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Goodbye 2025 FIDE Classical Open

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25 players participated in this 9-round tournament, held from 26 Dec 2025 to 30 Dec 2025 in Langley, Canada. 3 federations represented. Top 10 Elo average was 1960, and top seed was Yidong Chen (🇨🇳 CHN, 2132).

Yidong Chen (🇨🇳 CHN, 2132) won with 6.5/9, ahead of Reece Harms (6.0) and Seshadri Sai Sowmiya Narayanan (6.0). Chen shared the lead from round 7 and won solo starting round 8.

The biggest upset came in round 9: Seshadri Sai Sowmiya Narayanan (1464) beat Daniel Yu Ang Zhu (1927), a +463-point gap.

Location
🇨🇦Langley, Canada
Dates
26 Dec 2025 → 30 Dec 2025
Time control
Standard: 90 minutes with 30 second increment from move 1
System
Swiss · 9 rounds
Top seed
🇨🇳Yidong Chen2132
Avg top 10
1,960
Participants
25
Federations · 3 represented
🇨🇦Canada×22
🇨🇳China×2
🇺🇸United States of America×1
Top 3

How it unfolded

Top 6 · 9 rounds

Yidong Chen led from R8; +0.5-point edge over the runner-up.

Co-leaders
11
5
2
1
1
1
2
1
1
2.54.579R1R2R3R4R5R6R7R8R9Chen takes lead
Chen6.5Sowmiya Narayanan6Harms6Xu5.5Chen5Zheng5
R8 · LEADER CHANGE29 Dec

Yidong Chen takes the sole lead (5.5/8).

R8 · HEAD-TO-HEAD · WINNER VS 2ND

Yidong Chen drew with Seshadri Sai Sowmiya Narayanan (White).

R1–R3 · WIN STREAK

Reece Harms won 3 in a row (R1–R3).

Key matchups · top 4

Head-to-head between the four finishers
Player1234
1Yidong Chen*
½
½
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2Seshadri Sai Sowmiya Narayanan
½
*
½
1
3Reece Harms
½
½
*—
4Michael Xu—
0
—*

Grille américaine

#PlayerEloFedR1R2R3R4R5R6R7R8R9PtsBu C1BuSBPerfΔ
1Chen, Yidong2132CHNF+24B=10N+5N+9B=2B+6N=3B+12B6.536.536.528.252052-6.0
2Harms, Reece2077CAN+16B+12N+9B−8BF=1N=3N+10N+5B6.039.539.528.252021+32.8
3Sowmiya Narayanan, Seshadri Sai1464CAN=24N=18B+17B=11N=10N+4B=2B=1N+9B6.038.039.026.251929+107.2
4Xu, Michael1804CAN+21B−11N+14B−9N=18B−3N+19N+15B+10B5.533.035.519.001764+6.8
5Golchin, Ryan1876CAN−18N+16B+7N−1B+15N=10B=12N+6B−2N5.038.541.521.501770-58.4
6Chen, Zhengyu2006CAN+23B−9N+18N+10B−8N+12B−1B−5N+13N5.037.539.018.001857-4.4
7Li, Ryan1529CAN−11B+22N−5B+24N+14B+9N−10B−12N+16B5.032.533.515.001735+56.8
8Zheng, Yanchen1907CHN+14B+17N+11B+2N+6BFFFF5.023.023.023.002597+30.2
9Zhu, Daniel Yu Ang1927CAN+15N+6B−2N+4B−1N−7B=13N+11B−3N4.543.046.520.751769-20.0
10Lu, Samuel1968CAN+20B+25N=1B−6N=3B=5N+7N−2B−4N4.542.043.017.751793-14.4
11Verdon, Norman1853CAN+7N+4B−8N=3B−12BF+15N−9N+14B4.538.038.021.001761-12.8
12Landingin, Jofrel1538CAN+22B−2B+20NF+11N−6N=5B+7B−1N4.537.037.017.001807+12.8
13Wangluo, Joanne1735CAN−25B−20N+21N=22B=19B+14N=9B+18N−6B4.527.028.014.251729+32.4
14Atwood, Matthew1337CAN−8N+19B−4N+20B−7N−13B+22N+21B−11N4.033.035.010.501594-10.6
15Vigurs, Sofia1575CAN−9BF+23N+17N−5B+18N−11B−4N=20B3.530.530.59.501730+49.6
16Lau, Roy1518CAN−2N−5N−22B−21N+23B+17B=20N+19B−7N3.530.031.59.5016060.0
17Ganesh, Rishab1651CAN+19N−8B−3N−15B=24B−16N+23BF+18B3.526.526.58.001676-49.2
18Szeto, Jordan1423CAN+5B=3N−6BF=4N−15B+21N−13B−17N3.035.535.513.251654+10.0
19Chen, Zi Tian1515CAN−17B−14NF+23B=13N=21N−4B−16N+22B3.027.027.07.001621+31.2
20Harms, Steve1552CAN−10N+13B−12B−14NFF=16B+22N=15N3.026.526.510.0015940.0
21Martin, Matthew1648CAN−4N=23N−13B+16B=22N=19B−18B−14NF2.527.027.06.751396-87.2
22Nguyen, Kaiser1605CAN−12N−7B+16N=13N=21B−23N−14B−20B−19N2.030.031.57.001332-44.0
23Madden, Dahlia0USA−6N=21B−15B−19N−16N+22B−17NFF1.523.023.03.251461-38.8
24Nguyen, Alexander1394CAN=3B−1NF−7B=17NFFFF1.021.021.04.751595-14.4
25Leong, Ryan2054CAN+13N−10BFFFFFFF1.09.09.04.501738-8.6

Key insights

Biggest movers and upsets — the story behind the numbers.

Top rating gainers
Top rating losers
Biggest upsets