Tournaments

2026 US Masters

Dates
25–29 Nov 2026
Location
Charlotte, United States
Format
Swiss · 9 rounds
Time control
80+30

The US Chess national championship for masters, over Thanksgiving weekend: one open section for players rated 2200+ (or titled), with GM and IM norms on offer. Part of the FIDE Circuit.

FavouriteAwonder Liang15%to win · Top 3 42% · 6.5 ptsSecond favouriteGrigoriy Oparin13%to win · Top 3 36% · 6.4 ptsDark horse · seed 4Olexandr Bortnyk4%to win · Top 3 12% · 5.7 pts
#PlayerLuftWinTop 3Pts
1GMAwonder Liang269215%42%6.5
2GMGrigoriy Oparin268213%36%6.4
3GMAndrew Hong26296%21%6.0
4GMOlexandr Bortnyk26044%12%5.7
5Semen Khanin25983%10%5.6
6GMChristopher Woojin Yoo25863%9%5.5
7GMBharath Subramaniyam H25692%8%5.3
8GMNikolozi Kacharava25592%6%5.1
9Ruifeng Li25352%4%4.8
10GMJianchao Zhou25622%6%5.2
11GMFrancesco Sonis25332%5%4.9
12Yasser Quesada Perez25471%5%5.0
13Sankalp Gupta25361%4%4.8
14Santiago Avila Pavas24981%4%4.7
15Joshua Friedel25441%5%4.9
16Harsha Bharathakoti25041%3%4.6
17GMIdo Gorshtein25551%4%5.0
18GMAnthony Atanasov24731%3%4.5
19IMKrzysztof Raczek24851%3%4.7
20GMHarikrishnan.A.Ra25021%4%4.8
21IMMaximillian Lu24711%4%4.7
22WIMRachael Li24481%4%4.7
23IMTanitoluwa Adewumi24911%4%4.6
24GMAlisher Suleymenov24961%4%4.7
25Gergely Kantor25321%3%4.7
26IMAlice Lee24821%5%4.8
27David Brodsky25301%4%4.8
28Josiah Stearman24681%4%4.6
29IMAmilal Munkhdalai25181%4%4.8
30GMSamant Aditya S25591%4%5.1
31Oleksii Bilych24001%3%4.6
32Julio Becerra23981%3%4.6
33GMDarcy Lima23851%2%4.5
34GMEmilio Cordova24901%3%4.6
35Siddharth Singh24261%3%4.6
36Yair Parkhov24341%3%4.6
37Magesh Panchanathan2444<1%3%4.6
38GMLiam Putnam2499<1%4%4.7
39Sandeep Sethuraman2455<1%2%4.5
40Bohdan Bilovil2428<1%3%4.6
41Lokumannage Susal Thewjan De Silva2409<1%2%4.6
42Saumil Padhya2334<1%2%4.6
43Jason Liang2448<1%3%4.5
44Steven Zierk2487<1%2%4.6
45Dylan Tang2345<1%2%4.5
46Eric Liu2442<1%3%4.6
47Logan Shafer2310<1%2%4.5
48Patrick Liu2343<1%2%4.5
49Elbert Fang2305<1%2%4.6
50Harshid Kunka2453<1%3%4.6
51Andrew Jiang2283<1%2%4.5
52IMJosue Araujo Sanchez2302<1%3%4.5
53Jose Cardoso2504<1%3%4.7
54Raahil Mullick2368<1%2%4.5
55Andrew Wu2245<1%2%4.5
56FMMegan Althea Paragua2289<1%2%4.6
57Roman Pyrih2426<1%2%4.6
58Avi Kaplan2313<1%2%4.5
59Ethan Sheehan2410<1%3%4.6
60WGMAmina Kairbekova2340<1%2%4.6
61IMBryan Enming Lin2505<1%3%4.6
62Linxi Zhu2354<1%1%4.5
63James Chirilov2288<1%2%4.5
64Alex Fishbein2426<1%2%4.6
65Chenxuan Ling2297<1%2%4.5
66Royce Zhang2127<1%2%4.5
67Steve Wongso2207<1%2%4.5
68Ann Chumpitaz2242<1%2%4.5
69Dalton Perrine2199<1%2%4.5
70Jashith Karthi2295<1%3%4.6
71Samrug Narayanan2449<1%2%4.6
72Joshua Altman2254<1%2%4.5
73Cristhian Cruz2440<1%4%4.6
74IMBai Adelard2471<1%3%4.6
75Alan Chen2132<1%1%4.5
76IMRose Atwell2311<1%2%4.5
77Anish Vivekananthan2389<1%2%4.5
78Nitesh Cherukuri2274<1%2%4.5
79Vijay Srinivas Anandh2274<1%2%4.5
80Artemii Khanbutaev2346<1%1%4.5
81Gunnar Andersen2274<1%2%4.5
82IMLuis Carlos Torres Rosas2380<1%2%4.4
83Zachary Pan2235<1%2%4.5
84Roshan Sethuraman2342<1%2%4.5
85Lev Shangin2209<1%2%4.5
86Kevin Zhao2256<1%1%4.4
87Anshul Shetty2255<1%2%4.5
88Qibiao Wang2323<1%2%4.5
89Rishith Bhoopathi2049<1%1%4.5
90Tianqi Wang2356<1%1%4.5
91IMAnna M. Sargsyan2300<1%2%4.4
92Oscar Williams2215<1%1%4.4
93Alexander Crump2142<1%2%4.6
94Kyle Zhuang2268<1%2%4.5
95Sophie Li2045<1%1%4.5
96Lucius Melillo2310<1%2%4.5
97Thomas Kung2185<1%1%4.5
98Sharath Radhakrishnan2249<1%2%4.5
99Daniel He2282<1%2%4.5
100Michelle Catherina Prince2077<1%1%4.5
101Sudarshan Sriniaiyer2146<1%2%4.5
102Jordan Groff2131<1%2%4.6
103Kostya Kavutskiy2312<1%2%4.5
104Yu-Cheng Liang2203<1%2%4.5
105Donald Johnson2241<1%2%4.5
106Tea Gueci2145<1%1%4.5
107Tim Shvarts2132<1%2%4.5
108Lyubomir Gospodinov2143<1%1%4.5
109Sam Luger2328<1%2%4.5
110Mark Plotkin2369<1%2%4.5
111Tyson Brady2135<1%2%4.5
112IMZsoka Gaal2313<1%2%4.3
113Alonso Zapata2222<1%2%4.6
114Vihaan Saxena2241<1%1%4.5
115Elliott Goodrich2213<1%1%4.5
116Lucas Lu2094<1%1%4.5
117Matias Shundi2143<1%1%4.5
118Ethan Guo2365<1%2%4.5
119Zachary Liu2185<1%2%4.6
120Munkhzul Davaakhuu2213<1%1%4.5
121Shaashwath Sivakumar2170<1%1%4.5
122Aditeya Das2372<1%1%4.5
123Aiden Linyuan Li2095<1%2%4.6
124Daniel Lee2165<1%2%4.5
125Alexander Jasinski2223<1%2%4.5
126Shaaketh Sivakumar2310<1%2%4.4
127Ethan Kozower2065<1%1%4.4
128Matthew Tikhomirov2194<1%1%4.5
129Kagan Uz2246<1%1%4.5
130Raffi Ghazaryan2172<1%2%4.4
131Lacey Wang2163<1%1%4.5
132Vivan Mulay2102<1%1%4.4
133Rocky Wang2135<1%1%4.4
134Ubaldo Lopez-Naranjo2028<1%1%4.5
135Chase Bellamy2102<1%1%4.5
136FMNikash Vemparala2280<1%2%4.5
137Eric Feng2204<1%1%4.4
138Aayansh Samanta1998<1%<1%4.3
139Kelvin Antonio Sanchez Alvares2113<1%1%4.5
140Graham Horobetz2202<1%1%4.5
141Qi Pang2299<1%3%4.5
142Nate Ziegler2160<1%2%4.5
143Annmarie Muetsch2231<1%1%4.4
144IMApaar Saxena2355<1%2%4.5
145Jason Cigan2159<1%1%4.5
146Gian Carlo Arvelo2160<1%2%4.5
147CMNeeraj Harish2196<1%2%4.5
148Krishna Rallabandi2086<1%1%4.5
149Sarthak Gattani2086<1%1%4.4
150Alex Chu2040<1%<1%4.4
151Hardy Gu2117<1%1%4.4
152Matthew Yu2086<1%1%4.5
153Ceren Tirpan2167<1%1%4.4
154Mitch Fishbein2175<1%1%4.5
155Vedansh Kumbharathi2160<1%1%4.5
156Prateek Mishra2125<1%1%4.6
157Evan Sammons2238<1%2%4.5
158Naveen Prabhu2262<1%2%4.5
159Broderick Bauml2185<1%1%4.5
160Ted Wang2283<1%1%4.5
161Dylan Pfeifer2040<1%<1%4.5
162Thomas Fang2029<1%1%4.5
163Julian Proleiko2196<1%1%4.5
164Pedro Espinosa2144<1%1%4.4
165Aaron Wang2106<1%1%4.4
166Lohit Polisetti2104<1%1%4.4
167Kaviinayan Meiyazhagan2031<1%1%4.4
168Jagadeeshwar Yehamandram Sridhar2012<1%<1%4.3
169Venkat Karthikeya Reddy Kola2134<1%1%4.5
170Chloe Gaw1999<1%<1%4.4
171Lukas Lebakken1988<1%<1%4.2
172Eshaan Hebbar2153<1%1%4.5
173Raunak Amit Ramesan20900%1%4.5
174Vihaan Jain21580%1%4.5
175Gabriel Sam22480%1%4.5
176Luc Hoffman20980%2%4.5
177Steve Alappatt20510%1%4.5
178Eric Dumitru20610%1%4.5
179Nehanraj Ramesh21010%<1%4.5
180Ryan Amburgy23030%1%4.5
181Dattasai Kilari21670%2%4.5
182Evan Bates20390%<1%4.5
183Charles Hua21000%1%4.5
184Sri Bondalapati20800%1%4.5
185Saharsh Santosh20430%<1%4.5
186Alex Zhao20440%<1%4.5
187Antony Gospodinov20440%1%4.5
188Prajit Ravishankar20870%1%4.4
189Shriyan Vuyyuru20650%1%4.4
190Maxwell Yang20580%1%4.4
191John Langreck20270%1%4.4
192Luke Anatol20570%1%4.4
193Luke Hengen20420%<1%4.4
194Aayansh Guntaka20780%1%4.4
195Yang Yu21010%1%4.4
196Tariq Yue21580%1%4.4
197Miransh Purven Vyas21040%1%4.4
198Kyle Yiwen Wang21460%1%4.4
199Landon Meadors20180%<1%4.4
200Cameron Jinghan Goh21710%1%4.4
201Jenny Qi20230%<1%4.4
202Gregory Markzon20080%<1%4.4
203Sharvesh Arul20310%<1%4.4
204Damir Studen20600%1%4.4
205John Abraham20330%1%4.4
206Celine Chen20100%<1%4.4
207Advik Prasanna20580%<1%4.4
208Liam Liu20530%1%4.4
209Aayansh Pramanik20440%1%4.4
210Aimee Yang20240%<1%4.4
211Zubin Baliga20010%1%4.4
212Rohan Das19990%<1%4.4
213Anmay Chaudhury19960%<1%4.4
214Marcus Farzaneh-Far20010%1%4.3
215Vincent Yu19920%<1%4.3
216Noah Van Vugt19940%0%4.3
217Sudeep Vadderaju19910%<1%4.3
218Rishi Kolli19870%<1%4.2
219Nelson Lopez19860%<1%4.2
220Vihaan Pendse19810%0%4.2
221Kishan Karthigeyan19770%<1%4.1
222Allyson Yu19750%<1%4.1
223Vishnu Chetlapalli19700%<1%4.1
224Yuze Ji19650%<1%4.0
225Hugo Nam19580%0%3.9
226Aditya Ramkumar19570%0%3.8
227Krrish Kaul19530%0%3.8
228Naitik Rathi19370%0%3.6
229Viyaan Doddapaneni19230%0%3.5
230Robert Sanchez19130%0%3.3
231James Altucher18950%0%3.2
232Alexander Joseph18900%0%3.1
233Stella Xin18610%<1%2.9
234Robert Fischer18140%0%2.4

The whole event (9 rounds) played out 800 times on Luft ratings. A tie for first counts as shared.