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12/15/2024Prize winners at the Harry Nelson Pillsbury Memorial

Prizewinners at the Harry Nelson Pillsbury Memorial, held December 15th in Westford, Mass.

 
Major Section
 
1st/2nd/Other GM Jianchao Zhou, FM Danila Poliannikov 3.5-0.5
1st/2nd/Top Under 2300 Shawn Xu 3.5-0.5
 
Under 2200 Section
 
1st Robert Cousins 4-0
2nd Franklin Lewis 3.5-0.5
 
Under 2000 Section
 
1st Kabhilan S 3.5-0.5
2nd Maitreya Ganguly 3-1
 
Under 1800 Section
 
1st-2nd William Beagle, Alexander Skulte 3.5-0.5
 
Under 1500 Section
 
1st Riadh Alzuhairi 4-0
2nd-3rd Paul Swartz, Luke Martin 3-1
 
Under 1200 Section
 
1st-2nd Alexander Rapoport, Silas Onkelinx 4-0
 
Under 1000 Section
 
1st-2nd Matt Ubl, Lucas Sun 4-0
 
The tournament was directed by Bob Messenger, Colin Scheriff, Dima Barash, and Nicholas Sterling.
 

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

11/17/2024Prize winners at the Fall Scholastic Individual-Team Chess Championship

Prize winners at the Fall Scholastic Individual-Team Chess Championship, held November 17th in Marlborough, Mass.

 

Individual prizes:

 

Open Section

 

1st Aditya Narayan 4-0

2nd Gabriel Jacobs 3-1

3rd Zhuoyuan Du 2.5-1.5

 

Under 1200 Section

 

1st-2nd Oliver Kutsman, Dimitri Sarantis 3-1

3rd-4th Ray Geng, Tajes Khanna 2.5-1.5

 

Under 900 Section

 

1st Alexander Chung 4-0

2nd Boris Perlis 3.5-0.5

3rd-8th David Vidrevich, Jasper Weaver, Jacob Mishuris, Yan Zhu, Krishna Santosh Kumar, Azim Faisal 3-1

 

Under 600 Section

 

1st-2nd Alexander Ciccarone (playoff winner by default), Oliver Eng 4-0

3rd Aanya Tichkulw 3.5-0.5

Medals: Pranav Palliyalli, Jason Liu, Varun Ashok, Sebastien Porte, Vihaan Panse, Liam Beard, Andrew Coon,

        Harsha Gounder, Hovhannes Sargent 3-1

 

Under 300 Section

 

1st-2nd Neil McComber (playoff winner), Antonio Pontoriero 4-0

3rd-11th Joowan Shin, Leo Regnier, Jerry Ling, Artem Ruchytsia, Mark Gutner, Oscar Bernstein,

        Jackson Conelias, Julian Carbone, Oliver Gertzenstein 3-1

 

Team prizes:

 

1st Under 1600: BananaMan (Alexander Ciccarone, Leo Regnier, Artem Ruchystia, Mark Gutner, Oscar Bernstein,

        Kyryll Pishuk) 13.0

1st Under 1200: CEK Knights and Bishops (Jason Liu, Jackson Conelias, Pierce Dunn, Takis Guarin) 10.5

1st Under 800: Future Masters 1 (Jacob Mishuris, Krishna Santhosh Kumar, Jill Yang, Gautham Kirubakaran,

        Gaochunxi Li) 10.0

1st Under 400: CEK Lexington Kings and Queens (Joowan Shin, Jasper Weaver, Serena Lu, Noah Narang) 9.5

 

2nd Under 1600: Crazy Bishops (Oliver Eng, Gabriel Jacobs, Oliver Kutsman, Gregory Agranovich,

        Isaac Marks, Dylan Arndt, Yan Barash) 12.0

2nd Under 1200: Fessenden (Sebastien Porte, Yan Zhu, George Sun, Brady Xu Anzivino) 9.5

2nd Under 800: Commodore 64s (Alexander Chung, High Miller, Daniel Dobromyslin, Jeffery Gu) 9.5

2nd Under 400: Lumen Academy (Neil McComber, Sanav Chakbraborty, Morrice Nathanson Steie, Joseph Dunn) 9.5

 

Tied players and teams are listed in tiebreak order.

 

The tournament was directed by Colin Scheriff, Bob Messenger, Dima Barash, and Ken Belt.

 

Bob Messenger
MACA Board Member

11/3/2024Prize winners at the Second Spiegel Cup Qualifier

Prize winners at the 2nd Spiegel Cup Qualifier, held November 3rd in Westford, Mass.

 
Grades 6-8 Qualifier Section
 
1st Harry Li 4-0
2nd-4th Christine Nguyen, Maitreya Ganguly, Venkat Devata 2.5-1.5
 
Grades K-5 Qualifier Section
 
1st William Heting Wang 4-0
2nd Charles Huang 3-1
3rd-6th Ella Zhang, Orhan Hurt, Aaron Wang, Brooks Jiang 2.5-1.5
 
Grades K-3 Qualifier Section
 
1st Noah Wang 4-0
2nd Skye Yuan 3.5-0.5
3rd Shlok Grande
 
Reserve Under 1200 Section
 
1st Armando Toledano Laredo 4-0
2nd-5th Prayag Karthik, Dylan Dimmick, Ziming Thomas Fan, David Vidrevich 3-1
 
Reserve Under 800 Section
 
1st Ansh Yadav 4-0
2nd Hovhannes Sargent 3.5-0.5
3rd-7th Henry Albeck, Alexander Ciccarone, Jacob Mishuris, Lucas Sun, Aaron Yang Wang 3-1
 
Reserve Under 400 Section
 
1st-2nd Oliver Schain, Xander Sherman 4-0
3rd-8th Michael Shulkin, Nolan Wang, Yazhini Sriman, Randi Wu, Petar Pajovic, Atticus Williams 3-1
 
Tied players are listed in tiebreak order.
 
The tournament was directed by Colin Scheriff, Bob Messenger, Dima Barash, and Nick Sterling.
 

Bob Messenger
MACA Board Member

10/13/2024Prize winners at the 89th Greater Boston Open

Prizewinners at the 89th Greater Boston Open, held October 13th in Westford, Mass.

 
Premier Section
 
1st Caius Kempe 3.5-0.5
2nd/Top Under 2300 WIM Kateryna Odnorozhenko, Charlie Creswell 3-1
 
Under 2200 Section
 
1st-3rd Arthur Zhou, Ben Palmer, Felix Wu 3.5-0.5
 
Under 2000 Section
 
1st Jianda Liu 4-0
2nd Federico Santoni 3.5-0.5
 
Under 1800 Section
 
1st Maitreya Ganguly 4-0
2nd-3rd Kenson Zhu, Soumili Dey 3-1
 
Under 1600 Section
 
1st Zihan Zhang 4-0
2nd James Shryoc 3.5-0.5
 
Under 1400 Section
 
1st-2nd Anish Biswas, Xinyu Lin 3.5-0.5
 
Under 1200 Section
 
1st Robert Leahy 4-0
2nd-5th Aditya Narayan, James Clark, Raymond Deckel, Shalin Gupta 3-1
 
Under 1000 Section
 
1st-2nd Ziming Thomas Fan, Ray Balogh 4-0
3rd Prayag Karthik 3.5-0.5
 
The tournament was directed by Bob Messenger, Colin Scheriff, Dima Barash, and Nick Sterling.
 

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

10/12/2024Advance entries for the 89th Greater Boston Open, updated 10/12/24

SwissSys Report: 89th Greater Boston Open

SwissSys Wall Chart. 89th Greater Boston Open: Premier Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Rajesh Shanmugasundaram RI        
  2343 16434545          
2 Eric Z Feng MA        
  2273 15742464          
3 FM Christopher Chase MA        
  2267 10010985          
4 Alejandro F Botta MA        
  2178 12740272          
5 Yury A Barnakov MA        
  2171 12964843          
6 William Wu MA        
  2153 30020380          
7 Victor Feng MA        
  2149 15560438          
8 WIM Kateryna Odnorozhenko MA        
  2134 30200342          
9 Ryan Wang MA        
  2119 15486461          
10 Charlie Creswell ME        
  2097 30359466          
11 Dattasai Kilari MA        
  2089 16429310          
12 Shawn Xu MA        
  2080 30264362          
13 Hrishikesh Vedula NH        
  2075 16099404          
14 David Katsman MA        
  2064 14958088          
15 Corin Gartenlaub NY        
  2053 16899496          
16 Kabhilan S MA        
  2047 32023910          
17 Holden Chalfant MA        
  2032 15214147          
18 Bohan Wang MA        
  2025 16880573          
19 Oskar Zoffer MA        
  2020 16471866          

SwissSys Wall Chart. 89th Greater Boston Open: Under 2200 Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Sergey Vertkin MA        
  2148 12780533          
2 Arthur P Nugent MA       bye
  2000 10011191          
3 Hanon Russell NH        
  2000 10036917          
4 Gabriel Eaton ME        
  1974 30139699          
5 Arthur Zhou MA        
  1970 30350651          
6 Daniel Tiedemann MA        
  1942 13995241          
7 Jerry Chen MA        
  1927 30214553          
8 Simon Payne MA        
  1910 30429367          
9 Felix Wu MA        
  1902 30258050          
10 Sergey Malinin MA        
  1883 30302734          
11 Nial Renshaw RI        
  1856 16112667          
12 Maxwell H Bennett MA        
  1850 14159528          
13 Bradley M Leavitt ME        
  1849 14490692          
14 Chris Spencer NH        
  1833 15957573          
15 Samanyu Alluri MA        
  1831 30185788          
16 Peter J Latona NH        
  1819 16184916          
17 Paul A Mishkin MA        
  1800 12432059          
18 Steven Ziang Feng MA        
  1789 16388220          
19 Chris Cui MA        
  1776 30048697          
20 Evan Shi MA        
  1728 16966603          
21 Frank Wang MA        
  1727 30971728          
22 Christine Nguyen MA        
  1697 16634247          
23 Vivaan Tanna MA        
  1670 30179518          
24 Gabriel Anthony Raffa MA        
  1647 17014432          
25 Marcus Farzaneh-Far MA        
  1540 31665965          
26 Daksh Nayak MA        
  1274 31088699          

SwissSys Wall Chart. 89th Greater Boston Open: Under 2000 Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Sebastian Gueler MA        
  1997 12808565          
2 Federico Santoni MA        
  1965 32008093          
3 Nikita Panasenko MA        
  1952 12715741          
4 Frederick Pearson MA        
  1921 12223060          
5 Samuel F Brandzen MA        
  1920 15187544          
6 Oliver Boydell NY        
  1910 15727933          
7 Erin Dame NH       bye
  1891 12533685          
8 Alp Eren Celebi MA        
  1856 31512694          
9 Stephen Gradijan MA        
  1800 12454998          
10 Daniel Clark MA        
  1793 12527442          
11 Tobias Whitman Barry MA        
  1779 30668225          
12 Calvin Hori MA        
  1766 12864842          
13 Jianda Liu MA        
  1766 17182781          
14 Harry Li MA        
  1757 16988211          
15 Evan Fan NH        
  1726 17059985          
16 Zhan Eric Jin NH        
  1717 32064926          
17 Ella Xinyue Zhang MA        
  1715 30305617          
18 Mariano Rivera MA        
  1703 12933153          
19 George Wilfred Duval MA        
  1649 12471987          
20 Bowen Yu MA        
  1629 30477200          
21 Emma Linyue Zhang MA        
  1619 30305579          
22 Duy Tuong Nguyen MA        
  1609 30581110          
23 Charles Huang MA        
  1575 30427161          
24 Devansh Vellanki MA        
  1515 30349631          
25 Dylan Robert Arndt MA        
  1514 30026942          

SwissSys Wall Chart. 89th Greater Boston Open: Under 1800 Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Ralph McNeilage MA        
  1784 16062155          
2 Clayton H White MA        
  1770 15328778          
3 Kishore Sivarajan MA        
  1687 16395776          
4 Maitreya Ganguly MA        
  1680 30716324          
5 William Heting Wang MA        
  1639 32019009          
6 Carl Fossa MA        
  1576 12519349          
7 Sriman Devineni MA bye      
  1527 16732714          
8 Kenson Zhu NY        
  1473 30136158          
9 Amy Nguyen MA        
  1461 16151483          
10 Kenisro Princeton Viyani MA        
  1430 30304394          
11 Soumili Dey MA        
  1429 30237854          
12 Deva Wheeler NH        
  1427 15510498          
13 Brooks Jiang MA        
  1320 30733511          

SwissSys Wall Chart. 89th Greater Boston Open: Under 1600 Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 James J Collins MA        
  1569 12715066          
2 James Gavin Shryoc FL        
  1568 31284405          
3 Zihan Zhang MA        
  1567 30700239          
4 Rodrigo Espirito Santo MA        
  1548 30277931          
5 Kurt N Milligan MA        
  1543 12728061          
6 Kevin Zimmerman CT        
  1500 12799878          
7 Killian Cunjak MA        
  1497 31349918          
8 Advaith Vijayasankaran CA        
  1461 16733180          
9 Shiva P Pabbathi MA        
  1450 30504014          
10 Yan Barash MA        
  1447 16433515          
11 Richard Gassler MA        
  1438 12517433          
12 Lars Nicewicz MA        
  1433 31651988          
13 Andrew Hamilton ME        
  1430 17226247          
14 Jason N Xu VA        
  1417 30662725          
15 Warner Smith MA        
  1400 12480740          
16 Tony Abate MA        
  1395 12720985          
17 Paul K Swartz MA        
  1387 12679328          
18 Yize Edward Zhao MA        
  1361 30650036          
19 David Jette MA        
  1353 30226135          
20 Alexander Skulte MA        
  1256 15503548          
21 Orhan Niyazi Kurt MA        
  1226 30485249          
22 Aaron Wang MA        
  1011 31011711          
23 Ryan Wang NY        
  unr. 30920811          
24 Charlie Guischard NH        
  unr. 32060389          

SwissSys Wall Chart. 89th Greater Boston Open: Under 1400 Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Eugene Chan MA        
  1399 12487660          
2 Alvin Ni MA        
  1355 31935489          
3 Swayam Prakash Saho MA        
  1311 17313260          
4 Clyde Franklin Snow MA        
  1300 12460814          
5 Anish Biswas MA        
  1294 16901461          
6 John A Ragucci MA        
  1255 10016894          
7 Dimitri Sarantis NH        
  1247 30524148          
8 Kenneth Gatto NH        
  1244 12473232          
9 Brian James McGuirk NH        
  1208 31760036          
10 Moksha Varma Hasti MA        
  1092 17146415          
11 Samuel B Altman NC        
  1070 15179413          
12 Victoria [Zihan] Liu NH        
  1020 30474573          
13 Xinyu Lin MA        
  unr. 32012230          

SwissSys Wall Chart. 89th Greater Boston Open: Under 1200 Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Tanish Biswas MA        
  1130 16901476          
2 Cel Kulasekaran MA        
  1128 31997560          
3 Michael Wilkinson NH        
  1105 30355885          
4 Spencer Parente MA        
  1100 30694532          
5 Aditya Narayan MA        
  1088 30569683          
6 James Clark MA        
  1029 30862557          
7 Daniel F O'Connor MA        
  1010 17290327          
8 Raymond Deckel RI        
  995 31464687          
9 Dimitri A Smalley ME        
  990 31119430          
10 Daniel Zheng MA        
  936 31701440          
11 Chris Senhouse MA        
  902 30509133          
12 Tajes Khanna NH        
  866 30467551          
13 James F Daoust MA        
  781 31924735          
14 Nolan W Fletcher NH        
  778 31385957          
15 Maksym Gerbut NY        
  395 31685131          
16 Gregory Rachman MA        
  unr. 30275607          
17 David Meng NH        
  unr. 32071293          
18 Robert Leahy MA        
  unr. 32041340          

SwissSys Wall Chart. 89th Greater Boston Open: Under 1000 Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Henry Daniel Albeck MA        
  989 32025063          
2 Prayag Karthik MA        
  979 17102677          
3 Brendan J Burdick MA        
  930 31975317          
4 Luke Ratliff ME        
  900 30976957          
5 Christopher Hoffer MA        
  872 12620876          
6 Thiago Nantes Butera NH        
  865 31873463          
7 Jasper Guo MA        
  862 30689208          
8 Anton Poliannikov MA        
  828 30308225          
9 Adhirit Prabhugee MA        
  822 16228992          
10 Sanav Chakraborty MA        
  813 30818027          
11 Theodore Wu MA        
  787 30753562          
12 Brennan Hinrichsen MA        
  774 31520014          
13 Tamerlan Vagapov MA        
  749 31812207          
14 Johnathon Yu MA        
  747 31877153          
15 Ziming Thomas Fan MA        
  677 31566231          
16 Guanyu Qiao MA        
  669 31814115          
17 Ethan Liu MA        
  663 31539977          
18 Anand Mamdani MA        
  663 31830033          
19 Nana Chan MA        
  639 31453983          
20 Nicholas J Leras MA        
  636 30903218          
21 Weiyi Athens Zhou MA        
  606 30574531          
22 David L Briggs MA        
  599 31263474          
23 Kaitlyn Townsend RI        
  521 30099536          
24 Gaochunxi Li MA        
  494 31369771          
25 Paul A LeBlanc MA        
  481 30989255          
26 Jason Liu MA        
  479 31812175          
27 Sebastien G Porte MA        
  422 31807473          
28 Walter P Michaels MA        
  269 30670037          
29 Srinidhi Balamuruga MA        
  134 32028496          
30 Peter J Parente MA        
  104 30770687          
31 Nigel Kulasekaran MA        
  101 32020304          
32 Ray Balogh MA        
  unr. 31988038          
33 Michael Balogh MA        
  unr. 32078839          
34 Stephen Boggess MA        
  unr. 32053399          
35 Mark Goltsberg MA        
  unr. 32049702          

 

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

09/22/2024Prize winners at the First Spiegel Cup Qualifier

 Prize winners at the First Spiegel Cup Qualifier, held September 22nd in Medfield, Mass.

 
Grades 6-8 Section
 
1st Emma Zhang 4-0
2nd-6th Venkat Devata, Steven Feng, Nico Mehta, Soumili Dey 3-1
 
Grades K-5 Section
 
1st Duy Nguyen 3.5-0.5
2nd-4th Charles Huang, Asher Wainger, Ella Zhang 3-1
 
Grades K-3 Section
 
1st Brooks Jiang 4-0
2nd Aiden Shang 3-1
3rd-4th Skye Yuan, Minwoo Nam 1.5-2.5
 
Reserve Under 1200 Section
 
1st-2nd Yashmit Rastogi, Oliver Kutsman 3.5-0.5
3rd-6th James Daoust, Dimitri Smalley, Rohit Rani, Noah Wang 3-1
 
Reserve Under 800 Section
 
1st Nolan Pang 4-0
2nd Saksha Chaudhury 3.5-0.5
3rd-8th Boris Perlin, Abhay Kapoor, Alexa Agranovitch, Ziming Fan, Vihaan Patel, Esther Arolovitch 3-1
 
Reserve Under 400 Section
 
1st Henry Albeck 4-0
2nd-6th Vaibhavishree Karthikeyan, Justin Meganck, Mia Wang, Kyryll Pishuk, Avyan Nigam 3-1
 
Tied players are listed in tiebreak order.
 
The tournament was directed by Colin Scheriff, Bob Messenger, Dima Barash, John Mullen, and Nicholas Sterling.
 

Bob Messenger
MACA Board Member

09/2/2024Prize winners at the 83rd New England Open

Prize winners at the 83rd New England Open, held August 31st to September 2nd in Westford, Mass.

 

Championship Section

 

1st FM Danila Poliannikov 6-0

2nd-3rd IM Denys Shmelov, WFM Roza Eynula 4.5-1.5

Top Under 2400 FM Christopher Chase 4-2

Top Under 2400/Top Under 2200 Anton Barash, Charlie Creswell, Michael Kang 4-2

 

Under 2000 Section

 

1st Sebastian Gueler 5-1

2nd-5th Luis Baez, Alexander Mendonez, Zach Ellinor, Andrew Liu 4.5-1.5

 

Under 1800 Section

 

1st Nicholas Rye 5.5-0.5

2nd-3rd Maitreya Ganguly, Charles Woodruff 5-1

 

Under 1500 Section

 

1st Austin Reheiser (FL) 6-0

2nd Leon Wan (MA) 5-1

3rd-6th Keyan Rahimi, Brooks Jiang, River Colegrove, Yize Edward Zhao 4-2

 

Under 1200 Section

 

1st Asher Wainger 6-0

2nd-3rd Alexander Rapoport, Moksha Hasti 5-1

Top Under 1000 Joshua Romero 4.5-1.5

 

Scholastic Under 400

 

1st Baldo Biagetti 4-0

2nd-3rd Prathamesh Gupta, Vincent Garcia 3.5-0.5

Medals: Atticus Williams, Kyryll Pishuk, Oneth Wickramasinghe 3-1

 

New England Blitz Championship

 

1st Felix Wu 8.5-1.5

2nd Lawyer Times 7.5-2.5

Top Under 1950 Ryan Zheng 7-3

Top Under 1600 Sriman Devineni 5.5-4.5

 

The tournament was directed by Bob Messenger, Dima Barash, Larry Gladding, Colin Scheriff, Mike Commisso, Oliver Romanovsky, and Nicholas Sterling.

 

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

08/30/2024Advance entries for the New England Open, updated 8/30/24

SwissSys Report: 83rd New England Open

SwissSys Wall Chart. 83rd New England Open: Championship Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6
1 GM Alexander Ivanov MA            
  2483 12513936              
2 IM Denys K Shmelov MA            
  2462 13433622              
3 FM Danila Poliannikov MA            
  2411 14969622              
4 FM Christopher Chase MA            
  2266 10010985              
5 Lawyer Times MA            
  2200 12167330              
6 Henry Terrie III NH         bye  
  2200 10025265              
7 CM Henry He MA            
  2190 15714654              
8 Anton Barash MA            
  2186 13679247              
9 Yury Anatolievich Barnakov MA       bye    
  2185 12964843              
10 WFM Roza Eynula MA            
  2176 12817693              
11 Victor Feng MA            
  2157 15560438              
12 Ryan Young MA            
  2120 13228778              
13 Dattasai Kilari MA            
  2118 16429310              
14 Alex Yu MA            
  2113 14581805              
15 Alexander Meng MA   bye     bye ----
  2099 15844061              
16 Wyatt Hendrix ME            
  2078 15400865              
17 David Katsman MA            
  2060 14958088              
18 Charlie Creswell ME bye          
  2053 30359466              
19 Pragyan Sriram MA            
  2042 16552308              
20 Bohan Wang MA            
  2042 16880573              
21 Franklin Phillip Lewis MA            
  2036 15922026              
22 Michael Kang NJ            
  2017 16189694              
23 Gabriel Eaton ME            
  2001 30139699              
24 Claude Fried NH            
  1996 15075585              
25 Oskar Zoffer MA            
  1982 16471866              
26 Nikolay Avdokhin MA            
  1980 16386416              
27 Rayhan Riaz MA            
  1976 16543002              
28 Aryan Siddharth Shroff MA            
  1947 30697005              
29 Jerry Chen MA            
  1945 30214553              
30 Frederick Pearson MA            
  1940 12223060              
31 Arthur Zhou MA            
  1925 30350651              
32 Simon Payne MA            
  1921 30429367              
33 Erin Dame NH            
  1921 12533685              
34 Jericho D Carlson MA            
  1915 16096060              
35 Jacob Wu MA            
  1909 16337966              
36 Trevor W Bierig MA            
  1897 14545906              
37 Yuze Luke Ji MA bye bye ----      
  1892 16237733              
38 Albert Dong RI            
  1883 30036635              
39 Felix Wu MA            
  1874 30258050              
40 James Christopher McCoy MA            
  1851 30245890              
41 Samanyu Alluri MA            
  1840 30185788              
42 Ryan Zheng CT            
  1826 30773001              
43 Christopher Potts CT            
  1821 12447193              
44 WCM Natasha Christiansen MA bye          
  1815 11366805              
45 Tommy Kozlek IV MA            
  1792 30347417              
46 Ranjan Dey MA            
  1778 15718966              

SwissSys Wall Chart. 83rd 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 Alexander Mendonez MA            
  1924 15953228              
2 Richard Sansing NH            
  1902 10402204              
3 Calvin Hori MA            
  1823 12864842              
4 Stephen Gradijan MA            
  1800 12454998              
5 Andrew X Liu MA            
  1757 16340541              
6 Nathan Klempf MA            
  1753 16715512              
7 Krishna Narayanan MA            
  1735 16842787              
8 Ella Xinyue Zhang MA            
  1728 30305617              
9 Maxim Klempf MA            
  1726 16715527              
10 Frank Wang MA            
  1717 30971728              
11 D G Bird MA            
  1711 14902922              
12 James W Todhunter MA            
  1700 12042190              
13 Robert Holmgren MA            
  1700 11291635              
14 Mark Kaprielian MA            
  1700 10007763              
15 Harry Li MA            
  1698 16988211              
16 Christine Nguyen MA            
  1691 16634247              
17 Sujay Kunamneni MA            
  1661 16433982              
18 Emma Linyue Zhang MA            
  1659 30305579              
19 Evan Shi MA            
  1652 16966603              
20 George Wilfred Duval MA            
  1652 12471987              
21 Vivaan Tanna MA            
  1651 30179518              
22 Marcus Farzaneh-Far MA            
  1526 31665965              
23 Devansh Vellanki MA            
  1492 30349631              
24 Rene Minalga-Rheault NH            
  1489 16957835              
25 Leah Taylor Brown MA            
  1233 30512104              

SwissSys Wall Chart. 83rd 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 Sebastian Gueler MA            
  1971 12808565              
2 Daniel Tiedemann MA            
  1936 13995241              
3 Zach Ellinor MA            
  1770 31419551              
4 Jianda Liu MA            
  1767 17182781              
5 Rohan Licht MA            
  1706 31185841              
6 Zhiyang Tan RI            
  1637 14467496              
7 Gabriel Anthony Raffa MA            
  1596 17014432              
8 Jerry Duan MA            
  1578 30178900              
9 Dylan Rober Arndt MA            
  1513 30026942              
10 Soumili Dey MA            
  1454 30237854              
11 Jonathan Roberge NH bye          
  888 31852426              

SwissSys Wall Chart. 83rd 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 Mariano Rivera MA            
  1760 12933153              
2 Grant Yosenick MA            
  1700 13044547              
3 Christopher Korka MA            
  1667 16658265              
4 Nicholas M Rye MA            
  1666 30230230              
5 Daniel Waranch MA            
  1642 12845670              
6 Charles Huang MA            
  1594 30427161              
7 Maitreya Ganguly MA            
  1583 30716324              
8 Ruthwik Varanasi MA            
  1561 30145457              
9 Christian Y Li MA            
  1494 16923000              
10 Amy Nguyen MA            
  1476 16151483              
11 Mushegh Arshakuni MA            
  1472 30922989              
12 Kaiya Bridget Smits MA            
  1393 16486827              
13 Ilya Michael Gitelm CT            
  1382 12656149              
14 Salvador Albanese MA            
  1343 31954889              
15 Charles Woodruff CT            
  1339 15847358              

SwissSys Wall Chart. 83rd New England Open: 2-Day Under 1800

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6
1 Duy Tuong Nguyen MA            
  1593 30581110              
2 Tyera L Zweygardt MA            
  1544 30286153              
3 Benjamin Ding MA            
  1536 30648320              
4 Kenisro Princeton Viyani MA            
  1529 30304394              
5 Kayla Zhang MA            
  1438 16771070              
6 Sriman Devineni MA            
  1430 16732714              
7 Ethan W Zhang MA            
  1421 17088714              
8 Leroy Chang CT            
  1319 30524188              
9 Narek Hambardzumyan NH            
  1103 17264734              

SwissSys Wall Chart. 83rd 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 Nazar Rosa MA            
  1456 13470786              
2 Warner Smith MA            
  1412 12480740              
3 Jerome O Allen NH            
  1412 12440197              
4 Austin J Reheiser FL            
  1344 30097328              
5 Karanbir Singh MA            
  1318 31286868              
6 Leon Wan MA            
  1309 31656141              
7 Yicong Li MA            
  1300 16916580              
8 Clyde Franklin Snow MA            
  1300 12460814              
9 John Patrick Mullen MA            
  1300 12503480              
10 David M Elkin RI            
  1200 12939327              
11 Jayden Zhou MA            
  1022 30461297              
12 Aiden Shang MA            
  1016 31346464              
13 Aaron Wang MA            
  896 31011711              

SwissSys Wall Chart. 83rd New England Open: 2-Day Under 1500

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6
1 Yan Barash MA            
  1443 16433515              
2 Keyan Rahimi MS            
  1351 16352633              
3 Tianyang Zhou MA            
  1340 31222599              
4 Brooks Jiang MA            
  1329 30733511              
5 River Colegrove MA            
  1305 31869358              
6 Yize Edward Zhao MA            
  1269 30650036              
7 Anton Stark Yean MA            
  1170 30275487              
8 Rylan Chang CT            
  1022 30524217              
9 June Hou              
  unr.              

SwissSys Wall Chart. 83rd 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 Athena Zuckerberg MA            
  1072 30554794              
2 Daniel Zheng MA            
  1002 31701440              
3 Asher Wainger MA            
  979 31520041              
4 Dimitri A Smalley ME            
  970 31119430              
5 Chris Senhouse MA            
  806 30509133              
6 Dylan Dimmick MA            
  794 30617237              
7 Anthony Yuchen Ji MA            
  730 17073376              
8 Joshua Romero MA     bye      
  725 30936615              
9 Aleksandr Aghajanyan MA            
  602 31338225              
10 Sayujya Alluri MA            
  552 31174773              
11 Aidan Chen MA            
  407 30717007              
12 Sophia Sun MA            
  346 31701457              

SwissSys Wall Chart. 83rd 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 Andrew Eric Chan MA            
  1187 31383921              
2 Vivan Jaiswal MA            
  1171 17281345              
3 Alexander Rapoport MA            
  1155 15946270              
4 James J Walsh MA            
  1088 13110212              
5 Max Li MA            
  1085 30536623              
6 Tomo Lazovich MA            
  1034 31912082              
7 James Clark MA            
  1027 30862557              
8 Brady Farmer MA            
  1000 31128510              
9 Dinh Tung Nguyen MA            
  972 31834676              
10 Sanav Chakraborty MA            
  889 30818027              
11 Eilam Kuo MA            
  877 16398651              
12 Penchal Bethanaboyina MA            
  830 30585274              
13 Brennan Hinrichsen MA            
  793 31520014              
14 Nina Yang RI            
  777 30059397              
15 Ivan Avdokhin MA            
  756 30462228              
16 Anton Poliannikov MA            
  755 30308225              
17 Dmitry Filippov MA            
  711 17099364              
18 Liam Cornelius Lynch MA            
  700 31886475              
19 Joshua Farmer MA            
  673 31512813              
20 Ethan Liu MA            
  582 31539977              
21 Aaron Yang Wang MA            
  579 31265234              
22 Shalev Wainger MA            
  520 31577779              
23 Weiyi Athens Zhou MA            
  479 30574531              
24 Adrian Okhravi MA            
  427 31625407              
25 Paul A LeBlanc MA            
  418 30989255              
26 Aanya Ritesh Tichkule MA            
  378 30911026              
27 Vincent Geremia Garcia MA            
  370 31385540              
28 Shaurya R Gunnala MA            
  unr. 31665119              
29 Brendan Burdick MA            
  unr. 31975317              

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

06/2/2024Prize winners at the Massachusetts Girls Championship

Prize winners at the Massachusetts Girls Championship, held June 1-2 at the Boylston Chess Club in Boston.

 
1st Kelsey Liu 5-0
2nd Emma Zhang 4-1
3rd Christine Nguyen 3-2
 
The tournament was directed by Bob Messenger.
 

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

06/2/2024Prize winners at the 7th Massachusetts Senior Open

Prize winners at the 7th Massachusetts Senior Open, held June 1-2 at the Boylston Chess Club in Boston.
 
1st GM Alexander Ivanov 3.5-0.5
2nd-5th Yury Barnakov, IM Jonathan Yedidia, Alejandro Botta, Timothy Sage 3-1
Top U2010 Michael Carey, Kenneth Ho 2.5-1.5
Top U1610 James Collins, Thomas Sifter 2-2
 
Tied players are listed in tiebreak order.
 
The tournament was directed by Bob Messenger.
 

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

05/31/2024Advance entries for the Massachusetts Senior Open, updated 5/31/24

SwissSys Wall Chart. 7th Massachusetts Senior Open: Open

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 GM Alexander Ivanov MA        
  2502 12513936          
2 IM Jonathan Yedidia MA        
  2365 10141591          
3 Alejandro F Botta MA        
  2203 12740272          
4 Yury A Barnakov MA        
  2194 12964843          
5 J Timothy Sage MA        
  2136 10146712          
6 Michael P Carey RI        
  2007 10120560          
7 Sergey Malinin MA        
  1932 30302734          
8 Scott Didham MA        
  1900 11480977          
9 Stephen Gradijan MA        
  1868 12454998          
10 Natasha Christiansen MA        
  1800 11366805          
11 James McConville MA        
  1769 12848589          
12 Kenneth Ho MA bye      
  1731 12436950          
13 Todd Tsakiris MA        
  1707 12523634          
14 Stephen Michal Shea MA bye      
  1600 12202620          
15 Thomas L Sifter MA        
  1500 12411472          
16 James J Collins MA        
  1486 12715066          
17 Marielle Murphy MA        
  1100 12876703          
18 Chris Senhouse MA        
  848 30509133          

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

05/27/2024Prize winners at the 92nd Massachusetts Open

Prize winners at the 92nd Massachusetts Open, held May 25-27, 2024, in Westford, Mass.

 

Championship Section

 

1st GM Alexander Ivanov 5-1

2nd-7th IM Denys Shmelov, FM Mauro Ampie, Mikayel Mkrtchyan 4.5-1.5

2nd-7th/Top U2300 WIM Iris Mou, FM Christopher Chase, Eric Feng 4.5-1.5

 

Under 2100 Section

 

1st-2nd Libardo Rueda, Simon Payne 5-1

Top U1900 Aryan Shroff, Jianda Liu 4.5-1.5

 

Under 1800 Section

 

1st Eli Stern 5.5-0.5

2nd-3rd Theodore Businger, Gerard Taylor 4.5-1.5

2md-3rd/Top U1600 Christopher Korka 4.5-1.5

 

Under 1500 Section

 

1st-5th Nathaniel Logan, Rodrigo Espirito Santo 4.5-1.5

1st-5th/Top U1300 Timothy Tourigny, Yan Barash, Yize Edward Zhao 4.5-1.5

 

Under 1200 Section

 

1st Leon Wan 5.5-0.5

2nd-3rd Ethan Palacios, Karanbir Singh 5-1

Top U1000 Aaron Wang, Athena Zuckerberg 4-2

 

Massachusetts Blitz Championship

 

1st Eric Feng 9-1

2nd-3rd Ansh Yadawad 7.5-2.5

2nd-3rd/Top U2000 Felix Wu 7.5-2.5

Top U1800 Samanyu Alluri 7-3

Top U1600 Tianjun Chen 5.5-4.5

 

Massachusetts Open Scholastic U400

 

1st-2nd Azizbek Anvarov, Alexander Agranovitch 4-0

3rd-7th Justin Meganck, Alvin Kwok, Adarsh Kumaran, Lucas Sun, Adrian Deych 3-1

 

Players in the Massachusetts Open Scholastic U400 are listed in tiebreak order.

 

The tournament was directed by Bob Messenger, Frank Vogel, Dima Barash, Nick Sterling, and Colin Scheriff.

 

Bob Messenger
Chief TD

05/25/2024MACA Election 2024

President 

Rob King 45   <=
Andrew Hoy 33
 
Vice President
 
Matt Phelps 54   <=
Steve Winer 22
 
Treasurer
 
Bob Messenger 73   <=
 
Clerk
 
Nick Sterling 74   <=
 
Director
 
Katerya Odnarozhenko 58   <=
Elsie Smits 58   <=
Frank DelBonis 58   <=
Dustin Hopkins 48   <=
Mike Urbonas 48   <=
Dima Barash 46   <=
David Katsman 39   <=
Igor Klempf 37   <=
Andrew Hoy 32
Steve Winer 25
Robert E King 18
 
Candidates marked "<=" were elected. The election commission was Alonzo Ross, Igor Klempf, and Bob Messenger.
 

Bob Messenger
MACA Board Member

05/24/2024Advance entries for the Massachusetts Open, updated 5/24/24

SwissSys Report: 92nd Massachusetts Open

SwissSys Wall Chart. 92nd Massachusetts Open: Championship Section

# Name/Rating/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6
1 GM Alexander Ivanov MA            
  2503 12513936              
2 IM Denys K Shmelov MA            
  2477 13433622              
3 Mikayel Mkrtchyan MA            
  2323 30698398              
4 WIM Iris Mou NY            
  2281 15794244              
5 FM Christopher Chase MA bye          
  2254 10010985              
6 Eric Z Feng MA            
  2243 15742464              
7 Roger Zhang NJ            
  2241 16237534              
8 Lawyer Times MA bye   bye      
  2200 12167330              
9 Henry Terrie III NH   bye   bye    
  2200 10025265              
10 Alan Shaw VT            
  2200 10030048              
11 Anton Barash MA            
  2193 13679247              
12 Robert King MA            
  2175 12681247              
13 J Timothy Sage MA            
  2144 10146712              
14 Xiaoman Chu NH            
  2129 14991055              
15 David Katsman MA            
  2114 14958088              
16 WIM Kelsey Liu MA            
  2107 15770981              
17 Joaquin A Carlson MA            
  2106 15794580              
18 Shawn Xu MA            
  2084 30264362              
19 Kevin Zhao MA            
  2067 30425013              
20 Justin Y Li MA            
  2058 15826242              
21 Michael Uwakwe CT            
  2051 15610873              
22 Ethan Kozower NY            
  2041 15903686              
23 Oskar Zoffer MA            
  2030 16471866              
24 Franklin P Lewis MA            
  2029 15922026              
25 Michael P Carey RI            
  2017 10120560