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2025 ACC Cool Moves Crown

Open SwissStandard

29 players participated in this 5-round tournament, held from 07 Jul 2025 to 11 Aug 2025 in Toronto, Canada. 4 federations represented. Top 10 Elo average was 1975, and top seed was Michael Blair (🇨🇦 CAN, 2139).

Slava Lukinykh (🇨🇦 CAN, 1994) won with 4.0/5, ahead of Merlin Nazareno (4.0) and Amirmahdi Hosseinzadeh (3.5). Lukinykh shared the lead from round 4, winning on tie-break.

The biggest upset came in round 3: Andrey Kim (1580) beat FIDE 2679124 (1889), a +309-point gap.

Location
🇨🇦Toronto, Canada
Dates
07 Jul 2025 → 11 Aug 2025
Time control
Standard: 90 minutes with 30 second increment from move 1
System
Swiss · 5 rounds
Avg top 10
1,975
Participants
29
Federations · 4 represented
🇨🇦Canada×25
🇰🇿Kazakhstan×1
🇦🇱Albania×1
🇵🇭Philippines×1
Top 3

How it unfolded

Top 6 · 5 rounds

Tight race until R5; 2 players tied at 4.0/5, decided on Buchholz. Title race narrowed from 3 co-leaders at R4 to 2 at the finish.

Co-leaders
8
3
2
3
2
1.52.545R1R2R3R4R5
R5 · TIEBREAK CLUSTER

2 players finish on 4.0/5. Lukinykh takes the title on Buchholz Cut1 (9.0).

WIN STREAKS · 2 top finishers

Merlin Nazareno 4 wins (R1–R5)Amirmahdi Hosseinzadeh 3 wins (R1–R3)

Key matchups · top 4

Head-to-head between the four finishers
Player1234
1Slava Lukinykh*
0
2Merlin Nazareno*
3Amirmahdi Hosseinzadeh
1
*
1
4Arkadii Tenkov
0
*

Grille américaine

#PlayerEloFedR1R2R3R4R5PtsBu C1BuSBPerfΔ
1Lukinykh, Slava1994CAN+16B+12N3B+19N+13B4.09.010.06.501966+31.6
2Nazareno, Merlin1909CAN+26B+18N+22NF+6N4.04.04.04.002519+23.4
3Hosseinzadeh, Amirmahdi2089CAN+7N+5B+1NF=8B3.512.012.010.752129+37.6
4Mittal, Aashwin1800CAN11B+14B+23N5N+16B3.08.59.04.001823+25.2
5Tenkov, Arkadii1923CAN+27N3NF+4B+10B3.08.58.55.001872+30.4
6Southam, David1997CANF+15N+11B=7N2B2.510.510.55.251788-6.0
7Yeomans, Ben1853CAN3BF+20N=6B+9N2.59.59.54.751878+6.8
8Mammadov, Nihad1982CANFF+9N+10B=3N2.58.08.06.252039+37.6
9Vinuya, Ruth Joy1945PHI=24B+28N8B+11N7B2.57.57.52.251459-26.6
10Kim, Andrey1580KAZ12B+16N+28B8N5N2.09.09.01.50934-35.6
11Sherman, Joshua1956CAN+4N=22B6N9B=?N2.08.58.53.2517120.0
12Lau, Jayden1887CAN+10N1B13N+26BF2.08.08.02.001670-4.8
13Dick, Joel1805CAN18B+26N+12BF1N2.07.07.02.001700-14.8
14Katz, Lyam1957CAN15B4N16B+27B+26N2.06.56.50.001613-7.4
15Molina, Jesus1802CAN+14N6B+17NFF2.06.06.03.501883+30.0
16Chen, Aleksandr1813CAN1N10B+14N=17B4N1.511.012.52.7515450.0
17Allahverdi, Umid1836CANFF15B=16N+22B1.54.04.01.25895-22.0
18Pollitt, Henry1981CAN+13N2BFFF1.06.06.02.001796+1.6
19Cholakis, Max1927CANFF+29N1B21N1.05.05.00.001646-12.4
20Kolndreu, Albion1716ALBFF7BF+28N1.02.52.50.001053-2.8
21Smolkin, Ben Gabriel1872CANFFFF+19B1.01.01.01.002525+13.6
22MacIsaac, Alexandre1724CANF=11N2BF17N0.57.57.51.009730.0
23Fines, John1829CANF=25N4BFF0.53.53.50.251496-10.0
24Dhingra, Tanishq Kumar1799CAN=9NFFFF0.52.52.51.251822+12.8
25Furrow, Matthew1907CANF=23BFFF0.50.50.50.251691-0.6
26Cabioc, Jose1702CAN2N13BF12N14B0.010.010.00.00942-35.2
27Kang, Richard1735CAN5BFF14NF0.07.57.50.00902-13.0
28FIDE 26791241889F9B10NF20B0.05.55.50.008510.0
29Ali, Shafkat1759CANFF19BFF0.01.01.00.00925-8.2

Key insights

Biggest movers and upsets — the story behind the numbers.

Top rating gainers
Top rating losers
Biggest upsets