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5th Annual Mayor’s Cup Youth Chess Championships


Date: Saturday, June 2, 2007
Place: Frederick Douglas Academy (Harlem)
Time: 9:00am

The Mayor’s Cup Youth Chess Championships, held at Frederick Douglas Academy, was open to all students in grades 3-12 currently enrolled in public, private and parochial schools located in New York City. Over 500 competitors vied for the Mayor’s Cup, making it one of the largest weekend tournaments during the 2006-07 scholastic chess tournament season. Hunter College High School (Manhattan) took top honor in the junior high and high school division. PS 124 (Manhattan) won the elementary division and PS 70 (Bronx) placed 1st in the primary division.

Runners-up included Bronx Writing Academy in the junior high and high school division, PS 70 (Bronx) in the elementary division and PS 124 (Manhattan) in the primary division.

This tournament was created through a partnership between Chess-In-The-Schools, the Department of Education, and the New York City Sports Commission. Several highly-decorated schools competed in this year’s tournament. Brooklyn’s IS 318k claimed the 1st place trophy at the 2007 National Junior High School Championships in Sacramento, California. Brooklyn’s PS 307k recently secured the 2nd place trophy at the 2007 National Elementary Championships in Nashville, Tennessee. The Panda Pawns from PS 124 in Manhattan outlasted a talented field to capture the 5th Grade National Championships held in Orlando, Florida. Hunter College High School (Manhattan) was the 2007 Junior High K-9 National Champion and team captain Alec Getz won the Individual K-9 Championship and had a perfect score at this event.

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 on the Mayor's Cup Public School Chess Tournament, please visit www.chessintheschools.org.

To see results of last year's Mayor's Cup Public School Chess Tournament, please visit our 2006 page.


Last Updated On: Wednesday, June 6, 2007

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