2014Calloway County Chess Championships

Calloway County Chess Championships

The 2014 Calloway County Chess Championships were held Saturday in the Curris Center.  The games were followed by a “simultaneous exhibition” by the outgoing County Champion Josiah Hereford.  Josiah played 9 games at the same time.  They were arranged in a circle with Josiah inside of it.  He would walk from one board to the next.  When he arrived at a board the opponent would then make a move and Josiah would make his move and then move on.  Josiah’s score was 8 wins and only one draw to the new County High School Champion Samuel Lewis.

James Hereford, a Professor of Engineering at MSU, became the 2014 Calloway County Chess Champion by scoring 3 wins and one draw.  Austin Clark a Junior from Mayfield retained his title as the MSU Champion and has his name, for the second time, placed on the plaque along with all of the other champions back to 1980.  The overall High School County Champion is MHS student Samuel Lewis who won three of his 4 games, the Middle School Champion is LAMP homeschool student Liam Hereford who also won 3 games, and, by the same score Nickolas Holcomb of MMS, won the Elementary County Championship.  The primary County Champion is Ginni Mikulcik from LAMP and Carter Coleman of Calloway County East won the Kindergarten category.

There were several new players. The seventh place novice was Olivia Mikulchk from LAMP, sixth went to Gavin Klotz, fifth to Caleb Cauley, fourth to Connor Blalock, third to Ethan Klotz, second to Hayden Holcomb, and the first place novice went to Luke Cross all from Murray Middle.

In intra school competition there was a massive tie with the tie break wins going to Xavier Brown for the Calloway County system, Mason Lu for the Murray system, and Asher Cunningham for the LAMP group of home schoolers.  For more information on chess in the area go to http://mur-calchess.blogspot.com/ .