Warren Junior Scholars and Rising Stars 2018-19 Class Announced

 

The Illinois Chess Association is proud to announce the 2018-19 class of Warren Junior Scholars and Rising Stars. 

The Warren Junior Scholar program was started over 30 years ago by Helen Warren, a past 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.  These two programs together 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 program’s purpose is to nurture the highest-potential scholastic chess players so that they may compete on a 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 stage for this year, including Sunday evening online training sessions, an in-person training day and awards banquet in October and several online tournaments through Internet Chess Club.

Although a lot of effort is put into identifying the players who qualify for this program, it is possible that some players may have been inadvertently missed.   If you are aware of a player who should be on the list but isn’t, please check the qualifications HERE and then email name, USCF #, and grade in the fall of 2018 to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The list will be finalized on August 1.

If you find your name on this list you should have already received an email from the director. If not, please email Mrs. Grandy at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Congratulations from the ICA!

2018-19 Warren Junior Scholars
Adam Bareket Ishaar Ganesan Sarah Lin Aydin Turgut
Tom Bareket Gabriel Gronski Shreya Mangalam Abhyudhaya Venkat
Nicholas Bruha Rohit Guha Dimitar Mardov Emma Wang
Benjamin Chen Deniz Gulecyuz Ekansh Mehrotra Ricky Wang
David Chen Kevin Ho Rishi Narayanan William Wang
Yuvraj Chennareddy Aria Hoesley David Peng Natalie Wisniowski
Henry Curcio Akhil Kalghatgi Elijah Platnick Arthur Xu
Dimitri Deligiannis Nikhil Kalghatgi Patrick Rao Ashley Yan
Vincent Do Avi Kaplan Shreyas Reddy David Yong
Adam Elgat Nicholas Ladan Jack Santner Richard Zhang
Aren Emrikian Marissa Li Anshul Shetty Alex Zhao
Jacob Furfine Roger Li Matthew Stevens Alan C Wei

2018-19 Rising Stars
Ajay Balaraman Brian Gong Max Matura Nathaniel Sobery
Rahul Bammidi Leddy Grady Sohum Mehta Josephine  Swan
Mohit Bayyarapu Sarah Grandy Ankush Moolky William Tan
Alex Beecher Aditya Gupta Stefan  Mueller Margarita Tsyganova
Sohan Bendre Zalan Gyorgy Vamsi Munaganuri Kaya Turgut
Sruthi Bharath Kumar Sawyer Harris Anusha Nadkarni Christian Turk
William Cahill Harry Heller Andrey Novikov Donald Valencia
Andy Cao Jack Heller Aditya Oberai Spencer Vincent
Leon Lang Cao Elton Huang Anisha Oberai Christopher Von Hoff
Aidan Carey Sean Insley Vikram Oberai Adam Wallach
Jonah Chen Advaith Kodipparambil Keoni Osborne David Wallach
Evan Chui Ryan Kong Madhav Parthasarathy Julian Wang
Sahil Conjeevaram Daniel Lee Elijah Patterson Justin Weinzweig
Eduard Danilyan Jonathan Lee Jacob Plotnick Colin Wicks
Matthew Daum Merrill Lee Nandini Prakash Georgia Wolf
Jacob Davis Brooklyn Li Ria Raj Matthew Wong
Jeremiah Davis Michael Li Layla Rodriguez Tuoyu Yang
Eli Elder Patrick Y Li Ricky Roman Samraat Zagade
Luke Faxon Junliang Liu Christopher Sakaliyski Daniel Zhang
Sam Fayn Emmett Madigan Deepak Salian Owen Zhang
Ethan Gagliano Sadkrith Malladi Nisha Salian David Zimmermann