FIDE World University Team Chess Championship 2026 | Swiss Qualifier 1

2 May 2026 · lichess.org · 7-round Swiss for teams · 10 min + 5 sec / move Finished

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Top 100 players in this event

GM Awonder Liang ★: No. 1, 6½/7
GM Aryan Chopra ★: No. 2, 6½/7
IM Anna M. Sargsyan ★: No. 21, 4½/7

Standings

Standings, FIDE World University Team Chess Championship 2026 | Swiss Qualifier 1
#	Player	Team	Rating	Score	Games
1	GM Awonder Liang ★	Webster University	2718	6½	7
2	GM Aryan Chopra ★	Saint Louis University	2637	6½	7
3	GM Nikolozi Kacharava	Saint Louis University	2528	6	7
4	WIM Martyna Starosta	UTRGV	2175	6	7
5	GM Bharath Subramaniyam H	Saint Louis University	2599	5½	7
6	GM Francesco Sonis	Webster University	2556	5½	7
7	GM Koustav Chatterjee	University of Texas at Dallas	2484	5½	7
8	IM Roman Pyrih	Texas Tech University	2399	5½	7
9	WIM Bommini Mounika Akshaya	Webster University	2128	5½	7
10	GM Gleb Dudin	UTRGV	2579	5	7
11	GM Jose Gabriel Cardoso Cardoso	UTRGV	2543	5	7
12	GM Shawn Rodrigue-Lemieux	UTRGV	2533	5	7
13	GM Samant Aditya S	University of Texas at Dallas	2516	5	7
14	IM Oleksii Bilych	Texas Tech University	2448	5	7
15	WGM Thalia Cervantes Landeiro	Saint Louis University	2262	5	7
16	FM Andrey Gonzalez Zharikov	Universidad Anáhuac México	2233	5	7
17	Rocio Contreras Suazo	Universidad de Chile	1875	5	7
18	Markson Favour Anietie	University of Ibadan	1789	5	7
19	GM Yair Parkhov	University of Texas at Dallas	2445	4½	7
20	IM Maximillian Lu	Yale University	2441	4½	7
21	IM Anna M. Sargsyan ★	Webster University	2360	4½	7
22	WGM Maili-Jade Ouellet	University of Texas at Dallas	2325	4½	7
23	FM Roberto Alejandro Avila Bautista	Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico	2286	4½	7
24	FM Ashvin Sivakumar	Yale University	2175	4½	7
25	Aiden Zhou	Yale University	2141	4½	7
26	Majed Altell	Birzeit University	2046	4½	7
27	Merey Mukhametkali	KBTU	1921	4½	7
28	WCM Vanya Briseyda Conde Mares	Universidad Anáhuac México	1899	4½	7
29	WCM Pitso Refilwe	Texas Tech University	1774	4½	7
30	Abdelhakim Hani	international university of rabat	1672	4½	7
31	IM Sebastian Lukas Kostolansky	Texas Tech University	2427	4	7
32	Marcelo Orrego Palermo	Universidad de Chile	2082	4	7
33	Thomas Castillo Gonzalez	Universidad de La Plata	1977	4	7
34	Irem Ezra Oz	Yale University	1911	4	7
35	Mihir Godawat	BITS Pilani	1869	4	7
36	Manthan Kashyap Datta	BITS Pilani	1852	4	7
37	Jorum Mudzamba	Chinhoyi University of Technology	1846	4	7
38	Zabdiel Neftaly Torres Perez	Universidad de El Salvador	1794	4	7
39	Ndachengedzwa Theophelus	Chinhoyi University of Technology	1741	4	7
40	Advay Kumar	BITS Pilani	1682	4	7
41	David Alberto Mora Parra	Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México	1517	4	7
42	Mahmoud Abuomar	Birzeit University	1500	4	7
43	FM Carlos Francisco Varela Velazquez	Universidad Anáhuac México	2323	3½	7
44	FM Miguel Tadeo Palma Villanueva	Universidad Anáhuac México	2290	3½	7
45	Vladislav Malygin	KBTU	2187	3½	7
46	Cesar Chacon Salinas	Universidad de Chile	2171	3½	7
47	Camilo Alonso Henriquez Hidalgo	Universidad de Chile	2141	3½	7
48	Mohammed Midhat Abdulrahman	University of Tripoli	2091	3½	7
49	Devon Smit	University of Pretoria	1920	3½	7
50	WCM Camila Rene Abarca	Universidad de El Salvador	1804	3½	7
51	Yoshua Smit	University of Pretoria	1720	3½	7
52	FM Michal Jacobus Oosthuizen	University of Pretoria	2074	3	7
53	mohamed khalifah Almuntasir	University of Tripoli	2048	3	7
54	Arystan Dosmukhambetov	KBTU	2036	3	7
55	Jose Roberto Melendez Cruz	Universidad de El Salvador	1875	3	7
56	Matias Arce	Universidad de La Plata	1865	3	7
57	Andre Herrera Catano	Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México	1846	3	7
58	Julieta Veronica Tejedor	Universidad de La Plata	1780	3	7
59	Ugochukwu Henry OGBONNA	University of Ibadan	1755	3	7
60	Souleimane Bentalha	international university of rabat	1696	3	7

Showing the top 60 of 88 players, plus every top-100 player. See the full results page for everyone else.

Games

Games
Round	Game	Result
-	Aryan Chopra – mohamed khalifah Almuntasir	1-0
-	Jose Roberto Melendez Cruz – Awonder Liang	0-1
-	Zabdiel Neftaly Torres Perez – Anna M. Sargsyan	0-1
-	Awonder Liang – Michal Jacobus Oosthuizen	1-0
-	Anna M. Sargsyan – Hayley Nel	1-0
-	Aryan Chopra – Sebastian Lukas Kostolansky	1-0
-	Gleb Dudin – Aryan Chopra	0-1
-	Majed Altell – Awonder Liang	0-1
-	Khaled Othman – Anna M. Sargsyan	0-1
-	Awonder Liang – Samant Aditya S	1-0
-	Anna M. Sargsyan – Koustav Chatterjee	0-1
-	Carlos Francisco Varela Velazquez – Aryan Chopra	0-1
-	Aryan Chopra – Awonder Liang	½-½
-	Nikolozi Kacharava – Anna M. Sargsyan	1-0
-	Aryan Chopra – Samant Aditya S	1-0
-	Vladislav Malygin – Awonder Liang	0-1
-	Merey Mukhametkali – Anna M. Sargsyan	½-½
-	Cesar Chacon Salinas – Aryan Chopra	0-1
-	Awonder Liang – Sebastian Lukas Kostolansky	1-0
-	Anna M. Sargsyan – Roman Pyrih	1-0

Games involving a top-100 player. Click a game to replay it.

Standings and games from Lichess broadcasts. ★ marks a player on the FIDE top 100 lists.