The Laura Aspis Prize was an award in the game of chess

Chess

Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...

. Beginning in 1980, it was awarded annually to the number one ranked American chess player under the age of 13 by the nonprofit educational foundation Chess-in-the-Schools (formerly known as the American Chess Foundation) until 1999.

The prize offered a trophy and $1,500. It was funded by Dr. Samuel L. Aspis and presented in memory of his late wife Laura. Winners included 1989 U.S. Champion Stuart Rachels

Stuart Rachels

Stuart Rachels is an International Master of chess and the son of the philosopher James Rachels . He tied for first place in the 1989-90 U.S. Chess Championship. Although no longer an active player, his FIDE rating is 2485, and his USCF rating is 2605.Rachels grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. He...

 (1982), 1990 World Junior Champion Ilya Gurevich

Ilya Gurevich

Ilya Gurevich is a Soviet-born American chess grandmaster.He became a chess master at 12 years, 3 months. He was a student at Yeshiva Academy in Worcester, Massachusetts.In 1983, he won the U.S...

 (1983), K. K. Karanja

K. K. Karanja

Kangugi "K. K." Karanja is a chess player regarded as the first African-American chess prodigy. He became a US Chess Federation Candidate Master at the age of 10, the youngest African-American to do so.- Championships and Awards :...

 (1985), 1997 World Junior Champion Tal Shaked

Tal Shaked

Tal Shaked is an American chess grandmaster, who is best known for winning the World Junior Championship in 1997....

 (1991), Jordy Mont-Reynaud

Jordy Mont-Reynaud

Jordy Mont-Reynaud became the youngest ever chess master in the United States when he became a master at the age of 10 years 209 days in 1994, a record surpassed by Vinay Bhat, and presently held by Samuel Sevian...

 (1994), Vinay Bhat

Vinay Bhat

Vinay Bhat is an American chess Grandmaster. Bhat earned his third Grandmaster norm in July 2007 at the age of 23, though he did not obtain the Grandmaster title immediately due to rating requirements. Bhat ultimately earned the Grandmaster title in October 2008...

 (1996), and 2005 & 2009 U.S. Champion Hikaru Nakamura

Hikaru Nakamura

Hikaru Nakamura is an American chess Grandmaster . He has been ranked among the top six players in the world by FIDE....

(1999).