41st Annual Reno Western States Chess Open

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The 41st Annual Reno Western States Open is set to take place from 4-6 October in Reno, Nevada, with a prize fund of $27,500.

Already more than 100 players registered for the event, and the top seeds in the Open section are Fidel Corrales Jimenez (USA, FIDE 2567), Sem Khanin (FIDE, 2571), and Viktor Matviishen (Ukraine, FIDE 2551). The Open will be played in 6 rounds, swiss system, with time control of 40 moves/2 hours, SD/55 minutes. The winner of the event will earn a prize of $2,000.

Simultaneously with the Open tournament (for players rated 2200+), the Expert (for players rated 2000-2199), A tournament (for players rated 1800-1999), B tournament (for players rated 1600-1799), C tournament (for players rated 1400-1599) and D tournament (for players rated U1400) sections will be played in the same venue – Circus Hotel Casino Reno.

Detailed information available on the official website.

List of pre-registered players:

	Last Name	First Name	Rating	Section
1	CORRALES JIMENEZ	Fidel	2670	Open
2	KHANIN	Sem	2667	Open
3	MATVIISHEN	Viktor	2649	Open
4	PERELSHTEYN	Eugene	2580	Open
5	KHACHIYAN	Melikset	2501	Open
6	ZILBERSTEIN	Dmitry	2429	Open
7	KUDRIN	Sergey	2388	Open
8	TARJAN	James	2362	Open
9	KAUFMAN	Raymond	2300	Open
10	NANUGONDA	Visha	2224	Open
11	SETHURAMAN	Roshan	2202	Open
12	VIJAYAKUMAR	Advath	2202	Open
13	SCHOONMAKER	Nicholas	2200	Open
14	SINGE	Siddarth	2170	Expert
15	SHI	Roger V.	2168	Open
16	BIYIASAS	Theodore	2159	Open
17	JOHNSON	Charles	2064	Open
18	PARSHALL	Matthew	2034	Open
19	ANDERSON	Craig R.	2029	Expert
20	GUNTAKA	Aayansh	2027	Open
21	MELENDEZ	Kevin Reyes	2004	Open
22	AKOPIAN	Robert	2000	Open
23	GOLD	Bruce	2000	Expert
24	SURESH	Sudeep	2000	Open
25	BATTISTELLA	Edwin	1960	Expert
26	CLEMENS	Kristian	1960	A
27	INMAN	James	1957	A
28	QI	Jenny	1952	Open
29	BALLANTYNE	Wayne	1944	Expert
30	PRUITT	Carvin	1914	Open
31	RIESE	Kayven	1900	Open
32	KAVANDAL	Pranav	1896	Expert
33	ERARD	Eric	1890	Expert
34	HAIGH	John R.	1888	A
35	HEATH	Derek	1883	Expert
36	WANG	Leonardo	1880	Expert
37	JAIN	Kanishk	1870	A
38	RAMKUMAR	Nikhil	1845	Expert
39	CHITTA	Adithya	1842	Expert
40	KULKARNI	Advit Amod	1834	Open
41	GROVER	Aastik	1831	Expert
42	OVERTON	Owen	1817	A
43	NATARAJAN	Neil	1814	A
44	SHI	Evan	1801	Expert
45	MC CALLEY	Roderick E	1800	A
46	MERCADO	Adam	1800	A
47	O’NEILL	Julia	1800	A
48	OSHIMA	Daniel	1800	A
49	SALAZAR	Ricardo M.	1800	A
50	SHAULIS	Dwight	1800	A
51	SMOLENSKY	Randall	1800	A
52	GOLD	Anthony	1791	A
53	CHAN	Ethan	1779	A
54	BIMOD	Karthik	1778	A
55	HOWARD	Evan	1775	B
56	WILTSEE	David	1771	A
57	FISCHER	George	1745	A
58	TODD	Rodney	1739	B
59	WANG	Chase	1739	Expert
60	HARSCHMAN	Philip	1721	B
61	JUCHAU	Dave	1698	B
62	KAVANDAL	Arnav	1686	A
63	HILL	Lynn	1681	B
64	GU	Thomas	1672	A
65	CHANDAR	Yajur	1671	A
66	MONTALVO	Ray	1660	B
67	DING	Olivia	1648	A
68	SUNDARAM	Deepak	1638	B
69	CHEN	Aiden	1632	B
70	ANTHONY	Ralph	1630	B
71	TRAN	Toby	1626	A
72	HARISH	Vidyuth	1619	A
73	LIU	Serena	1616	A
74	LYNCH	Mark O.	1608	B
75	DHANASEKAR	Ralshita	1601	Expert
76	ASH	Richard	1600	B
77	BUCK	Stephen	1600	B
78	JAIN	Ishaan	1598	B
79	AWASTHI	Ghanishth	1580	C
80	HALTER	Parker	1580	C
81	PARTSCH	Marc A.	1546	C
82	MATTICE	Wes	1535	C
83	TRUJILLO	Logan	1532	C
84	ARAUCO	Diego	1530	C
85	NISHTALA	Vasisht	1501	B
86	LEE	Shan Ramesh	1500	B
87	SUNDAR	Neal	1481	A
88	JELLISON	Robert S.	1455	C
89	LONG	Youting	1448	C
90	LIU	Jinfeng	1441	B
91	KRAUSE	Scot	1438	C
92	DAY	Damyan	1412	C
93	ARTEAGA	Ricardo	1408	C
94	PARSHALL	Randy	1407	C
95	COWLES	David	1401	C
96	LESKO	Phillip	1366	D
97	XU	Zoe	1349	C
98	HILL	Rob	1343	C
99	VISWANATH	Tejaswini	1320	B
100	LEE	Angelina Ramesh	1300	B
101	SMITH	George	1300	C
102	SPERA	Bernard	1300	C
103	KAYAL	Rishan	1235	D
104	HILLSON	Larry	1221	C
105	VULUVALA	Ritvik Reddy	1175	D
106	POWERS	Alfonso	1129	D
107	BOGI	Yudhin	1090	D
108	LIU	Yang	1085	D
109	LIU	Scott Yixuan	1074	D
110	FRIESEN	Tim	970	D
111	ZHOU	Justin	970	D
112	SANTIAGO	Gonzalez	958	D
113	SHEN	Yuhao	958	D
114	WANG	Yulan	956	C
115	GONZALES	Andrew	949	D
116	CHARLES	Evan	920	D
117	WANG	Julia	897	D
118	LONG	Teresa	852	D
119	LIU	Emily S.	824	D
120	STARK	Douglas	802	D
121	OLSON	Walter	716	D
122	FRIESEN	David	575	D
123	ZHOU	Austin	562	D
124	MARISCAL	Steven	312	D
125	WILTSEE	Ethan	223	D