282 Royal Panthers Chess Team Excels At NYC Chess Championships

An enormous congratulations to our amazing PS/MS 282 Royal Panthers chess team, which competed at the Greater New York Scholastic Chess Championships yesterday, to some spectacular results — the team took home second place in the High School Under 1400 section! Which is so impressive — as 282 parent Rob Underwood puts it: “As in a 2nd grader beating 11th and 12th graders.”

Pictured above are (from left): Maya Doron-Repa (4th grade, 3.5 points), Kareem Hill (8th grade, 3,5 points), Takanori Underwood (5th grade, 3 points), Toshinori Underwood (2nd grade, 3 points), Steven Codling (coach). Not pictured, but also in this section, was Ryan Tucker (6th grade, 3 points).

Maya and Toshi also came in 2nd tournament-wide in the mixed doubles section.

Other notable results from yesterday:

K-1 U500
Isaac Cohen: 8th Place (tied for 5th – Trophy)
Theodore Popa: 11th Place (tied for 5th – Trophy)
Team: 5th Place, tied for 3rd – Trophy. (Isaac G. Cohen, Theodore Popa, Seth Hartman, Khenzom Subrahmanyam, Amy Burton)

K-3 U400
Eleanor Hamilton: 7th Place Trophy
Team: 6th Place Trophy (Eleanor Hamilton, Raven Marshall, Jazarah Berry, Gustavo Ponzoa, Olivia Robinson, Jacob Calixte, Mattias Ponzoa, Martine Gregoire, Brandyn Tucker)

K-12 HS U1400
Kareem Hill: Top Scoring 8th Grader, Plaque

Elementary U1200
Team: 9th Place (Ethan McLaren, Gregory J. Conner Senat, Daniel Cunningham, Jack Jewell, Will Steddin, Aliyah Baugh, Dakota Amar, Mishca Braswell, John Steddin, Linden Bergeron-Mirsky)

HS Under 1900
Anthony Asseviro Jr: 11th Place, Trophy

Congrats to everyone who competed, and way to make your neighborhood proud!