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Youth News
With matching 3.0/5 results, Jacob Plotnick and Amrutha Venkat tallied positive scores at the 2016 Iowa RBO for players rated Under 1200. These were the…
Bill Feldman · August 28, 2016
Youth News
With the arrival of downstaters Caleb Denby and Andrew Fei, Illinois now has 23 juniors rated above 2000 as of the August official ratings. Five…
Bill Feldman · August 22, 2016
Youth News
44 Illinois girls have managed to earn spots on this month’s top 100 lists compiled by US Chess. Unfortunately, Illinois is without a qualifying 18…
Bill Feldman · August 17, 2016
Youth News
The elite team of George Li, Vincent Do and Miranda Liu admirably acquitted themselves at the 2016 Denker, Barber and National Girls Invitational Tournaments. The…
Bill Feldman · August 8, 2016
Youth News
51 Illinois youth have made one of the dozen age-based Top 100 Lists for nationwide juniors. This includes an all-time high five Masters and seventeen…
Bill Feldman · July 24, 2016
Youth News
With an impressive performance at the National All-Girls Tournament, 14-year old Miranda Liu becomes the first Illinois female junior to achieve the US Chess Expert title…
Bill Feldman · June 21, 2016
Youth News
22 female juniors have surpassed the 1000 mark as of the May 2016 ratings… with three girls rated above 1900. Actually, one has gone over…
Bill Feldman · June 5, 2016
Youth News
Dimitar Mardov is the number two junior in the US aged 7-and-under as of the May 2016 ratings lists! Aren Emrikian is ranked 20th in…
Bill Feldman · May 25, 2016
Youth News
The Youth Chess Foundation of Chicago concluded its 2015-2016 season with a May 14 five-round, three-section tournament at Burbank Elementary School in northwest Chicago with…
Bill Feldman · May 17, 2016
Youth News
Competing in five rated sections, Illinois players brought home an impressive array of trophies from the 4th Ice Harbor Scholastic held May 13-15 in Dubuque,…
Bill Feldman · May 16, 2016
