2026 Carolinas Classic

12 Jun to 14 Jun 2026 · Charlotte, USA · 5-round Swiss · 110 min + 10 sec/move Finished

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Top 100 players in this event

GM Emilio Cordova ★: No. 2, 4/5, performance 2349 (-4)

Standings

Standings, 2026 Carolinas Classic
#	Player	Fed	Rating	Score	Games	Perf	Change
1	GM Safal Bora	USA	2500	4½	5	2669	+10
2	GM Emilio Cordova ★	PER	2502	4	5	2349	-4
3	GM Magesh Chandran Panchanathan	IND	2434	4	4	3001	+10
4	WGM Dina Belenkaya	FRA	2227	4	5	2295	+10
5	FM Benjamin Moon	USA	2207	4	5	2322	+17
6	GM Yasser Quesada Perez	CUB	2558	3½	5	2215	-11
7	FM James A Chirilov	USA	2241	3½	4	2330	+13
8	Aaron Wang	USA	2199	3½	5	2325	+33
9	GM Razvan Preotu	CAN	2485	3	5	2283	-6
10	IM Stuart Rachels	USA	2441	3	5	2194	-10
11	FM Evan Sammons	USA	2278	3	5	2196	-7
12	FM Linxi Zhu	USA	2255	3	5	2178	-8
13	CM Saharsh Santosh	USA	2196	3	5	2171	+5
14	Andrew Wu	USA	2194	3	5	2147	+1
15	WGM Sabina-Francesca Foisor	USA	2168	3	5	2003	-18
16	Will Moorhouse	USA	2081	3	5	2150	+9
17	Dhruv Thokur	USA	1730	3	3	2479	+52
18	WIM P Michelle Catherina	IND	2078	2½	4	2218	+10
19	CM Lukas W LeBakken	USA	1966	2½	4	2277	+53
20	GM Elshan Moradiabadi	USA	2494	2	4	1987	-17
21	GM Alexander Fishbein	USA	2407	2	3	2436	+1
22	GM Alonso Zapata	COL	2230	2	3	1944	-7
23	FM Kelvin Antonio Sanchez Alvares	VEN	2173	2	3	2053	-8
24	Carter Peatman	USA	2080	2	4	2280	+17
25	Beiyang Ni	USA	1955	2	4	2255	+41
26	WFM P. Uthra	IND	1887	2	3	2199	+24
27	Abhiram Shastry Oruganti	IND	1482	2	3	2363	+49
28	Mukhil Arunkumar	USA		2	2	2458	+16
29	Dhruv Vivek Sharma	IND		2	4	2013
30	CM Advik Prasanna	USA	2074	1½	3	2367	+38
31	Aaron Marian	USA	2019	1½	3	1889	-14
32	Srihas Maddipati	USA	1936	1½	4	2108	+30
33	Arav Srivastava	USA	1922	1½	3	2177	+36
34	Cuihan Ma	USA	1888	1½	4	2167	+36
35	Aashish Anantharaman	USA	1878	1½	2	1909	+2
36	Armaan Chandragupta Jain	USA	1760	1½	4	2101	+46
37	Isaac Warden	USA		1½	2	2344
38	Zubin Baliga	USA	2068	1	2	1933	-7
39	Marcus Farzaneh-Far	USA	2041	1	3	1984	-10
40	Gurugrahan Gurumoorthi	USA	2014	1	4	2036	+3
41	Isaac Hart Statz	USA	1931	1	3	1900	-5
42	Jacob Stoll	USA	1922	1	2	2062	+7
43	Brian Qixuan Zhang	USA	1824	1	2	2088	+24
44	Daniela Fitzsimmons	USA	1812	1	1	2585	+18
45	Alan Chen	USA	1671	1	3	2166	+30
46	Benjamin Yu	USA	1643	1	2	1867	+22
47	Stephen Edward Conn	USA		1	2
48	Justin L McFee	USA		1	2	2282
49	William Logan Perdue	USA		1	1
50	Reed Sheldon Petrick	USA		1	1
51	Mithran Raaja	USA		1	1	2350
52	Asher Rustige	USA		1	1
53	Mason Alexander Sharpe	USA		1	1
54	Kip Taylor	USA		1	2
55	Alexander J Crump	USA	2114	½	2	1631	-24
56	Ronak Hiwale	USA	2085	½	2	1716	-39
57	Tanay Sanghani	USA	1974	½	2	1991	+2
58	WCM Celine Chen	USA	1939	½	1	2019	+4
59	Advait Shankar Nair	USA	1938	½	1
60	Patrick McCartney	USA	1864	½	1	1803	-2

Showing the top 60 of 103 players, plus every top-100 player. See the full results page for everyone else.

Games

Games
Round	Game	Result
3.3	Emilio Cordova – Evan Sammons	½-½

Games involving a top-100 player. Click a game to replay it.

Standings and games from Lichess broadcasts. ★ marks a player on the FIDE top 100 lists.