High School Team Victorious in Romania

Congratulations to the Waubonsie Valley chess team for their victory in the The International School Chess Festival last week from July 2nd to July 6th. Waubonsie Valley sent five players – Anjaneya Rao, Aryan Shrigadi, Arnav Karthikeyan, RIa Raj, and Christan Cheng – as well as their coaches Dr. Mikhail Korenman and Robyn Whitlock.

 

Nineteen teams, representing seven countries competed at the Festival. Waubonsie went a perfect 8-0 in the tournament, the only team to do so. The team from Israel came in a close second with 7 points followed by Ukraine with 6 points. Here is the final ranking after 8 rounds(for specific information pertaining to each team click on their respective name).

 

Rk.	SNo	Team	Games	+	=	-	TB1	TB2	TB3	TB4
1	1	Waubonsie Valley High School, Aurora, Chicago	8	8	0	0	16	0,00	31	123
2	2	Green Village School (Israel)	8	7	0	1	14	0,00	25	135
3	4	Lyceum No. 9 Odessa (Ukraine) (U12)	8	6	0	2	12	0,00	21,5	136
4	5	Liceul Teoretic Ion Creanga Tulcea	8	5	0	3	10	0,00	19	141
5	15	Lic. Teh. Vasile Gherasim Marginea	8	4	0	4	8	0,00	17,5	108,5
6	7	Polgarstraße Vienna (Austria)	8	4	0	4	8	0,00	16,5	142,5
7	11	Lic. Teh. Vasile Gherasim Marginea (U12)	8	4	0	4	8	0,00	16	142
8	12	Liceul Simion Stolnicu Comarnic 2	7	3	0	4	8	0,00	16	109
9	9	Liceul Simion Stolnicu Comarnic 1	8	4	0	4	8	0,00	15	143,5
10	18	Sc. Gim. Nr. 2 Poiana Comarnic (U12)	6	2	2	2	7	0,00	16	88
11	10	Lic. Teh. Constantin Cantacuzino Baicoi 1 (U1	8	3	1	4	7	0,00	13,5	117,5
12	14	Lic. Teh. Constantin Cantacuzino Baicoi 2 (U1	7	1	3	3	7	0,00	13,5	99
13	8	Kazakhstan	4	3	0	1	7	0,00	12	73,5
14	13	Sc. Gim. Toma Caragiu Ploiesti 1 (U12)	7	2	0	5	6	0,00	12	105
15	6	International Team	8	1	4	3	6	0,00	10	112
16	16	Liceul Simion Stolnicu Comarnic (U12)	7	1	2	4	6	0,00	10	110
17	17	Lic. Teh. Constantin Cantacuzino Baicoi 3 (U1	7	1	1	5	5	0,00	9,5	83,5
18	3	Kyrgyzstan (U12)	4	0	4	0	5	0,00	9	62,5
19	19	Sc. Gim. Toma Caragiu Ploiesti 2 (U12)	7	0	1	6	3	0,00	6	92

 

On July 4th, the day off the competition, the team participated in Bucharest at the Torch Ceremony for the 100th anniversary of FIDE. It was the first experience for WVHS to play in Europe and the team enjoyed the trip. Dr. Korenman greatly appreciated the families who traveled with students to participate in the event. Pictured below is the WVHS team with FIDE Executive Director GM Victor Bologan.