The 2025 U.S. Cadet Championship is an invitational chess tournament organized by the U.S. Chess Federation, featuring eight of the top American players under 16 years old. It is a round-robin event with a time control of G/90;+30 (90 minutes per player with a 30-second increment per move) and is FIDE-rated.
The 2025 tournament took place from June 19-22, 2025, at the DoubleTree by Hilton Lisle Naperville in Lisle, Illinois. IM Tanitoluwa Adewumi won the championship with a round to spare, defending his 2024 title. Tani Adewumi collected 6,0/7, a point more than the silver medalist Andrew Jiang. The bronze is for Rose Atwell with 4,5/7.
Throwback: Tani Adewumi is a National Chess Master at Age 10
U.S. Cadet Championship Winners By Year
Year
Winner (s)
Location
1986
Alex Sherzer
New York, NY
1987
Ilya Gurevich
New York, NY
1988-1989
not held
N/A
1990
Bobby Seltzer
New York, NY
1991
Josh Waitzkin
Bronxville, NY
1992
Tal Shaked
New York, NY
1993
Arun Sharma
Washington, DC
1994
Dean Ippolito
Washington, DC
1995
Igor Shliperman
Washington, DC
1996
Noah Siegel
Washington, DC
1997
Justin Sarkar
Nashville, TN
1998
Dmitry Schneider, Vinay Bhat
Nashville, TN
1999
Jordy Mont-Reynaud
Nashville, TN
2000
Mark Geist, Matthew Traldi
San Francisco, CA
2001
Aaron Pixton
West Point, NY
2002
Pieta Garrett
Cleveland, OH
2003
Matthew Ho, Alen Melikadamian
Miami, FL
2004
Daniel Ludwig
Lindsborg, KS
2005
Sarkis Agaian, Elliot Lui
King’s Island, OH
2006
Mark Tyler Arnold
Dallas, TX
2007
Evan Ju, Warren Harper
Crossville, TN
2008
Conrad Holt
Lindsborg, KS
2009
Andrew Ng
Crossville, TN
2010
Yian Liou, Michael Yang
Crossville, TN
2011
Arthur Shen, Michael Bodek
Crossville, TN
2012
Michael Bodek, Christopher Gu, Christopher Wu, Aleksandr Ostrovskiy
Rockville, MD
2013
Justus Williams, Michael William Brown
Rockville, MD
2014
Edward Song
Rockville, MD
2015
Cameron Wheeler
Rockville, MD
2016
Praveen Balakrishnan
Rockville, MD
2017
Ben Li, Carissa Yip
Manchester, NH
2018
David Brodsky
San Jose, CA
2019
Justin Wang
San Jose, CA
2020
Christopher Yoo
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2022
Nico Chasin
Schaumburg, IL
2023
Erick Zhao
Schaumburg, IL
2024
Tanitoluwa Adewumi
Lisle, IL