Congratulations to the 3 CCLers who make the 2016 All-America Chess Team.

Age 12- Luke Xie

Age 10- Chris Shen

Age 8- Jason Wang

At a very strong King’s Island, CCL performed well.  Below are our money winners:

• Open section
  • Tied for 4th – 5th = $129 each = Goran Vojinovic and Walker Griggs
  • Tied for 1st – 2nd U-2300 =$967 = Maggie Feng
• U-2100 Section
  • Tied for 2nd – 5th = $354 each = Abhi Ramaswamy and Ricky Wang
• U-1500
  • Tied 3rd – 4th = $282 = Emma Cheng
  • Tied 5th = $40 each = Stella Huang and Jacob Eismann’s dad!
• U-1250
  • Tied for 5th = $81 = Adeti Mohanselvan
• U-1000
  • Tied for 2nd -5th = $181 = Rohit Chejarla
• Mixed Doubles
  • tied for 2nd – 3rd  = $323 team = Emma Cheng and Goran Vojinovic
• Blitz
  • clear 1st = $165 = Walker Griggs
  • clear 1st U2100 = $99 = Vikram Srivastava

The CCL World Youth team is heading back from Greece now.  We are so proud of these amazing young chess players who represented CCL so well at this event.  A warm appreciation goes out to this team which includes:

Jason Wang

Marissa Li

Aristo Liu

Maggie Feng

Karanvir Singh

Aishwarya Singh

and team coach IM Goran Vojinovic

Congratulations to our latest and 17th CCL graduate, Forest Chen.

• Forest is the first person from Tennessee to become a CCL graduate
• Forest earned his graduation with a clear first place finish in the U-2000 section of the Nashville Open, gaining 80 rating points in the process.
• Forest is an 8th grader from Knoxville, Tennessee
• This Who’s Who chess list has been growing with great talent which is clearly characterized by a high value on perseverance, hard work, and passion.
• What is a CCL graduate?  It is an honorary degree that we give to any CCL player who has worked their way through the ranks while in CCL and has made a USCF experts rating (>= 2000).   This group is becoming a who’s who of the top young talent around.  It entitles them to lifetime membership in CCL, based on good behavior, without the requirement of taking lessons (although most still do).  They are allowed to receive email spam from me for the rest of their lives!!
• Who will be next?

CCL graduates are (in order of obtainment):

• 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