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Chess News Wire -- March 2026

• NM Priyansh Garg of New York won the 2025-26 Hartmayer Memorial, Tolland County & UCONN Championships, held at the UCONN School of Engineering on March 7. Garg and IM Jan van de Mortel finished tied atop the Open section, scoring 3.5/4 with tiebreaks slightly favoring Garg. Eric Ren won the Amateur Champion title in the U2000 section, and Omkar Maralappanavar won the UCONN title for the second consecutive year. [See full story with photos, standings and rating reports on the CSCA Facebook Page.] (3/10)
  
  
  NM Priyansh Garg (standing) wins 2026 Hartmayer Memorial.
  
  
• CSCA announces a DATE CHANGE to the 2026 Connecticut Scholastic TEAM Championships at Brunswick School in Greenwich. Due to unexpected venue conflict, the event date will now be Sunday March 29, instead of Saturday March 28. Players already registered but unable to attend on March 29 should contact the CSCA for withdrawal and refund. (3/6)
  
  
• On March 1, the National Scholastic Chess Foundation hosted the 2026 Connecticut Grade Championships at the Greenwich Country Day School. The 2026 Grade Champions are:
  
  
  NSCF holds the 2026 Connecticut Grade Championships at
  historic Greenwich Country Day School.
  
  Kindergarten -- Nathan Ing
  1st Grade -- Rishaan Negi
  2nd Grade -- Ethan Ing
  3rd Grade -- Jackson Hickey
  4th Grade -- Kahaan Ghandi
  5th Grade -- Timur Ilichev
  6th Grade -- Krystian Tkaczewski
  7th Grade -- Jack Qian
  8th Grade -- Kushagra Bhargava
  9th Grade -- Seann Dubrovsky
  10th Grade -- Aaron Krayn
  11th Grade -- Sebastian Lopez
  12th Grade -- Miles Gillott
  
  [See full story with photos, standings and rating reports on the CSCA Facebook Page.] (3/5)
  
  

Chess News Wire -- February 2026

• The 2026 Connecticut Classical made history. When GM Francesco Sonis defeated GM Jianchao Zhou in their Round 4 match of the event's top rated players, the loss broke Zhou's historic 158-game unbeaten streak and caught the attention of Chess.com News. [See Chess.com's report linked on our the CSCA Facebook Page for the story of Master Zhou's impressive streak.] (2/17)
  
  
  Sonis ends Zhou's historic 158-game unbeaten streak on his
  way to 2026 Connecticut Classical Title.
  
  
• CSCA partners with Connecticut College Chess Club for the second time this cycle to organize the 2026 Connecticut Open. The Open, typically held in the spring, became a fall event in 2024 and 2025 after venue difficulties and scheduling forced a seasonal change. The event returns to spring April 24-25 (Friday and Saturday) at the beautiful all new Connecticut College Crozier-Williams Student Center on two-day and one-day schedules to offer players a Game 90 experience, or a combination of Game 45 and Game 90. The event is a USCF and CSCA Grand Prix tournament with $5,000 in prizes. Registration is open. (2/12)
  
  
  Connecticut College Crozier-Williams to hold 2026 Connecticut
  Open.
  
  
• On February 6 to 8 in Windsor, the CSCA held its Second Annual Classical Championship. The event is the CSCA's annual FIDE-rated tournament, this year a three-day, six-round, two-schedule competition with G/90+30 time controls and hotel venue. The tournament attracted four Grandmasters and seventeen titled players but fell just short of both CSCA records after weather-related withdrawals resulted in 100 participants. GM Francesco Sonis of Italy won the event, traveling from St. Louis, where he recently moved, to compete in the tournament. Sonis scored a near-perfect 5.5/6 with his only blemish a draw to FM Zachary Tanenbaum. GM Jianchoa Zhou of Massachusetts won second, followed by a seven-way tie for third and class prizes. [See full story with photos, standings and rating reports on the CSCA Facebook Page.] (2/10)
  
  
  CSCA holds 2026 Connecticut Classical at Windsor Hilton.
  
  
• Way of the Board Chess Club hosted the Ridgefield Open on February 8. Twenty-nine players participated. Taylor Rosenbaur won the U1300 section, Raphael Tikranian won the U800 section, and Arinze Enu won the U400 section. (2/10)
  
  
  Way of the Board Chess Club's Ridgefield Open at St. Andrew's
  Lutheran Church.
  
  

Chess News Wire -- January 2026

• On January 17, 2026, the CSCA held the Connecticut Girls Championship for the fourth consecutive year at Greenwich Academy. Thirty players from four states participated in three sections. Parents and siblings also took part in a separate New England-rated section, to bring the event total to 35. FM Jasmine Su, grade 10, won the Open Section and the 2026 Connecticut Haring Nomination. Two-time champion WCM Lilianna Gao, grade 8, finished in second and is the 2026 Haring Alternate. [See full story with standings and rating reports on the CSCA Facebook Page.] (1/18)
  
  
  FM Jasmine Su (right) and WCM Lilianna Gao (left) playing their
  Round 2 match at the 2026 Connecticut Girls Championship.
  
  
• On January 11, 2026, the Connecticut Scholastic Championships returned to Sacred Heart University for the third time. 107 players from five states participated in six sections. CM Jamison Kao, grade 9, won the High School Section and the 2026 Connecticut Denker Nomination. FM Jasmine Su, grade 10, finished in second and is the 2026 Denker Alternate. Krystian Tkaczewski, grade 6, won the Middle School Section and the 2026 Connecticut Barber Nomination. Eric Ren, grade 8, finished second and is the 2026 Barber Alternate. Brian Dai, grade 3, won the Elementary School Section and the 2026 Connecticut Rockefeller Nomination after a Rapid tie break match with Robert Cybart. Cybart finished second and is the 2026 Rockefeller Alternate. Ethan Ing, grade 2, won the Primary School title and Connecticut's Inaugural Ashley Nomination after finishing third in the Primary Section. Rishaan Negi, grade 1, finished fourth and is the 2026 Ashley Alternate. Negi is also the 2026 pK-1 Champion. [See full story with standings and rating reports on the CSCA Facebook Page.] (1/13)
  
  
  Another full house at Bowman Hall's Thea's Abbey, as Sacred
  Heart University hosts 2026 Scholastic Championships.
  
  
• US Chess hires Fred Abousleman as its new Executive Director. See formal release for the hire on the USCF website. (1/9)
  
  
• IM Kapil Chandran won 2025 New England and Connecticut Chess960 Titles at the CSCA All-American Chess960 Championship, held online in the CSCA team on Lichess.org on December 21 with Fair Play review completed by January 4. California's FM Teddie Wen won the Open section. Louisiana's Mounish Tadepalli won the U1500. And Texas' Agastya Srikanth won the U800 section. 40 players from 19 states took part. [See full story with standings and full results on the CSCA Facebook Page.] (1/8)
  
  

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