Champions

This page honors the champions of our past chess tournaments in the hope of preserving these records for when memory fades and paper decays.

Waco Scholastic Chess Champion

2021: Logan Shafer

2020: Walton Downs

2019: Logan Shafer

Waco Scholastic Chess Championship

	Championship	U1000	U600	Unrated
2021	Logan Shafer	William Candia	Jacob de Leon	Deyton Mathews
2020	Daniel Videna	Vijay Anandh	Logan Patete	None
2019	Logan Shafer	Alexander Bianchi	None	None

Waco Scholastic Fall Chess Exposition

	Open	U1000	U600	Unrated
2021	Caleb Thompson	Jacob de Leon	Jaikrish Sureshkumar	Jared Modica

Virtual Scholastic Chess Exposition

	Open	Reserve	Novice
2021	Santiago Arellano	Brandon Li & Nicholas Gabbard	Andy Wang
2022	Phuc Hoang	Gandharv Karthik	None

International Scholastic Swiss

	Open	Reserve	Novice
May 2021	Zlata Butenko	None	None
June 2021	Arya Saravanan	Phuc Hoang	None
July 2021	Pratham Uchila	Nevin Dsouza	Ted Owen Ambrose IV
August 2021	Phuc Hoang	Phillip Zheng	Soham Sharma
September 2021	Phuc Hoang	Tejas Navaneeth	Shiven Patel
October 2021	Akhil Kanna	Arnav Kuchibhatla	None
November 2021	Phuc Hoang & Ansh Batra	Suren Bheemalingam and Gandharv Karthik	None
December 2021	Phuc Hoang	Jeriden Rush	None
January 2022	Phuc Hoang	Oliver Mak, Siddhanth Raju, Gandharv Karthik & Joseph Schneider	None
February 2022	Phuc Hoang	None	None
April 2022	Phuc Hoang	Akhil Krishnamurthy	None
May 2022	Phuc Hoang	N/A	None

Note: Although we have enumerated the first place recipient in each section for the Waco Scholastic Chess Championship, it should be noted that the title of Waco Scholastic Chess Champion was conferred upon the first placing resident of McLennan County (including adjacent counties since 2021). Also, the International Scholastic Swiss was known as the Transcontinental Scholastic Chess Super-Tournament before April 2022.