The Illinois Chess Association is proud to announce the 2021-2022 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 2021-2022 Illinois Chess Association’s Warren Jr. Scholars and Rising Stars

Warren Jr. Scholars

Saanvi Adusumalli 

Rohit Guha 

Shakira Luster 

Patrick Rao 

Ashley Yan

 

Sarah Lin

Aditya Gupta

Sadkrith Malladi 

Shreyas Reddy

Anthony Yang

 

Mohit Bayyarapu

Aria Hoesley

Vikram Oberai

Anshul Shetty 

David Yong 

  

Scott Escalera

Jack Heller

Gabriel Gronski

Margarita Tsyganova 

Owen Zhang

 

Nicholas Bruha

Nicholas Laden

Anisha Oberai

Julian Wang

Alex Zhao 

 

Ria Raj 

Michael Li 

Elijah Platnick 

Colin Wicks

 

 

Avi Kaplan

Louisa Zhang Natalie Wisniowski Vamsi Munaganuri    

 

Rising Stars

William Cahill

Gunn Kim

Sanjith Prabhu

Linda Pham

Christopher Von Hoff

Arnav Gupta

Layla Rodriguez 

Justin Zhang

Ethan Gagliano

Himani Musku

Christopher Sakaliyski 

Jacob Plotnick

Maurya Chandra 

Andrey Novikov

Aryan Shrigadi

 

Dimitrios Deligiannis

Aditya Oberai

Aayush Thakkar