A complete of 139 college students in kindergarten by way of eighth grade wrapped up their scholastic chess season by competing at final Saturday’s Evanston Scholastic Chess Championships. The match was organized by Evanston Scholastic Chess, a nonprofit that serves younger chess gamers and college-based mostly chess golf equipment within the Evanston/Skokie attendance space. Chute Middle School hosted and supported the occasion.
Players and schools at this match competed in 4 grade-based mostly championship sections, for grades Okay-1, 2-3, 4-5 and 6-8, and two reserve sections, for grades 2-Three and 4-8.
In the grades 6-Eight championship, Chute Middle School completed sturdy, with a number of wins within the final spherical of the match, to edge out Nichols Middle School and Chiaravalle Montessori for the crew championship. Shane Asbra of Chute and Nimish Vats of Haven Middle School had been the person co-champions on this part; every participant received all 4 of his video games. Wayra Sheridan of Nichols, Daoud Al-Dajani and Onyx Lo of Chiaravalle and Yusuf Bilgic of Chute additionally earned particular person awards by ending with 3-1 information.
In the elementary faculty championship sections, Orrington received crew titles within the sections for grades 2-Three and grades 4-5, whereas Dawes Elementary School completed on prime in grades Okay-1. The prime particular person finishers in grades 4-5 had been each from Orrington Elementary School: Shivam Nandwana, adopted by Hudson Foreman. In grades 2-3, Adrian Horopciuc of Walker Elementary School completed in first place, whereas Noah Foreman of Orrington and Nathan Drouillard of Chiaravalle tied for second. Emin Bilgic of Walker was the champion in grades Okay-1, and there was a 3-method tie for second place between Teddy Karlin of Lincolnwood, Harbin Sweeney of Chiaravalle and Liam Kidan of Roycemore School.
Several gamers tied for first place within the grades 4-Eight reserve: Ziad Abuzayyad and Gavin Mansfield of Nichols, Ethan Schulkin of Chicago Jewish Day School, Andrew Solverson of King Arts School and George Demet of Chiaravalle. Cooper Chapman and Mika Solverson, each from King Arts, had been the highest finishers within the grades 2-Three reserve part.
Evanston Scholastic Chess will conduct its subsequent collection of tournaments throughout the 2024-2025 faculty yr, starting within the fall. The group can also be engaged on potential actions for the summer time. For extra data, go to eschess.org.