Local Chess Players Perform Well in State Competition
Landsdowne youngsters are the only perfect scorers in K-3 division
By Herky del Mundo
Young area chess players made their mark at the Virginia Scholastic Chess Championships, held in Yorktown on March 19 -20.
Trung Nguyen of Landsdowne took first place in the last round of the grade K – 3 division championships, snatching it from his brother, Tan.
The Nguyens were the only perfect scorers going to the last round of the K-3 section. The top 4 in the section were all Ashburn Chess Club members: Trung Nguyen, first; Kevin Zhang, second; Tan Nguyen, third, and Bryant Lohr, fourth. Vivian Cao-Dao, younger sister of Alvin, also tied for third but ended in tenth place because of the tiebreak. Other players who regularly attend Ashburn tournaments were seventh-place winner Andrew Wang, ninth-place winner Neeyanth Kopparapu, and 11th place winner Elijah Kirtley.
The Stone Bridge High School chess team scored its best finish ever with a second-place finish at the Virginia Scholastics competition. Each year, players from all over Virginia gather to compete for the state’s top chess prize. The event attracted 20 schools to this year’s venue, Grafton Middle School in Yorktown.
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Talented kids.