Monday, August 5, 2013

2013 Murray Calloway County Chess Championships

The Mur-Cal Chess Club hosted the 2013 County Championship Chess Championships on Saturday, August 3, 2013 at the Calloway County Public Library. The tournament attracted students from the Murray and Calloway systems as well as home schooled students.  Student awards were based on 2012-13 grade levels.

Nickolas Holcomb (2-0-2) successfully defended his title as the Primary (K-3) Champion.  Mason Lu (2-0-2) edged out the defending champion, Liam Hereford, for the Elementary (K-5) Title , Samuel Lewis (3-0-1) was a full point ahead of all other K-8 students and won the Middle School title.  Benjamen Thome (3-0-1) is the new High School Champion. 

The title of Challenger was won by Wayne Bell and consequently he will play a 4 game match with Josiah Hereford, the current champion, for the title of 2013 County Champion. 

Part of that match will be played at the Mur-Cal Chess Club which meets at the Curris Center on Mondays at 5-7 PM.  For a list of past County Champions see the Mur-Cal Chess Club website http://mur-calchess.blogspot.com/ .  For more information call Wayne Bell at 270-293-7675.

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