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2026 AGCA Championship - Spring Edition

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25 players participated in this 5-round tournament, held from 20 Mar 2026 to 22 Mar 2026 in Austin, TX, United States. 1 titled players from 4 federations. Top 10 Elo average was 2071, and top seed was Vladimir Belous (🇷🇺 RUS, GM, 2493).

Rohit Gundam (🇺🇸 USA, 2114) won with 4.0/5, ahead of Vladimir Belous (4.0) and David S. Khachatryan (3.5). Gundam shared the lead from round 1, winning on tie-break.

The biggest upset came in round 2: Yangyang Shen (1964) beat Keerthi K. Vijay (2277), a +313-point gap.

Location
🇺🇸Austin, TX, United States
Dates
20 Mar 2026 → 22 Mar 2026
Time control
Standard: 90 minutes with 30 second increment from move 1
System
Swiss · 5 rounds
Top seed
🇷🇺GMVladimir Belous2493
Avg top 10
2,071
Participants
25
Titled players · 1
GM×1
Federations · 4 represented
🇺🇸United States of America×20
🇮🇳India×3
🇦🇲Armenia×1
🇷🇺Russia×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 6 co-leaders at R4 to 2 at the finish.

Co-leaders
9
4
5
6
2
1.52.545R1R2R3R4R5
Belous4Gundam4Vijay3.5Mynala3.5Kandikayala3.5Kaliyur3.5
R5 · TIEBREAK CLUSTER

2 players finish on 4.0/5. Gundam takes the title on Buchholz Cut1 (14.0).

R4 · HEAD-TO-HEAD · WINNER VS 2ND

GM Vladimir Belous drew with Rohit Gundam (White).

R1–R5 · UNBEATEN

GM Vladimir Belous went unbeaten across 5 games (R1–R5).

Key matchups · top 4

Head-to-head between the four finishers
Player1234
1GMVladimir Belous*
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2Rohit Gundam
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*—
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3Keerthi K. Vijay——*
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4Rahul Mynala—
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½
*

Grille américaine

#PlayerEloFedR1R2R3R4R5PtsBu C1BuSBPerfΔ
1Gundam, Rohit2114USA+12B+5N=4B=2N+10B4.014.016.012.252286+20.0
2Belous, VladimirGM2493RUS=17B+9B+3N=1B+8N4.013.515.012.252337-5.9
3Khachatryan, David S.1924ARM+16B+7N−2B=4N+13B3.513.015.09.252118+23.8
4Rahul Mynala2018IND+15N+18B=1N=3B=6N3.513.014.59.002092+24.0
5Kandikayala, Srikar1987USA+11N−1B+19N=7B+17N3.511.513.07.251995+4.4
6Vijay, Keerthi K.2277IND+13N−8B+17B+14N=4B3.510.512.07.252079-18.4
7Kaliyur, Rohith1873USA+22N−3B+18N=5N+15B3.510.511.05.751945+10.6
8Shen, Yangyang1964USA+21B+6N=14B=10N−2B3.012.513.06.502088+29.6
9Santhosh, Pranav1952USA+24B−2N−12B+20N+16N3.09.510.04.001965+2.0
10Dumitru, Eric Alexander1907USA+25N=19B+23N=8B−1N3.09.09.02.751995+23.6
11Wang, Yixin1687USA−5B−13B+21N=18N+20B2.58.59.02.751737+9.2
12Pena, Faris Adan1821USA−1N+22B+9N−17N−14B2.010.511.03.501817-1.6
13Lonie, Chase Rugby1843USA−6B+11N+25BF−3N2.09.59.52.501890+2.8
14Chetlapalli, Vishnu1914USAF=23B=8N−6B+12N2.09.09.03.752033+22.0
15Seelam, Tanish1781USA−4B−20N+22B+25N−7N2.09.09.00.501712-20.0
16Zolidis, Eric1789USA−3N+21BF+19N−9B2.08.58.52.001814+5.2
17Lan, Kai Zhou1779USA=2NF−6N+12B−5B1.513.013.04.001955+26.8
18Jawaghar, Jeevanth1603USAF−4N−7B=11B+25N1.59.59.51.251729+20.8
19Li, Alex1768USAF=10N−5B−16B+21N1.59.09.02.001738-4.2
20Kandi, Pranav1642USAF+15B=24N−9B−11N1.58.08.02.251736+16.4
21Ni, Alan1613USA−8N−16N−11B=22N−19B0.59.09.50.251415-38.4
22Sanepalli Guna Advik Reddy1682IND−7B−12N−15N=21BF0.58.08.00.251450-42.0
23Adams, Stephen2069USAF=14N−10BFF0.55.05.01.001719-18.4
24Masoumi, Shahin Cazares1865USA−9NF=20BFF0.54.54.50.751603-13.2
25Tang, Martin1699USA−10BF−13N−15B−18B0.08.58.50.00983-62.8

Key insights

Biggest movers and upsets — the story behind the numbers.

Top rating gainers
Top rating losers
Biggest upsets