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11th Grade Captures 10th Straight Title to Lead Dalton at K-12 Chess Championships

Posted - 12/26/2022

An unprecedented 75 students from Kindergarten through 12th Grade headed down to Washington, DC, to compete at the National K-12 Grade Championships December 9-11, with more participants than any other school in the nation.

Dalton squared off against almost 2,500 of the country’s top scholastic chess players and nearly 1,000 teams, earning top honors in several grade-level awards across Kindergarten to 12th Grade.

The 11th Grade team won their grade’s national championship for the 10th straight year, continuing a streak that began in 2nd Grade, while the K-12 Blitz Team (Gus Huston ‘24, Max Mottola ‘25, Ryan Peterson ‘24, William Safranek ‘26, and Nate Shuman ‘24) captured the Blitz National Championship.

Led by Head Coach and Women International Master (WIM) Beatriz Marinello, Dalton’s coaching staff featured a world-class lineup of Grandmaster Mac Molner, Grandmaster Alex Lenderman, International Master Oladapo Abu, Chess Expert Nelson Dunn, Chess Expert Adia Onyago, and Chess Expert Eric Balk.

Dalton high school parents gave speeches and advised First Program and Middle School parents on the last day before departing, while the High School students mentored their younger counterparts.

In addition to chess, the students made holiday cards for a children’s hospital. What a great weekend full of community building and celebrating chess successes!

Go Tigers!

Team Results
5th Grade - tied 3rd place
4th Grade - 2nd place
3rd Grade - 5th place
1st Grade - 5th place
Kindergarten - 3rd place

Dalton Chess Participants
12th Grade ‘23: Langley Beaudoin, Dylan Challenger, Sumit Dhar

11th Grade ‘24: Gus Huston, Pippa Lee, Julia Miyasaka, Ryan Peterson, Veda Safranek, Nathaniel Shuman, Narayan Topalli
Gus 3rd overall, Nate 8th overall

10th Grade ‘25: Maxwell Massiah, Max Mottola, Max Mottola 10th overall

9th Grade ‘26: William Safranek, William 10th overall

8th Grade ‘27: Jack Yang

6th Grade ‘29: Abram Crystal, Jacob Feuerstein, Kevin Stern, Jameson Wong

5th Grade ‘30: Reha Agarwal, Risha Agarwal, Ilaan Ahmed, Hannah Chan, Abbott Day, Sebastian Hemlock, Vihan Kumar, Logan Lee, Anthony John Mavroudis, Samant Sen, Callum Vonwiller, Michael Warren, Sophie Yang
4th Grade ‘31: Viaan Barmecha, Elijah Beim, Julian Feldman, Eden Klein, Saarim Khan, Owen Pang, Liam Roso, Spencer Siegfried, Jeremy Tao
Jeremy 7th overall

3rd Grade ‘32: Paul Daniels, Logan Freiman, Teddy Giuliano, Mackenzie Hwee, Roman Rubinstein Mash, Eli Stern, Nolan Tran

2nd Grade ‘33: Isabel Beim, Aadi Doshi, Andwele Haywood, Gabriel Lavipour, Chase Newman, Bemnet Noel, Mason Olim, Kenzo Phillips, Chloe Robinson, Alexandra Siegfried, Kai Taylor, Carolina Vasilatos, Liam Yao

First Grade ‘34: Hudson Belelieu, Albert Boston, Declan Campbell, Wren Chisholm, Skye Drivin, Ben Feuerstein, Rayna Gupta, Emma Kim
Kindergarten ‘35: Victoria Andreev, Brennan Campbell, Oceane Chemla, George Day, Conor Dontzin, Saamer Doshi, Oliver Wang

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