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Jewish academy squad knighted chess champs (Jewish Review)

A Portland Jewish Academy Chess Club team won first place in the Chess for Success City of Portland Tournament for students in kindergarten through fifth grade.

PJA team members were: Philip Weiss, 9, Barkley Saltzman, 11, Dane Saltzman, 9, Paul Kenniston, 11, and David Govshtein, 11.

Third-grader Philip Weiss also took first place in the K-4 division of the tournament. The fifth-grade division had a five way tie for second place, which included PJA students Govshtein and Barkley Saltzman.

Girls show chess chops (Corpus Christi Caller-Times, TX)

What two Catholic schoolgirls did in Vegas is too good to stay in Vegas.

Georgia Olvera, 8, won the under-10 age division in the blitz competition at the Susan Polgar World Open Chess Championship for Girls in Las Vegas, and her schoolmate at Central Catholic School, Kelliinez Lopez, 11, won seventh place in the under-13 division of regular play.

Georgia, a third-grader whose permanent teeth still are growing in, competed in six rounds of five-minute games against opponents as old as 17 last weekend at Riviera Casino Hotel. The first-place win brought the girl, who loves hula hooping and skipping rope, a hologram-etched trophy nearly thigh-high.

In chess, Taylor is best (Des Moines Register, IA)

Taylor Best just became an 11-year-old chess champion.

She was a 10-year-old chess champion, too.

While finishing fifth grade at Jefferson Elementary School, 2425 Watrous Ave. in Des Moines, Taylor won her second straight citywide school chess championship in the advanced division.

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