The Chess Scholar Noviembre - Diciembre 2007 | Page 3

From the Desk of the Editor
The 2007 National K-12/Collegiate Chess
Championship took place December 7 – 9, 2007
in Houston Texas. There were over 500 teams
representing 39 of the 50 States. The state of
Arizona fielded the fourth largest amount of
scholastic chess players (just under 100), behind Texas, New York and Florida with the
Arizona students placing over all, very well in
the national tournament.
Below is a short list of some of those Arizona
students we would like to recognize and their
results. Complete results can be found on the
US Chess Federation’s web site.
Kind: 5th place Zac Smith
1st Grade: 4th place Richard Qi
2nd Grade: 1st place UNR section Nathan J. Johns
4th Grade: 12th place Manas Lakshmiprasad, 28th place Jonathan Booher, 43rd
place Martin Kuhnel, 48th place Alec Andersen, 52nd place Jayden Chandran
5th Grade: 3rd place David Adelberg, 7th place Daniel Pecherski
6th Grade: 7th place Brennen Lee, 42nd place Zackary Kososky, 57th place Matthew Worley 1st place U800 Mike Stern
7th Grade: 2nd place Eric Qi, 20th place Richard Ding
8th Grade: 16th place Randel Eng, 18th place Vincent Nguyen, 19th place Daniel
Bryant
9th Grade: 6th place John Williams, 13th place John Gurczak, 14th place Luke
Curry
11th Grade: 8th place Michael Berg
12th Grade: 22nd place Alex Curry
These students and many more have achieved their success and current playing
strength through hard work and continual chess play in tournament after tournament. They should all be congratulated for their efforts!

Leopold Lacrimosa
Editor &Coach