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2026 April ICA FIDE Championship

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24 players participated in this 4-round tournament, held from 18 Apr 2026 to 19 Apr 2026 in Glen Rock, NJ, United States. 2 titled players from 4 federations. Top 10 Elo average was 1982, and top seed was Bryce Tiglon (🇺🇸 USA, GM, 2529).

Mark Leo Kogan (🇺🇸 USA, 2026) won with 3.5/4, ahead of Bryce Tiglon (3.5) and Aditeya Das (3.0). Kogan shared the lead from round 1, winning on tie-break.

The biggest upset came in round 3: Melanie Liang (1716) beat Ari Lukatsky (1839), a +123-point gap.

Location
🇺🇸Glen Rock, NJ, United States
Dates
18 Apr 2026 → 19 Apr 2026
Time control
Standard: All Moves in 110 Min. Del. 10 Sec. / /
System
Swiss · 4 rounds
Top seed
🇺🇸GMBryce Tiglon2529
Avg top 10
1,982
Participants
24
Titled players · 2
GM×1
FM×1
Federations · 4 represented
🇺🇸United States of America×19
🇹🇷Turkiye×1
🇯🇵Japan×1
🇨🇳China×1
Top 3

How it unfolded

Top 6 · 4 rounds

Tight race until R4; 2 players tied at 3.5/4, decided on Buchholz. Title race narrowed from 2 co-leaders at R4 to 2 at the finish.

Co-leaders
8
4
1
2
1234R1R2R3R4
R4 · TIEBREAK CLUSTER

2 players finish on 3.5/4. Kogan takes the title on Buchholz Cut1 (7.0).

WIN STREAKS · 2 top finishers

GM Bryce Tiglon 3 wins (R2–R4)Mark Leo Kogan 3 wins (R1–R3)

Key matchups · top 4

Head-to-head between the four finishers
Player1234
1GMBryce Tiglon*
2Mark Leo Kogan*
½
3FMAditeya Das
½
*
4Leon Shevelenko*

Grille américaine

#PlayerEloFedR1R2R3R4PtsBu C1BuSBPerfΔ
1Kogan, Mark Leo2026USA+24N+11B+10N=3B3.57.07.05.502178+24.8
2Tiglon, BryceGM2529USA=8N+19B+9B+6N3.56.57.56.502402-2.6
3Das, AditeyaFM2233USA+22B+13N=6B=1N3.07.58.05.002115-8.2
4Shevelenko, Leon1808USA+18N6B+12N+8B3.06.57.55.001892+13.6
5Velampalli, Akhil1739USA=9N=8B+11N+10B3.06.08.06.001970+24.4
6Bernstein, Theodore1990USA+12B+4N=3N2B2.59.511.56.502102+22.4
7Moshkevich, Elizabeth1823USA=20B9N+22B+14N2.54.55.02.501870+3.2
8Liang, Melanie1716USA=2B=5N+13B4N2.09.511.04.751876+30.0
9Sandeep Kumar, Arav0USA=5B+7B2N=21B2.09.010.04.5019560.0
10FIDE 5660088670+15N+16N1B5N2.08.09.53.0018760.0
11Diao, Sujia1838USA+14B1N5B+18N2.08.09.02.501656-28.8
12Calim, Bora1595TUR6N+18B4B+22N2.06.57.01.501692+5.4
13Lukatsky, Ari1839USA+17N3B8N=19B1.56.57.52.001703-33.2
14Jiang, Shawn1578USA11N+23B=15N7B1.56.06.00.751675+16.4
15Li, Xiaoyao1799CHN10B+20N=14BF1.54.54.51.751763-3.2
16Treger, Yefim1938USA+23N10B=21NF1.53.03.00.501853-3.0
17Bangaru, Sahishn Sai1565USA13B=22N18B+23N1.53.03.00.251693+19.2
18FIDE 56600889104B12N+17N11B1.07.08.51.5015090.0
19Andrei, Bryan1645USAF2N=20B=13N1.06.06.01.251690+2.0
20Endo van Dooijeweert, Sebastian1561JPN=7N15B=19NF1.05.05.01.751631+9.6
21Siu, Liam1734USAFF=16B=9N1.03.53.51.751938+10.4
22Sengupta, Nevan1653USA3N=17B7N12B0.57.59.00.751437-42.4
23Li, David1586USA16B14NF17B0.04.54.50.00894-46.0
24Wang, Ryan1645USA1BFFF0.03.53.50.001226-3.6

Key insights

Biggest movers and upsets — the story behind the numbers.

Top rating gainers
Top rating losers
Biggest upsets