DC Scholastic Open

Attendance at the 2003 District of Columbia Scholastic Open Chess Tournament was down this year from previous years, no doubt due to the weather, but the 220 or so players and their families again had a spectacular time and this tournament.. More than 300 students had registered but a week of bad weather and flooding in many communities on the day of the event kept the numbers of players relatively small.

The level of play was high. Thirty-six elementary schools plus eight middle schools sent teams to The First Baptist Church of the City of Washington, D.C., which again hosted the event with extraordinary generosity and good will.

Team Standings
Elementary 1) Haycock 11 2) Kent Gardens 10 Burning Tree 10 4) Woods Academy 9 5) Washington New Church School 8	Middle School 1) Kilmer 10 2) Washington New Church School 9½ 3) Rocky Run 8½

Top DC Elementary School: Holy Trinity

Merit Award: Capital City PCS

Individual Champions (School and city of residence)

8th Grade:	Bret Latter	Kilmer MS, Vienna, VA	Standings
7th Grade:	Kaleem Washington	St. Albans School, Washington, DC	Standings
6th Grade:	Dan Aldrich	Maret School, Washington, DC	Standings
	Logan Gates	Haycock ES, Vienna, VA
5th Grade:	Aryan Khojandi	Kent Gardens ES, McLean, VA	Standings
4th Grade:	Zafar Shaw	Fairfax Villa ES, Fairfax, VA	Standings
	Justin Harris	homeschooled in Baltimore, MD
3rd Grade:	Darwin Li	Forest Edge ES, Fairfax, VA	Standings
	John Mehler	Burning Tree ES, Bethesda, MD
2nd Grade:	Andrew Freix	Cub Run ES, Centreville, VA	Standings
K-1st Grade:	Jeevan Karamsetty	homechooled in Reston, VA	Standings

Ties among co-champions were broken with a blitz game. The winner of the blitz game appears on top of the other player.

2003 Scholastic Results Page