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National High School (K-12) Results are in! Whitney Young HS K-12 Co-National Champions! David Peng Wins the K-12 Championship!
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- Written by Rose Grandy Rose Grandy
- Created: 30 April 2018 30 April 2018
The National High School tournament, held April 26-29, has wrapped up in Columbus, Ohio. Based on the advanced entry report on the USCF website, 172 Illinois players competed, including players from Grade 1 through 12.
Blitz and Bughouse side-events were held on Thursday, April 26 and the main event was held April 27-29.
Warren Junior Scholar and New Trier Sophomore David Peng has taken the K-12 Championship with an uncontested 6.5 score! Warren Junior Scholar Zhaozhi (George) Li from IMSA has taken 2nd place, the top 6.0 score once tie-breaks were considered!
Illinois Shines at the National Junior High Tournament!
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- Written by Rose Grandy Rose Grandy
- Created: 16 April 2018 16 April 2018
The 2018 National Junior High Chess Championship was held April 5-8, 2018 in Atlanta, Georgia.
Twenty-two players from Illinois participated in this event.
In the Bughouse event, Warren Junior Scholar Aydin Turgut teamed up with former Warren Junior Scholar, now Maryland resident, Jason Daniels to win the event. Thirty-two teams participated and the Turgut-Daniels team bested them all with 10 points, one point ahead of the nearest competing team.
In the Blitz event, Aydin Turgut once again came away with first place with 11.5 points. He was a full point ahead of the second place winner from Georgia. Seven other Illinois players also competed in the blitz event.
744 Compete in Largest K-8 State Championships in a Decade
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- Written by Patrick Cohen Patrick Cohen
- Created: 27 March 2018 27 March 2018
Congrats to Benjamin Chen, Yuvraj Rudra, Avi Harrison Kaplan, Colin Robert Wicks, and Ryan Zhang. Benjamin and Yuvraj are co-champions after both scored 6.5 points in the junior high section. Benjamin won first place on tiebreaks.
All five are now Illinois state champions thanks to their outstanding performances at the 2018 Illinois K-8 Championships completed March 11th in Schaumburg, IL. This tournament, with 744 participants, was the largest K-8 State Championships held in the last decade.
In memoriam: James Robert Michalak (1941 - 2017)
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- Created: 13 January 2018 13 January 2018
by NM Len Weber
The Illinois chess scene has lost another longtime favorite. In December, we lost James "Jimbo" Michalak, after a long health battle. This writer first met Jim at the Homewood Flossmoor Park District Chess Club (defunct in 1984). A "Fischer boomer", Jim reached over 1800 USCF, winning several notable prizes, before leaving the tournament scene in the mid-1980s. In more recent years, "Jimbo" spent many warm weather days as a regular at the chess haunts in Chicago, including North Avenue Beach, where he taught lessons, played all comers, hustled and got hustled, earned wins against experts and masters, and traded fearless wit and clever barbs with even the most ferocious patrons.
Dr. Steven Tennant, 1948 - 2017
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- Written by Eva Harrison Eva Harrison
- Created: 06 December 2017 06 December 2017
Dr. Steven Tennant, international correspondence chess master, national master, life master, and former Illinois state champion, passed away last week at the age of 69.
Graveside service Friday, 12/8/2017, 3:00 p.m. at Westlawn Cemetery, Norridge.
Info: The Goldman Funeral Group, www.goldmanfuneralgroup.com, (847) 478-1600.
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