WEIBEL CHESS RETURNS TO BEING NUMBER 1 IN CALCHESS STATES

There are bad days, average days and good days. Yesterday was a great day. Weibel Chess, for a fair number of years, has been second best at the CalChess Scholastic State Championships. Ok, not altogether true as we have shined at the Girls State Championships. Last Spring, we began a comeback winning the most divisions of any team and yesterday, Sunday, December 9, we won all four of the grades we entered in the two-day competition, albeit, one was the 7th Grade section. Our Horner students still coming to Weibel Chess, wore their old school T-shirts and won that section over an excellent and continuing growing chess program at Fallon Middle School in San Ramon.

Weibel students won the Championships in the 4th, 5th and 6th grades. Saturday, in the one-day competition we were runner ups in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grades. We did not have enough Kindergarten students on the Team to compete there, but I hope to recruit from the Club for the Spring State Championships.

KUDOS, all!

A very special thanks goes to Jason Cruz for without his help getting stuff to the tournament, staying there and going over games, and taking things back to my house I would have needed a week's sleep instead of just one day.

Of course, congrats to all our Coaches and Horner Junior H.S. Ass't Coaches for developing the great chess skills our players possess. Last, but not, least our Weibel parents who spent their time this weekend with their children at the Alameda County Fairgrounds.

One never knows how long one can remain numero uno, but, admittedly it feels very good.

A full report will soon appear on out Weibel Chess blog, hopefully, tomorrow. I do not have the full 1st, 2nd & 3rd Grade results yet. I am told they will be online soon so I will do all the sections then with a few more photographs of the first day's event.

Here are the names and grades of the Weibel students who were specially selected to compete from our 160 Team and Club members:

Deniz Korkmaz 1

Jason Zhu 1

Ojas Parhar 1

Stanley Kwok 1

Sara Kuntjara 2

Matthew Miu 2

Aarav Gulrajani 2

Louis Le 2

Ryan #1 Chen 2

Rohil Manwani 3

Soham Chatterjee 3

Vivaan Parhar 3

Wenyuan Xi 3

Mai-Ha Nghiem 4

Akarsh Khare 4

Edward Miu 4

Ekansh Samanta 4

Mihika Deshpande 5

Shruti Nath 5

Nikko Le 5

Reyansh #1 Gangal 5

Ryan #2 Tiong 5

Sabrina Kuntjara 6

Yesun Lee 6

Reyansh #2 Samanta 6

Vincent Yang 6

Dharshan Vetrivelan 7

Rachael Tiong 7

Prisha Jain 7

Umesh Gopi 7