2017 CCCSA GM/IM Norm Invitational

March 29, 2017

GMGROUPA
 Name: TANGUY RINGOIR
Current Rating: 2518
Title: GM		BEL 
#4 rated player from Belgium, top rated player from Maryland, 3-time Belgian National Champion, holds the largest cumulative plus score in CCC Invitationals (43 wins, 129 draws, 8 losses). 21st CCC Norm Invitational.
 Name: ALEXANDER FISHBEIN
Current Rating: 2481
Title: GM		USA 
 Name: MICHAEL W BROWN
Current Rating: 2478
Title: GM		USA 
 Name: DANIEL GUREVICH
Current Rating: 2465
Title: IM		USA 
 Name: JOHN BARTHOLOMEW
Current Rating: 2453
Title: IM		USA 
 Name: ALEXANDER KALIKSHTEYN
Current Rating: 2453
Title: IM		USA 
Former competitor in the US Championship, 1993 Denker High School Tournament Champion, 1 GM norm. 9th CCC Norm Invitational.
 Name: NIKHIL KUMAR
Current Rating: 2444
Title: IM		USA 
 Name: AMAN HAMBLETON
Current Rating: 2441
Title: GM		CAN 
 Name: ALONSO ZAPATA
Current Rating: 2426
Title: GM		COL 
8-time Colombian Champion, first Colombian Grandmaster, 12-time Olympiad representative, defeated World Champions Vasily Smyslov and Vishy Anand. 9th CCC Norm Invitational.
 Name: GAURI SHANKAR
Current Rating: 2320
Title: FM		IND 
Chess streamer with 8 IM norms (last 4 from CCC Invitationals). 29th CCC Norm Invitational.
IMGROUPB
 Name: ZURAB JAVAKHADZE
Current Rating: 2470
Title: IM		GEO 
5-time Texas State Champion with 4 GM norms. 5th CCC Norm Invitational.
 Name: JOHN LUDWIG
Current Rating: 2397
Title: IM		USA 
 Name: ROBERTO MARTIN DEL CAMPO
Current Rating: 2392
Title: IM		MEX 
World Chess Olympiad Gold Medalist (4-time representative), 2 draws with former World Champion Vishy Anand. 298th CCC Norm Invitational (CCC record).
 Name: DAVID VIGORITO
Current Rating: 2370
Title: IM		USA 
9-time chess author, former champion of New England, Nevada, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. 4th CCC Norm Invitational.
 Name: DAVID BRODSKY
Current Rating: 2330
Title: GM		USA 
#11 rated player under age 21 in the US, winner of 2018 US Cadet Championship, 2019 National Chess Congress, 2019 Washington Chess Congress, member of University of Texas at Dallas chess team. 3rd CCC Norm Invitational.
 Name: MICHAEL KLEINMAN
Current Rating: 2289
Title: FM		CAN 
 Name: EWA HARAZINSKA
Current Rating: 2257
Title: WIM		POL 
 Name: RICHARD FRANCISCO
Current Rating: 2253
Title: FM		USA 
 Name: TIANQI WANG
Current Rating: 2215
Title: IM		USA 
North Carolina's first home grown IM (earned 6 IM norms from CCC Norm Invitationals).
 Name: KAPISH POTULA
Current Rating: 2075
Title: 		USA 
IMGROUPC
 Name: TITAS STREMAVICIUS
Current Rating: 2453
Title: GM		LTU 
#4 rated player from Lithuania, 3-time Olympiad representative.
 Name: FELIX YNOJOSA APONTE
Current Rating: 2378
Title: IM		VEN 
 Name: ANDREW HONG
Current Rating: 2378
Title: GM		USA 
 Name: SETH HOMA
Current Rating: 2326
Title: FM		USA 
#5 rated player from Michigan, 2-time Michigan Open Champion, 4 IM norms. 5th CCC Norm Invitational.
 Name: ANGELO YOUNG
Current Rating: 2294
Title: IM		PHI 
 Name: EDWARD SONG
Current Rating: 2285
Title: IM		USA 
 Name: SANJAY GHATTI
Current Rating: 2276
Title: IM		USA 
 Name: YUANCHEN ZHANG
Current Rating: 2268
Title: IM		CAN 
 Name: BENJAMIN MOON
Current Rating: 2254
Title: FM		USA 
 Name: AARON BALLEISEN
Current Rating: 2196
Title: 		USA