Austin Area Schools Score in TX Grades!
Austin's chess players had one of their best showings in years at
the 11th Annual – 2007 Texas Grades Championship in Houston. A list of top-ten individual finishes from Austin Area players follows:
10th Grade — Sanjna Zadoo = 10th place
9th Grade — Alexander Balkm = 1st place
8th Grade — Serena Zadoo = 10th place
7th Grade — George Qi = 2nd place
7th Grade — Jeffrie Wylie = 10th place
6th Grade — Derek Chang = 1st place
6th Grade — Dhurv Garg = 8th place
6th Grade — Dylan Scott James = 9th place
4th Grade — Alexander Jiang = 2nd place
4th Grade — Keith Alan James = 3rd place
4th Grade — Austin Jiang = 9th place
3rd Grade — William Liu = 7th place
3rd Grade — Dustin Chang = 9th place
2nd Grade — Kevin Li = 3rd place
1st Grade — Louis Fernandes = 3rd place
Top-Five Team finishes (mostly represented by only two-players!):
6th Grade — Canyon Vista MS (Derek Chang, Ernest Fernandes) = 5th place
6th Grade — Cedar Valley MS (Dhurv Garg, Pooshan Shah) = 7th place
6th Grade — Austin Area Homeschoolers MS (Dylan Scott James, Ashley Balkum) = 5th place
4th Grade — St. Andrew's Elementary (Katherine Baker, Cole Baker, Henry Barnstone) = 2nd place
4th Grade — Steiner Ranch Elementary (Alexander Jiang, Austin Jiang) = 3rd placee
2nd Grade — Laurel Mountain Elementary (Kevin Li, Neil Narvekar, David Hsieh) = 1st place
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL!!
The complete USCF rating charts are available online.
As coaches, we encourage our students to explore the greater world of chess with the hope that they will find something special there to pique their interest and imagination! Local and State results have relevancy and bear an implicit challenge, and international news gives kids a sense of where they are and where they would love to be in the greater scheme of things …
News LinksThis is an incomplete list of the many good, reliable sites that are easily accessible on the Web. If you really become a "news hound" you will find most of what you want on one or all of these! Chessbase News – homepage of one of the two premier database programs — comprehensive news and more! FIDE - homepage has plenty of news articles and upcoming events announcements … also features like the "Top 100" lists … Chessgames.com – lists ongoing and recent events … in addition to short summaries of the events you can read, they offer you PGN files of games you can download to paste into documents or databases! Besides this feature, you will notice many other great and wonderful features … this is one of our favorite sites! This Week in Chess (TWIC) - offers a plethora of links to the past, present and future as well as many features, products, books … the second link below is their version of the FIDE October Top 100 list … NewInChess.com – The website of a prestigious Chess Magazine lets you scan hundreds of previous articles by subject or date! The best feature is a link to their huge database … |
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