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2025 AGCA Championship - Fall Edition

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26 players participated in this 5-round tournament, held from 10 Oct 2025 to 12 Oct 2025 in Austin, TX, United States. 1 titled players from 3 federations. Top 10 Elo average was 1989, and top seed was Kamil Dragun (🇵🇱 POL, GM, 2509).

Leonid Burd (🇺🇸 USA, 1930) won with 4.0/5, ahead of Kamil Dragun (4.0) and Emerson Aurelius Johnson (3.5). Burd shared the lead from round 4, winning on tie-break.

The biggest upset came in round 1: Tanish Seelam (1725) beat Yangyang Shen (1901), a +176-point gap.

Location
🇺🇸Austin, TX, United States
Dates
10 Oct 2025 → 12 Oct 2025
Time control
Standard: 90 minutes with 30 second increment from move 1
System
Swiss · 5 rounds
Top seed
🇵🇱GMKamil Dragun2509
Avg top 10
1,989
Participants
26
Titled players · 1
GM×1
Federations · 3 represented
🇺🇸United States of America×24
🇵🇱Poland×1
🇦🇲Armenia×1
Top 3

How it unfolded

Top 6 · 5 rounds

Tight race until R5; 2 players tied at 4.0/5, decided on Buchholz. Title race narrowed from 4 co-leaders at R4 to 2 at the finish.

Co-leaders
5
1
1
4
2
1.52.545R1R2R3R4R5
Burd4Dragun4Johnson3.5Zhang3Khachatryan3Shen3— ex-leaders:Georgeled R3, #13
R5 · TIEBREAK CLUSTER

2 players finish on 4.0/5. Burd takes the title on Buchholz Cut1 (10.5).

R2–R5 · WIN STREAK

GM Kamil Dragun won 4 in a row (R2–R5).

Grille américaine

#PlayerEloFedR1R2R3R4R5PtsBu C1BuSBPerfΔ
1Burd, Leonid1930USA+20N=4B=10N+16B+5N4.010.512.09.252059+30.8
2Dragun, KamilGM2509POLF+16B+12N+5B+8N4.010.510.510.502909+3.2
3Johnson, Emerson Aurelius1817USAF+26N+15B=10N+13B3.57.07.05.752068+36.4
4Seelam, Tanish1725USA+7B=1N=11B−6N+16N3.012.514.58.251955+61.6
5George, Isaac1881USA+19B+24N+6B−2N−1B3.012.513.55.501991+9.6
6Zhang, Oscar Y1952USAF+22B−5N+4B+11N3.09.59.56.501976+4.8
7Shen, Yangyang1901USA−4N+20B=18N=9B+22B3.09.010.04.751865-8.4
8Khachatryan, David S.1908ARM=15B=18N+24B+22N−2B3.08.59.53.751970+6.2
9Bates, Evan1847USAF=19N+21B=7N+15B3.08.08.05.752092+35.2
10Lan, Kai Zhou1785USA=23B+21N=1B=3B−12N2.511.512.55.751867+21.2
11Santhosh, Pranav1787USA=21N+23B=4N=12B−6B2.510.011.04.501853+16.4
12Polisetti, Lohit Krishna Narayana2004USAF+25N−2B=11N+10B2.510.010.04.752083+13.2
13Thomas, Michael D1758USAF=17B+23N+18B−3N2.58.08.03.501957+42.0
14Dumitru, Eric Alexander1798USA=18B=15N−22N+19B=20N2.56.57.54.001722-17.2
15Zhang, Ellery1841USA=8N=14B−3N+24B−9N2.012.013.03.751762-22.0
16Joseph, Julian1848USA+26B−2N+25B−1N−4B2.012.012.01.001777-18.8
17Masoumi, Shahin Cazares1958USA−25B=13N=19BF+18N2.06.56.53.501846-18.0
18Williams, Michael R1804USA=14N=8B=7B−13N−17B1.511.013.04.251716-23.6
19Villanueva, Roy0USA−5N=9B=17N−14N=21B1.510.512.03.2516910.0
20Zhang, Lawrence1854USA−1B−7NF+25N=14B1.510.510.52.251814-10.0
21Zolidis, Eric1717USA=11B−10B−9N=23N=19N1.59.510.52.501629-17.2
22Mallikarjunaiah, Mahit S1737USAF−6N+14B−8B−7N1.011.511.52.501697-8.0
23Choi, Jay1867USA=10N−11N−13B=21BF1.09.09.02.001569-62.8
24Lonie, Chase Rugby1801USAF−5B−8N−15N+25B1.09.09.01.001709-9.0
25Vyas, Miransh Purven1975USA+17N−12B−16N−20B−24N1.08.09.02.001653-53.3
26Shvets, Ilan0USA−16N−3BFFF0.05.55.50.0010330.0

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