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Prize winners at the 28th Massachusetts G/60 Championship

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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 Rivers 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.
 


Hurvitz Cup Adv. Entries

Prize winners at the Hurvitz Cup

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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.
 

Massachusetts Elementary School Students Shine at Nationals

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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!

Adv. Entry for 87th Mass Open

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

  • as of 05/25/18 12:15 AM
  • as of 05/23/18 09:55 PM
  • as of 05/22/18 07:55 PM
  • as of 05/21/18 02:51 PM

MACA Election Results

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Voting Results - MASSACHUSETTS CHESS ASSOCIATION 2018 ELECTION

 

 

Online

Paper

Total

Registered Voters

138

8

146

 

 

 

 

Ballots Cast

109

7

116

(79.4%)

 

            President

NATHAN SMOLENSKY (elected)

89

Percy Yip

2

Steven Winer (written “Steve weiner”)

1

George Mirijanian

1

Robert Messenger

1

Matt Phelps

1

Blanks

21

Spoiled ballots

0

Total ballots

116

 

            Vice President

JOHN SADOFF (elected)

62

STEPHEN DANN

30

Percy Yip

1

Jiayun Liu

1

George Mirijanian

1

Blanks

21

Spoiled ballots

0

Total ballots

116

 

Treasurer

ROBERT MESSENGER (elected)

96

Jiayun Liu

1

Steve Frymer

1

Blanks

18

Spoiled ballots

0

Total ballots

116

 

            Clerk

ANDREW HOY (elected)

94

Donna Alarie (written “Donna allaire”)

1

Ken Ballou

1

Blanks

20

Spoiled ballots

0

Total ballots

116

 


 

            Director (8 positions)

PERCY YIP (elected)

97

STEVEN WINER (elected)

88

STEVEN FRYMER (elected)

76

JIAYUN LIU (elected)

75

NICHOLAS STERLING (elected)

68

JEFFREY CARUSO (elected)

66

OLEG POLIANNIKOV (elected)

63

PAUL AROND (withdrawn)

59

DMITRY BARASH

52

Carissa Yip

33

ROBB STEWART

27

ROBERT E. KING

24

Bill Kelleher

1

Katherine Gasser

1

Brett Kildahl

1

Eugene Perelstein

1

Alonzo Ross

1

Donna Alarie

1

Blanks

194

Total

928

Valid ballots     (928 divided by 8)

116

Spoiled ballots

0

Total ballots

116


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.”

YES

104

NO

8

Blanks

4

Spoiled ballots

0

Total ballots

116

 

The Bylaws amendment was approved. 

Prize winners at the 87th Massachusetts Open

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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:

1st-3rd Anna Katsman, Rayhan Riaz, Rishi Nandurbarkar 3.5-0.5

Medals: Andreas Bai, Evan Chang, Ajay Krishnan, 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.
 

Carissa Yip scores first IM norm at GM/IM Norm Invitational event

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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.


New chess club has opened up at the Somerset Library

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 From Stephen M. Shea (sshea@fallriverlaw.netto all:

Just a note to let you know 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!

 

 

 

 

 

2019 Spiegel Cup Finals Invitee List

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 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.

Western Massachusetts Scholastic Chess League Restarted

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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:

Additionally a chess program has been started at Doering Middle School in Agawam for 5th and 6th graders and will dovetail into the existing program at Agawam Jr High:
The program at Doering has been augmented with chess sets from MACA and with a grant for books from LMF. And finally we have received a grant from Mrs. Linda Moye to provide digital clocks for all three Agawam schools. This most generous grant is in memory of her husband Mr. Harold Moye, an avid Expert level chess player who passed on in early march. You can read about Mr. Moye here:

Summer 2018 Chess Horizons is out

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 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. 

Prize winners at the First Spiegel Cup Qualifier

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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.
 

Advance Entries for GBO

85th Greater Boston Open prize winners

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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.
 


Adv. Entries for Q2

Prize winners at the 2nd Spiegel Cup Qualifier

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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.
 

Pillsbury Memorial advance entries

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SwissSys Wall Chart. Harry Nelson Pillsbury Memorial: Open Section

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 GM Alexander Ivanov MA        
  2540 12513936          
2 FM Nathan Solon MA        
  2393 12637883          
3 Nithin Kavi MA        
  2215 14212491          
4 Danila Poliannikov MA        
  2162 14969622          
5 Maxwell D Chen MA        
  2129 14678004          
6 Matthew Derek Meredith CT        
  2126 10031443          
7 Anton Barash MA        
  2094 13679247          
8 Peter Pashkov MA        
  2041 12600882          
9 Arthur P Nugent MA        
  2002 10011191          
10 David Tianyi Zhou MA        
  1973 15194137          
11 David Milliern MA        
  1875 13784637          

 

SwissSys Wall Chart. Harry Nelson Pillsbury Memorial: Under 2010 Section

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Christopher Carnevale MA bye      
  1928 12608782          
2 Alonzo H Ross MA        
  1921 10481376          
3 Stephen Brudno MA        
  1912 10017734          
4 Robert E Stewart MA        
  1861 12456989          
5 Mark Kaprielian MA        
  1848 10007763          
6 Calvin G Hori MA        
  1840 12864842          
7 Thomas T Ha MA        
  1831 15207334          
8 David Katsman MA        
  1819 14958088          
9 Skyler Zhou MA        
  1813 15456428          
10 Rafael Pashkov MA        
  1801 15251590          
11 Ananth Rangan NH        
  1800 15163642          
12 Kishore Sivarajan MA        
  1777 16395776          
13 Sandra Shur MA        
  1767 14817520          
14 Ritvik Pulya MA        
  1745 15648356          
15 Arjun Girish MA        
  1738 15471954          
16 Saanvi Tiruveedhula NH        
  1728 15087552          
17 Aaron Li MA        
  1724 15837922          
18 Carah Su MA        
  1720 15456152          
19 Achyuta Rajaram MA        
  1716 14915688          
20 Adithya Sharma MA        
  1669 15326525          

 

SwissSys Wall Chart. Harry Nelson Pillsbury Memorial: Under 1810 Section

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Philip Lowell Jr ME        
  1800 10026431          
2 Nan Ji MA bye      
  1754 16758085          
3 Donna Alarie MA        
  1730 12447542          
4 Lydia Shen MA        
  1711 15918700          
5 Alan Axelrod MA        
  1704 12541766          
6 Daniel W Korbacher MA        
  1694 13147702          
7 Marvin Moss MA        
  1693 12476109          
8 Paul Kolojeski NH        
  1677 12734090          
9 Matt Phelps MA        
  1673 12320880          
10 Henry He MA        
  1642 15714654          
11 Paul A Baginski MA bye      
  1619 12376240          
12 Thomas Norman Tippett MA        
  1609 12814705          
13 Michael David MA        
  1604 16636306          
14 Keiji Imai MA        
  1602 14802491          
15 Roland D Booker III MA        
  1600 10569176          
16 Ansh Yadawad MA        
  1571 15842414          
17 Jeffrey Liu MA        
  1557 16046820          
18 Isabella Lai MA        
  1547 15990974          
19 Y Owen Ji MA bye      
  1518 16225038          
20 Maruthi Kishore Tiruveedhula NH        
  1439 15087546          

 

SwissSys Wall Chart. Harry Nelson Pillsbury Memorial: Under 1510 Section

# Name/Rtng/ID St/Tm Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4
1 Prachi Dayal MA        
  1478 16442640          
2 Jonathan Traub MA        
  1415 15597447          
3 Bernard Mikolaj Wojnowski MA        
  1305 12476340          
4 Hrishikesh Sai Vedula NH        
  1165 16099404          
5 Bryan Li Henroid MA        
  1121 15453407          
6 Raaga Pulya MA        
  1098 15648362          
7 Nikolay Avdokhin MA        
  1073 16386416          
8 Y Luke Ji MA bye      
  1045 16237733          
9 Eric Anthony Padovano MA bye      
  1008 16769738          
10 Suhavi Tiruveedhula NH        
  1005 15634225          
11 Arnesh Sachin Yeola MA        
  967 15838967          
12 Rayhan Riaz MA        
  845 16543002          
13 Vihaan Kale RI        
  812 16144616          
14 Nikhil Belgaonkar MA        
  770 15712636          
15 Adhirit Prabhugee MA        
  709 16228992          
16 Kaiya Bridgit Smits MA        
  662 16486827          
17 Ryana Riaz MA        
  617 16542998          
18 Anna Katsman MA        
  573 15456538          
19 Nikash Nadgir MA        
  unr. 16810692          
20 Matthew Jacob Van Iwaarden MA        
  unr. 16680817          
21 Neil Jacob Pearlman ME        
  unr. 16655903          

 

 

Pillsbury Memorial prize winners

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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.
 

Great Success for Massachusetts players at K-12 Nationals

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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

 

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