Congratulations for July 15
Many congratulations to my amazing students for a great performance at the Missouri Class Championship hosted by the Chess Cardinals Club (I congratulated a couple of people separately in the earlier posts):
~Sudeep Vadderaju who played in the highest section, did well, and drew against a higher-rated opponent!
~Alvin He who finished with a positive score in Class B and tied for fourth place out of 15 people!
~Sparsh Panja who had an amazing performance in Class B, played against a higher-rated opponent in every round, finished with 3 points out of 5, gained 100+ rating points and reached a new rating high of 1535!
~Divish Dhanalakota who had a good tournament in Class B and gained rating
~Joshua Gu who tied for second place in class, reached a new rating high of 1529 and won some money in the process
~Abhinav Rao who also tied for second in Class C. He raised his rating to 1463 and also won money!
~Evan Jin who did great in Class C and reached a new rating high of 1386!
~Henry Thomas who tied for second place in Class D and raised his rating to 1401! He also won money in the process
~Avyukt Gupta who drew against one higher-rated opponent and defeated another and gained rating!
~Varun Kamesh who defeated two higher-rated opponents and gained rating!!
~Ian Rodrigues who won all of his games in the U1000 section and gained 100+ rating points! He raised his rating to 1011! He also won some money in the process
~Jacob Corbett who had a great tournament, won 3 out of 4 games and reached a new rating high
~Aaaryan Srivastava who won 3 out of 4 games and gained rating
~Eli Samovski who also won 3 games out of 4 and also gained rating!
~Liam Zeng who also won 3 games out 4, gained 55 rating points, and reached a new rating high!!
~David Zhang who also won 3 games out of 4 and also gained rating!
~Advika Srivastava who had a good tournament, drew with one higher-rated opponent and beat another, and gained rating
~Rayden Lin who had a good tournament and reached a new rating high!