The 9th Boston Youth Chessfest, held January 20th at the Boston English High School in Jamaica Plain, had a total of 137 players in eight
sections. Only the "shark" sections were USCF rated. This tournament with its low entry provides an opportunity for inner city children, as
well as others, to play in tournament chess, and is funded by MACA's Living Memorial Chess Fund. The event was organized and directed by Gus
Gosselin, assisted by Frank DelBonis, Frank Vogel, Steve Frymer, and Bob Messenger. National master Eric Godin provided analysis on a demo board
after games were finished, and Boston police officer Steve Johnson served ice cream to the players between rounds.
Prize Winners:
Age 19 and Under Sharks
1st Rudolf Hersh 4-0
2nd-3rd Krishna Gupta (2nd trophy), Tian Wang (3rd trophy) 3-1
Age 12 and Under Sharks
1st Chris Williams 3 1/2 - 1/2
2nd-4th Amrit Gupta (2nd trophy), Sean Hirata (3rd trophy), Ilya Abugov
(medal) 3-1
Top female: Sara Itani
Age 9 and Under Sharks
1st Jeffrey Hu 4-0
2nd-4th Larry Zhu (2nd trophy), Seth Neel (3rd trophy), Jack Rice (medal) 3-1
(note that the Age 19 and Under and Age 16 and Under Unrated sections were
combined, but prizes were awarded separately by age.)
Age 19 and Under Unrated
1st Latia Jackson 3-1
2nd-3rd Jonathan Posada (2nd trophy), Chris Arguetta (3rd trophy) 2-2
Age 16 and Under Unrated
1st-3rd Alan Castro (1st trophy), Alex Henao (2nd trophy), Konstantyn
Titov (3rd trophy) 3-1
Age 14 and Under Unrated
1st Edward Chiu 3 1/2 - 1/2
2nd-3rd Ferdinand Percente (2nd trophy), Chris Cruz (3rd trophy) 3-1
Age 12 and Under Unrated
1st Miles Watkins 4-0
2nd Matthew Boyes-Watson 3-1
3rd-5th Diego Salamanca (3rd trophy), Carl Senecal, Michael Nozick (medals)
2 1/2 - 1 1/2
Top female: Katrina Weiffenbach
Age 10 and Under Unrated
1st-2nd Paris Ellsworth (1st trophy), Tyler Vogel (2nd trophy) 4-0
3rd-4th Jesse Zhang (3rd trophy), Greg Makrigiorgos (medal) 3-1
Top female: Sarah Hutchinson
Age 8 and Under Unrated
1st-2nd Zakhour Abugov (1st trophy), Yesuto Shaw (2nd trophy) 3 1/2 - 1/2
3rd-8th Arvan Sahakian (3rd trophy), Scott Myerson, David Grakovsky,
Joseph Shohet, Alex Moses-Gardener, Alexander Yali Sun (medals) 3-1
Top females: Hailey Decluca, Alexandra Karambelas
Final standings:
Boston Youth Chessfest, Sharks 19/Under
Standings
Name rtng post ID No. rd 1 rd 2 rd 3 rd 4 TOT
1 Hersh, Rudolf T.............1137 1171 12616466 W 10 W 11 W 3 W 2 4.0
2 Gupta, Krishna.............. 794 871 12667261 W 12 W 14 W 4 L 1 3.0
3 Wang, Tian..................1182 1180 12788758 W 8 W 5 L 1 W 6 3.0
4 Izurieta, Cristian..........1161 1131 12823494 W 6 W 7 L 2 D 5 2.5
5 Lotin, Guenson.............. 885 921 12779158 W 13 L 3 W 7 D 4 2.5
6 Naryshkin, Konstan.......... 872 900 12800042 L 4 W 9 W 12 L 3 2.0
7 Chan, Jonathan.............. 826 850 12842657 W 9 L 4 L 5 W 12 2.0
8 Buce, Brian.................unr. 959 12627018 L 3 W 13 W 11 L 9 2.0
9 Kent, Andrew T.............. 952 941 12825029 L 7 L 6 W 13 W 8 2.0
10 Chua, Alan K................ 871 868 12820890 L 1 L 12 B--- W 11 2.0
11 Klebanov, Anatoly........... 879 874 12820892 W 14 L 1 L 8 L 10 1.0
12 Shulkin, Ian G.............. 919 873 12829978 L 2 W 10 L 6 L 7 1.0
13 Correal, Diego.............. 910 865 12823488 L 5 L 8 L 9 B--- 1.0
14 Al-Mamun, Syed..............1347 1286 12850635 L 11 L 2 U--- U--- 0.0
Boston Youth Chessfest, Sharks 12/Under
Standings
Name rtng post ID No. rd 1 rd 2 rd 3 rd 4 TOT
1 Williams, Christopher.......1443 1458 12788759 W 14 D 13 W 6 W 2 3.5
2 Gupta, Amrit................1529 1518 12715959 W 9 W 4 W 3 L 1 3.0
3 Hirata, Sean................1115 1165 12739605 W 15 W 5 L 2 W 7 3.0
4 Abugov, Ilya................1213 1228 12829987 W 8 L 2 W 14 W 6 3.0
5 Thomas, Scott...............1121 1105 12825902 D 12 L 3 W 11 W 10 2.5
6 Kessel, Nathan..............1001 1017 12829066 B--- W 7 L 1 L 4 2.0
7 Brown, Ian..................1240 1199 12842902 W 11 L 6 W 8 L 3 2.0
8 Itani, Sara T............... 854 897 12836775 L 4 W 9 L 7 W 15 2.0
9 Russell, Peter..............1044 1034 12803965 L 2 L 8 B--- W 14 2.0
10 Chao, Michael............... 885 881 12761077 H--- L 12 W 15 L 5 1.5
11 Vogel, Trevor W............. 872 871 12655128 L 7 D 15 L 5 B--- 1.5
12 Goldsmith, Adam............. 745 780 12727594 D 5 W 10 U--- U--- 1.5
13 Nathans, Reilly.............1175 1190 12717825 W 16 D 1 U--- U--- 1.5
14 Mahalingam-Dhingra, Adit....1039 1020 12826462 L 1 W 16 L 4 L 9 1.0
15 Straight, Matthew...........1094 1020 12826565 L 3 D 11 L 10 L 8 0.5
16 Hattis, Joey S.............. 847 835 12825877 L 13 L 14 U--- U--- 0.0
Boston Youth Chessfest, Sharks 9/Under
Standings
Name rtng post ID No. rd 1 rd 2 rd 3 rd 4 TOT
1 Hu, Jeffrey................. 908 965 12825875 W 4 W 5 W 3 W 2 4.0
2 Zhu, Larry.................. 824 857 12838817 W 6 W 7 W 5 L 1 3.0
3 Neel, Seth..................1094 1085 12815015 X--- W 8 L 1 W 6 3.0
4 Rice, Jack I................ 752 778 12797751 L 1 W 9 W 8 W 7 3.0
5 Neel, Dylan................. 802 802 12818569 W 9 L 1 L 2 W 8 2.0
6 Klein, Aaron................1051 1022 12808910 L 2 W 10 W 7 L 3 2.0
7 Wang, Andrew................ 513 529 12846588 W 10 L 2 L 6 L 4 1.0
8 Oliveri, Michael C.......... 501 489 12840847 B--- L 3 L 4 L 5 1.0
9 Keselman, Michael........... 916 871 12801650 L 5 L 4 D 10 F--- 0.5
10 Brodsky, Gregory............ 886 850 12800051 L 7 L 6 D 9 F--- 0.5
Boston Youth Chessfest, Unrated 19 & 16/Under
Standings
Name rtng post ID No. rd 1 rd 2 rd 3 rd 4 TOT
1 Castro, Alan................unr. 604 W 4 W 6 W 3 L 2 3.0
2 Henao, Alex................. 738 738 12846893 W 5 L 7 W 8 W 1 3.0
3 Jackson, Latia.............. 880 867 12646315 W 9 W 8 L 1 W 5 3.0
4 Titov, Konstantyn...........unr. 563 L 1 B--- W 6 W 9 3.0
5 Posada, Jonathan............unr. 809 12850205 L 2 W 9 W 7 L 3 2.0
6 Arguetta, Chris.............unr. 589 W 7 L 1 L 4 W 8 2.0
7 Manice, Henry...............unr. 249 L 6 W 2 L 5 B--- 2.0
8 Presbrey, Stephanie.........unr. 139 X--- L 3 L 2 L 6 1.0
9 Joseph, Louis M A...........unr. 100 L 3 L 5 B--- L 4 1.0
Boston Youth Chessfest, Unrated 14/Under
Standings
Name rtng post ID No. rd 1 rd 2 rd 3 rd 4 TOT
1 Chiu, Edward................ 745 742 D 10 W 9 W 2 W 4 3.5
2 Percente, Ferdinand......... 510 543 W 3 W 6 L 1 W 7 3.0
3 Cruz, Chris................. 745 726 L 2 W 13 W 10 W 6 3.0
4 Forsyth, Gibson.............unr. 286 D 11 W 12 W 8 L 1 2.5
5 Liu, Jin-Bin................unr. 293 D 8 W 11 L 6 W 10 2.5
6 Martinez, Antonio...........unr. 400 W 13 L 2 W 5 L 3 2.0
7 Harrington, Jess............unr. 127 W 12 L 8 W 11 L 2 2.0
8 Liao, Eric..................unr. 113 D 5 W 7 L 4 D 12 2.0
9 Davies, Kyle................unr. 272 W 14 L 1 L 12 W 13 2.0
10 Lamb, Norman................unr. 272 D 1 W 14 L 3 L 5 1.5
11 Souza, David................unr. 100 D 4 L 5 L 7 W 14 1.5
12 Herrera, Cristian...........unr. 100 L 7 L 4 W 9 D 8 1.5
13 Martin, Jason...............unr. 129 L 6 L 3 W 14 L 9 1.0
14 Huynh, Thao.................unr. 100 L 9 L 10 L 13 L 11 0.0
Boston Youth Chessfest, Unrated 12/Under
Standings
Name rtng post ID No. rd 1 rd 2 rd 3 rd 4 TOT
1 Watkins, Miles..............unr. 677 W 9 W 4 W 2 W 3 4.0
2 Boyes-Watson, Matthew.......unr. 277 W 12 W 10 L 1 W 6 3.0
3 Senecal, Carl...............unr. 177 W 14 W 7 D 10 L 1 2.5
4 Salamanca, Diego............unr. 555 W 6 L 1 W 8 D 5 2.5
5 Nozick, Michael.............unr. 555 W 8 L 6 W 14 D 4 2.5
6 Finch, Micheal..............unr. 555 L 4 W 5 W 7 L 2 2.0
7 Blake, Ben..................unr. 100 W 13 L 3 L 6 W 12 2.0
8 King, Aaron................. 710 667 L 5 W 11 L 4 W 10 2.0
9 Quinonez, Julio.............unr. 100 L 1 D 12 D 11 W 13 2.0
10 Ray, Ritik..................unr. 155 W 11 L 2 D 3 L 8 1.5
11 Alexander, Karl.............unr. 155 L 10 L 8 D 9 W 14 1.5
12 Lalonde, Tim................unr. 100 L 2 D 9 D 13 L 7 1.0
13 Ford, Thomas................unr. 100 L 7 D 14 D 12 L 9 1.0
14 Weiffenbach, Katrina........unr. 100 L 3 D 13 L 5 L 11 0.5
Boston Youth Chessfest, Unrated 10/Under
Standings
Name rtng post ID No. rd 1 rd 2 rd 3 rd 4 TOT
1 Ellsworth, Paris............ 252 325 12839008 W 6 W 24 W 12 W 5 4.0
2 Vogel, Tyler................ 442 472 12714356 W 22 W 12 W 18 W 3 4.0
3 Zhang, Jesse................unr. 490 W 19 W 13 W 7 L 2 3.0
4 Makrigiorgos, Greg.......... 738 744 12830131 H--- W 17 D 9 W 8 3.0
5 Egan, Patrick Jame.......... 592 573 12846601 W 11 W 16 D 8 L 1 2.5
6 Rich, Theo.................. 420 406 12829985 L 1 W 23 W 14 D 11 2.5
7 Anfuso, Justin A............ 720 700 12829973 W 9 W 14 L 3 D 10 2.5
8 Hussoin, Tonnoy.............unr. 539 W 18 W 10 D 5 L 4 2.5
9 Schynik, Willy.............. 685 676 L 7 W 22 D 4 W 15 2.5
10 Louie, Stephanie J.......... 386 401 W 20 L 8 W 16 D 7 2.5
11 Brian, David................unr. 353 L 5 W 21 W 13 D 6 2.5
12 Van Heukelom, Noah..........unr. 178 W 23 L 2 L 1 W 19 2.0
13 Shaw, Chinua................unr. 289 W 15 L 3 L 11 W 20 2.0
14 Yuan, Daniel................unr. 295 W 25 L 7 L 6 W 18 2.0
15 Hutcheson, Sarah............unr. 255 L 13 W 19 W 17 L 9 2.0
16 Simmons, Adrian.............unr. 285 W 21 L 5 L 10 W 22 2.0
17 Mendoza, Jonathan...........unr. 123 D 24 L 4 L 15 W 23 1.5
18 Welder, Lucius..............unr. 100 L 8 W 20 L 2 L 14 1.0
19 Abiehaker, David............unr. 100 L 3 L 15 W 21 L 12 1.0
20 Botecho, Bryar..............unr. 100 L 10 L 18 B--- L 13 1.0
21 Conlin, Rebecca.............unr. 100 L 16 L 11 L 19 B--- 1.0
22 Niler, Jillian..............unr. 100 L 2 L 9 D 23 L 16 0.5
23 Joseph, Nicholas A..........unr. 100 L 12 L 6 D 22 L 17 0.5
24 Cottarel, Gregory...........unr. 100 D 17 L 1 U--- U--- 0.5
25 Cervenka, Adam..............unr. 100 L 14 F--- U--- U--- 0.0
Boston Youth Chessfest, Unrated 8/Under
Standings
Name rtng post ID No. rd 1 rd 2 rd 3 rd 4 TOT
1 Abugov, Zakhour.............unr. 404 W 34 W 7 W 23 D 5 3.5
2 Shaw, Yesuto................unr. 467 D 24 W 26 W 16 W 14 3.5
3 Sahakian, Arvan.............unr. 200 W 27 W 9 W 6 L 9 3.0
4 Myerson, Scott..............unr. 200 W 11 W 20 D 9 D 21 3.0
5 Grakovsky, David............unr. 672 W 33 D 15 W 10 D 1 3.0
6 Shohet, Joseph..............unr. 200 W 30 W 17 L 3 W 13 3.0
7 Moses-Gardener, Alex........unr. 404 W 19 L 1 W 17 W 18 3.0
8 Sun, Alexander Yali.........unr. 263 W 12 L 13 W 20 W 15 3.0
9 Myerson, Justin.............unr. 100 W 28 L 3 D 4 W 3 2.5
10 Texeria, Tevin..............unr. 209 D 31 W 32 L 5 W 23 2.5
11 McLaughlin, Gabe............unr. 100 L 4 W 33 D 19 W 27 2.5
12 Paolella, Will..............unr. 204 L 8 D 21 W 26 W 24 2.5
13 Deluca, Hailey..............unr. 100 W 35 W 8 L 4 L 6 2.0
14 Ellsworth, Jonah............ 252 248 W 21 D 22 D 15 L 2 2.0
15 Nefedov, Dennis.............unr. 100 W 32 D 5 D 14 L 8 2.0
16 Gordon, Wesley..............unr. 163 W 18 D 24 L 2 D 19 2.0
17 Owens, Roy..................unr. 100 W 29 L 6 L 7 W 31 2.0
18 Karambelas, Alexandra.......unr. 100 L 16 W 28 W 31 L 7 2.0
19 Finch, Sonny................unr. 100 L 7 W 29 D 11 D 16 2.0
20 Shaw, Obasi.................unr. 100 X--- L 4 L 8 W 28 2.0
21 Levine, Arron J.............unr. 100 L 14 D 12 W 32 D 4 2.0
22 Nathans, Grace.............. 330 334 W 25 D 14 U--- U--- 1.5
23 Hutchesson, Ian............. 418 370 D 26 W 31 L 1 L 10 1.5
24 Niler, Paige................unr. 100 D 2 D 16 D 25 L 12 1.5
25 Makrigigos, Alex............unr. 110 L 22 W 30 D 24 U--- 1.5
26 Marshall, Saleek............unr. 167 D 23 L 2 L 12 W 32 1.5
27 Karambelas, Devin...........unr. 100 L 3 B--- D 0 L 11 1.5
28 Hernanndez, Brian...........unr. 100 L 9 L 18 W 30 L 20 1.0
29 Mendoa, Andrew..............unr. 100 L 17 L 19 W 33 U--- 1.0
30 Wang, Clara.................unr. 100 L 6 L 25 L 28 B--- 1.0
31 Hoey, Brendan...............unr. 100 D 10 L 23 L 18 L 17 0.5
32 Ford, Eliz..................unr. 100 L 15 L 10 L 21 L 26 0.0
33 Makrigigos, Dimitri.........unr. 100 L 5 L 11 L 29 U--- 0.0
34 Hidalgo, David..............unr. 100 L 1 F--- U--- U--- 0.0
35 Stein, Alex.................unr. 100 L 13 F--- U--- U--- 0.0
Boston Youth Chessfest, Extra Games
Standings
Name rtng post ID No. rd 1 TOT
1 Kessel, Nathan..............1001 1003 12829066 W 4 1.0
2 Neel, Seth..................1094 1085 12815015 D 3 0.5
3 Chao, Michael............... 885 894 12761077 D 2 0.5
4 Oliveri, Michael C.......... 501 499 12840847 L 1 0.0