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Schmakel Takes 2nd at '14 High School Nationals in San Diego; Richards' Cabel Wins U1600; Marshall's Blankenship Tops U800
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- Written by Bill Feldman Bill Feldman
- Published: 10 April 2014 10 April 2014
942 players competed at the 2014 National High School Championship with several Illinois high schoolers coming home with hardware -- including two outright champions. Two Illinois players tied for second in their respective sections, two others tied for third.
The seven-round competition was conducted in San Diego, CA April 4-6. There were five K-12 sections divided by USCF rating, including 338 in the Open Section.
In the Open, Whitney Young's Sam Schmakel suffered a third-round loss to state-mate Nathan Kranjc, but won the rest of his matches to finish second with the top tiebreak at 6.0/7.
2014 K-8 Championships Team Results (2)
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- Written by Bill Feldman Bill Feldman
- Published: 31 March 2014 31 March 2014
The continuing saga of the 2014 K-8 Championships. This table shows team results. Additional write ups on this site cover individual awards. Top 4 scores contribute to the team total.
| Place | Grades K-1 | Place | Grades 2-3 |
| 1 |
Avery Coonley, Downers Grove, 16.5 (Alex Zhao, Jaden Fauske, Dylan Vijan, |
1 |
Avery Coonley, Downers Grove, 23.0 (Christian Turk, WIlliam Tan, Darsh Patel, |
| 2 |
Thomas Metcalf Lab, Normal, 16.0 [TB=89] (Nicholas Matejka, Max Wille, Addyson Thome, Cecilia Wille, Augie Rader) |
2 |
Colene Hoose, Normal, 20.0 (Jai Mahajan, Nathan Lee, Ayush Banerjee, Sreeansh Vakiti) |
| 3 |
Hickory Grove Elementary, Dunlap, 16.0 [TB=87.5] (Alex Fei, Joshua Wang, Stella Chen, Ethan Chen) |
3 |
Monroe Elementary, Hinsdale, 19.5 (David Zimmermann, William Tallard, Adam Dipasquale, Rohan Devulapally, William Kusak) |
| 4 |
Epiphany Catholic, Chicago, 16.0 [TB=86.0] (John Hunter, Will Manness, Matthew Hunter, Gavin Ebreo) |
4 |
Benjamin Elementary, Bloomington, 18.5 (Nicholas Bruha, Niroop Krishnakumar, |
| 5 |
Benamin Elementary, Bloomington, 15.5 [TB=90.0] (Pugazhendhi Saravanan, Rudhran Sathish, |
5 |
Thomas Metcalf Lab, Normal, 18.0 (Pierce McDade, Kale Rader, Peter Elzanati, |
| 6 |
Monroe School, Hinsdale, 15.5 [TB=87.0] (Harrison Huges, Lucy Kusak, Patrick Burke, Cameron Aucoin, Anthony Tiritilli) |
6 |
Indian Trail Elementary, Highland Park, 15.5 (Aron Amram, Cooper Evans, Elijah Davis, |
| 7 |
Avoca West, Glenview, 14.5 (David Sun, Daniel Skeels, Elliott Olcott, |
7 |
Avoca West, Glenview, 15.0 [TB=88.5] (Advait Vijay, Nathan Gelfgat, Tyler Chung, Benjamin Taylor) |
| 8 |
Laura Sprague, Lincolnshire, 10.5 (Nikhil Gangavarapu and Dhruv Malladi) |
8 |
Dewey Elementary, Evanston, 15.0 [TB=81.0] (Rohil Bose, Ethan Brush, Riley Dombeck, John Bezaitis, Conor Ebeling, Matthew Clemson) |
| 9 |
Colene Hoose, Normal, 9.5 (Seth Parent, Anirudh Venkatesh, |
9 |
Lincoln Elementary, Evanston, 14.5 [TB=85.5] (Ruairi Stephens, Ariel Kite, Wyatt Campbell, |
| 10 |
Next Generation, Champaign, 9.0 (Bruce Tang and David Yong) |
10 |
Romona, Wilmette, 14.5 [TB=78.5] (Ethan Fogel, Caden Liu, Larry Gao, |
| 45 Schools, 12 with scores > 7.0 | 87 schools, 27 with scores > 7.0 | ||
| Place | Grades 4-5 | Place | Grades 6-8 |
| 1 |
Highcrest Middle, Wilmette, 20.5 (Michael Geohas, Pavan Sureshkumar, |
1 |
Dunlap Middle School, Dunlap (Peoria), 21.0 (Andrew Fei, Maxwell Jong, Yilang Li, Patrick Li) |
| 2 |
Decatur Classical, Chicago, 20.0 (Joseph Buklis, Aria Hoesley, Adam Pastor, |
2 |
George Evans Jr High, Bloomington, 19.0 (Ishaar Ganesan, Rithvik Musuku, Balaji Iyengar, Shanku Nair) |
| 3 |
Skinner North Classical, Chicago, 19.5 [TB=102.5] (Jonah Karafiol, Ryan Wong, Matthew Li, Nathaniel Wells) |
3 |
Chiddix Jr High, Normal, 17.5 (Cassie Parent, Vishnu Anagani, Nikhil Madugula, Abhiru Raut) |
| 4 |
Dr. Howard, Champaign, 19.5 [TB=96] (Nathan Chang, Alexander Hsia, Shashank Hirani, Mayank Hirani) |
4 |
Goudy School, Chicago, 16.5 (Ahn Le, Raman Manandhar, Vicky Liang, |
| 5 |
Benjamin Elementary, Bloomington, 19.0 (Advaith Prabu, Arnav Siriam, Foster Baird, Nishant Bhamidipati) |
5 |
Nichols Middle, Evanston, 16.0 (Julian O'Carroll, Simon Lequar, Oliver Brady, Adrian Wilburn, Thomas Sevcik, Thomas Stepens) |
| 6 |
Avery Coonley, Downers Grove, 18.5 (Alexander Turk, Aayan Patel, Ojas Vasisht, Benjamin Broach) |
6 |
Clarendon Hills Middle, Clarendon Hills, 15.5 (Zamaan Qureshi, Daniel Leung, Jack Galassi, Trevor Tompkins) |
| 7 |
Colene Hoose, Normal, 18.0 (Pranav Venkatesh, Marcus Lee, Amanda Carlson, Kyra Rivera) |
7 |
Lincoln Jr High, Naperville, 15.0 [TB=82.5] (Ritesh Sivakumar, Michah Hill, Matthew Blanton, Carson Rupp, Rohan Thiruthuvadoss) |
| 8 |
Lincoln Elementary, Wheaton, 15.5 (Owen Haas, Milan Lazarevic, Nikolai Lazarevic, Benjamin Myung) |
8 |
Gower Middle, Burr Ridge, 15.0 [TB=79.5] (David Chu, Riya Chadha, Matthew Tang, |
| 9 |
Prairieland, Normal, 15.0 (Jacob Davis, Nicholas Husarik, Merrick Bane, Jacob Bullock) |
9 |
Wheaton Christian, Wheaton, 14.5 [TB=94.0] (Seth Wyma, Nicholas Salahi, Caleb Rathbun, Graham Wall, Nathan Salahi, John Nelson, Alexander Doyle) |
| 10 |
Monroe School, Hinsdale, 14.5 (Vinny Galassi, Thomas Kusak, Matthew Hughes, Ava Marginean) |
10 |
Parkside Jr High, Normal, 14.5 [TB=86.0] (Clayton Davis, Alex Smith, Michael Maxfield, Sawyer Price) |
| 93 Schools, 32 with scores > 7.0 | 76 schools, 23 with scores > 7.0 | ||
| Of 40 placing schools, 12 from Bloomington-Normal, 11 from Western Suburbs, 9 from Northern Suburbs, 2 from Champaign, 2 from Dunlap (Peoria area), and 4 from Chicago. |
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2014 K-8 Championships Team Results
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- Written by Bill Feldman Bill Feldman
- Published: 31 March 2014 31 March 2014
The continuing saga of the 2014 K-8 Championships. This table shows team results. Additional write ups on this site cover individual awards.
| Place | Grades K-1 | Place | Grades 2-3 |
| 1 | Avery Coonley, 16.5 | 1 | Avery Coonley, 23.0 |
| 2 | Thomas Metcalf Lab, 16.0 [TB=89] | 2 | Colene Hoose, 20.0 |
| 3 | Hickory Grove Elementary, 16.0 [TB=87.5] | 3 | Monroe Elementary, 19.5 |
| 4 | Epiphany Catholic, 16.0 [TB=86.0] | 4 | Benjamin Elementary, 18.5 |
| 5 | Benamin Elementary, 15.5 [TB=90.0] | 5 | Thomas Metcalf, 18.0 |
| 6 | Monroe School, 15.5 [TB=87.0] | 6 | Indian Trail Elementary, 15.5 |
| 7 | Avoca West, 14.5 | 7 | Avoca West, 15.0 [TB=88.5] |
| 8 | Laura Sprague, 10.5 | 8 | Dewey Elementary, 15.0 [TB=81.0] |
| 9 | Colene Hoose, 9.5 | 9 | Lincoln Elementary, 14.5 [TB=85.5] |
| 10 | Next Generation, 9.0 | 10 | Romona, 14.5 [TB=78.5] |
| 45 Schools, 12 with scores > 7.0 | 87 schools, 27 with scores > 7.0 | ||
| Place | Grades 4-5 | Place | Grades 6-8 |
| 1 | Highcrest Middle (Wilmette), 20.5 | 1 | Dunlap Middle School, 21.0 |
| 2 | Decatur Classical (Chicago), 20.0 | 2 | George Evans Jr High, 19.0 |
| 3 | Skinner North Classical (Chicago), 19.5 [TB=102.5] | 3 | Chiddix Jr High, 17.5 |
| 4 | Dr. Howard (Champaign), 19.5 [TB=96] | 4 | Goudy School (Chicago), 16.5 |
| 5 | Benjamin Elementary, 19.0 | 5 | Nichols Middle, 16.0 |
| 6 | Avery Coonley, 18.5 | 6 | Clarendon Hills Middle, 15.5 |
| 7 | Colene Hoose, 18.0 | 7 | Lincoln Jr High, 15.0 [TB=82.5] |
| 8 | Lincoln Elementary, 15.5 | 8 | Gower Middle, 15.0 [TB=79.5] |
| 9 | Prairieland, 15.0 | 9 | Wheaton Christian, 14.5 [TB=94.0] |
| 10 | Monroe School, 14.5 | 10 | Parkside Jr High, 14.5 [TB=86.0] |
| 93 Schools, 32 with scores > 7.0 | 76 schools, 23 with scores > 7.0 |
2014 K-8 Grade-Level and Rating-Based Individual Awards
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- Written by Bill Feldman Bill Feldman
- Published: 31 March 2014 31 March 2014
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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- Written by Bill Feldman Bill Feldman
- Published: 24 March 2014 24 March 2014
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.