Montessori home to skilled chess players
Three students place at Chess for Success tourney
By Rob Cullivan
The Gresham Outlook, Mar 25, 2008
Tucker Price, 12, a sixth-grader at Franciscan Montessori Earth School in southeast Portland, and Sean Richardson, 9, a fourth-grader, spend a lot of time staring at tables.
Their concentration paid off last weekend at the Chess for Success State Championship Tournament at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, March 21-22.
Tucker – the 2005 state champion in the elementary division – tied for fourth place in the sixth grade division, and Sean tied for sixth in the elementary, or kindergarten-through-fourth division. Meanwhile, Nathan Smith, a third-grader at Franciscan, tied for fourth place in the elementary division.
Prior to the tournament, Montessori’s two chess teams placed second in the K-5 and 6-8 divisions respectively in prior regional Chess for Success tournaments.
At the regionals, Tucker and Sean both took first place in their respective classes, and Alex Petersen, a seventh grader at Montessori, took first place in the seventh grade division. Alex was unable to make the Chess for Success tournament because he was out of the country, but he should be joining several other Montesorri team members at the Oregon Scholastic Chess Federation’s state tournament in Seaside April 12.
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I don’t think the Northwest is really pro-USCF. I think they have their own rating system.
While it’s true that we have our own scholastic rating system, the OSCF does require advanced students to have a USCF membership in order to play in the state championship.
To find out the results of the OSCF event, visit http://www.oscf.org
Kate Taylor,
Vice President
Oregon Scholastic Chess Federation