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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