Dalton students had celebrity chess parent interactions (Ashton Kutcher: “Is the Dalton team enjoying the tournament?”), highs (“I won! Was he really 500 rating points higher than me?”), and learning moments (“I did not do very well in this tournament but I had a lot of growth and figured out a bunch of chess lines I never knew before”).

Team members: Hannah Chan '30, Abbott Day '30, Sebastian Hemlock '30, Joshua Kuruvilla '30, Anthony Mavroudis '30, Samant Sen '30, Michael Warren '30, Eden Klein '31, Owen Pang '31, Logan Freiman '32, Teddy Giuliano '32, Roman Rubenstein Mash '32, Eli Stern '32 

Team members: Nancy Tran '30, Viaan Barmecha '31, Spencer Siegfried '31, Nolan Tran '32, Theo Yook '32, Cecilia Cooper '33, Andwele Haywood '33 

Team members: Aadi Doshi '33, Alexander Feirman '33, Gabriel Lavipour '33, Logan Pang '33, Kenzo Phillips '33, Carolina Vasilatos '33, Liam Yao '33, Declan Campbell '34

Team members: Brennan Campbell '35, Oceane Chemla '35, Sameer Doshi '35, Taran Mehta '35, Kelly Park '35, Michelle Park '35, Oliver Wang '35, Veer Kumar '36, Theo Lavipour '36, William Pang '36

Team members: Aahren Bhandari '35, Jude Tsuboyama '35, Owen Cooper '36, Pablo Rios '36

Team members: Ilaan Ahmed '30, Jack Cooper '31 

The future looks promising with both K-1 teams securing second place. Like their older teammates, our Kindergarteners and 1st Graders worked diligently and performed admirably.

Dalton parents shared their thoughts following this exciting weekend of chess:

"Dalton brings the largest team to the largest elementary school tournament and we all have a blast. It’s a place where lasting memories are made. The kids compete, learn from their mistakes, and persevere over three hard-fought days. Coach Beatriz and her team tirelessly review all games and add preparation strategies ahead of each round. Parents bond, swap Dalton experiences, and commiserate over the ups and downs.”

“The Dalton Chess program is a top training platform for kids from K to High School. Beatriz and team have developed a community in which children learn, get better, compete, and very often, win. It teaches children chess, but also amazing life skills such as teamwork, competitiveness and focus. I have seen my son go from a kid who could not sit still in his K class to playing 1.5 hour games in 1st Grade. But more than all that, it has also given the kids and their parents, an amazing community. The kids play, travel, learn and grow together and I couldn’t ask for a better experience for his intellectual and social development.” Go Tigers! Click here to view the photo gallery.