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Discounted USCF Memberships Available For Juniors
From now through the end of May (2015), any juniors K-12 who are interested in a USCF one year membership at the rate of $9 may…
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Illinois Players Earn Hardware at 3rd Ice Harbor Scholastic, Panner Wins K-6 U800, Rockford Marshall Nabs K-12 U1200
Aidan Carey could have played it easy and entered the K-6 Open at the Third Annual Ice Harbor Scholastic. But who likes easy? Instead the Avery…
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Alex Zhao Wins K-1 National Championship, Coonley Takes 5th
Alex Zhao, a first-grader at Avery Coonley School in Downers Grove, is the K-1 National Champion! Alex defeated Californian Sriram Krishnakumar in the final round to…
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Turgut Claims 2nd at National K-6, Daniels Ties for 5th
Dropping a game at a national tournament is never fun, but for Aydin Turgut it did not mean the end of the road. Despite the fifth…
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Advaith Prabu Ties for 4th at National K-5, 7th on Tiebreaks
Advaith Prabu came within a half-point of the National K-5 Championship. The fifth grader finished 6.0/7, losing only to Washington’s Anthony He, the second highest-rated player…
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Aaron Gan Ties for Third at National Elementary K-3
Aaron Gan of Lincolnshire’s Half Day School won six of his seven games — including his last five matches — tying for third place in the…
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Mardov and Zhao Perfect at National K-1 Through Five Rounds, Max Malecki also 5.0/5 in K-6 Under 1000
Update: In a major upset (330 rating points!), Alex Zhao won his sixth round match and is one of three perfect scores remaining in the National…
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Daniels-Turgut Team Wins National Bughouse Championship
It won’t impact their USCF ratings in the least, but a pair of downstate Illinois juniors have claimed the National Elementary Bughouse Championship. Jason Daniels and…
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David Peng Claims 2015 USCF K-9 National Championship
With a seventh-round draw, 7th-Grader David Peng clinched top honors at the 2015 USCF National Junior High Championships, winning the K-9 section outright with a 6.5…
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Illinois Youth in USCF Top 100 as of April 2015
New names entering (or returning to) the top 100 lists this month include 7-year old William Wang, 14-year old James Wei, 16-year old Philip Parker-Turner and…