Junior High Nationals

The Junior High Nationals will be taking place in San Diego April 27-29 at the picturesque Town and Country Resort.

17 members from the Weibel Chess Team, along with 7 members from the Horner Junior High Team will travel down to San Diego this weekend to compete. 

58 total players from Northern California will make the trek down to San Diego, including 5 members from the Kennedy Middle High team in Cupertino who will attempt to take down the famed IS 318 Junior High team from New York that just won the HS Nationals in Minneapolis 2 weekends ago.  That promises to be a tremendous competition.

Udates will be provided for members of the Weibel team as they come in.  More information can be found by going here.

Update 04/28/2011 08:05pm - Not a particularly good weekend so far for any of the Weibel or Horner teams as the halfway point of the tournament has been reached.  The Horner K-8 Championship team is in 5th place going into Round 5, as is the Weibel K-9 U1250 team.  The Weibel K-8 U1000 team is in 4th place going into Round 5.   I think most of the players in San Diego are now finding out that the players from across the country have done some serious preparation.

Individually, Desiree is at 3.5/4.0 in the K-9 U1250 group, and Jeremy, Shivangi, and Anvi are at 3.0/4.0 in the K-8 U1000 group.