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Fairfax County Elementary School Chess Championships |
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| The U.S. Chess Center has run the Fairfax County,
Virginia, Elementary School Chess Championship each year on the first Monday in June. The 2007
team champion was Greenbriar West Elementary School. In Back: Coach Gary Connors, Rahul Ramraj, Varun Kripanandan, Billy Moncure, Graham Connors, and Team Father Tod Connors. Middle Row: Aditya Ponukumati, Joshua Lee, Brian Lee, Branden Kim. Front: William Li, Hans Li, Christine Li.
The Championship changed in 2005. Interest in chess has grown so much that the tournament outgrew the space available in which to run it. As a result, the tournament became an invitational event in which teams had to qualify to be invited. Schools qualified by doing well in major events (Nationals, State Championship, Elementary Team League) or in any of the large series of qualifying local events. If you would like to be invited to a qualifying event for 2007 - 2008, please contact the U.S. Chess Center. Teams in the championship consist of two players from each grade (K-2, 3, 4, 5 & 6) plus the school champion. Teams are 11 players. No more than 11 players from any school may attend the tournament. Students play only others in their grade section. This is really an event with six separate tournaments in which the players each play four games. Nobody is eliminated from the tournament and every point counts towards the team score. Teams competing in the 2007 Championship were:
1. Forest Edge (Defending Champions) |
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The tournament is hosted each year by Haycock Elementary School in Falls Church. Winners of
the championship trophy have been: 1996 - Churchill Road Elementary 1997 - Churchill Road Elementary 1998 - White Oaks Elementary 1999 - White Oaks Elementary 2000 - Haycock Elementary 2001 - Forest Edge Elementary 2002 - Kent Gardens Elementary 2003 - Kent Gardens Elementary Reserve Champions: Forestville Elementary 2004 - Louise Archer Elementary Reserve Champions: Wolftrap Elementary 2005 - Louise Archer Elementary 2006 - Forest Edge Elementary 2007 - Greenbriar West Elementary 2002 tournament results posted. The U.S. Chess Center runs a wide variety of chess activities for youth.
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