blitz Only | |
| 77 | Zeen Liu | 173498 | 0 | 1306 | Valid | 2652315 | Rapid Only | |
| 78 | Korbin Schantz | 173606 | 1116 | 1291 | Valid | 2651904 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 79 | Arya Vazifeh Hessari | 180831 | 0 | 1276 | Valid | 2653710 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 80 | Quentin Ma | 177463 | 1050 | 1273 | Valid | 0 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 81 | Nathan Zian Wang | 161735 | 1988 | 1271 | Expired | 2638681 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 82 | Ryan Zhuang | 173828 | 987 | 1271 | Valid | 2650428 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 83 | Andy Rui Wang | 167302 | 1134 | 1269 | Valid | 0 | Rapid Only | |
| 84 | Andre Kuzin | 167955 | 1478 | 1253 | Valid | 0 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 85 | Boomba Nishikawa | 178151 | 1167 | 1250 | Valid | 0 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 86 | Himalay Rousseau Chanda | 144267 | 1229 | 1229 | Expired | 0 | Rapid Only | |
| 87 | Daniel Truong | 175162 | 0 | 1219 | Valid | 0 | Rapid Only | |
| 88 | Alan Zhao | 178044 | 0 | 1210 | Valid | 0 | Rapid Only | |
| 89 | Ollie Take | 182572 | 0 | 1208 | Valid | 0 | Rapid Only | |
| 90 | Christopher Charles | 125496 | 1266 | 1195 | Expired | Blitz Only | ||
| 91 | Adil Abdulla | 146457 | 1396 | 1189 | Valid | 0 | Rapid Only | |
| 92 | Liam McNally | 178152 | 1198 | 1177 | Valid | 0 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 93 | Evan Xi | 156505 | 1021 | 1174 | Expired | 0 | Rapid Only | |
| 94 | Jordan Cobb-Donahue | 176384 | 797 | 1152 | Valid | 2646870 | Rapid Only | |
| 95 | Leon Noel Merse | 176666 | 1365 | 1131 | Valid | Blitz Only | ||
| 96 | Kimberly Heaslip | 124624 | 1117 | 1117 | Valid | 2651530 | Rapid Only | Rd 3 |
| 97 | Edmund Smyk | 146332 | 801 | 1102 | Valid | 2646986 | Rapid Only | |
| 98 | Tina Hui | 176179 | 1030 | 1081 | Valid | 2652420 | Rapid Only | |
| 99 | Danny Huong | 161844 | 1113 | 1050 | Valid | 0 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 100 | Luke Ma | 179464 | 734 | 1037 | Valid | 0 | Rapid Only | |
| 101 | Yiguo Gao | 169414 | 914 | 1014 | Valid | 2653125 | Rapid Only | |
| 102 | Jayden Henry | 179333 | 879 | 980 | Valid | 0 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 103 | Lucas JIa | 180138 | 0 | 875 | Required | 0 | Rapid Only | |
| 104 | Merek Reaume | 181505 | 0 | 821 | Expired | 0 | Rapid Only | |
| 105 | Joe Gao | 174100 | 805 | 797 | Valid | 2640619 | Rapid and Blitz | |
| 106 | Eesha Bharathi Vemuri | 178139 | 0 | 741 | Valid | 2650096 | Blitz Only | |
| 107 | Sunny Wu | 162808 | 810 | 724 | Expired | Rapid and Blitz | ||
| 108 | Ian Gao | 177611 | 708 | 665 | Valid | 2653117 | Rapid Only | |
| 109 | Evan Gao | 177612 | 696 | 652 | Valid | 2653109 | Rapid Only | |
| 110 | Ethan Zhang | 181824 | 0 | 477 | Expired | 0 | Rapid Only | |
| 111 | Simarpreet Singh Bhatia | 183072 | 0 | 406 | Valid | 2653656 | Rapid Only | |
| 112 | Yixiao Wang | 178954 | 1925 | 0 | Valid | 8640181 | Rapid Only | |
| 113 | Mcearl Bucais | 130931 | 1119 | 0 | Expired | Rapid and Blitz | ||
| 114 | Brian Zhan | 180557 | 1041 | 0 | Valid | Rapid and Blitz | ||
| 115 | Andy Xu | NA | 0 | 0 | Required | Blitz Only | ||
| 116 | Justin Tanasijczuk | 160476 | 1532 | 0 | Expired | Blitz Only | ||
| 117 | Robert Anderson | 174912 | 0 | Expired | Rapid and Blitz | |||
| 118 | Naveen Giri | NA | 0 | Required | Rapid and Blitz | |||
| 119 | Florendo Jr Batasin | NA | 0 | Required | Rapid Only | |||
| 120 | Teddy Sharpe | 183197 | 0 | Required | Rapid Only | |||
| 121 | Spencer Culp | 183222 | 0 | Valid | Blitz Only | |||
| 122 | Saleh Babaei | NA | 0 | Required | Rapid and Blitz | |||
| 123 | Zi Sheng Wang | NA | 0 | Required | Rapid and Blitz | |||
| 124 | George Eilender | 174317 | 0 | Expired | Rapid and Blitz | |||
| 125 | Keegan Hornbostel | NA | 0 | Required | Blitz Only | |||
| 126 | Eleena Eslami | NA | 0 | Required | Rapid Only | |||
| 127 | Summer Truong | 175163 | 0 | Valid | Rapid Only | |||
| 128 | Michael Battiston | NA | 0 | Required | Blitz Only | |||
| 129 | Mohammad Alsaiah | 181459 | 0 | Expired | Blitz Only | |||
| 130 | Ivan Biletskyi | NA | 0 | Required | Blitz Only | |||
| 131 | Edwin Chacko | NA | 0 | Required | Blitz Only | |||
| 132 | Siddhant Kalra | 183724 | 0 | Valid | Rapid Only | |||
| 133 | Grant Roberts | NA | 0 | Required | Rapid Only | |||
| 134 | Lucas lao | 183047 | 0 | Valid | Rapid Only | |||
| 135 | Aranza Liliana Guevara | NA | 0 | Required | Rapid Only | |||
| 136 | Timothy Vo | 183733 | 0 | Valid | Rapid Only | |||
| 137 | Matthew Vo | 183734 | 0 | Valid | Rapid Only | |||
| 138 | Yangqi Zhu | 183732 | 0 | Expired | Rapid Only | |||
| 139 | Allen Dong | 183166 | 0 | Expired | Rapid Only | |||
| 140 | Ralph Marquez | NA | 0 | Required | Rapid Only | |||
| 141 | Brendan Polius Prosper | NA | 0 | Required | Rapid Only | |||
| 142 | Victor Nguyen | 183748 | 0 | Expired | Rapid Only | |||
| 143 | David D’elia | 183729 | 0 | Valid | Rapid Only | |||
| 144 | Alexander Apostolu | 152079 | 200 | Expired | Rapid and Blitz | |||
| 145 | Rahul Vishwanath | NA | 0 | Required | Rapid and Blitz | |||
| 146 | Park Haneul | 183754 | 0 | Valid | Rapid and Blitz |
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