Top Players List

Last Updated: January 2nd, 2010 by Daniel Rensch

The American Chess Events, LLC Top Player’s List is designed to acknowledge the “Top Players” throughout the state of Arizona whom consistently participate in ACE Chess Tournaments. Other than the ACE Staff, we do not recognize adult players here. For a full list of Arizona’s highest rated active players, click here. A Player must have competed in at least 3 or more events during the 2009-2010 Grand Prix Cup Season in order to be eligible for our list. Thank you. (January 2010 USCF Ratings)

ACE Staff
RankNameRatingSchool
1 IM Dionisio Aldama 2519 N/A
2 IM Daniel Rensch 2448 American Chess Events LLC
3 FM Pedram Atoufi 2333 Unity Chess Club
4 NM Leo Martinez 2261 University of Arizona
5 NM Joel Johnson 2249 Valley Chess
6 Jeffrey Mulcahey 1868 ASU
7 Fitch (Tiger) Rensch 1809 American Chess Events LLC
College
RankNameRatingSchool
1 Jeff Green 1794 ASU
2 Stephen Sprague 1495 ASU
3 Joe Blidy 1370 ASU
High School
RankNameRatingSchool
1 Kevin Zhang 2199 Catalina Foothills
2 Eric Qi 2097 World Champion Chess Academy
3 Jon Dussik 2087 Barry Goldwater
4 Randel Eng 2079 Pinnacle
5 Joshua Zhu 2071 Chandler Prep
6 John Williams 2071 Mountain Pointe
7 John Gurczak 2059 Notre Dame High
8 Daniel Bryant 1919 Verrado
9 Chris Dussik 1902 Barry Goldwater
10 Vincent Nguyen 1827 World Champion Chess Academy
11 Richard Cowan 1800 Barry Goldwater
12 Noah Raskin 1741 Horizon
13 Trevor Whitaker 1669 Corona del Sol
14 David Godfrey 1647 Chevalier Noir
15 Michael Prem 1629 Pinnacle
16 Jeffrey Poppell 1576 Chevalier Noir
17 Daniel Harmonick 1529 Chevalier Noir
18 Philip Godfrey 1516 Chevalier Noir
19 Prescott Ogden 1380 McClintock
Junior High
RankNameRatingSchool
1 David Adelberg 2216 Zuni
2 Bryan Hu 2069 Orange Grove
3 Dipro Chakraborty 2012 Desert Shadows
4 Peter Fenger 1874 Home School
5 Daniel Pecherski 1867 Abraham Lincoln Trad.
6 Kinsleigh Wong 1824 Orange Grove
7 Soren Aletheia-Zomlefer 1682 Horizon Community LC
8 Shunta Hashimoto 1678 Rancho Solano Greenway
9 Derek Chen 1615 Orange Grove
10 Neil Talanki 1607 Estrella
11 Luc LaLonde 1579 World Champion Chess Academy
12 Jarod Coulter 1540 Sanborn
13 Joseph Hoffman 1500 Chevalier Noir
14 Vedant Lahoti 1500 Basis
15 Nick Desmarais 1440 Cheyene
16 Matthew Worley 1416 World Champion Chess Academy
17 Adam Nehmeh 1371 Montessori
18 A.J. Anthony 1262 Chevalier Noir
K-6
RankNameRatingSchool
1 Alec Andersen 1765 Copper Creek
2 Kendrick Nguyen 1611 World Champion Chess Academy
3 Tony Yim 1598 Basis
4 Thomas Mathine 1523 Greenfield Country Day
5 Jonathan Booher 1518 Summit
6 Cortez Schenck 1424 World Champion Chess Acadmey
7 Michael Sauer 1401 New Vistas
8 Rachael Eng 1375 Desert Trails
9 Joshua Burchard 1209 N/A
10 Thayer Aletheia-Zomlefer 1158 Horizon Community LC
11 Austen Fletcher 1102 World Champion Chess Academy
12 Kevin Poppell 1076 Chevalier Noir
13 Kalyan Chaliki 1005 Zuni
14 Nandna Lahoti 942 Basis
15 Paul Nehmeh 867 Montessori
16 Dustin Freeman 831 Heritage
K-3
RankNameRatingSchool
1 Richard Qi 1427 Copper Canyon Elementary
2 Daniel Shevelev 1306 N/A
3 Zac Smith 1169 Eduprize
4 Stanley Wang 982 World Champion Chess Academy
5 Nathaniel Schmidt 968 World Champion Chess Academy

4 Responses to “Top Players List”

  1. Fedor Khrapatin Says:

    Is there going to be another Copper STate INternational and when?
    Thanks, Fedor

  2. Daniel Rensch Says:

    Fedor,

    Yes, the details have been posted. Who are you asking for? You must act quickly, as I am almost out of spots. Here is the link:

    CSI 2010 Tournament.

  3. Standersen Says:

    Hi Danny ~ I think your Top Player lists in the K-6 and Junior High section are a bit mixed up. David, Daniel, Luc, Jarod, Vedant and Nick are all in Jr. High – Alec, Tony and Jonathan are all still in grade school. Just thought you may want to know . . .

  4. Daniel Rensch Says:

    Steve,

    Yes, we definitely want to know those things. Every one of those changes will be made right now.

    ACE Chess

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