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IM Sam Schmakel dominates at the 15th annual Chicago Class 2022

The 15th annual Chicago Class 2022 took place 15-17 July at the Westin Chicago North Shore Hotel, Wheeling, Illinois., featuring 7 tournaments: Master (for players rated 2100+), Expert (for players rated 1900-2199), Class A (for players rated 1700-1999), Class B (for players rated 1500-1799), Class C (for players rated 1300-1599), Class D (for players rated 1100-1399) and Class E (for players rated U1200).

International Master Sam Schmakel dominated in the Masters event, clinching the sole first place with 4.5/5 points thus pocketing the money prize of 3100$. GM Elshan Moradiabadi and GM Lazaro Bruzon Batista tied for the second place with 4 points each.

The Winners of other sections are: Anthony Parker (Expert tournament), Austin T Earsley and Aitegin Akmatbekov (Class A tournament), Ethan Emanuelson (Class B tournament), Ryan A Santoro (Class C tournament), Rohan Menon and Ray Mingye Sun (Class D tournament), and Austen Johnson, Franklin Godinho, Alex Zhou, Alexander Woo and Braedyn Mulcahy (Class E tournament). Scroll down for final rankings of all sections

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IM Sam Schmakel; Photo from Facebook/Eric Rosen

Final rankings – 15th annual Chicago Class 2022 Masters:

#NameRatingTotalPrize
1IM Sam Schmakel25044.53100
2GM Elshan Moradiabadi261441150
3GM Lazaro Bruzon Batista269441150
4Matias Shundi21353.5900
5Nicholas Ladan22703.5900
6Rohit Guha21353125
7Andrew Lewis Titus23403125
8Elijah Samuel Platnick21323125
9Avi Harrison Kaplan20903125
10James L Nguyen21802.5 
11Jonathan Sterling Kogen23432.5 
12Nicholas Bruha21612.5 
13WFM Nastassja A Matus20682.5 
14Aiden Reiss21252.5 
15Steven J Szpisjak22002 
16Luke Sicong Ye21162 
17Frederick S Rhine21132 
18Steven Cooklev21992 
19Daniel Bronfeyn21822 
20Kevin Ho20872 
21Aidan M Carey21372 
22Jesse Ren21141.5 
23Rishi T Narayanan21551.5 
24Okechukwu Anele Nnej Iwu22301.5 
25Ankush Moolky22161.5 
26Deniz Alp Gulecyuz21911.5 
27Yuta Kakutani21251

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Final rankings – 15th annual Chicago Class 2022 Expert:

#NameRatingTotalPrize
1Anthony Parker214552000
2Gregory Revesz20374.51000
3Patrick Rao20044600
4Deshawn L Kelley21843.5133.33
5Ariunbold Batchuluun21783.5133.33
6WCM Anh Nhu Nguyen20123.5133.33
7Eric Starkman20683 
8Anuj Dahiya20583 
9WCM Shreya Mangalam21313 
10Joshua Meng19203 
11Daniel Lee20783 
12WCM Natalie Wisniowski19613 
13Jack Heller20653 
14Michael Chiflikyan20093 
15Isaac George20683 
16Timothy Chien En Lim20013 
17Naren S Prasanna20003 
18Eduard Danilyan20483 
19Grant Mu20343 
20Anjaneya Sripathy Rao19582.5 
21Amgalanbaatar Ravdanlkhumbuu20862.5 
22Nathan Ping-ying Wu19502.5 
23Alex Li18702.5 
24Ryan Murphy20632.5 
25Aidan P Kaczanowski20032.5 
26Ethan Guo20082.5 
27Ethan Y Liang19142 
28Ruoyu Guo19962 
29Bryce Mc Clanahan19652 
30Michael R S Williams19232 
31Rene E Ancheta20482 
32Gauri Menon19122 
33Vedant Ameya Talwalkar19501.5 
34Florentino Inumerable20271.5 
35Ethan A Gagliano19651.5 
36Derek Paitrick20751.5 
37Daniel Phipps20231.5 
38Mark Hamilton19411.5 
39Ekansh Mehrotra19301 
40Alex Cheng19121 
41Robert D Sax20000.5 
42Ethan Toby Lyu19500 
43Arendal Markovic20000

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Final rankings – 15th annual Chicago Class 2022 Class A:

#NameRatingTotalPrize
1Austin T Earsley18704.51500
2Aitegin Akmatbekov18334.51500
3Sean McCarter17304250
4Sohan Anup Bendre17104250
5Zvonko Juric18554250
6Jay Feng16354250
7Alex Kong18133.5 
8Jon Douglas Phillips18603.5 
9Ayden Huang18313.5 
10Yohan Ghosh16463.5 
11Charles H H Craigmile17233.5 
12Danilo Quizol Bucal17893.5 
13Michael Li17753.5 
14Sanjith Prabhu17923 
15Lemuel Barrido18413 
16Vidyuth Kamesh17673 
17Ahmed Ilyasov17903 
18Arjun Raman17703 
19Margarita Tsyganova17503 
20Brian Peterson18883 
21Ian Broihier17613 
22Yash S Bhargava17013 
23Amarsaikhan Dashtogtokh19002.5 
24Tyler Rutherford18832.5 
25Vincent Springer18122.5 
26Vincent J Hart19022.5 
27Tony Thompson18132.5 
28Rishav Bhattacharyya17662.5 
29Srinath Goli19442.5 
30Paul D Lubinski17382.5 
31Megan Chen18262.5 
32Evan D Spiegel17982.5 
33Peishanika Rose Arnold18522.5 
34Arjun Bajaj16882.5 
35Scott Peterson19562 
36Ella Guo18302 
37Bret Thomas Obrien18022 
38Zach Nudo17372 
39Hector R Hernandez18002 
40Dharani Sree Ravi18002 
41Adil Dzelilovic17902 
42Christopher Cheng17012 
43Harvey Steven Hanke18122 
44Ria Raj17232 
45Chris Wainscott17662 
46Dimitri Kosteris16882 
47Mason Jin Li16052 
48Mike A Cronin17511.5 
49Vishwaa Kannan17451.5 
50Ethan Brown18211.5 
51Newman Shen18641.5 
52Senthil Sundaram18571.5 
53Alan Xu17731 
54George Trbojevic17981 
55Niklas C Heglin17221 
56Ella Sharpe Papanek19961 
57Sam Ford19250.5 
58Engin Katipoglu18900.5 
59Louisa Zhang16930 
60Mohammed H* Zafar17900 
61Matthew Kent Pikus18270 
62Mohammed H Zafar17900

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Final rankings – 15th annual Chicago Class 2022 Class B:

#NameRatingTotalPrize
1Ethan Emanuelson17404.52000
2Rebecca Phillips16294666.67
3Lorenzo Anagnost15264666.67
4Celina Zhou16444666.67
5Justin Zhang17103.5 
6Andy Dong14583.5 
7Rakshana Walker* Sundara15923.5 
8Advaith G Kodipparambil15853.5 
9Felix Zhang16303.5 
10Dario Pjevic16283.5 
11Oliver Rana13653.5 
12Ryan Zhang16643 
13Calvin Roach16593 
14Chengxi Li16243 
15Joshua Flores16023 
16Gaayathri Binoj16153 
17Samuel Lu16093 
18Stuart Yee15503 
19Ryan Jacob Wandsnider16472.5 
20Rahul Rajeshkumar16222.5 
21Vamsi Munaganuri16032.5 
22Adarsh Girish16132.5 
23Julian Wang15692.5 
24Joshua Gingerich15522.5 
25John Nguyen14992.5 
26Michael Nadair Daley15562.5 
27Amar Gupta15672 
28Francis Michael Sheehy16732 
29Keoni Frederick Osborne16052 
30Juan Bosco Ayala15242 
31Julius Cromartie16002 
32Jermaine Howlett16362 
33Justin Weinzweig16792 
34Cesaer Enverga17411.5 
35Jay Smalls15751.5 
36Andrew Stappenbeck17681.5 
37Stefan Benjamin Schaffer14271.5 
38Stephen James Scala15081.5 
39Abinoam Riji16151 
40Vijay Kannan15871 
41Bat Uya Molomjamts15681 
42Linda Chang15471 
43Thomas Walker15710 
44Alexandre Therrien15900 
45Isaac Daniel Adams16380 
46Rakshana Walker Sundara15920

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Final rankings – 15th annual Chicago Class 2022 Class C:

#NameRatingTotalPrize
1Ryan A Santoro14984.51700
2Aayush Thakkar14254340
3Boaz Lieberman14114340
4Aidan Baker13034340
5Aethelred Magni Hild Templin14644340
6Eric Saxe14694340
7Aron Amram14523.5 
8Jacob Joseph Plotnick14483.5 
9Asa Lieberman13003.5 
10Malik Brewley15863 
11Whitman Kosak13663 
12Mason Qiao13543 
13Everardo Gamino14273 
14Tyler Allen Hansen13483 
15Angella Zhang14243 
16Thor Heidrek Heidrek Templin15293 
17Manoj Rudraboinaunr.3 
18Monish Bhasin14203 
19Thomas A Doggett14612.5 
20Rudy Padilla15002.5 
21Jacob Buchanan Wang14422.5 
22Kavin Anup Bendre13122.5 
23Vinay Sridhar14852.5 
24Brooks Sonethongkham13812.5 
25Lokruth Patil15182 
26Stanley Ren14632 
27Millan Luke Whittier13082 
28Eskandar Saraie13152 
29Linda Pham14932 
30Luke Choi-mcfarlane13732 
31Agastya Vanama13642 
32Rebecca Cortez12562 
33Pauline Yang15131.5 
34Scott Stapel13461.5 
35Lev Reyzin14981.5 
36David J White14001.5 
37Sarah Renee Dalbyunr.1 
38Edwin Walker15551 
39Gopal Swaminathan15001 
40Aarush Rudrarajuunr.0.5 
41Malte Johannes Meindertsma14570 
42Joshua Johnson14020

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Final rankings – 15th annual Chicago Class 2022 Class D:

#NameRatingTotalPrize
1Rohan Menon11464.51050
2Ray Mingye Sun12064.51050
3Ethan F. Boley12354400
4Benjamin B Johnson12064400
5Colton Mcglynn13413.5 
6Nathaniel Merrick Miller13763.5 
7David L Bradley13093.5 
8Hemanth Samayamantri11343 
9Aiden Linyuan Li11903 
10Jeffrey Hill12313 
11Matthew Vincent* Malicki12443 
12Carl Kash11843 
13Ksenija A Matus9023 
14Eddy Li12593 
15Ojas Arohan Sahoo12343 
16Leonardo Dou11662.5 
17Robert James Scott12662.5 
18Harry Prasad11252.5 
19Tchenly Laguerre13002.5 
20Anish P P Deshpande11432.5 
21James Reszler12322.5 
22Sridhar Balas11182.5 
23Vishmi T Rajapaksha10952 
24Andrew Ticaounr.2 
25Alexander Pan11132 
26Kaylee Zheng12292 
27Paul Sco Hanrahan12272 
28George J Ford12202 
29Elias Matsakisunr.1.5 
30Sanjay Kumar Malisetty12201 
31Emmanuel Pabustan13091 
32Timothy A Lund12111 
33Lucas Dou12090.5 
34Mark David Sheft13190 
35Manuel Solorzano12420 
36Matthew Vincent Malicki12440 
37Jack Serafin1010 
38Aaditya Khatodunr.0 
39Braedyn Mulcahyunr.0

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Final rankings – 15th annual Chicago Class 2022 Class E:

#NameRatingTotalPrize
1Austen Johnson9814.5400
2Franklin Godinho10114.5400
3Alex Zhou9244.5400
4Alexander Woo8704.5400
5Braedyn Mulcahyunr.4.5100
6Srinivas Rao11754 
7Luke Andrew Koelikamp11654 
8Junho Park10734 
9Lucas Quintos4784 
10Kaleigh King10794 
11Jared Dong10233.5 
12Ridhima Bembey9753.5 
13Philip Ross6313.5 
14Heming Liu8023.5 
15Andrew Zhu6783.5 
16Akshay Bharadwaj8213.5 
17Jamie Woodard6653.5 
18Nayan Mathrani6493.5 
19Joyce J Zheng10123 
20Grant Heitman9163 
21Sebastian Bishoy Aziz9473 
22Robert Jamar Polite9453 
23Matthew Lucas Hough8183 
24Anup Ashok Bendre9323 
25Jacob Lyke8473 
26Elizabeth Xia6893 
27Victoria Chen8143 
28Ian Wan5393 
29Genesis Ines Richardson8283 
30Anthony Codrea8183 
31Siddhartha Govilkar10832.5 
32Jaylen Marshall6122.5 
33Megan Gansukh10542.5 
34Jian Wu7572.5 
35Roman Kash10802.5 
36Jashith Charvik Dadibattina10632.5 
37Srimathy Sridher8692.5 
38Yegna Sairam Jandhyala8232.5 
39Dylan William Mitchell7142.5 
40Suhana Sharad9802.5 
41Louis Chen8052.5 
42Ishaanaditya Karthik8432.5 
43Nysa Ranjan7902.5 
44Vasanth Thirunavukkarasu7282.5 
45Omjas Tripathi6662.5 
46Sri Krishav Gopal9422.5 
47Walter Pituc9552.5 
48Gaofei Wang10162 
49Parker Myers9252 
50Ethan Zhihao Jiao7542 
51Temuulen Turbat9882 
52Connor S Manning10182 
53Advait Kamath6862 
54Sanjana Prabhu6632 
55Jasmine Rao6012 
56Siddharth Sanchula9642 
57Purvi Swapna Menon6982 
58Dona Wilston10132 
59Sri Akshika Gopal9302 
60Avidha Biswas5222 
61Rishi Suresh3772 
62Jack Serafin1012 
63Andrew Mccray Kochunr.1.5 
64Aaditya Khatodunr.1.5 
65Aaditya Khanna3801.5 
66Joseph A Templeunr.1.5 
67Lucas Kuang2381.5 
68Bren Odom4131 
69Isgender Saparov4451 
70Caleb T Razdolsky2901 
71Aishwarya Samantarayunr.1 
72William Gansukh4361 
73Misheel Gankhuyag3911 
74Simon R Lu1011 
75Anna Jiao6341 
76Yuhan Liu2901 
77Darsh Mehta4490 
78Arthur Zarellas10140 

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