CalChess Top Age Lists

2007 World U12 Champion!

Welcome to yet another installment of the unofficial CalChess Top Age Lists!  This edition is derived from the June 2012 USCF Top 100 Lists, with each player's age given as of May 1.  Congratulations to 109 local juniors of all ages who achieved a national ranking among their peers, plus a dozen girls in the two gender-specific categories.  I can assure you that Dr. Alan Kirshner, who introduced these lists last century, is proud of the achievements by all!

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Out of these 109 talented kids, a few deserve an even greater distinction.  Thus we ask: Who's on first?  The answer is IM Daniel Naroditsky, who has been #1 for seven straight years!  He is 16 years old now and no longer needs a booster seat to play with adults, but he owns a gold medal as the 2007 World Youth U12 champion.  The Bay Area has actually seen multiple #1s in recent years, but not at the moment.

Check out the following lists for those Northern California juniors who earned a top 5, top 15 or top 25 national ranking.  I counted 12 gold medals (top 5), 15 silver medals (6-15) and 9 bronze medals (16-25).  Indeed 35 kids made not only the top 100, but the top 25 for their age!  Congratulations to all!!

(Sorry guys, the Fpawn Chess Blog medals are not quite as genuine as the one Naroditsky owns.  In fact, they are barely worth the bytes on which they have been stored.)

Yian Liou

Sam Sevian

GOLD MEDAL (top 5)

Milind Maiti (#2 age 6)

Agnes William (#3 age 6)

Ben Rood (#4 age 8)

Josiah Stearman (#5 age 8)

Rayan Taghizadeh (#3 age 9)

FM Tanuj Vasudeva (#5 age 10)

NM Sam Sevian (#2 age 11)

NM Cameron Wheeler (#3 age 11)

NM Kesav Viswanadha (#4 age 12)

FM Yian Liou (#2 age 14)

IM Daniel Naroditsky (#1 age 16)
NM Young, Greg (#3 age 17)

SILVER MEDAL (top 15)
Chinguun Bayaraa (#7 age 6)

Maurya Palusa (#11 age 6)

Kelvin Jiang (#10 age 7)

Balaji Daggupati (#13 age 7)

Leyton Ho (#15 age 10)

Kevin Moy (#10 age 11)

Siddharth Banik (#11 age 11)

Colin Chow (#6 age 12)

Vignesh Panchanatham (#7 age 12)

Udit Iyengar (#11 age 12)

Allan Beilin (#13 age 12)

Ashritha Eswaran (#15 girls-U13)

Jack Zhu (#12 age 13)

NM Daniel Liu (#8 age 14)

NM Hayk Manvelyan (#13 age 18)

BRONZE MEDAL (top 25)
Advait Budaraju (#23 age 7)

Rishith Susarla (#25 age 7)

Anthony Zhou (#16 age 9)

Ganesh Murugappan (#18 age 9)

Jeffrey Tao (#19 age 11)

Art Zhao (#20 age 12)

Pranav Nagarajan (#24 age 12)

Neel Apte (#17 age 13)

Kyle Shin (#16 age 14)