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Tournament News – Rocky Mtn Championship and First Summer Tournament

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The Rocky Mountain Chess Championship is our annual team tournament in Colorado. We take the top 6 teams from Elementary schools, Middle schools and High schools.
Teams qualify though the Colorado state individual tournament, Chessmates Kings gambit tournament, Michael Mulyar chess tournament series, Jesse Cohen chess tournament series and through us, finding the most qualified team in Boulder and Colorado Springs.
While some teams can’t make it, we always have very strong teams and its lots of fun.
Each team plays their top 4 players against another teams top 4 players and whichever team scores more points gets a win for that round. It is a round robin tournament.
Team results:
1st place elementary: High Peaks 4.5/5
Wesley Ding scored 5/5 on their team and won the board 1 prize
Simon Logan scored 4.5/5 and won the board 3 prize!
2nd place elementary:
Challenge school 4/5
Board 4 Anthony Landfather 5/5
Middle school first place: Ridgeview 4.5/5
Damian Yanez 5/5 on board 4
Second place middle school: Summit Middle schoool 4/5
Wilson He scored 5/5 and won the board 2 prize!
Quinn Perian scored 5/5 and won the board 3 prize!
High school first place: Lakewood Highschool 3/3
Stephen Komon won the board 2 prize!
Thomas Ngo won the board 3 prize!
Tran Dung won the board 4 prize!
We also held our first Summer tournament that included some great competition and a short day done early with lots of good competition.
Congratulations to all our player and in particular our winners,
Over 1000 Section: Nicholas Bekkedahl 1st place in his quad.
Ujwal Kaul tied for first place is his quad
Under 1000 Section (Our biggest section with 20 players)
1 Cord Andeson
2 Kevin Cao
3 Saket Shetty
4 Caleb Dean
Unrated Section:
7 first time tournament participants! Congrats to everyone!
1st place Alexander Dockum
2nd place Kasey Nelson
3rd place David Garcia
4th place Leo Murfin