Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Annual WCC Club Championship R3 results, R4 tentative pairings

Hi all - 

OK - we're halfway home, with a single perfect score through Round 3 in each section (well done to Alexander and Jahnav!), it's still a wide open event - good luck to all!

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Reminder to all players, coaches and parents - there's a nice rules and etiquette section of the blog that everyone should review every few events until they're deep habits, especially if these are newer concepts to you or your player.  
If this is too much to read, remember (or be sure your player knows) this one rule:

"There's never a reason to say ANYTHING to your opponent while their clock is running.  Not following this rule is formally considered distracting to your opponent, and you could be subject to a time penalty or, for multiple offenses, a game forfeit"

Practically, this means:
  • If you want to offer a draw, do it on YOUR time, before you press the clock.
    • Once you offer a draw, DON'T offer another unless something significant has changed in your game.  Multiple, repeated draw offers is explicitly noted in USCF Rules of Chess: Rule 14B5 as a violation subject to penalty.
    • There's never a need to ask your opponent if they accept your draw offer.  If they accept it, you will know, the game is over.  If they make a move, they have declined the offer.
    • There's never really a need to verbally decline an offer made by your opponent.  Just make a move - this declines the offer.  Of course, you can be polite and say "I decline the offer" or "I'd like to play on", but making your next move formally declines the offer.  
  • If you want to take a look a their game score, fine, ask on YOUR time.
  • Adjusting misaligned pieces is fine, but (say it with me) do it on YOUR time.
    • This makes sense given the one rule above - you'd have to announce it ("I adjust", etc.), but since you SHOULDN'T SAY ANYTHING TO YOUR OPPONENT on their time, you can't announce it, so. therefore, you can't adjust pieces on their time.
  • If you and your opponent don't agree about anything material in a game, DON'T ARGUE about it, get a TD.
    • Unless they're on fire, get a TD.  Maybe even then...
Not knowing these basic ideas can cost you a time penalty, or even match points, so it helps to know the rules of the game you're playing :)  These links are visible on EVERY blog post page, so there's really no reason to not know them properly.
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Back to the chess - I'm aware of the following updates - anything else I haven't seen:
  • (Thurs PM) Nothing new to report :)
Currently:
    Upper Section:
        Requested Byes - DeMastri
        Forced Bye - none
    Lower Section:
        Requested Byes - Landey
        Forced Bye - none

Crosstables and pairings below are updated to reflect this.  As always, pairings are tentative, and subject to change - check often, even if you have a bye.  Let us know if you can't make it on Wed.


Thanks - John

2026 WCC Club Chp -- Upper                                   Cross Table, Page 1

  No. Gr    Name(Team)                   St   Rate   Rd 1  Rd 2  Rd 3  Score

   1.    Oliver, Alexander (5) ........  WI     1849 W21   W24   W7      3.0

   2.    Seghers, Evan C (1) ..........  WI     2142 W19   W14   -H-     2.5
   3.    Becker, John R (3) ...........  WI     1900 D11   W25   W13     2.5
   4.    Cravetz, Gregory John (4) ....  WI     1874 W20   D10   W12     2.5

   5.    La Budde, Mike (2) ...........  WI     1903 W17   L7    W16     2.0
   6.    Krause, Aaron Paul (6) .......  WI     1829 W29   L12   W19     2.0
   7.    Coons, James Jay (9) .........  WI     1750 W28   W5    L1      2.0
   8.    De Mastri, John (10) .........  WI     1715 L12   W18   W24     2.0
   9.    Grochowski, Robin J (11) .....  WI     1705 D18   -H-   W23     2.0
  10.    Kerns, Benjamin (14) .........  WI     1693 W23   D4    -H-     2.0
  11.    Jensen, Alex D (17) ..........  WI     1569 D3    W15   -H-     2.0
  12.    Sihra, Ridham (25) ...........  WI     1260 W8    W6    L4      2.0

  13.    Sabarish, Shravan (7) ........  WI     1770 W26   -H-   L3      1.5
  14.    Lilly, Hobart W (8) ..........  WI     1758 W27   L2    D17     1.5
  15.    Creed, John Jack (12) ........  WI     1700 -H-   L11   W25     1.5
  16.    Sloan, Nicholas (13) .........  WI     1696 W22   -H-   L5      1.5
  17.    Gendloff, Elie (16) ..........  WI     1600 L5    W26   D14     1.5
  18.    Kopp, Ed (26) ................  WI     1241 D9    L8    W29     1.5

  19.    Reed, Adisa M (15) ...........  WI     1642 L2    W27   L6      1.0
  20.    Klandrud, Kevin (18) .........  WI     1501 L4    -H-   D22     1.0
  21.    Nickell, James W (19) ........  WI     1500 L1    D22   -H-     1.0
  22.    Akkina, Jaswanth (27) ........  WI     1186 L16   D21   D20     1.0
  23.    Muthupandiyan, Avinash (28) ..  WI     1150 L10   W29   L9      1.0
  24.    Kakumanu, Veda Anish (29) ....  WI     1084 -B-   L1    L8      1.0

  25.    Chaveriat, Lee (20) ..........  WI     1498 -H-   L3    L15     0.5
  26.    Simonis, Thomas A (23) .......  WI     1400 L13   L17   D27     0.5
  27.    Lawrence, Michael (22) .......  WI     1400 L14   L19   D26     0.5
  28.    Ninneman, Adam (24) ..........  WI     1367 L7    -H-   -N-     0.5

  29.    Sabarish, Shashwath (21) .....  WI     1498 L6    L23   L18     0.0


2026 WCC Club Chp Upper - Round 4                          Pairing Sheet, Page 1

 Board                     White                                 Black

   101.  ___  Oliver, Alexander (3.0,1849)      ___  Seghers, Evan C (2.5,2142)       
   102.  ___  Becker, John R (2.5,1900)         ___  Cravetz, Gregory John (2.5,1874) 
   103.  ___  Grochowski, Robin J (2.0,1705)    ___  La Budde, Mike (2.0,1903)        
   104.  ___  Kerns, Benjamin (2.0,1693)        ___  Krause, Aaron Paul (2.0,1829)    
   105.  ___  Jensen, Alex D (2.0,1569)         ___  Coons, James Jay (2.0,1750)      
   106.  ___  Sihra, Ridham (2.0,1260)          ___  Sabarish, Shravan (1.5,1770)     
   107.  ___  Sloan, Nicholas (1.5,1696)        ___  Lilly, Hobart W (1.5,1758)       
   108.  ___  Gendloff, Elie (1.5,1600)         ___  Creed, John Jack (1.5,1700)      
   109.  ___  Reed, Adisa M (1.0,1642)          ___  Kopp, Ed (1.5,1241)              
   110.  ___  Muthupandiyan, Avinas (1.0,1150)  ___  Klandrud, Kevin (1.0,1501)       
   111.  ___  Nickell, James W (1.0,1500)       ___  Kakumanu, Veda Anish (1.0,1084)  
   112.  ___  Akkina, Jaswanth (1.0,1186)       ___  Chaveriat, Lee (0.5,1498)        
   113.  ___  Sabarish, Shashwath (0.0,1498)    ___  Simonis, Thomas A (0.5,1400)     
   114.  ___  Lawrence, Michael (0.5,1400)      ___  Ninneman, Adam (0.5,1367)        



2026 WCC Club Chp -- Lower                                   Cross Table, Page 1

  No. Gr    Name(Team)                   St   Rate   Rd 1  Rd 2  Rd 3  Score

   1.    Vivek, Jahnav (3) ............  WI     1007 W5    W7    W3      3.0

   2.    Sirumala, Vrishank Reddy (10)   WI      548 D4    W10   W7      2.5

   3.    Kurumaddali, Rudransh (2) ....  WI     1025 W9    W8    L1      2.0
   4.    Slavik, Trinity (4) ..........  WI      846 D2    -H-   W9      2.0
   5.    Mading, James E (9) ..........  WI      633 L1    -B-   W8      2.0

   6.    Jampani, Aaditya Vardhan (11)   WI      259 L8    -H-   W11     1.5

   7.    Everette, Samuel (1) .........  WI     1108 W11   L1    L2      1.0
   8.    Chavez-Paez, Victor (5) ......  WI      788 W6    L3    L5      1.0
   9.    Yadav, Kush (8) ..............  WI      665 L3    W11   L4      1.0

  10.    Landey, Charles N (6) ........  WI      766 -H-   L2    -N-     0.5

  11.    Takale, Shivam (7) ...........  WI      708 L7    L9    L6      0.0


2026 WCC Club Chp Lower - Round 4                          Pairing Sheet, Page 1

 Board                     White                                 Black

   201.  ___  Sirumala, Vrishank Red (2.5,548)  ___  Vivek, Jahnav (3.0,1007)         
   202.  ___  Kurumaddali, Rudransh (2.0,1025)  ___  Slavik, Trinity (2.0,846)        
   203.  ___  Mading, James E (2.0,633)         ___  Jampani, Aaditya Vardh (1.5,259) 
   204.  ___  Yadav, Kush (1.0,665)             ___  Everette, Samuel (1.0,1108)      
   205.  ___  Takale, Shivam (0.0,708)          ___  Chavez-Paez, Victor (1.0,788)    



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Tuesday, March 3, 2026

Feb Quad and Ladder - final results and closing notes

Hi everybody - 

Congrats to the quad / section winners:
  • Quad A: Seghers / Coons tied for 1st/2nd
  • Quad B: 1st - DeMastri, 2nd - Jensen
  • Quad C: 1st - Klandrud, 2nd - Chaveriat
  • Quad D: 1st - Pezewski, 2nd - Kopp
  • Quad E: Muthupandiyan / Vivek tied for 1st/2nd
  • Quad F: 1st - Slavik, 3-way tie for 2nd
Couple of more points here:
  • Thanks to everyone for making this event a success, we only had one irremediable quad section pairing, all other quads complete as expected - big, big thank you to everyone for committing to this event.  I look forward to running the next one later this year!
  • The goal of this was to create more competitive games - we had only 7 draws in quad play out of 74 rated games!!  There were no draws in the ladder week.  This looks like a success from the competitive games metric.
  • Everything shows as 8 rounds because USCF...  The last quad was more of a regular 4 week event (as planned), so it reports as 8 rounds (4 weeks with 2 games/week), so USCF extended all of the sections to 8 rounds in this event.  Doesn't affect any other parts of this.
  • If you played in multiple sections (quad / extra games / ladder), the ratings for each section here start from your last rated event, view the actual final updates on the USCF site as they're updated (will repost here when they're rerated for chronological order).  Extra games section shows all actually played games as close to the actual order they were played as allowed for rounds/rating.
  • we had a couple of membership issues preventing us from rating this event, thanks to everyone for getting those resolved quickly
John D


Quad A
No. Player Name State USCF ID Pre Post Norm R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 Total
1 Evan C Seghers WI 13712498 2139 2148 W3 W3 F2 F2 W4 W4 U U 4
2 James Jay Coons WI 12551569 1766 1766 W4 L4 X1 X1 L3 W3 U U 4
3 Alexander Oliver WI 32706083 1849 1849 L1 L1 W4 W4 W2 L2 U U 3
4 John Jack Creed WI 12442084 1700 1700 L2 W2 L3 L3 L1 L1 U U 1

Quad B
No. Player Name State USCF ID Pre Post Norm R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 Total
1 JOHN DE MASTRI WI 12580948 1715 1759 W4 W4 W3 D3 W2 D2 U U 5
2 ALEX D JENSEN WI 12755833 1569 1596 L3 D3 W4 W4 L1 D1 U U 3
3 Benjamin Kerns WI 31621823 1693 1651 W2 D2 L1 D1 L4 L4 U U 2
4 Elie Gendloff WI 12493180 1600 1600 L1 L1 L2 L2 W3 W3 U U 2

Quad C
No. Player Name State USCF ID Pre Post Norm R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 Total
1 KEVIN KLANDRUD WI 15938368 1501 1586 W3 W3 W4 W4 W2 L2 U U 5
2 LEE CHAVERIAT WI 15201114 1504 1531 W4 W4 W3 L3 L1 W1 U U 4
3 JAMES W NICKELL WI 11300855 1500 1500 L1 L1 L2 W2 L4 W4 U U 2
4 MICHAEL LAWRENCE WI 12937940 1400 1400 L2 L2 L1 L1 W3 L3 U U 1

Quad D
No. Player Name State USCF ID Pre Post Norm R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 Total
1 REID ALEXANDER PEZEWSKI WI 14306385 1400 1435 W2 W2 W3 D3 W4 W4 U U 5.5
2 Ed Kopp WI 30904814 1241 1202 L1 L1 W4 D4 X3 X3 U U 3.5
3 Jaswanth Akkina WI 30298526 1186 1298 W5 W5 L1 D1 F2 F2 U U 2.5
4 Anirudh Sribhasyam WI 30969692 800 814 U U L2 D2 L1 L1 U U 0.5
5 ADAM NINNEMAN WI 15763277 1367 1312 L3 L3 U U U U U U 0

Quad E
No. Player Name State USCF ID Pre Post Norm R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 Total
1 Avinash Muthupandiyan WI 15901297 1300 1273 W3 D3 W4 D4 W2 L2 U U 4
2 Jahnav Vivek WI 31608679 1007 1143 W4 L4 W3 W3 L1 W1 U U 4
3 Veda Anish Kakumanu WI 30466766 1084 1081 L1 D1 L2 L2 W4 W4 U U 2.5
4 RUDRANSH KURUMADDALI WI 30818618 1025 1007 L2 W2 L1 D1 L3 L3 U U 1.5

Quad F
No. Player Name State USCF ID Pre Post Norm R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 Total
1 Trinity Slavik WI 32479549 846 841 H H W6 W6 W3 W3 L5 W5 6
2 Shivam Takale WI 30889029 708 715 L5 W5 H H W4 W4 L3 W3 5
3 Kush Yadav WI 32184400 665 683 W6 W6 W5 W5 L1 L1 W2 L2 5
4 James E Mading WI 12780703 633 575 B B H H L2 L2 X6 X6 5
5 Vrishank reddy Sirumala WI 32504549 205 548 W2 L2 L3 L3 W6 W6 W1 L1 4
6 Aaditya Vardhan Jampani WI 32020397 259 228 L3 L3 L1 L1 L5 L5 F4 F4 0

Ladder Games
No. Player Name State USCF ID Pre Post Norm R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 Total
1 Mike La Budde WI 12391010 1900 1909 W6 U U U U U U U 1
2 Nicholas Sloan WI 12772484 1696 1709 W7 U U U U U U U 1
3 Ed Kopp WI 30904814 1241 1284 W8 U U U U U U U 1
4 Avinash Muthupandiyan WI 15901297 1300 1305 W10 U U U U U U U 1
5 Veda Anish Kakumanu WI 30466766 1084 1106 W9 U U U U U U U 1
6 James Jay Coons WI 12551569 1766 1755 L1 U U U U U U U 0
7 Elie Gendloff WI 12493180 1600 1600 L2 U U U U U U U 0
8 JAMES W NICKELL WI 11300855 1500 1500 L3 U U U U U U U 0
9 Jahnav Vivek WI 31608679 1007 984 L5 U U U U U U U 0
10 Shagun Sharma MI 31379143 902 896 L4 U U U U U U U 0

Extra Games
No. Player Name State USCF ID Pre Post Norm R1 R2 R3 R4 R5 R6 R7 R8 Total
1 REID ALEXANDER PEZEWSKI WI 14306385 1400 1441 U U W8 U U U U U 1
2 THOMAS A SIMONIS WI 12717181 1400 1355 L5 U W5 U U U U U 1
3 Shagun Sharma MI 31379143 902 948 U W7 U U U U U U 1
4 CHARLES N LANDEY WI 12531107 766 793 U W5 U U U U U U 1
5 James E Mading WI 12780703 633 677 W2 L4 L2 U U U U U 1
6 Ed Kopp WI 30904814 1241 1226 U U D7 U U U U U 0.5
7 Hrishikesh Srivathsan WI 16964942 1063 1038 U L3 D6 U U U U U 0.5
8 JOHN DE MASTRI WI 12580948 1715 1684 U U L1 U U U U U 0

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Saturday, February 28, 2026

44th Waukesha Memorial Results under 1200

 


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