2025 US Chess Federation All-America Chess Team Announced

The United States Chess Federation is pleased to announce the 2025 All-America Chess Team. Team members will receive team jackets and plaques by mail.

The All-America Chess Team was created in 1987 to honor the very best players ages 18 and under. The team, one of the highest national honors attainable by a young chess player, is selected on the basis of age, rating, and chess activity during that year, similar to the selection process of “all conference” sports teams. This year’s candidates were selected based on their age as of January 1, 2024, and their peak post-tournament rating from July 1, 2023 through June 30, 2024. Since this award is a “post-season” selection, the minimum rating limits in each age group are reviewed annually by US Chess staff and the US Chess Scholastic Council.

The United States Chess Federation wishes to congratulate each of the 58 members of this year’s All-America Chess Team for receiving this outstanding award!

Editor's note: While most of this year's players are depicted below, not everybody has made it into the Chess Life Online archives (yet!). Please send photos you have of any missing players to Click here to show email address.


Not pictured: Joseph Levine, Henry Deng, Lucas Jiang, Patrick Liu, Sharath Radhakrishnan, Kevin Wang, Alexander Jasinski, Joshua Xia, Aimee Yang, Lerui Zheng, Rocky Wang, Reyansh Paragiri, and Aayansh Pramanik

2025 US CHESS ALL-AMERICA CHESS TEAM

Age 18 (Min. Rating 2500)

 

Justin Wang

TX

Balaji Daggupati

CA

Anthony B. He

WA

Robert Shlyakhtenko

CA

Maximillian Lu

CT

 

 

Age 17 (min. rating 2475)

 

Arthur Guo

GA

Jason Wang

OH

Kirk Ghazarian

CA

Sharvesh R. Deviprasath

TX

Nico Werner Chasin

NY

 

 

Age 16 (min. rating 2450)

 

Jason S. Liang

NY

Vyom Vidyarthi

CA

Evan Park

PA

Sandeep Sethuraman

AZ

Joseph Levine

WA

 

 

Age 15 (min. rating 2425)

 

Dimitar Mardov

IL

Erick Zhao

PA

Liam Henry Putnam

NY

Bach Ngo

FL

 

 

Age 14 (min. rating 2400)

 

Abhimanyu Mishra

NJ

Brewington Hardaway

NY

Alice Teresa Lee

MN

Eric Chang Liu

TX

Harshid Kunka

TX

 

 

Age 13 (min. rating 2350)

 

Andy Austin Woodward

TX

Ryo Wenyu Chen

TX

Tanitoluwa Adewumi

NY

Henry Deng

CA

Brejesh Chakrabarti

FL

 

 

Age 12 (min. rating 2300)

 

Ryan Sun

MA

Lucas Jiang

CA

Bryan Enming Lin

NY

 

 

Age 11 (min. rating 2225)

 

Patrick Peijun Liu

CA

Megan Althea Paragua

NY

 

 

Age 10 (min. rating 2150)

 

Sharath Radhakrishnan

OH

Ethan Guo

CA

Ted Wang

WA

Kyle Q. Dong

NJ

Kevin Wang

DE

Tariq Yue

PA

 

 

Age 9 (min. rating 2050)

 

Linxi Zhu

NY

Lev Shangin

NY

Chenxuan Ling

NY

Santhosh Ayyappan

NJ

Alexander Jasinski

FL

Joshua Xia

CA

Aimee Yang

PA

Lerui Zheng

MI

Rocky Wang

MI

Ariv Debmisra

PA

Aakash Jani

FL

 

 

Age 8 & Under (min. rating 1950)

 

Aiden Linyuan Li

IL

Aayansh Guntaka

AZ

Reyansh Paragiri

CA

Aayansh Pramanik

NJ

Hardy Gu

VA

Yi Sha

FL

Matthew Yu

IL

 

 

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