The Illinois Chess Association is proud to announce the 2022-2023 class of Warren Junior Scholars and Rising Stars.
The Warren Junior Scholar program was started over 30 years ago by Helen Warren, a former ICA president, to recognize the most accomplished and promising scholastic chess players in the state. In 2015, the Rising Stars program was added to recognize the next tier of up-and-coming scholastic players. Together, these two programs recognize the top scholastic chess talent in our state. Invitation to these programs is based on USCF chess ratings and active participation in chess tournaments.
In addition to providing recognition to these players, the purpose of the program is to nurture the highest-potential scholastic chess players so that they may compete on the national and international stage, and to provide students with an opportunity for rigorous study that will give them the skills to become leaders in other fields as adults.
More information about these programs can be found here: http://www.il-chess.org/aboutwjrs-72.
Many events for this group are already in the planning stages for this year, including Sunday evening online training sessions, an in-person or online training day, an awards banquet (date TBD), and several online tournaments.
While much effort has been put into identifying the players who qualify for this program, it is possible that some players may have been inadvertently missed. If you know of a player who should be on the list but isn’t, please check the qualifications HERE and then email the name, USCF #, and grade to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
If you find your name on this list, you should have already received an email from the Director. If not, please email Mr. Luster at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Congratulations from the ICA!
Warren Junior Scholars 2022-2023
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Saanvi Adusumalli |
Jay Feng |
Jack Heller |
Shakira Luster |
Vikram Oberai |
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Mohit Bayyarapu |
Sreekar Gangavarapu |
Avi Harrison Kaplan |
Sadkrith Malladi |
Linda Pham |
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Nicholas Bruha |
Gabriel Gronski |
Nicholas Ladan |
Ekansh Mehrotra |
Elijah Platnick |
|
Eduard Danilyan |
Rohit Guha |
Michael Li |
Vamsi Munaganuri |
Sanjith Prabhu |
|
Scott Matthew Escalera |
Aditya Gupta |
Sarah Lin |
Himani Musku |
Ria Raj |
|
Anjaneya Sripathy Rao |
Patrick Rao |
Anshul Shetty |
Margarita Tsyganova |
Agastya Vanama |
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Natalie Wisniowski |
Anthony Yang |
Tugstumur Yesuntumur |
David Yong |
Justin Zhang |
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Louisa Zhang |
Ryan Zhang |
Owen Zhang |
Matthew Pikus |
Ryan Barretto |
|
Rebecca Cortez |
Lucas Silvestre |
Rising Stars 2022-2023
|
William Cahill |
Aiden Li |
Gabriel Panner |
Aryan Shrigadi |
Colin Wicks |
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Jonah Chen |
Aidan Nelson |
Jacob Plotnick |
Aayush Thakkar |
Elizabeth Xia |
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Dimitri Deligiannis |
Andrey Novikov |
Sachit Srinivas Rajkumar |
Christopher Von Hoff |
Cedric Zhang |
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Gunn Kim |
Aditya Oberai |
Arnav Gupta |
Julian Wang |
William Wang |
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Anisha Oberai |
Aarav Shah |
Shivani Manimaran |
Pragyan Misra |
Aaron Gan |
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Arnav Karthikenyan |
Adarsh Girish |
Rishi Murali |
Anthony Chen |