The 10th edition of the Cherry Blossom Chess Classic will take place from May 24 to May 29 at the Washington Dulles Airport Marriott Hotel, Dulles, Virginia. The event features six tournaments: Open, U2300, U2000, U1700, U1400, and U1100 with a total prize fund of $28.000.
The current starting list of the Open tournament includes 44 entries from 14 federations with GM Illya Nyzhhnyk (Ukraine, 2644), GM Vasif Durarbayli (Azerbaijan, 2627) and GM Mikhail Antipov (FIDE, 2588) as the top seeds. The event is played in 9 rounds, swiss system, with time control of 90 minutes for the whole game + 30 seconds increment for each move starting from the move one. The Winner of the Cherry Blossom Classic 2023 will pocket the money prize of $4.000.
10th Cherry Blossom Chess Classic 2023 – Participants list:
| No. | Name | FED | Rtg | |
| 1 | GM | Nyzhnyk, Illya | UKR | 2644 |
| 2 | GM | Durarbayli, Vasif | AZE | 2627 |
| 3 | GM | Antipov, Mikhail Al. | FID | 2588 |
| 4 | GM | Burke, John M | USA | 2583 |
| 5 | IM | Khanin, S | RUS | 2566 |
| 6 | GM | Matviishen, Viktor | UKR | 2538 |
| 7 | GM | Kantor, Gergely | HUN | 2532 |
| 8 | IM | Druska, Juraj | SVK | 2496 |
| 9 | IM | Bora, Safal | USA | 2462 |
| 10 | IM | Hilby, Craig | USA | 2401 |
| 11 | IM | Williams, Justus | USA | 2396 |
| 12 | IM | Stearman, Josiah | USA | 2385 |
| 13 | IM | Park, Evan | USA | 2380 |
| 14 | IM | Roselli Mailhe, Bernardo | URU | 2376 |
| 15 | IM | Sargsyan, Anna M. | ARM | 2375 |
| 16 | IM | Kiewra, Keaton | USA | 2352 |
| 17 | IM | Plotkin, Mark | CAN | 2341 |
| 18 | GM | Zhukova, Natalia | UKR | 2324 |
| 19 | IM | Sinha, Sahil | USA | 2317 |
| 20 | FM | Paul, Justin | USA | 2314 |
| 21 | WGM | Marjanovic, Annamaria | HUN | 2273 |
| 22 | WGM | Ouellet, Maili-Jade | CAN | 2246 |
| 23 | Aripov, Iskandar | UZB | 2211 | |
| 24 | Sriniaiyer, Sudarshan | USA | 2211 | |
| 25 | Tahmassebi, Bijan | USA | 2201 | |
| 26 | Laddha, Yash Jayesh | USA | 2195 | |
| 27 | WIM | Michelle Catherina, P | IND | 2193 |
| 28 | FM | Morefield, Jason | USA | 2167 |
| 29 | Prabhu, Naveen | USA | 2138 | |
| 30 | FM | Arvind, C.J. | IND | 2127 |
| 31 | Girsh, Daniel | USA | 2123 | |
| 32 | CM | Kanli, Alperen | AZE | 2111 |
| 33 | Brady, Tyson | USA | 2092 | |
| 34 | Martin, Sam B | USA | 2067 | |
| 35 | Prem, Pranav | USA | 2061 | |
| 36 | CM | Chabris, Christopher | USA | 2053 |
| 37 | Su, Kevin | USA | 2038 | |
| 38 | Yehamandram Sridhar, Yogeshwar | USA | 2029 | |
| 39 | Hu, Merric | USA | 2022 | |
| 40 | Slade, Theodore | ENG | 2021 | |
| 41 | FM | Samuelson, Andrew | USA | 2019 |
| 42 | Diao, Matthew Guo | USA | 1973 | |
| 43 | Yagiz, Bora | TUR | 1806 | |
| 44 | Baim, Elvin | AZE | 1728 |
