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2025 Holidays Open - U2000

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35 players participated in this 5-round tournament, held from 19 Dec 2025 to 21 Dec 2025 in Toronto, ON, Canada. 1 titled players from 4 federations. Top 10 Elo average was 1785, and top seed was David Gunapalan (🇨🇦 CAN, 1884).

Vukan Niketic (🇨🇦 CAN, 1656) won with 4.0/5, ahead of Chaarvik Madhu Vikram (4.0) and Yuming (Jerry) Li (4.0). Niketic shared the lead from round 4, winning on tie-break.

The biggest upset came in round 5: John Mekael Clavel (1567) beat Diganth Anish (1743), a +176-point gap.

Location
🇨🇦Toronto, ON, Canada
Dates
19 Dec 2025 → 21 Dec 2025
Time control
Standard: 90 minutes with 30 second increment from move 1
System
Swiss · 5 rounds
Top seed
🇨🇦David Gunapalan1884
Avg top 10
1,785
Participants
35
Titled players · 1
WCM×1
Federations · 4 represented
🇨🇦Canada×32
🇲🇾Malaysia×1
🇺🇸United States of America×1
🇵🇭Philippines×1
Top 3

How it unfolded

Top 6 · 5 rounds

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

Co-leaders
13
6
8
3
3
1.52.545R1R2R3R4R5
R5 · TIEBREAK CLUSTER

3 players finish on 4.0/5. Niketic takes the title on Buchholz Cut1 (13.5).

R5 · HEAD-TO-HEAD · WINNER VS 2ND

Vukan Niketic drew with Chaarvik Madhu Vikram (Black).

R1–R5 · UNBEATEN

Vukan Niketic went unbeaten across 5 games (R1–R5).

Key matchups · top 4

Head-to-head between the four finishers
Player1234
1Vukan Niketic*
½
2Chaarvik Madhu Vikram
½
*
1
3Yuming (Jerry) Li*
4John Mekael Clavel
0
*

Grille américaine

#PlayerEloFedR1R2R3R4R5PtsBu C1BuSBPerfΔ
1Niketic, Vukan1656CAN+28N+12B=4N+7B=2N4.013.515.011.251893+58.8
2Madhu Vikram, Chaarvik1659CAN+22N=16B+17N+6B=1B4.012.514.511.251888+56.8
3Li, Yuming (Jerry)1792CAN+35N+21B=7N=4B+5B4.012.513.09.501922+26.4
4Hawkshaw, Kevin1725CAN+15N+11B=1B=3N=8B3.513.516.010.501884+21.4
5Wang, Eric Jiachen1755CAN+14N+25B=6N+16B3N3.512.514.08.251883+34.8
6Clavel, John Mekael1567PHI+33B+32N=5B2N+13B3.511.012.06.251831+70.4
7Syed, Farhaan1627USA+30B+24N=3B1N+33B3.511.012.06.001832+54.8
8Sama, Chetan Reddy1697CANF=10B+9N+21B=4N3.011.511.58.251947+52.4
9Sreekumar, GauriWCM1799CAN24B+30N8B+27N+23B3.08.09.55.001756-11.6
10Ting, Ryan1683CANF=8N=24B+31N+21B3.07.57.55.251919+24.8
11Katz, Lyam1734CAN+27B4N=13B+20N17B2.511.012.55.251709-3.4
12Dhingra, Tanishq Kumar1656CAN+23B1N=25N=15B=18N2.511.012.55.251719+16.4
13Anish, Diganth1743CAN=18N=26B=11N+25B6N2.510.011.54.751690-13.6
14Cheung, Phoenix1630CAN5B=19N=29B+32N=15B2.510.011.04.251715+22.8
15Shahidinejad, Hossein1796CAN4B=27N+35B=12N=14N2.510.010.53.751586-46.4
16Zhao, Jifan1797CAN+29B=2N+31B5NF2.510.010.04.501795-0.8
17Li, Allen1672CAN=26N+34B2BF+11N2.59.510.54.251780+23.2
18Ma, Quentin1591CAN=13B31N=19B+29N=12B2.59.010.05.251683+24.8
19Fu, Ashley1636CAN25N=14B=18N=22B+26N2.58.510.05.001666+7.2
20Satish Alwar, Dharsan1727CAN21N+35B=26N11B+28N2.57.58.02.751617-24.4
21Finlay, Ian1809CAN+20B3N+23B8N10N2.012.514.54.501640-23.0
22Wang, Alan1547CAN2B=29N=32B=19N=27B2.09.510.53.251601+13.6
23Flores, Marc1665CAN12N+28B21N+34B9N2.09.010.02.501634-9.2
24Gandolfi, Fred1739CAN+9N7B=10NFF1.512.012.04.501703-2.8
25Gunapalan, David1884CAN+19B5N=12B13NF1.511.011.03.751610-29.2
26Li, Justin1676CAN=17B=13N=20B33N19B1.510.011.03.751524-20.6
27Chamberland, Luc1684CAN11N=15B=34N9B=22N1.510.011.02.751561-16.4
28Yuan, Arianna1598CAN1B23N=30B+35N20B1.510.010.51.251349-44.4
29Zhao, Shannon1727CAN16N=22B=14N18B=35N1.59.510.02.501449-57.6
30Muminov, Diyor1635CAN7N9B=28NF+31B1.59.09.01.751584-12.4
31Ali, Shafkat1658CANF+18B16N10B30N1.09.59.52.501483-18.2
32Cao, Bruce1662CANF6B=22N14B=34N1.09.09.01.501411-26.4
33Wang, Angela1591CAN6NFF+26B7N1.08.58.51.501499-14.4
34Patil, Tanishq1670CANF17N=27B23N=32B1.07.07.01.251477-40.0
35Abu Bakar, Ahmad Azril Akmal0MAS3B20N15N28B=29B0.510.512.00.7513620.0

Key insights

Biggest movers and upsets — the story behind the numbers.

Top rating gainers
Top rating losers
Biggest upsets