Illinois High School Association (IHSA)

Chess State Championship 2025

Peoria, Illinois February 14-15, 2025

Firstly, I’d like to thank the organizers and the directors, along with all the players, for making this edition of the IHSA State Championship the best it could’ve been.

 

The tournament consisted of the 128 best high school teams across the state, who all competed in their respective sectional events two weeks prior. Now, onto the results:

 

128 teams played in the tournament – after the first three rounds only 16 teams remained undefeated.

 

Round 4; Final 16 undefeated

Table 8: Dunlap defeated Lemont (H.S.) 44 vs 24

Table 7: Evanston (Twp) defeated Northbrook (Glenbrook North) 55 vs 13

Table 6: Naperville (Neuqua) defeated Glenview (Glenbrook South) 48.5 vs 19.5

Table 5: Lincolnshire (Stevenson) defeated Naperville (North) 46.5 vs 21.5

Table 4: Hoffman Estates (Conant) defeated Chicago (Lane) 43.5 vs 24.5

Table 3: Palatine (Fremd) defeated Aurora (Illinois Math and Science Academy) 47 vs 21

Table 2: Chicago (Whitney Young) defeated Hinsdale (Central) 42 vs 26

Table 1: Chicago (Payton) defeated Aurora (Waubonsie Valley) 45 vs 23

 

Round 5; Final 8 undefeated

Table 4: Naperville (Neuqua) defeated Hoffman Estates (Conant) 42 vs 26

Table 3: Lincolnshire (Stevenson) defeated Chicago (Payton) 48 vs 20

Table 2: Palatine (Fremd) defeated Dunlap 46.5 vs 21.5

Table 1: Chicago (Whitney Young) defeated Evanston (Twp.) 37 vs 31

 

Round 6; Final 4 undefeated

Table 2: Palatine (Fremd) defeated Naperville (Neuqua Valley) 51.5 vs 16.5

Table 1: Chicago (Whitney Young) defeated Lincolnshire (Stevenson)  38 vs 30

Round 7, Final round; Final 2 undefeated

Table 1. Chicago (Whitney Young) defeated Palatine (Fremd) 49.5 vs 18.5

 

Chicago (Whitney Young) came in first, the only undefeated team with 7 points to become the IHSA State Champion for 2024-2025.

 

There was a seven way tie for second place, here are the list of the seven with positions determined by tie-Break, all of these teams were awarded plaques for their efforts to achieve 6 points out of 7 – except for second and third place who received trophies for their respective placing.

Position	Points	Tie-Breaks	Team
2	6	119.5	Lincolnshire (Stevenson)
3	6	109	Palatine (Fremd)
4	6	108.1	Chicago (Payton)
5	6	103.5	Aurora (Waubonsie Valley)
6	6	83.8	Dunlap
7	6	83.4	Evanston (Twp.)
8	6	81.9	Aurora (Illinois Math and Science Academy)

 

Here is the winning team:

Courtesy of IHSA

Additionally, Glenn Panner from Chess Weekend supplied individual award medals to all players with at least 5.5 points out of 7. Bronze was awarded with 5.5, Silver with 6, and gold with 6.5 or 7 points. Around 100 players received medals out of 1200.

The following participants were awarded medals:

Name	Points	Medal
Anjaneya Rao	7.0	Gold
Ekansh Mehrotra	7.0	Gold
Michael Li	7.0	Gold
Ochirbat Lkhagvajamts	7.0	Gold
Vinay Sridhar	7.0	Gold
William Cahill	7.0	Gold
Arjav Patel	6.5	Gold
Ben Popilek	6.5	Gold
David Chen	6.5	Gold
David Li	6.5	Gold
Debarghya Das	6.5	Gold
Jad Khoury	6.5	Gold
Sadkrith Malladi	6.5	Gold
Trifon Megremis	6.5	Gold
Aaron Hyler	6.0	Silver
Aaron Kwan	6.0	Silver
Ade Arroyo	6.0	Silver
Anshul Shetty	6.0	Silver
Aryan Shrigadi	6.0	Silver
Blake Wall	6.0	Silver
Daniel Avila	6.0	Silver
Enkhjin Namuunbayar	6.0	Silver
Eric Gorokhovsky	6.0	Silver
Eric Shpigelskiy	6.0	Silver
Ian Guo	6.0	Silver
Jack Modica	6.0	Silver
Jacob Plotnick	6.0	Silver
Jake Wittman	6.0	Silver
Jakub Laczek	6.0	Silver
Jeremiah Esios	6.0	Silver
Jeyson Vasquez	6.0	Silver
Joseph Sokan	6.0	Silver
Joshua Wang	6.0	Silver
Kavin Bendre	6.0	Silver
Koji Lemke	6.0	Silver
Kolawole Dawodu	6.0	Silver
Matthew Simpson	6.0	Silver
Nimay Piparia	6.0	Silver
Palash Gupta	6.0	Silver
Reese Black	6.0	Silver
Salvio Benoy	6.0	Silver
Sedrik Punzalan	6.0	Silver
Soham Dongre	6.0	Silver
Sreekar Gangavarapu	6.0	Silver
Vikram Oberai	6.0	Silver
William DeAllaume	6.0	Silver
William Wang	6.0	Silver
William Wang	6.0	Silver
Yuvraj Chennareddy	6.0	Silver
Aayush Thakkar	5.5	Bronze
Aiden Petersen	5.5	Bronze
Ajani Sutherland	5.5	Bronze
Alex Lazarowicz	5.5	Bronze
Alex Palacios	5.5	Bronze
Andre Dzwiniel	5.5	Bronze
Andrew Radnaasuren	5.5	Bronze
Andy Cao	5.5	Bronze
Benjamin McKendall	5.5	Bronze
Brandon Adams	5.5	Bronze
Brandon Van	5.5	Bronze
Cole Harris	5.5	Bronze
David Yong	5.5	Bronze
Dominic Millar	5.5	Bronze
Drake Callear	5.5	Bronze
Gavin Snopko	5.5	Bronze
Geri Paray	5.5	Bronze
Immanuel Sanchez	5.5	Bronze
Immanuel Zerega	5.5	Bronze
Ivan Saldana	5.5	Bronze
Jack Flynn	5.5	Bronze
Jack Ramsey	5.5	Bronze
James Montella	5.5	Bronze
Johan Cervantes	5.5	Bronze
Josh Reece	5.5	Bronze
Josh Zhao	5.5	Bronze
Kaleb Ashworth	5.5	Bronze
Kenneth Murray	5.5	Bronze
Konrad Kremper	5.5	Bronze
Kushan Bonela	5.5	Bronze
Kyle Bresingham	5.5	Bronze
Lyndon Proby	5.5	Bronze
Manan Syal	5.5	Bronze
Nelson Cui	5.5	Bronze
Nemotillo Parpiev	5.5	Bronze
Nolan Deines	5.5	Bronze
Omar Soliman	5.5	Bronze
Pedro Garcia	5.5	Bronze
Peter O'Brien	5.5	Bronze
Pierce Wei	5.5	Bronze
Reilly Meeker	5.5	Bronze
Ria Raj	5.5	Bronze
Rishi Murali	5.5	Bronze
Ryan Morgan	5.5	Bronze
Sahil Sabzaali	5.5	Bronze
Samantha Arnold	5.5	Bronze
Sergio Gutierrez	5.5	Bronze
Somil Bose	5.5	Bronze
Thomas Frame	5.5	Bronze
William McCloskey	5.5	Bronze
Zaid Ghaffari	5.5	Bronze

Linked here is a complete cross-table for the event, courtesy of IHSA