US Chess Affairs/ 2015 Yearbook
Joshua Colas; 12th: Samir Sen, Nicholas Eduard Desmarais K:Aren C. Emrikian, Oliver Boydell, Caleb Staples
2015
Marshall, James Frasca; 1st:Varun Gadi, Erick Zhao; 2nd: Jonathan Chen; 3rd: Nico Werner Chasin; 4th: Maximillian Lu; 5th: Sumit Dhar; 6th:Wesley Wang; 7th: Vincent Jingwei Baker; 8th: Danial Asaria; 9th: Truman Hoang, Runya Xu, Albert Lu; 10th: John Gabriel Ludwig; 11th: Xiexin Wang; 12th: Justus D. Williams, Aaron Grabinsky ORLANDO, FLORIDA • DECEMBER 2015
NATIONAL SCHOLASTIC K-12 TEAM 2014 K: Kimball Wiles Elementary (FL); 1st: Dalton (NY); 2nd: P.S. 41 (NY); 3rd: Dalton (NY); 4th: Dalton (NY); 5th: The Speyer Legacy School (NY); 6th:The Speyer Legacy School (NY); 7th: I.S. 318 (NY); 8th: I.S. 318 (NY); 9th: Edgemont High School (NY); 10th:NEST+m School (NY); 11th: Stuyvesant HS (NY); 12th: Benet Academy (IL) K: Oak Hall (FL); 1st: P.S. 77—Lower Lab School
2015
(NY); 2nd: Oak Hall (FL); 3rd: P.S. 41 (NY); 4th:Dalton (NY); 5th:P.S. 33—Chelsea Prep (NY); 6th: Jericho Middle School (NY); 7th: I.S. 318 (NY); 8th: I.S. 318 (NY); 9th: Whitney Young High School (IL); 10th: Stuyvesant HS (NY); 11th: Redmond High School (WA); 12th: Stuyvesant HS (NY) ORLANDO, FLORIDA • DECEMBER 2015
AMERICAN CLASSICS
AMERICAN OPEN 2014 Timur Gareev
2015 Varuzhan Akobian, Dionisio Aldama ORANGE, CALIFORNIA • NOVEMBER 2015
LINA GRUMETTE MEMORIAL CLASSIC 2014 Michael Brown
2015 Joshua Sheng, Ilia Serpik ONTARIO, CALIFORNIA • MAY 2015
WORLD OPEN 2014 Ilya Smirin, Illia I. Nyzhnyk, Conrad Holt Ilya Smirin, Aleksandr Lenderman, Illia I.
2015
Nyzhnyk, Rauf Mamedov, Alexander Ipatov, Romain Edouard, Ehsan Ghaemmaghami, Axel Bachmann ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA • JUNE-JULY 2015
NORTH AMERICAN OPEN 2014Wesley So
2015 Alexey Dreev, Gata Kamsky, Eylon Nakar LAS VEGAS, NEVADA • DECEMBER 2015
PAN-AM CHAMPIONSHIPS
PAN-AM INTERCOLLEGIATE INDIVIDUAL 2014 Ashwin Jayaram
2015 Ray Robson, Manuel Leon Hoyos CLEVELAND, OHIO • DECEMBER 2015
PAN-AM INTERCOLLEGIATE TEAM 2014Webster University A Texas Tech-A, University of Texas Rio Grande
2015
Valley-A, Webster University-B, Columbia University-A CLEVELAND, OHIO • DECEMBER 2015
AMERICAN WORLD CHAMPIONS
WORLD SENIOR 2008Larry Kaufman BAD ZWISCHENAHN, GERMANY • OCTOBER 2008
CORRESPONDENCE CHESS
U.S. CORRESPONDENCE CHAMPIONS 2007-2009 Thomas Biedermann, Lawrence Coplin 2010 Edward Duliba 2011 John Ballow 2013 Wolf Morrow, Carl Siefring
GOLDEN KNIGHTS CHAMPIONS 2001 John Burton 2002 Chuck Cullum 2003 John Burton 2004 Chuck Cullum 2005 Abe Wilson 2006 Michael Buss, James Tracz 2007 Daniel Woodard 2008 James Rhodes
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USCF ABSOLUTE CHAMPIONS 2007 Edward Duliba 2008 Ciaran O’Hare 2009 Dave Sogin, Gary Walters 2010 Harry Ingersol 2011 John Menke 2012 John Menke 2013 Wilbur Tseng 2014 Tony Kain
ELECTRONIC KNIGHTS CHAMPION 2005 Gilmore Hoefdraad 2006 Cesar Blanco 2007 James Sawaski 2008 Wilbur Tseng 2009 Wilbur Tseng 2010 Stephen McGregor 2011 Tim Corkum 2012 Anthony Kain
INTERNATIONAL TITLISTS
FIDE awards titles for outstanding achievement in three areas of chess competition: Over-the-board play, correspondence play, and composition.
GRANDMASTERS Varuzhan Akobian • Lev O. Alburt • Babakuli Annakov • Marc T. Arnold • Maurice Ashley • Julio Becerra Rivero • Joel Benjamin • Pal C. Benko • Vinay S. Bhat • Arthur B. Bisguier • Peter Biyiasas • Fabiano Caruana • Larry M. Christiansen • Fidel Corrales Jimenez • Nick E. de Firmian • Maxim Dlugy • Roman Dzind zichashvili • Jaan Ehlvest • Sergey Erenburg • John P. Fedorowicz • Benjamin Finegold • Alexander Fishbein • Joshua E. Friedel • Timur Gareyev • Alexander Goldin • Renier Gonzalez • Boris F. Gulko • Dmitry Gurevich • Ilya Gurevich • Ron W. Henley • Holden Hernandez Carmenate • Robert L. Hess • Conrad Holt • Robert Andrew Hungaski • Alexander Ivanov • Zviad Izoria • Gregory S. Kaidanov • Gata Kamsky • Larry C. Kaufman • Lubomir Kavalek • Melikset Khachiyan • Jesse Kraai • Boris Kreiman • Irina Krush • Sergey Kudrin • Anatoly Lein • Aleksandr Lenderman • William J. Lombardy • Mackenzie Molner • Hikaru Nakamura • Daniel Naroditsky • Igor A. Novikov • Alexander Onischuk • Semon Palatnik • Eugene Perelshteyn • Zsuzsa Polgar • Alejandro Ramirez • Ray Robson • Kenneth S. Rogoff • Michael A. Rohde • Gennadij Sagalchik • Gabriel Schwartzman • Yasser Seirawan • Grigory Serper • Samuel Sevian • Enrico Sevillano • Alexander Shabalov • Tal Shaked • Samuel L. Shankland • Miron N. Sher • Alex Sherzer • Yury Shulman • Bryan G. Smith • Wesley So • Andrew E. Soltis • Alexander Stripunsky • James E. Tarjan • Kayden W. Troff • Michael Wilder • Patrick G. Wolff • Jeffery Xiong • Alex Yermolinsky • Gennadi Zaichik • Yaroslav Zherebukh • Raset Ziatdinov
INTERNATIONAL MASTERS Viktor Adler • Levon Altounian • Armen Ambartsoumian • Nilton Arias • Thomas Bartell • John Bartholomew • Leonid Bass • Alexander Battey • Mikhail Baturyn • Salvijus Bercys • Calvin Blocker • Andrei Blokhin • Michael H. Bodek • Jay R. Bonin • Safal Bora • Joseph M. Bradford • Michael A. Brooks • John Daniel Bryant • Ronald Burnett • Omar Cartagena • Akshat Chandra • Teddy Coleman • Kim S. Commons • Richard Costigan • Kong Liang Deng • John W. Donaldson • Daniel Edelman • Tegshsuren Enkhbat • Marc Esserman • Larry D. Evans • Joseph Fang • Florin Felecan • Daniel Fernandez • Ilye Figler • Andrei-Costel Florean • Edward W. Formanek • Igor Foygel • Dumitru Ghizdavu • Mark Ginsburg • Rusudan Goletiani • Daniel Gurevich • Luke Harmon-Vellotti • Dean Ippolito • Albert Z. Kapengut • Julio P. Kaplan • Alexander R. Katz • Raymond Kaufman • Igor N. Khmelnitsky • Keaton F. Kiewra • Erik Andrew Kislik • Jake Kleiman • Danny Kopec • Cyrus Lakdawala • Yury Lapshun • Michael Lee • Ruifeng Li • Awonder Liang • Yian Liou • Dimitri London • Daniel Ludwig • Blas Lugo • Josh Manion • Salvatore J. Matera • Vincent McCambridge • Eugene B. Meyer • Marlo Micayabas • Lev Milman • Rade Milovanovic • Nikolay N. Minev • Walter D. Morris • Stephen A. Muhammad • Michael A. Mulyar • Sean Nagle • Yaacov Norowitz • Steven M. Odendahl • Georgi Orlov • Aleksandr A. Ostrovskiy • Nazi Paikidze • William M. Paschall • Jack Peters • Vladimir Prosviriakov • David Pruess • Stuart Rachels • Vasik G. Rajlich • Vivek Rao • Kenneth Regan • Larry Remlinger • Daniel Rensch • Guillermo Rey • Bruce Rind • James Rizzitano • Douglas Root • Eric S. Rosen • Anthony F. Saidy • Justin Sarkar • Dmitry Schneider • Jonathan Schroer • Gregory Shahade • Arthur Shen • Victor C. Shen • James T.
Sher win • Walter Shipman • Igor Shliperman • Mikhail Shur • Jeremy D. Silman • Leonid M. Sokolin • Alan Stein • David J. Strauss • Andrew Tang • Eric Tangborn • Emory Tate • Timothy Taylor • Rostislav Tsodikov • David Vigorito • Kesav Viswanadha • Mladen Vucic • Joshua Waitzkin • Philip Xiao Wang • John L. Watson • Norman Weinstein • Elliott C. Winslow • Darwin Yang • Jonathan Yedidia • Vitaly F. Zaltsman • Anna Zatonskih • Steven C. Zierk • Dmitry Zilberstein • Mikhail Zlotnikov • Ber nard Zuckerman
WOMEN GRANDMASTERS Tatev Abrahamyan • Anna M. Akhsharumova • Camilla Baginskaite • Anjelina Belakovskaia • Sabina-Francesca Foisor • Anna Gershnik • Alla B. Grinfeld • Irina S. Levitina • Katerina Nemcova • Katerina Rohonyan • Jennifer Shahade • Anna Sharevich
WOMEN INTERNATIONAL MASTERS Tsagaan Battsetseg • Sharon Burtman • Agata Bykovtsev • Rachel Crotto • Vesna Dimitrijevic • Esther Epstein • Ashritha Eswaran • Gina L. Finegold • Elina Groberman • Anna Hahn • Ruth I. Haring • Alena Kats • Shernaz Kennedy • Inna Koren • Megan Lee • Yuliya Levitan • Simone Liao • Beatriz M. Marinello • Elizabeth Neely • Viktorija Ni • Alexey Root • Diane Savereide • Marulin Simmons • Dorothy O. Teasley • Cindy Tsai • Julia Tverskaya • Annie Wang
INTERNATIONAL ARBITERS Kenneth R. Ballou • Todd J. Barre • Frank K. Berry • Christopher Bird • Harold Bogner • Leonid Bondar • Dr. Frank Brady • William Broich • Walter Brown, Jr. • Wayne Clark • Edward Steven Doyle • Eduard Duchovny • Adam Roy Gale • William Goichberg • Francisco Guadalupe • Jon Haskel • Randy Hough Steve Immitt • Thomas P. Langland • Myron Lieberman •
TOP 50 FIDE-RATED AMERICANS Rtg.
Active players from the January 2015 FIDE Rating List.
1. Fabiano Caruana 2. Hikaru Nakamura 3. Wesley So
4. Gata Kamsky
5. Alexander Onischuk 6. Ray Robson
7. Samuel L. Shankland 8. Daniel Naroditsky
9. Aleksandr Lenderman 10. Yasser Seirawan 11. Timur Gareyev
12. Varuzhan Akobian 13. Yaroslav Zherebukh 14. Sergey Erenburg 15. Zviad Izoria 16. Jeffery Xiong 17. Ilya Gurevich 18. John M. Burke 19. Samuel Sevian 20. Zsuzsa Polgar
20. Larry M. Christiansen 22. Gregory S. Kaidanov 23. Robert L. Hess
24. Alejandro Ramirez 25. Patrick G. Wolff 26. Igor A. Novikov 27. Yury Shulman
28. Alexander Goldin
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29. Roman Dzindzichashvili GM 30. Julio Becerra Rivero 30. Alexander Stripunsky 32. Joel Benjamin 32. Conrad Holt
34. Michael Wilder 35. Lev O. Alburt 36. Boris F. Gulko
37. Gabriel Schwartzman 38. Fidel Corrales Jimenez 39. Lubomir Kavalek 40. Marc T. Arnold 40. Jaan Ehlvest
40. Melikset Khachiyan 40. Eugene Perelshteyn 44. Holden H. Carmenate 45. Grigory Serper
46. Alexander Shabalov 47. Vinay S. Bhat
47. Joshua E. Friedel 49. Maxim Dlugy
50. Alexander Ivanov
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