Toby Ching and Parker Sorenson Post Strong Months

 

Toby Ching and Parker Sorenson had the largest ratings bumps of any Illinois players in August.

Toby raised his rating 335 points to 821. Parker upped his rating 317 points.

Toby did very well in the "Oh My's" section of the Berkeley Summer Camp tournament in Tampa Bay, FL at the end of July. Toby came in second place out of 10 participants, with 4.0/5. His only loss was to section winner, Wolfe Hudepohl, a 1200-player from Florida.

Parker tied for first in the U1000 section at the August 14 Knights Quest, going four-for-four. All five of Parker's rated events have been Knights Quest tournaments.

Jack Heller (+251) and Elton Huang (+222) also showed strong gains.

24 others had increases greater than 100 points!

	USCF Ratings
Name	Sept	Aug	Difference
TOBY CHING	821	486	335
PARKER SORENSON	892	575	317
JACK HELLER	1365	1114	251
ELTON HUANG	323	101	222
ADVAIT VIJAY	1233	1042	191
DONALD EGAN III	1050	860	190
NOLAN LUIS FLETES	673	483	190
SRIHAS RAO	1011	825	186
NISHA SALIAN	941	768	173
AKIVA TOKARSKIY	871	706	165
TIMOTHY IAN LIU	625	467	158
DERRICK RED	1263	1106	157
JACOB PLOTNICK	839	693	146
SARAH TOKARSKIY	550	409	141
LOHIT BHATNAGAR	798	658	140
JOHN  FRAWLEY	1202	1066	136
AYA BAREKET	331	197	134
ANDREY NOVIKOV	1203	1069	134
KIERAN CASSIDY	711	577	134
ALEXANDER IVASCU	350	224	126
SRIKANTH MADUGULA	1711	1586	125
PHILIP MCCULLY	1381	1259	122
NICHOLAS ALLISON	1446	1326	120
BENJAMIN MCKENDALL	498	380	118
YIZHANG CHEN	923	805	118
HUDSON LUTFIYYA	719	608	111
ADAM LONN	1670	1561	109
DAVID ZIMMERMANN	1505	1400	105
GEORGIA WOLF	1406	1302	104