Summer 2018 CCCSA GM/IM Norm Invitational

June 6-10, 2018

GMGROUPA

Name: GERGELY ANTAL
Current Rating: 2534
Title: GM

Name: ANDREY GOROVETS
Current Rating: 2495
Title: GM

Name: STEVEN ZIERK
Current Rating: 2476
Title: GM

Name: ALDER ESCOBAR FORERO
Current Rating: 2476
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: VIGNESH PANCHANATHAM
Current Rating: 2431
Title: IM

Name: ALEKSANDR OSTROVSKIY
Current Rating: 2414
Title: IM

3-time New York State Champion, 1 GM norm. 14th CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: ALEXANDER KALIKSHTEYN
Current Rating: 2399
Title: IM

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

Name: ALONSO ZAPATA
Current Rating: 2398
Title: GM

8-time Colombian Champion, first Colombian Grandmaster, 12-time Olympiad representative, defeated World Champions Vasily Smyslov and Vishy Anand. 9th CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: ROHAN AHUJA
Current Rating: 2390
Title: IM

Name: JOHN LUDWIG
Current Rating: 2379
Title: IM

GMGROUPB

Name: TANGUY RINGOIR
Current Rating: 2543
Title: GM

#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: MICHAEL W BROWN
Current Rating: 2505
Title: GM

Name: MAGESH PANCHANATHAN
Current Rating: 2480
Title: GM

Name: NIKOLA NESTOROVIC
Current Rating: 2476
Title: GM

Name: ADVAIT PATEL
Current Rating: 2474
Title: IM

Name: DENYS SHMELOV
Current Rating: 2456
Title: IM

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

Name: KASSA KORLEY
Current Rating: 2420
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: MIKA BRATTAIN
Current Rating: 2402
Title:

Name: FARAI MANDIZHA
Current Rating: 2390
Title: IM

Name: JUSTUS WILLIAMS
Current Rating: 2347
Title: IM

Featured in the movie "Brooklyn Castle," held the record for youngest African-American National Master. Peak rating 2428.

IMGROUPC

Name: ZURAB JAVAKHADZE
Current Rating: 2443
Title: IM

5-time Texas State Champion with 4 GM norms. 5th CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: ALEXANDER VELIKANOV
Current Rating: 2326
Title: IM

Name: ROBERTO MARTIN DEL CAMPO
Current Rating: 2322
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: BRANDON JACOBSON
Current Rating: 2303
Title: GM

Name: CHRISTOPHER SHEN
Current Rating: 2295
Title: FM

#8 rated 18-year-old in the US, 1 IM norm from CCC Invitational. 4th CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: JOSIAH STEARMAN
Current Rating: 2285
Title: IM

Name: YOON-YOUNG KIM
Current Rating: 2281
Title: FM

Name: ANGELO YOUNG
Current Rating: 2275
Title: IM

Name: C.J. ARVIND JAYARAMAN
Current Rating: 2178
Title: FM

#9 rated player from Ohio. 3rd CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: ARTHUR GUO
Current Rating: 2165
Title: GM

2022 Denker High School Tournament Champion, 2021 National Open Champion, Panam Youth Champion, Panam Junior Co-champion, 1 GM norm. 6th CCC Norm Invitational.

IMGROUPD

Name: LEONARDO VALDES ROMERO
Current Rating: 2385
Title: IM

Top rated player from Costa Rica, 4-time Costa Rican Champion, 2-time Central American Champion, 12-time Olympiad representative. 2nd CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: ALEXEY DIULGER
Current Rating: 2375
Title: IM

Name: GAURI SHANKAR
Current Rating: 2338
Title: FM

Chess streamer with 8 IM norms (last 4 from CCC Invitationals). 29th CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: BENJAMIN MOON
Current Rating: 2334
Title: FM

Name: TIANQI WANG
Current Rating: 2331
Title: IM

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

Name: CARISSA YIP
Current Rating: 2318
Title: IM

Name: ALI MORSHEDI
Current Rating: 2268
Title: FM

Name: BALAJI DAGGUPATI
Current Rating: 2268
Title: GM

Name: ROBBY ADAMSON
Current Rating: 2187
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: VISHNUVARDHAN ARJUN
Current Rating: 2158
Title: IM

Former British Junior Champion and U.S. G/60 Champion. 7th CCC Norm Invitational.