Tuesday, January 16, 2018

CCC Norm Events - Norms, Titles, Stats


Last Update: March 31, 2024


The Charlotte Chess Center has organized 32 GM/IM Norm Invitational Round Robin events and 9 swiss events offering FIDE title norms.

  • 107 player norms achieved (30 GM, 65 IM, 5 WGM, 7 WIM)
  • 54 player titles achieved (11 GM, 16 IM, 1 WGM, 2 WIM, 20 FM, 1 WFM, 4 NM)
  • 13 arbiter/organizer titles achieved (5 IA, 5 FA, 3 IO)





1. March 23-27, 2016 - USCF Rating ReportArticle by Peter Giannatos / Jennifer Shahade
  • Alexander Velikanov (Wisconsin) earned his 3rd IM norm
  • Michael Brown (California) earned his 2nd IM norm
  • Safal Bora (Michigan) earned his 1st GM norm
  • Matthew Larson (Missouri) earned the FM title


  • Gauri Shankar (India) earned his 5th IM norm
  • John Ludwig (Florida) earned his 1st IM norm
  • Tianqi Wang (North Carolina) earned his 1st IM norm
  • Benjamin Moon (Georgia) earned the FM title


  • Andrew Tang (Minnesota) earned his 3rd GM norm
  • Raja Panjwani (Canada) earned his 2nd GM norm


  • Wesley Wang (New York) earned the FM title
  • Kevin Wang (Maryland) earned his 5th IM norm and the IM title by rating
  • John Burke (New Jersey) earned his 3rd GM norm
  • Jennifer Yu (Virginia) earned her 2nd IM norm and her 2nd WGM norm


5. March 28 - April 1, 2018 - USCF Rating Reportno norms achieved



6. June 6-10, 2018 - USCF Rating ReportArticle by Daaim Shabazz for The Chess Drum
  • Steven Zierk (California) earned his 3rd GM norm
  • Kassa Korley (Denmark) earned his 1st GM norm
  • Yoon-Young Kim (Connecticut) earned his 1st IM norm
  • Brandon Jacobson (New Jersey) earned his 1st IM norm
  • Carissa Yip (Massachusetts) earned her 1st IM norm, 1st WGM norm, 3rd WIM norm, and the WIM title

  • Tianqi Wang (North Carolina) earned his 3rd IM norm


8. November 21-25, 2018 - USCF Rating Report
  • Nicolas Checa (New York) earned his 3rd GM norm


9. January 17-21, 2019 - USCF Rating Report - Article by GM Michael Brown in American Chess Magazine #10
  • Aaron Jacobson (New Jersey) earned his 1st IM norm
  • Michael Brown (California) earned his 3rd GM norm


10. March 20-24, 2019 - USCF Rating Report - no norms achieved



  • Praveen Balakrishnan (Virginia) earned his 1st GM norm
  • Sahil Sinha (Maryland) earned the IM title
  • Carissa Yip (Massachusetts) earned her 3rd WGM norm and the WGM title
  • Sophie Morris-Suzuki (New York) earned the WFM title and her 1st WIM norm


  • Aydin Turgut (Indiana) earned the FM title and his 1st IM norm


12. November 27 - December 1, 2019 - USCF Rating Report
  • Omer Reshef (Israel) earned his 1st GM norm
  • Eyal Grinberg (Israel) earned his 1st GM norm
  • Jennifer Yu (Virginia) earned her 4th IM norm
  • Christopher Shen (Ohio) earned his 1st IM norm


13. December 26-31, 2019 - USCF Rating Report
  • John Ludwig (Florida) earned his 3rd IM norm and the IM title


2020 Charlotte Open, January 1-5, 2020 - USCF Rating Report - Article by Brandon Jacobson in American Chess Magazine #17
  • Brandon Jacobson (New Jersey) earned his 3rd GM norm and the GM title
  • Aaron Grabinsky (Missouri) earned his 1st GM norm and the IM title
  • Shunkai Peng (Oregon) earned his 4th IM norm


14. January 16-20, 2020 - USCF Rating Report
  • Carissa Yip (Massachusetts) earned her 4th IM norm


15. August 19-24, 2020 - USCF Rating Report
  • Craig Hilby (California) earned his 2nd GM norm
  • Richard Francisco (Georgia) earned the FM title
  • Robert Shlyakhtenko (California) earned his 1st IM norm
  • Jason Liang (New York) earned his 2nd IM norm


  • Hans Niemann (New York) earned his 3rd GM norm
  • Balaji Daggupati (California) earned his 2nd IM norm
  • Josiah Stearman (California) earned his 3rd IM norm
  • Yuriy Krykun (Ukraine) earned his 3rd IM norm


  • Praveen Balakrishnan (Virginia) earned his 3rd GM norm


  • Danial Asaria (California) earned the IM title and his 1st GM norm
  • Jason Liang (New York) earned his 3rd IM norm
  • Anish Vivekananthan (Texas) earned his 2nd IM norm
  • Ellen Wang (New York) earned the WIM title and her 1st WGM norm
  • Ambica Yellamraju (Texas) earned the WFM title (conditional on rating) and her 1st WIM norm
  • Yassamin Ehsani (New York) earned her 1st WIM norm


18. December 26-30, 2020 - USCF Rating Reportno norms achieved



  • Kyron Griffith (California) earned his 2nd IM norm
  • Tianqi Wang (North Carolina) earned his 4th IM norm


  • Gauri Shankar (India) earned his 6th IM norm


  • Christopher Yoo (California) earned his 1st GM norm


  • Lev Paciorkowski (New York) earned the FM title
  • Ming Lu (California) earned the FM title and his 1st IM norm
  • Andy Woodward (Texas) earned the FM title
  • Aydin Turgut (Indiana) earned his 3rd IM norm
  • Tianqi Wang (North Carolina) earned his 5th IM norm
  • Jason Liang (New York) earned his 4th IM norm
  • Joshua Sheng (California) earned his 2nd GM norm


  • Robert Shlyakhtenko (California) earned his 2nd IM norm
  • Sandeep Sethuraman (Arizona) earned his 1st IM norm
  • Nikolas Theodorou (Greece) earned his 3rd GM norm and the GM title
  • Christopher Yoo (California) earned his 2nd GM norm
  • Andrew Hong (California) earned his 3rd GM norm and the GM title


2021 US Masters Championship, November 24-28, 2021 - USCF Rating ReportArticle by Christopher Yoo in American Chess Magazine #25, Article by Alex Fishbein in February 2022 Chess Life Magazine
  • Rahul Srivatshav Peddi (India) earned his 4th GM norm
  • Christopher Yoo (California) earned his 3rd GM norm and the GM title
  • Evan Park (Pennsylvania) earned his 1st IM norm
  • Deepak Aaron (Georgia) earned his 2nd IM norm
  • Vishnu Vanapalli (North Carolina) earned his 1st IM norm


  • Gauri Shankar (India) earned his 7th IM norm


  • Vyom Vidyarthi (California) earned the IM title and his 1st GM norm
  • Andy Woodward (Texas) earned his 1st IM norm
  • Bach Ngo (Florida) earned his 1st IM norm
  • Ellen Wang (New York) earned her 2nd WGM norm
  • Sanjana Vittal (New Jersey) earned his 3rd WIM norm
  • Yassamin Ehsani (New York) earned her 3rd WIM norm


  • Christopher Yoo (California) earned his 4th GM norm


  • Rochelle Wu (California) earned the FM title
  • Anish Vivekananthan (Texas) earned his 3rd IM norm
  • Ryo Chen (Texas) earned his 1st IM norm
  • Joshua Posthuma (Michigan) earned his 1st IM norm
  • Sebastian Boehme (Germany) earned the NM title


26. March 16-20, 2022 - USCF Rating ReportBlog by Grayson Rorrer, Article by Arthur Guo in American Chess Magazine #27
  • Joshua Posthuma (Michigan) earned his 2nd IM norm
  • Ruiyang Yan (California) earned her 2nd WIM norm
  • Bach Ngo (Florida) earned his 2nd IM norm
  • Ming Lu (California) earned his 2nd IM norm
  • Nico Chasin (New York) earned his 1st IM norm
  • Alperen Kanli (Azerbaijan) earned the NM title


  • Alexander King (Tennessee) earned the FM title
  • Eigen Wang (Florida) earned the FM title
  • Tianqi Wang (North Carolina) earned his 6th IM norm


  • Liran Zhou (New York) earned his 3rd IM norm and the IM title
  • Nico Chasin (New York) earned his 2nd IM norm
  • Terry Luo (Delaware) earned the FM title



  • Justus Williams (Missouri) earned his 1st GM norm
  • Harshid Kunka (Texas) earned the FM title and his 1st IM norm
  • Grayson Rorrer (Texas) earned the FM title and his 1st IM norm
  • Liam Putnam (New York) earned his 1st IM norm
  • Max Gedajlovic (Canada) earned his 2nd IM norm
  • Jakub Fus (Poland) earned his 3rd IM norm and the IM title


2022 US Masters, November 23-27 - USCF Rating Report - Article by Grant Oen, Article by Dean Ippolito in American Chess Magazine #1
  • Anthony Atanasov (Canada) earned his 1st IM norm
  • Tyson Brady (Virginia) earned the NM title
  • Matias Shundi (North Carolina) earned the NM title



  •  Gauri Shankar (India) earned his 8th IM norm


  • Ethan Sheehan (Georgia) earned the FM title
  • Sudarshan Sriniaiyer (Virginia) earned the FM title
  • Daniel Xu (Canada) earned the FM title
  • Deepak Aaron (Georgia) earned his 4th IM norm
  • Gus Huston (New York) earned his 4th IM norm and earned the IM title
  • Vishnu Vanapalli (North Carolina) earned his 2nd IM norm


  • William Graif (Canada) earned his 1st IM norm


  • Bryce Tiglon (Washington) earned his 2nd GM norm
  • Brewington Hardaway (New York) earned his 1st GM norm, 5th IM norm, and the IM title
  • Jason Wang (Ohio) earned his 1st GM norm
  • Seth Homa (Michigan) earned his 4th IM norm
  • Brian Escalante (Peru) earned the GM title
  • Aaron Mendes (Canada) earned the FM title


  • Lucius Melillo (Texas) earned the FM title
  • Vaseegaran Nandhakumar (Texas) earned the FM title
  • Liam Putnam (New York) earned his 3rd IM norm



33. November 22-26, 2024









International Arbiter, FIDE Arbiter, and International Organizer norms have been awarded at CCC events to: IA/IO Anand Dommalapati, IA/IO Grant Oen, IA/IO Peter Giannatos, IA Korey Kormick, IA Rudy Abate, IA Martha Underwood, IA Maya Myers, IA Mike Hoffpauir, FA Robert Getty, FA Andy Rea, FA GP Sinha, FA Bryan Tillis, NA Walter High, NA William Nash, NA Ali Thompson, and NA Shri Humrudha J (India).




Number of Events Played

303 unique players have played in a CCC Norm Invitational:


29 events - IM Roberto Martin Del Campo, FM Gauri Shankar

21 - GM Tanguy Ringoir

20 - IM Kassa Korley, IM Tianqi Wang

14 - IM Alex Ostrovskiy

13 - GM Abhimanyu Mishra

12 - GM Brandon Jacobson, IM Nikolay Andrianov

11 - GM Titas Stremavicius, FM Robby Adamson

10 - IM Alexander Matros

9 - GM Alonso Zapata, IM Aaron Jacobson, FM Richard Francisco

8 - IM Kevin Wang, IM Alexander Kalikshteyn, IM Jason Liang

7 - GM Magesh Panchanathan, GM Andrew Hong, IM Sahil Sinha, IM Alexey Diulger, IM Vishnuvardhan Arjun, FM Doug Eckert

6 - GM Vladimir Belous, GM Christopher Yoo, GM Arthur Guo, IM Angelo Young, IM John Ludwig, IM Josiah Stearman, IM Craig Hilby, IM Dean Ippolito, FM James Canty, FM Alex Kolay 

5 - GM Michael Brown, GM Steven Zierk, GM Angel Arribas Lopez, GM Kamil Dragun, GM Joshua Sheng, GM Mark Paragua, IM Andy Woodward, IM Denys Shmelov, IM Kyron Griffith, IM Bach Ngo, IM Ryo Chen, FM Benjamin Moon, FM Vincent Tsay, FM Liam Putnam, FM Seth Homa, NM Shelev Oberoi

4 - GM David Berczes, GM Balaji Daggupati, GM Emilio Cordova, GM Cemil Can Ali Marandi, GM Darcy Lima, IM Zurab Javakhadze, IM Carissa Yip,  IM Nikhil Kumar, IM Mark Plotkin, IM Bryce Tiglon, IM David Vigorito, IM Pedro Rodriguez Rivera, IM Nico Chasin, IM Alexander Velikanov, IM Dimitar Mardov, IM Anish Vivekananthan, IM Levan Bregadze, IM Joshua Posthuma, WGM Jennifer Yu, FM Eric Yuhan Li, NM Alperen Kanli, NM Mike Zaloznyy

3 - GM Andrey Gorovets, GM Ashwin Jayaram, GM Nicolas Checa, GM Hans Niemann, GM Praveen Balakrishnan, GM Aleksander Mista, GM Bartlomiej Macieja, GM Alder Escobar Forero, GM David Brodsky, GM Cristhian Cruz, GM Julio Becerra, IM Rohan Ahuja, IM John Bartholomew, IM Farai Mandizha, IM Felix Ynojosa Aponte, IM Joel Banawa, IM Safal Bora, IM Justin Wang, IM Raja Panjwani, IM Oladapo Adu, IM Ming Lu, IM Justus Williams, IM Sandeep Sethuraman, IM Robert Shlyakhtenko, IM Matyas Marek, IM Liran Zhou, IM Alice Lee, IM Gus Huston, FM Wesley Wang, FM Jacob Furfine, FM Christopher Shen, FM Aydin Turgut, FM Tanitoluwa Adewumi, FM Grayson Rorrer, FM Donald Johnson, FM Ryan Amburgy, FM Vishnu Vanapalli, FM Arvind Jayaraman, FM Zachary Dukic, FM Carlos Sandoval Mercado, FM Harshid Kunka, NM Dominique Myers, NM Matan Prilleltensky, NM Julian Proleiko

2 - GM Denes Boros, GM Peter Prohaszka, GM Ulvi Bajarani, GM Alex Fishbein, GM Daniel Fernandez, GM Jacob Aagaard, GM Vladimir Georgiev, GM Fidel Corrales Jimenez, IM Advait Patel, IM Alexander Katz, IM Annie Wang, IM Edward Song, IM Michael Lee, IM Alfonso Almeida Saenz, IM Eddy Tian, IM Michael Mulyar, IM Irakli Beradze, IM Dante Beukes, IM Tamas Petenyi, IM Olivier-Kenta Chiku-Ratte, IM Siddharth Jagadeesh, IM Max Gedajlovic, IM Joseph Levine, IM Martha Fierro, WGM Thalia Cervantes Landeiro, WGM Gabriela Antova, FM Malaku Lorne, FM Justin Paul, FM Ezra Chambers, FM Eugene Yanayt, FM Joshua Colas, FM Akira Nakada, FM Alexander King,  FM Anthony Atanasov, FM Brewington Hardaway, FM Terry Luo, FM Sudarshan Sriniaiyer, FM Nicholas Matta, FM Gabriel Eidelman, NM Aaron Balleisen, NM Vijay Krishnamoorthy, NM Lev Paciorkowski, NM Evan Rosenberg, NM Prateek Mishra, NM Raghav Venkat, NM Nicolas De La Colina, NM Qindong Yang, NM Vaseegaran Nandhakumar, NM James Chirilov, NM James Nguyen

1 - GM Aman Hambleton, GM Andrew Tang, GM Denis Kadric, GM Gergely Antal, GM John Michael Burke, GM Niclas Huschenbeth, GM Nikola Nestorovic, GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu, GM Djurabek Khamrakulov, GM Andrey Stukopin, GM Karen Grigoryan, GM Carlos Hevia Alejano, GM Karthik Venkataraman, GM Hedinn Steingrimsson, GM Valentin Yotov, GM Joshua Ruiz Castillo, GM Thomas Roussel-Roozmon, GM Alex Lenderman, GM Nikolas Theodorou, GM Jose Gonzalez Garcia, GM Jianchao Zhou, GM Gil Popilski, GM Guillermo Vazquez, GM Razvan Preotu, GM Gergely Kantor, GM Gabor Nagy, GM Bilel Bellahcene, GM Dmitri Komarov, IM Alejandro Montalvo, IM Daniel Gurevich, IM Justin Sarkar, IM Sanjay Ghatti, IM Leonardo Valdes Romero, IM Matthew Larson, IM Michael Kleinman, IM Philip Wang, IM Vignesh Panchanatham, IM Martin Lokander, IM Omer Reshef, IM Eyal Grinberg, IM Eylon Nakar, IM Kacper Drozdowski, IM Cameron Wheeler, IM Atulya Shetty, IM Yuriy Krykun, IM Luis Torres Rosas, IM Levy Rozman, IM Pablo Della Morte, IM Stavroula Tsolakidou, IM Michael Bodek, IM Michael Song, IM Yuanchen Zhang, IM Vyom Vidyarthi, IM Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux, IM Yunier Leyva Rivera, IM Rohan Talukdar, IM Ekin Baris Ozenir, IM Konstantin Kavutskiy, IM Victor Rodriguez Garcia, IM Julian Estrada Nieto, IM Attila Istvan Csonka, IM Artiom Samsonkin, IM Liordis Quesada Vera, IM Jason Wang, IM Gianmarco Leiva, WGM Gulrukhbegim Tokhirjonova, WGM Maili-Jade Ouellet, WGM Rochelle Wu, WGM Dina Belenkaya, WGM Maria Malicka, FM Ali Morshedi, FM Eliot Soo-Burrowes, FM Gary Ng, FM Yoon-Young Kim, FM Andy Huang, FM Aravind Kumar, FM Ian Zhao, FM Jouaquin Banawa, FM Isaac Tello Chavez, FM Milind Maiti, FM Danila Poliannikov, FM Mike Ivanov, FM Ruiyang Yan, FM Todd Andrews, FM John Oyeyemi Fawole, FM Ryan Amburgy, FM Eigen Wang, FM Yans Girones Barrios, FM Dharim Bacus, FM Derek Wu, FM Jakub Fus, FM Sriram Krishnakumar, FM Tommy Wen, FM Teddie Wen, FM Bryan Xie, FM Eric Liu, FM Aarav Dengla, FM Isaac Wang, FM William Graif, FM Kush Bhagat, FM Max Rusonik, FM Samrug Narayanan, FM Benjamin Tang, WIM Ewa Harazinska, WIM Ashritha Eswaran, WIM Sila Caglar, WIM Kristel Diaz Charpentier, WIM Yessica Mendez Tovar, WFM Uyanga Byambaa, WFM Ana Shamatava, WFM Mairebis Castillo Coca, NM Siddharth Banik, NM Mika Brattain,  NM Karthik Rangarajan, NM Kapish Potula, NM Craig Jones, NM Sebastian Boehme, NM Mitch Fishbein, NM Joshua Avila Rodriguez, NM Theodore Slade, NM Ethan Sheehan, NM Paul Iinuma, NM Aiden Reiss, NM Jiangwei Yu, NM Stephen Willy, NM Nikash Vemparala, NM Ethan Song, NM Joseph Wan, NM Daniel Girsh, NM Ansh Shah, NM Advaith Karthik, NM Ethan Guo, NM Andrew Jiang, NM Lucius Melillo, NM Graham Horobetz, NM Sibo Wu, Alejandro Lima Martinez, Oluwaseun Bisiriyu-Salam



54 Federations from North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia have been represented at CCC Norm Invitationals: Algeria, Armenia, Argentina, Australia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Belarus, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burundi, Canada, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, England, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Israel, Jamaica, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Moldova, Mongolia, Mexico, Namibia, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Puerto Rico, Russia, Scotland, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine, United States, Uzbekistan, Venezuela, Zimbabwe.

Most Represented Federations:
  • United States - 165 players
  • Canada - 20
  • India - 11
  • Mexico - 8
  • Cuba, Hungary, Poland - 7

30 states have been represented at CCC Norm Invitationals: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin.

Top States (USA players only):
  • Texas - 45 players
  • California, New York - 32
  • Missouri - 16
  • North Carolina - 15
  • New Jersey - 15

Most common first names - all norm invitationals (minimum 3):
  • Alex(ander) - 11
  • Michael - 8
  • Joshua - 6
  • John - 4
  • Daniel - 3
  • David - 3
  • Ethan - 3
  • Jacob - 3
  • James - 3
  • Justin - 3
  • Nico(las) - 3
  • Andrew - 3


GM Sections with the most future GMs

IM Sections with the most future GM/IMs

Highest FIDE Ratings (at time of CCC Norm Invitational)

1. GM Alex Lenderman 2621
2. GM Jianchao Zhou 2605
3. GM Kamil Dragun 2586
4-5. GM Emilio Cordova, GM Peter Prohaszka 2581
6. GM Aleksander Mista 2574
7. GM (then IM) Nikolas Theodorou 2569
8. GM Emilio Cordova 2568
9. GM Andrey Stukopin 2565
10. GM Titas Stremavicius 2563


Highest FIDE Ratings by non-GMs (at time of CCC Norm Invitational)

1. IM Nikolas Theodorou 2569
2. IM Guillermo Vazquez 2536
3. IM Michael Brown 2524
4. IM Praggnanandhaa R 2515
5. IM John Michael Burke 2514
6. IM Michael Brown 2505
7. IM Djurabek Khamrakulov, IM Praveen Balakrishnan 2498
8. IM Michael Brown 2497
9. IM Steven Zierk, IM Andrew Tang 2496
10. IM Nicolas Checa 2495



Highest peak FIDE Ratings by CCC Norm Invitational players (achieved at any time)
  1. GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu 2747
  2. GM Hans Niemann 2706
  3. GM Jianchao Zhou 2669
  4. GM Karen Grigoryan 2666
  5. GM Emilio Cordova 2660
  6. GM Alex Lenderman 2654
  7. GM Bartlomiej Macieja 2653
  8. GM Niclas Huschenbeth 2628
  9. GM Peter Prohaszka 2626
  10. GM Kamil Dragun, GM Aleksander Mista 2625


CCC Norm Invitational players who have been ranked in the World's top 100 (achieved at any time)
  1. GM Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu #13
  2. GM Hans Niemann #34
  3. GM Bartlomiej Macieja #40
  4. GM Alonso Zapata #49
  5. GM Jianchao Zhou #67
  6. GM Karen Grigoryan #71
  7. GM Emilio Cordova #94
  8. GM Alex Lenderman #97
  9. GM Mark Paragua #99


Current "Top 5" USA Juniors who have played in CCC Norm Invitationals (March 2024 USCF ratings)
  • Overall Under 21
    • #1 GM Hans Niemann (2748) - 3 events, earned 3rd GM norm 
    • #3 GM Abhimanyu Mishra (2714) - 11 events
    • #4 GM Christopher Yoo (2660) - 6 events, earned 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th GM norms
    • #5 GM Brandon Jacobson (2652) - 12 events, earned 1st IM norm and 3rd GM Norm
  • Top Girls Under 21
    • #1 IM Carissa Yip (2498) - 4 events, earned 3rd WIM norm, 1st and 3rd WGM norms, 1st and 4th IM norms
    • #2 IM Alice Lee (2444) - 3 events
    • #4 FM Ruiyang Yan (2349) - 1 event, earned 2nd WIM norm
    • #5 WGM Rochelle Wu (2331) - 1 event, earned FM title
  • Top 18 Year Olds
    • #1 IM Justin Wang (2587) - 3 events
    • #2 GM Balaji Daggupati (2567) - 4 events, earned 2nd IM norm
    • #4 IM Robert Shlyakhtenko (2470) - 3 events, earned 1st and 2nd IM norms
    • #5 IM Gus Huston (2460) - 3 events - earned 4th IM norm and the IM title by rating
  • Top 17 Year Olds
    • #1 GM Christopher Yoo (2660) - 6 events, earned 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th GM norms
    • #2 GM Arthur Guo (2611) - 6 events
    • #3 IM Jason Wang (2563) - 1 event
    • #5 IM Nico Chasin (2522) - 4 events, earned 1st and 2nd IM norms
  • Top 16 Year Olds
    • #2 FM Terry Luo (2417) - 2 events, earned FM title
    • =3 FM Vishnu Vanapalli (2392) - 3 events, earned 1st and 2nd IM norms
    • =3 FM Eric Yuhan Li (2392) - 4 events
  • Top 15 Year Olds
    • #1 GM Abhimanyu Mishra (2714) - 11 events
    • #2 IM Dimitar Mardov (2535) - 3 events
    • #3 IM Liran Zhou (2459) - 3 events, earned 3rd IM norm
    • #5 IM Bach Ngo (2440) - 5 events, earned 1st and 2nd IM norms
  • Top 14 Year Olds
    • #1 FM Brewington Hardaway (2525) - 2 events, earned 5th IM norm, IM title, and 1st GM norm
    • #3 IM Alice Lee (2444) - 3 events
    • #4 FM Eric Liu (2435) - 1 event
    • #5 FM Harshid Kunka (2378) - 2 events, earned FM title and 1st IM norm
  • Top 13 Year Olds
    • #1 IM Andy Woodward (2583) - 3 events, earned 1st IM norm
    • #2 FM Tanitoluwa Adewumi (2436) - 3 events
    • #3 NM Andrew Jiang (2323) - 1 event
    • #4 FM Benjamin Tang (2290) - 1 event
  • Top 11 Year Olds
    • #2 NM Ethan Guo (2248) - 1 event

Player, Arbiter, and Organizer Titles Achieved in CCC Norm Events (final norm or rating achieved) - USA players unless otherwise noted:
  1. GM Andrew Tang
  2. GM John Michael Burke
  3. GM Steven Zierk
  4. GM Nicolas Checa
  5. GM Michael Brown
  6. GM Brandon Jacobson
  7. GM Hans Niemann
  8. GM Andrew Hong
  9. GM Nikolas Theodorou (Greece)
  10. GM Christopher Yoo
  11. GM Brian Escalante (Peru) - pending FIDE approval
  12. IM Kevin Wang
  13. IM Sahil Sinha
  14. IM John Ludwig
  15. IM Aaron Grabinsky
  16. IM Josiah Stearman
  17. IM Yuriy Krykun (Ukraine)
  18. IM Jason Liang
  19. IM Danial Asaria
  20. IM Vyom Vidyarthi
  21. IM Tianqi Wang
  22. IM Anish Vivekananthan
  23. IM Jakub Fus (Poland)
  24. IM Gus Huston
  25. IM Liran Zhou
  26. IM Alexander Velikanov
  27. IM Brewington Hardaway - pending FIDE approval
  28. WGM Carissa Yip
  29. WIM Carissa Yip
  30. WIM Ellen Wang
  31. FM Matthew Larson
  32. FM Benjamin Moon
  33. FM Wesley Wang
  34. FM Aydin Turgut
  35. FM Richard Francisco
  36. FM Lev Paciorkowski - unclaimed
  37. FM Ming Lu - unclaimed
  38. FM Andy Woodward
  39. FM Rochelle Wu
  40. FM Alexander King
  41. FM Eigen Wang
  42. FM Terry Luo
  43. FM Grayson Rorrer
  44. FM Harshid Kunka
  45. FM Ethan Sheehan - unclaimed
  46. FM Sudarshan Sriniayer
  47. FM Daniel Xu (Canada)
  48. FM Aaron Mendes (Canada)
  49. FM Lucius Melillo - unclaimed
  50. FM Vaseegaran Nandhakumar - unclaimed
  51. WFM Sophie Morris-Suzuki
  52. NM Alperen Kanli (Azerbaijan)
  53. NM Sebastian Boehme (Germany)
  54. NM Tyson Brady
  55. NM Matias Shundi
  56. IA Grant Oen
  57. IA Peter Giannatos
  58. IA Anand Dommalapati
  59. IA Maya Myers
  60. IA Martha Underwood
  61. FA Grant Oen
  62. FA Peter Giannatos
  63. FA Maya Myers
  64. FA Robert Getty
  65. FA Bryan Tillis
  66. IO Grant Oen
  67. IO Peter Giannatos
  68. IO Anand Dommalapati

107 Player Norms Achieved in CCC Norm Events - USA players unless otherwise noted:

GM Norms (30)
  • Safal Bora - 1st
  • Andrew Tang - 3rd
  • Raja Panjwani (Canada) - 2nd
  • John Burke - 3rd
  • Steven Zierk - 3rd
  • Kassa Korley (Denmark) - 1st
  • Nicolas Checa - 3rd
  • Michael Brown - 3rd
  • Praveen Balakrishnan - 1st
  • Omer Reshef (Israel) - 1st
  • Eyal Grinberg (Israel) - 1st
  • Brandon Jacobson - 3rd
  • Aaron Grabinsky - 1st
  • Craig Hilby - 2nd
  • Hans Niemann - 3rd
  • Praveen Balakrishnan - 3rd
  • Danial Asaria - 1st
  • Christopher Yoo - 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th
  • Joshua Sheng - 2nd
  • Nikolas Theodorou (Greece) - 3rd
  • Andrew Hong - 3rd
  • Rahul Srivatshav Peddi (India) - 4th
  • Vyom Vidyarthi - 1st
  • Justus Williams - 1st
  • Bryce Tiglon - 2nd
  • Brewington Hardaway - 1st
  • Jason Wang - 1st

IM Norms (65)
  • Alexander Velikanov - 3rd
  • Michael Brown - 2nd
  • Gauri Shankar (India) - 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th
  • John Ludwig - 1st, 3rd
  • Tianqi Wang - 1st, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th
  • Kevin Wang - 5th
  • Jennifer Yu - 2nd
  • Yoon-Young Kim - 1st
  • Brandon Jacobson - 1st
  • Carissa Yip - 1st, 4th
  • Aaron Jacobson - 1st
  • Aydin Turgut - 1st, 3rd
  • Jennifer Yu - 4th
  • Christopher Shen - 1st
  • Shunkai Peng - 4th
  • Robert Shlyakhtenko - 1st, 2nd
  • Jason Liang - 2nd, 3rd, 4th
  • Balaji Daggupati - 2nd
  • Josiah Stearman - 3rd
  • Yuriy Krykun (Ukraine) - 3rd
  • Anish Vivekananthan - 2nd, 3rd
  • Kyron Griffith - 2nd
  • Ming Lu - 1st, 2nd
  • Sandeep Sethuraman - 1st
  • Evan Park - 1st
  • Deepak Aaron - 2nd, 4th
  • Vishnu Vanapalli - 1st, 2nd
  • Andy Woodward - 1st
  • Bach Ngo - 1st, 2nd
  • Ryo Chen - 1st
  • Joshua Posthuma - 1st, 2nd
  • Nico Chasin - 1st, 2nd
  • Liran Zhou - 3rd
  • Harshid Kunka - 1st
  • Grayson Rorrer - 1st
  • Liam Putnam - 1st, 3rd
  • Max Gedajlovic (Canada) - 2nd
  • Jakub Fus (Poland) - 3rd
  • Anthony Atanasov (Canada) - 1st
  • Gauri Shankar (India) - 8th
  • Gus Huston - 4th
  • William Graif - 1st
  • Brewington Hardaway - 5th
  • Seth Homa - 4th

WGM Norms (5)
  • Jennifer Yu - 2nd
  • Carissa Yip - 1st, 3rd
  • Ellen Wang - 1st, 2nd

WIM Norms (7)
  • Carissa Yip - 3rd
  • Sophie Morris-Suzuki - 1st
  • Ambica Yellamraju - 1st
  • Yassamin Ehsani - 1st, 3rd
  • Sanjana Vittal - 3rd
  • Ruiyang Yan - 2nd


CCC Norm Invitational Stats

Most events played:
  • IM Roberto Martin Del Campo, FM Gauri Shankar: 29
  • GM Tanguy Ringoir: 21
  • IM Kassa Korley, IM Tianqi Wang: 20
  • IM Alex Ostrovskiy: 14
  • GM Brandon Jacobson, IM Nikolay Andrianov: 12

Most invitationals won (clear or tied first place):
  • GM Titas Stremavicius: 6
  • IM Tianqi Wang: 5
  • GM Tanguy Ringoir: 4
  • GM Vladimir Belous, GM Christopher Yoo, IM Jason Liang: 3
  • GM Michael Brown, GM David Berczes, GM Hans Niemann, GM Bartlomiej Macieja, GM Vladimir Georgiev, IM John Ludwig, IM Zurab Javakhadze, IM Roberto Martin Del Campo, IM Alex Ostrovskiy, IM Alexander Matros, IM Ming Lu, IM Nico Chasin, IM Alexander Velikanov, IM Robert Shlyakhtenko, IM Andy Woodward, IM Joshua Posthuma, FM Aydin Turgut: 2
  • GM Denis Kadric, GM John Michael Burke, GM Andrew Tang, GM Niclas Huschenbeth, GM Nicolas Checa, GM Steven Zierk, GM Angel Arribas Lopez, GM Carlos Hevia Alejano, GM Alonso Zapata, GM Karen Grigoryan, GM Karthik Venkataraman, GM Mark Paragua, GM Kamil Dragun, GM Aleksander Mista, GM Peter Prohaszka, GM Abhimanyu Mishra, GM Praveen Balakrishnan, GM Andrew Hong, GM Nikolas Theodorou, GM Alex Lenderman, GM Joshua Sheng, GM Jianchao Zhou, GM Gil Popilski, GM Gabor Nagy, GM Razvan Preotu, GM Fidel Corrales Jimenez, GM Arthur Guo, GM Christian Cruz, IM Safal Bora, IM Felix Ynojosa Aponte, IM Kevin Wang, IM Rohan Ahuja, IM John Bartholomew, IM Kassa Korley, IM Raja Panjwani, IM Omer Reshef, IM Eyal Grinberg, IM Carissa Yip, IM Craig Hilby, IM Josiah Stearman, IM Yuriy Krykun, IM Nikolay Andrianov, IM Nikolay Andrianov, IM Kyron Griffith, IM Dimitar Mardov, IM Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux, IM Michael Mulyar, IM Tamas Petenyi, IM Justus Williams, IM Liordis Quesada Vera, IM Ryo Chen, IM Sandeep Sethuraman, IM Gianmarco Leiva, IM Liran Zhou, IM Bach Ngo, IM Aaron Jacobson, IM Levan Bregadze, WGM Jennifer Yu, FM Gauri Shankar, FM Yoon-Young Kim, FM Christopher Shen, FM Robby Adamson, FM Liam Putnam, FM Grayson Rorrer, FM Terry Luo, FM Carlos Sandoval Mercado, FM Harshid Kunka, FM William Graif: 1

Highest cumulative average opponent FIDE rating:
  • IM Levy Rozman: 2467
  • GM Andrey Stukopin: 2458
  • GM Thomas Roussel-Roozmon, NM Mika Brattain: 2455
  • IM Michael Bodek: 2454
  • IM Denys Shmelov, IM Luis Carlos Torres, WGM Gulrukhbegim Tokhirjonova: 2452

Highest cumulative performance rating:
  • IM Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux: 3037
  • GM Niclas Huschenbeth: 2649
  • GM Alex Lenderman: 2633
  • GM Nikolas Theodorou: 2609
  • IM Omer Reshef: 2605

Most wins against GMs:
  • IM Kassa Korley: 9
  • GM Andrew Hong, GM Joshua Sheng: 5
  • GM Michael Brown, GM Brandon Jacobson, GM Abhimanyu Mishra, GM Arthur Guo, IM Justus Williams, IM Tianqi Wang, FM Gauri Shankar: 4

Most points against GMs:
  • IM Kassa Korley: 26.5
  • FM Gauri Shankar: 22
  • GM Tanguy Ringoir: 21
  • IM Alex Ostrovskiy: 13.5
  • GM Brandon Jacobson: 13

Highest plus score against GMs:
  • GM Joshua Sheng: +4
  • GM Michael Brown, IM Alexander Katz, IM Raja Panjwani: +3
  • GM John Michael Burke, GM Tanguy Ringoir, GM Andrew Hong, GM Kamil Dragun, GM Jacob Aagaard, IM Advait Patel: +2

Longest Win Streak:
  • IM Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux: 9
  • GM Brandon Jacobson, GM Hans Niemann, GM Peter Prohaszka, GM Ulvi Bajarani, GM Alex Lenderman, GM David Brodsky, GM Tanguy Ringoir, IM Roberto Martin Del Campo, IM Andy Woodward, IM Gianmarco Leiva, IM Levan Bregadze: 5
  • GM Alonso Zapata, GM Christopher Yoo, GM Balaji Daggupati, GM Alonso Zapata, IM Alex Ostrovskiy, IM Eyal Grinberg, IM Kassa Korley, IM Cameron Wheeler, IM Carissa Yip, IM Alexander Matros, IM Tianqi Wang, IM Ming Lu, IM Nico Chasin, IM Ryo Chen, IM Sandeep Sethuraman, FM Aydin Turgut, FM Richard Francisco, FM James Canty, FM Harshid Kunka, FM William Graif: 4

Longest Draw Streak:
  • GM Tanguy Ringoir: 17
  • IM Nikolay Andrianov: 16
  • GM Daniel Fernandez, IM Roberto Martin Del Campo: 10
  • IM Anish Vivekananthan: 9
  • GM Alder Escobar Forero, GM Andrey Gorovets, GM Joshua Sheng, IM Kassa Korley, FM Robby Adamson: 8

Longest Undefeated Streak:
  • GM Titas Stremavicius: 50 games (current)
  • GM Tanguy Ringoir: 37
  • GM Michael Brown: 28 (current)
  • IM Tianqi Wang: 27
  • IM Alexander Matros: 26

Largest FIDE rating gain in one CCC Norm Invitational:

Largest cumulative FIDE rating gain (all CCC Norm Invitationals):
  • IM Tianqi Wang: +240.2 points
  • IM Aaron Jacobson: +194.6
  • IM Vishnuvardhan Arjun: +163.4
  • FM Liam Putnam: +153
  • IM Ming Lu: +139

Largest US Chess rating gain in one CCC Norm Invitational:

Largest cumulative US Chess rating gain (all CCC Norm Invitationals):
  • NM Ethan Song: +170 points
  • IM Tianqi Wang: +137
  • FM Zachary Dukic: +122
  • IM Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux: +113
  • IM Aaron Jacobson: +104

Most cumulative game points:
  • IM Roberto Martin Del Campo: 126
  • FM Gauri Shankar: 120
  • GM Tanguy Ringoir: 113.5
  • IM Tianqi Wang: 97.5
  • IM Kassa Korley: 87

Most wins:
  • IM Roberto Martin Del Campo: 55
  • IM Tianqi Wang, FM Gauri Shankar: 52
  • GM Tanguy Ringoir: 46
  • IM Kassa Korley: 41
  • IM Aaron Jacobson: 34

Most draws:
  • IM Roberto Martin Del Campo: 142
  • FM Gauri Shankar: 136
  • GM Tanguy Ringoir: 135
  • IM Kassa Korley: 92
  • IM Tianqi Wang: 91

Biggest cumulative plus score:
  • GM Tanguy Ringoir: +38
  • GM Titas Stremavicius: +21
  • IM Tianqi Wang, IM Aaron Jacobson : +15
  • GM Michael Brown, IM Levan Bregadze: +14
  • GM Kamil Dragun: +13

Highest score percentage:
  • IM Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux: 100%
  • GM Gabor Nagy: 88.9%
  • IM Gianmarco Leiva: 83.3%
  • GM Niclas Huschenbeth, GM Alex Lenderman, FM Yoon-Young Kim, FM William Graif: 77.8%
  • GM Andrew Tang, GM John Michael Burke, GM Denis Kadric, GM Carlos Hevia Alejano, GM Ulvi Bajarani, GM Nikolas Theodorou, GM Vladimir Georgiev, GM Gil Popilski, GM Dmitri Komarov, IM Omer Reshef, IM Eyal Grinberg: 72.2%

Highest win percentage:
  • IM Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux: 100%
  • GM Gabor Nagy: 77.8%
  • IM Gianmarco Leiva, FM Yoon-Young Kim, FM William Graif: 66.7%
  • IM Ming Lu: 59.3%
  • GM Andrew Tang, GM Karen Grigoryan, GM John Michael Burke, GM Carlos Hevia Alejano, GM Niclas Huschenbeth, GM Alex Lenderman, IM Matthew Larson, IM Eyal Grinberg: 55.6%

Highest draw percentage:
  • GM Guillermo Vazquez: 88.9%
  • IM Nikolay Andrianov: 83.3%
  • GM Andrey Stukopin, GM Hedinn Steingrimsson, GM Thomas Roussel-Roozmon, GM Gergely Kantor, IM Tamas Petenyi: FM Aravind Kumar: 77.8%
  • GM Daniel Fernandez, IM Michael Mulyar: 72.2%
  • GM Tanguy Ringoir: 71.4%

Lowest draw percentage: 
  • IM Shawn Rodrigue-Lemiexu, FM Mike Ivanov: 0%
  • IM Matthew Larson, WGM Dina Belenkaya, FM Jouaquin Banawa, FM Kush Bhagat, WFM Ana Shamatava, WFM Uyanga Byambaa, NM Karthik Rangarajan, NM Paul Iinuma, NM Theodore Slade, NM Kapish Potula, NM Stephen Willy: 11.1%
  • WM Gabriela Antova, NM Evan Rosenberg: 16.7%
  • IM Ming Lu: 18.5%

Lowest loss percentage:
  • GM Denis Kadric, GM Niclas Huschenbeth, GM Hedinn Steingrimsson, GM Thomas Roussel-Roozmon, GM Nikolas Theodorou, GM Alex Lenderman, GM Gil Popilski, GM Guillermo Vazquez, GM Vladimir Georgiev, GM Gabor Nagy, GM Dmitri Komarov, IM Omer Reshef, IM Yuriy Krykun, IM Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux, IM Liordis Quesada Vera, IM Gianmarco Leiva, FM Isaac Wang: 0%
  • GM Julio Becerra: 3.7%
  • GM Tanguy Ringoir: 4.2%
  • GM Kamil Dragun: 4.4%
  • GM Ulvi Bajarani, GM Bartlomiej Macieja, IM Tamas Petenyi: 5.6%

Highest decisive game percentage:
  • IM Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux, FM Mike Ivanov: 100%
  • IM Matthew Larson, WGM Dina Belenkaya, FM Jouaquin Banawa, FM Kush Bhagat, WFM Uyanga Byambaa, WFM Ana Shamatava, NM Karthik Rangarajan, NM Kapish Potula, NM Theodore Slade, NM Paul Iinuma, NM Stephen Willy: 88.9%
  • WM Gabriela Antova, NM Evan Rosenberg: 83.3%
  • IM Ming Lu: 81.5%

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