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Tune in to hear the story behind Queens United told by the co-founder Maggie Tsyganova!
Maggie is a senior at Walter Payton College Prep and co-founded Queens United in 2019. She has been playing competitive chess for the past 6 years and is Co-Captain of the Chess Team. She is currently the highest-rated female chess player of her age group in Illinois. Her most recent accomplishments include placing 1st in the ICA Youth Invitational 2022 Tournament for Girls K-12, where she represented Illinois at the Ruth Haring National Tournament of Girls State Champions, as well as winning the Illinois 2021 Class A State Championship. Apart from working to increase girls' involvement in chess, she is part of her school’s Economics and Investment Team and enjoys playing badminton and studying foreign languages in her free time.