AND, SUNDAY AT THE CALCHESS STATE GRADE LEVELS PROVES TO BE EVEN BETTER THAN SATURDAY

The Weibel Elementary School Chess Team had a good day yesterday, December 5, 2015 at the CalChess State Grade Level Championships as I posted. Today, Sunday, December 6, 2015, the Team had a great day. We won three School Team sections out of three and had four State Champions crowned. The battle over who was the best Team in the tournament raged for two days with Weibel finally topping Mission San Jose Elementary in the Fifth and Sixth grades and tying with them in Fourth Grade. Oliver Wu went undefeated in the Fifth Grade to be crowned the individual State Champion. In the Sixth Grade Weibel’s Rithwik Narendra, Stanley Ko and Aaron Lee tied for First Place. All four of today’s State Champions along with our two winners from yesterday will be entered in the Weibel Chess Hall of Fame.
KUDOS to my heroes.

 Over the last few years a cloud has hung over the Weibel Chess Team. As we went into the last round on top of the team scores or just a half point or point away from first we hadn't been able to finish and we ended up in second or third place. Our teams years ago seldom had this problem. Most of the time they came through at the end which helps explain why we remained for so many years as the number one team in Northern California. I gave a lot of thought into how to change this pattern and my strategy seems to have worked. I hope we can restore our reputation as numero uno. The photo shows my final strategy-- the Weibel Chess Team psyching-up for the last round.