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2025 July BayAreaChess Real FIDE Championship - MXA

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18 players participated in this 6-round tournament, held from 11 Jul 2025 to 13 Jul 2025 in Cupertino, CA, United States. 2 federations represented. Top 10 Elo average was 1775, and top seed was Akshay Padmanabhan (🇺🇸 USA, 1923).

Chase Wang (🇺🇸 USA, 1657) won with 4.0/6, ahead of Rudy Jr. Tia (3.5) and Armin Vale Cruz (3.5). Wang shared the lead from round 4 and won solo starting round 5.

The biggest upset came in round 2: Neal Sundar (1501) beat Arjunsai Navaneetha Prabhu (1732), a +231-point gap.

Location
🇺🇸Cupertino, CA, United States
Dates
11 Jul 2025 → 13 Jul 2025
Time control
Standard: 90 minutes with 30 second increment from move 1
System
Swiss · 6 rounds
Top seed
🇺🇸Akshay Padmanabhan1923
Avg top 10
1,775
Participants
18
Federations · 2 represented
🇺🇸United States of America×17
🇵🇬Papua New Guinea×1
Top 3

How it unfolded

Top 6 · 6 rounds

Chase Wang led from R5; +0.5-point edge over the runner-up. Title race converged from 2 co-leaders at R4 to 1 by R5.

Co-leaders
5
2
1
2
1
1
1.534.56R1R2R3R4R5R6Wang takes lead
R5 · LEADER CHANGE13 Jul

Chase Wang takes the sole lead (4.0/5).

R5 · HEAD-TO-HEAD · WINNER VS 2ND

Chase Wang beat Rudy Jr. Tia (Black).

R1–R3 · WIN STREAK

Rudy Jr. Tia won 3 in a row (R1–R3).

Key matchups · top 4

Head-to-head between the four finishers
Player1234
1Chase Wang*
1
1
2Rudy Jr. Tia
0
*
½
1
3Armin Vale Cruz
0
½
*
1
4Olivia Xu
0
0
*

Grille américaine

#PlayerEloFedR1R2R3R4R5R6PtsBu C1BuSBPerfΔ
1Wang, Chase1657USA+11N+3B=6B=12N+2N5B4.015.017.011.501888+70.4
2Tia, Rudy Jr.1753PNG+17N+4B+5B6N1B=3N3.517.018.09.251759+2.2
3Cruz, Armin Vale1805USA+13B1N+4B=8N=9B=2B3.516.017.59.251768-4.2
4Xu, Olivia1639USA+9B2N3N+7B=15N+11B3.514.015.57.751802+54.4
5Brahmanapally, Sarvagnya1561USAF+7B2N+13N8B+1N3.014.014.08.001755+51.2
6Padmanabhan, Akshay1923USAFF=1N+2B=12N+8B3.012.012.09.001968+4.4
7Yan, Rayna1624USA+10B5N=13B4N=16N=14B2.512.013.04.501503-40.0
8Ramaswamy, Abhinav1876USAFF+16N=3B+5N6N2.510.510.55.751820-4.4
9Sankar, Arjun1835USA4N+10BFF=3N+16B2.510.510.55.251736-8.8
10Pu, Hugo1556USA7N9N=11B=16B=14N+18B2.59.59.52.251607+28.4
11Navaneetha Prabhu, Arjunsai1732USA1B13N=10N=14B+18B4N2.013.013.02.001458-86.8
12Patel, Anuj1806USAFF+15N=1B=6BF2.08.58.55.001897+7.2
13Sundar, Neal1501USA3N+11B=7N5BFF1.511.011.03.251592+15.6
14Shenvi Priolkar, Ansh1545USAF15BF=11N=10B=7N1.58.58.53.501560+0.4
15Oza, Nikunj1727USAF+14N12BF=4BF1.57.07.03.251664-4.8
16Naga Abhi Ram Ponnaluri1613USAFF8B=10N=7B9N1.010.010.02.501516-21.6
17Guan, Marcus1616USA2BF+18NFFF1.03.53.50.001694+7.6
18Viswanath, Naren Ganapathy1637USAFF17BF11N10N0.05.55.50.00822-62.8

Key insights

Biggest movers and upsets — the story behind the numbers.

Top rating gainers
Top rating losers
Biggest upsets