2024 East Bay Open

2024 East Bay Open

By Emerald Hills Chess School

Date 9/08/24

A total of 235 youth and adult players competed in Saturday Sept 9th's East Bay Open 2024, a co-presentation of Emerald Hills Chess, Fallon Chess Club, Tri-Valley Chess League and the Contra Costa Chess Club. 

Held at Fallon Middle School in Dublin, there were five rated and non-rated sections for the 60+ trophies and $2,000 in cash.

The 19-player Open section was headlined by two-time defending champion GM Enrico Sevillano and National Master Emmanuel Perez. 

Sevillano lived up to his rating by going a perfect 4-0 to take the $500 first prize and win the overall championship. 

Candidate Master (CM) Demetrius Goins took the $300 second prize at an undefeated 3.5-0.5.

CM Sana Tsogtsaikhan, Shubham Patankar and Robert Thayer shared $200 for third place at 3-1. Vedant Verma, also 3-1, took home the Under-1600 $300 first prize, while Sachit Hegde won $200 for second place U1600.

Henry Xiao went a perfect 5-0 to win the 40-player U1500 Experts section and the $150 first prize over second-place and $100 winner Preron Chakrabarty who scored 4.5-0.5. 

There was a three-way tie for third and the $50 prize: Harshit Ramesh (Top U1200), Vihaan Joshi and Austin Bo Chen. 

Four players tied for sixth place with 3.5-1.5 scores: Kanav Maheshwari, Michael Liu, Na Kadaba Pradep, and Matthew Ringue. Shreyan Goli picked up the second place U1200 trophy.

In the 77-player U1000 Premier youth and adult section, Arjun Shenoy went a perfect 5-0 to take first place and $100 home. Dev Rawal and Ansh Shah tied for second with undefeated 4.5-0.5 scores, splitting $50.

 Anastasios Arvanitis took fourth on tiebreak over eight other players with excellent 4-1 scores, including: Jai Yadav, David Minjoon Kim, Ansh Doshi, Evan Lim, Wilson Han, Neil Mallu, Matthew Hernandez (Top U700 trophy and $50 prize) and Pranav Mehta. 

There was a five-way tie for 13th with 3.5-1.5 scores, in tiebreak order: Nathan Wen Wang, Anika Prasad, Davin Cale Unardi, Enming Zhang, and Ivan Al Pokrovsky. 

In the rated 63-player K-12 U500-rated Challenger, Snehal Umrigar, Andy Yep, and Dingding Chen tied for first, all with undefeated 4.5 out of 5 scores. Akshay Bansal, Joshua Taylor and Advaith Sheela tied for fourth with excellent 4-1 scores.

There was a nine-way tie for 7th place with 3.5-1.5 scores, in tiebreak order: Simha Tulla, Neel Mehta, Brendan Ma, Xiaoxi Sha, Guatham Prasanna, Akshara Arun, Dylan Plise, Adhith Sakthivel, and Atharv Aggarwal.  

Thirty-six K-12 players competed in the half-day non-rated Novice section for first-time youth players. 

Trophy winners for first and second-place finishers from the six player round-robin groups included: Aarush Odugu, Nivaan Pradhan, Jace Le, Adrel Coutinho, Eileen Zhang, Maxim Mironov, Devarsh Nalam, Aadit Vekatesan, Asmit Maiti, Sean Bhimani, Reyansh Arise and Chris Jason Ephraim.

Finally, in the team competition, host Fallon Middle School Chess Club took first place over Fremont’s Shoreview Chess Club. 

Dublin’s new Emerald High School placed third, while Fresno’s Sanger Chess took fourth, followed by Dublin High School in fifth. Dublin’s John Green Elementary won for top elementary school team. 

Final Standings:  https://www.caissachess.net/live/4832

US Chess Federation-Rated results: US Chess MSA - Cross Table for 2024 EAST BAY OPEN (Event 202409076762)