Dina Belenkaya wins ALTO 2025

The 2025 Charlotte Spring ALTO (At Least Twenty-One) Chess Tournament is a 5-round chess event organized by the Charlotte Chess Center (CCC) in Charlotte, North Carolina, that took place April 25-27, 2025. ALTO is a 5 rounds Swiss event, with a registration cap of 140 players and a guaranteed prize fund of $5,000.

WGM Dina Belenkaya emerged victorious collecting 4,5/5 and adding +39,6 ELO rating

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I WON THE TOURNAMENT!!!!!!
And +40 rating points… total of +70 this month… road to IM shall continue! pic.twitter.com/oyW7VQ4fzu

— Dina Belenkaya (@DinaBelenkaya) April 28, 2025

ALTO Chess 2025 standings

1	WGM Dina Belenkaya	2286	4.5
2	IM Craig Hilby	2506	4.5
3	Jonathan Kogen	2341	3.5
4	GM Benjamin Finegold	2457	3.5
5	Alexander Crump	2296	3.5
6	Zubin Baliga	2167	3.5
7	Emmanuel Carter	2273	3.5
8	Jeffrey L Quirke	2143	3.5
9	Patrick McCartney	1916	3.5
10	Thomas Fang	2265	3.0
11	Antonio Padron	1951	3.0
12	Miles J Tisserand	2072	3.0
13	Jay Garrison	1867	3.0
14	Andy Catlin	1947	3.0
15	Xiaodong Jin	1860	3.0
16	WFM Uthra Pakkirisamy	2012	3.0
17	IM Levan Bregadze	2529	2.5
18	Dan Bock	1854	2.5
19	Vignesh Sekar	1946	2.5
20	Joaquin Litzenberger-Brunetti	1821	2.5
21	Ishaan Ballal	1960	2.5
22	Dereck Laureano	1952	2.5
23	Christopher Cole	1849	2.5
24	Craig D Wilcox	2036	2.5
25	Paul Copeland	1684	2.0
26	Brad Langer	1908	2.0
27	Gregory Risk	1836	2.0
28	Jason Turner	1781	2.0
29	Dale Rigby	1919	2.0
30	Garret Allen	1902	1.5
31	Mario Pineda-Bermudez	1756	1.5
32	Viraj Phadke	1801	1.5
33	Paul King	1800	1.5
34	Natasha Christiansen	1860	1.0
35	Jim Hodina	1891	1.0
36	Gary Cote	1871	1.0
37	Gianluca Montalti	1882	1.0
38	John Bunch	1800	1.0
39	Noshir Patel	1764	0.0