Chess News from The Massachusetts Chess Association http://www.masschess.org Regional and National Chess News from The Massachusetts Chess Association. en-us Sun, 19 Apr 2026 21:35:07 GMT Sun, 19 Apr 2026 21:35:07 GMT webmaster@masschess.org (Tiffany Wang) webmaster@masschess.org (Tiffany Wang) 60 Prize winners at the Fourth Spiegel Cup Qualifier http://www.masschess.org/about/chess_news.aspx#2442 Prize winners at the Fourth Spiegel Cup Qualifier, held April 12th in Medfield, Mass.

 
Grades 6-8 Section
 
1st-2nd Viraj Rastogi (playoff winner), Maitreya Ganguly 3.5-0.5
3rd Kenisro Viyani 3-1
 
Grades K-5 Section
 
1st Brooks Jiang 4-0
2nd-3rd Benjamin Chen, Sanav Chakraborty 3-1
 
Grades K-3 Section
 
1st Aaryash Palaparthi 3.5-0.5
2nd-3rd Lucas Sun, Ranav Dinesh 3-1
 
Reserve Under 1200 Section
 
1st Jack Chen 4-0
2nd-4th Murat Aguzarov, Ranesh Patel, Aanya Tichkule 3-1
 
Reserve Under 900 Section
 
1st-2nd Aaryash Kumar, Esther Arolovitch 3.5-0.5
3rd-4th Linru He, Alexander Ciccarone 3-1
 
Reserve Under 600 Section
 
1st Mark Gutner 4-0
2nd-6th Ruhaan Chaudhary, Julia Kroell, Mihika Sinhara, Morrice Nathenson Steir, Michael Liu 3-1
 
Reserve Under 300 Section
 
1st Jonathan Liu 4-0
2nd-3rd Varsha Sehgal, William Xuhan Wu 3.5-0.5
 
Medals: Daniel Piatkov, Benjamin Hemberg Miriau, Akshaj Boothpur, Hsien Tan, Bowei Feng 3-1
 
Except as noted, tied players are listes in tiebreak order.
 
The tournament was directed by Bob Messenger, Dima Barash, Rishi Devata, and Nick Sterling, assisted by Parinya Jain.
 
]]> Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT Prize winners at the Hurvitz Cup http://www.masschess.org/about/chess_news.aspx#2441 Prize winners at the Hurvitz Cup, held March 22nd in Marlborough, Mass. The Hurvitz Cup is the Massachusetts scholastic team championship.

 
Grades K-12 Section
 
1st Acton-Boxborough Regional High School A (Eric Feng, Vihaan Jain, Bohan Wang, Pragyan Sriram) 4-0
2nd Boston University Academy (Kelsey Liu, Armaan Mehta, Anton Stark, Sam Fisher, Jack Conway) 3-0
3rd Commonwealth (Ryan Sun, Ethan Qian, Jate Greene) 2.5-1.5
Top Booster Team (Under 1500) Arlington High School (Yunze Owen Ji, Ari Ushomirsky, Kairav Thiagarajah, Pedro Diaz-Terra) 2-2
 
Medals: Victor Feng, Ray Xue, Dhairya Mehta, Lucas Keefe, Warren Zha, Harry Li, Pragyag Karthik
 
Grades K-8 Section
 
1st Diamond Middle School (Shawn Xu, Emma Zhang, Evan Banerjee, Viraj Rastogi) 4-0
2nd Lex Clarke Middle School (Felix Wu, Frank Cao, Christine Nguyen, Brooks Jiang) 3-1
3rd Wellesley Middle School (Andrew Liu, Connor Liu, Ryan Xiao, Ishaan Ajmera) 2.5-1.5
Top Booster Team (Under 1100) Stony Brook School (Kenisro Viyani, Ansh Yadav, Sahil Manghani, Chinmay Maheshwari) 2-2
 
Medals: Yuze Luke Ji, Moksha Hasti, Ashwath Srinivasan
 
Grades K-5 Section
 
1st Hastings Elementary School (Ella Zhang, Ryan Liang, Linru He, Raymond Cen) 4-0
2nd-4th Conant Challengers (Saksham Chaudhary, Rendi Wu, Ruhaan Chaudhary, Samarth Chaudhary),
    Crisafulli (Vihaan Panse, Vyom Kolhe, Maedha Naluvala, Haransh Singh),
    Mitchell School (Owen Zhu, Wesley Eng, Ellery Levy, Henry Bourque) 3-1
Top Booster Team (Under 400) Concord Willard (Jack Loncto, Alex Gosset, Jonah Rogers, Alexander Akinshyn),
    Cabot Elementary School (Benjamin Bernstein, Oliver Litthi, Clark  Litthi, Kejun Pan) 2-2
 
Medals: Aaron Wang, Kashyap Srinivasan, Zane Engberg, Vansh Sripathi, Aaryas Palaparthi, Xander Sherman, Ella Ly,
        Vivaan Gowda, Nolan Huang, Greyson Park, Vihaan Maharajan, Patrick Jao
 
Grades K-3 Section
 
1st Bridge Elementary School Team 3 (Shaurya Mehendiratta, Phoenix Cambron, Yunshen Zhou, Ethan Niu) 4-0
2nd-3rd Bowman Elementary School (Connor Guo, Max Liu, Anthony Fan, Luke Liu),
    Carlisle Firehawks (Ella Chan, Jordy Shoulders, Aaron Woods, Harry Schoff) 2.5-1.5
Top Booster Team (Under 300) Carlisle Mighty Dinos (Ray Barsky, Liam Kelly, Evan Chan, Zoey Mokhtar) 1.5-2.5
 
Medal: Gaochunxi Li
 
Tied teams are listed in tiebreak order.
 
The tournament was directed by Bob Messenger, Larry Gladding, Dima Barash, Rishi Devata, and Nick Sterling.
 
]]> Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT Advance entries for the Hurvitz Cup, final http://www.masschess.org/about/chess_news.aspx#2440 Team Roster and Standings. Hurvitz Cup: Grades K-12 Section

  Code Name Score TBrk[U] TBrk[G]
1 ABRHSA Acton-Boxborough Regional H.S. A (2142.3) 0.0 0 0
    Eric Z Feng (2330) 0.0      
    Vihaan Jain (2224) 0.0      
    Bohan Wang (2118) 0.0      
    Pragyan Sriram (1897) 0.0      
2 BELMOA Belmont High School A (1939.3) 0.0 0 0
    Jerry Chen (2056) 0.0      
    Ben Palmer (2029) 0.0      
    Harry Li (1984) 0.0      
    Rohan Licht (1688) 0.0      
3 LEXING Lexington High School (1922.8) 0.0 0 0
    Raymond S Xu (2175) 0.0      
    Victor Feng (2124) 0.0      
    Brandon Ni (1978) 0.0      
    Holden Cassity (1414) 0.0      
4 BELMOB Belmont High School B (1900.0) 0.0 0 0
    Zhuoyuan Du (1979) 0.0      
    Nathan Klempf (1907) 0.0      
    Maxim Klempf (1877) 0.0      
    Ray Xue (1837) 0.0      
5 HOPKIN Hopkinton High School (1832.5) 0.0 0 0
    Dattasai Kilari (2201) 0.0      
    Dhairya Mitul Mehta (2147) 0.0      
    Sherwin Hu (1502) 0.0      
    Prayag Karthik (1480) 0.0      
6 BUACAD Boston Universiity Academy (1735.0) 0.0 0 0
    Kelsey Liu (2115) 0.0      
    Armaan Mehta (1894) 0.0      
    Anton Y Stark (1473) 0.0      
    Sam Peter Fisher (1458) 0.0      
    Jack Conway (unr.) 0.0      
7 BROOKL Brookline High School (1734.5) 0.0 0 0
    Alexander Golosovke (2130) 0.0      
    Zach Ellinor (1930) 0.0      
    Mengyuan Niu (1593) 0.0      
    John Gerald Avery (1285) 0.0      
8 NOBLEG Noble and Greenough School (1477.5) 0.0 0 0
    Alexander Meng (2112) 0.0      
    Jeffrey Liu (1625) 0.0      
    Ben Nguyen (1469) 0.0      
    Lucas Keefe ( 704) 0.0      
    Ninamdi Nigel Acheb (unr.) 0.0      
9 COMMON Commonwealth (1392.5) 0.0 0 0
    Ryan Sun (2417) 0.0      
    Ethan Qiao (1842) 0.0      
    Jate Aaron Greene (1211) 0.0      
    Filler-2 (* 100) 0.0      
10 ARLING Arlington High School (1390.0) 0.0 0 0
    Yunze Owen Ji (2224) 0.0      
    Ari Matthew Ushomir (1546) 0.0      
    Kairav Thiagarajah (1090) 0.0      
    Pedro Diaz-Terra (* 700) 0.0      
11 STSEBA St. Sebastian's School (1026.8) 0.0 0 0
    Killian Cunjak (1707) 0.0      
    Oisin Asaad (* 700) 0.0      
    Felix Cressotti (* 900) 0.0      
    Finn Govender (* 800) 0.0      
12 ABRHSB Acton-Boxborough Regional H.S (1020.0) 0.0 0 0
    Kevin Li (1565) 0.0      
    Aditya Narayan (1430) 0.0      
    Chasen Hu ( 543) 0.0      
    Warren Zha (* 542) 0.0      
13 ASHLAN Ashland High School (493.0) 0.0 0 0
    Kaiya Bridget Smits (1472) 0.0      
    Gautham Shenoy (* 200) 0.0      
    Aarov Pota (* 150) 0.0      
    Arhaan Siddiqi (* 150) 0.0      
    Arham Patel (* 150) 0.0      
    Om Pandya (* 150) 0.0      
 

Team Roster and Standings. Hurvitz Cup: Grades K-8 Section

  Code Name Score TBrk[U] TBrk[G]
1 LEXCLA Lex Clarke Middle School (1919.3) 0.0 0 0
    Felix Wu (2025) 0.0      
    Frank Zhongti Cao (1962) 0.0      
    Christine Nguyen (1876) 0.0      
    Brooks Jiang (1814) 0.0      
    Azim Faisal (1571) 0.0      
2 DIAMON Diamond Middle School (1876.0) 0.0 0 0
    Shawn Xu (2195) 0.0      
    Emma Linyue Zhang (1896) 0.0      
    Evan Banerjee (1724) 0.0      
    Viraj Rastogi (1689) 0.0      
3 RJGREY R J Grey (1361.0) 0.0 0 0
    Karanbir Singh (1714) 0.0      
    Athena Zuckerberg (1537) 0.0      
    Moksha Varma Hasti (1411) 0.0      
    Alex W Song ( 782) 0.0      
4 OTTOSO Ottoson Middle School (1296.0) 0.0 0 0
    Charles Huang (2102) 0.0      
    Yuze Luke Ji (2009) 0.0      
    Hunter Mukherjee ( 705) 0.0      
    Aram Ashot Papoyan ( 368) 0.0      
5 WELLES Wellesley Middle School (1215.3) 0.0 0 0
    Andrew X Liu (1830) 0.0      
    Connor Xiang Liu (1600) 0.0      
    Ryan Na Xiao (1031) 0.0      
    Ishaan Ajmera (* 400) 0.0      
6 STAR1 Star Academy 1 (1036.3) 0.0 0 0
    David Figelman (1405) 0.0      
    Anton Poliannikov (1166) 0.0      
    George Koren ( 797) 0.0      
    Murat Aguzarov ( 777) 0.0      
    David Koren ( 436) 0.0      
7 STONYB Stony Brook School (1024.0) 0.0 0 0
    Kenisro Princeton Viyani (1812) 0.0      
    Ansh Yadav (1132) 0.0      
    Sahil Manghani ( 752) 0.0      
    Cihinmay Maheshwari (* 400) 0.0      
8 CLARKE Clarke Middle School (992.8) 0.0 0 0
    Aanya Ritesh Tichkule (1103) 0.0      
    Aarav Sundarkar (1069) 0.0      
    Vaishav Padwalkar (* 900) 0.0      
    Ashwath Srinivasan ( 899) 0.0      
9 RAMS1 Robert Adams Middle School 1 (920.0) 0.0 0 0
    Dylan Dimmick (1245) 0.0      
    Varun Vairavan Ashok (1244) 0.0      
    Vihaan Patel ( 707) 0.0      
    Donald Gracie ( 484) 0.0      
10 MCCALL McCall Middle School (685.3) 0.0 0 0
    Levon Meade Werner (1085) 0.0      
    Griffen Garg ( 756) 0.0      
    Alexander Bronski (* 500) 0.0      
    John Alexander Dumont (* 400) 0.0      
11 FENN The Fenn School (429.0) 0.0 0 0
    Aaryash Kumar ( 699) 0.0      
    Bennett Smigler ( 402) 0.0      
    Milo Rice ( 308) 0.0      
    Graham Smigler (* 307) 0.0      
12 RAMS2 Robert Adams Middle School 2 (364.5) 0.0 0 0
    Brennan Carroll ( 487) 0.0      
    Ayen Hemaratne ( 395) 0.0      
    Roman Pozhidaev ( 334) 0.0      
    Declan Carroll ( 242) 0.0      
 

Team Roster and Standings. Hurvitz Cup: Grades K-5 Section

  Code Name Score TBrk[U] TBrk[G]
1 HASTIN Hastings Elementary School (1074.8) 0.0 0 0
    Ella Xinyue Zhang (1855) 0.0      
    Ryan Liang (1731) 0.0      
    Linru He ( 513) 0.0      
    Raymond Cen (* 200) 0.0      
2 CONANC Conant Challengers (692.5) 0.0 0 0
    Saksham Chaudhary (1049) 0.0      
    Rendi Wu ( 626) 0.0      
    Ruhaan Chaudhary ( 567) 0.0      
    Samarth Chaudhary ( 528) 0.0      
3 CRISAF Crisafulli (660.5) 0.0 0 0
    Vihaan Panse (1001) 0.0      
    Vyom P Kolhe ( 800) 0.0      
    Maedha Naluvala ( 641) 0.0      
    Haransh Singh (* 200) 0.0      
4 HARRIN Harrington Elementary School (586.0) 0.0 0 0
    Joowan Shin ( 734) 0.0      
    Noah Narang ( 647) 0.0      
    Nolan Wu Huang ( 513) 0.0      
    Kashyap Srinivasan ( 450) 0.0      
5 MILLER Miller Elementary School (525.5) 0.0 0 0
    Aaron Wang (1419) 0.0      
    Mihika Sinhara (* 300) 0.0      
    Greyson Miles Park ( 282) 0.0      
    Dryden Stefanelli ( 101) 0.0      
6 GATES Paul P Gates Elementary School (518.0) 0.0 0 0
    Aaryas Palaparthi (1160) 0.0      
    Vivaan Mahesh Gowda ( 533) 0.0      
    Aarnik Mitra ( 190) 0.0      
    Vijayajahnavi Lingam (* 189) 0.0      
7 BROADM Broadmeadow School (490.5) 0.0 0 0
    Xander Sherman ( 794) 0.0      
    Ella Ly ( 598) 0.0      
    Leopold Seegert ( 346) 0.0      
    Daniel Piatkov ( 224) 0.0      
    Niam Khaitan (unr.) 0.0      
8 CARLIS Carlisle (481.8) 0.0 0 0
    Zachary Mokhtar ( 800) 0.0      
    Nana Chan ( 669) 0.0      
    Shippen Pattison-Vieira ( 234) 0.0      
    Vansh Sripathi ( 224) 0.0      
9 MIITCH Mitchell School (480.8) 0.0 0 0
    Owen Zhu ( 657) 0.0      
    Wesley Eng ( 648) 0.0      
    Ellery Levy ( 360) 0.0      
    Henry George Bourqu ( 258) 0.0      
10 BRIDG2 Bridge Elementary School Team 2 (402.7) 0.0 0 0
    Quasar Cambron ( 511) 0.0      
    Haris Ahmad Janisar ( 397) 0.0      
    Logan Lau (* 300) 0.0      
11 CABOT Cabot Elementary School (377.5) 0.0 0 0
    Benjamin Bernstein ( 528) 0.0      
    Oliver Litthi ( 489) 0.0      
    Clark Litthi ( 293) 0.0      
    Kejun Pan (* 200) 0.0      
12 FESSEN Fessenden (376.5) 0.0 0 0
    Brady Xu Anzivino ( 970) 0.0      
    Cameron Anzivino ( 331) 0.0      
    Elliott Gao ( 105) 0.0      
    Filler-1 (* 100) 0.0      
13 WILLAR Concord Willard (365.5) 0.0 0 0
    Jack Loncto ( 562) 0.0      
    Alex Gosset (* 400) 0.0      
    Jonah Rogers (* 300) 0.0      
    Alexander Akinshyn (* 200) 0.0      
14 BRIDG1 Bridge Elementary School Team 1 (360.5) 0.0 0 0
    Yunbo Zhou ( 589) 0.0      
    Keshav Raghavendra Adiga ( 530) 0.0      
    Azlan Javed (* 200) 0.0      
    Kinan Shawer ( 123) 0.0      
    Kabir Patel (* 122) 0.0      
15 TCONAN Team Conant (219.0) 0.0 0 0
    Adhvik Senthil Kuma ( 519) 0.0      
    Shourya Peddi ( 120) 0.0      
    Tara Raajan (* 119) 0.0      
    Amay Kumar (* 118) 0.0      
16 CONPOL Acton Conant Polar Bears (218.7) 0.0 0 0
    Vikram Singh ( 229) 0.0      
    Aidan Loureiro (* 227) 0.0      
    Vihaan Maharajan (* 200) 0.0      
    Nikhil Pillai (unr.) 0.0      
17 THOREA Concord Thoreau (103.5) 0.0 0 0
    Grant Peterson ( 105) 0.0      
    Milan Gaffron (* 104) 0.0      
    Zane Engberg (* 103) 0.0      
    Sebastian Magina (* 102) 0.0      
 

Team Roster and Standings. Hurvitz Cup: Grades K-3 Section

  Code Name Score TBrk[U] TBrk[G]
1 MASONR Mason-Rice Elementary School (379.0) 0.0 0 0
    Gaochunxi Li ( 916) 0.0      
    Aashvi D Choudhary (* 300) 0.0      
    Ariella Weinograd (* 200) 0.0      
    Filler-3 (* 100) 0.0      
2 BOWMAN Bowman Elementary School (347.3) 0.0 0 0
    Connor Guo ( 725) 0.0      
    Max Liu (* 300) 0.0      
    Anthony Fan (* 200) 0.0      
    Luke Liu ( 164) 0.0      
3 BRIDG3 Bridge Elementary School Team 3 (326.8) 0.0 0 0
    Shaurya Mehendiratt ( 380) 0.0      
    Phoenix Cambron ( 374) 0.0      
    Yunshen Zhou ( 307) 0.0      
    Ethan Maomao Niu ( 246) 0.0      
    Patrick Jao (* 100) 0.0      
4 CARFIR Carlisle Firehawks (276.3) 0.0 0 0
    Ella Chan ( 413) 0.0      
    Jordy L Shoulders ( 284) 0.0      
    Aaron Woods ( 262) 0.0      
    Harry Schoff ( 146) 0.0      
5 CARDIN Carlisle Mighty Dinos (185.8) 0.0 0 0
    Ray Barsky ( 274) 0.0      
    Liam Kelly (* 100) 0.0      
    Evan Chan ( 257) 0.0      
    Zoey Mokhtar ( 112) 0.0      
 
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