Spring Festival

Date: Saturday 3/21 & Sunday 3/22
Event Format: 5SS
Time Control: G/90 d5
Sections: Open, U1850
Entry Fee: $80, $100 for non-members; $30 discount for players U1500; $10 more after 3/18
Prizes: $$4000 fully guaranteed:
Round Times: Saturday 10:00am, 2:00pm, 6:00pm; Sunday 10:00am, 2:30pm

Prizes: Open: $600-$300-$150, Top U2200 $200, Top U2000 $200, Top Woman $100

U1850: $500-$250-$125, Top U1500 $150, Top U1300 $150, Top Woman $75

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 prizes won.

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

Bughouse - Saturday 8:00pm $500 in prizes 4SS, G/3 d0. Players will be assigned a partner randomly in each round. Each round is a 4 game match.

Time Odds Blitz - Sunday 6:00pm $700 in prizes

A current USCF membership is required.

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#	Name	Section	USCF ID	Rating	Live	Bye RequestsByes
1	Jianchao Zhou (GM)	Open	15524414	2659	2655
2	Danila Poliannikov (FM)	Open	14969622	2459	2451
3	Denys Shmelov (IM)	Open	13433622	2443	2437
4	Ryan Sun (FM)	Open	16379802	2417	2417
5	Alimzhan Amirkul (FM)	Open	32066600	2412	2411
6	David Ross (IM)	Open	12481144	2381	2375	rd 3
7	Kevin Zhao (NM)	Open	30425013	2256	2329
8	Brandon Jiang (FM)	Open	15174987	2186	2200
9	Michael P Carey (NM)	Open	10120560	2123	2057
10	Arthur Zhou	Open	30350651	2073	2059
11	Shea Winter	Open	30178627	2061	2098
12	Rees Thomas	Open	14114017	2047	2058
13	David A Parker	Open	10433827	2044	1980
14	Andrew Jeselson	Open	15782648	2039	2100
15	Royce Zhang	Open	30154455	2026	2113
16	Andrew Bernal	Open	16009740	2007	1995
17	Daniel Qian	Open	15551091	2003	2046
18	Ido Alkin	Open	30135488	1962	1977
19	Devansh Vellanki	Open	30349631	1928	1928
20	Alexander Li	Open	31814635	1862	1958
21	Hayden Collins	Open	30173640	1825	1817
22	Nicholas Effland	Open	16070161	1816	1771
23	Bowen Yu	Open	30477200	1754	1759
24	Zachary Tower	Open	30739679	1747	1724
25	Ruthwik Varanasi	Open	30145457	1739	1781
26	Xiaoyao Li	Open	32319074	1685	1911
27	Charles Yang	Open	16176875	1671	1739
28	Soumili Dey	Open	30237854	1649	1821
29	Yash Godkar	Open	31393958	1588	1643
30	Nicholas Bloch	Open	31365401	unr	1701
31	Sushant Shrestha	Open	32953422	unr	1009
32	Stephen Gradijan	U1850	12454998	1800	1804
33	Tia Zheng	U1850	15546331	1743	1732	R5
34	James Rhoads	U1850	16712382	1605	1698
35	Neel Parwani	U1850	32240928	1582	1536
36	Robert Eckstut	U1850	32497520	1563	1708
37	Jacob Mishuris	U1850	30932623	1536	1516
38	Luc Ferrara	U1850	30242739	1449	1603
39	Dhanvanth Prem Kumar	U1850	31816882	1444	1410
40	David Jette	U1850	30226135	1403	1469	Round 5
41	Andrew Barber	U1850	31930461	1323	1399
42	Connor Kortje	U1850	31856279	1317	1317
43	Jasper Guo	U1850	30689208	1306	1448
44	Skye Yuan	U1850	30538170	1305	1445
45	Kai Solter	U1850	32215402	1300/21	1263
46	Dinh Tung Nguyen	U1850	31834676	1191	1296
47	Chris Senhouse	U1850	30509133	1149	1122
48	Jeffery Merckens	U1850	12833202	1067	1067
49	Daniella Alkin	U1850	30444699	977	912
50	Jeffrey Chen	U1850	30365128	954/17	1012
51	Galen Sanislo	U1850	32228497	unr	1112

#	Player	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5
1	Jianchao Zhou	B 18	W 10	B 4	W 2	B 3
	2660 15524414	1.0	2.0	3.0	4.0	4.5
2	Danila Poliannikov	W 19	B 9	W 5	B 1	W 11
	2443 14969622	1.0	2.0	3.0	3.0	4.0
3	Denys Shmelov	B 20	W 11	B 16	W 13	W 1
	2442 13433622	1.0	1.0	2.0	3.0	3.5
4	Ryan Sun	W 21	B 13	W 1	bye (½)	bye (½)
	2417 16379802	1.0	2.0	2.0	2.5	3.0
5	Alimzhan Amirkul	B 22	W 15	B 2	W 14	B 12
	2412 32066600	1.0	2.0	2.0	3.0	4.0
6	David Ross	W 23	B 17	---	---	---
	2381 12481144	0.5	1.5	1.5	1.5	1.5
7	Kevin Zhao	B 24	W 16	B 11	W 12	---
	2244 30425013	1.0	1.5	2.5	3.0	3.0
8	Brandon Jiang	W 25	B 23	B 12	---	---
	2218 15174987	0.5	1.5	1.5	1.5	1.5
9	Andrew Jeselson	B 26	W 2	B 18	bye (½)	---
	2087 15782648	1.0	1.0	2.0	2.5	2.5
10	Rees Thomas	W 28	B 1	W 19	B 27	W 25
	2075 14114017	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	2.0
11	Shea Winter	W 27	B 3	W 7	B 19	B 2
	2074 30178627	1.0	2.0	2.0	3.0	3.0
12	Royce Zhang	bye (½)	B 25	W 8	B 7	W 5
	2073 30154455	0.5	1.5	2.5	3.0	3.0
13	Michael Carey	B 29	W 4	B 20	B 3	W 21
	2073 10120560	1.0	1.0	2.0	2.0	2.0
14	Arthur Zhou	W 16	B 24	W 28	B 5	W 19
	2044 30350651	0.0	1.0	2.0	2.0	3.0
15	David Parker	B 30	B 5	W 21	W 26	---
	2044 10433827	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.5	1.5
16	Daniel Qian	B 14	B 7	W 3	W 23	bye (½)
	2013 15551091	1.0	1.5	1.5	2.5	3.0
17	Andrew Bernal	B 31	W 6	bye (½)	B 21	---
	2012 16009740	1.0	1.0	1.5	1.5	1.5
18	Ido Alkin	W 1	B 26	W 9	B 28	W 27
	1949 30135488	0.0	1.0	1.0	2.0	3.0
19	Devansh Vellanki	B 2	W 29	B 10	W 11	B 14
	1869 30349631	0.0	1.0	2.0	2.0	2.0
20	Hayden Collins	W 3	B 27	W 13	B 29	W 30
	1842 30173640	0.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.5
21	Alexander Li	B 4	W 31	B 15	W 17	B 13
	1829 31814635	0.0	1.0	2.0	3.0	4.0
22	Xiaoyao Li	W 5	B 28	W 25	B 30	W 29
	1828 32319074	0.0	0.0	1.0	2.0	2.0
23	Soumili Dey	B 6	W 8	W 30	B 16	B 26
	1816 30237854	0.5	0.5	1.5	1.5	2.0
24	Ruthwik Varanasi	W 7	W 14	B 27	B 25	W 31
	1813 30145457	0.0	0.0	0.5	1.0	2.0
25	Nicholas Effland	B 8	W 12	B 22	W 24	B 10
	1776 16070161	0.5	0.5	0.5	1.0	1.0
26	Bowen Yu	W 9	W 18	B 31	B 15	W 23
	1758 30477200	0.0	0.0	1.0	1.5	2.0
27	Charles Yang	B 11	W 20	W 24	W 10	B 18
	1733 16176875	0.0	0.0	1.0	2.0	2.0
28	Zachary Tower	B 10	W 22	B 14	W 18	bye (1)
	1721 30739679	0.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	2.0
29	Nicholas Bloch	W 13	B 19	bye (1)	W 20	B 22
	1641 31365401	0.0	0.0	1.0	2.0	3.0
30	Yash Godkar	W 15	bye (1)	B 23	W 22	B 20
	1627 31393958	0.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.5
31	Sushant Shrestha	W 17	B 21	W 26	bye (1)	B 24
	unr 32953422	0.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	1.0

#	Player	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5
1	Stephen Gradijan	B 12	W 7	B 5	W 4	B 15
	1800 12454998	1.0	2.0	2.5	2.5	3.5
2	Tia Zheng	W 11	B 13	W 3	B 7	bye (½)
	1748 15546331	0.5	1.5	2.0	2.0	2.5
3	James Rhoads	B 13	W 11	B 2	W 5	B 4
	1691 16712382	0.5	1.5	2.0	3.0	3.5
4	Robert Eckstut	W 14	B 8	bye (½)	B 1	W 3
	1637 32497520	1.0	2.0	2.5	3.5	4.0
5	Neel Parwani	B 15	W 9	W 1	B 3	W 7
	1545 32240928	1.0	2.0	2.5	2.5	2.5
6	Justin Guerra	bye (½)	bye (½)	B 12	W 15	---
	1522 12912297	0.5	1.0	2.0	2.5	2.5
7	Luc Ferrara	W 16	B 1	W 10	W 2	B 5
	1515 30242739	1.0	1.0	2.0	3.0	4.0
8	Jacob Mishuris	B 17	W 4	B 15	W 16	B 12
	1495 30932623	1.0	1.0	1.0	2.0	2.0
9	David Jette	W 18	B 5	W 14	B 13	bye (½)
	1480 30226135	1.0	1.0	1.5	2.5	3.0
10	Andrew Barber	bye (½)	bye (½)	B 7	W 17	B 11
	1458 31930461	0.5	1.0	1.0	2.0	2.5
11	Dhanvanth PremKumar	B 2	B 3	W 13	bye (1)	W 10
	1358 31816882	0.5	0.5	0.5	1.5	2.0
12	Skye Yuan	W 1	B 16	W 6	B 14	W 8
	1350 30538170	0.0	1.0	1.0	2.0	3.0
13	Jasper Guo	W 3	W 2	B 11	W 9	B 17
	1306 30689208	0.5	0.5	1.5	1.5	2.5
14	Kai Solter	B 4	W 17	B 9	W 12	bye (1)
	1284 32215402	0.0	1.0	1.5	1.5	2.5
15	Dinh Nguyen	W 5	B 18	W 8	B 6	W 1
	1191 31834676	0.0	1.0	2.0	2.5	2.5
16	Chris Senhouse	B 7	W 12	B 18	B 8	---
	1166 30509133	0.0	0.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
17	Daniella Alkin	W 8	B 14	bye (1)	B 10	W 13
	998 30444699	0.0	0.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
18	Galen Sanislo	B 9	W 15	W 16	bye (½)	---
	unr 32228497	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.5	0.5
19	Connor Kortje	---	---	---	---	---
	unr 31856279	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
20	Jeffrey Chen	---	---	---	---	---
	unr 30365128	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
21	Jeffery Merckens	---	---	---	---	---
	unr 12833202	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0

Bd	Res	White Player	Res	Black Player
Open - Round 5
1	0.5	Denys Shmelov (2442 3.0)	0.5	Jianchao Zhou (2660 4.0)
2	1	Danila Poliannikov (2443 3.0)	0	Shea Winter (2074 3.0)
3	0	Royce Zhang (2073 3.0)	1	Alimzhan Amirkul (2412 3.0)
4	0	Michael Carey (2073 2.0)	1	Alexander Li (1829 3.0)
5	1	Arthur Zhou (2044 2.0)	0	Devansh Vellanki (1869 2.0)
6	1	Ido Alkin (1949 2.0)	0	Charles Yang (1733 2.0)
7	0F	Xiaoyao Li (1828 2.0)	1X	Nicholas Bloch (1641 2.0)
8	0.5	Bowen Yu (1758 1.5)	0.5	Soumili Dey (1816 1.5)
9	1	Rees Thomas (2075 1.0)	0	Nicholas Effland (1776 1.0)
10	0.5	Hayden Collins (1842 1.0)	0.5	Yash Godkar (1627 1.0)
11	1	Ruthwik Varanasi (1813 1.0)	0	Sushant Shrestha (unr 1.0)
	1	Zachary Tower (1721 1.0)		bye
	½	Ryan Sun (2417 2.5)		bye
	½	Daniel Qian (2013 2.5)		bye
U1850 - Round 5
Bd	Res	White Player	Res	Black Player
12	0.5	Robert Eckstut (1637 3.5)	0.5	James Rhoads (1691 3.0)
13	0	Neel Parwani (1545 2.5)	1	Luc Ferrara (1515 3.0)
14	0	Dinh Nguyen (1191 2.5)	1	Stephen Gradijan (1800 2.5)
15	1	Skye Yuan (1350 2.0)	0	Jacob Mishuris (1495 2.0)
16	0.5	Dhanvanth PremKumar (1358 1.5)	0.5	Andrew Barber (1458 2.0)
17	0	Daniella Alkin (998 1.0)	1	Jasper Guo (1306 1.5)
	1	Kai Solter (1284 1.5)		bye
	½	David Jette (1480 2.5)		bye
	½	Tia Zheng (1748 2.0)		bye

#	Place	Player	Rating	Live	Post	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Total	Prize
1	1	Jianchao Zhou	2660	2652	2655 3	W 12	W 15	W 6	W 2	D 5	4.5 / 5	$600.00	1st Place
2	2 - 4	Danila Poliannikov	2443	2443	2451 8	W 17	W 14	W 3	L 1	W 8	4.0 / 5	$216.67	2nd, 3rd, U2200
3		Alimzhan Amirkul	2412	2412	2411 1	W 18	W 26	L 2	W 10	W 9	4.0 / 5	$216.67	2nd, 3rd, U2200
4		Alexander Li	1829	1869	1956 87	L 6	W 31	W 26	W 27	W 16	4.0 / 5	$216.67	2nd, 3rd, U2200
5	5	Denys Shmelov	2442	2442	2436 6	W 28	L 8	W 11	W 16	D 1	3.5 / 5
6	6 - 13	Ryan Sun	2417	2417	2417 0	W 4	W 16	L 1	H --	H --	3.0 / 5
7		Kevin Zhao	2244	2335	2329 6	W 23	D 11	W 8	D 9	U --	3.0 / 5
8		Shea Winter	2074	2075	2097 22	W 21	W 5	L 7	W 17	L 2	3.0 / 5
9		Royce Zhang	2073	2092	2113 21	H --	W 30	W 25	D 7	L 3	3.0 / 5
10		Arthur Zhou	2044	2060	2059 1	L 11	W 23	W 22	L 3	W 17	3.0 / 5
11		Daniel Qian	2013	2013	2042 29	W 10	D 7	L 5	W 19	H --	3.0 / 5
12		Ido Alkin	1949	1969	1976 7	L 1	W 20	L 14	W 22	W 21	3.0 / 5	$100.00	U2000
13		Nicholas Bloch	1641	1682	1696 14	L 16	L 17	B --	W 28	X 18	3.0 / 5	$100.00	U2000
14	14	Andrew Jeselson	2087	2092	2100 8	W 20	L 2	W 12	H --	U --	2.5 / 5
15	15 - 22	Rees Thomas	2075	2087	2057 30	W 22	L 1	L 17	L 21	W 30	2.0 / 5
16		Michael Carey	2073	2070	2057 13	W 13	L 6	W 28	L 5	L 4	2.0 / 5
17		Devansh Vellanki	1869	1920	1927 7	L 2	W 13	W 15	L 8	L 10	2.0 / 5
18		Xiaoyao Li	1828	1920	1911 9	L 3	L 22	W 30	W 29	F 13	2.0 / 5
19		Soumili Dey	1816	1811	1822 11	D 24	L 25	W 29	L 11	D 20	2.0 / 5	$100.00	Top Woman
20		Bowen Yu	1758	1758	1762 4	L 14	L 12	W 31	D 26	D 19	2.0 / 5
21		Charles Yang	1733	1733	1739 6	L 8	L 28	X 23	W 15	L 12	2.0 / 5
22		Zachary Tower	1721	1713	1724 11	L 15	W 18	L 10	L 12	B --	2.0 / 5
23	23	Ruthwik Varanasi	1813	1787	1782 5	L 7	L 10	U --	F 21	D 30	2.0 / 6
24	24 - 29	David Ross	2381	2381	2375 6	D 19	W 27	U --	U --	U --	1.5 / 5
25		Brandon Jiang	2218	2218	2200 18	D 30	W 19	L 9	U --	U --	1.5 / 5
26		David Parker	2044	2001	1981 20	W 29	L 3	L 4	D 20	U --	1.5 / 5
27		Andrew Bernal	2012	2012	1996 16	W 31	L 24	H --	L 4	U --	1.5 / 5
28		Hayden Collins	1842	1841	1817 24	L 5	W 21	L 16	L 13	D 29	1.5 / 5
29		Yash Godkar	1627	1656	1643 13	L 26	B --	L 19	L 18	D 28	1.5 / 5
30	30 - 31	Nicholas Effland	1776	1776	1771 5	D 25	L 9	L 18	D 23	L 15	1.0 / 5
31		Sushant Shrestha	unr	unr	1382/4	L 27	L 4	L 20	B --	L 23	1.0 / 5

#	Place	Player	Rating	Live	Post	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Rd 5	Total	Prize
1	1 - 2	Robert Eckstut	1637	1645	1704 59	W 12	W 14	H --	W 3	D 4	4.0 / 5	$375.00	1st/2nd
2		Luc Ferrara	1515	1509	1599 90	W 16	L 3	W 10	W 7	W 8	4.0 / 5	$375.00	1st/2nd
3	3 - 4	Stephen Gradijan	1800	1821	1803 18	W 6	W 2	D 8	L 1	W 13	3.5 / 5	$62.50	3rd Place
4		James Rhoads	1691	1691	1698 7	D 11	W 15	D 7	W 8	D 1	3.5 / 5	$62.50	3rd Place
5	5 - 6	David Jette	1480	1474	1469 5	W 18	L 8	D 12	W 11	H --	3.0 / 5	$75.00	U1500
6		Skye Yuan	1350	1424	1446 22	L 3	W 16	L 9	W 12	W 14	3.0 / 5	$150.00	U1500 & Top Woman
7	7 - 13	Tia Zheng	1748	1765	1731 34	D 15	W 11	D 4	L 2	H --	2.5 / 5
8		Neel Parwani	1545	1524	1535 11	W 13	W 5	D 3	L 4	L 2	2.5 / 5
9		Justin Guerra	1522	1495	1503 8	H --	H --	W 6	D 13	U --	2.5 / 5
10		Andrew Barber	1458	1409	1400 9	H --	H --	L 2	W 17	D 15	2.5 / 5
11		Jasper Guo	1306	1442	1449 7	D 4	L 7	W 15	L 5	W 17	2.5 / 5
12		Kai Solter	1284	1260	1263 3	L 1	W 17	D 5	L 6	B --	2.5 / 5	$75.00	U1300
13		Dinh Nguyen	1191	1192	1292 100	L 8	W 18	W 14	D 9	L 3	2.5 / 5	$75.00	U1300
14	14 - 15	Jacob Mishuris	1495	1577	1516 61	W 17	L 1	L 13	W 16	L 6	2.0 / 5
15		Dhanvanth PremKumar	1358	1405	1395 10	D 7	L 4	L 11	B --	D 10	2.0 / 5
16	16 - 17	Chris Senhouse	1166	1112	1122 10	L 2	L 6	W 18	L 14	U --	1.0 / 5
17		Daniella Alkin	998	927	913 14	L 14	L 12	B --	L 10	L 11	1.0 / 5
18	18	Galen Sanislo	unr	1162	1111 51	L 5	L 13	L 16	H --	U --	0.5 / 5
19	19 - 21	Connor Kortje	unr	1317	1317 0	U --	U --	U --	U --	U --	0.0 / 5
20		Jeffrey Chen	unr	1012	1012 0	U --	U --	U --	U --	U --	0.0 / 5
21		Jeffery Merckens	unr	1067	1067 0	U --	U --	U --	U --	U --	0.0 / 5