CCL performs well at National HS Championship

April 15, 2015

The top CCL finishers in the National HS tournament were Maggie Feng, Chris Shen, and Vikram Srivastava who each scored 5.5/7, finishing in a tie for 10^th place. Based on tiebreaks, they finished in 24^th, 26^th, and 27^th places respectively. I am hopeful for a CCL National HS champion in the future as these 3 players are in 8^th, 5^th, and 9^th grades.

We had a very fine finish by 3^rd grader Emma Cheng in the U-1600 section who tied for 2^nd place with 5 wins, 1 draw, and 1 bye. Also of note was a nice tournament by Mark Carroll who gained 157 rating points and Dominic Mayhew who gained 113 rating points.

The complete cross-tables for this tournament can be found at:

http://www.uschess.org/tournaments/2015/hs/?page=RESULTS

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