Welcome to NEST+m Chess: 12/8-12/10/17 U.S. Grade Nationals Results and Photos!

This past weekend, 24 lower and middle school kids participated in the K-12 Grade Nationals in Orlando. The kids competed in 7 intense games over 3 days and yet managed to have a lot of fun. We also celebrated the 5th birthday of one of our littlest players, Arabella, while we were there!! Here are the winners who received trophies in various sections:

2nd Grade - 6th Place Team Trophy

Dylan Kang (5.0), Kai Tsuboyama (5.0), Ryan Ma (4.0), and Eloise Roberts (3.0)

3rd Grade - 4th Place team Trophy

Spencer Chin (6.5), Romir Mukherjee (5.0), Rhys Black (3.5), Preston Ng (3.5), Dale Cotler (3.5)

Individual Trophies:

Romir Mukherjee - 3rd grade, 19th place

AND THE STAR OF THE EVENT: SPENCER CHIN (3rd grade NATIONAL CO-CHAMPION with a whopping 6.5 points)!!!!

Spencer very quickly earned himself a Tweet on US Chess's twitter page!

Other honorable mentions: Kindergarten team (6th place) and 7th grade team (7th place).

Congrats to all players, everyone is a winner. Competition was brutal, our teams, despite smaller presence than other NYC teams, showed real strength. Thank you to our coaches Ana and Lily for the long hours and always being there to energize the kids.

Also, a reminder, registration for City Championships (Jan 6-7, 2018) is now open at www.gnyscc.com. We hope we will have strong teams participating in all sections! Let's make this a big turnout and bring home even more success for our chess team.