END OF CHESS YEAR 2016-2017 AWARDS BANQUET

WEIBEL CHESS

Yesterday, Friday, May 26, 2017, was our annual Awards Banquet. At the end of each year Weibel Chess parents hold ceremonies to celebrate our successes. This year, as in the past three years, Fahria Khan, led a group of volunteers to provide a wonderful affair. Besides food drinks and ice-cream all the children received certificates of their accomplishments and trophies of participation. I know there are the silly naysayers that insist that participation trophies destroy ambitions and future success for children. They have never been at Weibel Elementary School that is for sure. Here success and accomplishment follow the graduates for their whole lives.

We provided larger trophies and plaques for extra accomplishments such as Most Valuable Player, Most Improved Player and Rookie of the Year. The attached photo shows the girls, minus one who slept through all the noise, who brought home our seventh girls national championship title this year. All children received door prizes based on ticket drawings that range from Lego Chess sets and Chronos Chess Clocks to chess key chains and wrist bands.

We now look forward to next season which will be our 30th year at Weibel Elementary School. We anticipate that once again 200 or so Weibel children will join us in one of the largest and the most successful public chess school programs in the nation.  Our information and applications for the 2017-2018 chess year will be posted by the end of June on our webpage: http://www.WeibelChess.org.

WEIBEL CHESS TEAMS CONTINUE THEIR WINNING STREAK

The Susan Polgar Foundation brought their National Open Chess Championships for Boys and Girls to Livermore this weekend, May 6-7, 2017.  This tournament was not required for our team players.  A of Weibel players attended anyway and proved their mettle.  Our players won the U 10 Girls, U 10 Boys, U 12 Girls and U 12 Boys Championships. KUDOS!

WEIBEL ATTENDING (Top 4 players in each group counted for points.  The listing below is in order of their finish.)

Girls Under 10

Chau-Ha Nghiem, Erin Law, Shruti Nath, Mai-Ha Nghiem, Yesun Lee, Elena Xu, Mihika Deshpande

Boys Under 10

Nikko Le, Mihir Gadre, Reyansh Samanta, Edward Miu, Kevin Arakkal, Ekansh Samanta, Rutansh Pathak, Reyansh Gangal

Girls Under 12

Prisha Jain, Kabita Nath, Irene Xu, Isha Varada, Sabrina, Kuntjara

Boys Under 12

Aaron Hu, Dharshan Vetrivelan, Sidarth Raman, Krish Gangal, Eshan Prakash, Louis Law, Prabhav Vashist, Surya Somasundaram, Vincent Yang

Weibel’s Under 8 Boys took a second place in the competition behind Mission San Jose.  We did not have any Under 8 Girls in the tournament.  

Boys Under 8

Divij Pathak, Louis Le, Drake Long,

In the Novice sections Weibel had only three players: Krishank Sardesai ,Vivaan Parhar.  Lokesh RavuriKrishank in the K-2 section tied for second place.

I guess that due to exhaustion after a two day competition and with school the next day most of our players did not stay around for the awards ceremonies.  Most of the Under 10 Boys and parents did hang around for the photographs. The pictures I posted below do not represent the actual team members that competed.