A Blitz Tournament was held at De La Salle Institute recently to kick off the 2022-2023 Chicago Chess Conference season. The time control was five minutes per player per game. Seventy-one students from eight schools participated. Only Marist did not present a team for the event.

St. Ignatius players took seven of the top ten spots in the tournament, including first place which was earned by John Waldo, a Junior at the school.

 

Top Ten Results

1.     John Waldo, St. Ignatius

2.     Julian Lopez, Latin

3.     Stephen Legendre, Latin

4.     Philip Kujawa, St. Ignatius

5.     Dylan Redd, De La Salle

6.     Patrick Daly, St. Ignatius

7.     Wyatt Buquid, St. Ignatius

8.     Ben Viramontes, St. Ignatius

9.     Matthew Erlec, St. Ignatius

10.  Jacob Komorowski, St. Ignatius

 

The member schools of our conference are:

De La Salle, DePaul, Latin, Leo, Marist, Mt. Carmel, St. Ignatius, St. Patrick and St. Rita. Sadly, we lost one of our schools as Brother Rice does not have a chess program this year.