Charlotte Chess Fall Open takes place September 26-28, 2025 at Hilton Garden Inn – Southpark. It features 107 players, divided in several events. The Champ 3day tournament is headed by the World Cup participant and 2700 club member Awonder Liang. His main opposition comes from GM Jianchao Zhou, GM Kayden Troff, FM Andrew Jiang, FM James Chirilov, WGM Dina Belenkaya, etc. Scroll down for the full participants list.
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Section
Name
Rating
CHAMP 3DAY
1
Champ 3Day
GM Awonder Liang
2762
2
Champ 3Day
GM Jianchao Zhou
2664
3
Champ 3Day
GM Kayden Troff
2571
4
Champ 3Day
FM Andrew Jiang
2355
5
Champ 3Day
FM James Chirilov
2341
6
Champ 3Day
WGM Dina Belenkaya
2320
7
Champ 3Day
Alexander Crump
2303
8
Champ 3Day
Andrew Wu
2284
9
Champ 3Day
Dominique Myers
2240
10
Champ 3Day
Advaith Karthik
2231
11
Champ 3Day
Yohan J
2223
12
Champ 3Day
Sri Vibhav Bondalapati
2214
13
Champ 3Day
Neal Harris
2203
14
Champ 3Day
Aaron Wang
2155
15
Champ 3Day
Orry Marciano
2150
16
Champ 3Day
Alex Chu
2139
17
Champ 3Day
Beiyang Ni
2138
18
Champ 3Day
Advik Prasanna
2138
19
Champ 3Day
Zubin Baliga
2129
20
Champ 3Day
Oscar Zhang
2110
21
Champ 3Day
Miles Tisserand
2082
22
Champ 3Day
Benjamin Tyrrell
2071
23
Champ 3Day
Lukas Lebakken
2063
24
Champ 3Day
Alan Chen
2060
25
Champ 3Day
Patrick McCartney
2053
26
Champ 3Day
Krishna Rallabandi
2047
27
Champ 3Day
Shawn Pealer
2046
28
Champ 3Day
Rishi Kolli
2033
29
Champ 3Day
Marius Cutitaru
2023
30
Champ 3Day
Kishan Karthigeyan
2014
31
Champ 3Day
Naitik Rathi
2013
32
Champ 3Day
Yang Yu
2005
33
Champ 3Day
Dhruv Vivek
1994
34
Champ 3Day
Christopher Williams
1992
35
Champ 3Day
Ishaan Ballal
1983
36
Champ 3Day
Musa Naushad
1970
37
Champ 3Day
Kevin Rojas
1969
38
Champ 3Day
Aditya Ramkumar
1960
39
Champ 3Day
Neil Harit
1957
40
Champ 3Day
Smayan Ammassani
1955
41
Champ 3Day
Veronique Joseph
1954
42
Champ 3Day
Anmay Chaudhury
1945
43
Champ 3Day
Antonio Padron
1945
44
Champ 3Day
Leo Le-Tran
1945
45
Champ 3Day
Arav Srivastava
1935
46
Champ 3Day
Allen Li
1930
47
Champ 3Day
Celine Chen
1928
48
Champ 3Day
Lakshmi Morgan
1928
49
Champ 3Day
Ayush Murthy
1926
50
Champ 3Day
Eshwar Kothapalli
1921
51
Champ 3Day
Samuel Paukowitz
1906
52
Champ 3Day
Trishona Vinodh Kumar
1821
CHAMP 2DAY
53
Champ 2Day
Saharsh Santosh
2214
54
Champ 2Day
Vihaan Pendse
2061
55
Champ 2Day
Raghav Arun
2033
56
Champ 2Day
Brian Zhang
2003
57
Champ 2Day
Walker Gilbert
1964
58
Champ 2Day
John Nguyen
1937
59
Champ 2Day
Jairaj Desai
1934
60
Champ 2Day
Sri Pradyumn Pallapothu
1893
U2000 3DAY
61
U2000 3Day
Jay Garrison
1893
62
U2000 3Day
Arsh Sharda
1879
63
U2000 3Day
Bradley Marts
1878
64
U2000 3Day
Lennie Cohen-Solal
1859
65
U2000 3Day
Kai Modaresi-Beal
1823
66
U2000 3Day
Anvay Phadke
1820
67
U2000 3Day
Kyle Cameron
1816
68
U2000 3Day
Saharsh Koka
1814
69
U2000 3Day
Garret Allen
1798
70
U2000 3Day
Vihaan Purohit
1795
71
U2000 3Day
Jonathan Gao
1786
72
U2000 3Day
Mukund Neema
1770
73
U2000 3Day
Mario Pineda-Bermudez
1758
74
U2000 3Day
Sanchit Haripradeep
1739
75
U2000 3Day
Khushi Kumari
1729
76
U2000 3Day
Ibraheem Naushad
1723
77
U2000 3Day
Laura Zhang
1723
78
U2000 3Day
Jared Crawford
1721
79
U2000 3Day
Harith Hmimda
1716
80
U2000 3Day
Viraj Phadke
1712
81
U2000 3Day
Johann Jayabarath
1692
82
U2000 3Day
Siddhant Gutgutia
1667
83
U2000 3Day
Pranav Arun
1660
84
U2000 3Day
Benito Raul Losada
1657
85
U2000 3Day
Jason Hoagland
1651
86
U2000 3Day
Siddharth Basavaraju
1649
87
U2000 3Day
Reyansh Mayank
1616
88
U2000 3Day
Yurii Fryziuk
1615
89
U2000 3Day
Julius Cromartie
1600
90
U2000 3Day
Ali Thompson
1600
91
U2000 3Day
Nischay Shyam Peela
1600
92
U2000 3Day
Shaurya Nannapaneni
1580
93
U2000 3Day
Jayanth Saravanakumar
1573
U2000 2DAY
94
U2000 2Day
Isabella Yan
1868
95
U2000 2Day
Gavin Song
1810
96
U2000 2Day
Adam Schoonveld
1772
97
U2000 2Day
Siddharth Santosh
1771
98
U2000 2Day
Dalton Bridges
1763
99
U2000 2Day
Lucas Xi
1763
100
U2000 2Day
Aadhav NR
1715
101
U2000 2Day
Diya Balamurugan
1695
102
U2000 2Day
Raghav Keskar
1692
103
U2000 2Day
Nishita Jaikumar
1692
104
U2000 2Day
Benjamin Xia
1674
105
U2000 2Day
Sattwik Dutta
1670
106
U2000 2Day
Adit Zetshi
1663
107
U2000 2Day
Arjun Raja
1661