Montessori home to skilled chess players
Three students place at Chess for Success tourney

By Rob Cullivan
The Gresham Outlook, Mar 25, 2008

Tucker Price, 12, a sixth-grader at Franciscan Montessori Earth School in southeast Portland, and Sean Richardson, 9, a fourth-grader, spend a lot of time staring at tables.

Their concentration paid off last weekend at the Chess for Success State Championship Tournament at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, March 21-22.

Tucker – the 2005 state champion in the elementary division – tied for fourth place in the sixth grade division, and Sean tied for sixth in the elementary, or kindergarten-through-fourth division. Meanwhile, Nathan Smith, a third-grader at Franciscan, tied for fourth place in the elementary division.

Prior to the tournament, Montessori’s two chess teams placed second in the K-5 and 6-8 divisions respectively in prior regional Chess for Success tournaments.

At the regionals, Tucker and Sean both took first place in their respective classes, and Alex Petersen, a seventh grader at Montessori, took first place in the seventh grade division. Alex was unable to make the Chess for Success tournament because he was out of the country, but he should be joining several other Montesorri team members at the Oregon Scholastic Chess Federation’s state tournament in Seaside April 12.

Here is the full article.

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