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DECEMBER CRUSH 2019
Eighty-eight players met at the 4-H Center in Collegeville, PA for the last Shining Knights
tournament of the year. All four sections were hard fought with few perfect results. The
results are posted on the US Chess website at -
http://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMain.php?201912147862.0-16427183 (results are not in tie
break order so your child may have finished third but be listed as sixth.) The next Shining
Knights event will be in late February. Happy Holidays everyone!
Here are the top players per section:
K-6 U200 Individual: Top Teams: Kutz Elementary
St. Phillip Neri Elementary
1 Eliot Weber
2 Paul McLaughlin
3 Dimitris Kesisoglou
4 Chetan Nallapaneni
5 Ben Seeger
6 Prateek Menon
K-6 U500 Individual: Top Teams: Valley Forge Middle School
1 Albert Wang Exton Elementary
2 Saharsh Hulage
3 Siddhartha Alluri
4 Han Sam Kim
5 Haasya Putumbaka
6 Vahini Sadhu Venkata
K-12 U800 Individual: Top Teams: Wallingford Elementary
1 Jude Torrens Spring-Ford Intermediate
2 Shadi Harb
3 Clark Kerkstra
4 William Isaac Aronstam
5 Jacob Robert Walters
6 Shrey Hulage
K-12 Championship Individual: Top Team: Lionville Middle School
1 Ilya Galushkin
2 Dylan Liu
3 Tanay Parripati
4 Varsha Sudarshan Iyengar
The QUEEN'S HARVEST 2019
Here are the top players per section:K-6 U200 Individual: Top Teams: Mill Creek ElementaryDevon Elementary1 OWEN LIU2 Hardik Talwar3 LUCIUS FRIBORG4 COLIN LU5 HUDSON GENTZEL6 ANJANA SAKTHIKUMAR
K-6 U500 Individual: Top Teams: Valley Forge Elementary
1 JACK ALBERT CHEN East Ward Elementary2 AZIM AHMAD JULKIPLI3 BENJAMIN FELTMAN4 BEDIRHAN SADE5 COLIN MICH VARANO6 LUCAS CAOKudos to medalist AVANEESH RAMAMURTHY
K-12 U800 Individual: Top Teams: Welsh Valley Middle School
1 RUOMING AI Beaumont Elementary2 SHENGHAO YUAN3 ANTON LALWANI4 DHRUV MENON5 GRETCHEN LUTZ6 ATHARV NUNEMUNTHALAhooray to RONAN MURPHY and JAKE ANTON!
K-12 Championship Individual: Top Team: Welsh Valley Middle School
1 AARON LUTZ2 PETER WI GOLDBERG3 ILYA GALUSHKIN4 JUSTIN DEROSA
2019 AUTUMN KNIGHT
Here are the top players per section:K-6 U200 Individual:Top Teams: Hillendale Elementary and South Elementary coming in 2nd1 DYLAN YIN2 SHATAKSHI RAGALA3 AAKASH RAMESH4 GABRIEL MATTHEWS5 ETHAN WANG6 MYRA RALHANhonorable mention to RONAN DALY with 3 points
K-6 U500 Individual: Top Teams: Valley Forge Middle School
followed by Gladwynne Montessori
1 ANDREW YOON2 PRATIK FERNANDES3 RACHEL DAVIES4 RYAN MCDERMOTT5 ISHAN VERMA6 SEJAL GARG
K-12 U800 Individual: Top Teams: Colonial Middle School
followed by Spring Ford Intermediate
1 ILYA GALUSHKIN2 ANDREW YU3 TRAVIS JOHNSON4 NIDHI NAGUMALLA5 EFRAIN ORTIZkudos to ANTON LALWANI, ALEX W BABKA and ARNAV KANDIKONDA
K-12 Championship Individual:
Top Team: Penn Wynne Elementary
1 TIMOTHY HAN2 DEV MENO MADHAVAN3 MATTHEW YOON4 ABHIRAM VADIGURI
SPRING FINALE 2019!
90 children competed in the 2019 Shining Knights Spring Finale on another beautiful day. There were magnificent battles on the chess grounds in Collegeville, with bishops and knights weaving through the kingdoms of their opponents. Thank you to the parents and coaches who brought good sportsmanship to the front.
Here are the top players per section:
K-6 U500 Individual: Top Teams: Lower Gwyned
K-12 U800 Individual: Top Teams: KD Markley
1 DEV MENON MADHAVAN with New Eagle in second
2 AUSTIN LI
3 ALEX W BABKA
K-12 Championship Individual:
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2019 CHESS PIECES OF APRIL
Here are the top players per section:K-6 U200 Individual:Top Teams: Gladwyne Elementary followed by 1 AMIR AHSAN Our Lady of Mt Caramel2 FREDERIC PHELIZON3 Nicholas Lalwani4 HENRY FREEBODY5 Niko Snee-Garza6 Reid Blarneyand special props to 3 pointers Jaidon Horvath, Victor Pan, Oliver Kosmalski and PRATIRP MALVANKAR
K-6 U500 Individual: Top Teams: Skyview followed by Lower Gwyned
1 Luke Navarrete2 Ryan Sensen Brenn3 Advaith Elluru4 Owen Rutt5 RYAN DING6 Brian Hsiehand kudos to Faye Fei Mo and EDWIN VUONG
K-12 U800 Individual: Top Teams: Colonial and then Skyview in 2nd
1 Anderson Chan2 Jake Anton3 Kasyap Tumuluri4 Alex W Babka5 Rhea Sofia Howard6 Austin Linice job Josiah Tjoe and Kathan Desai
K-12 Championship Individual:
1 Vasishta TumuluriTop Team: Pickering Valley
2 Max Kikkawa3 Brian Li4 John M Curetonwith special props to medalist Yajat GuptaIn case you missed it...
Nakamura and Yu are 2019 U.S. Champs |
By John Hartmann|April 1, 2019|News, Top American Players, Women It took two weeks, eleven rounds, and a heavy dose of final day drama, but US Chess now has its 2019 Champions: Hikaru Nakamura and Jennifer Yu. Yu was effectively crowned after the tenth round, when no one else could catch the 17-year old from Virginia. Hikaru Nakamura had to wait until the very last game was decided in the Open Championship to claim his title. His victory over Jeffery Xiong coupled with draws by co-leaders Fabiano Caruana (against Sam Shankland) and Leinier Dominguez (against Timur Gareyev), gave Nakamura his fifth U.S. Championship. |
PA STATE WARM-UP 2019

Here are the top players per section:K-6 U200 Individual:Top Teams: Germantown Academy & 2nd Cynwyd Elem 1 ANOUSHKA YADAV2 JACK BARTON3 JOSHUA TJOE4 ALBERT WANG5 WARREN SHI6 CARLY RUTTwith special props to Edwin Vuong with 3 points.
K-6 U500 Individual: Top Teams: Skyview followed by Ithan
1 ANDREW YU2 BENAS ANTANAVICIUS3 AVANEE RAMAMURTHY4 OWEN BLAMEY5 ALEXANDER HA RUSS6 TANAY PARRIPATIand a shout out to 3 pointers OWEN RUTT, ANDREW GUTHRIE and SANJITHA KRISHNAN
K-12 U800 Individual: Top Teams: Pickering and then Spring Ford
1 CONNOR VITZ
2 ETHAN WANG3 SHREY HULAGE4 SIDDH PRABHUDESAI5 DEV MENO MADHAVANand good job to TRAVIS JOHNSON with 3 points
K-12 Championship Individual:
Top Team: Lionville
1 SIDDHANT SURESH2 ANIRUDH RED AKULA3 YAJAT GUPTA4 BENJAMIN YANGwith kudos to ABHIRAM VADIGURI and SOMIL TARE who earned 3 points
With less than a few weeks from spring let the unpredictable but cold weather inspire ever developing chess minds.