Announcement of the 2020-2021 class of Warren Junior Scholars and Rising Stars
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- Written by Eric Luster Eric Luster
- Published: 08 January 2021 08 January 2021
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 |
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David Chen |
Jack Heller |
Shakira Luster |
Nandini Prakash |
Colin Wicks |
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Yuvraj Chennareddy |
Kevin Ho |
Sadkrith Malladi |
Ria Raj |
Natalie Wisniowski |
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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 |
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Dimitri Deligiannis |
Sohum Mehta |
Vrishank Ramnath |
Spencer Vincent |
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Luke Faxon |
Himani Musku |
Layla Rodriguez |
Christopher Von Hoff |