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Best State Meet Ever for MSJE!

Coach Joe’s Report on the 2016 Calchess Scholastic State Championships

The 2016 Northern California Scholastic Chess Championships were held the weekend of March 19th and 20th at the Santa Clara convention center. Over 900 students and more the 50 schools competed in these championships. Mission San Jose Elementary school (MSJE) of Fremont was the big winner in the Elementary School Division. MSJE won the team title and MSJE students won the individual Championships in all four elementary school sections! This was the fifth time in the last five years that MSJE has won the team title in K-3, K-5, and K-6, the major elementary school Championship sections.

The Kindergarten section individual section was won Jason Liu. Kavya Meiyappan won the third place Kindergarten trophy. Our Kindergarten team won the first place team trophy by a large margin.

The K-3 individual winner was Aghila Nachiappan. Allyson Wong won the second place trophy. Our K-3 Championship team won first place by a large margin.

Kevin Pan won the first place individual trophy in K-5. The K-5 team won the first place team trophy.

Jaisuraj Kaleeswaran won the first place individual trophy in K-6, Rishith Susarla tied for third place and won a large trophy. Our K-6 team won the first place team trophy making it a clean sweep of the championship section for MSJE. Congratulation to all MSJE chess players. This is the first time in 41 years that any elementary school has done a clean sweep (individual and team championships) of all these championship sections.

MSJE Chess Coaches Joe Lonsdale, Chris Torres, Meiyappan Sathappan, Hui Wang

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Chris Torres is a nationally renowned scholastic chess coach working in the San Francisco Bay Area. His classes have attracted players of strengths ranging from rank beginners to world champions. A chess professional since 1998, Chris is widely recognized as one of the main driving forces behind the explosion in popularity and sudden rise in quality of scholastic chess in California. Chris Torres served as the President of the Torres Chess and Music Academy from 2005-2020 and currently is recognized as a correspondence chess master with the United States Chess Federation. Since 1998 Chris Torres has taught 6 individual national champions as well as led multiple school teams to win national championship titles. In addition, Chris Torres has directed and taught at 10 different schools which have been California State Champions at chess. In 2011 and 2012, several former and current students of Chris Torres have been selected to represent the United States at the World Youth Chess Championships. Mr. Torres’ hobbies include playing classical guitar and getting his students to appear on the national top 100 chess rating lists.

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