Shinsaku Uesugi
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 Shinsaku Uesugi at the 38th Chess Olympic in Dresden, Germany in November 2008 | |
| Full name | Shinsaku Uesugi |
| Country |  Japan |
| Title | FIDE Master (JUL 2009) |
| Peak rating | 2321 (SEP 2009) |
 Shinsaku Uesugi with Former World Champion Garry Kasparov at the US Chess SuperNationals (the National Scholastic Championship) in Nashville, TN in April 2009
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Shinsaku Uesugi is a FIDE Master (FM, World Chess Federation Master)[1] of Japan and played for Japan at the 38th Chess Olympic in Dresden, Germany in November 2008. He won the 40th Japan National Chess Championship in May 2007 and became youngest ever National Champion (16 years old 18 days) .
Shinsaku Uesugi was born in Kyoto, Japan on April 17, 1991 and moved to the United States in March 2000. He is currently a high school senior at Winston Churchill High School (Montgomery County, Maryland).
Chess major achievements
World
- Chess Olympic Player represented Japan for 38th Chess Olympic, Dresden, Germany - NOV 2008[2]
- World Youth Olympic, Singapore - AUG 2007[3]
- World Junior Chess Championship, Istanbul, Turkey - NOV 2005[4]
United States of America
- Springfield Open Co-Champion, Springfield, VA - JAN 2010[5]
- United States Chess League Player at Baltimore Kingfishers - AUG-NOV 2009[6]
- US NO.1 ranking among age 18, JUN 2009[8]
- US National Scholastic Champion of Grade 10, Houston, TX - DEC 2007[11]
- US National Scholastic Champion of Grade 9, Lake Buena Vista, FL - DEC 2006[12]
- Youngest Winner of Sweet 16 Invitation only Maryland Scholastic Championship to determine University of Maryland, Baltimore County (2009 US NO.1 Chess University) Chess Scholar awarded full tuition scholarship for UMBC in Grade 7, Catonsville, MD - MAR 2005[13]
Japan
- 2009-2010 Most Promising Youth Award for the coming Olympics and International Championships by Japanese Olympic Committee[14]
- Three times Japan Junior Champion and Junior Olympic Cup winner, Tokyo, Japan - JUL 2007[15], JUL 2008[16], JUL 2009[17]
- Japan Youngest ever National Champion, Tokyo, Japan - MAY 2007[20]
Chess profiles
Chess coach
- Victor Sherman, Former USSR Leningrad chess team's head coach
Media articles
- US Schools Recognize Benefits of Chess(YouTube) by Voice of America on NOV 26, 2008
- Japanese-American Talent by ICC Chess.FM on NOV 24, 2008
- Uesugi, Lu tie at Open by The Washington Times on FEB 9, 2008
- Searching for Bobby Fisher in Potomac? by Potomac Almanac on JUL 18, 2007
- Trumph in Tokyo by Potomac Almanac on MAY 15, 2007
Reference
- ^ FIDE personal file which refers to Shinsaku Uesugi's FIDE Master title
- ^ Japan National Team result at 38th Dresden Chess Olympic in Dresden, Germany NOV 2008
- ^ Japan National Team result at 12th World Youth U16 Chess Olympic in Singapore JUL 2007
- ^ World Junior Championship photo
- ^ Springfield Open result
- ^ Baltimore Kingfishers' roster
- ^ UMBC Championship result
- ^ US Top Age 18 by USCF
- ^ VA Open Result
- ^ VA Open Champions
- ^ National Scholastic Championship 2007 result
- ^ National Scholastic Championship 2006 result
- ^ Sweet 16 Invitation result
- ^ Certificate of Most Promising Youth Award by JOC (Japanese)
- ^ Japan National Junior Championship 2007 result (Japanese)
- ^ Japan National Junior Championship 2008 result (Japanese)
- ^ Japan National Junior Championship 2009 result (Japanese)
- ^ Summer Open 2008 result (Japanese)
- ^ Summer Open 2009 result (Japanese)
- ^ Japan National Championship result (Japanese)
