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

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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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Final rankings – 15th annual Chicago Class 2022 Masters:

#	Name	Rating	Total	Prize
1	IM Sam Schmakel	2504	4.5	3100
2	GM Elshan Moradiabadi	2614	4	1150
3	GM Lazaro Bruzon Batista	2694	4	1150
4	Matias Shundi	2135	3.5	900
5	Nicholas Ladan	2270	3.5	900
6	Rohit Guha	2135	3	125
7	Andrew Lewis Titus	2340	3	125
8	Elijah Samuel Platnick	2132	3	125
9	Avi Harrison Kaplan	2090	3	125
10	James L Nguyen	2180	2.5
11	Jonathan Sterling Kogen	2343	2.5
12	Nicholas Bruha	2161	2.5
13	WFM Nastassja A Matus	2068	2.5
14	Aiden Reiss	2125	2.5
15	Steven J Szpisjak	2200	2
16	Luke Sicong Ye	2116	2
17	Frederick S Rhine	2113	2
18	Steven Cooklev	2199	2
19	Daniel Bronfeyn	2182	2
20	Kevin Ho	2087	2
21	Aidan M Carey	2137	2
22	Jesse Ren	2114	1.5
23	Rishi T Narayanan	2155	1.5
24	Okechukwu Anele Nnej Iwu	2230	1.5
25	Ankush Moolky	2216	1.5
26	Deniz Alp Gulecyuz	2191	1.5
27	Yuta Kakutani	2125	1

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Final rankings – 15th annual Chicago Class 2022 Expert:

#	Name	Rating	Total	Prize
1	Anthony Parker	2145	5	2000
2	Gregory Revesz	2037	4.5	1000
3	Patrick Rao	2004	4	600
4	Deshawn L Kelley	2184	3.5	133.33
5	Ariunbold Batchuluun	2178	3.5	133.33
6	WCM Anh Nhu Nguyen	2012	3.5	133.33
7	Eric Starkman	2068	3
8	Anuj Dahiya	2058	3
9	WCM Shreya Mangalam	2131	3
10	Joshua Meng	1920	3
11	Daniel Lee	2078	3
12	WCM Natalie Wisniowski	1961	3
13	Jack Heller	2065	3
14	Michael Chiflikyan	2009	3
15	Isaac George	2068	3
16	Timothy Chien En Lim	2001	3
17	Naren S Prasanna	2000	3
18	Eduard Danilyan	2048	3
19	Grant Mu	2034	3
20	Anjaneya Sripathy Rao	1958	2.5
21	Amgalanbaatar Ravdanlkhumbuu	2086	2.5
22	Nathan Ping-ying Wu	1950	2.5
23	Alex Li	1870	2.5
24	Ryan Murphy	2063	2.5
25	Aidan P Kaczanowski	2003	2.5
26	Ethan Guo	2008	2.5
27	Ethan Y Liang	1914	2
28	Ruoyu Guo	1996	2
29	Bryce Mc Clanahan	1965	2
30	Michael R S Williams	1923	2
31	Rene E Ancheta	2048	2
32	Gauri Menon	1912	2
33	Vedant Ameya Talwalkar	1950	1.5
34	Florentino Inumerable	2027	1.5
35	Ethan A Gagliano	1965	1.5
36	Derek Paitrick	2075	1.5
37	Daniel Phipps	2023	1.5
38	Mark Hamilton	1941	1.5
39	Ekansh Mehrotra	1930	1
40	Alex Cheng	1912	1
41	Robert D Sax	2000	0.5
42	Ethan Toby Lyu	1950	0
43	Arendal Markovic	2000	0

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

#	Name	Rating	Total	Prize
1	Austin T Earsley	1870	4.5	1500
2	Aitegin Akmatbekov	1833	4.5	1500
3	Sean McCarter	1730	4	250
4	Sohan Anup Bendre	1710	4	250
5	Zvonko Juric	1855	4	250
6	Jay Feng	1635	4	250
7	Alex Kong	1813	3.5
8	Jon Douglas Phillips	1860	3.5
9	Ayden Huang	1831	3.5
10	Yohan Ghosh	1646	3.5
11	Charles H H Craigmile	1723	3.5
12	Danilo Quizol Bucal	1789	3.5
13	Michael Li	1775	3.5
14	Sanjith Prabhu	1792	3
15	Lemuel Barrido	1841	3
16	Vidyuth Kamesh	1767	3
17	Ahmed Ilyasov	1790	3
18	Arjun Raman	1770	3
19	Margarita Tsyganova	1750	3
20	Brian Peterson	1888	3
21	Ian Broihier	1761	3
22	Yash S Bhargava	1701	3
23	Amarsaikhan Dashtogtokh	1900	2.5
24	Tyler Rutherford	1883	2.5
25	Vincent Springer	1812	2.5
26	Vincent J Hart	1902	2.5
27	Tony Thompson	1813	2.5
28	Rishav Bhattacharyya	1766	2.5
29	Srinath Goli	1944	2.5
30	Paul D Lubinski	1738	2.5
31	Megan Chen	1826	2.5
32	Evan D Spiegel	1798	2.5
33	Peishanika Rose Arnold	1852	2.5
34	Arjun Bajaj	1688	2.5
35	Scott Peterson	1956	2
36	Ella Guo	1830	2
37	Bret Thomas Obrien	1802	2
38	Zach Nudo	1737	2
39	Hector R Hernandez	1800	2
40	Dharani Sree Ravi	1800	2
41	Adil Dzelilovic	1790	2
42	Christopher Cheng	1701	2
43	Harvey Steven Hanke	1812	2
44	Ria Raj	1723	2
45	Chris Wainscott	1766	2
46	Dimitri Kosteris	1688	2
47	Mason Jin Li	1605	2
48	Mike A Cronin	1751	1.5
49	Vishwaa Kannan	1745	1.5
50	Ethan Brown	1821	1.5
51	Newman Shen	1864	1.5
52	Senthil Sundaram	1857	1.5
53	Alan Xu	1773	1
54	George Trbojevic	1798	1
55	Niklas C Heglin	1722	1
56	Ella Sharpe Papanek	1996	1
57	Sam Ford	1925	0.5
58	Engin Katipoglu	1890	0.5
59	Louisa Zhang	1693	0
60	Mohammed H* Zafar	1790	0
61	Matthew Kent Pikus	1827	0
62	Mohammed H Zafar	1790	0

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

#	Name	Rating	Total	Prize
1	Ethan Emanuelson	1740	4.5	2000
2	Rebecca Phillips	1629	4	666.67
3	Lorenzo Anagnost	1526	4	666.67
4	Celina Zhou	1644	4	666.67
5	Justin Zhang	1710	3.5
6	Andy Dong	1458	3.5
7	Rakshana Walker* Sundara	1592	3.5
8	Advaith G Kodipparambil	1585	3.5
9	Felix Zhang	1630	3.5
10	Dario Pjevic	1628	3.5
11	Oliver Rana	1365	3.5
12	Ryan Zhang	1664	3
13	Calvin Roach	1659	3
14	Chengxi Li	1624	3
15	Joshua Flores	1602	3
16	Gaayathri Binoj	1615	3
17	Samuel Lu	1609	3
18	Stuart Yee	1550	3
19	Ryan Jacob Wandsnider	1647	2.5
20	Rahul Rajeshkumar	1622	2.5
21	Vamsi Munaganuri	1603	2.5
22	Adarsh Girish	1613	2.5
23	Julian Wang	1569	2.5
24	Joshua Gingerich	1552	2.5
25	John Nguyen	1499	2.5
26	Michael Nadair Daley	1556	2.5
27	Amar Gupta	1567	2
28	Francis Michael Sheehy	1673	2
29	Keoni Frederick Osborne	1605	2
30	Juan Bosco Ayala	1524	2
31	Julius Cromartie	1600	2
32	Jermaine Howlett	1636	2
33	Justin Weinzweig	1679	2
34	Cesaer Enverga	1741	1.5
35	Jay Smalls	1575	1.5
36	Andrew Stappenbeck	1768	1.5
37	Stefan Benjamin Schaffer	1427	1.5
38	Stephen James Scala	1508	1.5
39	Abinoam Riji	1615	1
40	Vijay Kannan	1587	1
41	Bat Uya Molomjamts	1568	1
42	Linda Chang	1547	1
43	Thomas Walker	1571	0
44	Alexandre Therrien	1590	0
45	Isaac Daniel Adams	1638	0
46	Rakshana Walker Sundara	1592	0

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

#	Name	Rating	Total	Prize
1	Ryan A Santoro	1498	4.5	1700
2	Aayush Thakkar	1425	4	340
3	Boaz Lieberman	1411	4	340
4	Aidan Baker	1303	4	340
5	Aethelred Magni Hild Templin	1464	4	340
6	Eric Saxe	1469	4	340
7	Aron Amram	1452	3.5
8	Jacob Joseph Plotnick	1448	3.5
9	Asa Lieberman	1300	3.5
10	Malik Brewley	1586	3
11	Whitman Kosak	1366	3
12	Mason Qiao	1354	3
13	Everardo Gamino	1427	3
14	Tyler Allen Hansen	1348	3
15	Angella Zhang	1424	3
16	Thor Heidrek Heidrek Templin	1529	3
17	Manoj Rudraboina	unr.	3
18	Monish Bhasin	1420	3
19	Thomas A Doggett	1461	2.5
20	Rudy Padilla	1500	2.5
21	Jacob Buchanan Wang	1442	2.5
22	Kavin Anup Bendre	1312	2.5
23	Vinay Sridhar	1485	2.5
24	Brooks Sonethongkham	1381	2.5
25	Lokruth Patil	1518	2
26	Stanley Ren	1463	2
27	Millan Luke Whittier	1308	2
28	Eskandar Saraie	1315	2
29	Linda Pham	1493	2
30	Luke Choi-mcfarlane	1373	2
31	Agastya Vanama	1364	2
32	Rebecca Cortez	1256	2
33	Pauline Yang	1513	1.5
34	Scott Stapel	1346	1.5
35	Lev Reyzin	1498	1.5
36	David J White	1400	1.5
37	Sarah Renee Dalby	unr.	1
38	Edwin Walker	1555	1
39	Gopal Swaminathan	1500	1
40	Aarush Rudraraju	unr.	0.5
41	Malte Johannes Meindertsma	1457	0
42	Joshua Johnson	1402	0

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

#	Name	Rating	Total	Prize
1	Rohan Menon	1146	4.5	1050
2	Ray Mingye Sun	1206	4.5	1050
3	Ethan F. Boley	1235	4	400
4	Benjamin B Johnson	1206	4	400
5	Colton Mcglynn	1341	3.5
6	Nathaniel Merrick Miller	1376	3.5
7	David L Bradley	1309	3.5
8	Hemanth Samayamantri	1134	3
9	Aiden Linyuan Li	1190	3
10	Jeffrey Hill	1231	3
11	Matthew Vincent* Malicki	1244	3
12	Carl Kash	1184	3
13	Ksenija A Matus	902	3
14	Eddy Li	1259	3
15	Ojas Arohan Sahoo	1234	3
16	Leonardo Dou	1166	2.5
17	Robert James Scott	1266	2.5
18	Harry Prasad	1125	2.5
19	Tchenly Laguerre	1300	2.5
20	Anish P P Deshpande	1143	2.5
21	James Reszler	1232	2.5
22	Sridhar Balas	1118	2.5
23	Vishmi T Rajapaksha	1095	2
24	Andrew Ticao	unr.	2
25	Alexander Pan	1113	2
26	Kaylee Zheng	1229	2
27	Paul Sco Hanrahan	1227	2
28	George J Ford	1220	2
29	Elias Matsakis	unr.	1.5
30	Sanjay Kumar Malisetty	1220	1
31	Emmanuel Pabustan	1309	1
32	Timothy A Lund	1211	1
33	Lucas Dou	1209	0.5
34	Mark David Sheft	1319	0
35	Manuel Solorzano	1242	0
36	Matthew Vincent Malicki	1244	0
37	Jack Serafin	101	0
38	Aaditya Khatod	unr.	0
39	Braedyn Mulcahy	unr.	0

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

#	Name	Rating	Total	Prize
1	Austen Johnson	981	4.5	400
2	Franklin Godinho	1011	4.5	400
3	Alex Zhou	924	4.5	400
4	Alexander Woo	870	4.5	400
5	Braedyn Mulcahy	unr.	4.5	100
6	Srinivas Rao	1175	4
7	Luke Andrew Koelikamp	1165	4
8	Junho Park	1073	4
9	Lucas Quintos	478	4
10	Kaleigh King	1079	4
11	Jared Dong	1023	3.5
12	Ridhima Bembey	975	3.5
13	Philip Ross	631	3.5
14	Heming Liu	802	3.5
15	Andrew Zhu	678	3.5
16	Akshay Bharadwaj	821	3.5
17	Jamie Woodard	665	3.5
18	Nayan Mathrani	649	3.5
19	Joyce J Zheng	1012	3
20	Grant Heitman	916	3
21	Sebastian Bishoy Aziz	947	3
22	Robert Jamar Polite	945	3
23	Matthew Lucas Hough	818	3
24	Anup Ashok Bendre	932	3
25	Jacob Lyke	847	3
26	Elizabeth Xia	689	3
27	Victoria Chen	814	3
28	Ian Wan	539	3
29	Genesis Ines Richardson	828	3
30	Anthony Codrea	818	3
31	Siddhartha Govilkar	1083	2.5
32	Jaylen Marshall	612	2.5
33	Megan Gansukh	1054	2.5
34	Jian Wu	757	2.5
35	Roman Kash	1080	2.5
36	Jashith Charvik Dadibattina	1063	2.5
37	Srimathy Sridher	869	2.5
38	Yegna Sairam Jandhyala	823	2.5
39	Dylan William Mitchell	714	2.5
40	Suhana Sharad	980	2.5
41	Louis Chen	805	2.5
42	Ishaanaditya Karthik	843	2.5
43	Nysa Ranjan	790	2.5
44	Vasanth Thirunavukkarasu	728	2.5
45	Omjas Tripathi	666	2.5
46	Sri Krishav Gopal	942	2.5
47	Walter Pituc	955	2.5
48	Gaofei Wang	1016	2
49	Parker Myers	925	2
50	Ethan Zhihao Jiao	754	2
51	Temuulen Turbat	988	2
52	Connor S Manning	1018	2
53	Advait Kamath	686	2
54	Sanjana Prabhu	663	2
55	Jasmine Rao	601	2
56	Siddharth Sanchula	964	2
57	Purvi Swapna Menon	698	2
58	Dona Wilston	1013	2
59	Sri Akshika Gopal	930	2
60	Avidha Biswas	522	2
61	Rishi Suresh	377	2
62	Jack Serafin	101	2
63	Andrew Mccray Koch	unr.	1.5
64	Aaditya Khatod	unr.	1.5
65	Aaditya Khanna	380	1.5
66	Joseph A Temple	unr.	1.5
67	Lucas Kuang	238	1.5
68	Bren Odom	413	1
69	Isgender Saparov	445	1
70	Caleb T Razdolsky	290	1
71	Aishwarya Samantaray	unr.	1
72	William Gansukh	436	1
73	Misheel Gankhuyag	391	1
74	Simon R Lu	101	1
75	Anna Jiao	634	1
76	Yuhan Liu	290	1
77	Darsh Mehta	449	0
78	Arthur Zarellas	1014	0

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