Newton rules

Checkmate for kids at Newton’s Cabot school
By Staff reports
Wicked Local Newton
Posted Mar 10, 2010 @ 12:55 AM
Newton —

Four Newton children are chess champions, leading their grade in the annual competition held for high school, middle school, elementary and primary school students.

Cabot School third-grade students Alex Fauman, Evan Meyer, Jonathan Cohen and Jacob Brockman swept the match in their section at this year’s State Scholastic Team Chess Championship held in Waltham’s Hilton Gardens Inn. Their coach, Newton resident Larry Eldridge, said the team won all four of its matches.

“This is the second year in a row that the Cabot School has won in this grade category,” said Eldridge. “Returning champions are Alex and Evan.”

The way the tournament works is that each grade category plays four matches. The Cabot School team “swept the match,” Eldridge said, winning all their games in the first match, all in their second, all in their third and winning three in their fourth and drawing the fourth.
“They won quite decisively,” he said. “They won 15 games and drew the 16th.”

Eldridge, who has been coaching for different Newton school chess teams for the past 15 years, said this annual event is run by the Massachusetts Chess Association every spring. This year, he said, there were 13 four-player teams in the Grade 3-and-younger category, so it was quite a feat that the Cabot School group won so many of the matches.

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