The Charlotte Chess Center's annual NYE Rapid and Blitz took place December 31, 2023. 84 players participated in the action including the CCC's top players/instructors GM Daniel Naroditsky and GM Olexandr Bortnyk.
Players from 6 different states converged upon the CCC's Main/South location to fight for the $1,500 guaranteed prize fund.
Rapid
GM Daniel Naroditsky and Rishi Jasti(!) tied for first with a perfect 5-0 performance. Jasti, who had a breakout performance, scored some very "interesting" wins over NM Dominique Myers and WGM Dina Belenkaya. Naroditsky and Jasti each received $185 for their efforts.
IM Tianqi Wang, NM Dominique Myers, Ethan Liu, Krishna Rallabandi, and WFM Uthra Pakkirisamy who tied for 3rd and took home $20 each.
Other prize winners were:
Charles Snyder (top U2000 - $50)
Brayden Brigman (top U1800 - $50)
Luke Louis, Nishita Jaikumar, Samanyu Ammasani, Shreyas Karki, Vasanth Thirunavukkarasu, Seiken Guerrero, Dheena Kumar (tie for remaining under prizes - $20 each)
Adrian Gomez (top unrated player - $40)
Blitz
GM Olexandr Bortnyk took clear first in the blitz only giving up a "grandmaster draw" to GM Naroditsky in round 5. Bortnyk pocketed $250 for his efforts. GM Naroditsky earned clear second (and $120) giving up a second draw in round 6 to IM Tianqi Wang. IM Tianqi Wang finished clear 3rd and earned $60.
Other prize winners were:
Henry Hasman (Top U2100 - $50)
WGM Dina Belenkaya, NM James Chirilov, NM Dominique Myers, Andrew Wu, Krisnha Rallabandi, Charles Snyder, Shawn Bale, Christopher Williams (tie for 5th - $5/each)
Anagha Sinkar, Dhanush Kondabathini, Jay Garrison, Namish Kondabathini (tie top U1900 - $12.50 each)
Sidney Peterson, Sahasra Rallabandi, Ayaansh Kaistha (tie top U1700 - $16.67 each)
Luke Louis (top U1500 - $50)
Joshua Rubanenko (top U1300 - $40)
Peter Prakash, Jonathan Gao, Druv Balamurugan (tie top U1100 - $13.33 each)
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