The 2025 Charlotte Spring ALTO (At Least Twenty-One) Chess Tournament is a 5-round chess event organized by the Charlotte Chess Center (CCC) in Charlotte, North Carolina, that took place April 25-27, 2025. ALTO is a 5 rounds Swiss event, with a registration cap of 140 players and a guaranteed prize fund of $5,000.
WGM Dina Belenkaya emerged victorious collecting 4,5/5 and adding +39,6 ELO rating
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ALTO Chess 2025 standings
| 1 | WGM Dina Belenkaya | 2286 | 4.5 |
| 2 | IM Craig Hilby | 2506 | 4.5 |
| 3 | Jonathan Kogen | 2341 | 3.5 |
| 4 | GM Benjamin Finegold | 2457 | 3.5 |
| 5 | Alexander Crump | 2296 | 3.5 |
| 6 | Zubin Baliga | 2167 | 3.5 |
| 7 | Emmanuel Carter | 2273 | 3.5 |
| 8 | Jeffrey L Quirke | 2143 | 3.5 |
| 9 | Patrick McCartney | 1916 | 3.5 |
| 10 | Thomas Fang | 2265 | 3.0 |
| 11 | Antonio Padron | 1951 | 3.0 |
| 12 | Miles J Tisserand | 2072 | 3.0 |
| 13 | Jay Garrison | 1867 | 3.0 |
| 14 | Andy Catlin | 1947 | 3.0 |
| 15 | Xiaodong Jin | 1860 | 3.0 |
| 16 | WFM Uthra Pakkirisamy | 2012 | 3.0 |
| 17 | IM Levan Bregadze | 2529 | 2.5 |
| 18 | Dan Bock | 1854 | 2.5 |
| 19 | Vignesh Sekar | 1946 | 2.5 |
| 20 | Joaquin Litzenberger-Brunetti | 1821 | 2.5 |
| 21 | Ishaan Ballal | 1960 | 2.5 |
| 22 | Dereck Laureano | 1952 | 2.5 |
| 23 | Christopher Cole | 1849 | 2.5 |
| 24 | Craig D Wilcox | 2036 | 2.5 |
| 25 | Paul Copeland | 1684 | 2.0 |
| 26 | Brad Langer | 1908 | 2.0 |
| 27 | Gregory Risk | 1836 | 2.0 |
| 28 | Jason Turner | 1781 | 2.0 |
| 29 | Dale Rigby | 1919 | 2.0 |
| 30 | Garret Allen | 1902 | 1.5 |
| 31 | Mario Pineda-Bermudez | 1756 | 1.5 |
| 32 | Viraj Phadke | 1801 | 1.5 |
| 33 | Paul King | 1800 | 1.5 |
| 34 | Natasha Christiansen | 1860 | 1.0 |
| 35 | Jim Hodina | 1891 | 1.0 |
| 36 | Gary Cote | 1871 | 1.0 |
| 37 | Gianluca Montalti | 1882 | 1.0 |
| 38 | John Bunch | 1800 | 1.0 |
| 39 | Noshir Patel | 1764 | 0.0 |
