On Saturday,  May 12, Pasadena ISD held its eighth annual May Chess Championship at Beverly Hills Intermediate.  222 students participated.   31 campuses were represented including 1 high school, 5 intermediate schools, 6 middle schools, and 19 elementary schools.  27 of the schools participating were from Pasadena ISD, 3 were from Deer Park ISD, and one was a private school. 

Our profuse thanks are extended to all the campus chess coaches and other adult volunteers who came and helped.  Thanks are also due to our scorekeepers, hall monitors, and to the custodians who cleaned up after us.  I am also grateful for all the campus administrators and central office personnel who came to support the students.  Special thanks are due my co-directors Bob Bartel and Susan Metcalfe, to Stacey Barber (BHI principal) for again letting us use her wonderful building, and of course to my co-director Leslie Axel, for taking care of all the logistics. Since Leslie will be retiring at the end of this school year, this was her last tournament.  All of us who are involved in PISD chess appreciate her so much and are grateful for all she has done for chess (and everything else too!) these past 6 years.

In all divisions, each student played five games, receiving one point for each win and a half-point for each draw.  The first table below shows the top five finishers in each of the six divisions with their final scores.  The second table shows the top three teams in each division.