As some of you know, after the state chess, Rohan and Roshan participated in the 2012 U.S. Elementary Chess Championship (May 10th – 13th) @ Nashville, Tennessee, USA. All games held at Gaylord Opryland Resort and we stayed there itself for convenience. Finally we are all back in Seattle last night after the 4 day long games..
Good news is that, both the Kids won
few prizes…
A) Rohan (5th
Grade) won FIRST Place in the speed (Blitz) chess tournament in K-6 U800
category.
B) Roshan (2nd
Grade) won all games except one and came 5th position out of 380
played kids from all over US in the regular tournament under K-3 U800 Category
C) Rohan (5th Grade) won
all games except one and came in as 13th position out of 374 played
kids in the regular tournament under K-5 U900 Category
Please find the attached photo with
their trophies. Thanks for the support and the great time they had at Chess
club in the past year !!
Thanks for the update! That is exciting news! Congratulations to Rohan and Roshan!
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