Welcome to NEST+m Chess: 2018 City Championship Results and Pics!

Dear Chess Families,

Despite frigid temps, 53 NEST+m students ventured out to play in the Greater New York Scholastic Chess Championships in a heated competition among the finest NYC schools. As always, our players fought hard and perservered through the ups and downs of the weekend.

The NEST+m chess tradition continues on as we celebrate successes from both the team and individual players! Thank you to the players, parents and coaches for all your support.

2018 NEST+m team trophies include:

2nd Place Team - Elementary Championship (Davis Zong, Charles Hua, Dylan Ma, Jai Shah, Eric Tang, Nicolas Shulga, Matthew Chin, Maya Nozaki)

5th Place Team - Primary Championship (Rhys Black, Dylan Kang, Spencer Chin, Oliver Hua, Ryan Ma)

3rd Place Team - Primary U600 (Zachery Ng, Liam Chan, Joshua Dai, Henry Borredon Shmurun, Eloise Roberts, Joshua Duca-Evans, Adrian Li)

3rd Place Team - K-1 U400 (Ivan Volovnyk, Arjun Gururaja, KC Murphy, Arabella Fang, Glib Dunikov, Amelia Cotler, Sophie Ma, Atharva Gupta)

Individual Trophy Winners:

2nd Place - Davis Zong - Elementary Championship

5th Place- Charles Hua - Elementary Championship

8th Place- Kai Tsuboyama- Elementary U1100

5th Place- Jack Faissal - K-1 Championship

3rd Place and CO-CHAMPION- Ivan Volovnyk - K-1 U400 with a perfect 5.0 score!

11th Place- Arjun Gururaja - K-1 U400

6th Place - Fikirte Hunt - HS Championship

Honorable mentions with 4 out 5 wins: Julia Lin (Elem U700), Zachery Ng, Liam Chan, and Joshua Dai (Primary U600),

(Also thank you to Makoto Nozaki for this summary:)

Now the tournament has been rated and re-rated so I'd like to mention these players' rating increased by more than 100 points:

JULIA SIU LIN (+194)

IVAN VOLOVNYK (+183)

RHYS MALCOLM BLACK (+182)

ZACHERY M NG (+123)

ARJUN AMBAT GURURAJA (+116)

Also these players achieved upsets over 200:

RHYS MALCOLM BLACK (958) beat an opponent (1212) and another opponent (1169)

MAYA NOZAKI (1121) beat an opponent (1460)

NICOLAS SHULGA (1285) beat an opponent (1617)

MATTHEW CHIN (1118) beat an opponent (1371)

JAI SHAH (1356) beat an opponent (1574)

VICTOR ALEXANDER DOTOV (805) beat an opponent (1006)