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The 2025 Police Athletic League K-12 Open
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One hundred fifty-four players competed in five sections at the Police Athletic League K-12 Open on Saturday, October 4 at U.S. Grant High School in Oklahoma City. Winners are below. Results at US Chess are here. Results in tiebreak order are here. Click here for more photos from this tournament.
Premier (K–12 1300+)
Joe Zacharias and Lafayette Chen tied for first with 3.5/4 points each. In third place with 3.0 points was Skyler Liu. OKC Police Athletic League was the top team.
Section 4 (K-12 U1300)
First-place winner Quentin Noble with a perfect 4.0/4 points. Krishna Lolla and Paarth Jain tied for second with 3.0 points each. Academy of Classical Christian Studies was the top school team. Top club team was Moore Chess Club.
Section 3 (K-12 U900)
Leo Zhao scored a perfect 5.0/5 to take first place in Section 3. Bradley Schantz finished second with 4.5. Tied for third with 4.0 points each were Payton Jeffries, Balaji Arji, Clinton Baxter, and Sriyan Lageshetty.
Porum was the top school team. In second place was Academy of Classical Christian Studies, with Durant Library Chess Club in third. Moore Chess Club was the winning club team in this section.
Section 2 (Grades 4–6 U600)
Jishnu Balaji won all five of his games to take first in Section 2. Five players tied for second place with 4.0/5 points: Colt Warden, Alejandro Folsom, Nitara Singh, Gunner McCarter, and Taytum Tittle. Top three school teams were University School, Porum, and Roosevelt Elementary. Top club team was Moore Chess Club.
Section 1 (Grades K–3 U600)
Nithan Vaithlingam scored a perfect 5.0/5 to win first place in Section 1. Reyansh Srivastava was the second place winner with 4.5 points. Tied for third with 3.5 points each were Jack Dennis and Javiana Hawkins. Wilson Elementary was the winning school team; Bishop Elementary (Lawton) took second place in that category. Top club team was OKC Police Athletic League.
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The Porum K-12 Open
This year's season opener was OSCO's first-ever tournament in Muskogee County. Ninety-five players competed in four sections at the Porum K–12 Open on Saturday, September 13.
Porum art teacher and chess club sponsor Dwayne Barnes was the onsite organizer for the event, and Mike Waters was chief tournament director.
Winners are below. Results are here. For more photos from the event, visit Porum 2025.
Premier (K–12 1300+)
Lafayette Chen and Arya Roy Choudhury both scored 3.5 out of 4 points, ending up in a tie for first. Kelvin Xie and Viraj Singh tied for third with 3.0 points each.
Top school team was Bentonville Schools (4.5 points). OKC Police Athletic League scored 7.0 points to land the top club team award.
Section 3 (K–12 under 1300)
First place in this section was a three-way tie between Rushil Karande, Finnley Combs, and Krishna Lolla. All three scored 4.0 out of 5 points.
Academy of Classical Christian Studies (6.5 points) was the first-place school team. Top club team was Moore Chess Club (5.0 points).
Section 2 (K–12 under 900)
Arkansas player Ishaan Prathyush swept Section 2, taking first place with a perfect score of 5.0/5. Behind him in a tie for second/third were Aarav Meharwade and Antony Mohanna.
Top school teams were Porum (first, 10.5 points) and School of Saint Mary (second, 8.5 points)
OKC Police Athletic League was the winning club team.
Section 1 (K–3 under 600)
Also ending the day with a perfect score was Reyansh Srivastava, whose 5.0/5 sweep landed him the first-place trophy. Marshall Byrne and Javiana Hawkins tied for second/third with 3.0 points each.
Webbers Falls was the winning school team, ending the day at 5.5 points. The second-place school team award went to Dove Science Academy Tulsa. OKC Police Athletic League scored 7.5 to take the first-place club team award.
Saturday, September 13 in Porum
OSCO's newest Hall of Famer: Elizabeth Braddy
With her outstanding performance at the 22nd Susan Polgar Foundation Girls' Invitational (June 23–25 in St. Louis), Elizabeth Braddy moved past the 2000 rating mark, earning a place in the Oklahoma Scholastic Chess Hall of Fame. She is the tenth player to achieve this distinction.
PHOTO: Elizabeth Braddy with Grandmaster Susan Polgar in St. Louis
Oklahoma's Anurag Roy Choudhury wins big at Universal Open
Anurag Roy Choudhury was the ratings underdog in six out of his seven games at the 2nd Universal Open (June 12–14 in Dallas). But six out of seven was also his final score, landing him a clear first-place win in the event's Under 1500 section.
PHOTO: Universal Open U1500 winner Anurag Roy Choudhury (at right) with Aryan Karn, Kirhika Duggisetty and Arya Roy Choudhury.
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