June 3 - Summer Tournament Results and Pics!

Congratulations to the nearly 60 NEST+m students who participated in our 4th and final school-hosted tournament of the year.  A special thanks to the parent volunteers, our coach Giorgi, the school custodial staff, and school administration for their support.

No Score: Elizabeth Borisoff, Max Trias, David Troshnin.

Novice 1:Lucas Paula-Timbie (3rd), Xiaoran Guo (5th), Amaru Wong (6th), Owen Pang (7th), Isabella Zhu (8th), Gabriel Abegg (9th), Wesley Lesko-Hebert, Grace Chen, Jinsean Lu, Theodore Hoelscher, Summer Shih, Keanu Wong, Tyler Neugebauer, Mazhira Harlan. 1st place. team.

Novice 2: Maxim Soskin (3rd), Jaylen Chen (9th). 1st place team.

K-1: Bernice Li (3rd), Glib Dunikov (4th), Gabriella Dotov (5th), Jake Wu (9th), Anthony Zhu, Arabella Fang, Aaryav Nagda. 1st place team.

Primary: Rolan Soskin (4th), Jordan Sawwan, Matteo Minutello, Jacob Almeida-Batallas. 2nd place team.

Elementary: Joshua Duca-Evans (4th), Liam Chan (7th), Marco Mendez, Zachery Ng, Ryan Peng, Amelia Cotler, Kyler Chiu. 1st place team.

Reserve: Victor Dotov (7th)

Classic: Preston Ng (co-champion), Jack Faissal (co-champion), Rhys Black, Dale Cotler, Maya Nozaki, Kai Tsuboyama. 1st place team.

Open: Nicolas Shulga, Maggie Stacey

Championship: Ryan Chen, Romir Mukherjee

Sign up for last NEST+m Chess Tournament of 2018 - June 3rd!

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5/19-5/20 Pics and Results from this Weekend

Congrats to Marco Mendez who took 2nd at the Grace Church Invitational K-6 U1000!

Meanwhile, Preston Ng, Zachery Ng, Jack Faissal and Maya Nozaki participated in the  2nd Annual Charity Chess Championships to benefit Ovarian Cancer!

More Pics and Results from Nationals!

This past weekend, 9 of our students in grades K-6 participated in the 2018 National Elementary Chess Championship in Nashville, TN. Over 2200 students from all over the country participated in this event. Here are the key achievements of this small but mighty team:

• K-1 championship: Jack Faissal (1st grade)– 11^th place
• K-1 U500: Marco Mendez, t-20th place
• K-3 championship: Spencer Chin (3rd grade) – 12^th place. This team also included Romir Mukherjee (3rd grade) and Dylan Kang (2nd grade), and together they brought in the 10^th place team trophy despite being short on 1 team member! They also participated in the K-3 blitz tournament the day before the main event, and brought in 5^th place as a team. Spencer Chin placed 9^th in the blitz competition.
• K-6 U1400: Maggie Stacey  (6th grade) – 10^th place

Each of these sections had upwards of 150 players, so truly a great accomplishment. Other students who represented NEST+m at this event are Maya Nozaki (4^th grade), Matthew Chin (5^th grade), Jai Shah (5^th grade). Congratulations to all players and their families for their dedication over the weekend, and to the chess moms for spending Mother’s Day encouraging and supporting the players.

2018 US National Elementary Championship - Pics!

Don't have the complete results yet, but so far looks like a lot of fun was had and some nice trophies too! Congrats to all our students who competed in Nashville!

Some results:

Spencer Chin 9th place Blitz
Spencer Chin, Romir Mukherjee and Dylan Kang - 5th place Team Blitz
Spencer Chin 12th place K-3 Championship
Marco Mendez, 20th place K-1 (U500)
Jack Faissal, 11th place K-1 Championship