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| 6 | Anant Adury (Withdrawn) | 2079 | Major (1900 & up) | 3 Day |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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