This
website was established in January, 2006, and is maintained by Bruce Roth, who
has been teaching children the game of chess in the
My goal is to
make this a site of information about chess activities and chess history in the
This site
has a Schools Awards section. Please submit information about chess
accomplishments at your school, so your school can be added to this section.
This is limited to schools in the mid
If you want
to write an article or editorial about any aspect of chess, local or global,
please submit it to the website.
If you want
to submit information about a tournament in the state of
Current News!!!!
Michael Chen from St. Joseph won the K-3 championship on Saturday 3/15, and came
back and won the K-8 championship on Sunday 3/16. Apurva Virkud from Troy
finished 2nd in the K-8 championship after finishing 3rd in the K-5 championship
a day earlier. The K-5 champion, Kyle Webster from Ann Arbor, and 2nd place
finisher Epiphany Peters of Grand Rapids, did not compete on Sunday. And Evan
Hawver of Ann Arbor finished 4th in the K-5 Championship and 5th in the K-8
championship, leaving only 2 places in the top 5 for actual Jr High students!!
The top local finisher was Ivan Keener of Lansing Cavanaugh Elementary who tied
for 1st place in the K-5 Reserve section with Jordan Candie.
Other local students winning trophies included:
Ritwik Biswas, Okemos Chippewa, 4th Place, K-8 Reserve
Nishant Jain, Okemos Chippewa, 2nd Place, 8th Grade, K-8 Championship
Aaron Janick, Okemos Hiawatha, 5th Place, K-5 Reserve
Kartikeya Kandula, Okemos Bennett Woods, 7th Place, K-5 Reserve
Aditya Kandula, Okemos Bennett Woods, 3rd Place, 1st grade, K-3 Championships
Zachary Lewis, Okemos Hiawatha, 8th Place, K-5 Reserve
Will Miklavcic, Haslett Ralya, 2nd Place, 4th Grade, K-5 Championship
Mayank Patke, Okemos Chippewa, 3rd Place, 7th Grade, K-8 Championship
Jeffrey Xiao, Okemos Cornell, 11th Place, K-5 Reserve
Zony Zhang, Okemos Chippewa, 3rd Place, 6th Grade, K-8 Championship
And in another upset, 6th grader Atulty Shetty from Ann Arbor defeated 10th
grader James Canty III from Detroit in the finals of the High School
Championship.
The 2008 State Jr. High Team Tournament was held
Local teams winning trophies include:
Okemos Chippewa--5th place
Okemos
Kinawa--6th Place
The 2008 State Elementary Team Tournament was held
Okemos Chippewa--7th place, K-6 championship
Okemos Kinawa--8th Place, K-6 Championship
Okemos Hiawatha--9th place, K-5 Championship
Okemos Hiawatha--6th Place, K-5 Reserve Section
Okemos Hiawatha--9th Place, K-3 Championshi
See school awards section for team
members
Sign Up for Upcoming
Tournaments (see upcoming tournaments link)
Alaiedon Fun
Tournament--March 1 (Mason, MI)
Michigan Individual Championships--March 15-16 (Oakland Univ.)
Wardcliff Scholastic Tournament--April 19 (Chippewa MS, Okemos, MI)
Links:
Lansing Chess Club Tournament Schedule 2008
Okemos Chess Students Section
Upcoming Tournaments
School Awards Section
Michigan Chess Association
US Chess Federation
Jennifer Skidmore's Blog (Michigan
Chess Scholastic Director)
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