Checkmate St. Louis

Congratulations to my amazing students!!~Divish Dhanalakota who finished first in the Sunday tournament hosted by the Chess Cardinals Club! He defeated a higher-rated opponent and reached a new rating high of 1353!! He has now gained 200+ rating points in less than 2 months!~Evan Jin and Sparsh Panja who tied for second place at the same event! Evan drew against a higher-rated opponent and reached a rating of 1244!~Ishaan Sinha who had an amazing ladder event on Saturday!! He defeated two muc...

Congratulations to my amazing students:~Sparsh Panja who won the higher section of the Sunday tournament hosted by the Chess Cardinals Club. He won all his games, defeating a higher-rated opponent in every round! He gained 142 rating points and reached a new rating high of 1500!! He has now gained 300+ points in the past two months!~Jacob Corbett who tied for first in the lower section of the Sunday tournament. He went undefeated, drew against one much higher-rated opponent and defeated anoth...

Congratulations to Aryan who won the Tuesday tournament! Congratulations to Eli and Matthew who tied for second!! Congratulations to big money winners: ~Aryan-$25.5 ~Mathhew - $15.5 ~Eli - $13 ~William Bai -$8.25 ~Sam Parker - $6.75 ~Rayden-$4.5 ~Max Kulinsky - $3 ~Charlie Delston - $2.75 ~Luka - $2.25 ~Chase - $2 ~William Sun - $0.50 New session is starting next week!!!

Congratulations to my amazing students!!~Max Xu who tied for third place out of 23 people in the Saturday Night Blitz tournament~Sudeep Vadderaju who tied for second place in his quad in the Friday Quads and gained rating (quick rated)~Josh Thomadsen who won his quad winning all of his games and reached a new rating high of 1180 (quick-rated)! He also defeated a higher-rated opponent in a ladder event and gained a new rating high!~Sreenik Daripally who won his quad, winning all of his games a...

Congratulations to my amazing students!~Oliver Maher who won his quad on Friday, winning all of his games! He gained 140+ rating points and reached a new rating high (quick rating)~Aryansh Tripathy who won two of three games in the Thursday Night tournament hosted by Chess Cardinals Club. He also reached a new rating high! He followed that by tying for fifth place out of 65 people in the scholastic tournament on Saturday!~Ishaan Sinha who also tied for fifth place, went undefeated, drew again...

Congratulations to my amazing students!~Divish Dhanalakota who defeated a much higher rated opponent at the Monday Nights event hosted by Chess Cardinals Club. He reached a new rating high of 1302!~Evan Jin who defeated two much higher-rated opponents at the same event and reached a new rating high of 1278!~Avyukt Gupta who defeated two much higher-rated opponents and gained more than 100 rating points. He is now rated 1209!!~William Bai who won all of his games at the Thursday night event ho...

Congratulations to my amazing students!~Sparsh Panja who reached another rating high at the Saturday event organized by Jeffrey Vollmer. He is now rated 1479 and has gained almost 300 points in the past month!~Adam Jiang who won his quad in the Friday tournament at St. Louis Chess Club. He won all 3 of his games and reached a new rating high of 1362 (quick-rated)!~Josh Thomadsen who defeated an opponent rated almost 400 points higher than him at the Ladder event on Saturday. He reached a new ...

Congratulations to my amazing students! ~Double congratulations to Sudeep Vadderaju for an amazing performance at Foxwoods!! He drew against players rated 2140 and 2052 and defeated a player rated 2074!!! He raised his rating to 1838!!! He also twice defeated a WFM rated 2100 twice in a blitz tournament at Foxwoods!! ~Josh Thomadsen who defeated an opponent rated 500+ higher than him in the Ladder event at St. Louis Chess Club. He gained 60+ rating points and reached a new rating high~Divis...

Many congratulations  to my amazing students!~Sparsh Panja who won the higher section of the Chess Cardinals Club Sunday event! He beat one higher-rated opponent and drew with another! He reached a new rating high of 1431 and has now gained 200+ rating points in the past couple of weeks!~Ethan Li who defeated a much higher-rated opponent, gained 100+ rating points and reached a new rating high of 1234!! He has now gained 400+ rating points in the past four months~Divish Dhanalakota who defeat...