Congratulations PA State Champions! Challenging Heads Chess

Congratulations PA State Scholastic Champions

K-3 Open Champions, K-6 U800 Champions

Photo by Ed Kron

Congratulations!!! Through hard work and skill Challenging Heads at Twin Spring Farm became state champions! A successful team and tournament, begins with the support of the parents. Challenging Heads would like to thank all of the parents for supporting the chess team. Without your support a state Championship would not have been possible. Congratulations are also in order for all chess players on the team. Excellent work staying focus in class! Everyone played well and it was a joy spending this past weekend with everyone. Read a Poem by Jordan and Joshua Hagerty.

Twenty-eight children played in the Pennsylvania State Scholastic Championship.

The players are:

K-3 Open		K-6 U800		K-9 U1000
Owen	Baim	Natan	Luehrman	Aron	Cowen
Charlie	Van Orden	Daniel	Warszawski	Nicholas	Welch
Joshua	Hagerty	Sean	Rich
Wes	Champlin	Aaron	Katz
Izak	Kron	Sam	Lehrman
Jake	Mittman	Jordan	Hagerty
Brandon	Cohen	Ben	Kron
Danny	Harmon	Max	Lehrman
Daniel	Smith	Matthew	Newman
David	Weiss	Hunter	Smith
Ethan	Baim
Josh	Berkowitz
Brandon	Miller
Christopher	Morgan
Matty	Harmon
Brian	Mermelstein

Photos by Ed Kron

Individual Awards:

Not only did we come home with the three group titles, Challenging Heads students brought home many individual prizes as well.

Here are the names and prizes won:

1. Owen Baim- "1ST PLACE UNRATED & 1ST GRADE PA STATE CHAMPION"

2. Joshua Hagerty- MEDAL (3 wins)

3. Natan Luehrman- 1ST PLACE K-6 PA STATE CHAMPION

4. Sean Rich- 6TH PLACE K-6 PA STATE CHAMPIONSHIP

5. Charlie Van Orden- 2ND PLACE UNRATED K-3

6. Daniel Warszawski- 3RD PLACE K-6 PA STATE CHAMPIONSHIP

7. Nicholas Welch- Tied for 1st place Unrated K-9 U1000

8. Wes Champlin-2007 Kindergarten Champion

Photos by Ed Kron

Puzzles

Below are series of puzzles for you to solve. The answer is to your right, but solve the puzzle mentally before peaking at the answer. Check back frequently! I will update this page regularly. Topics that will be covered are: pins, forks, skewers, x-rays, endgames, and mates!!

UPDATE: Removed frames from puzzle pages. Uploaded an annotated game. Replay the game and read the comments. Play close attention to the variations. To view a variation simply click on the move. Also uploaded advanced puzzles.

Win the game (Advance)

Annotated game Important!

Mates (medium)

Queen Sacks (medium)

Game Winning and game saving Tactics!

All games on this page as PGN here