2026 MCC Winter Festival of Chess - Prize Winners
Winter Rapid - Total Prize Pool: $1176
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FM Kai Jie Soo - 8/9
FM Rheyansh Reddy Annapureddy - 7/9
CM Anh Kiet Nguyen - 7/9
Kaisar Batyrbekov - 7/9
Gia Huy (Tony) Nguyen - 7/9
Fergus Tang - 6/9
Caleb Sing - 6/9
Malcolm Wei - 6/9
Maanas Neela - 6/9
Ethan Wu - 6/9
Sarvang Jalan - 6/9
Advaith Mogullapalli - 5/9
Aidan Batyrbekov - 5/9
Paul Rehill - 5/9
Brodie Fullard - 5/9
Rohan Majety - 5/9
Vivaan Rawat - 5/9
Neev Jyothi Nikhil - 5/9
Medhansh Agarwal - 5/9
Sam Wales - 5/9
Jacob Watson - 5/9
Xiaoyi Yang - 5/9
Rocky Lu - 6/9
Krishay Rao - 5/9
William Ngo - 5/9
Julien Zhou - 6.5/9
Darcy Walsh - 5/9
Winter Blitz - Total Prize Pool: $910
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FM Kai Jie Soo - 12/13
CM Leo Kalina - 10.5/13
CM Khushal Lingineni - 10/13
Gia Huy (Tony) Nguyen - 8.5/13
Jack Shanks - 8.5/13
Wilbur Hong - 8.5/13
Advaith Mogullapalli - 8/13
Aeson Ha - 7.5/13
Ethan Tai - 7.5/13
Elyano Polus - 6.5/13
Vivaan Rawat - 6.5/13
Daniel Vu - 7/13
Yasa Abeygunawardana - 6/13
Jehad Merza - 6/13
Hasa Abeygunawardana - 6/13
Winter Classic - Total Prize Pool: $1585
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FM Kai Jie Soo - 6.5/7
IM Tedric Li - 6/7
Filip Simic - 5.5/7
Advaith Mogullapalli - 5.5/7
Ethan Tai - 5/7
Grace (Tingwen) Yin - 5/7
Samuel Ling-Ze Zhang - 4.5/7
Jacob Watson - 4/7
Jaden Qi - 3.5/7
Vivaan Verma - 3.5/7
Daniel Vu - 4/7
Simran Singh - 4/7
