Karthik Murugan

Karthik Murugan is a ninth-grade student at Downingtown East High School, Downingtown, Pennsylvania. He has been playing chess since 2014. His peak USCF rating is approximately 1700. He has played 800 games in 170 USCF rated tournaments. He surpassed 1000 in the first 20 tournaments. Notably, he is a two-time Greater Mid-Atlantic Elementary Champion and a two-time Pennsylvania State Scholastic Bughouse Champion. He also won 2017 US Open National Elementary Chess Championship. Karthik's other...See more

Karthik Murugan is a ninth-grade student at Downingtown East High School, Downingtown, Pennsylvania. He has been playing chess since 2014. His peak USCF rating is approximately 1700. He has played 800 games in 170 USCF rated tournaments. He surpassed 1000 in the first 20 tournaments. Notably, he is a two-time Greater Mid-Atlantic Elementary Champion and a two-time Pennsylvania State Scholastic Bughouse Champion. He also won 2017 US Open National Elementary Chess Championship. Karthik's other passion is long-distance running. He has been running the annual Blue Cross Broad Street Run, the United States' largest ten-miler, since the age of ten, and he places well overall and within his age bracket. He recently finished a half marathon in one hour and forty-eight minutes. While he enjoys his daily outside runs, he was a middle school track team runner also. And this is me ... See less