Weekly accomplishments of my students!

~Sudeep Vadderaju who won the Saturday night tournament at the St. Louis Chess Club, defeating a national master in the process!! He also won $60!!
~Mark Li who tied for third place in the Saturday Night tournament, gained rating, and won money!
~Evan Jin, who did great at the scholastic tournament on Saturday, finishing with 3 points out of 4 and only losing to the eventual winner. Evan also defeated a player rated almost 1400 at the Chess Cardinals Knights tournament
~Tejas Kota who also finished with 3 points out of 4 in the scholastic tournament (his only loss coming to Evan. I hate when my students have to play each other!!). He defeated a higher rated opponent, gained 69 rating points, and reached a new rating high
~Aryansh Tripathy who defeated a much higher-rated opponent in the Thursday Chess Cardinals tournament, and gained rating