The Tokyo Bilingual Chess Club's Rudolph the Reindeer tournament attracted 19 of the best scholastic players in the central Tokyo area.  Deep thinkers attend this tournament from the 1st grade up through 7th grade to compete against the strongest competition scholastic chess has to offer.   Several students in Class A were one of talented youngsters rated over the 1000 mark in the Japan Chess Federation.

Students in Tokyo Bilingual Chess Club are being taught by the top chess trainers in the world. It is absolutely astounding that we have access to these talented coaches. As always, a huge THANK YOU to our tournament director, CM Alex Averbukh for running a tournament.   Coach Eugene H. assisted CM Alex with handling difficult situation as an arbiter.

Congratulations to our 2021 X'mas Chess Tournament winners:

Class A: Leo Phong Ta with 4.5/5.0

Class A: Tristan Chih with 4.0/5.0

Class A: Kairi Akiyama with 3.0/5.0

Class A: Victor Lee with 3.0/5.0

Class A: Haruki Shimagaki with 3.0/5.0

Tie-breaks applied for the purpose of determining the clear top 3 places in Class A as we had 3  players with 3.0 points.  

Class B: Saya Kikuchi with 4.0/5.0

Class B: Shota Yano with 4.0/5.0

Class B: Fumi Kitahara with 3.5/5.0

Class B: Minato Masuda with 3.5/5.0

Several players in Class B had never played in the tournament and performed really well.  Most importantly, these little kids had a great time participating in this event for the first time.

Kids and teachers dressed up with the X'mas costumes. Saya K. dressed as the Dwarf won the best X'mas costume prize two years in a row!  Who can beat her in the costume award of our tournaments!?

Special Thank You to Kairi’ Dad for beautiful & heart warming photos.  We love them so much!!!  Congratulations to Kairi's 3rd place winning after the tie-break in the competitive group A.   

Start the new year well-prepared!  The next big tournament will be the Top Spinning Tournament on January 13th, 2024.   

Thanks to all of the parents and kids to participate in the event. If you are serious about providing your children with the best preparatory opportunities for the upcoming country events, consider attending this event. Getting good at something is never really easy but reward for mastering it is priceless.  Try and you will see!