TOKYO BILINGUAL CHESS CLUB

Tokyo Bilingual Chess Club's Spooky Festival Tournament held on October 15, 2022. The Tournament Director, CM Alex A., and Teacher  Binod G. made the pairings each round and settled any type of dispute that arose during the game.  Also, Emi H., who is a former representative of Japan Women's Team for Chess Olympiad, visited us to take wonderful professional photos of our young players.  Please give them a respect for the difficult job they do.  We could not hold chess tournaments without them!

There were 20 brave souls, that came out during our Halloween Haunt from at least 16 schools.  This is one of the best tournaments since all kids dress up in their Halloween costumes! Although many people believe that chess is just a game, there are many scientific and artistic applications that the game has to offer. Halloween lends itself perfectly to the artistic elements of the game. Children played five rounds showing fine sportsmanship as well as fine ability. 

We had two sections and Class A winners were:

Class A: Kai Tatsumi with 3.0/5.0

Class A: Tristan Chih with 3.0/5.0

Class A: Leo Ta with 3.0/5.0

Class A: Eito Nishida with 3.0/5.0

The choice of the tie-break system was used in the tournament for Class A. 

Class B winners were:

Class B: Kairi Akiyama with 5.0/5.0

Class B: Makito Nishikawa with 4.0/5.0

Class B: Kai Akiyama with 3.5/5.0

Congratulations to Kairi A. who scored a perfect 5.0/5.0!  

This unique contest assembled super heroes, medieval damsels, conductor, and movie monsters for its debut tournament.  Kids and teachers dressed up with the spooky costumes and Saya K. dressed as Fairy Witch won the best costume prize!