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

Saanvi Adusumalli

Jay Feng

Jack Heller

Shakira Luster

Vikram Oberai 

Mohit Bayyarapu 

Sreekar Gangavarapu

Avi Harrison Kaplan

Sadkrith Malladi 

Linda Pham

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

Natalie Wisniowski

Anthony Yang

Tugstumur Yesuntumur

David Yong

Justin Zhang

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

Jonah Chen

Aidan Nelson

Jacob Plotnick

Aayush Thakkar

Elizabeth Xia

Dimitri Deligiannis 

Andrey Novikov

Sachit Srinivas Rajkumar

Christopher Von Hoff

Cedric Zhang

Gunn Kim

Aditya Oberai 

Arnav Gupta

Julian Wang

William Wang

Anisha Oberai

Aarav Shah

Shivani Manimaran

Pragyan Misra

Aaron Gan

Arnav Karthikenyan

Adarsh Girish

Rishi Murali

Anthony Chen