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Congratulations City Chess Champions!

Congratulations to our 2021 City Chess Champions! This year's City Chess Championship was held online on ChessKid.com and was a Blitz tournament where kids have 5 minutes per side to complete their moves. The Tournament was sponsored by Systems Products and Solutions Inc. and enabled the 1st place winners to receive a cash prize in grade-level sections. Cash awards for K-2nd grades was $50, and cash awards for 3rd-12th grades was $100. Medals were awarded to the top 3 in each grade level.

During the City Council meeting on May 10th, SPS Inc CEO Nilmini Thompson recognized the 1st place grade level winners and gave each of them a water bottle with some candy inside. Ms. Thompson also presented MCCL with a Grandmaster Level donation for the 2021 year! We are so grateful to her constant support of our chess league and this tournament that began in 2016. Madison is the only city in the State of Alabama that hosts a grade-level chess championship.

2021 City Chess Champions

Kindergarten: Jimmy McHugh and Alice Zou (co-champions), Milan Malak 3rd

1st grade: Dennis Lenski 1st, Asher Allison 2nd, Annabelle Hsu 3rd

2nd grade: Esteban Jerez and Kylie Zou (co-champions), Esinam Tettey 3rd

3rd grade: Daksh Sunil 1st, Andrew Tkach 2nd, Emerson Phillips 3rd

4th grade: Sophia Jerez and Jethro Jones (co-champions), Noah Hsu 3rd

5th grade: Anna Ai 1st, Caden Jordan 2nd, Laya Gowder 3rd

6th grade: Xavier Bruni 1st, Aadi Saxena 2nd, Aneesh Maruvada 3rd

7th grade: Nirvana Rajbhandari, Artem Starenki, and Eddie Xiao (co-champions)

8th grade: Zachary Calinsky, Caleb Chen, and Oviya Gowder (co-champions)

9th grade: Rachael Ehrman 1st, Madhu Balaji 2nd, Andrew Park 3rd

10th grade: Sherwood Dong 1st, Constance Wang 2nd, Victor Lundy 3rd

11th grade: Will Fox 1st, Om Badhe 2nd, Edward Calinsky 3rd

12th grade: Will Bao 1st, Josh Lin 2nd.