By Alan Zibel
STAFF WRITER
| FREMONT - Several chess teams from
area schools were victorious in a competition last weekend. Students from Mission San Jose High School, Montessori School of Fremont, Hopkins Junior High School and Ardenwood, Forest Park, Weibel, and Mission San Jose elementary schools competed in the annual California State Scholastic Chess Championship on Saturday and Sunday. About 75 schools, most of which were from Northern California, participated in the competition at the Santa Clara Convention Center. Fremont teams won in every grade level except on the high school level, where only individual honors were given. |
"The teams from Fremont dominated,"
said Alan., Kirshner, director of the event. "No ifs, ands or buts about it." In the kindergarten through third grade competition, Weibel Elementary School beat out three other teams in the varsity division. In the junior varsity division, Weibel also won, beating 12 other schools. In the fourth through sixth grade competition, Mission San Jose Elementary beat out seven other teams in the varsity division.In the junior high competition, Hopkins Junior High beat out 14 other schools in the varsity division. Another team from Hopkins also won in the junior varsity division, beating 29 other teams. Fremont also had several |
high-scoring individuals: > Tau Jeng, a kindergarten student at the Montessori School of Fremont, scored first out of 26 kindergartners. > Weibel Elementary third -graders Jessica Hsueh and Hans Tsai were the topscoring players in their division. > Hopkins Junior High School seventh-grader, Jayodita Sanghvi* tied for second place in her division. Robert Wei,* a junior, and Derek Hwang, a seventh-grader, tied for third place in their divisions >Mission San Jose High School senior David Tsay and junior Micah Fisher-Kirshner* tied for third place in their divisions. "It was beautiful chess," Kirshner said. "The chess just keeps on getting better." |
* Alan's Note: These are former
Weibel students.
From The Argus, March 29, 1999