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MACA 2009 Scholastic State Championships  
2009 State Singles Qualifiers and the Championship :

For question regarding the qualifiers and State Championship, please contact MACA Board Member Steve Frymer.
  • Qualifiers:

     1st Qualifier: Sept 28, 2008: Fall Foliage Chess Fest - The Sage School, Foxboro

      Invitees
      Primary Open (Age 8 & Under): Henry Li (1102) of Acton
      Elementary Open (Age 11 & Under): Bary Lisak (1422) of Wayland
      Junior High Open (Age 14 & Under): Jacob Fauman (1783) of Newtonville
      High School Open: Richard Lunetta II (1810) of Burlington

      Results  Photos


     2nd Qualifier: November 09, 2008: State Scholastic Championship/Spiegel Cup Qualifier #2 - BB&N School, Cambridge

      Invitees
      Primary Open (Age 8 & Under): Alex Fauman (815) of Newtonville
      Elementary Open (Age 11 & Under): Charlie Fauman (1556) of Newtonville
      Junior High Open (Age 14 & Under): Darwin Ding (1692) of Lexington
      High School Open: Genesis Lung (1752) of Lexington

      Results

     3rd Qualifier: December 06, 2008: State Scholastic Championship/Spiegel Cup Qualifier #3 - Holyoke Community College, Holyoke
     4th Qualifier: TBD

  • Spiegel Cup/Massachusetts State Championship: February 08, 2009, site TBD

      Invitation List

      Note: 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 six players in each section on the basis of the official February 2009 USCF Rating Supplement.

      Primary (Age 8 & Under) Section:

      1. Sandeep Vadlamudi (998) of Sharon
      2. Laurie Chen (889) of Concord
      3. Fynn Wennemyr (831) of Amherst
      4. Anton Barash (801) of Brighton
      5. Tal Puhov (772) of Shrewsbury
      6. Leonardo Cheng (728) of Westford
      7. Sathwik Karnik (728/24) of Plainville
      8. Jack Goldsmith (723) of Newton
      9. Henry Friedlander (705) of Chestnut Hill
      10. Alan Sikarov (691) of Newton

      11. Isabella Shih (669) of Andover
      12. Justin Wu (633) of Littleton
      13. Sandeep Shankar (613) of Sudbury
      14. Christopher Wang (549) of Lexington
      15. Milan Rosen (546) of Cambridge

      Elementary (Age 11 & Under) Section:

      1. Mika Brattain (1843) of Lexington
      2. Michelle Chen (1811) of Concord
      3. Danny Angermeier (1761) of Franklin
      4. Fangru Jiang (1725) of Chelmsford
      5. Jeffrey Yao (1682) of Lexington
      6. Nicholas Zhang (1646) of Lexington
      7. Grant Xu (1547) of Shrewsbury
      8. Luke Lung (1542) of Boxborough
      9. Clara Wang (1465) of Sharon
      10. Andrew Liu (1464) of Westborough


      11. Siddharth Arun (1427) of Medfield
      12. Matthew Lee (1379) of Walpole
      13. Nicholas Plotkin (1350) of Sharon
      14. Mateos Sahakian (1325) of Medford
      15. Max Wiegand (1289) of Cambridge
      16. David Todd (1261) of Boxford
      17. Varun Palnati (1257) of Westford
      18. Eric Chen (1236) of West Newton

      Age 14 & Under Section:

      1. Andrew Wang (2031) of Sharon
      2. Zaroug Jaleel (1963) of Lexington
      3. Winston Huang (1949) of Auburndale
      4. James Lung (1921) of Lexington
      5. Embert Lin (1859) of Acton
      6. Vikas Shiva (1844) of Lexington
      7. Alexander Hu (1823) of Wellesley
      8. Ashvin Nair (1743) of Malden
      9. Jimmy Wang (1657) of Acton
      10. Stasik Popov (1636) of Wayland

      11. Winber Xu (1620) of Newton
      12. Mustafa Buxamusa (1620) of Westford
      13. Timothy Lung (1613) of Lexington
      14. Nicholas Trieu (1577) of Watertown
      15. Tian Rossi (1554) of West Newton
      16. Alex Lee (1540) of Walpole

      High School Section:

      1. Lior Rozhansky (2017) of Newton
      2. Jake Garbarino (1975) of Somerville
      3. Felix Yang (1933) of Dover
      4. Reilly Nathans (1870) of Newton Centre
      5. Benjamin Smith (1838) of Melrose
      6. Jesse Nicholas (1832) of Newton
      7. David Yasinovsky (1803) of Newton
      8. Adam Yedidia (1796) of Cambridge
      9. Alexander Veksler (1784) of Marblehead
      10. Achutha Raman (1720) of Sherborn

      12. Danny Moraff (1701) of Lexington
      13. Charliam He (1678) of Acton
      14. Anirudh Arun (1666) of Medfield
      15. Larry Zhu (1657) of Wellesley

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  • 2008 - 2009 Rules
2009 Hurvitz Cup - State Team Championship :

  • Hurvitz Cup/Mass State Team Championship: TBD
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