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06/5/2022: Prize 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

06/4/2022: Advance 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

05/30/2022: Prize 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

05/28/2022: Voting 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

05/27/2022: Advance 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

05/22/2022: Prize 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

05/13/2022: Massachusetts 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

04/10/2022: Prize 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

04/9/2022: Advance 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

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))

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)

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

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

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

SwissSys Wall Chart. 90th Massachusetts Open: Championship Section

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

# 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