By
Dewain Barber
Revised April 3, 2019
I have created a Denker GMs Hall of Fame with the help of US Chess who did some research on the Denker participants who have achieved the GM title. Thanks to Walter Brown and the busy staff at US Chess we have a list of fifteen Denker players who have gone on to become Grandmasters. This list appears in Alpha order with the state affiliate and year/years of Denker participation:
GM Vinay Bhat (CA-N) 1998-99
GM Michael William Brown (CA-S) 2012-13
GM John Daniel Bryant (CA-S) 2007
GM John M. Burke (NJ) 2016
GM Nicholas Checa (NY) 2019
GM Benjamin Finegold (MI) 1985-86
GM Alex Fishbein (CO) 1985
GM Josh Friedel (NH) 2002
GM Ilya Gerevich (MA) 1986, 1988
GM Jesse Kraai (NM) 1988-1990
GM Awonder Liang (WI) 2021
GM Mackenzie Molner (NJ) 2004-05
GM Eugene Perelshteyn (MA) 1995
GM Tal Shaked (AZ) 1993
GM Andrew Tang (MN) 2015
GM Darwin Yang (TX) 2012
GM Steven Zeirk (CA-N) 2010