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6th Carolinas Classic concluded

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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GM Daniel Naroditsky – Dawn Moore Photography

Final rankings – 2022 Carolinas Classic Championship:

#NameTotalPrize
1GM Daniel Naroditsky4.5$600.00
2GM Elshan Moradiabadi4.5$600.00 + Plaque
3GM Alexander Shabalov4.5$600.00
4IM David Brodsky4.5$600.00
5GM Magesh Panchanathan4 
6IM Tianqi Wang4 
7Deepak Aaron4 
8IM Dean Ippolito3.5 
9FM Ryan Amburgy3.5 
10Advaith Karthik3.5$85.71
11Marvin Gao3.5$85.71
12Alex Chen3.5$85.71
13Tyson Brady3.5$85.71
14Kevin Su3.5$85.71
15Rohit Guha3.5$85.71
16Brian Tay3.5$85.71
17IM David Vigorito3 
18Graham Horobetz3 
19Donald Johnson3 
20Naveen Prabhu3 
21Pedro Espinosa3 
22Andrew Jiang3 
23Carter Peatman3 
24Adharsh Rajagopal3 
25Leo Yu3 
26Ethan Liu3 
27Caleb Hina3 
28Dominique Myers2.5 
29Emmanuel Carter2.5 
30Benjamin* Snodgrass2.5 
31James Nguyen2.5 
32Yili Wen2.5 
33Mark Biernacki2.5 
34Abhiram Pothuri2.5 
35WFM Uthra Pakkirisamy2.5 
36Vishal Balyan2.5 
37Dereck Laureano2.5 
38George Dai2.5 
39Anand Bhatt2.5 
40Lang Leo Xiong2.5 
41Jason Shen2.5 
42Maurice Dana2 
43Anshul Gokul2 
44Evan Sammons2 
45Cannon Farragut2 
46Eric Zhang2 
47Baldomero Garcia2 
48Sritej Sattaru2 
49Arav Patel2 
50Asha Kumar2 
51Benjamin Tyrrell2 
52Jacob Stoll1.5 
53Kevin Wang1.5 
54Chase Bellamy1.5 
55Michael Guan1.5 
56Kyle Yiwen Wang1.5 
57James Chirilov1 
58William Wu1 
59James Dill1 
60Daniel Yang1 
61Jayden Xu1 
62Samuel He1 
63Andrew Wu1 
64Neal Harris0 
65Benjamin Snodgrass0 
66Mark Ishee0 
67Christian Chavez0 
68Christian* Chavez0 
69Ervin Blanks0 

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Final standings Blitz:

#NameRatingTotalPrize
1GM Daniel Naroditsky26956$120.00/1st
2Graham Horobetz23475$60.00/2nd
3GM Magesh Panchanathan25564.5$15.00/3rd
4Derek Zhang22574.5$15.00/4th
5Donald Johnson22474.5$15.00
6Naveen Prabhu22174.5$15.00
7Alex Chen21684.5$20.00/U2200
8Dominique Myers22354 
9Benjamin Snodgrass22054 
10Pedro Espinosa21924 
11Andrew Jiang21894 
12Yili Wen21724 
13James Chirilov20934 
14Evan Sammons20734 
15Abhiram Pothuri20704 
16Jacob Stoll20324 
17Kevin Wang20234 
18Vishal Balyan20074 
19Sritej Sattaru20014 
20Daniel Yang19574$20.00/U2000
21George Dai19993.5 
22Chase Bellamy19563.5 
23Jayden Xu19563.5 
24Asha Kumar19313.5 
25FM Ryan Amburgy23103 
26Emmanuel Carter22073 
27Anshul Gokul20973 
28Brian Tay20563 
29Anand Bhatt19963 
30Lang Leo Xiong19813 
31Patrick McCartney19743 
32Mark Tulchinskiy19513 
33Samuel He19423 
34Michael Kliber19303 
35Jeremy Chen19043 
36Damian Krotov18953 
37Dhruv Rajaganesh18593 
38Vishnusankar Jonnalagadda18483 
39Will Moorhouse18363 
40Eric Zhang20242.5 
41Dereck Laureano20042.5 
42Roger Johnson19812.5 
43Esther Jou18502.5 
44Jay Satchwill18032.5 
45Kanishk Mahesh17882.5$4.00/U1800
46Mathew Jiang17492.5$4.00
47Justin Trey17402.5$4.00
48Brian Mapakamise17232.5$4.00
49Andrew Ehrman16532.5$4.00
50Yogya Koneru17772 
51Sourish Kavale17502 
52Leo Chang17402 
53Ishan Patel17342 
54Alan Chen17202 
55Javier Perez16882 
56Steve Draughn16882 
57Shravan Dash16612 
58Melvin Hayes16072 
59Leo Yu19711.5 
60Felix McCain17991.5 
61Ali Shirzad17721.5 
62Justin He17611.5 
63Josh Bhatt17551.5 
64Aditya Ramkumar17391.5 
65Luke Zimmer17091 
66Paul King18580.5 
67GM Jacob Aagaard25730 

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