Fall 2022 GM/IM Norm Invitational

November 18-22, 2022

GM A

Name: EMILIO CORDOVA
Current Rating: 2561
Title: GM

#4 rated player from Peru, 6-time Olympiad representative, peak World Ranking #94 (2660 FIDE). 4th CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: TITAS STREMAVICIUS
Current Rating: 2527
Title: GM

#4 rated player from Lithuania, 3-time Olympiad representative, holds the longest undefeated streak at CCC Norm Invitationals (41 games and counting). 11th CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: RAZVAN PREOTU
Current Rating: 2493
Title: GM

#3 rated player from Canada, 3-time Olympiad representative, 2nd youngest Canadian-born GM in history. 1st CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: BRYCE TIGLON
Current Rating: 2475
Title: IM

#4 rated player from Washington, 2019 Denker High School Tournament Champion, 2 GM norms. 4th CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: DIMITAR MARDOV
Current Rating: 2432
Title: IM

#1 rated 15-year-old in the US by USCF rating, #2 rated player from Illinois. 4th CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: JAKUB FUS
Current Rating: 2427
Title: IM

44th highest rated player in Poland. 2nd CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: DENYS SHMELOV
Current Rating: 2415
Title: IM

#5 rated player from Massachusetts, 1 GM norm. 5th CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: SIDDHARTH JAGADEESH
Current Rating: 2407
Title: IM

#3 rated player from Singapore, represented Singapore at the 2022 Olympiad. 2nd CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: ALEXANDER KALIKSHTEYN
Current Rating: 2389
Title: IM

Former competitor in the US Championship, 1993 Denker High School Tournament Champion, 1 GM norm. 9th CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: MICHAEL MULYAR
Current Rating: 2355
Title: IM

2-time US Open Champion, 3-time Colorado State Champion, top rated player from Colorado. 2nd CCC Norm Invitational.

GM B

Name: GERGELY KANTOR
Current Rating: 2561
Title: GM

Represented Hungary at the World Junior Championship, European Individual Championship, and Olympiad. 1st CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: CRISTHIAN CRUZ
Current Rating: 2552
Title: GM

4-time Olympiad representative, #7 rated player from Peru. 3rd CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: IRAKLI BERADZE
Current Rating: 2494
Title: IM

#13 rated player from the Republic of Georgia, 2018 Olympiad representative, 2 GM norms. 2nd CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: MARK PARAGUA
Current Rating: 2466
Title: GM

Peak World Ranking #99 (2621 FIDE), played in 2004 FIDE World Championship, 6 Olympiads, 3 World Cups, defeated World #18 Jan-Krzysztof Duda at the 2022 Olympiad. 5th CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: KASSA KORLEY
Current Rating: 2451
Title: IM

Held the record for youngest African-American National Master in history, #10 rated player from Denmark, 2 GM norms (1 earned at CCC Norm Inv.). 19th CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: ANDY WOODWARD
Current Rating: 2447
Title: IM

Top rated 13-year-old in the US, 2 GM norms. 5th CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: CRAIG HILBY
Current Rating: 2411
Title: IM

2 GM norms (1 from CCC norm invitational). 6th CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: JUSTUS WILLIAMS
Current Rating: 2395
Title: IM

Featured in the movie "Brooklyn Castle," held the record for youngest African-American National Master. 3rd CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: EKIN BARIS OZENIR
Current Rating: 2352
Title: IM

#37 rated player from Turkey. 1st CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: BACH NGO
Current Rating: 2275
Title: IM

USCF Senior Master with 3 IM norms (2 from CCC events), bronze medalist at 2021 North American Junior Championship, #2 rated 14-year-old in the US, 2022 Florida K-8 Champion. 5th CCC Norm Invitational.

GM C

Name: BARTLOMIEJ MACIEJA
Current Rating: 2514
Title: GM

6-time Olympiad representative, 2002 European Champion, Head Coach of the UTRGV chess team, peak World Ranking #40 (2653 FIDE). 3rd CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: ALDER ESCOBAR FORERO
Current Rating: 2510
Title: GM

Top rated player from Colombia, President of the Colombia Chess Federation, former Colombian National Champion, represented Colombia at 4 Olympiads and the 2019 World Cup. 2nd CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: TIANQI WANG
Current Rating: 2428
Title: IM

North Carolina's first home grown IM (earned 6 IM norms from CCC Norm Invitationals). 20th CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: VLADIMIR GEORGIEV
Current Rating: 2406
Title: GM

Former National Champion of Bulgaria and Macedonia, undefeated in CCC Norm Invitationals, former coach of GMs Xiong, Tari, Stefanova. 2nd CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: KONSTANTIN KAVUTSKIY
Current Rating: 2383
Title: IM

Member of the "Chess Dojo" training and streaming hub, #9 rated player from California. 1st CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: SANDEEP SETHURAMAN
Current Rating: 2371
Title: IM

2022 Denker High School Tournament Co-Champion, 2022 and 2022-23 National Online Scholastic Quick K-12 Champion, 2022 National 11th Grade Champion, 3 IM norms (1 from CCC Invitational). 3rd CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: DEAN IPPOLITO
Current Rating: 2368
Title: IM

Chess author, coach, and 2022 North Carolina State Co-Champion. 6th CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: VICTOR RODRIGUEZ
Current Rating: 2350
Title: IM

1st CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: MAX GEDAJLOVIC
Current Rating: 2317
Title: IM

#14 rated player from Canada, earned 2nd IM norm and 2400 IM rating requirement at CCC Norm Invitational. 2nd CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: THEODORE SLADE
Current Rating: 2028
Title:

Represented England at World Youth U16 Olympiad, USCF Life Master. 1st CCC Norm Invitational.

IM D

Name: TAMAS PETENYI
Current Rating: 2410
Title: IM

#28 rated player from Slovakia, 2014 Olympiad representative. 2nd CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: MATYAS MAREK
Current Rating: 2346
Title: IM

Earned the IM title at 16 years old, student and chess team member at University of Maryland, Baltimore County. 3rd CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: ALICE LEE
Current Rating: 2284
Title: IM

#3 rated 13-year-old in the US, 3-time World Youth Champion. 4th CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: MARIA MALICKA
Current Rating: 2275
Title: WGM

Represented Poland at the 2022 Olympiad (Silver medalist). 1st CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: JULIAN ESTRADA NIETO
Current Rating: 2241
Title: IM

International Master and FIDE Trainer from Spain. 1st CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: GABRIEL EIDELMAN
Current Rating: 2197
Title: FM

#11 rated 17-year-old in the US, 3rd-4th place at the 2022 US Open. 1st CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: ERIC LIU
Current Rating: 2182
Title: FM

#4 rated 13-year-old in the US, 2023 National Middle School (K-8) Champion. 1st CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: RYAN AMBURGY
Current Rating: 2175
Title: FM

Top rated player from Oklahoma, 2022 Oklahoma State Champion with 2 IM norms. 3rd CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: STEPHEN WILLY
Current Rating: 2159
Title:

#7 rated player under 13 years old is the US by FIDE rating. 1st CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: NICOLAS DE LA COLINA
Current Rating: 2123
Title:

#21 rated 17-year-old in the US. 2nd CCC Norm Invitational.

IM E

Name: ATTILA ISTVAN CSONKA
Current Rating: 2321
Title: IM

1st CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: DANTE BEUKES
Current Rating: 2299
Title: IM

Top rated player from Namibia, 3-time Namibian champion, 3-time Olympiad representative, African U18 Champion. 2nd CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: SILA CAGLAR
Current Rating: 2268
Title: WIM

Represented Turkey at the World Youth, European Youth, European Women's Individual Championships. 1st CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: SRIRAM KRISHNAKUMAR
Current Rating: 2248
Title: FM

#12 rated 14-year-old in the US. 1st CCC norm invitational.

Name: ROBERTO MARTIN DEL CAMPO
Current Rating: 2243
Title: IM

World Chess Olympiad Gold Medalist (4-time representative), 2 draws with former World Champion Vishy Anand. 298th CCC Norm Invitational (CCC record).

Name: HARSHID KUNKA
Current Rating: 2236
Title: FM

#5 rated 14-year-old in the US, 2 IM norms (1 from CCC Norm Inv.) 3rd CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: GRAYSON RORRER
Current Rating: 2230
Title: FM

Columnist for American Chess Magazine, #13 rated 17-year-old in the US. 3rd CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: ALPEREN KANLI
Current Rating: 2171
Title:

#14 rated player from Virginia. 4th CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: LIAM PUTNAM
Current Rating: 2161
Title: FM

#4 rated 15-year-old in the US, 2019 North American U14 Champion, 2 IM norms (1 from CCC Inv). 5th CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: ETHAN SHEEHAN
Current Rating: 2157
Title:

#5 rated 14-year-old in the US, #7 rated player from Georgia. 1st CCC Norm Invitational.

IM F

Name: GABOR NAGY
Current Rating: 2482
Title: GM

#29 rated player from Hungary. 1st CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: DAVID VIGORITO
Current Rating: 2300
Title: IM

9-time chess author, former champion of New England, Nevada, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. 4th CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: NIKOLAY ANDRIANOV
Current Rating: 2297
Title: IM

Former Ukranian and Soviet Junior Champion, defeated top GMs Garry Kasparov, Bronstein, Suetin, Averbakh. 12th CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: ROBBY ADAMSON
Current Rating: 2238
Title: FM

#6 rated player from Arizona, 1988 Denker High School Tournament Co-Champion, 3 IM norms, peak ratings 2378 FIDE and 2447 USCF. 12th CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: MIKE ZALOZNYY
Current Rating: 2226
Title:

#4 rated player in Nevada, USCF Original Life Master. 5th CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: JULIAN PROLEIKO
Current Rating: 2220
Title:

3rd CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: MAILI-JADE OUELLET
Current Rating: 2204
Title: WGM

#3 rated female player from Canada, former Canadian Women's Champion and Zonal Champion, represented Canada at the Olympiad and Women's World Chess Championship. 1st CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: PEDRO RODRIGUEZ RIVERA
Current Rating: 2195
Title: IM

2017 Panamerican Senior Champion. 4th CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: DOUG ECKERT
Current Rating: 2127
Title: FM

Chess author, Correspondence Chess International Master, 2-time U.S. Junior Open Champion, 2023 U.S. Senior Open Co-champion. 7th CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: PAUL IINUMA
Current Rating: 2006
Title:

#2 rated player from Hawaii. 1st CCC Norm Invitational.