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Catalina High takes state chess title (Arizona Daily Star)

Catalina Foothills High School came out on top in the Arizona Scholastic State Chess Championship. The team, which recently placed second in a separate national competition, beat out players from across the state at a two-day tournament over the weekend in Gilbert.

Vaishnav Aradhyula of Catalina Foothills won first place overall in the individual high school event and will represent Arizona this summer at a tournament in Chicago.

Salpointe Catholic High School sophomore Jonathan Cox won third place overall.

Wolfgang Unzicker, German Chess Master, Dies at 80 (New York Times)

Wolfgang Unzicker, a German judge and chess grandmaster who ranked among the world's top 50 players for almost two decades, died April 20 while on vacation in Portugal. He was 80 and lived in Munich.

The cause was heart failure, according to the obituary in the newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, for which he was once a chess columnist.

Urbane in his manners and appearance, Mr. Unzicker won West Germany's championship seven times from 1948 to 1965. He also represented the country in 13 chess Olympiads, including one in Tel Aviv in 1965 in which the team finished third. He was the top player on the team in 10 of the Olympiads.

Chess challenge (Battle Creek Enquirer, MI)

Tomorrow, 12-year-old Josh Dubin will be thinking about what's for lunch at Daniel Wright Middle School in the Chicago suburb of Lincolnshire.

On Saturday, he was worried about what a Yugoslavia-born chess grandmaster would throw at him next in Battle Creek.

Though Josh is the seventh-ranked 12-year-old chess player in the United States, he was the lowest-rated player in the open division of the Great Lakes Open chess tournament.

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