There are a couple of reasons why a team in a match might have an average rating above 2400.75. They are:

1. Each team is allowed to use any rating list from September of the previous year through August of the current year. The ratings shown on this page will all be from August though - sometimes resulting in a seemingly higher rating average than would legally be allowed.

2. When a team uses a player rated above 2590, that player only counts as 2600 when determining a lineup's legality. However what is shown on this page will be the actual average which of course might be higher.

There are a couple of reasons why a team in a match might have an average rating above 2400.75. They are:

1. Each team is allowed to use any rating list from January through August of the current year. The ratings shown on this page will all be from August though - sometimes resulting in a seemingly higher rating average than would legally be allowed.

2. When a team uses a player rated above 2600, that player only counts as 2600 when determining a lineup's legality. However what is shown on this page will be the actual average which of course might be higher.

If there is a tie during the regular season as to the finishing order for playoff positioning, the following rules will be used (for instance if two teams are tied for second place with seven match points each). Tiebreak #1 is of course the first tiebreak with the lower ones being used only if all the above tiebreak procedures also result in a tie.

1. Total Team Game Points. Thus winning a match 4 - 0 will give you more tiebreak points than winning a match 3 - 1.

2. Average rating of opponents throughout the season, using the August rating list of that season.

3. Head to Head Results. If you have beaten the opposing team 1.5 - 0.5 during the regular season, you will get the higher seeding.

4. Total Match Points versus Divisional Teams. Thus if Team A went 4.0 - 2.0 in Divisional Matches while Team B went 3.5 - 2.5 then Team A would have the better tiebreaks.

5. Total Game Points versus Divisional Teams

6. Total Game Points from Board 1

7. Total Game Points from Board 2

8. Total Game Points from Board 3

9. Total number of team wins. Thus if one team has a total of twenty five points, with twenty of these points being from wins, whereas another team has a total of twenty five points with only nineteen being from wins, the team with twenty wins has the better tiebreaks.

10. An Armageddon blitz game between chosen members of the teams

If there is a tie between three teams in both match points and game points, we will use the above rules to decide the order amongst the teams. The last resort will be an online blitz game between chosen members of the teams.

If there is a tie during the regular season as to the finishing order for playoff positioning, the following rules will be used (for instance if two teams are tied for second place with seven match points each). Tiebreak #1 is of course the first tiebreak with the lower ones being used only if all the above tiebreak procedures also result in a tie.

1. Total Team Game Points. Thus winning a match 4 - 0 will give you more tiebreak points than winning a match 3 - 1.

2. Strength of Schedule; the team whose opponents have the highest combined record wins the tiebreak.

3. Average rating of opponents throughout the season, using the August rating list of that season.

4. Head to Head Results. If you have beaten the opposing team 1.5 - 0.5 during the regular season, you will get the higher seeding.

5. Total Match Points versus Divisional Teams. Thus if Team A went 5.0 - 3.0 in Divisional Matches while Team B went 4.5 - 3.5 then Team A would have the better tiebreaks.

6. Total Game Points versus Divisional Teams

7. Total Game Points from Board 1

8. Total Game Points from Board 2

9. Total Game Points from Board 3

10. Total number of team wins. Thus if one team has a total of twenty five points, with twenty of these points being from wins, whereas another team has a total of twenty five points with only nineteen being from wins, the team with twenty wins has the better tiebreaks.

11. An Armageddon blitz game between chosen members of the teams

If there is a tie between three teams in both match points and game points, we will use the above rules to decide the order amongst the teams. The last resort will be an online blitz game between chosen members of the teams.

If the regulation match is tied 2 - 2, the following tiebreak procedures will be take place after a ten minute break:

1. The fourth boards from each team will play each other. The team that won on the highest board during the original match will choose their color for the first game. If all regulation games were drawn, the lower rated team gets to choose colors for the first tiebreak game. The time control will be three minutes with a three second increment. The loser of this game will be eliminated, and the winner then faces Board Three of the opposing team.

2. This process continues with the next higher board on each team continually replacing any player of their team who gets eliminated.

3. If a game ends in a draw, both players are eliminated, except if at least one team is using its Board One in which case there is no elimination on a draw, instead colors reverse, and the game is replayed until there is a decisive result.

4. Colors will switch every game for the teams in all circumstances.

5. This process repeats itself until all four players from one team have been eliminated. Thus in order for your opponents to win the match, every one of your team members must be eliminated.

Boston Blitz /

NM Ilya Krasik


Ilya Krasik's Games

2015 Games: (4.0/6)

  1. Week 3: Nithin Kavi (NE) vs NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) 0-1
  2. Week 4: NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) vs Dennis Li (CON) 1-0 (Game of the Week!)     article
  3. Week 5: NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) vs NM Brandon Jacobson (NJ) 1-0 (Game of the Week!)     article
  4. Week 7: Akira Nakada (MAN) vs NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) 0-1
  5. Week 8: NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) vs FM Aravind Kumar (NY) 0-1
  6. Week 9: NM Damir Studen (ATL) vs NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) 1-0

2015 MVP Points: 7
2015 Performance Rating: 2323



2014 Games: (2.5/8)

  1. Week 1: NM Gary Huang (NY) vs NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) 1/2-1/2
  2. Week 2: NM Levy Rozman (MAN) vs NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) 1-0
  3. Week 3: NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) vs Matthew Noble (ARZ) 1-0
  4. Week 4: NM Todd Bryant (PHI) vs NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) 1-0
  5. Week 6: NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) vs NM Levy Rozman (MAN) 0-1
  6. Week 7: NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) vs NM Spencer Finegold (STL) 0-1
  7. Week 8: NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) vs NM Greg Kaden (NE) 1-0
  8. Week 9: NM Andrew Zheng (BAL) vs NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) 1-0

2014 MVP Points: (-6.5)
2014 Performance Rating: 2097



2013 Games: (1.5/5)

  1. Week 1: NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) vs NM Andrew Liu (NE) 1/2-1/2
  2. Week 5: NM Andrew Zheng (BAL) vs NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) 1/2-1/2
  3. Week 6: NM Alex King (NY) vs NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) 1/2-1/2
  4. Week 8: NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) vs Zachary Tanenbaum (CON) 0-1
  5. Week 9: NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) vs NM Mika Brattain (NE) 0-1

2013 MVP Points: (-3.5)
2013 Performance Rating: 2092



2012 Games: (3.0/5)

  1. Week 2: Sam Silberman (MIA) vs NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) 0-1
  2. Week 3: NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) vs NM Alexander Katz (NY) 0-1
  3. Week 5: NM Troy Daly (PHI) vs NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) 0-1
  4. Week 8: NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) vs NM Andrew Ryba (MAN) 1-0
  5. Week 10: NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) vs FM Ralph Zimmer (BAL) 0-1

2012 MVP Points: 4.5
2012 Performance Rating: 2290



2011 Games: (3.0/8)

  1. Week 3: NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) vs NM Michael Bodek (NY) 0-1
  2. Week 4: NM Jared Defibaugh (BAL) vs NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) 1-0
  3. Week 5: NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) vs NM Ben Goldberg (NE) 0-1
  4. Week 6: NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) vs FM Robby Adamson (ARZ) 1-0
  5. Week 7: NM William Fisher (PHI) vs NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) 1-0
  6. Week 9: NM Ian Schoch (BAL) vs NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) 0-1
  7. Week 10: IM Albert Kapengut (NJ) vs NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) 0-1
  8. Quarterfinals: NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) vs NM Michael Bodek (NY) 0-1

2011 MVP Points: 0.5
2011 Performance Rating: 2225



2010 Games: (3.0/6)

  1. Week 1: NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) vs NM Aleksandr Ostrovskiy (NY) 0-1
  2. Week 4: NM Alex Cherniack (NE) vs NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) 1/2-1/2
  3. Week 6: NM Yian Liou (SF) vs NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) 1/2-1/2
  4. Week 7: Anna Matlin (NJ) vs NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) 1/2-1/2
  5. Week 10: NM Aleksandr Ostrovskiy (NY) vs NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) 1/2-1/2
  6. Quarterfinals: NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) vs NM Adithya Balasubramanian (BAL) 1-0 (Game of the Week!)     article

2010 MVP Points: 2
2010 Performance Rating: 2242



2009 Games: (4.0/6)

  1. Week 2: NM Craig Jones (CAR) vs NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) 0-1
  2. Week 3: NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) vs FM Darwin Yang (DAL) 0-1
  3. Week 5: NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) vs Ian Harris (BAL) 1-0
  4. Week 6: NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) vs NM Udayan Bapat (CAR) 1-0
  5. Week 9: NM Eric Rodriguez (MIA) vs NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) 1/2-1/2
  6. Quarterfinals: NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) vs NM Yaacov Norowitz (NY) 1/2-1/2

2009 MVP Points: 6
2009 Performance Rating: 2409



2008 Games: (6.5/11)

  1. Week 1: NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) vs NM Evan Rosenberg (NY) 1-0
  2. Week 3: WFM Bayaraa Zorigt (DAL) vs NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) 1-0
  3. Week 5: NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) vs FM Daniel Naroditsky (SF) 1/2-1/2
  4. Week 6: FM Matthew Bengtson (PHI) vs NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) 1-0
  5. Week 7: NM Matt Herman (NY) vs NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) 1-0
  6. Week 8: NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) vs FM Ralph Zimmer (BAL) 1-0
  7. Week 9: NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) vs FM Matthew Bengtson (PHI) 1-0
  8. Week 10: Benjamin Katz (MAN) vs NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) 0-1
  9. Quarterfinals: Aleksandr Ostrovskiy (MAN) vs NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) 0-1
  10. Semifinals: NM Craig Jones (CAR) vs NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) 0-1
  11. Championship: WFM Bayaraa Zorigt (DAL) vs NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) 1-0
  12. Championship Tiebreaker Game #1: NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) vs WFM Bayaraa Zorigt (DAL) 0-1

2008 MVP Points: 3
2008 Performance Rating: 2301
*Tiebreak Games don't count towards official USCL records



2007 Games: (0.5/3)

  1. Week 2: FM Teddy Coleman (MAN) vs NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) 1-0
  2. Week 5: WIM Tsagaan Battsetseg (BAL) vs NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) 1-0
  3. Week 9: NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) vs Michael Thaler (MAN) 1/2-1/2

2007 MVP Points: (-4)
2007 Performance Rating: 1948



2006 Games: (4.5/8)

  1. Week 1: Jose Cabrera (MIA) vs NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) 0-1
  2. Week 2: NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) vs NM Elvin Wilson (PHI) 0-1
  3. Week 3: FM Boris Privman (NY) vs NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) 0-1 (Game of the Week!)     article
  4. Week 5: NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) vs NM John Kirby (CAR) 1-0
  5. Week 6: WGM Katerina Rohonyan (BAL) vs NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) 1/2-1/2
  6. Week 7: NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) vs NM Jerry Wheeler (TEN) 1-0
  7. Week 8: NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) vs Matt Herman (NY) 0-1
  8. Semifinals: Matt Herman (NY) vs NM Ilya Krasik (BOS) 1-0

2006 MVP Points: 7
2006 Performance Rating: 2262



2005 Games: (3.0/8)

  1. Week 1: John Fernandez (NY) vs Ilya Krasik (BOS) 1/2-1/2
  2. Week 2: Ilya Krasik (BOS) vs NM Elvin Wilson (PHI) 0-1
  3. Week 3: Ilya Krasik (BOS) vs NM Greg Samsa (CAR) 1/2-1/2
  4. Week 4: WGM Katerina Rohonyan (BAL) vs Ilya Krasik (BOS) 1-0
  5. Week 5: NM Andy Lee (SF) vs Ilya Krasik (BOS) 1-0
  6. Week 7: Ilya Krasik (BOS) vs Evan Rosenberg (NY) 1-0
  7. Week 8: Andres Suarez (DAL) vs Ilya Krasik (BOS) 1-0
  8. Week 9: FM Boris Baczynskyj (PHI) vs Ilya Krasik (BOS) 0-1

2005 MVP Points: (-2)
2005 Performance Rating: 2082



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Stats as of August 2015

Rating2276
MVP Pts14
Lifetime Score35.5/74 (48%)
Performance Rating2219
Date of Birth1980