The 15th annual Chicago Class 2022 kicks off on Friday and will be played from 15-17 July at the Westin Chicago North Shore Hotel, Wheeling, Illinois. The event features 7 sections: Master (for players rated 2100+), 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 (for players rated 1100-1399) and Class E (for players rated U1200). The total prize fund of the events will be at least 30.000$.
The events will be played in 5 rounds, swiss system, and nearly 150 players already registered. The list of registered players through July 9th can be seen below, and the list will be regularly updated with the new entries. The registration deadline for the events is Friday, July 15th for the 3-day events and Saturday, July 16th for the 2-day events.
LIVE now: 2022 New York GM/IM Summer Invitational / 2022 U.S. Junior, U.S. Girls Junior and U.S. Senior Chess Championships
Starting rank list of players:
Player’s Name
FIDE Rating
Section
Schedule
Lazaro Bruzon Batista (GM)
2623
Master (2100/up)
2 Day
Elshan Moradiabadi (GM)
2535
Master (2100/up)
2 Day
Nicholas Ladan
2131
Master (2100/up)
3 Day
Kyler Weatherspoon
1986
Master (2100/up)
3 Day
Nicholas Bruha
2101
Master (2100/up)
3 Day
Rishi T Narayanan
1916
Master (2100/up)
3 Day
Joshua Zillmer
Unr
Master (2100/up)
3 Day
Elijah Samuel Platnick
1906
Master (2100/up)
3 Day
Frederick S Rhine
1876
Master (2100/up)
3 Day
Isaac George
1788
Expert (1900-2199)
3 Day
Aidan P Kaczanowski
Unr
Expert (1900-2199)
3 Day
Naren S Prasanna
1875
Expert (1900-2199)
2 Day
Hiro Michael Higuchi
1818
Expert (1900-2199)
2 Day
Ruoyu Guo
1709
Expert (1900-2199)
3 Day
Bryce Mc Clanahan
Unr
Expert (1900-2199)
2 Day
Anjaneya Sripathy Rao
1784
Expert (1900-2199)
3 Day
Joshua Meng
1608
Expert (1900-2199)
3 Day
Ethan Y Liang
1513
Expert (1900-2199)
3 Day
Alex Cheng
1783
Expert (1900-2199)
3 Day
Madeline L Weber
1756
Class A (1700-1999/Unr)
2 Day
Brian Peterson
1770
Class A (1700-1999/Unr)
2 Day
Austin T Earsley
1829
Class A (1700-1999/Unr)
3 Day
Alex Li
1713
Expert (1900-2199)
2 Day
Jonathan D Phillips
1512
Class A (1700-1999/Unr)
3 Day
Senthil Sundaram
Unr
Class A (1700-1999/Unr)
3 Day
Zvonko Juric
1621
Class A (1700-1999/Unr)
3 Day
Harvey Steven Hanke
Unr
Class A (1700-1999/Unr)
2 Day
Vincent Springer
Unr
Class A (1700-1999/Unr)
3 Day
Bret Thomas Obrien
1677
Class A (1700-1999/Unr)
3 Day
Dharani Sree Ravi
1596
Class A (1700-1999/Unr)
3 Day
Hector R Hernandez
1539
Class A (1700-1999/Unr)
2 Day
George Trbojevic
Unr
Class A (1700-1999/Unr)
2 Day
Sanjith Prabhu
1547
Class A (1700-1999/Unr)
3 Day
Alan Xu
1289
Class A (1700-1999/Unr)
2 Day
Arjun Raman
Unr
Class A (1700-1999/Unr)
2 Day
Chris Wainscott
1611
Class A (1700-1999/Unr)
3 Day
Mike A Cronin
1479
Class A (1700-1999/Unr)
3 Day
Michael Slosson
N/A
Class B (1500-1799/Unr)
3 Day
Paul D Lubinski
Unr
Class A (1700-1999/Unr)
3 Day
Zach Nudo
1720
Class A (1700-1999/Unr)
3 Day
Niklas C Heglin
1712
Class A (1700-1999/Unr)
3 Day
Yash S Bhargava
N/A
Class B (1500-1799/Unr)
2 Day
Christopher Cheng
Unr
Class A (1700-1999/Unr)
3 Day
Louisa Zhang
Unr
Class A (1700-1999/Unr)
3 Day
Norman Weinzweig
N/A
Class B (1500-1799/Unr)
2 Day
Ryan Zhang
N/A
Class B (1500-1799/Unr)
3 Day
Ryan Jacob Wandsnider
N/A
Class B (1500-1799/Unr)
2 Day
Ryan A Santoro
N/A
Class B (1500-1799/Unr)
3 Day
Dario Pjevic
N/A
Class B (1500-1799/Unr)
3 Day
Samuel Lu
N/A
Class B (1500-1799/Unr)
3 Day
Keoni Frederick Osborne
N/A
Class B (1500-1799/Unr)
3 Day
Joshua Flores
N/A
Class B (1500-1799/Unr)
2 Day
Julius Cromartie
N/A
Class B (1500-1799/Unr)
3 Day
Rakshana Walker Sundara
N/A
Class B (1500-1799/Unr)
3 Day
Alexandre Therrien
N/A
Class B (1500-1799/Unr)
2 Day
Malik Brewley
N/A
Class C (1300-1599/Unr)
2 Day
Bat Uya Molomjamts
N/A
Class B (1500-1799/Unr)
2 Day
Joshua Gingerich
N/A
Class B (1500-1799/Unr)
2 Day
Linda Chang
N/A
Class B (1500-1799/Unr)
3 Day
Thor Heidrek Heidrek Templin
N/A
Class C (1300-1599/Unr)
3 Day
Juan Bosco Ayala
N/A
Class B (1500-1799/Unr)
3 Day
Lokruth Patil
N/A
Class C (1300-1599/Unr)
3 Day
Pauline Yang
N/A
Class C (1300-1599/Unr)
2 Day
Rudy Padilla
N/A
Class C (1300-1599/Unr)
2 Day
Vinay Sridhar
N/A
Class C (1300-1599/Unr)
3 Day
Eric Saxe
N/A
Class C (1300-1599/Unr)
2 Day
Aethelred Magni Hild Templin
N/A
Class C (1300-1599/Unr)
3 Day
Malte Johannes Meindertsma
N/A
Class C (1300-1599/Unr)
2 Day
Jacob Buchanan Wang
N/A
Class C (1300-1599/Unr)
2 Day
Josh Johnson
N/A
Class C (1300-1599/Unr)
3 Day
Tyler Allen Hansen
N/A
Class C (1300-1599/Unr)
2 Day
Scott Stapel
N/A
Class C (1300-1599/Unr)
3 Day
Eskandar Saraie
N/A
Class C (1300-1599/Unr)
3 Day
David L Bradley
N/A
Class D (1100-1399/Unr)
2 Day
Robert James Scott
N/A
Class D (1100-1399/Unr)
3 Day
Eddy Li
N/A
Class D (1100-1399/Unr)
2 Day
Matthew Vincent Malicki
N/A
Class D (1100-1399/Unr)
3 Day
Manuel Solorzano
N/A
Class D (1100-1399/Unr)
3 Day
Ethan F. Boley
N/A
Class D (1100-1399/Unr)
2 Day
Eric Speer (Withdrawn)
N/A
Class E (Under 1200/Unr)
2 Day
Timothy A Lund
N/A
Class D (1100-1399/Unr)
3 Day
Lucas Dou
N/A
Class D (1100-1399/Unr)
3 Day
Ray Mingye Sun
N/A
Class D (1100-1399/Unr)
2 Day
Daniel Lona
N/A
Class D (1100-1399/Unr)
3 Day
Srinivas Rao
N/A
Class E (Under 1200/Unr)
3 Day
Leonardo Dou
N/A
Class D (1100-1399/Unr)
3 Day
Rohan Menon
N/A
Class D (1100-1399/Unr)
2 Day
Harry Prasad
N/A
Class E (Under 1200/Unr)
3 Day
Sridhar Balas
N/A
Class D (1100-1399/Unr)
3 Day
Alexander Pan
N/A
Class D (1100-1399/Unr)
2 Day
Jeff Santoro
N/A
Class E (Under 1200/Unr)
2 Day
Siddhartha Govilkar
N/A
Class E (Under 1200/Unr)
2 Day
Junho Park
N/A
Class E (Under 1200/Unr)
2 Day
Connor S Manning
N/A
Class E (Under 1200/Unr)
3 Day
Arthur Zarellas
N/A
Class E (Under 1200/Unr)
2 Day
Siddharth Sanchula
N/A
Class E (Under 1200/Unr)
2 Day
Walter Pituc
N/A
Class E (Under 1200/Unr)
2 Day
Sebastian Bishoy Aziz
N/A
Class E (Under 1200/Unr)
3 Day
Robert Jamar Polite
N/A
Class E (Under 1200/Unr)
3 Day
Srimathy Sridher
N/A
Class E (Under 1200/Unr)
2 Day
Ishaanaditya Karthik
N/A
Class E (Under 1200/Unr)
3 Day
Yegna Sairam Jandhyala
N/A
Class E (Under 1200/Unr)
2 Day
Akshay Bharadwaj
N/A
Class E (Under 1200/Unr)
3 Day
Matthew Lucas Hough
N/A
Class E (Under 1200/Unr)
2 Day
Jian Wu
N/A
Class E (Under 1200/Unr)
2 Day
Dylan William Mitchell
N/A
Class E (Under 1200/Unr)
3 Day
Elizabeth Xia
N/A
Class E (Under 1200/Unr)
3 Day
Andrew Zhu
N/A
Class E (Under 1200/Unr)
3 Day
Omjas Tripathi
N/A
Class E (Under 1200/Unr)
3 Day
Sanjana Prabhu
N/A
Class E (Under 1200/Unr)
2 Day
Philip Ross
N/A
Class E (Under 1200/Unr)
3 Day
Jasmine Rao
N/A
Class E (Under 1200/Unr)
2 Day
Ian Wan
N/A
Class E (Under 1200/Unr)
3 Day
Avidha Biswas
N/A
Class E (Under 1200/Unr)
2 Day
Lucas Quintos
N/A
Class E (Under 1200/Unr)
3 Day
Isgender Saparov
N/A
Class E (Under 1200/Unr)
2 Day
Bren Odom
N/A
Class E (Under 1200/Unr)
2 Day
Aaditya Khanna
N/A
Class E (Under 1200/Unr)
2 Day
Caleb T Razdolsky
N/A
Class E (Under 1200/Unr)
2 Day
Lucas Kuang
N/A
Class E (Under 1200/Unr)
3 Day
Simon R Lu
N/A
Class E (Under 1200/Unr)
3 Day
Alan Bittterman
N/A
Class E (Under 1200/Unr)
2 Day
Sarah Renee Dalby
N/A
Class C (1300-1599/Unr)
3 Day
Sri Akshika Gopal
N/A
Class E (Under 1200/Unr)
2 Day
Sri Krishav Gopal
N/A
Class E (Under 1200/Unr)
2 Day
Aaditya Khatod
N/A
Class E (Under 1200/Unr)
2 Day
Andrew Mccray Koch
N/A
Class E (Under 1200/Unr)
3 Day
Jacob Lyke
N/A
Class E (Under 1200/Unr)
3 Day
Elias Matsakis
N/A
Class C (1300-1599/Unr)
3 Day
Mishika Mukhopadhyay (Withdrawn)
N/A
Class E (Under 1200/Unr)
2 Day
Braedyn Mulcahy
N/A
Class E (Under 1200/Unr)
3 Day
Aarush Rudraraju
N/A
Class C (1300-1599/Unr)
2 Day
Joseph A Temple
N/A
Class E (Under 1200/Unr)
3 Day
Niko J Vercelletto
N/A
Class E (Under 1200/Unr)
2 Day