10th Annual State Warm-Up
On Saturday, March 4, 2017 we saw 147 youth players battle on the chess board. There was great energy in the room, spreading into the skittles section where parents and coaches anxiously awaited the results throughout the day. Here are the top finishers:
K-6 U200 Individual:
1 Jasmine Liu
2 Dylan Liu
3 Alex Tapper
4 Connor Little
5 Pierce McLendon
6 Abhi Attili
Consolation medals to Michael Montabana, Ryan Liu, Krithik Rajasekar, Caelan Mulder, Jackson Carey, Colin Varano, Halle Levinson, and Christian Peterman
K-6 U500 Individual: K-6 U500 Top Team: The Philadelphia School
1 Somil Tare
2 Ronan Murphy
3 Shane Gilday
4 Alexander Babka
5 Rhea Howard
6 Lukas Bleyen
Consolation medals to Matthew Miller, Sathvik Bollepalli, and Rich Liu
K-12 U800 Individual:
1 Neel Chakraborty
2 Anshul Kollur
3 Evan Hawkes
4 Rahul Kurien
5 Justin DeRosa
6 Varsha Iyengar
Consolation medals to Ved Tiwari, Andrew Hu, Andrew Solovyev, and Yajat Gupta
K-12 Championship Individual: K-12 Championship Top Team: Merion Elementary
1 Hemanthe Kolluri
2 Lillian Wang
3 Micah Dubnoff
4 John Krasnick
Consolation medals to Justin Lam and Aaron Lutz
Thank you all and hope to see you at our next tournament on Sat, Apr 29th: Chess Pieces of April being held 1-5PM at Ithan Elementary, 695 Clyde Rd, Bryn Mawr, PA!