NCCA Scholastic Chess
NCCA Scholastic Chess
There is a Scholastic Tournament list.
Walter High
has created a Google Spreadsheet rating list for scholastic players
rated over 1200.
He would like help with missing grades and student's ratings.
Walter High reported on the National High School (K-12) Championship 4/16-18 - Columbus, OH
Jeffrey Jones compiled the NC 2010 Scholastic Tournament Standings
"Thirty-one students participated in Turner Creek Elementary School's first chess tournament."
The Flyers were sent to approximately 392 high schools in North Carolina. There were 7 schools and 26 players at Saturday's event. The tournament was very well directed by Denver Owens (Wilkes Chess Club) and Randy Lovelace (Taylorsville) Here is a complete list of winners: First Place At Large Team: Thomas Jefferson Charter School First Place 1A Team: Thomas Jefferson Charter School First Place 2A Team: Newton Conover High School First Place Overall Team: Newton Conover High School First Place 2AA Team: West Caldwell High School First Place 3A Team: Hunter Huss High School and Hibriten High School First Place 4A Team: Alexander Central High School First Place At Large Individual: Alex Harrelson First Place 1A Individual: Joshua Bemper First Place 2A Individual: Jordan Joseph and Scott McLaughlin Third Place 2A Individual: Gabriel Crider First Place Overall Individual Champion: Matt Embler Second Place 2AA Individual: Alejandro Bosshart First Place 3A Individual: Josh McMenemy and Douglas Terry Third Place 3A Individual: Jeremy Glenn and Randy Nguyen First Place 4A Individual: David Bolick, Michael Garvin and Justin Hampton
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Pictured are team members Alex Harrelson and Jacob Whiteside of Thomas Jefferson Grammar as they are presented the First Place Team Award in the At Large Class at the NC HS Class Chess Championship held Saturday at Newton-Conover HS. Also pictured are Tournament Director Mr. Denver Owens, Mr. Scott Beck of Newton-Conover HS and Mr. Lovett, team advisor at Thomas Jefferson.
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Pictured is Alexander Central's David Bolick as he is presented the award as the First Place 4A Student at the NC HS Class Chess Championship held Saturday at Newton-Conover HS. In addition to the individual award he also won the First Place Award in the 4A Class. He is pictured with Tournament Director Mr. Denver Owens, Mr. Scott Beck of Newton-Conover, and Chess Club Advisor Mr. Juan Sierra. Not pictured are team members Mackenez Dougherty, Michael Garvin (1st 4A), Justin Hampton (1st 4A), and Ricky Rodriquez.
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Pictured are Newton-Conover's Chess Team as they are presented the award as the First PLace Team in the 2A Class at the NC HS Class Chess Championship held Saturday at Newton-Conover HS. The team was also the top scoring team recording 13 team points. Team members were: Gabriel Crider (3rd 2A), Jordan Joseph (1st 2A), Mark Keezer (4th 2A), Scott McLaughlin (1st 2A), Rob Rowe, Quinton Schleyer (4th 2A), and Tin Tompkins( 4th 2A). They are pictured with Tournament Director Mr. Denver Owens and Mr. Scott Beck (Faculty Advisor) of Newton-Conover.
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Pictured is West Caldwell's Matt Embler as he thinks about his next move at the NC HS Class Chess Championship held Saturday at Newton-Conover HS. Matt was the only student to win all 5 games and won the award for First Place Overall as well as First Place in the 2AA Class.
by Jessica Martin
Scholastic Vice President
Cross Table
Over the Chessboard
Girls from all over the state of North Carolina came to Charlotte's Myers Park Traditional Elementary school to play for a $500 Scholarship to college and 20 trophies and medals. We broke last year's record of 32 with 46 girls! This is so great. Clearly we can get more to play, but the turnout was much better this year. Check out our photos to see your young ladies in action over the chessboard! Charlotte was most represented, but Durham, Boone, Asheville, Wilson, and Winston-Salem among other cities were also present. We were so lucky to have Laura Lee, number one ranked woman in NC, join us for an inspiring speech and game review to start our day. Ms Lee currently teaches chess at CYCC on weekends while also going to college.
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Grace Campbell - 1st place Open Section -
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The top section was very difficult. We were fortunate to have Rifeng Xia (Wendy) a 1900 FIDE rated exchange student play in the top section, along with 1700+ rated girls: Brittney DeWitt, Indira Puri (last year's winner), and Grace Campbell. The section included 14 players with most over 1000 and several brave u1000 girls. The u600 players had more than 30 participants, many of whom especially appreciated the face painting, and many more who along with the fun will likely have to compete in the Championship section next year.
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Winners in the under 1000 and under 600 sections. (click for a larger version)
1st place Winners: In the top section: Grace Campbell with 3.5 out of 4
wins the $500 scholarship to college! This is just one month after her
brother Will Campbell won the 1st place scholarship at the NC State
Scholastics amongst high schoolers! Go Campbells!!
In the U600 Section, Jesse Coward and Lily Burdick both went 4 and 0, and
Jesse won on tiebreaks! Impressive! Complete results will be up on the
USCF
For more pictures and article updates, check the Over the Chessboard site.
"Twenty-three students showed up for the 6th tournament at the Raleigh Russian School on Saturday, March 20th. Each of the five sections had a clear winner with a perfect score of 3-0. The individual winners were: Cheri Agner from Wendell Middle, Divyansh Devnani from Davis Drive Elementary, Sravya Kuchibhotla from Morrisville Elementary, Nikil Sarin from Turner Creek Elementary, and Luke Henderson from Raleigh Montessori. The First Place Team award went to the squad from Davis Drive Elementary."
There were 32 players at Newton-Conover HS representing 9 different schools competing in the various classes (1A being the smallest and 4AA being the largest. All high schools in regions 5,6,7,and 8 were sent an invitation. The state wide version will be May 22. All NC high schools in all 8 regions will be invited. The tournament was directed by Mr. Denver Owens. He was assisted by Senior TD John Thomas.
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1st place class 2A team from Newton Conover - Jordan Joseph, Tim Tompkins, Gabriel Crider,
Mark Keezer, Rob Rowe, Quinton Schleyer, and Scott McLaughlin.
They had the best team score of any of the schools at the event.
Presenting the award is Chief TD Mr. Denver Owens of Wilkesboro. ( click the image for a larger version ).
Team Awards:
21st Western NC HS REGIONAL Crosstable
Individuals standings:
a student must be number 1 in their class or have a 50% score an award or have a 2 1/2 score for a trophy.
February 27-28th 2010
Sixth grader William Campbell of Statesville ran the table against all the big kids at the North Carolina Scholastic Championship.
His 5-0 score included two key victories on Sunday. First he defeated defending champ David High. He followed that by defeating Eric Noden, an eighth grader who had quite a tournament himself and was 4-0 going into this final round match up. Will wins the $1500 scholarship, but because he is not yet a high school student, he doesn't qualify for the Denker High School Tournament of Champions. That honor goes to 9th grader Joshua Mu, who came in clear second with a 4 1/2 score. A grand total of 452 players competed for the titles and the hardware. More to come soon on this event.
Tom Hales has posted Will's games. Read Tom's message in the NCCA Forum.
Gary Newsom
NCCA President
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