2024 Illinois All Grade Championship

 

The Illinois Chess Association is happy to congratulate Jeff Diorio from Elite Chess for brilliantly organizing our 2024 Illinois All Grade Championship in Naperville, Illinois on November 9, 2024.

The tournament had nine sections: 2nd through 8th grade, while kindergarten was combined with 1st grade, likewise for high school(9th through 12th grade). In total, over 350 kids participated, of whom, we are pleased to see 50 new faces from last year. We had 10 ICA members play in the event. Further, we had better than expected representation from downstate, including the following four schools that won trophies:

Chiddix - Normal 7th Grade, 3rd Place

Grove - Normal 5th Grade, 2nd Place

Benjamin - Bloomington 4th Grade, 3rd Place

Thomas Metcalf - Normal 3rd Grade, 1st Place

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Trophies on display - courtesy of Elite Chess

 

Listed below are the results for the different sections:

High School

Nathaniel was the outright winner with a perfect four points. After Nathaniel, four players tied with 3 points, four players tied with 2 points and a further four tied with 1.5 points. Final order after tie-breaks for trophies are listed below.

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Nathaniel receiving his trophy; courtesy of his parents

 

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Eighth Grade

 

Gene Tcheng was the outright winner with a perfect 4 points. Avanish Ram Amarnath came in second alone with 3.5 points. Then, seven players finished with 3 points and two with 2.5 points. Final order after tie-breaks for trophies are listed below.

 

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Seventh Grade

 

There was a two way tie for first place with a perfect 4 points, opposed to the previous outright winners. Artemii Khanbutaev won on tiebreaks, leaving Kavin Sivagnanam in second. There were ten players with 3 points. Final order after tie-breaks for trophies are listed below.

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Artemil receiving his trophy; courtesy of his parents

 

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Sixth Grade

 

Alexander Pan was the outright winner with a perfect 4 points. Two players tied with 3.5 points, but Anisha came in second based on tiebreakers. There were a further 13 players tied with 3 points. The final standings after tie-breaks for trophies are listed below.

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Alexander with trophy; courtesy of his parents

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Fifth Grade

 

There was a two-way tie for first place with 4.5 points. However, Lucas Silvestre won on tiebreaks and Sarang Athreya Sankrithi came in second. There were six players with 4 points and an additional four players with 3.5 points. Below you can find the final order after tie-breaks for trophies.

 

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Lucas receiving his award; courtesy of his parents

 

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Fourth Grade

Krish Vignesh was the outright winner with 4.5 points. Four players had 4 points, of which Pradhyum came in second on tiebreaks. There were a further 6 players with 3.5 points. The final standings after tie-breaks for trophies are listed below.

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Kris with trophy courtesy of his parents

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Third Grade

Bishrelt  Munkhsuld was the outright winner with a perfect 5 points. After him, six players had 4 points, two players had 3.5 points and twelve players had 3 points. The final standings after tie-breaks for trophies are listed below.

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Bishrelt with trophy courtesy of his parents

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Second Grade

Emily Jiaying Tang was the outright winner with a perfect 5 points. Following her, four players had 4 points, two players with 3.5 points and seven players had 3 points. Final order after tie-breaks for trophies (top ten only) are listed below.

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Emily – Courtesy of her parents

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Combined Kindergarten and First Grade

Shivakumaran Minor Vellapandi was the outright winner with a perfect 5 points. Afterwards, six players had 4 points, one player had 3.5 points and eight players had 3 points. Of which the final standings after tie-breaks for trophies are listed below.

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 Shivakumaran Minor Vellapandi – Courtesy of his parents

 

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We are also proud to congratulate the following players across all sections for increasing their ratings by over 50 points and wish them the best of luck to perform as well in their next tournaments as they did in this one.

Name

Grade

PreRating

PostRating

Minor Vellapandi, Shivakumaran

0

666

914

Amouei Torkmahalleh, Raymand

1

422

543

Biswal, Shrinika

1

146

279

Garetto, Lucca

1

108

164

Kobe, James

1

104

208

NORA MAXFIELD

1

156

278

Wang, Mason

1

198

382

Yang, Miesen

1

504

585

ADLER AKHMETOV

2

118

341

Geht, Charles

2

413

508

Gerelt Od, Robert

2

141

221

Kirkman, Frankie

2

262

345

Mehta, Ness

2

340

410

Mohan, Adhvik

2

732

782

Tata, Ayansh

2

605

698

Athira Ajeesh, Adharv

3

466

598

Banoth, Shanaya

3

840

900

Bian, Brandon

3

316

479

De Zoysa, Ryan

3

117

234

EZRA POFFENBARGER

3

672

819

Gray, Nathan

3

243

439

Lakshmi Narayanan, Vidyut

3

731

820

Munkhsuld, Bishrelt

3

1294

1363

PHILLIP WHITT

3

105

242

Raina, Ansh

3

379

555

TANISH SEN

3

816

908

Wolkowitz, Ryan

3

190

244

YASH GAWAS

3

515

644

ANDREW LEE

4

512

592

Fee, Leo

4

829

923

PEARL INFANTE

4

101

164

Vignesh, Krish

4

1050

1107

Yun, Jaden

4

363

414

Zhang, Albert

4

637

818

ERKHEMBAYAR ERDENEOCHIR

5

480

554

Huang, Sam

5

280

336

LUCAS MILLARD

5

714

771

Midha, Shivansh

5

720

773

Shikhare, Aayush

5

428

543

Vepari, Kaarthisha

5

241

300

Wiseman, Zachary

5

137

193

Wu, Isalinda

5

297

480

Bayartamir, Bill

6

855

980

Herbert, Maddox

6

149

284

Jadhav, Sameehan Nikhil

6

859

928

LOHITH REDDY GONGATI

6

727

808

Zhou, Wellington

6

239

314

Boppudi, Sahasra

7

734

926

Brown, Noah G

7

543

665

ESEN MUNKHTUR

7

952

1022

Kim, Shiloh

7

475

682

Murugan, Yugan

7

202

414

Polenska, Micah

7

283

405

Prasanna Venkatesh, Mukund Vasudev

7

664

738

SAMUEL KELLY

7

981

1055

Sienkiewicz, Luke

7

706

771

Wu, Ethan

7

488

560

Zhou, Louis

7

333

412

Amarnath, Avanish Ram

8

915

1197

Ingrum, Rylan

8

643

694

Itagi, Anish

8

963

1087

JOSIAH BOVEY

8

1154

1243

Larson, Andrew

8

344

415

VIKHYATH CHATRATHI

8

929

1036

Kane, Jack Aidan

9

706

774

GANNON BATES

11

932

1114

Borne, Gavin

12

964

1136

Jaynes, Logan

12

748

884

 

The following players are members of the Illinois Chess Association who participated. Thank you for your support.

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Linked here is a complete cross-table for the event, courtesy of King Registration, and the US rating report. Following these links, you can view the full results across any sections instead of the abbreviated standings above.

Once again, we want to congratulate everybody who participated and gave it their best in the tournament and to congratulate Jeff Diorio and Elite Chess for running the tournament so smoothly on behalf of the Illinois Chess Association.