US Chess Announces 2023 World Youth and World Cadet Championships Invitees

US Chess is pleased to announce the list of players who are officially invited to participate in the 2023 World Youth (Under 14, Under 16 and Under 18) and 2023 World Cadet (Under 8, Under 10 and Under 12) Chess Championships.

These students earned this honor by meeting the peak post-tournament (PPT) rating and activity criteria in their age and gender categories according to the Scholastic National Invitational Event and Award Requirements.

The top players by PPT rating in each age category are considered the United States Official Representatives (OR) by FIDE, the World Chess Federation, but all USA players may compete in these events as part of the US Chess delegation. Additionally, players may qualify as Personal Rights (PR) players, subject to organizer's regulations.

IMPORTANT NOTES:

There are currently no details (at the time of publishing this article) regarding either the 2023 World Youth, or 2023 World Cadet Chess Championships other than if held, they will be in Montesilvano, Italy for the 2023 World Youth and Egypt for the 2023 World Cadet.

However, should these events be held, you should note that both the World Youth and World Cadet Championships are open tournaments and any US Chess member who meets the age and eligibility requirements may participate, but they will be responsible for all financial obligations needed to do so. A player's age for these tournaments is his/her age as of Jan. 1, 2023.

The latest news regarding international youth events can be found here. Please contact Brian Yang, FIDE Events Manager at brian.yang@uschess.org if you have any questions regarding these events.

Congratulations to the following players who are invited to be the Official U.S. Representatives at the 2023 World Youth and 2023 World Cadet Chess Championships! (Note: The top player in bold is the Official U.S. Representative. If they choose not to go, then it goes down the list in the order that is listed.)

OPEN UNDER 18	GIRLS UNDER 18
Christopher Yoo (CA) - OR Balaji Daggupati (CA) Kirk Ghazarian (CA) Arthur Guo (GA) Robert Shlyakhtenko (CA) Anthony He (WA) Maximillian Lu (CT) Nico Chasin (NY) Jason Wang (OH) Eddy Tian (NJ) Ming Lu (CA)	Rochelle Wu (CA) - OR Gracy Prasanna (PA) Jessica Hyatt (NY) Nastassja Matus (MN) Natalie Wisniowski (IL) Aksithi Eswaran (CA) Anh Nguyen (TX) Rianne Ke (CA) Gauri Menon (WI)

OPEN UNDER 16	GIRLS UNDER 16
Jason Liang (NY) - OR Dimitar Mardov (IL) Vyom Vidyarthi (CA) Evan Park (PA) Sandeep Sethuraman (AZ) Bach Ngo (FL) Eric Li (CA) Liam Putnam (NY) Erick Zhao (PA) Vishnu Vanapalli (NC) Terry Luo (DE) Ruiyang Yan (CA) Joseph Levine (WA) Ethan Sheehan (GA) Aryan Gutla (TX) Anant Adury (OH)	Ruiyang Yan (CA) - OR Zoey Tang (OR) Ellen Wang (NY) Kelsey Liu (MA) Jenny Zhu (NY) Esther Jou (CA) Ashley Pang (CA) Angela Liu (CA) Tianna Wang (MA) Lilian Wang (PA) Vanessa Zhou (CA) Ellie Zhang (CA) Aradh Kaur (WI) Anika Rajaram (CA) Florina Zhu (NJ) Kally Wen (CA) Rowan Field (NY) Sanjana Ramesh (MI) Kalia Wang (TX)

OPEN UNDER 14

GIRLS UNDER 14

Abhimanyu Mishra (NJ) - OR
Andy Woodward (TX)
Ryo Chen (TX)
Alice Lee (MN)
Brewington Hardaway (NY)
Tanitoluwa Adewumi (NY)
Brejesh Chakrabarti (FL)
Harshid Kunka (TX)
Eric Liu (TX)
Bryan Xie (CA)
Alex Zhang (MO)
Isaac Wang (CA)
Andrew Jiang (GA)
Iris Mou (NY)
Noah Ward (CA)
Henry Deng (CA)
Steve Wongso (AZ)
Qi Pang (NY)
Jesse Ren (MI)
Cooper Ho (NY)
Advay Bansal (CA)
Andrew Guo (CA)
Aiden Reiss (NY)
Alexander Wang (NJ)

Alice Lee (MN) - OR
Iris Mou (NY)
Rose Atwell (CA)
Jasmine Su (CT)
Omya Vidyarthi (CA)
Chloe Gaw (NY)
Erin Bian (WA)
Avery Yu (CA)
Crystal Gu (CA)
Sahana Aravindakshan (NJ)
Chloe Wang (PA)
Ananya Ananth (VA)
Tori Porat (CA)
Sunny Zhang (TX)
Jocelyn Chen (CA)
Elizabeth Tsugel (NY)
Elena Zhang (CA)
Marina Xiao (CA)
Lila Field (NY)
Jolie Huang (FL)

OPEN UNDER 12

GIRLS UNDER 12

Ryan Sun (MA) - OR
Lucas Jiang (CA)
Patrick Liu (CA)
Eshaan Hebbar (NJ)
Aditeya Das (NY)
Sam Luger (NY)
Andrew Wu (NC)
Roshan Sethuraman (AZ)
Rohan Rajaram (CA)
Akeras Overlingas (FL)
Megan Paragua (NY)
John Abraham (KY)
Priyansh Garg (CA)
Aiden Liu (CA)
Aditya Arutla (CA)
Wesley Luo (PA)
Nitesh Cherukuri (MD)
Vihaan Jain (MA)
William Ge (CA)
Krishna Rallabandi (NC)
Ruoyu Zhou (CA)
Daniel Yang (TX)
Jayden Wu (CA)

Megan Paragua (NY) - OR
Olivia Laido (NJ)
Iris Li (CO)
Whitney Tse (NY)
Arabella Fang (NY)
Jwalanthi Ram (GA)
Lilianna Gao (NY)
Serena Yuan (CA)
Michelle Zhang (WA)
Jenny Qi (CA)
Katherine Zhuge (CA)
Audrey Li (NJ)
Mahati Kashyap (NJ)
Swagatha Selvam (CA)

OPEN UNDER 10	GIRLS UNDER 10
Kyle Dong (NJ) - OR Ethan Guo (CA) Kannan Vaidyanathan (NY) Sharath Radhakrishnan (OH) Chenxuan Ling (NY) Ted Wang (WA) Kevin Wang (DE) Alex Chu (NC) Tariq Yue (PA) Vidip Kona (WA) Linxi Zhu (NY) Joshua Xia (CA) Alexander Jasinski (AZ) Lerui Zheng (MI) Corin Gartenlaub (NY) Young Cui (CA) Shawn Xu (MA) Elliott Goodrich (NY)	Laurie Qiu (CA) - OR Aimee Yang (PA) Irene Fei (IA) Alice Chovanec (NY) Sophie Li (FL) Sujia Diao (NJ) Daisy Yuen (NY) Celine Atassi (NC) Lacey Wang (CT) Zoe Wong (NY) Chloe Liu (TX) Neeli Buchireddy (AR)

OPEN UNDER 8	GIRLS UNDER 8
Yang Yu (NC) - OR Aayansh Guntaka (AZ) Yi Sha (FL) Romi Milner (CA) Alice Shen (NY) Oliver Gu (NJ) Reyansh Paragiri (CA) Annie Yao (TX) Aiden Li (IL) Sasha Milo Schaefer (NY) Raben Goel (NJ)	Romi Milner (CA) - OR Alice Shen (NY) Annie Yao (TX) Abigail Zhou (NY) Ella Zhang (MA) Elizabeth Zhou (NY) Celine Chen (FL) Dena Wang (NY) Rayna Yan (CA) Scarlett Kong (NY) Elizabeth Xia (IL)