US Chess Affairs/ 2015 Yearbook
OUR HERITAGE 2015 US CHESS YEARBOOK
For the most part, the information in this yearbook is current as of December 31, 2015. For the full version of the 2015 Yearbook, including contact information for US Chess delegates, please see
uschess.org. To notify US Chess of corrections or updates, please e-mail
akantor@uschess.org.
US CHESS ANNUAL MEETINGS, MEMBERSHIP NUMBERS, AND FUND BALANCES
U.S. Open
Year Business Meeting 2014 Orlando, Florida
2015 Phoenix, Arizona
Membership Fund (1)
80,814 84,274
Balance (2) 43,486.00
520,078.00
(1) Membership totals are given as of May 31. Totals exclude Junior Tournament Players and tournament members.
(2) Figures enclosed in parentheses are deficits. US CHESS PRESIDENTS & EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS
Presidents 2011-2015 Ruth Haring 2015-current Gary Walters
Executive Directors 2005-2013 Bill Hall 2013-current Jean Hoffman
NATIONAL CHAMPIONS
U.S. CHAMPIONSHIP 2014 Gata Kamsky
2015 Hikaru Nakamura ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI • APRIL 2015
U.S. OPEN 2014 Conrad Holt, Michael A. Mulyar, Giorgi Margvelashvili, Fidel Corrales Jimenez, Illia I. Nyzhnyk, Alexander Shabalov Alexander Shabalov
2015 PHOENIX, ARIZONA • AUGUST 2015
U.S. WOMEN’S CHAMPIONSHIP 2014 Irina Krush Irina Krush
2015 ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI • APRIL 2015
NATIONAL OPEN Edmondson Cup winner* 2014 Gata Kamsky
2015 Aleksey Dreev, Gata Kamsky, Illia Nyzhnyk,
Axel Bachmann LAS VEGAS, NEVADA • JUNE 2015
ARMED FORCES
(Individual* Team) 2014 Nicholas Oblak* Army Larry Larkins* Air Force
2015 FORT BELVOIR, VIRGINIA • OCTOBER 2015
U.S. SENIOR OPEN 2014 Walter Browne
2015 Alexander Ivanov SCHAUMBURG, ILLINOIS • JUNE 2015
U.S. CLASS 2014 M: Ioan Cristian Chirila; X: Gabriel James Bick, Trevor W. Showalter; A: Aniruddha Basak, Seaver Dahlgren; B: Kristian Clemens, Chenyi Zhao; C: Arsalan Jenab, Andy Cai, Alekhine Nouri; D: Ajay Chittimilla; E: Seth Michael Borgo M: Andrey Stukopin, Jeffery Xiong, Andrey
2015
Gorovets; X: Nicholas F. Matta; A: Jhonel Baldago Baniel; B: Nephtali T. Diaz; C: Andy Scott Hudson, Dylan Traber Kaye; D: Albert Rodriguez, Benjamin Hughes; E: Sasa Pocek; Unrated: Charles Adney Moore HOUSTON, TEXAS • NOVEMBER-2015
U.S. BLIND 2014 James J. Thoune
2015 Albert Pietrolungo PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA • OCTOBER 2015
U.S. GAME/10 2014 Alejandro Ramirez, Carlos Matamoros Illia I. Nyzhnyk
2015 LAS VEGAS, NEVADA • JUNE 2015
U.S. GAME/15 2014 Fidel Corrales Jimenez Aleksandr Lenderman
2015 PHOENIX, ARIZONA • AUGUST 2015
U.S. GAME/30 2014 Andrey Gorovets
2015 Ioan Cristian Chirila SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA • SEPTEMBER 2015
U.S. GAME/60 2014 Ioan Cristian Chirila, Andrey Gorovets, Enrico Sevillano Yaroslav Zherebukh
2015 SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA • SEPTEMBER 2015
U.S. AMATEUR CHAMPIONS 2014East: Sandi Hutama, Geoffrey Herman; South: Joey Michael Kelly; West: Xiexin Wang
2015 East: Michael Yen; South: Logan Wu; West: Bill A.
Richards MAY-JUNE 2015
U.S. AMATEUR TEAM 2014 East: Princeton University “A” (Michael Lee, Andrew Ng, Jason Altschuler, Darek Johnson); North: The Illini Samwich (Sam Schmakel, Eric Rosen, Michael Auger, Shreya B. Mangalam); South: Russians Never Retreat (Daniel Gurevich, Richard Francisco, Michael Corallo, Elena Gratskaya); West: NorCal House of Chess (Enrico Sevillano, Ricardo De Guzman, Ron Cusi, Shafieen Ibrahim); National Playoff Winner:Team West
2015 East: Virginia Assassins (James Schuyler, Andrew
Samuelson, Daniel I. Miller, Lucas Knoll); North: Pinoy of Chicago Revamp 2015 (Angelo Young, Eden Diano, Prash Amarasinghe, Phi Parker-Turner); South: Thad’s No Fun (Richard Francisco, Sanjay Ghatti, Frank Johnson, Grant Oen); West: NorCal House of Chess (Enrico Sevillano, Ricardo De Guzman, Ronald Cusi, Ronit Pattanayak, Evan Vallens); National Playoff Winner: Team West FEBRUARY 2015
ARNOLD DENKER TOURNAMENT OF
HIGH SCHOOL CHAMPIONS 2014 Christopher Gu
2015 Alexander Velikanov PHOENIX, ARIZONA • AUGUST 2015
U.S. GIRLS JUNIOR OPEN 2011 Alexandra Wiener 2012 Alexandra Wiener VANCOUVER, WASHINGTON • AUGUST 2012
NATIONAL GIRLS INVITATIONAL 2014 Jennifer R. Yu, Jessica Regam, Claudia E. Munoz Jennifer R. Yu, Anupama Rajendra, Veronika
2015
Zilajeva, Evan Xiang PHOENIX, ARIZONA • AUGUST 2015
DEWAIN BARBER K-8 CHAMPIONSHIP 2014 Advait Patel Advait Patel
2015 PHOENIX, ARIZONA • AUGUST 2015
SUSAN POLGAR NATIONAL INVITATIONAL FOR GIRLS 2014Kimberly Ding, Natasha Morales Santos, Neeshmy Nunez Gonzales
2015 Thalia Cervantes WEBSTER GROVES, MISSOURI • JULY 2015
U.S. JUNIOR INVITATIONAL 2014 Kayden W. Troff Akshat Chandra
2015 ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI • JULY 2015
NATIONAL ELEMENTARY 2014 K-6: Joseph Cheng-Yue Wang; K-5: Aydin Turgut; K- 3: Balaji Daggupati; K-1: Marvin Gao K-6: Andrew Zhang Hong; K-5: Tan D. Nguyen,
2015
Daniel Levkov, Winston Ni; K-3: Rithik Sai Polavaram; K-1: Alex Zhao NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE • MAY 2015
NATIONAL ELEMENTARY TEAM 2014 K-6: Gomes Elementary (CA); K-5: The Speyer Legacy School (NY); K-3:Mission San Jose Elementary (CA); K-1: P.S. 41 (NY)
2015 K-6:Mission San Jose Elementary (CA), I.S. 318 (NY);
K-5: The Speyer Legacy School (NY), P.S. 41 (NY); K-3: NEST+ m School (NY); K-1:The Speyer Legacy School (NY), Franklin Academy (FL) NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE • MAY 2015
NATIONAL JUNIOR CONGRESS 2014 6 & Under: Raphael R. Manahan; 8 & Under: Callaghan McCarty-Snead; 10 & Under: Anthony Ge; 12 & Under: Annie Wang; 14 & Under: Craig Hilby, Danial Asaria; 16 & Under: Albert Lu; 20 & Under: Daniel Nicholas Pascoe 6 & Under: Sriram Krishnakumar; 8 & Under:
2015
Ahyan Zaman; 10 & Under: Adam Vichik; 12 & Under: Christopher Woojin Yoo; 14 & Under:Milind Maiti, Jordan Jiao; 16 & Under: Pranav Nagarajan, Wen Yang Du; 18 & Under: Michael Lei Wang, Arvind Sankar; 20 & Under: Charles Tang SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA • JANUARY 2015
NATIONAL JUNIOR HIGH 2014 K-9: Vignesh Panchanatham, Andrew Liu; K-8: Advait Patel
2015 K-9: David Tianjian Peng; K-8: Marcus Ming
Miyasaka, Joey Michael Kelly, Brandon Nydick, Vishal Kobla, Truman Hoang, Zachary Chen Tanenbaum LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY • APRIL 2015
NATIONAL JUNIOR HIGH TEAM 2014K-9: Julia R. Masterman (PA); K-8: Canyon Vista Middle School (TX)
2015 K-9: I.S. 318 (NY); K-8: Collegiate School (NY) LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY • APRIL 2015
NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL 2014 Darwin Yang
2015 Akshat Chandra COLUMBUS, OHIO • APRIL 2015
NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL TEAM 2014 Catalina Foothills High School (AZ) Monta Vista High School (CA)
2015 COLUMBUS, OHIO • APRIL 2015
U.S. JUNIOR OPEN 2014 Under 21: Kesav Viswanadha; Under 15:Sam Lander Cabrera Capocyan; Under 11: Anh Nhu Nguyen; Under 8: Vedant Patil Under 21: Awonder Liang; Under 15: Anupama
2015
Shashikala Rajendra; Under 11:Daniel Andrew Perelman; Under 8: Sanjay Rajjan SCHAUMBURG, ILLINOIS • JUNE 2015
U.S. CADET 2014 Edward Song
2015 Cameron Wheeler ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND • JULY 2015
NATIONAL SCHOLASTIC K-12 2014 K: Erick Zhao; 1st: Jonathan Chen; 2nd: Nico Werner Chasin; 3rd: Chinguun Bayaraa; 4th: Cole Nicholas Frutos, Logan Wu; 5th: Alexander John Costello; 6th: Justin Paul; 7th: Nithin Kavi, Jacob Chen; 8th: Jack Richard Easton; 9th: John Gabriel Ludwig; 10th: Andrew Liu, Christopher Wu; 11th:
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