2015 US Junior Congress
@ Santa Clara Convention Center
on January 24-25, 2015

Total 293 (20+under:11  -  18+under:17  -  16+under:14  -  14+under:21  -  12+under:37  -  10+under:65  -  8+under:73 -  6+under:39  -  Bltz20+u:2  -  Bltz10+u:14)

@ 5001 Great America Pkwy, Santa Clara, CA 95054 (map)

Final Standing - Club Championship
(Individual standing HERE)

Section: Age 20 & under
  Code Name Score Prize
1 LELAND Leland High School (1569.3) 10.5 US National Junior Club Champions
    Charles Tang (2039) 4.5    
    Dennis +m Chen (1474) 3.0    
    Mitsuru m$26 Otsuka (1195) 3.0    
    Timothy $63 Lee (899) 1.0    
2 COALIN Coalinga School (1684.3) 9.5 2nd Place
    Brett M Wong (1891) 3.5    
    Blake M Wong (1623) 3.0    
    Bryce M Wong (1539) 3.0    
    Bryan Matthi Wong (1085) 0.0    
3 EVHS Evergreen Valley High School (530.5) 4.5 3rd Place
    Jerry $m22 Kuei (193) 2.0    
    Zi Chuan Tan (868) 1.5    
    Andy $m22 Kuei (unr.) 1.0    


Section: Age 18 & under
  Code Name Score Prize
1 EVHS Evergreen Valley High School (1804.7) 10.0 US National Junior Club Champions
    Arvind Sankar (1951) 4.5    
    Eric Xiao (1810) 3.0    
    Kevin Lin (1653) 2.5    
    Ketan R Kapre (1374) 2.5    
2 MENDCC Mendota Chess Club - Mendota (947.3) 8.0 2nd Place
    Gaston Aganza (1076) 3.0    
    Antonio Rojas (1015) 3.0    
    Jose $m26 Calderon (751) 2.0    
    Clarisa Canales (667) 2.0    
    Rodrigo Garcia (344) 2.0    
    Daniel Rangel (129) 2.0    
    Angelica Sanchez (598) 1.0    
    Alexis Rios (255) 1.0    
    Nelson Camo (106) 1.0    


Section: Age 16 & under
  Code Name Score Prize
1 NCHC Norcal House of Chess (1644.7) 10.5 US National Junior Club Champions
    NM Pranav Nagarajan (2202) 4.0    
    Calvin $37 Tam (1587) 3.5    
    Seth Orphe $103 Castro (1145) 3.0    
3 BAYARE Bay Area Chess (1042.7) 5.0 2nd Place
    Wen Yang +m Du (unr.) 4.0    
    Roman Bityutskiy (477) 1.0    
    Henry Ma (1671) 0.0    
    Shriya Deshpande (980) 0.0    
4 WASHUH Washington Union High School (698.0) 5.0 2nd Place
    David $m26 Pacheco (848) 2.0    
    Jesus $m22 Jiminez (690) 2.0    
    Juan Baires (556) 1.0    


Section: Age 14 & under
  Code Name Score Prize
1 LIUCHE Liu Chess Club (1659.7) 10.0 US National Junior Club Champions
    Jordan Jiao (1707) 4.0    
    Garrick Su (1759) 3.0    
    Nathan Huang (1513) 3.0    
    Natalie Huang (1449) 3.0    
    Harrison Wan Chen (1246) 2.5    
2 BAYARE Bay Area Chess (1517.0) 8.0 2nd Place
    Jonathan Xu (1850) 3.5    
    Vishal Sodem (1268) 2.5    
    Aravind Kannappan (1387) 2.0    
    Justin Reed (1314) 2.0    
    Aadarsh Shivaraju (1131) 2.0    
    John Lee (799) 1.0    
3 FCCC Foster City Chess Club (1299.3) 5.5 3rd Place
    Chris Xiong (1928) 3.5    
    Zachary T Abraham (851) 2.0    
    Makhesh Srikannan (1119) 0.0    


Section: Age 12 & under
  Code Name Score Prize
1 NHC NorCal House of Chess (1525.0) 11.5 US National Junior Club Champions
    Chenyi Zhao (1741) 4.0    
    Ronit Pattanayak (1480) 4.0    
    Rithwik Narendra (1185) 3.5    
    Mihir Ma Bhuptani (1354) 3.0    
    Steve Rong (1022) 3.0    
    Alan Elliot Yao (825) 2.0    
    Aditya Udgaonkar (814) 2.0    
    Nivedha Kumar (1101) 1.5    
2 BCS Berkeley Chess School (1507.3) 11.0 2nd Place
    Christopher W $10 Yoo (1749) 5.0    
    Enkhj Gomboluudev (1432) 3.0    
    Grant Aung (1341) 3.0    
    Anusrid Yelisetti (1057) 2.0    
3 BAYARE Bay Area Chess (1587.7) 9.5 3rd Place
    Sathvik Singireddy (1594) 3.5    
    Shreyas Balaji (1250) 3.0    
    Rohit Praveen (638) 3.0    
    Prith Nagamanivel (1210) 2.5    
    Daniel Cheng (1237) 2.0    
    Dominic Rod Avila (820) 1.5    
    Ronak Appanagari (303) 1.5    
    Saket $m17 Kallam (unr.) 1.0    
    Anushka Ani Sheth (742) 0.5    
    Ivan Ke (1919) 0.0    
4 LPCC LPCC (1352.3) 6.5 4th Place
    Tal Gaffan (1314) 3.5    
    Nikhil Shanbhag (813) 2.0    
    Arul Viswanathan (1819) 1.0    
    Archish Risha Ray (924) 1.0    
5 LIUCHE Liu Chess Club (1098.0) 4.5 5th Place
    Amit Singh (1259) 2.5    
    Naveen Nath (878) 2.0    
    Andrew Xin (1157) 0.0    


Section: Age 10 & under
  Code Name Score Prize
1 LPCC LPCC (1260.7) 10.5 US National Junior Club Champions
    Shaashw Sivakumar (1281) 4.0    
    Shreyas Nayak (1388) 3.5    
    Arjun Sankar (1113) 3.0    
    Albert Tam (1050) 2.0    
    Anav Mehta (722) 1.5    
2 BAYARE Bay Area Chess (1341.3) 10.0 2nd Place
    Aghila Nachiappan (1526) 4.5    
    Reka Sztaray (1272) 3.0    
    Elliot Johnston (1226) 2.5    
    Jason Tom Jiang (775) 2.0    
    Anuj Anish Sheth (561) 2.0    
    Mukundan +m$17 Srivatsa (unr.) 1.5    
    Cody +m West (1011) 1.0    
    Neo +m Alpha (unr.) 1.0    
    Kumar Sta Chandra (733) 0.0    
3 NHC NorCal House of Chess (1334.0) 10.0 3rd Place
    Louis Law (1275) 3.5    
    Saisanthosh Musku (1255) 3.5    
    Ryan Dong (1294) 3.0    
    Arya Malini Bhat (1166) 3.0    
    Vikram Iyer (1433) 2.5    
    Samik Pattanayak (1146) 2.5    
    Vaayun Hurria (678) 1.5    
    Dhruv Malik (762) 1.0    
    Jay Sampat (406) 1.0    
    Bhav Bellannagari (882) 0.5    
    Akhil Rajidi (426) 0.5    
4 LIUCHE Liu Chess Club (1181.3) 9.5 4th Place
    Jeffery Zang (1340) 3.5    
    Andrew Xin (1157) 3.0    
    Winston M Xu (987) 3.0    
    Benjamin Mui (1047) 2.0    
    Arthur Chen (735) 2.0    
5 MSJE Mission San Jose ES - Fremont (1214.0) 8.0 5th Place
    Atul Thirumalai (1186) 3.0    
    Jaisu Kaleeswaran (1322) 2.5    
    Shree Jay (1134) 2.5    
    Edwin Sony Thomas (1082) 2.5    
6 FCCC Foster City Chess Club (1144.3) 8.0 5th Place
    Tejas Mahesh (1201) 3.0    
    Felix Yipeng Liu (1126) 2.5    
    Sid Radhakrishnan (1106) 2.5    
    Albert J Zheng (892) 2.5    
7 BCS Berkeley Chess School (1156.3) 7.0 7th Place
    Adam Vichik (1647) 5.0    
    Erkhe Erdenebileg (569) 2.0    
    Adrian Kondakov (1253) 0.0    
9 REGNAR Regnart ES - Cupertino (943.3) 5.5 8th Place
    Krishna Nathan (1489) 4.0    
    Nikunj Shanker (363) 1.0    
    Nishan Chatterjee (978) 0.5    


Section: Age 8 & under
  Code Name Score Prize
1 NCHC Norcal House of Chess (1090.0) 13.0 US National Junior Club Champions
    Ahyan Zaman (1131) 5.0    
    Samik Pattanayak (1146) 4.0    
    Katherine Re Pask (993) 4.0    
    Pranav Sairam (700) 4.0    
    Pran Bellannagari (946) 3.5    
    Prathul Ganesh (919) 3.0    
    Prisha Jain (875) 3.0    
    Anand Hadli (853) 3.0    
    Erin Law (834) 3.0    
    Brickman Jones (671) 3.0    
    Sriram Venkatesh (639) 3.0    
    Saatvik Krishnan (630) 2.5    
    Nik Sadeghi (617) 2.5    
    Vishruth Dinesh (656) 2.0    
    Anusha Sundar (490) 2.0    
    Sanj Chandrasekar (239) 2.0    
    Ankit Seela (221) 1.5    
    Tyler Ung (209) 1.0    
2 BAYARE Bay Area Chess (1011.3) 12.5 2nd Place
    Ruthvig Singireddy (1198) 4.5    
    Vyom Vidyarthi (1019) 4.0    
    Nikh Parvathaneni (817) 4.0    
    Ethan Huang (812) 3.0    
    Kai Severson (322) 2.0    
    Shub Shreewastava (unr.) 2.0    
    Sarang Narasimhan (unr.) 2.0    
    Matthew Choy (unr.) 2.0    
    Terry +m Xie (unr.) 1.5    
    Matthew +m Pistorino (114) 1.0    
    Owen +m Zhang (unr.) 1.0    
    Saket +m Parvataneni (unr.) 0.5    
    Nikhil $m17 Pathak (unr.) 0.5    
    Arnav Bansal (114) 0.0    
    Neo +m Alpha (unr.) 0.0    
    Shankaran $m17 Srivatsa (unr.) 0.0    
3 LIUCHE Liu Chess Club (1101.0) 11.0 3rd Place
    Andrew Ma (1042) 4.0    
    Bryant Ma (1003) 3.5    
    William Xu (855) 3.5    
    Charles Zha Huang (1202) 3.0    
    Daniel $m17 Cui (1059) 3.0    
    Andrew Huang (897) 3.0    
    Nicholas R Weng (850) 3.0    
    Ethan Yuet- Cheng (752) 3.0    
    Aidan Wang (650) 2.0    
    Leo Mahe (432) 2.0    
4 BCS Berkeley Chess School (1073.7) 10.0 4th Place
    Adrian Kondakov (1253) 4.0    
    Kaival Shah (838) 3.0    
    Eitan Vichik (789) 3.0    
    Srini Doddapaneni (652) 3.0    
    Fianna McCarty-snead (588) 2.5    
    Sattvik Rudr Raju (1130) 2.0    
5 STMARK St. Mark School - San Rafael (589.0) 7.0 5th Place
    William J Chui (1113) 4.0    
    Ave Harries-jones (416) 2.0    
    Taelon Ozkay (238) 1.0    
6 CKCT Castling Kids Chess Team (422.7) 7.0 5th Place
    Abhi Penagalapati (662) 3.0    
    Kai $m17 Mirchandani (424) 3.0    
    Chris Thienprasit (182) 1.0    
7 FCCC Foster City Chess Club (552.7) 6.5 7th Place
    Elliott Jar Regan (854) 2.5    
    Alex Zhao (435) 2.0    
    Zayne J Abraham (369) 2.0    


Section: Age 6 & under
  Code Name Score
1 LIUCHE Liu Chess Club (635.3) 11.5
    Anders Lo (783) 4.0  
    Nitish Nath (633) 4.0  
    Ayaan Kassamali (444) 3.5  
    Kally Wen (490) 3.0  
    Jasper Li (287) 3.0  
    Siddharth Arutla (468) 2.0  
2 NCHC Norcal House of Chess (568.7) 10.0
    Shaurya Palusa (478) 4.0  
    Yiyang Zheng (850) 3.0  
    Guhan Gopinathan (378) 3.0  
    Aahan Pydimukkala (231) 3.0  
    Tanush Yedal (314) 2.5  
    Kri Senthil Kumar (161) 2.0  
    Anushka Ashok (110) 1.0  
    Maya Chitor (105) 1.0  
3 BCS Berkeley Chess School (244.7) 9.0
    Umi Ford (512) 4.0  
    Asrita Yelisetti (115) 3.0  
    Anuji Gomboluudev (107) 2.0  
    Tallulah McCarty-snead (103) 1.5  
4 BAYARE Bay Area Chess (340.7) 8.5
    Aditya Ram (428) 3.0  
    Shawnak $m17 Shivakumar (unr.) 3.0  
    Swayam Shah (159) 2.5  
    Anika Rajaram (435) 2.0  
    Bhar Balakrishnan (140) 2.0  
    Sasha +m Kourakin (unr.) 2.0  
    Lucas $m17 Wu (unr.) 2.0  
    Cyrus $m17 Ghane (unr.) 2.0  
    Micah +m Goldin (unr.) 1.5  
    Daniel +m Kim (unr.) 1.0  
5 CKCT Castling Kids Chess Team (686.0) 7.5
    Ken Okuzumi (686) 4.0  
    Jerry Chang (unr.) 2.0  
    Giovanni Decottignies (unr.) 1.5  
    David Marshall (unr.) 0.5