2014 K-8 Championships Team Results

The continuing saga of the 2014 K-8 Championships. This table shows team results. Additional write ups on this site cover individual awards.

Place Grades K-1 Place Grades 2-3
1 Avery Coonley, 16.5 1 Avery Coonley, 23.0
2 Thomas Metcalf Lab, 16.0 [TB=89] 2 Colene Hoose, 20.0
3 Hickory Grove Elementary, 16.0 [TB=87.5] 3 Monroe Elementary, 19.5
4 Epiphany Catholic, 16.0 [TB=86.0] 4 Benjamin Elementary, 18.5
5 Benamin Elementary, 15.5 [TB=90.0] 5 Thomas Metcalf, 18.0
6 Monroe School, 15.5 [TB=87.0] 6 Indian Trail Elementary, 15.5
7 Avoca West, 14.5 7 Avoca West, 15.0 [TB=88.5]
8 Laura Sprague, 10.5 8 Dewey Elementary, 15.0 [TB=81.0]
9 Colene Hoose, 9.5 9 Lincoln Elementary, 14.5 [TB=85.5]
10 Next Generation, 9.0 10 Romona, 14.5 [TB=78.5]
       
  45 Schools, 12 with scores > 7.0   87 schools, 27 with scores > 7.0
       
Place Grades 4-5 Place Grades 6-8
1 Highcrest Middle (Wilmette), 20.5 1 Dunlap Middle School, 21.0
2 Decatur Classical (Chicago), 20.0 2 George Evans Jr High, 19.0
3 Skinner North Classical (Chicago), 19.5 [TB=102.5] 3 Chiddix Jr High, 17.5
4 Dr. Howard (Champaign), 19.5 [TB=96] 4 Goudy School (Chicago), 16.5
5 Benjamin Elementary, 19.0 5 Nichols Middle, 16.0
6 Avery Coonley, 18.5 6 Clarendon Hills Middle, 15.5
7 Colene Hoose, 18.0 7 Lincoln Jr High, 15.0 [TB=82.5]
8 Lincoln Elementary, 15.5 8 Gower Middle, 15.0 [TB=79.5]
9 Prairieland, 15.0 9 Wheaton Christian, 14.5 [TB=94.0]
10 Monroe School, 14.5 10 Parkside Jr High, 14.5 [TB=86.0]
       
  93 Schools, 32 with scores > 7.0   76 schools, 23 with scores > 7.0

2014 K-8 Grade-Level and Rating-Based Individual Awards

Another in a continuing series documenting the awards from the 2014 K-8.

Grade-Level and "Under" Prizes are awarded after the Top 25 Trophies within each section.

See companion piece elsewhere on this site for the Top 25 winners.

Grades K-1 Section   Grades 2-3 Section
Grade-based Awards
Kindergarten        Second Grade
1st Christopher McCaleb Hudson (BN) 4.0 1st Austin McMurtrie Hinckley 5.0
2nd Shrutodhee Goswami Glenn (BN) 4.0 2nd William Tallard Monroe 5.0
First Grade Third Grade
1st David Sun Avoca West 4.0 1st Anusha Nadkarni Washington (BN) 5.0
2nd Jaden Fauske Avery Coonley 4.0 2nd Anton Schuster Latin School (Chicago) 5.0
       
Awards By Pre-Tournament Rating 
500-699 Range          600-799 Range
1st Alex Daniels Grove (BN) 4.0 1st Nicholas Ladan Glen Grove 5.0
2nd Anirudh Venkatesh Coleene Hoose (BN) 4.0 2nd Kale Rader Metcalf Lab (BN) 5.0
300-499 Range 400-599 Range
1st Daniel Skeels Avoca West 4.0 1st Edward Wang Burr Ridge 5.0
2nd Joshua Wang Hickory Grove (Dunlap) 4.0 2nd Rohil Bose Dewey (Evanston) 5.0
Under 300 Under 400
1st Sanjay Rajjan Omaha, NE 4.0 1st Ethan Fogel Glenview 4.5
2nd Elliott Olcott Avoca West 3.5 2nd Ruairi Stephens Lincoln (Evanston) 4.5
               
Grades 4-5 Section Grades 6-8 Section
Grade-based Awards
Fourth Grade           Sixth Grade
1st Aria Hoesley Decatur (Chicago) 5.0 1st Vishnu Anagani Chiddix Jr (BN) 5.0
2nd Raghav Mukundan Washington (BN) 5.0 2nd Rithvik Musuku Evans Jr (BN) 5.0
Fifth Grade Seventh Grade
1st Alex Yasumoto Highcrest (Wilmette) 5.0 1st Vikram Dara Scullen Middle 5.0
2nd Kevin Ho Ranchview (Naperville) 5.0 2nd Akhil Kalghatgi Chicago 4.5
             Eighth Grade
1st Nathan Saltzman Hinsdale Middle 5.0
2nd Seth Wyma Wheaton Christian 4.5
   
Awards By Pre-Tournament Rating 
700-899 Range           800-999 Range
1st Owen Haas Lincoln (Wheaton) 4.5 1st David Chu Gower 4.5
2nd Sai Mulam Glenn (BN) 4.5 2nd William Richards Franklin Middle 4.5
500-699 Range 600-799 Range
1st Mayank Hirani Dr. Howard (CU) 4.5 1st Raman Manandhar Goudy (Chicago) 4.0
2nd Nicholas Husarik Prairieland (BN) 4.0 2nd Simon Evans St Johns Lutheran 4.0
Under 500 Under 600
1st Colin Goldberg Solomon Schecter 4.0 1st Perry Hoag Parker (Flossmoor) 3.5
2nd Nikolai Lazarvic Lincoln (Wheaton) 4.0 2nd Luke Meyer King Lab (Evanston) 3.0

Please be advised that a few individual prizes were awarded erroneously at the formal awards ceremony, but the above chart represents the confirmed winners' list. If your name is listed and you did not receive a trophy, please contact the author of this write up at editor at il-chess dot org.

Additional Results: 2014 K-8 Championships

 Work in Progress: Top 25 Trophy Winners for Each Section

Place Grades K-1 Grades 2-3 Grades 4-5 Grades 6-8 Place
1 Vrishank Ramnath (7.0) James Zhang (6.5) Shreya Mangalam (7.0) Jack Curcio (6.5) 1
2 Dimitar Mardov (6.0) Patrick Rao (6.0) Joseph Buklis (6.5) Matthew Stevens (6.5) 2
3 Arthur Zihan Xu (6.0) Pierce McDade (6.0) Advaith Prabu (6.0) Nikhil Kalghatgi (6.0) 3
4 Alex Zhao (5.5) David Zimmermann (6.0) Jason Daniels  (6.0) Marissa Li (6.0) 4
5 William Cahill (5.5) Jai Mahajan (6.0) Aidan Carey  (6.0) Vincent Do (5.5) 5
6 John Bielobradek (5.5) Christian Turk (6.0) Edward Zhang  (6.0) Jacob Furfine (5.5) 6
7 Ethan Ding (5.5) William Tan (6.0) Jonah Karafiol (6.0) Stefan Musikic (5.5) 7
8 Nikhil Gangavarapu (5.5) Peter Zheng (6.0) Ricky Wang (5.5) Miranda Liu (5.5) 8
9 Alex Fei (5.0) Darsh Patel (6.0) Aaron Gan (5.5) Andrew Yueyang Fei (5.5) 9
10 Pugazhendhi Saravanan (5.0) Junliang Liu (5.5) Emmett Madigan (5.5) Maxwell Jong (5.5) 10
11 Dhruv Malladi (5.0) Elijah Platnick (5.5) Ryan Wong (5.5) Yiliang Li (5.5) 11
12 Bruce Tang (5.0) Bryson Turner (5.5) Brian Gong (5.5) Martin Stukan (5.5) 12
13 Beck Hansen (5.0) Ignac Bielobradek (5.5) Nathan Chang (5.5) Shayna Provine (5.5) 13
14 Nicolas Matejka (5.0) Spencer Vincent (5.0) Alexander Turk (5.5) Nicholas Bartochowski (5.0) 14
15 Zalan Gyorgy (5.0) Jayant Maheshwari (5.0) Michael Geohas (5.5) Jack Thain (5.0) 15
16 John Hunter (5.0) Tuoyu Toby Yang (5.0) David Wallach (5.0) Kavin Lavari (5.0) 16
17 Shridhar Mehendale (5.0) Nicholas Bruha (5.0) Alan Linghao Wang (5.0) Ishaar Ganesan (5.0) 17
18 Harrison Hughes (5.0) Sohan Anup Bendre (5.0) Pranav Venkatesh (5.0) Ritesh Sivakumar (5.0) 18
19 Avi Harrison Kaplan (4.5) Emmanuel Antony (5.0) Daniel Zhang (5.0) Julian O'Carroll (5.0) 19
20 Jacob Priegnitz (4.5) Lucas Staniszewski (5.0) Arnold Lei Ogerio (5.0) Jeff Bikus (5.0) 20
21 John O'Carroll (4.5) Niroop Krishnakumar (5.0) Jack Bradley (5.0) Sawyer Harris (5.0) 21
22 Vikram Oberai (4.5) John Hines-shah (5.0) Jonas Vriend (5.0) Shashank Bala (5.0) 22
23 Maximilian Wille (4.5) Ben Finkelshteyn (5.0) Brenden Gran (5.0) Prithiv Kumar (5.0) 23
24 Addyson Thome (4.5) Kevin Yuvaraj (5.0) Pavan Sureshkumar (5.0) Cassie Parent (5.0) 24
25 Seth Parent (4.0) Christopher Von Hoff (5.0) David Wang (5.0) Georgia R. Wolf (5.0) 25
   

Additional Players
with 5.0 scores: 

Anusha Nadkarni,
Austin McMurtrie,
William Tallard,
Nathan Lee, 
Anton Schuster,
Nicholas Ladan, 
Kale Rader,
Edward Wang, 
Rohil Bose, Herbert Lim


Additional Players

with 5.0 scores: 

Aria Hoesley,
Alex Yasumoto, 
Kevin Ho, Nadia Frieden, 
Justin Weinzweig,
Alexader Hsia,
Raghav Mukunan,
Marcus Lee, 
Sahil Conjeevaram,
Jacob Davis, Aayan Patel,
Arnav Sriram

 

Additional Players
with 5.0 scores: 


Nathan Saltzman, 
Vishnu Anagnani, 
Vikram Dara, 
Rithvik Reddy Musuku

 

 

 See companion story elsewhere on this site for Grade-Level and Rating-based "Under" prizes.

Illinois Youth in USCF Top 100 -- March 2014

February is popular in Illinois lore as the month of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, one half the dynamic duo which prompted our modern “Presidents Day”. Considering the 16th president wasn’t even born in the Prairie State, perhaps we might expand the birthdays we honor in the second calendar month. Look no further than the 11 Illinois Youth in the top 100 who observed birthdays last month. 

Vincent Do, Jonathan Tan, Spencer Lehmann, Gavin McClanahan, Penny Xu, Eli Goering, Joe Fennessey, Duncan Shepherd, Zhaozhi Li and Anshul Adve all have transitioned to the next age group for purposes of the USCF monthly top 100. Happy birthday to you all!

Alas, a February birthday also means that long-time list member, Expert (aka Candidate Master) Robert Moskwa, has aged out of the report after turning 19.

March 2014 Lists Can Be Viewed Here.

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2014 K-8: Mangalam, J. Zhang, Ramnath Claim Clear Titles; Curcio and Stevens Share Grades 6-8 Championship

With the largest field in six years, the Illinois K-8 Championships crowned outright winners in three sections.

With perfect 7.0/7 scores, Shreya Mangalam took Grades 4-5 and Vrishank Ramnath won the Grades K-1 group. James Zhang topped the Grades 2-3 section with a 6.5/7 tally.

Also with 6.5 scores, Jack Curcio and Matthew Stevens earned the Grades 6-8 co-championship with Jack taking the first-place trophy on tiebreak points.

Event crosstables can be reviewed here.

684 players competed in the March 15-16 event held at the Hyatt Regency Schaumburg. Glenn Panner of Chess Weekend served as the chief organizer, with Sevan Muradian as Chief TD and Wayne Clark in the role of Chief Floor Director. Muradian's ChessIQ donated the iPad mini's which were awarded to the four section winners.

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