6th Carolinas Classic concluded

The 6th Annual Carolinas Classic took place from 10-12 June at Hilton Charlotte University Place. The event featured a prize fund of $12,000 in 9 USCF-rated sections.

The final rounds of the record breaking Carolinas Classic are being played today. 383 players from 23 states are participating!

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Four players tied for the top in the main Championship: GM Daniel Naroditsky, GM Elshan Moradiabadi, GM Alexander Shabalov and IM David Brodsky. Each of the players who shared the top won the money prize of 600$. The Carolinas Blitz Championship took place on Saturday evening. GM Daniel Naroditsky won the event, with convincing score of 6 points being a full point ahead of the runner-up Graham Horobetz. (scroll down for final rankings)
Read more: GM Daniel Naroditsky becomes The New York Times chess columnist

Final rankings – 2022 Carolinas Classic Championship:

#	Name	Total	Prize
1	GM Daniel Naroditsky	4.5	$600.00
2	GM Elshan Moradiabadi	4.5	$600.00 + Plaque
3	GM Alexander Shabalov	4.5	$600.00
4	IM David Brodsky	4.5	$600.00
5	GM Magesh Panchanathan	4
6	IM Tianqi Wang	4
7	Deepak Aaron	4
8	IM Dean Ippolito	3.5
9	FM Ryan Amburgy	3.5
10	Advaith Karthik	3.5	$85.71
11	Marvin Gao	3.5	$85.71
12	Alex Chen	3.5	$85.71
13	Tyson Brady	3.5	$85.71
14	Kevin Su	3.5	$85.71
15	Rohit Guha	3.5	$85.71
16	Brian Tay	3.5	$85.71
17	IM David Vigorito	3
18	Graham Horobetz	3
19	Donald Johnson	3
20	Naveen Prabhu	3
21	Pedro Espinosa	3
22	Andrew Jiang	3
23	Carter Peatman	3
24	Adharsh Rajagopal	3
25	Leo Yu	3
26	Ethan Liu	3
27	Caleb Hina	3
28	Dominique Myers	2.5
29	Emmanuel Carter	2.5
30	Benjamin* Snodgrass	2.5
31	James Nguyen	2.5
32	Yili Wen	2.5
33	Mark Biernacki	2.5
34	Abhiram Pothuri	2.5
35	WFM Uthra Pakkirisamy	2.5
36	Vishal Balyan	2.5
37	Dereck Laureano	2.5
38	George Dai	2.5
39	Anand Bhatt	2.5
40	Lang Leo Xiong	2.5
41	Jason Shen	2.5
42	Maurice Dana	2
43	Anshul Gokul	2
44	Evan Sammons	2
45	Cannon Farragut	2
46	Eric Zhang	2
47	Baldomero Garcia	2
48	Sritej Sattaru	2
49	Arav Patel	2
50	Asha Kumar	2
51	Benjamin Tyrrell	2
52	Jacob Stoll	1.5
53	Kevin Wang	1.5
54	Chase Bellamy	1.5
55	Michael Guan	1.5
56	Kyle Yiwen Wang	1.5
57	James Chirilov	1
58	William Wu	1
59	James Dill	1
60	Daniel Yang	1
61	Jayden Xu	1
62	Samuel He	1
63	Andrew Wu	1
64	Neal Harris	0
65	Benjamin Snodgrass	0
66	Mark Ishee	0
67	Christian Chavez	0
68	Christian* Chavez	0
69	Ervin Blanks	0

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Final standings Blitz:

#	Name	Rating	Total	Prize
1	GM Daniel Naroditsky	2695	6	$120.00/1st
2	Graham Horobetz	2347	5	$60.00/2nd
3	GM Magesh Panchanathan	2556	4.5	$15.00/3rd
4	Derek Zhang	2257	4.5	$15.00/4th
5	Donald Johnson	2247	4.5	$15.00
6	Naveen Prabhu	2217	4.5	$15.00
7	Alex Chen	2168	4.5	$20.00/U2200
8	Dominique Myers	2235	4
9	Benjamin Snodgrass	2205	4
10	Pedro Espinosa	2192	4
11	Andrew Jiang	2189	4
12	Yili Wen	2172	4
13	James Chirilov	2093	4
14	Evan Sammons	2073	4
15	Abhiram Pothuri	2070	4
16	Jacob Stoll	2032	4
17	Kevin Wang	2023	4
18	Vishal Balyan	2007	4
19	Sritej Sattaru	2001	4
20	Daniel Yang	1957	4	$20.00/U2000
21	George Dai	1999	3.5
22	Chase Bellamy	1956	3.5
23	Jayden Xu	1956	3.5
24	Asha Kumar	1931	3.5
25	FM Ryan Amburgy	2310	3
26	Emmanuel Carter	2207	3
27	Anshul Gokul	2097	3
28	Brian Tay	2056	3
29	Anand Bhatt	1996	3
30	Lang Leo Xiong	1981	3
31	Patrick McCartney	1974	3
32	Mark Tulchinskiy	1951	3
33	Samuel He	1942	3
34	Michael Kliber	1930	3
35	Jeremy Chen	1904	3
36	Damian Krotov	1895	3
37	Dhruv Rajaganesh	1859	3
38	Vishnusankar Jonnalagadda	1848	3
39	Will Moorhouse	1836	3
40	Eric Zhang	2024	2.5
41	Dereck Laureano	2004	2.5
42	Roger Johnson	1981	2.5
43	Esther Jou	1850	2.5
44	Jay Satchwill	1803	2.5
45	Kanishk Mahesh	1788	2.5	$4.00/U1800
46	Mathew Jiang	1749	2.5	$4.00
47	Justin Trey	1740	2.5	$4.00
48	Brian Mapakamise	1723	2.5	$4.00
49	Andrew Ehrman	1653	2.5	$4.00
50	Yogya Koneru	1777	2
51	Sourish Kavale	1750	2
52	Leo Chang	1740	2
53	Ishan Patel	1734	2
54	Alan Chen	1720	2
55	Javier Perez	1688	2
56	Steve Draughn	1688	2
57	Shravan Dash	1661	2
58	Melvin Hayes	1607	2
59	Leo Yu	1971	1.5
60	Felix McCain	1799	1.5
61	Ali Shirzad	1772	1.5
62	Justin He	1761	1.5
63	Josh Bhatt	1755	1.5
64	Aditya Ramkumar	1739	1.5
65	Luke Zimmer	1709	1
66	Paul King	1858	0.5
67	GM Jacob Aagaard	2573	0

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