Way to go kids!
The Golda Meir tournament is a fun annual event. This year, over 170 kids from the Milwaukee area participated. McKinley sent 8 kids this time around, and were divided into two divisions. Some chess tournaments segment kids by rating as well as grade level.
We always tell kids that their goal in their first tournament is to win 1 game (out of the 5 usually played). 5 of our 8 kids were playing in their first tournament. Not only did they all win at least 2 games, but 3 of them won 4 games.
Zach Brunow had to miss game 1 due to basketball, but then joined in and won all four of his games- in his first tournament! The rest of our K4 team (3 out of 4 in their first tournament) all won 3/5 games... we missed first place by a HALF POINT, taking the 3rd place trophy.
In our other team, K12 U575, Alex Jaworski won 4 out of 5 games to take the 4th place individual trophy. Jack Sanders also won 4 games. We took 4th as a team, only 2 points away from 1st place.
All in all, a great day and a very fun and well organized tournament, way to go McKinley kids!
Full results are here- http://www.wisconsinscholasticchess.org/websource/web/results/Golda%20Meir%20Results%20.pdf
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