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The 2022 CPS Academic Chess K-8 Championship took place on Saturday March 26 at Dunbar High School. 121 players from 24 schools competed to be this years Champions.

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2022 Champions

SECTION	TEAM	INDIVIDUAL
Primary K-4	Skinner North	Yuhan Liu – Lincoln & Hugh Lin – Keller
Intermediate K-6	Lincoln	Aiden Baker – Lincoln
Junior High K-8	Whitney Young AC	Justin Zhang – Whitney Young AC

The CPS Academic Chess K-8 North & South Side Playoffs took place on Saturday March 12 at Whitney Young High School. The tournament saw 238 students from 35 schools compete to see who will advance to the CPS K-8 Championship on March 26.

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Below are the advancing teams and individuals

	Northside Teams	Northside Individuals	Southside Teams	Southside Individuals
Primary K-4	Lincoln Skinner North Edison	Ramos, Eneko – La Salle Platten, Nathaniel – Waters Hoffman, Alexander – Waters Hadj-Chikh, Ronan – Waters	Keller STEM Spry	Huang, Ryan – Lenart Huang, Ethan – Virtual Academy Arteaga, Daniela – Calmeca Ruiz, Benjamin – Calmeca
Intermediate K-6	Decatur Beaubien Lincoln	Gataulin, Andrey – Skinner North Pothabathula, Rahul – Skinner North Jael, Gabriel – Bateman Desanto, Alex – Pritzker	Keller Gallistel Sheridan	Arteaga, Alejandro – Calmeca Moton, Leshan – Taylor Padilla, Sebastian – Taylor Bahena, Cesar – Calmeca
Junior High K-8	Whitney Young AC Taft AC Skinner North	Dreghorn, Finn – Edison Mccloskey, William – Bateman Rodriguez, Alyssa – Bateman Linnenbringer, Otto – Lincoln	Kinzie Calmeca Sheridan	Villa, Francisco – Washington Elem Garza, Isabella – Brooks AC Anilao, Aidan – STEM Samano, Joel – Hampton

The CPS Department of Academic Competition is pleased to announce its program offerings for SY 2022-2023. We are delighted to afford these dynamic programmatic opportunities to schools and students from across the city. Below you will find the program offerings and their respective links to register and/or express interest in the programs. Please complete the Letters of Intent or Letters of Interest to be included in our 22-23 program roster.  

Academic Chess LOI

Cops & Kids LOI

First Move LOI

Join us for this exciting and fun filled day. We start the day off with a Saturday Morning Blitz tournament at 10:00 on ChessKid.

Blitz Info

Following the tournament we will be hosting a very special empowerment workshop for students.  We have lined up two great speakers; Rochelle Ballantyne , from the movie Brooklyn Castle, and Daaim Shabazz from the Chess Drum.

This workshop is open to all CPS students, so help us pass the word.  We are asking participants to register in advance .

Workshop Registration/More info

89 students form 28 schools participated in the 2022 President’s Day online tournament. The top 3 finishers in each section receive a plaque which will be mailed to their school.

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Final Standings have been posted for all sections

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78 students fron 23 schools played in our annual Kings & Queens tournament which was held online this year. The tournament featured 3 sections: Primary K-4, Intermediate K-6, & Junior High K-8 .

Congratulations to all who played in the tournament

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18 High School competed in the championship in 3 sections: 8-Board Varsity Team , 5-Board Junior Varsity Team, & an Individual Swiss for extra players.

The final results have been posted. Congratulations to this year’s champion teams: Payton High School – Varsity and Whitney Young – Junior Varsity

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Join us for our MLK Day Online Tournament open to students in grades K-12 with 4 sections: Primary K-4, Intermediate K-6, Junior High K-8, & High School 9-12. Join tournament opens at 9:30 am and Round 1 starts at 10:00 am.

THIS TOURNAMENT WILL BE conducted ONLINE THROUGH CHESSKID.COM.

To participate in the tournament students must have their ChessKid account associated with our Enterprise Account 3 days prior to the tournament.

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