Past Tournaments

We are excited to announce the second season of Austin Chess Tour!
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Jun 7

AGCA Summer Scholastic # 1

PRIZES: 

Trophies for 1st Place, Medals for 2nd and 3rd Places

This is a scholastic USCF Rated tournament - only players who are 18 years of age or under can play.

 

Jun 11

2025 AGCA Invitational - Summer Edition

Dates: June 11-15, 2025

The tournament will have 3 sections: GM Norm, IM Norm and 2nd Austin Chess Tour Finals.

 

Jun 21

AGCA Summer Open #1

PRIZES: 

Open 1800+: $400, $200, $100 + medals

Open U1800:  $200, $100, $50 + medals

Open U1400:  $100, $75, $50 + medals

Open U1000:  chess books + medals

Jul 5

AGCA Summer Scholastic # 2

PRIZES: 

Trophies for 1st Place, Medals for 2nd and 3rd Places

This is a scholastic USCF Rated tournament - only players who are 18 years of age or under can play.

 

Jul 26

AGCA Summer Open #2

PRIZES: 

Open 1800+: $400, $200, $100 + medals

Open U1800:  $200, $100, $50 + medals

Open U1400:  $100, $75, $50 + medals

Open U1000:  chess books + medals

We are excited to announce the second season of Austin Chess Tour!

It shall consist of 5 Open and 5 Junior Qualifiers and a Final Round-Robin Tournament.

The winner of the Final Round-Robin Tournament will get to participate in the IM Norm Section of the 2026 AGCA Invitational Tournament - Winter Edition.

Who can participate in the Final Round-Robin Tournament?

7 spots of the Round-Robin Tournament will go to participants with the most points earned in Open Qualifiers and 3 spots to participants from Junior Qualifiers. ** Please note: Out of the 5 tournaments, only the best 4 results will be counted in determining the qualifying players, with the lowest score excluded. Additionally, if a player qualifies through the Open Qualifiers, their score for the Junior Qualifiers will not be counted toward the final standings.

Top 10 spots from the main section of each tournament shall earn points according to the table below:

1st Place: 25 points

2nd Place: 18 points

3rd Place: 15 points

4th Place: 12 points

5th Place: 10 points

6th Place: 8 points

7th Place: 6 points

8th Place: 4 points

9th Place: 2 points

10th Place: 1 points

What happens if there are ties within a tournament?

In case of ties the points will be added and divided equally (e.g. 2-way tie for 4th place will give 11 points to 4th and 5th finishers). 

Will Open Qualifier (OQ) points count toward Junior Qualifier (JQ) points or vice verca?

No, Junior and Open Qualifiers will have their separate point systems. JQ points are only counted toward the 3 Junior Qualifier spots and OQ points are only counted toward the 7 Open Qualifier spots.


 

2nd Season's Open Qualifier Points:

Place Player Open 1 Open 2 Open 3 Open 4 Open 5 Total Qualification
1 Colin B Albert 0 25 21.5 8.14 16.5 71.14 Qualified
2 Rahul Mynala 10.43 16.5 8 0 16.5 51.43 Qualified
3 Vladimir Belous 0 0 21.5 25 0 46.5  
4 Lucius Melillo 0 16.5 0.58 0 25 42.08  
5 Rohit Gundam 25 0 0 0 9 34 Qualified
6 Chase Rugby Lonie 10.43 0 0 0 9 19.43 Qualified
7 Guillermo Javier Blano Amaro 0 0 0 18 0 18 Qualified
8 Yangyang Shen 10.43 6 0 0 0 16.43  
9 Julian Joseph 0 6 0 8.14 0 14.14 Qualified
10 Tanish Seelam 0 11 0 0 0.5 11.5 Qualified
11 Atharva Bist 0 11 0 0 0 11  
12 Guillermo Vazquez 0 0 11 0 0 11  
13 Logan C Shafer 0 0 11 0 0 11  
14 Prasanna Borse 10.43 0 0 0 0 10.43  
15 Steven J Linett 10.43 0 0 0 0 10.43  
16 Emerson Aurelius Johnson 10.43 0 0 0 0 10.43  
17 Ruben O Garcia 10.43 0 0 0 0 10.43  
18 Asher Chodniewicz 0 1.5 0 8.14 0 9.64  
19 Shahin Masoumi 0 0 0 0 9 9  
20 Michael Thomas 0 0 0 0 9 9  
21 Evan Bates 0 0 0.58 8.14 0 8.72  
22 Kevin Liu 0 0 0 8.14 0 8.14  
23 Justin Trey 0 0 0 8.14 0 8.14  
24 Andrew Sun-Rong Mao 0 0 0 8.14 0 8.14  
25 Rachel Li 0 0 8 0 0 8  
26 Guillermo Javier Blanco Amaro 0 0 8 0 0 8  
27 Pranav Santhosh 0 6 0 0 0 6  
28 Alex Li 0 0 0 0 3 3  
29 Ben Austin 0 0 0 0 3 3  
30 Kai Lan 1.5 1.5 0 0 0 3  
31 Eric Dumitru 1.5 0 0.58 0 0 2.08  
32 Leonid Burd 0 0 0.58 1 0 1.58  
33 Lohit Krishna Naraya Polisetti 0 0 0.58 0 0 0.58  
34 Neil Lad 0 0 0.58 0 0 0.58  
35 Oscar Yihang Zhang 0 0 0.58 0 0 0.58  
36 William Molina 0 0 0.58 0 0 0.58  
37 Mohit Sreejan Bayyarapu 0 0 0.58 0 0 0.58  
38 Harish Chandran 0 0 0.58 0 0 0.58  
39 Abhinav Naveen Mysore 0 0 0.58 0 0 0.58  
40 Vishnu Chetlapali 0 0 0.58 0 0 0.58  
41 Jan Frans Van Der Linden 0 0 0 0 0.5 0.5  

 

 

2nd Season's Juinor Qualifier Points:

Place Player Junior 1 Junior 2 Junior 3 Junior 4 Junior 5 Total Qualification
1 Kai Lan 25 8 25 16.5 15 89.5 Qualified
2 Evan Bates 0 25 0 25 9 59 Qualified
3 Yangyang Shen 0 8 18 16.5 16.5 59  
4 Krrish Kaul 0 16.5 0 11 9 36.5 Qualified
5 Asher Chodniewicz 18 16.5 0 0 0 34.5  
6 Eric Zolidis 0 12 11.25 5 0 28.25  
7 Alexander Ramey 13.5 2.33 11.25 0 0 27.08  
8 Nived Ratheesh 0 8 11.25 0 0 19.25  
9 Alan Ni 0 0 0 0 16.5 16.5  
10 Nidhish Reddy Bumireddy 0 0 11.25 5 0 16.25  
11 Beckham Chodniewicz 13.5 0 0 0 2.33 15.83  
12 Julio Alberto Aguilar Huang 0 0 0 11 0 11  
13 Yueqi Jin 10 0 0 0 0 10  
14 Ilan Shvets 0 0 0 0 9 9  
15 Julian Joseph 0 0 0 0 9 9  
16 Lucas Yu 0 0 0 5 0 5  
17 Vishnu Subramony 0 0 0 5 0 5  
18 Guna Sanepalli 0 0 0 0.33 2.33 2.66  
19 Eric Dumitru 0 2.33 0 0 0 2.33  
20 Vaughn Daemian 0 2.33 0 0 0 2.33  
21 Tharun Sridhar 0 0 0 0 2.33 2.33  
22 Kai Yi Wang 0 0 0 0.33 0 0.33  
23 Tanvi Borse 0 0 0 0.33 0 0.33