2009 United States Junior Open

Chess Championship

Milwaukee, WI

The event was a resounding success with 158 participants from all over the country competing for the Under 11, Under 15, and Under 21 national titles. The Under 21 section had the added bonus of a $450 first prize and a qualification spot in next year's US Junior Closed Invitational Event (The 2009 US Junior Open kicked off today, watch next post for results). Thank you to our sponsors and individual contributors:

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Results:

The U11 section was won by Milwaukee/Waukesha local Brady Harder with a perfect 5/5. His rating has skyrocketed since his first USCF rating of 1282 in November 2008, to 1604 after the US Junior Open. A 322 point gain in 8 months, not too shabby if you ask me. Brady has been working with local Master and WI State Champion Erik Santarius for the past few months.

The U15 section was taken by new Wisconsin resident Marc Christian Nazario who also went 5/5. On an interesting side note Joel Banawa (Junior Closed Participant) was good childhood friends with Marc in the Philippines. They got to see each other for the first time since Joel moved to the US.

The U21 section was a tight race until the very last round, when the dust cleared Eric Rosen from Illinois and Kevin Bu from Minnesota we tied for first place with 4.5/5. Although the $450 first prize was split equally, the trophy and most importantly the spot in the 2010 Junior Closed was won by Eric Rosen after an Armageddon game.

Under 11

No.	Name	Rate	Pts	TBrk1	TBrk2	TBrk3	Rnd1 Rnd2 Rnd3 Rnd4 Rnd5
1	Harder, Brady	1499	5	13	15	15	W46 W19 W22 W15 W5
2	Mhaskar, Rohan	1653	4.5	15.5	17.5	14.5	W48 W8 W6 W16 D3
3	Liang, Awonder	1377	4.5	14.5	16	14.5	W52 W18 W17 W4 D2
4	Seghers, Evan	1404	4	14	16	13	W49 W25 W12 L3 W20
5	Mohammed, Sarfaraz	1319	4	13.5	15.5	14	W50 W37 W7 W33 L1
6	Schuh, Zac	1357	4	12.5	14.5	12	W44 W42 L2 W17 W19
7	Reese, Jr., Greg	1618	4	12	14	12	W21 W39 L5 W41 W14
8	Harder, Brennan	954	4	12	13	11	W59 L2 W44 W21 W15
9	Seghers, Reid	1099	4	11.5	12.5	12	W61 W11 L15 W37 W16
10	Reddy, Chetan	1235	4	10	11	11	W57 L17 W40 W36 W23
11	Tiglon, Bryce		3.5	13	15	10	W27 L9 W42 D12 W33
12	Shi, Tinglin	1075	3.5	13	14.5	11	W55 W23 L4 D11 W32
13	Burgess, Shaun	1163	3.5	11.5	13	10	W28 D45 L14 W52 W18
14	Thangavel, Gokul	745	3.5	11.5	11.5	11	H W56 W13 W32 L7
15	Liang, Adream	1392	3	15.5	17	12	W53 W24 W9 L1 L8
16	Kulkarni, Pranav	1398	3	14.5	16.5	12	W30 W36 W20 L2 L9
17	Kalicheti, Pranav	840	3	14.5	15.5	10	W60 W10 L3 L6 W47
18	Loomer, Xavier	800	3	14	16	10	W43 L3 W29 W22 L13
19	Hegelemeyer, William	894	3	14	15	10	W34 L1 W57 W24 L6
20	Rao, Ishan	1096	3	13	15	11	W26 W40 L16 W27 L4
21	Khunger, Simran	696	3	13	13	7	L7 -X- W25 L8 W39
22	Iyengar, Balaji	1101	3	12	14	10	W38 W51 L1 L18 W35
23	Li, Robert		3	11.5	13.5	10	W41 L12 W51 W39 L10
24	Zinger, Dan		3	11	11	8	B L15 W28 L19 W40
25	James, Nikhil	923	3	10.5	10.5	8	W65 L4 L21 W50 W49
26	Porth, Desmond	336	3	10	11.5	7	L20 W31 L36 W54 W37
27	Wells, Adam	775	3	10	11	8	L11 W55 W58 L20 W38
28	Ilchenko, Isabella	448	3	10	11	7	L13 W59 L24 W42 W36
29	Bue, Benjamin		3	9	11	7	L36 W46 L18 W48 W45
30	Shi, Karen	653	3	9	10	6	L16 L38 W60 W44 W41
31	Khunger, Shagun	746	3	8.5	9.5	6	L40 L26 W54 W57 W43
32	Tiglon, Mitchel		2.5	8	13.5	9.5	D33 W47 W45 L14 L12
33	Tillson, Chris	861	2.5	8	13.5	9.5	D32 W54 W35 L5 L11
34	Louey, Serina		2.5	5	9.5	5	L19 D52 L47 W56 W53
35	Choy, Justin	100	2.5	4	7	7	H -X- L33 W53 L22
36	Tripuraneni, Ranadheer	854	2	12	16	8	W29 L16 W26 L10 L28
37	Provine, Shayna	795	2	11	15	8	W67 L5 W43 L9 L26
38	Wright, Collette	420	2	10	13	6	L22 W30 L41 W51 L27
39	Najeeb, Yaseen	936	2	9.5	13.5	8	W66 L7 W48 L23 L21
40	Najeeb, Hadi	746	2	9.5	13.5	7	W31 L20 L10 W58 L24
41	Azbel, Joseph	867	2	9	13	7	L23 W61 W38 L7 L30
42	Ganesan, Ishaar	855	2	9	13	6	W58 L6 L11 L28 W52
43	Tiglon, Jeffrey		2	9	12	6	L18 W50 L37 W46 L31
44	Monosov, Nathanel	553	2	8	12	5	L6 W65 L8 L30 W59
45	Adavi, Pranav	765	2	8	11.5	8	W62 D13 L32 D47 L29
46	Larson, Bjorn	687	2	7	12	4	L1 L29 W59 L43 W60
47	Fleming, Samuel	542	2	7	10	6	H L32 W34 D45 L17
48	Bepar, Naisha	718	2	6.5	11	5	L2 W62 L39 L29 W57
49	Seidl, Alan	682	2	6.5	10.5	5	L4 L58 W55 W61 L25
50	Powell, Jordan	505	2	6.5	10.5	4	L5 L43 W62 L25 W58
51	Ponnala, Manu	759	2	6.5	9.5	6	W63 L22 L23 L38 W61
52	Ulrich, Susie	575	1.5	8.5	13	5	L3 D34 W63 L13 L42
53	Porth, Dylan	637	1.5	6.5	9.5	5	L15 D63 W56 L35 L34
54	Thangavel, Sanmati	360	1.5	6	9	3	H L33 L31 L26 W63
55	Laeuger, Andrew	328	1.5	5.5	9	2	L12 L27 L49 W63 -H-
56	Opryshcenko, Katya		1.5	4	7.5	3	H L14 L53 L34 W65
57	Buck, Finn	499	1	9	13	4	L10 W60 L19 L31 L48
58	Kvetkovskiy, Mark		1	8	11	4	L42 W49 L27 L40 L50
59	Yarlagadda, Saketh	183	1	7	11	2	L8 L28 L46 W65 L44
60	Louey, Justin		1	6.5	9.5	2	L17 L57 L30 W62 L46
61	Hegelmeyer, Jason	369	1	6	10	3	L9 L41 W65 L49 L51
62	Lakkaraju, Pranay		1	5	7	0	L45 L48 L50 L60 -B-
63	Kasanakaya, Yelena		0.5	6	8	2	L51 D53 L52 L55 L54
64	Shankar, Rohit	1081	0.5	0	0	2	-H- -F- -N- -N- -N-
65	Khalil, Hasan		0	5.5	8.5	0	L25 L44 L61 L59 L56
66	Sachdev, Ravina	101	0	0	2	0	L39 -F- -N- -N- -N-
67	Seifert, Gabriel		0	0	2	0	L37 -F- -N- -N- -N-
68	Benard, Jordan	798	0	0	0	0	-F- -N- -N- -N- -N-
69	Sondhi, Kunal		0	0	0	0	-F- -N- -N- -N- -N-

Team & Club:

Top School(top 4 scores used):

1. Glen Park (6) 11.5 49.0 36.0 152.0 41.0

Mohammed, Sarfaraz (4.0,1319)

Kalicheti, Pranav (3.0,840)

Choy, Justin (2.5,100)

Bepar, Naisha (2.0,718)

2. Elmwood (8) 11.5 48.0 28.0 142.5 42.5

Loomer, Xavier (3.0,800)

Khunger, Simran (3.0,696)

Khunger, Shagun (3.0,746)

Louey, Serina (2.5,nnnn)

3. Lake Denoon (3) 10.5 42.0 34.5 138.0 51.5

Seghers, Evan (4.0,1404)

Seghers, Reid (4.0,1099)

Tillson, Chris (2.5,861)

4 Van Hise (3) 8.5 40.0 26.5 122.5 43.5

Liang, Awonder (4.5,1377)

Liang, Adream (3.0,1392)

Lakkaraju, Pranay (1.0,nnnn)

5. WILDR WILDR (3) 8.0 40.5 25.5 124.0 37.0

Tiglon, Bryce (3.5,nnnn)

Tiglon, Mitchel (2.5,nnnn)

Tiglon, Jeffrey (2.0,nnnn)

6. HTRST HTRST (3) 8.0 38.0 23.0 112.5 35.0

Schuh, Zac (4.0,1357)

Wright, Collette (2.0,420)

Seidl, Alan (2.0,682)

10. USM (3) 7.0 38.0 22.0 108.0 26.0

Ilchenko, Isabella (3.0,448)

Najeeb, Yaseen (2.0,936)

Najeeb, Hadi (2.0,746)

Top Club(top 4 scores used):

1 Waukesha Chess Club (5) 16.5 56.5 49.0 182.0 84.5

Harder, Brady (5.0,1499)

Reese, Jr., Greg (4.0,1618)

Harder, Brennan (4.0,954)

Shi, Tinglin (3.5,1075)

2. Twin Cities Chess Club(Bloomington, IL) (3) 9.0 38.0 27.0 121.0 33.0

Reddy, Chetan (4.0,1235)

Iyengar, Balaji (3.0,1101)

Ganesan, Ishaar (2.0,855)

3. Roman Levit Chess Club (6) 7.5 42.5 22.0 124.0 20.0

Zinger, Dan (3.0,nnnn)

Azbel, Joseph (2.0,867)

Opryshcenko, Katya (1.5,nnnn)

Kvetkovskiy, Mark (1.0,nnnn)

Under 15

No.	Name	Rate	Pts	TBrk1	TBrk2	TBrk3	Rnd1 Rnd2 Rnd3 Rnd4 Rnd5
1	Nazario, Marc	1907	5	14.5	17.5	15	W4 W16 W10 W6 W5
2	Cooklev, Steven	1800	4.5	12	14	14	W34 W29 W14 D5 W9
3	Shi, Alan	1569	4	12.5	14.5	12	W26 W17 L5 W18 W12
4	Rao, Karthik	1296	4	11	12	10	L1 W44 W40 W25 W13
5	Huang, Winston	2038	3.5	15.5	16.5	13	W28 W39 W3 D2 L1
6	Sachs, Derek	1846	3.5	15	17	12.5	W27 W7 W12 L1 D10
7	Cross, Logan	1275	3.5	12.5	14	9.5	W37 L6 D8 W15 W22
8	Raykov, Maxim	583	3.5	12	14	9.5	W18 L12 D7 W27 W21
9	Jing, Aaron	1362	3.5	11.5	13.5	11.5	D20 W31 W25 W21 L2
10	Walbert, Chase	1374	3.5	11.5	12.5	11.5	W44 W38 L1 W26 D6
11	Dumitrescu, Calin	1344	3.5	10.5	12.5	10	W15 L20 W28 D22 W24
12	Larsen, Caleb	1376	3	14	16	11	W32 W8 L6 W14 L3
13	Cheng, Alexander	1503	3	12.5	14.5	10	W22 L14 W29 W17 L4
14	Board, Thomas	1167	3	12.5	13.5	10	W42 W13 L2 L12 W30
15	Banh, Brandon	806	3	12	13.5	8	L11 W35 W16 L7 W29
16	Burgess, Carter	1274	3	12	13	8	W33 L1 L15 W38 W32
17	Meduri, Vishaal	1177	3	11.5	12.5	9	W41 L3 W23 L13 W25
18	Ulrich, Rachel	1204	3	11.5	12.5	8	L8 W32 W38 L3 W26
19	Larsen, Zach	553	3	8.5	8.5	7.5	H L30 W35 W20 D23
20	Kizaric, Matt	881	2.5	9	14	7.5	D9 W11 L21 L19 W37
21	Reilly, Ryan	1329	2.5	8.5	14	9.5	D31 W24 W20 L9 L8
22	Graf, Sam	1088	2.5	7.5	11.5	8	L13 W43 W39 D11 L7
23	Gaddameedi, Vilas	1377	2.5	7	11	7.5	W40 L25 L17 W28 D19
24	Kansara, Mihir	918	2.5	6	9.5	7	H L21 W33 W37 L11
25	Jambor, Alex	877	2	11	15	9	W30 W23 L9 L4 L17
26	Wells, Nathan	1113	2	9.5	13.5	7	L3 W41 W30 L10 L18
27	Li, Zesen	1127	2	9	12.5	5.5	L6 D37 W31 L8 D34
28	Walbert, Aaron	1137	2	9	12.5	5	L5 W36 L11 L23 W42
29	Bendelac, Julien	1197	2	8.5	13	7	W43 L2 L13 W36 L15
30	Frank, Cole	1356	2	8	11	6	L25 W19 L26 W40 L14
31	Arachtingi, John	788	2	7.5	11	4.5	D21 L9 L27 D33 W38
32	Panneerselvam, Niranjan	1001	2	7.5	10.5	5	L12 L18 W43 W39 L16
33	Glumm, Jacob	724	2	7.5	10.5	4	L16 D34 L24 D31 W39
34	Strain, Erick	1123	2	6.5	11	4.5	L2 D33 L37 W41 D27
35	Feldman, Daniel	1170	2	5	8	2	L38 L15 L19 -B- W41
36	Lewis, Abigail	768	2	5	7	4	L39 L28 W42 L29 W40
37	Litvin, Ilya	745	1.5	9	12.5	5	L7 D27 W34 L24 L20
38	Newell, Luke		1	9.5	13	5	W35 L10 L18 L16 L31
39	Fazzini, Alex	1300	1	8.5	12	5	W36 L5 L22 L32 L33
40	Gant, Jourdain	1086	1	7.5	11.5	4	L23 W42 L4 L30 L36
41	Lessard, Sam	342	1	6.5	9.5	3	L17 L26 W44 L34 L35
42	Srivastava, Sonali		1	5.5	8.5	2	L14 L40 L36 W43 L28
43	Yarlagadda, Sashank	420	1	5	7.5	0	L29 L22 L32 L42 -B-
44	Rudenko, Anton	931	1	4.5	8.5	0.5	L10 L4 L41 -H- -H-
45	Shankar, Roshan	1607	0.5	0	0	2	-H- --- --- --- ---
46	Hicks, Braya	1128	0	0	0	0	-F- --- --- --- ---
47	Benard, Taylor	758	0	0	0	0	-F- --- --- --- ---

Team & Club:

Top School:

1. John Adams (4) 9.0 43.5 25.0 125.5 34.0

Cheng, Alexander (3.0,1503)

Larsen, Zach (3.0,553)

Arachtingi, John (2.0,788)

Lessard, Sam (1.0,342)

2. Eisenhower (3) 6.0 32.5 15.0 100.0 22.5

Kizaric, Matt (2.5,881)

Gaddameedi, Vilas (2.5,1377)

Yarlagadda, Sashank (1.0,420)

3. Lake Shore (2) 5.5 29.0 18.5 87.5 27.5

Raykov, Maxim (3.5,583)

Jambor, Alex (2.0,877)

4. Metcalf (2) 5.0 24.5 12.5 68.0 19.0

Banh, Brandon (3.0,806)

Strain, Erick (2.0,1123)

Top Club:

1. Twin Cities Chess Club(Bloomington, IL) (5) 10.0 50.0 32.0 154.0 37.5

Walbert, Chase (3.5,1374)

Reilly, Ryan (2.5,1329)

Walbert, Aaron (2.0,1137)

Frank, Cole (2.0,1356)

2. Hyde Park Chess Academy (4) 6.0 50.0 21.5 135.5 17.5

Bendelac, Julien (2.0,1197)

Li, Zesen (2.0,1127)

Newell, Luke (1.0,nnnn)

Gant, Jourdain (1.0,1086)

3. Madison West Chess Club (2) 6.0 23.0 18.5 73.0 22.5

Jing, Aaron (3.5,1362)

Kansara, Mihir (2.5,918)

4. Roman Levitt Chess Club (4) 5.5 37.5 9.5 105.0 9.0

Feldman, Daniel (2.0,1170)

Litvin, Ilya (1.5,745)

Srivastava, Sonali (1.0,nnnn)

Rudenko, Anton (1.0,931)

Under 21

	Name	Rate	Pts	TBrk1	TBrk2	TBrk3	Rnd1 Rnd2 Rnd3 Rnd4 Rnd5
1	Bu, Kevin	2058	4.5	15.5	17.5	14.5	W32 W15 W4 W3 D2
2	Rosen, Eric	2149	4.5	13.5	16	14.5	W23 W14 W10 W9 D1
3	Wyde, David	2079	4	14	16	13	W21 W40 W5 L1 W10
4	Magness, Trevor	2137	4	13	15	12	W35 W25 L1 W30 W12
5	Meduri, Aakaash	1963	4	12	13.5	12	W42 W24 L3 W22 W9
6	Gater, Daniel	1993	3.5	12	13.5	11	W38 W17 L9 D11 W16
7	Jin, David	1912	3.5	10.5	10.5	8.5	H D16 D21 W29 W24
8	Strugnell, Neil	1816	3.5	10.5	10.5	8	H L30 W23 W26 W21
9	Auger, Michael	2065	3	14.5	17	12	W28 W29 W6 L2 L5
10	Wu, James	2000	3	14.5	16.5	11	W36 W19 L2 W20 L3
11	Thomas, Tyler	1721	3	12.5	12.5	10.5	W49 W18 L30 D6 D13
12	Kohlenberg, Jacob	2044	3	12	14.5	10.5	W26 D27 D13 W25 L4
13	Hendrickson, Nolan	1950	3	12	14.5	10	W22 D43 D12 D17 D11
14	Powell, Alex	1917	3	12	13	9.5	W46 L2 W35 D24 D17
15	Ulrich, Tommy	1784	3	11.5	12.5	8.5	W45 L1 D26 D28 W36
16	Datla, Siddarth	1713	3	11.5	11.5	9	H D7 W38 W18 L6
17	Gupta, Saagar	1663	3	11	11.5	9.5	W48 L6 W39 D13 D14
18	Veech, John	2038	3	10.5	12.5	9	W33 L11 W27 L16 W34
19	Zimmermann, Troy	1676	3	9.5	10.5	8	W31 L10 L22 W44 W33
20	Datla, Sameer	1701	3	9.5	9.5	8	H D23 W31 L10 W32
21	Smith, Jordan	1554	2.5	9	15	7.5	L3 W37 D7 W40 L8
22	Das, Ritankar	1310	2.5	8.5	14.5	7.5	L13 W34 W19 L5 D27
23	Tallo, Emily	1602	2.5	8	13.5	5	L2 D20 L8 W45 W38
24	Thompson, Nicholas	1616	2.5	8	12.5	9	W39 L5 W48 D14 L7
25	Grochowski, Andrew	1788	2.5	7.5	13	8.5	W41 L4 W32 L12 D28
26	Baumann, Eli	1524	2.5	7.5	12	6.5	L12 W44 D15 L8 W42
27	Bowen, James	1705	2.5	7.5	11.5	8.5	W44 D12 L18 D33 D22
28	Gorectke, Andrew	1550	2.5	7.5	11.5	7	L9 W47 D40 D15 D25
29	Schneider, Thomas	1782	2.5	7	11.5	7.5	W47 L9 D33 L7 W31
30	Dahl, Matthew	2112	2.5	6.5	10.5	9	-H- W8 W11 L4 -N-
31	Bounket, Anousone	656	2	9.5	12.5	6	L19 W36 L20 W35 L29
32	Rezekulov, Dan	1539	2	8	12.5	6	L1 W45 L25 W39 L20
33	Wiedenhoeft, Robert	1482	2	8	11	6.5	L18 W49 D29 D27 L19
34	Iyer, Venkat	1615	2	8	11	5	L43 L22 W47 W41 L18
35	Kodali, Suhas	1594	2	7.5	11.5	5	L4 W41 L14 L31 W44
36	Heinzen, Zach	1470	2	6.5	9.5	5	L10 L31 W45 W48 L15
37	Befi, Michael	1250	2	4	6.5	3	L40 L21 L44 W49 W46
38	Hirsch, Chad	1444	1.5	8	11.5	5	L6 W46 L16 D42 L23
39	Jarman, Tony		1.5	7.5	10.5	4.5	L24 W42 L17 L32 D41
40	Tyagi, Kushan	1845	1.5	7	11	6.5	W37 L3 D28 L21 -N-
41	Rokni, Eric	1209	1.5	6.5	9	3.5	L25 L35 W46 L34 D39
42	Gorectke, Samuel	1313	1.5	5.5	9.5	4	L5 L39 W49 D38 L26
43	Shankar, Gauri	2194	1.5	2	5	7	W34 D13 -N- -N- -N-
44	Walters, Craig	900	1	9	12	3	L27 L26 W37 L19 L35
45	Valente, Thomas	1109	1	6.5	9.5	1	L15 L32 L36 L23 W49
46	Ivarson, Andrew	789	1	6	9	2	L14 L38 L41 W47 L37
47	Winder, Alex	1014	1	6	8.5	1	L29 L28 L34 L46 W48
48	Witthuhn, Logan	639	1	5.5	8.5	3	L17 -B- L24 L36 L47
49	Gregg, Thomas	916	0	6.5	9.5	0	L11 L33 L42 L37 L45

Club & Team:

Top School:

1. Nile High School (4) 10.0 48.5 30.0 145.5 41.0

Rosen, Eric (4.5,2149)

Gupta, Saagar (3.0,1663)

Hirsch, Chad (1.5,1444)

Valente, Thomas (1.0,1109)

2. Burnsville (5) 8.0 43.5 21.5 130.5 20.5

Powell, Alex (3.0,1917)

Rezekulov, Dan (2.0,1539)

Heinzen, Zach (2.0,1470)

Winder, Alex (1.0,1014)

3. NQVHS NQVHS (2) 6.0 21.0 17.0 61.5 23.0

Datla, Siddarth (3.0,1713)

Datla, Sameer (3.0,1701)

4. USM USM (2) 3.5 20.5 10.5 58.5 11.5

Bowen, James (2.5,1705)

Ivarson, Andrew (1.0,789)

Top Club:

1. CR64CC CR64CC (4) 10.0 43.5 28.0 132.5 34.5

Veech, John (3.0,2038)

Zimmermann, Troy (3.0,1676)

Schneider, Thomas (2.5,1782)

Rokni, Eric (1.5,1209)

2. MDWCC MDWCC (3) 9.0 32.5 21.5 95.0 35.5

Jin, David (3.5,1912)

Strugnell, Neil (3.5,1816)

Kodali, Suhas (2.0,1594)

3. NBWCC NBWCC (3) 6.5 35.5 18.5 108.0 23.5

Das, Ritankar (2.5,1310)

Gorectke, Andrew (2.5,1550)

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