Huge congrats to Marin!! We dominated the competition at the recent Berkeley Chess School competition. Out of 29 schools, Marin had 14 students and a score of 21 points. Not only that, out of 140 kids that played, our team had the only player to earn the perfect score trophy, Callaghan!
The chess school gives the school a trophy and a trophy to the top 4 players. Our team was:
1st- Callaghan McCarty-Snead
2nd- Bileg Erdenetsogt
3rd- Fianna McCarty-Snead
4th- James Hu
Sofia Ivanov
Nathan Yasnovsky
Tallulah McCarty-Snead
Sean Morello
Ian Nakabayashi
Kevin Liu
Gustavo Mitchell Flores
Nathaniel Urbania
Joyce Blyden
Marcus Ahlfeldt
Congratulations to all three Albany Elementary schools who finished in the top 5! Thank you community for your generous donations to the PTA's who help fund enrichment activities such as chess in the classroom.