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Star Chess4Life Chess Students


Just as you can tell the quality of a tree by its fruit, so our work is measured by the success of our students. We want to give you a sample of the chess success that can be reached through the methods of Chess4Life. So here is a list of a few of our star students.

Aviv Caspi
Aviv at age 11 has a current chess rating of 1276. Below is an interview from Chess4Life: ...

Drew Dawson
Drew DawsonDrew at age 12 is rated a 1227. Below is an interview from Chess4Life: Besides chess what are your favorite hobbies/sports?...

Sterling Dietz
Sterling DietzSterling has a rating of 1681. In addition to his stellar chess performances, he has become a magic performer and performed a number of times for Chess4Life events - you can find more information on Sterling on his website at www.magicsterling.com....

Jerry Li
Jerry at 11 years old, is ranked number 65 in the U.S. for the age 11 category, and has a rating of 1539....

Karen Marcjan
Karen has a current rating of 1332...

Kevin Ma
Kevin at age 5 is rated WSRS: 1269 and USCF: 1096 We asked him the following questions: ...

Ian McPherson
Ian  McPherson  Ian at age 9 is rated WSCF 1065 (34 games played) and USCF 960 (7 games played). Below is an interview from Chess4Life: Besides chess what are your favorite hobbies/sports?Soccer, Baseball, Swimming, Playing chess and computer games....

Gabriella Rader
Gabriella at age 11, is ranked 34th in the top girls under age 13 in the U.S. category, and has a rating of 1337....

Adam Shankland
Adam at 13 years old, is ranked number 62 in the U.S. for the age 13 category, and has a rating of 1693....

Nicholas L-S
Nicholas has a current rating of 1178. Below is an interview from Chess4Life: ...

Igor Ummel
Igor at 11 years old, is ranked number 55 in the U.S. for the age 11 category, and has a rating of 1612....

Darren Wu
Darren at 11 years old, Is ranked number 27 in the age 11 category in the U.S. and has a ranking of 1693....

Darryl Wu
Darryl at 8 years old, is ranked number 60 in the top age 8 chess players in the US for the 8 year old category, and has a rating of 1163....

Henry Whitlock
Henry WhitlockHenry at age 7 is rated a 950. He is quite the talented young man and has recently written a chess song. To see it click here. Below is an interview from Chess4Life: ...

Ray Yu
Ray YuRay Yu is quite a talented young man, he has written a few poems about one of his favorite sports, chess! Here are a few questions we asked him: ...

Wesley Yu
Wesley YuWesley at age 8 has a current chess rating of 1242. Below is an interview from Chess4Life: Besides chess what are your favorite hobbies/sports?...