The 2022 NC Open was held over Thanksgiving Weekend from 25-27 November 2022 in Charlotte, NC, USA. The NCO featured a $11,000 prize fund and was played in 8 US Chess rated sections: Championship (1900+), U1900, U1700, U1500, U1300 and U1100. The event was running alongside the 2022 US Masters, a national event that featured the top players in the Americas.
Diego Zilleruelo won the main NC Open Championship (U2200 rating section). Zilleruelo scored 5.5 points to be the sole Winner of the event and pocketed the money prize of 1000$. Vishnusankar Jonnalagadda was second with 5 points and Emmanuel Carter and Sritej Sattaru tied for the third place with 4.5 points each. Scroll down for final rankings
Jay Sarchwill won the U1900 tournament with the score of 5.5 points. Satchwill won the winner’s plaque and the money prize of 800$. Dean Bowler and Kabilesh Yuvaraj tied for second scoring 5 points each. David Schmitz and Annika Moorjani tied for the first place of the U1700 Championship and won 600$ prize (each). Kishan Karthigeyan was third with 5 points. Three players tied for first in the U1500 tournament: Henry Hui, Sridattha Kukkadapu and Raymond Tu equally sharing the prize of 1300$ in three parts (433$ each). Brian Remhoff was the Winner of the U1300 event with score of 5.5 points and won the prize of 600$. Kritarth Mishra, Norbert Obendorfer and Aaryav Sasha tied for second place with 5 points each. Shreyas Krishnan and Jonah Nus scored 5.5 points (each) to tie for the Winners title in the U1100 section while four players tied for bronze: Aarna Gupta, Jairaj Desai, Ryan Huang and Joshua Daugherty. John Wanamaker and Khabir Muhammad scored 4 points each to top the U800 category and Sahithi Sharma and Bryan Tran scored 4 points tying for the top of the U400 section.
Final rankings – 2022 NC Open Championship:
#
Name
Rating
Total
Prize
1
Diego Zilleruelo
2124
5.5
$1000 + Plaque
2
Vishnusankar Jonnalagadda
1938
5
$500 – 2nd
3
Emmanuel Carter
2208
4.5
$300 – 3rd
4
Sritej Sattaru
2012
4.5
$400 – U2050
5
Thomas Kung
2267
4
$50 – 4th
6
Bob Holliman
2200
4
$50 – 4th
7
Tony Bergida
2076
4
$50 – 4th
8
Michael Wang
2056
4
$50 – 4th
9
Roshan Sethuraman
2025
4
$200 – 2nd U2050
10
Benjamin Snodgrass
2187
3.5
11
Jason McKinney
2126
3.5
12
FM John Oyeyemi Fawole
2110
3.5
13
WFM Uthra Pakkirisamy
2037
3.5
14
Jacob Stoll
2018
3.5
15
Asha Kumar
1975
3.5
16
Arjun Srinivasan
1926
3.5
17
Sanjay Kumar
1925
3.5
18
Akshat Suresh
1915
3.5
19
Mark Tulchinskiy
1910
3.5
20
Aditya Ramkumar
1864
3.5
21
Rahul Ramesh
1980
3
22
Marius Cutitaru
1917
3
23
Kevin Kellinsky-Gonzalez
1916
3
24
Christopher Williams
1886
3
25
Patrick Kengsoontra
1860
3
26
Angel Spielvogel
1833
3
27
Mario Pineda-Bermudez
1820
3
28
Dereck Laureano
2009
2.5
29
Patrick Sciacca
2007
2.5
30
WFM Karen Hoshino
1911
2.5
31
Yanira Rivera Negron
1833
2.5
32
Mathew Jiang
1831
2.5
33
Alex Chu
1828
2.5
34
Alan Chen
1821
2.5
35
Leo Chang
1813
2.5
36
Yogya Koneru
1806
2.5
37
Sasha Creighton
1984
2
38
Adam Kostrinsky
1981
2
39
Nirav Natha
1830
2
40
Noshir Patel
1813
2
41
Tyler Schmuggerow
1812
2
42
Saharsh Shetty
1823
1.5
43
Arav Goldstein
1820
1.5
44
Smayan Ammasani
1813
1.5
45
Amin Samani
1838
1
46
Zachary Snively
1838
0.5