^{Austin Chess Tour 2: Open Qualifier #4}

^{In-Person USCF Rated Tournament} 

 

^{April 19, 2025}

^{12466 Los Indios Trail, Ste.100}

^{Austin, TX 78729}

^{* USCF Membership Required *}

 

^{Free Parking Provided} 

 

^{Capacity: 100 players}

^{BROADCAST LINK}

 

^{FINAL STANDINGS:}

 

^{SECTION A:}

#	Place	Name	ID	Rating	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Total	T-Med	T-Solkoff	T-Cumul.	T-Op. cumul.
1	1	Vladimir Belous	16004571	2576	W16	W12	W4	W3	4.0	7	8.5	10	24.5
2	2	Guillermo Javier Blanco Amaro	15945317	2087	D15	W6	D5	W11	3.0	7	8.5	7	21.5
3	3-9	Julian Joseph	16783177	1974	W18	D10	W7	L1	2.5	8.5	9.5	7.5	24.5
4		Andrew Sun-Rong Mao	14290440	2032	W19	W14	L1	D6	2.5	8	9	7.5	22.5
5		Evan Bates	30745116	1957	W17	D7	D2	D8	2.5	8	9	7	21
6		Asher Chodniewicz	30288162	1826	W11	L2	W15	D4	2.5	7.5	9	6.5	22.5
7		Colin B Albert	15325998	2245	W13	D5	L3	W16	2.5	7	8.5	6.5	22.5
8		Kevin Liu	14737573	2104	L14	W15	W10	D5	2.5	6	7.5	5.5	21
9		Justin Trey	15592064	2065	L10	W19	D16	W14	2.5	5	6	5	16
10	10-13	Emerson Aurelius Johnson	30729099	1850	W9	D3	L8	D12	2.0	5	9.5	6	23.5
11		Leonid Burd	32140016	2027	L6	W18	W13	L2	2.0	4.5	8.5	5	19.5
12		Chase Rugby Lonie	16392562	1931	W20	L1	D14	D10	2.0	3.5	7.5	5.5	21
13		Miransh Purven Vyas	30722465	1900	L7	W17	L11	W18	2.0	3	6.5	4	15.5
14	14-16	Yangyang Shen	17080503	1867	W8	L4	D12	L9	1.5	7	9.5	5	23.5
15		Krrish Kaul	16596843	1860	D2	L8	L6	W17	1.5	6	9	3	21
16		Pranav Santhosh	30579866	1918	L1	W20	D9	L7	1.5	5	9	4	21.5
17	17-19	Benjamin Cai	16322627	1814	L5	L13	W19	L15	1.0	4.5	7	2	15
18		Eric Alexander Dumitru	17164035	1823	L3	L11	W20	L13	1.0	4	6.5	2	16.5
19		Kai Zhou Lan	30658202	1843	L4	L9	L17	W20	1.0	3.5	6	1	14.5
20	20	Lucas Yu	30915089	1796	L12	L16	L18	L19	0.0	3.5	5.5	0	12.5

  

^{SECTION B:} 

#	Place	Name	ID	Rating	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Total	T-Med	T-Solkoff	T-Cumul.	T-Op. cumul.
1	1	Alexander Ramey	30280135	1611	W14	W16	W10	W3	4.0	7	8.5	10	24
2	2	Ilan Shvets	31345345	1558	W23	D6	W12	W11	3.5	6.5	7.5	8.5	18
3	3-5	Tyler Wallace	32215695	unr.	W24	W15	W4	L1	3.0	8.5	8.5	9	23
4		Scott R, Ii Richmond	12858050	1573	W22	W5	L3	W13	3.0	8	9	8	24
5		Beckham Chodniewicz	30288144	1519	W12	L4	W22	W10	3.0	7	8	7	22
6	6-9	Kai Yi Wang	30528820	1622	W13	D2	D11	D7	2.5	8	10	7	25.5
7		Rithik Ganesh	17293416	1482	D11	D20	W17	D6	2.5	6	7	6	20
8		Jenny Baranker	15023585	1753	D18	L10	W19	W15	2.5	5	6.5	5	18.5
9		Advaith Jijesh	30646434	1413	L15	D21	W24	W16	2.5	4	4	4.5	12.5
10	10-14	Yixin Wang	31926688	1373	W21	W8	L1	L5	2.0	5.5	10.5	7	24.5
11		Nived Ratheesh	30687838	1645	D7	W18	D6	L2	2.0	5	10	6	25
12		Tanvi Borse	15992594	1794	L5	W19	L2	W21	2.0	4.5	9	4	21
13		Adhyan Reddy Danda	30645449	1463	L6	W23	W20	L4	2.0	3.5	7.5	5	19.5
14		Yiheng Ethan Chen	30441678	1455	L1	L17	W23	W20	2.0	2.5	7.5	3	18
15	15-19	John Ramey	30387710	1588	W9	L3	D16	L8	1.5	6.5	9.5	5	23.5
16		Srihaas K Desu	30037713	1473	W17	L1	D15	L9	1.5	5.5	9.5	5	23
17		Guna Ar Sanepalli	30790886	1637	L16	W14	L7	D18	1.5	5	7.5	3.5	17.5
18		Dallin Bates	30745147	1497	D8	L11	D21	D17	1.5	4.5	7	3.5	17
19		Jay Choi	31876704	1438	D20	L12	L8	W22	1.5	4	6.5	3	15.5
20	20-23	Landon David Howard	14930533	1609	D19	D7	L13	L14	1.0	5.5	8	3.5	17
21		Yueqi Jin	16948104	1569	L10	D9	D18	L12	1.0	5.5	8	2.5	19
22		Jeffrey Q Chui	30882595	1407	L4	W24	L5	L19	1.0	4.5	7.5	3	18
23		Martin Tang	31982613	1323	L2	L13	L14	W24	1.0	4	7.5	1	16.5
24	24	Venkateswara Rao Bandaru	32224413	1542	L3	L22	L9	L23	0.0	4.5	7.5	0	17.5

 

^{SECTION C:} 

#	Place	Name	ID	Rating	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Total	T-Med	T-Solkoff	T-Cumul.	T-Op. cumul.
1	1	Charvith Lingutla	30639612	1326	W24	W14	W8	W3	4.0	7.5	8.5	10	25.5
2	2	Jesus Rubin Rios	15317234	1385	W25	D22	W12	W7	3.5	6	7	8.5	20
3	3-6	Subbu Sivaraju	30066824	1243	W27	W15	W9	L1	3.0	8.5	9.5	9	23.5
4		Pranav Kandi	31493287	1297	L13	W18	W15	W14	3.0	6	8	6	20
5		Amudha Pratheep Kumar	31456373	1370	D12	W23	W22	D9	3.0	6	7.5	7.5	22
6		Shan C	31859659	1316	L22	W25	W24	W13	3.0	4.5	5.5	6	16.5
7	7-11	Anika Shambhavi Kaul	17072545	1388	D11	W21	W10	L2	2.5	8.5	10	7	25.5
8		Sri Charan Admala	31330610	unr.	W26	W20	L1	D10	2.5	8.5	9.5	7.5	25
9		Parv Parikh	30065214	1368	W30	W16	L3	D5	2.5	8	8	7.5	22
10		Eshaann Madhan	31155145	1231	W18	W13	L7	D8	2.5	7	9	7.5	23.5
11		Rutvik Papisetti	30383392	1163	D7	L12	W29	W22	2.5	6	6.5	5	19.5
12	12-21	Andrew Monroe Marsh	31805539	1115	D5	W11	L2	D16	2.0	5.5	11	5.5	26.5
13		Alice Sun	30540358	1042	W4	L10	W19	L6	2.0	5.5	10.5	6	23.5
14		Vladimir Travkin	31501724	1022	W28	L1	W20	L4	2.0	5	10	6	22
15		Darsh Mishra	17097771	1080	W17	L3	L4	W26	2.0	5	9	5	22
16		Samvik Indrakanti	16771001	1122	W19	L9	D17	D12	2.0	4	8.5	5.5	21.5
17		Asher Joseph	30561022	1324	L15	W27	D16	D21	2.0	3.5	6.5	4.5	16
18		Anushka Borse	16724907	997	L10	L4	W30	W25	2.0	3.5	6.5	3	15.5
19		Grace Peng	30665735	1381	L16	W30	L13	W23	2.0	3.5	5.5	4	15
20		Ilai [eli] Gross	16657125	1232	W29	L8	L14	W24	2.0	3	6	5	18
21		Edison Chodniewicz	30280271	939	B---	L7	D26	D17	2.0	3	5.5	4.5	14
22	22-23	Aariv Kushwaha	16338850	1077	W6	D2	L5	L11	1.5	8.5	12	5.5	27
23		Zachary Kinney	30884894	884	H---	L5	W28	L19	1.5	3	6	3.5	12.5
24	24-28	Ryan Bhargav	31339682	1099	L1	W28	L6	L20	1.0	6	10	3	22
25		Mridul Karnatak	30701511	1122	L2	L6	W27	L18	1.0	6	9.5	2	18.5
26		Derek Han	30417250	1179	L8	D29	D21	L15	1.0	4	6.5	2.5	18.5
27		Akhil Gopu	32029095	1017	L3	L17	L25	W30	1.0	3	6	1	15.5
28		Sai Karthik Sivaraju	31922646	1287	L14	L24	L23	W29	1.0	3	5	1	14
29	29	Clarissa Ramirez	31483112	1010	L20	D26	L11	L28	0.5	4	6.5	1.5	13.5
30	30	Kevin Yu	30551486	1105	L9	L19	L18	L27	0.0	5	7.5	0	15.5

 

^{SECTION D:} 

#	Place	Name	ID	Rating	Rd 1	Rd 2	Rd 3	Rd 4	Total	T-Med	T-Solkoff	T-Cumul.	T-Op. cumul.
1	1-3	Caleb Jd Hawkins	31467648	947	W12	W5	W4	D2	3.5	9.5	11.5	9.5	29.5
2		Igor Travkin	31501714	946	W18	W11	W7	D1	3.5	8.5	9.5	9.5	25.5
3		Ash Gutierrez	32335522	unr.	D16	W15	W8	W9	3.5	7	8.5	8	20
4	4-7	Augie Hiram, Jr Lewis	32243907	849	W22	W10	L1	W12	3.0	7.5	8	8	20.5
5		Sudarshan Mahesh	16233828	656	W25	L1	W17	W14	3.0	6.5	7	7	19
6		Vihaan Tiwan	32293023	257	L23	W21	W16	W10	3.0	6	7.5	6	15
7		Aarush Yerubandi	31792104	723	W24	W17	L2	W13	3.0	6	6.5	8	20
8	8-9	Soham A Shah	30048529	696	W14	D9	L3	W18	2.5	8	9	6.5	23.5
9		Chaitanya Sai Pusarla	31983444	959	W19	D8	W13	L3	2.5	7.5	8.5	7.5	22.5
10	10-15	Zane Kinney	30884904	550	W21	L4	W11	L6	2.0	5	9.5	6	21
11		Anay Singhal	32418002	unr.	W15	L2	L10	W17	2.0	4	8.5	5	22.5
12		Vibhav Narra	32322654	475	L1	W25	W18	L4	2.0	4	8	5	21
13		Goutham Krishna Nara Manchiganti	32323455	401	X---	W16	L9	L7	2.0	4	7	6	18.5
14		Zachary Kattawar	32413580	unr.	L8	W19	W20	L5	2.0	3.5	7.5	5	18.5
15		Evan Wu	32003699	822	L11	L3	W24	W20	2.0	3	7	3	16.5
16	16	Shourya Bandaru	32193247	741	D3	L13	L6	W19	1.5	5.5	9	3	22
17	17-23	Sonny Yang	32026527	unr.	W20	L7	L5	L11	1.0	6	9	4	23
18		Aditya Malaraju	32040462	796	L2	W22	L12	L8	1.0	5	8.5	3	21
19		Monisha Allu	31962879	514	L9	L14	W25	L16	1.0	4	6.5	2	16
20		Vidish Narra	32322633	531	L17	W24	L14	L15	1.0	3.5	5.5	3	12.5
21		Mark Gutierrez	32384152	unr.	L10	L6	W22	---	1.0	2.5	5.5	2	12
22		Riya Purven Vyas	32007392	175	L4	L18	L21	B---	1.0	2.5	5.5	0	13
23		Zachary Kinney	30884894	884	W6	---	---	---	1.0	0	3	4	6
24	24-25	Pranshu Karnatak	32416967	unr.	L7	L20	L15	D25	0.5	3.5	6.5	0.5	14.5
25		Yashas Katari	32011909	unr.	L5	L12	L19	D24	0.5	3.5	6.5	0.5	14.5

 

 

^SECTIONS:

^{All players will be divided into 4 sections:} 

^{SECTION A: 1800+ Open USCF rated} 

^{SECTION B: 1400 - 1799 Open USCF rated}

^{SECTION C: 1000 - 1399 Open USCF rated}

^{SECTION D: U1000 Open USCF rated}

^{**Players are not allowed to play up or down** 
**The higher of the official or most recent rating will determine section selection.**
**If two adjacent sections each have an odd number of players, and the highest-rated player in the lower section is within 50 rating points of the higher section, they may be moved up to balance the sections**
These rules are to avoid byes and better pairings for all.}

^{ENTRY FEES:} 

^{Early Bird: $50 by April 13, 2025 by 11:59pm} 

^{$60 on or after April 14, 2025}

 

^PRIZES: 

Section A: $400, $200, $100

Section B: $200, $100, $50

Section C: $100, $75, $50

Section D: Chess books

Medals will be awarded to top 3 finishers in all sections

 

^{Open Qualifier Points:} 

^{Top 10 places in Section A will earn points according to the following table:}

^{1st Place: 25 OQ Points}

^{2nd Place: 18 OQ Points}

^{3rd Place: 15 OQ Points}

^{4th Place: 12 OQ Points}

^{5th Place: 10 OQ Points}

^{6th Place: 8 OQ Points}

^{7th Place: 6 OQ Points}

^{8th Place: 4 OQ Points}

^{9th Place: 2 OQ Points}

10th Place: 1 OQ Points

 

For more information about the point system, visit

https://austin-chess.com/tournaments/

 

^{TIME CONTROL:} 

^{Section A: G/60, d5 (60 minutes per player with a 5-second delay)}

^{Section B: G/60, d5 (60 minutes per player with a 5-second delay)}

^{Section C: G/45, d5 (45 minutes per player with a 5-second delay)}

^{Section D: G/45, d5 (45 minutes per player with a 5-second delay)}

 

^{4-Round Swiss System Schedule}

^{SECTIONS A and B:}

^{1st round: 10:00 AM}

^{2nd round: 12:15 PM}

^{Lunch Break: 2:30 PM}

^{3rd round: 3:30 PM}

^{4th round: 5:45 PM}

^{SECTIONS C and D:}

^{1st round: 10:00 AM}

^{2nd round: 11:45 AM}

^{Lunch Break: 1:30 PM}

^{3rd round: 2:30 PM}

^{4th round: 4:15 PM}

^{Closing ceremony for each section will take place after the final round of that section.}

^{NOTE: Half-point byes are acceptable for all rounds, limit 1. Must commit before the 1st round.}

^{PLAYERS MAY NOT POSSESS CELL PHONES DURING THE TOURNAMENT.  Please leave your phone at home, in your car, or turned off (vibrate/silent not acceptable) on top of your table.} 

^{Any violators may be subject to disqualification and forfeiture.} 

 

CANCELLATION POLICY: If you do not wish to participate in our tournament after paying the entry fee, please email us at info@austin-chess.com no later than 24 hours in advance. We reserve the right to charge a $15 service fee for cancellations. NO refunds will be issued if we are notified of cancellation within 24 hours of the start of the event. 

WITHDRAWAL POLICY: If you would like to withdraw from the tournament after it begins, please alert the tournament director. NO refunds will be issued after the tournament begins. 

NO-SHOW POLICY: There are NO refunds or credit for players who do not show up for their scheduled tournament matches.

 

^{For additional questions, please contact us at info@austin-chess.com}

Section A: Open 1800+

#	First	Last	USCF ID	USCF Rating
1	Vladimir	Belous	16004571	2576
2	Rohit	Gundam	14908373	2281
3	Colin	Albert	15325998	2256
4	Kevin	Liu	14737573	2104
5	Guillermo	Blanco	15945317	2087
6	Justin	Trey	15592064	2065
7	Andrew	Mao	14290440	2032
8	Leonid	Burd	32140016	2027
9	Julian	Joseph	16783177	1974
10	Evan	Bates	30745116	1957
11	Chase	Lonie	16392562	1931
12	Miransh	Vyas	30722465	1910
13	Emerson Aurelius	Johnson	30729099	1900
14	Pranav	Santhosh	30579866	1893
15	Yangyang	Shen	17080503	1867
16	Krrish	Kaul	16596843	1860
17	Asher	Chodniewicz	30288162	1828
18	Kai	Lan	30658202	1819
19	Benjamin	Cai	16322627	1814
20	Eric	Dumitru	17164035	1802

Section B: Open U1800

#	First	Last	USCF ID	USCF Rating
1	Tanvi	Borse	15992594	1794
2	Lucas	Yu	30915089	1784
3	Tyler	Wallace	32215695	1720
4	Jenny	Baranker	15023585	1697
5	Nived	Ratheesh	30687838	1645
6	John	Ramey	30387710	1618
7	Landon	Howard	14930533	1609
8	Kai	Wang	30528820	1600
9	Ilan	Shvets	31345345	1586
10	Scott	Richmond	12858050	1573
11	Alexander	Ramey	30280135	1572
12	Beckham	Chodniewicz	30288144	1569
13	Massa	Jin	16948104	1550
14	Venkateswara Rao	Bandaru	32224413	1542
15	Dallin	Bates	30745147	1497
16	Rithik	Ganesh	17293416	1482
17	Srihaas	Desu	30037713	1473
18	Martin	Tang	31982613	1472
19	Adhyan	Danda	30645449	1463
20	Yiheng	Chen	30441678	1455
21	Advaith	Jijesh	30646434	1446
22	Guna	Sanepalli	30790886	1441
23	Yixin	Wang	31926688	1439
24	Jay	Choi	31876704	1438
25	Jeffrey	Chui	30882595	1407

Section C: Open U1400

#	First	Last	USCF ID	USCF Rating
1	Sri Charan	Admala	31330610	1389
2	Anika	Kaul	17072545	1388
3	Jesus	Rios	15317234	1385
4	Amudha	Pratheep Kumar	31456373	1370
5	Parv	Parikh	30065214	1369
6	Charvith	Lingutla	30639612	1326
7	Asher	Joseph	30561022	1324
8	Shan	C	31859659	1316
9	Eshaann	Madhan	31155145	1306
10	Grace	Peng	30665735	1304
11	Pranav	Kandi	31493287	1297
12	Sai Karthik	Sivaraju	31922646	1287
13	Subbu	Sivaraju	30066824	1260
14	Ilai	Gross	16657125	1232
15	Andrew	Marsh	31805539	1224
16	Edison	Chodniewicz	30280271	1202
17	Samvik	Indrakanti	16771001	1200
18	Derek	Han	30417250	1179
19	Rutvik	Papisetti	30383392	1163
20	Kevin	Yu	30551486	1141
21	Mridul	Karnatak	30701511	1122
22	Ryan	Bhargav	31339682	1086
23	Alice	Sun	30540358	1086
24	Darsh	Mishra	17097771	1080
25	Aariv	Kushwaha	16338850	1043
26	Vladimir	Travkin	31501724	1022
27	Clarissa	Ramirez	31483112	1019
28	Akhil	Gopu	32029095	1017
29	Anushka	Borse	16724907	1004

Section D: Open U1000

#	First	Last	USCF ID	USCF Rating
1	Zachary	Kinney	30884894	999
2	Chaitanya	Pusarla	31983444	959
3	Caleb	Hawkins	31467648	947
4	Igor	Travkin	31501714	946
5	Ash	Gutierrez	32335522	915
6	Augie	Lewis	32243907	849
7	Evan	Wu	32003699	830
8	Aditya	Malaraju	32040462	796
9	Shourya	Bandaru	32193247	789
10	Aarush	Yerubandi	31792104	723
11	Soham	Shah	30048529	696
12	Sudarshan	Mahesh	16233828	656
13	Zane	Kinney	30884904	639
14	Monisha	Allu	31962879	514
15	Vihaan	Tiwan	32293023	257
16	Riya	Vyas	32007392	195
17	Joel	Hawthorne	32238743	Unrated
18	Vidish	Narra	32322633	Unrated
19	Vibhav	Narra	32322654	Unrated
20	Yashas	Katari	32011909	Unrated
21	Mark	Gutierrez	32384152	Unrated
22	Anay	Singhal	32418002	Unrated
23	Bing	Yang	32026527	Unrated
24	Zachary	Kattawar	32413580	Unrated
25	Pranshu	Karnatak	32416967	Unrated