TENTATIVE CHESS TOURNAMENT
Shining Knights will be hosting a rated chess tournament for players grades K-12 on Saturday Dec 7, 2024 in Collegeville, PA. Please open the tab for "Tournaments" to register. Thank you.
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2024 SPRING FINALE
83 aspiring youths gathered on a great day of May in a battle of minds. We grow through the analysis of thoughts and actions. Friendships were made over losses and wins over the board. Congratulations to all who participated!
Here are the top players and schools per section:
K-3 U200
Henry Judd
George Wang
Edison Wolfgang Loidolt
Lavie Shechter
Daniel Warunkar
Christian Cheng
Top Teams: Mill Creek Elementary and Bridge Valley Elementary
K-6 U500
Ishaan Patel
Eli Snitzer
Britt Shelton
Nickolas Warunkar
Nolan Taglialatela
Rory Brennan
Top Teams: Radnor Elementary and Caley Elementary
K-12 U800
Isaac Ellison
Gad Alhaik
Linus Huang
Gal Reichfeld
Lucas Chen
Andrew Cai
Top Teams: Merion Elementary and Skyview Upper Elementary
K-12 Championship
Christopher Romeril
Samuel Le
Adrian Cheng
Maxwell Adoff
Tyler Wang
Myra Nigam
Top Team: Merion Elementary
Hope to see you all at the next Shining Knights’ Tournament. Have an inspiring and fun summer!
15th Annual State Warm-Up
There were 82 Kings and Queens battling over the board in the 15th Annual State Warm-Up to prove
their dominance! Cheers to the victors and the spoils of the four round skirmishes were awarded to:
K-12 Championship: Top Team Championship:
Samuel Li Merion Elementary
John Zheng
Maxwell Adoff
Elyar Rafi
K-12 U800: Team Awards:
Adrian Cheng Merion Elementary
Kritarth Acharya Radnor Middle School
Venica Jain
Gad Alhaik
Han Sam Kim
K-6 U500: Team Awards:
Kyle Schaubel Merion Elementary
Andrew Cai Radnor Elementary
Boyue Wang
Britt Shelton
Ratna Konda
Rory Brennan
K-3 U200: Team Awards:
Viaan Chaudhary Radnor Elementary
Cecilia Plummer Lower Gwynedd Elementary
Evan DeLaurentis
Rhys Groenen
Alex Bian
Sawyer Dugan
WE NEED INSTRUCTORS
There are lots of aspiring young chess players that could use your wisdom. If you have availability to coach our after (or before) school classes please open the tab for About Us, then the drop down box for Employment to apply. We provide you with training, equipment, lessons AND compensation.
Employment
At Shining Knights, we are always on the lookout for motivated instructors. We give a great deal of training and support to our coaches and offer a flexible schedule. It is very important to us to attract and keep highly qualified coaches, so we offer competitive compensation and bonuses for reaching certain incentives.