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Every chess master was once a beginner ~ Irving Chernev

MILESTONES

USCF National Master (NM)
US Chess Federation
March 2024
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USCF Candidate Master (CM)
US Chess Federation
December 2021

USCF Certified Tournament Director - Local
US Chess Federation
April 2024
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USCF Certified Tournament Director - Club
US Chess Federation
June 2023

STATE

2025 Virginia Scholastic State Championships
3rd Place, K-12 Championship
11th Place, K6-12 Blitz

2nd Place, K-12 Team (Academies of Loudoun)
2nd Place, K6-12 Team Blitz (Academies of Loudoun)
Charlottesville, VA, USA - March 2025

2024 Virginia Scholastic State Championships
5th Place, K-12 Championship
5th Place, K6-12 Blitz
2nd Place, K-12 Team (Academies of Loudoun)
2nd Place, K6-12 Team Blitz (Academies of Loudoun)
Roanoke, VA, USA - March 2024

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2022 Virginia Scholastic State Championships
3rd Place, K-8
2022 Virginia Scholastic State Blitz Championships
3rd Place, K6-12 Blitz
Fredericksburg, VA, USA - March 2022

2021 Virginia Scholastic State Championships
Co-Champion, K-8
2021 Virginia Scholastic State Blitz Championships
Champion, K-12 Blitz
Dulles, VA, USA - May 2021

2019 Virginia Scholastic State Blitz Championships
Champion, Elementary Blitz
Charlottesville, VA, USA - March 2019

2018 Virginia Scholastic State Championships
Co-Champion, K-5
Roanoke, VA, USA - March 2018

2017 Virginia Scholastic State Championships
Champion, K-3
Virginia Beach, VA, USA - March 2017

NATIONAL

2024 National K-12 Bughouse
1st Place Bughouse Team (Tay-Wilson)
National Harbor, MD, USA - December 2024

2023 National High School (K-12) Championships
K-12 Championship
Tied for 10th
(19th place medal on tiebreaks with
10-way tie at 5.5/7 pts, 378 players total)
Blitz K-12
14th place (out of 309 players)
Bughouse
5th Place Bughouse Team (Wilson-Tay)
Washington, DC, USA - April 2023

​2022 National K-12 Grade Championships
(9th Grade Championship)
Tied for 4th
(7th Place medal on tiebreaks with
5-way tie at 5.5/7 pts)
2022 National K-12 Bughouse
2nd Place Bughouse Team (Tay-Wilson)
National Harbor, MD, USA - December 2022
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2022 National Middle School (K-8) Championships
Tied for 6th
(7th Place trophy on tiebreaks with
​7-way tie at 5.5/7 pts)
2022 National Middle School (K-8) Championships
K-8 Blitz
​6th Place
Grapevine, TX, USA - April 2022

2019 National K-12 Grade Championships
Tied for 2nd (6th Grade)
(5th Place trophy, on tiebreaks) 
Orlando, FL, USA - December 2019

2018 National K-12 Grade Championships
Tied for 2nd (5th Grade)
(5th Place trophy, on tiebreaks)
​Orlando, FL, USA - December 2018
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​I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up ~ Magnus Carlsen
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If you wish to succeed, you must brave the risk of failure ~ Garry Kasparov​
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The only thing chess players have in common is chess ~ Lodewijk Prins
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TEAM

2024 World/US Amateur Team East
Captain of Virginia Team "PEOPLE AGAINST THE
LONDON SYSTEM (PALS)"
Top Scholastic Team (Collins Award)
Top State Team: Virginia
Parsippany, NJ, USA - February 2024

2021 World/US Amateur Team East
Captain of Virginia team "QUARANTEAM IN VA"
Top State Team: Virginia and Mixed Doubles
(Online)
February 2021

2019 World/US Amateur Team East
Captain of Virginia team "BLUNDERS BE GONE"
Top State Team: Virginia
Morristown, NJ, USA - February 2019

INTERNATIONAL

2024 North American Youth Blitz
3rd Place - U16-Open
Dulles, VA, USA - December 2024

 2024 Lion City Chess Rapid August 2024

(FIDE Rapid rated)
1st Place - Open & U16
Singapore - August 2024

2024 12th CASPL National Day Celebrations 
Chess Challenge 2024 - Open
(FIDE Rapid rated)
3rd Place
Singapore - August 2024 

​​2019 XXX Panamericano de Ajedrez de la Juventud
(2019 Pan-American Youth Chess Championship)
Final score: 9th place (6/9 pts) in U12
Guayacuil, Ecuador

2018 World Cadets Chess Championships
Final score: 6.5/11 in U10
Santiago de Compostela, Spain

2018 15th Malaysian Chess Festival
Final score: 4.5/6
(9th place out of 101 players)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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​Chess grips its exponent, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom and independence of even the strongest character cannot remain unaffected ~ Albert Einstein
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