The 15th annual Southwest Class Chess Championships will be held from 15-19 February at Westin Dallas Fort Worth Airport, Irving, Texas. The event will be played in 8 rating sections: Masters (for players rated 2000+), Expert (for players rated 1900-2199), Class A (for players rated 1700-1999), Class B (for players rated 1500-1799), Class C (for players rated 1300-1599), Class D (U1400), Class E (U1200), and Unrated (for unrated players). The guaranteed prize fund of the events is $35,000, with $4,000 reserved for the Winner of the Masters tournament.
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More than 50 players already registered for the Masters competition, including 11 grandmasters. The top-seeds are GM Jeffery Xiong (2659), GM Christopher Yoo (2595), GM Viktor Gazik (2585), GM John Michael Burke (2582), GM Emilio Cordova (2561). The complete starting list of players can be found below.
Detailed information about the event are available on the official webpage.
Southwest Class Chess Championship 2024 -Masters – Starting list of players (as of February 14th, 2024):
| No | Name | FIDE Rating | USCF Rating | State |
| 1 | Jeffery Xiong (GM) | 2659 | 2731 | TX |
| 2 | Christopher Woojin Yoo (GM) | 2595 | 2677 | CA |
| 3 | Viktor Gazik (GM) | 2585 | 2654 | TX |
| 4 | John Michael Burke (GM) | 2582 | 2661 | NJ |
| 5 | Gregory Kaidanov (GM) | 2565 | 2642 | KY |
| 6 | Emilio Cordova (GM) | 2561 | 2648 | MO |
| 7 | Viktor Matviishen (GM) | 2559 | 2651 | TX |
| 8 | Koustav Chatterjee (GM) | 2537 | 2627 | TX |
| 9 | Fidel Corrales Jimenez (GM) | 2531 | 2615 | NY |
| 10 | Gleb Dudin (GM) | 2527 | 2596 | TX |
| 11 | Robby Kevlishvili (GM) | 2523 | 2578 | MO |
| 12 | Dambasuren Batsuren (GM) | 2522 | 2612 | MO |
| 13 | Arman Mikaelyan (GM) | 2508 | 2594 | CA |
| 14 | David Brodsky (GM) | 2506 | 2603 | NY |
| 15 | Andy Austin Woodward (IM) (Withdrawn) | 2501 | 2583 | TX |
| 16 | Cristhian Cruz (GM) | 2498 | 2576 | MO |
| 17 | Vladimir Belous (GM) | 2497 | 2574 | TX |
| 18 | Shawn Rodrigue-lemieux (IM) | 2493 | 2552 [EQ] | TX |
| 19 | Safal Bora (IM) | 2475 | 2575 | MI |
| 20 | Ehsan Ghaemmaghami (GM) (Withdrawn) | 2473 | 2561 | AZ |
| 21 | Jakub Fus (IM) | 2459 | 2525 | TX |
| 22 | Nico Werner Chasin (IM) | 2455 | 2513 | NY |
| 23 | Jason Wang (IM) | 2453 | 2576 | OH |
| 24 | Zurab Javakhadze (IM) | 2440 | 2490 [EQ] | TX |
| 25 | Joseph Zeltsan | 2430 | 2509 | NY |
| 26 | Karolis Juksta (IM) | 2406 | 2474 | TX |
| 27 | Craig Hilby (IM) | 2396 | 2472 | TX |
| 28 | Justus Williams (IM) | 2369 | 2448 |
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| 29 | Emil Risteski (IM) | 2365 | 2401 | TX |
| 30 | Eric Chang Liu (FM) | 2358 | 2411 | TX |
| 31 | Tianqi Wang (IM) | 2358 | 2455 | TX |
| 32 | Leonel Figueredo (IM) | 2353 | 2445 | TX |
| 33 | Emil Stefanov (IM) | 2344 | 2416 | TX |
| 34 | Erick Zhao (FM) | 2331 | 2433 | PA |
| 35 | Luis Carlos Torres (IM) | 2322 | 2373 | TX |
| 36 | Ryo Chen (IM) | 2317 | 2415 | TX |
| 37 | Johnathan Han (FM) | 2298 | 2407 | ON |
| 38 | Andy Lin (FM) | 2287 | 2379 | AZ |
| 39 | Seth Homa (FM) | 2285 | 2377 | MI |
| 40 | Maili-jade Ouellet (WGM) | 2283 | 2318 | TX |
| 41 | Tanitoluwa Adewumi (FM) | 2280 | 2410 | NY |
| 42 | Deepak Aaron | 2278 | 2385 | GA |
| 43 | Shelev Oberoi | 2277 | 2365 | TX |
| 44 | Bryan Xie (FM) | 2266 | 2307 | CA |
| 45 | Ryan Amburgy (FM) | 2237 | 2329 | OK |
| 46 | Andrew Guo (FM) | 2236 | 2298 | CA |
| 47 | Artur S Safin | 2229 | 2336 | TX |
| 48 | Dylan Tang (CM) | 2229 | 2252 | CA |
| 49 | Ruiyang Yan (FM) | 2229 | 2360 | CA |
| 50 | Vaseegaran Nandhakumar (CM) | 2229 | 2271 | TX |
| 51 | Rohan Padhye | 2224 | 2353 | OH |
| 52 | Raghav Venkat | 2218 | 2389 | FL |
| 53 | Dante M Beukes (IM) | 2204 | 2278 | TX |
| 54 | Evan Zihao Ai | 2188 | 2261 | CA |
| 55 | Dalton Perrine (FM) | 2182 | 2308 | OH |
| 56 | Gunnar Andersen | 2182 | 2288 | MD |
| 57 | Aadit Bhatia | 2169 | 2303 | MA |
| 58 | Christopher Toolin | 2165 | 2284 | TX |
| 59 | Nicolas De La Colina | 2160 | 2315 | FL |
| 60 | Lucius Melillo | 2158 | 2250 | TX |
| 61 | Ethan Song | 2148 | 2335 | BC |
| 62 | Sean Senft | 2137 | 2277 | VA |
| 63 | Yu-cheng Liang (CM) | 2132 | 2213 | WA |
| 64 | Ryan Yang (CM) | 2105 | 2234 | BC |
| 65 | Leo Fanyue Lin (CM) | 2093 | 2241 | QC |
| 66 | Raffi David Ghazaryan | 2089 | 2178 | CA |
| 67 | Benson Schexnaydre | 2086 | 2186 | MS |
| 68 | Rachael Li (WCM) | 2086 | 2262 | TX |
| 69 | Ryan Min | 2085 | 2169 | WA |
| 70 | Vishva Nanugonda | 2082 | 2160 | CA |
| 71 | Rishabh Chandrashekh Ar Gokhale | 2078 | 2204 | CA |
| 72 | Yiding Lu (CM) | 2076 | 2136 | WA |
| 73 | Stephen Anthony Hough | 2070 | 2034 | TX |
| 74 | Sihan Tao (FM) | 2039 | 2245 | CA |
| 75 | Michael John Takahashi | 2036 | 2229 | IA |
| 76 | Siddharth Singh | 2017 | 2161 | TX |
| 77 | John Joseph Ligotti | 2003 | 2235 | FL |
| 78 | Robert Sanchez | 2003 | 2175 | TX |
| 79 | Rachel Palmero Martinez (WFM) | 2002 | 2125 | TX |
| 80 | Rishabh Chinni | 2002 | 2070 | WA |
| 81 | Andrew H Zhang | 1983 | 2117 | TX |
| 82 | Austin Liu | 1978 | 2140 | WA |
| 83 | Mark W Dejmek | 1966 | 2117 | TX |
| 84 | Ajitesh Nair | 1965 | 2079 | TX |
| 85 | Bryan B Leano | 1958 | 2180 | UT |
| 86 | Ronak Hiwale | 1944 | 2107 | TX |
| 87 | Aiden Leong | 1936 | 2181 | BC |
| 88 | Vijay Srinivas Anandh | 1907 | 2083 | TX |
| 89 | Elbert Fang | 1904 | 2072 | TX |
| 90 | Logan Clark Shafer | 1904 | 2091 | TX |
| 91 | Zachary Hankun Liu | 1896 | 2202 | BC |
| 92 | Harshin Reddy Jagirapu | 1893 | 2145 | NM |
| 93 | Vedant Ameya Talwalkar | 1891 | 2088 | CA |
| 94 | Alexander Jasinski | 1883 | 2061 | AZ |
| 95 | Eric L Heerschap | Unr | 2115 | TX |
