5/22/16 NEST+m Tournament Results

NEST+m hosted its last chess tournament for this academic year on Sunday, May 22. About 200 players from Pre-K-12 participated, 36 of which were our very own NEST+m Chess Team. Our team represented both broadly and with focus and won four first-place team trophies out of 10 sections. 

Mubassar Uddin topped the most-challenging Championship section and also received the first-place team trophy. 

Victor Dotov reached a sweeping victory in Booster with 4 wins out of 4 games. In that section NEST+m took the first-place team trophy too by full four points ahead of the second-placed school team with Arkady Kokush, Kai Tsuboyama, Andrew Tsai and Ryan Peng taking Top 10 place trophies and Oliver Luo, Koiip Lam, Liam McAniff, Ksenia Volovnyk, Kuipi Lamand Akshaya Sundraraj assisting the broad presence as well. 

Daniel Jin won the K-1 section, also with a sweeping 4 out of 4. Rhys Black took a top 5 trophy. Dale Cotler and Sacha Mullen assisted as well and NEST+m took the first-place team trophy in that section finishing 4.5 points ahead of the second-placed school team. 

Spencer Chin, Jai Shah, Romir Mukherjee and Maya Nozaki exhibited strong presence in the challenging Classic sectionand finished only half a point behind the first-place team. 

Pyke Turnbow competed in the difficult Open section. Kyler Chiu represented in Reserve and Matthew Chin in Primary. 

Niko Chin took silver in Novice-2. Anish Sundraraj represented in that section as well. 

Ezra Schellenberg won Novice-1. William Shi, Joshua Dai, Preston Ng, Frank Khayut and Maximilian Rykaczewskifinished 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th and 7th respectively and took trophies home. The NEST+m team in that section was completed by Valli Subramanian, Dia Vyas, Vivian Hoelscher, Karissa Chiu and Sonam Paroda. The group brought home the first-place team trophy in that section. 

We would like to thank all students who participated and demonstrated motivation, focus and spirit as well as all the parents who contributed and volunteered for making this tournament a success in NEST+m's strong chess tradition. Special thanks to Coach Ana Izoria and morning chess parent volunteers Rob Gertsman and Elina Cotler, former chess champion.