Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Annual WCC Club Championship R4 results, R5 tentative pairings

Hi all - 

OK - heading down the home stretch, with Evan and Jahnav (still perfect) leading the upper/lower sections with two rounds to play, upper is still wide open, someone's going to have to make a charge in the lower section :) - good luck to all!

Back to the chess - I'm aware of the following updates - anything else I haven't seen:
  • (Thurs) Sloan requests bye (R5&6) in the Upper Section
  • (Wed) Muthupandiayn and Sihra request byes in Upper Section
Currently:
    Upper Section:
        Requested Byes - Sihra, Avanash, Sloan
        Forced Bye - none
    Lower Section:
        Requested Byes - none
        Forced Bye - Takale

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 to everyone to replied to my survey about online play.  I'll have more to say about that in a separate post this weekend.

Got some feedback during  / after the quads about having a match play event.  Since the quads -> ladder event went off without much trouble, I've spent more time thinking about this. Perhaps a 4-5 week match play championship where winners advance in a bracket, and losers get seeded into a running Swiss for the remaining weeks.  (First week losers play in a Swiss from weeks 2-5, second week losers get seeded into the Swiss for weeks 3-5 with 1/2 point, etc.) Let me know what you think.  The only issue I can think of is that it's tough to handle missing / absent players in the match play bracket.  Thoughts?

Thanks - John
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Remember to check the links to rules posts (to the right) as needed - if you want to see anything else there let me know.  Working on a post about how Swiss pairings work, maybe next week...
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2026 WCC Club Chp -- Upper                                   Cross Table, Page 1

  No. Gr    Name(Team)                   St   Rate   Rd 1  Rd 2  Rd 3  Rd 4  Score

   1.    Seghers, Evan C (1) ..........  WI     2142 W17   W9    -H-   W4      3.5

   2.    Becker, John R (3) ...........  WI     1900 D14   W21   W8    D3      3.0
   3.    Cravetz, Gregory John (4) ....  WI     1874 W19   D13   W15   D2      3.0
   4.    Oliver, Alexander (5) ........  WI     1849 W20   W25   W6    L1      3.0
   5.    Krause, Aaron Paul (6) .......  WI     1829 W26   L15   W17   W14     3.0
   6.    Coons, James Jay (9) .........  WI     1750 W22   W7    L4    W15     3.0

   7.    La Budde, Mike (2) ...........  WI     1903 W18   L6    W16   D11     2.5
   8.    Sabarish, Shravan (7) ........  WI     1770 W29   -H-   L2    W18     2.5
   9.    Lilly, Hobart W (8) ..........  WI     1758 W27   L1    D18   W16     2.5
  10.    De Mastri, John (10) .........  WI     1715 L15   W23   W25   -H-     2.5
  11.    Grochowski, Robin J (11) .....  WI     1705 D23   -H-   W24   D7      2.5
  12.    Creed, John Jack (12) ........  WI     1700 -H-   L14   W21   W23     2.5

  13.    Kerns, Benjamin (14) .........  WI     1693 W24   D3    -H-   -N-     2.0
  14.    Jensen, Alex D (17) ..........  WI     1569 D2    W12   -H-   L5      2.0
  15.    Sihra, Ridham (25) ...........  WI     1260 W10   W5    L3    L6      2.0

  16.    Sloan, Nicholas (13) .........  WI     1696 W28   -H-   L7    L9      1.5
  17.    Reed, Adisa M (15) ...........  WI     1642 L1    W27   L5    D20     1.5
  18.    Gendloff, Elie (16) ..........  WI     1600 L7    W29   D9    L8      1.5
  19.    Klandrud, Kevin (18) .........  WI     1501 L3    -H-   D28   D25     1.5
  20.    Nickell, James W (19) ........  WI     1500 L4    D28   -H-   D17     1.5
  21.    Chaveriat, Lee (20) ..........  WI     1498 -H-   L2    L12   W28     1.5
  22.    Ninneman, Adam (24) ..........  WI     1367 L6    -H-   -N-   W29     1.5
  23.    Kopp, Ed (26) ................  WI     1241 D11   L10   W26   L12     1.5
  24.    Muthupandiyan, Avinash (28) ..  WI     1150 L13   W26   L11   -H-     1.5
  25.    Kakumanu, Veda Anish (29) ....  WI     1084 -B-   L4    L10   D19     1.5

  26.    Sabarish, Shashwath (21) .....  WI     1498 L5    L24   L23   -B-     1.0
  27.    Lawrence, Michael (22) .......  WI     1400 L9    L17   D29   -H-     1.0
  28.    Akkina, Jaswanth (27) ........  WI     1186 L16   D20   D19   L21     1.0

  29.    Simonis, Thomas A (23) .......  WI     1400 L8    L18   D27   L22     0.5


2026 WCC Club Chp Upper - Round 5                          Pairing Sheet, Page 1

 Board                     White                                 Black

   101.  ___  Seghers, Evan C (3.5,2142)        ___  Becker, John R (3.0,1900)        
   102.  ___  Cravetz, Gregory John (3.0,1874)  ___  Coons, James Jay (3.0,1750)      
   103.  ___  Krause, Aaron Paul (3.0,1829)     ___  Oliver, Alexander (3.0,1849)     
   104.  ___  La Budde, Mike (2.5,1903)         ___  De Mastri, John (2.5,1715)       
   105.  ___  Sabarish, Shravan (2.5,1770)      ___  Grochowski, Robin J (2.5,1705)   
   106.  ___  Lilly, Hobart W (2.5,1758)        ___  Creed, John Jack (2.5,1700)      
   107.  ___  Kerns, Benjamin (2.0,1693)        ___  Jensen, Alex D (2.0,1569)        
   108.  ___  Chaveriat, Lee (1.5,1498)         ___  Reed, Adisa M (1.5,1642)         
   109.  ___  Gendloff, Elie (1.5,1600)         ___  Ninneman, Adam (1.5,1367)        
   110.  ___  Klandrud, Kevin (1.5,1501)        ___  Kopp, Ed (1.5,1241)              
   111.  ___  Nickell, James W (1.5,1500)       ___  Kakumanu, Veda Anish (1.5,1084)  
   112.  ___  Sabarish, Shashwath (1.0,1498)    ___  Lawrence, Michael (1.0,1400)     
   113.  ___  Simonis, Thomas A (0.5,1400)      ___  Akkina, Jaswanth (1.0,1186)      



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

  No. Gr    Name(Team)                   St   Rate   Rd 1  Rd 2  Rd 3  Rd 4  Score

   1.    Vivek, Jahnav (3) ............  WI     1007 W7    W4    W2    W3      4.0

   2.    Kurumaddali, Rudransh (2) ....  WI     1025 W10   W6    L1    W7      3.0

   3.    Sirumala, Vrishank Reddy (10)   WI      548 D5    W11   W4    L1      2.5

   4.    Everette, Samuel (1) .........  WI     1108 W9    L1    L3    W8      2.0
   5.    Slavik, Trinity (4) ..........  WI      846 D3    -H-   W10   -N-     2.0
   6.    Chavez-Paez, Victor (5) ......  WI      788 W8    L2    L7    W10     2.0
   7.    Mading, James E (9) ..........  WI      633 L1    -B-   W6    L2      2.0

   8.    Jampani, Aaditya Vardhan (11)   WI      259 L6    -H-   W9    L4      1.5

   9.    Takale, Shivam (7) ...........  WI      708 L4    L10   L8    W11     1.0
  10.    Yadav, Kush (8) ..............  WI      665 L2    W9    L5    L6      1.0

  11.    Landey, Charles N (6) ........  WI      766 -H-   L3    -N-   L9      0.5


2026 WCC Club Chp Lower - Round 5                          Pairing Sheet, Page 1

 Board                     White                                 Black

   201.  ___  Vivek, Jahnav (4.0,1007)          ___  Slavik, Trinity (2.0,846)        
   202.  ___  Kurumaddali, Rudransh (3.0,1025)  ___  Sirumala, Vrishank Red (2.5,548) 
   203.  ___  Everette, Samuel (2.0,1108)       ___  Chavez-Paez, Victor (2.0,788)    
   204.  ___  Mading, James E (2.0,633)         ___  Jampani, Aaditya Vardh (1.5,259) 
   205.  ___  Landey, Charles N (0.5,766)       ___  Yadav, Kush (1.0,665)            
              Takale, Shivam (1.0,708)               Please Wait                      






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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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