The Bethany local area (where our founders Zoey, Ishaan, and Austin live & study) elementary and middle schools like Jacob Wismer Elementary, Hope Chinese Charter School, and Stoller Middle School have fantastic records at these team chess tournaments. The three schools combined have 10+ years of near flawless unbeaten record at the state team tournaments.
Ishaan has been a staple member of Jacob Wismer for 5 years and has been doing the same with Stoller. During his 7-year tenure so far at Jacob Wismer + Stoller, every single year (excluding 2020 when everything was canceled), Ishaan led or helped his school teams win champion in any state team tournament they participated in! One exception was 2018, where Jacob Wismer was only second at the state level.
Zoey and Austin have been top players of Hope and Stoller’s chess team. During their stay at Hope and Stoller (2017-2022), their teams have been the champion team of the state multiple times and have the most number of players. Zoey attended Westview high school in 2022 and is eager to help the high school team to win the State Champion where the competition is more furious.
Jacob Wismer: Here is a record and some beautiful memories of all those victories!
| 2022 | 1st Place 2nd Place | OSCFTeam #1: Neev Kodarapu, Eesha Juneja, Pranav Kurpad, Matthew Alappat, Anay Shah Team #2: Sahasra Vinjam, Vivaan Kalra, Krish Telang, Kavish Dhar, Stuthi Mathew |
| 2022 | NA | Chess for Success: Did not participate |
| 2021 | 1st Place K5-R | OSCF Team #1: Avyukth Sunil, Anay Shah, Eesha Juneja, Methmi Goonetilleke, Kavish Dhar Team #2: Jaya Karthikeya Vankayalapati, Pranav Kurpad, Sahasra Vinjam, Eshaan Ramesh Segavalu, Srinidhi Inam |
| 2021 | NA | Chess for Success: Did not participate |
| 2020 | NA | OSCF: Tournament canceled due to COVID |
| 2020 | NA | Chess for Success: Tournament canceled due to COVIDHowever, the school team won 1st place in Regionals right before the shutdown |
| 2019 | 1st place | OSCF: Ameya Shirguppe, Mikhail Arturov, Vimal Adiraju, Ishaan Kodarapu, Nathan Ye |
| 2019 | 1st place | Chess for Success:Ameya Shirguppe, Mikhail Arturov, Tanish Pentakota, Vimal Adiraju, Ishaan Kodarapu, Varyan Jain, Prajna Sripathi Coach: Mike Terrill |
| 2018 | 2nd place | Ameya Shirguppe, Mikhail Arturov, Ishaan Kodarapu, Vimal Adiraju, Nathan Ye, Eleanor Song and Jeeva MoorthyCoach: Mike Terrill |
| 2017 | 1st place | Leonard Yan, Vimal Adiraju, Ishaan Kodarapu, Nathan Ye, Egan Wong, Coach Mike Terrill, Eleanor Song, Srikruthi NerallaCoach: Mike Terrill |
| 2016 | 1st place | Sudarshan Gokul, Ishaan Kodarapu, Vimal Adiraju, Kyle Liu, Egan Wong, Eleanor SongCoach: Mike Terrill |
| 2015 | 2nd place | Clarence Guo, Egan Wong, Kyle Liu, Sudarshan Gokul, Eleanor Song, Coach Mike (Deetya Brahmarouthu absent)Coach: Mike Terrill |
| 2014 | 2nd place | Deetya Brahmarouthu, Peter Ye, Colin Liu, Greg Ji-Hoon, Jang Kyle Liu, Egan WongCoach: Mike Terrill |
| 2013 | 1st place | Jonathan Guo, Ethan Wu, Kyle Liu, Colin Liu, Maria KlimkinaCoach: Mike Terrill |
| 2012 | 3rd place | Ethan Wu, Colin Liu, , Keshav Siddhartha , Joel Abitzen, Maria Klimkina, Kyle LiuCoach: Mike Terrill |
| 2011 | 2nd place | Colin Liu, Joel Abitzen, Keshav Siddhartha, Nicholai Dimov, Noel Abitzen and Bradley WangCoach: Mike Terrill |
Chess King, Ravi Adiraju, and Coach Mike (missing, to be superimposed later) standing behind.
2017 (Clear 1st place): (left to right) Leonard Yan, Vimal Adiraju, Ishaan Kodarapu, Nathan Ye, Egan Wong, Coach Mike Terrill, Eleanor Song, Srikruthi Neralla
Hope Chinese Charter School: Team memories of all precious moments. Special thanks to Hope Chinese Charter School’s parent volunteer coaches: Dwayne Boyce, Micah Wilson, Nico Chondro, Lilly Zhang, Kevin Wang, Shannon Watkins, James van der Lee, Tinudade Adebolu, Bernadette Le, Nate Look, Cynthia Teoh.
2017 Chess for Success State Champion 1st place, from left to right: Austin Tang, Zoey Tang, Ethan Truong, Emma Wilson, Alexandre Boyce, Trystan Van Der Lee, Robert Chondro. Coach: Nico Chondro, Dwayne Boyce
2018 Chess for Success State Champion 1st place, from left to right: Ademidun Adebolu, Austin Tang, Zoey Tang, Trystan Van Der Lee, Jamie Tan. Coach: Lilly Zhang, Dwayne Boyce
In a small charter school, we have a 30 players chess team, hooray to our parent volunteer coaches and enthusiastic chess kids!
Stoller Middle: Coming soon!