Thursday, June 18, 2026

Late Spring Swiss - crosstables

Open
No. Player Name State USCF ID Pre Post R1 R2 R3 R4 Total
1 Evan C Seghers WI 13712498 2164 2168 H W12 W5 W4 3.5
2 ASHISH KUMAR MISHRA OH 16280074 1879 1895 W6 W11 W3 U 3
3 HOBART W LILLY WI 12499405 1721 1732 W13 W16 L2 W8 3
4 James Jay Coons WI 12551569 1764 1767 D19 W21 W10 L1 2.5
5 JOHN DE MASTRI WI 12580948 1686 1696 H W19 L1 W9 2.5
6 MICHAEL LAWRENCE WI 12937940 1403 1463 L2 W22 H W11 2.5
7 GREGORY John CRAVETZ WI 12936925 1876 1871 H D15 W16 U 2
8 Elie Gendloff WI 12493180 1600 1600 D21 H W14 L3 2
9 Jahnav Vivek WI 31608679 1250 1264 L16 X13 W21 L5 2
10 Nicholas Sloan WI 12772484 1719 1707 W14 H L4 U 1.5
11 KEVIN KLANDRUD WI 15938368 1594 1569 W22 L2 D12 L6 1.5
12 Ridham Sihra WI 30238581 1557 1599 W20 L1 D11 U 1.5
13 Maria Markosyan CT 32076454 1339 1349 L3 F9 W22 D14 1.5
14 Ed Kopp WI 30904814 1304 1322 L10 W18 L8 D13 1.5
15 Robin J Grochowski WI 11164412 1678 1687 H D7 U U 1
16 LEE CHAVERIAT WI 15201114 1506 1475 W9 L3 L7 L18 1
17 JAMES W NICKELL WI 11300855 1500 1511 U U U W21 1
18 CHRISTOPHER SEAMAN WI 12631974 1360 1365 U L14 U W16 1
19 Aadit Senthil WI 30460564 1516 1518 D4 L5 H U 1
20 Aaron PAUL Krause WI 12422831 1838 1812 L12 H U U 0.5
21 Jaswanth Akkina WI 30298526 1332 1305 D8 L4 L9 L17 0.5
22 james felker WI 33094669 1349 1229 L11 L6 L13 U 0

under1200
No. Player Name State USCF ID Pre Post R1 R2 R3 R4 Total
1 Veda Anish Kakumanu WI 30466766 1130 1173 W8 W13 W6 W4 4
2 Trinity Slavik WI 32479549 814 818 W14 L7 W8 W9 3
3 Vrishank reddy Sirumala WI 32504549 992 981 W15 L6 W10 W7 3
4 Samuel Everette WI 31836507 939 953 W9 H W7 L1 2.5
5 Kush Yadav WI 32184400 780 768 H L12 W11 W13 2.5
6 Pruthvi Vinith WI 30493570 935 976 W10 W3 L1 U 2
7 Arnav Arun WI 31559132 670 716 W11 W2 L4 L3 2
8 James E Mading WI 12780703 595 598 L1 W14 L2 W15 2
9 Victor Chavez-Paez WI 31944421 761 740 L4 W16 W13 L2 2
10 Kian Batra WI 32621020 669 664 L6 W15 L3 W14 2
11 Aaditya Vardhan Jampani WI 32020397 406 399 L7 B L5 W16 2
12 CHARLES N LANDEY WI 12531107 680 727 H W5 U U 1.5
13 Gautham Dasari WI 31483609 643 602 W16 L1 L9 L5 1
14 Jayadev Killada WI 33102070 412 327 L2 L8 W16 L10 1
15 Brihad MISHRA WI 33102291 402 210 L3 L10 B L8 1
16 Aranyak Mishra WI 30466844 200 102 L13 L9 L14 L11 0

Thursday, April 30, 2026

Spring Swiss Crosstables

open
No. Player Name State USCF ID Pre Post R1 R2 R3 R4 Total
1 JOHN DE MASTRI WI 12580948 1728 1772 W21 W9 D5 W3 3.5
2 Aaron PAUL Krause WI 12422831 1839 1838 W11 W16 L3 W8 3
3 Nicholas Sloan WI 12772484 1693 1719 W12 W10 W2 L1 3
4 ASHISH KUMAR MISHRA OH 16280074 1895 1879 H L5 W19 W9 2.5
5 James Jay Coons WI 12551569 1700 1729 H W4 D1 D6 2.5
6 KEVIN KLANDRUD WI 15938368 1552 1607 W19 L14 W16 D5 2.5
7 HOBART W LILLY WI 12499405 1765 1721 L15 D8 X22 D11 2
8 Robin J Grochowski WI 11164412 1682 1684 H D7 W10 L2 2
9 Elie Gendloff WI 12493180 1603 1600 W18 L1 W17 L4 2
10 LEE CHAVERIAT WI 15201114 1535 1539 W20 L3 L8 W19 2
11 Ridham Sihra WI 30238581 1477 1493 L2 H W18 D7 2
12 Ed Kopp WI 30904814 1302 1304 L3 L19 X21 W15 2
13 Evan C Seghers WI 13712498 2164 2164 W17 H U U 1.5
14 Ethan J Allen WI 10311390 2091 2092 H W6 U U 1.5
15 ADAM NINNEMAN WI 15763277 1351 1367 W7 H U L12 1.5
16 ALEX D JENSEN WI 12755833 1653 1627 W22 L2 L6 U 1
17 MICHAEL LAWRENCE WI 12937940 1400 1403 L13 W22 L9 U 1
18 Jahnav Vivek WI 31608679 1246 1233 L9 H L11 D22 1
19 james felker WI 33094669 Unr 1349 L6 W12 L4 L10 1
20 JAMES W NICKELL WI 11300855 1500 1500 L10 H U U 0.5
21 Aadit Senthil WI 30460564 1487 1480 L1 H F12 U 0.5
22 Jaswanth Akkina WI 30298526 1294 1267 L16 L17 F7 D18 0.5

under 1200
No. Player Name State USCF ID Pre Post R1 R2 R3 R4 Total
1 RUDRANSH KURUMADDALI WI 30818618 992 1120 W14 W8 W7 W3 4
2 Veda Anish Kakumanu WI 30466766 1156 1130 W9 L7 W12 W10 3
3 Vrishank reddy Sirumala WI 32504549 940 992 W18 W17 W11 L1 3
4 Kush Yadav WI 32184400 638 780 L8 W9 W6 W12 3
5 Kian Batra WI 32621020 639 704 U W6 X14 X7 3
6 Samuel Everette WI 31836507 1008 939 W10 L5 L4 W13 2
7 Shagun Sharma MI 31379143 990 1020 W15 W2 L1 F5 2
8 MICHAEL MILLIGAN WI 13266695 832 857 W4 L1 F10 W16 2
9 Victor Chavez-Paez WI 31944421 766 769 L2 L4 W15 W14 2
10 Arnav Arun WI 31559132 688 670 L6 X16 X8 L2 2
11 Trinity Slavik WI 32479549 827 814 W16 H L3 U 1.5
12 Brihad MISHRA WI 33102291 Unr 402 H X18 L2 L4 1.5
13 CHARLES N LANDEY WI 12531107 706 696 U U W17 L6 1
14 Gautham Dasari WI 31483609 640 643 L1 W15 F5 L9 1
15 James E Mading WI 12780703 647 595 L7 L14 L9 W17 1
16 Jayadev Killada WI 33102070 Unr 412 L11 F10 B L8 1
17 Aranyak Mishra WI 30466844 Unr 200 H L3 L13 L15 0.5
18 Aarav Sinha WI 30796307 1061 1024 L3 F12 U U 0

Tuesday, April 28, 2026

4/28 Online Event Results

Hi all - tonight's play was a relative success - moving from the chess.com tournament system allowed us to run a RR successfully, but I think communication could have been better, and we only had 4 players participate.  We did get all games in and the results are noted here:



For the 5/11 event, I'll post a few days ahead of time, and remind folks in our Wed meeting- instructions on how to access the club chat and find pairings and results.

Take care and see you all tomorrow.

THANKS TO ED, LEE AND SAM FOR HELPING US DO SOME NEW THINGS AT WCC!!


John D


Wednesday, April 15, 2026

2026 Club Speed Championship Results

Hi all  - what a fun evening - we had a total of 29 players, including a number of parents who usually don't play - GREAT to see more folks participating, especially in these unrated, casual events.

We broke these into 4 sections with roughly even rating mixes, and played a double-RR in each section.  Competition was fierce, with several tiebreaks along the way to determine a winner!

The 4 section winners were Evan Seghers (11.5 / 12.0), Aaron Krause (11.0 / 12.0, won tiebreak with Ridham Sihra), Kevin Klandrud (11.0 / 12.0), and John DeMastri (12.5 / 14.0, won tiebreak with Nick Sloan).

Semifinals were close as well, with Evan beating Aaron, and John edging past Kevin in the other match.

Congratulations to Evan for "winning the exhibition" (apologies to Hans Kmoch) and the title, besting John in the final!  We will get pics with the plaque (which has been found!!) posted as soon as it can be updated.

I hope you all enjoy these more casual, fun events as much as I enjoy running them.  Thanks, as always, to Jim and Kevin for helping with setup, registration, general floor TD work and teardown - very much appreciated.

See you next week for the first round of the Spring Swiss - I'll put up a blog post soon to open registration, but you can always email the TDs, reply here, or let one of us know, and we'll get you signed up.  It will be two sections, Upper (1200+) and Lower (U1200).  Jahnav Vivek, by winning the Lower section, is also eligible to enter the upper section.

- John D

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Reminder - TONIGHT - Club Speed Championship * many sections * EF $1

Title says it all - see you tonight for some blitz fun, many games, many sections - details will be determined at runtime depending on number and ratings mix of players.  This event is NOT USCF rated, and it's only one George, so you don't even have to risk your rating - come on down and play!

This event did have a plaque associated with it...but has been lost to the mists of time.  If you happened to win this in the past, and remember that "Oh, yeah, it's in the corner of my basement..." - please bring it back to the event tonight - appreciated.

See you tonight - 

John D

Monday, April 13, 2026

Results for first online USCF rated play event!

Hey everyone - we had 7 players for a fun, quick blitz event tonight hosted by the Waukesha Chess Club online at chess.com .  Here's the rated USCF crosstable, along with a link to the event itself and a link to the games (as PGN).  This 5|2 event affected only online blitz ratings for USCF, which are different from the chess.com site's hosted rating.

No.Chess.com IDPlayer NameStateUSCF IDPrePostNormR1R2R3Total
1RislonAethelred TemplinWI1661429218531882/20W6W3W23
2Magister_MilitumGregory John CravetzWI129369251796/13W4W7L12
3RealGojiraJohn De MastriWI1258094814971502W5L1W72
4dudeimthebestLee ChaveriatWI152011141476/13L2W6D51.5
5veda2015Veda Anish KakumanuWI304667661092/12L3BD41.5
6kid2323Jim ManskeWI1228038014521428L1L4B1
7JaswnathJaswanth AkkinaWI302985261147/12BL2L31

Rislon (Aethelred Templin) took first, and Magister_Militum (Greg Cravetz) took second.  Congratulations!!  

Thanks to everyone who played.  Couple of questions:

  • Should we configure this as a RR if we have less than 15 ppl?  If not chess.com will limit the number of rounds in a swiss.  How about up to 7 is a single round robin.  8-15 is two sections of RR, split by rating, and over 16 it's a regular old swiss.  This makes sense for the 5|2 - folks on board with that?
  • I was a little surprised (coming from the old ICC, where TDs were close to gods, lol), at how little control I had to manage this event.  Will see about this over the next two weeks before the next one.
  • What do folks think about the 10|2 coming up?  Leave it as is?  How would you change it?
John D

WCC Online USCF Rated Play Schedule

Reminder that the first event in this series is tonight at 7PM on chess.com.  Ping me online (RealGojira on chess.com) if you have any questions.

Hi all - thanks to everyone who responded to the survey I sent out a few weeks ago.  There was literally no-one opposed to having some form of online events, so based on the responses received here's what I'm proposing:

  • 5 round events every two weeks, alternating Mon/Tues on chess.com
  • Time controls 5|2 and 10|2, alternating between Mon/Tues
  • The 5|2 affects USCF Online Blitz rating only, 10|2 affects USCF Online Rapid rating only
  • There will be NO CHARGE for these events, but for now I'm limiting them to people we know IRL at WCC.  (There is a USCF rating fee, but a generous benefactor :) will help defray those costs)
So - unless I get overwhelmingly negative response here's what I'll do:
  • I will commit to one cycle of these (4/13, 4/28, 5/11, 5/26) and then we can assess how it went.
  • You can register on chess.com before the event, but I need to know you as a member of WCC by name and uscf id - we might open to other SE WI or Madison players if there's interest.
  • I will print flyers and send a note to the club email list (and maybe the WCA list) as well.
  • I will add an "Online WCC Schedule" area to the blog and website

    Couple of questions:
    • How to prevent cheating?
      • We can't.  But chess.com does devote serious resources to preventing cheating.  The real defense is that we know who we're playing in real life.  It's amazing how that prevents most people from cheating.
    • Why chess.com?  Why Mondays and Tuesdays?  Why 5 and 10 min?
      • These were overwhelmingly the most popular answers to the survey.  We might change these over time.
    We're discussing or doing these things (RR, online play, match play) because YOU said you wanted new / more options to play, either in discussions, comments to the club board or via online survey.  If you don't think this is a good idea, let us know.  If nobody shows up, they'll stop :)

    - John

    Saturday, April 4, 2026

    2026 WCC Club Championship Final results

    Thanks again to all for another successful club championship.  We always appreciate everyone's help in making these successful!
    Congratulations to 5-time club champion Evan Seghers in the Upper Section and to 1st time winner Jahnav Vivek in the Lower Section.  Very well done!
    Please review the full results below!

    John D
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    Three quick reminders:
    • The first USCF rated online event in our new series will be on Monday 4/13 at 7PM on chess.com.  You need to be a member of the WCC club on chess.com, and your USCF membership must be current (only affects USCF Online Rating).  Scheduled now for 7 rounds of 5|2, but the number of rounds will depend on the number of entries.  Look forward to seeing you there.  Ping me with any questions.
    • Next Wed 4/15, in person at the Eagle's club is our semi-annual unrated Blitz event.  Many rounds of 5|0 action.  See you there!
    • Our next classical event is the Spring Swiss, a 4-round G100d5 event starting on 4/22.  2 Sections Upper (1200+) and Lower (U1200).  
      • Our lower section champion, Jahnav, qualifies to play in the Upper section for this event by both winning that section and being over 1200 as a result - congratulations, again!
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    Upper
    No. Player Name State USCF ID Pre Post Norm R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 Total
    1 Evan C Seghers WI 13712498 2156 2169 W12 W8 H W5 W7 W4 5.5
    2 Aaron PAUL Krause WI 12422831 1829 1839 W19 L20 W12 W16 W5 D3 4.5
    3 Mike La Budde WI 12391010 1909 1900 W15 L9 W26 D11 W10 D2 4
    4 GREGORY John CRAVETZ WI 12936925 1874 1876 W17 D14 W20 D7 W9 L1 4
    5 Alexander Oliver WI 32706083 1850 1855 W21 W25 W9 L1 L2 W8 4
    6 Shravan Sabarish WI 31184590 1824 1824 W27 H L7 W15 D11 W16 4
    7 JOHN R BECKER WI 12410468 1900 1900 D16 W18 W6 D4 L1 H 3.5
    8 HOBART W LILLY WI 12499405 1758 1765 W22 L1 D15 W26 W13 L5 3.5
    9 James Jay Coons WI 12551569 1719 1729 W28 W3 L5 W20 L4 D11 3.5
    10 JOHN DE MASTRI WI 12580948 1754 1728 L20 W23 W25 H L3 W17 3.5
    11 Robin J Grochowski WI 11164412 1697 1702 D23 H W29 D3 D6 D9 3.5
    12 Adisa M Reed WI 30132900 1641 1649 L1 W22 L2 D21 W18 W20 3.5
    13 John Jack Creed WI 12442084 1700 1700 H L16 W18 W23 L8 H 3
    14 Benjamin Kerns WI 31621823 1651 1658 W29 D4 H U L16 W21 3
    15 Elie Gendloff WI 12493180 1600 1603 L3 W27 D8 L6 D21 W22 3
    16 ALEX D JENSEN WI 12755833 1596 1653 D7 W13 H L2 W14 L6 3
    17 KEVIN KLANDRUD WI 15938368 1586 1550 L4 H D24 D25 W23 L10 2.5
    18 LEE CHAVERIAT WI 15201114 1563 1543 H L7 L13 W24 L12 W25 2.5
    19 Shashwath Sabarish WI 31378607 1555 1486 L2 L29 L23 B D25 W28 2.5
    20 Ridham Sihra WI 30238581 1258 1383 W10 W2 L4 L9 H L12 2.5
    21 JAMES W NICKELL WI 11300855 1500 1500 L5 D24 H D12 D15 L14 2
    22 MICHAEL LAWRENCE WI 12937940 1400 1400 L8 L12 D27 H W24 L15 2
    23 Ed Kopp WI 30904814 1237 1301 D11 L10 W19 L13 L17 D27 2
    24 Jaswanth Akkina WI 30298526 1298 1293 L26 D21 D17 L18 L22 B 2
    25 Veda Anish Kakumanu WI 30466766 1114 1156 B L5 L10 D17 D19 L18 2
    26 Nicholas Sloan WI 12772484 1713 1693 W24 H L3 L8 U U 1.5
    27 THOMAS A SIMONIS WI 12717181 1354 1324 L6 L15 D22 L28 H D23 1.5
    28 ADAM NINNEMAN WI 15763277 1350 1351 L9 H U W27 U L19 1.5
    29 Avinash Muthupandiyan WI 15901297 1279 1313 L14 W19 L11 H U U 1.5

    Lower
    No. Player Name State USCF ID Pre Post Norm R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 Total
    1 Jahnav Vivek WI 31608679 1144 1207 W5 W3 W2 W6 W8 W4 6
    2 RUDRANSH KURUMADDALI WI 30818618 1007 1026 W10 W4 L1 W5 W6 W7 5
    3 Samuel Everette WI 31836507 1086 1008 W9 L1 L6 W7 L4 W8 3
    4 Victor Chavez-Paez WI 31944421 761 778 W7 L2 L5 W10 W3 L1 3
    5 James E Mading WI 12780703 624 647 L1 B W4 L2 L7 W11 3
    6 Vrishank reddy Sirumala WI 32504549 548 740 D8 W11 W3 L1 L2 F 2.5
    7 Aaditya Vardhan Jampani WI 32020397 201 406 L4 H W9 L3 W5 L2 2.5
    8 Trinity Slavik WI 32479549 841 827 D6 H W10 U L1 L3 2
    9 Shivam Takale WI 30889029 715 649 L3 L10 L7 W11 B F 2
    10 Kush Yadav WI 32184400 683 638 L2 W9 L8 L4 L11 B 2
    11 CHARLES N LANDEY WI 12531107 799 706 H L6 U L9 W10 L5 1.5