The 2nd Annual Washington International is taking place on 6-11th August at the Rockville Hilton, 1750 Rockville Pike, Maryland, United States.
The tournament is being played over 9 rounds of Swiss system with the time control 40/90, SD/30 30/inc.
Among the registered players, we find 11 Grandmasters and 16 International Masters with a wide range of nationalities; players from Colombia, Georgia, Israel, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Cuba, Germany, India, among others, are enlisted. Naturally, an important amount of Americans are also participating.
Strong GMs such as American Alex Lenderman, recent winner of the Southern Open Yuniesky Quesada, Dortmund participant Daniel Fridman and Israeli Ilya Smirin are registered. Full list below.
The A Section (Minimum 2100 FIDE or 2200 USCF) has a guaranteed prize fund of $22,000: 1st $5000, 2nd $3000, 3rd $2000, 4th $1000, 5th $900, 6th $800, 7th $700, 8th $600 etc
The B Section (Under 2201 USCF and Under 2200 FIDE, FIDE rated) offers a guaranteed prize fund of $4,000: 1st $1500, 2nd $700, 3rd $400, 1st Under 2000 $600, 2nd Under 2000 $300, 1st Under 1800 $500.
Registered players:
Alex Lenderman | GM | USA |
Mikheil Kekelidze | GM | GEO |
Gildardo Garcia | GM | COL |
Daniel Fridman | GM | GER |
Ioan-Cristian Chirila | GM | ROM |
Kidambi Sundararajan | GM | IND |
Ilya Smirin | GM | ISR |
Nicolay Legky | GM | FRA |
Larry Kaufman | GM | USA |
Fidel Jimenez | GM | CUB |
Yuniesky Perez | GM | CUB |
Farai Mandizha | IM | ZIM |
Nazi Paikidze | IM | GEO |
Vitaly Neimer | IM | ISR |
Adam Hunt | IM | ENG |
Kayden Troff | IM | USA |
Leon Piasetski | IM | CAN |
Tegshsuren Enkhbaht | IM | USA |
Alfonso Almeida | IM | MEX |
Daniel Ludwig | IM | USA |
Roberto Marin del Campo | IM | MEX |
Mackenzie Molner | IM | USA |
Oladalpo Adu | IM | NGR |
Olape Bunmi | IM | NGR |
Michael Mulyar | IM | USA |
Darwin Yang | IM | USA |
Justin Sakar | IM | USA |
Katerina Rohonyan | WGM | USA |
Yuvarajan, Prathiba | WIM | IND |
Ian Thompson | FM | ENG |
Shinsaku Uesugi | FM | JPN |
Atulya Shetty | FM | USA |
Michael Barron | FM | CAN |
Michael Kleinman | FM | CAN |
Allan Savage | FM | USA |
Aleksandr Ostrovskiy | FM | USA |
Pablo Venegas | FM | MEX |
Jorge Martin del Campo | FM | MEX |
Akshat Chandra | FM | USA |
Shiyam Thavandiran | FM | CAN |
Jonathan Chiang | FM | USA |
Seth Homa | FM | USA |
Sabrina Chevannes | WFM | ENG |
Megan Lee | WFM | USA |
Sarah Chiang | WFM | USA |
Aaron Khan | USA | |
Jeremy Kane | USA | |
Daniel Clancy | USA | |
Levy Rozman | USA | |
Stanislav Busygin | USA | |
Mario Alexis Arias | PER | |
Adithya Balasubramanian | IND | |
Sean Vibbert | USA | |
Kevin Wang | USA | |
