BayAreaChess 1740:
2020 New Year Championship
Jan 3-5, 2020

Total: 156

Open (2000+): 33 - A (1800-1999): 23 - B (1600-1799): 26 - C (1400-1599): 22 - D (1200- 1399): 13 - E (u1200): 18

@ Santa Clara Convention Center, 5001 Great America Pkwy Santa Clara, CA 95054 (map)

Prize Fund $10,400 b/154 Paid Entries - 80% of Prize Fund
($13000 b/197 80% guaranteed)
Section Open (2000+) A (1800-1999) B (1600-1799) C (1400-1599) D (1200-1399) Eu (u1200)
Actual Projected Actual Projected Actual Projected Actual Projected Actual Projected Actual Projected
1st $1,200 $1,500 $1,040 $1,300 $880 $1,100 $720 $900 $560 $700 $400 $500
2nd $560 $700 $480 $600 $400 $500 $320 $400 $240 $300 $160 $200
3rd $240 $300 $240 $300 $160 $200 $160 $200 $120 $150 $120 $150
4th $120 $150 $120 $150 $120 $150 $120 $150 $120 $150 $120 $150
5th $120 $150 $120 $150 $120 $150 $120 $150 $120 $150 $120 $150
Class u2300
1st $480 $600
2nd $320 $400
3rd $160 $200

Open

# Name ID Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6 Rd 7 Tot Prize
1 Arun Dixit 14607904 2165 D9 W32 D15 W20 W23 D3 W6 5.5 1st place: $1200;
2nd place: $560;
1st u2300: $480;
3-way split of $2240 =
$746.67 each
2 Shaashw Sivakumar 15089302 2080 L27 W36 W26 W10 W13 D6 W12 5.5
3 Austin R Mei 16090452 2024 W21 W27 W13 D11 W6 D1 D4 5.5
4 Shreyas San Nayak 15161797 2107 W30 D17 L20 W32 W24 W11 D3 5.0 2nd u2300: $320
5 Edward Li 13505956 2120 W28 L24 W29 L6 W27 D10 W20 4.5 3rd place: $240;
4th place: $120;
5th place: $120;
3rd u2300: $160;
5-way split of $640 = $128 each
6 Michael Lei Wang 13605850 2091 B--- W16 W24 W5 L3 D2 L1 4.5
7 Prasanna Borse 12938906 2004 L10 H--- D34 D17 W33 W24 W15 4.5
8 Arul ^ Viswanathan 14490424 1975 D1 L14 D30 W34 W17 W13 D11 4.5
9 Yanzhe ^ Feng 16063520 1860 W8 D15 D12 L2 W19 D5 W14 4.5
10 Pran Senthilkumar 14020007 2019 W22 D11 D14 D12 W20 W15 U--- 4.5  
11 NM Henry Wang 15300888 2194 W19 D7 W17 D3 D15 L4 D9 4.0  
12 Kunal Shrivastav 15177238 2065 W31 D20 D10 D7 D25 W23 L2 4.0  
13 Evan Ai 14780703 2050 W36 W23 L3 W19 L2 L9 W25 4.0  
14 John Luca Canessa 13724952 2137 D26 W9 D7 L23 D29 W25 L10 3.5  
15 Abhi Penagalapati 15467440 2033 W33 D10 D1 W27 D11 L7 L8 3.5  
16 Kristian Clemens 13901075 2019 D29 L6 D25 D24 H--- W31 D18 3.5  
17 Pranav Sairam 15424820 2016 W35 D4 L11 D8 L9 W27 D19 3.5  
18 Ashley ^ Pang 15365204 1989 L32 W33 L27 D31 W22 D21 D16 3.5  
19 Nitish ^ Nathan 15494283 1984 L11 W21 W22 L13 L10 W32 D17 3.5  
20 Berna ^ Bednarz III 12602173 1967 X--- D12 W4 L1 L7 W29 L5 3.5  
21 Yesun ^ Lee 15365623 1867 L3 L19 D33 B--- W34 D18 D24 3.5  
22 Vincent ^ Qin 16571968 1830 L7 B--- L19 W30 L18 D34 W28 3.5  
23 Rudy G Tia Jr 12658822 2016 W34 L13 W31 W14 L1 L12 U--- 3.0  
24 Alan ^ Finkelstein 14958842 1950 W25 W5 L6 D16 L4 L8 D21 3.0  
25 Jacob ^ Chiang 16093205 1857 L24 B--- D16 W28 D12 L14 L13 3.0  
26 Rohan ^ Das 15263634 1963 D14 H--- L2 H--- W28 U--- U--- 2.5  
27 Advay ^ Bansal 16068511 1935 W2 L3 W18 L15 L5 L17 D30 2.5  
28 Andrew* Guo 16192001 1862 L5 D29 B--- L25 L26 W30 L22 2.5  
29 Rohan ^ Rajaram 15739716 1861 D16 D28 L5 B--- D14 L20 U--- 2.5  
30 Sricharan ^ Pullela 15580337 1953 L4 D34 D9 L22 H--- L28 D27 2.0  
31 Richard ^ Peng 15031846 1924 L12 W35 L23 D18 D32 L16 U--- 2.0  
32 Leo ^ $e30 Jiang 14738650 1859 W18 L1 H--- L4 D31 L19 U--- 2.0  
33 Atul R ^ Kamath 14664382 1889 L15 L18 D21 W36 L8 U--- U--- 1.5  
34 Anika ^ Rajaram 15446678 1867 L23 D30 D8 L9 L21 D22 U--- 1.5  
35 Andrew ^ Guo 16192001 1862 L17 L31 B--- U--- U--- U--- U--- 1.0  
36 Felix Yipeng ^ Liu 14709715 1908 L13 L2 H--- L33 U--- U--- U--- 0.5  

 

A

# Name ID Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6 Rd 7 Tot Prize
1 Sterling C Albury 13215552 1904 H--- L6 W10 W19 W12 W2 W4 5.5 1st place: $1040;
2nd place: $480;
3rd place: $240;
3-way split of $1760 = $586.67 each
Econ = $293.33
2 Kevin Leong Fong 16070663 1857 W18 W13 W3 D7 W4 L1 W9 5.5
3 Alexander ^ -E Nishio 14894235 1778 W9 W8 L2 D12 W20 W16 W7 5.5
4 Cailen J Melville 14006141 1884 W22 W19 W5 W20 L2 W7 L1 5.0 4th place: $120
5 Javier Silva III 16089208 1847 W26 D20 L4 D6 D21 W14 W13 4.5 5th place: $120;
3-way split = $40 each
Econ = $20
6 Deepak M Kini 15295206 1792 H--- W1 L20 D5 H--- W21 W15 4.5
7 Saatvik ^ -E Krishnan 15210955 1713 W16 W24 W17 D2 W9 L4 L3 4.5
8 Roger Buland 11339620 1900 W25 L3 L12 H--- W23 D13 W19 4.0  
9 Patrick Peiju ^ Liu 16667410 1629 L3 W25 W24 W21 L7 W17 L2 4.0  
10 Jeffery ^ -E Wang 16291100 1777 L19 D22 L1 L14 B--- W26 W20 3.5  
11 Umesh ^ Gopi 14976408 1776 D15 D21 D23 L13 W26 H--- D12 3.5  
12 Aditya ^ -E Kumar 14230146 1748 H--- H--- W8 D3 L1 D20 D11 3.5  
13 Daniel ^ -E Kou 15372677 1730 W23 L2 D15 W11 D17 D8 L5 3.5  
14 Krish ^ -E Matai 16444206 1712 L20 L26 W22 W10 D15 L5 W21 3.5  
15 Ryan ^ -E Wang 15991187 1611 D11 L17 D13 W24 D14 W18 L6 3.5  
16 David R Jackson 11159702 1970 L7 W27 L21 W25 W19 L3 U--- 3.0  
17 Rahim Gran 12427338 1900 D21 W15 L7 W23 D13 L9 U--- 3.0  
18 Benjamin Zh ^ -E Zhang 16395782 1660 L2 L23 L25 B--- W22 L15 W26 3.0  
19 Adway Gajana ^ -E Sane 15955692 1640 W10 L4 W26 L1 L16 W24 L8 3.0  
20 Pranav Sathish 16464655 1636 W14 D5 W6 L4 L3 D12 L10 3.0  
21 Aditya ^ -E Arutla 16207801 1691 D17 D11 W16 L9 D5 L6 L14 2.5  
22 Siddharth ^* Arutla 15336920 1658 L4 D10 L14 D26 L18 W25 D23 2.5  
23 Kavya ^ -E Meiyappan 15882866 1609 L13 W18 D11 L17 L8 H--- D22 2.5  
24 Sophia ^ Peng 15388591 1780 W27 L7 L9 L15 W25 L19 U--- 2.0  
25 Kyle ^ Chang 16418462 1706 L8 L9 W18 L16 L24 L22 B--- 2.0  
26 Ricky ^ -E Hu 15818367 1643 L5 W14 L19 D22 L11 L10 L18 1.5  
27 Siddharth ^ -E Arutla 15336920 1658 L24 L16 B--- U--- U--- U--- U--- 1.0  

 

B

# Name ID Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6 Rd 7 Tot Prize
1 Jason Fu 15773170 1666 W11 W18 W2 W15 D3 D8 D5 5.5 1st place: $880
2 Tianwen Li 17190142 1737 W10 W6 L1 W13 L8 W25 W14 5.0 2nd place: $400;
3rd place $160;
4th place: $120;
5th place: $120;
5-way split of $800 = $160 each
Econ = $80
3 Priyadarsi -E Mishra 15612932 1709 W27 D17 W5 W19 D1 D4 D6 5.0
4 Venkatagi Acharya 15616537 1621 L6 W29 W20 H--- W25 D3 W8 5.0
5 Vian Yang 15804394 1605 W22 W21 L3 W17 D6 W9 D1 5.0
6 Dylan ^ -E Tang 16551237 1517 W4 L2 W18 W23 D5 W17 D3 5.0
7 Bryce -E Yeh 16087087 1618 W8 W23 L15 L25 D12 W20 W13 4.5  
8 Pudur ^ -E Ramaswamy 16106884 1513 L7 B--- W11 W28 W2 D1 L4 4.5  
9 Aarav Urgaonkar 16397327 1617 L21 W24 W27 D14 W15 L5 D10 4.0  
10 Bryan ^ -E Fu 15772972 1579 L2 W26 L23 D20 W24 W15 D9 4.0  
11 Ritam ^ -E Chakraborty 15230937 1578 L1 W30 L8 L26 W22 W27 W21 4.0  
12 Sandeep ^ Salwan 15440794 1509 L17 B--- L24 W22 D7 D16 W19 4.0  
13 Zack ^ -E Zhou 16146661 1462 B--- D15 W16 L2 D17 W19 L7 4.0  
14 Oren ^ Wohl 16577555 1419 W31 D19 L17 D9 W27 W21 L2 4.0  
15 Xuli Dai 15931956 1608 W26 D13 W7 L1 L9 L10 W25 3.5  
16 Agnes Zhiyi ^ -E Wang 14527372 1599 D29 W28 L13 L18 W26 D12 D17 3.5  
17 Leo ^ -E Yang 16851760 1566 W12 D3 W14 L5 D13 L6 D16 3.5  
18 Shriram $m22 -E Rajasekar 14680910 1602 W30 L1 L6 W16 L21 H--- H--- 3.0  
19 Nathan Yan 16430495 1559 D24 D14 W21 L3 W23 L13 L12 3.0  
20 Felix John ^ $190 Zhou 14897152 1555 H--- D25 L4 D10 W28 L7 D24 3.0  
21 Aadith ^ Muthukumar 15488268 1539 W9 L5 L19 B--- W18 L14 L11 3.0  
22 Rohit ^ +m Praveen 15444541 1534 L5 L27 B--- L12 L11 W30 W29 3.0  
23 Karthi ^ -V Pasupuleti 16742857 1483 B--- L7 W10 L6 L19 D28 D27 3.0  
24 Yuelin ^ -E Shi 16286905 1469 D19 L9 W12 L27 L10 B--- D20 3.0  
25 Yashas ^ -E Patil 16010271 1463 D28 D20 W29 W7 L4 L2 L15 3.0  
26 Prabhav ^ -E Pragash 14906397 1447 L15 L10 H--- W11 L16 D29 W28 3.0  
27 Arjun ^ -E Sankar 14542170 1548 L3 W22 L9 W24 L14 L11 D23 2.5  
28 Mohammad Soltani 12889183 1616 D25 L16 W30 L8 L20 D23 L26 2.0  
29 Marina ^ -E Xiao 16380642 1417 D16 L4 L25 H--- D30 D26 L22 2.0  
30 Jayden ^ -E Wu 16636182 1433 L18 L11 L28 H--- D29 L22 H--- 1.5  
31 Deepak M ^ Kini 15295206 1792 L14 U--- U--- U--- H--- U--- U--- 0.5  

 

C

# Name ID Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6 Rd 7 Tot Prize
1 Jeremy Da Cawthon 15038608 1417 W19 W3 W16 W17 W4 W8 W5 7.0 1st place: $720
2 Serkan ^ -E Sofuoglu 17111026 1372 L23 W18 D21 W11 W17 W6 W8 5.5 2nd place: $320
Econ = $160
3 Kavya $m22 -E Sasikumar 14447377 1430 W7 L1 L17 W19 W13 W14 W9 5.0 3rd place: $160
Econ = $80
4 Parth Pandhare 15585512 1556 W9 W11 W5 L14 L1 D7 W13 4.5 4th place: $120;
5th place: $120;
4-way split of $240 = $60 each
Econ = $30
5 Andrew Yun -E Wong 16078318 1455 W12 W20 L4 W9 W14 H--- L1 4.5
6 Har -E Venkitachalam 16129563 1443 L17 W22 W7 W16 H--- L2 W12 4.5
7 Landon ^ -E Pu 16292276 1308 L3 X--- L6 W22 W16 D4 W14 4.5
8 Michael -E Xiao 16380636 1433 W18 W10 W11 H--- U--- L1 L2 4.0  
9 Aiden Q ^ Liu 16850092 1378 L4 W15 W20 L5 W10 W17 L3 4.0  
10 Tanvi Prasa ^ -E Borse 15992594 1370 W21 L8 L14 W20 L9 W15 W17 4.0  
11 Neil S -E Bhaduri 16717750 1416 W15 L4 L8 L2 D20 W16 W18 3.5  
12 Andria ^ -E Xu 16736236 1345 L5 L21 W13 D18 X--- W19 L6 3.5  
13 Kin -E ^ Das Chowdhury 15921415 1205 B--- H--- L12 W21 L3 W18 L4 3.5  
14 Winston -E Yeh 16087072 1415 H--- H--- W10 W4 L5 L3 L7 3.0  
15 Andy Yueduo ^ -E Xu 16732301 1304 L11 L9 L18 B--- W22 L10 W19 3.0  
16 Ethan R Mei 16090467 1540 W22 D17 L1 L6 L7 L11 W20 2.5  
17 Advik ^ -E Garg 16429697 1390 W6 D16 W3 L1 L2 L9 L10 2.5  
18 Anvi ^ Penagalapati 16315087 1327 L8 L2 W15 D12 W21 L13 L11 2.5  
19 Arek -C Vartan 12907778 1464 L1 H--- W22 L3 H--- L12 L15 2.0  
20 Wentao ^ -E Wu 16629782 1216 B--- L5 L9 L10 D11 D22 L16 2.0  
21 Sabrina Kuntjara 15919807 1478 L10 W12 D2 L13 L18 U--- U--- 1.5  
22 Yuhan Cheng 15450853 1289 L16 L6 L19 L7 L15 D20 B--- 1.5  
23 Karthi ^ -V Pasupuleti 16742857 1483 W2 U--- U--- U--- U--- U--- U--- 1.0  

 

D

# Name ID Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6 Rd 7 Tot Prize
1 Sean Xin Gao 16928871 1275 W6 W3 W2 L5 W14 W4 W7 6.0 1st place: $560
2 Ethan Guo 16761994 1356 W9 W15 L1 W7 D3 W6 W5 5.5 2nd place: $240
3 Greg -E Zhou 16183296 1350 W13 L1 W17 W6 D2 W5 D4 5.0 3rd place: $120
Econ = $60
4 Kevin ^ -E Liu 16430500 1041 W12 W10 W8 B--- L5 L1 D3 4.5 4th place: $120
Econ = $60
5 Ryan Pie Williams 16626797 1379 B--- L7 W13 W1 W4 L3 L2 4.0 5th place: $120;
4-way split = $30 each
Econ = $15
6 Sathvik Prasanna 15329154 1376 L1 W17 W7 L3 W13 L2 W12 4.0
7 Arunachalam -E Kasi 16244965 1260 W11 W5 L6 L2 W10 W8 L1 4.0
8 Sara Kuntjara 16431682 1251 D16 W12 L4 H--- W15 L7 W9 4.0
9 Swaminatha -E Sankar 14080777 1213 L2 D14 L15 W11 W17 W13 L8 3.5  
10 Shaurya -E Singhal 16138551 1066 B--- L4 H--- D12 L7 D15 W14 3.5  
11 Mannansh Nayyar 15697026 1259 L7 L13 L14 L9 B--- W17 W15 3.0  
12 Katherine -E Zhuge 16715925 1218 L4 L8 B--- D10 H--- W14 L6 3.0  
13 Colin ^ Yi 16685250 1157 L3 W11 L5 W15 L6 L9 B--- 3.0  
14 Ella Guo 16380657 1315 L15 D9 W11 W17 L1 L12 L10 2.5  
15 Shreyank ^ -E Krishnan 16258876 1142 W14 L2 W9 L13 L8 D10 L11 2.5  
16 Kin -E Das Chowdhury 15921415 1205 D8 B--- U--- U--- U--- U--- U--- 1.5  
17 Max Guo 16256115 1066 B--- L6 L3 L14 L9 L11 H--- 1.5  

 

Eu

# Name ID Rtng Rd 1 Rd 2 Rd 3 Rd 4 Rd 5 Rd 6 Rd 7 Tot Prize
1 Andrew D -E Li 16051856 1100 D12 W10 D8 W13 W4 D3 D6 5.0 1st place: $400;
2nd place: $160;
3rd place: $120;
3-way split of $680 = $226.67 each
Econ = $113.33
2 Shiv Vir -E  Salwan 17015922 871 L21 W19 L3 W17 W8 W13 W9 5.0
3 Revanth Nagurla 17246482 unr. L14 W17 W2 W8 W13 D1 D4 5.0
4 Rushil Yadavalli 16443601 1195 W7 W20 B--- D7 L1 D5 D3 4.5 4th place: $120;
5th place: $120;
4-way split of $240 = $60 each
Econ = $30
5 Aditya -E Bakhandi 15733936 1035 W17 L13 D9 W12 W11 D4 H--- 4.5
6 Raphael Leung 16203196 1006 W18 L14 W10 D9 W7 H--- D1 4.5
7 Aaron Feng 16574398 979 L4 B--- W20 D4 L6 W10 W11 4.5
8 Parthiv K Mulpuri 16906012 1002 W16 D9 D1 L3 L2 W15 W14 4.0  
9 Jocelyn -E Ren 16899282 930 W15 D8 D5 D6 W14 D11 L2 4.0  
10 Anantiga -E Ramesh 16918785 870 W11 L1 L6 W16 W12 L7 W13 4.0  
11 Sivavi Srinivasan 16778004 1048 L10 W12 W16 W14 L5 D9 L7 3.5  
12 Akshay -E Praveen 15801001 875 D1 L11 W15 L5 L10 W17 W19 3.5  
13 Charvi -E Atreya 16816706 991 W19 W5 W14 L1 L3 L2 L10 3.0  
14 Emir-E Kanlikilicer 16987636 983 W3 W6 L13 L11 L9 W20 L8 3.0  
15 Alan -E Leung 16807270 926 L9 L16 L12 B--- W19 L8 W20 3.0  
16 Arnav Sachi -E Doshi 16379776 637 L8 W15 L11 L10 Z17 L19 W18 2.5  
17 Luke Guo 16324535 845 L5 L3 W18 L2 Z16 L12 H--- 2.0  
18 Surya $m17 -E Sasikumar 15469865 790 L6 U--- L17 W19 L20 B--- L16 2.0  
19 Yuvraj -E Sawhney 17095004 580 L13 L2 B--- L18 L15 W16 L12 2.0  
20 Kate Canessa 14102056 320 L22 L4 L7 B--- W18 L14 L15 2.0  
21 Max Guo 16256115 1066 W2 U--- U--- U--- U--- U--- H--- 1.5  
22 Shaurya -E Singhal 16138551 1066 W20 U--- H--- U--- U--- U--- U--- 1.5