The 30th edition of the Southern Chess Open will take place from 22-24 July in Wyndham Orlando Resort, Florida. The event features five tournaments: Major (for players rated 1900+), Under 2100, Under 1800, Under 1500 and Under 1200 with a guaranteed prize fund of 20.000$.
The top seeds of the main Major tournament are GM Jianchao Zhou, GM Nikola Mitkov, and GM Vladimir Georgiev. The event 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 of increment starting from the move one. Scroll down for starting rank list of players
Starting rank list of players – 30th annual Southern Chess Open:
Player’s Name
FIDE Rating
Section
1
Jianchao Zhou (GM)
2576
Major (1900 & up)
2
Nikola Mitkov (GM)
2500
Major (1900 & up)
3
Vladimir Georgiev (GM)
2446
Major (1900 & up)
4
Scott Ramer
2192
Major (1900 & up)
5
Samuel Malka (FM)
2210
Major (1900 & up)
6
Carlos Gaston Andretta
2128
Major (1900 & up)
7
Irina Utiatskaja (WIM)
2184
Major (1900 & up)
8
Marvin Gao (CM)
1942
Major (1900 & up)
9
Vincent William Stone
2000
Major (1900 & up)
10
Antony Timotey Gospodinov
Unr
Major (1900 & up)
11
Aldo F Lopez
2027
Major (1900 & up)
12
Aniket Shukla
1941
Major (1900 & up)
13
Preston C Deleo
1925
Major (1900 & up)
14
Vikram Rajmohan
1842
Major (1900 & up)
15
Otis C Wilson
1898
Major (1900 & up)
16
Goran Markovic
1954
Under 2100
17
Lawrence Younker
1608
Under 2100
18
Jorge A Martinez
Unr
Under 2100
19
Elio Otero Arencibia
2056
Under 2100
20
Sherwood Dong
Unr
Major (1900 & up)
21
Lyubomir Timoteev Gospodinov
Unr
Under 2100
22
Dereck Laureano
1831
Major (1900 & up)
23
Arav Patel
1790
Major (1900 & up)
24
Shama Yisrael
1803
Major (1900 & up)
25
Kameron Grose
1523
Under 2100
26
Jose Gabriel Casares
1733
Under 2100
27
Nate Ryan Ziegler
1813
Major (1900 & up)
28
Javier E Adorno
Unr
Major (1900 & up)
29
Abror Kurbanov
Unr
Under 2100
30
Nicholas Michael Ricci
1911
Major (1900 & up)
31
Jayden Lang
1910
Major (1900 & up)
32
Stephen Zabbia
Unr
Under 2100
33
Aaron Bias
Unr
Under 2100
34
Sam W Sokhanvari
1869
Major (1900 & up)
35
Ilya Blokhin
1847
Under 2100
36
Sasha Creighton
Unr
Major (1900 & up)
37
Libaski Espinosa
1852
Under 2100
38
Niko Pompe
1787
Major (1900 & up)
39
Damian Krotov
1472
Under 2100
40
Peter V Bias
Unr
Under 2100
41
Michael Xukun Guan
Unr
Major (1900 & up)
42
Leo W Bonnell
1791
Under 2100
43
Benjamin Cartoon
Unr
Under 2100
44
Dhruv Rajaganesh
1554
Under 2100
45
Santiago De Jesus Casares
1555
Under 2100
46
Aleks Fetlyaev
1563
Under 2100
47
Marcos Antonio Casares
1661
Under 2100
48
Jerry Yao
Unr
Under 2100
49
Christopher Walenty Fashek
Unr
Under 2100
50
Kabilesh Yuvaraj
1553
Under 2100
51
Neryk Davydov
1539
Under 2100
52
Alice Wu
Unr
Under 2100
53
Neel Sahai
Unr
Major (1900 & up)
54
Anthony Coleman
Unr
Under 2100
55
Paul Leggett
Unr
Under 2100
56
Elias Chavez Monarrez
N/A
Under 1800
57
Kyle Paul Knapp
Unr
Under 2100
58
Glenn Leotaud
1829
Under 2100
59
Tariq M Amin
1412
Under 2100
60
Ronan P Spelman
N/A
Under 1800
61
Timotey Dimitrov Gospodinov
N/A
Under 1800
62
Christopher Lee Baumgartner (Withdrawn)
1684
Under 2100
63
Kanishk Mahesh
N/A
Under 1800
64
Jolie Huang
Unr
Under 2100
65
Brooks Matthew Chandler
N/A
Under 1800
66
Qiyaqin Zhang
Unr
Under 2100
67
Darryl D Allen
N/A
Under 1800
68
Luke Zimmer
N/A
Under 1800
69
Thomas V Smith
N/A
Under 1800
70
Bill Waite
N/A
Under 1800
71
Saketh K Vudutala
1347
Under 2100
72
Om Mishra
Unr
Under 2100
73
Vasanth Parthasarathy
1426
Under 2100
74
Jack H. Rhoton
Unr
Under 2100
75
Sinclair Wilkinson
N/A
Under 1800
76
Michael J Wong
N/A
Under 1800
77
Oleg Semenov
N/A
Under 1800
78
Nicolae Vlad State-ungureanu
N/A
Under 1800
79
Mike Ward
N/A
Under 1800
80
Ved Priyadarshi
N/A
Under 1800
81
Ben Assa
N/A
Under 1800
82
Agrim Kumar
Unr
Under 2100
83
Cole Holloway
Unr
Under 2100
84
Christopher Daniel Von Hoff
1537
Under 2100
85
Rodrigo Lisita Barbosa
N/A
Under 1800
86
Daniel Edu Flores
N/A
Under 1800
87
Ayush Roy
N/A
Under 1800
88
Nathan Heck
N/A
Under 1800
89
Andrew S Kan
N/A
Under 1800
90
Janusz Gromnicki
N/A
Under 1800
91
Wyndell Michael East
N/A
Under 1800
92
David Robert Stearns
N/A
Under 1800
93
Joseph J Byrnes
N/A
Under 1800
94
Arthur Hernandez-visbal
N/A
Under 1800
95
Alexander Dshalalow
N/A
Under 1800
96
Brandon Nicholas Tregde
N/A
Under 1800
97
William Kipersztok
N/A
Under 1800
98
Daniel Smith
N/A
Under 1800
99
Carliteau Leger
N/A
Under 1800
100
Tristan Elvers
N/A
Under 1800
101
Stephen Herreros
N/A
Under 1800
102
Marcos Gabriel Casares
N/A
Under 1800
103
Michael Uhlig
N/A
Under 1800
104
Randy Merrell
N/A
Under 1800
105
Walter Sznerch
N/A
Under 1500
106
Luka Nikolai Tristam
N/A
Under 1500
107
Ivan Goponenko
N/A
Under 1500
108
Zhiyu Cao
N/A
Under 1800
109
Lawrence Cerrato
N/A
Under 1800
110
Prajit Manivannan
N/A
Under 1800
111
Sophie Li
N/A
Under 1800
112
Greg Engl
N/A
Under 1500
113
Rithwik Hegde
N/A
Under 1500
114
Analaya Muneepeerakul
N/A
Under 1800
115
Elena Anastasia State-ungureanu
N/A
Under 1500
116
Sergio C Lopez
N/A
Under 1500
117
Mike Moschos
N/A
Under 1500
118
Gauri Sreekumar (Withdrawn)
N/A
Under 1500
119
John Louis Jankowsky
N/A
Under 1500
120
Monroe L Steindorf
N/A
Under 1500
121
Rui Jiang
N/A
Under 1800
122
Stuart A Elvers
N/A
Under 1500
123
Brian Lee Morris
N/A
Under 1500
124
Shalam Yisrael
N/A
Under 1500
125
Sai Kanha Kummari
N/A
Under 1500
126
Aaron Wang
N/A
Under 1500
127
Gavin Preston Yichen Song
N/A
Under 1500
128
Varshini Venkat
N/A
Under 1500
129
Joshua Alton
N/A
Under 1800
130
Eli Assa
N/A
Under 1500
131
Charles Russell Mccallister
N/A
Under 1500
132
James Alton
N/A
Under 1500
133
Joseph Messervy
N/A
Under 1500
134
William Hardison
N/A
Under 1500
135
Ishir Kumar
N/A
Under 1800
136
Emilyn Chiu Doan
N/A
Under 1500
137
Tanisha Saha
N/A
Under 1500
138
Coco Yao
N/A
Under 1500
139
Aarna Warekar
N/A
Under 1800
140
Jonathan Thomas Martin
N/A
Under 1500
141
Jacl Richard Firestone
N/A
Under 1500
142
Caleb Zeng
N/A
Under 1800
143
Hebron George
N/A
Under 1500
144
Anthony Reed
N/A
Under 1500
145
Alexander M. Lafortune
N/A
Under 1500
146
Kevin Joel Acevedo
N/A
Under 1500
147
Scott A Leslie
N/A
Under 1500
148
Reid Sammons
N/A
Under 1200
149
Nitin Krishna Warekar
N/A
Under 1500
150
Osvaldo Ramirez
N/A
Under 1200
151
Grace Siqi Yang
N/A
Under 1500
152
Raymond Zeyuan Tu
N/A
Under 1500
153
Drew A Siegel
N/A
Under 1200
154
Liam Storm Gale
N/A
Under 1800
155
Scarlett Asselta
N/A
Under 1500
156
Sabrina Chile Paz
N/A
Under 1500
157
John C Joura
N/A
Under 1500
158
Stephen M Lippincott
N/A
Under 1200
159
Derek Mcelroy
N/A
Under 1200
160
Arham Shah
N/A
Under 1200
161
Saatvik Dasari
N/A
Under 1200
162
James Gong
N/A
Under 1200
163
Kas Baumstark
N/A
Under 1200
164
Tiana Semenov
N/A
Under 1200
165
Myles Savage
N/A
Under 1200
166
Addison Baumstark
N/A
Under 1200
167
Jacob Wang
N/A
Under 1500
168
Ian Mckee
N/A
Under 1500
169
Samuel Robert Tuttle
N/A
Under 1200
170
Stefan Todman
N/A
Under 1200
171
Isaiah Felix
N/A
Under 1200
172
Steve Simeonidis
N/A
Under 1200
173
Russell J Rice
N/A
Under 1200
174
Thia Chiu Doan
N/A
Under 1200
175
Timothy Patrick Staley
N/A
Under 1200
176
Mila Wang
N/A
Under 1200
177
Pearson Fraser
N/A
Under 1200
178
Gayathri Sreekumar (Withdrawn)
N/A
Under 1200
179
Govind M Kummari
N/A
Under 1200
180
Balakrishnan Sreekumar Maliekal (Withdrawn)
N/A
Under 1200
181
Klim Vasilyeu
N/A
Under 1200
182
Tristan Lucas Squire
N/A
Under 1200
183
Ishaan Jain
N/A
Under 1200
184
Isabelle Mathew
N/A
Under 1200
185
Jonathan Zhang
N/A
Under 1200
186
Evdokiia Krotova
N/A
Under 1200
187
Anthony D Borzillo
N/A
Under 1200
188
Lisa Chapman
N/A
Under 1200
189
Gordon Miller
N/A
Under 1200
190
Carl Dalton Smith
N/A
Under 1200
191
Zach B Busch
N/A
Under 1200
192
Olivia Asselta
N/A
Under 1200
193
Brandon Rhymer
N/A
Under 1200
194
Anthony Manuel Dominguez
N/A
Under 1200
195
Carrie A Schaper
N/A
Under 1200
196
Advaith Kandam
N/A
Under 1200
197
Marcus Anthony Timmons
N/A
Under 1200
198
Krish Palisetti
N/A
Under 1200
199
Christian Pitta Carter
N/A
Under 1200
200
Mikeyla Vega Campagne
N/A
Under 1200
201
Daniel Benji Yang
N/A
Under 1200
202
Azari Dshalalow
N/A
Under 1200
203
Fabiana Paola Casares Brito
N/A
Under 1200
204
Anaya Atara
N/A
Under 1200
205
Eliana Dshalalow
N/A
Under 1200
206
Sai Krithik Kummari
N/A
Under 1200
207
Aanya Kumar
N/A
Under 1200
208
Khalid Fahad Al Mahmood
N/A
Under 1200
209
Charles T Bell.
N/A
Under 1500
210
Abdullah Fahad Almahmoud
N/A
Under 1200
211
Barrett D Fortner
N/A
Under 1200
212
Saint Fortune
N/A
Under 1200
213
Isaac Fratti
N/A
Under 1200
214
Henry Alexander Miranda
N/A
Under 1500
215
Riley Davis Shinn
N/A
Under 1800
216
Langston Moses Simmons
Unr
Under 2100
217
Winston Sutfin
N/A
Under 1200