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CCL takes over the Ohio Grade Levels

Even though many of CCL's top players choose to skip this tournament, we still won every grade that we had a player in except for one.  Every year you continue to set yourself apart from the field.  Our new State Grade Level Champions are:

  • Grade 2 co-champions 4-1
    • Edison Liu
    • Edward Zha
    • Rohan Padhye
    • Arjun Krishna
  • Grade 4 co-champions  4.5 - .5
    • Alicia Harper
    • Michael Lin
  • Grade 5 sole champion 4.5 - .5
    • Laine Massick
  • Grade 6 sole champion 5 - 0
    • Adith Joshua Billy-Bob George
  • Grade 7 sole champion 5 - 0
    • Justin Storn
  • Grade 8 sole champion 5 - 0
    • Luke Xie
  • Grade 9 co- champions 4.5 - .5
    • Jeremy Koebel
    • Anagh Kulkarni
  • Grade 10 sole champion 5 - 0
    • Abhi Ramaswamy

Luke Xie sets a new Ohio record

IMG_4776It was the record that many thought would never be broken, Jonathan Hilton having won the State of Ohio Grade Level Championships 7 times.  Well Luke just shattered that record! He shattered it not just by winning the Grade Levels for the 8th time, but by doing that by 8th grade!!!  Quite an amazing accomplishment, by an amazing young man.

CCL performs well at King’s Island

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

Welcome Home CCL World Youth Team

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