The 9th edition of the Cherry Blossom Classic will take place from 26-30 May at Washington Dulles Airport Marriott in Virginia.
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The event will feature 6 tournaments: Open tournament, U2300, U2000, U1700, U1400 and U1100. Most of the events will be played in 9 rounds, swiss system, with time control of 90 minutes for the whole game + 30 seconds increment. 47 players from 9 countries already registered for the main Open event and the battlefield is currently led by: GM Aleksandr Lenderman, GM Hedinn Steingrimsson, GM Joshua Daniel Ruiz Castillo.
Current starting list of participants:
| No. | Name | FED | Rtg | |
| 1 | GM | Lenderman Aleksandr | USA | 2591 |
| 2 | GM | Steingrimsson Hedinn | ISL | 2534 |
| 3 | GM | Ruiz Castillo Joshua Daniel | COL | 2473 |
| 4 | GM | Hevia Alejano Carlos Antonio | CUB | 2460 |
| 5 | IM | Liang Jason | USA | 2432 |
| 6 | IM | Bartell Thomas | USA | 2361 |
| 7 | IM | Chiku-Ratte Olivier-Kenta | CAN | 2358 |
| 8 | IM | Sinha Sahil | USA | 2323 |
| 9 | Chiu Isaac | USA | 2245 | |
| 10 | FM | Paul Justin | USA | 2244 |
| 11 | FM | Morefield Jason | USA | 2242 |
| 12 | IM | Zlotnikov Mikhail | USA | 2194 |
| 13 | Sriniaiyer Sudarshan | USA | 2181 | |
| 14 | Luo Terry | USA | 2168 | |
| 15 | Tahmassebi Bijan | USA | 2168 | |
| 16 | FM | Samuelson Andrew | USA | 2164 |
| 17 | Garcia Erick | USA | 2153 | |
| 18 | Ansh M Shah | IND | 2130 | |
| 19 | Lee Justin | USA | 2115 | |
| 20 | Prabhu Naveen | USA | 2099 | |
| 21 | CM | Altman Joshua | ENG | 2095 |
| 22 | Girsh Daniel | USA | 2076 | |
| 23 | Brady Tyson | USA | 2064 | |
| 24 | Jian Alex | USA | 2055 | |
| 25 | Su Kevin | USA | 2036 | |
| 26 | Kurtz Eric M | USA | 2023 | |
| 27 | Prem Pranav | USA | 2017 | |
| 28 | Ling Evan | USA | 2009 | |
| 29 | Su Jasmine Zhixin | USA | 1984 | |
| 30 | WIM | Wang Ellen | USA | 1963 |
| 31 | Wu William | USA | 1963 | |
| 32 | Doraszelski Alexander | GER | 1887 | |
| 33 | Jegan Alan | USA | 1883 | |
| 34 | Hyland Mark | USA | 1875 | |
| 35 | Raparthi Ankit | USA | 1831 | |
| 36 | Nair Siddhant | USA | 1820 | |
| 37 | Pang Brian | USA | 1818 | |
| 38 | De Fotis Gary | USA | 1810 | |
| 39 | Pillai Adithya | USA | 1771 | |
| 40 | Shankar Pranav | USA | 1756 | |
| 41 | Hebbar Eshaan | USA | 1742 | |
| 42 | Feng Andrew | USA | 1741 | |
| 43 | Patel Arav | USA | 1711 | |
| 44 | Haldankar Ameya | USA | 1687 | |
| 45 | Baim Elvin | AZE | 1655 | |
| 46 | Didita George Vic | USA | 2009 | |
| 47 | BEHRENDS Josef | USA | 1319 |
Featured photo by: Paul Swaney; Official website
