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I wished I could have gone, but could not. Congrats indeed to all of these fine young players, several of whom are familiar to Austin chess coaches as students. We are all proud of our kids! :) :) :)
Torey Neuzil
President, North Central Texas Chess Club
URL: http://nctcc.atspace.org/
E-mail: nctcc@...
Venue: Pflugerville Community Library Meeting Room
--- darda_chang@... wrote:
From: Darda Chang <darda_chang@...>
To: chessinaustin@yahoogroups.com, austinchessgroup@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: *ChessInAustin* Congratulations to Austin's National Champions
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:21:18 -0800 (PST)
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Torey Neuzil
President, North Central Texas Chess Club
URL: http://nctcc.atspace.org/
E-mail: nctcc@...
Venue: Pflugerville Community Library Meeting Room
--- darda_chang@... wrote:
From: Darda Chang <darda_chang@...>
To: chessinaustin@yahoogroups.com, austinchessgroup@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: *ChessInAustin* Congratulations to Austin's National Champions
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:21:18 -0800 (PST)
Considering three years ago, most players in Canyon Vista Middle School, still began to learn how to play chess.
Comparing to all New York's teams with their coaches such as GM Hikaru Nakamura and GM Joel Benjamin with the sheriff, Sunil Weeramantry.
We had few Austin teams with much fewer players and one coach, Michael Feinstein, standing...
I think that every player was very focus on their goals with their best performance!
Besides players' own effort, many thanks and appreciation should go to all the local chess coaches. To name few, Mike Feinstein, Alex Chau, Eugene Kohnitz, Paul Chaplin, Torey Neuzil, Yuri Mirgorodsky, Jim Fleener, Jim Franklin, and David Parker.
One name I did not forget is Gary Gaiffee. Mr. Gaiffee has been promoting the local scholastic event for years in Austin. It has provided a great
environment for those young players to grow.
The newly formed Austin Chess Club in 2006 has provided even stronger chess environment for those young players to learn from veteran players.
I really appreciate the current chess environment in Austin and looking forward to improve a much better one!
Thanks,
Darda
Michael Feinstein <mikefein64@...> wrote:
Michael Feinstein <mikefein64@...> wrote:
Congratulations to Austin's Canyon Vista Middle School 6th Grade Team (6th Grade National Championship Team) and to Derek Chang (6th Grade National Co-Champion) for their exceptional performances at the National K-12 Championship this past weekend in Houston. In addition to Derek, Steven Chen, Andy Wang and Kevin Xie made up the winning Canyon Vista 6th grade team.
Congratulations are also deserved for George Qi (=2nd place in the 7th Grade section), Alexander Balkum (clear 2nd in the 9th Grade section) and to the Canyon Vista 7th and 8th Grade Teams (clear 2nd in their respective sections).
Considering how not too long ago, a top 3 finish in the state was a remarkable performance, these terrific results in a National Event really highlight how Austin has emerged as a chess location to reckon with.
There were many other strong individual performances that can be found at the USCF website. I wanted to briefly highlight the headline results for those who were not able to attend the event in person.
Mike
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