Vincent Baker wins the Ohio HS Championship and Jason Wang wins Ohio MS Championship

April 9, 2019

CCL cleaned the table with clear 1st place finishes in every major Ohio Scholastic event this Spring: Queen City Classic, K-3 Championship, and Elementary School Championship. Last weekend we won the State HS and MS Championships. The top CCL results were:

High School

Clear 1st place - Vincent Baker
Tied for 2nd place - Elton Cao
Tied for 4th place - Justin Storn, Aryan Balyan, and Aristo Liu

Middle School

Clear 1st place - Jason Wang
Tied for 2nd - Rohan Padhye and Dae San Kim
Tied for 4th place - Varun Sathyajeeth, Wesley Lai, Matt Wang, Michael Lin, Adeti Mohanselvan

Vincent will be representing Ohio at the Denker tournament, against the HS Champions of the other 49 states. Jason will be represent Ohio at the Barber tournament, against the MS Champions of the other 49 states. Complete details on this event can be seen at http://ohioscholasticchess.org/2019hsmsresults.htm .

We also had a weekend camp with IM Atanas Kizov 2 weekends ago. Below are some the few pictures that I took at these two events.

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