Charlotte Open 2026 LIVE
The Charlotte Open 2026 will take place from January 17 to January 19 in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States. It is a 6-round Swiss system tournament with time control of 110 min + 10 sec/move. For more events from the USA, check out The North American Chess Calendar, which is part of The Chess Calendar.
The top-seeded players are GM Awonder Liang (2713), GM Lazaro Bruzon Batista (2543), GM Razvan Preotu (2497), GM Emilio Cordova (2489), GM Alexander Fishbein (2412), FM Matthew Guo Diao (2340), Kagan Uz (2277), FM Andrew Jiang (2266), Naveen Prabhu (2261), FM James A Chirilov (2247), FM Benjamin Moon (2235), Vedic Panda (2219), Graham Horobetz (2212), FM Kelvin Antonio Sanchez Alvares (2194), Mitch Fishbein (2180), Thomas Kung (2169), Varun Gadi (2162), Andrew Wu (2113), FM Vivan Prakash Mulay (2110), CM Advik Prasanna (2109), Robert Yorisan Ramirez Vido (2094), Carter Peatman (2082), Vihaan Pendse (2073), Sri Vibhav Bondalapati (2073), Miransh Purven Vyas (2071), Gurugrahan Gurumoorthi (2040).
More American events: 2025 Marshall Monthly U2400 (September) / Memorial Day Marshall Invitational / 2025 Marshall Premier FIDE – October / 2025 Marshall Premier FIDE – December / 2026 NY Marshall Winter Invitational – GM A / 2026 NY Marshall Winter Invitational – GM B