GM Brian Escalante seals victory at the 34th Annual North American Chess Open

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The 34th Annual North American Chess Open was played from 26-30 December in Horseshoe Casino Resort, Las Vegas. The event featured eight different competitions with a prize fund of $130,000.

More than 100 players competed in the main Open section which featured the top prize of $10,000. GM Brian Escalante (Peru, 2478) emerged as the sole Winner of the event with the score of 7/9 points. After losing first two rounds, Brian Escalante had an incredible comeback and won seven consecutive rounds to clinch the tournament and the top prize of $10,300!

As many as eight players tied for second, scoring 6.5 points each and shared a total of $14,400 in eight equal parts.

Featured photo by Daniel Schipper & Charlotte Chess Center.

Final standings – 34th Annual North American Chess Open:

Rk	Name	Rtg	Fed	Pts
1	GM Brian Escalante	2478	PER	7
2	GM Lazaro Bruzon Batista	2580	USA	6.5
3	GM John Michael Burke	2573	USA	6.5
4	GM Jianchao Zhou	2572	USA	6.5
5	GM Titas Stremavicius	2567	LTU	6.5
6	IM Justin Wang	2527	USA	6.5
7	GM Cemil Can Ali Marandi	2513	TUR	6.5
8	GM Arman Mikaelyan	2507	ARM	6.5
9	IM Samrug Narayanan	2413	USA	6.5
10	IM Lokumannage Susal Thew De Silva	2367	SRI	6.5
11	GM Yasser Quesada Perez	2577	CUB	6
12	GM Yan Liu	2548	CHN	6
13	IM Mark Heimann	2459	USA	6
14	FM Tugstumur Yesuntumur	2378	MGL	6
15	FM Bryan Xie	2311	USA	6
16	FM Rose Atwell	2169	USA	6
17	GM Emilio Cordova Daza	2531	PER	5.5
18	GM Jose Gabriel Cardoso Cardoso	2516	COL	5.5
19	GM Tong(qd) Xiao	2502	CHN	5.5
20	GM Artem Omelja	2419	UKR	5.5
21	IM Joseph Levine	2391	USA	5.5
22	GM Richard Balansag Bitoon	2374	PHI	5.5
23	GM Petro Golubka	2341	UKR	5.5
24	IM Eric Chang Liu	2322	USA	5.5
25	FM Megan Lee	2294	USA	5.5
26	FM Mikayel Rostomyan	2277	ARM	5.5
27	GM Batchuluun Tsegmed	2458	MGL	5
28	FM Chinguun Sumiya	2438	MGL	5
29	IM Vyom Vidyarthi	2434	USA	5
30	IM Adam Frank	2383	CZE	5
31	FM Bryan Enming Lin	2359	USA	5
32	GM Dmitry Gurevich	2352	USA	5
33	IM Tianqi Wang	2339	USA	5
34	FM Isaac Wang	2335	USA	5
35	IM Michael Lee	2321	USA	5
36	Eduard Hakobyan	2321	USA	5
37	FM Shaashwath Sivakumar	2293	USA	5
38	CM Jorge Nunez Asencio	2284	CUB	5
39	FM Aryan Gutla	2271	USA	5
40	FM Ryan Amburgy	2239	USA	5
41	FM Patrick Peijun Liu	2206	USA	5
42	CM Rafael Adam	2176	CAN	5
43	Vishva Nanugonda	2147	USA	5
44	Elbert Fang	2145	USA	5
45	Andrew Jiang	2121	USA	5
46	Matthew Wilber	2109	USA	5
47	IM Diego Flores Quillas	2431	PER	4.5
48	FM Ethan Song	2315	CAN	4.5
49	Sullivan Mac Mcconnell	2240	USA	4.5
50	FM Andrew Guo	2236	USA	4.5
51	Ruoyu Zhou	2229	USA	4.5
52	FM Ching Wei Austin Yang	2157	TPE	4.5
53	FM Nathan Yan	2155	USA	4.5
54	CM Rohan Rajaram	2139	USA	4.5
55	Jayden H Lee	2129	USA	4.5
56	Naveen Prabhu	2121	USA	4.5
57	Alex Zhao	2107	USA	4.5
58	Siddharth Singh	2104	USA	4.5
59	Austin Liu	2091	USA	4.5
60	IM Evan Park	2375	USA	4
61	FM Sungho Yim	2309	KOR	4
62	FM Zoey Tang	2306	USA	4
63	IM Mark Ginsburg	2273	USA	4
64	Evan Zihao Ai	2202	USA	4
65	Advaith Vijayakumar	2149	USA	4
66	CM Ryan Yang	2139	CAN	4
67	James L Nguyen	2128	USA	4
68	IM Eshaan Hebbar	2121	USA	4
69	Roger V V Shi	2101	USA	4
70	Vidip Kumar Kona	2084	USA	4
71	Luke Widjaja	2049	USA	4
72	Alexander Zhu	1992	USA	4
73	Lev Shangin	1991	USA	4
74	WIM Chloe Gaw	1985	USA	4
75	IM Bernardo Roselli Mailhe	2342	URU	3.5
76	FM Isaac Garcia	2310	MEX	3.5
77	CM Chikwere Godwin Onyekwere	2201	NGR	3.5
78	WIM Omya Vidyarthi	2183	USA	3.5
79	FM Pedram Atoufi	2162	IRI	3.5
80	Kaustubh Kodihalli	2162	USA	3.5
81	Anshul P Shetty	2110	USA	3.5
82	CM Yiding Lu	2110	USA	3.5
83	Nathan Ping-ying Wu	2089	CAN	3.5
84	Yu-Cheng Liang	2054	USA	3.5
85	Sepehr Golsefidy	2040	USA	3.5
86	Kritin Rohan Gopalakrishnan	2006	USA	3.5
87	Nehanraj Ramesh	1879	USA	3.5
88	Isaac Vega	1751	USA	3.5
89	IM Alexander Ross Katz	2405	USA	3
90	FM Avi Harrison Kaplan	2317	USA	3
91	FM Oleksandr Shymanshyi	2266	UKR	3
92	IM Vitaly Bachin	2251	RUS	3
93	Mr. Tommy Kozlek	1685	USA	3
94	GM Pavel Blatny	2315	CZE	2.5
95	FM Henry Deng	2308	USA	2.5
96	Gnel Melikian	2239	RUS	2.5
97	FM Robby Adamson	2225	USA	2.5
98	Rishabh Chinni	2204	USA	2.5
99	Thomas Kung	2173	USA	2.5
100	CM Joel Paul Ganta	2149	IND	2.5
101	Xuli Dai	2059	USA	2.5
102	Vispy Pardiwalla	2013	IND	2.5
103	Daniel Rajkumar	1760	TTO	2.5
104	IM Alexander Velikanov	2388	USA	2
105	FM Stephen Willy	2333	USA	2
106	FM Shaaketh Sivakumar	2306	USA	2
107	Luca Chang	1883	USA	2
108	WCM Avery Yu	1964	USA	1.5
109	Xiaodong Jin	1756	USA	1.5
110	GM Prithu Gupta	2412	IND	1
111	Vaibhav Robinjith Kalpaka	2159	IND	1
112	Pearson Hong	2081	USA	1
113	Rishabh Chandrashekh Ar Gokhale	2163	IND	0.5