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Southwest Class Chess Championships 2024 with $35,000 in prizes

by L'immortale

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Andy Austin Woodward (IM) (Withdrawn)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Ehsan Ghaemmaghami (GM) (Withdrawn)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

 

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

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