Royal City Masters 2025 LIVE

The Royal City Masters 2025 is taking place August 02- August 07 in Guelph, ON, Canada. It is a 9 round Swiss system tournament with time control 90 mins + 30 secs / move. For more events from Canada, check out The North American Chess Calendar, which is part of The Chess Calendar.

The top seeded players are GM Toms Kantans (2514), IM Nikolay Noritsyn (2462), GM Razvan Preotu (2463), IM Jason Liang (2397), IM Raja Panjwani (2423), IM Johnathan Han (2402), IM Anthony Atanasov (2417), IM Joshua Posthuma (2392), IM Mark Plotkin (2357), GM Petro Golubka (2316), IM Sai Krishna Gottipati (2379), IM Nicholas Vettese (2361), GM John Fedorowicz (2335), FM Koosha Jaferian (2285), GM Luís Manuel Pérez Rodriguez (2318), GM Joshua Sheng (2480), CM Neil Moses (2202), FM Victor Plotkin (2282), IM Edward Song (2395), IM David H. Cummings (2258). Scroll down for the full participants list.

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Royal City Masters 2025 Participants

No.		Name	FED	RtgI
1	GM	Kantans, Toms	LAT	2514
2	IM	Noritsyn, Nikolay	CAN	2462
3	GM	Preotu, Razvan	CAN	2463
4	IM	Liang, Jason	USA	2397
5	IM	Panjwani, Raja	CAN	2423
6	IM	Han, Johnathan	CAN	2402
7	IM	Atanasov, Anthony	CAN	2417
8	IM	Posthuma, Joshua	USA	2392
9	IM	Plotkin, Mark	CAN	2357
10	GM	Golubka, Petro	UKR	2316
11	IM	Gottipati, Sai Krishna	CAN	2379
12	IM	Vettese, Nicholas	CAN	2361
13	GM	Fedorowicz, John	USA	2335
14	FM	Jaferian, Koosha	CAN	2285
15	GM	Pérez Rodriguez, Luís Manuel	CUB	2318
16	GM	Sheng, Joshua	USA	2480
17	CM	Moses, Neil	CAN	2202
18	FM	Plotkin, Victor	CAN	2282
19	IM	Song, Edward	USA	2395
20	IM	Cummings, David H.	CAN	2258
21		Marchand, Calix	CAN	2112
22		Khaledi, Omid	CAN	2262
23	IM	Kaufman, Raymond	CAN	2272
24		Polacek, Jozef	CAN	2240
25	CM	Kot, Emanuel	CAN	2166
26		Chen, Yidong	CHN	2074
27		Terry, Joshua	CAN	2155
28		Gao, Heye	CAN	1955
29		Yang, Larry	CAN	2017
30		Wang, Bingfei	CHN	1905
31		Wang, Nathan Zian	CAN	1916
32		Xu, Leon	CAN	2045
33		Saine, Zachary	CAN	2017
34		Woltery, Nicolai	ENG	2084
35		Ren, Jesse	USA	2198
36		Windram, James	CAN	1984
37		Nguyen, Minh Thong	VIE	1761
38		Kola, Venkat Karthikeya Reddy	CAN	1942
39		Blair, Michael	CAN	1843
40	WFM	Deepak, Laksshana	CAN	1901
41		Lin, Austin	CAN	1908
42	WFM	Qian, Ashley	CAN	2147
43		Qian, Eric	CAN	1916
44		Oancea, Nicolae	CAN	1889
45		Heran-Boily, Samuel	NOR	1950
46		Bluvshtein, Ilia	CAN	1956
47		Loadman, Ian	CAN	1918
48		Maulucci, Anthony	CAN	1859
49	FM	Jung, Hans Rudolf	CAN	1933
50		Varakunan, Cadiron	CAN	1756
51		Jiang, Hanxi (Hancy)	CAN	1910
52		Colvin, Andrew	CAN	1860
53		Klarner, William R.	GER	2041
54		Filipovich, David	CAN	1909
55		Ramesan, Raunak Amit	CAN	1915
56		Desforges, Jean	CAN	1898
57		Dembla, Shabd	CAN	1745
58		Iordanescu, Victor Nicolae	CAN	1855
59		Both, Aaron	CAN	1937
60		Yin, Zeming	CAN	1857
61		Fillmore, Louis	CAN	1706
62		Lukinykh, Slava	CAN	1810
63		Chen, Larry Zhou	CAN	1822
64		Huang, Justin	CAN	1788
65		Achyuth, Akshaj	CAN	1751
66		Leliveld, Andrew	CAN	1743
67		Fu, Odyssey	CAN	1659
68		Nassif, Aba	USA	1857
69		Sethi, Aaron	CAN	1723
70		Adebayo, Oladayo	ENG	1906
71	CM	Ling, Chenxuan	USA	2070
72		Winfield, Jordan	FRA	1443
73		Husic, Elvis	CAN	0
74		Lazarev, Shon	CAN	1806
75		Chertkow, Matthew	CAN	1756
76		Fu, Ashley	CAN	1651
77		Md Arifuzzaman, Arif	BAN	1836
78		Cheung, Oscar	CAN	1643
79		Syed, Farhaan	USA	1629
80		Fischer, Jacob	CAN	1698
81		Tian, Dylan	CAN	1591
82		Satish Alwar, Dharsan	CAN	1638
83		Ali, Shafkat	CAN	1659
84		Jia, Jasper Yunjie	CAN	1510
85		Garel, Richard	CAN	1624
86		Howe, Gordon	CAN	1691
87		Khaledy Alidoosti, Parham	CAN	1652
88		Pottinger, Carl	CAN	1766
89		Momic, Jovan	CAN	1597
90		Patel, Neevan	CAN	1673
91		Uyanik, Mehmet	TUR	1597
92		Su, Jayden Chenxuan	CAN	1661
93		Supsup, Ferdinand	CAN	1676
94		Gillanders, Robert	CAN	1684
95		Clarke, Brian	CAN	1624
96		Kovuru, Aaryan	CAN	1679
97		Kola, Venkata Saket Reddy	CAN	1572
98		Wang, Angela	CAN	1562
99		Verde, Pino	CAN	1572
100		Benggawan, Undriadi	CAN	1649
101		Brauer, Mark	CAN	1673
102		McDonald-Johnston, Ari	CAN	0
103		Shroff, Dhairya Amit	CAN	1485
104		Armstrong, Robert J	CAN	1475
105		Cecchini, Sam	CAN	0
106		Moses, Niam	CAN	1432
107		Langridge, Caleb	CAN	0
108		Negi, Hriday	CAN	1496
109		Winfield, Tris	CAN	0
110		Pillai, Pranav	CAN	0
111		Temple, Richard	CAN	0
112		Ostroff, Michael	CAN	0
113		Wood, Monika	CAN	1628
114		Mishra, Aarit	CAN	0
115		Zhang, Kevin	CAN	0
116		Patel, Hari Amitkumar	IND	0
117		Collrin, Jack	CAN	0
118		Liang, Kevin	USA	0
119		Renganathan, Navika	CAN	0
120		Jeevan, Shibu	IND	0
121		Budd, Nathan	CAN	0
122		Gilaka, Mohul Achyut	CAN	0
123		Poloniato, Christopher Joseph	CAN	0
124		Cecchini, Walter	CAN	0
125		Groothuizen, Rawle	CAN	0
126		Sayewich, Logan	CAN	0
127		Sayewich, Robin	CAN	0
128		Aghajani, Oscar	CAN	0
129		Dolstra, Preston	CAN	0
130		Ghotra, Rupinder	CAN	0
131		Marsili, Adrian	CAN	0
132		Nimisica Narvaez, Cristopher	COL	0
133		Nind, Sawyer	CAN	0
134		Pletsch, Matthew	CAN	0
135		Sharif, Imran	CAN	0
136		Tremblay, William	CAN	0
137		Wall, Christina	CAN	0