2023 MSCA Event & Member Stats 📊
For 15 regular rated MSCA events 🌐
12/17/2022 - 12/9/2023
🎉 2023 was a great year for Minnesota chess! Lots of events and lots of games played. 🚀
Players & Members 👥
1,493 | event players |
734 | unique players |
252 | MSCA members |
233 | unrated / new players! 🙌 |
Games 🎲
3,438 | total “official” games played |
3,003 | were decisive ⚔️ |
435 | were peacefully concluded 🕊️ |
2,296 | regular games |
1,142 | scholastic games |
47 | "extra" games |
Biggest Events 🏟️ | players | games |
State Scholastic | 291 | 776 |
Minnesota Open | 199 | 437 |
These are total stats for all players, and now for the 2023 MSCA Hall of Fame Classic membership appreciation event, we’ll highlight individual stats for MSCA members…
Minnesota State Chess Association
↗️ From 2022 Hall of Fame Classic up to 2023 HoF 🏛️
Piece Color Differentials ♟️
Ever feel like you’re getting a suspiciously larger number of games with the Black pieces than the White? The following histogram suggests that colors are fairly distributed over the course of a year, with most people having a difference of only 0-2 games.
However! A few people will fall at either extreme.
Harrison Stage had 5 more White games than Black.
Tim Radermacher, Riaz Khan, Owen Pelletier, Aaron Booth, Fucheng Bi, Tobin Gangi, and Blake Sepeda all had 4 more Whites.
Bill Murray had 6 more Black games.
Yuval Shemesh, John Blomer, and Ksenija Matus all had 4 more Blacks.
📈 MSCA Members with…
Most Events/Games Played
Player Name | Events | Games |
John Blomer | 12 | 60 |
Okey Iwu | 11 | 54 |
Bill Murray | 10 | 46 |
Eddie Wasserman | 9 | 46 |
Harrison Stage | 9 | 45 |
Tim Radermacher | 9 | 44 |
Michael Perry | 9 | 42 |
Kavish Kishore | 9 | 41 |
Ben Frisch | 9 | 41 |
Most people played in 1-4 events:
Top Points per Event (>= 4 events played)
Player Name | Events | Points/Event |
Andrew Titus | 4 | 4.50 |
Samrug Narayanan | 4 | 4.25 |
Michael Haynes | 4 | 4.13 |
Ionatan Giurgiu | 5 | 3.70 |
Troy Cavanah | 5 | 3.60 |
Jack Bellinger (5), Joseph Gaul (4), Vaibhav Kalpaka (6), Jackson Wahl (6), and Eddie Wasserman (9) were at 3.5.
Top Rating Gains at a Single Event
Non-provisional (Established ratings)
Long Chen | +226 |
Michael Perry | +212 |
Ben Frisch | +205 |
Arun Senthilvel | +198 |
Michael Spear | +197 |
Provisional
Ryker Johnson | +641 |
Winston Morgan | +400 |
Andrew Merkel | +304 |
Origal Renchin | +284 |
Michael Haynes | +279 |
Highest First Provisional Rating
(Starting as unrated)
Ethan Harrison | 1757 |
Krish Mahajan | 1216 |
Michael Simon | 1172 |
Mackay Elias | 1170 |
Beau Anderson | 1169 |
🙏 Thank you for supporting Minnesota chess! 🙌