Michigan 2025 Fall Tournament
It was a wonderful day for chess at the Fall 2025 Tournament in Birmingham, Michigan.
The event was held on November 15th at Groves High School. We were thrilled to welcome 120 your players representing 39 different schools, competing across 3 divisions (K-1, 2-3, 4-5), showing off their focus, strategy, and sportsmanship.
The competition was equal parts fun and challenging. There was a three-way tie in Division Two (Grades 2/3) and in Division Three (Grades 4 & up). The students did an intense run off before the first-place spot was awarded to the returning champions from our last tournament.
Special thanks go out to Groves High School for hosting. To all the families that came to support their young players. And to all of our Chess Wizard staff from far and wide who worked so hard to put on this amazing event and helped create such a fun and welcoming environment: Karen Braun (Tournament Host), Edwin Strode, Robert Pastor, Robert Taliaferro, Justin Pass, Justin Meek, Sabiha Sultana (concessions), Taric Gheit (skittles) and Vishal Vasan Srinivasan (Computer Director)
We also had some awesome feedback from parents:
"The tournament was so nicely done! Thank you.... My son and his friends had a lot of fun. My son won a chess set and that was such a nice surprise."
"Thank you so much again for your wonderful leadership and organization of a great tournament during the last weekend! Boyan enjoyed it very much and couldn't be more thrilled to win 2nd place in his very first chess tournament!"
"We had a blast at the tournament today! I just adore this community that is being created around chess for the kids. Thank you! "
Here’s to celebrating young minds, teamwork, and the power of chess!
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