1500+ Young Chess Competitors Battled for National Titles in Florida!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Jerry Nash
December 12, 2006
(931) 787-1234 #145
Press Release #56 of 2006
(Crossville, TN) The U.S. Chess Federation held its’ 2006 K-12/Collegiate Chess Championship at the Disney’s Coronado Spring Resort located at 1000 W. Buena Vista Drive, Lake Buena Vista, Florida between December 8-10. 1540 young chess, representing 40 states, participated in this national championship!
First place individual and team winners are: (Note: With tied scores the first player listed won on the tiebreak.)
Kindergarten: Individual: Raymond Sun of Texas (rated 1460) 7.0 points; Team: Oak Hall of Gainesville,Florida won with 11.5 points.
1st Grade: Ind. Jonathan Chiang of Texas (1564) 6.5 points; Team: The Village School, Houston,Texas 14.5 pts.
2nd Grade: Ind. Tom Polgar-Shutzman of New York (1499) 6.5 points; Team: Hunter College Campus School from New York 15.0 pts.
3rd Grade: Ind. Benjamin B. Moon of Georgia (1653) 7.0 pts.; Team: Co-champs were Dalton of New York and Hunter College Campus School with 16.0.
4th Grade: Ind. Kevin Y. Cao of Missouri (1700) and Jarod M. Pamatmat of Texas (1728) tied with 6.5 pts.;Team: Dalton of New York with 15.0 pts.
5th Grade: Ind. Sylvia Yang (1819) of Texas and Alec S. Ho (1733) of Washington tied with 6.5 scores;Team: PS 124 of New York finished with 15.5 pts.
6th Grade: Ind. Christopher Heung of Florida (1853) won with 6.5 pts.;TEAM: Liberty Middle School, Tampa,Florida with 14.5 pts.
7th Grade: Ind. Tied with 6.0 were: Andrew Ng (1948) of New Jersey; Alec Getz (2135) of New York; Zachary A. Young of New York (1973) and Michael Yang of Minnesota (2103). TEAM: Hunter College Campus School, New York with 16.0 pts.
8th Grade: Ind. Tied Mark A. Heimann of Pennsylvania (2246) and Victor C. Shen of New Jersey (2209) 6.5 pts. TEAM: T.H. Rogers of Houston,Texas with 15.0 pts.
9th Grade: Ind. Tied Shinsaku of Maryland (2175) and Thomas Henry Riccardi of New York (2148) 6.0 scores. TEAM: Suncoast High School, Riviera B from Florida had 12.5 pts.
10th Grade: Ind. Matt J. Parry of New York (2135) finished with 6.5 pts.; TEAM: Columbus Alt HS from Columbus, Ohio 11.5 pts.
11th Grade: Ind. Daniel J. Ludwig of Florida (2388) had perfect score with 7.0; TEAM: Catalina Foothills HS, Tucson, Arizona 14.5 pts.
12th Grade: Ind. Eric Rodriguez from Florida (2209) 6.5 pts.; TEAM: Catalina Foothills HS, Tucson, Arizona 15.5 pts.
Collegiate: Ind. Daniel Fernandez of Texas (2463) 6.0 pts.; TEAM: The University Of Texas At Dallas 15.5 pts.
The full press release can be read here.
wow those kids have ratings that go up very fast each year.
Congratulations to them all. They are very good chess players. I hope everyone had a good time whether they won or if they came in below first place. It is the fun of playing that matters.
From kindergarten to 7th grade, to win you either need to be Asian ethnicity or have a GM parent.
I am pleased to say that 3 of the winners had competed in events that I proudly sponsored in the Buffalo Niagara region this past year. Obviously good karma can be obtained here.
Grade 2- Tommy Polgar Shuzman winner of the 2nd Annual Stella Niagara-Excelsior Scholastic
Grade 9- Thomas Riccardi and Grade 10-Matt Parry strong competitors in the Jeff White Memorial-Excelsior Open which was won by GM Ehlvest.
Think there are a number of non-Asian winners in K-7. Grades 8 & 9 also are mixed heritage. Anyone who won studied and worked hard. It is not easy to win one of these.