American Continental Chess Championship 2023

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The 16th edition of the American Continental Chess Championship 2023 will be held from 15-23 May in Juan Dolio, Dominican Republic. The event will be played in 11 rounds, swiss system, with the time control of 90 minutes + 30 seconds increment for each move, starting from the move one.

The total prize fund of the event is 20.000 USD with 5.000 USD reserved for the new American Continental Champion. More than 150 players from 24 countries will participate in the tournament, and the top seeds are GM Jorge Cori (PER, 2650), GM Sandro Mareco (ARG, 2633), GM Jose Eduardo Martinez Alcantara (PER, 2619), GM Cristobal Henriquez Villagra (CHI, 2616) and GM Georg Meier (URU, 2614).

Starting list of players (as of May 8th, 2023):

No.		Name	FED	Rtg
1	GM	Cori, Jorge	PER	2650
2	GM	Mareco, Sandro	ARG	2633
3	GM	Martinez Alcantara, Jose Eduardo	PER	2619
4	GM	Henriquez Villagra, Cristobal	CHI	2616
5	GM	Meier, Georg	URU	2614
6	GM	Supi, Luis Paulo	BRA	2603
7	GM	Albornoz Cabrera, Carlos Daniel	CUB	2586
8	GM	Kaidanov, Gregory	USA	2559
9	GM	Quesada Perez, Luis Ernesto	CUB	2559
10	GM	Krysa, Leandro	ARG	2541
11	GM	Avila Pavas, Santiago	COL	2522
12	GM	Martinez Duany, Lelys Stanley	CUB	2521
13	GM	Miranda Mesa, Elier	CUB	2516
14	GM	Hungaski, Robert	USA	2506
15	IM	Tiglon, Bryce	USA	2494
16	GM	Cardoso Cardoso, Jose Gabriel	COL	2492
17	GM	Corrales Jimenez, Fidel	USA	2489
18	IM	Escalante Ramirez, Brian Sebasti	PER	2489
19	IM	Panjwani, Raja	CAN	2485
20	GM	Shabalov, Alexander	USA	2480
21	GM	Barrientos, Sergio E	COL	2479
22	IM	Ghazarian, Kirk	USA	2475
23	GM	Santiago, Yago De Moura	BRA	2471
24	GM	Chandra, Akshat	USA	2468
25	GM	Lima, Darcy	BRA	2448
26	GM	Escobar Forero, Alder	COL	2443
27	GM	Arenas, David	COL	2426
28	IM	Lu, Maximillian	USA	2422
29	IM	Jimenez Garcia, Emmanuel	CRC	2410
30	IM	Munoz Santana, Jose Lisandro	DOM	2404
31	IM	Ostrovskiy, Aleksandr	USA	2394
32	IM	Stearman, Josiah	USA	2385
33	IM	Roselli Mailhe, Bernardo	URU	2380
34	GM	Zambrana, Osvaldo	BOL	2369
35	IM	Cori T., Deysi	PER	2362
36	IM	Pierrot, Facundo	ARG	2360
37	IM	Flores Quillas, Diego Saul Rodri	PER	2359
38	FM	Abreu Jean, Carlos Paul	DOM	2357
39	IM	Figueredo Losada, Leonel	MEX	2353
40	FM	Arias Gaviria, Mario Alexis	PER	2351
41	IM	Panesso Rivera, Henry	COL	2342
42	IM	Giron, Jorge Ernesto	ESA	2338
43	IM	Juarez Flores, Carlos A.	GUA	2338
44	GM	Zapata, Alonso	COL	2322
45	IM	Sarkar, Justin	USA	2309
46	IM	Araujo Sanchez, Josue	DOM	2303
47	FM	Christie, Joshua	JAM	2294
48	FM	Latorre, Matias	PAR	2280
49	FM	Guzman, Christopher	DOM	2271
50	FM	Del Castilho, Martyn	BAR	2261
51	FM	Marin Posada, Sebastian	COL	2258
52		Vasquez Toledo, Cristian	CHI	2258
53	FM	Johnson, Joshua	TTO	2249
54	WIM	Gomez Barrera, Javiera Belen	CHI	2247
55	FM	Zacarias, M Ruben D	PAR	2244
56	FM	Terao, Juliana Sayumi	BRA	2242
57	IM	Arias, Lemnys A.	ESA	2230
58	FM	Cordoba Roa, Angel Gabriel	COL	2222
59	FM	Alboredo, Julia	BRA	2220
60	FM	Andrews, Todd	USA	2220
61	IM	Piasetski, Leon	CAN	2216
62	FM	Mendez Ramirez, Victor	DOM	2202
63	CM	Castellanos Villela, Alejandro	CHI	2200
64	IM	Urbina, Ricardo	HON	2196
65	FM	Tapia Ostolaza, Alexei	PAN	2193
66	CM	Jodorcovsky Werjivker, Paulo	PAR	2182
67	FM	Camacho Campusano, David Daniel	DOM	2176
68	IM	Dominguez, Jose Manuel	DOM	2175
69	AGM	Wan, Joseph	USA	2167
70	FM	Chinchilla, Alejandro Jose	HON	2165
71	FM	Polanco Nunez, Yoel Estarling	DOM	2162
72	WIM	Chirivi C, Jenny Astrid	COL	2159
73	IM	Kaufman, Raymond	CAN	2158
74		Flores-Rodriguez, Jorge	USA	2157
75	FM	Betaneli, Alexander	USA	2156
76	CM	Mesias Rojas, Rabindranath	CHI	2153
77		Hurtado Bahamonde, Rodrigo	CHI	2152
78	CM	Martinez Castillo, Julio Antonio	DOM	2149
79	FM	Jimenez Jimenez, Leandro	DOM	2146
80	FM	Gerena Rivas, Eliam	PUR	2142
81	FM	Galvez Dastin, Eduardo	GUA	2141
82	FM	Ramos Espinoza, Efren Andres	PAN	2141
83	FM	Arvelo Leo, Gian Carlo	DOM	2135
84	CM	Crispin Ferreras, Darvi Abraham	DOM	2131
85	CM	Carvalho, Guillermo	URU	2124
86	CM	Mesa Cruz, Juan Carlos	DOM	2122
87	FM	Curi, Gabriel	URU	2112
88	CM	Zilleruelo Irizarry, Diego	PUR	2099
89		Donayre, Bertin	PER	2096
90	FM	Markzon, Gregory	USA	2079
91	FM	Subervi, Jonathan Sigfredo	DOM	2070
92		Cruz Ferreras, Julio Angel	DOM	2067
93	FM	Sanchez Manzanares, Jorge Luis	PAN	2044
94	CM	Cardenas Carbajal, Nilson	HON	2028
95		Orizondo, Hugo	DOM	2022
96		Garmendia Vega, Gabriel	CHI	2012
97	AIM	Etienne, Angelo	HAI	2010
98	CM	Izuzquiza Gonzalez, Javier	PUR	2008
99	CM	Fiori, Hector	ARG	2002
100		Tineo Rodriguez, Brian Jeremiah	DOM	1994
101	WIM	Moncada Correa, Sara	COL	1982
102	CM	Ardila, Oscar Humberto	COL	1982
103	CM	Pinales Roussel, Gabriel	PUR	1981
104	WIM	Cosme Contreras, Trilce	PER	1975
105	CM	Toro Castaneda, Elizabeth	COL	1970
106		Santanna, Paulo	BRA	1970
107	CM	Del Rosario Batista, Nobel Oscar	DOM	1967
108		Oviedo Acosta, Paula	PAR	1948
109		Encinas Varela, David	MEX	1940
110		Gedeus, Steven Daniel	HAI	1931
111		King Rodriguez, Os Misael	DOM	1929
112		King Soriano, Misael	DOM	1929
113		Cerrato, Alex	URU	1917
114		Lopez Mallen, Neudys Enmanuel	DOM	1910
115		Allen Medina, Josue	PUR	1901
116		Fascio Outerbridge, Arno Augusto	PAN	1899
117	AIM	Harriott, Tyrell	USA	1889
118		Montes De Oca Martinez, Jose Eduardo	DOM	1884
119		Sanchez Puente, Carlos Johan	DOM	1883
120		Leal Escamilla, Daniel Zinedine	MEX	1855
121	WFM	Medeiros, Thauane Ferreira	BRA	1854
122		Peralta Moore, Juan Antonio	DOM	1850
123		Dominguez, Roberto	DOM	1839
124		Ortiz Monsalve, Sebastian	COL	1838
125		Polanco Fernandez, Sahiean	DOM	1836
126	WFM	Hernandez Bermudez, Manuela	COL	1822
127		Nair, Ajitesh	USA	1822
128	WCM	Pinillo Canon, Silvana	COL	1808
129		Gonzalez Gonzalez, Enoel	PUR	1804
130		Richardson, Julian Ercilio	DOM	1791
131	WCM	Castillo Pena, Patricia Evarista	DOM	1783
132		Pereira Vera, Henry Alberto	COL	1759
133		Young, Christopher	CAY	1741
134	WFM	Palacios, Celina	ESA	1740
135		Shaffer, Alexander	PUR	1737
136		Fernandez, Kenneth	USA	1734
137		Vargas Gomez, Hector Ramon	DOM	1728
138		Guevara Ruiz, Santiago Jose	ESA	1718
139	WCM	Ramirez Luzon, Franchesca	DOM	1717
140		Urena Martinez, Pablo Antonio	DOM	1717
141		Alcantara Urbaez, Richard Leandro	DOM	1714
142		Polanco Fernandez, Reynie	DOM	1711
143		Castano, Saray	COL	1707
144	WCM	Cortes Arias, Mariela	CHI	1702
145	WCM	Figueroa, Julissa	BAR	1691
146	WCM	Vasquez Vasquez, Marielos	ESA	1676
147		Mayeregger Gonzalez, Renata	PAR	1674
148		Serafim Junior, Arnor	BRA	1672
149		Riquelme, Andres	PAR	1664
150		Polanco De La Rosa, Eddy Alfonso	DOM	1642