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2022 Ohio Grade Level Championships

November 15, 2022

CCL won 5 of the individual Ohio Grade Level Championships this year. My comments will go down the 1st column and then the 2nd column.

Michael Lin - 11th-grade sole champion - 5-0
Minghao Gu - 8th grade co-champion - 4.5 - .5
Ethan Liu, Maxwell Chung - 1st place team, 4th grade. Our 4th grade class is very strong.
Rohan Padye - 9th grade - sole champion - 5-0
Colin Park, Siddarth Kunapuli (first on tie-breaks), Jack Hamilton - 7th grade co-champions - 4-1 - a strong 7th grade group.
Mehmet Yilanli - Sole Kindergarten champion - 5-0 - Mehmet looks like the real deal. I watched him put a beating on a number of older kids in speed chess.

For complete results go to https://www.uschess.org/msa/XtblMain.php?202211057502-15268735

Click on pictures to see a larger version.

(l-r) Colin Park, Siddarth Kunapuli, Jack Hamilton 7th grade Co-Champions 4-1

(l-r) Ethan Liu, Maxwell Chung 4th grade team champions

Michael Lin becomes the 33rd CCL Graduate

September 14, 2022

Congratulations to our latest and 33rd CCL graduate, Michael Lin. Michael has been a steady and hard worker in chess, participating in many tournaments. Michael recently attended Arkon Open VI; he drew two NM and won the other 2 games, and tied for 1st place. The skills that are developed in becoming a CCL graduate transfer to a successful future. I am amazed at all of the accomplishments of CCL graduates in their future endeavors, which I am sure that I will see in Michael's future as well.

It is a hard-earned honor to become a CCL graduate, which includes a lifetime membership to CCL, based on good behavior, without the need to take lessons from CCL. Anything that CCL has to offer (newsletter, library, team participation, etc. will always be available to you). To become a CCL graduate, you need to meet any of the following requirements:

- 1 year in CCL and earning a rating of 2000
- 4 years in CCL and earning a rating of 1900
- 5 years in CCL and earning a rating of 1800

I will probably not know if you meet one of these requirements unless you notify me.

CCL Graduates
from first to most recent

John Hughes
Walker Griggs
Maggie Feng
Rahul Ramaswamy
Annorjan Naguleswaran
Luke Xie
Chris Shen
Noah Keating-Adams
Sam Massick
Anagh Kulkarni
Vikram Srivastava
Aristo Liu
Abhi Ramaswamy
Jason Wang
Ricky Wang

Vincent Baker
Forest Chen
Neo Zhu
Alex Kolay
Xavier Paganini
Justin Storn
Stanley Cao
Elton Cao
Jasen Lai
Shourjya Ghosh
Aryan Balyan
Viktor Mishkin
Dakshin Pisini
Rohan Padhye
Dae-San Kim
Adeti Mohanselvan
Joe Kleban
Michael Lin

Sneha becomes a TD while she, Jack, and Joshua each win a quad.

August 14, 2022

Sneha Prabu became a tournament director, directed her first tournament, and won one of the five quads. Also winning their quads was Jack Hamilton and Joshua Grywalski. Everyone got $50 for their efforts.

Sneha and Richard Perry

Jack and Joshua

Rohan Padhye wins Joe Yun Memorial and becomes a Chess Master

July 20, 2022

Congratulation to Rohan, who tied for first with GM Bryan Smith at the Joe Yun Memorial last weekend. Atta boy!!! Below is an update that I received:

“Rohan earned his National Master title at Joe Yun Memorial tournament held at Fairlawn, OH from July 15-17. He did this by winning the first four rounds , including wins over three other national masters. He also tied for 1st place in the Elite section of the tournament.

Rohan started with CCL back in 2015 when he was seven years old. He has learned from coaches NM Vladimir Kizov and GM Vlatko Bogdanovski.

Rohan’s next goal is to attain the FM title!“