Tournament Report for:
2026 Connecticut Chess Festival
Apr 5, 2026
Hartford CT, OT
TD: Lumelsky/Mezheritskiy
Rating report for 2026 Connecticut Chess Festival Section Collegiate
pos last name first id numb start end/#gms rd1 rd2 rd3 rd4 tot 1 Maralappanavar, Omkar CTXNX02W 2113 2141/149 W5 W7 W2 W4 4.0 2 Dedona, Mark NYXNX02P 2267 2251/142 W4 D6 L1 W8 2.5 3 Hernandez, Jesus David CTXNZ14R 1300 1833/ 4 D7 L4 W8 W5 2.5 4 Upadhyay, Punyavrat CTXMX00X 1820 1822/143 L2 W3 D5 L1 1.5 5 Brislin, Zachary MEXNZ39H 1634 1640/ 8 L1 W8 D4 L3 1.5 6 Zhou, Abigail NYXEZ27J 1942 1953/ 7 W8 D2 U U 1.5 7 Chan, Matt CTXNX07P 2065 2049/126 D3 L1 U U 0.5 8 Rohrs, Sophie CTXIZ68N 1434 1418/ 7 L6 L5 L3 L2 0.0
Rating report for 2026 Connecticut Chess Festival Section Senior
pos last name first id numb start end/#gms rd1 rd2 rd3 rd4 tot 1 Ivanov, Alexander MAXNX00C 2461 2468/133 HPB W4 W7 W2 3.5 2 Koganov, Mikhail CTXNZ539 2201 2216/ 12 W8 W5 W3 L1 3.0 3 Kudrin, Sergey CTXNX00D 2371 2360/159 W6 D7 L2 W5 2.5 4 Smith, Elizabeth C CTXNX01C 1535 1559/127 HPB L1 W8 W9 2.5 5 Bihlmeyer, Joseph CTXNX02R 2010 2005/135 W10 L2 W6 L3 2.0 6 Nagel, Arthur C CTXNX02Z 1700 1698/132 L3 W10 L5 W8 2.0 7 Castaneda, Nelson CTXNZ537 2263 2261/ 8 W9 D3 L1 U 1.5 8 Groff, Rod CTXNZ532 1286 1307/ 8 L2 W9 L4 L6 1.0 9 Knowles, Daniel C CTXNZ68X 1509 1464/ 20 L7 L8 W10 L4 1.0 10 Hardin, Richard CTXNZ52V 900 897/ 34 L5 L6 L9 BYE 1.0
Rating report for 2026 Connecticut Chess Festival Section U1600
pos last name first id numb start end/#gms rd1 rd2 rd3 rd4 tot 1 Shamas, Aidan CTXNX11Q 1561 1583/131 W4 W2 W3 W5 4.0 2 Zilberman, Elliot CTXKZ53F 1143 1184/ 15 WF L1 W6 W4 3.0 3 Ostrozynski, Zalman CTXNZ14Q 1300 1383/ 3 HPB W5 L1 W6 2.5 4 Thomas, Jessie CTXNZ14P 1300 1196/ 4 L1 W6 W5 L2 2.0 5 Deeney, Samuel NJXNZ40Z 1223 1185/ 16 W6 L3 L4 L1 1.0 6 Hudyma, Nick CTXNZ32M 858 831/ 13 L5 L4 L2 L3 0.0
Rating report for 2026 Connecticut Chess Festival Section U16
pos last name first id numb start end/#gms rd1 rd2 rd3 rd4 tot 1 Bhargava, Kushagra CTXIX00P 2104 2120/167 W5 W3 D2 W4 3.5 2 Ren, Eric CTXIZ53M 1993 2014/ 38 W8 W4 D1 D3 3.0 3 Varada, Praharsh CTXJX01B 2050 2040/137 W10 L1 W5 D2 2.5 4 Natarajan, Neil BCCIV24M 2088 2066/124 W7 L2 W6 L1 2.0 5 Rosenstein, Gabi CTXIZ335 1126 1212/ 12 L1 W9 L3 W6 2.0 6 Vijay, Shritan S CTXIZ53J 1618 1588/ 20 W9 W7 L4 L5 2.0 7 Brueningsen, Sam VTXHZ38S 1277 1285/ 12 L4 L6 W8 W9 2.0 8 Brown, Jacob CTXIZ14N 800 1024/ 3 L2 W10 L7 BYE 2.0 9 Coimbatore Gurunathan, CTXIZ14M 800 952/ 4 L6 L5 W10 L7 1.0 10 Tang, Kristal CTXHX13P 805 773/128 L3 L8 L9 U 0.0
Rating report for 2026 Connecticut Chess Festival Section U13
pos last name first id numb start end/#gms rd1 rd2 rd3 rd4 tot 1 Gudipati, Aadvik KrishnCTXGX13C 1178 1157/119 W2 L5 W4 W3 3.0 2 Muthuraman, Aadith CTXGZ14L 600 637/ 3 L1 BYE W8 W9 3.0 3 Vignesh Nagarajan VidyaCTXHX12R 1046 1028/116 D4 W6 W5 L1 2.5 4 Dixit, Arjun V CTXHZ29Q 595 729/ 8 D3 W8 L1 W7 2.5 5 Yadav, Ansh CTXGZ14K 600 853/ 4 W7 W1 L3 L6 2.0 6 Rohrs, Andrew Ichiro CTXFZ14J 500 683/ 4 W9 L3 L7 W5 2.0 7 Hunter, Wesley CTXGZ14H 600 617/ 4 L5 W9 W6 L4 2.0 8 Vavanan, Zahir CTXFZ14G 500 309/ 2 HPB L4 L2 BYE 1.5 9 Gujarathi, Mishka CTXFZ14F 500 170/ 3 L6 L7 BYE L2 1.0
Rating report for 2026 Connecticut Chess Festival Section U10
pos last name first id numb start end/#gms rd1 rd2 rd3 rd4 tot 1 Negi, Rishaan CTXBZ50P 1116 1126/ 54 W11 W3 D2 W6 3.5 2 Mekalampatta, Adha MAXFZ19L 1066 1062/ 8 W12 W6 D1 D5 3.0 3 Gujar, Vedant CTXCZ50Q 773 782/ 31 W10 L1 W13 W7 3.0 4 Chauhan, Mayra CTXEZ14D 400 604/ 4 L7 W8 W9 W10 3.0 5 Ganesh, Sarvesh CTXFZ29N 697 718/ 20 BYE W7 L6 D2 2.5 6 Vijayakumar, Atharva CTXCZ14C 200 827/ 4 W9 L2 W5 L1 2.0 7 Skolnick, Oliver CTXDZ15U 457 523/ 9 W4 L5 W8 L3 2.0 8 Vijay, Shrijan CTXDZ50S 422 392/ 8 W14 L4 L7 W11 2.0 9 Jayashankar, Anvi CTXDZ50T 264 360/ 8 L6 W12 L4 W13 2.0 10 Elshafie, Musa CTXBZ29H 168 228/ 6 L3 BYE W14 L4 2.0 11 Elshafie, Yusuf CTXDZ29D 100 203/ 7 L1 D14 W12 L8 1.5 12 Bojedla, Devaansh CTXCZ54L 451 372/ 20 L2 L9 L11 W14 1.0 13 Samat, Anya A CTXEZ44D 182 156/ 10 HPB HPB L3 L9 1.0 14 Ali-gavin, Maya CTXEZ44A 597 164/ 5 L8 D11 L10 L12 0.5
Rating report for 2026 Connecticut Chess Festival Section NER
pos last name first id numb start end/#gms rd1 rd2 rd3 tot 1 Ostrozynski, Zalman CTXNZ14Q 1383 1383/ 5 W2 W3 BYE 3.0 2 Vavanan, Zahir CTXHZ14G 309 373/ 4 L1 BYE W3 2.0 3 Godfrey, Patrick CTXBZ14B 100 100/ 2 WF L1 L2 1.0
Rating report for 2026 Connecticut Chess Festival Section Side Games
pos last name first id numb start end/#gms rd1 tot 1 Zilberman, Elliot CTXKZ53F 1184 1187/ 16 W5 1.0 2 Vavanan, Zahir CTXHZ14G 373 416/ 5 W6 1.0 3 Hardin, Richard CTXNZ52V 897 906/ 35 D4 0.5 4 Brown, Jacob CTXIZ14N 1024 995/ 4 D3 0.5 5 Ganesh, Sarvesh CTXFZ29N 718 713/ 21 L1 0.0 6 Elshafie, Musa CTXBZ29H 228 199/ 7 L2 0.0
Rating report for 2026 Connecticut Chess Festival Section Side Games, NER
pos last name first id numb start end/#gms rd1 tot 1 Elshafie, Musa CTXBZ29H 199 236/ 8 W2 1.0 2 Godfrey, Patrick CTXBZ14B 100 100/ 3 L1 0.0
Note: Tied score standings are resolved by the TD at the event. Results here might not be in tiebreak order.