Great Success for Massachusetts players at K-12 Nationals

 The Massachusetts contingent of players enjoyed strong results in the recently concluded National K-12 Grade Championships.  Most of the sections where any Massachusetts players competed featured at least one local finishing in the top 10.  This was highlighted by Nithin Kavi winning clear first in the 11th grade section.  There were many other impressive performances in addition to Nithin's championship.  In the very same 11th grade section Kevin James Hass finished in 7th place.  Maxwell Chen (4th place in 9th grade), Alan Song, (8th place in 7th grade), Ryan Wang (8th place in 4th grade), Y Luke Ji, (3rd place in 1st grade), and Christine Nguyen (9th place in Kindergarten) all finished in the top 10.  Many other Massachusetts players finished in prize winning places outside of the top 10.  Less than 50 Massachusetts players competed in the event making the number of high finishers especially impressive.  This event was another demonstration of the great strength of Massachusetts scholastic chess. We look forward to many more successful events.

Steve Winer

MACA Scholastic Committee

Bob Messenger
MACA Board Member

Prize winners at the Harry Nelson Pillsbury Memorial, held December 9th in Burlington, Mass.

Open Section

1st-2nd GM Alexander Ivanov, FM Nathan Solon 3.5-0.5
Top Under 2210 Danila Poliannikov, Maxwell Chen, David Zhou, David Milliern 2-2

Under 2010 Section

1st Rafael Pashkov 3.5-0.5
2nd-4th Christopher Carnevale, Calvin Hori, Ananth Rangan 3-1

Under 1810 Section

1st Tom Tippett 4-0
2nd Ansh Yadawad 3.5-0.5

Under 1510 Section

1st/Top Unrated Isaac Shaw 4-0
2nd/Top Under 1300 Zhipeng Chen 3.5-0.5
3rd-5th/Top Under 1100 Ansh Yeola 3-1
3rd-5th Raaga Pulya, Y Luke Ji 3-1
Top Under 900 Ramaiza Sohail 2.5-1.5

The tournament was directed by Bob Messenger, Nicholas Sterling, and Steve Frymer.
 

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

Prize winners at the 2nd Spiegel Cup Qualifier, held November 10th in Burlington, Mass.

Age 14 & Under Section

1st-3rd Mark Chudnovsky (playoff winner), Vineeth Nareddy, Aaron Lu 3-1

Age 11 & Under Section

1st Eric Feng 4-0
2nd-3rd Victor Feng, Henry He 3-1

Age 8 & Under Section

1st-2nd Ryan Sun (playoff winner), Joshua Lee 3.5-0.5
3rd Dhairya Mehta 3-1

Booster Under 1200 Section

1st Jeffrey Yin 4-0
2nd Arnesh Yeola 3-1
3rd Amit Piryatinsky 2.5-1.5

Booster Under 800 Section

1st Ariel Zhou 3.5-0.5
2nd-3rd Amy Nguyen, Peter Kouznetsov 3-1

Booster Under 400 Section

1st Nathan Small 4-0
2nd-3rd Sriman Devineni, Siddharth Lagu 3-1

Tied players are listed in tiebreak order except as noted.

The tournament was directed by Bob Messenger, Nathan Smolensky, Nicholas Sterling, Dmitry Barash, and Steve Frymer.
 

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

Adv. Entries for Q2 as of 11/09/18 09:41AM: https://goo.gl/fwKPc1 

Tiffany Wang
MACA Webmaster

Prize winners at the 85th Greater Boston Open, held October 28, 2018 in Marlboro, Mass.

Open Section

1st FM Nathan Solon 3.5-0.5
Equal 2nd Ryan Sowa 2.5-1.5
Equal 2nd/Top Under 2300 Farzad Abdi, Nithin Kavi, Brandon Wu, CM Jerry Li, Danila Poliannikov, Paris Prestia,
         CM Sebastian Prestia 2.5-1.5

Under 2100 Section

1st Michael Carey 4-0
2nd Harrison He 3.5-0.5

Under 1900 Section

1st Thomas Guo 3.5-0.5
Equal 2nd James Todhunter, Mark Kaprielian, Adithya Sharma, Henry He 3-1

Under 1700 Section

1st Alan Axelrod 4-0
Equal 2nd Michael David, Douglas Southall, Eric Chang 3-1

Under 1500 Section

1st Andrew Perry 3.5-0.5
Equal 2nd Lisa DeBenedictis, Eli Traub 3-1

Under 1200 Section

1st-2nd Nikolay Avdokhin, Bryan Henroid 3.5-0.5
3rd William Clark (unrated) 3-1
Top Under 1000 Giovanni DeBenedictis 3-1
Top Under 800 Vihaan Kale 2-2
Top Unrated Nate Bartkovich 2-2

The tournament was directed by Bob Messenger, Nicholas Sterling, and Steve Frymer.
 

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

Advance Entries for 85th GBO: https://goo.gl/a6MXx7 

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Tiffany Wang
MACA Webmaster

Prize winners at the First Spiegel Cup Qualifier, held September 30th in Burlington, Mass.

Age 14 & Under Section

1st Joy Cao 4-0
2nd Mark Chudnovsky 3.5-0.5
3rd-4th Venkatraman Varatharajan, David Katsman 3-1

Age 11 & Under Section

1st Ryan Wang 4-0
2nd-7th Eric Feng, Thomas Ha, Victor Feng, Henry He, Ansh Yadawad, Brandon Ni 3-1

Age 8 & Under Section

1st-2nd Dattasai Kilari (playoff winner), Jacob Wu 4-0
3rd-7th Sujay Kunamneni, Joshua Lee, Steven Feng, Daniel Tatar, Ryan Sun 3-1

Booster Under 1200 Section

1st Alexander Tran 3.5-0.5
2nd Bryan Henroid 3-1
3rd Raeann Zhou 2.5-0.5

Booster Under 800 Section

1st Mahad Sohail 3.5-0.5
2nd-3rd Ramaiza Sohail, Atharv Byrava 3-1

Booster Under 400 Section

1st Yan Barash 4-0
2nd-5th Sriman Devineni, Kaiya Smits, Jacob Rubin, Jincheng Liu 3-1

Tied players are listed in tiebreak order except as noted.

The tournament was directed by Bob Messenger, Nathan Smolensky, Nicholas Sterling, Dmitry Barash, and Steve Frymer.
 

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

Adv entry for Q1: https://goo.gl/a2Lr9i updated (as of 09/29/18 02:45PM) 

Tiffany Wang
MACA Webmaster

Prize winners at the 3rd Massachusetts Senior Open, held September 14-15 in Marlboro.

Open Section

1st David Carter (VT) 3.5-0.5
2nd/Top Under 2210 Matthew Derek Meredith (CT), Timothy Sage 3-1
Top Under 2010 Norman Burtness 2.5-1.5

As the top Massachusetts player, Timothy Sage is the Massachusetts senior champion and will be invited to represent Massachusetts at next year's National Senior Tournament of Champions.

Under 1810 Section

1st Arthur Nagel 3.5-0.5
2nd-3rd Paul Arond, Gerald Plante 3-1
Top Under 1610 James Hankard 2.5-1.5
Top Under 1410 Robert Babcock 2.5-1.5

The tournament was directed by Bob Messenger.
 

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

As of 09/14/18 10:11 AM: https://goo.gl/8qzrgD 

Tiffany Wang
MACA Webmaster

 Check out the latest issue of Chess Horizons featuring the recently held Mass Open. 48 pages of chess materials never to be found anywhere else. Please send your thanks and feedback to Editor Nathan Smolensky. 

Oleg V. Poliannikov
MACA Web Coordinator

Western Massachusetts schools have restarted the Western Massachusetts Scholastic Chess League. Participating regional schools include Agawam High, Hampshire Regional, Minnechaug, Renaissance, Wilbraham and Monson, Longmeadow Chess Academy and Smith Academy. All schools participated in friendly matches throughout the early spring months and local news papers reported on the events:

• http://www.turley.com/agawamadvertisernews/aan-archives/aan04.05.pdf
• http://www.masslive.com/living/index.ssf/2018/03/upcoming_chess_match_in_agawam_a_step_toward_reviving_a_regional_chess_league.html
• https://www.thereminder.com/localnews/agawam/local-chess-enthusiasts-working-toward-establishin/

• https://www.agawamed.org/district-resources/district-wide-student-activities/chess

• http://obits.masslive.com/obituaries/masslive/obituary.aspx?n=harold-anthony-moye&pid=188780044

Oleg V. Poliannikov
MACA Web Coordinator

 MACA announces initial 2019 Spiegel Cup Finals invitees. This is not the official invitation list for the Championship. The invitations will be issued to the winners of the four qualifiers and then to the top five players in each section on the basis of the official March 2019 USCF Rating Supplement. The final spot will go to the Spiegel Cup Series (SCS) Winner.

Oleg V. Poliannikov
MACA Web Coordinator

A new chess club has opened up at the Somerset MA library, Tuesday nights from 5pm to 7:30. Only two rated players so far but some of the unrateds are semi-strong (@ 1700). Kids are welcome and free instruction provided. 

We have plenty of equipment, just short on clocks but most play without them anyway. No rated games, just fun! Please direct all inquiries about the new club to Jason Ackermann at jackermann@sailsinc.org 

Oleg V. Poliannikov
MACA Web Coordinator

George Mirijanian reports:

Carissa Yip scored her first IM norm in the Charlotte Chess Center's GM/IM Norm Invitational Tournament, held June 6-10 in Charlotte, North Carolina. The 14-year-old former Wachusett Chess Club champion tallied 7-2 (5 wins,4 draws) to finish first in one of two IM Norm sections and gained 31 rating points, raising her USCF rating to 2408. Carissa also gained a WGM norm as well as her final WIM norm and is slated to receive the Women's International Master title from the World Chess Federation (FIDE) at one of its next sessions.

Oleg V. Poliannikov
MACA Web Coordinator

Voting Results - MASSACHUSETTS CHESS ASSOCIATION 2018 ELECTION

            President

            Vice President

Treasurer

            Clerk

            Director (8 positions)

One candidate, Paul Arond, withdrew his nomination for Director after ballots were sent out. Since he received enough votes to be elected, the Elections Commission has reported that position as vacant, subject to action by the Board.

Bylaws question: approving the Bylaws Amendment of January 15, 2018:

Amend section 7.1, paragraph 1.a. to change the last

sentence to read “Members of the Elections Commission

shall not be candidates for President.”

The Bylaws amendment was approved. 

Tiffany Wang
MACA Webmaster

Prize winners at the 87th Massachusetts Open, held May 26-28 in Marlborough.

Championship Section:

1st-3rd Mika Brattain, FM Nathan Solon, Michael Isakov 5-1
Top U2300 Farzad Abdi, Danila Poliannikov 4-2

Under 2100 Section:

1st Michael Carey (RI) 5-1
2nd-7th Ian Dudley (VT), Joseph Bihlmeyer (CT), Scott Didham 4.5-1.5
2nd-7th/Top U1950 Bernie Xu, Robert Campbell, Alonzo Ross 4.5-1.5

Under 1800 Section:

1st Vineeth Nareddy 5-1
2nd-4th Christopher Estremera 4.5-1.5
2nd-4th/Top U1950 Henry Forber-Pratt, Amy Lei 4.5-1.5

Under 1500 Section:

1st Ranjan Dey 5.5-0.5
2nd-3rd/Top U1350 Mariano Rivera, Kurt Amber Jr 5-1
Top U1200 James Clifford, Tyler Cummins, Hrishikesh Vedula 4-2

K-12 Under 1500 Section:

1st Siddharth Kurup, Fedor Beliaev, Sophia Tatar 3-1

K-12 Under 800 Section:

1st Nikolay Avdokhin 4-0
2nd-3rd Ajinkya Dhamdhere, Arnaud Kohler 3.5-0.5

Medals: Gordon Redwine, Rayhan Riaz, Arjun Singhania, Annabel Kohler 3-1

K-6 Under 1400 Section:

1st Maya Figelman 4-0
2nd-4th Arnesh Yeola, Joshua Lee, Oliver Romanovsky 3-1

K-6 Under 600 Section (corrected results):

1st-3rd Anna Katsman, Rayhan Riaz, Ajay Krishnan 3.5-0.5

Medals: Andreas Bai, Evan Chang, Stephen Gregory, Kadhir Valiatharasu 3-1

K-3 Under 1200 Section:

1st-2nd Paul Tompros (playoff winner), Oskar Zoffer 4-0
3rd-4th Wataru Takeuchi, Joshua Lee, 3-1

K-3 Under 400 Section:

1st Andrew X Liu (playoff winner), Sabrina Li 4-0
3rd-8th Linus Goulthorpe, Maya Sharma, Ansh Nandurbarkar, George Zhang, Eric Zhang, Robert Duguid 3-1

Massachusetts Blitz Championship:

1st Andrew Liu 8.5-1.5
2nd Vadim Martirosov 8-2
Top U2200 Anatoly Levin 7-3
Top U2000 Paul Godin 6-4
Top U1200 Zach Ward 3.5-6.5

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

The tournament was directed by Bob Messenger, Frank Vogel, Nicholas Sterling, Nathan Smolensky, Oleg Poliannikov, and Dmitry Barash.
 

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

Adv. Entry List for Mass Open: https://goo.gl/JHWe2Z 

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Tiffany Wang
MACA Webmaster

The Massachusetts team performed very well at the 2018 National Elementary Championship last weekend. Seven players participated in the tournament and earned four trophies. The trophy winners are:

• Ryan Wang K3 11th place
• Ruohan Yin K3 18th place
• Raymond Xu K5 12th place
• Aaron Lu K6 11th place

Other participants were Tianna Wang, Justin Li, Andrew Su. Congratulations all!

Oleg V. Poliannikov
MACA Promotions Committee Chair

Prize winners at the Hurvitz Cup, the Massachusetts scholastic team championship, held April 22nd in Marlborough.

Grades 9-12 Section

1st Buckingham, Browne & Nichols (Cambridge) (Karthik Padmanabhan, Samuel Gloss, Spencer Solit, Matthew Keating) 3.5-0.5
2nd-3rd Newton North High School (Alex Fauman, David McCabe, Gershon Gilman, Andrew Trias, Flynn Zhi),
    Brookline High School (Tianye Zhang, Saam Rasool, Xinjie (Jerry) Chen, Jake Boyd) 3-1
Top Booster Team (U1200/Unr) Commonwealth High School (Evan Meyer, Max Sunog, Jonah Boardman, Siddharth Simon),
    Malden Catholic High School (Yiqi Yan, Ryan Donnelly, Zhipeng Chen, Ryan Keleti),
    Malden Catholic JV A (Harrison Jumper, Andrew Scacchi, Thomas Veeramani, Anthony Laurenza),
    Boston Latin School Team 2 (Huy Nguyen, Jerry Han, Austin Wang, Eric Wang) 2-2

Medals: Henry Liu (Boston Latin School Team 1), Andrew The (Lexington High School), Kevin Qi (Boston Latin School Team 1).

Grades 6-8 Section

1st F. A. Day Middle School (Newton) (Benjamin Fauman, Duncan Naylor, Dominic Iafrate, Desmond FitzGerald-Lara) 4-0
2nd Luther Conant Elementary (Acton) (Prachi Dayal, Prakul Saxena, Curtis Ying, Rohil Saxena) 3-1
3rd RJ Grey (Mathnasium) (Acton) (Arul Mazumder, Anish Mudide, Nikhil Thimma, Yash Prabhu) 2.5-1.5
Top Booster Team (U300/Unr) Blanchard Middle School Team 1 (Sanjay Sivakumar, Hemanth Vadlamani, Benjamin Rosenthal, Vaibhav Singh) 2-2

Medal: Jack Tompros (The Learning Project "Foygel").

Grades K-5 Section

1st Fiske Elementary (Lexington) (Benjamin Yin, Lydia Shen, Emerson Walker, Eugene Wang) 4-0
2nd-3rd Luther Conant Elementary (Acton) (Kevin Li, Adithya Sharma, Eric Li, Aprameya Tirupati),
    Bishop Elementary (Arlington) (Y Owen Li, Y Luke Li, Miles Rosenberg, Yasha Vasilyev) 3-1
Top Booster Team (U300/Unr) (Dhruva Iyer, Avanish Gowrishankar, Sharva Ranade, Nithin Vijay),
    Conant Team 1 (Mathnasium) (Acton) (Prateek Kalusani, Imad Aboo, Wahid Liyakath, Roshan Thimma) 2-2

Medals: Charles Derkazarian (Carlisle), Lena Ishil (BB&N), Anish Sankar (Sprague), Emil Cosic (Carlisle), Mira Fein (Mason  Rice),
        Jesse Dahlberg (Carisle), Teodoro Rivera-Wills (Fessenden), Ethan Miner (BB&N), James Swarc (Nixon 1),
        Arjun Mandloi (Conant Team 2, Mathnasium), Prateek Kalusani (Conant Team 1, Mathnasium)

Grades K-3 Section

1st Cottage School (Sharon) (Siddharth Kurup, Avaneesh Mohan, Arjun Singhania, Raymond Vasile) 4-0
2nd The Learning Project "McCord" (Wellesley) (Paul Tompros, Sam Parsi, Olivia Minn, Milan Kapasi) 3-1
3rd Bridge Elementary (Lexington) (Marcus Liu, Neel Hosamani, Arnab Dasgupta, Krish Kapoor) 2.5-1.5
Top Booster Team (U300/Unr) Gates (Mathnasium) (Acton) (Atharv Byrava, Gregory Kozlov, Shreyan Mazumder, Mihir Vidhate, Arjun Senani),
        Nixon Team 3 (Sudbury) (Peter Zhou, Roger Zhou, Victor Enache, Alexander Solen, Tyler Lin) 2.5-1.5

Medals: Ayaan Nallicheri (BB&N), Kiran Weerapana (Sprague), Noah Cho (Sprague), Thomsas Zhang (Carlisle),
        Kolby Sahin (Tenacre Day School Team B)

Medals were awarded to players scoring three or more points who did not win a trophy, and to players on teams which
tied for Top Booster Team in each section.

Teams tied for a prize are listed in tiebreak order. Players on a team are listed in board order.

The tournament was directed by Bob Messenger, Nicholas Sterling, Nathan Smolensky, Dima Barash, and Steve Frymer.
 

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

Hurvitz Cup Adv. Entry List: https://goo.gl/XRSbo4 

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Tiffany Wang
MACA Webmaster

Prize winners at the 28th Massachusetts G/60 Championship, held April 15th in Marlborough, Mass.

Open Section

1st FM Nathan Solon 4-0
2nd Lawyer Times 3.5-0.5
Top Under 2400 FM Carissa Yip, Samuel He 3-1
Top Under 2200 Alan Song 3-1

Under 2000 Section

1st-2nd Neil Cousin, Edward Astrachan 3.5-0.5

Under 1800 Section

1st Shravani Patil 3.5-0.5
Equal 2nd Ralph McNeilage, Paul Baginski, David Martin, Adithya Sharma, Saanvi Tiruveedhula

Under 1600 Section

1st Eduardo Saldana 4-0
2nd Oliver Spohngellert 3.5-0.5

Under 1400 Section

1st Lisa DeBenedictis 3.5-0.5
Equal 2nd Henry Han, Kurt Amber 3-1

Under 1200 Section

1st Srijan Makkena 4-0
Equal 2nd Mariano Rivera 3.5-0.5
Equal 2nd / Top Under 1000 Jasper Xu 3.5-0.5

The tournament was directed by Bob Messenger, Nicholas Sterling, Oleg Poliannikov, Dmitry Barash, Nathan Smolensky, and Steve Frymer.
 

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

 FINAL Adv. Entries for 28th G/60 Championship (as of 04/14 12:47 PM): https://goo.gl/qf5V93

Tiffany Wang
MACA Webmaster

 Advanced Entries for 28th G/60 Championship (as of 04/12 4:56 PM) are posted here.

Tiffany Wang
MACA Webmaster

Yue Huang won 2018 Girls Championship with 3.5 points out of 4 and qualified for the National Girls Championship. Suhavi Tiruveedhula won the U1000 section with a perfect score of 4 out of 4. Congratulations both!

Oleg V. Poliannikov
MACA Promotions Committee Chair

 2018 MACA Election - Candidate Statements

Oleg V. Poliannikov
MACA Web Coordinator

Prize winners at the Barry S. Spiegel Cup, held March 18th in Marlborough, Mass.

High School Section

1st-2nd FM Carissa Yip (playoff winner), Michael Isakov 3.5-0.5
3rd-6th Brandon Wu, Zubin Baliga, Eric Feng, Karthik Padmanabhan 3-1
Top Under 2000 Gershon Gilman, Alan Sikarov 2-2
Top Under 1600 Yiqi Yan, Thomas Veeramani, Andrew The 2-2

Age 14 & Under Section

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

Age 11 & Under Section

1st Nang Dang 3.5-0.5
2nd Rafael Pashkov 3-1
3rd Kelsey Liu 2.5-1.5

Age 8 & Under Section

1st Ansh Yadawad 3.5-0.5
2nd Ruohan Yin 3-1
3rd-5th Isabella Lai, Eric Chang, Y Luke Ji 2.5-1.5

Tied players are listed in tiebreak order except as noted.

The tournament was directed by Bob Messenger, Dima Barash, Oleg Poliannikov, and Steve Frymer.
 

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

Adv. Entry for Spiegel Cup High School Section: https://goo.gl/NyXuK5

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Tiffany Wang
MACA Webmaster

MACA has announced the list of players invited to participate in the Spiegel Cup State Championship on March 18, 2018 in Marlborough, MA. Invitations are sent by email, and participation requires a written confirmation. If an invitee declines to participate in the Championship, alternates will be contacted until 10 players in each section are confirmed. 

The High School section of the Spiegel Cup State championship is open. All Massachusetts high school residents and students are allowed to participate. A normal registration by mail, online, or at the door is required. 

Oleg V. Poliannikov
MACA Promotions Committee Chair

Prize winners at the 4th Spiegel Cup Qualifier, held March 4th in Marlborough, Massachusetts.

Age 14 & Under Section

1st Kerry Huang 3.5-0.5
2nd-4th Kevin Liu, Jack Tompros, Skyler Zhou 3-1

Age 11 & Under Section

1st Eric Feng 4-0
2nd-6th Alexander Meng, Adithya Sharma, Brandon Ni, Justin Li, David Katsman 3-1

Age 8 & Under Section

1st Luke Ji 4-0
2nd-5th Kurt Amber, Siddharth Kurup, Jeffrey Yin, Adriano Perola 3-1

Booster Under 1200 Section

1st Mark Chumack 3.5-0.5
2nd-3rd Franklin Lewis, Alexander Tran

Booster Under 800 Section

1st Sam Parsi 4-0
2nd Felix Hentschel 3.5-0.5
3rd-7th Hari Palaniyappan, Arnav Harve, Aditya Phadnis, Vinamra Jain, Rithika Kilari 3-1

Booster Under 400 Section

1st-2nd Rayhan Riaz (playoff winner), Robert Duguid 4-0
3rd-6th Yan Barash, Ronin Banerjee, Kaiya Smits, Vihaan Jain 3-1

Tied players are listed in tiebreak order except as noted.

The tournament was directed by Bob Messenger, Nicholas Sterling, Dima Barash, Oleg Poliannikov, and Steve Frymer.
 

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

Adv. Entry for Q4: https://goo.gl/wx8e6M 

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Tiffany Wang
MACA Webmaster

Massachusetts Girls Championship will take place on April 1, 2018 in Boylston Chess Club at 40 Norris Street, Cambridge, MA 02140. The winner of the Open section will get a chance to represent Massachusetts at the very prestigious 2018 National Girls Tournament of Champions. Participants in the U1000 section will compete for trophies and medals. Online registration is available now at Boylston Chess Foundation. Please direct all inquiries to MACA Scholastic Committee Chair Dmitry Barash at (617) 256-5536 (during regular business hours).

Oleg V. Poliannikov
MACA Promotions Committee Chair

 The lists of Spiegel Cup Finals participants consist of winners of Qualifiers, winners of Spiegel Cup Series, and 5 top seeded players in each respective category.  Top-rated players who will play in the Finals have been determined. The only remaining spot in the Finals will be given to the winner of the 4th Qualifier. If you would like to fight for a chance to play for the title of State Champion and a place in the U.S. Championship, register right now!

Oleg V. Poliannikov
MACA Promotions Committee Chair

Prize Winners at the Blitz and Bughouse Festival, held February 11th in Marlborough, Mass.

Blitz:

1st Caden O'Brien 4-0
2nd-3rd Edmund Pritchard, Tristan Pritchard 2-2
Top U1600 Agathyan Sivaharan 1-3
Top U1200 Aneesh Guda 1-3

Bughouse:

1st Roberto Jay / Andres Jay 3-2
2nd Rishi Ponnapalli / Aneesh Guda 2-3

Tied players are listed in tiebreak order.

The tournament was directed by Bob Messenger and Dmitry Barash.
 

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

Prize winners at the Winter Team Challenge, held January 28 in Marlborough, Mass.

K-12 Section:

1st Newton North High School (Alex Fauman, David McCabe, Gershon Gilman, Andrew Trias, Flynn Zhi) 4-0
2nd-3rd Cleveland Indians (Vineeth Nareddy, Adithya Sharma, Krishna Mutnuri, Venkatraman Varatharajan),
    ChessMinds (Sai Sneha Yerra, Saanvi Tiruveedhula, Sophia Rosenholtz, Prachi Dayal) 2.5-1.5

Medals: Zubin Baliga (Lexington H.S.) 3.5-0.5
    Alan Sikarov (Newton South H.S.) 3-1

K-6 Section:

1st-2nd Andover Chess Club A (Bryan Henroid, Anika Nagle, Ryan Greenwood, Anoushka Nagle),
    Bowen Bishops (Jared Mi, Alexander Tran, Eyal Zeldich, Aritra Ghosh) 3.5-0.5
3rd-4th Andover Chess Club C (Irith Midha, Pranavi Vedula, Ryana Riaz, Adrian Christopher),
    Andover Chess Club B (Chirag Katragadda, Mitran Kumar, Siddhant Kulnarni, Zaid Kanzi-Belghiti) 2-2

K-3 Section:

1st Andover Chess Club C (Tristan Pritchard, Edmund Pritchard, Rayhan Riaz, Alexander Arcidiacono) 3.5-0.5
2nd Russian Knights (Nikolay Avdokhin, Daniel Tatar, Mark Piryatinsky, Maksim Orlovskii, Yan Barash, Daniel Ramakrishnan) 3-1
3rd-4th Newton Knights (Zachary Beaver, Eric Zhang, Tobias Harrison, Jomas Novina),
    Lawrence Bad Bishops (Maya Figelman, David Figelman, Jonathan Kellis, Harrison Platt) 2.5-1.5

Medals: Ayush Patel (ChessMasters), Suhavi Tiruveedhula (ChessMasters), Ethan Qiao (Chess Master Connections), Hrishikesh Vedula (Andover Chess Club A) 3-1

Teams are listed in tiebreak order.

The tournament was directed by Bob Messenger, Nicholas Sterling, Jeff Caruso, Dima Barash, and Steve Frymer.
 

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

Adv. Entries for 2018 Winter Team Challenge: https://goo.gl/KE2PVk 

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Tiffany Wang
MACA Webmaster

 Election Registration

Oleg V. Poliannikov
MACA Web Coordinator

 Massachusetts Chess Association Call for Nominations

Oleg V. Poliannikov
MACA Web Coordinator

Prize winners at the Gus Gosselin Grade Championship, held January 14 in Marlborough, Mass.

Grades 8-12

1st Tony Wang 4-0
2nd Kevin Hass 2.5-1.5
3rd Vinneth Nareddy (8th grade) 1.5-2.5
Top 8th grade Henry Booth: 1-3

Grade 7

1st Fedor Beliav 3-1
2nd-5th Arnav Harve, Vinamra Jain, Joanne Zhou, Oscar Gillette 2-2

Grade 6

1st Jack Tompros 3.5-0.5
2nd-3rd Eli Traub, Vishnu Mandepudi 3-1

Grade 5

1st Isaac Gordon 3.5-0.5
2nd-3rd Sritan Devineni 3-1

Grade 4

1st Y Owen Ji 4-0
2nd Sophia Tatar 3-1
3rd-6th Raeann Zhou, Declan Walsh, Jeremy Reddy, Tejas Kulkarni 2-2

Grade 3

1st Tyler Cummins 4-0
2nd-4th Jonathan Traub, Isabella Lai, Sam Parsi 3-1

Grade 2

1st Jacob Wu 4-0
2nd Jeffrey Yin 3.5-0.5
3rd Killian Cunjak 3-1

Grades K-1

1st Aidan Tan 4-0
2nd-3rd Sujay Kunamneni, Y Luke Ji (kindergarten) 3-1
Top Kindergarten Jonathan Kellis 2-2

Tied players are listed in tiebreak order.

The tournament was directed by Bob Messenger, Chris and Cameron Bird, Nicholas Sterling, and Steve Frymer.
 

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

Advance Entries for 2018 GGG Championship as of 01/13/18 02:097 PM: https://goo.gl/2rRuca. 

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