The list of the team squads of the United States Chess League 2015 contains all player entries and individual results of the United States Chess League 2015 .
General
The 20 teams registered a maximum of nine players before the start of the season and were allowed to register two players during the season (one each after the third and sixth round). The Atlanta Kings and the San Diego Surfers were the only teams not to use the full contingent and only reported ten players each. Not all of the registered players were used; on the other hand, a total of five players who were not registered in the respective team squad were used. While the Miami Sharks got by with six players, Dallas Destiny 13 players played at least one game. A total of 211 players were used. The best point player was Elliot Liu (Las Vegas Desert Rats) with 10 points from 10 games. Swiad Isoria , Levy Rozman (both Manhattan Apple Sauce) and Nicholas Rosenthal (St. Louis Arch Bishops) achieved 8 points each , with Isoria playing 11 games, Rozman and Rosenthal each 10. In addition to Liu, Kapil Chandran, Jason Shi (both Connecticut dreadnoughts ), Angel Hernandez-Camen (Philadelphia Inventors), Raja Panjwani, Wang Quibiao (both New York Knights), Carla Heredia Serrano , Joshua David Osbourn (both Lubbock Tornadoes), Julio Catalino Sadorra (Dallas Destiny), Carissa Yip (New England Nor 'easters), William Schill (Seattle Sluggers), Tony Yim, Ramya Krishna I. (both Arizona Scorpions) and Joshua Mu (Carolina Cobras) 13 other 100% players, of which Chandran and Shi played four games each, Hernandez-Camen three , Wang Qibiao and Heredia Serrano two each and the others named one each.
Legend
The tables below contain the following information:
No .: Ranking list number
Title: FIDE title at the beginning of the season (rating list from August 2015); GM = Grand Master , IM = International Master , FM = FIDE Master , CM = Candidate Master , WGM = Women's Grand Master, WIM = International Women's Master, WFM = Women's FIDE Master, WCM = Women's Candidate Master
Elo (USCF): Elo number at the beginning of the season (rating list from August 2015); For players without an Elo rating, the national rating (USCF rating) is given in brackets
Nation: Nationality according to the rating list from August 2015; ARG = Argentina, BLR = Belarus, BUL = Bulgaria, CAN = Canada, CHI = Chile, CHN = China, COL = Colombia, CUB = Cuba, DEN = Denmark, DOM = Dominican Republic, ECU = Ecuador, GEO = Georgia, IND = India, IRI = Iran, KOR = South Korea, MDA = Moldova, MEX = Mexico, MGL = Mongolia, PAR = Paraguay, PER = Peru, PHI = Philippines, ROU = Romania, RUS = Russia, TJK = Tajikistan, TUR = Turkey , UKR = Ukraine, USA = United States, VEN = Venezuela
G: number of winning games
R: Number of draw games
V: number of losing games
Pkt .: Number of points achieved
Games: Number of games played
MVP: Points in the Most Valueable Player rating
Manhattan apple sauce
No.
title
Surname
Elo (USCF)
nation
G
R.
V
Pt.
Lots
MVP
1
GM
Alex Lenderman
2634
United States
2
2
1
3
5
5
2
GM
Giorgi Katscheishvili
2589
GEO
4th
0
1
4th
5
3.5
3
GM
Swiad Isoria
2573
United States
6th
4th
1
8th
11
14.5
4th
GM
Irina Krush
2475
United States
1
2
2
2
5
−2
5
IN THE
Aleksandr Ostrovskiy
2401
United States
2
1
0
2.5
3
7th
6th
FM
Alec Getz
2266
United States
0
0
1
0
1
−3.5
7th
Levy Rozman
2257
United States
7th
2
1
8th
10
18th
8th
Venkat Iyer
1940
United States
0
0
2
0
2
−5.5
9
Ben Gershenov
2162
United States
0
1
0
0.5
1
0
10
Hans Niemann
2142
United States
2
0
1
2
3
3.5
11
Akira Nakada
1887
United States
2
1
6th
2.5
9
−10
?
Keith Espinosa
1791
United States
0
0
1
0
1
0
St. Louis Arch Bishops
No.
title
Surname
Elo (USCF)
nation
G
R.
V
Pt.
Lots
MVP
1
GM
Illja Nyschnyk
2628
UKR
2
2
1
3
5
−4
2
GM
Varuzhan Akobian
2635
United States
6th
3
1
7.5
10
13
3
GM
Alejandro Ramírez
2586
United States
1
1
1
1.5
3
1.5
4th
IN THE
K. Priyadharshan
2460
IND
4th
2
0
5
6th
17th
5
IN THE
Michael Brooks
2431
United States
0
0
1
0
1
−4
6th
FM
Doug Eckert
2178
United States
1
4th
0
3
5
5
7th
Nick Karlow
2105
United States
0
0
3
0
3
−9.5
8th
Spencer Finegold
2093
United States
2
0
5
2
7th
1.5
9
Nicholas Rosenthal
2104
United States
8th
0
2
8th
10
15.5
10
Shawn Swindell
2003
United States
0
0
2
0
2
−5
11
Jacob Wilkins
(1909)
United States
0
0
0
0
0
0
Dallas Destiny
No.
title
Surname
Elo (USCF)
nation
G
R.
V
Pt.
Lots
MVP
1
GM
Julio Catalino Sadorra
2501
PHI
1
0
0
1
1
5
2
GM
Conrad Holt
2529
United States
2
3
0
3.5
5
7.5
3
IN THE
Jeffery Xiong
2544
United States
6th
0
1
6th
7th
19th
4th
FM
Ruifeng Li
2408
United States
0
7th
1
3.5
8th
4th
5
Christopher Toolin
2149
United States
1
1
1
1.5
3
0.5
6th
FM
CJ Arvind
2232
IND
1
1
0
1.5
2
4th
7th
Karthik Ramachandran
2142
United States
2
1
1
2.5
4th
5.5
8th
Atulya Vaidya
2115
United States
5
1
0
5.5
6th
12
9
Akshay Malhotra
2178
United States
0
1
2
0.5
3
−4.5
10
Robert Sanchez
1883
United States
1
1
2
1.5
4th
0
11
Jason Metpally
1893
United States
1
0
2
1
3
−1.5
?
Kevin Liu
1642
United States
0
0
1
0
1
−2.5
?
Artur Safin
2235
United States
0
0
1
0
1
−4
New York Knights
No.
title
Surname
Elo (USCF)
nation
G
R.
V
Pt.
Lots
MVP
1
GM
Mark Paragua
2509
PHI
3
5
2
5.5
10
11
2
GM
Pascal Charbonneau
2505
CAN
3
4th
1
5
8th
10
3
IN THE
Raja Panjwani
2390
CAN
1
0
0
1
1
5
4th
Nicholas Checa
2362
United States
4th
1
2
4.5
7th
9.5
5
Wang Qibiao
2291
CHN
2
0
0
2
2
7th
6th
FM
David Brodsky
2274
United States
0
1
2
0.5
3
−5
7th
FM
Rico Salimbagat
2219
United States
3
0
1
3
4th
6th
8th
Ikrom Ibrohimov
2248
TJK
0
0
1
0
1
−3
9
Jonathan Subervi
2222
DOM
0
1
3
0.5
4th
−6
10
FM
Aravind Kumar
2182
United States
2
3
0
3.5
5
8th
11
Joshua Bromberg
(2001)
United States
1
1
1
1.5
3
1
New England Nor'easters
No.
title
Surname
Elo (USCF)
nation
G
R.
V
Pt.
Lots
MVP
1
GM
Alexander Ivanov
2528
United States
1
2
2
2
5
−3
2
IN THE
David Vigorito
2415
United States
3
2
1
4th
6th
15.5
3
Mika Brattain
2336
United States
1
0
1
1
2
0.5
4th
IN THE
Alexander Katz
2330
United States
5
1
3
5.5
9
10
5
FM
Steven Winer
2355
United States
3
2
1
4th
6th
9
6th
FM
Charles Riordan
2279
United States
0
1
1
0.5
2
−2
7th
Lawyer Times
2110
United States
1
2
1
2
4th
0.5
8th
Timothy Sage
2088
United States
1
0
1
1
2
0
9
Siddharth Arun
2056
United States
3
1
0
3.5
4th
6th
10
Carissa Yip
2037
United States
1
0
0
1
1
3.5
11
Nithin Kavi
2200
United States
1
0
2
1
3
−1.5
New Jersey knockouts
No.
title
Surname
Elo (USCF)
nation
G
R.
V
Pt.
Lots
MVP
1
GM
Alexander Stripunsky
2560
United States
5
2
1
6th
8th
23
2
GM
Joel Benjamin
2545
United States
6th
1
1
6.5
8th
18.5
3
GM
Mackenzie Molner
2475
United States
2
2
0
3
4th
8th
4th
Dmitriy Volkov
(2371)
United States
0
2
0
1
2
1
5
Praveen Balakrishnan
2309
United States
4th
0
3
4th
7th
7th
6th
Haik the Manuelian
2127
United States
0
1
0
0.5
1
1
7th
CM
Brandon Jacobson
2202
United States
4th
2
1
5
7th
12.5
8th
Igor Yeliseyev
2121
United States
0
0
1
0
1
−2.5
9
Aaron Jacobson
2231
United States
0
1
3
0.5
4th
−7.5
10
Aaron Shlionsky
2087
United States
0
0
3
0
3
−7.5
11
Ethan Klein
1936
United States
2
1
0
2.5
3
3.5
Las Vegas Desert Rats
No.
title
Surname
Elo (USCF)
nation
G
R.
V
Pt.
Lots
MVP
1
GM
Timur Gareyev
2584
United States
2
1
0
2.5
3
9
2
GM
Kayden Troff
2532
United States
1
2
2
2
5
−4
3
GM
Enrico Sevillano
2476
United States
0
1
2
0.5
3
−7
4th
IN THE
Dionisio Aldama Degurnay
2402
MEX
1
1
3
1.5
5
−6.5
5
FM
Sonny Kamberi
2304
United States
0
2
2
1
4th
−7
6th
FM
Elliott Liu
2265
United States
10
0
0
10
10
25th
7th
FM
Alberto Hernandez
(2321)
CUB
1
2
3
2
6th
−4
8th
FM
Dan Durham
2229
United States
2
1
2
2.5
5
2
9
Ronald Joseph Gross
2115
United States
0
0
0
0
0
0
10
WFM
Amanda Rae Mateer
2091
United States
1
0
1
1
2
1
11
Erik Moskov
2127
United States
3
1
1
3.5
5
6th
San Francisco Mechanics
No.
title
Surname
Elo (USCF)
nation
G
R.
V
Pt.
Lots
MVP
1
GM
Daniel Naroditsky
2631
United States
2
3
3
3.5
8th
−6
2
GM
Vinay Bhat
2519
United States
4th
1
1
4.5
6th
13
3
IN THE
David Pruess
2350
United States
0
1
1
0.5
2
−2.5
4th
IN THE
John Donaldson
2392
United States
0
0
1
0
1
−3.5
5
FM
Cameron Wheeler
2321
United States
1
2
3
2
6th
−6.5
6th
FM
Andy Lee
2341
United States
0
1
2
0.5
3
−5.5
7th
FM
James Critelli
2296
United States
3
0
1
3
4th
7th
8th
FM
Vignesh Panchanatham
2296
United States
1
0
2
1
3
−2
9
Siddharth Banik
2123
United States
2
1
3
2.5
6th
4th
10
FM
Rayan Taghizadeh
2154
United States
3
0
1
3
4th
5.5
11
WFM
Uyanga Byambaa
2072
MGL
3
1
1
3.5
5
1
Seattle Sluggers
No.
title
Surname
Elo (USCF)
nation
G
R.
V
Pt.
Lots
MVP
1
GM
Giorgi Margwelashvili
2524
GEO
0
2
1
1
3
−3
2
IN THE
Georgi Orlov
2475
United States
0
0
4th
0
4th
−16
3
IN THE
Michael Lee
2420
United States
1
1
4th
1.5
6th
−8
4th
FM
Costin Cozianu
(2466)
ROU
0
2
1
1
3
−2.5
5
FM
Marcel Milat
2300
CAN
0
1
0
0.5
1
1
6th
IN THE
Raymond Kaufman
2295
United States
0
1
1
0.5
2
−3.5
7th
David Golub
2183
United States
5
1
1
5.5
7th
12.5
8th
FM
Roland Feng
2327
United States
4th
3
1
5.5
8th
14th
9
Bryce Tiglon
2227
United States
6th
1
1
6.5
8th
18th
10
FM
William Schill
2188
United States
1
0
0
1
1
2.5
11
Anthony He
1752
United States
0
0
1
0
1
−2.5
Connecticut dreadnoughts
No.
title
Surname
Elo (USCF)
nation
G
R.
V
Pt.
Lots
MVP
1
GM
Sergey Kudrin
2505
United States
0
4th
1
2
5
−2
2
GM
Maxim Dlugy
2516
United States
0
1
0
0.5
1
1
3
GM
Michael Rohde
2450
United States
1
3
2
2.5
6th
1.5
4th
IN THE
Daniel Edelman
2383
United States
1
1
2
1.5
4th
0.5
5
FM
Leif Pressman
2276
United States
0
3
1
1.5
4th
−1.5
6th
FM
Joshua Colas
2202
United States
2
2
0
3
4th
7th
7th
CM
Kapil Chandran
2385
United States
4th
0
0
4th
4th
9.5
8th
Ian Harris
2160
United States
1
0
4th
1
5
−8
9
FM
Jason Shi
2057
United States
4th
0
0
4th
4th
11
10
Yoon-Young Kim
2038
United States
3
0
2
3
5
1
11
Dennis Li
(2072)
United States
0
0
2
0
2
−5
Arizona Scorpions
No.
title
Surname
Elo (USCF)
nation
G
R.
V
Pt.
Lots
MVP
1
GM
Rogelio Barcenilla
2455
PHI
1
5
2
3.5
8th
5
2
FM
Joel Banawa
2359
United States
3
3
2
4.5
8th
8.5
3
IN THE
Alexey Diulger
2374
MDA
0
0
1
0
1
−4
4th
IN THE
Mark Ginsburg
2358
United States
1
2
2
2
5
−3
5
FM
Pedram Atoufi
2261
IRI
4th
0
3
4th
7th
5.5
6th
Francisco Guadalupe
2199
United States
0
1
1
0.5
2
−4
7th
FM
Robby Adamson
2274
United States
1
1
2
1.5
4th
0
8th
Tony Yim
2063
COR
1
0
0
1
1
3.5
9
WFM
Ramya Krishna I.
2131
United States
1
0
0
1
1
2.5
10
Andrew Lebovitz
2022
United States
0
1
3
0.5
4th
−5
11
Rick Sun
(2095)
United States
1
0
2
1
3
−1.5
Carolina Cobras
No.
title
Surname
Elo (USCF)
nation
G
R.
V
Pt.
Lots
MVP
1
IN THE
Korley cash desk
2409
THE
3
0
1
3
4th
4th
2
IN THE
Jonathan Schroer
2349
United States
2
4th
5
4th
11
−5
3
İlker Nadi Bozkurt
2188
DOOR
0
0
4th
0
4th
−13
4th
Chris Mabe
2190
United States
0
0
0
0
0
0
5
FM
Robin Cunningham
2219
United States
3
1
1
3.5
5
5.5
6th
Carlito Agner
(2261)
United States
0
0
0
0
0
0
7th
Joshua Mu
2203
United States
1
0
0
1
1
4.5
8th
Craig Jones
2138
United States
0
0
3
0
3
−8.5
9
Bapat Udayan
2110
IND
0
0
0
0
0
0
10
Tianqi Wang
2111
United States
3
1
3
3.5
7th
5
11
Aaron Balleisen
2209
United States
3
2
4th
4th
9
−5
Minnesota Blizzard
No.
title
Surname
Elo (USCF)
nation
G
R.
V
Pt.
Lots
MVP
1
GM
Wesley So
2779
United States
2
1
1
2.5
4th
7th
2
GM
Mauricio Flores Rios
2531
CHI
1
2
1
2
4th
2.5
3
IN THE
John Bartholomew
2449
United States
3
2
1
4th
6th
7.5
4th
IN THE
Sean Nagle
2413
United States
0
4th
1
2
5
−1.5
5
IN THE
Andrew Tang
2387
United States
2
1
3
2.5
6th
−1
6th
FM
Kevin Wasiluk
2248
United States
1
0
1
1
2
0
7th
Dane Mattson
2046
United States
1
1
1
1.5
3
1.5
8th
Matthew Jensen
2039
United States
0
0
1
0
1
−2.5
9
Andrew Titus
2009
United States
0
0
2
0
2
−5
10
Eric Bell
1885
United States
1
1
2
1.5
4th
−0.5
11
Saumik Narayanan
1767
United States
0
0
2
0
2
−5
?
Frank Johnson
2191
United States
0
0
1
0
1
−3.5
Boston Blitz
No.
title
Surname
Elo (USCF)
nation
G
R.
V
Pt.
Lots
MVP
1
GM
Eugene Perelshteyn
2515
United States
1
1
0
1.5
2
4th
2
IN THE
Steven Zierk
2503
United States
2
2
1
3
5
7th
3
IN THE
Denis Shmeliov
2398
UKR
1
4th
4th
3
9
−7.5
4th
IN THE
Richard Wang
2341
CAN
1
1
2
1.5
4th
−2.5
5
Ahmet Bolat
2189
DOOR
1
0
1
1
2
1
6th
Vadim Martirosov
2234
United States
2
0
1
2
3
3.5
7th
Christopher Williams
2134
United States
1
0
3
1
4th
−6.5
8th
Yi Yang
2212
United States
0
1
1
0.5
2
−3
9
Ilya Krasik
2235
United States
4th
0
2
4th
6th
7th
10
Andrew Hoy
2056
United States
0
1
0
0.5
1
1
11
Josef Perl
(2056)
United States
0
0
2
0
2
−5
Lubbock Tornadoes
Atlanta Kings
No.
title
Surname
Elo (USCF)
nation
G
R.
V
Pt.
Lots
MVP
1
GM
Alonso Zapata
2445
COL
0
1
0
0.5
1
0
2
FM
Kazim Gulamali
2346
United States
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
Deepak Aaron
2314
United States
0
0
2
0
2
−7.5
4th
FM
Daniel Gurevich
2392
United States
2
2
3
3
7th
−2
5
Richard Francisco
2271
United States
2
3
4th
3.5
9
−6.5
6th
Michael Patrick Corallo
2263
United States
2
2
3
3
7th
−2.5
7th
Damir Studen
2241
United States
2
2
3
3
7th
−3.5
8th
IN THE
Carlos Andres Perdomo
2301
COL
1
0
1
1
2
0.5
9
FM
Xiao Cheng
2277
United States
0
0
2
0
2
−5
10
Leonard Martinez
2216
United States
1
0
1
1
2
1
11
Sanjay Ghatti
2144
United States
0
1
0
0.5
1
1
Rio Grande Ospreys
Philadelphia Inventors
Thomas Bartell, Vienna 2015
No.
title
Surname
Elo (USCF)
nation
G
R.
V
Pt.
Lots
MVP
1
IN THE
Thomas Bartell
2345
United States
3
2
3
4th
8th
2
2
FM
Andrie Zaremba
2348
United States
1
1
2
1.5
4th
−3.5
3
FM
Dov Gorman
2241
United States
1
1
2
1.5
4th
−2
4th
Peter Minear
2210
United States
2
2
1
3
5
4.5
5
FM
Rodion Rubenchik
2275
United States
3
0
3
3
6th
−0.5
6th
Isaac Leon
(2316)
United States
0
2
1
1
3
−2.5
7th
Erick Garcia
2153
United States
1
1
2
1.5
4th
−1
8th
IN THE
Richard Costigan
2301
United States
0
0
1
0
1
−2.5
9
Angel Hernandez-Camen
2168
United States
3
0
0
3
3
8.5
10
Matthew O'Brien
(2188)
United States
1
1
0
1.5
2
2.5
San Diego Surfers
No.
title
Surname
Elo (USCF)
nation
G
R.
V
Pt.
Lots
MVP
1
GM
Jaroslaw Scherebuch
2637
United States
1
2
0
2
3
5
2
GM
Ioan-Cristian Chirilă
2528
ROU
1
1
0
1.5
2
5
3
IN THE
Keaton Kievra
2421
United States
3
1
5
3.5
9
−6.5
4th
Stevan Djordjevic
(2394)
United States
0
2
2
1
4th
−5
5
FM
Ali Morshedi
2225
United States
2
3
3
3.5
8th
−1
6th
IN THE
John L. Watson
2323
United States
2
1
1
2.5
4th
5.5
7th
Craig Hilby
2367
United States
0
0
0
0
0
0
8th
Bruce Baker
2096
United States
1
1
2
1.5
4th
−2
9
Alexander Costello
1661
United States
0
1
3
0.5
4th
−7.5
10
Brandon Yang Xia
(1853)
United States
0
0
2
0
2
−5
Miami Sharks
No.
title
Surname
Elo (USCF)
nation
G
R.
V
Pt.
Lots
MVP
1
GM
Hikaru Nakamura
2814
United States
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
GM
Julio Becerra Rivero
2539
United States
2
6th
2
5
10
4th
3
FM
Eric Rodriguez
2284
United States
0
0
0
0
0
0
4th
Jeffrey Haskel
2228
United States
1
1
3
1.5
5
−6
5
FM
Angel Pérez Quiñones
(2336)
CUB
0
0
0
0
0
0
6th
FM
Alexander Barnett
2190
United States
0
0
0
0
0
0
7th
FM
Jorge Pelaez
(2264)
CUB
1
4th
4th
3
9
−6.5
8th
Gaston Andretta
2170
ARG
0
0
0
0
0
0
9
Vlad Yanovsky
2038
United States
2
2
6th
3
10
−10.5
10
Miguel Fonseca
1953
United States
0
0
5
0
5
−13
11
John Salisbury
1988
United States
0
1
0
0.5
1
0
Remarks
Seetharam Reddy M is not registered in the Lubbock Tornadoes team, but was used in the 4th, 5th and 6th round.
Kevin Liu and Artur Safin are not registered in the Dallas Destiny squad, but were each used once.
Frank Johnson is not registered in the Minnesota Blizzard squad, but was used in the 10th round.
Keith Espinosa is not on the Manhattan Apple Sauce squad, but was used in the Wild Card Round.
Both the competitions of the preliminary round ( regular season ) and the final round ( playoff ) are taken into account .
Web links
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