Spring 2022 Kickoff

$150 GUARANTEED Prizes
POSTPONED TO FEBRUARY 11

Tournament Details:

• Site: Room received, to be announced shortly

• FREE Entry

• 6 rounds, G/5 (rounds start ASAP)

  • Approximate Round Times: 5:30 - 5:45 - 6 - 6:15 - 6:30 - 6:45

• One Section, $150 Prizes (must be GT student to be eligible for prizes, anyone can play)

  • 1st - $20

  • 2nd - $15

  • 3rd - $10

  • U2100 - $10

  • U1800 - $10

  • U1500 - $15

  • U1200 - $10

  • U900 - $10

  • $50 extra to be split among the above prizes

• Non-USCF Rated, CLOCK MOVE

• Notation NOT Required

• Higher of chess.com blitz or rapid used for pairings and prizes

• If your lichess is more accurate, we will use the following conversion: https://chessgoals.com/rating-comparison/

• Please bring your boards and/or clock if you have one; may use phone app as a clock

• REGISTRATION (closes at 12pm Friday): https://forms.gle/6tj4CDcbXeaD4zuK7

• Note: Must check in by 5pm or let DragonMateZ#3673 know that you are on your way to be paired for Round 1

• No Half Point Byes Allowed

Advanced Entries (updated 2/11 @ 12:30pm)

1. NM Iskandar Aripov (2650)

2. NM Andrew Titus (2605)

3. NM Saigautam Bonam (2475)

4. NM Vedic Panda (2457)

5. Aleksandr Lutsenko (2337)

6. Ryan Zhou (2201)

7. NM Ganesh Murugappan (2154)

8. CM Diego De Dios Suarez (2043)

9. Mitul Pandya (1950)

10. Vignesh Sekar (1906)

11. Jesse Dill (1839)

12. Andrew Zhang (1830)

13. Anish Kumar (1812)

14. Yuanzhao Yang (1798)

15. Matthew Ha (1750)

16. Jared Jordan (1712)

17. Kevin Shu (1676)

18. Satvik Katla (1675)

19. George Sorkin (1659)

20. Mirabel Reid (1650)

21. Jacob Amin (1623)

22. Richard Yu (1602)

23. Arjun Thangaraj Ramshankar (1596)

24. Nicklas Pank (1577)

25. Yono Bulis (1521)

26. David Teng (1520)

27. Abhigyan Khaund (1506)

28. Ayush Agarwal (1493)

29. James Joh (1450)

30. Sam DeCoster (1433)

31. Thomas Hunt (1431)

32. Stefan Talpa (1416)

33. Siddharth Sen (1414)

34. Sean Aoki (1408)

35. Jacob Wutzler (1400)

36. Chase Baxter (1375)

37. Alex Hobby (1374)

38. Ritarka Samanta (1373)

39. Vishaal Kareti (1372)

40. Alex Kaylor (1350)

41. Luke LaScala (1310)

42. Samuel Zhang (1300)

43. Diego Alba (1225)

44. Mustafo Kurbonov (1207)

45. Ammar Ladhani (1193)

46. Yashwant Singh (1155)

47. Kevin Fu (1175)

48. Sankalp Sangle (1150)

49. Trevon Allen (1112)

50. Ben Lombardo (1100)

51. Eashaan Godbole (1070)

52. Kelvin Matthews (1050)

53. Arvind Raza (1042)

54. Christian Burciaga (1000)

55. Eric Dalva (950)

56. Malik Blackman (941)

57. Zaid Khaishagi (938)

58. Katie Park (899)

59. Anthony Otlowski (820)

60. Noah Joseph (750)

61. Kevin Lu (700)

62. Yu Uchiyama (unr)

63. Ram Chatoth (unr)