FIDE Master title: Earned Dec 2023. Hit peak FIDE rating of 2313
1st International Master (IM) Norm: Earned Jan 2023
Life Master title: Earned June 2019
National Master title: Earned July 2012
Top 50 US speed chess player (US Blitz rating 2470, peak 2557)
Apr-Sep 2019: I managed the Pittsburgh Pawngrabbers team in the Professional Rapid Online (PRO) Chess League. You can check out our chess.com here and our league page here. The team featured players such as former US champion (and current US senior champion) GM Alex Shabalov, US Junior Champion Awonder Liang, and US Women's Champion Jennifer Yu.
Nov 2018 to Mar 2019: I played board 4 for the New York Marshalls team in the PRO Chess League. I was nominated for two weekly MVPs, winning one, for a match performance in which I drew World Top 10 players Wesley So and Fabiano Caruana (the latter of which was the 2018 World Championship Challenger).
2015-2018: Pennsylvania State Champion, the only 4-time consecutive champion since the event's inception in 1897.
Feb 2018: Played top board for Carnegie Mellon, the winning team (perfect 6 out of 6) at the World Amateur Team Championship, the largest team tournament in the world.
Jul 2017: 2nd place US Junior Open
Mar 2014-Aug 2015: Served as Games Editor for the award-winning MA state chess magazine Chess Horizons
Aug 2014: T-2nd US Open U2400
Feb 2014: Played 2nd board and captain for co-champion team (5.5 out of 6) at the World Amateur Team Championship, narrowly edged by Princeton on tiebreaks.
Aug 2013: Silver Medalist North American Youth U16 (Official US Representative)
Jul 2013: T-2nd World Open U2400
Jul 2011: MA Representative to the Barber National K-8 Championship (4th place)
Mar 2011: MA U14 Champion
Mar 2010: MA U14 Champion
Teaching experience in individual, group, and camp settings, for students of all ages.