April 21, 2025 - April 29, 2025
Holiday notice: The Saint Louis Chess Club will be closed on Easter Sunday, April 20, 2025. We’ll reopen with normal hours on Monday, April 21.
Ashritha Eswaran is an American FIDE Master originally from Northern California. She is currently ranked #16 among women in the U.S. as of August 2023. In 2015, Eswaran took first place in the U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship with a score of 6.5/9. She then took bronze in the 2015 Pan-American Youth Chess Championship, and went on to win gold at the 2015 Pan-American Junior Championship. This will be Eswaran’s 7th U.S. Women’s Championship. Recently, she graduated from Carnegie Mellon with a Master’s Degree in Data Analytics for Science. Currently, Eswaran is a data analytics engineer working full-time at State Farm.