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Meet our alumni from our in person or online camps who have gone on to become Grandmasters or Women's Grandmasters
Abimanyu Mishra
GM
Set the record for youngest Grandmaster ever at the age of 12 years, 4 months and 25 days
Photo by: Eric Rosen
Carissa Yip
WGM
2021. 2023. 2024 and 2025 U.S. Women's Champion
Hans Niemann
Reached a rating of 2738 in October 2025, good for number 15 in the world.
Photo by: David Llada
Andy Woodward
Sam Shankland
2018 U.S. Chess Champion
Jeniffer Yu
2019 and 2022 U.S. Women's Champion
Rochelle Wu
2016 World U10 Grls Champion
Photo by: Betsy Zacate
Sam Sevian
Photo by: Saint Louis Chess Club and Scholastic Center
Ray Robson
6 time Chess.com Puzzle Battle World Champion
Alice Lee
Daniel Naroditsky
Rest in Peace Daniel Naroditsky, one of the greatest ambassadors in the chess world.
Awonder Liang
Acheived FIDE rating of 2700+. As of April 2026 is rated 2718 for number 24 in the world
Photo by: Chess.com
Jeffery Xiong
Acheived 2700+ FIDE rating in November 2019
Annie Wang
Andrew Tang
Brewington Hardaway
Brandon Jacobson
Arthur Guo
Kirk Ghazarian
Nico Checa
Ashritha Eswaran
Photo by: Tim Hanks
Praveen Balakrishnan
Christopher Yoo
Balaji Daggupati
Joshua Sheng
Iris Mou
Liam Putnam
John Michael Burke
Ruifeng Li
Photo by: Michael Brown
Michael Brown
Akshat Chandra
Rose Atwell
IM-elect
Rose has the qualifications for the WGM title but has chosen to forgo it for the IM title
Kayden Troff
Nico Chasin
Photo by: St. Louis Chess Club and Scholastic Center
Josh Friedel
Conrad Holt
Robert Hungaski
Photo by: Andreas Kontokanis
Steven Zierk
Darwin Yang
