Toby Ching and Parker Sorenson Post Strong Months

 

Toby Ching and Parker Sorenson had the largest ratings bumps of any Illinois players in August.

Toby raised his rating 335 points to 821. Parker upped his rating 317 points.

Toby did very well in the "Oh My's" section of the Berkeley Summer Camp tournament in Tampa Bay, FL at the end of July. Toby came in second place out of 10 participants, with 4.0/5. His only loss was to section winner, Wolfe Hudepohl, a 1200-player from Florida.

Parker tied for first in the U1000 section at the August 14 Knights Quest, going four-for-four. All five of Parker's rated events have been Knights Quest tournaments.

Jack Heller (+251) and Elton Huang (+222) also showed strong gains.

24 others had increases greater than 100 points!

  USCF Ratings  
Name Sept Aug Difference
 TOBY CHING 821 486 335
 PARKER SORENSON 892 575 317
 JACK HELLER 1365 1114 251
 ELTON HUANG 323 101 222
 ADVAIT VIJAY 1233 1042 191
 DONALD EGAN III 1050 860 190
 NOLAN LUIS FLETES 673 483 190
 SRIHAS RAO 1011 825 186
 NISHA SALIAN 941 768 173
 AKIVA TOKARSKIY 871 706 165
 TIMOTHY IAN LIU 625 467 158
 DERRICK RED 1263 1106 157
 JACOB PLOTNICK 839 693 146
 SARAH TOKARSKIY 550 409 141
 LOHIT BHATNAGAR 798 658 140
 JOHN  FRAWLEY 1202 1066 136
 AYA BAREKET 331 197 134
 ANDREY NOVIKOV 1203 1069 134
 KIERAN CASSIDY 711 577 134
 ALEXANDER IVASCU 350 224 126
 SRIKANTH MADUGULA 1711 1586 125
 PHILIP MCCULLY 1381 1259 122
 NICHOLAS ALLISON 1446 1326 120
 BENJAMIN MCKENDALL 498 380 118
 YIZHANG CHEN 923 805 118
 HUDSON LUTFIYYA 719 608 111
 ADAM LONN 1670 1561 109
 DAVID ZIMMERMANN 1505 1400 105
 GEORGIA WOLF 1406 1302 104