Congratulations to our latest and 20th CCL graduate, Xavier Paganini.
- Xavier became our landmark 20th graduate from CCL. This happened a few weeks ago but is just being posted now as we were not posting CCL accomplishments in July, in honor of Goran.
- Xavier also set a new record by becoming the quickest CCL graduate. He did this by gaining around 200 ratings points in under 3 month!
- Congrats to this future superstar of CCL.
- See a strong recent annotated game of Xavier’s by CLICKING HERE.
- 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
- Neo Zhu
- Alex Kolay
- Xavier Paganini