Advance Entry List for the 2026 Austin Winter Open

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Championship (2000+, FIDE rated)

Name	USCF ID	Rating	Title	Schedule	Byes
Melillo, Lucius	15570195	2359	FM	3-day
Sommers, Sean	13334868	1937		3-day
Thirunavukkarasu, Shanmuganathan	15761327	2151		3-day
Krishnamoorthy, Vijay Keerthi	16087877	2344		3-day
Shen, Yangyang	17080503	2017		3-day	5
Lan, Kai Zhou	30658202	1973		3-day
Shafer, Logan	16019966	2319	CM	3-day
Manchanda, Advik	30054176	2105		3-day
Zhang, Ellery	30167442	1948		3-day
Zhang, Lawrence	30167437	1926		3-day
Kolli, Rishi	30358373	2018		3-day
Gu, Samuel	30050913	2068		2-day
Elliott, Scott ALAN	10402522	2011		3-day
Bupeshnath, Arjun	15891702	2008		3-day
Chetlapalli, Vishnu	30144870	2074		3-day
Williams, Michael R S	17081527	1885		3-day
Burd, Leonid	32140016	2119		3-day
Dumitru, Eric	17164035	2052		3-day
Maddipati, Srihas	17152864	1949		3-day
Kaul, Krrish	16596843	1946		3-day
Zhang, Oscar	30067435	2090		3-day
Bist, Atharva	16451355	2142		3-day
Flournoy, Donald Wolf	11406751	1900		2-day	1
Molina, William	12623645	2048		3-day
Seelam, Tanish	17061896	1970		3-day
Masoumi, Shahin Cazares	16669663	1901		3-day
Nandhakumar, Vaseegaran	15816768	2177		3-day
Khachatryan, David	30288921	2049		3-day
Redfield, Grant A	12994555	2022		2-day
Joseph, Julian	16783177	1959		3-day
Belous, Vladimir	16004571	2581	GM	3-day
Santhosh, Pranav	30579866			3-day
Bryant, Todd	12799717			3-day
Zolidis, Eric	31316562			3-day
Binder, Joseph Paul	99999999			3-day	1

Section count: 35

Class A (1800-1999, FIDE rated)

Name	USCF ID	Rating	Schedule	Byes
Wang, Yixin	31926688	1732	2-day
Matos, Alexander	16953544	1705	3-day
Ni, Alan	30701271	1646	2-day
Hardest, Danny L	10402093	1752	3-day
Patel, Siddharth	31908590	1916	3-day
Balaji, Tanav	30779464	1797	3-day
Ganesan, Vikash	16427685	1818	3-day
John, Austin Abraham	15506120	1772	3-day
Pirani, Shams	15919861	1892	2-day
Choi, Jay	31876704	1794	3-day
Nguyen, Dang	13942075	1965	3-day
Wang, Kai	30528820	1847	2-day
Kerbow, Jeff	15238358	1760	3-day
Jin, Yueqi	16948104	1672	2-day
Kandi, Pranav	31493287	1818	3-day
Perez-Daple, Brian	13704827		2-day	3
TANG, MARTIN	31982613		2-day
Ratheesh, Nived	30687838		3-day
Sanepalli, Guna Advik Reddy	30790886		3-day

Section count: 19

Class B (1600-1799)

Name	USCF ID	Rating	Schedule
Sykora, Landon	12840203	1603	2-day
Chui, Jeffrey	30882595	1601	3-day
Cromartie, Julius	12428265	1631	3-day
Kaul, Anika	17072545	1602	3-day
Chen, Yiheng	30441678	1627	3-day
Ganesan, Vidhun	16442420	1665	3-day
Grandhi, Aditya	17062156	1673	3-day
Thota, Mani Karthikeya	31342698	1516	2-day
Larionov, Dmitrii	30097581	1752	3-day
Garza, Gabriel	30346166	1640	3-day
Kanike, Uday Kumar	15188134	1774	3-day
Lingutla, Charvith	30639612	1478	2-day
Rudra, Abhik	31170585	1583	3-day
Maddipati, Srijani	17091200	1593	3-day
Sivaraju, Subbu	30066824	1556	3-day
Pratheep Kumar, Amudha	31456373	1517	3-day
Tumuluri, Madhav	31984765	1584	3-day
Desu, Srihaas	30037713	1638	3-day
Yandrapati, Nirvaan	31178909		3-day
Vance, Eric Patrick	31905773		3-day
Indrakanti, Samvik	16771001		3-day

Section count: 21

Class C (1400-1599)

Name	USCF ID	Rating	Schedule	Byes
Gopu, Akhil	32029095	1416	3-day
Rajeshkanna, Advaithkrishna	31630743	1339	3-day
Peng, Grace	30665735	1490	3-day
Bhargav, Ryan	31339682	1327	3-day
Johnson, Ross E	12755968	1481	3-day
Joshi, Anirudha Satish	30414835	1530	3-day
Furlong, Calvin H	12794576	1452	3-day	5
Han, Derek	30417250	1386	3-day
Islam, Nameer Raif	30325677	1353	2-day
Keresey, James D	31877606	1477	3-day
Werther, Oliver	30759552	1323	3-day
Little, Darrin	30927898	1372	3-day
Sivaraju, Sai Karthik	31922646	1476	3-day
Ho, Christopher D	16456105	1462	2-day
Papisetti, Rutvik	30383392	1287	3-day
Topcu, Oguzhan	32782902	0-UNR	2-day
Jeedigunta, Shreyan	31469701	1329	3-day
Avinashkarthi, Tharun	30675122		2-day
Sathish, Skanda	30286250		2-day

Section count: 19

Class D/E (1000-1399)

Name	USCF ID	Rating	Schedule
Shanmuganathan, Zayn	31968176	1363	3-day
Pytel, Michael A	12439637	1300	2-day
Anbalagan, Ananyasree	30669157	1221	3-day
Nyman, James	12660980	1306	2-day
Gaur, Yogesh	31539271	1036	3-day
Chakraborty, Aahan	30456077	1094	3-day
Hardesty, Brenda	12662345	1112	3-day
Munjal, Cian	30746192	1113	3-day
Abraham, Mark	12751529	1355	3-day
Raina, Advika	30497120	1254	3-day
Wu, Evan	32003699	990	2-day
Kammari, Karthik	31494364	1180	2-day
Delacruz, Jesse	32484050	1122	2-day
Gondle, Sathvik	31642308	1282	3-day
Amaral, Keith	15280218	1302	3-day
McClure, Donald Hudgins	12777849	1308	3-day
Raina, Advika	30497120	1254	3-day
Coker, Colin	30847464	940	3-day
Plock, Liam A	32225331	1385	3-day
Deshpande, Akhil	16363805	1123	3-day
Hamons, Chris Ryan	32492156		3-day
Bryant, Jack	17051245		3-day
Spelling, Adrian	32696797		2-day

Section count: 23

Novice (U1000)

Name	USCF ID	Rating	Schedule	Byes
Abdulrahman , Abdulkareem	32467863	684	3-day
Anbalagan, Rihaan	31932744	994	3-day
Obubo, Abraham	30539388	865	3-day
Madsen , Stuart Scott	12383300	850	3-day	5
Kaul, Avanya	32455874	477	3-day
Sawarna, Hariom	32514180	863	3-day
Chen, Sonny	32557768	0-UNR	3-day
Raju, Gopu	32506461	853	3-day
Pirani, Nuraiz	30857208	844	2-day
Chetlapalli, Shiv	31649868	1020	3-day
Kanike, Tanish	30432364	770	3-day
Angirasa, Avi Enzo	32259791	286	2-day
Pradeep, Chris Nolan	31824556	978	2-day
Manpragada, Skanda	31041144	855	3-day
Boone, Russell A	16020517	733	3-day
Dosapati, Jishnu Sai	17307821	894	3-day
Seelam, Tanav	30343181	854	3-day
Manikandaraam, Anirudh	32315342	751	3-day
Sriram, Adhvay	31817443	522	2-day
Gajula, Kaarthikeya Siddharth	30558875		2-day

Section count: 20

Total: 118