2017 CCCSA GM/IM Norm Invitational

March 29, 2017

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Name: TANGUY RINGOIR
Current Rating: 2518
Title: GM

#4 rated player from Belgium, top rated player from Maryland, 3-time Belgian National Champion, holds the largest cumulative plus score in CCC Invitationals (43 wins, 129 draws, 8 losses). 21st CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: ALEXANDER FISHBEIN
Current Rating: 2481
Title: GM

Name: MICHAEL W BROWN
Current Rating: 2478
Title: GM

Name: DANIEL GUREVICH
Current Rating: 2465
Title: IM

Name: JOHN BARTHOLOMEW
Current Rating: 2453
Title: IM

Name: ALEXANDER KALIKSHTEYN
Current Rating: 2453
Title: IM

Former competitor in the US Championship, 1993 Denker High School Tournament Champion, 1 GM norm. 9th CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: NIKHIL KUMAR
Current Rating: 2444
Title: IM

Name: AMAN HAMBLETON
Current Rating: 2441
Title: GM

Name: ALONSO ZAPATA
Current Rating: 2426
Title: GM

8-time Colombian Champion, first Colombian Grandmaster, 12-time Olympiad representative, defeated World Champions Vasily Smyslov and Vishy Anand. 9th CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: GAURI SHANKAR
Current Rating: 2320
Title: FM

Chess streamer with 8 IM norms (last 4 from CCC Invitationals). 29th CCC Norm Invitational.

IMGROUPB

Name: ZURAB JAVAKHADZE
Current Rating: 2470
Title: IM

5-time Texas State Champion with 4 GM norms. 5th CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: JOHN LUDWIG
Current Rating: 2397
Title: IM

Name: ROBERTO MARTIN DEL CAMPO
Current Rating: 2392
Title: IM

World Chess Olympiad Gold Medalist (4-time representative), 2 draws with former World Champion Vishy Anand. 298th CCC Norm Invitational (CCC record).

Name: DAVID VIGORITO
Current Rating: 2370
Title: IM

9-time chess author, former champion of New England, Nevada, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. 4th CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: DAVID BRODSKY
Current Rating: 2330
Title: GM

#11 rated player under age 21 in the US, winner of 2018 US Cadet Championship, 2019 National Chess Congress, 2019 Washington Chess Congress, member of University of Texas at Dallas chess team. 3rd CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: MICHAEL KLEINMAN
Current Rating: 2289
Title: FM

Name: EWA HARAZINSKA
Current Rating: 2257
Title: WIM

Name: RICHARD FRANCISCO
Current Rating: 2253
Title: FM

Name: TIANQI WANG
Current Rating: 2215
Title: IM

North Carolina's first home grown IM (earned 6 IM norms from CCC Norm Invitationals). 20th CCC Norm Invitational.

Name: KAPISH POTULA
Current Rating: 2075
Title:

IMGROUPC

Name: TITAS STREMAVICIUS
Current Rating: 2453
Title: GM

#4 rated player from Lithuania, 3-time Olympiad representative, holds the longest undefeated streak at CCC Norm Invitationals (41 games and counting). 11th CCC Norm Invitational.