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Kent Gardens Cup

Kent Gardens Elementary School of McLean, Virginia, hosts the Kent Gardens Cup every year to promote good sportsmanship and friendship among local elementary schools through chess. In 2011 the teams invited were Chesterbrook, Churchill Road, Forestville, Great Falls, Haycock, Louise Archer, and Spring Hill, in addition to host Kent Gardens. Teams consisted of twelve players from each school.

The 2011 tournament had several of the closest matches in the history of the event including seeing the champion Louise Archer team win in the final match with Spring Hill with the tiebreak score of 36-34. The champion team was:
Back Row: Maxwell Lee, Joshua Kim, Daniel Xu, Alex Sun and Grant Li
Middle Row: Camden Wiseman, Isuru Attanagoda, Brandon Merski, Alex Jian and Alan Zhang
Kneeling and holding the trophy:Ben Liu and Nikhil Sardana

Past Champions:
2000: Haycock
2001: Haycock
2002: Kent Gardens & Haycock
2003: Haycock
2004: Kent Gardens
2005: Haycock
2006: Louise Archer
2007: Louise Archer
2008: Louise Archer
2009: Louise Archer
2010: Louise Archer
2011: Louise Archer