The 6th Annual Carolinas Classic took place from 10-12 June at Hilton Charlotte University Place. The event featured a prize fund of $12,000 in 9 USCF-rated sections.
Four players tied for the top in the main Championship: GM Daniel Naroditsky, GM Elshan Moradiabadi, GM Alexander Shabalov and IM David Brodsky. Each of the players who shared the top won the money prize of 600$. The Carolinas Blitz Championship took place on Saturday evening. GM Daniel Naroditsky won the event, with convincing score of 6 points being a full point ahead of the runner-up Graham Horobetz. (scroll down for final rankings)
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Final rankings – 2022 Carolinas Classic Championship:
#
Name
Total
Prize
1
GM Daniel Naroditsky
4.5
$600.00
2
GM Elshan Moradiabadi
4.5
$600.00 + Plaque
3
GM Alexander Shabalov
4.5
$600.00
4
IM David Brodsky
4.5
$600.00
5
GM Magesh Panchanathan
4
6
IM Tianqi Wang
4
7
Deepak Aaron
4
8
IM Dean Ippolito
3.5
9
FM Ryan Amburgy
3.5
10
Advaith Karthik
3.5
$85.71
11
Marvin Gao
3.5
$85.71
12
Alex Chen
3.5
$85.71
13
Tyson Brady
3.5
$85.71
14
Kevin Su
3.5
$85.71
15
Rohit Guha
3.5
$85.71
16
Brian Tay
3.5
$85.71
17
IM David Vigorito
3
18
Graham Horobetz
3
19
Donald Johnson
3
20
Naveen Prabhu
3
21
Pedro Espinosa
3
22
Andrew Jiang
3
23
Carter Peatman
3
24
Adharsh Rajagopal
3
25
Leo Yu
3
26
Ethan Liu
3
27
Caleb Hina
3
28
Dominique Myers
2.5
29
Emmanuel Carter
2.5
30
Benjamin* Snodgrass
2.5
31
James Nguyen
2.5
32
Yili Wen
2.5
33
Mark Biernacki
2.5
34
Abhiram Pothuri
2.5
35
WFM Uthra Pakkirisamy
2.5
36
Vishal Balyan
2.5
37
Dereck Laureano
2.5
38
George Dai
2.5
39
Anand Bhatt
2.5
40
Lang Leo Xiong
2.5
41
Jason Shen
2.5
42
Maurice Dana
2
43
Anshul Gokul
2
44
Evan Sammons
2
45
Cannon Farragut
2
46
Eric Zhang
2
47
Baldomero Garcia
2
48
Sritej Sattaru
2
49
Arav Patel
2
50
Asha Kumar
2
51
Benjamin Tyrrell
2
52
Jacob Stoll
1.5
53
Kevin Wang
1.5
54
Chase Bellamy
1.5
55
Michael Guan
1.5
56
Kyle Yiwen Wang
1.5
57
James Chirilov
1
58
William Wu
1
59
James Dill
1
60
Daniel Yang
1
61
Jayden Xu
1
62
Samuel He
1
63
Andrew Wu
1
64
Neal Harris
0
65
Benjamin Snodgrass
0
66
Mark Ishee
0
67
Christian Chavez
0
68
Christian* Chavez
0
69
Ervin Blanks
0
.
Final standings Blitz:
#
Name
Rating
Total
Prize
1
GM Daniel Naroditsky
2695
6
$120.00/1st
2
Graham Horobetz
2347
5
$60.00/2nd
3
GM Magesh Panchanathan
2556
4.5
$15.00/3rd
4
Derek Zhang
2257
4.5
$15.00/4th
5
Donald Johnson
2247
4.5
$15.00
6
Naveen Prabhu
2217
4.5
$15.00
7
Alex Chen
2168
4.5
$20.00/U2200
8
Dominique Myers
2235
4
9
Benjamin Snodgrass
2205
4
10
Pedro Espinosa
2192
4
11
Andrew Jiang
2189
4
12
Yili Wen
2172
4
13
James Chirilov
2093
4
14
Evan Sammons
2073
4
15
Abhiram Pothuri
2070
4
16
Jacob Stoll
2032
4
17
Kevin Wang
2023
4
18
Vishal Balyan
2007
4
19
Sritej Sattaru
2001
4
20
Daniel Yang
1957
4
$20.00/U2000
21
George Dai
1999
3.5
22
Chase Bellamy
1956
3.5
23
Jayden Xu
1956
3.5
24
Asha Kumar
1931
3.5
25
FM Ryan Amburgy
2310
3
26
Emmanuel Carter
2207
3
27
Anshul Gokul
2097
3
28
Brian Tay
2056
3
29
Anand Bhatt
1996
3
30
Lang Leo Xiong
1981
3
31
Patrick McCartney
1974
3
32
Mark Tulchinskiy
1951
3
33
Samuel He
1942
3
34
Michael Kliber
1930
3
35
Jeremy Chen
1904
3
36
Damian Krotov
1895
3
37
Dhruv Rajaganesh
1859
3
38
Vishnusankar Jonnalagadda
1848
3
39
Will Moorhouse
1836
3
40
Eric Zhang
2024
2.5
41
Dereck Laureano
2004
2.5
42
Roger Johnson
1981
2.5
43
Esther Jou
1850
2.5
44
Jay Satchwill
1803
2.5
45
Kanishk Mahesh
1788
2.5
$4.00/U1800
46
Mathew Jiang
1749
2.5
$4.00
47
Justin Trey
1740
2.5
$4.00
48
Brian Mapakamise
1723
2.5
$4.00
49
Andrew Ehrman
1653
2.5
$4.00
50
Yogya Koneru
1777
2
51
Sourish Kavale
1750
2
52
Leo Chang
1740
2
53
Ishan Patel
1734
2
54
Alan Chen
1720
2
55
Javier Perez
1688
2
56
Steve Draughn
1688
2
57
Shravan Dash
1661
2
58
Melvin Hayes
1607
2
59
Leo Yu
1971
1.5
60
Felix McCain
1799
1.5
61
Ali Shirzad
1772
1.5
62
Justin He
1761
1.5
63
Josh Bhatt
1755
1.5
64
Aditya Ramkumar
1739
1.5
65
Luke Zimmer
1709
1
66
Paul King
1858
0.5
67
GM Jacob Aagaard
2573
0
.