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6th Annual Mayor’s Cup Youth Chess Championships |
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Saturday, June 7, 2008 |
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Frederick Douglas Academy (Harlem) |
| Time: |
9:00am |
The 6th Annual Mayor's Cup Youth Chess Championships took place at Frederick Douglas Academy in Harlem. 380 students from grades K-12 attended the Mayor’s Cup, making it one of the largest weekend tournaments during the 2007-2008 scholastic chess season.
In the K-12 Open, I.S. 318K defeated the Bronx Writing Academy to capture the prestigious Mayor’s Cup trophy. P.S. 70X, last year’s K-3 Open champion, moved up an age division and won K-5 this year in impressive fashion. P.S. 308K came out victorious in the K-5 Novice division while P.S. 166M triumphed in the K-3 Open division.
The tournament consisted of four rounds of matches held throughout the day. Matches began at 10:00am and concluded with an awards ceremony to celebrate all of the students who participated.
This Mayor’s Cup Youth Chess Championship was created through a partnership between Chess-in-the-Schools, the Department of Education, and the New York City Sports Commission.
Chess-in-the-Schools is a not-for-profit educational organization dedicated to simulating and enhancing learning skills by teaching a core, in-school chess program to kindergarten through eighth grade children in New York City’s public schools. The program is supplemented with after-school and public library programs, tournament competitions, and an alumni program for high school students. Chess-In-The-Schools currently serves over 38,000 students in the New York City school system.
For more information about the 2008 Mayor's Cup Youth Chess Championships, please visit
www.chessintheschools.org.
To see results of last year's Mayor's Cup Public School Chess Tournament, please visit our 2007 page.
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