The 23rd edition of the Pittsburgh Chess Open 2022 will be held from 22-24 July at the Doubletree Green Tree Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The program includes five different tournaments; Major (for players rated 1900+), Under 2100, Under 1800, Under 1500, and Under 1200, with a guaranteed prize fund of 15.000$.
The events will be played in 5 rounds, swiss system, with time control: 80 minutes for 40 moves, plus 30 minutes till the end of the game, plus 30 seconds increment for each move, starting from move one. The field of the Major tournament is headlined by GM Alexander Shabalov, GM Jacek Stopa and FM Evan Park. Scroll down for starting rank list of players
23rd Pittsburgh Chess Open – Starting list:
Player’s Name
FIDE Rating
Section
Schedule
1
Alexander Shabalov (GM)
2510
Major (1900 & up)
2 Day
2
Jacek Stopa (GM)
2421
Major (1900 & up)
2 Day
3
Evan Park (FM)
2399
Major (1900 & up)
3 Day
4
Erick Zhao (FM)
2290
Major (1900 & up)
2 Day
5
Arvind Jayaraman (FM)
2164
Major (1900 & up)
3 Day
6
Anant Adury (Withdrawn)
2079
Major (1900 & up)
3 Day
7
Oleg Shevelenko
2034
Major (1900 & up)
2 Day
8
Evan Ling
2012
Major (1900 & up)
3 Day
9
Alexander C Hu
1942
Major (1900 & up)
3 Day
10
Abhinav Chakravarthi Ramaswamy
1922
Major (1900 & up)
3 Day
11
Brian Suganraj
1847
Major (1900 & up)
2 Day
12
Edward Thorpe Dean
1900
Major (1900 & up)
3 Day
13
Alan Casden Casden
2054
Under 2100
3 Day
14
Kian Patel
1800
Under 2100
3 Day
15
Zachary Thompson
1725
Under 2100
3 Day
16
James E Larsen
1613
Under 2100
3 Day
17
Narkeeran Narasimhan
1912
Major (1900 & up)
3 Day
18
Austin Henninger
1749
Under 2100
3 Day
19
Umesh Lalwani
1544
Under 2100
3 Day
20
Dae San Kim
1655
Major (1900 & up)
2 Day
21
Jacob Daniel Painter
1808
Under 2100
3 Day
22
Engin Katipoglu
1579
Under 2100
3 Day
23
Chloe Heather Wang
1598
Under 2100
3 Day
24
Yusuf Mansurov
1848
Under 2100
2 Day
25
Jack Cameron Leitzell
1230
Under 2100
2 Day
26
Soham Jinsi
1565
Under 2100
3 Day
27
John Vuillemot
1768
Under 2100
3 Day
28
Roger Andrew Pauley
1695
Under 2100
3 Day
29
Will Moorhouse
1735
Under 2100
3 Day
30
Kebish Pius
1448
Under 2100
2 Day
31
Oliver Smirnov
Unr
Under 2100
3 Day
32
Harvey Steven Hanke
Unr
Under 2100
2 Day
33
Kenneth L Pierson
Unr
Under 2100
3 Day
34
Aaron Cho
1696
Under 2100
3 Day
35
Darsh Shetty
1425
Under 2100
2 Day
36
Mike Amarante
Unr
Under 2100
3 Day
37
Henry Tang
1302
Under 2100
2 Day
38
Sam Timmons
Unr
Under 2100
3 Day
39
Jason Liu
1370
Under 2100
3 Day
40
Christopher Baumgartner
1684
Under 2100
3 Day
41
Diego Fernando Guzman
N/A
Under 1800
3 Day
42
Anni Guo
1442
Under 2100
3 Day
43
Joseph Dominick Riccardi
N/A
Under 1800
2 Day
44
William Huang Wang
1459
Under 2100
3 Day
45
Nikhil Thota (Withdrawn)
Unr
Under 2100
3 Day
46
Lydia Tang
1376
Under 2100
2 Day
47
Jonath Joseph
1391
Under 2100
2 Day
48
Peyman Majidi
N/A
Under 1800
3 Day
49
Keith Allen Murrey
N/A
Under 1800
3 Day
50
Ryu Platinum Dorn
N/A
Under 1800
2 Day
51
Benjamin Gu Lin
N/A
Under 1800
3 Day
52
Maxim Davor Kapelina
Unr
Under 2100
3 Day
53
Jack Hamilton
N/A
Under 1800
2 Day
54
Kevin Carriere
N/A
Under 1800
3 Day
55
Kevin Scott Kerr
N/A
Under 1800
3 Day
56
Chloe A Stark
Unr
Under 2100
2 Day
57
Michael Huang
N/A
Under 1800
3 Day
58
Matthew M Madeya
N/A
Under 1800
3 Day
59
Neelansh Samanta
N/A
Under 1800
3 Day
60
Peyton M. Legg
N/A
Under 1800
2 Day
61
Kevin Fitzgibbons
N/A
Under 1500
2 Day
62
Aarav Thilop Nambiar
N/A
Under 1800
3 Day
63
Richard Thomas Hayes
N/A
Under 1500
2 Day
64
Matthew Bandos
N/A
Under 1500
3 Day
65
Haresh Muralidharan
N/A
Under 1500
3 Day
66
Forrest S Bazan
N/A
Under 1800
2 Day
67
Katherine Ellen King
N/A
Under 1500
3 Day
68
Florence Leung (Withdrawn)
N/A
Under 1500
3 Day
69
Charithra Arvind
N/A
Under 1500
3 Day
70
Meena Narkeeran
N/A
Under 1500
3 Day
71
Neghavarsha Mohankumar
N/A
Under 1500
2 Day
72
Evan E Shelton
N/A
Under 1800
3 Day
73
Daniel Hodgson
N/A
Under 1500
3 Day
74
Sai Gudigundla
N/A
Under 1800
3 Day
75
Arjun Kairi
N/A
Under 1500
2 Day
76
Christoph Mackert
N/A
Under 1800
3 Day
77
Praneel Varshney
N/A
Under 1500
2 Day
78
Lawson R Castaldo
N/A
Under 1500
2 Day
79
Tanay Parripati
N/A
Under 1800
2 Day
80
Umar Mansurov
N/A
Under 1500
2 Day
81
Oliver Glen Siemer
N/A
Under 1500
2 Day
82
Jacob Marshall
N/A
Under 1500
3 Day
83
Cortland Nesley
N/A
Under 1500
2 Day
84
Joseph Collins
N/A
Under 1500
3 Day
85
Adrian Hujic
N/A
Under 1500
3 Day
86
Ryan A Zand
N/A
Under 1200
3 Day
87
Leon Shevelenko
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
88
Ritvik Mahapatra
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
89
Patrick D Barron
N/A
Under 1200
3 Day
90
Austin Allen Kuntz
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
91
Sarina Pretter
N/A
Under 1200
3 Day
92
Isabel Ulis
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
93
Aayansh Samanta
N/A
Under 1200
3 Day
94
Daniel Bandos
N/A
Under 1200
3 Day
95
Douglas Schwartz
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
96
Jordan Levin
N/A
Under 1500
3 Day
97
Kellan Adam Colby
N/A
Under 1500
3 Day
98
Dominic Paladina
N/A
Under 1200
3 Day
99
Brian Thomas Burton (Withdrawn)
N/A
Under 1200
3 Day
100
Zachary Nelson
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
101
Siddarth Yerram
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
102
Winston Huang Wang
N/A
Under 1500
3 Day
103
Max Greenfield
N/A
Under 1200
3 Day
104
Ella Xinyi Li
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
105
Sam E Kinkus
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
106
Kaartic Muralidharan
N/A
Under 1200
3 Day
107
Brayden Wong
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
108
Zachary Skalka
N/A
Under 1200
3 Day
109
Luke Kline
N/A
Under 1500
3 Day
110
Koushya Yellemraju
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
111
Cade Ingram
N/A
Under 1200
3 Day
112
Solvei Islam
N/A
Under 1200
3 Day
113
James A Perotti
N/A
Under 1200
3 Day
114
Lipi Kairi
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
115
Kate Leyi Li
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
116
James Shirley
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
117
Rehaan Sivaraman
N/A
Under 1200
3 Day
118
Charles Kiesling
N/A
Under 1200
3 Day
119
Abdulaziz Abdusamatov
N/A
Under 1200
3 Day
120
Shohjahon Abdusamatov
N/A
Under 1200
3 Day
121
Emmanuel Francis Adams
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
122
Zachary Bazan
N/A
Under 1500
2 Day
123
David Timothy Bonaventure Hahn
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
124
Joseph Paul Karl Hahn
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
125
Farzan Khanjani
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
126
Michael James Lavan
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
127
Constantine Jiang Pan
N/A
Under 1200
3 Day
128
Albert Pimenov
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
129
Jacob Rothrauff
N/A
Under 1200
3 Day
130
Zoe Sai
N/A
Under 1200
3 Day
131
Bradley James Taylor
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
132
Jason Wong
N/A
Under 1200
2 Day
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