Results from the
Rockford Chess Challenge – Winter
2009
185
students from 31 schools competed at the Rockford Chess Challenge on Saturday February
7th hosted by RESA School.
First place
individual winners
Kindergarten -
Tanishk Vijaywargiya
(Rockford Lutheran)
1st Grade -
Dominick Welte (Stone Creek)
2nd Grade - Jonathan Oelkers (Washington)
A perfect score!
3rd Grade -
Yug Mahajan
(Montessori Private)
4th Grade -
Stephen Do (
5th Grade (tie) - Douglas
Chan (Washington)
- Brad Foster (Washington)
- Sam Rinaldo
(Washington)
- Garret Wood (Washington)
6th Grade (tie) - Joshua
Day (Washington)
- Benji Bear (Washington)
7th Grade -
Zachary
Larsen (Hallstrom) A perfect score!
8th Grade -
Caleb Larsen (Hallstrom) A
perfect score!
"Best
Unrated Player" medals awarded to
Grade K: Tanishk Vijaywargiya (Rockford Lutheran)
Grade 1: Dominick Welte
(Stone Creek)
Grade 2: Phillip Koch (Holy Family)
Grade 3: Johan Madix (Lewis Lemon
Grade 4: Chantal Pellman
(House Home School Group)
Grade 5: Jacob Hawkins (Ralston)
Grade 6: Abby Lemmons
(Ralston)
Grade 7: Nirmal Partel (Harlem JH)
Grade 8: Akshay Patel
(Harlem JH)
"Biggest
Upset" medals awarded to:
Grade 1: Esha Mahajan (Montessori Private)
Grade 2: Scott Du (Brookview)
Grade 3: Damon McFadden (Capron)
Grade 4: Dawson Ranz
(Spectrum)
Grade 5: Seth Hayes (Washington)
Grade 6: Daniel Johnson (Rockford Lutheran)
Grade 7: Michael Abraham (North Boone)
Grade 8: Steven Costanza
(Spectrum)
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