Today was the Eighth Annual Girls State Chess Championships
and for the eighth year Weibel won a section.
This year Weibel won the Team Championship in the K-6 and the K-8
sections. Yup, Junior High School. Since
we had so many great players in the K-6, we placed two of our best in the
K-8—Serafina Show and Raisah Khan, both sixth graders. Serafina won the section and became this
years Junior High School Champion. On her
way to the victory she drew a 2199 rated player by forcing a draw through a three-move
repetition that prevented her opponent from winning. Today was Serafina’s birthday and a beautiful
one it turned out to be. It was also my
birthday and a great one for me as well as I can add to our next year’s
T-shirts that Weibel has won at least one section in a CalChess State
Championship from 1990 to 2014. This was
an important win since Weibel did not attend the CalChess Grade Level and may
not attend the CalChess Super States in April if the CalChess President does
not respond to my request to continue negotiations on establishing due process
protection for parents and players outside the playing hall.
I will add more detail in a later note about how our
individual players did when I get a list of all the results. I would be remiss in this short note if I
failed to mention that the K-6 Co-Champion, winning the first place trophy on
tie-breaks, was Aria Lakhmani, a former Weibel student who switched to Warm
Springs last year but still attends our Friday sessions. Kudos to all players and their supporters at
today’s games.
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