Vladimir Tivanski won First Place in the 1st Annual Longfellow Chess Tournament! Thomas Pierce showed some grit! and won 6th place overall in a very strong performance.
In the Chess Ladder Aaron Smith took number 1 spot with an upset over Barry Vigil
Thank you for a great year, I had tons of fun, with our games and new bug house games. Next year I hope to have more tournaments, and we will continue to have more success!
In our first year we accomplished a lot!
2nd place State Team Elementary Championship
1st Place 7th Annual Weber Chess Tournament
2nd Place K-5 Prairie Chess Series
1st place K-2 Prairie Chess Series
3rd Place K-6 Ice Harbor Regional Scholastic Grand Prix
2nd Place K-3 Ice Harbor Regional Scholastic Grand Prix
and Numerous individual honors!
Thank you so much Ms Shoppa, Ann Marie our Librarian, and our parent volunteers
Charles Pierce and Levant Bayman our puzzle masters
Shungang Wei our chess skills coach
Next year we are going to embark on a new chess league.
In two weeks there is a tournament at Kirkwood Community College on June 15th!
Chess Wars VI
http://www.iowachess.org/tournaments.asp
This is a good one for parents to play along with the kids.
and finally..... the last chess ladder
1 +4 22 0 Aaron Smith
2 +4 23 0 Barry vigil
3 -1 21 0 Andy Luo
4 +44 16 0 Akhil Bharanidhar
5 +2 13 0 Vladimir Tivanski
6 +2 26 0 Nathan Wei
7 +2 13 0 Justin Pieper
8 +39 8 0 Eric (Yo Yo) Liu
9 -8 24 0 Yulong Shao
10 -6 24 0 Andrey Arshava
11 +9 21 0 Eric Pieper
12 -9 24 0 Liam Willett
13 -1 24 0 Jack Gray
14 -1 14 0 Jacob Vigil
15 +22 13 0 Josh Greene
16 -6 17 0 Benjamin Zhang
17 +10 14 0 Jimin Jung
18 -7 24 0 Joseph Vigil
19 +2 7 0 Alexandra Curtu
20 -3 12 0 Thomas Pierce
21 +12 6 0 Reece Yang
22 +9 8 0 Jocelyn Hsieh
23 -4 22 0 Mohana Sunkara
24 +12 10 0 Evan Green
25 +20 18 0 Jim Li
26 -8 7 0 Karina Li
27 +26 7 0 Sachiko Goto
28 -2 18 0 Sebastian Cochran
29 +11 15 0 Shalom A. Gugsa
30 +22 7 0 Diana Tivanski
31 -17 7 0 Lily (Hongjin) Li
32 -17 7 0 Miranda Feng
33 -5 9 0 Noah Willett
34 +21 3 0 Serena Li
35 -3 4 0 Richard Yang
36 -20 8 0 Defne Bayman
37 -15 2 0 Yifan Zhai
38 +19 2 0 Yifan Bu
39 -16 6 0 Xinyu Wang
40 -16 7 0 Sanjeev Sarin
41 -16 6 0 Laurel Haverkamp
42 -13 6 0 Jikun, (Bob) Zhang
43 -13 1 0 Sabrina Du
44 -10 4 0 Emerson Bennett
45 -10 3 0 Connor Houtman
46 -8 0 3 Amelia Stevens
47 -8 2 0 Tommy Stevens
48 +1 5 0 Ajay Bharanidhar
49 +5 9 0 J.J. Brown
50 -9 5 0 Emma Zheng
51 -9 1 0 Naomi A. Gugsa
52 -9 1 1 Ryan Goodman
53 -9 1 1 Joey Goodman
54 -8 2 0 David Zhou
55 -5 1 0 Yeon (Jay) Lim
56 -5 0 0 YoonJi (Beth) Lim
57 -1 0 0 Laura Li
58 0 0 0 Nick Oberbrockling
59 0 0 0 Mackenzie Oberbrockling
