Diego Zilleruelo wins NC Open Championship 2022

The 2022 NC Open was held over Thanksgiving Weekend from 25-27 November 2022 in Charlotte, NC, USA. The NCO featured a $11,000 prize fund and was played in 8 US Chess rated sections: Championship (1900+), U1900, U1700, U1500, U1300 and U1100. The event was running alongside the 2022 US Masters, a national event that featured the top players in the Americas. 

Diego Zilleruelo won the main NC Open Championship (U2200 rating section). Zilleruelo scored 5.5 points to be the sole Winner of the event and pocketed the money prize of 1000$. Vishnusankar Jonnalagadda was second with 5 points and Emmanuel Carter and Sritej Sattaru tied for the third place with 4.5 points each. Scroll down for final rankings

Jay Sarchwill won the U1900 tournament with the score of 5.5 points. Satchwill won the winner’s plaque and the money prize of 800$. Dean Bowler and Kabilesh Yuvaraj tied for second scoring 5 points each. David Schmitz and Annika Moorjani tied for the first place of the U1700 Championship and won 600$ prize (each). Kishan Karthigeyan was third with 5 points. Three players tied for first in the U1500 tournament: Henry Hui, Sridattha Kukkadapu and Raymond Tu equally sharing the prize of 1300$ in three parts (433$ each). Brian Remhoff was the Winner of the U1300 event with score of 5.5 points and won the prize of 600$. Kritarth Mishra, Norbert Obendorfer and Aaryav Sasha tied for second place with 5 points each. Shreyas Krishnan and Jonah Nus scored 5.5 points (each) to tie for the Winners title in the U1100 section while four players tied for bronze: Aarna Gupta, Jairaj Desai, Ryan Huang and Joshua Daugherty. John Wanamaker and Khabir Muhammad scored 4 points each to top the U800 category and Sahithi Sharma and Bryan Tran scored 4 points tying for the top of the U400 section.

Final rankings – 2022 NC Open Championship:

#	Name	Rating	Total	Prize
1	Diego Zilleruelo	2124	5.5	$1000 + Plaque
2	Vishnusankar Jonnalagadda	1938	5	$500 – 2nd
3	Emmanuel Carter	2208	4.5	$300 – 3rd
4	Sritej Sattaru	2012	4.5	$400 – U2050
5	Thomas Kung	2267	4	$50 – 4th
6	Bob Holliman	2200	4	$50 – 4th
7	Tony Bergida	2076	4	$50 – 4th
8	Michael Wang	2056	4	$50 – 4th
9	Roshan Sethuraman	2025	4	$200 – 2nd U2050
10	Benjamin Snodgrass	2187	3.5
11	Jason McKinney	2126	3.5
12	FM John Oyeyemi Fawole	2110	3.5
13	WFM Uthra Pakkirisamy	2037	3.5
14	Jacob Stoll	2018	3.5
15	Asha Kumar	1975	3.5
16	Arjun Srinivasan	1926	3.5
17	Sanjay Kumar	1925	3.5
18	Akshat Suresh	1915	3.5
19	Mark Tulchinskiy	1910	3.5
20	Aditya Ramkumar	1864	3.5
21	Rahul Ramesh	1980	3
22	Marius Cutitaru	1917	3
23	Kevin Kellinsky-Gonzalez	1916	3
24	Christopher Williams	1886	3
25	Patrick Kengsoontra	1860	3
26	Angel Spielvogel	1833	3
27	Mario Pineda-Bermudez	1820	3
28	Dereck Laureano	2009	2.5
29	Patrick Sciacca	2007	2.5
30	WFM Karen Hoshino	1911	2.5
31	Yanira Rivera Negron	1833	2.5
32	Mathew Jiang	1831	2.5
33	Alex Chu	1828	2.5
34	Alan Chen	1821	2.5
35	Leo Chang	1813	2.5
36	Yogya Koneru	1806	2.5
37	Sasha Creighton	1984	2
38	Adam Kostrinsky	1981	2
39	Nirav Natha	1830	2
40	Noshir Patel	1813	2
41	Tyler Schmuggerow	1812	2
42	Saharsh Shetty	1823	1.5
43	Arav Goldstein	1820	1.5
44	Smayan Ammasani	1813	1.5
45	Amin Samani	1838	1
46	Zachary Snively	1838	0.5