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2014 K-8 Grade-Level and Rating-Based Individual Awards
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Another in a continuing series documenting the awards from the 2014 K-8.
Grade-Level and "Under" Prizes are awarded after the Top 25 Trophies within each section.
See companion piece elsewhere on this site for the Top 25 winners.
| Grades K-1 Section | Grades 2-3 Section | |||||||
| Grade-based Awards | ||||||||
| Kindergarten | Second Grade | |||||||
| 1st | Christopher McCaleb | Hudson (BN) | 4.0 | 1st | Austin McMurtrie | Hinckley | 5.0 | |
| 2nd | Shrutodhee Goswami | Glenn (BN) | 4.0 | 2nd | William Tallard | Monroe | 5.0 | |
| First Grade | Third Grade | |||||||
| 1st | David Sun | Avoca West | 4.0 | 1st | Anusha Nadkarni | Washington (BN) | 5.0 | |
| 2nd | Jaden Fauske | Avery Coonley | 4.0 | 2nd | Anton Schuster | Latin School (Chicago) | 5.0 | |
| Awards By Pre-Tournament Rating | ||||||||
| 500-699 Range | 600-799 Range | |||||||
| 1st | Alex Daniels | Grove (BN) | 4.0 | 1st | Nicholas Ladan | Glen Grove | 5.0 | |
| 2nd | Anirudh Venkatesh | Coleene Hoose (BN) | 4.0 | 2nd | Kale Rader | Metcalf Lab (BN) | 5.0 | |
| 300-499 Range | 400-599 Range | |||||||
| 1st | Daniel Skeels | Avoca West | 4.0 | 1st | Edward Wang | Burr Ridge | 5.0 | |
| 2nd | Joshua Wang | Hickory Grove (Dunlap) | 4.0 | 2nd | Rohil Bose | Dewey (Evanston) | 5.0 | |
| Under 300 | Under 400 | |||||||
| 1st | Sanjay Rajjan | Omaha, NE | 4.0 | 1st | Ethan Fogel | Glenview | 4.5 | |
| 2nd | Elliott Olcott | Avoca West | 3.5 | 2nd | Ruairi Stephens | Lincoln (Evanston) | 4.5 | |
| Grades 4-5 Section | Grades 6-8 Section | |||||||
| Grade-based Awards | ||||||||
| Fourth Grade | Sixth Grade | |||||||
| 1st | Aria Hoesley | Decatur (Chicago) | 5.0 | 1st | Vishnu Anagani | Chiddix Jr (BN) | 5.0 | |
| 2nd | Raghav Mukundan | Washington (BN) | 5.0 | 2nd | Rithvik Musuku | Evans Jr (BN) | 5.0 | |
| Fifth Grade | Seventh Grade | |||||||
| 1st | Alex Yasumoto | Highcrest (Wilmette) | 5.0 | 1st | Vikram Dara | Scullen Middle | 5.0 | |
| 2nd | Kevin Ho | Ranchview (Naperville) | 5.0 | 2nd | Akhil Kalghatgi | Chicago | 4.5 | |
| Eighth Grade | ||||||||
| 1st | Nathan Saltzman | Hinsdale Middle | 5.0 | |||||
| 2nd | Seth Wyma | Wheaton Christian | 4.5 | |||||
| Awards By Pre-Tournament Rating | ||||||||
| 700-899 Range | 800-999 Range | |||||||
| 1st | Owen Haas | Lincoln (Wheaton) | 4.5 | 1st | David Chu | Gower | 4.5 | |
| 2nd | Sai Mulam | Glenn (BN) | 4.5 | 2nd | William Richards | Franklin Middle | 4.5 | |
| 500-699 Range | 600-799 Range | |||||||
| 1st | Mayank Hirani | Dr. Howard (CU) | 4.5 | 1st | Raman Manandhar | Goudy (Chicago) | 4.0 | |
| 2nd | Nicholas Husarik | Prairieland (BN) | 4.0 | 2nd | Simon Evans | St Johns Lutheran | 4.0 | |
| Under 500 | Under 600 | |||||||
| 1st | Colin Goldberg | Solomon Schecter | 4.0 | 1st | Perry Hoag | Parker (Flossmoor) | 3.5 | |
| 2nd | Nikolai Lazarvic | Lincoln (Wheaton) | 4.0 | 2nd | Luke Meyer | King Lab (Evanston) | 3.0 | |
Please be advised that a few individual prizes were awarded erroneously at the formal awards ceremony, but the above chart represents the confirmed winners' list. If your name is listed and you did not receive a trophy, please contact the author of this write up at editor at il-chess dot org.
Additional Results: 2014 K-8 Championships
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Work in Progress: Top 25 Trophy Winners for Each Section
| Place | Grades K-1 | Grades 2-3 | Grades 4-5 | Grades 6-8 | Place |
| 1 | Vrishank Ramnath (7.0) | James Zhang (6.5) | Shreya Mangalam (7.0) | Jack Curcio (6.5) | 1 |
| 2 | Dimitar Mardov (6.0) | Patrick Rao (6.0) | Joseph Buklis (6.5) | Matthew Stevens (6.5) | 2 |
| 3 | Arthur Zihan Xu (6.0) | Pierce McDade (6.0) | Advaith Prabu (6.0) | Nikhil Kalghatgi (6.0) | 3 |
| 4 | Alex Zhao (5.5) | David Zimmermann (6.0) | Jason Daniels (6.0) | Marissa Li (6.0) | 4 |
| 5 | William Cahill (5.5) | Jai Mahajan (6.0) | Aidan Carey (6.0) | Vincent Do (5.5) | 5 |
| 6 | John Bielobradek (5.5) | Christian Turk (6.0) | Edward Zhang (6.0) | Jacob Furfine (5.5) | 6 |
| 7 | Ethan Ding (5.5) | William Tan (6.0) | Jonah Karafiol (6.0) | Stefan Musikic (5.5) | 7 |
| 8 | Nikhil Gangavarapu (5.5) | Peter Zheng (6.0) | Ricky Wang (5.5) | Miranda Liu (5.5) | 8 |
| 9 | Alex Fei (5.0) | Darsh Patel (6.0) | Aaron Gan (5.5) | Andrew Yueyang Fei (5.5) | 9 |
| 10 | Pugazhendhi Saravanan (5.0) | Junliang Liu (5.5) | Emmett Madigan (5.5) | Maxwell Jong (5.5) | 10 |
| 11 | Dhruv Malladi (5.0) | Elijah Platnick (5.5) | Ryan Wong (5.5) | Yiliang Li (5.5) | 11 |
| 12 | Bruce Tang (5.0) | Bryson Turner (5.5) | Brian Gong (5.5) | Martin Stukan (5.5) | 12 |
| 13 | Beck Hansen (5.0) | Ignac Bielobradek (5.5) | Nathan Chang (5.5) | Shayna Provine (5.5) | 13 |
| 14 | Nicolas Matejka (5.0) | Spencer Vincent (5.0) | Alexander Turk (5.5) | Nicholas Bartochowski (5.0) | 14 |
| 15 | Zalan Gyorgy (5.0) | Jayant Maheshwari (5.0) | Michael Geohas (5.5) | Jack Thain (5.0) | 15 |
| 16 | John Hunter (5.0) | Tuoyu Toby Yang (5.0) | David Wallach (5.0) | Kavin Lavari (5.0) | 16 |
| 17 | Shridhar Mehendale (5.0) | Nicholas Bruha (5.0) | Alan Linghao Wang (5.0) | Ishaar Ganesan (5.0) | 17 |
| 18 | Harrison Hughes (5.0) | Sohan Anup Bendre (5.0) | Pranav Venkatesh (5.0) | Ritesh Sivakumar (5.0) | 18 |
| 19 | Avi Harrison Kaplan (4.5) | Emmanuel Antony (5.0) | Daniel Zhang (5.0) | Julian O'Carroll (5.0) | 19 |
| 20 | Jacob Priegnitz (4.5) | Lucas Staniszewski (5.0) | Arnold Lei Ogerio (5.0) | Jeff Bikus (5.0) | 20 |
| 21 | John O'Carroll (4.5) | Niroop Krishnakumar (5.0) | Jack Bradley (5.0) | Sawyer Harris (5.0) | 21 |
| 22 | Vikram Oberai (4.5) | John Hines-shah (5.0) | Jonas Vriend (5.0) | Shashank Bala (5.0) | 22 |
| 23 | Maximilian Wille (4.5) | Ben Finkelshteyn (5.0) | Brenden Gran (5.0) | Prithiv Kumar (5.0) | 23 |
| 24 | Addyson Thome (4.5) | Kevin Yuvaraj (5.0) | Pavan Sureshkumar (5.0) | Cassie Parent (5.0) | 24 |
| 25 | Seth Parent (4.0) | Christopher Von Hoff (5.0) | David Wang (5.0) | Georgia R. Wolf (5.0) | 25 |
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See companion story elsewhere on this site for Grade-Level and Rating-based "Under" prizes.
Illinois Youth in USCF Top 100 -- March 2014
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February is popular in Illinois lore as the month of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, one half the dynamic duo which prompted our modern “Presidents Day”. Considering the 16th president wasn’t even born in the Prairie State, perhaps we might expand the birthdays we honor in the second calendar month. Look no further than the 11 Illinois Youth in the top 100 who observed birthdays last month.
Vincent Do, Jonathan Tan, Spencer Lehmann, Gavin McClanahan, Penny Xu, Eli Goering, Joe Fennessey, Duncan Shepherd, Zhaozhi Li and Anshul Adve all have transitioned to the next age group for purposes of the USCF monthly top 100. Happy birthday to you all!
Alas, a February birthday also means that long-time list member, Expert (aka Candidate Master) Robert Moskwa, has aged out of the report after turning 19.
March 2014 Lists Can Be Viewed Here.
2014 K-8: Mangalam, J. Zhang, Ramnath Claim Clear Titles; Curcio and Stevens Share Grades 6-8 Championship
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With the largest field in six years, the Illinois K-8 Championships crowned outright winners in three sections.
With perfect 7.0/7 scores, Shreya Mangalam took Grades 4-5 and Vrishank Ramnath won the Grades K-1 group. James Zhang topped the Grades 2-3 section with a 6.5/7 tally.
Also with 6.5 scores, Jack Curcio and Matthew Stevens earned the Grades 6-8 co-championship with Jack taking the first-place trophy on tiebreak points.
Event crosstables can be reviewed here.
684 players competed in the March 15-16 event held at the Hyatt Regency Schaumburg. Glenn Panner of Chess Weekend served as the chief organizer, with Sevan Muradian as Chief TD and Wayne Clark in the role of Chief Floor Director. Muradian's ChessIQ donated the iPad mini's which were awarded to the four section winners.
Schmakel, Peng, Liu to Represent Illinois in Orlando
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A field of 25 of Illinois' best and brightest young chess players competed February 28 to March 2 in a trio of invitational tournaments to decide the state's representatives to prestigious national competitions.
The Barber, Denker and Girls Championships will be held preceding the US Open in Orlando in late July. The qualifying event was hosted by Chess IQ in Skokie and was officiated by Sevan Muridian. Event crosstables can be reviewed here.
10-year old David Peng will represent the Land of Lincoln in the pre-high school Barber competition after running the field, 5.0/5 in the Qualifier. George Li was the runner up.
Senior Sam Schmakel needed a tiebreak to earn his invitation to the national Denker for high schoolers, after both he and Max Zinski compiled 3.5/5 tallies.