GM Christopher Yoo wins US Masters Chess Championship 2022

The 2022 US Masters took place over the Thanksgiving Weekend from November 23-27 at Hilton Charlotte University Place, in Charlotte, NC, USA. The US Masters Chess Championship is an official US Chess National Championship event which featured a 20.000$ prize fund and it was played in 9 rounds, swiss system, with time control is 90 minutes for the entire game, plus a 30-second increment starting from move one.

As many as five players tied for the first place after 9 played rounds: GM Mikhail Antipov, GM Christopher Yoo, GM Emilio Cordova, GM Alejandro Ramirez, and GM Cristhian Cruz. The Winner was determined in the playoff match and the 16-year-old Christopher Yoo claimed the title of the US Masters Champion winning the prize of 2.700$. WIM Sila Caglar was the best ranked female player who also clinched the prize as one of the best U2400 players. Scroll down for final rankings

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Final rankings – US Masters 2022:

#	Name	Rating	Fed	Points	Prize
1	GM Mikhail Antipov	2608	FID	7	$2,400
2	GM Christopher Yoo	2573	USA	7	$2700 + US Masters Title!
3	GM Emilio Cordova	2561	PER	7	$2,400
4	GM Alejandro Ramirez	2561	USA	7	$2,400
5	GM Cristhian Cruz	2552	PER	7	$2,400
6	GM Grigoriy Oparin	2683	USA	6.5	$300
7	GM Awonder Liang	2630	USA	6.5	$300
8	GM Nikolas Theodorou	2598	GRE	6.5	$300
9	IM Viktor Gazik	2564	SVK	6.5	$300
10	GM Ivan Schitco	2532	MDA	6.5	$300
11	GM Bartlomiej Macieja	2514	POL	6.5	$300
12	IM Eyal Grinberg	2491	ISR	6.5	$300
13	IM Safal Bora	2446	USA	6.5	$300
14	GM John Michael Burke	2580	USA	6
15	GM Brandon Jacobson	2551	USA	6
16	GM Abhimanyu Mishra	2549	USA	6
17	GM Ehsan Ghaemmaghami	2511	IRI	6
18	GM Praveen Balakrishnan	2510	USA	6
19	GM Rahul Srivatshav Peddi	2498	IND	6
20	GM Gabor Nagy	2482	HUN	6
21	IM Andrei Macovei	2482	MDA	6
22	GM Akshat Chandra	2472	USA	6
23	IM Brian Escalante	2468	PER	6
24	GM Harshit Raja	2461	IND	6
25	IM Kassa Korley	2451	DEN	6
26	IM Andy Woodward	2447	USA	6
27	IM Tianqi Wang	2428	USA	6
28	FM Jakub Fus	2427	POL	6
29	IM Michael Bodek	2427	USA	6
30	IM Farai Mandizha	2359	ZIM	6	$900 – U2400
31	WIM Sila Caglar	2268	TUR	6	$1500 – U2400 + Female
32	GM Parimarjan Negi	2639	IND	5.5
33	GM Daniel Naroditsky	2617	USA	5.5
34	IM Juraj Druska	2511	SVK	5.5
35	GM David Brodsky	2509	USA	5.5
36	GM Luka Budisavljevic	2505	SRB	5.5
37	IM Irakli Beradze	2494	GEO	5.5
38	IM Maximilian Neef	2481	GER	5.5
39	IM Konstantin Kavutskiy	2383	USA	5.5
40	IM Aleksandr Ostrovskiy	2371	USA	5.5
41	IM Dean Ippolito	2368	USA	5.5
42	IM Mark Plotkin	2361	CAN	5.5
43	FM Aaron Jacobson	2351	USA	5.5
44	FM Jason Wang	2345	USA	5.5
45	Shelev Oberoi	2328	USA	5.5
46	FM Donald Johnson	2232	USA	5.5	$500 – U2250
47	FM Anthony Atanasov	2215	CAN	5.5	$500 – U2250
48	Gabriel Eidelman	2197	USA	5.5	$500 – U2250
49	GM Alder Escobar Forero	2510	COL	5
50	GM Aman Hambleton	2437	CAN	5
51	GM Gabriel Battaglini Flom	2415	FRA	5
52	IM Craig Hilby	2411	USA	5
53	IM Tamas Petenyi	2410	SVK	5
54	IM Siddharth Jagadeesh	2407	SGP	5
55	GM Alexander Fishbein	2389	USA	5	$333.33 – Senior
56	IM Anna Sargsyan	2384	ARM	5	$80 – 2nd Female
57	FM Sandeep Sethuraman	2371	USA	5
58	IM Ekin Baris Ozenir	2352	TUR	5
59	IM Victor Rodriguez Garcia	2350	CUB	5
60	IM Matyas Marek	2346	CZE	5
61	GM Alonso Zapata	2336	COL	5	$333.33 – Senior
62	IM Attila Istvan Csonka	2321	HUN	5
63	IM Mauricio Arias Santana	2317	CRC	5
64	WGM Thalia Cervantes	2309	USA	5	$80
65	FM Rochelle Wu	2298	USA	5	$80
66	FM Maria Malicka	2275	POL	5	$80
67	FM Ryo Chen	2269	USA	5
68	FM Sharvesh Deviprasath	2265	USA	5
69	FM Tanitoluwa Adewumi	2262	USA	5
70	FM Richard Francisco	2253	USA	5
71	Derek Clasby	2252	USA	5
72	FM Sriram Krishnakumar	2248	USA	5
73	IM Roberto Martin Del Campo	2243	MEX	5	$333.33 – Senior
74	FM Erick Zhao	2243	USA	5
75	Gunnar Andersen	2224	USA	5
76	IM Alexander Costello	2224	USA	5
77	WGM Maili-Jade Ouellet	2204	CAN	5	$80
78	Alexander Rutten	2190	NED	5
79	Rohan Padhye	2025	USA	5
80	James Chirilov	1890	USA	5
81	Benjamin Yan	1882	USA	5
82	IM Dimitar Mardov	2432	USA	4.5
83	IM Kevin Wang	2407	USA	4.5
84	IM Stavroula Tsolakidou	2381	GRE	4.5
85	IM Evan Park	2364	USA	4.5
86	IM Olivier Chiku-Ratte	2344	CAN	4.5
87	FM Samrug Narayanan	2340	USA	4.5
88	IM Luis Carlos Torres	2336	MEX	4.5
89	IM Nazi Paikidze	2323	USA	4.5
90	WGM Annamaria Marjanovic	2312	HUN	4.5
91	FM Gabriela Antova	2302	BUL	4.5
92	IM Dante Beukes	2299	NAM	4.5
93	FM Vishnu Vanapalli	2294	USA	4.5
94	FM Bach Ngo	2275	USA	4.5
95	Sungho Yim	2209	KOR	4.5
96	Eric Chang Liu	2182	USA	4.5
97	Nicholas Matta	2167	USA	4.5
98	Sudarshan Sriniaiyer	2150	USA	4.5
99	Raghav Venkat	2143	USA	4.5
100	WIM Michelle Catherina	2142	IND	4.5
101	Nicolas De La Colina	2123	USA	4.5
102	Pedro Espinosa	2116	USA	4.5
103	Nicholas Ladan	2091	USA	4.5
104	Alexander Deatrick	2074	USA	4.5
105	Dominique Myers	2056	USA	4.5
106	Aryan Gutla	2033	USA	4.5
107	Anant Adury	2027	USA	4.5
108	Aiden Reiss	2004	USA	4.5
109	Anthony Parker	1949	USA	4.5
110	Benson Schexnaydre	1898	USA	4.5
111	GM Titas Stremavicius	2527	LTU	4
112	IM Justus Williams	2395	USA	4
113	FM Seth Homa	2242	USA	4
114	Alperen Kanli	2171	AZE	4
115	Matthew Puckett	2151	USA	4
116	FM Dharim Bacus	2146	PHI	4
117	Kyle Lancman	2123	USA	4
118	Ganesh Kumarappan	2088	USA	4
119	Chen-Chen Ye	2055	USA	4
120	Matias Shundi	2046	USA	4
121	Mitch Fishbein	2023	USA	4
122	Arsal Gardezi	2006	USA	4
123	Sullivan McConnell	1985	USA	4
124	Carter Peatman	1976	USA	4
125	Brian Tay	1917	USA	4
126	Evan Sammons	1907	USA	4
127	William Ong	unr.	USA	4
128	FM Nico Chasin	2429	USA	3.5
129	GM Bryan Smith	2412	USA	3.5
130	FM Terry Luo	2365	USA	3.5
131	FM Gauri Shankar	2322	IND	3.5
132	Deepak Aaron	2305	USA	3.5
133	FM Jason Morefield	2238	USA	3.5
134	FM James Canty	2158	USA	3.5
135	Naveen Prabhu	2128	USA	3.5
136	FM Arvind Jayaraman	2111	IND	3.5
137	WFM Rachel Palmero Martinez	2098	CUB	3.5
138	IM Oladapo Adu	2088	NGR	3.5
139	Eshan Guha	2055	USA	3.5
140	Advaith Karthik	2031	USA	3.5
141	WFM Nastassja Matus	2011	USA	3.5
142	Paul Iinuma	2006	USA	3.5
143	Vincent Latorre	1986	CAN	3.5
144	Pranav Sathish	1985	USA	3.5
145	Yogeshwar Yehamandram	1942	USA	3.5
146	Mark Biernacki	1924	USA	3.5
147	Ruoxiao Xia	1893	USA	3.5
148	Ethan Guo	1840	USA	3.5
149	Maxwell Barnes	1745	USA	3.5
150	Sherwood Dong	1701	USA	3.5
151	Krishna Rallabandi	1517	USA	3.5
152	FM Max Gedajlovic	2317	CAN	3
153	FM Gus Huston	2276	USA	3
154	FM Dalton Perrine	2253	USA	3
155	IM Pedro Rodriguez Rivera	2195	CUB	3
156	FM Ryan Amburgy	2175	USA	3
157	Joseph Wan	2153	USA	3
158	Rohit Guha	2146	USA	3
159	Yu-Cheng Liang	2071	USA	3
160	Abhiram Sai Pothuri	2068	USA	3
161	Theodore Slade	2028	ENG	3
162	William Wu	2021	USA	3
163	Michael Ellenbogen	2019	USA	3
164	Peter Dyson	1995	USA	3
165	Nicholas Bruha	1984	USA	3
166	Griffin McConnell	1982	USA	3
167	Aarush Vinod	1976	USA	3
168	Natalie Wisniowski	1974	USA	3
169	Andrew Jiang	1959	USA	3
170	James Nguyen	1943	USA	3
171	Vaseegaran Nandhakumar	1932	USA	3
172	Sreekar Gangavarapu	1837	USA	3
173	Patrick McCartney	1835	USA	3
174	Kent Slate	1829	USA	3
175	Eshaan Hebbar	1816	USA	3
176	Benjamin Tyrrell	1815	USA	3
177	Prateek Mishra	2213	USA	2.5
178	FM Shawnak Shivakumar	2189	USA	2.5
179	Bryan Xie	2133	USA	2.5
180	Henry Deng	2087	USA	2.5
181	Hugo Orizondo	2062	DOM	2.5
182	Rafael Adam	2030	CAN	2.5
183	Roger Zhang	1987	USA	2.5
184	FM Eugene Yanayt	1979	USA	2.5
185	Ronak Hiwale	1970	USA	2.5
186	Advait Nair	1946	USA	2.5
187	Ethan Liu	1829	USA	2.5
188	Arav Patel	1746	USA	2.5
189	IM Eylon Nakar	2436	ISR	2
190	Veronika Kostina	2027	SUI	2
191	Tim McEntee	1974	USA	2
192	Tom Kayma	1851	USA	2
193	Robert Fischer	1832	USA	2
194	Andrew Wu	1783	USA	2
195	Gary De Fotis	1781	USA	2
196	Akeras Overlingas	1626	USA	2
197	Leo Yunlong Yu	1455	USA	2
198	FM Zachary Dukic	2254	CAN	1.5
199	Tyson Brady	2018	USA	1.5
200	Roman Kowalysko	1914	USA	1
201	FM John Oyeyemi Fawole	2021	NGR	0
202	Max Mottola	1919	USA	0

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