From Tournament Director Mike Ellenbogen:

We had a wonderful turnout at the 6^th installment of the annual Pelham chess classic. With players represented from all over Westchester. We had a total of 90 students competing from White Plains, New Rochelle, Mamaroneck, Tarrytown, Rye, Armonk, Larchmont, Bedford, Mount Vernon, Greenwich, and oh yeah, of course, Pelham as well.

The prize winners were as follows;

Championship section Tie for first place Shailen Smith (graduated from Prospect Hill now lives in Fairfield CT) and Maxwell Resnick (graduated from Colonial school now at Horace Mann)

Reserve Section 1^st place with a perfect 4 wins and no losses Connor Normoyle 2^nd place Benjamin Zwicker

Elementary Section 1^st place Luka Surguladze 2^nd place Will Teitelbaum 3^rd place Brewer Anderson

4^th place Benjamin Sze 5^th place Daniel Babayev

Primary Section 1^st place Peter Weil 2^nd place Mengyuan Niu 3^rd place Ben Galperin 4^th place Liam Zeng 5^th place Quinn Regelmann

Novice 2-5   1^st place Jackson O’Connor 2^nd place Todd Kerman 3^rd place Samuel Koester 4^th place Joseph Weng 5^th place Matthew Sze 6^th place Sina Rassi 7^th place Andrew Yorio 8^th place Katerina Howard. Medal winners; Aviv Eliezer, Ethan Miringa, Lila Carpenter, James Koester, Trey Byfield, Henry Burke, Anna Shiels, Maxwell Ellenbogen

K-1 Novice 1^st place Thomas Bae 2^nd place Russell Pearlman 3^rd place Nicholas Tardieu 4^th place Andrew Surguladze 5^th place Liam Hess

Medal winners Micah Sinha, Alessia Tronci, Nate Gretina, Nellie Hill-Ries, Ari Drucker, Anand Shah, Julie Mothner, Cole Normoyle, Luis-Jacob Casenas

For more information on the Pelham chess program please go to pelhamchess.com.