New York State Championship 2026
September 04, 2026 - September 07, 2026
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When your game is over, please confirm the result with your opponent by signing each other's notation sheets.
After you have done this, please also write the result of your game on the yellow pairing sheet in the hall.
If your result is not reported correctly, this may affect your pairings, rating and possible prize.
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Pairings for Championship:
Pairings for Round 6. CCA_NYSC26: Championship Section!
| Bd | # | Res | White | # | Res | Black |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 1 | IM Josiah Stearman (2551 4.5) | 22 | 0 | Armaan Chandragupta Jain (2158 4.5) |
| 2 | 2 | 0 | FM Igor Sorkin (2423 4.0) | 25 | 1 | Connor Junda Wang (2132 4.0) |
| 3 | 5 | ½ | Priyansh Garg (2271 4.0) | 9 | ½ | Leo Xiaohang Shen (2243 4.0) |
| 4 | 3 | 1 | Deepak Aaron (2383 3.5) | 19 | 0 | Neil Natarajan (2182 4.0) |
| 5 | 18 | 0 | WFM Lacey Wang (2186 3.5) | 4 | 1 | FM Jasmine Su (2356 3.5) |
| 6 | 6 | 1 | IM Jay Richard Bonin (2263 3.5) | 13 | 0 | Lucas Lu (2207 3.5) |
| 7 | 10 | 1 | James J Marsh (2242 3.5) | 20 | 0 | Kushagra Bhargava (2167 3.5) |
| 8 | 12 | ½ | Royce Zhang (2228 3.5) | 46 | ½ | Adrian Harrison Sommerstein (2051 3.5) |
| 9 | 7 | 0 | FM Daniel E Shapiro (2254 3.0) | 39 | 1 | Carlos Daniel Villar-lopez (2071 3.0) |
| 10 | 42 | 0 | Charles Huang (2067 3.0) | 8 | 1 | Alisher Podavonov (2251 3.0) |
| 11 | 53 | 0 | Premsai Nallapareddygari (2020 3.0) | 21 | 1 | Mark DeDona (2165 3.0) |
| 12 | 27 | ½ | Justin Lee (2128 3.0) | 59 | ½ | Eric Ren (2001 3.0) |
| 13 | 56 | 0 | Harry Li (2011 3.0) | 33 | 1 | Leonhard Chang (2094 3.0) |
| 14 | 83 | ½ | Aiden Zhu (1916 3.0) | 38 | ½ | Theodore Bernstein (2075 3.0) |
| 15 | 84 | 0 | Eugene Wong (1915 3.0) | 11 | 1 | Landon Meadors (2231 2.5) |
| 16 | 52 | ½ | WFM Allyson Yu (2022 2.5) | 24 | ½ | Marzouq Chowdhury (2154 2.5) |
| 17 | 63 | 1 | Derek Li Chen (1990 2.5) | 26 | 0 | Adam Gordon (2131 2.5) |
| 18 | 82 | 0 | Wilson Liu (1917 2.5) | 28 | 1 | Mubassar Uddin (2128 2.5) |
| 19 | 32 | 0 | Jude Kazan (2095 2.5) | 40 | 1 | Jin Ma (2070 2.5) |
| 20 | 36 | 1 | Arabella Fang (2087 2.5) | 49 | 0 | Samuel Nemiroff (2034 2.5) |
| 21 | 64 | Jeremy Zheng (1990 2.0) | Please wait by pairing chart | |||
| 22 | 61 | ½ | Eric Cheng (1997 2.0) | 29 | ½ | Samuel Pozen (2120 2.0) |
| 23 | 72 | 0 | Melanie Liang (1959 2.0) | 31 | 1 | Steven A Taylor (2100 2.0) |
| 24 | 48 | 1 | Theodore V Pimanoff (2035 2.0) | 67 | 0 | Myra Nigam (1982 2.0) |
| 25 | 50 | 1 | Pranav Prasanna (2025 2.0) | 66 | 0 | Marissa Lu (1983 2.0) |
| 26 | 70 | 1 | Jesse Hoffman (1966 2.0) | 51 | 0 | Misha Raitzin (2023 2.0) |
| 27 | 58 | 0 | Alek Safarian (2002 2.0) | 71 | 1 | Kristian Jacome (1966 2.0) |
| 28 | 73 | 1 | Liam Siu (1959 2.0) | 76 | 0 | Dean Clark Tichy (1954 1.5) |
| 29 | 77 | 0 | WCM Charlotte Tai-en Chang (1953 1.5) | 23 | 1 | Brian Arthur (2157 1.5) |
| 30 | 62 | 0 | David Johnathan Carr (1995 1.5) | 78 | 1 | Grayson Xiang (1946 1.5) |
| 31 | 80 | 1 | Christian Mingdong Wang (1928 1.0) | 81 | 0 | Dave Finnerman (1926 1.0) |
| 32 | 85 | 0 | Calliste Herve-mignucci (1913 1.0) | 30 | 1 | Edison Burgos Rodriguez (2100 0.0) |
| 43 | ½ | Mark Leo Kogan (2062 2.0) | BYE | |||
| 57 | ½ | Samuel Cheng (2007 2.5) | BYE | |||
| 79 | ½ | Shiv Dubey (1942 2.0) | BYE | |||
| 35 | ½ | WCM Alice Chovanec (2090 3.0) | BYE | |||
| 74 | ½ | Charles B Bernstein (1958 1.0) | BYE | |||
| 14 | ½ | David E Carter (2202 2.5) | BYE | |||
| 45 | ½ | Matt Chan (2055 2.0) | BYE | |||
| 65 | ½ | Angel Lopez (1988 2.0) | BYE |