Three Boylston players named to USCF All-American Chess Team

2018 US Chess Federation All-America Chess Team Announced

By US Chess|October 24, 2017|Kids, News, US Chess Press

(Crossville, TN)

The United States Chess Federation is pleased to announce the 2018 All-America Chess Team. Team members will be presented with their team jackets and plaques at the 2017 National K-12 Grade Championships to be held December 8th through the 10th in Orlando, Florida at Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort.
The All-America Chess Team was created in 1987 to honor the very best players ages 18 and under. The team, one of the highest national honors attainable by a young chess player, is selected on the basis of age, rating, and chess activity during that year, similar to the selection process of “all conference” sports teams. This year’s candidates were selected based on their age as of January 1, 2017, and their peak post-tournament rating from July 1, 2016 through June 30, 2017. Since this award is a “post-season” selection, the minimum rating limits in each age group are reviewed annually by US Chess staff and the US Chess Scholastic Council.

The United States Chess Federation wishes to congratulate each of the 74 members of this year’s All-America Chess Team for receiving this prestigious award!

2018 US Chess All-America Chess Team

State

Age 18 (Min. Rating 2500)


Kayden Troff   UT

Luke Harmon-Vellotti  ID


Mika Andrew Brattain   MA

NM Mika Brattain, Boylston champion, 2015

Age 17 (min. rating 2450)

Akshat Chandra  MO

Andrew Tang  MN

Kesav Viswanadha  CA

Age 16 (min. rating 2400)

Jeffery Xiong  TX

Samuel Sevian  MA

Cameron Wheeler  CA

Craig Hilby  CA

Vignesh Panchanatham  CA

John Gabriel Ludwig  FL

Roland Feng  WA

Joshua Sheng  CA

Bryce Tiglon  WA

Zhaozhi Li  IL

Ethan Li NY

Age 15 (min. rating 2400)

Ruifeng Li TX

John Michael Burke  NJ

Nicolas Checa  NY

Albert Lu CA

Age 14 (min. rating 2350)

David Brodsky NY

Advait Patel  OK

Praveen Balakrishnan  VA

Rayan Taghizadeh  CA

Ben Li  MI

Aravind Kumar  NJ

Jennifer Yu  VA

Age 13 (min. rating 2300)

Awonder Liang WI

Hans Moke Niemann CT

Brandon Jacobson NJ


Carissa Shiwen Yip  MA

NM Carissa Yip, Boylston champion 2016

David Tianjian Peng  IL

Justin Chen  NY

Josiah Paul Stearman  CA

Ivan Ke  CA

Age 12 (min. rating 2250)
         Andrew Zhang Hong  CA
        Nikhil Kumar  FL
        Christopher Shen  OH
        Andy Huang  VA
       Wesley Wang  NY



Age 11 (min. rating 2200)

Justin Wang  TX

Anthony Bi He  WA

Maximillian Lu  CT

Balaji Daggupati  CA

Robert Shlyakhtenko  CA

Vincent Tsay  NY

Kevin D Chor  AZ

Daniel Hung  TX

Age 10 (min. rating 2100)

Christopher Woojin Yoo  CA

Nico Werner Chasin  NY

Arthur Guo  GA

Jason Yuyang Wang  OH

Eddy Tian  NJ

Derek Clasby  NJ

Rithik Sai Polavaram  TX

Rochelle Wu  AL

Eric M Zhang  WA

Nathaniel Lande Shuman  NY

        Ming Lu  CA
        Shelev Oberoi  TX




Age 9 (min. rating 2000)

Arthur Xu  IL


Derek Jin  MA

Eric Yuhan Li  CA

Sandeep Sethuraman  AZ

Age 8 & Under (min. rating 1900)

Liran Zhou NY

Abhimanyu Mishra NJ

Dimitar Mardov IL

Marvin Gao  FL

Luke Sicong Ye MO

Sriram Kriishnakumar  CA

Liam Henry Putnam NY

Brian Huang  CA

Steve Wongso  AZ