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 |