2024 National K-12 Grade Champonships

 

 

The USCF expertly ran their 2024 National K-12 Grade Championship last week in National Harbor, Maryland from December 6-8, 2024

 

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The tournament had thirteen sections: Kindergarten and grades one to twelve and consisted of over 2700 players from 45 states. Of those 2700, Illinois sent 77 players across all age ranges. The following players participated in their first US Chess National event at this event:

 9th - SHANE ASBRA

11th - RAJINDER SINGH ATLURI

 9th - JAMES BEDNARZ

 9th - PIERCE BLANCHARD

10th - SOHAN CHAMARTHI

11th - ARITRA JANA

11th - LUCAS LAZARO

11th - GRIFFIN LEWIS

 2nd - ADHVIK MOHAN

 K  - ANVITHA MOHAN

 6th - ANISHA SAHA

 4th - MADHUVANTI SATHISH

11th - SAMUEL TAN

10th - ISHAAN TANNEERU

 K  - ALEXANDER WU

10th - YUXUAN XIE

12th - IMMANUEL ZEREGA

 

12th Grade Championship Section

Illinois was represented by 13 players including:

Avi Kaplan

Joseph Dai

Rebecca Cortez

Somil Bose

Evan Haddox

Immanuel Zerega

Daniel Dligach

Alexander Alvarez

William Zalmezak

Akshay Naik

Yinuo Huang

Lucia Scrimenti

Weijun Bao

 

Of whom, Avi Kaplan won the section with 6.0 points

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Picture courtesy of Avi’s parents

Illinois Swept the class prizes for 1000-1299

Immanuel Zerega won 1st place

    Note from coach: Manu (Immanuel) Zerega broke his right wrist the week before the tournament, so he had to notate using his left hand

Daniel Dligach won 2nd place

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 Daniel Supplied last game postion and his medal

Lucia Scrimenti won 3rd place

 

Weijun Bao won the class prize for under 1000 in the 12 Grade Championship

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Finally, Evanston Township High School came in 5th place as a team.

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Picture courtesy of the High School

Players left to right: Lucia Scrimenti, Wayra Sheridan, Sam Kemeny, Will Zalmezak, Ryan Cowan, Adam Elgat, Manu Zerega, Adam Sklar, Alastair Keely-Walker, Lucas Lazaro, Daniel Dligach, Asa Lieberman, Griffin Lewis, Shane Asbra, Somil Bose.

11th Grade Championship section

 

Illinois was represented by 11 players including:

David Chen

Adam Elgat

Dimitrios Deligiannis

Alastrir Keely-Walker

Lucas Lazaro

Nithin Ramasamy

Griffin Lewis

Samuel Tan

Ryan Cowan

Rajinder Atluri

Aritta Jana

Samuel Tan won 3rd place class for 1000-1299

Lucas Lazaro won 1st place class for under 1000

Ryan Cowan won 2nd place class for under 1000

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10th Grade Championship section

 

Illinois was represented by 13 players including:

 

Justin Zhang

Asa Lieberman

William Wang

Theodore Han

Micah Mostovoy

Andy Cao

Yuxuan Xie

Atharva Naik

Ishann Tanneeru

Sohan Chamarthi

Vincent Lan

Joanna Marsten

Adam SklarYuxuan

Theodore Han won 1st place class 1300-1599

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Theodore-s picture courtesy of his parents

 

Micah Mostovoy won 1st place class 1100-1299

Sohan Chamarthi won 2nd place class under 1000.

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Sohan's picture courtesy of his parents

9th Grade Championship section

 

Illinois was represented by 5 players including:

 

Timur Turba

Shane Asbra

James Bednarz

Wayra Sheridan

Pierce Blanchard

8th Grade Championship section

 

There were not any Illinois players who represented at the tournament.

7th Grade Championship section

 

Illinois was represented by 2 players including:

Ashvath Pittala

Arjun Kota

6th Grade Championship section

 

Illinois was represented by 1 player:

Anisha Saha

5th Grade Championship section

 

Illinois was represented by 1 player:

Anfad Saran

Anfad Saran won 2nd place class under 1100-1300.

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4th Grade Championship section

 

Illinois was represented by 2 players including:

Avidhas Biswas

Maduvanti Sathish

3rd Grade Championship section

 

Illinois was represented by 2 players including:

Aiden Li

Bishrelt Munkshuld

Aiden Li won his section with 6.5 points.

 

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Picture courtesy of his parents.

 

2nd Grade Championship section

 

Illinois was represented by 1 player

Adhvik Mohan

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Advik Mohan won 2nd place class 600-799

1st Grade Championship section

 

Illinois was not represented

Kindergarten Championship section

 

Illinois was represented by 2 players including:

Alexander Wu

Anvitha Mohan.

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Alexander Wu won 3rd place class 400-599.

 

Linked here is a complete pre-tournament registration report for the event, courtesy of US Chess, 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 a remarkable turnout from our Illinois Chess Association players and the great assistance of Edwin Walker, head of our Warren Scholars program, for procuring much of the data used to report on. 

Finally, congratulations to all the players 

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