by John D. Rockefeller V
Because the pandemic prevented MD Chess from running MD’s K-12 state championships (HS, MS, ES, & Girl) and the MD Open, Maryland's 2021 Irwin (50+), Denker (HS), Haring (K-12 Girl), Barber (MS), & Rockefeller (ES) Representatives & Alternate Representatives at the U.S. Open in New Jersey from July 31 - August 3 will be the 2 players with the highest of the following 3 ratings: official & established US Chess June Regular rating, June Online Regular rating (based on 4+ games), and June Online Quick rating (based on 4+ games). If you see any errors in the lists below and/or know of a MD resident and/or student who should (but does not yet) appear in 1 of the lists below, then please contact MD Chess IMMEDIATELY at tournaments@mdchess.com. Invitations to represent Maryland will be emailed on approximately June 14. Replies will be due 3 days later on June 17.
John T. Irwin National Tournament of Senior (50+) State Champions
- Shelby Getz, 2411
- Tegshsuren Enkhbat, 2388
- William Morrison, 2380
- Lawrence Kaufman, 2329
- Troy Roberts, 2236
- Larry Gilden, 2215
- Philip Collier, 2206
- Allan Savage, 2200
- See Lists of Top Players by Age & Gender
GM Arnold Denker National Tournament of High-School (9-12) State Champions
- Bijan Tahmassebi, 2210
- Pieter Heesters, 2205
- Jason Daniels, 2154
- Andrew Diep, 2144
- Benjamin Shoykhet, 2101
- Neel Jay, 2075
- Jayant Maheshwari, 2059
- Sean Power, 2032
- Shane Jayasundera, 1992
- Edward Xiao, 1942
- Bradley Guo, 1924
- See Lists of Top Players by Age & Gender
WIM Ruth Haring National Tournament of Girls (K-12) State Champions
- Carissa Zheng, 1961
- Saniya Savla, 1895
- Rachana Bhanuprasad, 1603
- Vaishnavi Vaijaeepay, 1587
- Emily Xing, 1584
- Anushka Skariah, 1465
- Ashley Zhang, 1404
- Rashi Gupta, 1285
- Vaahini Vaijaeepay, 1220
- Aliya Saldanha-Suri, 1176
- Destiny Dudley, 1165
- Mia Fuller, 1119
- Aishwarya Mekala, 1058
- See Lists of Top Players by Age & Gender
Dewain Barber National Tournament of Middle-School (6-8) State Champions
- Chen-chen Ye, 2021
- Anish Mariappan, 1863
- Gabriel Joshi, 1785
- Sherlock Grigsby, 1729
- Kevin Zimmer, 1631
- Devesh Cherukuri, 1527
- See Lists of Top Players by Age & Gender
John D. Rockefeller III National Tournament of Elementary-School (K-5) State Champions
- Daniel Udovenko, 1792
- Nitesh Cherukuri, 1725
- Hanchi Yao, 1636
- Youran Wang, 1555
- Siddharth Kurup, 1528
- Arjun Lakshmanan, 1320
- Aundre Dudley Jr., 1218
- Destiny Dudley, 1165
- Zhongee Yao, 902
- See Lists of Top Players by Age & Gender