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12/4/2022Prize winners at the Harry Nelson Pillsbury Memorial

Prize winners at the Harry Nelson Pillsbury Memorial, held December 4th in Westford, Mass.

 
Open Section
 
1st FM Danila Poliannikov 4-0
2nd-3rd Rajesh Shanmugasundaram 3.5-0.5
2nd-3rd/Top U2150 David Katsman 3.5-0.5
 
Under 1950 Section
 
1st-2nd Rafael Pashkov, Kishore Sivarajan 3.5-0.5
 
Under 1750 Section
 
1st-4th John Martin, Benjamin Marinelli, Jeremy Rosenholtz, Niranjan Nair 3.5-0.5
 
Under 1450 Section
 
1st-2nd Vikram Scherfke, Priyanshu Arora 4-0
Top U1200 Oliver Romanovsky 3.5-0.5
Top U1000 Marcus Li 3-1
Top U800 Ryan (Qizheng) Zhao 3-1
Top Unrated Theo Lack, Marc Chiroco, Oliver Davis, James Clark 3-1
 
Players in the Under 1450 section are listed in tiebreak order.
 
The tournament was directed by Frank DelBonis, Bob Messenger, Kavita Bhatia, and Nicholas Sterling.
 

Bob Messenger
MACA Board Member

12/3/2022Advance entries for the Harry Nelson Pillsbury Memorial, updated 12/3/22

SwissSys Report: Harry Nelson Pillsbury Memorial

SwissSys Wall Chart. Harry Nelson Pillsbury Memorial: Open Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 FM Danila Poliannikov MA        
  2393 14969622          
2 Rajesh Shanmugasundaram RI        
  2363 16434545          
3 FM Christopher Chase MA        
  2317 10010985          
4 Lawyer Times MA        
  2208 12167330          
5 Kelsey Liu MA        
  2168 15770981          
6 Xiaoman Chu NH        
  2099 14991055          
7 Raymond S Xu MA        
  2061 15248334          
8 David Katsman MA        
  2044 14958088          
9 Hanon Russell NH bye      
  2023 10036917          
10 Michael Uwakwe CT        
  2022 15610873          
11 Vihaan Jain MA        
  2018 16584243          
12 Arthur P Nugent MA        
  2000 10011191          
13 Oskar Zoffer MA        
  1997 16471866          
14 Erin Dame NH       bye
  1955 12533685          
15 Dattasai Kilari MA        
  1946 16429310          
16 Sergey Malinin MA        
  1905 30302734          
17 Yuze Luke Ji MA     bye  
  1887 16237733          
18 William E Ravn ME        
  1878 14925795          
19 Franklin Phillip Lewis MA        
  1852 15922026          
20 Alexander Mendonez MA bye      
  1836 15953228          
21 Dhairya M Mehta MA        
  1803 16378663          
22 Hrishikesh Vedula NH        
  1786 16099404          
23 Bohan Wang MA        
  1781 16880573          
24 Vinamra Jain MA        
  1758 16584258          

SwissSys Wall Chart. Harry Nelson Pillsbury Memorial: Under 1950 Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Stephen Gradijan MA        
  1873 12454998          
2 Rafael Pashkov MA        
  1866 15251590          
3 Paul A Mishkin MA        
  1800 12432059          
4 Douglas Reynolds MA        
  1774 12427040          
5 Isabella Lai MA        
  1761 15990974          
6 Alok Chandan PA        
  1759 14926708          
7 Pragyan Sriram MA        
  1751 16552308          
8 Kishore Sivarajan MA        
  1741 16395776          
9 Max Heller Bennett MA        
  1718 14159528          
10 Brady Hanks RI        
  1687 16532594          
11 Stanley Wu MA        
  1658 16202522          
12 Sujay Kunamneni MA        
  1656 16433982          
13 Koray Kokturk RI        
  1642 30184449          
14 Yanyee Li MA        
  1616 30319128          
15 Kevin Zhao MA   bye    
  1584 30425013          
16 Zachary Pan MA        
  1563 30221502          
17 Harry Li MA        
  1516 16988211          
18 Holden Chalfant MA        
  1486 15214147          
19 Nan Ji MA     bye  
  1413 16758085          
20 Felix Wu MA        
  1343 30258050          
21 Evan Shi MA        
  1306 16966603          
22 Kaiya Bridget Smits MA        
  1091 16486827          

SwissSys Wall Chart. Harry Nelson Pillsbury Memorial: Under 1750 Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 John W Martin MA        
  1700 10008191          
2 Benjamin Marinelli MA        
  1682 12699861          
3 Carl Fossa MA        
  1646 12519349          
4 Marvin Moss MA        
  1611 12476109          
5 Roland Booker III MA        
  1600 10569176          
6 Douglas Southall MA        
  1582 12770429          
7 Kevin Zimmerman CT        
  1530 12799878          
8 Vivaan Tanna MA        
  1413 30179518          
9 Ray Xue MA        
  1413 17348162          
10 Jesse Levi Hayden RI        
  1400 16529228          
11 Ella Xinyue Zhang MA        
  1346 30305617          
12 Christopher Estiverne MA        
  1338 16441830          
13 Vivian Chen MA        
  1282 17299381          
14 Christine Nguyen MA        
  1275 16634247          
15 Aanya Yadawad MA        
  1259 16191144          
16 Christian Y Li MA        
  1250 16923000          
17 Jeremy Fan MA        
  1218 16878614          
18 Ram Tammineni MA        
  1208 30216616          
19 Richard Zhao MA        
  1163 30711000          
20 Ansh Jeslani MA        
  1159 16438780          
21 Niranjan Nair MA        
  1147 30214182          
22 Emma Linyue Zhang MA        
  1097 30305579          
23 Jerry Duan MA        
  1087 30178900          
24 Ethan W Zhang MA        
  1078 17088714          
25 Zach Cramer MA        
  999 14628477          
26 James Davis NH        
  unr. 30840068          

SwissSys Wall Chart. Harry Nelson Pillsbury Memorial: Under 1450 Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Rodrigo Espirito Santo MA        
  1375 30277931          
2 William M Beagle MA        
  1250 30250532          
3 Stanley Yu MA        
  1240 17079108          
4 Evan Banerjee MA        
  1236 30675974          
5 Vikram Scherfke MA        
  1236 16492162          
6 Dylan Robert Arndt MA        
  1215 30026942          
7 Priyanshu Arora MA        
  1200 15457348          
8 John A Ragucci MA        
  1200 10016894          
9 Samanyu Alluri MA        
  1176 30185788          
10 Zihan Zhang MA        
  1140 30700239          
11 Chris Cui MA        
  1138 30048697          
12 Eric Anthony Padovano MA bye      
  1122 16769738          
13 Matthew Anderson MA bye      
  1120 30463164          
14 Nathan Li MA        
  1101 15889394          
15 Sergei Zanozin MA        
  1095 30151528          
16 Jianda Liu MA        
  1092 17182781          
17 Rowan Smith MA        
  1075 16483174          
18 John N Hooper III RI        
  1055 15532702          
19 Simon Payne MA        
  1050 30429367          
20 Benjamin B Walker MA        
  1043 30153391          
21 Daniel Schleith RI bye      
  1035 30109394          
22 Michael J Eberle MA        
  1026 16410397          
23 Sriram Venkatapathy MA        
  997 16991538          
24 Colin Scheriff MA        
  948 30331716          
25 Kevin Andrew Shea NH        
  944 30759055          
26 William French CT        
  924 30739798          
27 Mark Andrew Luhtanen MA        
  912 30093102          
28 Marcus Li MA        
  896 16498533          
29 Zongrui Alvin Zhou MA        
  894 30238371          
30 Maitreya Ganguly MA        
  888 30716324          
31 Mingjun Zhao MA   bye    
  856 30673526          
32 Kaden V Chen MA        
  848 30585782          
33 Raphael Mostov CA        
  758 15930377          
34 Tommy Kozlek MA        
  721 30347417          
35 Jace Chyn MA        
  686 17079067          
36 Gunnar J Carr NH        
  650 30248438          
37 Anton Poliannikov MA        
  605 30308225          
38 Jon Van Iderstine MA        
  575 30379251          
39 Thomas Kennan MA        
  572 17290265          
40 Ryan [Qizheng] Zhao MA        
  565 30852820          
41 Timothy Ryan MA        
  543 30325251          
42 Dmitry Filippov MA        
  526 17099364          
43 Devansh Peddi MA        
  486 16480070          
44 Aarav Chandak MA        
  471 30690866          
45 Walter P Michaels MA        
  445 30670037          
46 Dharshna Karthick MA        
  282 30377965          
47 Ethan Kim MD        
  226 30317819          
48 Sesha K Chemuturi MA        
  214 17232722          
49 Benjamin Belanger NH        
  187 30770590          
50 Anthony Belanger MA        
  166 30785269          
51 Mriduna Kishore MA        
  102 16879190          
52 Dmitry Bobrov MA        
  unr. 30483347          
53 Marc Chirico MA        
  unr. 30747413          
54 Kyle Lu NJ        
  unr. 30833510          
55 M Eustace MA        
  unr. 30822946          
56 Liam Coote MA        
  unr. 30811350          
57 Theo Lack AZ        
  unr. 30822558          
58 Anil Rao NH        
  unr. 30860184          
59 James Clark MA        
  unr. 30862557          
60 Jason Wang MA        
  unr. 30756552          
61 Ezra W Davis NH        
  unr. 30840111          
62 Oliver J Davis NH        
  unr. 30840107          

Bob Messenger
MACA Board Member

11/13/2022Prize winners at the Second Spiegel Cup Qualifier

Prize winners at the Second Spiegel Cup Qualifier, held November 13th in Westford, Mass.

 
Grades 6-8 Section
 
1st Oskar Zoffer 4-0
2nd-6th Nikolay Avdokhin, Rayhan Riaz, Maxim Klempf, Isabella Lai, Harry Li 3-1
 
Grades K-5 Section
 
1st Kevin Zhao 4-0
2nd Dylan Arndt 3-1
3rd-4th Christine Nguyen, Christian Li 2.5-1.5
 
Grades K-3 Section
 
1st Evan Banerjee 4-0
2nd-3rd Samanyu Alluri 3-1
 
Reserve Under 1200 Section
 
1st-2nd Simon Payne, Alex Hou 3.5-0.5
3rd-8th Peter Kouznetsov, Isaac Rajagopal, Oliver Kutsman, Devansh Peddi, Kaiya Smits, Aryan Shroff 2-2
 
Reserve Under 800 Section
 
1st Marcus Li 4-0
2nd-8th Felix Hentschel, Kenisro Viyani, Isaac Marks, Tommy Koziek, Dylan Dimmick, Greg Agranovitch, Claire Zhao 3-1
 
Reserve Under 400 Section
 
1st-2nd Larry Cui (playoff winner), Xiaoyu Zhu 4-0
3rd-11th Derek Wu, Avish Dutta, Ivan Rukicka, Viaan Mehta, Julia Morton, Brooks Jiang, Elie Hayete, Srihaving Kumar, Winston Wong 3-1
 
Tied players are listed in tiebreak order except as noted.
 
The tournament was directed by Frank DelBonis, Bob Messenger, Dmitry Barash, Igor Klempf, and Nicholas Sterling.
 

Bob Messenger
MACA Board Member

11/12/2022Advance entries for the Second Spiegel Cup Qualifier, updated 11/12/22

SwissSys Report: 2nd Spiegel Cup Qualifier

SwissSys Wall Chart. 2nd Spiegel Cup Qualifier: Grades 6-8 Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Rayhan Riaz MA        
  1902 16543002          
2 Nikolay Avdokhin MA        
  1887 16386416          
3 Dhairya M Mehta MA        
  1827 16378663          
4 Pragyan Sriram MA        
  1807 16552308          
5 Riya A Kanury MA        
  1757 16066054          
6 Isabella Lai MA        
  1734 15990974          
7 Shouri Mosaliganti MA        
  1733 16646805          
8 Maxim Klempf MA        
  1693 16715527          
9 Nathan Klempf MA        
  1601 16715512          
10 Harry Li MA        
  1469 16988211          
11 Mark Piryatinsky MA        
  1401 16388502          
12 Vivaan Tanna MA        
  1267 30179518          
13 Vivian Chen MA        
  1262 17299381          
14 Dhruv Charan Rajan MA        
  1209 30187678          
15 Swayam Prakash Sahoo MA        
  1201 17313260          
16 Kayla Zhang MA        
  1160 16771070          
17 Aanya Yadawad MA        
  1127 16191144          
18 Ethan W Zhang MA        
  1125 17088714          
19 Yan Barash MA        
  1117 16433515          
20 Wataru Takeuchi MA        
  1064 16486723          

SwissSys Wall Chart. 2nd Spiegel Cup Qualifier: Grades K-5 Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Kevin Zhao MA        
  1516 30425013          
2 Christine Nguyen MA        
  1224 16634247          
3 Ram Tammineni MA        
  1192 30216616          
4 Dylan Robert Arndt MA        
  1126 30026942          
5 Sergei Zanozin MA        
  1046 30151528          
6 Tianjun Chen MA        
  975 17026676          
7 Benjamin B Walker MA        
  942 30153391          
8 Richard Zhao MA        
  902 30711000          
9 Aarit Nakul MA        
  820 30214640          

SwissSys Wall Chart. 2nd Spiegel Cup Qualifier: Grades K-3 Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Armando Toledano Laredo MA        
  1291 30355548          
2 Connor Xiang Liu MA        
  1210 30071216          
3 Samanyu Alluri MA        
  1154 30185788          
4 Chris Cui MA        
  1134 30048697          
5 Evan Banerjee MA        
  1097 30675974          
6 Jerry Duan MA        
  1017 30178900          
7 Zongrui Alvin Zhou MA        
  921 30238371          
8 Ryan Tyler Xie MA        
  739 30532890          
9 Daniel Kurtz MA        
  698 30686408          
10 Aarav Chandak MA        
  444 30690866          
11 Varun Vasanth MA        
  441 17128377          
12 Adarsh Kumaran MA        
  unr. 30829008          
13 Sanav Chandra Chakraborty MA        
  unr. 30818027          

SwissSys Wall Chart. 2nd Spiegel Cup Qualifier: Reserve Under 1200 Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Oliver Kutsman MA        
  1136 16818573          
2 Peter Kouznetsov MA        
  982 16187153          
3 Kaiya Bridget Smits MA        
  893 16486827          
4 Aryan Siddharth Shroff MA        
  893 30697005          
5 Aidin Narynbekov MA        
  861 16934194          
6 Alex W Song MA        
  609 30324871          
7 Mriduna Kishore MA        
  600 16879190          
8 Anika Veeramaneni MA        
  484 17070910          

SwissSys Wall Chart. 2nd Spiegel Cup Qualifier: Reserve Under 800 Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Felix Hentschel MA        
  785 15914267          
2 Marcus Li MA        
  782 16498533          
3 Kenisro Princeton Viyani MA        
  743 30304394          
4 Tommy Kozlek MA        
  680 30347417          
5 Sophia Klempf MA        
  676 17298188          
6 Anthony Yuchen Ji MA        
  636 17073376          
7 Pavel Strelchenko MA        
  632 30624899          
8 Stephen Gregory MA        
  616 16690642          
9 Eric Hua MA        
  568 30458015          
10 Anton Stark Yean MA        
  544 30275487          
11 Avin Hemaratne MA        
  543 30295092          
12 Claire Zhao MA        
  532 30786672          
13 Maximus Ruban MA        
  531 16496521          
14 Theodore Wu MA        
  520 30753562          
15 Ishan Pentapalli MA        
  508 30744625          
16 Dmitry Filippov MA        
  499 17099364          
17 Aditya Nambi MA        
  471 30293250          
18 Alison A Wang MA        
  456 30689620          
19 Anay Bhardwaj MA        
  446 30365230          
20 Nolan Pang MA        
  436 30017492          
21 Vihaan Patel MA        
  422 30295114          
22 Adam Cong MA        
  399 30122562          
23 Isaac Marks MA        
  373 30551170          
24 Lawrence Ni MA        
  329 30494213          

SwissSys Wall Chart. 2nd Spiegel Cup Qualifier: Reserve Under 400 Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Saanvi Sadineni MA        
  389 30026825          
2 Brooks Jiang MA        
  384 30733511          
3 Thea Wu MA        
  337 30753550          
4 Julia E Morton MA        
  324 30554176          
5 Viaan Mehta MA        
  321 30166827          
6 Ilia Zanozin MA        
  297 30177614          
7 Andrew Coon MA        
  297 30602092          
8 Winston Wong MA        
  249 16966378          
9 Daniel Savchuk MA        
  161 30297278          
10 Marcus Liu MA        
  128 30700173          
11 Derek Wu MA        
  124 30688214          
12 Maxim Arefolov MA        
  101 30491375          
13 Ethan Yean Stark MA        
  101 30610850          
14 Syona Gupta MA        
  unr. 30826571          
15 Jayden Jen MA        
  unr. 30830469          
16 Warren Nie MA        
  unr. new          
17 Andrew Urzua MA        
  unr. 30829164          
18 Srihavish Kumar MA        
  unr. 30821358          
19 Rishi Jeevanand MA        
  unr. 30821595          
20 Matthieu Tahmasebi MA        
  unr. 30825699          
21 Benjamin Han MA        
  unr. 30825146          
22 Ivan Ruzicka MA        
  unr. new          
23 Akshana Kishore MA        
  unr. 30817059          
24 Connor Guo MA        
  unr. 30820648          
25 Larry Cui MA        
  unr. 30776398          
26 Avish Dutta MA        
  unr. new          
27 Xiaoyu Zhu MA        
  unr. 30772932          
28 Kevin Xu MA        
  unr. 30772957          

 

Bob Messenger
MACA Board Member

10/23/2022Prize winners at the 87th Greater Boston Open

Prize winners at the 87th Greater Boston Open, held October 23rd in Westford, Mass.

 
Open Section
 
1st GM Jianchao Zhou 4-0
2nd FM Christopher Chase 3.5-0.5
Top U2300 Lawyer Times 2.5-1.5
 
Under 2100 Section
 
1st-2nd Michael Carey, Michael Uwakwe 3.5-0.5
 
Under 1900 Section
 
1st Nikolay Avdokhin 4-0
2nd-3rd Tran Huynh, Matthew Phelps 3-1
 
Under 1700 Section
 
1st Sudeep Pandey 3.5-0.5
2nd-6th Jeremy Rosenholtz, Ethan Minikes, Vivaan Tanna, Peter Ellinas, Paul Staats 3-1
 
Under 1500 Section
 
1st-4th Alan Bu, Craig DeMelo, Rodrigo Espirito Santo, Aidan Waugh 3.5-0.5
 
Under 1200 Section
 
1st-2nd Venkat Devata (playoff winner), Zihan Zhang 4-0
3rd-5th Alexander Rapoport 3.5-0.5
3rd-5th/Top Unrated Ryan Rotcavich, Marc Chirico 3.5-0.5
Top U1000 Alex Song, Jianda Liu 3-1
Top U800 Benjamin Walker 3-1
 
Except as noted, tied players in the Under 1200 Section are listed in tiebreak order.
 
The tournament was directed by Bob Messenger, Frank DelBonis, Yi Wang, and Nicholas Sterling.
 

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

10/22/2022Advance entries for the 87th Greater Boston Open, updated 10/22/22 (final)

SwissSys Report: 87th Greater Boston Open

SwissSys Wall Chart. 87th Greater Boston Open: Open Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 GM Alexander Ivanov MA        
  2508 12513936          
2 FM Steven Winer MA        
  2460 12549813          
3 FM Danila Poliannikov MA        
  2391 14969622          
4 Rajesh Shanmugasundaram RI        
  2338 16434545          
5 FM Christopher Chase MA        
  2311 10010985          
6 Lawyer Times MA        
  2200 12167330          
7 Eric Z Feng MA        
  2180 15742464          
8 Shami Abullayev MA        
  2180 30749086          
9 Ryan Wang MA        
  2079 15486461          
10 Kateryna Odnorozhenko MA       bye
  2064 30200342          
11 Xiaoman Chu NH        
  2050 14991055          
12 Eric Sheng Wu NH        
  1983 15282174          
13 Oskar Zoffer MA        
  1966 16471866          
14 Dejan Skrcheski MA        
  1922 30299274          
15 Charles Xie MA        
  1903 16435293          
16 Ranjan Dey MA        
  1844 15718966          
17 Evelyn Zhang MA        
  1843 17180873          
18 Alexander Mendonez MA        
  1836 15953228          
19 Sritan Devineni MA        
  1824 15586296          
20 Bohan Wang MA        
  1809 16880573          
21 Sujay Kunamneni MA bye ----    
  1605 16433982          
22 Kevin Bartkovich NH        
  unr. ?????????          

SwissSys Wall Chart. 87th Greater Boston Open: Under 2100 Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Michael P Carey RI        
  2063 10120560          
2 Michael Uwakwe CT        
  2036 15610873          
3 Erin Dame NH        
  1981 12533685          
4 Stephen Gradijan MA        
  1917 12454998          
5 Paul A Mishkin MA       bye
  1832 12432059          
6 George Wilfred Duval MA        
  1792 12471987          
7 Franklin P Lewis MA        
  1788 15922026          
8 Achyuta Rajaram NH        
  1773 14915688          
9 Isabella Lai MA        
  1734 15990974          
10 Rohan Kasiviswanathan CA        
  1728 13669318          
11 Jack Tompros MA        
  1710 14909774          
12 James W Todhunter MA        
  1700 12042190          
13 Frank Zhongtian Cao MA        
  1682 30158113          
14 Shawn Xu MA        
  1647 30264362          
15 Max Heller Bennett MA        
  1630 14159528          
16 Andrew X Liu MA        
  1593 16340541          
17 Holden Chalfant MA        
  1337 15214147          

SwissSys Wall Chart. 87th Greater Boston Open: Under 1900 Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Tran Minh Huynh Huynh NY        
  1860 16926131          
2 Hrishikesh Vedula NH        
  1837 16099404          
3 Matthew W Phelps MA        
  1755 12320880          
4 Jericho D Carlson MA        
  1687 16096060          
5 Jared B Carlson MA        
  1582 15794595          
6 Zhiyang Tan RI        
  1568 14467496          
7 Tyera L Zweygardt MA        
  1533 30286153          
8 Arthur Zhou MA        
  1326 30350651          
9 Felix Wu MA        
  1260 30258050          
10 Kaiya Bridget Smits MA        
  898 16486827          

SwissSys Wall Chart. 87th Greater Boston Open: Under 1700 Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 David W Martin MA        
  1659 12877246          
2 Sudeep Kumar Pandey MA        
  1644 17222238          
3 Hayden Samuel Collins VT        
  1629 30173640          
4 Chris M Farmer MA        
  1600 12686129          
5 Roland Booker III MA        
  1600 10569176          
6 Jeremy Rosenholtz MA        
  1596 15786752          
7 Sophia Rosenholtz MA        
  1569 15263723          
8 Jackson Thurner Hall VT        
  1560 16750417          
9 Kurt N Milligan MA        
  1543 12728061          
10 Ethan Henry Minikes NY        
  1540 14911994          
11 Eric Levin MA        
  1500 10014832          
12 Kevin Zimmerman CT        
  1500 12799878          
13 Harry Li MA        
  1458 16988211          
14 Xinan Li MA        
  1291 30083131          
15 Yanyee Li MA        
  1264 30319128          
16 Christine Nguyen MA        
  1224 16634247          
17 Vivaan Tanna MA        
  1071 30179518          
18 Niranjan Nair MA        
  926 30214182          
19 Paul Staats MA        
  unr. 30772967          
20 Peter Ekkubas MA        
  unr. 30751465          

SwissSys Wall Chart. 87th Greater Boston Open: Under 1500 Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Gwen Meins-Ratte MA        
  1474 10012091          
2 John Twombley CT        
  1464 12554268          
3 Bruton Strange VI MA        
  1432 17308370          
4 Suresh Kumar Kannan MI        
  1429 16043348          
5 Kayl Humke VT        
  1373 30722035          
6 Gary Thanh Nguyen MS        
  1354 16151901          
7 Craig DeMelo MA        
  1305 17137804          
8 Jeremy Fan MA        
  1288 16878614          
9 Owen Phoenix Mennell MA        
  1284 16747587          
10 Albert Zhu NJ        
  1259 15493892          
11 Rodrigo Espirito Santo MA        
  1244 30277931          
12 Ella Xinyue Zhang MA        
  1232 30305617          
13 Christian Y Li MA        
  1231 16923000          
14 Connor Xiang Liu MA        
  1210 30071216          
15 Vikram Scherfke MA        
  1204 16492162          
16 John N Hooper III RI       bye
  1203 15532702          
17 Swayam Prakash Sahoo MA        
  1201 17313260          
18 Ram Tammineni MA        
  1184 30216616          
19 Stanley Yu MA        
  1181 17079108          
20 Ansh Jeslani MA        
  1161 16438780          
21 Kayla Zhang MA        
  1159 16771070          
22 Ethan W Zhang MA        
  1117 17088714          
23 Nicholas Aguilera MA        
  1115 30508479          
24 Chris Cui MA        
  1079 30048697          
25 Manu Kadiyala WV        
  1074 30136735          
26 Jerry Duan MA        
  1017 30178900          
27 Peter Kouznetsov MA        
  982 16187153          
28 Ian Wohlhieter CT        
  937 30673143          
29 Aidan Waugh MA        
  855 30640093          
30 Spencer Tofts NH bye      
  unr. 30728643          
31 Bradley Roos MA        
  unr. 30741140          

SwissSys Wall Chart. 87th Greater Boston Open: Under 1200 Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Venkat Devarshi Devata MA        
  1179 17324391          
2 Eric Anthony Padova MA        
  1160 16769738          
3 Oliver Kutsman MA        
  1136 16818573          
4 Matthew Anderson MA        
  1133 30463164          
5 Zihan Zhang MA        
  1116 30700239          
6 Sergei Zanozin MA        
  1109 30151528          
7 Evan Banerjee MA        
  1096 30675974          
8 Samanyu Alluri MA        
  1069 30185788          
9 Max Ivry WI        
  1034 30721784          
10 Matthew Beauvais MA        
  1033 30747271          
11 Emma Linyue Zhang MA        
  1029 30305579          
12 Alexandra Wingate NY        
  1016 15215251          
13 Sandeep Alluri MA        
  1011 30261402          
14 Jasmine Ho Wegiel VT        
  999 30722377          
15 Jianda Liu MA        
  994 17182781          
16 Colin Yin MA        
  976 30144071          
17 Jeffrey Chen MA        
  942 30365128          
18 Zongrui Alvin Zhou MA        
  908 30238371          
19 Samuel B Altman NC        
  902 15179413          
20 Mark Andrew Luhtanen MA        
  894 30093102          
21 Tanish Biswas MA        
  856 16901476          
22 Richard Zhao MA        
  853 30711000          
23 Anish Biswas MA        
  814 16901461          
24 Benjamin B Walker MA        
  791 30153391          
25 Laura Xu MA        
  740 30265160          
26 Jonah Konane Johnson VT        
  690 30721222          
27 Jace Chyn MA        
  680 17079067          
28 Matthew McDermitt MA        
  643 30100497          
29 Anthony Yuchen Ji MA        
  636 17073376          
30 Alex W Song MA        
  603 30324871          
31 Alex Schoeffel VT        
  601 30722914          
32 Alexander Rapoport MA        
  564 15946270          
33 Fuzail Basheeryasmin MA        
  541 16752896          
34 Wilson Estrella CT        
  529 30610165          
35 Tommy Kozlek MA        
  526 30347417          
36 Theodore Wu MA        
  520 30753562          
37 Devansh Vellanki MA        
  515 30349631          
38 Dmitry Filippov MA        
  499 17099364          
39 Anton Poliannikov MA        
  415 30308225          
40 Thea Wu MA        
  336 30753550          
41 Brenden C Downey MA        
  101 16936603          
42 Martin Yau NH        
  unr. 30777149          
43 Spencer Parente MA        
  unr. 30694532          
44 Ryan Marantz MA        
  unr. 30711104          
45 Keon Osei IL        
  unr. 30776709          
46 Rajiv Raval CT        
  unr. 30776598          
47 Aakash Haque NH        
  unr. 30469178          
48 Allie Siclari CT        
  unr. 30514935          
49 Peter Parente MA        
  unr. 30770687          
50 Noah Kelleher MA        
  unr. 30767641          
51 Diyan Vora MA        
  unr. 30442301          
52 William French CT        
  unr. 30739798          
53 Ryan Rotcavich MA        
  unr. 30755548          
54 Benjamin Karr MA        
  unr. 30747547          
55 Marc Chirico MA        
  unr. 30747413          
56 Walter P Michaels MA        
  unr. 30670037          

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

10/9/2022Prize winners at the Junior Open

 Prize winners at the Junior Open, held October 9th in Westford, Mass.

 
Championship Section:
 
1st Felix Wu 3.5-0.5
2nd Harry Li 3-1
3rd-5th David Figelman, Holden Chalfant, Ethan Zhang 2.5-1.5
 
Under 1500 Section:
 
1st-2nd: Daniel Brovman, Dhruv Rajan 3.5-0.5
3rd-4th Alex Ma, Samanyu Alluri 3-1
 
Under 1000 Section:
 
1st Aryan Shroff 4-0
2nd-7th Alexander Rapoport, Matthew Beauvais, Tommy Kozlek, Richard Zhao, Jason Zhu, Maitreya Ganguly 3-1
 
Under 500 Section:
 
1st Anton Poliannikov 4-0
2nd-7th Gregory Agranovich, Maximus Ruban, Alison Wang, Luke Harding, Ishan Pentapalli, Theodore Wu 3-1
 
Tied players are listed in tiebreak order.
 
The tournament was directed by Bob Messenger, Dima Barash, Igor Klempf, and Nicholas Sterling.
 

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

10/8/2022Advance entries for the Junior Open, updated 10/8/2022

SwissSys Report: Junior Open

SwissSys Wall Chart. Junior Open: Championship Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Harry Li NY        
  1458 16988211          
2 Holden Chalfant NY        
  1337 15214147          
3 David Figelman MA        
  1278 16523406          
4 Felix Wu MA        
  1260 30258050          
5 Christian Y Li MA        
  1231 16923000          
6 Ansh Jeslani MA        
  1161 16438780          
7 Ethan W Zhang MA        
  1117 17088714          
8 Vivaan Tanna MA        
  1071 30179518          

SwissSys Wall Chart. Junior Open: Under 1500 Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Alex Ma MA        
  1295 30167030          
2 Vivian Chen MA        
  1275 17299381          
3 Dylan Robert Arndt MA        
  1212 30026942          
4 Stanley Yu MA        
  1181 17079108          
5 Yan Barash MA        
  1153 16433515          
6 Evan Banerjee MA        
  1096 30675974          
7 Daniel Brovman NH        
  1096 30623886          
8 Chris Cui MA        
  1079 30048697          
9 Samanyu Alluri MA        
  1069 30185788          
10 Dhruv Chara Rajan MA        
  1013 30187678          
11 Zongrui Alvin Zhou MA        
  908 30238371          
12 Shawn Wu MA        
  899 30311807          
13 Kaiya Bridget Smits MA        
  898 16486827          
14 Aidan Waugh MA        
  855 30640093          
15 Benjamin B Walker MA        
  791 30153391          
16 Charles Griswold MA        
  790 30299783          

SwissSys Wall Chart. Junior Open: Under 1000 Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Aidin Narynbekov MA        
  971 16934194          
2 Niranjan Nair MA        
  926 30214182          
3 Alden Kuo MA        
  925 16146628          
4 Blake Harding RI        
  905 16998903          
5 Jason Zhu MA        
  877 30218017          
6 Richard Zhao MA        
  853 30711000          
7 Felix Hentschel MA        
  833 15914267          
8 Ryan Tyler Xie MA        
  794 30532890          
9 Aryan Siddharth Shroff MA        
  790 30697005          
10 Jacob B Shteyman MA        
  788 17196801          
11 Annabelle Zhang MA        
  772 16811172          
12 Maitreya Ganguly MA        
  713 30716324          
13 Thomas Conrad MA        
  705 17103418          
14 Prayag Karthik MA        
  673 17102677          
15 Robert Duguid MA        
  625 16439028          
16 Sophia Klempf MA        
  619 17298188          
17 Alex W Song MA        
  603 30324871          
18 Alexander Rapoport MA        
  564 15946270          
19 Avin Hemaratne MA        
  561 30295092          
20 Yize Edward Zhao MA        
  544 30650036          
21 John Duguid MA        
  541 16439013          
22 Tommy Kozlek MA        
  526 30347417          
23 Devansh Vellanki MA        
  515 30349631          
24 Matthew Beaumais MA        
  unr. 30747271          

SwissSys Wall Chart. Junior Open: Under 500 Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Luke Harding RI        
  499 16998918          
2 Dylan Dimmick MA        
  491 30617237          
3 Ansh Parekh MA        
  486 17141665          
4 Adam Cong MA        
  463 30122562          
5 Nolan Pang MA        
  424 30017492          
6 Athena Zuckerberg MA        
  417 30554794          
7 Anton Poliannikov MA        
  415 30308225          
8 Gregory Agranovitch MA        
  399 17201060          
9 Alison A Wang MA        
  386 30689620          
10 Aarav Chandak MA        
  329 30690866          
11 Ari Shimon Hayete MA        
  325 30701453          
12 Ilia Zanozin MA        
  290 30177614          
13 Derek Wu MA        
  207 30688214          
14 Elie Natan Hayete MA        
  180 30601573          
15 Andrew Coon MA        
  130 30602092          
16 Marcus Liu MA        
  123 30700173          
17 Daniel Savchuk MA        
  116 30297278          
18 Arjun Jeyaraman MA        
  unr. 30752111          
19 Thea Wu MA        
  unr. 30753550          
20 Ishan Pentapalli MA        
  unr. 30744625          
21 Ariv Kumar Saxena MA        
  unr. 30738500          
22 Vihaan Fernandes MA        
  unr. 30740809          
23 Brooks Jiang MA        
  unr. 30733511          
24 Theodore Wu MA        
  unr. 30753562          

 

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

09/18/2022Prize winners at the First Spiegel Cup Qualifier

Prize winners at the First Spiegel Cup Qualifier, held September 18th in Westford, Mass.

 

Grades 6-8 Section

 

1st Bohan Wang 3.5-0.5

2nd-3rd Shouri Mosaliganti, Rayhan Riaz 3-1

 

Grades K-5 Section

 

1st Jeremy Fan 3.5-0.5

2nd Dylan Arndt 3-1

3rd Kevin Zhao 2.5-1.5

 

Grades K-3 Section

 

1st-2nd Felix Wu (playoff winner), Samanyu Alluri 3-1

3rd-4th Chris Cui, Jerry Duan 2.5-1.5

 

Reserve Under 1200 Section

 

1st Aran Chakraborty 4-0

2nd-3rd Pranit Rao, Swayam Sahoo 3.5-0.5

Medals: Vivaan Tanna, Aidin Narynbekov 3-1

 

Reserve Under 800 Section

 

1st Jacob Shteyman 4-0

2nd Aryan Shroff

3rd-6th Alex Song, Sophia Klempf, Avin Hemaratne, Thomas Conrad 3-1

 

Reserve Under 400 Section

 

1st Vihaan Patel 4-0

2nd-3rd Alison Wang, Julia Morton 3-1

 

Except as noted, tied players are listed in tiebreak order.

 

The tournament was directed by Bob Messenger, Dima Barash, Igor Klempf, and Nicholas Sterling

 

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

09/17/2022Advance entries for the First Spiegel Cup Qualifier, updated 9/17/22 (final)

SwissSys Report: 1st Spiegel Cup Qualifier

SwissSys Wall Chart. 1st Spiegel Cup Qualifier: Grades 6-8 Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Nikolay Avdokhin MA        
  1901 16386416          
2 Rayhan Riaz MA        
  1889 16543002          
3 Pragyan Sriram MA        
  1814 16552308          
4 Dhairya M Mehta MA        
  1767 16378663          
5 Isabella Lai MA        
  1738 15990974          
6 Bohan Wang MA        
  1684 16880573          
7 Shouri Mosaliganti MA        
  1649 16646805          
8 Nathan Klempf MA        
  1602 16715512          
9 Maxim Klempf MA        
  1595 16715527          
10 Kurt M Amber Jr MA        
  1535 15955011          
11 Sujay Kunamneni MA        
  1401 16433982          
12 Harry Li MA        
  1341 16988211          
13 Mark Piryatinsky MA        
  1326 16388502          
14 Aanya Yadawad MA        
  1283 16191144          

SwissSys Wall Chart. 1st Spiegel Cup Qualifier: Grades K-5 Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Kevin Zhao MA        
  1410 30425013          
2 Armando Toledano Laredo MA        
  1315 30355548          
3 David Figelman MA        
  1287 16523406          
4 Christian Y Li MA        
  1249 16923000          
5 Oliver Kutsman MA        
  1161 16818573          
6 Jeremy Fan MA        
  1070 16878614          
7 Sergei Zanozin MA        
  992 30151528          
8 Dylan Robert Arndt MA        
  747 30026942          

SwissSys Wall Chart. 1st Spiegel Cup Qualifier: Grades K-3 Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Chris Cui MA        
  1093 30048697          
2 Felix Wu MA        
  1030 30258050          
3 Samanyu Alluri MA        
  1021 30185788          
4 Jerry Duan MA        
  906 30178900          
5 Zongrui Alvin Zhou MA        
  883 30238371          
6 Laura Xu MA        
  727 30265160          
7 Ryan Tyler Xie MA        
  652 30532890          

SwissSys Wall Chart. 1st Spiegel Cup Qualifier: Reserve Under 1200 Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Aadi Pudasaini MA        
  1183 30609790          
2 Pranit Rao MA        
  1141 16973993          
3 Vivaan Tanna MA        
  1061 30179518          
4 Aran Chakraborty MA        
  1002 15601047          
5 Vivan Jaiswal MA        
  988 17281345          
6 Swayam Prakash Saho MA        
  948 17313260          
7 Kaiya Bridget Smits MA        
  933 16486827          
8 Benjamin R Amber MA        
  831 16732227          
9 David P Palacios MA        
  826 30614557          
10 Aidin Narynbekov MA        
  820 16934194          
11 Jason Zhu MA        
  799 30218017          
12 Ruthwik Varanasi MA        
  773 30145457          
13 Alexander Zhu MA        
  770 30305685          
14 Benjamin B Walker MA        
  770 30153391          
15 Lucas Wilson-Bevington MA        
  737 15243411          
16 Naman Deswal MA        
  351 30663480          
17 Kaden V Chen MA        
  309 30585782          
18 Maitreya Ganguly MA        
  unr. 30716324          
19 Benjamin Zaslavskiy MA        
  unr. 30606028          
20 Charles Griswold MA        
  unr. 30299783          

SwissSys Wall Chart. 1st Spiegel Cup Qualifier: Reserve Under 800 Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Maximilian Yu MA        
  699 30308060          
2 Thomas Conrad MA        
  685 17103418          
3 Aryan Shroff MA        
  673 30697005          
4 Dmitry Filippov MA        
  644 17099364          
5 Jacob B Shteyman MA        
  591 17196801          
6 Leo Silverman MA        
  535 30611462          
7 Sophia Klempf MA        
  532 17298188          
8 Maximus Ruban MA        
  495 16496521          
9 Tommy Kozlek MA        
  462 30347417          
10 Stephen Gregory MA        
  451 16690642          
11 Ilia Zanozin MA        
  446 30177614          
12 Siddharth A Lagu MA        
  435 16858365          
13 Gregory Agranovitch MA        
  428 17201060          
14 Avin Hemaratne MA        
  424 30295092          
15 Ajinkya Rao MA        
  412 30521621          
16 Lawrence Ni MA        
  412 30494213          
17 Alex W Song MA        
  403 30324871          
18 Anton Poliannikov MA        
  388 30308225          
19 Isaac Marks MA        
  365 30551170          

SwissSys Wall Chart. 1st Spiegel Cup Qualifier: Reserve Under 400 Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Alison Wang MA        
  302 30689620          
2 Derek Wu MA        
  224 30688214          
3 Vihaan Patel MA        
  211 30295114          
4 Marcus Liu MA        
  137 30700173          
5 Andrew Coon MA        
  122 30602092          
6 Daniel Savchuk MA        
  111 30297278          
7 Samik Bansal MA        
  unr. new          
8 Sophia Palacios MA        
  unr. 30718241          

 

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

09/5/2022Prize winners at the 81st New England Open

Prize winners at the 81st New England Open, held September 3-5 in Westford, Mass.

 
Championship Section
 
1st GM Eugene Perelshteyn 5.5-0.5
2nd-3rd GM Alexander Ivanov, Michael Carey 4.5-1.5
Top Under 2400 IM David Vigorito, FM Christopher Chase 4-2
Top Under 2400/Top Under 2200 Yunze Owen Ji, Pranav Shankar 4-2
 
Under 2000 Section
 
1st Billy Qian 6-0
2nd Braden Kennedy 5-1
3rd-4th Claude Fried, Nune Khachatryan 4.5-1.5
 
Under 1800 Section
 
1st Jacob Morris 6-0
2nd Shouri Mosaliganti 5-1
3rd Shawn Barry 4.5-1.5
 
Under 1500 Section
 
1st Harry Li 5.5-0.5
2nd Simon Kubrynski 5-1
3rd-6th Suresh Kumar Kannan, Yicong Li, Arthur Zhou, Felix Wu 4.5-1.5
 
Under 1200 Section
 
1st Rowan De Peyster 6-0
2nd-3rd Vikram Scherfke 5-1
2nd-3rd/Top Under 1000 Sergei Zanozin, Jerry Duan, Evan Banerjee 5-1
 
Scholastic Under 400 Section
 
1st-2nd Kaden Chen (playoff winner), Eric Hua 4-0
3rd-6th Aryan Shroff, Adam Cong, Anton Poliannikov, Athena Zuckerberg 3-1
 
Except as noted, players in the Scholastic Under 400 Section are listed in tiebreak order.
 
New England Blitz Championship
 
1st Andrew Hoy 8-2
2nd-3rd Sebastian Gueler, Alan Song 7-3
2nd-3rd/Top Under 2200 Eric Z Feng 7-3
Top Under 2000 Krishna Mutnuri, Billy Qian 6-4
Top Under 1400 Chris Cui 5-5
 
The tournament was directed by Bob Messenger, Frank Vogel, Yi Wang, Dmitry Barash, Nicholas Sterling, and Elsie Smits
 

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

09/2/2022Advance entries for the 81st New England Open, updated 9/2/22 (final)

SwissSys Report: 81st New England Open

SwissSys Wall Chart. 81st New England Open: Championship Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6
1 GM Eugene Perelshteyn MA            
  2576 12627196              
2 IM Denys K Shmelov MA            
  2514 13433622              
3 GM Alexander Ivanov MA            
  2504 12513936              
4 IM David Vigorito MA            
  2387 12426279              
5 FM Christopher Chase MA            
  2297 10010985              
6 WIM Prathiba Gounder NH            
  2266 14991426              
7 Anton Barash MA            
  2251 13679247              
8 Lawyer Times MA            
  2200 12167330              
9 Eric Z Feng MA            
  2188 15742464              
10 Kelsey Liu MA            
  2163 15770981              
11 Ryan Wang MA            
  2120 15486461              
12 Alan Curtis Price MA            
  2113 12534712              
13 Sebastian Gueler MA bye bye        
  2107 12808565              
14 Yunze Owen Ji MA            
  2074 16225038              
15 Michael P Carey RI            
  2070 10120560              
16 Libardo Rueda MA            
  2052 12497363              
17 Victor Feng MA            
  2048 15560438              
18 Alexander Meng MA            
  2046 15844061              
19 Xiaoman Chu NH            
  2038 14991055              
20 Vihaan Jain MA            
  2022 16584243              
21 Ansh Yadawad MA            
  2020 15842414              
22 Pranav Shankar NJ            
  2005 16071802              
23 Arthur P Nugent MA            
  2000 10011191              
24 David Katsman MA            
  1997 14958088              
25 Justin Y Li MA            
  1901 15826242              
26 Ranjan Dey MA            
  1888 15718966              
27 Cole Will Harwood NH            
  1868 30194377              
28 Hrishikesh Vedula NH            
  1852 16099404              
29 WCM Natasha Christiansen MA bye         ----
  1801 11366805              
30 Yuze Luke Ji MA            
  1794 16237733              
31 Sritan Devineni MA            
  1792 15586296              

SwissSys Wall Chart. 81st New England Open: 3-Day Under 2000 Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6
1 Stephen Gradijan MA            
  1935 12454998              
2 Richard Sansing NH            
  1900 10402204              
3 Claude Fried NH            
  1883 15075585              
4 Alexander Mendonez MA bye bye        
  1837 15953228              
5 Franklin P Lewis MA            
  1785 15922026              
6 Megan Chen IL            
  1767 13453097              
7 D G Bird MA            
  1765 14902922              
8 James W Todhunter MA            
  1755 12042190              
9 Jacob Wu MA            
  1736 16337966              
10 Jericho D Carlson MA            
  1722 16096060              
11 Ethan Qiao MA            
  1721 16231178              
12 Riya A Kanury MA            
  1699 16066054              
13 Bohan Wang MA            
  1684 16880573              
14 Shawn Xu MA            
  1668 30264362              
15 James Llewellyn Ko NY            
  1668 30207172              
16 Rohan Kasiviswanathan NH            
  1661 13669318              
17 Stanley Wu MA            
  1659 16202522              
18 Billy Qian TX            
  1655 14262728              
19 Paul Arond NH            
  1649 12602977              
20 Gordon Redwine MA            
  1602 16600924              
21 Nathan Klempf MA            
  1602 16715512              
22 Maxim Klempf MA            
  1595 16715527              
23 Frank Zhongtian Cao MA            
  1557 30158113              
24 Andrew X Liu MA            
  1542 16340541              

SwissSys Wall Chart. 81st New England Open: 2-Day Under 2000 Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6
1 Grant Yosenick MA            
  1811 13044547              
2 Isabella Lai MA            
  1738 15990974              
3 Jack Tompros MA            
  1719 14909774              
4 Braden A Kennedy MA            
  1640 30266066              
5 Max Heller Bennett MA            
  1500 14159528              
6 Dennis Jin MA            
  1425 15366371              

SwissSys Wall Chart. 81st New England Open: 3-Day Under 1800 Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6
1 Neal Bruce MA            
  1736 14220553              
2 Stephen J Murray MA            
  1696 16752964              
3 Stephen Michal Shea MA bye          
  1667 12202620              
4 Eric Levin MA            
  1500 10014832              
5 Tyera L Zweygardt MA            
  1482 30286153              
6 Owen Morrissey MA            
  1474 30301062              
7 Steven Ziang Feng MA            
  1469 16388220              
8 Igor Klempf MA            
  1464 16715506              
9 Arnaud Kohler MA            
  1427 16414296              
10 Kevin Zhao MA            
  1410 30425013              
11 Sujay Kunamneni MA            
  1401 16433982              
12 Dylan Jiang NH            
  1387 15569732              
13 Austin B Mitchell MA bye bye        
  1379 13778310              
14 Rene Minalga-Rheaul NH            
  1366 16957835              
15 Krishna Narayanan MA            
  1343 16842787              
16 Connor Xiang Liu MA     bye      
  1216 30071216              
17 Kaiya Bridget Smits MA            
  933 16486827              

SwissSys Wall Chart. 81st New England Open: 2-Day Under 1800 Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6
1 David W Martin MA            
  1785 12877246              
2 Dhairya M Mehta MA            
  1767 16378663              
3 Jacob Wyatt Morris WA            
  1702 30237539              
4 Sophia Rosenholtz MA            
  1592 15263723              
5 Jeremy Rosenholtz MA            
  1566 15786752              
6 Evan Shi MA            
  1544 16966603              
7 Zachary Pan MA            
  1357 30221502              
8 Arjun Dasari RI            
  1321 15979264              
9 Christian Y Li MA            
  1249 16923000              
10 Christine Nguyen MA            
  1242 16634247              

SwissSys Wall Chart. 81st New England Open: 3-Day Under 1500 Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6
1 Suresh Kumar Kannan MI            
  1434 16043348              
2 Yicong Li MA            
  1392 16916580              
3 Harry Li MA            
  1341 16988211              
4 Xinan Li MA            
  1317 30083131              
5 Cooper Dean RI            
  1288 30247813              
6 Aanya Yadawad MA            
  1283 16191144              
7 Vivian Chen MA            
  1245 17299381              
8 Ian Commins MA            
  1234 30466831              
9 Yanyee Li MA            
  1230 30319128              
10 Ella Xinyue Zhang MA            
  1200 30305617              
11 Abigail Katz MA            
  1164 30222942              
12 Stanley Yu MA            
  1115 17079108              
13 Arthur Zhou MA            
  1083 30350651              
14 Ethan W Zhang MA            
  1083 17088714              
15 Jeremy Fan MA            
  1070 16878614              
16 Aarushi Khatri MA            
  744 17005313              
17 Brendan Hertel MA            
  unr. 30647470              
18 Simon Kubrynski CT            
  unr. 30639998              

SwissSys Wall Chart. 81st New England Open: 2-Day Under 1500 Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6
1 John A Ragucci MA            
  1200 10016894              
2 Jacob Klein ME            
  1194 15995270              
3 Jeffrey Yin MA            
  1151 16113462              
4 Yan Barash MA            
  1148 16433515              
5 Kayla Zhang MA            
  1127 16771070              
6 Sam Silberstein ME            
  1122 30260734              
7 B Scott Andersen NH            
  1094 12442817              
8 Sriman Devineni MA            
  1059 16732714              
9 Albert Dong RI            
  1058 30036635              
10 Felix Wu MA            
  1030 30258050              
11 Daniel Schleith RI            
  1028 30109394              
12 Bowen Yu MA            
  913 30477200              

SwissSys Wall Chart. 81st New England Open: 3-Day Under 1200 Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6
1 Rowan De Peyster MA            
  1172 30533157              
2 Madelyn Larkin MA            
  1109 30680819              
3 Emma Linyue Zhang MA            
  1098 30305579              
4 Vikram Scherfke MA            
  1067 16492162              
5 Chris Senhouse MA            
  1011 30509133              
6 Aidan Waugh MA            
  962 30640093              
7 Jeffrey Chen MA            
  943 30365128              
8 Ray Geng MA            
  939 30557658              
9 Yanyan Li MA            
  924 30311781              
10 Benjamin Ding MA            
  865 30648320              
11 Blake Cosmas Bentley VT            
  757 30631659              
12 Andrew Xu CT            
  743 30689820              
13 Laura Xu MA            
  727 30265160              
14 Xiaoyan Shi MA            
  707 30246031              
15 Robert Duguid MA            
  662 16439028              
16 Anthony Yuchen Ji MA            
  623 17073376              
17 Vyom Shah MA            
  581 16911006              
18 John Duguid MA            
  542 16439013              
19 Vedant Shah MA            
  529 16911012              
20 Sudarshan Kotlanka MA            
  421 30236245              
21 Zihan Zhang MA            
  unr. 30700239              
22 Carlie Flanagan MA            
  unr. 30531867              
23 Evan Banerjee MA            
  unr. 30675974              
24 Walter P Michaels MA            
  unr. 30670037              
25 Mingjun Zhao MA            
  unr. 30673526              

SwissSys Wall Chart. 81st New England Open: 2-Day Under 1200 Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6
1 Chris Cui MA            
  1093 30048697              
2 Liam Siu NY           bye
  1050 30022059              
3 Sergei Zanozin MA            
  992 30151528              
4 Tianjun Chen MA            
  991 17026676              
5 Jerry Duan MA            
  906 30178900              
6 Zongrui Alvin Zhou MA            
  883 30238371              
7 Isaac Klein ME            
  841 17334355              
8 Aidin Narynbekov MA            
  820 16934194              
9 Diane Lee Anderson MA            
  811 17179395              
10 Colin Yin MA            
  810 30144071              
11 Sharon Jean Klein ME            
  801 16955006              
12 Benjamin B Walker MA            
  770 30153391              
13 Tinghan Wang MA            
  740 17081486              
14 Jianda Liu MA            
  694 17182781              
15 Ryan Tyler Xie MA            
  652 30532890              
16 Dmitry Filippov MA            
  644 17099364              
17 Wei Guo MA            
  614 30638990              
18 Timothy Ryan MA            
  603 30325251              
19 Devansh Vellanki MA            
  464 30349631              
20 Arul Kallam MA            
  408 30083160              
21 Alex W Song MA            
  403 30324871              
22 Ethan Li MA            
  395 30686238              
23 Devin Borchard NH            
  unr. 30627359              
24 Jeremien Contreras MA            
  unr. 30564988              
25 Daniel Cahill MA            
  unr. 30697956              

SwissSys Wall Chart. 81st New England Open: Scholastic Under 400

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Athena Zuckerberg MA        
  391 30554794          
2 Anton Poliannikov MA        
  388 30308225          
3 Jacob Michael Landau MA        
  369 17255265          
4 Adam Cong MA        
  364 30122562          
5 Chirag K Prasanna NH        
  327 30302594          
6 Kaden V Chen MA        
  309 30585782          
7 Jasper Guo MA        
  140 30689208          
8 Andrew Coon MA        
  122 30602092          
9 Stephanie Yu MA        
  120 17079114          
10 Marcus Liu MA        
  unr. 30700173          
11 Robbie Hammon NH        
  unr. 30699343          
12 Siddharth Kotlanka MA        
  unr. 30555155          
13 Lawrence Ni MA        
  unr. 30494213          
14 Derek Wu MA        
  unr. 30688214          
15 Alison Wang MA        
  unr. 30689620          
16 Maxwell Anderson NH        
  unr. 30694308          
17 Aryan Shroff MA        
  unr. 30697005          

 

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

08/6/2022Chess Coach needed in Watertown

 

Wanted: Chess Coach / Will Train Right Person
Location:  Elementary School in Watertown, MA
Pay: $100/hr.
Time: Wednesdays* 3:05 - 4:05 PM / Start: September 14  *(Day may be flexible.)
Contact: Info@startrightchess.com / ATTN: Coach Mac

Update 8/10/22 - the position has been filled.

 

Bob Messenger
MACA Board Member

06/5/2022Prize winners at the Hurvitz Cup

 Prize winners at the Hurvitz Cup, held June 5th in Westford, Mass.


Grades K-12 Section:

1st Lexington High School (David Zhou, Lydia Shen, Sritan Devineni, Uri Netzer, Ephram Chun) 4-0
2nd Wellesley High School (Alan Song, Kevin Liu, Jackson Moss, Dennis Zhang) 3-1
3rd Brookline High School (David Katsman, Amit Piryatinsky, Jamie Evarts, Gabriel Thomas) 2-2
Top Booster Team (U1400) Belmont High School (Lewis Tu, Anthony He, Leo Sun, Eliott Lucio) 2-2

Grades K-8 Section:

1st Clarke Middle School (Victor Feng, Raymond Xu, Brandon Ni, Benjamin Yin) 4-0
2nd-3rd Chenery Middle School (Lawrence Tu, Maxim Klempf, Nathan Klempf, Jerry Chen),
    William Diamond Middle School (Shouri Mosaliganti, Aditya Phadnis, Ethan Zhang, Shreyas Pokharna) 3-1
Top Booster Team (U800) Roxbury Latin School (Paul Tompros, Charles Austin, Tobias Harrison, David Comander) 1-3

Medal: Daniel Ge (Sharon Middle School)

Grades K-5 Section:

1st Hopkins Elementary School (Dattasai Kilari, Dhairya Mehta, Jaswant Ambati, Karthik Lakhshmanan) 4-0
2nd-3rd Harrington Elementary School (Frank Cao, Christian Li, Felix Wu, Maximilian Yu),
    Chenery Middle School (Kayla Zhang, Amy Nguyen, Harry Li, Brian Zhao) 3-1
Top Booster Team (U500) Star Academy (Daniel Tatar, Jacob Landau, Maximus Ruban, David Palacios, Benjamin Zaslavskiy) 2-2

Medals: Yuze Luke Ji (Bishop Elementary School), Andrew Liu (John D Hardy Elementary School),
    Sean Gao (Margaret A Neary School), Laura Xu (Joseph Estabrook Elementary School),
    Connor Liu (John D Hardy Elementary School), John Duguid (Margaret A Neary School),
    Tomas Werning (The Learning Project Elementary School), Dylan Dimmick (Fred Miller Elementary School)

Grades K-3 Section:

1st Bridge Elementary School A (Yanyee Li, Jeremy Fan, Zongrui Zhou, Yanyan Li) 4-0
2nd Willard School (Ray Geng, Leo Silverman, Leif Johannesen, Tobias Outerbridge) 3-1
3rd The Learning Project Elementary School (Ishani Gupta, Shalin Gupta, Luben Stolarov, Meera Kumar,
        Zahra Mughisuddin, Viara Solarov) 2.5-1.5
Top Booster Team (U400/Unrated) Bridge Elementary School B (Luka Hoang, Arjun Desai, William Franses, Maxwell Man) 2-2

Medals: Christine Nguyen (Butler Belmont), Alex Chikkala (Thoreau School)

Tied teams are listed in tiebreak order.

The tournament was directed by Bob Messenger, Dmitry Barash, and Nicholas Sterling.
 

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

06/4/2022Advance entries for the Hurvitz Cup, updated 6/4/22

SwissSys Wall Chart. Hurvitz Cup: Grades K-12 (Standings (no tiebrk))

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Lexington High School          
  1706 LEXING        
2 Wellesley High School          
  1534 WELLES        
3 Belmont High School          
  1392 BELMON        
4 Brookline High School          
  1306 BROOKL        
5 Commonwealth School          
  1040 COMMON        

 

SwissSys Wall Chart. Hurvitz Cup: Grades K-8 (Standings (no tiebrk))

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Clarke Middle School          
  1965 LEXCLA        
2 Chenery Middle School          
  1660 CHENER        
3 Sharon Middle School          
  1586 SHARON        
4 William Diamond Middle School          
  1150 DIAMON        
5 Roxbury Latin School          
  790 RLS        
6 Buckingham Brown and Nichols          
  638 BBN        
7 Robert Adams Middle School          
  553 RAMS        

 

SwissSys Wall Chart. Hurvitz Cup: Grades K-5 (Standings (no tiebrk))

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Hopkins Elementary School          
  1298 HOPKIN        
2 Harrington Elementary School          
  1054 HARRIN        
3 Chenery Middle School          
  951 CHENER        
4 Joseph Estabrook Elementary Scho          
  944 ESTABR        
5 John D Hardy Elementary School          
  698 HARDY        
6 Bishop Elementary School          
  697 BISHOP        
7 Margaret A Neary School          
  590 NEARY        
8 Fenn School          
  472 FENN        
9 Star Academy          
  457 STAR        
10 The Learning Project Elementary          
  352 LEARN        
11 Bridge Elementary School C          
  332 BRIDGC        
12 Mitchell Elementary School          
  330 MITCH        
13 Fred Miller Elementary School          
  294 MILLER        

 

SwissSys Wall Chart. Hurvitz Cup: Grades K-3 (Standings (no tiebrk))

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Bridge Elementary School A          
  862 BRIDGA        
2 Butler Belmont          
  519 BUTLER        
3 Willard          
  451 WILLAR        
4 Thoreau          
  396 THOREA        
5 The Learning Project Elementary          
  312 LEARN        
6 Carlisle          
  171 CARLIS        
7 Bridge Elementary School B          
  unr. BRIDGB        

 

SwissSys Wall Chart. Hurvitz Cup: Grades K-12 (Team)

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Lewis Tu MA        
  2023 15454526 BELMON        
2 Anthony He MA        
  1602 14610150 BELMON        
3 Leo Sun MA        
  1026 30463682 BELMON        
4 Eliott Lucio MA        
  916 30472326 BELMON        
5 David Katsman MA        
  2045 14958088 BROOKL        
6 Amit Piryatinsky MA        
  1278 15793565 BROOKL        
7 Jamie Standish Evarts MA        
  1200 30205847 BROOKL        
8 Gabriel Thomas MA        
  unr. 30617551 BROOKL        
9 Aaron Li MA        
  1762 15837922 COMMON        
10 Thomas Du MA        
  unr. 30407192 COMMON        
11 Benjamin O'Donnell MA        
  unr. 30609472 COMMON        
12 Govind Velamoor MA        
  unr. 30611482 COMMON        
13 Eli Aaron Denenberg MA        
  unr. 30611470 COMMON        
14 David Tianyi Zhou MA   ----    
  2006 15194137 LEXING        
15 Lydia Shen MA        
  1789 15918700 LEXING        
16 Sritan Devineni MA        
  1586 15586296 LEXING        
17 Uri Netzer MA        
  1441 17240063 LEXING        
18 Ephram Chun MA        
  1309 30046798 LEXING        
19 Alan Song MA        
  2252 15418978 WELLES        
20 Kevin Liu MA        
  1866 15582141 WELLES        
21 Jackson Noah Moss MA        
  1318 30383048 WELLES        
22 Dennis Zhang MA        
  unr. 30148888 WELLES        

SwissSys Wall Chart. Hurvitz Cup: Grades K-8 (Team)

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Ayaan Nallicheri MA        
  984 16707417 BBN        
2 Justin Hildebrandt MA        
  669 16705391 BBN        
3 Ethan Moran MA        
  unr. 30617693 BBN        
4 Albert Wen MA        
  unr. 30617611 BBN        
5 Andrew Johnson MA        
  unr. new BBN        
6 Lawrence Tu MA        
  1876 15597798 CHENER        
7 Maxim Klempf MA        
  1623 16715527 CHENER        
8 Nathan Klempf MA        
  1585 16715512 CHENER        
9 Jerry Chen MA        
  1554 30214553 CHENER        
10 Shouri Mosaliganti MA        
  1686 16646805 DIAMON        
11 Aditya Phadnis MA        
  1048 16173221 DIAMON        
12 Ethan W Zhang MA        
  994 17088714 DIAMON        
13 Shreyas Pokharna MA        
  874 17014480 DIAMON        
14 Victor Feng MA        
  2020 15560438 LEXCLA        
15 Raymond S Xu MA        
  2015 15248334 LEXCLA        
16 Brandon Ni MA        
  1955 15801498 LEXCLA        
17 Benjamin Yin MA        
  1870 15583212 LEXCLA        
18 Kaiya Bridget Smits MA        
  770 16486827 RAMS        
19 Vedant Shah MA        
  555 16911012 RAMS        
20 Bhumin Karunakar MA        
  488 30295083 RAMS        
21 Allison Robards MA        
  unr. 30612606 RAMS        
22 Paul Tompros MA        
  1035 15614834 RLS        
23 Charles X Austin MA        
  875 30212782 RLS        
24 Tobias Harrison MA        
  852 16575008 RLS        
25 David Comander MA        
  unr. 30600133 RLS        
26 Thomas T Ha MA        
  1845 15207334 SHARON        
27 Ethan Qiao MA        
  1790 16231178 SHARON        
28 Daniel Ge MA        
  1772 16065814 SHARON        
29 Oscar Yu MA        
  939 17004346 SHARON        

SwissSys Wall Chart. Hurvitz Cup: Grades K-5 (Team)

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Yuze Luke Ji MA        
  1888 16237733 BISHOP        
2 Aram Ashot Papotan MA        
  unr. 30611776 BISHOP        
3 Sola Tsuchiya MA        
  unr. 30604041 BISHOP        
4 Grace Li MA        
  unr. 30586682 BISHOP        
5 Kai Tsuchiya MA        
  unr. 30612568 BISHOP        
6 Leon Ashot Papoyan MA        
  unr. 30611768 BISHOP        
7 Nolan Pang MA        
  430 30017492 BRIDGC        
8 Arjun Patel MA        
  unr. 30544995 BRIDGC        
9 Anouk Patel MA        
  unr. 30611275 BRIDGC        
10 William Pjura MA        
  unr. 30610313 BRIDGC        
11 Kayla Zhang MA        
  1163 16771070 CHENER        
12 Amy Nguyen MA        
  1122 16151483 CHENER        
13 Harry Li MA        
  963 16988211 CHENER        
14 Brian Zhao MA        
  555 30531888 CHENER        
15 Shawn Xu MA        
  1637 30264362 ESTABR        
16 Jeremy Zhiyuan Yang MA        
  856 30255472 ESTABR        
17 George Fu MA        
  690 17279874 ESTABR        
18 Laura Xu MA        
  593 30265160 ESTABR        
19 Austin Fischl MA        
  986 16734328 FENN        
20 Becket Todd MA        
  402 16954018 FENN        
21 Ian Akehurt-Moore MA        
  unr. 30610400 FENN        
22 Alexander Lawrence Brown MA        
  unr. 30609497 FENN        
23 Andrew X Liu MA        
  1567 16340541 HARDY        
24 Connor Xiang Liu MA        
  879 30071216 HARDY        
25 Riley L Goodrich MA        
  210 30263949 HARDY        
26 Larry Lin MA        
  134 30541513 HARDY        
27 Frank Z Cao MA        
  1383 30158113 HARRIN        
28 Christian Y Li MA        
  1280 16923000 HARRIN        
29 Felix Wu MA        
  990 30258050 HARRIN        
30 Maximilian Yu MA        
  565 30308060 HARRIN        
31 Dattasai Kilari MA        
  1917 16429310 HOPKIN        
32 Dhairya M Mehta MA        
  1775 16378663 HOPKIN        
33 Jaswant Reddy Ambati MA        
  1298 16856326 HOPKIN        
34 Kartik Laxman MA        
  unr. new HOPKIN        
35 Benjamin B Walker MA        
  702 30153391 LEARN        
36 Tomas Werning MA        
  497 16355550 LEARN        
37 Archer Vuono MA        
  105 17012593 LEARN        
38 Kabir Kumar MA        
  unr. 17220713 LEARN        
39 Avin Hemaratne MA        
  481 30295092 MILLER        
40 Nicolas Rosoiu MA        
  253 30295129 MILLER        
41 Vihaan Patel MA        
  243 30295114 MILLER        
42 Dylan Dimmick MA        
  unr. 30617237 MILLER        
43 Nathan Chiu MA        
  422 30551900 MITCH        
44 Oliver Eng MA        
  unr. 30603335 MITCH        
45 Luke Ringer MA        
  unr. 30607495 MITCH        
46 Andrew Coon MA        
  unr. 30602092 MITCH        
47 Elie Hayete MA        
  unr. 30601573 MITCH        
48 Robert Duguid MA        
  698 16439028 NEARY        
49 Francis Gao MA        
  589 30274435 NEARY        
50 Sean Gao MA        
  552 17022756 NEARY        
51 John Duguid MA        
  522 16439013 NEARY        
52 Daniel Tatar MA        
  886 16417982 STAR        
53 Jacob Michael Landau MA        
  390 17255265 STAR        
54 Maximus Ruban MA        
  351 16496521 STAR        
55 Benjamin Zaslavskiy MA        
  unr. 30606028 STAR        
56 David Pedro Palacios MA        
  unr. 30614557 STAR        

SwissSys Wall Chart. Hurvitz Cup: Grades K-3 (Team)

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Yanyee Li MA        
  1185 30319128 BRIDGA        
2 Jeremy Fan MA        
  947 16878614 BRIDGA        
3 Zongrui Alvi Zhou MA        
  670 30238371 BRIDGA        
4 Yanyan Li MA        
  647 30311781 BRIDGA        
5 Luke Hoang MA        
  unr. 30593570 BRIDGB        
6 Arjun Desai MA        
  unr. 30551216 BRIDGB        
7 William A Franses MA        
  unr. 30594227 BRIDGB        
8 Maxwell Man MA        
  unr. 30616599 BRIDGB        
9 Christine Nguyen MA        
  1255 16634247 BUTLER        
10 Lee Buckler MA        
  520 30565813 BUTLER        
11 Sophia Cao MA        
  unr. 30615692 BUTLER        
12 Geoffrey Cao MA        
  unr. 30615732 BUTLER        
13 Siddharth Vikram MA        
  194 30520591 CARLIS        
14 Logan Woods MA        
  unr. 30580000 CARLIS        
15 Armaan Patel MA        
  unr. 30618065 CARLIS        
16 Zachary Mokhtar MA        
  104 30518258 CARLIS        
17 Ishani Sarin Gupta MA        
  487 17012655 LEARN        
18 Shalin Sarin Gupta MA        
  462 17207232 LEARN        
19 Luben Stolarov MA        
  unr. 30616094 LEARN        
20 Meera Kumar          
  unr. 30616224 LEARN        
21 Zahra Mughisuddin MA        
  unr. 30619137 LEARN        
22 Viara Stolarov MA        
  unr. 30616082 LEARN        
23 Xinan Li MA        
  986 30083131 THOREA        
24 Skyler Chan MA        
  unr. 30611457 THOREA        
25 Eric Bennani MA        
  unr. 30615018 THOREA        
26 Alex Chikkala MA        
  unr. new THOREA        
27 Ray Geng MA        
  1203 30557658 WILLAR        
28 Leo Silverman MA        
  unr. 30611462 WILLAR        
29 Leif Johannesen MA        
  unr. 30615384 WILLAR        
30 Tobias Outerbridge MA        
  unr. 30582070 WILLAR        

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

05/30/2022Prize winners at the 90th Massachusetts Open

Prize winners at the 90th Massachusetts Open, held May 28-30 in Westford, Mass.


Championship Section

1st IM Denys Shmelov 5-1
Equal 2nd FM Maximillian Lu 4.5-1.5
Equal 2nd/Top U2300 Anton Barash, Ryan Sun 4.5-1.5

Under 2100 Section

1st Timothy Sage 5-1
Equal 2nd Levon He 4.5-1.5
Equal 2nd/Top U1900 Peter Korzeb 4.5-1.5

Under 1800 Section

1st Phu Vo 6-0
Equal 2nd/Top U1600 Rohan Kaniviswanathan, James Ko 5-1

Under 1500 Section

1st Theodore Businger 5.5-0.5
Equal 2nd Pamil Jain, Alec Newport, Philip Adams 4.5-1.5
Top U1300 Kevin Zhao 4.5-1.5

Under 1200 Section

1st Kavin Sundaram 5.5-0.5
Equal 2nd Oliver Kutsman 5-1
Equal 2nd/Top U1000 Shiva Pabbathi 5-1

Massachusetts Blitz Championship

1st Andrew Hoy 8.5-1.5
Equal 2nd Suraj Ramanathan 8-2
Equal 2nd/Top U2100 Dattasai Kilari, Dejan Skrcheski 8-2
Top U1600 Philip Adams 5.5-4.5
Top U1200 Sriman Devineni 5-5

The tournament was directed by Bob Messenger, Frank Vogel, Yi Wang, Dmitry Barash, and Nicholas Sterling.
 

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

05/28/2022Voting Results

 Voting Results - MASSACHUSETTS CHESS ASSOCIATION 2022 ELECTION

 

 

Online

Paper

Total

Registered Voters

109

8

117

 

 

 

 

Ballots Cast

65

4

69

(59%)

 

 

          President

ANDREW HOY (elected)

54

ROBERT E. KING

10

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blanks

5

Spoiled ballots

0

Total ballots

69

 

          Vice President

STEVEN WINER (elected)

56

Nicholas Sterling

1

Lawyer Times

1

 

 

 

 

Blanks

11

Spoiled ballots

0

Total ballots

69

 

Treasurer

ROBERT MESSENGER (elected)

67

 

 

 

 

Blanks

2

Spoiled ballots

0

Total ballots

69

 

          Clerk

JEFFREY CARUSO (elected)

65

 

 

 

 

Blanks

4

Spoiled ballots

0

Total ballots

69

 


 

          Director (8 positions)

NICHOLAS STERLING(elected)

58

LATANYA SWEENEY(elected)

53

YI WANG (elected)

51

OLEG POLIANNIKOV(elected)

49

PAUL AROND (elected)

47

DMITRI BARASH (elected)

39

ALONZO ROSS (elected)

37

ELSIE SMITS (elected)

36

IGOR KLEMPF

27

ROBERT E. KING

22

ROBIN KING-FRANKLIN

14

Donna Alarie

1

Michael David

1

Mark Kaprielian

1

Stephen Murray

1

 

 

 

 

Blanks

115

Total

552

Valid ballots (total divided by 8)

69

Spoiled ballots

0

Total ballots

69

 

          Bylaws question:

Approval of the “amendment to regulate electronic meetings”

adopted by the MACA Board on January 12, 2022.

YES

59

NO

2

Blanks

8

Spoiled ballots

0

Total ballots

69

 

The Bylaws amendment was approved.
 

Oleg V. Poliannikov
MACA Web Coordinator

05/27/2022Advance entries for the 90th Massachusetts Open, updated 5/27/2022 (final)

SwissSys Wall Chart. 90th Massachusetts Open: Championship Section

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6
1 IM Denys K Shmelov MA            
  2541 13433622              
2 GM Alexander Ivanov MA            
  2522 12513936              
3 FM Maximillian Lu CT            
  2444 14732597              
4 FM Danila Poliannikov MA            
  2388 14969622              
5 IM David Vigorito MA            
  2386 12426279              
6 Rajesh Shanmugasundaram RI            
  2337 16434545              
7 FM Christopher Chase MA            
  2308 10010985              
8 Alan Song MA            
  2252 15418978              
9 Lawyer Times MA            
  2221 12167330              
10 CM Jerry Li MA            
  2190 15391332              
11 Anton Barash MA            
  2176 13679247              
12 WCM Iris Mou NY            
  2171 15794244              
13 Matthew Wofford NH bye bye        
  2140 12812582              
14 Eric Feng MA            
  2133 15742464              
15 Ryan Sun MA            
  2133 16379802              
16 Alex Yu MA            
  2129 14581805              
17 Joaquin A Carlson MA            
  2128 15794580              
18 Zubin M Baliga MA            
  2085 13744248              
19 Ryan Wang MA            
  2062 15486461              
20 David Katsman MA            
  2031 14958088              
21 Aaron Spencer ME            
  2000 13424483              
22 Xiaoman Chu NH            
  1964 14991055              
23 Ansh Yadawad MA            
  1956 15842414              
24 Brandon Ni MA            
  1946 15801498              
25 Sergey Malinin MA            
  1944 30302734              
26 Wyatt M Hendrix ME            
  1939 15400865              
27 Shwaas Patil MA            
  1907 16792584              
28 Dattasai Kilari MA   bye        
  1893 16429310              
29 Vihaan Jain MA            
  1884 16584243              
30 Justin Y Li MA     bye      
  1873 15826242              
31 WCM Natasha Christiansen MA bye          
  1802 11366805              
32 Krishna S Mutnuri MA            
  1796 15383635              
33 Rayhan Riaz MA            
  1787 16543002              

SwissSys Wall Chart. 90th Massachusetts Open: 3-Day Under 2100 Section

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6
1 Libardo Rueda MA            
  2064 12497363              
2 J Timothy Sage MA            
  2056 10146712              
3 Jim Musumeci MA            
  2020 12455674              
4 Taylor A Curtis MA            
  1997 12596716              
5 Mark Chudnovsky MA bye          
  1976 15018810              
6 Stephen Gradijan MA            
  1953 12454998              
7 Claude Fried NH            
  1928 15075585              
8 Richard Sansing NH            
  1905 10402204              
9 Hrishikesh Vedula NH            
  1900 16099404              
10 Oskar Zoffer MA            
  1878 16471866              
11 William E Ravn ME            
  1860 14925795              
12 Jonathan Ingellis MA            
  1859 13172162              
13 Pragyan Sriram MA            
  1825 16552308              
14 Alexander Mendonez MA            
  1817 15953228              
15 Jonathan McLatchie MA            
  1788 30242021              
16 Jacob Wu MA            
  1736 16337966              
17 Michael J Urbonas MA            
  1717 11015328              
18 Robert Tango Jr NH            
  1702 16735818              
19 Riya A Kanury MA            
  1650 16066054              
20 Jericho D Carlson MA            
  1636 16096060              
21 Bohan Wang MA            
  1623 16880573              

SwissSys Wall Chart. 90th Massachusetts Open: 2-Day Under 2100 Section

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6
1 Matthew Meredith CT            
  2066 10031443              
2 Robert T Secino MA            
  2034 10005434              
3 Victor Feng MA            
  2008 15560438              
4 Levon He RI            
  1968 16113456              
5 Luke Parige NH bye          
  1930 12907963              
6 Peter T Korzeb CT            
  1871 12855788              
7 William Macleod MA            
  1823 14926028              
8 Lydia Shen MA            
  1803 15918700              
9 Roi Yehoshua MA bye          
  1773 17104852              
10 Nail Tarcan Gul MA         bye bye
  1766 30337364              
11 Eric Cheng NY            
  1657 16921202              
12 Isabella Lai MA            
  1642 15990974              

SwissSys Wall Chart. 90th Massachusetts Open: 3-Day Under 1800 Section

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6
1 Robert Holmgren MA            
  1770 11291635              
2 James W Todhunter MA            
  1723 12042190              
3 Gerry Mittica VT            
  1683 12581035              
4 Stanley Wu MA            
  1653 16202522              
5 Parinya Jain MA            
  1610 16918131              
6 Kevin Li MA            
  1594 15465238              
7 Rohan Kasiviswanathan NH       bye    
  1579 13669318              
8 Shawn Xu MA            
  1577 30264362              
9 Andrew X Liu MA            
  1567 16340541              
10 James Llewellyn Ko NY            
  1561 30207172              
11 Benjamin T Hough VT            
  1540 15763544              
12 Eric Levin MA            
  1504 10014832              
13 Thomas L Sifter MA            
  1500 12411472              
14 Kevin Zimmerman CT bye bye        
  1500 12799878              
15 Tyera L Zweygardt MA            
  1402 30286153              
16 Austin B Mitchell MA            
  1369 13778310              
17 Michelle Chudnovsky MA bye          
  1355 15433981              
18 Gordon Redwine MA            
  1337 16600924              
19 Rene Minalga-Rheault NH bye          
  1331 16957835              
20 Krishna Narayanan MA            
  1319 16842787              
21 Sujay Kunamneni MA            
  1307 16433982              
22 Evan Shi MA            
  1297 16966603              
23 Frank Zhongtian Cao MA            
  1227 30158113              
24 Christian Y Li MA     bye      
  1193 16923000              
25 Jayden K Wu NH            
  1185 16671526              
26 Michael Chumack MA            
  994 30397555              
27 Kaiya Bridget Smits MA            
  930 16486827              
28 Charles M Fromm PA            
  unr. 17338688              

SwissSys Wall Chart. 90th Massachusetts Open: 2-Day Under 1800 Section

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6
1 David W Martin MA            
  1660 12877246              
2 Armando Toledano La MA            
  1611 30355548              
3 Sam Macleod MA            
  1592 16965265              
4 Jared B Carlson MA            
  1555 15794595              
5 Sophia Rosenholtz MA            
  1522 15263723              
6 Jeremy Rosenholtz MA            
  1505 15786752              
7 Max Heller Bennett MA            
  1502 14159528              
8 Jerry Chen MA            
  1487 30214553              
9 Steven Ziang Feng MA            
  1475 16388220              
10 Hayden M Tittle ME            
  1474 12837458              
11 Arnaud Kohler MA            
  1397 16414296              
12 Jaswant Reddy Ambati MA            
  1216 16856326              
13 Jesse Zhang MA            
  1168 16463192              

SwissSys Wall Chart. 90th Massachusetts Open: 3-Day Under 1500 Section

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6
1 Nicholas St John NH   bye        
  1480 13929101              
2 Pamil Jain MA            
  1430 16904675              
3 Alec C Newport MA            
  1416 30219040              
4 Leo J Marzoratti MA            
  1387 16938972              
5 Aanya Yadawad MA            
  1384 16191144              
6 Dylan Jiang NH            
  1346 15569732              
7 Robert Ernest King MA            
  1340 12417991              
8 Alex Ma MA            
  1336 30167030              
9 Philip M Adams MA            
  1308 30246722              
10 Clyde Frankl Snow MA            
  1300 12460814              
11 Yicong Li MA     bye      
  1297 16916580              
12 Yan Barash MA         bye bye
  1153 16433515              
13 Theodore Businger MA            
  1143 30365687              
14 Bryan Liu NY bye          
  1112 17049554              
15 William M Beagle MA            
  1102 30250532              
16 Yanyee Li MA            
  1046 30319128              
17 Laixian Wan MA            
  994 30509239              
18 Harry Li MA            
  949 16988211              
19 Anish Saravanan MA            
  883 16732165              

SwissSys Wall Chart. 90th Massachusetts Open: 2-Day Under 1500 Section

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6
1 Joseph Lee MA            
  1383 12851798              
2 Cooper Dean RI            
  1268 30247813              
3 Vivian Chen MA            
  1239 17299381              
4 Christine Nguyen MA            
  1239 16634247              
5 Benjamin A Paquet NH            
  1211 16214787              
6 Jate Aaron Greene MA            
  1203 30294094              
7 Amy Nguyen MA            
  1176 16151483              
8 Rodrigo Espirito Santo MA            
  1173 30277931              
9 Kayla Zhang MA            
  1163 16771070              
10 Andrew McIntyre MN            
  1148 17240544              
11 Stanley Yu MA            
  1107 17079108              
12 Kevin Zhao MA            
  1075 30425013              
13 Sam Silberstein ME            
  993 30260734              
14 Aarushi Khatri MA            
  695 17005313              
15 Jared Culbertson MA            
  unr. 30566617              

SwissSys Wall Chart. 90th Massachusetts Open: 3-Day Under 1200 Section

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6
1 Rowan Smith MA            
  1058 16483174              
2 Sriram Venkatapathy MA            
  1045 16991538              
3 Graham Buckton MA            
  1023 30279449              
4 Oliver Kutsman MA       bye bye ----
  1007 16818573              
5 Tanish Pentakota MA            
  998 16812092              
6 Shiva P Pabbathi MA            
  927 30504014              
7 Connor Xiang Liu MA            
  879 30071216              
8 Ram Tammineni MA            
  693 30216616              
9 Laura Xu MA bye          
  584 30265160              
10 Vyom Shah MA         bye  
  556 16911006              
11 Vedant Shah MA         bye  
  555 16911012              
12 Somansh Srivastava MA            
  unr. 30454985              
13 Victor Magallanes CA            
  unr. 30607104              
14 Michael Cleary MA            
  unr. 30593594              
15 Rowan De Peyster MA            
  unr. 30533157              

SwissSys Wall Chart. 90th Massachusetts Open: 2-Day Under 1200 Section

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6
1 Cantay Ozkan NH            
  1143 12644136              
2 Zachary Pan MA            
  1097 30221502              
3 Apollo Ethan Fung MA            
  1025 15734862              
4 Kavin Sundaram MA            
  1014 15955858              
5 Daniel Schleith RI            
  1002 30109394              
6 Albert Dong RI            
  1000 30036635              
7 Felix Wu MA            
  990 30258050              
8 Jerry Duan MA            
  863 30178900              
9 Jeraldin Sundar CT            
  827 30129128              
10 Annabelle Zhang MA            
  808 16811172              
11 York Parige NH bye          
  791 16755168              
12 Sergei Zanozin MA            
  768 30151528              
13 Arthur Zhou MA            
  721 30350651              
14 Tianjun Chen MA            
  712 17026676              
15 Zongrui Alvi Zhou MA            
  699 30238371              
16 Jon Van Iderstine MA            
  647 30379251              
17 Dmitry Filippov MA            
  628 17099364              
18 Anton Stark Yean MA            
  566 30275487              
19 Neil K Patel MA            
  526 15433782              
20 Tinghan Wang MA            
  502 17081486              
21 Orhan Niyazi Kurt RI            
  482 30485249              
22 Xiaoyan Shi MA bye          
  481 30246031              
23 Andrew Kerekon MA            
  437 30266921              
24 Anton Poliannikov MA            
  345 30308225              
25 Noah Y Chan Jr MA            
  113 16631651              
26 Xiaolong Yu              
  unr. ????????              
27 Yuvanguru Balagurumoorthy NH            
  unr. 30603134              
28 Ethan Yean Stark MA            
  unr. 30610850              

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

05/22/2022Prize winners at the Barry S. Spiegel Cup

Prize winners at the Barry S. Spiegel Cup state championship, held May 21-22 in Norwood, Mass.


High School Section (grades 9-12)

1st Danila Poliannikov 3.5-0.5
2nd Alan Song 3-1
3rd-4th Suraj Ramanathan, Jerry Li 2.5-1.5

Middle School Section (grades 6-8)

1st Eric Feng 3.5-0.5
2nd Yunze Owen Ji 3-1
3rd-4th Raymond Xu, Oskar Zoffer 2.5-1.5

Elementary School Section (grades K-5)

1st Yuze Luke Ji 3.5-0.5
2nd-6th Stanley Wu, Vihaan Jain, Evan Shi, Dhairya Mehta, Dattasai Kilari 2.5-1.5

Primary School Section (grades K-3)

1st Shawn Xu 3.5-0.5
2nd-4th Kevin Zhao, David Figelman, Zachary Pan 2.5-1.5

Tied players are listed in tiebreak order.

The tournament was directed by Bob Messenger and Yi Wang.
 

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

05/13/2022Massachusetts girls at the All Girls National Chess Championship

From MACA board member Yi Wang:


Seven Massachusetts girls participated in the All Girls National Chess Championship in Chicago. 

In the U10 section, Christine Nguyen finished 9th place with a score of 4.5. 
In the U12 section, Parinya Jain won 2nd place with a 5.0. Amy Nguyen finished with 3.0 points.
In the U14 section, Riya Kanury took 6th place with 4.5 points.  Isabella Lai took 10th place, also with 4.5 points.
In the U16 section, Sophia Rosenholtz took 4th place, with 4.5 points.  Meghana Kunamneni had 3.0 points.

Congratulations! 
 

Bob Messenger
MACA Board Member

04/10/2022Prize winners at the Fourth Spiegel Cup Qualifier

Prize winners at the Fourth Spiegel Cup Qualifier, held April 10th in Westford, Mass.


Grades 6-8 Section

1st Oskar Zoffer 4-0
2nd Shouri Mosaliganti, Daniel Ge 3-1

Grades K-5 Section

1st-2nd Steven Feng (playoff winner), Shawn Xu 3.5-0.5
3rd Evan Shi 3-1

Grades K-3 Section

1st Zachary Pan 4-0
2nd Xinan Li 3.5-0.5
3rd-4th Emma Zhang, Felix Wu 3-1

Reserve Under 1200 Section

1st Jesse Hayden 4-0
2nd-4th Yan Barash, Vivaan Tanna, Semion Baranov 3-1

Reserve Under 800 Section

1st Anish Saravanan 3.5-0.5
2nd-5th Robert Duguid, Zongrui Zhou, Ram Tammineni, William Zelevinsky 3-1

Reserve Under 400 Section

1st-2nd Avin Hemaratne (playoff winner), Alex Song 4-0
3rd-7th Dalia Teytelman, Maximus Ruban, Anton Poliannikov, Nathan Chiu, Albus Xu 3-1

The tournament was directed by Bob Messenger, Yi Wang, Dmitry Barash, Oleg Poliannikov, Ryan Wang, and Nicholas Sterling.
 

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

04/9/2022Advance entries for the Fourth Spiegel Cup Qualifier, updated 4/9/22 (final)

SwissSys Wall Chart. 4th Spiegel Cup Qualifier: Grades 6-8 Section

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Lawrence Tu MA        
  1912 15597798          
2 Charles Xie MA        
  1827 16435293          
3 Oskar Zoffer MA        
  1786 16471866          
4 Isabella Lai MA        
  1670 15990974          
5 Riya A Kanury MA        
  1669 16066054          
6 Bohan Wang MA        
  1658 16880573          
7 Shouri Mosaliganti MA        
  1597 16646805          
8 Franklin P Lewis MA        
  1593 15922026          
9 Maxim Klempf MA        
  1492 16715527          
10 Armaan Mehta MA        
  1430 16155376          
11 Nathan Klempf MA        
  1398 16715512          
12 Jerry Chen MA        
  1354 30214553          

SwissSys Wall Chart. 4th Spiegel Cup Qualifier: Grades K-5 Section

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Shawn Xu MA        
  1459 30264362          
2 Steven Ziang Feng MA        
  1412 16388220          
3 Sujay Kunamneni MA        
  1349 16433982          
4 Evan Shi MA        
  1224 16966603          
5 Jaswant Reddy Ambati MA        
  1221 16856326          
6 Christine Nguyen MA        
  1187 16634247          
7 Frank Zhongtian Cao MA        
  1182 30158113          
8 Krishna Narayanan MA        
  1158 16842787          
9 Kayla Zhang MA        
  1151 16771070          
10 Vivian Chen MA        
  1132 17299381          
11 Stanley Yu MA        
  1119 17079108          
12 Amy Nguyen MA        
  1104 16151483          
13 Jeremy Fan MA        
  1001 16878614          
14 Pranav Susarla MA        
  917 16955728          

SwissSys Wall Chart. 4th Spiegel Cup Qualifier: Grades K-3 Section

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Kevin Zhao MA        
  1091 30425013          
2 Emma Linyue Zhang MA        
  967 30305579          
3 Shawn Wu MA        
  946 30311807          
4 Zachary Pan MA        
  912 30221502          
5 Felix Wu MA        
  905 30258050          
6 Bowen Yu MA        
  897 30477200          
7 Xinan Li MA        
  891 30083131          
8 Samanyu Alluri MA        
  761 30185788          
9 Sergei Zanozin MA        
  756 30151528          
10 Jerry Duan MA        
  714 30178900          
11 Arthur Zhou MA        
  690 30350651          
12 Laura Xu MA        
  494 30265160          
13 Jayden Zhou MA        
  483 30461297          
14 Ajinkya Rao MA        
  400 30521621          
15 Aadhya R Challa MA        
  381 17325943          
16 Max Li MA        
  unr. 30536623          

SwissSys Wall Chart. 4th Spiegel Cup Qualifier: Reserve Under 1200 Section

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Pranit Rao MA        
  1147 16973993          
2 Yan Barash MA        
  1112 16433515          
3 Apollo Ethan Fung MA        
  1037 15734862          
4 Oliver Kutsman MA        
  1020 16818573          
5 Alexander Skulte MA        
  1002 15503548          
6 Vivaan Tanna MA        
  1001 30179518          
7 Ethan W Zhang MA        
  990 17088714          
8 Jesse Levi Hayden RI        
  978 16529228          
9 Wataru Takeuchi MA        
  973 16486723          
10 Harry Li MA        
  889 16988211          
11 Benjamin B Walker MA        
  843 30153391          
12 Semion Baranov MA        
  828 30285835          
13 Moyun Zhang MA        
  676 30142097          
14 Aarushi Khatri MA        
  666 17005313          
15 Ruthwik Varanasi MA        
  552 30145457          
16 Francis Gao MA        
  450 30274435          
17 Isaac Marks          
  unr. 30551170          

SwissSys Wall Chart. 4th Spiegel Cup Qualifier: Reserve Under 800 Section

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Aidin Narynbekov MA        
  730 16934194          
2 Anish Saravanan MA        
  715 16732165          
3 Dmitry Filippov MA        
  672 17099364          
4 Zongrui Alvin Zhou MA        
  645 30238371          
5 Stephen Gregory MA        
  630 16690642          
6 William Zelevinsky MA        
  598 30341765          
7 Nolan Pang MA        
  567 30017492          
8 Ram Tammineni MA        
  567 30216616          
9 Tanish Rishi Peddi MA        
  484 17122335          
10 Eric Hua MA        
  481 30458015          
11 Lucas Y Liu MA        
  474 30430898          
12 Sophia Klempf MA        
  448 17298188          
13 Gregory Agranovitch MA        
  442 17201060          
14 Ilia Zanozin MA        
  363 30177614          
15 Anish Annam MA        
  273 17217642          
16 Arthur Hope NH        
  unr. 30548156          

SwissSys Wall Chart. 4th Spiegel Cup Qualifier: Reserve Under 400 Section

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Dalia Teytelman MA        
  370 16459771          
2 Avin Hemaratne MA        
  323 30295092          
3 Alex W Song MA        
  300 30324871          
4 Nicolas Rosoiu MA        
  293 30295129          
5 Jasmin Yuzaeva MA        
  281 30494355          
6 Michael Yu MA        
  240 30460105          
7 Vivaan Sagar Shah MA        
  195 30369475          
8 Maximus Ruban MA        
  157 16496521          
9 Vihaan Patel MA        
  149 30295114          
10 Emma Shi MA        
  113 30224106          
11 Daniel Savchuk MA        
  110 30297278          
12 Noah Y Chan Jr MA        
  108 16631651          
13 David Avetisyan MA        
  108 30335983          
14 Robert Zelevinsky MA        
  101 30396863          
15 Julia Morton MA        
  unr. 30554176          
16 Skye Yuan MA        
  unr. 30538170          
17 Albus Xu MA        
  unr. 30545745          
18 Larry Lin MA        
  unr. 30541513          
19 Nathan Chiu MA        
  unr. 30551900          
20 Zachary Mokhtar MA        
  unr. 30518258          
21 Daniel Fursov MA        
  unr. 30551843          

 

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

04/2/2022MACA Bylaws amendment

MACA Bylaws amendment
 
Like many organizations, the Massachusetts Chess Association was prompted by the pandemic to begin having meetings over Zoom. In case this should become necessary or desirable in the future, we felt it was a good idea to provide for this method of meeting in the MACA Bylaws, specifying what minimum requirements and procedures must be adhered to by the Executive Board when scheduling virtual meetings.
 
The Bylaws amendment passed on January 12 implements this idea. (Please see http://www.masschess.org/Board/Minutes/minutes_content.aspx?minutes_uid=105 , item 6)  The main change is the new section 2.9 which sets out requirements for meetings via internet meeting services, following recommendations in Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised (12th edition) and other sources.  The other parts of the amendment simply adjust older Bylaw sections to account for the new method of meeting.
 
Under our procedure for amending the Bylaws, the membership is given an opportunity to approve or repeal the amendment by a majority vote in the annual election. On the ballot question
 
Do you approve of the amendment to the MACA Bylaws, "Amendment to regulate electronic meetings" adopted by the Executive Board on January 12, 2022?

a Yes vote is a vote to approve, and a No vote is a vote to repeal.
 
The Executive Board recommends a Yes vote, to approve the amendment.
 

Oleg V. Poliannikov
MACA Web Coordinator

04/2/2022Candidates in the 2022 MACA Election

 
Candidates in the 2022 MACA Election:
 
The following candidates are on the ballot in the 2022 MACA Election.  Registered voters will receive ballots at the beginning of May.
 
   President:           Andrew Hoy, Robert E. King
   Vice President:   Steven Winer
   Treasurer:           Bob Messenger
   Clerk:                  Jeffrey Caruso
 
   Director:              Paul Arond, Dmitri Barash, Robert E. King, Robin King-Franklin, Igor Klempf, Oleg Poliannikov, Alonzo Ross, Elsie Smits, Nicholas Sterling, Prof. Latanya Sweeney, Yi Wang
 
Candidate Statements:
 
The following candidates have submitted statements in support of their candidacy:
 

Elsie Smits, candidate for Director

 

I am a parent, teacher, and chess coach to the Funky Owls Chess Club. In support of my daughter’s love of chess, in 2017, I started a chess club dedicated to children due to the lack of children’s chess clubs in my area. I have created a fun, and supportive chess environment teaching good sportsmanship and personal growth. Today, I support Scholastic chess by inspiring children from many towns to play chess, including tournament chess. I would love to share my vision and creativity with MACA in the hopes of inspiring more Scholastic chess clubs. Thank you for your support!

 

 

Dmitri Barash, candidate for Director

 

I’m a Chess Player (2300), Parent of two actively playing Kids, Tutor (teaching kids for 30+ years), and Tournament Director.

 

I update top by rating for Spiegel Cup and keep some statistics on the attendance of MACA tournaments. You can see more details on my page

 

  https://sites.google.com/site/scholasticchessinma/

 

I’d like to return to MACA board as I think MACA doesn’t run enough tournaments especially scholastic ones in this post-covid times. My goal is also to improve the registration for the tournaments.

 

 

Igor Klempf, candidate for Director

 

I am an avid chess player and a parent to three kids who play chess. Me and my kids have been actively participating in MACA chess tournaments for the last 4 years and love the game of chess wholeheartedly. 

 

I am interested in becoming more involved in the life of chess in MA. Therefore, I am interested in becoming MACA board director in order to promote scholastic tournaments in the state, increase interest and awareness of the game, help establish more kids chess clubs, and increase tournament registration rates, especially among the scholastic population.

 

 

Alonzo Ross, candidate for Director

 

I am a lifelong chess player and a USCF Tournament Director. I am very active in the Greater Worcester Chess Club. In addition, I have served on the NECA Board. Now that the Lockdown is past, we need to concentrate on two tasks: encourage kids to play chess and restore the MACA Tournaments.


 

Jeffrey Caruso, candidate for Clerk

 

I have been honored to be part of this MACA Board. After a challenging year in 2020-2021, we've worked hard to resume a strong schedule of in-person events: the 2021 Massachusetts Open in October, the Pillsbury Memorial, the Senior Open and others.  The Massachusetts G/60 Championship is returning, and this year's Massachusetts Open is planned for its traditional Memorial Day weekend slot.  We also have a full scholastic schedule of individual and team events which will culminate in a Spiegel Cup final, Hurvitz Cup, and Girls' Championship this spring.

 

As Clerk I have been diligent in keeping members up to date with my policy of "instant Board minutes," and I will continue to bring the core values of transparency, service, and fairness to my positions of Clerk and Elections Chair.

 

I support our current board members who are running again, and am encouraged to see some active chess organizers among our new candidates.

 

Please give me your vote so I can continue to work for you!

 

 

Robert E. King, candidate for President and for Director

 

Online chess playing and member is still increasing since my last report in my candidate statement.  As of November 2021, Chess.com membership has more than doubled at a 60% increase since the pandemic.  As previously reported, on Chess.comthere has been a 66% increase in activity since the pandemic, prior to the Netflix miniseries The Queen's Gambit.  The miniseries made the top ten in 92 countries and ranked #1 in 63 countries.  Due to the pandemic and the miniseries, there has been a significant increase USCF memberships, USCF sales, and chess products.  The new USCF members will be looking for chess tournaments to play in.  MACA needs to be ready for this increase of players in MACA tournaments because the time is coming.  MACA and the new chess players deserve the best leadership for a successful future, and my past history of MACA service as MACA President and Director make me uniquely qualified to lead us for the success of chess!  My sister Robin King-Franklin, a registered nurse working at the hospital in Worcester, is running for MACA Director.  Together we all can win!

 

 

Paul Arond, candidate for Director

 

Thank you to all MACA members who have supported my candidacy as Director for the past seven years (with one year off for good behavior). It has been an honor to serve with dedicated stewards of chess in the Bay State to promote and expand participation in this great game of ours. If given the opportunity, I will continue to advocate for growing outreach, diversity, and fairness across the board.

 

 

Latanya Sweeney, candidate for Director

 

I will continue my commitment to expand participation by helping to establish chess leagues at schools, new chess learning opportunities, and helping to ignite additional club activities. Thank you for your support.

 

Oleg V. Poliannikov
MACA Web Coordinator

03/20/2022Prize winners at the 30th Massachusetts G/60 Championship

Prize winners at the 30th Massachusetts G/60 Championship, held March 20th in Westford.


Championship Section

1st IM Denys Shmelov 4-0
2nd Rajesh Shanmugasundaram 3.5-0.5
Equal Under 2400 Lawyer Times 3-1
Equal Under 2400/Under 2200 Kelsey Liu, Nathaniel Moor, Ian Dudley, Eric Feng, Brian Pang, David Katsman,
        Shwaas Patil 3-1

Under 2000 Section

1st-2nd Nicholas Brinkmann, Nikolay Avdokhin 3.5-0.5

Under 1800 Section

1st Maxim Klempf 4-0
2nd Nail Gul 3.5-0.5

Under 1600 Section

1st Sudeep Pandey 4-0
2nd-6th Michael Dudley, Michael Howell, William Horton, Leo Marzoratti, Tyera Zweygardt,
        Christopher Estiverne 3-1

Under 1400 Section

1st Aanya Yadawad 4-0
2nd-6th Robert King, Cooper Dean, Guillem Elizalde, Krishna Narayanan, Joshua Kary 3-1

Under 1200 Section

1st Ella Zhang 4-0
2nd Matthew Dickey 3.5-0.5
Equal Under 1000 William Beagle, Sandeep Alluri, Yanyee Li 3-1

The tournament was directed by Bob Messenger, Yi Wang, Dmitry Barash, Alex Relyea, and Nicholas Sterling
 

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

03/19/2022Advance entries for the 30th Massachusetts G/60 Championship, updated 3/19/22 (final)

SwissSys Wall Chart. Massachusetts G/60 Championship: Championship Section

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 GM Jianchao Zhou MA        
  2662 15524414          
2 IM Denys K Shmelov MA        
  2540 13433622          
3 Rajesh Shanmugasundaram RI        
  2346 16434545          
4 Lawyer Times MA        
  2213 12167330          
5 Matthew Wofford NH        
  2170 12812582          
6 Armando Lopez NH        
  2160 12515291          
7 Anton Barash MA        
  2155 13679247          
8 Kelsey Liu MA        
  2151 15770981          
9 Nathaniel P Moor CT        
  2144 15012516          
10 Joaquin A Carlson MA        
  2109 15794580          
11 Eric Feng MA        
  2107 15742464          
12 J Timothy Sage MA        
  2082 10146712          
13 Brian Pang NY        
  2054 16695696          
14 Yunze Owen Ji MA        
  2050 16225038          
15 Alexander Meng MA        
  2040 15844061          
16 John MacArthur NY        
  2026 12400229          
17 John P Vaughan MA        
  2018 12481292          
18 Henry He MA        
  2014 15714654          
19 Taylor A Curtis MA        
  2011 12596716          
20 Arthur P Nugent MA       bye
  2000 10011191          
21 Erin Dame NH        
  1992 12533685          
22 Sergey Malinin MA        
  1984 30302734          
23 Ryan Wang MA        
  1969 15486461          
24 David Katsman MA bye      
  1946 14958088          
25 Claude Fried NH        
  1930 15075585          
26 Luke Parige NH        
  1926 12907963          
27 Dejan Skrcheski MA        
  1919 30299274          
28 Vihaan Jain MA        
  1918 16584243          
29 Stephen Gradijan MA        
  1902 12454998          
30 Dattasai Kilari MA        
  1879 16429310          
31 Ansh Yadawad MA        
  1858 15842414          
32 Hrishikesh Vedula NH        
  1832 16099404          
33 William Macleod MA        
  1825 14926028          
34 Rayhan Riaz MA        
  1814 16543002          
35 Krishna S Mutnuri MA        
  1810 15383635          
36 Shwaas Patil MA        
  1806 16792584          
37 Oskar Zoffer MA        
  1805 16471866          

SwissSys Wall Chart. Massachusetts G/60 Championship: Under 2000 Section

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Lydia Shen MA        
  1778 15918700          
2 Varun Palnati MA        
  1776 13054461          
3 Yuze Luke Ji MA        
  1750 16237733          
4 Nicholas Brinkmann CT        
  1739 30032067          
5 Eric Cheng NY        
  1717 16921202          
6 Riya A Kanury MA        
  1715 16066054          
7 Pragyan Sriram MA        
  1715 16552308          
8 Nikolay Avdokhin MA        
  1703 16386416          
9 Bohan Wang MA        
  1697 16880573          
10 Jericho D Carlson MA        
  1696 16096060          
11 Evan M Schneider RI        
  1687 30031880          
12 Isabella Lai MA        
  1670 15990974          
13 Dhairya M Mehta MA        
  1629 16378663          
14 David Xie MA        
  1623 16435307          
15 Owen Morrissey MA        
  1610 30301062          
16 Benjamin Usadi VT        
  1528 16671615          
17 Sam Macleod MA        
  1471 16965265          
18 Kaiya Bridget Smits MA        
  873 16486827          
19 Ian Commins MA        
  unr. 30466831          

SwissSys Wall Chart. Massachusetts G/60 Championship: Under 1800 Section

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Sean Barkowsky MA bye      
  1713 13800136          
2 Robert Tango Jr NH        
  1704 16735818          
3 Steven Wollkind MA        
  1678 13209695          
4 Rohan Kasiviswanathan CA        
  1661 13669318          
5 Carl Fossa MA        
  1659 12519349          
6 Paul A Baginski MA        
  1653 12376240          
7 Charles Xie MA        
  1649 16435293          
8 Benjamin Brookhart MA        
  1645 30187444          
9 David W Martin MA        
  1626 12877246          
10 Parinya Jain MA        
  1575 16918131          
11 Daniel Ge MA        
  1559 16065814          
12 Vinamra Jain MA        
  1536 16584258          
13 Franklin P Lewis MA        
  1521 15922026          
14 Jared B Carlson MA        
  1496 15794595          
15 James Llewellyn Ko NY        
  1463 30207172          
16 Javier A Miranda MA        
  1458 30062375          
17 Alex Ma MA        
  1412 30167030          
18 Steven Ziang Feng MA        
  1401 16388220          
19 Maxim Klempf MA        
  1381 16715527          
20 Igor Klempf MA        
  1335 16715506          
21 Nathan Klempf MA        
  1270 16715512          
22 Neil Gupta MA        
  1232 16729904          
23 Ayush Kumar MA        
  994 15210212          
24 Nail Tarcan Gul MA        
  unr. 30337364          

SwissSys Wall Chart. Massachusetts G/60 Championship: Under 1600 Section

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Sudeep Kumar Pandey MA        
  1597 17222238          
2 Michael Dudley ME        
  1522 12873355          
3 John Twombley CT        
  1519 12554268          
4 Kevin Zimmerman CT        
  1500 12799878          
5 Eric Levin MA        
  1500 10014832          
6 Alec C Newport MA        
  1462 30219040          
7 Jasper Xu MA        
  1444 15184152          
8 Christopher Gagnepa MA        
  1442 12678461          
9 Michael T Howell MA bye      
  1430 12769427          
10 William D Horton MA        
  1383 12922334          
11 Shawn Xu MA        
  1342 30264362          
12 Mitch Kary MA        
  1328 15431256          
13 Kevin Scott Kamanitz MA        
  1270 30303125          
14 Leo J Marzoratti MA        
  1239 16938972          
15 Tyera L Zweygardt MA        
  1230 30286153          
16 Christine Nguyen MA        
  1165 16634247          
17 Christopher Estiverne MA        
  1084 16441830          
18 Evan Shi MA        
  1066 16966603          
19 Vivaan Tanna MA        
  1040 30179518          

SwissSys Wall Chart. Massachusetts G/60 Championship: Under 1400 Section

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Mark Piryatinsky MA        
  1376 16388502          
2 Robert Ernest King MA        
  1341 12417991          
3 Amit Piryatinsky MA        
  1335 15793565          
4 Pamil Jain MA        
  1300 16904675          
5 Matthew Anderson MA        
  1239 30463164          
6 Cooper Dean RI        
  1215 30247813          
7 Coleman F Keady MA        
  1210 30254952          
8 Frank Zhongti Cao MA        
  1190 30158113          
9 B Scott Andersen NH        
  1176 12442817          
10 Guillem Elizalde NH        
  1127 30205972          
11 Cantay Ozkan NH        
  1125 12644136          
12 Stanley Yu MA        
  1083 17079108          
13 Amy Nguyen MA        
  1080 16151483          
14 Krishna Narayanan MA        
  1079 16842787          
15 Aanya Yadawad MA        
  1053 16191144          
16 Pranit Rao MA        
  1050 16973993          
17 Yan Barash MA        
  1045 16433515          
18 Joshua Kary MA        
  910 30176822          
19 Ian Moore MA        
  784 15089008          
20 Anish Saravanan MA        
  738 16732165          
21 Laxian Wan MA        
  unr. 30509239          
22 Huaigu Cao MA        
  unr. 30498732          

SwissSys Wall Chart. Massachusetts G/60 Championship: Under 1200 Section

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Colin Scheriff MA        
  1161 30331716          
2 Shad Miller RI        
  1133 30299804          
3 Daniel D Contini NH        
  1076 20028440          
4 Jeremy Fan MA        
  1029 16878614          
5 Peter Kouznetsov MA        
  1018 16187153          
6 Ella Xinyue Zhang MA        
  959 30305617          
7 Samuel Dooley NH        
  958 30476924          
8 William M Beagle MA        
  917 30250532          
9 York Parige NH        
  917 16755168          
10 Sandeep Alluri MA        
  896 30261402          
11 Fahad Anwar MA        
  892 17024251          
12 Emma Linyue Zhang MA        
  887 30305579          
13 Yanyee Li MA        
  878 30319128          
14 Matthew Dickey NH        
  843 30331068          
15 Iris Yin MA        
  804 30144112          
16 Samanyu Alluri MA        
  782 30185788          
17 Benjamin B Walker MA        
  739 30153391          
18 Sergei Zanozin MA        
  721 30151528          
19 Dmitry Filippov MA        
  695 17099364          
20 Tianjun Chen MA        
  689 17026676          
21 Colin Yin MA        
  679 30144071          
22 Jon Van Iderstine MA        
  659 30379251          
23 Laura Xu MA        
  513 30265160          
24 Harrison Rubin NY        
  501 14091515          
25 Alexander Rapoport MA        
  396 15946270          
26 Vihaan Patel MA        
  107 30295114          
27 Shiva Pabbathi MA        
  unr. 30504014          
28 Eric Dong MA        
  unr. 30313783          
29 Nicholas Aguilera MA        
  unr. 30508479          
30 Matthew Gipson MA        
  unr. new          
31 Ajinkya Rao          
  unr. new          
32 Leo Brown MA        
  unr. 30512104          

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

03/6/2022Prize winners at the Third Spiegel Cup Qualifier

 Prize winners at the Third Spiegel Cup Qualifier, held March 6th in Westford, Mass.


Grades 6-8 Section

1st Victor Feng 4-0
2nd-3rd Charlies Xie, Oskar Zoffer 3-1

Grades K-5 Section

1st Pragyan Sriram 3.5-0.5
2nd-3rd Evan Shi, David Figelman 3-1

Grades K-3 Section

1st Shawn Xu 4-0
2nd-4th Frank Cao, Kevin Zhao, Felix Wu 3-1

Reserve Under 1200 Section

1st Priyanshu Arora 4-0
2nd-6th Stanley Yu, Dhruv Rajan, Pranit Rao, Alexander Skulte, Aarushi Khatri 3-1

Reserve Under 800 Section

1st Semion Baranov 4-0
2nd Justin Xu 3.5-0.5
3rd-6th Aidin Narynbekov, Jacob Shteyman, Colin Yin, Bhargava Ampojwalam 3-1

Reserve Under 400 Section

1st-2nd Eric Hua, Ivan Avokhin 3.5-0.5
3rd-5th Ilia Zanozin, Dalia Teytelman, Avin Hemaratne 3-1

Tied players are listed in tiebreak order.

The tournament was directed by Bob Messenger, Dmitry Barash, Kavita Bhatia, and Nicholas Sterling.
 

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

03/5/2022Advance entries for the Third Spiegel Cup Qualifier, updated 3/5/22

SwissSys Wall Chart. 3rd Spiegel Cup Qualifier: Grades 6-8 Section

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Victor Feng MA        
  2030 15560438          
2 Lawrence Tu MA        
  1927 15597798          
3 Riya A Kanury MA        
  1715 16066054          
4 Bohan Wang MA        
  1697 16880573          
5 Charles Xie MA        
  1649 16435293          
6 Parinya Jain MA        
  1575 16918131          
7 Franklin P Lewis MA        
  1521 15922026          
8 Maxim Klempf MA        
  1381 16715527          
9 Mark Piryatinsky MA        
  1376 16388502          
10 Nathan Klempf MA        
  1270 16715512          
11 Armaan Mehta MA        
  1260 16155376          
12 Lucas Galvao Martins MA        
  1211 17107448          

SwissSys Wall Chart. 3rd Spiegel Cup Qualifier: Grades K-5 Section

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Pragyan Sriram MA        
  1715 16552308          
2 Sujay Kunamneni MA        
  1430 16433982          
3 Steven Ziang Feng MA        
  1401 16388220          
4 David Figelman MA        
  1284 16523406          
5 Jaswant Reddy Ambati MA        
  1201 16856326          
6 Krishna Narayanan MA        
  1079 16842787          
7 Evan Shi MA        
  1066 16966603          
8 Oliver Kutsman MA        
  1050 16818573          

SwissSys Wall Chart. 3rd Spiegel Cup Qualifier: Grades K-3 Section

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Shawn Xu MA        
  1342 30264362          
2 Frank Zhongtian Cao MA        
  1190 30158113          
3 Kevin Zhao MA        
  1029 30425013          
4 Zachary Pan MA        
  932 30221502          
5 Connor Xiang Liu MA        
  913 30071216          
6 Xinan Li MA        
  899 30083131          
7 Yanyee Li MA        
  878 30319128          
8 Felix Wu MA        
  861 30258050          
9 Zongrui Alvin Zhou MA        
  785 30238371          
10 Samanyu Alluri MA        
  782 30185788          
11 Sergei Zanozin MA        
  721 30151528          
12 Tianjun Chen MA        
  689 17026676          
13 Jerry Duan MA        
  549 30178900          
14 Sophia Klempf MA        
  462 17298188          
15 Aditya Nambi MA        
  414 30293250          
16 Nicolas Rosoiu MA        
  211 30295129          
17 Tommy Kozlek MA        
  106 30347417          
18 Bowen Yu MA        
  unr. 30477200          

SwissSys Wall Chart. 3rd Spiegel Cup Qualifier: Reserve Under 1200 Section

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Stanley Yu MA        
  1083 17079108          
2 Priyanshu Arora MA        
  1054 15457348          
3 Aanya Yadawad MA        
  1053 16191144          
4 Pranit Rao MA        
  1050 16973993          
5 Yan Barash MA        
  1045 16433515          
6 Vivaan Tanna MA        
  1040 30179518          
7 Vivan Jaiswal MA        
  1005 17281345          
8 Dhruv Chara Rajan MA        
  996 30187678          
9 Harry Li MA        
  984 16988211          
10 Alexander Skulte MA        
  975 15503548          
11 Ethan W Zhang MA        
  892 17088714          
12 Kaiya Bridget Smits MA        
  873 16486827          
13 Iris Yin MA        
  804 30144112          
14 Benjamin B Walker MA        
  739 30153391          
15 Anish Saravanan MA        
  738 16732165          
16 Abhiram Batchu MA        
  677 17308364          

SwissSys Wall Chart. 3rd Spiegel Cup Qualifier: Reserve Under 800 Section

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Prayag Karthik MA        
  740 17102677          
2 Justin Xu MA        
  710 16902945          
3 Tanay Mangal MA        
  696 16733806          
4 Dmitry Filippov MA        
  695 17099364          
5 Colin Yin MA        
  679 30144071          
6 Aidin Narynbekov MA        
  668 16934194          
7 Stephen Gregory MA        
  655 16690642          
8 Semion Baranov MA        
  618 30285835          
9 Jacob Benjamin Shteyman MA        
  535 17196801          
10 Gregory Agranovitch MA        
  513 17201060          
11 Laura Xu MA        
  513 30265160          
12 Saisha Reddy NH        
  504 30333596          
13 Bhumin Karunakar MA        
  494 30295083          
14 Yanyan Li MA        
  483 30311781          
15 Alex W Song MA        
  475 30324871          
16 Ansh Parekh MA        
  469 17141665          
17 Nolan Pang MA        
  452 30017492          
18 Arjun Nambi MA        
  438 30298270          
19 Bhargava Ampojwalam MA        
  431 30309843          
20 Lucas Liu MA        
  424 30430898          
21 Jacob Michael Landau MA        
  420 17255265          

SwissSys Wall Chart. 3rd Spiegel Cup Qualifier: Reserve Under 400 Section

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Ishani Sarin Gupta MA        
  389 17012655          
2 Ivan Avdokhin MA        
  356 30462228          
3 Dalia Teytelman MA        
  339 16459771          
4 Avin Hemaratne MA        
  259 30295092          
5 Ilia Zanozin MA        
  252 30177614          
6 Maximus Ruban MA        
  126 16496521          
7 Shalin Sarin Gupta MA        
  115 17207232          
8 Vihaan Patel MA        
  107 30295114          
9 Daniel Savchuk MA        
  105 30297278          
10 Stephen Benevento MA        
  unr. 30437976          
11 David Avetisyan MA        
  unr. 30335983          
12 Maxim Arefolov MA        
  unr. 30491375          
13 Jasmin Yuzaeva MA        
  unr. 30494355          
14 Max Breyt MA        
  unr. 30485512          

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

02/20/2022Prize winners at the Winter Team Challenge

Prize winners at the Winter Team Challenge, held February 20th in Westford, Mass.


Grades K-12 Section

1st: Dark Knights (Oskar Zoffer, Rayhan Riaz, Pragyan Sriram, Dhairya Mehta) 3.5-0.5
2nd-4th: Team Tigers (Bohan Wang, Charles Xie, David Xie, Steven Feng),
    Belmont High School (Lewis Tu, Lawrence Tu, Eliott Lucio, Leo Sun),
    Future Masters High A (Henry Han, Parinya Jain, Franklin Lewis, Anish Sankar) 2.5-1.5

Grades K-6 Section

1st: Future Masters Middle A (Christine Nguyen, Kayla Zhang, Vivian Chen, Amy Nguyen) 10.0
2nd: 4 Chess Tigers (Shawn Xu, Frank Cao, Ella Zhang, Emma Zhang) 8.5
3rd: Future Masters Middle B (Harry Li, Aarnav Vashisht, Tanish Biswas) 5.5

Grades K-3 Section

1st: Future Masters Elementary A (Zachary Pan, Connor Liu, Xinan Li, Tianjun Chen) 11.0
2nd: Galaxies (Jeremy Fan, Yanyee Li, Zongrui Zhou, Yanyan Li) 10.0
3rd: Future Masters Elementary B (Jeremy Yang, Michael Wu, Stanley Zhu, Lucas Liu) 8.0

Tied teams are listed in tiebreak order.

The tournament was directed by Bob Messenger and Nicholas Sterling.
 

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

02/19/2022Advance entries for the Winter Team Challenge, updated 2/19/22 (final)

SwissSys Wall Chart. Winter Team Challenge: Grades K-12 Section (Team)

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Belmont High School          
  1360 BELMON        
2 Dark Knights          
  1728 DARKKN        
3 Future Masters High A          
  1489 FUTMHA        
4 Future Masters High B          
  704 FUTMHB        
5 Funky Owls Chess Club          
  574 OWLS        
6 Team Tigers          
  1586 TIGERS        

 

SwissSys Wall Chart. Winter Team Challenge: Grades K-6 Section (Team)

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 4 Chess Tigers          
  1106 4TIGER        
2 Future Masters Middle A          
  1115 FUTMMA        
3 Future Masters Middle B          
  809 FUTMMB        

 

SwissSys Wall Chart. Winter Team Challenge: Grades K-3 Section (Team)

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 4 Chess Cubs          
  284 4CUBS        
2 Future Masters Elementary A          
  883 FUTMEA        
3 Future Masters Elementary B          
  499 FUTMEB        
4 Galaxies          
  818 GALAXI        

 

SwissSys Wall Chart. Winter Team Challenge: Grades K-12 Section (Team)

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Lewis Tu MA        
  2015 15454526 BELMON        
2 Lawrence Tu MA        
  1927 15597798 BELMON        
3 Elliot Lucio MA        
  unr. new BELMON        
4 Leo Sun MA        
  unr. 30463682 BELMON        
5 Oskar Zoffer MA        
  1805 16471866 DARKKN        
6 Rayhan Riaz MA        
  1776 16543002 DARKKN        
7 Pragyan Sriram MA        
  1724 16552308 DARKKN        
8 Dhairya M Mehta MA        
  1607 16378663 DARKKN        
9 Henry Han MA        
  1811 14728674 FUTMHA        
10 Parinya Jain MA        
  1526 16918131 FUTMHA        
11 Franklin P Lewis MA        
  1521 15922026 FUTMHA        
12 Anish Sankar MA        
  1097 16332556 FUTMHA        
13 Kavin Sundaram MA        
  1082 15955858 FUTMHB        
14 Shiv Sanker MA        
  706 16288677 FUTMHB        
15 Yicong Wu MA        
  529 30186053 FUTMHB        
16 Jason Zhu MA        
  500 30218017 FUTMHB        
17 Kaiya Bridget Smits MA        
  873 16486827 OWLS        
18 Dmitry Filippov MA        
  669 17099364 OWLS        
19 Bhumin Karunakar MA        
  494 30295083 OWLS        
20 Avin Hemaratne MA        
  259 30295092 OWLS        
21 Bohan Wang MA        
  1671 16880573 TIGERS        
22 Charles Xie MA        
  1649 16435293 TIGERS        
23 David Xie MA        
  1623 16435307 TIGERS        
24 Steven Ziang Feng MA        
  1401 16388220 TIGERS        

SwissSys Wall Chart. Winter Team Challenge: Grades K-6 Section (Team)

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Shawn Xu MA        
  1337 30264362 4TIGER        
2 Frank Zhongtian Cao MA        
  1238 30158113 4TIGER        
3 Ella Xinyue Zhang MA        
  961 30305617 4TIGER        
4 Emma Linyue Zhang MA        
  886 30305579 4TIGER        
5 Christine Nguyen MA        
  1165 16634247 FUTMMA        
6 Kayla Zhang MA        
  1131 16771070 FUTMMA        
7 Vivian Chen MA        
  1085 17299381 FUTMMA        
8 Amy Nguyen MA        
  1080 16151483 FUTMMA        
9 Harry Li MA        
  953 16988211 FUTMMB        
10 Aarnav Vashisht MA        
  937 30220083 FUTMMB        
11 Stanley Liu MA        
  717 30337685 FUTMMB        
12 Tanish Biswas MA        
  629 16901476 FUTMMB        

SwissSys Wall Chart. Winter Team Challenge: Grades K-3 Section (Team)

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Nolan Pang MA        
  455 30017492 4CUBS        
2 Laura Xu MA        
  380 30265160 4CUBS        
3 Blake Wang MA        
  unr. 30464908 4CUBS        
4 Jason Hu MA        
  unr. 30451216 4CUBS        
5 Zachary Pan MA        
  954 30221502 FUTMEA        
6 Connor Xiang Liu MA        
  914 30071216 FUTMEA        
7 Xinan Li MA        
  899 30083131 FUTMEA        
8 Tianjun Chen MA        
  766 17026676 FUTMEA        
9 Jeremy Zhiyuan Yang MA        
  615 30255472 FUTMEB        
10 Michael Liu Wu MA        
  489 30219251 FUTMEB        
11 Stanley Yinen Zhu MA        
  467 30226194 FUTMEB        
12 Lucas Y Liu MA        
  425 30430898 FUTMEB        
13 Jeremy Fan MA        
  1029 16878614 GALAXI        
14 Yanyee Li MA        
  932 30319128 GALAXI        
15 Zongrui Alvin Zhou MA        
  720 30238371 GALAXI        
16 Yanyan Li MA        
  593 30311781 GALAXI        
 

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

02/6/2022Prize winners at the Massachusetts Girls Qualifier

Prize winners at the Massachusetts Girls Qualifier, held February 6th at the Boylston Chess Club in Cambridge

 
Premier Section
 
1st Riya Kanury 3.5-0.5
2nd Parinya Jain 3-1
3rd-4th Sophia Rosenholtz, Michelle Chudnovsky 2.5-1.5
 
Under 1000 Section
 
1st Iris Yin 4-0
2nd-3rd Laura Xu, Dalia Teytelman 1.5-2.5
 
The tournament was directed by Bob Messenger, assisted by Yi Wang, Tianna Wang, and Kavita Bhatia
 

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

02/5/2022Advance entries for the Massachusetts Girls Qualifier, updated 2/5/22

SwissSys Wall Chart. Massachusetts Girls Qualifier: Premier Section

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Isabella Lai MA        
  1704 15990974          
2 Riya A Kanury MA        
  1694 16066054          
3 Sophia Rosenholtz MA        
  1565 15263723          
4 Parinya Jain MA        
  1526 16918131          
5 Michelle Chudnovsky MA        
  1373 15433981          
6 Kayla Zhang MA        
  1131 16771070          
7 Vivian Chen MA        
  1085 17299381          
8 Aanya Yadawad MA        
  1043 16191144          
9 Ella Xinyue Zhang MA        
  961 30305617          
10 Yanyee Li MA        
  932 30319128          
11 Emma Linyue Zhang MA        
  886 30305579          

SwissSys Wall Chart. Massachusetts Girls Qualifier: Under 1000 Section

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Iris Yin MA        
  787 30144112          
2 Aarushi Khatri MA        
  551 17005313          
3 Laura Xu MA        
  380 30265160          

 

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

01/16/2022Prize winners at the Gus Gosselin Grade Championship

Prize winners at the Gus Gosselin Grade Championship, held January 16th in Norwood, Mass.

 
Grades 9-12 Section
 
1st-2nd Vineeth Nareddy, Mark Chudnovsky 3.5-0.5
3rd-6th Kenneth Cobbs (playoff winner), William MacLeod, Shwaas Patil, Tye Moore 3-1
Top Grade 9 David Katsman 2-2
 
Grades 6-8 Section
 
1st Nikolay Avdokhin 4-0
2nd Mark Piryatinsky 3.5-0.5
3rd-5th Shouri Mosaliganti, Oskar Zoffer 3-1
3rd-5th/Top Grade 6 Vivan Jaiswal 3-1
 
Grade 5 Section
 
1st Amy Nguyen 4-0
2nd Kayla Zhang 3-1
3rd-6th Harry Li, Arjun Nambi, Sharan Veershetty, Gregory Agranovitch 2-2
 
Grade 4 Section
 
1st Aiden Lee 3-1
2nd-3rd Oliver Kutsman, Viraj Rastogi 2.5-1.5
 
Grade 3 Section
 
1st-2nd Christine Nguyen, Yanyee Li 3-1
3rd Xinan Li 2.5-1.5
 
Grades K-2 Section
 
1st-5th Frank Cao, Connor Liu, Samanyu Alluri 3-1
1st-5th/Top Grade 1 Zongrui Zhou, Yanyan Li 3-1
 
Tied players are listed in tiebreak order except as noted.
 
The tournament was directed by Bob Messenger, Nicholas Sterling, and Dima Barash.
 

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

01/15/2022Advance entries for the Gus Gosselin Grade Championship, updated 1/15/22

SwissSys Wall Chart. Gus Gosselin Grade Championship: Grades 9-12 Section

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Cl/Gr Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Bernie Xu MA          
  2082 14940771   11        
2 Vineeth Nareddy MA          
  2028 15185045   12        
3 David Katsman MA          
  2006 14958088   9        
4 Mark Chudnovsky MA          
  1957 15018810   12        
5 William Macleod MA          
  1814 14926028   12        
6 Kenneth Cobbs MA          
  1730 16106637   10        
7 Vinamra Jain MA          
  1605 16584258   11        
8 Amit Piryatinsky MA          
  1318 15793565   11        
9 Ephram Joel Chun MA          
  1250 30046798   11        
10 Vikram Scherfke MA          
  1155 16492162   9        
11 Apollo Ethan Fung MA          
  1071 15734862   9        
12 Peter Kouznetsov MA          
  1059 16187153   9        
13 Jamie S Evarts MA          
  928 30205847   10        
14 Aidin Narynbekov MA          
  675 16934194   9        
15 Vyom Shah MA          
  601 16911006   12        
16 Dmitry Filippov MA          
  580 17099364   9        
17 Luke Pepin MA          
  unr. 30398575   10        

SwissSys Wall Chart. Gus Gosselin Grade Championship: Grades 6-8 Section

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Cl/Gr Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Oskar Zoffer MA          
  1814 16471866   7        
2 Bohan Wang MA          
  1598 16880573   6        
3 Mark Piryatinsky MA          
  1291 16388502   6        
4 Jate Aaron Greene MA          
  1252 30294094   6        
5 Kavin Sundaram MA          
  1071 15955858   6        
6 Rowan Smith MA          
  1040 16483174            
7 Yan Barash MA          
  1030 16433515   7        
8 Pranit Rao MA          
  949 16973993   8        
9 Alden Kuo MA          
  934 16146628   7        
10 Aanya Yadawad MA          
  914 16191144   7        
11 Ethan W Zhang MA          
  872 17088714   6        
12 Kaiya Bridget Smits MA          
  723 16486827   6        
13 Jacob B Shteyman MA          
  553 17196801            
14 Vedant Shah MA          
  419 16911012   7        
15 Aarushi Khatri MA          
  366 17005313            
16 Divyagn Shivashok MA          
  103 30184029   7        
17 Levi Mirkis MA          
  101 15688751   8        

SwissSys Wall Chart. Gus Gosselin Grade Championship: Grade 5 Section

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Cl/Gr Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Kayla Zhang MA          
  1145 16771070            
2 Amy Nguyen MA          
  1105 16151483            
3 Harry Li MA          
  894 16988211            
4 Gregory Agranovitch MA          
  536 17201060            
5 Arjun Nambi MA          
  368 30298270            
6 Avin Hemaratne MA          
  285 30295092            

SwissSys Wall Chart. Gus Gosselin Grade Championship: Grade 4 Section

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Cl/Gr Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Oliver Kutsman MA          
  1081 16818573            
2 Viraj Rastogi MA          
  1038 30038645            
3 Eilam Kuo MA          
  860 16398651            
4 Aiden Lee MA   ----      
  844 16572914            
5 Benjamin B Walker MA          
  704 30153391            
6 Malin Kuo MA          
  666 16398357            
7 Francis Gao MA          
  448 30274435            
8 Vihaan Patel MA          
  106 30295114            

SwissSys Wall Chart. Gus Gosselin Grade Championship: Grade 3 Section

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Cl/Gr Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Christine Nguyen MA          
  1039 16634247            
2 Yanyee Li MA          
  884 30319128            
3 Xinan Li MA          
  706 30083131            
4 Sergei Zanozin MA          
  507 30151528            
5 Adarsh Venkannagari MA          
  478 30142191            
6 Nicolas Rosoiu MA          
  196 30295129            

SwissSys Wall Chart. Gus Gosselin Grade Championship: Grades K-2 Section

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Cl/Gr Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Frank Zhongti Cao MA          
  1357 30158113   2        
2 Connor Xiang Liu MA          
  836 30071216   1        
3 Samanyu Alluri MA          
  773 30185788   K        
4 Zongrui Alvin Zhou MA          
  670 30238371   1        
5 Yanyan Li MA          
  565 30311781   1        
6 Ashwath Srinivasan MA          
  425 30347185            
7 Laura Xu MA          
  421 30265160            
8 Aditya Nambi MA          
  309 30293250   2        
9 Ilia Zanozin MA          
  221 30177614   1        
10 Olivia Fitkova MA          
  215 30299206   2        
11 Kashyap Srinivasan MA          
  207 30326750            
12 Paul Fitko MA          
  unr. 30386520   1        
13 Vivienne Massed MA          
  unr. 30419278   2        

 

Bob Messenger
Chief TD