Spring Festival

Date: Saturday 3/15 & Sunday 3/16
Event Format: 5SS
Time Control: G/90 d5
Sections: Open, U1850
Entry Fee: $100, $130 for non-members; $50 discount for players U1500; $10 more after 3/13
Prizes: $$4000 fully guaranteed
Round Times: Saturday 10:00am, 2:00pm, 6:00pm; Sunday 10:00am, 2:30pm

Prizes:

Open: $800-$450-$200, Top U2200 $250
U1850: $400-$200-$100, Top U1500 $150-$100

Players rated at least 1650 on the March supplement, or live MSA rating may play in the Open section.

Free entry for GMs and IMs Free entry for club members rated at least 2300, but entry fee will be deducted from any prize won.

Side Events: (no additional fee if playing in the main event, otherwise $10, $15 for non-members)

Bughouse - Saturday 8:00pm $400 first, $200 second 4SS, G/3 d0. Each round is a 4 game match. At the end of the swiss, the top two teams play a match for 1st/2nd If you do not have a partner we will match you with another unpaired player.

Time Odds Blitz - Sunday 6:00pm
$300 first, $150 second, Top U2100 $75, Top U1900 $75-$50, Top U1700 $50, Top U1500 $50
5SS - Double rounds start at a time control of G/5 for each player. Starting clock times will be adjusted up to 9min vs 1min based on player ratings (30 seconds for each 100 points of rating difference).

For example, a 2000-rated player vs. a 2100-rated player will start with 5:30 vs. 4:30 on the clock. Similarly, 1900 vs. 2100 will be 6:00 vs. 4:00, etc. Players will never start with more than 9 minutes or less than 1 minute.

A current USCF membership is required.

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#	Name	Section	USCF ID	Rating	Live	Bye RequestsByes
1	Jianchao Zhou (GM)	Open	15524414	2669	2667
2	Alexander Ivanov (GM)	Open	12513936	2456	2453
3	Danila Poliannikov (FM)	Open	14969622	2436	2436	5
4	Denys Shmelov (IM)	Open	13433622	2431	2431
5	Andrew Liu (NM)	Open	13987660	2355	2355	Rd 3
6	Andrew Hoy (NM)	Open	12846607	2242	2248
7	William Wu (NM)	Open	30020380	2201	2201
8	Kevin Zhao (NM)	Open	30425013	2188	2193
9	Alejandro Botta (NM)	Open	12740272	2149	2142
10	David Katsman	Open	14958088	2131	2131
11	Kelsey Liu (WIM)	Open	15770981	2117	2117
12	Shawn Xu	Open	30264362	2091	2125
13	Zachary Pan	Open	30221502	2078	2098
14	Arthur Zhou	Open	30350651	2078	2089
15	Simon Payne	Open	30429367	2075	2075
16	Logan Boucher	Open	15938730	2066	2066
17	Michael P Carey (NM)	Open	10120560	2063	2007
18	Jerry Chen	Open	30214553	2059	2060
19	Franklin Lewis	Open	15922026	2050	2050	Sunday at 10am
20	David McCabe	Open	13958197	2043	2050
21	Ben Palmer	Open	31322762	1991	2004
22	Rayhan Riaz	Open	16543002	1972	1972
23	Ray Xue	Open	17348162	1971	1962
24	Peter Davis	Open	15949766	1936	1983
25	Ibrahim Bukhari	Open	30300929	1910	1916
26	Parinya Jain	Open	16918131	1893	1848
27	Jianda Liu	Open	17182781	1883	1868
28	Harry Li	Open	16988211	1852	1826
29	Samanyu Alluri	Open	30185788	1839	1854
30	Ella Xinyue Zhang	Open	30305617	1830	1742
31	Evan Shi	Open	16966603	1819	1819
32	Paul Mishkin	Open	12432059	1802	1802	Round 3
33	Charles Huang	Open	30427161	1780	1774
34	Bowen Yu	Open	30477200	1769	1774	the 1st (10AM@03/15)
35	Duy Nguyen	Open	30581110	1756	1771
36	Devansh Vellanki	Open	30349631	1741	1810
37	Emma Linyue Zhang	Open	30305579	1726	1752
38	Ruthwik Varanasi	Open	30145457	1693	1645	Saturday first round
39	Ben Nguyen	Open	32334540	unr	unr
40	Stephen Gradijan	U1850	12454998	1837	1906
41	Christine Nguyen	U1850	16634247	1717	1733	2
42	Henry Shannon	U1850	30443118	1649	1650
43	Rohan Licht	U1850	31185841	1568	1568
44	Zachary Tower	U1850	30739679	1559	1634
45	Justin Guerra	U1850	12912297	1555	1444
46	Pamil Jain	U1850	16904675	1546	1637
47	Brooks Jiang	U1850	30733511	1483	1501
48	Alexander Li	U1850	31814635	1447	1565
49	Haley Cope	U1850	14620637	1337	1297
50	Peter Shanley	U1850	14534740	1278/6	1278/6
51	Yash Godkar	U1850	31393958	1224	1410
52	Michael Bernier	U1850	12565373	1200	1200	2, 3, 5
53	Dinh Tung Nguyen	U1850	31834676	1076	1085
54	Zainulabideen Jafri	U1850	32300485	unr	unr

#	Player	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5
1	Jianchao Zhou	W 18	B 11	W 4	W 3	B 2
	2669 15524414	1.0	2.0	2.5	3.5	4.5
2	Alexander Ivanov	B 19	W 14	B 9	W 8	W 1
	2456 12513936	1.0	2.0	2.5	3.5	3.5
3	Danila Poliannikov	W 20	B 12	W 6	B 1	bye (½)
	2436 14969622	1.0	2.0	3.0	3.0	3.5
4	Denys Shmelov	B 21	W 15	B 1	W 9	B 6
	2431 13433622	1.0	2.0	2.5	3.5	4.5
5	Andrew Liu	W 22	B 32	bye (½)	W 13	B 11
	2355 13987660	0.5	1.5	2.0	2.5	3.5
6	Andrew Hoy	B 23	W 17	B 3	W 21	W 4
	2242 12846607	1.0	2.0	2.0	3.0	3.0
7	William Wu	W 24	B 27	W 8	B 23	---
	2201 30020380	1.0	1.5	2.0	2.0	2.0
8	Kevin Zhao	B 25	W 34	B 7	B 2	W 19
	2188 30425013	1.0	2.0	2.5	2.5	3.0
9	Alejandro Botta	W 26	B 35	W 2	B 4	B 24
	2149 12740272	1.0	2.0	2.5	2.5	3.5
10	David Katsman	B 27	W 24	bye (½)	W 36	B 22
	2131 14958088	0.0	0.0	0.5	1.5	2.0
11	Kelsey Liu	W 28	W 1	B 31	B 22	W 5
	2117 15770981	1.0	1.0	1.5	2.5	2.5
12	Shawn Xu	B 29	W 3	B 21	W 33	B 31
	2091 30264362	1.0	1.0	1.0	2.0	2.5
13	Arthur Zhou	B 31	W 36	W 27	B 5	W 23
	2078 30350651	0.5	1.5	2.5	3.0	3.5
14	Zachary Pan	W 30	B 2	bye (½)	W 27	---
	2078 30221502	1.0	1.0	1.5	2.5	2.5
15	Simon Payne	W 33	B 4	W 23	B 29	W 28
	2075 30429367	1.0	1.0	1.0	2.0	3.0
16	Logan Boucher	B 34	W 25	B 24	W 35	W 32
	2066 15938730	0.0	1.0	1.0	2.0	3.0
17	Michael Carey	W 37	B 6	bye (½)	B 32	W 21
	2063 10120560	1.0	1.0	1.5	2.0	3.0
18	Jerry Chen	B 1	W 26	B 33	W 24	B 20
	2059 30214553	0.0	1.0	2.0	2.5	3.5
19	Franklin Lewis	W 2	B 28	W 35	bye (½)	B 8
	2050 15922026	0.0	1.0	2.0	2.5	3.0
20	David Mccabe	B 3	W 29	B 34	W 31	W 18
	2043 13958197	0.0	1.0	2.0	2.5	2.5
21	Ben Palmer	W 4	B 30	W 12	B 6	B 17
	1991 31322762	0.0	1.0	2.0	2.0	2.0
22	Rayhan Riaz	B 5	W 31	B 36	W 11	W 10
	1972 16543002	0.5	0.5	1.5	1.5	2.0
23	Peter Davis	W 6	B 37	B 15	W 7	B 13
	1936 15949766	0.0	1.0	2.0	3.0	3.5
24	Ibrahim Bukhari	B 7	B 10	W 16	B 18	W 9
	1910 30300929	0.0	1.0	2.0	2.5	2.5
25	Jianda Liu	W 8	B 16	W 32	B 26	B 36
	1883 17182781	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.5
26	Harry Li	B 9	B 18	W 28	W 25	B 27
	1852 16988211	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	1.0
27	Samanyu Alluri	W 10	W 7	B 13	B 14	W 26
	1839 30185788	1.0	1.5	1.5	1.5	2.5
28	Ella Zhang	B 11	W 19	B 26	W 34	B 15
	1830 30305617	0.0	0.0	1.0	2.0	2.0
29	Evan Shi	W 12	B 20	bye (1)	W 15	B 34
	1819 16966603	0.0	0.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
30	Paul Mishkin	B 14	W 21	bye (½)	B 37	B 35
	1802 12432059	0.0	0.0	0.5	1.0	2.0
31	Charles Huang	W 13	B 22	W 11	B 20	W 12
	1780 30427161	0.5	1.5	2.0	2.5	3.0
32	Bowen Yu	bye (½)	W 5	B 25	W 17	B 16
	1769 30477200	0.5	0.5	1.5	2.0	2.0
33	Duy Nguyen	B 15	bye (1)	W 18	B 12	W 37
	1756 30581110	0.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	2.0
34	Devansh Vellanki	W 16	B 8	W 20	B 28	W 29
	1741 30349631	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	2.0
35	Emma Zhang	bye (1)	W 9	B 19	B 16	W 30
	1726 30305579	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
36	Ruthwik Varanasi	bye (½)	B 13	W 22	B 10	W 25
	1693 30145457	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	1.0
37	Ben Nguyen	B 17	W 23	bye (½)	W 30	B 33
	unr 32334540	0.0	0.0	0.5	1.0	1.0

#	Player	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5
1	Stephen Gradijan	W 9	B 4	W 11	B 15	W 12
	1837 12454998	1.0	1.0	1.0	2.0	3.0
2	Christine Nguyen	B 10	bye (½)	W 9	B 4	W 6
	1717 16634247	0.5	1.0	2.0	3.0	3.5
3	Henry Shannon	W 11	W 14	bye (½)	B 13	B 5
	1649 30443118	0.0	1.0	1.5	2.5	3.5
4	Rohan Licht	B 12	W 1	B 5	W 2	W 11
	1568 31185841	1.0	2.0	2.0	2.0	3.0
5	Zachary Tower	W 13	B 11	W 4	B 6	W 3
	1559 30739679	0.5	1.5	2.5	2.5	2.5
6	Justin Guerra	B 14	W 15	B 8	W 5	B 2
	1555 12912297	0.5	1.5	2.5	3.5	4.0
7	Jim Jin	---	---	B 12	---	W 10
	1525 30855444	0.0	0.0	0.5	0.5	1.5
8	Brooks Jiang	W 15	B 10	W 6	B 11	W 9
	1483 30733511	0.5	1.5	1.5	2.0	2.5
9	Alexander Li	B 1	W 12	B 2	W 10	B 8
	1447 31814635	0.0	1.0	1.0	2.0	2.5
10	Haley Cope	W 2	W 8	B 15	B 9	B 7
	1337 14620637	0.5	0.5	1.0	1.0	1.0
11	Peter Shanley	B 3	W 5	B 1	W 8	B 4
	1278 14534740	1.0	1.0	2.0	2.5	2.5
12	Yash Godkar	W 4	B 9	W 7	B 14	B 1
	1224 31393958	0.0	0.0	0.5	1.5	1.5
13	Michael Bernier	B 5	bye (½)	bye (½)	W 3	---
	1200 12565373	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.5	1.5
14	Dinh Nguyen	W 6	B 3	bye (½)	W 12	B 15
	1076 31834676	0.5	0.5	1.0	1.0	1.0
15	Zainulabideen Jafri	B 8	B 6	W 10	W 1	W 14
	unr 32300485	0.5	0.5	1.0	1.0	2.0

Bd	Res	White Player	Res	Black Player
Open - Round 5
1	0	Alexander Ivanov (2456 3.5)	1	Jianchao Zhou (2669 3.5)
2	0	Andrew Hoy (2242 3.0)	1	Denys Shmelov (2431 3.5)
3	0.5	Arthur Zhou (2078 3.0)	0.5	Peter Davis (1936 3.0)
4	0	Kelsey Liu (2117 2.5)	1	Andrew Liu (2355 2.5)
5	0.5	Kevin Zhao (2188 2.5)	0.5	Franklin Lewis (2050 2.5)
6	0	Ibrahim Bukhari (1910 2.5)	1	Alejandro Botta (2149 2.5)
7	0	David Mccabe (2043 2.5)	1	Jerry Chen (2059 2.5)
8	0.5	Charles Huang (1780 2.5)	0.5	Shawn Xu (2091 2.0)
9	1	Simon Payne (2075 2.0)	0	Ella Zhang (1830 2.0)
10	1	Logan Boucher (2066 2.0)	0	Bowen Yu (1769 2.0)
11	1	Michael Carey (2063 2.0)	0	Ben Palmer (1991 2.0)
12	0.5	Rayhan Riaz (1972 1.5)	0.5	David Katsman (2131 1.5)
13	1	Samanyu Alluri (1839 1.5)	0	Harry Li (1852 1.0)
14	1	Devansh Vellanki (1741 1.0)	0	Evan Shi (1819 1.0)
15	0	Emma Zhang (1726 1.0)	1	Paul Mishkin (1802 1.0)
16	1	Duy Nguyen (1756 1.0)	0	Ben Nguyen (unr 1.0)
17	0.5	Ruthwik Varanasi (1693 0.5)	0.5	Jianda Liu (1883 0.0)
	½	Danila Poliannikov (2436 3.0)		bye
U1850 - Round 5
Bd	Res	White Player	Res	Black Player
20	0.5	Christine Nguyen (1717 3.0)	0.5	Justin Guerra (1555 3.5)
21	0	Zachary Tower (1559 2.5)	1	Henry Shannon (1649 2.5)
22	1	Rohan Licht (1568 2.0)	0	Peter Shanley (1278 2.5)
23	0.5	Brooks Jiang (1483 2.0)	0.5	Alexander Li (1447 2.0)
24	1	Stephen Gradijan (1837 2.0)	0	Yash Godkar (1224 1.5)
25	1	Zainulabideen Jafri (unr 1.0)	0	Dinh Nguyen (1076 1.0)
26	1	Jim Jin (1525 0.5)	0	Haley Cope (1337 1.0)

#	Place	Player	Rating	Live	Post	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Total
1	1 - 2	Jianchao Zhou	2669	2667	2670 3	W 8	W 17	D 2	W 4	W 3	4.5 / 5
2		Denys Shmelov	2431	2431	2444 13	W 25	W 12	D 1	W 6	W 10	4.5 / 5
3	3 - 9	Alexander Ivanov	2456	2453	2450 3	W 15	W 19	D 6	W 11	L 1	3.5 / 5
4		Danila Poliannikov	2436	2436	2440 4	W 20	W 18	W 10	L 1	H --	3.5 / 5
5		Andrew Liu	2355	2355	2348 7	D 26	W 29	H --	D 7	W 17	3.5 / 5
6		Alejandro Botta	2149	2142	2155 13	W 32	W 34	D 3	L 2	W 21	3.5 / 5
7		Arthur Zhou	2078	2089	2095 6	D 16	W 35	W 22	D 5	D 9	3.5 / 5
8		Jerry Chen	2059	2060	2074 14	L 1	W 32	W 30	D 21	W 20	3.5 / 5
9		Peter Davis	1936	1983	2026 43	L 10	W 36	W 12	W 23	D 7	3.5 / 5
10	10 - 16	Andrew Hoy	2242	2248	2250 2	W 9	W 14	L 4	W 25	L 2	3.0 / 5
11		Kevin Zhao	2188	2193	2190 3	W 37	W 31	D 23	L 3	D 15	3.0 / 5
12		Simon Payne	2075	2075	2070 5	W 30	L 2	L 9	W 33	W 27	3.0 / 5
13		Logan Boucher	2066	2066	2045 21	L 31	W 37	L 21	W 34	W 29	3.0 / 5
14		Michael Carey	2063	2007	2009 2	W 36	L 10	H --	D 29	W 25	3.0 / 5
15		Franklin Lewis	2050	2050	2059 9	L 3	W 27	W 34	H --	D 11	3.0 / 5
16		Charles Huang	1780	1774	1878 104	D 7	W 26	D 17	D 20	D 18	3.0 / 5
17	17 - 22	Kelsey Liu	2117	2117	2114 3	W 27	L 1	D 16	W 26	L 5	2.5 / 5
18		Shawn Xu	2091	2125	2107 18	W 33	L 4	L 25	W 30	D 16	2.5 / 5
19		Zachary Pan	2078	2098	2104 6	W 28	L 3	H --	W 22	U --	2.5 / 5
20		David Mccabe	2043	2050	2041 9	L 4	W 33	W 31	D 16	L 8	2.5 / 5
21		Ibrahim Bukhari	1910	1916	1954 38	L 23	W 24	W 13	D 8	L 6	2.5 / 5
22		Samanyu Alluri	1839	1854	1894 40	W 24	D 23	L 7	L 19	W 32	2.5 / 5
23	23 - 31	William Wu	2201	2201	2184 17	W 21	D 22	D 11	L 9	U --	2.0 / 5
24		David Katsman	2131	2131	2096 35	L 22	L 21	H --	W 35	D 26	2.0 / 5
25		Ben Palmer	1991	2004	2007 3	L 2	W 28	W 18	L 10	L 14	2.0 / 5
26		Rayhan Riaz	1972	1972	1966 6	D 5	L 16	W 35	L 17	D 24	2.0 / 5
27		Ella Zhang	1830	1742	1767 25	L 17	L 15	W 32	W 31	L 12	2.0 / 5
28		Paul Mishkin	1802	1802	1793 9	L 19	L 25	H --	D 36	W 34	2.0 / 5
29		Bowen Yu	1769	1774	1794 20	H --	L 5	W 37	D 14	L 13	2.0 / 5
30		Duy Nguyen	1756	1771	1765 6	L 12	B --	L 8	L 18	W 36	2.0 / 5
31		Devansh Vellanki	1741	1810	1821 11	W 13	L 11	L 20	L 27	W 33	2.0 / 5
32	32 - 36	Harry Li	1852	1826	1803 23	L 6	L 8	L 27	W 37	L 22	1.0 / 5
33		Evan Shi	1819	1819	1787 32	L 18	L 20	B --	L 12	L 31	1.0 / 5
34		Emma Zhang	1726	1752	1726 26	B --	L 6	L 15	L 13	L 28	1.0 / 5
35		Ruthwik Varanasi	1693	1645	1643 2	H --	L 7	L 26	L 24	D 37	1.0 / 5
36		Ben Nguyen	unr	unr	1559/4	L 14	L 9	H --	D 28	L 30	1.0 / 5
37	37	Jianda Liu	1883	1868	1816 52	L 11	L 13	L 29	L 32	D 35	0.5 / 5

#	Place	Player	Rating	Live	Post	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Total
1	1	Justin Guerra	1555	1444	1536 92	D 15	W 10	W 7	W 6	D 2	4.0 / 5
2	2 - 3	Christine Nguyen	1717	1733	1730 3	D 14	H --	W 8	W 5	D 1	3.5 / 5
3		Henry Shannon	1649	1650	1641 9	L 9	W 15	H --	W 13	W 6	3.5 / 5
4	4 - 5	Stephen Gradijan	1837	1906	1864 42	W 8	L 5	L 9	W 10	W 12	3.0 / 5
5		Rohan Licht	1568	1568	1592 24	W 12	W 4	L 6	L 2	W 9	3.0 / 5
6	6 - 9	Zachary Tower	1559	1634	1605 29	D 13	W 9	W 5	L 1	L 3	2.5 / 5
7		Brooks Jiang	1483	1501	1484 17	D 10	W 14	L 1	D 9	D 8	2.5 / 5
8		Alexander Li	1447	1565	1561 4	L 4	W 12	L 2	W 14	D 7	2.5 / 5
9		Peter Shanley	1278	1278/6	1411/11 133	W 3	L 6	W 4	D 7	L 5	2.5 / 5
10	10	Zainulabideen Jafri	unr	unr	1350/5	D 7	L 1	D 14	L 4	W 15	2.0 / 5
11	11 - 13	Jim Jin	1525	1550	1549 1	U --	U --	D 12	U --	W 14	1.5 / 5
12		Yash Godkar	1224	1410	1398 12	L 5	L 8	D 11	W 15	L 4	1.5 / 5
13		Michael Bernier	1200	1200	1218 18	D 6	H --	H --	L 3	U --	1.5 / 5
14	14 - 15	Haley Cope	1337	1297	1291 6	D 2	L 7	D 10	L 8	L 11	1.0 / 5
15		Dinh Nguyen	1076	1085	1088 3	D 1	L 3	H --	L 12	L 10	1.0 / 5