Las Vegas Chess Festival 2022 took place 8-12 June and included the US National Open, the US Women’s Open, International Youth Championship, and many side events.
IM Semen Khanin triumphed in the US National Open Championship, scoring 7.5 points to be the sole Winner of the event. He won a money prize of 8000$ and lifted the Edmondson Cup. GM Illia Nyzhnyk and GM Vladimir Akopian tied for the second place with 7 points each, sharing the money prize of 6000$ on equal halfs. Replay games from the US National Open here
A famous chess streamer and Canadian representative, WGM Qiyu Zhou – AkaNemsko, streamed form the event together with WFM Maria Emelianova who hosted the stream. She scored 4.5 points taking 43rd place on the overall standings.
Final Standings - US National Open 2022:
# Name ID Rating Team Fed Total Amount Prize 1 IM Semen Khanin 4111990 2517 RUS 7.5 8000 1st + Edmondson Cup 2 GM Illia Nyzhnyk 14118084 2692 UKR 7 3000 2nd-3rd 3 GM Vladimir Akopian 13300032 2622 USA 7 3000 2nd-3rd 4 GM Emilio Cordova Daza 3801497 2549 PER 6.5 1000 4th 5 IM Arthur Guo 30903114 2427 USA 6.5 1634 1st U2500 + Other 6 FM Sean Vibbert 2030292 2316 USA 6.5 1634 1st U2500 + 1st U2400 7 Siddarth Meenakshi Sundaram 5008930 2159 IND 6.5 1634 1st U2500 + 1st U2400 8 GM Batchuluun Tsegmed 4900847 2513 MGL 6 625 GM/WGM/For. IM Bonus 9 GM Richard Balansag Bitoon 5201110 2437 PHI 6 625 GM/WGM/For. IM Bonus 10 IM Alexander Katz 2039796 2408 USA 6 300 5th-10th 11 IM John D Bryant 2031280 2405 USA 6 300 5th-10th 12 FM Mark Heimann 2028441 2403 USA 6 300 5th-10th 13 FM Bach Ngo 30942268 2327 USA 6 300 5th-10th 14 FM Ashritha Eswaran 2080788 2308 USA 6 300 5th-10th 15 Teddie Wen 30952247 2239 WENZHA USA 6 300 5th-10th 16 Henry Deng 30965454 2130 USA 6 300 5th-10th 17 Evan Ai 2094770 1991 USA 6 300 5th-10th 18 GM Arman Mikaelyan 13304852 2502 ARM 5.5 625 GM/WGM/For. IM Bonus 19 GM Melikset Khachiyan 13300512 2446 USA 5.5 20 FM Milind Maiti 2090767 2310 USA 5.5 21 FM Nico Chasin 30908477 2302 USA 5.5 22 FM Christopher Shen 2090635 2291 USA 5.5 23 Eduard Hakobyan 13310860 2279 USA 5.5 24 FM Ryo Chen 7003072 2270 CHEYI2 USA 5.5 25 Jiangwei Yu 8602620 2222 CHN 5.5 26 Joseph Wan 2069890 2116 USA 5.5 27 FM Ruiyang Yan 30919860 2281 FONYAN USA 5 28 Raghav Venkat 2096250 2243 USA 5 29 WGM Sabina-Francesca Foisor 1212915 2208 USA 5 625 GM/WGM/For. IM Bonus 30 CM Bryan Xie 30941296 2191 XIEYUA USA 5 31 Shelev Oberoi 30908590 2176 USA 5 32 Vladyslav Shevkunov 30953448 2145 USA 5 33 WFM Zoey Tang 30952530 2098 TANTAN USA 5 34 Tommy Wen 30952255 2057 USA 5 35 Raffi David Ghazaryan Jr 13308505 2032 ARM 5 36 Eric Chang Liu 30960240 2019 USA 5 37 Sina Mohammadi 30904340 1853 USA 5 38 IM Kostya Kavutskiy 2026384 2406 USA 4.5 39 FM Austin R Mei 30948479 2346 USA 4.5 40 CM Prateek Mishra 30920450 2286 USA 4.5 41 IM Kenneth Frey 5100054 2247 MEX 4.5 42 WGM Qiyu Zhou 505161 2218 CAN 4.5 43 Bijan Tahmassebi 30927625 2118 USA 4.5 44 Joseph Levine 30940346 2108 USA 4.5 45 Steve Wongso 30939020 1939 WONWON USA 4.5 46 Advay Bansal 30951151 1846 USA 4.5 47 Vincent Qin 30957133 1825 USA 4.5 48 Benjamin Effron Shoykhet 30919746 1777 SHOZHE USA 4.5 49 Jayden Lee 30939011 1767 USA 4.5 50 Michael Jacobs 2630478 1519 CAN 4.5 51 IM Georg Seul 4601653 2381 GER 4 52 FM Sandeep Sethuraman 30941091 2330 JANSET USA 4 53 Alex Kolay 30919991 2251 USA 4 54 Gunnar Andersen 30920795 2238 USA 4 55 CM Joshua Avila 5126444 2236 MEX 4 56 Lucas Jiang 30957117 2103 USA 4 57 Hersh Singh 30918804 2077 KAUSIN USA 4 58 Aaryan Deshpande 2097257 2060 USA 4 59 Alex Wang 30943876 2029 USA 4 60 Theodore James Coyne 2057620 2023 USA 4 61 CM Adrian Kondakov 30920302 2001 USA 4 62 Andrew Guo 30952719 1960 USA 4 63 Isaac Wang 30977185 1932 USA 4 64 Corbin Gustafson 30979439 1881 USA 4 65 Sricharan Pullela 30951089 1822 USA 4 66 Patrick Peijun Liu 30966213 1813 USA 4 67 Rose Atwell 30951011 1728 USA 4 68 Aiden Liu 30981123 1691 USA 4 69 GM Fidel Corrales Jimenez 3506690 2543 USA 3.5 70 Sungho Yim 2062020 2251 KOR 3.5 71 FM Eugene Yanayt 2020165 2090 USA 3.5 72 Michael Aigner 2017288 1995 USA 3.5 73 Yu-Cheng Liang 30958121 1994 USA 3.5 74 Tanmay Khattar 2049171 1926 USA 3.5 75 Nathan Yan 30966230 1915 YANZHU USA 3.5 76 Michael Moore 30924600 1869 USA 3.5 77 Sean Kelly 30982332 1868 USA 3.5 78 Benjamin Yang 30937140 1823 USA 3.5 79 Ruoyu Zhou 30961149 1716 USA 3.5 80 FM Alvaro Dias Huizar 3900118 2409 VEN 3 81 Andy Lin 2043688 2251 USA 3 82 Vignesh Anand 30916348 1948 USA 3 83 James Altucher 30987458 1817 USA 3 84 Rohan Rajaram 30940729 1755 RAJRAJ USA 3 85 Ethan Guo 30976359 1683 GUOGUO USA 3 86 John Kenneth Tayamor Ner 30955416 1656 USA 3 87 IM Dietmar Kolbus 4610628 2312 IOM 2.5 88 Andrew Wang 30963044 2074 GUCWAN USA 2.5 89 Alex Pakh 2098091 1910 USA 2.5 90 Joseph M Ross 30977258 unr. USA 2.5 91 Derek Schneuer 30995248 unr. USA 2.5 92 Damir Studen 2009129 2055 USA 2 93 Sam H Sloan 2030390 1684 USA 2 94 Ethan Whipple 39900177 unr. USA 2 95 Paul Iinuma 2031809 2010 USA 1.5 96 Cyrus Diercksmeier 30998816 unr. USA 1 97 Rickie Simms 30926793 1883 USA 0.5 98 Vishva Nanugonda 30961335 1770 USA 0 99 Vardan Balyan 30977150 1641 USA 0 100 Yuvraj Singh Sawhney 30978173 1409 USA 0