Tournament Report for The Eade Foundation’s Spring Scholastic Chess Classic

On May 22, The Eade Foundation Spring Scholastic Chess Classic took place online. This prestigious event attracted many of the top youth chess players from around the United States and Canada. The tournament which was organized by Chris Torres of https://dailychessmusings.com and directed by Jay Stallings of https://chesshootz.com was a well-run 5 round rapid play event where children were broken up into 4 different grade level sections. All the rounds started on time and as soon as games finished, Chris and Jay were analyzing them during the live YouTube broadcast. In addition, all the games were analyzed using sophisticated FairPlay methods to ensure the integrity of the results.

The Eade Foundation’s Spring Scholastic Chess Classic kicked off with a message on the importance of building a chess community from FIDE Master James Eade. The Eade Foundation’s ideals were epitomized by the scholastic chess players who spent their day demonstrating chess literacy and chess excellence. Of course, certain competitors earned the distinction of being crowned the champions of this first of its kind chess tournament and they are: Ariv Debmisra (K-1), Aaron Reeve Mendes (2-5), Ankita Jain (6-8), & Arnav Kapadia (9-12). In addition to the section champions, (list runners up) also deserve recognition for their performance in this prestigious online youth chess tournament.

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Below are the Final Standings of the 2021 Eade Foundation Spring Scholastic Chess Classic and some examples of the outstanding play exhibited during this prestigious youth chess event.

Standings

K-1

↓	#	Name	Age<	Gender	Score	Tie.	Init. rtg.	New rating
Gold	1	Ariv Debmisra			5	14	1050	996 (5/20)
Silver	2	Johnson Weng			4	15	new	841 (5/20)
Bronze	3	Andrew Chang			4	11	1068	796 (5/20)
	4	Winston Chen			3	17	500	696 (5/20)
	5	Vedant Basu Acharya			3	16	new	686 (5/20)
	6	Pritish Singhal	7	Male	3	14	new	671 (5/20)
	7	Raymond Ouyang	7	Male	3	12	742	651 (5/20)
	8	Matthew Chao			3	9	new	764 (4/20)
	9	Evelyn Hsing			3	9	770	616 (5/20)
	10	Kiyomi Yuk			3	9	new	557 (4/20)
	11	Sayan Mukhopadhyay			2	14	400	516 (5/20)
	12	Peter Wardlow			2	12	382	491 (5/20)
	13	Eric Liu			2	11	new	382 (4/20)
	14	Sai Chandhuru Vijay Regunathan			2	8	new	451 (5/20)
	15	Asher Yu			1	14	445	351 (5/20)
	16	Dharsh Patibandla			1	13	333	341 (5/20)
	17	Joshua Goldberg	6	Male	1	12	400	336 (5/20)
	18	Talia Pogue-Jewell			1	11	165	336 (5/20)
	19	Dann Merriman			0	1	728	101 (1/20)
	20	Siva Kolli			0	0	501	0 (0/20)

2-5

↓	#	Name	Age<	Gender	Score	Tie.	Init. rtg.	New rating
Gold	1	Aaron Reeve Mendes			5	14½	1806	1547 (11/20)
Silver	2	Anusha Mukhopadhyay			4	18	1040	1312 (5/20)
Bronze	3	Sophia Huang			4	12	875	1041 (5/20)
	4	Rohan Menon			3½	16½	902	1217 (5/20)
	5	Alice Wang			3½	13½	new	1023 (5/20)
	6	Sam Carpenter			3	16	994	974 (17/20)
	7	Manu Varma Vegisana	11	Male	3	15	950	916 (5/20)
	8	Sai Nirmith Indukuri			3	12½	900	1060 (5/20)
	9	Trent Padilla			3	12	800	918 (5/20)
	10	Cole Pogue-Jewell			3	11	638	886 (5/20)
	11	Eden Skye			3	8½	750	1017 (4/20)
	12	Shreeansh Bommoju			2	15	900	930 (5/20)
	13	Devansh Alwa			2	13	623	763 (5/20)
	14	Kendrick Qu	9	Male	2	12½	443	731 (5/20)
	15	Aaron Wu			2	11½	677	1047 (4/20)
	16	Holden Scheff			2	10½	390	731 (5/20)
	17	Havish Arun			2	9	new	716 (5/20)
	18	Shaun R McGrath			2	9	new	686 (5/20)
	19	George You			2	6	new	644 (3/20)
	20	Aditi Deorukhkar			1	10	195	546 (5/20)
	21	Lucas Moras			1	10	new	411 (4/20)
	22	Asher Georgy			1	9	new	399 (4/20)
	23	Khaushal Ragavan			1	3	new	436 (1/20)
	24	Joshua Huang			0	4	900	386 (2/20)
	25	Varun A Ganesh			0	3	new	461 (1/20)

6-8

↓	#	Name	Age<	Gender	Score	Tie.	Init. rtg.	New rating
Gold	1	Ankita Jain			4½	16	1200	1364 (5/20)
Silver	2	Ansh Batra			4½	15½	1300	1354 (5/20)
Bronze	3	Johannes Chow			4	16	1590	1284 (5/20)
	4	Phuc Hoang	14		4	12	new	1244 (5/20)
	5	Kaelyn Dasovich	15	Female	3½	14½	1186	1189 (5/20)
	6	Devin Kozakis			3½	12	759	1184 (5/20)
	7	Sydney Zhang	14	Male	3	16½	1500	1129 (5/20)
	8	Caden Guo			3	15½	900	1109 (5/20)
	9	Sebastian Henriksson			3	14	1000	1109 (5/20)
	10	Sanjay Reddy			3	12½	1101	1089 (5/20)
	11	Siddharth Sivakumar			3	11½	new	1074 (5/20)
	12	Hardik Alwa			2	14½	892	949 (5/20)
	13	Javi Nashat			2	13½	800	959 (5/20)
	14	Cody Satinsky	11	Male	2	13½	1100	934 (5/20)
	15	Dev Patel			2	13	900	944 (5/20)
	16	Jericho Suarez			2	11½	new	822 (4/20)
	17	Vishnu Vijayachandran	14	Male	2	10½	1350	909 (5/20)
	18	Gauri Deorukhkar			2	9½	384	914 (5/20)
	19	Vivaan Garg			2	8	new	778 (4/20)
	20	Nicolo Wolfson			1	9½	308	754 (5/20)
	21	Joseph Miao			1	9	1000	584 (4/20)
	22	Hamilton Qinrun Zhang			1	3	new	634 (1/20)
	23	Neel Deshpande			½	2½	new	784 (2/20)
	24	Taedus Nguyen			½	1½	500	759 (2/20)
	25	Sebastien Mei			0	3½	new	659 (1/20)
	26	Soham Khan			0	2	new	584 (1/20)
	27	Ethan R Mei			0	2	1400	584 (1/20)

9-12

↓	#	Name	Age<	Gender	Score	Tie.	Init. rtg.	New rating
Gold	1	Arnav Kapadia			4	14	1000	1317 (5/20)
Silver	2	Matthew Hsin-De Tran			4	12	1100	1307 (5/20)
Bronze	3	Sofia Doroshenko			3½	13	1002	1237 (5/20)
	4	Jackson Bennett			3	17	1500	1187 (5/20)
	5	Jeevan Dhanota	15	Male	3	11	459	1122 (5/20)
	6	Jake Ebersole			2½	14	new	1077 (5/20)
	7	Adam Kremer			2	11	1200	962 (5/20)
	8	Kabir Zaman			2	8½	1000	945 (3/20)
	9	Ojas Agarwal			1	12	1500	812 (4/20)
	10	Cedrick Garcia			1	8½	1256	937 (3/20)
	11	Rihan Podder			1	7	600	637 (3/20)

The Eade Foundation Spring Scholastic Chess Classic – K-1, Debmisra vs Chao

The Eade Foundation Spring Scholastic Chess Classic – 2-5, Mendes vs Nirmith Indukuri

The Eade Foundation Spring Scholastic Chess Classic – 6-8, Kozakis vs Jain

The Eade Foundation Spring Scholastic Chess Classic – 9-12, Kapadia vs Doroshenko