Our Founders
ISHAN AIYER
Student, Blair Academy, NJ. Highest USCF rating :1701
Chess accomplishments:
2016 US NATIONALS Championship G60 Ranked 3rd
2016 CA Warfare State Championship Ranked 3rd
2017 CA STATE Scholastic Championship Ranked 4th
2017 NATIONAL.JR Chess Championship
G30 Ranked 6th
ISHAN AIYER
Student, Blair Academy, NJ Highest USCF rating :1701
AKSHAR AIYER
Student, University of Southern California, CA. Highest USCF rating :1809
Chess accomplishments:
2016 US CLASS CHAMPIONSHIP NATIONAL Ranked 1st
2016 8TH ANNUAL GOLDEN STATE OPEN Ranked 1st
2017 GM RAUF MAMEDOV CHAMPIONSHIP Ranked 2nd
2017 Susan Polgar National Foundation U-14 Ranked 3rd
2017 CALCHESS STATES CHAMP Ranked 4th
AKSHAR AIYER
Student, University of Southern California, CA Highest USCF rating :1809
Advait Namburi
Student, University of California Santa Cruz, CA Highest USCF rating: 1596
First Place 2016 National Game 30 Championship Second Place 2016 CALCHESS State Championship Third Place 2013 National G60 Championship
ADVAIT NAMBURI
Student, University of California Santa Cruz, CA Highest USCF rating: 1596
DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS
Aniketh Bandi
Student, Blair Academy
Aniketh Bandi
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
GM Ivan Cheparinov
World Top 20 in 2007 - 2713 rating
Bulgarian Champion 2004, 2005, 2012, 2018.
World Cup appearances in 2005, 2007, 2009, 2015 and 2017
2005 World Cup beat Vassily Ivanchuk; lost to Magnus Carlsen in Round 3
2007 World Cup lost to Magnus Carlsen in the Quarterfinals
FIDE World Champion Veselin Topalov’s second
GM Ivan Cheparinov
WGM Dimitrijevic Aleksandra
Women Grandmaster,
ELO 2383
FIDE Trainer & International Arbiter
European Super Cup U18 Champion
4 Chess Olympiads for Serbia Women National team.
General Secretary of Association of Chess Professionals 2019 - present
Secretary of FIDE Online Commission 2014 - present
WGM Dimitrijevic Aleksandra
GM ZAVEN ANDRIASIAN
GrandMaster at age 17
World Junior Champion 2006
Coach of the Armenian Women's National Chess Team
European Youth Chess Champion 2005
Winner Russian Cup 2010
Author of 2 bestseller books about Sicilian Defense
GM ZAVEN ANDRIASIAN
Zehra Surani RRT PhD
President Rotary Club of Southside Corpus Christi
Industrial & Organizational Psychologist
Executive Director, It's Your Life Foundation.
Zehra Surani RRT PhD
Srivalsan Ponnachath
Senior Vice President , Business Technology Services, Fiserv
Senior Vice President Services Sales – India, Cisco Systems
Country Head and Director – Services, Sun Microsystems
Srivalsan Ponnachath
V.R.BOBBA
Chess coach team India
World Youth Chess Championship in 1996
Asian Youth Chess Championship for U-10, U-12, and U-14 boys 2000
Asian Youth Chess Championship for U-16 and U-18 girls in 2004
Commonwealth Chess Championship in 2004
GOLD MEDALS ACHIEVED BY STUDENTS:
1996 GM Pentala Harikrishna - World U-10 Boys Championship, Spain
2012 WIM Nutakki Priyanka - World U-10 Girls Championship, Slovenia
2004 IM Dasari Sai Srinivas - World Children's Olympiad
V.R.BOBBA
Parinda Mehta MD
Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics
Member, Division of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Immune Deficiency
Parinda Mehta MD
Sashi Venkatraman
Research Scientist Google
Co-Founder and CTO Sigmoid Labs - Where is my Train App; acquired by Google in December 2018.
Director Engineering – Algorithms TiVo
