Announcements

Congratulations to Aryan!

Special congratulations to my student Aryan Bezawada who won the Middle School Blitz Championship today! He won all ten of his games! Simply amazing!

Krish Iyer: K-8 State Champion

Special congratulations to my student Krish Iyer for an amazing performance at the Missouri State Scholastic Championship!! He defeated one much higher-rated opponent and drew against another!! He finished with 5.5 points out of 6 and tied for fir...

Triple Congratulations!!

Special triple congratulations to my amazing students Aryan Bezawada, Aryansh Tripathy, and Krish Ladi who took the top three places in the Monday night tournament hosted by the Chess Cardinals Club! They all reached a new rating high! Aryan B...

Caruana and Sudeep: the present and the future of chess!

Evan beating FMs

Congratulations to Festival winners!

Thank you to everyone who joined me for my Chess Festival today!!  $233 were given out in prizes!! Congratulations to all the money winners and especially Soham with $62.50 and Daniel with $55 Daniel $55Ethan $10Andrew $3Evan $10Charlie $19.50Jos...

Congratulations for January 11

Congratulations to my amazing students for great performances in the Thursday Night tournament hosted by the Chess Cardinals Club:~Hovin He who won 2 out of 3 games, defeated a higher-rated opponent, and reached a new rating high!! He has now gain...

Congratulations for December 18

Congratulations to my amazing students for great performances in the Thursday night tournament hosted by Chess Cardinals Club ~Aryansh Tripathy who won 2 out of 3 games and raised his rating to 1034! ~Meghna Mukil who defeated an opponent rated 30...

Congratulations for December 9

Congratulations to my amazing students!! ~Sudeep Vadderaju who went undefeated in his quad on Friday night, won first place, and won some money in the process ~Evan Jin and Adi Ganesh who tied for second place in their group in the Blitz tournamen...

Congratulations for December 5

Congratulations to my amazing students!! ~Meghna Mukil who gained 145 points in a span of 3 days! She defeated two much higher-rated opponents in the Thursday tournament hosted by the Chess Chess Cardinals Club! She followed that by a second place...

Congratulations for November 29

Congratulations to my amazing students for great performances at the Monday Nights tournament hosted by the Chess Cardinals Club ~Divish Dhanalakota who finished in first place out of 27 people, defeated a higher-rated opponent and raised his rati...

Congratulations for November 21

Congratulations to my amazing students for great performances at the scholastic tournament this weekend!~Eli Samovski who defeated one higher-rated opponent and drew against another! He reached a new rating high of 1003 and has now gained 101 poin...

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Congratulations for November 11

Many congratulations to my amazing students:~Aryansh Tripathy who finished first out of 21 people in his section in the Scholastic Tournament! He reached a new rating high of 1191! He has now gained 200 rating points in the past month!!~Aryan Beza...

Congratulations for November 5

Congratulations to my amazing students! ~Varun Kamesh who defeated a much higher-rated opponent in the ladder event on Saturday and reached a new rating high of 1182!! ~Max Xu who finished second out of 24 people in the Saturday Night tournament...

Congratulations for October 30!

Congratulations to my amazing students for great performances on Saturday in the Scholastic tournament:~Aaryan Srivastava who won 3 games out of 4, tied for fourth place in 9th grade and reached a new rating high!!~Tejas Kota who tied for first pl...

Congratulations for October 28!

Congratulations to my amazing students for great performances at the Thursday night event hosted by the Chess Cardinals Club~Aryan Bezawada who won all of his games in the higher section and raised his rating to 1154!!~Aryansh Tripathy who defeate...

Congratulations for October 23

Congratulations to my amazing students for great performances last weekend in the scholastic tournament:~Eli Samovski who got 3 points out 4 in K-12, gained 71 rating points, and reached a new rating high~Liam Zeng who defeated two much higher-rat...

Congratulations for October 21!

Congratulations to my students for great performances at the Chess Cardinals Club Thursday Night tournament:~Aryansh Tripathy who tied for first place in the upper section, having won all of his games!~Meghna Mukil who won 2 out of 3 games and gai...

Congratulations for October 16!

Congratulations to my amazing students!~Sparsh Panja who had a great ladder event on Saturday, defeated two higher-rated opponents, and raised his rating to 1474!~Ishaan Sinha, who also defeated two higher-rated opponents at the same event and rea...

Congratulations for October 14!

Congratulations to my amazing students for great performances in today's scholastic tournament:~David Zhang who finished second out of 85 people, defeated a much higher-rated opponent, gained almost 100 rating points and reached a new rating-high!...

Congratulations for October 13

Congratulations to my amazing students on great performances in the Thursday night tournament hosted by the Chess Cardinals Club:~Aryan Bezawada who won all of his games, defeated a higher-rated opponent, and reached a new rating-high of 1166!! He...

Congratulations for October 9

Congratulations to my amazing students for great perfromances this weekend in Chicago!~Sudeep Vadderaju who drew against three people rated above 2100!!~Sujay Sureshkumar who defeated two higher-rated opponents and reached a new rating high of 170...

Congratulations for October 3

Congratulations to my amazing students:~Meghna Mukil who had an amazing performance last Thursday at the event hosted by the Chess Cardinals Club! She defeated a player rated almost 400 points higher and reached a new rating high of 1021!! She has...