6/11 Bryant Park XI Tournament Results and Pics!

Congrats to Ryan Ma, who took 9th place in Championship (U1400)!

Dylan Ma finished with 2/3 in the U1800 section!

Kai Tsuboyama placed 10th in the Advanced (U1000) section!

Gabe Tsuboyama (Kai's dad) finished with 2/3 in U1800 and Kai's grandfather Gabriel Kazuo Tsuboyama finished with 1/3!

Below, Morgan Sweeney fending off the sun on a hot day!

Ryan with his 9th place trophy!

Hanging out after a long, hot day!

Kai got the 10th place trophy in Advanced!

Gabe, Kai, Dylan and Ryan

Gabriel K, Kai's grandfather awaits Round 1

Year End Party -- June 14!

Dear NEST+m Community,

We are looking forward to welcoming you to the academic year-end chess party to be held at the school cafeteria on Wednesday, June 14 at 5 pm.

Please RSVP and sign up to bring something using the link below:

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0c44a9ae23abf85-endofyear

We ask that each person donate $5 towards pizza and supplies (cash at the door).

NEW THIS YEAR - Guest speaker GM Irina Krush. Please come prepared with any questions you have for her!

Irina, Ana, and Giorgi will also run a chess simul that evening with up to 30 players. The sign up slots for the simul will open on Thursday, June 1 at 8 PM and they will go quickly! So please mark your calendars! (to receive the sign-up for the simul you need to join the chess mailing list if you have not yet by reaching out to chess@nestmpta.org before 12pm on June 1).

We are looking forward to seeing you at the party.

Best regards,
NEST+m PTA Chess Committee  

Morning Chess pics!

Preparing questions for our guest lecturer, 7x US Women's Champion, Irina Krush!

More NEST+m tournament pics!

And...we wanted to thank everyone who came out to the last NEST+m tournament this past Sunday. 

Thank you to all the parents who volunteered throughout the day.  The food and merchandise table raised over $1100 for the school.   Stay tuned for details for the 2017-2018 NEST+m tournaments!

Good luck to the NEST+m players heading to Nashville for the upcoming Supernationals . 

Hope to see you all at the End-Of-Year Chess Party on June 14th!

Julia Lin with 2 wins in Booster

Sonam Paroda, Alice Roberts and Eisei Kori with the Team Trophy in Novice2! 

4/30 NEST+m Tournament-Results and Pics!

We had FOUR three perfect 4/4 performances today at our final NEST+m tournament!!


Congratulations to Morgan Sweeney, who took 1st place in Reserve with a 4/4 score!

Congratulations as well to Eloise Roberts who took 1st place in K-1 with a perfect 4/4!

Zachery Ng won 1st place in Novice 1 with 4/4!

Preston Ng won 1st place in Primary with a perfect 4/4!

Also in Primary--Victor Dotov finished in 5th place; Jack Faissal from K also contributed to that team's 1st place finish!

Our Novice 2 team took 1st place! Sonam Paroda, Alice Roberts and Eisei Kori

 In Novice 1, Zachery Ng took 1st place as did the NEST+m team featuring Gabriella Dotov, Albert Tsybulski, Emma Perez Maturen, Joseph Sawwan, Joshua Duca-Evans, Micah Cho and Rolan Soskin

In K-1, Liam took 10th place! Also contributing to the team win were Jonathan Huang, Marco Mendez, Siddarth Shirke, Lilavati Shirke and Eloise Roberts!

BOOSTER!

Ksenia Volovnyk took 2nd, Joshua Dai (3pts) took 8th place, Ryan Peng took 5th place and Mark Tsybulski took 10th place in Booster. Ezra Schellenberg, Henry Borredon Shmurun, Kabir Madan, Julia Lin and Niko Chin all contributed to the 1st place team effort!

OPEN!
Very strong performance as Spencer Chin took 3rd place and Jai Shah took 10th!

Our fantastic parent volunteers!

Kai and Morgan warming up before Rd4

4/28 Columbia Grammar Tournament

Dylan placed 3rd out of 37 kids in Reserve with 3.5 points on April 28th at the Columbia Grammar tournament.  

4/23 Avenues Tournament Results and Pics!

Great job by Dylan Ma who finished with 2.5/3 in Future Masters and took 4th place!


Congratulations as well to Morgan Sweeney who finished in 8th place in Reserve!

And congratulations to Eloise Roberts who took home 7th place in K-1!