Ryan Amburgy – Chessdom

Interview with Ryan Amburgy, winner of the 30th Space Coast Open

Sergio — Wed, 07 May 2025 18:18:43 +0000

Ryan Amburgy finished top of the table at the 30th Space Coast Open in Melbourne. “Had a great tournament in Melbourne, Florida this weekend! Have gained 63 FIDE rating points over my last two tournaments as I push toward 2400 and the IM title!” said Ryan Amburgy, celebrating his title on X.

Chessdom had the pleasure to interview Ryan Amburgy after his success at the 30th Space Coast Open.

The 30th Space Coast Open in Melbourne has just finished. Congratulations on your victory! How does it feel to win in a field containing 2600+ GM and multiple titled players?

It feels amazing. After playing very well in a norm tournament in Charlotte a few weeks ago (information / replay games), it was encouraging to have a good follow-up at this event. I haven’t won an open tournament out of state in over four years, so it’s a really nice feeling, especially being able to hold my highest rated draw ever against GM Zhou in the final round, knowing that a draw would possibly give me a chance to tie for 1st.

What was your best game of the tournament?

My best game of the tournament was my game against FM Rose Atwell, where I managed to win in a very complicated position out of the opening (replay the games here). Rose is a very talented player with a bright future. I was following the US Women’s Junior Championship in July of last year, where she finished a close second behind IM Alice Lee. I knew that she was a dangerous opponent that I couldn’t take lightly. I decided to play a surprise out of the opening and while it didn’t lead to an advantage at the board, I managed the complications a little better and her low time ended up being too much to overcome.

Throwback: Interview with Rose Atwell / 16 year old FM Rose Atwell takes Hikaru Nakamura’s scalp in Freestyle chess

You are close to reaching the 2400 mark. How far is the IM title?

I still need about 70 more FIDE points to get to 2400 FIDE, as well as needing one more norm which I hope to get at the Chicago Open in a few weeks. After that I’m hoping to play a GM Norm tournament in Austin, in mid-June.

Follow: Ryan Amburgy on X

Space Coast Open final standings

NY Fall Chess Invitational 2024 GM B LIVE

Tigran — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 22:38:23 +0000

The NY Fall Chess Invitational 2024 is an event occurring from November 7 to November 11 in New York, USA. The event is divided in 4 groups – GM A, GM B, IM C, IM D – which each have 10 participants who will face off in 9 rounds Robin matches, playing against every other competitor in the group once.

The GM B group houses the following players: Emilio Cordova, Luka Budisavljevic, Mark Paragua, Josiah Stearman, Ryo Chen, Aaron Jacobson, Tanitoluwa Adewumi, Aaron Reeve Mendes, Tamas Petenyi and Ryan Amburgy.

Charlotte Fall Invitational – IM (D) 2022 LIVE

Kamen — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 10:58:59 +0000

Charlotte Fall Invitational – IM (D) is taking place from 18-22 November 2022 in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. Players receive 90 minutes for the entire game, plus a 30-second increment starting from move one. It is a 10-player round-robin tournament with Alice Lee, Gabriel Eidelman, Nicolas De La Colina, Tamas Petenyi, Matyas Marek, Julian Estrada Nieto, Ryan Amburgy, Maria Malicka,Eric Liu and Stephen Willy.

2022 Jerry Spann Memorial – Oklahoma Open & State Championship concluded in Tulsa

nikita — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 15:32:18 +0000

The 2022 Jerry Spann Memorial – Oklahoma Open&State Chess Championship took place over the weekend June 25-26 in Broken Arrow, Tulsa, Oklahoma. The event was played in three sections: Open, Reserve (U1700) and Amateur (U1300), over 5 swiss rounds, with time control of 90 minutes for the whole game + 30 seconds of increment, and gathered 90 players.

There were some stunning upsets. But when the dust settled, it was no surprise to see who was holding the State Champion plaque. With a perfect 5.0 score, FM Ryan Amburgy has been named Oklahoma’s state chess champion for 2022.

Another great chess weekend as Ryan went 5-0 to take home his first Oklahoma Chess Association (OCA) State Championship! Proud of his continued hard work and determination! #Chess #chesspunks #FIDECandidates pic.twitter.com/UpLcK428w9
— Chris Amburgy (@ChrisAmburgy) June 27, 2022

FM Ryan Amburgy (2310, 4.0) with the black pieces against NM Julian Proleiko (2340, 3.5)

Clash of the youngest at the Oklahoma Open and State Championship 2022

The list of the Winners (scroll down for final rankings of all sections):

OPEN
1st: FM Ryan Amburgy (5.0)
2nd: Joshua Alexander (4.0)
Eight players tied for third with 3.5 points each. In tiebreak order, they are: NM Julian Proleiko, Newman Shen, David Luscomb, Matt Dalthorp, James Yanik, Elizabeth Braddy, Luke Tran, and Rahul Pai.
Elizabeth Braddy and Newman Shen split the top U1900 prize.

RESERVE (U1700)
1st: Viraj Singh and Raymond Jiang tied for first with 4.5 points each.
3rd: Kenneth Jones scored 4.0 to win third place.
Top U1500:Joseph Zacharias

AMATEUR (1300)
1st: Jonah Brandenburgh (5.0)
2nd: Miles Bright & Kirthika Duggisetty tied for second with 4.0 points each
Top U1000: Elson Ding
Top unrated: Fiby Li and Chad Higgins

Read more: GM John Burke triumphs at the 15th annual Philadelphia International / GM Andrew Tang wins Philadelphia Open

Final rankings (Open section):

#	Name	Rtng	Total	TB Med	TB Solkoff	TB Cumul.
1	AMBURGY, RYAN	2310	5	13.5	16	15
2	ALEXANDER,JOSHUA	2143	4	13.5	15.5	13
3	PROLEIKO,JULIAN	2340	3.5	15.5	17	11.5
4	SHEN,NEWMAN	1835	3.5	13.5	14.5	12.5
5	LUSCOMB,DAVID	1978	3.5	13	14	11.5
6	DALTHORP,MATT	2041	3.5	12	14.5	11.5
7	YANIK,JAMES	1736	3.5	12	14.5	10
8	BRADDY,ELIZABETH	1620	3.5	11.5	14	11
9	TRAN,LUKE M	2056	3.5	11	11	10.5
10	PAI,RAHUL	1780	3.5	10.5	12	8.5
11	DOOLEY, CHRISTOPHER KEVIN, MR.	1803	3	11.5	12.5	9
12	PRATT,MATTHEW J	1863	3	11.5	12.5	7
13	HILBERT,SCOT M	1515	3	8	8	6
14	SAKHELASHVILI,IOV	1793	2.5	8.5	14	8.5
15	HUANG,AYDEN	1854	2.5	8	14	9
16	BRAY,JARED ANTHON	1870	2.5	7.5	13	9.5
17	GRAHAM,SHAUN	1800	2.5	7	13	6.5
18	SANDERS,JACOB MAT	1727	2.5	7	11.5	6
19	BRAUNLICH,THOMAS DAVID	2200	2.5	6	8.5	8
20	MAHAYNI,ZADE AMER	1773	2	10.5	13.5	8
21	AMBURN,THOMAS	2200	2	8	11.5	7
22	LI,BENJAMIN	1565	2	7.5	11	5
23	HARRINGTON,ROBERT	2200	2	6.5	10	6
24	HE,JUSTIN SHANDON	1761	2	6	10	5.5
25	ADEL,EZRA	1246	2	6	9	6
26	CALUPITAN,BENJAMI	1809	2	5.5	9	7
27	CHEN,MEGAN	1796	2	5	8	2
28	DENBY,CALEB SEAN	2275	2	3.5	7	8
29	COVINGTON,M PAUL	1800	1.5	10	13.5	4.5
30	WANG, OSCAR	1980	1.5	6.5	10	7
31	INGLETT,PARKER	1640	1.5	6.5	9	3.5
32	VEAL,JOE DEAN	1935	1.5	3	6.5	6.5
33	LI,JOSHUA	1640	1	9	12	4
34	SONI,PURVIT	1655	1	5.5	9	1.5
35	LAOS,STEFAN	1615	1	5	7.5	1.5
36	BYAS,STEVE D	1601	1	3.5	7	2
37	OSLEY,JOSEPH	1659	0.5	3.5	6.5	1.5

Final rankings (Reserve U1700 section):

#	Name	Rtng	Total	TB Med	TB Solkoff	TB Cumul.
1	SINGH, VIRAJ	1581	4.5	12	13.5	13
2	JIANG,RAYMOND JUN	1653	4.5	11.5	13.5	14
3	JONES,KENNETH	1237	4	10.5	10.5	9
4	REES, VAUGHN	1698	3.5	13	14	13
5	ZACHARIAS,JOSEPH	1267	3.5	11	12	10
6	STAHL,MARTIN	1565	3	14	16.5	10
7	TALBOT, ROBERT LLO	1505	3	12.5	13	9
8	LUTTBEG,HENRY	951	3	12.5	12.5	9
9	ALEXANDER,KERMIT,II	unr.	3	9	10.5	9
10	HOSSAIN,ISHAK	1411	2.5	7.5	12.5	8.5
11	AMBURGY,CHRIS	1465	2.5	7.5	11	9
12	HEYCK, MAX	unr.	2.5	6	10.5	6.5
13	BURTON, STONE	1127	2.5	6	10	5.5
14	DUKE, BRIAN	1475	2	9.5	14	7
15	KELLEY, BRADEN JAY	1357	2	5.5	10	3.5
16	SMITH,DANIAL W	1589	1.5	10.5	14	5.5
17	SZABAD, ISTVAN	1445	1.5	8	11.5	6
18	MATEUS RUBIANO,CAMILO ANDRES	unr.	1.5	7.5	10	5
19	BEEBE,DAVID W	1239	1.5	3.5	8	1.5
20	KOLOEN,PRESTON	1442	1	8.5	12	3
21	FERGUSON,JAKE A	1682	0.5	8.5	11.5	1.5
22	SCHULTZ,JACOB R	1648	0	0	0	0

Final rankings (Amateur U1300 section):

#	Name	Rtng	Total	TB Med	TB Solkoff	TB Cumul.
1	BRANDENBURGH,JONAH	830	5	11	13	15
2	BRIGHT,MILES	980	4	13.5	14.5	13
3	DUGGISETTY,KIRTHIKA	909	4	10.5	11.5	10
4	GONZALES,ERIK KIR	1215	3.5	14	14.5	11.5
5	PRAVEEN,AAYUSH, MR	1044	3.5	12	14	11.5
6	MOORE,ROBERT W	1215	3.5	11.5	13.5	10
7	DING,ELSON Z	705	3.5	10.5	11.5	11
8	BOWERS,DAVID	899	3.5	10.5	10.5	11.5
9	HIGGINS,CHAD	unr.	3	14.5	16.5	10
10	LI,FENG	unr.	3	14	16.5	11.5
11	LANSINGER,ERIC FR	1298	3	12.5	13.5	9
12	LANGSTON,PARKER	966	3	10.5	12.5	8
13	REZAC,TAVIN	354	3	10	10	7
14	ROY CHOUDHURY,ANURAG	885	3	8	9	6
15	ZACHARIAS,THOMAS	842	2.5	6.5	12	7.5
16	FAN,JONATHAN	unr.	2.5	6.5	11.5	6.5
17	HE,STEVEN SHANMIN	966	2.5	6	9	7
18	JONES ,ARNOLD	567	2.5	5	9	5.5
19	BEASLEY,BRAYDEN	unr.	2	11.5	15.5	8
20	LITTLE,BRENNAN LARRY	1073	2	11	16	9
21	LI,JUSTIN T	756	2	9	12.5	7
22	LAKSHMIGANAPATHY,PRAVEEN RAMANATHAPUR	unr.	2	9	12.5	5
23	ROY CHOUDHURY,ARYA	822	2	8.5	11.5	7
24	BEIRUTE,KYLE	1131	2	6.5	10	4
25	LUNDY,BROCKTON JA	unr.	2	6.5	9.5	4
26	STANFORD,CAMDEN	664	1.5	4.5	8	3
27	SMITH,ALEX	unr.	1	9.5	13.5	2
28	KARN,ARYAN	716	1	7.5	10.5	3
29	LIU,DORTHY	792	1	6	9.5	1
30	PENDLETON,CORY	unr.	1	4	7.5	0
31	TANG,JAY	1186	1	3.5	8.5	5

Photos from Oklahoma Chess Association Facebook page