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Pairings for Round 1. Canadian Open Chess Championship: Open Section
Bd Res White Res Black
1 GM Gergely-Andras-Gyula Szabo Geoffrey Ruelland
2 Nick Karlow GM Alexander Cherniaev
3 GM James E. Tarjan Yinshi Li
4 Rohan Talukdar Bitan Banerjee
5 Olivier Kenta Chiku-Ratte Ziyuan [Sam] Song
6 Patrick Huang FM Tanraj S. Sohal
7 FM Aron Teh Eugene Hua
8 Tanner McNamara Ben Li
9 FM Victor Plotkin Andrew Beider
10 Jonathan MacDonald FM Edward Song
11 FM Andrew Peredun Sal Chehayeb
12 Benjamin Fradkin Mike Ivanov
13 Mark Plotkin Henry Zhang
14 Adam Gaisinsky IM Michael Barron
15 FM Michael Humphreys Apurva Virkud
16 Bob Holliman Nicholas Vettese
17 Navid Chaichi Jim Daniluk
18 Dmitry Chernik John Doknjas
19 Diwen Shi Brian Profit
20 Run Kun Fan Joshua Doknjas
21 FM Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux Tyler D'Amore
22 Manojh Sivapathasundaram Istvan Kiraly
½ GM Gergely Antal BYE
½ IM Kaiqi Yang BYE
½ Lali Agbabishvili BYE
Pairings for Round 1. Canadian Open Chess Championship: Under 2000
Bd Res White Res Black
25 Omaray M. Shah Christopher Day
26 Jeremy John Mathews Jim Green
27 Neil Doknjas John Coleman
28 Rowan James Ian Finlay
29 Aiden Zhou Lily Zhou
30 Zhong Zhao Kajan Thanabalachandran
31 Zhehai Zhang Cynthia Cui
32 Edward Selling Sean [Ken] Cashin
33 Tyler Tanaka Brian Clarke
34 Daniel Du Jafar Faraji
35 Ralph Deline David Deimert
36 Stephen Humphreys Tom Manion
37 Mario Piccinin Eric M Li
38 Steven Faust Richard Glew
39 Chris White Doug Gillis
40 Stefano Lee Daniel Koltai
41 Ken Einarsson Jack Li
1 Annika Zhou BYE
½ Elroy Deimert BYE
½ Michael Su BYE
Pairings for Round 1. Canadian Open Chess Championship: Under 1600
Bd Res White Res Black
44 Rob Kubik Bruce W. Thomson
45 Manuel Kocela Bruce Leaden
46 John Young Joshua Philip Mathews
47 Shivan Gaur Tom Dimou
48 Robin Belanger Luxiga Thanabalachandran
49 Kevin Wang Alan Bui
50 Ed Mandell Jezzel Farkas
1 Dora Koltai BYE
½ Ethan Su BYE
Pairings for Round 1. Canadian Open Chess Championship: Under 1200
Bd Res White Res Black
52 Kevin Cui Brayden Boulanger
53 Jenna Wang Namitha Elsa John
54 Jacob Gaisinsky Moira Periappuram
55 William Zhang Kun Xing
56 Sarah Ye Savio Bennihyn Joseph Benher
57 Mahjan Dhruv Wendy Zhang
58 Divjot Locham Nathan He
59 Arjun Kapoor Nithusa Sivapathasundaram
60 Jacob Periappuram Anna Koltai
61 Anya Periappuram Kaitlyn Tao
62 Harry Wei Zachary Sabga
½ Bilal Ahmed BYE
½ Sat Arora BYE
½ Jacob Marcelloni BYE
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