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Alice Lee

Title:

Woman Candidate Master

Rating:

1967

Federation:

USA

Age:

10

Bio:

Alice Lee is an American chess WCM from Minnesota. She started playing chess at the age of 6. At 7, Alice won the National Girls Championship U8 section, and went on to place 5th in the Girls U8 section in the 2017 World Cadet Chess Championship. At the age of 8, Alice became one of the youngest girls to reach US chess expert level. She won the National Girls Championship U18 section at the age of 9, and was the gold medalist in the 2019 World Cadet Championship in the Girls U10 section with a score of 10/11. At the age of 10, Alice achieved the US Chess National Master title. She has exhibited so much talent that she caught the eye of Gary Kasparov and joined the Kasparov Chess Foundation’s Young Stars Team USA Training camps.

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Ruiyang Yan

Title:

Woman Candidate Master

Rating:

2093

Federation:

USA

Age:

13

Bio:

Yan hails from Mountain View, CA. She won the Girls 10-13 division of the ChessKid Online National Invitational Championship last February with an undefeated four out of five score. She is a returning competitor from the 2019 U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship.

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Sophie Morris-Suzuki

Title:

Woman FIDE Master

Rating:

2043

Federation:

USA

Age:

18

Bio:

In 2014, at the age of 11, Sophie tried to learn how to play chess after watching her friends play the game at school. She really enjoyed it, so she decided to play in her first tournament soon afterwards. Since then, her rating skyrocketed to above 1500 in July 2015, and then, in February 2016, she broke the 2000 barrier. Later that year, she won second place in the U14 section of the 2016 All-Girls National Championship. The following year, she won the 2017 New York Girls State Championship and the 2017 All-Girls National Championship (in the U18 section). She also carried the Stuyvesant High School chess team to first place victories in the 2016 K-12 Grade Championships and the 2017 All-Girls National Championship. Morris-Suzuki is a returning competitor from the 2018 U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship.

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Rochelle Wu

Title:

Woman International Master

Rating:

2029

Federation:

USA

Age:

14

Bio:

Rochelle started playing chess at the age of six. She won the gold medal in the 2016 World Cadet Chess Championship under-10 girls section. In 2017, Rochelle took first place in the National Girls Tournament of Champions. At the age of 11, she earned her National Master title. Rochelle earned the WIM title and a WGM norm by winning the 2018 North American Junior Girls Championship. In 2019, Rochelle broke the record for the youngest ever player to represent the U.S. in an Olympiad or World Team and celebrated her 13th birthday at the World Team Championship in Kazakhstan. With her success as a young player, she has been invited to participate in the Young Stars program, a chess training program coached by Garry Kasparov and sponsored by the Saint Louis Chess Club.

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2020 U.S. Championships