The Illinois Chess Association is proud to announce the 2020-2021 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 or online training day and awards banquet with a date TBD and several online tournaments.

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 to wjs@il-chess.org.

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 wjs@il-chess.org.

Congratulations from the ICA!

 

The 2020-2021 Illinois Chess Association’s Warren Jr. Scholars and Rising Stars

 

Warren Jr. Scholars

 

Saanvi Adusumalli

Elbert Fang

Avi Kaplan

Dimitar Mardov

Patrick Rao

Anthony Yang

Adam Bareket

Vincent Fang

Bharath Sruthi Kumar

Vamsi Munaganuri

Shreyas Reddy

David Yong

Tom Bareket

Gabriel Gronski

Nicholas Ladan

Anisha Oberai

Anshul Shetty

Owen Zhang

Mohit Bayyarapu

Rohi Guha

Michael Li

Vikram Oberai

Margarita Tsyganova

Alex Zhao

Aidan Carey

Harry Heller

Roger Li

Elijah Platnick

Julian Wang

 

David Chen

Jack Heller

Shakira Luster

Nandini Prakash

Colin Wicks

 

Yuvraj Chennareddy

Kevin Ho

Sadkrith Malladi

Ria Raj

Natalie Wisniowski

 

Scott Escalera

Aria Hoesley

Shreya Mangalam

Anjaneya Rao

Ashley Yan

 

 

Rising Stars

 

Andy Cao

Ethan Gagliano

Andrey Novikov

Christopher Sakaliyski

David Wallach

Leon Cao

Sarah Grandy

Aditya Oberai

Josephine Swan

Trechelle Williams

Maurya Chandra

Kim Gunn

Keoni Osborne

Anthony Tsyganov

Daniel Zhang

Jonah Chen

Zalan Gorgy

Linda Pham

Kaya Turgut

Justin Zhang

Jeremiah Davis

Emmett Madigan

Jacob Plotnick

Christian Turk

Dimitri Deligiannis

Sohum Mehta

Vrishank Ramnath

Spencer Vincent

Luke Faxon

Himani Musku

Layla Rodriguez

Christopher Von Hoff