Prize winners at the Winter Team Challenge, held January 12th in Burlington, Mass.
K-12 Section
1st Newton South Knights (Michael Mi, Mark Chudnovsky, Ashot Melkonyan, Charlie Morris) 3.5-0.5
2nd ChessMind Girls (Saanvi Tiruveedhula, Evelyn Zhang, Prachi Dayal, Sophia Rosenholtz) 3-1
3rd-4th The Check Mates (Kaustubh Kislay, Dhairya Mehta, Oskar Zoffer, Rayhan Riaz),
The Immortals (Amit Piryatinsky, Peter Kouznetsov, Andrey Kalashnikov, Eyal Zeldich, Aidin Narynbekov) 2.5-1.5
Medals: Anushka Ayyappan (Future Masters 5), Christopher Robinson (St. Paul's School), Vyom Shah (Funky Owls A) 3-1
K-6 Section
1st Future Masters 1 (Shouri Mosaliganti, Franklin Lewis, Parinya Jain, Aditya Phadnis) 4-0
2nd-3rd Lukomorie - 2 (Michelle Chudnovsky, Mark Piryatinsky, Nikolay Avdokhin, Yan Barash, Jacob Shteyman),
Future Masters 3 (Suhavi Tiruveedhula, Jesse Zhang, Alden Kuo, Tanish Biswas) 3-1
Medals: Maxim Klempf (Chess Pirates), Kiran Weerapana (Wellesley Public Schools) 3.5-0.5;
Anish Sankar (Wellesley Public Schools) 3-1
K-3 Section
1st: Future Masters 2 (Amy Nguyen, Jaswant Ambati, Christine Nguyen, Owen Mennell) 4-0
2nd: Future Masters 4 (Eilam Kuo, Malin Kuo, Anish Saravanan, Harry Li) 2-2
3rd-4th Belmont Day School (Copeland Maier, Leeul Miteku, Jun Murakami, Felix Kim),
Lukomorie - 1 (Gregory Agranovitch, Dalia Teytelman, William Pechyoni, Jacob Landau) 1-3
Jacob Shteyman and Andrew Shvarts won medals for winning three games each in side games.
The tournament was directed by Bob Messenger, Chris Bird, Nicholas Sterling, and Dmitry Barash.