Successes in November - December 2007        

2007 National and State Championships
Our student Aravind Kumar - US Champion!


2007 US Champion Aravind Kumar
On December 7-9, 2007 National Grade Level Championship was held in Houston (Texas).
Our student 5-years-old Aravind Kumar participated in Kindergarten section competing among 48 players.

With great result - 6 victories in 7 rounds, Aravind became US Chess Champion in K-section and was awarded with 1st place Trophy!

Aravind started studying chess in our school in December 2006, when he was 4.5 years old. After a few months, talented boy had his first successes in tournaments.

This November Aravind became NJ Champion in K-section with absolute result 5 out of 5 !
 

Another our student Samritha Palakollu participated in 1-graders section of the Championship among 92 players.
Samritha demonstrated 3rd result - 5 victories in 7 rounds and was also awarded with Trophy.
Samritha Palakollu is two-times NJ Champion - 2006 (K-section) and 2007 (1-grade section).
 

Samritha Palakollu and Roman Rychkov

In 2-graders section of 2007 NJ Championship Roman Rychkov shared 1-2 place among 2-graders with absolute result 5 victories in 5 games!


Game analysis:
Kostyantyn Mazur with his traner Nonna Karakashyan
2006 NJ Champion in 10-graders section Konstyantyn Mazur this year came 2nd in 11-graders section with 4 victories in 5 reounds





Arjun Rajkumar played in 2-graders section of 2007 NJ Championship and shared 3-5 places with 4 out of 5 !


Arjun Rajkumar


        




Vladyslav Nazarchuk shared 1-2 place
in Reserved section in December'07
PDS Tournament (Princeton, NJ) with 3.5 out of 4 !

US Champion 2007 Aravind Kumar
shows the games to his trainer Yuriy Karakashyan




  Kostyantyn Mazur plays simultaneous games against
  Samritha Palakollu, Viktor Krapivin and Roman Rychkov



    As a good tradition, Elliot Dean (left) and Kostyantyn Viktorov
    play with each other a training game almost every week.
    Both students are chess team members of their high schools
    in Manalapan and Princeton, respectively.

    


Training games:
    front - Aravind Kumar (left) vs. Anton Maliev
    back - Max Khegay (left) vs. Aishwarya Kumar


Before the class:   
Alisa Litvin  and  Zhenya Rozental



Searching for the best move (from left to right):
    Max Khegay, Aditya Venkatesh, Arjun Rajkumar, Elliot Dean



    Anton Topol (center) is watching the game between
    Dmitry (left) and Andrey Krapivin (right)



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Our congratulations to all our students and their parents!