With three wins and a couple byes, 7-year old Dimitar Mardov won the Naperville Scholastic Championship held April 2. 79 competed in four sections.

Dimitar defeated Sam Fayn in the final round to secure the championship. Sam, in turn finished in a tie for second place with Pradeep Senthil, both with 4.0 points. Tiebreak information was not available at press time.

Umair Ahmed won the Under 1000 with a 4.5 score. Layla Rodriguez and Felipe Garcia tied for second with 4.0's. Umair defeated Layla in the third round and Felipe in the second of five rounds. This looks to be Umair's last U1000; he raised his rating 142 points to 1105.

Shea Smith and Jana Zivanovic tied for the U8000 top score with 4.5's. The two drew head-to-head in the third round.

Rahul Rajeshkumar took third place with 4.0.

Shea's rating went up 154 points to 887 while Jana's climbed 250 points to 805. Rahul also saw his rating jump 203 points to 744.

In Under 500 competition, Li Justin posted the only perfect 5.0/5 score in the entire tournament, raising his rating 239 points. A three-way tie for second place at 4.0/5 included Advaith Kodipparambil, Aaron Andino, and Kyran Siddiqui.

Before the main event began -- and overlapping it -- five of the players participated in an international online tournament with comeptitors from China (2 teams), Russia (3 teams), France and Germany. The Illinois players came in fourth out of eight teams and the overlap with the local event meant that some players were given two byes.

The event featured an appearance by chess legend Anatoly Karpov who has licensed his name to the Naperville-based academy.