| CALCHESS SCHOLASTIC STATE CHAMPIONS | ||||||||||||||
| Maintained by Michael Aigner. Please send any corrections to michael (AT) fpawn (DOT) com. | ||||||||||||||
| CalChess awards the State Champion title to individuals and schools competing in the Open (Varsity or Championship) Divisions. Winners must reside in Northern California to become official State Champion. All eligible individuals and schools tied for first place are considered co-champions. ** In 2005, the CalChess Scholastics drew only 397 participants while a Regional Championship on the same weekend drew 906. The winners at both events are included below. | ||||||||||||||
| A special Thank You to Dr. Alan Kirshner for maintaining these records from 1986 to 2011. | ||||||||||||||
| Attendance | ||||||||||||||
| 2000 | 953 | 2010 | 906 | |||||||||||
| 2001 | 1237 | 2011 | 978 | |||||||||||
| 1992 | 243 | 2002 | 1048 | 2012 | 839 | |||||||||
| 1993 | 302 | 2003 | 1273 | 2013 | 959 | |||||||||
| 1994 | 369 | 2004 | 1118 | 2014 | 774 | |||||||||
| 1995 | 373 | 2005 | 1303 | ** | 2015 | 923 | ||||||||
| 1996 | 450 | 2006 | 1319 | 2016 | 953 | |||||||||
| 1997 | 530 | 2007 | 1172 | 2017 | 1106 | |||||||||
| 1998 | 705 | 2008 | 1028 | 2018 | 1160 | |||||||||
| 1999 | 750 | 2009 | 796 | 2019 | 1195 | |||||||||
| HIGH SCHOOL (K-12) | ||||||||||||||
| Year | Individual Champions | School Team Champions | ||||||||||||
| 2019 | Joshua Lu, Evan Ai | Hopkins JHS (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2018 | Vignesh Panchanatham | The Harker School (San Jose) | ||||||||||||
| 2017 | Teemu Virtanen | Mission San Jose HS (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2016 | Siddharth Banik | The Harker School (San Jose) | ||||||||||||
| 2015 | Cameron Wheeler | Monta Vista HS (Cupertino) | ||||||||||||
| 2014 | Cameron Wheeler, Kesav Viswanadha, Jack Zhu | Monta Vista HS (Cupertino) | ||||||||||||
| 2013 | Cameron Wheeler | Kennedy MS (Cupertino) | ||||||||||||
| 2012 | Joshua Cao, Sudarshan Seshadri | Mission San Jose HS (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2011 | Nicholas Karas | Mission San Jose HS (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2010 | Paul Richter, Andrew Yeh | Saratoga HS (Saratoga) | ||||||||||||
| 2009 | Yian Liou, Evan Sandberg | Saratoga HS (Saratoga) | ||||||||||||
| 2008 | Steven Zierk, Daniel Naroditsky, Jeff Young | Saratoga HS (Saratoga) | ||||||||||||
| 2007 | Daniel Naroditsky | Saratoga HS (Saratoga) | ||||||||||||
| 2006 | Daniel Schwarz, Drake Wang | Saratoga HS (Saratoga) | ||||||||||||
| 2005 | CalChess: Nicolas Yap | CalChess: Saratoga HS (Saratoga) | ||||||||||||
| ** | Regionals: Ramon Qiu | Regionals: Lynbrook HS (Cupertino), Mission San Jose HS (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2004 | Benjamin Tejes | American HS (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2003 | Monty Peckham, Adam Lischinsky | Palo Alto HS (Palo Alto) | ||||||||||||
| 2002 | Vinay Bhat | Berkeley HS (Berkeley) | ||||||||||||
| 2001 | Vinay Bhat | Bellarmine Prep (San Jose) | ||||||||||||
| 2000 | Micah Fisher-Kirshner | Mission San Jose HS (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 1999 | Vinay Bhat | Berkeley HS (Berkeley) | ||||||||||||
| 1998 | Vinay Bhat | College Prep (Berkeley) | ||||||||||||
| 1997 | Dmitry Zilberstein | Berkeley HS (Berkeley) | ||||||||||||
| 1996 | Dmitry Zilberstein | Berkeley HS (Berkeley) | ||||||||||||
| 1995 | Adrian Keating-Clay | Lynbrook HS (San Jose) | ||||||||||||
| 1994 | Dmitry Zilberstein | Lowell HS (San Francisco) | ||||||||||||
| 1993 | Peter Lee | Lowell HS (San Francisco) | ||||||||||||
| 1992 | Adrian Keating-Clay | Lowell HS (San Francisco) | ||||||||||||
| 1991 | Alan Stein | Lowell HS (San Francisco) | ||||||||||||
| 1990 | Andy McManus, Michael Rozler, Alan Stein | Lowell HS (San Francisco) | ||||||||||||
| 1989 | Andy McManus, Michael Chan, Walter Tu | Bellarmine Prep (San Jose) | ||||||||||||
| 1988 | Kash Patel | Bellarmine Prep (San Jose) | ||||||||||||
| 1987 | Andy McManus | St. Marks School (San Rafael) | ||||||||||||
| 1986 | Erik Finkelstein | Lowell HS (San Francisco) | ||||||||||||
| MIDDLE SCHOOL (K-8) | ||||||||||||||
| Year | Individual Champions | School Team Champions | ||||||||||||
| 2019 | Ryan Wang | Horner JHS (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2018 | Shreyas Nayak | Horner JHS (Fremont), Fallon MS (Dublin) | ||||||||||||
| 2017 | Abhinav Koka | Horner JHS (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2016 | Aria Lakhmani, Jason Fan, Daniel Hwang | Hopkins JHS (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2015 | Pranav Senthilkumar | Miller MS (Cupertino) | ||||||||||||
| 2014 | Ladia Jirasek | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2013 | Steven Li | Hopkins JHS (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2012 | Neel Apte | Kennedy MS (Cupertino) | ||||||||||||
| 2011 | Neel Apte, Kyle Shin, Hunter Klotz-Burwell | Horner JHS (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2010 | James Kwok | Hopkins JHS (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2009 | Ted Xiao, Rahul Desirazu | Windemere Ranch MS (San Ramon) | ||||||||||||
| 2008 | Mukund Chillakanti, Isaac Zhang | Redwood MS (Saratoga) | ||||||||||||
| 2007 | Steven Zierk | Redwood MS (Saratoga), Hopkins JHS (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2006 | Charles Sun, Davis Xu | Hopkins JHS (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2005 | CalChess: Ted Belanoff, Aaron Garg | CalChess: Dunn MS (Los Olivos) | ||||||||||||
| ** | Regionals: Sreekar Jasthi | Regionals: Hopkins JHS (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2004 | Daichi Siegrist | Redwood MS (Saratoga) | ||||||||||||
| 2003 | Nicolas Yap, Tyler Wilken | Horner JHS (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2002 | Daniel Schwarz | Hopkins JHS (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2001 | Wesley Chen | Hopkins JHS (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2000 | Lev Pisarsky, Adam Lischinsky, Keith Yost, Michael Pearson | Bartlett MS (Portersville) | ||||||||||||
| 1999 | Keith Yost | Hopkins JHS (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 1998 | Elliot Temple, Robert Chan, Michael Lum | Piedmont MS (Piedmont) | ||||||||||||
| 1997 | Elliot Temple, Tsubasa Onozaki, Anton Parker | Hopkins JHS (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 1996 | Eric Lynn | Hopkins JHS (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 1995 | Jordy Mont-Reynaud | Hopkins JHS (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 1994 | Mark Dean | Biggs JHS (Biggs), Martin Luther King, Jr. MS (Berkeley) | ||||||||||||
| 1993 | Jennie Frenklakh | Hopkins JHS (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 1992 | Philip Dardik | St. Marks School (San Rafael) | ||||||||||||
| 1991 | Philip Dardik | Bartlett JHS (Porterville) | ||||||||||||
| 1990 | Peter Lee | St. Marks School (San Rafael) | ||||||||||||
| 1989 | Alan Stein | St. Marks School (San Rafael) | ||||||||||||
| 1988 | Adam Grover | Cathedral School (San Francisco) | ||||||||||||
| 1987 | Mike Lice, Jacob Gurwitz, Ron Rossi | St. Marks School (San Rafael) | ||||||||||||
| 1986 | Mark Immell | Sunnyvale JHS (Sunnyvale) | ||||||||||||
| ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (K-6) | ||||||||||||||
| Year | Individual Champions | School Team Champions | ||||||||||||
| 2019 | Allyson Wong, Vincent Yang | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont), Weibel ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2018 | Kevin Pan, Ruthvik Singireddy, Ahyan Zaman | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont), Weibel ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2017 | Kevin Pan, Shreyas Nayak, Oliver Wu | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2016 | Jaisuraj Kaleeswaran | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2015 | Eeswar Sree Kurli, Daniel Cheng | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2014 | David Pan | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2013 | Bryce Wong, Seaver Dahlgren, Daniel Hwang | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2012 | Siddharth Banik | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2011 | Cameron Wheeler | Regnart ES (Cupertino) | ||||||||||||
| 2010 | Kyle Shin, Tanuj Vasudeva, Neel Apte, Colin Chow | Weibel ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2009 | James Kwok, Vignesh Panchanatham, Max Chen | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2008 | Yian Liou | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2007 | Nicholas Nip | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2006 | Gregory Young | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2005 | CalChess: Mukund Chillakanti | CalChess: Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| ** | Regionals: Daniel Naroditsky | Regionals: Weibel ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2004 | Davis Xu | Gomes Emementary (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2003 | Aviv Adler | Weibel ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2002 | Daichi Siegrist, David Chock | Weibel ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2001 | Alexander Setzepfandt | Weibel ES (Fremont), Forest Park ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2000 | Drake Wang | Weibel ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 1999 | Michael Pearson | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 1998 | Keith Yost | Weibel ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 1997 | Simion Kreimer | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 1996 | Robert Chan | Weibel ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 1995 | Chris Behrens | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 1994 | Micah Fisher-Kirshner, Joseph Lonsdale | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 1993 | Joseph Lonsdale, Philip Wang | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 1992 | Micah Fisher-Kirshner, Todd Stansbury | Weibel ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 1991 | Jennie Frenklakh | St. Marks School (San Francisco) | ||||||||||||
| 1990 | Ohad Marom | Town School (San Francisco) | ||||||||||||
| 1989 | Hillel Heinstein, John Mini | Town School (San Francisco) | ||||||||||||
| 1988 | Scott Thompson | St. Marks School (San Rafael) | ||||||||||||
| 1987 | Robert Bouillard | St. Marks School (San Rafael) | ||||||||||||
| 1986 | Jeremy Martin | Town School (San Francisco) | ||||||||||||
| ELEMENTARY SCHOOL (K-5) | ||||||||||||||
| Year | Individual Champions | School Team Champions | ||||||||||||
| 2019 | Nikko Le, Kally Wen, Anika Rajaram, Vian Yang | Weibel ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2018 | Nicholas Weng | Weibel ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2017 | Nicholas Jiang | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2016 | Kevin Pan | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2015 | Rishith Susarla | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2014 | Daniel Mendelevitch | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2013 | Pranav Senthilkumar, David Pan, Daniel Mendelevitch, Amir Dhami | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2012 | Ben Rood | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2011 | Abhishek Handigol, Alvin Kong, Siddharth Banik, Eric Zhu | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2010 | Cameron Wheeler, Allan Beilin, Rahul Mohan, Armaan Kalyanpur, Alex Yin | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2009 | Daniel Liu, Neel Apte, Colin Chow, Tanuj Vasudeva | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2008 | Jack Zhu, Kyle Shin, Vikram Ganesh, Hemang Jangle, Jessica Zhu | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2007 | Steven Hao | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| PRIMARY SCHOOL (K-3) | ||||||||||||||
| Year | Individual Champions | School Team Champions | ||||||||||||
| 2019 | Andrew Guo | Basis Independent (Fremont), Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2018 | Nitish Nath | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2017 | Nitish Nath | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2016 | Aghilan Nachiappan | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2015 | Adrian Kondakov, Aghilan Nachiappan, Joon Kim, Prarthan Ghosh | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2014 | Maurya Palusa | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2013 | Callaghan McCarty-snead | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2012 | John Chan | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2011 | Ben Rood | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2010 | Michael Wang, Leyton Ho | Weibel ES (Fremont), Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2009 | Alvin Kong, Art Zhao | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2008 | Tanuj Vasudeva | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2007 | Jessica Zhu, Daniel Ho, Neel Apte, Rohan Desikan | Weibel ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2006 | James Kwok | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2005 | CalChess: Kevin Zhu, Hemang Jangle, Warren Tian, Palak Goel, James Kwok | CalChess: Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| ** | Regionals: Samuel Bekker, Yian Liou | Regionals: Weibel ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2004 | Gregory Young, Isaac Zhang, Daniel Naroditsky | Blossom Hill ES (Los Gatos) | ||||||||||||
| 2003 | Harsha Nukala | Challenger Ardenwood (Newark), Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2002 | Ankita Roy, Dustin Rudiger, Tau Jeng | Weibel ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2001 | Steven Zierk, Ankita Roy, Anthony Ferrer | Weibel ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2000 | Andres Fuentes-Afflick, Tyrone Plata | Weibel ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 1999 | Alexander Setzepfandt | Weibel ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 1998 | Daniel Schwarz | Forest Park ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 1997 | Wesley Chen | Town School (San Francisco) | ||||||||||||
| 1996 | Jonathan Lonsdale | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 1995 | Adam Lischinsky | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 1994 | Adam Lischinsky | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 1993 | Jeff Lonsdale, Chris Behrens | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 1992 | Jordy Mont-Reynaud, Vinay Bhat | Weibel ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 1991 | Kevin Simler | Weibel ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 1990 | Todd Stansbury | Weibel ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 1989 | Micah Fisher-Kirshner | Town School (San Francisco) | ||||||||||||
| 1988 | Marc Levin | Town School (San Francisco) | ||||||||||||
| 1987 | Jason Huang | St. Marks ES School (San Rafael) | ||||||||||||
| 1986 | Jacob Gurwitz, Alex Moskovitz | Oxford ES (Berkeley) | ||||||||||||
| KINDERGARTEN (K) | ||||||||||||||
| Year | Individual Champions | School Team Champions | ||||||||||||
| 2019 | Katherine Zhuge | The Harker School (San Jose) | ||||||||||||
| 2018 | Alexander Braun | Weibel ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2017 | Rohan Rajaram | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2016 | Jason Liu | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2015 | Nitish Nath, Vaibhav Krishnan | Weibel ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2014 | Sriram Krishnakumar, Nicholas Boldi | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2013 | William Chui | St. Marks ES School (San Rafael) | ||||||||||||
| 2012 | David Iglesias, Kevin Pan | Mission San Jose ES (Fremont), Vallejo Mill ES (Fremont) | ||||||||||||
| 2011 | Balaji Daggupati | |||||||||||||
| 2010 | Ben Rood, Evan Leach | |||||||||||||
| 2009 | Ryan Dugan | |||||||||||||
| 2008 | Om Chinchwadkar | |||||||||||||
| 2007 | Tanuj Vasudeva | |||||||||||||
| 2006 | James Du | |||||||||||||
| 2005 | CalChess K-1 Section: Nicholas Nip | |||||||||||||
| ** | Regionals: Julie Yeung, Robert Chen, Amit Rao, Alice Bain | |||||||||||||
| 2004 | Jordan Ford | |||||||||||||
| 2003 | Hemang Jangle | |||||||||||||
| 2002 | Steven Hao | |||||||||||||
| 2001 | Christopher Wu | |||||||||||||
| 2000 | Donald Livingston | |||||||||||||
| 1999 | Tau Jeng | |||||||||||||
| 1998 | Cory Plante | |||||||||||||
| 1997 | Alaric Stein, Alex Siegel | |||||||||||||