The annual US Chess National Elementary Championships bring more than 2200 eager youngsters together in Nashville on Mother's Day weekend. The Northern California delegation consists of 45 kids plus their parents and coaches. More than half represent two historically strong Fremont elementary schools, Mission San Jose and Weibel, both which won national championships in recent years. How many trophies will the local participants bring home this year?
Most of the attention goes to the K-6 Championship section, which features the most local players and the best opportunities for high place trophies. Indeed, 7 kids are rated in the top 40 of the section, which is approximately the 70th percentile and up. Both Mission San Jose and Weibel have teams in K-6, with MSJE seeking to duplicate their shared first place in K-5 last year. The other interesting section appears to be the K-1 Championship, with first graders Rohan Rajaram and Lucas Jiang seeded among the top three. MSJE also hopes to finish near the top in K-1 after taking second place last year.
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| Kevin Pan (credit @USChess) |
- Kevin Pan (MSJE) - 6.0 - CO-NATIONAL CHAMPION
- Abhinav Penagalapati - 4.5
- Aghilan Nachiappan (MSJE) - 5.0 - 17th place
- Stephen He (MSJE) - 4.0
- Nikko Le (Weibel) - 4.0
- Nicholas Jiang (MSJE) - 4.0
- Allyson Wong (MSJE) - 4.5
- Alex Shrauger - 4.5
- Saatvik Krishnan - 3.5
- Dharshan Vetrivelan (Weibel) - 3.5
- Aidan Chen (MSJE) - 4.0
- Umesh Gopi (Weibel) - 3.0
- Krish Gangal (Weibel) - 3.0 - 2nd U1400
- Nivedha Maniv (MSJE) - 3.0
- Reyansh Gangal (Weibel) - 2.0
- Savir Khanna (Weibel) - 2.0
- MSJE K-6 team (7 players) - 19.5 - CO-NATIONAL CHAMPIONS
- Weibel K-6 team (6 players) - 13.5 - 6th place
K-5 Championship (9 local players)
- Shaaketh Sivakumar - 4.5
- Anika Rajaram - 4.0
- Nikhil Parvathaneni - 3.5
- Kavya Meiyappan (MSJE) - 4.0
- Jayden Xu - 4.0
- Leo Jiang - 2.5
- Jason Liu (MSJE) - 3.0
- Ayaan Kassamali (MSJE) - 3.5- 1st U1100
- Jolene Liu (MSJE) - 2.5 - 2nd U1100
- MSJE K-5 team (4 players) - 13.0 - 9th place
K-3 Championship (4 local players)
- Nitish Nath - 5.5 - 7th place
- Ryan Wang - 5.0 - 16th place
- Jaden Cheung - 3.0
- Tanishi Varma - 2.5
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| Rohan Rajaram (credit @USChess) |
- Rohan Rajaram - 6.5 - NATIONAL CHAMPION
- Lucas Jiang (MSJE) - 6.0 - 4th place
- Arnam Pawar (MSJE) - 6.0 - 7th place
- Artham Pawar (MSJE) - 6.0 - 3rd place
- Louis Le - 4.0
- Aditya Arutla (MSJE) - 5.0 - 23rd place
- Bhaasvan Varma - 5.0 - 16th place
- Yahor Hrynko - 5.0 - 27th place
- Shreyank Krishnan - 5.0 - 17th place
- Anvitha Penagalapati - 3.0
- Swagatha Selvam (MSJE) - 3.5
- Sarvesh Maniv (MSJE) - 1.5
- MSJE K-1 team (6 players) - 13.5 - NATIONAL CHAMPIONS
