Saturday, March 15, 2008

Mercer Island Chess Tournament

For the past several years, Kate Elliot Smith has organized a wonderful Mercer Island-only chess tournament for kids in grades K through 6th grade.  I like it because it promotes competition in a brainy way, as opposed to team sports which only emphasize athletics.  If your kid isn't the athletic type, or you just want kids to be exposed to an activity that rewards a good mind over a good body, you can't beat chess -- and we need way more of these pro-brain types.

Unfortunately Kate is leaving Mercer Island so we desperately need a replacement organizer.  My work keeps me too busy to devote more time to this myself (though I've been honored to be one of the judges for the past two events), but if you know somebody who can help, please let us know.

Mercer Island Chess Tournament

Meanwhile, the results for this year's competition are now posted online, so like last year I resorted the list to see the top 30 from K through 3rd grade:

 

DIERKES,

CHRISTOPHER

1230

CUMMINGS,

CAMERON

1196

EVANS,

JACOB

999

CHANSKY,

JOSH

961

HO,

JUSTIN

956

STEDNICK,

TRAVIS

926

LEE,

ANDREW

884

CHANSKY,

MATTHEW

856

BOKSEM,

LUKE

838

SHIN,

JOSHUA

802

BENSON,

NATHANIEL

800

BERNSTEIN,

OWEN

797

BENSON,

ALEXANDER

758

LACRAMPE,

NIC

752

TATUM,

ROHAN

734

MA,

NEAL

729

PARK,

JOSEPH

724

NARAYAN,

SAYUJ

713

BAUMAN,

HUNTER

704

BATALOV,

PAVEL

674

PADGETT,

MATTHEW

654

HASSALL,

JACK

651

GERSCH,

COLIN

644

SPRAGUE,

NATHAN

643

BURGER,

DAWSON

617

NOONE,

THOMAS

615

BI,

ALAN

613

KAELIN,

ALEXANDER

605

RICCI,

VINNY

600

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