Charlotte Chess Center in North Carolina organized three ALTO (At Least Twenty-One) chess tournaments played in 5 rounds from April 29 – May 1 with a total prize fund of 5.500$.
The main tournament gathered 25 players including 3 grandmasters, while the U1800 and U1400 tournaments brought together more than 80 players.
GM Elshan Moradiabadi and GM Magesh Panchanathan scored 4/5 points to tie for the first place in the main championship. Moradiabadi had better tiebreaks but the two players shared the trophy and the prize.
Final rankings – ALTO chess tournament:
| 1 | GM Elshan Moradiabadi | 2608 | 4.0 |
| 2 | GM Magesh Panchanathan | 2552 | 4.0 |
| 3 | Tianqi Wang | 2429 | 3.5 |
| 4 | GM Benjamin Finegold | 2515 | 3.5 |
| 5 | Dominique Myers | 2202 | 3.5 |
| 6 | WIM Luciana Morales | 2175 | 3.0 |
| 7 | Patrick McCartney | 1967 | 3.0 |
| 8 | Emmanuel Carter | 2200 | 3.0 |
| 9 | John Timmel | 2070 | 3.0 |
| 10 | WFM Uthra Pakkirisamy | 2009 | 3.0 |
| 11 | Noah Hamilton | 1766 | 3.0 |
| 12 | Benjamin Snodgrass | 2210 | 2.5 |
| 13 | Juan Almaguer | 2164 | 2.5 |
| 14 | Anthony Parker | 2141 | 2.5 |
| 15 | Dereck Laureano | 2056 | 2.0 |
| 16 | Henry Hasman | 1988 | 2.0 |
| 17 | Ali Shirzad | 1755 | 2.0 |
| 18 | Paul King | 1800 | 2.0 |
| 19 | Neil Luo | 1839 | 2.0 |
| 20 | Garret Allen | 1882 | 1.5 |
| 21 | Solomon Pointer | 1929 | 1.5 |
| 22 | Robert Fischer | 2051 | 1.0 |
| 23 | Noshir Patel | 1761 | 1.0 |
| 24 | Gary Cote | 1800 | 1.0 |
| 25 | Gregory Risk | 1877 | 0.5 |
