2018 DECEMBER CRUSH

94 children enrolled to chill out at the 2018 Shining Knights December Crush putting their minds to work on the chess board. We saw a great mix of veteran and newbie tournament players. There was an overwhelming number of brain teasing predicaments, critical endgames, and mid-game conundrums. With all the stress that could have been, the smiles lit up the playing room making it all worth the wondering in the waiting room.

Here are the top players per section:

K-6 U200 Individual: Top Teams: Merion Elementary followed by Newtown

1 Nate Promer

2 Ryan Sensen Brenn

3 Jack Cai

4 Finbar Ryan

5 Matthew Majewski

6 JJ Gordon

with special props to Andrew Fann, Mark Cai, Casey Cloud with 3 points.

K-6 U500 Individual: Top Teams: Shipley followed by Merion Elementary

1 THEODORE JA KRIEG

2 WILLIAM ARONSTAM

3 BENAS ANTANAVICIUS

4 TERRANCE XIA

5 JACOB ROB WALTERS

6 HOLT RECORD

K-12 U800 Individual: Top Teams: Welsh Valley and then Radnor Elementary in 2nd

1 VARSHA SU IYENGAR

2 NIGEL PIERMAN

3 CLARK KERKSTRA

4 GRETCHEN LUTZ

5 AUSTIN LI

6 JAY DABRAL

K-12 Championship Individual: Top Team: Abington Jr High

1 JONATHAN BONNELL

2 MAX KIKKAWA

3 HASSAN "HA BOYOUK

4 PETER WI GOLDBERG

with special props to medalist Benjamin Yang

In case you missed it...

U.S. Team Tied for First at World Youth Olympiad - US Chess

The World Youth U16 Olympiad is underway in Konya Turkey (November 24-December 3) and Team USA is putting on an inspiring performance, even drawing the attention of top Grandmasters like Grandmaster Robert Hess, who was in the thick of daily chess.com commentary for Carlsen-Caruana. The U.S. team ...

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Have a cozy holiday season, filled with joyous times of building a snowman, sledding down steep hills, making stretched out snow angels, and warming up by the fire with a good cup of cocoa and a thoughtful chess book.