George Washington Chess Open 2024 – All information

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The 8th annual George Washington Open 2024 will take place from 23rd to 25th February at the Washington Dulles Marriott Hotel, 45020 Aviation Drive, Dulles, Virginia, USA.

The tournament format is 5-round Swiss, with the time control 40/80, SD/30, d30, and the event consists of five sections: Major (over 1900), U2100, U1800, U1500 and U1200. The top two sections are FIDE rated.

The total prize fund is $17,000 guaranteed.
Major Section (1900/up): $2000-1000-600-400, clear or tiebreak 1st $100 bonus, top USCF U2300 $600-300. FIDE rated.
Under 2100 Section: $1300-700-400-200, top Under 1900 (no Unr) $600-300. FIDE rated.
Under 1800 Section: $1200-600-300-200, top Under 1600 (no Unr) $500-250.
Under 1500 Section: $1000-500-300-150, top Under 1300 (no Unr) $400-200.
Under 1200 Section: $700-400-300-200, top Under 1000 (no Unr) $200-100.

Top 4 sections entry fee: $113 online at chessaction.com by 2/21, $130 at site or online until an hour before round 1. Already more than 50 players registered for the event, including GM Jianchao Zhou and GM Fidel Corrales Jimenez who top-seed the Major section.

Starting list of players – George Washington Chess Open 2024 (As of 3rd February, 2024):

St. Rank	Player’s Name	FIDE Rating	State	Section
1	Jianchao Zhou (GM)	2565	MA	Major (1900 & up)
2	Fidel Corrales Jimenez (GM)	2531	NY	Major (1900 & up)
3	Oladapo Olutola Adu (IM)	2111	DC	Major (1900 & up)
4	Sudarshan Sriniaiyer (FM)	2073	VA	Major (1900 & up)
5	Arvind Jayaraman (FM)	2072	OH	Major (1900 & up)
6	Emmett Parks	1843	DC	Major (1900 & up)
7	Max Asher Friedman	1781	TN	Major (1900 & up)
8	Daniel Wang	1769	VA	Under 2100
9	Zachary Pan	1718	MA	Major (1900 & up)
10	Marshall Philip Kaiser	1700	DC	Under 2100
11	Patrick Tomporowski	1684	NY	Under 2100
12	Grant Peed	1681	VA	Major (1900 & up)
13	Sandeep Thimmasamudram	1679	MD	Major (1900 & up)
14	Ryan Christopher Cowdin	1663	MD	Under 2100
15	Ariv Debmisra	1638	PA	Under 2100
16	Steven Liu	1616	MD	Under 2100
17	Matthew Sammons	1565	VA	Under 2100
18	Frank Zhongtian Cao	1526	MA	Major (1900 & up)
19	Sridhar Seshadri	1459	WA	Under 2100
20	Kavin Chandar Sathiesh	1424	VA	Under 2100
21	Robert D Whitaker	1320	CA	Under 2100
22	Daniela Fitzsimmons	1229	VA	Under 2100
23	Alikhan Karim	1212	VA	Under 2100
24	Adidev Yadhunandan	N/A	VA	Under 1200
25	Akash Barathan	N/A	VA	Under 1200
26	Alexander William Morton	N/A	VA	Under 1800
27	Andrew Charles Moore	N/A	VA	Under 1500
28	Andrew Morcos	N/A	VA	Under 1200
29	Andrew Pleva	N/A	VA	Under 1500
30	Charithra Arvind	N/A	OH	Under 1800
31	Cheren Song	N/A	MD	Under 1200
32	Ellen Jia-ning Peng	N/A	VA	Under 1200
33	Harsha Prabhala	N/A	VA	Under 1500
34	Isabella Incontrera	N/A	VA	Under 1200
35	Jack Morgan	N/A	VA	Under 1200
36	Jack O Mitcham Jr	N/A	VA	Under 1800
37	Joey M Carlson	N/A	MD	Under 1200
38	Kavin Vairavan (Withdrawn)	N/A	NJ	Under 1200
39	Logan Wilson Mercer	N/A	DC	Under 1800
40	Michael James Wilson	N/A	WV	Under 1800
41	Nathan Eric Ehrenberg	N/A	DC	Under 1800
42	Nicholas Alan Effland	N/A	PA	Under 1800
43	Orcarsh Bhatia	N/A	MD	Under 1200
44	Richard G Carlson	N/A	MD	Under 1800
45	Rishaan Reddy Gangumalla	N/A	VA	Under 1200
46	Ryan Michael Tully	N/A	VA	Under 1200
47	Sathiesh Arunagiri	N/A	VA	Under 1500
48	Shivani Sathiesh	N/A	VA	Under 1200
49	Tanush Dokka	N/A	VA	Under 1800
50	Ughur Bakhish	N/A	VA	Under 1200
51	Yonatan Nikolich	N/A	VA	Under 1800
52	Yoyo He	N/A	CA	Under 1800
53	Gregor A Bonnell	Unr	NY	Under 2100
54	Makar Brazhnikov	Unr	MD	Under 2100