The Winter All-Stars list is posted. The All-Stars lists include the top ten active Oregon players in each grade. To be eligible for the list, players must have played at least one rated game (NWSRS or USCF) between August 28 and December 31.
In comparing the new list to last winter’s, it is clear that Oregon scholastic chess is getting stronger, especially at the higher grade levels. OSCF is now six years old, and a large number of Kids that grew up with the organization are in high school — and it shows. The rating of the tenth highest-rated player in grades 6-12 has increased an average of 78 points in the past year. The change has been especially dramatic in middle school, where the average #10 is 139 points higher than last year’s. What that means is that there are a lot more strong Oregon middle school and high school players now than there were a year ago, and it is much harder to make the All-Star lists this year. The average ratings of the #10s in the lower grades are somewhat lower than last year’s, which is due to a few less big scholastic tournaments this fall compared to last year.
Kudos to all the All-Stars for their great performances and accomplishments!
Special note for those with vast ratings improvement over the past year:
Seniors
At 2093, Daniel Gay continues to top the list and inches closer to the 2200 mark where he would earn the title “National Master.” Exploding onto the list this winter with huge ratings increases:
#6. Jon Reeves: 313 point increase (1011 -> 1324)
#9. Alex Raabe: 235 point increase (1045 -> 1270).
Juniors
#5. Gabe Petegorsky: 231 point increase (1219 -> 1450)
#10. Lane Putas: new to the competitive chess scene, but he is already making a splash in cracking the top ten list (1238).
Sophomores
#1. Alexandra Botez: 186 point increase (1805 -> 1991)
#7. Collin Goldman: 580 point increase (868 -> 1448)
Freshmen
#1. Calvin Parnon: 322 point increase (1454 -> 1776)
#8. Zach Koontz: 202 point increase (1090 -> 1292)
8th Grade
#4. Dmitri Murphy: 455 point increase (1057 -> 1512)
#5. Takuma Sato-Duncan: New player at 1474
#7. Jacob Slavik: New player at 1380
#9. Peter Kleier: 324 point increase (1015 -> 1339)
7th Grade
#1. Dhruva Chatterjee: 259 point increase (1294 -> 1553)
#4. Brian Yang: 792 point increase (568 -> 1360)
#8. Clemen Deng: 627 point increase (688 -> 1315)
6th Grade
#4. Dillon Winter: 193 point increase (1105 -> 1398)
#7. Venkat Doddapaneni: 617 point increase (685 -> 1302)
5th Grade
#1. Maxwell Sun: 200 point increase (1502 -> 1702)
#4. John Ornes: 231 point increase (986 -> 1217)
#6. Leo Deng: 307 point increase (883 -> 1190)
#7. Simon Chow: 296 point increase (835 -> 1131)
#10. Dyshawn Hobson: 428 point increase (587 -> 1015)
4th Grade
#1. Liam Booth: 253 point increase (1219 -> 1472)
#2. Seth Talyansky: 512 point increase (860 -> 1372)
#6. Hansen Lian: New player at 1018.
#7. Keshave Siddhartha: 398 point increase (593 -> 991)
#8. Grant Chen: 545 point increase (434 -> 979)
3rd Grade
#1. Leonardo Sun: 215 point increase (990 -> 1205)
#4. Jeffery Sun: 221 point increase (830 -> 1051)
#5. Marshall Xu: 593 point increase (400 -> 993)
#6. James Maslen: New player at 868
#9. Derek Liu: 207 point increase (557 -> 764)
#10: Samantha Huffman: 261 point increase (502 -> 763)
2nd Grade
#1. Colin Liu: New player at 1083
#2. Jolan Hutchinson: 380 point increase (652 -> 1032)
#3. Kevin Dai: 344 point increase (616 -> 960)
#6. Nikhil Samudrala: New player at 812
#7. Jack Woo McClain: 205 point increase (572 -> 777)
#8. Aidan Gardner-O’Kearny: New player at 746
#9. Kira Dobbins: 273 point increase (400 -> 673)
1st Grade
#1. Praveer Sharan: 232 point increase (1070 -> 1302)
#2. Ankur Moolky: New player at 1112
#3. Quinn Reynolds: 233 point increase (601 -> 834)
#4. Fedor Semenov: New player at 802
#5. Kushal Pai: New player at 768
#7. Ella Flett: New player at 536
Full list here.
